skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course a famous Norwegian thinks Columbus is Scandinavian! I'm reminded of the phrase Samuel Eliot Morrison used in his books on the European Discovery of America-"Scandinavery". Its about as realistic as the "runes" discovered in the midwest in the late 19th century. There's a bit of a cottage industry in the US of various ethnic groups either claiming Columbus was really one of their own, or claiming that some other ethnic group (theirs, coincidentally!) actually discovered America.
It might help the HN crowd if you say it's a sarcastic poem about survivorship bias ;)
You forget that rich people do not care about showing off their money to the middle class. They care about showing off to their peers and above. And that costs a lot.
With all due respect to conspiracies, this is a cool feature.
So true. I think a lot of programmers (myself included) fall into the pit of wanting to perfect their code too much. As you look back on your career, you realize ten shipped projects with decent code would've been better than three shipped projects with perfect code. (This is probably true of more than just programmers and code too).
Gresham's Law trumps Postel's Principle.

* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/qm...
Which is an unfortunate position given that human drivers are still vastly safer than any algorithm. The way Google presents its marketing for Self-Driving Cars is meant to downplay that.

Their cars are deathtraps without human drivers.
I wonder why he didn't mention YUV.
Not good for some hedge funds: "80 hedge funds counted Allergan as one of their top 10 holdings at the end of the fourth quarter"

http://reut.rs/1N8fNTF

Not good for senior execs either of course, nor for the advising banks due to lose out on $100 million of fees (Goldman, Guggenheim, Centerview, Moelis & Company), and JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley lose out on dozens of millions of investment banking fees.

Maybe good for some of the workers, who won't lose their job to "synergies" anymore?
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You are reconsidering. And you admit that you are heavily personally invested in the brand. What will it take for you to not buy any of them any more?

We like to protect our investments. These investments are in time, money, effort and psychological face. We would rather wait and see if our investment still is worth something after all we put into it.

Brands, if we have invested in them sufficiently, are able to get away with much more than other companies because the consumers who have invested so much are unwilling to lose their investment.
I agree that programming is a dead end job. It's popular and relatively easy. It doesn't require any special skills. Anyone with an average IQ can learn it. There's low cost and barrier of entry to getting started. It's fun and addicting when you're a kid. Then you get trapped and it becomes monotonous.

There's only so good you can get at programming. Beyond that, most of your time is spent on debugging trivial issues or trying to keep your knowledge of the overwhelming amount of tools and platforms up-to-date. If you're a really great programmer you might be able to get 3x as much done as an average programmer, but you won't be able to get 10x as much done to warrant 10x higher pay.

Programming is just one step above working on an assembly belt. There's plenty of competition for your position including from cheap foreign workers from the 3rd world and, since your job can be done remotely, you're even more expendable.

That technology is a luxury, makes your position nonessential. You will be worthless if Western civilization ever fails and drops out of the Technological Age.

When you stare into computers all day you aren't developing social skills or really any skills that would be applicable to most other jobs. If you don't want to be a programmer forever, the sooner you stop wasting your time staring into computers, likely, the better.

If you want to be highly valuable, you need to have skills that are rare and desirable, that make oodles of money or change the world. Such skills are usually of a social, political, or otherwise creative nature - things that can't be learned from a textbook by anyone capable of logical thinking.

Programming is simply grunt work. It's the grunt work of dealing with the disarray of present day technology. As we advance and become more organized and cohesive, the need for programmers will be reduced.
Assuming the programmer doesn't sell the current laptop that he's currently using.
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This:

Perhaps it is fair to say that “finite” does not mean what we have always thought it to mean. What have we always thought it to mean? I used to think that I knew what I had always thought it to mean, but I no longer think so.

If we go down this road, Hamkins’ result takes on a different significance. It says that any subjectivity in the notion of ‘natural number’ may also infect what it means for a Turing machine to halt, and what function a Turing machine computes when it does halt.

Is beautiful. It seems like another proof for a leaky abstraction and incomepleteness.

We have to forget finite or admit that it has bounds on what we can explore with it, as it already defines our model.
I feel like a bot but the auto tl:dr of this thread is

just buy a damn laser printer.

Sincerely,
a fellow Brother laser printer owner
> Call me cynical, but I'm a bit skeptical that a company would pay more than they had to.

Companies will not pay more than they have to, but if you demonstrate your worth they will be happy to pay it.

I make high six figures and am completely location independent.
That sounds like China to me.
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Personally I also blame printer-hardware renewal. How many new models do you need ?

Using a website that has models/prices listed there are 466 new printers since 03/06/2015 with 25 brands coming down to an average of 18 new printer models per brand.

