skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But recent research indicates that when people get some money—a bonus, a tax refund, a small inheritance—they are, in fact, more likely to spend it than to save it.

Not recent at all. I first read about it in The Millionaire Next Door book. Referred to as the "better than" theory [1].

Plain and simple, people don't like to save when they have the option. They like immediate reward. If you make $500 more a month after a raise, many people will reward themselves for the raise, justify buying something they've wanted, etc. After a while, the mindset that they are living just fine while spending the extra money sets in and they end up never saving the extra $500.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_Next_Door#.22B...
Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-Print Versions
It's tilt-wall construction, made with pre-stressed concrete slabs. Pretty common for heavy commercial/light industrial construction and all function, no form.
The pretty huge increase in tuition at public colleges is the problem.

For one thing, top state universities are better schools than the majority of private colleges. They have research programs and a much wider course selection.
>The material standard of living of a homeless person in modern-day Manhattan is several dozens of times higher than the wealthiest of kings ten thousand years ago.

When your analysis leads you to a conclusion that is obviously false, it is time to reconsider some of your steps along the way.
"Table of contents"
> The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian society

Woah, yes, that's going to number one on my reading list. Thanks for the recommendation.
It's not a treadmill, it's a ladder, even if it's a small step at a time. I bet people will be less happy if they follow the advice and stop seeking more happiness.
I am currently developing my own Markdown editor and looked into CodeMirror, Draft.js and ProseMirror and I also plan to base it on CodeMirror. I think if all you need is "syntax highlighting" (maybe including font sizes for headlines) you are better off using CodeMirror. Of course, if you want some WYSIWYG functionality Draft.js, ProseMirror and the like may be more suitable (or even mandatory).
That's cute, he thinks a student in today's world can be successful without the Internet.
This is very true. It's earning yield versus fixed income yield that matters most. If one is out of whack with the other, then there there is arbitrage. (All things equal, if there's a much better yield in equities, then people will move money from bonds to equities, or vice versa)

The current danger is that both will move down at the same time, and then where should one invest?
TL;DR: In Japan, an advertising agency makes up they have an AI to appear in news.
Arch is far from stable enough to use on servers, hence why it's almost never used on servers.
Every drug has its physical costs. Some more than others. Alcohol, for instance, has no non-harmful dose-- even one glass of wine with dinner is bad for your body-- but many people drink throughout their long healthy lives.

That said, "harmful" drug use in this case likely refers to exceptional harm, perhaps including addiction or overdose.

You can be given, essentially, heroin at the hospital if in extreme pain. Would you consider this to be "non-harmful"? I would.
Regardless of what one thinks of the tax it's clear one can't compare salaries after taxation. Fact is I don't spend anything on healthcare. In the US I would need insurance. I don't save for my kids university education because it will be free. In the US I would have to.

Comparing pre tax income is more useful, by and large.
No more leaks with sanitize flags in gcc and clang
> Do you have a death wish? Because that's what I generally associate with travelling to Africa.

Which countries specifically? You appear to be terribly underinformed about Africa, here's an interesting quiz for you to take[1], see if you can tell which picture was taken in Africa, and which was taken in the US.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHO1a1kvZGo
In which European markets does Android have a de-facto monopoly?
+1 for the information, but I don't think all the "Augh"s are warranted.

One of the widely accepted, dictionary definitions of "cement" is simply "concrete." (In fact, Merriam Webster has this listed as definition #1.) I understand that the terms have different technical meanings, but in common English they are simply synonyms.

E.g., http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cement

There may be an opportunity for a Battle of the Dictionaries here, but I think this skirmish in the language wars may be over.
Why can't you just search your Slack for answers to old questions? Isn't that supposed to be part of the point? I've heard that's one of the main selling points.
10,000 years ago we lived like animals, now, we live like pampered pets.

edit: note* this comment should be viewed through the "obesity pandemic" prism.
Read the chart again. It says the median starting salary is $110,000. $172,000 is the median total annual compensation, which includes bonuses (and stock typically won't vest during the first year, which means total compensation for the first year is actually closer to $123,000).
How Many X86-64 Instructions Are There Anyway?
Why can't they work themself on derivatives? As long as there aren't any patents it should be ok? What am I missing ?
Google is an "elite" company, almost every engineer there would be one of the best hires any other company could ever make. Generous compensation is one aspect to accomplish that hiring goal (amongst other things)
>Shorting a stock isn't always practical.

Nor is it remotely the only way to assume a bearish position.

>Stock buybacks can be deceptive if a company buys back stocks with debt and doesn't have proper cashflow to pay it off.

You can't tell the cash flow and debt levels from the financial reporting? You don't account for this in your valuation? Where is the deception? Report it to the SEC.

>Non-technical investors see the stock going up and keep piling more cash in.

