skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3 interesting take aways from this article for me:

> By her twenties, Ms Rifkin, who did not finish high school, was earning six-figure pay.

I've never heard anyone call pit trading a meritocracy but it was one job where people who didn't have the best pedigree could still get a very good paying job. As is pointed out every day there are fewer and fewer of these types of jobs around anymore in the North America. I think real estate agent and sales are the two jobs that immediately come to mind as jobs that people who don't have a university education can still make great money with.

> Electronic futures trading arrived in 1992, when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange launched its Globex technology. Nymex followed a year later with Access, short for American Computerized Commodity Exchange System and Services. But access to Access was confined to hours when pits were closed, to protect the value of seats on the floor, Mr Collins says.

Even when given an, IMHO, obviously superior technology the incumbents were able to hold it off for the better part of a decade. I always try to keep this in the back of my head when trying to predict curve jumping shifts in behaviour, just because you think something is superior to the incumbent you can't assume that it will immediately replace it. Or put another way its dangerous to short the incumbants on the thesis that new tech will immediately replace them, the old guard can be very sticky.

> GEM’s 17th floor office off Columbus Circle in midtown Manhattan contains just five traders on a recent afternoon, with a few more patched in by video feed from offices in Chicago and Dublin. The room is quiet but for the hum of the air conditioner, brokers quoting oil structures over speaker phones and the bleep of trades being executed, often driven by algorithms.

> Mr Vonderheide’s employees studied physics, economics, chemistry and finance at top US universities

> “A friend used to say, ‘If I weren’t trading gasoline, I’d be pumping it’. Well, some of them are.”

These are the people who replaced the pit traders. If you contrast them, a successful pit trader tended to be loud, big, boisterous and outgoing. When a shift does happen as the shift from pit to computer did, the new guard tend not to resemble the old guard very much and the old guard tend not to fair very well.
> the night sky (not from Earth, we'd probably be cooked by the Sun by then) sure would be beautiful. And bright

Brighter, yes, but not very bright. The density of stars will not increase very much. Currently, to see the Milky Way, you have to be out in the boondocks, far from cities and other light polluters - the thing is just so faint.

After the merger, perhaps it will get brighter, but the increase will not be spectacular. The brightness of the combined galaxy as seen from Earth will be dictated by the stellar density, which will not change much.
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This is an accepted, if not encouraged, practice at my employer and it is much appreciated. Entire teams tend to schedule their "WFH" days together as a general time to focus, no meetings, etc. And, the teams that don't schedule together almost always have most members taking 1-2 WFH days a week.

For context: Employer is a late stage startup with ~500 employees that generally embraces remote work with many full-time remote employees.
This is a bullshit argument if I've ever seen one. Published suicide rates are accepted as non-controversial. Playing up "but but the US is worse because $conspiracy_theory" is completely asinine, although it gets up upvotes at places like HN and reddit who share a strong anti-US sentiment.

Yes Dorothy, there are places with worse suicide rates than others. Stop pretending suicide data is wrong because of your pet politics.
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What's Mozilla's goal here? Making a play for ads? The appearance of feature parity with whatever Google (and now Microsoft) puts out?
This is phenomenal! I've struggled finding a career assessment that is in-depth without taking too much time and Apt nailed it. I would highly recommend this to any students or young adults.
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On that note, the stars all have a 'stellation' along what appear to be the same axes. What is this effect? On the surface of the Earth my assumption was that the stellation/twinkling is an atmospheric thing. In this case is it an effect of gases or some telescopic thing?

Actually if it were telescopic it could probably be analyzed out.
It doesn't mirror it at all. The local stuff is only a temporary holding place for it to sit until it gets uploaded to ACD, at which point it is unceremoniously deleted. I have >10TB on my cloud drive, but I'm using <10GB on my hard drive.
Well, eating fruits and vegetables is in a way removing the negatives of lacking certain nutrients, and consuming excesses of others such as sugar.
So does that mean Go will finally have generics somewhere around version 5?
Correct. Only the core is visible to the naked eye, and even then you'd have to be out in the boondocks, far from cities and other light polluters.
Redundancy as advanced as ZFS can do would be sweet, but if you're ok with something simple, like a two disk setup, you can put a PFS on each and stream one disk to the other.
Bitcoin has no real use or value.

As a means to 'store wealth' - not really. There are 100 other things that make more sense than bitcoin.

As a 'medium of exchange' - it will never be a common currency so it has no real value there. (A shopkeeper cannot price his 5% margin Milk in Bitcoins as the price fluctuates too much vis-a-vis the dollar, which he must also price his milk in).