Anyone knows why printer brands don't just make a few good models and keep them for a long while ?
(I suspect this problem is not limited to the printer business.)
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I very occasionally need to print things - sometimes photos (hence a laser printer is not suitable

1. I buy a printer

2. I use the printer. Great

3. Several months pass...

4. The printer head is clogged. Occasionally I can fix it by running the cleaning cycle. Sometimes I can take it to a shop to be cleared. GOTO 2

5. Sometimes I throw the printer away. GOTO 1

I'm rather sick of this cycle. Surely I can't be the only person that wants a photo printer that can cope with being used intermittently?

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: I just saw this from the article: "...though these printers automatically perform periodic purges to keep their nozzles clean and ready to print"

Seems like maybe I need to keep it powered on all the time so it can clean itself. I never knew this.

Can anyone confirm if this will solve my problem reliably?
Brands that make only a few good models will drown out in the noise. It's essentially spam by product releases.
Why 10%? Sounds like a magic constant.
>which is admittedly hand wavy and ill informed, but there must be some limit to how efficiently a given economy can put capital to use, faced with abundance, that lack of efficiency might show up as outlier valuations of particular experiences.

I tend to think that the people spending money on this are unlikely to be the type of people capable of putting capital to a more 'efficient' or effective use.
I started working at 17. So that's 30 years for me! Darn, I should have some sort of celebration ;-)

My very first paid project was designing the PA audio system in the Lille (france) metro. It was a fancy Mac SE/30 with a IEEE GPIO card. That was driving two big Revox Tape machines, and was playing one, rewinding the other etc. Occasionally it would also play a digital audio file (w000t!).

It was all in Pascal at the time, and I had a whooping 4MB of ram. System ran for well over 10 years!
I wonder how much patents would prevent a newcomer from entering the market...
How long will "entertainment computers, such as blu-ray players or gaming consoles" remain separate from ordinary general-purpose computers?
It's also a lot faster than Diffbot. We were using Diffbot at Instapaper before launching the new parser, and our total parsing time dropped an order of magnitude: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staticinstapaper/blog/par...
> What am I doing wrong?

Buying inkjet printers. They typically don't last well without frequent use and maintenance. Get a decent laser printer and it will last a good long time (presuming it's a good unit to start with).
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A major factor in this is that the transit services largely die off at 1am in Vancouver. So for any workers at stores or restaurants they simply can't afford to go home after a certain point. The late night bus service is not good enough, take for example the N19. It is full of all the bar kids at 1am. You don't want to take that bus unless you're drunk.

I think you're onto something with the Victorian "healthy living" bit. There is some hypocrisy as well: the way Vancouverites talk down about alcohol drinkers or tobacco smokers all the time but meanwhile promote the pot trade and never talk about the rampant heroin problem in that city.
The world need an open-hardware, fixable printer. Something rock solid, you can buy in a kit, a buy pieces to fix it.
Ink should be in bottles to allow competition on the prices.

Or as someone else has suggestion, a Dyson printer
Windows NT was developed before even Unicode 1.1.
You're missing the point of these night clubs. Nearly all of them are owned by, or involve criminal gangs because they're a fantastically convenient and efficient way to clean dirty money. Buy a jeroboam of champagne wholesale for $300, sell in night club for $30,000 or more.
Misread as "Geek", shook head :|
Yeah, Open Source / Open Hardware in IoT is a step back in the direction of how things always were and how they are supposed to be - you buy the device, you own it. People understand that. They expect their washing machines and microwave ovens to work until the hardware itself breaks (let's forget for a moment about the sick practice of planned obsolescence). They expect to be able to repair them or find a third party that can.

People don't have to understand "open source". They will understand the concept of "works until hardware dies", or "can be taken to a repairman for fixing", or "I can go to a mall and buy an extension from some random vendor and it will work".
I thought this was gonna be about some manager at a tech company forcing everyone to use standing desks.
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Same here, even working drivers for OS X 10.11 El Capitan! Too bad there are no drivers for a DIY AirPrint on a Raspberry Pi though.
The mind behind Noise (Trevor Perrin) is one of the minds behind Axolotl (actually Noise can be seen as a generalization of the Axolotl's cross-signing of DH keys, see this post: https://whispersystems.org/blog/simplifying-otr-deniability/) so I would likely be comfortable with it. Although it is completely true that it's been far less used and studied than TLS.
I will choose what to feed my neural net :)
Sandbox implementation is described here:

https://github.com/subgraph/oz/wiki/Oz-Technical-Details
>1. Every piece of unpolished, unfinished code that management decided should ship to the customers regardless

Looking back, I view this as a pro. You get to work on more projects that way. I spent five years working with an "ideal" manager that trusted coders to make the deadlines. When I look back on that, while it was the only time I've ever gotten to code things to "perfection", it was also a big black hole of working on a single project for way longer than it really needed.

