skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first thing you learn in microeconomics 101 is that demand forms a curve - there will always be people who are extracting more value (and thus willing to pay more) for something, and people who don't (and thus don't buy it). Neither of those groups matter - the only ones that do are the people at the margin - if lose a less than proportional amount of customers by charging more, then you still come out on top. This is also what the quote is alluding to.
My browser's search on page function fails to find the word "Christian" anywhere on the page, so I am not seeing what prompted your observation. Could you elaborate?
Fantastic writing. Reminds me a bit of "Microserfs", but somewhat more focused.
That's debateable. We may simply have evolved without photon sensors.

Other wavelengths may have issues with detection or the information provided; if something can cut through obstructions in the atmosphere it may be hard to grow cells which interact with it or the rays may also ignore whatever is present locally at most scales.

The eye might be reduced in detail to the same domain as hearing or smell.
Where's the fire?

Lowercase-L libertarian means that you care about liberty. I could have said "classical liberal," which would encompass modern libertarians and the Founders alike.

> echo chamber

I'm not getting a strong libertarian vibe from HN on anything except encryption/privacy, which is really ironic.
Bill Gates probably already took that title. He'll have generated a likely $150 billion in total wealth by the time he's done (stands at around $115 billion now; $87 billion per Bloomberg's rankings plus around $30b+ given to the foundation so far). He built a monopoly at the core of the most lucrative boom industry of his day (computing and software). Similar reputations, similar drive and ambition, similar behaviors under anti-trust questioning, similar response to give his wealth away after stepping away from the business, and so on. Interestingly however, Gates was far more prone at emotional outbursts and getting upset, Rockefeller was extremely contained by comparison.

As someone else noted, Bezos might follow along with Gates, but it appears Bezos is more like Sam Walton than a Rockefeller. Walmart sprawled into numerous other categories, attempting to perpetually find new ways to make money at the edges of its empire; Walmart is a hyper low margin business, built on low prices and high efficiency; both Sam Walton and Bezos retained very large stakes in their businesses despite the size; both kept fundamental control. Amazon has no serious monopoly category however, and they have a comparatively weak cash generation capability (AWS is spitting off some nice operating income, but it pales in comparison to the very high margin cash spigot that Windows was).
1. How long has it been since you had a vacation? Working a long time (especially, long hours) without a break can lead to burnout.

2. You didn't mention anything about what your job is actually like. For example, if your job is boring and your manager is an asshole, you don't need to see a psychologist - you need to look for a better job.
It seems from both your comments that you have the curious idea that I'm asking for some solution for me, personally.

I don't even have the problem myself -- I'm only describing a general issue many people face in the context of this discussion.
I call this "getting the band back together," and is a thing that does not always endear you to your coworkers.
How about we automate rail traffic first. They are close...but the electronic system is still so far behind. They keep having to push back the requiremen.
I just get a long scroll bar.
I really don't like national, or jingoistic-based comparisons of contribution by country, since personally I am an individualist. I am hoping for the day we have no borders or tribes or nations (does that make me an anarchist too?). But, if lines are to be drawn, I believe you're short-changing history here a bit. The U.S. doesn't just 'holding firmly in production and sales of space-ready elements for high orbit satellites' - it innovates and funds them, and many other areas of tech. The U.S. is number one in most advanced country in space technologies. France is number three, Germany number five. The UK didn't make the top eight. Maybe the ESA would be competitive, but that is a 72-member group, not a single country.
The High-Tech sector, Google, Apple, and many others is dominated by the U.S., however, that doesn't account for sheer size. In technology, R&D, tech personnel, education and patents, and accounting for per capita, it is countries like South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, Germany and others. The UK is ten on that list, the US one.
There is a sub-culture in China of farmers building flying tricycles, deep-sea manned submarines to collect seafood, and lots of other cool (and dangerous?) stuff. Unfortunately, they are bound by an information-filtering, state government, but oddly have freedom in the countryside to do just such crazy tinkering. Check YouTube for those items. Amazing. I have lived in SE Asia for over 7 years, and I can tell you that I sometimes feel more free to do things here than where I grew up in Brooklyn, but to a point. I would be stopped once I became 'visible'. 'Tallest blade of grass' and all that jazz!
My company has an increasingly complex SOA setup that right now is developed in an ad-hoc basis, but with containers we expect to really streamline our dev setup and dev/production parity. We're all on Macs so this is would be pretty cool to get access to.

Docker ID: gtds
Don't have one. I just recall reading years ago that the fatigue damage cause by trucks loaded to the legal weight limit was 9,000 times that of a passenger car (and trucks are often overloaded). The flexing of the roadbed causes it to crumble away after a while. You can feel the roadbed go down when a truck passes.

