skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes no difference at all in the deterrence scenario

Yeah, right, we're going to trust these "phone home" devices that much?

In fact, how do you know they're working, for police or civilians, unless they phone home every month or so, or at least when taken out of their metal safes.

In the current climate of bad faith, where our adversaries latest campaign for "gun safety" does nothing of the sort (and claims we don't care about it during a period where both the population and guns owned increased by roughly 50% and the absolute number of accidental gun deaths dropped by 25%; it is we gun owners who achieved that, not the gun grabbers)?

There's also the mass and volume problems. Not everyone can get away with carrying a near full sized M1911 like I can (originally a military service pistol, my carry model sacrifices some life with an alloy frame and some power with a 4 inch barrel). Require these and you will preclude a whole lot of concealed carry, and I for one would not like the extra mass, let alone having to replace some perfectly fine firearms.
I've seen a variant of the "Neomonolith" where you run the same code base on every server, but use a proxy layer (Zuul/Apache/Nginx) to isolate specific parts of the code base on a set of servers for specific, high-traffic use cases. That way you're still only building one image, but you can still get some of the performance tuning / concurrency benefits of micro services without all the headache. Still doesn't come close to solving all the problems of the monolith, but it's another band-aid you can apply if a micro services architecture doesn't make sense...
A Decade of Linux Patent Non-Aggression: The Open Invention Network
Theres a big difference between "savings" and "cash in a savings account."

Given the current interest rate situation theres essentially no difference between money in a checking account and money in a savings account, other than that the checking account likely has a debit card of some sort directly linked to it. Both are likely earning near 0% or so close to 0% it makes no difference. Not that long ago CDs were paying >5% so it made sense to put cash into such instruments. Right now a CD is essentially pointless.

I would agree, though, that too many people have far too little cash on hand (regardless of where its stored). I often see people that live in a million dollar home but don't have enough cash in their bank account to pay the cable bill. These so called "asset rich cash poor" people are playing with fire since it's often that they banked too much on the appreciation of those assets to justify the situation they've put themselves in.

People should maintain a healthy chunk of readily accessible liquid assets which could include non-retirement non-speculative investments and some good old hard cash too.
You sure about that? Look what's on the front page of HN right now: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/08/volkswagen-emissio...
The point is that checking account != savings account.
It makes sense to hold savings in a savings account or CD if you're worried about risk of loss. The stock market is very volatile and you can lose your shirt if you don't know what you're doing. Ask me how I know this.
>If those engineers feared for their jobs because the cars wouldn't pass, I bet those engineers could have left VW and found better jobs

But if they could just go out and get jobs, why would they fear for their jobs in the first place?
How is Volkswagen's US head, who lives and works in the US, able to issue proclamations with such certainty about the non-existence of private conversations and directions taking place among the engineering staff and management in Germany, where he spends almost no time?

It is as if a US diplomat stationed in New Zealand used his authority to declare that Bush had never authorized any torture, and it was rogue individual interrogators who did it. How would he know given he was on the other side of the world when the conversations would have taken place.
My earlier comment is definitely clouded by nostalgia :-) I loved the Seattle of the past, but the Seattle of today to me seems more about horrible traffic, ridiculous home prices, and omnipresent materialism.

But that's a perspective based on my unrealistic expectation of the past. Seattle truly is a beautiful city and people who see it for the first time will probably fall in love with it. So I'm glad you liked Seattle!
I strongly disagree with you and believe FDIC insured accounts can be trusted beyond a market fall of just 80%.
QUIT READING HACKERNEWS AND GET BACK TO WORK, EL KEVIÑO. PAPERS DON'T WRITE THEMSELVES...
I really don't see a significant advantage to using a savings account with a bank. Keeping 50k in a checking account vs savings account costs you less than 5$ a month before taxes which is just not worth the effort of opening a second account for someone that's keeping 50k cash on hand.
> and avoiding talking about work entirely

fuck, is this not SOP for everyone?

conversation order of operations:
work < people < things < ideas
From my anecdotal evidence in grad school, this is largely true across many other engineering fields as well. I think some of it is driven by immigration policies and some by culture. A Ph.D. in the US doesn't get you as much respect these days as it used to. Other cultures place more value on higher education.

Also, in a lot of other countries, you can't do much with just an undergraduate degree.
If you take the view that Bitcoin is just the start and the popularity of the blockchain to secure financial transactions will grow and become mainstream over time then this has first mover advantage written all over it.
A reason why some people get PhD is it makes it easier to get residency. Citizens don't have the same incentive.
Then why not ask a more accurate (less biased) question...?

