skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying you are wrong; the new cars might well be way more complex in ways that might cause people to spend more time troubleshooting, I wouldn't know.

I haven't dealt with anything really more complex than the early 'aughts toyota... at least up until that point, the electronics made it way easier for a shadetree mechanic like me to solve problems. There's all sorts of ways to get diagnostic codes out of the thing; on the bmw, you did this dance where you turned it on, then floored the gas a certain number of times, and then the 'check engine' light would tap out a code you could look up in the manual, just like beep codes on a motherboard. On my Toyota, I hook up the OBD thing and it gives me a code I can plug into google and get youtube videos of how to fix it. I've never dealt with an electrical problem more complex than one of the the (what do you call them? the short wire things that go from the coils to the spark plugs on the bmw) going out of spec in terms of resistance, but that was pretty easy to diagnose with the manual and multimeter.

But if it really is the complexity that creates the cost, why was it so expensive to pay someone else to service my simple 325is?
No matter how you feel about the whole legal immigration thing, If it is true that immigrants who form significantly less than 51% of the working population found 51% of the startups there is an interesting insight statistically speaking (This is not normal, but good)

May be there needs to be a distinction between the kind of immigrants who go on to found startups vs the one who come to take low paying jobs. May be create different visa category for each. Encourage one discourage another(limiting it), but that doesn't mean that every person who comes under 1st category starts a company or everybody who comes under the second category doesn't start a company.

I see it as math, maximize one function and minimize the other.
There are lot of services out there that do free hosting for minecraft nowadays, for example: https://server.pro
It also gives you a control panel to control your server, supports plugins and has a handy web file manager.
How Wattpad became obsession with their Slackbot
Have the PIN or password repeat one key in the sequence. Like "mwfabrrpg", if you type quickly an observer won't notice that the 'r' was typed twice in quick sequence.
Oh, absolutely. I don't know that much about ADHD but it always stroke me as an odd thing to diagnose.

"This kid is not good at following orders and is unwilling to engage in long hours of monotonous and repetitive tasks? Clearly we need to fix that".

If you think about it, what would ADHD mean in the animal kingdom? Most animals just run around and do whatever they feel like in the moment. Humans are the only species where that's not the norm. I wonder why.
The Jobs/Wozniak example is a great one. I might suggest that Wozniak's execution created the company, and Jobs' vision transformed the company into what it is today.

But that transformation involved nearly destroying the company first, getting himself ousted. Then recreating MacOS as a UNIX platform for a market that did not want it, only to be finally integrated by the dying Apple as a Hail Mary play by both Jobs' and Apple.

Jobs' get a lot of credit for the vision, and even the execution. But it could have turned out lots of different ways. If Pixar had not been successful (in no small part because of Jobs dumping millions and millions of his own money into it), one could imagine NeXT not being bought by Apple.
evacuating barrel will help reach the speed. Evacuation is very easy to do, yet helps tremendously.

The gun can be built somewhere in the Andes, at 4 km altitude. It can be pretty long there. Plus using either ablative head - like new Russian-Indian air missiles - or small forward jets - similar to Russian 200miles/h torpedo - will help to decrease atmospheric speed losses.

The 6.5 Mach gets you to 180km altitude from powerful regular gun - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP :

"On November 18, 1966 the Yuma gun fired a 400 lb (180 kg) Martlet 2 projectile at 7,000 ft/s (2,100 m/s)[1] sending it briefly into space and setting an altitude record of 180 km (590,000 ft; 110 mi);"

That means that it was going at least 5 Mach after reaching 30km altitude. Doesn't looks like such a big loss of speed in the atmosphere - only about 1 Mach due to atmosphere as the other 0.5 Mach - due to gravitation.
At some point they made it so that in the web UI (you could do this in some other clients before, but since they started shutting those out it doesn't really count) if you replied to your own tweet and removed your name you could connect tweets together. People have been making excellent use of this to link thoughts together in a way that's readable but still encourages you to pare down your thoughts into bite size chunks (though some people do abuse it to write uninterrupted essays, this was no less true before).

All they really need to do is make this feature a little more accessible, imo.
But Siri and Cortana are sold to consumers, I'm happy with my day to day life being made up of over-simplifications because, generally, if those things don't work it doesn't really matter.

However, in large organizations, dealing with fairly critical things, it just seems like over-simplifying the solution is a recipe for disaster.

That's not to say that Watson-type solutions have no place in the world. The recent stuff re: health and diagnostics - awesome. It's complexity you can't fix because people are living organisms so you just need to drag in the data and essentially evaluate your best guess.

