skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easiest ones are solo (or near-solo) projects for cost-avoidance measures, so the easiest example for me to give as an example is "By my project, I cut our AWS spend by $40K/month perpetually." Unfortunately, cost avoidance projects don't actually help most companies all that much (as revenue growth is more important and I'd rather have $40K more operating income from revenue growth than from cost avoidance).

You also are competing against a baseline. (Maybe a consultant could have saved us half of that, or "Yes, this year's contract for bandwidth is $50K/month cheaper, but the industry baseline also fell by more than half of that, so what was YOUR actual contribution?")

For revenue growth results, those are more often many person projects and "results are more distanced from activities", which makes it harder to quantify an individual's contribution. In cases like that, I look to the project overall results: did it ship, was it well-received by paying stakeholders, did it ship at an appropriate time, with appropriate features, did it sell, and then within the team to understand who the key contributors were. That last bit mostly comes from peer review process, as the project team worked together for far longer and more closely than I did, and the project team is the primary unit of success/failure. You won't get far arguing to me that you should be paid more because you were a crucial contributor on a failing project. (One exception is if you were the crucial contributor to argue why that project should have been killed.) Likewise, there are people who are consistently associated with successful projects, even if I can't figure out precisely how they contribute. The team likes them, reports them as helpful, and the team with that person delivers successful projects. I don't have to understand the mechanism(s); I just have to believe it wasn't by pure chance to judge that person as contributing.

No doubt that these factors play into why we don't pay more unevenly in the industry.

Now, if the question is "I'm an engineer, and I want to increase the value I bring; what should I do?" To that question, I'd answer: Find out what your company's core value proposition is, what the few most important things to the company are, and how you can contribute to one or more of them. It's great if those things are also interesting and perfectly aligned with your passions, but if they're not, you may need to choose the balance between scratching your passionate itch and scratching the company's greatest needs. How you balance that is going to influence the company's results and your own results. (Note that I carefully chose "balance" wording; it shouldn't be 100% of either of those things, IMO.)
Even though it sounds like its not feasible could you explain the concept of "sim proxying"? I am curious. Thanks!
Design tool like Cello produces a string of characters representing the sequence of a DNA molecule, not a physical molecule of DNA. To actually do something with this in the real world, you would need to place an order with a DNA Synthesis company (assuming you don't own a DNA synthesizer yourself). Fortunately, these companies screen sequences for things like genes encoding toxins, and work with law enforcement agencies. See for example Marcus Graf's talk at SB6.0: http://sb6.biobricks.org/session/day-2/assessing-risk-managi...

Also, the capabilities of this tool are rather limited. It is not clear to me how being able to design a small combinatorial logic circuit would directly help a potential bioterrorist.
And using a Hollywood movie as an example? If he wanted to claim "it's just a tool, usable for anything" he should have used something like Big Buck Bunny as the example.
Sunscreen Acts as Male Contraceptives Says the New Study
I see, as a language feature it makes sense to overoptimize for any situation.
Why does it look like a new balance?
This doesn't work for me, because http://thepiratebay.se is hardcoded in the code and that mirror is blocked in my location. I filed an issue.

https://github.com/weslleyaraujo/pirateflix/issues/3
> I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg

Isn't this just called "following"?
Isn't it the community also?
WW3 WEST TO START WW3, TURDS AND SAUDI'S CROSS BORDERS INTO SYRIA
It seems a lot of the magic behind this comes from Peerflix - a node.js library for streaming torrents.

This is mostly a CLI wrapper for searching piratebay, parsing the results, and then streaming using peerflix.
https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix

I'm curious why thepiratebay npm package wasn't used instead:
https://github.com/t3chnoboy/thepiratebay

That said, great usage of cheerio for parsing the returned HTML results. I love how it's as simple as running JQuery like commands on the server side.
FreeBSD has supported Linux compatibility for many years and, purportedly, can run some Linux applications faster than Linux itself so FreeBSD has always been miles ahead.
It is not complicated to me:

- food, books, medicine, ... -> lower VAT

- cars, luxury items -> higher VAT
Could you reply to his post by SMS?
They're in the Netherlands so I suppose they're safe(ish?)
I'm deeply concerned about popularizing torrent streaming.

A few leechers breaking "rarest-first" might not cause much harm. But if most leechers become streamers, torrents will lose their efficiency in distributing less-popular content.

Transmission implemented a "streaming" feature once, that didn't actually stream. It just stopped fetching pieces "with the same rarity" randomly. They still got too much heat for adding that not very usefull feature. And they reverted the commits soon after.
Even though this is an old article, I stumbled on pgloader!

http://pgloader.io/

Sounds like this might get me out of future MySQL pain...
I run FreeBSD on my workstation since 2004 and am at 10.3-RELEASE right now. I'm a web developer and run several VMs, different browsers, all development work including graphics, as does the staff of ten at my office.