E.g. david927's comment: "47% of Americans say they lack the cash to pay a surprise $400 bill" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10354263)
Yeah, I share that view--where we differ is you're saying "socialism is these things, and capitalism isn't," and I disagree.
> This is a car company, not a CI and code-review obsessed software company in Silicon Valley.

I read that as:

> This is a company whose products are high-velocity 1500kg chunks of steel zooming around in public, not a company that sells an intangible virtual good/service

---

Yes, I know software is historically poor with car companies, but we should still expect better. Let's not just lower our standards because of cynicism :-)
Well, given that the Surfacebook utilizes computing power in the attached keyboard, maybe disconnecting it without properly checking processes could cause bad things to happen?
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"meng" also reminds me of the Aomori-ben dialect word "megoi" (alternative to "kawaii") which almosts sounds like "mengoi" with the nasalized/velarized "g".
What does a CTO actually do?
I actually suggested this theory a few weeks ago: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/volkswagen-different-theory-w...
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> Given that neither of us had deep infrastructure experience, we had to soak up as much knowledge as we could.

Learning by doing. This is why I love the time in which we live. If you decide or need to learn something new, you can get started on the path to picking it up quickly. No trips to the library; just plug in your query to your favorite search engine and you're on your way.
I like to use the VFL, you can manage things pretty well using constants and string interpolation.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UserEx...
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If there was one takeaway I was surpised by from "The Millionaire Next Door" it was, to paraphrase, high income professions like Law and Medicine tend to spend at very high rates, frequently invest poorly, and rarely accumulate a significant amount of wealth as a ratio to their income. The greatest wealth building households were two income, upper-middle class, with good, conservative savings habits. At the time of publication I think it was more valid than today, re: the change in distribution of wealth in the US over time.
Sounds to me kind of like he learned this:

"People need to be treated right. That's not a nice to have or something you can put off until later. Failing to make your people feel safe and secure and free to focus on their work hurts their work and can come back to bite you in the arse."
This is a fascinating article, thanks for posting.

It's unfortunate that so many U.S. cities (and some abroad) were designed and built in a way that results in them being unwalkable. I'm really interested in seeing how cities respond to this, and whether or not these cities will start to become more dense in order to possibly improve efficiency, or whether they'll just continue to sprawl because it's the easiest way to grow.
If you're building something simple, why not just use the HTML5 Canvas API?

There's no reason to overcomplicate things, and it'll give you fine control over how things work and what you expect it to do. Layers and whatnot are pretty simple to implement a rough cut of, so why make things complicated?
Verizon resurrects zombie cookie, combines personal tracking with AOL network
Maybe.

Until quite recently there was a forum and such things, which you could use for free. Ninetysome per cent of the users never paid anything, and surprisingly many didn't know that Mubi offered any paid service.

But yes, nowadays I think it would make more sense to make the price tag for the paid service more visible.
To me savings is liquid cash that you have on hand. It is an emergency buffer account. Every month (or whenever I get paid) since I have been employed or my wife has I have had money taken out of our checking account and put into another account. It doesn't really matter that its savings or checking account but that I can get immediate access to the account.

When the account has gotten too big we just apply some of the money elsewhere (which is not really hard).

I understand how the truly impoverished unable to save but I'm sort of disturbed to read so many here post that they think their 401K/Roth IRA is an emergency cash account.

I actually once tried to sell stock to get liquid cash. Perhaps it was just Scottrade sucking but it took a significant amount of time... so much so that I had to use my emergency buffer (savings account). Its been awhile since I have tried so maybe things have changed.
You can bet your ass that the line of thinking is "They will support us"
Unless of course that man is competing against heavily subsidized large scale fishing companies from industrialized countries, that export to his own country and can undercut his prices.

Free trade and free markets are truly amazing, aren't they?
Right. Also surprising how much fine noise there is in the background — it ‘should be’ out of focus enough there there would be nearly no noise at all…
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You can put me in that group, though I don't know why you have to declare me a sucker--you don't even know my motivations.

Surely you can have the conversation without tossing around insults.
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Not at all true. They almost exclusively hire from academia.
I am saying that to the extent that poverty gets better, it puts at risk the funding (or at least the growth of it) for the social institutions and economic policy that exist for that purpose. Since social programs make up half of US government spending, I am pretty sure that makes them collectively the largest institution in the world. And they're going to defend their jobs and their turf proportionately.
I think the audience on this site is mainly out of touch. When you're making a fine salary it's easy to forget that most people don't. When you're spending your time looking up at those above you and positioning to get to their level (because upward mobility is an option) it's easy to forget to look at the piles of people below you where it isn't

It's easy to assume throwing $100 around here or there is normal when you're able to throw $800 on an impulse iPhone without a problem. Many people can't.

