skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an area where I see the free market causing great harm. How can a population contend with greedy, money-rich corporations who wage huge psychological and legal campaigns? It's very one-sided. In the US, science and the people's own best interest are seldom enough. The government must have some balance of power to regulate corporations that are otherwise happy to abuse their fellow humans and distort culture and consciousness to systematically disempower whole populations.

It's an awful cycle. It's possible that a system built on nurturance and development, one that empowered people with a wide array of tools including compassion and self-realization, would produce corporate leaders who could themselves balance multiple constructive ends. Imagine if the mega-corps who routinely disenfranchise poor communities and third world countries not only sought money and power, growth and impact, but also felt internally compelled to be accountable, admit mistakes, build constructive non-manipulative and non-bullying relationships, empower others when possible, and respect others when not possible even when taking care of oneself, etc.

I'm a big fan of free-will and independence and no human having more authority than another, but I also see a huge importance in nurturing and developing children to bear those responsibilities constructively, for example free from low self esteem and arrogance, and rich with curiousity, support networks, courage and inventiveneess. Unfortunately, nurturing, developing and supporting others are tasks that are largely seen as "feminine" and therefore economically unimportant (stay at home parents are free labor, and teachers, nannies, etc earn very little money, and research in those areas is similarly seen as lesser science to math and engineering). These professions are often shunned by those needing to defend their "masculinity", and in fact nurturance and emotional support is often required of women and people of color as free labor (the classic "mother" and "grandmother" and "POC friend" role). So it's a strange world we live in, where corporations are seen as people under the law, and are of course directed by people in charge, and yet we keep the bar very low for how mature and capable these people-corporations are.
Don't people often just use acetone or another solvent to smooth the surface of chunky prints (outdoors, I hope)? How effective that would be would vary depending on the plastic, but it seems easier than milling (if not especially precise).
I just turn off AR mode if it's in someone's house or yard.
Why did this happen? This wasn't a dupe, it's new information about a similar topic in a rapidly changing environment...
CEOs have way more latitude than most think. There is an incredibly easy argument to make in this case: paying employees more means you get better employees, and more productive employees, thus you drive more shareholder value.
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Note that the intellectual curiosity doesn't have to be universal. The upvote system is in place to determine what is sufficiently interesting to reach a given place in the rankings.
Time to listen to "The Chemistry of Common Life" [1]

[1] http://matablog.matadorrecords.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/1...
i see ;)
Thank you for making me feel much less safe on Swiss trains now =)

That aside, I've often been wondering how these systems work exactly. There must be a challenging engineering problem behind organizing all of this.
Hype started before official release in all countries and people installed it outside of Google Play. In some countries it is still unavailable.
oh without a signature, a completely irrelevant qualifier that I didn't even make as a prerequisite!

I'm also referring to the march 2013 hard fork

so congratulations you just helped me prove my "multiple times" for the lay man
Is that a micropayment model though? I can't imagine wanting to be bothered by paying for everything I read. For some reason, paying for stuff, even if only 25c, makes me think "Is it worth it?", and I hate that feeling.
> Surely that would show up in chromatography tests.

Sure, the upthread comment is that it is hard to detect short of chromatography or similar lab testing, not that it is hard to detect with chromatography.
No, that it won't get to 257 is the whole point here. So 257 axles with a single axle missed would end up as 256, resetting the counter -> no train present.

Ditto for 255 with a single 'bounce'.
Time scale is worth considering here. Certainly over the short term this is a bad move for the company. What remains to be seen is how it will affect the company long term.

The company in this case also generated a lot of good will, something that is hard to get, hard to value, but very important none the less.

Too many corporations are so focused on quarterly performance they fail to account for the long term.
I don't know if you've read this[0] yet, but I think it does a good job of explaining how the "let it crash" mantra is useful in effect.

[0] http://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html
That also assumes that the market equilibrium for every job is at least $70,000, which it probably is not.
There's no button for "Screw virtual currency"?
Switch advisers or quit. Everyone I know who's ever done different in this situation has regretted it. 3 years of the prime of your life is worth a whole lot more than a middling recommendation letter.
Apollo 11's source code is now on GitHub
Call me a troll if you like. I have nothing to do with Ethereum, I just don't believe in the sanctity of all transactions, and "it's your fault, you should have bought transaction insurance" sounds like victim blaming.
Do you have a link for this? (I believe you, but I don't see it reflected in any of the VC DBs.)
I will grant that I'm biased, but it's weird to me that you're extrapolating from "not interesting to me" to "shouldn't be interesting to anyone".
In this case we really aren't talking about a cut and dry example of putting workers over shareholders. The company has seen significant increases in value over time. It's a pretty difficult sell to say a CEO is hurting the company while also creating as much value as he was for the shareholders. These are boardroom disputes not courtroom disputes.
Let's be straightforward about this in asserting ourselves as employees; They already ARE aligned. If you're (my employer) not paying me well compared to competitors, I will absolutely walk, and you will be saddled with finding and training/ramping up a replacement. That is a direct cost to shareholders. It is in their best interest to ensure a reasonable continuity within their workforce both from a work output standpoint and a morale/culture standpoint, as teams I've been on which have had time to establish trust and understanding for each other have been remarkably more effective than those that did not. As such, pay is one of the "easiest to pull" strings to this end.

