skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although pretty much all essentially risk-free investments these days have interest rates so low, you're getting into fine-tuned optimization territory for most people. It's fair that if you have a big wad of cash that you really want to protect from capital losses, it's probably worth putting it in something other than cash. But the gains are minimal.
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I hear what you're saying and with accurate numbers and transparent assumptions there can be a good debate about that.

But I don't think the census should be a political tool. If a person did not, in fact, spend a decade living in poverty thanks to the resources she had (either earned or given to her), why should the census report show that she lived in poverty?
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Exactly. Computing Ph Ds are not very attractive to commercially oriented U.S. citizens, because the content can be learned in situ, in books, online, through practice projects, with friends, &c.

But computing Ph Ds are great for 1) the small portion of people who want to become academics in the field, and 2) non-citizens looking for a path to transition into the U.S. economy.

Unfortunately, this is probably another instance where hidebound immigration policy is creating a bubble (in higher ed) while preventing human capital from attaining its highest and best use (in the private economy (at least for four years)).
No, that's just someone printing stuff up and taping it to poles. John does big one-off hand-painted things.
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Calm down. I'm not asking for a badge of certification whatever whatever. I just don't understand what the complaint is and therefore cannot evaluate it.

[Since you asked, the biggest complaint in my filesystem-centric Windows experience is that filesystem drivers are very "heavy". There is not really a layer like Linux VFS which can handle common bug-prone tasks before they get to your driver. The driver is expected to do a lot. But I don't think drivers are easy on any platform.]
Say the detection for the emissions testing is something like a flag in the software that says the car is on a dyno, or some other factors that the ECU has legitimate reasons to keep track of.

In that case, the defeat system is just a quick if else predicated on those state variables and swapping between a set of engine parameters that is emissions test safe and another set that provides better performance.

I don't mean to insist that this must be the case, I'm just trying to illustrate that the cheat could happen at a level where much of the complexity has already been abstracted away.
It's interesting you use that as an example, because 'well regulated', at the time in which the law was written, meant well-equipped and in proper working order.
That doesn't count and you know it; that's an external PCI express device, isn't actually part of the product itself.

Microsoft's statement is accurate when talking about a single product.
The typical advice is ~6mo in liquid assets. Not cash.

Stock is considered a liquid asset.
At least in the U.S., putting that cash into savings would make it visible, putting their government benefits at risk. They probably don't make enough to survive -- those TV's and smartphones might only add up to a month or two of rent alone -- so they're trapped.
> There's just nothing in the field of computing that I believe couldn't be better learned by experience.

The rest of your post makes sense, but you lost me at this sentiment. There is a lot more to computing that information systems and programming. I'm glad your career worked out, but there is certainly much in CS that you will simply never learn in the field.
I'm pretty sure that example is actually fine - if there's a concurrent writer, the modified value will be loaded into oldValue. Repeating shared.load is unnecessary since that operation occurs as part of compare_exchange_weak.
Get this bullshit off of HN, stat.
Doesn't it blow your mind that there are no "standards of engineering" or whatever for software? There's no licensure body for software engineers who build software running your car, and therefore no accountability on a personal level.

When an engineer builds a bridge, she has to personally sign off on the bridge, saying it's safe, and is risking not only her professional career, but I think she can also be jailed and held criminally liable if the bridge kills people due to negligence.

It blows my mind, at least, that no such thing exists for software.
Very cool! Thanks for the explanation.
"But it's not completely implausible that this really was the decision of a few individual employees."

Oh, I fully believe it was the decision of a few individual employees. I just don't believe those individuals were the actual coders. Coders will code to the spec they are given; problems are far more likely to lie in the spec layer.

It is possible it will turn out the coders should have known better. But it isn't even that hard for me to create plausible circumstances in which the coders didn't have any reason to believe they were doing anything wrong. Remember, we're only seeing the end-results, but it's not hard to imagine a combination of specifications where the programmers are assured each little step is legal and OK, and a combination of other optimizations combining together to produce this result, with no one person quite understanding the interactions.

And just to be clear, I work a lot in security, on the defense side. I'm familiar with taking the possibility that coders will be actively hostile seriously. But I'm also very familiar with seeing five intelligent people each acting according to their own best info and with their own best interests at heart interacting to produce blithering stupidity. It's not always as simple as it looks when you're just looking at the outcome.
I'd add there's a huge advantage to using storyboards (especially with storyboard references) if you have a savvy UI Designer on the team who is comfortable using Xcode.