The only real advantage of Bitcoin is total privacy, which 99.9% have no problem with, only people doing illegal things generally need this.

The small benefit of the fact you can bypass credit card charges etc. is entirely offset by the lack of de-facto security in Bitcoin - although it is 'technically secure' - for the laymen, using it and securely storing 'bitcoins' is not straightforward. That major Bitcoin repos have been hacked is evidence of that.

The banks are into 'block chain' because they saw how quickly Bitcoin spread - and they can't afford to not be part of a wave if it happens, but it won't.

It's funny that so many of bitcoins backers have absolutely no understanding of finance, currency, monetary policy etc..

It's also funny how ideological people are about bitcoin:

" I thought that Bitcoin was similar in many ways to the Internet. The metaphor that I used was that Bitcoin was like email - the first killer app - and that the Bitcoin Blockchain was like The Internet - the infrastructure that was deployed to support it but that could be used for so many other things. I suggested that The Blockchain was to finance"

This is not particularly rational.

What we need are strong, well backed, resilient and responsibly managed currencies.

The only real systematic problem with today's currencies are:

A) the oligcarchy of payment systems like visa grafting 1%-ish off the top and

B) monetary policy decisions that ultimately favour the banks.

It would be nice to get rid of A, but with bitcoin there is no 'monetary policy' and that's a much worse position than having central banks with the ability to do some degree of intervention, even if it's not perfect.

The article is a good example of this - everyone talks about technology, but don't bother to even mention finance, likely because they don't have a clue.

Fintech of the blockchain sort is in a 'bubble' because bitcoin does not solve any 'problem' for 99% of people.

Even in 3rd world countries with scam currencies, the solution will migrate towards simply using the currency of the nearest nation with a credible currency, namely dollars, Euros, and possibly in the future, RMB.
From a UX perspective, I thought I was only searching for certain things on certain accounts, but saw the majority of those searches index under my employer's non-default google apps account.

Thats not what I was going for at all.
couldn't you be fired for recording people without their consent?
have experience with OVH and Hetzner both companies offer a stable service and their prices look too good to be real (and yet they are real)
I know it a joke and all but you're not supposed to record people without their consent, and I think this would qualify.
How? It's the study and critique of ideologies, without a judgment of right / wrong.
Does anyone know what type of technology will be powering this? Is Mozilla building some sort of graph database to make this work?
There's already a "trustability" factor: it's called a name. When I search for a new paper and find something interesting, I look at the first author, the name of the PI, and the name of the university or laboratory associated with this paper.

If I'm familiar with the work of the first author then I already have an idea of how much I can trust his/her work. If I don't know this person then I look at the coauthors and especially the PI. If the PI is a heavy hitter in my field then there's my trustability factor right there. If I don't know the PI but I know the laboratory or university it's affiliated with then there's my third line of a trustability metric.
I disagree with your assertion that suicide can be designed away whereas sleep cannot because it is a necessity.

Anybody who wants to commit suicide will do it if they are motivated enough. Putting bars outside a window, or preventing a window from opening are only preventing a specific type of suicide.

Similarly, preventing somebody from sleeping on a bench won't prevent them from sleeping. It will only prevent them from sleeping on the bench. They can sleep in front of or next to the bench, having the same "blocking" effect which prevents others from enjoying the use of the bench.
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I worked in IT at a telco, and you are spot on.

The IT department was incompetent and poorly run, and they couldn't implement anything new for less than 400% of budget (time and money) and it usually didn't work very well.

Although, that's not the reason to not do something like this. The reason not to do something like this is because the bottom line is more important, and impacting that is not good.
Zing is not some magic. To start with it needs heavily over provisioned servers with like 64GB+ RAM recommended. And to have the pauseless GC it needs additional contingency and pause prevention memory pools on top of -Xmx memory settings.

And still I have heard the one of the best way to control GC in many trading systems where Zing might be popular is to just provision 100s of GBs of memory heap and simply restart server once trading day is over.
This is actually quite a good point.
The post was downvoted (not by me) for its sarcastic tone and for not taking into account that in the OP's real scenario, the queries were being performed by two different people. If Google assumes the same person can't search for two topics like that in one account, obviously they would be making a crude mistake, but Google has preferred data-driven, sociologically agnostic methods long enough that it's common knowledge on HN. For example, the same behavioral research they're doing with their captcha and behavioral-based authentication should help them lock on to different rates of typing, clicking, etc that two people on the same account might display.
I was hoping for something more fundamental. That feels like sacrificing function for form
this doesn't answer the question, or at least not the whole question. Why do most people seem to really like people with "leadership" traits even when they seem obviously disingenuous?

on a more personal level, I find this question even more confusing, because I seem to have a fairly strong negative emotional response to people with "leadership" traits. "Why would you follow that slimebag?" is usually my response.
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Thanks for the request! A few of our customers have asked for the same thing, so it's in our list of feedback items and being tracked.
>I don't know why you got downvoted, but you're right.