I'm probably just as guilty too.
I did my PhD in mid-west, and I literally only met 2 American PhD students during my entire PhD (majority was Chinese and Indian students who pursue a PhD as a gateway to a top job). I guess location is a big factor.
Yes, yes I did, in part.

For some inexplicable reason, dictators first seize the guns of targeted populations before trying such things.
Don't forget the insanely good availability, and the low level management AWS guys do for you.
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Did he do this one[1] as well? They're getting more and more aggressive lately. (Also I can't help but notice the irony that it was made in Microsoft Word.)

It says "New to the city? Work in tech? You're a plague and locals FUCKING HATE YOU. LEAVE."

[1] http://i.imgur.com/pIkA91B.jpg
Man, cases like this just make me appreciate pattern matching in function signatures even more.
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Lego Mindstorms are excellent. I haven't tried their more recent stuff, but it looks very good. Combining the ease of design and assembly of Legos with robotics... I spent hours building, rebuilding, and programming my set. Could not recommend anything more.
This has no business even being reported on. It's preliminary data, not peer-reviewed, very small sample-size, etc. To say that the jury is still out would be premature - the jury hasn't even been convened yet!
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Some manage to live frugally, and retire within 5 years: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/how-i-became-financially-i...

My personal savings-rate is around 80% (I spend about 1.2k CHF and make around 6.5k CHF) - I probably can also retire in five years or I will keep on working 20%-40, when I have kids.

I live in Zurich, read my story here: "Eight reasons why I moved to Switzerland (to work in IT)" https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...)
What's that when expressed as a percentage?
Lisps without GC have been used in various places for delivery.

An example was Thinlisp, which tries to be mostly compatible with Common Lisp, but without GC. The compiler for Thinlisp is written in Common Lisp.

G2's Gensym is written in such a Lisp. Thinlisp also comes from them, IIRC.
http://www.gensym.com

Some Lisp don't/didn't use a GC, but reference counting or similar schemes.
Lots of people. My ally savings account is 1%, about the same as a CD.. so I keep 2 months of expenses in it.
Is there a reason, generally speaking, why you shouldn't use the excess money to pay off your mortgage faster, rather than increasing savings?

(Assuming you already have enough savings to cover emergencies etc)
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If you hit the brachial or femoral artery they can bleed out within minutes. If you puncture a lung they can still survive. It all depends on where they get hit. Many people live from potentially fatal areas being hit and others bleed out from non-fatal regions being hit.

In either case, their survival puts you in legal trouble under current law. You should be shooting to kill if you feel deadly force is justified. If your intent is not to kill, then deadly force was not justified.

Good luck aiming for a hand. I advise you go to a firing range and see how often you can hit the arm of a moving target without taking time to aim (remember: taking time to aim = you are now the one being shot). You'll have fractions of a second to get someone in your sights and take the shot.

It'll cost $30-40 to use a range, rent a gun, and buy ammunition for an hour. You'll leave with a more informed opinion of how operating a firearm works.

[0] https://www.pfoa.co.uk/110/shooting-to-wound
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Does it really matter what it's called?
My experience has been eerily similar. Moved to Ballard from South Philly at the beginning of the summer, working in Bellevue.

People are so openly hostile I kinda stopped trying to talk to anyone. The "Die techie scum" graffiti all over doesn't really help either.

Seattle itself seems pretty nice. Its a shame this forced isolation is just going to lead to even bigger division.

Maybe we should hang out?
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Because they could use their paycheck and hit a payday loan store and begin to fall behind on other things.

If you're living paycheck to paycheck a bit of time will let you figure it out but you don't have the cash today to pay a small bill.

You shouldn't assume most people have much in the name of savings, much less capital.
Sure, but there aren't many reasons not to keep that cash in a checking account. For a while I just kept all of my cash in a checking account because it actually paid a higher interest rate than my savings account from the same bank.
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You are welcome to provide modern era examples of populaces armed with firearms being slaughtered by their own governments. I don't know of any.
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
> OTOH, maybe this is a win. We need to get away from this

> whole "The browser is a poor man's operating system" model

> anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing

> hypermedia

Yes that is the only win I can see as well. Obviously they want to turn browsers from general kitchen utensils to pure entertainment and amusement platforms, for media and information consumption.

