skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Nothing you said is entirely true.

It's interesting that you critique gp's comment for being binary, but you also make an absolutist comment yourself by stating "there's no reason" in:

>But there's no reason that a company paying out 100% of earnings to its employees can't outperform a company paying out less year-over-year. ... it may be better for the company that they leave when you look at things on a 5-year or longer timescale.

Instead of "no reasons", there are several reasons why a company paying out 100% of the profits to employees for 60 months will make it underperform another company that retains some of its earnings. A company can use its retained profits to spend on future expansion, speculative research & development, acquiring a company, etc. In many industry segments, if the company doesn't grow, it becomes irrelevant and dies. (At that point, the jobless employees get 100% of $0 profits.)

I can't think of any example in business history of a company that paid 100% profits to employees and therefore had $0 in retained earnings year-after-year ... outperform its competition.
The discussion of cigarette sales/taxes is clearly a strawman. If you believe that we shouldn't have laws unless we are willing to kill to enforce them, you should be able to defend this argument against a law which the vast majority of people will support. For example, I would not choose to kill someone for driving drunk, but strongly support laws which ban drunk driving and remove the ability to drive from convicted drunk drivers.
True, but the trick is accurately determining up front "what everybody loves most". Oftentimes people don't really know the answer to that for themselves, let alone for anyone else.
I totally agree with you on Southeast Asia beeing hip, but (as an upcoming graduate), it is very hard to find a job there without fluency (or some cases, with total lack of knowledge of the language).
There has to be more to this story, no? Or are you saying it was just random?

What country do you live in?
I actually did that before reading this comment. :)
Ah, there are many different cultures among the people who are born with American citizenship. It's common-sense to me that most of the races have their own culture. (Although, admitting that it's common sense to me makes me wonder why sociology we have to back it up.) A lot of my friends in high school were Chinese-American. They spoke without accent, and most of their families actually came via Taiwan, but their culture and values and family structure were distinctly different. Also, shoes-off in their home!

And even among whites, there are distinct cultures. I was confused why I didn't enjoy living in Massachusetts, until I read this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-see... and it started to make more sense. I've got Borderer roots :)
Personally, I'd love to see some of the operators that F# has make it into ES stage-0 proposals...

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combinedFn = function1 >> function2

etc... Though the last is mostly handled with fat-arrow syntax
Rktnetes brings rkt container engine to Kubernetes
This sounds ridiculous. The car's job should always be to protect the occupant of the vehicle. Can you imagine what would happen to a car company if it was known that the car willfully choose to kill the customer if it meant that multiple other lives would be saved?

Another scenario, imagine you are driving on a freeway but a couple people decide to hop onto the freeway and cross it on foot. Would you rather just run them over or ram your own car and kill yourself just so that 2 people aren't harmed?
Because of the dependency ratio. An inverted age pyramid would wreak havoc in social welfare systems, unless you were able to triple or quadruple labor productivity.

Today we barely have the labor and productivity to assist the elderly, imagine if the situation worsens dramatically.

Sure, there's always the chance that AI and robotics and singularity will change everything and scarcity will be over and so one, but we shouldn't bet our chips on that.
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That 100% depends on the exchange actually. Not all exchanges have priority rules like that. It certainly is the case for a lot of futures markets, but definitely not for many places for Equities, Options, or even FX.
I posted it more for its interest (to me) as a long scientific article from a popular news outlet on a topic I'd never heard about before. It looks like it may be a re-working of this older article :

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20140416-times-arrow-traced-t... and of course the underlying scientific papers:

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/1/013...

http://math.rutgers.edu/~oldstein/papers/TypicalDecayLett03....
Well, sure. And Sweden and Denmark have pretty comparable GDPs to the US, and Finland is notably lower than the US.

What's your narrative here? Is the Norway vs. Sweden difference due to something OTHER than oil? They're very similar countries! If you're seeing the Norway vs. Sweden thing as due to something other than oil, what are you arguing is unique to Norway? If you do agree that Norway's GDP/capita advantage over its neighbors is due to oil, you have to accept that a resource advantage that produces a few thousand dollars/year in direct purchase, basically stimulates AD to the point where the entire economy goes up and snowballs into a few tens of thousands of dollars per year.