The main damage passenger cars do is erosion from snow tires.
Great piece. Love her style. It hit home with me as well for several reasons.
Wow. That hooked me from the beginning to end. Thanks for posting this
Everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1% (2005)
Fantastic writing!
Zend is more sophisticated than the techniques described in this story. It's at the opcode level.

http://xcon.xfocus.org/XCon2006/archieves/Darkne2s&A1rsupp1y...

Somewhat similar to what Dropbox does to obfuscate their Python client. They provide a custom built python interpreter that uses a non-standard opcode mapping, as well as "encrypting/decrypting" with a key hidden in the code.
Well even Germany isn't going to start with self-driving trucks driving everywhere. Every country has standardization problems... in Germany there are ancient towns with arches that trucks can't go under (and not all of them are marked). In the US we have inconsistent/missing signs, dense urban areas built for small cars, and all kinds of crazy human driving.

My guess is actually opposite of yours though. I think short distance trucking will come last, with long-haul interstate trucking coming first. Short distances don't really need an automated truck... the trucker just gets in, drives, and arrives. Automating/standardizing loading/unloading would be great but automating the driver is less of a win.

On the hand, take interstates. Trucker gets in and drives for upward a few days with multiple mandated stops for naps/food... afaik, it takes 3 days to safely drive from SF to NY because of those stops. Now imagine a self-driving truck where the driver is only responsible for first/last-mile driving and refueling... done in 48 hours flat. 30% shorter transit time, plus whatever fuel/insurance savings the AI driver generates. Not bad.
Wrapping lies in a name like "pro forma" and calling it legit is still a lie.

It boggles my mind that this is written off as acceptable, just another way of looking at the results. I own a business. I understand its accounting. Turning a $700m loss into a $400m profit is a $1.1b lie.

Edit: if you'd like to put recurring profits and expenses on a sheet and show it to me, fine. But if you omit one-off expenses when representing your financial position (and let's be honest, there are always one-offs) you've fraudulently represented yourself.
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But my point, and the one made by the article as I understand it, is that you wouldn't even have to do any of that initially. The vast majority of the driver's time is spent just cruising on the highway. That's the part you want to work on automating first, both because it provides the greatest cost savings, and because it's the easiest to solve technically.
> The 2600 had sprites, but they had limitations.

Calling them "sprites" is perhaps a bit of an exaggeration. They were colored boxes. :) Turning them into any sort of recognizable graphics was required developers to "race the beam" to update registers constantly to render more objects per line than the hardware directly supported.
I find myself in awe. Men like Rockefeller made our modern age possible.
Wow, you need to spend that much for decent voltage regulators?
Hmm. The problem with that approach is that among many things that mean nothing in your inbox, there are some that are quite meaningful. And these have the potential to get lost among the noise.
> It's physically impossible for this to be malicious.

It's "physically impossible for Google to read the IP header addresses if the pack data contains "&aip=1"? The IP is still logged with Google, according to their own documentation[1]:

When present, the IP address of the sender will be anonymized.

So-called "anonymized" data can be re-correlated with the original values. DJB's gave a great description[2] of this problem, right after he started working for Verizon[3]:

Hashing is magic crypto pixie-dust, which takes personally identifiable
information and makes it incomprehensible to the marketing department.
When a marketing person looks at random letters and numbers they have no
idea what it means. They can't imagine that anybody could possibly
understand the information, reverse the hash, correlate the hashes, track
them, save them, record them.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

[2] https://projectbullrun.org/surveillance/2015/video-2015.html...

[3] If you don't believe that DJB works for Verizon, ask the man in the middle... who may have been making an elaborate joke.
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I'm not sure who is more smug: Sean Hannity or Rachel Maddow. But, I know which of them consistently punches up, and which one punches down, and that is far more important to me. As for the current state of political discourse I think you can draw a pretty convincing line from the dawn of right-wing talk radio, though Fox News et al, all the way to pretty much what we have now. But that doesn't matter too much anymore and what's done is done. The political climate is polarized and that is the arena in which liberals have to compete to have their voices heard and their ideas implemented.