FreeBSD has no issues with any of the high end hardware we run and the oldest to newest hardware we have is one to three years old.
Total interest * [marginal] tax rate, not times interest rate.

(I give you credit for knowing the difference, but not every reader will know the difference, so I'm trying to help them, not nitpick you.)
Not really? The government still controls the licence fee.
It depends greatly on location. But keep in mind leverage and capital growth. In my area of London, you could service a mortgage to 90% loan to value with the rent. Which means that if you have enough assets to convince a bank to give you a 90% mortgage (50% is more common, but it's possible), then if you merely cover your costs with the rental income, you have 10x leverage on the capital growth. Lets say 2% growth per year, and you have a 20% return.

Obviously you are taking according risks, which is my the more typical LTV for but-to-rent mortgages is around 50%, which with 2% growth would give you only 4% return (but with a 50% LTV you'd likely have money left over after paying for the mortgage).

But in general, the capital growth combined with the potential for leverage is the reason rental is so competitive, and the reason why returns on the rental income itself is deceptively low.
No surprise to Hjalmar Schacht topping the IQ chart; he had a big hand in introducing the Rentenmark and arresting hyperinflation in the early 20s. Ten years later he innovated again with mefo bills to finance New Deal style economic expansion and re-armament. But I am surprised to see Speer scoring so low on the IQ. After all he did offer the cleverest defence at the trials, thereby cheating the noose despite his documented presence for the Posen speeches.
Rat park was a replication, it was inspired by disregarded evidence of soldiers returning from war.

Most Soldiers who were using 'addictive' drugs simply gave them up when returning home.

A small but constant percentage didn't ~3-5% - Alexander postulated that these types will become addicted to something and it was genotype & circumstance that led to addictive behaviours not the drugs themselves being chemically addictive.

Bruce Alexander has stated that this evidence led him to try to confirm it with his Rat Park experiment.

He plainly showed it was the inhuman conditions that led rats to kill themselves with drugs, well performed, proper controls.

Flew in the face of the prevailing orthodoxy and the political capital of the drug war boogeyman - so no funding for replication. Career suicide to replicate it back then.

It is pretty obviously true, there is hardly a human activity without an associated -oholicism.
This seems to be some kind of social experience. That's not comparable to Airbnb for me and personally something I would hate (I don't enjoy meeting new people but I do like food).
Trackers are horrible. I don't want anyone to know what I am doing what sites I am visiting etc...

What gives them the right to track? Besides of imposing banners to my face?

They got what was coming to them. I am glad that the EFF is giving us tools to fight back.

Consider donating to them!
This was just an example to be used by the rightholders of that movie. If you published your own movie, you can substitute the name of your movie in the example. :)
They're not to be trusted ?
This approach has classist implications. See also unpaid internship.
To get to the top you need a lot of luck, a lot of ability, a huge drive and every advantage you can get. This doesn't detract from the amazing accomplishment of both men.
Cities of the Future: Cities ARE Our Future
Makefiles for LaTeX
I guess it could be a subtle slight at the stereotypical downloader of PHP software like Wordpress (and in this case, e.g. BBPress) not really being "developers".
For me, #1 is tracking, #2 is malware.
You don't even need NixOS for that. Just use Ansible or Puppet to manage your Arch Linux configuration.
I think it's fairer to say that: it doesnt necessarily implement them in a standards-compliant way. Which I dont mean to imply it implements everything, in a non-standard way, it's missing a bunch of stuff. But it does have a lot of standard database features, like transactions and so on, but a lot of stuff is ... odd. for example, 'row_number()' is missing. You have to use session variables.
If this is a lazy way for a CEO to meet goals, I'm as concerned how lazy the board is in not putting scenario exceptions in the bonus to allow for stock concentration via buyback. It would be a fairly simple line in a bonus plan. Likewise they shouldn't be punished if share are diluted via raising money on the markets if that is the best things to do at the time.
He has a picture, but it's not particularly distinctive, and the name could just be a pseudonym.
Why I won't do coding tests
Before Apple offered installments plans, US carriers were offering them. Do Indian carriers do the same?
Fedora is the only real alternative if you want more stability.
The great weakness of the Tesla S in the German market ist the German autobahn, where it runs out of energy very quickly (after an hour or so for aggressive drivers).

OK, if you're averaging 200 km/h on the Autobahn then you will run out of energy pretty quickly. But this is just as true with ICE vehicles. If you're getting twice the energy consumption in an EV then you'll also be getting twice the fuel consumption in an ICE, and you'll have to stop and refuel pretty quickly.

