skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Effectively, these companies either pay someone to host a fax service with copper (not IP) phone lines or do that on their own with a fax server and a number of phone lines depending on how much they are sending/receiving. They spend on IT to manage their operations, server and licensing fees for the fax software, hardware (fax boards or phone gateway routers), and phone lines. The lowest cost we've seen at scale a bank that sends 40M pages per month and spends about 1.5 US cents per page. All costs in this market are tied to page. That ends up being around $600/GB of data.

Cost to us is a fraction of the cost because we rely on the Internet, but fax users care more about speed and error rates. Today, fax takes best case 45s/page (this is at 33.6 kbps), but there are errors and retransmissions that slow this down. Our solution knows how to get data from the fax servers and back-end applications faster than fax speed on the order of 10-100mbps, so our value proposition is that we speed up their infrastructure and replace phone lines. To help us grow, we charge them about 50% of their telephone line costs because those lines are no longer needed. So in short, the major value is the speed and error rate reduction, so significant cost cuts are not necessary, but helpful for growth.
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It was a few letters over the limit and I wasn't sure whether to truncate the beginning ie the end :(
I think this is stupid, and brilliant at the same time. Who cares about a book? Who cares about the readers? And even more, who cares about the writer? I found a way to pull money from someone who thinks is a book writer!!!!
Which GPU are you using? I have a 2015 Mac Pro with two D500, before I had a mid tear iMac. The mac pro stands directly besides my "beast" a i7 6700, titan x, nvm custom machine.

I can't really describe it, but it's bothering me and I would put my hand in a fire betting that it's somehow measurable. It feels like the input lag of a cheap IPS-Monitor. Every klick, every slide, every window resize has this minimum lag of maybe 10 to 50 ms, worse on linux. That's hardware independent, because that was already bothering me with a MacBook Pro and my old iMac. I haven't booted OSX in years to work production because of that tbh (Every piece of apple hardware I own is booted 99% of the time with Arch or W10E) but did it just now and compared it side to side. It's still there. It's driving me crazy. I know that I am hyper sensitive for lags and stuttering because of my former quake carrier.
It is; I think it may have been intended as alt-text rather than a caption. It's precisely the sort of description that you'd give to a blind person to describe "here's what this image is, in case you can't see it."
Simple fixes can work at the onset of a problem, before things get complex -- before your endocrine system gets imbalanced. Unfortunately too many have no clear obesity threshold or apply comparative analysis against cohorts who are also gaining weight.

While it seems unimaginable today, in the 80's a breakfast cereal commercial begins, "Can you pinch an inch ?". This commercial ran so often that it forced a lifelong association: more than 1 inch of belly fat means you are out of shape.

I have probably pinched myself once a day, every day, for decades. When I am "out of shape" I stop drinking my calories (juice, soda, milk). It's effortless and only takes a few days to recover.

Wait too long with any problem and there will be no easy fix.
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Personally, I miss my 1hr30min round-trip drives to work. I enjoy driving and I enjoy listening to PodCasts & audio books.

I would say adaptation is hugely important. Find some way to enjoy it, or at the least, find a way to make better use of the time.
The timing of this article is funny for me. I just got back from 5 days in Cancun celebrating a special occasion with my wife. Working smart, not hard is even more crucial at startups given how few resources you actually have to make progress.

I wrote my own similar thoughts here: https://softwarebymiles.com/startups-vacation-c1c9d4ceb7ff#....
I think the challenge is in consumer psychology and emotional fear of looking like a fool more than the need for better data. This is why recommendations from friends and neighbors is the go to solution today.

I specifically think the problem is in information asymmetry about the true costs to service the project. Especially considering that some jobs or parts of jobs need deep expertise and others are contracted out to the cheapest labor possible.

In other words...there are things the contractor knows that they consider trade secrets and wouldnt want to reveal them...that is what consumers need to know to be comfortable IMO.

I have a project I am working on along those lines, but its not trchnology driven.
It's possible using nested elements and transform: translate(0, -100%) on the inner element. It's elegant enough for CSS, I suppose. (I'd make an example if I wasn't on my mobile atm.)
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That was part of the model for Elance. I had an account there and never did any work through them. It was more complicated than just that. But, the service I currently work for does not charge me at all to get work. They charge my clients. They add their cut on top of my fee.