I have some ideas about why they got downvoted.
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Didn't see author discuss the South Bay Ferry Pier they put on the map (looks to be near the Google HQ in Mountain View). Has that been proposed?

Seems like with the speed of ferries, this would be a very long ride to SF and wouldn't be practical except for a very small number of people vs just taking Caltrain (which, as mentioned, is allegedly getting electrified soon-ish, with faster service).
It tends to be the opposite. Low level is far easier to secure. Far easier to make a VM guaranteed to be secure : you only have to prove a few instructions don't result in privilege escalation and you're done.

What really matters is contact points between the inside and the outside of the security container, and how complex they are. The fewer and simpler, the better.

But, large performance advantages can be had by violating these rules.
"I figured there might be private (religious?) charities but I figured I needed it less than most being a white young male."

I honestly don't get this mindset. You're already homeless. Those private/religious charities exist for exactly the purpose of helping you out.
I'm tired of this remain propaganda.

There's been none of the apocalyptic predictions. In fact the FTSE100 is higher than it was before the referendum. There's going to be a short period of adjustment, but in the long run we're better out. The pound is down because all the banks bet billions on Remain and lost - including Virgin.

Remainders have been deluded by the EU ideal that is not the reality. the EU is the privatisation of government, and in collusion with big business. They hate democracy.

They kept, until after the referendum, the plans to start the EU army and the takeover of national central banks. This will happen to the 27 unless they get out. The EU will acquire competency over taxation, including corporation tax and income tax. They already control VAT (sales tax). VAT went up to 20% (from 17.5%) following handover to the EU. Almost all that difference goes to EU funding.

The cost of membership of the EU is rising every year. Why do we need to fund both a national government and an international one. It's all just greed.
I thought "promo codes" referred here to the things you stuck at the end of URLs that took you to the app's install page—sort of like Amazon affiliate IDs. I find the idea that you'd be actively telling people your code, rather than e.g. typing their email address into the app to send them an "invite" link with the code embedded, kind of weird and unintuitive.
Is this limited to Austin? Don't you see the same phenomenon in other locations?

As the author's buddy pointed out, people believe less and less in equity every day. I personally never take them into account. So yeah, it sucks, but startups have to get more creative to compete with big corpos with deep pockets.
I know someone who had a technology-driven bra startup, but I suppose that's an edge case.
Header comment from Hans Boehm's original test program --

"This is no substitute for real applications. No actual application is likely to behave in exactly this way. However, this benchmark was designed to be more representative of real applications than other Java GC benchmarks of which we are aware."
I don't understand. What's being sacrificed? Of what use is a list of imports that aren't used?
Right. The article has a point, but trying to extend it into a full category of design—and then calling it "unpleasant design"—feels more than a bit arbitrary. They just grouped together designs with goals they disliked and called them "unpleasant" under the guise of developing a "critical theory". When you define a category, with a name, you're heavily implying that the categorization you use is important and meaningful and natural, and it's not clear that it is here.

They're trying to sneak a particular moral point through as commentary on design—which, thinking about it, isn't all that different from the designs they criticize.
Looks like with their lowest tier bare metal server + 450 GB additional storage the total would be 11.99 Euros per month or $13.28 USD. And there wouldn't be transfer cost between server / storage.
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Declarative primitives or mkdir -p for the cloud
I'm quite painfully aware of what a $1MM mortgage costs with taxes and insurance. The point is that if you can save enough to put down half of that in 10 years, you could swing the cost of the mortgage today. When you talk about saving, you have to remember that 1) you still have to live somewhere, and that's definitely not free, and 2) home prices are generally increasing over time so you probably need to save more than you think. On the subject of the standard deduction, you're right that you'd lose that, but with a jumbo mortgage, you'll still come out ahead for many years.

Interest on savings is negligible. If you take the highest money market rates, you'll get just north of 1%. If you stick the money in a 5-year CD, you'll get 2% and lower liquidity. Meanwhile the housing market is rising faster (how long that's sustainable is unknown).