There is some mental dissonance however, as I imagine this train of thought would be "obvious" to those in power, yet we see regular evidence of wage stagnation/suppression. If we don't assume incompetence, some optimum of balancing pay and churn has been found and accepted, and if I trust that they are making a self interested decision, there may NOT be a benefit to paying more. However, I'd really like to see the numbers, because my following intuition from a long time of watching the best engineers hop from job to job is that I probably wouldn't agree with their choice of calculations.
Yeah, that's hard to implement without a central server component or annoying setup. I use IrssiNotifier (despite the name, it also works with WeeChat). It's not great but I get push notifications for highlights on my phone.
Awesome! I've been using horizon.io in combination with React (and Redux, because I'm all hip and stuff!) for 'scratch-my-own-itch' projects and on the whole I've been very happy with the process.

While there are some obvious limitations to using Horizon, it's incredibly convenient for quickly getting something working that 1) is online, public-facing, but secure (OAuth), and 2) provides a CRUD back-end very quickly with little work.

I've run into a bug or two so far, and the documentation isn't entirely up to snuff, but I can highly recommend Horizon for some use cases.

Specifically, Horizon is great out-of-the-box if you're creating an app where there's authenticated users who can do pretty much anything to entities owned by themselves, and where a client-side interface suffices. A todo app, or journalling app would be a typical example: the user can do whatever he pleases with his own todos/journal-entries, provided that he's authenticated.

Any greater complexity server-side probably needs an Express app (or Hapi, Koa, etc.), but there's really quite a lot you can do with a 'vanilla' Horizon server.
If you read the article the author points out, several times, that he does not recommend taking this data as absolute truth throughout tech.
My own assumption is that even though remote work will increase, it will remain marginal and not consume most of the IT jobs out there.

The simple reason being that the biggest IT/tech companies have invested heavily in land & buildings (think about how Apple and Facebook have built huge "campuses" - why they call the offices/building a campus, I don't know, but anyways ...) and they need to utilize those assets in order to avoid the "white elephant" problem.

Also, unlike "agile" software-development or on-demand hosting, they can't merely downscale their land & buildings as they would for their AWS clusters and they also can't sell these buildings, as they seem geared specifically towards the needs of their owners (it isn't just a regular old office-block).

So while some startups of the future will embrace a remote-first culture, the big tech companies and many other regular startups will continue along with the concept of a fixed-location and fixed-office well into the future.
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Hey. I'm an author. I've just run the query for you.

There are 891 (out of 19409 with known location) job post from Cambridge, MA or Boston, MA.
Which gives 4.59%.
The ETH wasn't really stolen though. I thought a contract was submitted and then executed?
It's $100,000 not 1m. Many countries have a tax treaty with the US so that you're not double-taxed, but instead pay the greater of the local rate or US rate.
As mentioned in other comments, the maximum train length was limited in Europe to around 670m (therefore the possible axle count is rather limited) which will be increased on some networks and tracks. There are several different implementation of axle counters (for example http://www.scheidt-bachmann.de/en/signalling-systems/interlo...), also train splits in Europe will trigger an emergency break due to air pressure drop in the breaking system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake

The note is just a sign of the huge safety margin that modern European railway systems implement in regular usage.
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This is irrelevant.
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This sounds cool. I'll be in touch.
MicroPython on the ESP8266
I'm reasonably sure that peruvian people knew the concept of putting a potato in the fire much before british "invented it".
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12054015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12041984
Drones will cause an upheaval of society  (2014)
Its a chemical layer that's removed by washing, that makes eggs need refrigeration. Until washed, they're an antiseptic capsule. After - bacteria can enter through exposed pores in the shell.
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I'm surprised as well. When I moved from DC to Portland I saw a massive decrease in recruiter spam. Even two years later I still get 10 emails per week about jobs in DC. Portland on the other hand? Pretty much zero.
You're making the assumption that quitting would burn the bridge but my guess is that might not be so. Bosses of course don't like when they lose an employee but it's also not the end of the world.