The way this works in practice is that I see a different pay scale than my clients see. So, if I say "I will do that job for X" the client sees "She will do that job for (X + Y)" or "She will do that job for 2X" or whatever their formula is for calculating the total fee. I can absolutely set my own rate. There is fine print somewhere that tells me how much they pad it when billing the client. But it is possible for me to relate mentally and emotionally to "I get paid X" and not care what the service charges for their cut because they aren't taking it out of my hide.

I would be disinclined to pay a service for the opportunity to access work. Because that means I need to keep working X amount to make it worth my while. In this case, I need to do enough work that I am making more money after paying the fee than I could make for less effort by sticking to the free deal.

So, if I can make $100/month without giving you any money but earning $101 or more means you will charge me $20, then I need to make more than $120 every single month to justify paying the fee. That makes it a burden in my mind, not an opportunity. It means I have to be confident that I have the time, energy and interest to do that consistently. It also means you become an albotross around my neck in my mind.

This creates a barrier to entry for treating this like a real job. You cannot ramp up at your own pace, as you see fit. There are financial incentives for many people to treat this as just "extra" income and not an avenue to support yourself. This will harm the long term reputation of the service, as well as threaten it's financial survival.

What I am telling you as someone who makes most of their earned income via gig work is that your stated ideals of empowering the worker are far better served by adding a surcharge to every job that gets charged to the client, not the worker. That is also more sustainable for the business.
Congratulations, you just 'invented' ghost writing.
you're just plain wrong on your first point. most fitness instructors/trainers tell their clients to eat less and eat better, and to count calories. i don't even know where you got this idea. you're conflating the bullshit commercials you see on tv with actual, real life trainers at actual real life gyms.

second, and more importantly, this advise is nearly useless. this is like telling an alcoholic to just drink less, or a heroin addict to just stop using. yes, great. eat less, thanks bro. what a revelation.

obese people are addicted to food. they are killing themselves and it's a psychosomatic issue, not a math problem. it requires education, a real desire to change, sometimes special diets to break mental barriers, and a lot more work than just a simple statement like "eat less calories". i guess you must think everyone else is just stupid, right? so simple! just eat less calories. silly addicts, if they only knew about physics...
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I'm there with you. This whole ordeal has made me start to realize what is important to me. I realize how lucky I was when I was so close to work.

I was quantifying it like this:

* work: 8 hours

* sleep: 8 hours

* commute: ~2.5 hours

That leaves 5.5 hours a day for myself, which includes eating and getting ready. So really, less than that.

I'm totally sold on the philosophy of eat, work, sleep, and play in the same area. You can rent a car if you want to go on a long weekend or something and not have to worry about any maintenance. It feels more liberating.
Amazing – nice find. Never played a CS-15 but it looks like a real powerhouse.
Yeah renting good apartments and houses is really cheap. But imho try to avoid Bucharest, which is the London of Romania, that is, a bit of an overcrowded shithole. Any other major city is better (except maybe Iasi :D)...
Thanks to everyone that has asked a question. I wanted to add a little more info on how this will speed up engineering in the future.

A "fitting" is a small component that usually attaches a rod to another item. The fitting consists of a base plate and two vertical extrusions. There is a bolt at each corner of the base plate connecting it on that end and an eye bolt sits between the two vertical extrusions and screws into the rod.

I CADWOLF, you will be able write a single web page or "document" that takes in the load on the fitting through the rod and then calculate the base plate size, the thickness, the size of the vertical extrusions, and the sizes of the bolts needed. These items will populate your part tree automatically. When the load changes, everything updates automatically. If you change this document, the design updates.

Now imagine that you are building a large structure with dozens of these fittings and any engineer can simply place the fitting into their structure in the same way that you call a function. You don't have to worry about whether or not the engineer did the design properly as everyone is using the company standard analysis and the engineer can go about doing the more complicated things.

Now imagine that CADWOLF provides a large array of built in structures like this where a single engineer can design large and complicated structures faster than teams of engineers do today.
Happy to chat about my ideas. Email is in my profile.

Video sounds interesting...I wonder if its a barrier to taking action.
I don't really consider technical debt to be about things that make the code base harder to reason about (unreasonable?). That is an important architectural point but I think of it as orthogonal to technical debt.

To me, technical debt is about the trade-off of short term progress for long term flexibility of the code base. Essentially, the need of the business to ship -- side note: I wrote that as shit initially. Freud would be amused. -- the feature immediately outweighs the need of the business to write maintainable code. So, you expend fewer engineering resources than you should now and you spend more than you would have later. Basically, you borrow against the future productivity of your engineering team.