So, that said, liberal Democrats probably should not worry too much about hurting the feelings of white racist reactionaries as they go about building a coalition that can win more national elections. In fact, I'm not sure any wing of the Democratic party should do that. White nationalists already have a party that is happy to accommodate them, and trying to beat that is probably just going to alienate everyone else.
But we've already got automated warehousing systems that work pretty well -- I'd imagine these wouldn't be too hard to extend to load and unload trucks. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they already can.
fortunately not. thanks for the heads up though.
There are a lot of non-scientist scientists out there :/
Musicians learn to read music. Yes, it is hard to learn it first, before playing or listening, but that is how it has been incorrectly taught. Same with mathematics. Learning mathematics by coding is perfectly fine, but when you start to go higher to the more abstract level, you need abstract symbols. That can, and should come later, I believe. But, I would rather deal with learning C=2πr as standing for the circumference of a circle, than writing it out longhand. Not to mention, diagrams are good too, to understand what a 'radius' or 'pi' is. The longhand version would be at least a paragraph. You just wouldn't write many pages of longhand to avoid symbols. Fear of mathematics is a result of poor teaching, not symbols.
Unfortunately the people element is too big to remove from this equation and should be included in your risk model. Another thing to consider is that people are just generally assholes and will take advantage of a system like this. Like I said in a previous comment, I was part of a small group that joined a company, and the outcome was awful for everybody included. Disaster isn't really relevant here, everything started to fall apart, people quit included me, morale was awful, etc. When I joined, all I wanted was to have an interesting job, but they wanted an "alliance" with me. It was fucked in the most Machiavelian, spoiled brat way. I can't imagine that won't happen elsewhere. Anecdata, n=1, blah blah.

Incidentally, their DR test at one point wasn't really a valid DR test, since it didn't do of any sort of rigor. Not to mention the other DR tests/events I've seen at other companies ;).
At first maybe, but people get used to things. Sabotage by replaced workers and luddites is nothing new (just look at the origin of the word luddite). And I wouldn't be surprised if laws are passed that create heavy penalties for interfering with self-driving vehicles.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11562633 and marked it off-topic.
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Why is the bar a B. Sc.? What about a person who got their BS 50 years ago and can't test today due to increased curriculum difficulty and significantly different material? Did they become non-scientists at some point?
Good call. I was mainly using `-f` to suppress the prompt about deleting the file, but you're correct, it's unnecessary to have the if statement in this case.
I used to love Soundcloud, but with growth and licensing concerns, mixes and remixes/edits started going missing. Then they deleted the Balearic Social account.

A lot of the better balearic types are posting at hearthis.at now, but the website is pretty rough, and their android app is terrible. Mixcloud seems a better choice.
I wish every product developer thought Email-First.
That's only true if the variable is set before the first instance when data would have been sent, otherwise the file will exist (as it did on my system).
Though sometimes it seems like it's executives reaping short term gain while the company itself pays the long term cost at a later point after the execs have moved on.
A fair amount of this is reasonable science - whole, unprocessed foods; high fiber, moderate carb; prefer lower glycemic sources of energy. But whenever anyone mentions paleo as "the answer" I refer them to this slide deck:

https://www.nsca.com/uploadedfiles/nsca/inactive_content/pro...
Yes, but people are dickholes who take advantage of these setups. I was part of one of those setups, but only realized what was going on after I joined.

There's absolutely a middle ground, but I'm not sure that direct hire of teams is not of them - yet. For that to work, many other things would need to happen first. I'm looking forward to the day that happens. For now, I'll stick with freelancing and hope others hop on this bandwagon with me.
At least long-distance trucks can have routes optimized for automation (be it via embedding sensors to aid in bad weather or optimizing a lane for trucks, etc.) for the long segments and then at the city limits (or thereabouts) set-up truck "depots" to have human drivers board the truck and give them override to manoeuver through more difficult city or rural last-segment roads and streets.
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It's an interesting thought, but I don't think this will be a significant problem. The inevitable combination of laws, surveillance, and social norms will, as it does now, keep the vast majority of people from doing random asshole acts like this.

The self-driving trucks will, by definition, be equipped with omnidirectional, high resolution 3d cameras. Who was that guy who kept cutting off our truck? Well, we could 3d print his face and license plate if you'd like. Also, the trucking industry will run to lawmakers the very first time this happens, and they are a very strong lobby. Finally, it's just a shitty thing to do, and everyone will understand that. Much like shining a laser at a plane is almost universally reviled, there will be social consequences for being that guy who torments driverless trucks.

By the way, "robotic carts that move supplies to workstations"? Is this a common thing? Can you say where you work?
I agree. I think another difference with the trucker community (vs angry taxi drivers) is that they are "tight". They have their own social circles, unions, radio talk shows, cb radio, websites, newsletters, etc.

They already know how to organize, communicate, influence, etc. And then there's the union history, tactics, etc.
But here’s the question: Do these ‘last mile’ drivers sit in the cab? Or operate the rigs from thousands of miles away, like drone pilots, with displays showing 360 degrees around the rig and access to all of its sensors?

