skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you can run away from Amazon. But then you lose the marketing, fulfillment, and shipping channels offered by Amazon that you cannot possibly achieve yourself. Many customers will only purchase from Amazon, not some janky online store where they need to enter their credit card number. So you lose those. And you could contract with custom fulfillment centers and achieve two day shipping, but you're not going to be able to offer the shipping for free (prime), and the fulfillment will cost you more than Amazon unless you're moving huge volume.

If you offer 1,000 products, as you say, then you're in the wrong business. Did you develop every one of those products? I highly doubt it. So you are just a store selling thousands of products from different manufacturers. In that sense, you are a competitor to Amazon. How can you possible beat them? You've already lost.

The article is not referring to selling thousands of products, it's referring to developing and selling one single, specialized product, and then getting it "stolen" by Amazon. In this case, you are not originally competing with Amazon, but rather using their platform to sell your product. Once they clone your product, then you are competing with Amazon. At that point, if you have not established defensibility, you deserve to be undercut by Amazon.

There are many ways to establish defensibility: patents (Amazon cannot clone your product without paying a license fee); branding (customers will only buy your product, not some cheap clone); custom development (Amazon cannot clone your product without hiring specialized experts). If you are selling some cheap run-of-the-mill product from China, and all you have for defensibility is branding, then you are going to lose to Amazon. But if you have invested years of experience and engineering talent into a custom product protected by strong patents, and branded it well enough that customers know the product is only good if it comes from you, then you will beat Amazon and you can sell to their customers without worrying about getting cloned.
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So excited to find out about this! I had no idea that this tool existed. For years I used and taught both Rhino and Solidworks, but I've been away from it for a while now and working exclusively on OS X.

Recently I've had the need to do some light modeling/drafting work and I'll be giving FreeCAD a try.
Already happened.
The house already exists and is not contributing anything to the economy. Therefore it is not productive.
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Which is the perfect example that both republicans and democrats have the same objective. They are both capitalist parties, I wish there was a true left party in the US to represent the working class.
Me too - and I don't even know C++.
Thanks. I'll cleanup some data later and see if I can generate some nice visualization which can lead to some conclusions :)
No Conversations/OMEMO thing and lists Signal/Redphone separately from TextSecure?
7 out of 10 youths accidentally come across pornography online
How old are these kids? What age group? Curious to know and what kind of math do you expect them to know?
A better way to think of it I think is that RNA is both software and hardware.
Good resource! Quite a lot of them have sprung up lately. Have only tried a few of them though.
Citation please. This is completely different from implementing a BIOS from a set of specs created from original source code.

To the degree there is protected IP, it would be covered by patents. Which are public. That's the point of a patent. And it doesn't matter if you were aware of the original art or not if you violate a patent.

If there are merely trade secrets/techniques that Tesla or anyone else simply hoped no one would be able to deduce but weren't otherwise protected, those are fair game.
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So there's no cure, no vaccine, and you can't kill them. Terrifying. An outbreak of this thing would have free pass to eradicate entire species, including us.
I think we have talked this issue to death and I'm sad to see this on the front page, again. This list is one of the worst, if not the worst, public initiatives ever undertaken by the EFF. More than anything, it represents how the EFF has lost their way on technical security issues, yet they still feel confident enough to purport themselves an authority on the topic. It's actively harmful to people that need this kind of advice and harmful to people with real advice to give.

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/722086033458790400

https://twitter.com/thegrugq/status/722084986413649920

Their continued support for this messaging scorecard is one of the primary reasons I no longer support the EFF.
I'm happy to see the intellectual history of this subject discussed in a cautious way.

The New Age contrast between scarcity and abundance is compelling when applied to the question of adapting to changed circumstances. (Take for example the link posted in the last day or two about people raised in poverty finding it difficult to regulate their food intake.) The New Age arguments boil down to a simple diagnosis that we have been conditioned, by scarcity, into habits that are no longer appropriate.

There was a Wired article about 7 years ago which discussed this contrast from another angle. In that article, like the original link under discussion here, the Scarcity mindset is caricatured as mean and rigid. The Abundance mindset is healthy and open to alternatives. It's not at all about "manifesting" abundance out of nowhere, as per The Secret. I think Stephen Covey might be a major source for the Wired version of the polarity.

From the Wired article
"When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world.

The problem is that abundant resources, like computing power, are too often treated as scarce."

Hard to disagree with that.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/mf-freer/
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I am a post-doctoral research scientist that has wanted to be a scientist since early childhood (6-7 years old). The structure of how science is practiced seems to have changed substantially in that time frame, not for the better. Some of my childhood naivete plays a role in those perceptions, but many older scientists share that perspective.