So, with an EV, as long as there is a fast enough charger at the other end, who cares? You travelled 200km in that hour, you probably got where you wanted to go. Even if you spend 25 minutes recharging at a supercharger, you still got there quicker than if you drove at 100km/h!

Audi are already talking about 800V, ~300kW fast chargers that can recharge that 200km of range in 10 minutes. At these kind of speeds, the difference between recharging an EV and refuelling an ICE car becomes pretty negligable.

The Tesla S is not designed for sustained high speeds.

Simply not true. There's plenty of Tesla videos on YouTube showing sustained, comfortable driving at 200km/h+ autobahn speeds.
How is Kubernetes important to the future of GCE? I don't believe thats the scheduler they are using for compute. I know you can run Kube on top of GCE but that's obviously not the same thing. I was also told by someone at Google Cloud that when you launch a compute instance on GCE its actually running inside a VM as well. So this container inside a VM leads to me to think this is true. The VM might be for security, I'm not sure.
There's the fact that Facebook is headquartered in California, and having to establish and maintain NV residency might be more of a burden than Mark is willing to do. (Imagine that CA will scrutinize that claim carefully.)

If Mark has to stay 183 nights in NV (or stay in NV more nights than anywhere else), that might be more of a personal burden and inconvenience than paying CA tax. And if it harms his ability to lead his company, it might ultimately be more expensive as well...
It's day 1 and the frontpage of El Pais (one of the major Spanish newspapers) only mentions Putin and Venezuela.
Netflix delivers all video streaming content via FreeBSD which makes up 37% of all internet traffic. https://openconnect.itp.netflix.com/software/ They also contribute to FreeBSD core. It is not just an "appliance" as some people seem to want to point to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZZN8Szh14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_bKvXkoC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL5U4wr86L4

In addition, a guy I met, who worked at Yahoo, told me about 25% of Yahoo still runs FreeBSD as of two years ago.
You're a delusion fool if you think row houses are nice, especially as the aesthetic of the house is the least important part of living in it.

I live in the UK where they are common, they're a nightmare to live in, you can hear people arguing or babies screaming 4 houses down.

A lot of houses are detached but very close to each other or semi-detached (linked to one other house). Both are far more pleasant to live in than row houses or sky scrapers.
Looking at the compose window, I feel there is scope to simplify it by removing some infrequently applied elements. Who creates h1, h2 h3, h4 and h5 headings in forum posts. In the order of frequent use, it is link, quote, bold, italics, picture, and attachment buttons that are frequently used. Other buttons could be hidden or even removed without creating friction.

It looks really pleasing. I especially like that it doesn't give too much space to display avatar and user information such as join date, user category, posts and so on like many traditional forums that always used more vertical space than many one or two sentence replies, eating up vertical space.
It's indeed strange and definitely against the spirit.

There's an excellent open source project which does this and much more: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdecon...
>Any realistic approximation of AIXI would use probabilistic Turing machines.

That would be a fresh model of AI, rather than an AIXI approximation. You should probably look into that idea.

>However for true AIXI with infinite computing power, that doesn't really matter. Randomness can be represented as a stored random seed data, and isn't treated any different than any other unknown variables.

Tsk tsk. It's a curse-of-dimensionality issue. If we have N bits of optimally-compressed random seed plus M bits of structure (and yeah, AIT has ways to separate a string X into its structure and random bits iff you have the normal Halting Oracle), then the prior probability of that particular machine is 2^{-(N+M)}. The noisier the input dataset, the larger N grows. In normal learning, we want M to be constant (which we can usually assume it is: the universe mostly doesn't acquire new causal structure while we're looking at it), which then allows the posterior probability of good hypotheses to rise logarithmically with sample size. If each sample contains noise, then we actually have to split things up:

2^-M for the causal structure, where M is constant and the posterior thus gains information logarithmically. 2^-N for the random seed, where the ground-truth random seed actually grows linearly in length with each sample we observe (because of the bits of entropy Nature used-up to make that sample); the prior probability of each random-seed drops logarithmically as the number of samples grows we anticipate seeing grows.

So while this is all very informal, I'd have to say that a noisy Solomonoff induction actually suffers from a Curse of Dimensionality because it assumes everything is discrete, while more typical machine-learning models based on continuous distributions can learn well in the face of noise.
Edge cases will kick you in the nuts
For a very long time, I did not want to use ad blockers. I have used ads in the past to monetize some of my own projects, and I really did not want to stab the creators of quality content.

However, last week I finally reversed my decision and started using ad blockers. Why? Frankly, many sites are just greedy. Banners were ugly enough (and I tolerated them) but many sites these days show ads that cover the content, and going as far as to hide the [x] button for a few seconds. And, I am not even talking about privacy and security issues.