Under ideal circumstances, storyboards can allow non-iOS engineers to make substantial contributions to the UI and rapidly prototype new things.
Getting a PhD should be for people who want to go into research or university level teaching, but there really aren't enough research / higher ed teaching jobs for the number of PhDs supplied. The reason for the oversupply is that US universities use PhDs as cheap teachers, meaning that they don't have to hire as many lecturers (who would be PhD graduates), meaning less jobs for PhDs once they graduate.

IMHO
In my country Audi says the cars using the engine are "technically safe to use and drive". I did report that to the consumer oversight board. I believe it's false marketing, the cars are a danger to pedestrians and cyclists outside the car.

I believe it's lies upon lies from the upper management seems like a corporate culture going wrong.
Cool tool. Worked pretty well for a specific niche that I am in. Might want to better identify why someone would want a demo? Are there additional features? Is there something that costs money that does more than the free version? Is there a way to sign up without getting the demo?
> But we need to get rid of this idiotic notion that you need a gun to protect yourself in a civil society.

Civilized and peaceful society is a great goal, but how are you actually achieving that if you set about confiscating 300 million guns by force? Assuming that somehow the government could prevail in such an endeavor, you haven't made society any more civilized. You were just more successful at using violence to achieve your goals than the other side was.

Make no mistake, there are plenty of people who would kill and die for the right to bear arms. Trying to take those guns by force would probably lead to civil war.

If your goal is truly civilized society then you've got to work towards eliminating the roots of violent behavior. The more successful you are at that, the less people will even want to have firearms. But the more you threaten to 'civilize' by force, the more intransigent people will be about giving up their firearms.

> You don't. You're not going to rise up against the government, and you're not going to need it to protect your family.

If the government decided to try to confiscate firearms by force people probably would fight it tooth and nail. Luckily that kind of rhetoric is not prevalent, but it is exactly the fear of state-sponsored violence that many ardent gun owners are afraid of. Some of those people may seem irrational and paranoid, but just looking at the 20th century, somewhere around 100 million civilians were murdered in state-sponsored killings. State-sponsored mass murder is almost exclusively visited upon unarmed populaces.
Stress testing a complex server application and why we really need FireBird 3.0
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This was posted about a week ago:
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This is pure speculation, but I think the devaluation on PhDs in America might have to do a lot with the large of influx of people in college just attending to "get a degree". I feel this made colleges more of a business than a place of learning with the large increase in revenues, and thus leading to PhDs and fields that aren't as respected or really don't have a basis for being around other than people are willing to pay for it.
He only speaks for himself - but a lot of us happen to agree with him.
The middle child.
Exactly. If Mr Horn is certain of what he says, where's the proof? To make such allegations, any court would require that VW produce historical evidence of this misbehavior. Yet he offers none.

In the absence of such evidence, the responsibility for misdeed falls to the corporation's most senior executives -- for failing to create and maintain a process that should have captured and revealed such misdeeds, thereby PRODUCING THE MISSING AUDIT TRAIL.

Blame others without evidence ==> cover up.
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If we're polling, I jumped to Yalve.
"crusade", "SJW mode", "ranting", "meandering", "here [sic] arguments are so weak I had nothing but good laugh" and it goes on and on.

The author couldn't be less objective and unprejudiced, if he tried. Obviously though he doesn't and couldn't give less of a fuck, not even remotely making an attempt at actually merely "Looking at the facts".

No matter where your opinion on Sarah Sharp, this piece makes one thing abundantly clear, the author is an asshole. Which I'm sure he doesn't mind being called, I mean this is all just fun right?
Could you please explain why this is so important for you? I googled a little bit and the only use cases I found were (1) blocking communication between web & db servers and (2) to whitelist SSH only for your corporate network. Thanks!
If I may paraphrase:

"MMM can teach his kid how to make money on investments in real estate and make profits from renting his owned (financed) assets.

He can also teach his kid how to share what he's learned about not over-spending on depreciating assets."

Then there's something in there about people who choose to rent being taken advantage of by people who choose to be landlords, but I don't understand it well enough to take your meaning.
...and monkeys might fly out of my butt. :-D
Loaded language is extremely common, and you doubtlessly use plenty of snarl words without even realizing it: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Snarl_word#Snarl_words

Though, much of a word's snarl comes from its tone and context. Where SJW is indeed a pejorative, it should not be construed as an intrinsic thought-terminating cliche. It's merely a shorthand to describe a certain flavor of people subscribing to academic ideologies that interpret the world as an identity struggle.
Keep in mind median household income is below 60k. This isn't surprising. I wonder what the statistics for our social economic level are.
> IMHO Perl 6 will not catch on / be even mildly successful without a clear upgrade path from Perl 5.

Why can't it be successful based on its own merits?