But where companies are using Watson to mask their needlessly complex processes or, as an example, banks are using Watson to decipher their needlessly complex loan schemes and agreement terms, those are problems that will only get harder to solve if you don't deal with the cause of the complexity (something within the scope of their control) as soon as possible.

That being said, it's probably good business for IBM because if your multi-billion dollar investment in IBM hardware is insufficient to deal with the mess of policy that has grown unchecked over the years, masked by a more friendly interface, then you can always buy more servers and more hosting...
Lawrence Krauss, Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson all project a proud, willful disrespect of philosophy, which has been noted and argued about on HN substantively. I'm sure Tyson's Internet superstardom with the Reddit and Imgur crowd has nothing to do with the instant backlash against only criticism of him though, right?
I worked 40hrs per week in the Audible HQ. I was paid at the rate listed above - $30/hr. So, I walked out of Audible's offices on Friday with a $1200 check in my hands. This is how it worked until Audible was sued for not providing health insurance benefits, and lost the case. So they had to hire us as full-time employees, and didn't allow two out of 8 to continue to work with us as they didn't "make the cut." (They both were African American women.)
On the other hand, we were willing to trade away a lot for a more predictable food supply, apparently. Even the threat of agricultural mass-starvation hasn't caused us to tear up the farms and start roaming the forests.
Building libreoffice with GCC 6 and LTO
Most employees would be in a situation where right of first refusal means their employer would have to approve this -- and in a lot of places, the employer's going to take it as a red flag that you want to sell and it could create problems.
After reading about the end of of Project HARP - it seems like they intended to use the gun to fire a rocket, and after a certain altitude the engine would ignite to get into space.
(Too late to edit, apologies for the self-reply.)

I take back the "thinking that somehow" phrasing. Actually, I think it's more like "being convinced that somehow". There isn't usually much thinking involved.
However, working for IBM may get one fired.
Probably could try a number of different things to sneak it through, but I would guess that if you attempt to sneak through something that explicitly got you rejected previously, you might run the risk of getting your Bundle banned.
I've had my Zojirushi rice cooker for probably 3 years now and use it at least 4 times per week. It's bulletproof. The bowl is starting to show its wear, but I'm still in love with the thing.

In addition, I have a Zojirushi countertop water heater for tea and I don't know I lived without that, either. These are expensive gadgets but boy are they convenient.

Next stop, bread maker!
Blind https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blind./id737534965?mt=8 & https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teamblind.... talks about salary ad nauseam... so if you want to see salary discussions, get the app.
I value those things differently, because the bonus is only for the first two years, and the stock is a one-time grant. Just like there's 'no replacement for displacement' in engines, there's no replacement for base salary in compensation. What I'm seeing in that compensation package is no incentive whatsoever to stay after you finish your second year, and no real incentives to start in the first place. $150k in Seattle is not great in my mind anyway, that's roughly equivalent to $90k where I'm living right now, but the average base salary in this area is around $120k...
Is this a normal discount? I thought a typical one was more like 50%, making this a good deal.
Don't expect just because there are no test failures that you haven't broken anything. I can't stand developers who have this mindset.

Just because there are unit tests, doesn't mean they are covering all the code foremost, or that they are written properly to truly detect when things have changed for the worst.

Tests are not a replacement for actually testing and verifying your changes in whatever application gradient you're working in.
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105:

> Why doesn't set -e (or set -o errexit, or trap ERR) do what I expected?

> set -e was an attempt to add "automatic error detection" to the shell. Its goal was to cause the shell to abort any time an error occurred, so you don't have to put || exit 1 after each important command. That goal is non-trivial, because many commands intentionally return non-zero.

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/112:

> What are the advantages and disadvantages of using set -u (or set -o nounset)?

> Bash (like all other Bourne shell derivatives) has a feature activated by the command set -u (or set -o nounset). When this feature is in effect, any command which attempts to expand an unset variable will cause a fatal error (the shell immediately exits, unless it is interactive).

pipefail is not quite as bad, but is nevertheless incompatible with most other shells.
While it think it is great that Dropbox is allowing its employee shareholders the ability to get value for their shares, the real story will be whether or not the shares actually sell. That will depend on a variety of things of course, not the least of which is how many shares are offered, but it will give management a useful way to evaluate the practicality of trying to go public or not.
Actually, I told my boss about the post before I submitted it. But I was only letting him know -- I didn't ask for permission. The decision was mine and mine alone, so any (unlikely) backlash won't be directed at him. We have a good relationship and see eye to eye almost all the time. He did say that he didn't think there was anything wrong with posting this.