Businesses have to come up with better monetization strategies. Shoving ads on my face and making me accidentally click them is a net loss for everyone.
A lot of credit for most FOSS software is the various libraries and programming languages they are built upon: I don't think you can take anything away from this project because of it. Indeed if you take the time to look into Peerflix's dependencies (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix/blob/master/package.js...) you'll see that it, too, is based upon airplay-js, parse-torrent, torrent-stream, amongst others.

We're at a rather convenient point in time where building a program/app is an exercise in coming up with an idea, researching the alternative components it can be built out of and then spending the time getting them to play nicely together. I wouldn't underestimate the amount of work that entails.
Location: Amsterdam

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Mostly into security now, linux, android, programming in C++, Java, Python, bash, i learn new technologies/languages fast

Résumé/CV (contact): https://www.linkedin.com/in/uberspot

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He should probably change the preview image from selecting from which high res stream of inception he wants then.
Oh I was just commenting similar to this above. Is the C++ alternative Borg? I believe this spins up a VM like KVM and the runs the container inside the VM.
Your project looks awesome!
PodShare, a coworking space with beds
I carved out an exception to that rule, to say something surreal. Have a nice fish.
There's Antergos for this.
> You still have half a billi left in your bank account to live your life like a king... you'll be fine trust me.

I notice that people tend to be much more okay with unfairness as long as it doesn't affect them.

Consider that to 99% of the humans having $500k does mean "living like a king", and I bet that Joe who works at the gas station will think "you'll be fine with half a mil, trust me" when he thinks about taking half of your salary.

If you make $1M you are a rich person, if you make $100k you are a rich person, if you make $40k you are still in the top 0.57% of the richest people in the world (http://www.globalrichlist.com).

People who justify taxing people richer than they are seem to forget that there's 6.7 billion people thinking the same way and using the same logic to justify taking their stuff.
It's just apt now.
It comes close as a #2 for me (I care more for an uncompromised system than for tracking but YMMV). However, the article states that the state of affairs might be better for publishers if they didn't ignore DNT. I doubt that very much for these two reasons:

1. Malware
2. Intrusive ads, even the article site serves animated ads which distract from the content.
Or maybe they could use [Node.js core DNS](https://nodejs.org/api/dns.html#dns_dns_setservers_servers) module to resolve the domain, setting something like [censurfridns](http://www.censurfridns.dk/) as a temporary server.

I think this module is very immoral, however, so I'm not going to contribute...
This sort of policy mostly harms India itself and doesn't affect the west that much so there's not much point us calling it out. It's stuff like this that keeps India at around 130 on the Human Development Index, a little above the Republic of Congo in spite of having people bright enough to come and run Microsoft. Go protectionism and bureaucracy!
There is a point at which social becomes anti-social, even online.
This article is interesting (there a discussion on HN somewhere): http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-electi...

Anecdotally, through ~2009/11 you could use keyword density as a significant ranking variable on the Google Play store. I was amazed when I discovered as web SEO had long left this behind. I had an app coming up 3rd in searches for things like FB and YT.
A bif off-topic, what do you think about this: http://lukewolf.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/a-prediction-2020-yea...
Depending on your definition of income tax you check 2 numbers:

- the lower number that you as a person pay (strictly the personal income tax)
- the higher number, combining what the company pays + what you pay after your income.

I am a contractor so I get a breakdown how much was spent on taxes and if get 100 EUR from a company the tax deduction is 65 EUR. (Obviously, the % depends on your actual income).

Combine this with VAT and you see that your actual contribution to the government is in the 70%-80% range.

You can check out the rates here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates

I still remember how bad I felt for the peasants in primary school when we learned that they had to give 1/10th of their income to the state, and later another 1/10th to the church.
I only see an O(n) algorithm there, there is no O(k). Am I missing something?
It doesn't have to be either-or. I spent most of my childhood in a small town in Norway. Most of it was suburban. But almost everyone was within 10 minutes walk from a small grocery store, and within 20 minutes walk from downtown which held a couple of small shopping centres, a couple of shopping streets, the train and bus stations.

Very few people lived next to any noisy businesses, but everyone lived near shops.
Why multi-modal biometrics are the only route to online security
I am not really concern about popularity, but the development side of it. Or, can the current size of usage / ecosystem be sustainable for FreeBSD long term development? Cooperate usage will at least paid for the development in Linux, I was just worried FreeBSD usage is shrinking because of this.
Dislike this kind of story appearing in HN. We're all well educated people with high earning potential who should be capable of buying movies, not using our talent to rip them off.

I'd hate to see HN develop a bad reputation because of stuff like this.
It's horrible that I like the sound of a high-ish top rate of income tax? We haven't even stated the terms of what income level that tax rate is applied at, so your finding it horrible is either a total misunderstanding, or you object to the progressive nature of variable income tax outright. I hope it's the former, because I find the latter truly objectionable.