skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makes me wonder if DC wiring will ever catch on in newer homes. We don't have much need for AC anymore. The only places in a home where one needs AC is in the kitchen for large appliances, and garage/laundry room. And really that's just because of the motors. I'm not sure if those could be converted to DC motors and what powerloss that might entail. But the point stands; you could totally get away with building a new home where you drop AC to the kitchen and garage, and then 12VDC+5VDC everywhere else (12V on the wires, put a regulator to drop to 5V in the outlet for USB-C ports). The power-loss of DC in a home won't be that large. The end result is that the AC to DC transformer will be centralized to one location, where you can spend more money up front to get higher reliability, cleaner power, better safety, and better efficiency. Plus, if you have solar, you can avoid AC to DC conversation altogether, saving on a good chunk of powerloss there.

The caveat, of course, is that lots of devices don't natively support DC input. Phones, tablets, and modern USB-C laptops are fine. Lighting is easy; just do permanent LED installations. The LEDs will last a very long time since they won't have regulators in them. Desktops are an issue. I believe the only desktops that support DC input are HTPC builds, using those micro PSUs. Perhaps there's an HTPC PSU that's got enough beef to power a normal desktop? You'd also have to find monitors that accept DC input, which do exist but that will narrow your market significantly.

Rob Rhinehart is an early adopter (see: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331) of this type of home. Sounds crazy, but it seemed like a glimpse at a hopeful future, at least everything outside of the kitchen.
Am I misunderstood somewhere?
Did you provide a sql interface to excel? are you asking a DBA to use excel instead of a real database?

For me, it seemed to be more interesting to provide an excel interface to database.
Looks great, but your pricing sucks. $19, seriously? Multiply that 10-20-50 fold.
Unfortunately RL Glue is not nearly as good as it looks or sounds. I was thinking about using it to solve some problems I have (for example, I was interested in modeling embryo selection for complex traits as a POMPD to see what the optimal approaches might be rather than settling for a simple calculation as I did in http://www.gwern.net/Embryo%20selection ), but the project is abandoned, and while it implements an interface/IPC glue, there are few implementations of any interesting environments or useful agents, so you would wind up writing everything yourself anyway. Once I got the simple tabular agent example working, I went looking at the more complex ones and was quite disappointed.

From the description in OP, it already far exceeds RL Glue's usefulness.
Facebook takes a 40% rake from advertisers. Ouch!

$2B income from $5B in ad revenue.

Hopeful businesses just keep running ads and lining Facebook's wallet. If Mark really wanted to give back, he'd give us more clicks per $.
That being said, if you believe that the American academic paradigm is broken, and you have a lot of money, what are you supposed to do?

Well, we could do actual science.

We find a couple cities of at least 100K population, with roughly the same demographics, wealth, etc. and test out different policies.

Of course, some of the people involved in the debate are already anti-science, so I don't think it will be politically feasible.
"Marketing is a multiplier" is an interesting perspective.

The idea of "force multipliers" is one that occurs to me quite a bit - in fact, I even use that term in the linked article.

A problem for many freelancers, I think, is when the base number you are multiplying is "zero". This is, regrettably, something I have a great deal of experience with. :)
You're looking in the wrong companies. Based on the things you're solving you'd be good for smaller companies or even the startup world. These usually look at your experience more, and pay more attention to what you've done. Bigger companies don't care about you, or what you did as much. They want to test you right there. Bottom line, a smaller organization will value your open source work more, if that is what you're looking for.
DoD projects are modern Public Works projects since they tend to employ people outside big cities in manufacturing jobs that aren't supposed to be outsourced. The instant you try to criticize DoD spending as media or a politician, you are branded as anti-American and you're pushed to the fringes.
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Properity measured how? On average Americans are far better off now than in the 1970's if you think about income.
Most people file online these days, and no forms are sent.

However, many people still send in their forms by mail.
Ask HN: Are You Using 'Content Blockers' on Mobile Web?
Without giving out too much personal or company information, I work for a site that has, historically, had continuous and significant user growth on mobile web over the past few years. However, last September user growth decreased and took a few months to get back to "normal" growth expectations. The question raised, naturally, was Why?

Perhaps coincidentally, last September iOS 9 launched, which allowed for the first time the use of Content Blockers on iOS Safari. At the time, these apps were being written about by many major publications as the beginning of the end. While the main concern for most publishers is ad blocking, some news reports mentioned that content blockers could, and would, block Google Analytics, too. Could this be the reason for such an unusual change in growth back then? Some users simply fell off the radar?