I'm not sure what you're talking about with the car loan. If you think it's worth having a cushion of cash in the bank (I certainly think so) so that you can do things like buy your cars in cash, then saving for 10 years so that you can dump all the money into the house is a terrible idea because you've just lost your cash cushion. (Your best bet for saving on cars is to just buy fewer of them anyway.) For the high-deductible insurance, you only need a few thousand in the bank to take the risk out of that. You need enough cash on hand to cover your deductible. After that it basically looks like any other insurance plan. And certainly, a larger cash cushion makes copay/coinsurance easier to handle, but that's not specific to high-deductible insurance.

If you think you should live far beneath your means as a general rule, I can't argue with that. There's no compelling argument for why you should spend all your money if you have the option to save. It insulates you from risk and allows you to retire sooner if that's your goal. But if you are living far beneath your means so that you can just dump all your savings into a house in 10 years that you could afford today with the same income, I think you're wasting your time, especially in a market like SF where home prices are increasing so rapidly.
Some comparisons in the article are outright preposterous. If a Cisco for the blockchain emerges, it centralizes infrastructure and negates the benefits of using the blockchain.

The Blockchain is supposed to leapfrog the status quo, directly jump to SDN vs go through the Cisco --> SDN cycle again, metaphorically speaking
You're already moving your goalposts. Your first post said replicates the finding. If I simply post my results and someone else looks at the data and agrees with me then are they really replicating my finding or did they, oh what's the word… peer review my work and agreed?
comcast response tl;dr:

"Our system is old and we would keep up with the new but we don't really want to lose money because of your so called laws and we have zero care about being consumer friendly."
Well, I seem to have failed to cite my source:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea#Land_tenure
You could also just turn the stuff off.
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It's the JIT compiler written in Java that was in Maxine, updated, integrated into Hotspot so you don't need to use an experimental VM to use it.

Maxine is still alive though - but I think the only people maintaining it are academics.
Correct me if i'm wrong, but for "serverless" to work, does there still not need to be a "long running" daemon somewhere that runs the containers on demand? Who pays for that? Is it just extra capacity that AWS just takes the hit on for the cost of the service? And if so, can this extra capacity burst if needed when millions of requests come in at the drop of a hat?
To be honest, that's also the same support level as the higher plans like SoYouStart and OVH. They don't manage or administrate your servers for you. You need knowledge. The good news is: it doesn't take much to be able to manage everything on your own.
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Using emojis to extend the available character set is taken off. Technologies like the QR code did not catch on partially because they were co-opted by marketers. Is it emojis turn?

http://emoticode.com/
This site exemplifies something that really annoys me with Google's material design framework. On my 13" screen, I can see a grand total of four items at a time: https://i.imgur.com/6YJxj0b.png

I really wish they'd consider information density as a plus when designing pages like this.
That's pretty cool, as some of the Kubernetes installation procedures can look a little daunting.

One question though, are there any plans to support Windows as a host OS for this (either via VMWare Workstation or Hyper-V directly, or via something like Vagrant)?
I used to work for a company working out of GCT. It was a great experience. Matt and Charlie have done a great job with both GCT and Build Grand Central.
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This is an interesting thought experiment. It seems Mozilla is trying to lower the barrier to entry for the average, small website compared to the giants in the space right now by providing a tool built into the browser itself.

In my experience, this is an ambitious goal. As humans, we don't like change and, as a whole, won't do it without strong reason. Opening your browser means going to the bigger sites (e.g., Facebook) because they're convenient. The convenience isn't due to only thinking Facebook when thinking of social media, it's about what features Facebook offers me as its user.

If, on the other hand, the goal is more for the audience than the small websites, and it's to expose the average viewer to more variety, why not partner with Stumbleupon, Reddit, or one of many other community link-aggregation platforms?
It's taken 15 billion years since the big bang for our relatively complex atoms to form - from supernovae. Yes, we were generated in the core of stars. The entire superstructure of the universe is what allows us to exist in the first place.
TransIP sells you DigitalOcean-like VPSs, but also allow you to attach multi-TB NAS drives to them for a few bucks more. I've been a happy customer with a 2TB drive for a few years.

https://www.transip.eu/vps/big-storage/
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It asked for my password but not my 2FA. Strange.

(I also had no results, though, because I've turned everything off.)
It's more than material design, it's all modern design. Most modern websites, application UIs, game UIs, all have inches and inches and inches of whitespace.
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