A lot of the problems in modern science revolve around the growing focus on bringing large quantities of research funds to your institution (which gets a large cut). Getting grants has an increasingly large need for political clout due to peer-review and increased competition due to reduced funding. Consequently, labs are getting larger and more hierarchical (i.e., an increased number of long-term post-docs and research scientists). As the organizational structure of science becomes less flat, the influence of those at the top is just reinforced and tends to constrain dialogue to fit established ideas. I think that the long-term progress of science depends on placing small bets on a greater variety of ideas rather than doubling down on fewer. Unfortunately, it will always be perceived to be safer to fund conventional ideas. Peer review enforces short-term, safe bet approaches.

Large labs can churn out lots of papers, even if they are relatively financially inefficient. One way to correct this (if you agree that is a problem) might be to normalize grant scores by previous grant funding to the PI. i.e., (X papers of Y impact)/Z dollars of funding over the past 10 years. Double-blind review of grants might also help, but blinding is relatively easily circumvented.
Agree.

> developed (after but) independently of RxJava, without inspiration, reinvention, or relation.

It's the usual Google style of software development:
Thinking they are the smartest people on earth, not needing to even have to look at all the lessons learned outside of their bubble and believing that the "Google" brand creates adoption by itself, so it doesn't even have to be particularly good.

I wonder how long they can ignore the rest of the world until they are left completely behind from a knowledge/technology perspective.
Go suggests that it's at least 30 years of ignoring outside progress.
If you have UBI for citizens and green card holders but fairly open non-immigrant visa process, and no fast-track process for non- immigrant visa holders to get immigrant visas, I don't see a big immigration draw (indeed, probably less than in the current system even with restrictive visa rules, since non-immigrant visa holders with the same nominal salary as citizens or LPRs would have less total income by the amount of the UBI.)
I see where you’r coming from.

OTOH, imagine that you lived in a small community where trade routes or mass migration suddenly made alcohol extremely available, a new problem. You struggle with overuse, try to figure out if it’s a suitable morning beverage, etc. So do most people. Eventually, some people start to talk about moderation, age limits. Maybe we should only drink on Tuesdays, or after work or something.

Culture is being bombarded with new stuff, some of which can cause problems. Culture is adaptive, but it’s hard to keep up with technology. I think it’s OK for people to muse out loud (this is a blog) and possibly useful This is how culture gets made, I think. We need culture to update, so I’m ok with this.
dupe... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11526056
Go is a toxic language, I wouldn't necessarily use C++, but jumping on the go bandwagon is going to get you burned.
Google login option is getting close to being "table stakes" for startup SaaS services. We also use it for our internal admin and it's actually kinda nice there, too. I haven't seen any problems so far but I do worry about everything being Google.
Your statement is tautological. You might want to read up on epistemology and the philosophy of science -- I would start with Karl Popper. As I said, Bacon is not the definition of science.

Bizarrely, my unremarkable comment was downvoted!
Our office had awful music. So I built this. Thoughts?
When no one's left alive to hear the joke.
I was honestly curious. I still am. It wasn't meant as a rhetorical device.

The extent to which China does (or doesn't) employ ringers on the foreign, as well as domestic, internet seems like a worthy discussion topic.
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Never, people have different taste in humor.
> plan to also (somehow) massively increase the opportunities available in such places.

The incentive itself does this. First, there's the "opportunity" of living on the UBI - not a great option but more than there was before. Second, there's the opportunity of meeting the needs of the other people moving to such places, as well as those who lived there before (with their increased ability to pay).

And this leaves aside the fact that an increasing number of opportunities are not inherently tied to location.
I edited the title of my post but HN is now not allowing me to edit the post, so I can't change it sorry :(
It's unfortunate that this practice of giving almost the entire base salary amount as additional stock (RSU) has not spread outside the bay area. In other regions (such as LA, NY, Seattle, etc.) engineers only get base salary and sometimes a very small bonus. These base salaries are often competitive with the bay area, but the lack of the enormous RSU makes the total comp often 2x or more worse.

EDIT:

After writing this, I was curious how the BLS calculates wages. Here is the answer from their FAQ: http://www.bls.gov/oes/oes_ques.htm#overview

The following are excluded from the collection of OES wage data:
Attendance bonuses
Back pay
Clothing allowances
Discount
Draw
Holiday bonus
Holiday premium pay
Jury duty pay
Meal and lodging payments
Merchandise discounts
Non-production bonuses
On-call pay
Overtime pay
Perquisites
Profit-sharing payments
Relocation allowances
Severance pay
Shift differentials
Stock bonuses
Tool/equipment allowances
Tuition repayment
Uniform allowance
Weekend premium pay
Year-end bonuses

This means that BLS data is basically garbage for software engineers. And it's somewhat harmful, because companies probably use this trusted government data to check market rates. Even if a company has good intentions and wants to pay market rate, if they use this data they won't realize just how little that is compared to the true market rate.
"The exact effective tax rate will vary mostly with your mortgage interest deduction."