So, to me, it's about doing less work now and more work later. That can be a conscious decision or a consequence of ignorance. Things like choosing the wrong abstraction are about being ignorant of the problem space.
This is an aspect I haven't felt (yet). Ask me in several years how I feel again. ;P I'm in my 20s, so the city's energy is what I love.
I really appreciate these links, they can seriously help out my team mates. Thank you. I'd be genuinely grateful for any more.
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447862 and marked it off-topic.
I apologize for the lack of information on the site. I'll add a lot more to the site soon including a REPL. You can find something for now at kayia.org.

Thank you so much for your interest!
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The UK had, for a while, a reasonable approach to insulation. Historically, especially post-war, we had some terribly poor housing as far as thermal efficiency went.

The energy companies were required to provide free and discounted energy saving measures for their customers, to a certain value each year. This was as part of the overall carbon lowering measures.

They typcally provided loft and wall insulation, both of which could be done in a day. If you had solid walls it took a little longer and some properties weren't suitable.

For the vast majority it was quick, easy and cheap. No major construction required either for most.
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My employer (a large Tech company with about 10k employees) recently blocked every sports related website along with YouTube, Netflix, and every video and music streaming service possible (Spotify, Pandora, Apple music, etc.), citing bandwidth issues as the reason. There was a vague statement claiming they will review this policy in the future. I can understand blocking Netflix, but blocking music streaming services and sports news websites seems ridiculous for a technology company.

What websites does your employer block? Should an employer block any websites?
I bet you only watch the best SNL skits, too.
Also if they would've sold the development rights to private companies those contracts would usually have a flat fee that is independent of production viability that the companies have to pay to maintain the rights, this alone would've been enough to keep them afloat.
This will never be as useful as Rapportive without having LinkedIn as a data source. And since LinkedIn owns Rapportive and is probably not keen to share that data with a competitor, I don't see that happening any time soon.
Reduce the collisions how much, though? Are you using a port number == N*hashSize+53 for something else a lot? A collision is guaranteed for every connection to port 53, so isn't that a much bigger source of collisions? I think the hash size of 32 isn't the problem. It's the function.
On a website where we talk about smartphone apps to do the most trivial things, it seems weird to glorify any method of losing weight other than the easiest and shortcut-iest.
When this thing started out, I remember reading Fadell saying that he would go around and have coffee with his colleagues in the valley, and tell them he was working on a thermostat. And as the story went, they were all incredulous that it could be a good idea. Maybe they were right after all.
Socialism is worker's control of the means of production. I don't see democratic councils of workers making these decisions. This is Leninist style "socialism" from above, ie., state capitalism and democratic centralism intermingled. Not socialism.

Here's Noam Chomsky talking about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfdnbMd9BiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsC0q3CO6lM

Many socialists are critical of Leninist style socialism because it's not representative of socialism and it tarnishes the name.
Maybe today, the average judge has a basic understanding of what a hyperlink is.
Oh and I had to remove this extra part because of character limit so here goes:

--MONEY--

1) Ads. Print fashion magazines are failing, digital fashion ads were up 60% in 2015. Mobile/digital is where the future of advertising is at. In addition: fashion ads are beautiful and can be as interesting as the actual content (ex: >50% of fashion magazines are ads).

2) With one product a day and a nice amount of followers, one could imagine collaborations with brands for exclusive features/releases, etc..

3) All of our features are shoppable and we have direct affiliate contracts with retailers with commissions ranging from 8-12%.
Please stress-test and feel free to submit problem cases as issues to the github repo [0].

"Aggressive mode", which leverages Chromium's "simplify page" mode, might do some of what you want, but typically you need some of the funky print css classes to enforce widows/orphans.

The main reason we have built this however is that wkhtmltopdf just crashes all the time. Other commenters seem to agree. We'd love feedback on whether Athena works in cases that other tools fail, as well as on quality of conversion.

[0]: https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf
Or, perhaps a password manager like 1password.
Sorry, I have to share the commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWUBIbsSB2c

I think if anyone did this to their wife today, it would be grounds for immediate divorce and instant social-media shaming.
For those interested in this, here's a more detailed report from someone named Joachim Moeyens.

* https://community.lsst.org/t/lsst-stack-on-ubuntu-linux-on-w...

Be aware that the Java8 installer/uninstaller has other potential symbolic link problems (not "invalid argument", though) that exist on actual Ubuntu Linux.