And yet, from what we can tell, actual adoption of these apps (with us at least) seems miniscule so far. So, while the analytics raised an interesting theory, like many theories it seems to be a dead end.

I've asked HN before if you used Ad Blocker on desktop, and the response was an overwhelming, "Yes!" for various reasons.

Do you use Content Blockers on your mobile device (iOS or Android), too?
It can depending on how much capital or assets are still around.

Jail is also a pretty decent incentive to make people avoid overtly lying. Unfortunately its disproportional used on the poor and minorities instead of on professionals.
>Large swathes of the country it is very difficult to find any work at all.

That's not true at all. It's just that all the jobs are now temporary and part-time. . . sorry, I meant to say contract and flexible scheduling.

This is an added value! People value flexibility in their employment, and millennials don't want to be tied down by full-time employment. Problem solved!
For inexpensive USB power, Anker has been my go-to. They also do the Qualcomm quick charge with many of their products. Related, I liked their stuff so much, and was so impressed when ripping apart one to use for lots of 5V amps, that I bought their LED desk lamp (Lumos A2) which I've been very satisfied with. They also have the E1 out now, which is more powerful as lumens go.

Edit: tear down of the charger I like by Anker (thanks binman): http://lygte-info.dk/review/USBpower%20Anker%2040W%205-port%...
I work with a small Django team as part of a bigger organization. Our hiring process is pretty simple: we send the candidates a specification (that actually happens to be one of our open tickets!) and they build a simple Django app around it. Currently the specification is a simple inventory tracking system, complete with some anonymised (and inconsistent) data to import from a spreadsheet.

That, a phone interview and an hour-long face to face interview is all we need to figure out if the candidate is a good fit. The programming exercise can be done in good time by the candidate, using their tools and with no pressure. The resulting code is a great indication of how well they know Python and Django and gives us a lot to talk about in the face to face interview.

I'm not sure why some companies need a gruelling 4+ hour interrogation style interview process. Asking someone to code on a whiteboard would be as uncomfortable for me as it would be for them.
SpaceX is the only aerospace job I've held so I can't speak from personal experience working at any competing companies but from what I hear you are right in that SpaceX tends to have a pretty negative reputation within the industry as far as work/pay are concerned. Interestingly, this tends to work in favor of SpaceX employees who leave the company. I've heard that while engineers from competitors often times see working here as undesirable, hiring managers are quite fond of ex-SpaceX employees, at least partially due to it being a difficult work environment. I've heard that at the very least, competency notwithstanding, having SpaceX on your resume shows you can handle long hours and stress.

I would also add that in general I think many people tend to think the grass is always greener on the other side. I’ve known both engineers and technicians who have moved on to “greener” pastures at more established aerospace/defense companies only to later tell me that they weren’t all that green afterall. I have a good friend who joined a large aero/defense conglomerate out of state to be closer to family and while the the pay pump was a nice feature at first, its luster wore off after a few weeks when he ran into some bureaucratic issues that he probably wouldn’t have had to worry about here. I also work closely with a fairly senior engineer who has a decade plus experience at JPL and Rocketdyne and flatly states that working here has rekindled his passion largely due to the relatively flat structure. He was absolutely worn out by all the middle managers he had to deal with previously. I think, and this is especially true at the more senior engineering levels, not necessarily for us lowly techs, having the ability to walk over to Elon or Tom Mueller and voice your concerns directly is pretty empowering for most and makes working here very unique in an industry that tends to put massive layers between engineers and management.

I’ll add a counter point so that I don’t come off sounding like a complete SpaceX shill and say that I also know people who have left and are very happy with their decision and their new workplaces, although many, in my experience most, still look back at their time here fondly.

I would also note that the space launch business inherently requires long hours due to its complexity and unpredictability. If you work in space launch, and are responsible for any flight critical operations, you will work the occasional 60, 70, or even 80 hour week, there is simply no way around it and it even happens at places like ULA and Rocketdyne.

This isn’t to excuse SpaceX’s sometimes poor planning and management which end up requiring more of these long weeks than should arguably be necessary, but sometimes it’s just a fact of life in this industry. Hopefully as the company matures hours and schedules continue to stabilize, it’s always frustrating to lose good people because they have to make the choice between spending time with family or work.
The difference between Silicon Valley and other locales trying to reproduce it has generally not been money. The difference has been smart money. The people who hold the purse strings (founder/CEOs, angels, early-stage investors) have been savvy about what it takes to build and scale a startup.

The problem is that there's always a limited money of smart money available to deploy at any given time.

The question is then, how do you structure a deal to give unsophisticated investors (aka dumb money) returns, which they want, without giving them control, which would ruin the party.