Massive assumption you are making regarding home ownership.
If that's the case, why don't we see them more often?
Well, for the past four years my total compensation has been 100% base salary, and I'm the equivalent of a low-end SDEIII so my total would double in salary alone. That leads me to believe I am underpaid even by Dallas standards, but I really have no idea how to gauge my market value.
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Patents are public information. That's one of the main reasons they exist. (Making information public in exchange for period of exclusivity.)
I wish I had your luck... A lot of fixes on forums constantly suggest to uninstall first. Which sometimes actually fixes issues. Other times it makes things worse. Either way - buying a lottery ticket soon?
The Hedonic Treadmill may be a phenomenon but it can be rendered irrelevant to your decision making process with a couple simple guiding principles which many people actually do in practice (some don't but it is an overgeneralization to say everyone does this so don't try to make more money). Principle 1: All Raises Go to Savings (invest those in whatever suits your risk tolerance). Principle 2: Begin With The End In Mind. The end of course is the end of working life (free to do more work of course if you so choose beyond a certain point). If you want to be financially independent at age 50 plus or minus 10 years you need a high net worth, so ensure that these savings habits result in a high net worth (definitions of high net worth of course vary). Kind of tired of hearing about the hedonic treadmill at this point.
How is it not? The issue in the case of Google is the requirement for Chrome. So how is that any different here? (Other than the fact that you can actually install another browser on Android if you want, where you don't even have the option on an iPhone).

> EU antitrust regulators said that by requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser to get access to other Google apps, the U.S. company was harming consumers by stifling competition.
Fine, but that's pretty far outside of the mainstream these days, so if the neighbors don't like it, they can and will block it, unfortunately.
Can't stand when logos and icons fail to illustrate anything. Take for example this [1] Moving Brand's mock from a Mojo Networks redesign. The icons don't tell you a thing. Two circles for connectivity? 4 half circles for WLAN? Plain text would be less cluttered and less confusing.

1: http://www.movingbrands.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Movin...
Sounds like we need some title redundancy in the title.
Am I the only one who finds trading the image of a former slave for goods and services to be in slightly poor taste? There's no question Harriet Tubman was a great lady, but I'm not sure this is the best way to honor her.
That's a fair point - I was also surprised that the essay appeared in firstthings. However, the essay is really good, and the author is spot on about a lot of his critiques.
Articulating concerns with Go is a legitimate (if, for this particular thread, unproductive) way to use HN. Writing comments like "Go is a toxic language" is not; it's morally indistinguishable from trolling.

The comment rooting this thread, suggesting the use of Go instead of C++, was also unproductive. I'm glad to be done with the C++ part of my career, but still happy to read about ambitious new libraries built in it. That upthread Go comment is the kind of tangent-driving chaff that made Slashdot unreadable. But this comment is even worse.
>Think of the Kennedys who built their fortune rum-running and then went legit with the money pile they built up. Nice work if you can get it.

Not according to wikipedia. It says they he build his fortune in the stock market and real estate, long before prohibition. His profits from alcohol were after prohibition, and were entirely legitimate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.
>While a nice idea most software cannot even use 4 or 8 cores properly

No that's wrong. They simply don't need to use 4 or 8 cores.
tldr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjrWF-RRlg (from the article)
This ties in with the other article that was posted here about over-sensitivity[0]. I follow stand-up comedy pretty closely, and so many comedians seem to be facing more and more verbal (and sometimes physical) push back from jokes that are "offensive", and I find this trend really disturbing.

It's an interesting phenomenon you don't see in other artistic performances. Comedy is the one realm where an audience will show up, uninformed by reviews or any research into who they're seeing perform (as opposed to say, watching a movie trailer, for example), and be so offended (and entitled) that they feel they must take public action against the performer directly.

A comedian's jokes may very well be unfunny to a group of people, but does that inherently give anyone the right to try to silence it from being said? And should a joke someone finds offensive cost a comedian opportunities in their career?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11533219
14 years is an impressive amount of red tape. There are kids today who have yet to enter school and will be high school graduates before this change makes it through committee.