My best piece of advice is to decide what you want (not what you believe others want of you) and then explain you've made your decision to your advisor in a way that is final, but also authentic and showing compassion for your understanding of their situation.
London isn't technically in Europe anymore..
Saving an interrupt per packet. It's far fewer context switches to process packets in a busy loop.
Direct link: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
Ya, I remember those. My friends and I would always wave to the cabooseman (I doubt that's the right word, but I really like it) as it went by, and he would usually wave back at us.
> Given that the CEO legally has a Fiduciary duty to the shareholders to protect their best interests

No such duty exists. What does is the annual general meeting where shareholders vote on proposals put forward by the board, such as the mission statement and a company vision.

If these state "we aim to remunerate employees on a flat rate equal to the highest current salary" then you can't cry later.
Ok, my bad, I was not up to speed on the whole DAO thing.
> coupled with gold standard being dropped

What exactly does the gold standard have to do with economic troubles around the world? All the gold standard would do is subject any country that adheres to it to crippling deflation whenever the economy grows and crippling inflation whenever it contracts.
That makes good sense.

Still, given that the warning was issued quite explicitly it would seem that the designers of the operations guide definitely thought it was possible to have a train that long. Otherwise, why bother with the warning?
Carls Jr sent me to the hospital, twice. Had an horrible allergy to their cheese.

I can eat other cheese fine.
Paying over the market value for the employees is a pretty powerful motivator for them. If they're in a job that normally gets $30k/year, and now they're recieving an extra $40k, they don't want to risk going back out in the job market.
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Agreed, and I think a good solution is to build specific services that do the complex things which talk to the same db, and then just use horizon for the reasons you mentioned.
Part of that is because mobile gaming largely sucks, and Nintendo doesn't want to be associated with something that sucks. So their entry into mobile is much more cautious and calculated, intended to present the kind of experience Nintendo is known for rather than the usual sort of IAP money farm that is commonplace in mobile gaming.

The approach of Sega, Capcom, and Konami was to pivot from traditional games into money farms, and that sowed a lot of ill will among their fans.

Try playing Sonic Runners. It's sort of okay for a while, then it hits the wall of "spend money or be forever in grindy hell". It's like a stripper who's very friendly with you for 30 seconds, then starts asking for money to keep being friendly.

If Nintendo did that, it would take a power dump all over their brand. So they're playing it safe and taking a more measured approach to mobile.
Regarding issues: "just answer politely and let them know that you will at least try to resolve the issue at some point in the future."

If you're too busy, maybe a better approach would be to encourage the poster to submit a PR along with test cases.
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Silicon Valley is ~ 1 hour train ride from SF...and a faster drive (when there is no traffic).
> London isn't technically in Europe anymore..

London is in Europe as much as it has ever been. Geographically, its status hasn't changed -- whether you consider the island off the coast of the European mainland part of Europe or not; politically, its still the capital of the UK, which -- despite having voted that its government should withdraw from the EU -- remains an EU member, and not even formally on the exit path yet.
IoT puts assembly language back on the charts
IoT -> Limited hardware requirements -> Assembly usage increases

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index
A faraway sentinel element is pretty clever, I never thought of that.

Anyway, as long as there are legitimate cases where infinite scroll is superior to click-to-page, I am glad that someone is focusing on this problem and treating it seriously. When you really stop to consider the problem, you start to see that it has all of the complexity of a one dimensional scenegraph over dynamic terrain, in a game where the "player" can warp and fly at high speeds, but can't reasonably store the full dataset locally.
I agree. I imagine arguments about misalignment can be made whe you vouch to pay a 2x market rate multiple to office admins, janitors, etc.

However, like you say, it has to do wonders for corporate culture! (ignoring the jealous folks who think they deserve to be paid more than a janitor. I believe I remember a few such people when I originally read this announcement)
They don't need to market; their returns speak for themselves.

As obvious as the idea seems in hindsight, no one on the sell-side has a product like this right now. The closest thing is the Thor router, which is a crude attempt to accomplish the same feat because it doesn't address variation in latency. An algorithmic execution product like this would effectively end latency arbitrage, which is a source of RenTech's livelihood. To hedge against that, they have secured the IP rights to the technology.
Academic references are probably of greatest import in an academic setting. Industrial hires generally care about what you can do for them, not what you've done in the past.