Zuckerberg actually led the way here in 2009 when he got Russian billionaire Yuri Milner to invest $200M in Facebook at a $10B valuation. Everyone thought Milner was crazy then. But he went laughing all the way to the bank.

This is another step in that direction, which deserves our applause.
They should do whatever they want to do. My point is that when a situation is futile, they should recognize that it is futile. A protest vote for a board member of a company strikes me as one of the more pointless ways to exercise a right to process.
Related post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11584109.
Reminds me of the Nike Michael Jordan "Failure" commercial, in which he lists all the things he failed at in basketball:

https://youtu.be/JA7G7AV-LT8
W-2s are usually sent in the mail currently, which have all the stuff you would want to keep private. I have never heard anyone complain that W-2s in the mail are dangerous.

In fact, what extra information would be on this pre-filled form that isn't already being sent via mail? Bank statements, retirement statements, pretty much all financial info is sent in the mail every day.
How are they supposed to submit a vulnerability they don't know about? I'm willing to bet they chose to remain willfully ignorant of the details. Are you saying they should not be allowed to outsource the work but instead must obtain the full exploit or nothing?

The real scary precedent is that they paid that much without obtaining the vulnerability exclusively and the technical aspect behind it. Or maybe it's not a scary precedent (except in tax monies) that they outsourced the vulnerability without obtaining the know-how to reuse it on a whim.

Either way you look at it, it is opaque, regardless of whether it goes through the VEP (and the ERB within) or they use a secret company. Were one way more transparent than the other then we should definitely favor that approach.
I wish I could respond to each of the other two comments responding to you (by auntyJemima and ffnewfkjewf) with a referral to the other:

- "Whenever "everyone knows" something so complicated, you can be certain it's a religious belief, not a fact"
- "Are you crazy or in denial? Are you not aware of the many publications released about how we are no longer even close to the prosperity of the 1940s-1970s as regular Americans?"
- "According to who?"
- "According to who?"
- "Are you crazy or in denial? Are you not aware of the many publications released about how we are no longer even close to the prosperity of the 1940s-1970s as regular Americans?"
Really is interesting how the mirror makes such a big difference to me; seen window based touch screens, and to me, this seems more appealing.

It'd be interesting to do test using ADs that know where the user's face is... :-)
Note that OS X's thread affinity APIs, unlike other operating systems, don't allow to pin threads to specific processors. You can only define an "affinity set" of threads that should be scheduled on the same processor. Similarly, you can spread threads to different processors by assigning them to different affinity sets.

I wrote some code to do this in Firefox for OS X, Linux, and Windows: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/threads...
Sounds reasonable. An F-35 is built to ‘move fast and break things’.
I think you might be misunderstanding the scope of an "input". It's something like "the player pressed the key/button that maps to move forward", not "move to position X". Teleport hacks wouldn't be possible in the former case because the player has to actually move their avatar to the desired position by traversing the game world through a series of inputs. The server would then process the movement inputs, and the avatar would say, bump into a wall, preventing it's movement. There would be no input for "my position is now X".
This looks amazing. I can't wait to dig into the internals and play around.

I've been thinking about a "Postgres-first" application design for some time, where a thin GraqhQL/REST layer sits on top, and most of the business logic lives in Postgres directly, or operates as a triggered async function (eg; AWS Lambda).
Your story sounds familiar.

It does seem as if something changed in the past five to ten years when it comes to the overall application and recruiting process. But then I have the impression the entire field of software development changed for the worst.

As for advice, that is naturally difficult as this will highly depend on your background, your expectations (where do you see yourself in five years .... ;) ), motivation, and of course personal character.

About Google, certainly this depends on aforementioned characteristics, but generally speaking I'd be rather wary (to avoid saying "not recommend it"), particularly when one is not in his 20s anymore (a blunt generalisation of course).

If you'd like to continue this discussion, are you reachable outside of HN?
Here, I did 30 seconds worth of work for you:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

read some of that. you might find it helps you know what you're talking about.
I used to visit Game Deception, the best game hacking technical forum. Unfortunately it closed.

I lost interest in game RE a long time ago, but http://www.unknowncheats.me/ seems to be its successor, though from a cursory glance I see there are a lot more cheats and less technical information.

GD we miss you.
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I think API owner need to see some value in publishing spec.
And SDK generation, not a strong argument for publishing since it can be done on API owner side with more control and better quality.

IMHO key component here is automatic integration, you simply publish a link to your spec and you magically have integration with a number of 3rd-party tools/services.