Of course there's a limit beyond which the lack of polish and finish makes everyone less happy.
I've encountered very little software that does not fairly frequently require (security) updates. It's somewhat irrelevant whether the leak happened through an unpatched security issue in Drupal since they're apparently running the vulnerable version today and the update has been released way back in 2014.

The real reason that lead to this is the strategy of running security updates to a public-facing website containing sensitive materials with the frequency of only once every 1-2 years, or worse. Assuming of course that this website is the source of these leaks at all.
I remember reading this post back in 2012. I ended up getting a copy of the Bandit Algorithms book by John Myles White.

Its short, but it covers all the major variations.
This isn't surprising. How else does a single night club in Miami pull in over $70M a year (LIV at fontainebleu hotel). For every 25k appearance there are 10 that night paying $5k each for bottle service nearby, and then another 1000 paying $100 for booze.
I believe thats the greed factor. 90% of the time you are using the winning version of the page/button what not.
>My sister has 10X the assets I have.

That gave me pause as well. Work 10x as hard for 10 assets? Not worth it for everyone.
You are confusing the distinction between validity and soundness.

> That is not a valid argument, because all animals do not live on mars

It would be more accurate to say that it is not a sound argument because all animals do not live on mars. Validity relates to whether the conclusions follow from the premises, not whether the premises are true. (There are more constraints than that, but that's the basic version.)
They have the parties at home in east van because it is impossible to get a permit and/or a suitable venue for most events. There are very few venues for hosting parties and virtually no practice areas for bands. I've been to a number of events that were held in death-trap condemned buildings. I've even been locked in one illegally because someone called an ambulance and they didn't want to "blow their cover" so nobody could enter or exit for 30min while my friend waited outside in a back alley. Much prefer other cities where I can just go to a normal bar and not deal with entrapment issues.
Just go to your local print center and don't worry about it?

You can't beat photo quality with dedicated printers (like the ones in your local Pharmacy)
> the difference in conversion rate is not measurable

Wut?

Here's the results of me changing an "add to cart" button from a branded looking maroon button to a simple yellow (Amazon style) button: http://cl.ly/0d440I3T333m

That's 26% sales increase from changing a button's color.

If you've got a good eye for usability, your intuition is going to lead to a lot of fun and great results with A/B testing. If not, you'll futz with things that make no difference most of the time and eventually give up. Experimentation is not about testing random permutations (unless you've got an infinite amount of time). It's about coming up with a reasonable hypothesis and then testing it. I study a web page until I come to a conclusion in my mind that something could really use some improvement. Then, even though I'm sure of it in my mind, I test it, because "sure of it in my mind" is wrong about half the time.

One note to those who use Optimizely: you do need to wait at least twice as long as Optimizely thinks, because statistical significance can bounce around with too little traffic. Optimizely thought the above test was done at about 2000 views, which was far too little results to be conclusive, with only ~20 sales.
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The two aren't related. If you max out a traditional 401k and your income is low enough that you can take the traditional IRA deduction as well. Though that deduction phases out by $71k/year, which in our field is relatively low.
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My comment is more of an attempt to understand how they acquired the money in the first place.

Large numbers of fools with inheritances (the easy feel good explanation) still implies some lack of efficiency in the step that comes before them getting the inheritances.
His Canonical salary?
Yes, but every evening you are taking all of your problems home with you. Programming has a very high load on the memory.

In contrast doctors and lawyers don't even have this kind of memory load. For example, medical records are mostly sufficient; we often understand if a doctor has to look things up; however, if a programmer doesn't remember how a program is structured, things get difficult quickly.
Laser will not print photographs.
I agree this guy is way too whiny and jealous of materials.
However, you're still the asshole here.
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I don't think that people would suddenly start paying for higher quality news. The ones that can tell the difference can afford to pay now and generally don't.
Only in cases where you have both lost access to the signing key and lost confidentiality of the signing key at the same time, which seem pretty unlikely.
Social class is astonishingly multidimensional as pointed out in the works of C. Wright Mills (Power Elite), Paul Fussel (Class), Tom Wolfe (The Pump House Gang), etc.