In addition to HN as an advice/support group, consider looking around within your department and peer group. Chatting with other professors may yield useful insights (and provide a back-channel communique to your advisor). It's fine to continue working (and doing good work) for your advisor while you aggressively network for other options.

As I tell every student I work with in Physics; do it for love. If you don't love it, other things are probably more worth your time.
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That's how decentralized open source projects work.
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A less cynical interpretation would be that Dan expected the $70k to attract top people and inspire a great deal of loyalty and that the publicity from announcing this radical approach would more than make up for the extra cost in new business. In other words, cheap advertising.

Oh and Dan has 60% ownership so he makes that call and every other. Sounds open and shut to me.
Do you really find that answer a satisfying resolution?
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Because you have to cover all possibilities, even if they are highly unlikely. It's sad most people mistake this for weakness of a system.
I find it very surprising that Tel Aviv, Israel (supposed "startup nation") is nowhere in those charts.
Here's a meta comment.

When I look this thread as of now (11 July 18:00 in Amsterdam), I see almost no nested comments in the middle.

Typically when I read nested comments I see: agreements, disagreements or new perspectives. In most HN threads the most upvoted comments have the most nested comments, but it is also quite common to see a lot of nested comments somewhere in the middle in topics that have this many upvotes and I don't see them.

The upvoted comments and the nested versions are quite original -- 'soul searching'/self therapy, broken iPhones, blackberries and chess clocks. I haven't seen half of it in productivity books, perhaps variations of it, but the variations wouldn't allow me to think of a chess clock.

I'm thinking of why there are fewer nested comments in the middle. It might be because:
1. big enough personal differences in habit formation (my hunch)
2. we're all saying the same thing but we don't recognize it or we do but don't react
3. there's simply no need for further comment
> In this case, the CEO was acting in a way that is favorable to his employees' interests, but detrimental to the interests of the shareholders.

That's an iffy assertion. You could argue that no corporation should pay above minimum wage for any position because to do otherwise is to eat into profits unnecessarily. But the reality is that for many positions you cannot attract or retain employees without paying them far above minimum wage.

It's not hard to argue that it's in the best long-term interests of the company to pay wages that make it easier to attract the best employees and that make its employees very loyal. Whether those wages are $40k/year, $70k/year, or $200k/year is not objectively very clear.
I can see not everyone found this funny due to the down votes but it made me laugh on this miserable Monday!
I've been through this. Actually I was well-supported by my department and switched groups even later than that -- too late if you ask anyone. When you're motivated and on the right project, you can do a PhD in only a couple of years. Grad school can be extremely inefficient, and we all know that.

The larger question is whether you need a PhD to do what you want in the world. But don't get too down on academia because of one bad advisor. (There are many better reasons!)

Edit: To your political question, my old boss and I don't talk by design. I've found much better supporters since then, and some bridges should be burned. Your boss may seem like your whole world right now, but that's mostly Stockholm syndrome talking. There are many supportive people -- you just have to ask around.
Yes, but that difference is mitigated by the fact that tetris was the first mobile videogame that was popular or even socially acceptable for the post-college crowd to play.

Now, the adult mobile gaming market is saturated.
It's all academic until you have a few years of real world results to see how this pay raise will affect people.

Roughly 130 people - let's assume 100 of those people got a $30k raise - this is ~$3m more per year. The CEO went from $1m/year down to $70k, so... approximately $2m/more per year invested in paying people a decent wage.

What affect will this have on retention, employee commitment, training costs, better focus at work by not having to look for a second job, etc.? I would think at least some of the $2m diff would be made up just by reduced hiring/training costs, though it's probably hard to measure that accurately.

These numbers are not much more than a WAG, so perhaps I'm WAY off here...

And... from an article last year

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Gravity had about 120 employees, and they earned a little less than $50,000 on average. He found it would cost about $1.8 million to increase wages to $70,000 in steps over three years. Cutting his own pay would cover much of that, and if the wage hikes made his staff more productive, he figured, the whole move just might work.

=================

So that seemed to be the plan (well, the plan that's made its way in to the media stories)
One of the rare benefits of the antiquated signalling system in the UK, using good old-fashioned analogue tech, lots of wires and relays. I was once shown a bug in the system, that was literally a bug, squashed between two relay contacts.
I can offer you my understanding. I think this way we allow multiple light processes to be created and this should work well with multicore processors.

Overhead you are talking about can only be mental as processes in Elixir are very light. I think compared to other similar languages, at least for me Elixir doesn't require as much overthinking. Now, you could also say that I wasn't working on complex apps with it, so that might be why.

Anyhow, this is my view.