Go didn't have a clear upgrade path from anywhere. Rust doesn't, nor do Julia and all the other new, hip languages that I just forgot about.
Yes of course, and within vandalism there probably are different fines or sentences depending on just how much property you damage. But if you're going to label "anything where some property is damaged" as vandalism then 9/11 was vandalism, right?

You also neglected to address arson and the idea that a whole building burned down. I don't think any part of the justice system would seriously suggest that destroying a building and spray painting a building are the same. I don't think they'd be investigated the same, charged the same, etc.

The problem here is that the CFAA has definitions and those definitions are what determine what the crime is. So yes someone breaking into your Facebook account and posting a "turns out I'm gay everyone!" comment is -- again according to a strict reading of the law -- just as bad as someone breaking into VISA and forcing them to re-issue all the credit cards in the country. That's because the law doesn't distinguish damages or anything like that. In part that's because in reality you don't do any actual damage, you just cause people to have to take action to mitigate that your specific knowledge causes problems with their security.

This makes sense too, if you break into a bank it might be reasonable to attempt to force you to pay for the repairs to the vault door, but it would not be reasonable to force you to compensate the bank's shareholders for the loss of goodwill (and share price!) they suffer because the bank's security wasn't able to keep you out.
Yup she's done exactly that at times, not the "prop door open", but she dropped the prey right in front of the door, went away for a while, came back, picked up the prey and went inside... But I wouldn't say it was because of detailed scheming on her part, but luck rather :)

Another thing she has done is to learn to back out of the corridor as the door locks, and then wait a while, and try going back in all while having the prey in her mouth.

EDIT:
So all small things like that has led me to tweak the algorithms, and add some extra settings to be tweaked. I mean the backing out move she did several times like 6 times in a row... Some of those times she managed to get in.

So to remedy that I added some settings for extra timeouts so she cannot try again as quickly and so on :)
All the examples I've seen so far have a "hardcoded" schema expressed in code. Besides code generation, is there some way to express a schema in another format?

Is anyone working on a way to define dynamic schemas? For example, a user defined schema rather than a developer defined schema.

What I'd really like to see is a tool/library/framework to create a graphQL schema, store it in a database along with the data, and efficiently query the whole assembly. I'm thinking of something like Semantic Mediawiki that isn't terribad. :)
Event Hubs == AWS Kinesis

Neither of those have any built in rule functionality. You have to set up machines to pull messages and process them.

This offering is quite different in that it builds in declarative rule support for filtering/forwarding the data to other AWS offerings like DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, etc.

That said, you're still going to be writing a lot of code to turn it into a useful application or monitoring system.
Probably so, if you've got good technical skills. At the very least, you ought to be able to land a couple of contracting gigs to tide you over until you find the right long-term position. There's a lot more demand here in the Puget Sound area for good technical skills than there is supply, so unless you're just not a very good developer, you ought to be able to find something reasonable.
Don't paraphrase me, thanks.
Wrong on all counts
> The truth is you're losing more money by not having any of it generating higher potential yields.

I'm aware of this and can account for this loss. What I dislike is an unknown potential loss that I can't readily account for.

For example - if I invest $50k I need to account for the possibility I might lose the entire $50k, or a portion of it. Being realistic, I'm unlikely to lose it all, but even if I only lose $5,000 that puts me off from making that investment. It's very risk-averse behavior, which many people with a confirmation bias are against. Their $50k investment may have returned $150k and they begin to question why I wouldn't make that investment.

In other words, even if 3/5 people make $150k, as a risk-averse person, I see myself as already being part of the 2/5 people that lose the $5,000.

The only forms of investments I've ever done are playing the markets on MMORPG's. The markets are predictable, safe, and I can readily make a 8-10% ROI each night. If I could make investments like that in a real market I would in a heartbeat! :P
Exactly the same issue, kind of fell off my radar as a result of that, now I'm curious to see the selection.
For now, but XUL and XPCOM are also on the chopping block. Overall, it looks like Mozilla is planning to get rid of native access entirely.
I think you're being a bit unfair. I have no doubt he is pretty frugal. That said, I'm not a huge fan of his schtick but recognize that there are people who probably benefit from the over-the-top exhortations to avoid spending money. A lot of people fritter away a lot on things that they don't need and may not even especially enjoy. Which has been my main takeaway on those occasions when I've skimmed his site. Whatever works.
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Meh.
I wish I was a rich kid.

I only got to go to college on a scholarship, and I spent the first five years of my career making under $50k.