Last mile driving may not look anything like truck driving.
Jeez, I admit I am, was now, one of those people!...changes flight to train ticket... ;)
Yep, I distill this as "future annoyance."

How much future annoyance is your product worth? 8 dollars per year?

The mental overhead in case my card changes might not be worth it.
Ask HN: Windows XP SP2 and IE 6.0 sites won't load?
I am installing Winddows XP SP2 on virtual machines for legacy development. I found out Google.com does not load in IE 6 and bing.com does. Going to ninite to download installers also does not load. Bing.com loads fine and I can download Firefox good thing it still works with XP SP2. Firefox seems to load ninite and uses Yahoo search now. But google.com still gives me a page not found even in Firefox.

Is Google blocking old OSes and Web Browsers, or is this a thing with XP Certificates expiring or something. I want to use XP to develop some older Visual Studio languages with VB 6.0 and etc. Have problems running in modern Windows. Yet I can't help but notice XP SP2 can't load certain websites. Are they trying to force XP users to upgrade to a new Windows or is this just some sort of coincidence?

Edit: IE 6 does not load Google.com but the latest Firefox can. I doubt Google is having connection issues. Ninite seems to load in Firefox as well. I wonder what other websites act like that with IE 6.0? I don't use SP3 because it loads slower and it is based on Vista a but and SP2 is more stable for me.
>> The IP is still logged with Google, according to their own documentation

Not quite[1]. The full IP never makes it to disk. It's true that "anonymous IP" isn't as anonymous as I'd have expected. Only the last octet of an IPv4 address is removed. Considering homebrew's use specifically, not just looking at GA in general, I think this is acceptable.

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
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The phenomenon is called anchoring[1], and it works like this: the first price we see anchors our thinking about additional information. This is why furniture stores have a perpetual sale.

"Oh look, this $2500 sofa is only $1899.99 right now. What a great deal!"

One experiment had respondents use the last two digits of their social security number as the initial price for a bottle of wine or other good. This completely-arbitrary price had a strong correlation with the price they were willing to pay for the item.

The effect is described in greater detail in Thinking, Fast and Slow[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

[2] http://www.inc.com/the-build-network/the-anchoring-effect.ht...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...
This exactly. I deleted my Facebook years ago, and everyone about whom I care communicates with me via iMessage (short), Skype, and email--which in my view are the simple, not too problematic originals. My family, spread across two coasts of the US, and Eastern Europe actually has email threads going in which we keep up with each other, share findings, and make fun of one another.
I will buy it too, if there is a toilet in the car!
I wonder what the accident rate of professional truck drivers is compared to other passenger class drivers. Certainly the outcome of an accident is potentially a much higher level of mayhem.
What is a person supposed to do when another human tries dangerous things while one is driving? I think the smart move there would be to record the incident and have it reviewed for police, or for PR content.
Requesting some Docker Beta love too! I'm working on getting 50+ developers running on Windows when this goes live.

"cbushko" is the ID.
Lack of inflation is a problem for governments, since it's a form of stealth taxation. I don't see any historical evidence it's stagnating - at least in the US the periods of highest growth weren't accompanied by inflation.

Let me ask you this - as a user of currency, why would you want to use a currency that's worth less when you spend it than it was when you acquired it?
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there is really little downside. Imagine a team of 3 applies and one guy is just brilliant and the other two are just average. First of all, average people are worth it if you can get 1 brilliant guy or girl. Secondly, you can always let the average people go few months later and keep the brilliant person, if you so choose
IE6 has been deprecated since July 2010. Support for it fell off long before then. Even countries with heavy amounts of software piracy are using later versions of the browser. IE6 is considered as important as IE5.5, that is to say, beyond dead.

My guess is that it isn't intentional. It is a combination of modern browser features which are not supported in IE6 (like you say, might be certificates as well), rendering errors and a whole lot of JS which was written without IE6 in mind that can be executed.

IE8 is available for Windows XP, that would be a better option.
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You make a good point but I don't think this is the main dynamic at play. I'm much more hesitant to buy a $5 app, a one-time purchase, than a $7 beer.
Many people don't realize it but you can store git repos in S3 using jgit. Super cheap backups of git repos.
> However, this sounds like wishing to violate the known laws of physics

Some crypto work is focused on proving that certain things are impossible. But so far I haven't seen any paper proving that this was impossible.
In that case it might be worth reading Factory Man, which is a somewhat biography of John D. Bassett III, third generation owner of Bassett furniture.

Completely fascinating history of the home furnishings industry and how globalization completely upended it.
if Jenny and Steve are really good, you can always give them more stock and let go of Bill, Mike and Vivek at a later point.