An equivalent number of people are "pulling cash out". A stock trade is just that: a trade. Again, what makes you a better judge of the "correct" price than those actually making the deal?

>If you think markets are perfect, you have a lot to learn my friend

Not sure where that comes from, but you're right, I do have more to learn. That said, it looks like I'm a few levels up on you (and far less confident in my ability to predict anything).
An advertising company in Japan has "appointed" a robot (that they developed? really?) as their creative director. What it actually does: search advertisement databases to give suggestions. Calling it an "employee" is a publicity stunt.
We got a more readable alternative link to use and the author's now aware that the original was difficult for some people to read. What exactly is the problem?
I admire this guy for making sacrifices to educate his daughters well. (And it seems like he's succeeded...Rhodes Scholars aren't exactly common.) It looks to me, however, like he's might have failed in one important aspect.

He should have taught them from an early age about budgets and outlier expenses and the real costs of things (e.g., good school district for them, not much work for his wife). Instead, he's kept them in the dark, to the point of burning retirement savings on a wedding.

No one is born knowing how personal finance works, and learning the hard way sucks. Parents have an obligation to educate their children about this stuff. It's tragic that so frequently, after learning the hard way themselves, they hide everything from their kids, and in doing so, set the kids up for the same set of hard knocks.
So if Google were less open then they wouldn't have to deal with this?
Is the naming on purpose to be identical to an ICBM?
Beating the 'Memory Bottleneck' with Plain Old Silicon
Sorry I just skimmed the article and liked it but didn't really see any alternatives except for a gratitude journal. What else does the author suggest? Gratitude journals appear to be his shtick.
A9CAD appears to be a 2D CAD drawing program, whereas FreeCAD is centered around 3D parametric modeling. They're different approaches to creating things.

If you want a decent free 2D drawing package, try DraftSight, Or LibreCAD if you want open source.
Seriously this is just a major PR piece of an article. I work with McCann in Japan and their ways of working are far from modern.
Shifting Parent Work Hours, Mom vs. Dad
I don't think electronic gadgets are a good item for this comparison.

You might want to take a look at the Big Mac Index, which tries to give some measurement of how much your money is worth in another currency or country.
In the short term there would be a lot of VPN access as people tried to deal with the chaos of having to transition away from gmail. I'd be very surprised if they just turned it off one day without warning, but if they did that would burn a lot of customer goodwill and provoke a class action from all their datacenter customers.

In the medium term? Having a social network with no Europeans on it kills G+ fairly rapidly, or it becomes a minority thing like Orkut. Likewise AppEngine is hobbled if it won't talk to Europe. People will undoubtedly continue to use and buy their Android phones (many of which are not bought from google but third parties) unless Google actively bricks them.

Remote-bricking all European Android devices is the nuclear option. Google is sued for billions. Google executives can no longer set foot in the EU without being arrested. International trade war starts. Google is declared an "unlawful combatant" and their HQ is bombed by DGSE.
Inline email input validation with jQuery
Open Whisper Systems: Interesting “we're hiring” page
Apply HN: Testable, the social way to study for standardized tests
Testable is an iPhone game that plays like QuizUp and Trivia Crack but is built to help make studying for standardized exams more fun (like the SAT).

Traditional methods like tutors and books are either outdated or too expensive. Testable helps bridge that gap with gameplay and providing all of it's content for free. It even adapts to each student's needs and targets weak points.

The revenue comes from teachers, schools and prep centers where our dashboard can help influence their classes through data and their own content. Our hope is that students find the game intriguing outside of the classroom so that teachers don't need to spend valuable time doing evaluations.

Our game is out in the App Store for anyone to try out. At the moment, it only serves SAT content (more tests to come soon).

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/testable/id980802068?mt=8
I am European as well and also think innovation is not something happening a lot here (fragmented region, risk averse culture, many rules, many languages, focus on government grants as a solution for everything).

However, this article could be just as well be on traditional car makers anywhere else in the world ? Seems to me that Ford, Toyota, etc are in exactly the same spot as these German car makers ?
I was with that Dworkin style "porn is rape" feminism, then I met some sex workers and learned that for plenty of women it is something they like doing.

So my conscience is as clean as buying a cup of coffee from someone who hates being a barista.

I am sorry for people who are exploited in all walks of life, porn just happens to be one of those.

How can you use a computer ? Or any of the plethora of stuff made in the third world.

Porn is here to stay. Hounding and demonising it makes the situation worse, not better.
So much money. Do people really need to be paid that much?!
What a disgrace. The Shakespeare Review was commissioned by the UK Government in 2012 and basically recommended the exact opposite: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/shakespeare-revie...