The reason for the throwaway is because I generally try to avoid "stirring the pot." Or at least, don't want a reputation as a pot stirrer. But if some higher up confronts me about it, I won't deny posting it.
I found it online now that you mentioned it. But, no, this hasn't been a big thing in the US and I for one had never even heard about it.
The answer is that it has various nonessential luxury features that make it nicer, if you can afford it.
Seems like a case of laziness/NEET (sorry if I offend, just being direct).

Advice is to get into an entry position job and from there get slowly driven into a professional environment. Ideal companies are the established ones where they will not expect you to be pro-active.

Remember, ideas without execution are worth zero. Execution is hard even if you are an expert in programming (I'm such case) and notice that another big factor is business-savvy mentality that requires a completely different set of skills.

On a first stage you don't need to work at something you have interest/motivation. You are there to acquire professional skills and learn to get things done on time and with the available resources.

As you grow professionally in skills, it gets easier to take those ideas out of your head into something real.
Since I've already got this throwaway and already posted my numbers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10761173
Welcome to the Post-Work Economy
> What would an abstract non-existing steeple look like?

I think this answer places you squarely in the non-abstract group. Not that it means anything.
John Gruber had a suggestion where they just make a new attachment type, "Text Post" that renders like an image card. Slack has a similar feature and it works well for posting very long form messages.

This would obviate extending the 140 char limit for regular tweets.
> I asked you not to tell random people that they're autistic because it's bad form

False, you said I diagnosed them, I didn't, he diagnosed himself and I simply agreed he was probably right.

> No personal attack on you has been made.

False again, and I quote "But it goes triple for you, given your rudimentary understanding of aspergers, intellect, or how people learn to recognize emotions."

As you don't know me, that's absolutey a personal attack based on nothing.

> You retaliated by contradicting yourself

False, I contradicted nothing; I didn't diagnose anyone with anything and your repeating the lie doesn't make it true.

> and sending two ad hominem attacks at me

False, perhaps you need to look up ad hominem as well; insulting someone is not an ad hominem, it's only ad hominem if I claim your argument is wrong because of the insult.

> No attempt to disprove my claim of your lack of knowledge

Burden of proof. It's not my job to disprove your claims.

> Yeah, I rest my case. You enjoy your day.

I hope you're not a lawyer, because if that's your idea of a laying out a case, you'd be terrible at it.
Which is why he spent 4 years doing managing data plat at Netflix...
Thank you, Sir/Madam! I think it's interesting that you went the tax return route.

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To save people one click:

I spent 5 years at Google. My AGI (as measured by the IRS) during my time there went $130K, $200K, $280K, $280K, $300K, $356K (for my last 5 months there...it also includes unexercised stock options for the last 5 years, though). The bump to $280K was upon promotion to senior SWE; the one to $200K was largely because of a generous stock refresh grant.

posted by user: throwaway_goog
Playing misery poker with racial hardships (like you are) is ridiculous and vain to begin with, but I'll ask you this: can you find one example of an American law targeting Koreans akin to this Louisiana law specifically targeting blacks?

"Any person...who shall rent any part of any such building to a negro person or a negro family when such building is already in whole or in part in occupancy by a white person or white family, or vice versa when the building is in occupancy by a negro person or negro family, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars or be imprisoned not less than 10, or more than 60 days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court."

https://goo.gl/sBpv2x

EDIT: My limited recollection of American history reminds me that there were protectionist laws against Chinese immigrants on the Western frontier. For the sake of this exercise, let's limit your law search to 20th century discrimination against non-Japanese, non-Chinese immigrants.
No problem :)

Honestly, though, it was a great job. It never felt exhausting. Not only was the pay rather good for a 21 year old fresh out of university - the job was really fun. I got to read medium-to-high quality novels and create the audiobook experience.

Later, I got to witness Audible's rise into the mainstream and evangelized producing audiobooks for ACX [1], bringing it to a new generation of actors and engineers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmtV1Pe1hA
Rice cookers would impress me more if they had some kind of built in stirring mechanism, and even more if they dispensed liquid at a certain rate- then they could crank out perfectly consistent, effortless risotto. As it stands they don't meet the right utility/space ratio to find a place in my smallish kitchen.
Founder here, happy to take any qs.
We started this because we were sick of percent based fees eroding our investment growth. We also wanted access to more sophisticated investment options which until now have not been available via high end personal wealth managers.
Very essence commercializing of web apps is working against them. Interoperability, open interfaces, open data structures and last but not least reliability seem to be forgotten these days where the lock-in-effect is the only thing keeping people.

I don't want to be held hostage, so web apps and the cloud can kiss my shiny metal behind. I'll keep my data and apps on my own machine until ideas like sandstorm find a middle way in which I can stay in control of my data.
> I imagined a real steeple, but not a specific one that I have seen before.