I currently work on catalog which does exactly this, and you can see list of integrations here:
https://github.com/APIs-guru/api-models#existing-integration...
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This is precisely the focus of the 10000 commandments: https://cei.org/10KC, which says regulation is tantamount to a backdoor tax more or less.

"Ten Thousand Commandments, points out: regulations impose enormous burdens on American consumers, businesses, and the economy. Unnecessary and meddlesome overregulation and intervention create uncertainty that slows innovation and economic growth. But unfortunately, regulations get little attention in policy debates. Unlike taxes, they are difficult to quantify because they are unbudgeted and often indirect."
These are some incredible numbers. $1.5 billion in profit with ~10,000 employees. Compare that to Google with $4 billion and ~60,000 employees.
For me overlapping windows are better for using two applications at the same time - copy pasting, drag and dropping between them etc. This is because their position is deterministic. Tabs are better when I have a boatload of unrelated pages (e.g.: tabs). This is also why I find tabbed interfaces in code editors useless.
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I don't know who it was I'm not into cycling or its famous athletes I saw a few crashes on an Italian investigative TV show with French subtitles. I don't read or speak either language so I have no idea who they were talking about.
Here's some evidence:

https://schoolfinance101.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/unspinning...

There's various other entries on that blog that cover the same topic with graphs and numbers.

Basically, once you correct for disabled students, english as a second language, and poverty, the charter schools don't do any better than standard public schools.

An interesting question is whether people realise this, and are actually quite happy to throw other kids under the bus to give their own children an advantage.
Not terribly related but I am starting to see this as a pattern on the internet:

When I bring up the latest and greatest (eg. Flow) it doesn't actually work on Windows because Windows is as I see it an after-thought for a lot of the Open Source world.

But I've brought up this exact problem (the lag in tooling) to .Net/Windows devs before and they've told me I'm wrong and that they've got all the latest and greatest dev tooling like everyone else.
Fossil fuel companies are benefitting from global subsidies of $5.3tn a year, according to an estimate by the International Monetary Fund researchers.

http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0
The 3d brain map is at http://gallantlab.org/huth2016/
Both really. Some times you don't need the overhead of a database, you just want to do a damn join in Excel or something.

But also, it has the option to connect to an external database. When connecting, you can pull Excel tables into the database as temp tables, do queries (or import the data from the temp tables into permanent tables), and write results back into Excel. What's more you can automate this, even without VBA.
This idea is silly. A market can only work things out between people making an exchange.

Imagine I set up a trash disposal company, and charge people a really cheap rate to dispose their trash. But actually, I just take the trash and dump it on a random persons yard.

The market wont fix this - the person who is hurt by the transaction was never involved in it at all. They can't opt out. The people involved in the transaction are perfectly happy in the deal.
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>The question is whether the impact he wants to have is something that needs (or deserves) preferential tax treatment.

Which is itself really a question about whether the government should be able to spend that money how it likes, or whether the zuckster should be able to spend it how he likes. Has the American government really earned your trust in its competence in managing money?
Agreed but I never said anything about engineering priorities, my observation was that unlikely events happen at scale.
Also, the wealth of almost all those 20% depends strongly on their labor income. Almost all the stock is owned by people whose wealth depends almost entirely on investment returns. So those corporate profits are helping the top 20%, but mostly by helping the top 1% (mostly by helping the top 0.1%...).
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Sad that every time this guy is discussing giving away literally BILLIONS of dollars to causes that are not even tangentially related to Facebook people on here are whining that it is some kind of personal enrichment tax dodge.

I really don't even feel like reading these posts on this site anymore since they are filled with passive aggressive jealousy at people having a massively larger real world impact than anyone else commenting here.

If this story had the words Facebook and Zuck replaced with Tesla and Elon there would be a much different tone.
Since there is a lot of negative comments here, let me add the counterpoint here that I am totally fine with this. For me, any time saved by enabling you guys to build better software is well worth it. Thanks!
It gets more complicated with shared state, though. Think of a DB split brain. If the slave incorrectly takes over then stuff gets corrupted. So you need proper fencing, and that alone seems like it's non-trivial. Common solutions seem to add a single point of failure (iSCSI fencing) or rely on the network being robust enough (quorum).
>My father's case only supports the Official Word, that starting at age 70 you should get PSA tests. WRT to people making their own decisions, I highly advise that, if you're 70 or older, to get regular PSA tests!

I highly advise you don't take medical advice from hga on Hacker News based on one anecdote. The Official Word from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is "The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer."

http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/U...

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/screening-for-disease-i...

Surgery for prostate cancer has some very serious side effects...
> In nearly all cases charter schools outperform public schools.

This is fiction.
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