(Hm wait, wasn't that what the WWW was supposed to be, back in its early days? Are we going back to the dark ages or is it just the usual turn of history?)
From the sample licensing agreement, the "standard net royalty fee" mentioned is 4.2%, and the minimum fee is $3000 per year after the first three years.
The code might even have been outsourced. I'm not trying to disparage outsourced developers, I know what I might do if the user story was something like "Needs to pass emissions when attached to test system."
"On tonight's episode of Punked: watch as we add a second floor and backyard porch to this man's bungalow while he's away for the weekend! You won't believe his reaction!"
Absolutely. At one point I had $10,000 in an ING Direct account. I wasn't getting rich off the interest, but the money was safe and accessible if I needed it, and seeing a few hundred bucks in growth in a year was satisfying. The APY rate went down literally every month, and now that account is closed. That money isn't gone but it's certainly not in a savings account.
Do you have access to some extra random source, or why is this better than generating locally?

I guess this is mostly a "just because" project and as such, it is quite nice, though I would have liked the uuid to be displayed in a mono spaced font.
Sounds like it to me. What difference does it make if you inherit your money or earn your money. Either way you're "rich".
Then what would Portland be?
Do you have a source for ethics education and engineering?
I've never heard of this being something that most engineers are taught (in the US).
The current owners are really screwed at least in California. They MUST install whatever fix VW provides for their current diesel or they will be illegal and unregistered in California. So there will be no choice in accepting VW's fix not matter the loss of performance or fuel economy. And other states will likely do the same.
You should also think about catering to data scientists. It's not an option in the "specialty" dropdown and you don't have languages like Scala, R, Julia, or MATLAB.
It is not just Ph.D; it is the case in M.S in STEM fields. 99% of Masters students in STEM are foreigners, most of them are Indians and Chinese. Usually, these foreign master students puzzle why American citizens don't pursue masters.
I don't have much feelings towards companies and technology. I use ones as I see fit. Windows has, since 7, been very useful to me. Even 8 (8.1 which I'm on right now). Windows has been my primary OS since 7. I augment it with Total Commander and Babun (cygwin) and that's it. Everything is great, except Babun which could use some more work (or I don't know how to use it). I also use Redhat on other workstation (due to graphics software dictating it) and it's not as usable on desktop as Windows and OSX are. That's not a surprise though. I also use OSX on my macbook air, because that's the best laptop I could've got for what I needed (lightweight, moderately powerful, battery life). I carry around Android Nexus 7 tablet as well, so new Surface Book looks like a good deal to me in order to get rid of macbook air/nexus 7 combo. Microsoft research also does some cool stuff in graphics which I've used (through their papers). I use Word and Excel all the time as well, along with Google Docs. those are just some random thoughts as I perceive them from my POV now.
I love the comment that says w/o Dennis Ritchie's mom there would be no Dennis Ritchie. Without Grace Hopper... Without Ada Lovelace...
How do they do that? It seems you would have to ask all vehicle owners to submit their fuel receipts and odometer readings.
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"Some people have made the wrong decisions in order to get away with something"

Some people; he doesn't actually say it was the programmers. Both statements are perfectly consistent with the cheating being orchestrated from the top. This looks like a very careful attempt to mislead without actually risking a visit to Club Fed.
I think "terrible hypocrite" is a major overstatement. The guy is a gay artist who moved to an area built and populated largely by the gay and creative community, only to find it in the process of being colonized by moneyed interests and neighborhood tourists. He identified with the original neighborhood profile strongly and strongly rejects the new one, as I do — though unlike me, he's making his distaste known. I for one salute him, and I love his posters. And by the way, he's not getting rich off selling a couple handmade prints he makes in his own shop.
James Hansen has not worked for NASA for two years, but that's nitpicking -- your point is correct.

There are multiple NASA centers who generally see the enterprise of space exploration differently. JSC and KSC are more focused on "putting men [sic] in space" (as the parent commenter said). GSFC is more focused on observing Earth and the Sun from space. JPL is more focused on robotic planetary exploration. Those are gross generalizations, because GSFC has been heavily involved with Hubble, and JPL does some Earth missions, etc.
That's how patent licensing works (albeit a comically overaggressive caricature). Do you fundamentally oppose the concept of patents or do you think Microsoft is doing something else wrong by asking to be paid license fees by competitors using their patents?
Because masters degrees are for suckers? Especially paying for one?
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No, it matters how it's accomplished. Socialism and capitalism differ in that regard.
> The client should not dictate what the server api should look like

But it always does. rest client needs rest backend. graphql client needs graphql backend.
I have had a completely different experience. I like well-made movies, and am less picky about genre. It seems like if I rate a movie well, they suggest a poor movie of the same basic formula.