To be clear, I don't think that our views are wildly distinct. I'm not a hater of the Nordic countries. But Norway is an outlier from the other Nordics, and the only plausible explanation I can come up with for its outlier status is oil. So I don't think it's a very useful reference point.
Yes, that is choice 2
Let's call that 3.3 Gbps/GHz. Linux can now drive 25 Gbps with a single 4 GHz core, so that's over 6 Gbps/GHz. Given the number of years involved, it's hard to tell how much improvement is due to hardware and how much is software. But I'm not blown away.
I agree with the parent comment of this.

The bay area gets a lot of attention because it's the software capital of the world, and software has these crazy gross margins and rapid life cycles that allow companies to be born, experience explosive growth, make insane profits, (potentially) suffer radical declines, leading to a quick boom or bust. Software companies make great news stories, so the bay area gets a lot of attention, and many talented people who aren't sure where to go decide to move there.

I live there now and work out of coworking spaces where I've met a number of startup founders. Many of them are self-proclaimed visionaries hyped up by VR and AR or IoT. Few of them are as smart as my friends who are getting their Masters and PhD degrees at Duke, Wash U, or Case Western. The most impressive startup I saw in the last year was being made by a self-taught programmer/entrepreneur building his own company out of Colorado Springs.

Beyond just my anecdotal evidence, where do MIT and Harvard graduates go? Where do Georgia Tech, Rice U, John's Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon graduates go? Silicon Valley doesn't take all of their students nor just the top in their class. Some people move to DC, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Austin, NYC, or Denver because they have family or friends there, or because the kind of work in these other cities is more appealing than The Bay.

Apologies for the rant. I realized after writing it that your 'Not really' comment was probably in response to the parent's assertion that companies should hire from outside the bay area, while I took it as 'Not really' in that there are no engineers of the same calibre outside SV.

Regardless, the amount of hubris and hype over the Bay Area is staggering when there are so many equally talented engineers all over the US.
The Surprise at Brexit and the Social Crisis Behind It
Just buy a Tesla and charge it every night :)
Thank you so much for these new features! They make using HN a much better experience.
I've been using HN with JavaScript disabled and it has worked fine until today. Only thing that didn't work for me was search.

But these new features require JS and that's fine with me. Not all JS is evil.
Yes actually we've gotten a surprising number of requests for this
The most terrifying childhood condition you’ve never heard of
What a strange bubble we reside in, where not getting equity in the company you're employed by is considered 'mistreatment'...
Holy hell what an amazing hack. This guy must have spent hundreds of hours on this.
Securing Puppet with Key Rotation
How We Used Bots on Twitter to Get 1750x Cheaper Engagement
You don't even need to look that hard.

Poor eyesight has no adaptive benefit. Yet many, many people need glasses. I guess it's just 'difficult' for our genes to grow a sharp eye focusing system, so they often get it wrong.

The same may be true of homosexuality. So even if there's nothing adaptive about being gay, it keeps happening because sexual tuning in the brain is a hard target to hit.

Homophobia may be an adaptation to this. It makes parents force their children to act straight even if they're gay.
You have a longstanding pattern of abusing HN, including (I believe) with multiple accounts that we've had to ban in the past. We've given you many warnings and requests to stop. Since it seems you can't or won't stop, I'm banning this account as well.
How do you fine someone without knowing the identity? What do you do if they don't pay the fine? What if they continue doing what they are no longer allowed to do without the license?

There are certainly cases where you can punish someone without any cooperation on their side - like no longer giving them some benefits or freezing a bank account - but those scenarios are really far from covering all possible scenarios and you still have to determine the identity at the very least.
Chrome DevTools extension to develop for the visually impaired
It seems to me since babel6, that flow could be a plugin/extension for babel, and the rest of what typescript offers could simply expand on that... I'd love to see a bit of convergence in this space as well.

Then again, I was hoping the same thing with webpack, then we get rollup, etc... it's interesting, though hard to make some choices while staying pragmatic.
That's why there's Secure Developer Training and Security Awareness Training.

Seems like the big concern from everybody here is Indian Malware Apps. To get closer to better security, I think now would be a good time to encourage Google to offer Secure Android Coding Courses too.
Haskell has compile time problems when used in real project (tm) codebase scales and is hard to predict memory or cpu usage due to it's lazy nature sometimes.

I have no idea if elm is any better in that case, but both things make me scared to use it in production systems.
Ask HN: What to do after failing final interviews twice?
I have had two interviews with big companies Google and Amazon. After going to on campus interviews with both companies but only to here the word you are not qualified. I feel like a complete loser.
What an awesome site!