I'm disappointed that some people think working in tech means that you're made of money.
As someone who has lived in a few cities filled with counter-culture types, they can be incredibly insular, superficial, and tribal. Ironically, they end up being a different looking, but similar acting version of the wealthy elite they claim to hate.

It seems like everyone in these places is just trying to re-invent a "cooler than thou" image, looking down on others who don't prize their typically temporary life-style choices. The gleeful embrace of self-imposed bohemian poverty, and the hatred of anyone who wants material possessions, is particularly annoying. As someone who grew up in poverty, I really hate getting lectured on how meaningless money is by a dread-locked trust fund kid who is waxing poetic about how great of an experience it is to "live simply." They don't seem to get the fact that for some of us, a "tiny house" is exactly what we fucking grew up in, except it wasn't considered cool, and was stuck next to a bunch of other tiny houses called trailers in a community called a trailer park.

The point is that the people in Seattle that act like assholes to you almost certainly fall into this category of idiot.
That chapter may not be over.
The Staatsanwaltschaft Braunschweig is leading the criminal investigation and they said specifically that they are not after Martin Winterkorn, the press reports.
Because you need more people to violate those laws with greater regularity for such a situation to occur. It is easier to get one person to break ten laws than to get ten people to break one. Regulating the sale and distribution of firearms mitigates such risks.
Fellow Dallas resident as well. Everyone here in Uptown keeps complaining about rent increasing but these HN threads help me realize how good we have it. The job market is extremely hot as well.
A study forwarded by another HN member in another similar discussion. Very interesting statistics.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/12/new-report-sh...
You can spare me the Che Guevara fanboyism. I was born in the Soviet Union and had to read the biography and the history of the Cuban revolution (the soviet version of it, at least). One would think, that having been blessed to be born in a communist country, I'd reap all of its benefits. But surprisingly, it wasn't the capitalist imperialists, who have sent my great grandparents to a prison camp in Siberia never to be seen again just for owning a cow. And surprisingly, it wasn't the dastardly capitalist imperialists, who have murdered 7 million of my compatriots through an induced, and surprisingly very geographically concentrated famine. One would think that grain is transportable, but there you go: apparently not. No, it was the benevolent communists.

But you know what? There's this country called Guatemala, that for 10 years was kind of doing OK, and was a liberal capitalist society. But let's call it communist for the sake of the argument. They tried confiscating (not buying out, but straight out taking away) property from a very powerful player, after which the capitalist imperialist player started arming and training 500 men and telling fibs about the president on the radio. The 500 men failed militarily, but the army decided to surrender anyway. All of that cannot of course be evidence of a deeply embedded social instability and political apathy, but clearly shows that democracy doesn't work. We weren't talking about democracy at all, but there you go. So, yeah, if you disregard all of the above, we super-duper promise that Guatemala could have become a communist utopia. This "could've" of course invalidates all the deaths and misery communism inflicted upon the world in the extremely short period of time it existed, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it isn't related to the endemic abuse of power and corruption that seems to follow it all the time, and totally works. We promise. Especially when it allows western people, who have never stood in a 3 km long line for toilet paper and have never gone hungry in the 20th century to feel morally superior by accepting 1st-world-guilt, yet being able to absolve oneself from any moral responsibility by shifting the blame to a cabal of disembodied corporations.

/s
I have a question for all you unrepentant capitalists out there -- why is it that massive concentrations of wealth pretty consistently tend to lead to a decrease in the overall quality of life?

Because if the boosters of capitalism are to be believed, the path to making society better on balance is to enable people to accumulate unlimited amounts of personal wealth and then sort of let that wealth diffuse through the people around them.

This isn't actually happening in places where wealth from the tech industry is concentrated. The rising tide is mostly just sinking everybody, and obliterating everything that isn't explicitly about making money in its path.

So what gives? How can you argue anybody is better off for all this?
It's worth pointing out that Google has offices in both Seattle and Kirkland - and I believe that the Kirkland office is larger, and is coming to be as important to Kirkland as Amazon is to Seattle (obviously Kirkland is much smaller than Seattle).
In that case it would probably be "The system shall pass all emissions tests"
Yes, 1% is bad.

The "official" rate of inflation is low, but I think that it is bogus. Maybe pizza and cars haven't gone up in price much in the last decade, but other big things (such as education and health care) have.
Thank you. This is the only interesting comment in this thread.
This doesn't parse. You just said the median household income is $51,939. That's a ton of money.
I and many spend far less than that.
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2015/01/16/exposed-the-mmm-fa...

Even throwing on a mortgage payment a couple can easily afford this - and this is a lot of luxury.
I think this is true for PhD's in all male-dominated fields. (And it has a lot to do with male domination because the foreign students lean strongly male)