I think that is the meaning of abstract for this question.
See this comment I wrote ITT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11314076
I can't say I've ever been successful making stir fried rice with immediately cooked rice. It works much better if you make rice then store it in the fridge overnight.
Not an Amazonian, but everything I've ever read about their comp culture has said that stock is heavily valued/weighted, so there's a selection bias there in that anyone who's seriously considered them should know it going in and be alright with it.
So do individuals buy or lease self-driving cars in the future? Would they then set up their self-driving car to take instructions from Uber's central dispatch service in exchange for a cut of the profits?

Currently both Uber and Lyft handle the task of vetting drivers and making sure there is a good experience for their customers. They organize and control the labor required for a good experience for the riders.

Think about a rider in a world where Lyft and Uber are both dispatching self-driving cars. What's the difference between the services if they're all using Mercedes S-Class SelfDrivers? The rider knows that all Mercedes S-Class SelfDrivers are the same experience. There's no question of if the driver is trustworthy or competent. Uber and Lyft would be providing the exact same commodity experience of sending a self-driving car to your location to then do your bidding in exchange for money.
Google fixes your ignorance instantly. This TLI is common enough to assume.
thanks for the SQLite tip, I've been meaning to add it to my tool set.

question: is SQLite incrementally helpful when I'm already comfortable with a local pgsql db to handle the use case you suggested? would SQLite be redundant for me in this case?

question: between postgres and unix tools (sed, awk) is there reason to use SQLite?
Op (and others) adding your office would be informative if you are comfortable with that.

Otherwise compensation is hard to compare.

I quit but my pay was ( Lin Seattle, numbers rounded a bit)

90k base
53k initial grant, backloaded 5% after 1 year, 15 after 2, 20% every 6 months after that.
37k signing bonus, 20k lump sum, 17k spread over 2nd year.

Raises were <1% at first review, 3.5% at second. So when I left after just over 2 years I was at 94k base. They did give me some more stock at my second review, but it was 2 years out iirc
The future full of anthropomorphic crocodiles is what concerns me most.
"Body language shared by terrorists"?

Wow, that's... Wow.

Reminds me of the early 1900's eugenicists posters about "facial features shared by criminals".
You get 100k per year or over 4 years?
IMHO you're being underpaid quite a bit with that base salary in the Seattle area. Time to start interviewing at Microsoft, Google, etc. Those companies usually start fresh out of college developers with a base pay a bit over $100k, then bonuses, stock awards, etc. on top.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the ability to connect tweets to get something resembling a longer tweet is probably considered to be a bit of a cop out.

The reasoning behind retaining the 140 character limit seems to be that if it's longer than 140 characters - post it elsewhere, then link to it if you want it on your feed. Trying to cater to the market where you can create messages to your social network that are somewhat untargeted seems like it would make twitter less able to offer the 'of the moment brevity' they want, and really would result in them being a partially implemented feature that already exists on other social media platforms.
Using virtual machine serial console via Web
I really enjoy when the voice actors do different voices for different characters. I've always wondered how they do the recording for that.

Do they read all of the dialogue for one character in a big chunk, then move on to the dialogue of the next character? Or do they read through the book naturally and switch voices? I would think that the latter would be very difficult.
You make a very good point.

This is something that London (at least) does well. Council housing is available across the city and you will often find amongst some of the wealthiest parts of the city alternating blocks of council housing.

It might indeed be a pain point for those who bought their £1M town houses to then have to deal with the consequences of a whole council estate across the street but it has (so far) prevented the ghetto-ization of swathes of our capital which seems to affect Paris for instance which has less of a mix of housing.
The web serial console is a new feature released by Kimchi, an HTML5 based management tool for QEMU/KVM. Now it's possible to access both VNC graphical console or the serial console using a web browser only.

More details about Kimchi: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi
Suggestions, bugs, patches are always wecome.
Retrofit 2.0 Released
Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos
Heck if you stand in just the right place, I've heard you can even see Russia from Alaska.
The cognitive and physical effort required to make decent rice in the rice cooker is roughly 1/10th that of manually doing it.

Crank up the stove until the water starts to boil- several minutes at least

timer for 20 minutes: does not account for any variation in the cooking process as a function of the ingredients. I see variation in my rice over the time I go through a single bag as the humidity varies

give the whole mess a stir to prevent sticking: not really a problem with rice cookers, although they can optionally make the bottom toasty since some people want this.

It's all about saving time for other things.
I have a Zojirushi tiffin/lunch set and have looked at their rice-cookers before. What a pleasure of industrial design their products all seem to be!
Techniques for Dealing with Frustration in Development
If you're hiring, do you take college students for interviews? I've never been clear about the google hiring process and I've always heard mixed things from people who went through it.