At some point you have to wonder how much of a service the ACD committee is providing vs. how much they're justifying their paychecks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo

Seeing that original browser only UI makes me nostalgic.
absolutely terrible.
I have a rosy view of the present, maybe!

The big question is how well the middle class is doing today. They did pretty well in the past and the expectation was that things would continue getting better.

(Edit to clarify:) I figured that things are actually still pretty good for many people, but this article's claimed "47% of people can't easily find $400 in an emergency" seems to fly in the face of that.
does anybody know why this library is not based on (boost::)asio ?
I thought peer review and consensus should have nothing to do with each other. Peer review is about how solid the research is, no matter the results. (At least it should be.)

Consensus is averaged educated guess of the experts in the field. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with science. It has been serious problem on several fields when authority figure has strong, but false opinion.

"Science advances one funeral at a time." - Max Planck

And then there are things like systematic reviews in soft sciences and replications in hard sciences. These are used to find the underlying truth so that it's not biased by anybodies opinion. (At least that's what they aim at.)
This would have been much less creepy.
Spare a thought for those of us who were just about old enough to work and buy a home, but instead decided to invest in starting a business or two. :-(

Even having had some modest success with those businesses, I expect we’d have made considerably more return on the initial capital by now if we’d simply bought almost any cheap property here in Cambridge and traded up over the years since, and we could have done it without all the commitment and hard work that goes into getting a business up and running.

The thing that is most infuriating is that the property market is being artificially propped up again and again, both though schemes that pump more money into the market and through planning restrictions that mean we don’t build anything like enough new homes to meet demand. This is great if you have a small portfolio of buy-to-lets or perhaps if you’ve reached a stage where you want to downsize, but not really for anyone else and certainly not for those who just want to buy (or build) a home for their family to live in instead of as an investment vehicle.
There's no question that Kackson was a good President, but isn't trading the image of a lifelong slaveholder for goods and services in poor taste?
A lot of facilities have a need to reduce local air pollution. That's why you see construction sites and ports using biodiesel, and airports providing electric plugins for parked planes, instead of using diesel generators.

I have no idea if this airport is under such a mandate, but it wouldn't be surprising.
Great article. I would say this is inaccurate though:

>"What it really means is that for each of the countless false hypo­theses that are contemplated by researchers, we accept a 5 percent chance that it will be falsely counted as true—a decision with a considerably more deleterious effect on the proportion of correct studies."

The hypotheses that the statistical "hypothesis testing" framework is usually applied to often amount to "two groups of cells/animals/people are samples from exactly the same population". Then there will be assumptions about the distribution of this population, etc. As has been noted by many (see eg Meehl 1967), such a hypothesis is pretty much always false and nothing but a strawman.

http://www.psych.umn.edu/people/meehlp/WebNEW/PUBLICATIONS/0...
I just tried to compile folly in OSX and it fails to compile with homebrew. https://github.com/facebook/folly/issues/400

Also, Once I manage to compile folly and then wangle, what kind of database drivers can I use in conjunction with this? Would I shoot myself in the foot if I use this with libpq under CPUThreadPoolExecutor?

Same with Rust and dlang, I'm not sure how to apply the freedom to have pluggable executor into something useful in real life, I think this is the main reason Golang is killing it and it keeps getting better.

For now I have my money on Go but can't wait for http://www.ponylang.org/ to become stable.

Edit: Issue reported has been closed, I can now proceed to install wangle https://github.com/facebook/folly/issues/400

Edit 2: Found another issue, this time installing wangle https://github.com/facebook/wangle/issues/37
For what it's worth, I'm almost certain that every company in this survey provides health insurance at no additional cost (or maybe a small cost, but probably not) to all of the employees surveyed.
I think it's vitally important for people to see what their government is truly doing and these pretend courts obfuscate that so they should be eliminated so that people can truly see how their government doesn't give a shit about their Constitution and do something about it. Better?
Depending on the industry, college choice matters from when you graduate and very long into the future. I'd argue it might be worth parents going into debt for certain colleges but then I'd also argue that if a kid was smart enough to get into their pick of colleges, they probably should have a load of academic scholarships anyway.
According the actual Treasury site: "We anticipate the new redesigned $10 note to enter circulation after 2020."
Communism has a lot of different varieties (you may be thinking of Marxism specifically), many of which have not been tried. While among Communists there might be some point in arguing over whether Leninism (and it's descendants, Stalinism and Maoism, etc.) are really forms of Communism or something else, in more general contexts it's probably better just to note the specific, rather extreme, departures from Marxism that they involve, and note that while they may have failed, those failures cannot be generalized to Communism more generally or, e.g., to Marxism specifically.