* http://askubuntu.com/questions/608961/

* http://askubuntu.com/questions/653885/
Indeed.com sold for around $1 billion, or so I heard from a startup founder that I did some consulting work for (he was in the recruitment space too, and had a prior exit or two). Later googled for that info and saw links that looked like it was true. A Japanese company recruiter.com bought it. Interestingly, I don't remember reading about the Indeed sale on Fred's blog, though I've been reading it for some years now. Could have missed the post, or could be he never wrote about it.

Edit: grammar.
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> The C=64 had a built-in sprite generator. It had first class graphics (for the era) baked right in.

The C=64 had much less powerful graphics than the Atari 800, which was out well before the C=64. The C=64 got big by reducing build quality and slashing prices.

The Amiga was much more similar to the Atari 800. Commodore didn't develop it, they just bought it from Amiga Corporation.

Jay Miner, "father of the Amiga", worked for Atari and developed the custom chips for the Atari 800 before repeating the process for Amiga Corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner
Yeah, it's hard to make the business case for leaving money on the table - with every expansion comes change and change much more than the expansion cost is really what is causing the gating effect.
Monopolies are rotten with corruption. Nationalized industries are monopolies, and often headed by non-industry people so the nature of the corruption tends to be more catastrophic, and correction is much, much harder than in the case of a corporation with a monopoly.
I'd like to suggest trying integrating the syntax highlighter from JOE for speed, but JOE is GPL...

Also, I'm not sure how large the Lua/LPeg state is, but for JOE we found the highlighter is more accurate if you retain the state of each line (or every n lines), and start parsing from a real known state. It looks like Vis starts parsing 16K before the start of the window.

https://sourceforge.net/p/joe-editor/mercurial/ci/default/tr...
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While I am not a lawyer, I suspect that a reasonable person would say that encoding the content in a string turns the link into the content rather than leading one to the content.
Agree with all of that.

Especially about the need for better insulation - comparing our standard of buildings to Scandinavia is just embarrasing, and expensive.
Can I run chron and schedule jobs?

I have Win 7, so I was thinking of running a VM with Win 10 to try it out (once it is officially released).

It sounds like it runs X/Windows which is fantastic!
None. Afaik there is not even a log.

Your case really sounds more than ridiculous.
Yes, thanks. There's some overlap but I think the Schema-on-Need and new query language are two places, for example, where it strongly differs.
How would this process scale to a history book that requires detailed research and weighting conflicting sources of the same event without bias?

For example write me a book on Russia's annexation of Crimea & war in Eastern Ukraine.

There's at least 4000 hours of research there, interviewing people in an active war zone and collecting 10,000's of sources, it would take years.

If anything this is where this approach would work, there's far more analysts and editors out there than writers with a heroic sense of duty.
Not quite sure what you mean by a different way, or sequencers author. Do you mean the musician, or like Roland/Korg/ARP?

MIDI is a pretty exact specification. If a sequencer is changing the timing of anything, the underlying MIDI structures are not the same then. You can have different amounts of swing or different PPQ values, but then I wouldn't consider that "the same MIDI".

You can feed it to different sound generators of course, different drum machines, synths, a laptop, what-have-you, (most sequencers have both builtin together) but that's different from the MIDI itself.
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You might be a good candidate for some newer devices for non-invasive fat removal. Take a look at CoolSculpting, which freezes fat cells (leading to apoptosis), or Vanquish, which uses deep RF stimulation to heat fat cells and kill them. CoolSculpting has been around for about 5 years and has already been used for over 3 million treatments and seems to be pretty safe and effective. Vanquish and SculpSure (uses lasers) are much newer.
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I think it would be interesting to think about ways in which the core important benefits or anonymity could be achieved through a non-anonymous society. Anonymity is becoming fetishized in certain subgroups of western culture, but I don't think anonymity is the real goal, but what it allows. This is important, because while it may not be possible to salvage anonymity in some or all locales in the future, that doesn't necessarily mean we can't salvage some of its benefits, such as protection from authority. Not that I know how we would accomplish this, but like I said, I think it would be interesting to think about.
We are thinking about moving to PrinceXml from java flyingsaucer which doesn't deal with newer html construct. Looks to be really good but good to have other feedbacks.
Those are two great kata, I enjoyed completing them! On top of that, from the creators of Codewars comes Qualified (https://qualified.strive.co/), which allows you to use already created challenges to test developers skill. You can also create your own challenges and playback their programming frames step by step!
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Look at the Paris Commune/Revolutionary Spain, the Ukraine Free Territory, the Zapatistas in Mexico, etc. There's lots of examples of socialism working on large enough scales to be relevant but so-called "socialist" Leninists have crushed successful, ground-up socialist movements time after time.