> ...all PSI [public sector information] is derived from and paid for by the citizen and should therefore be considered as being owned by the citizen. It is the therefore the duty of government to make PSI as open as possible to create the maximum value to the nation.

> The high-quality core should be enshrined as National Core Reference Data... Within such National Core Reference Data we would also expect to find the connective tissue of place and location, the administrative building blocks of registered legal entities, the details of land and property ownership.

> One would be hard-pressed to find any expert who... would advocate the current Trading Fund model (for Companies House, Land Registry, the Met Office and Ordnance Survey) in today’s world of open data. One would question the current quasi-commercial Trading Fund model, in favour of one which would be responsible for high quality and transparent data production [and] publishing this as open data...

It's the same story in Australia with our Tory government. None of them seem to comprehend the very basic economics of open data: they are unwittingly creating a private natural monopoly instead of setting socially optimal prices for a public good (the data). And since the socially optimal price for an infinitely reproducible and non-rivalrous good is usually its marginal cost of production, the price should be set at approximately 0 (i.e. free).
You could buy it yourself for a lot cheaper than you pay for it in taxes. The taxes you pay are buying healthcare for people who cannot afford it.

(EDIT: I'm certainly not saying this is a bad thing.)
OT: the letters PR have a primary association with Public Relations, i.e. people who are paid to spin the truth on the behalf of others. I see from your profile that those are your real-life initials... but it's not a great first impression. You might want to open an account as Pablo-asimuv, or, really, anything else.

(I checked because this comment sounded an awful lot like a PR exercise for Lexus.)
Short answer: you are screwed.
Longer answer: most people can hold half a year more.
> almost every engineer there would be one of the best hires any other company could ever make.

I'm going to say that's a huge stretch.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/testable/id980802068?mt=8
IMO possibly the best sci-fi ever written, the stories are incredible and his writing style is sublime.

I envy you getting to read them all for the first time.
Ask HN: Hiring software engineers in '16 vs. prior years?
Hiring Managers:

I'm curious to hear how your experience has been finding software engineers over the last 6-12 months. How's the length of time from job opening-to-hire versus recent years? Any metrics to support whether it's been more difficult or easier recently?

Thanks for your input.
There are just two players in the market and the business practices of both should be used to determine what is common practice or anticompetitive.

Google started just a few years ago way behind ios. It got the share because of improvements in services - maps, mail, browser, notificaitons, and it’s OS. Apple has had a far more closed system around it’s default apps. While Apple’s apps have gotten shitter, Google’s default apps have gotten better.

I’d argue not the place to hit them. Focus the investigation on search- narrow the scope to that. They’ve got like 5 pending cases and it’s coming off as trying to stop US tech from “encroaching” on established EU businesses.

As a guy whose had to raise money- I get the “Google” question in almost every pitch. So I get there is an issue around search- but fuck their apps are good. I wish Apple would be forced to swap them out like Google Allows.
Yes, many times. You can search these things: http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm

If you haven't got it dismissed then the best outcome is a set of commitments whereby you promise not to do the worst of the things you were allegedly doing (without admitting that they were bad things, accepting liability, etc).

Most of the successful parties, if you go through the list quickly by filtering on antitrust and cartel, appear to be EU companies.

An interesting question would be to analyse the full list (I only looked at the first page of results) and ask: Is the EU is anti-US, or whether US companies fail to understand the EU and it's concerns? The first page of data appears to suggest that US companies perform worse than EU companies at challenging the commission.

My personal opinion is that it is the latter. The (mostly North American) Googlers I spoke to all didn't seem to understand the case the EU made about the right to privacy, nor this one either... yet European engineers seemed to qualify their statements with more understanding of the bizarre balancing acts the EU puts itself into.
Thank you! I assumed play/pause was meant for the animation, and that the button was broken.
I quite like it there. I work on DynamoDB where I'm surrounded by pretty amazing engineers. I have written code that had a major impact on the service. I've solved important problems and that has helped make new things possible. Just yesterday, I was in a room with 20 or so top engineers from across AWS; that was pretty rewarding.

When I started, I expected that I'd be there a couple years then move on to Google, but I'm not even excited about talking to Google, Facebook, Uber, or the others at this point.

P.S. We're hiring on DynamoDB. We need for software developers and SRE-type folks. My e-mail is in my profile if you're interested in finding out more.
What's needed is a competitor to Prime thats federated.

I would love a one click payment processor that had my cc and shipping info that was low fee, and available on independent web sites.

The small amount of friction of putting in shipping address/cc makes me look to Amazon first.
There are plenty of replacements for all of those except Android. Multiple browsers, various mapping companies (including OpenStreetMap), multiple email providers, multiple browser vendors.

There's also Bing, and the various ancient abandoned former greats of search: Altavista (now Yahoo), Lycos.
[Spanish speaker here.]