In my extended family there are no college professors, but a lot of cops, even a lot of women that are cops. (There are some accountants, but they are forensic accountants ;-)

When I get stopped by the cops I don't worry, they like my attitude, they will tell me that people don't like speeding in their residential neighborhood and to them I look more like a guy who doesn't like speeding in my residential neighborhood and not the kind of guy who likes to play Initial D in residential neighborhoods.

Sometimes I've been a bystander when it looked like the cops showed up to arrest the first black person they saw, or when 15 police vehicles show up to arrest some black guy as thin as a rail and I even have a friend who grew up in a much richer family than me who had a bad attitude towards the police and has had his ass kicked, etc. Somehow though, even though I am not a cop and I don't particularly see things the way cops do, I've somehow absorbed enough protective coloration that I have a lot of "privilege" in this area, and less in some other areas.
Even a single rare rollback can kill a prod DB. We had a situation when a bug in our code caused a series of huge UPDATEs in Oracle DB and LOCKed some critical tables. After ~2 hours we found this session and killed it.

The problem - we had to wait for 2 more hours with dead prod while Oracle was rolling back everything. In Oralce killed sessions still hold their locks while rolling back.

In Postgres rollback is almost instant.
Here is one reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat. Additional googling will show more.
One of the first things I learned about in my color theory class was how colors can change how they appear depending what other colors they're next to. In fact, some colors will fight visually when placed next to (or on top of) one another. Saturated versions of red and blue were the first example given for that lesson. And that's exactly what the author ended up with here.

That said, there are some good tips in here for finding colors. I once asked a designer that I worked with and still highly admire, "how do you pick color palettes for things?" His suggestion was to start with a color you wouldn't expect, and then try to match colors to it. (He also recommended palette sites like those mentioned in the article for us beginner color people.) But the pick a color you wouldn't expect advice has worked well for me.
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Invoicing 1500 eur/month as a company, minus operation costs, minus taxes, gives 800-850 eur/month, which is barely livable. Lawful minimum is about 750 eur.

Swizec is right, there are ways to incorporate to pay less tax, but not everyone can go that way.
another thing to benchmark in bcachefs. the architecture ought to scale to a billion files quite nicely :)
It's possible to weight conversions by frecency to account for this, rather than using frequency alone.
If that was the case wouldn't they choose to simply not announce anything?

I'm not ruling out that they might use it for targeting eventually, but if this was solely done as a cover it would be the equivalent of a terrorist entering an airport shouting out "My suitcase is just really heavy, I do not have a bomb in it at all!"
I was at LIV last week (an unpaid appearance :-)). Two drinks + tax + tip came out to $48.
One thing I've noticed lately is XFS deletion performance is still by far the worst of all the filesystems I've been benchmarking.

Aside from deletion, XFS does perform quite well though.
Very useful guide and a lot of great work being done by the folks at Riseup.

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I bought it too. Very happy to not have clogged ink jets anymore, but the networking / software / UI is garbage. I just connect via USB to my laptop rather than waste time trying to fix the wifi connection each time it stops working.
Every major disruption was first dismissed as “a toy”
Right, and ignoring Bush-era tax cuts, that money will be taxed well when it is payed out to investors.
It's possible to assign a user to a category once a week, and use the same algorithm, rebalancing users between the categories as needed once a week.
I like curating my photos that are 10 or more years old, just not yesterday's. It's like taking a vacation through my younger years. Because of this, I take more photos today knowing that I'll really cherish them later.
I am still using an HP all in one printer from 2006. It has an Ethernet port and it works with the latest macbook pros.

When my wife was doing her second degree, I used some of those ink injectors to save on ink. They worked fine, but now I usually just end up buying the HP brand.

I think a printer that is 10 years old and still works fine says something about the technology.
You really should question the statistical significance of those numbers.
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The $200 isn't the expensive PoS, it's already subsidized. Would you pay, let's say, $600, for the non-expiring version?
I did briefly consider this, but it seems the celebrity isn't really required for this scenario, and is therefore an uneccesary expense.
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Yes. I'm passionate about getting better at Badminton. I'm passionate about seeing more of the world. I am not passionate about building a slack bot or a q-tip subscription service. Best case scenario I find it fun. Hopefully I am content doing it. Either way I don't have to be passionate about it to do it well.
I have a personal rule to never trust anyone who speaks in the third person...this article seems to validate that quite well.

From another perspective though, is GQ effectively proposing Paris Hilton as a disruptive innovation? I kind of except that...she effectively initiated the business of recursive celebrity (rich begets famous begets rich). I honestly wonder what scholars 2-300 years from now will have to say about the development of reality television from Survivor to The Simple Life/Paris Hilton to the Kardashians to whatever will come next...

and I cannot believe I just wrote this on HN