This is a video of "La Cosquillita" by Juan Luis Guerra. I didn't know this song, so I listened to all of it. I'm completely clueless about why this may be related to the discussion.

Bad autotranslation of the lyric: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... (It's difficult to translate because it uses a local variations of the spelling/pronunciation of the words. tl;dl: Someone fell in love and is "ticklish".)
Wireless prices in the USA are higher than any other country I've been to, developed or not. Nevermind the absurd contracts.

In Taiwan, for example, I got a 3G phone plan for $40 month-to-month, unlimited data, and consistently ~20mbps download speeds.

In developing countries like Thailand or Central America, I can get a 3G card for 60 days and 1-2GB for less than $10. Speeds obviously aren't as good as Taiwan, but the basic access to Internet is way cheaper.
How does that work, considering deer are vegetarians? Or are these farmed deer being fed the last generation?
or learn to detach your "happiness" from outside circumstances and stimuli.
There are already working search engine alternative, from Qwant to bing. One can definitely live without google as a search engine.
I'm sure the other company provided them with significant compensation premiums over what BMW offered...
Mostly agree. But someone who turns down Stanford for State U is throwing away a golden ticket. The opportunities at state school just are not comparable.
How much did the engineers who took it apart cost?

Strikes me that a reasonable sized team would cost that per-day.
Micro Cheetah Cloud-Station I-Series
Is floating point math broken?
About cannabis, you would say that based on what?
Every single successful entrepreneur read this article. And so should you
> They wouldn't do this with a new Honda I imagine.

Appropriately enough Honda acquired something like 20 Porsche 911s when developing the S2000, all individual purchases to hide the fact.

Cessna routinely did the same with competitors aircraft, back when they actually developed aircraft, but to save money they only leased them and had to ensure they were put back together.

Edit: finished the anecdote about Cessna
That's not a great comparison, because of the way house brands are marketed -- basically store brands are marketed to the left of the name brand and cost a few margin points less. One of the reasons for store brands to exist is to incentivize manufacturers to buy the other product supermarkets sell -- premium shelf space.

Amazon is a big catalog, and they play all sorts of games with how and why they prioritize listings.
I 100% agree that following "moral values" will get your short stick in capitalism. And that is just because there is always that 2% [1] which does not have any moral values.

I really do not have solution for this - the only thing I can suggest is to stick and make connections with people who have moral values.

[1] The 2% (actual number is 1.76%) is percentage of my users who cheat and lie (pathological users). I believe that number is valdi for rest of the population. And it is really hard to pinpoint background of these people. For example, there is professor from famous University who got our service for free and then asked for their money back (I kid you not).
> What planet are you living on where a wedding only costs $2,000, and no more than $10,000? In the US, the average wedding cost is $30,000

The idea of spending $30,000 on a wedding seems insane to me, and it reminds me of the Dave Ramsey quote “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else."

> That being said I personally think that's ridiculous and I'll do my damnedest to try to keep mine under $5k, but I know it won't be easy, and there will have to be many things sacrificed.

My wedding (2 years ago, in the midwest) had about 100 guests and cost us about $5000 total (doesn't include the rehearsal dinner or the bar tab, which our parents covered). There were probably some things that we could have spent even less on, but it would have required us doing more things ourselves. A few things we did that might be different than the norm:

* My wife, mother, and grandmother made many of the decorations themselves

* The reception venue was less expensive because we had the wedding in April, because it wasn't during "wedding season"

* We had the grocery store make our cake for us

* We didn't pay anything for the ceremony location (there are many beautiful public venues that you can book for free)

* My wife chose a dress that was beautiful, but wasn't obscenely expensive. She also recovered about half of the cost by selling it afterwards.
AutoCAD focuses on creating drawings while FreeCAD is about creating models.

AutoCAD is mostly used by people who already know AutoCAD or have to work with AutoCAD drawings. Most engineers have migrated to a model based approach years ago.
1st of Nov, 2012 - A ship goes up between USA and Russia, seems to dock, then joins up with another boat that seems to have been just hanging around for ages above Siberia, then they head off to Europe.

What's going on there?
Personally, I think the recent decided policy by Norway is a good step in the right direction. A simple policy that dictate that minority students, that is when the gender ratio is less than 20%-80%, will receive some benefits/incentives to counter gender discrimination.

I think this is great idea. It is simple to execute and does not attempt to prescribe an "optimal ratio". Of course, there's always room for debate, like whether it should only be applied to gender minorities, but that's simple enough to tweak.
We Roam: Travel the world with a group while working remotely
What People Can Learn from How Animals Think
I thought this was going to tell me how to become Eric Schmidt.
As far as I can tell it's a matter of decreasing global concern. US pushed a huge swath of global drug policy, and now that it's backtracking more reasonable responses are becoming common.