Why didn't you have this in English?!!!! it would have been so much bigger than it was!
I think we really just need to test that down-voting works. But I almost never use down-votes so I'll leave that up to the "crowd".
No, you generally don't get to downvote in HN until your karma is above some threshold that changes occasionally.
But why would we assume not a lot of thought will be given to security? I think it is up to Google to make sure they design the course in a way that emphasizes good security practices.
Yeah, I was thinking of using mysql+nosql. RethinkDb was my main choice, but I'd rather have someone take care of the backend for me like a DAAS, mostly to alleviate the pain of doing a project solo, but compose seems too expensive to use to prototype some ideas.
LLCs and S-Corps are useful for their flow-through taxation. It's not a big deal if you're 1099'ing a contractor running their own business, no?

When I did sidework, the side gigs all 1099'd me.
>which would mean you have about twice the odds of being killed by police in a given interaction than they have of being killed by you

Why would that not be expected? They are both armed and trained. That statistic alone says nothing about the police being the perpetrators of the violence, only the party ending the violence.
Flagging this blatant "blog spam" that basically just links to an article [0] on TechRepublic.

[0]: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/oracles-rising-open-sour...
Never make clever use of undefined in JavaScript, as it will always result in a bug when someone decided to be a good citizen and gives the variable a value at the same time it's declared.

Always be explicit, like var foo=-1; if(foo!=-1) instead of only var foo; if(foo).
It will also help the optimizer
Rates of homelessness:

US: 633782 / 314000000 => 202 homeless per 100,000

Finland: 7877 / 5363000 => 147 homeless per 100,000

Based off of numbers from (YMMV, maybe someone can check my math):

http://www.housingfirst.fi/en/housing_first/homelessness_in_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

https://www.google.com/#q=population+of+finland+in+2010

https://www.google.com/#q=population+of+usa+in+2012
TF2: How to Get Golden Frying Pan
Just because you don't believe in a stationary place doesn't mean you don't have one. Plenty of people may believe in the American Dream but that doesn't mean it's real. Plus even if you don't believe in upward mobility it still doesn't mean you're happy where you are. Shitty conditions are shitty conditions regardless of whether or not you think you can get out of them if that's even possible.
While I love Elm, after the recent release that replaced Signals, it's going to take a long time for me to bet anything with money on it. My toy app didn't have many dependencies, but when so much breaks on upgrading the runtime it's a hard sell.

(Not to disparage the change or the work behind it! I think it was the right call, and again, love the language and community. Just expressing, after the last experience, that I'll wait until 1.0 since the language is still undergoing drastic changes)
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I am happy to add "undown/unvote" to my list of internet words that should have existed before but did not.
This sounds pretty similar to RSS/RPS/RFS in Linux. Granted, that functionality was added more recently and may have even been inspired/copied from Solaris for all I know, but the past is a sunk cost. None of your "back in the day" comments convince me that Solaris today has any advantages over Linux today.
AR is an MMO
Wow, that's amazing, congratulations! Are you retired now?
Sorry I was thinking remote as in outside the US. I suppose handling benefits and payroll across state boundaries can get tricky.
But what is the proportional response to littering? To theft? To selling a too large coke? To braiding hair without a licence? To driving with an expired licence? To smoking pot?

In a world where offenders will readily comply with the punishment, you can just have purely civil enforcement, no need for a special class of sworn officers to deal with it.

This is the point of the essay: law enforcement gets to use physical, ultimately deadly, force, and this is the case everywhere, even if US cops are significantly more trigger-happy than pretty much all their peers.

If you're never comfortable using violence to enforce the law, there is literally no need for it to be a law. There is no point to employ police officers to check on the size of sodas if they are not allowed to initiate force to prevent people from buying and selling them.

On the contrary, if you are comfortable using violence, you have to own that anf accept that ultimately such violence will be deadly.
Just 5400 more days and I'll be able to downvote! What a time to be alive!
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Rents can only increase if the supply is limited compared to the demand. Anything that decreases supply why demand is high will only increase prices. The solution is to either increase supply or decrease demand for housing.
Agreed, I didn't show it, but only have a single reducer handle those actions... I have state.window.{size,position} that keeps those values, that several components can then use for rendering.

I'm still curious as to when/if we may see the likes of aphrodite really take off.
Sorry, I was reading in context to tamana's comment above. I know how the industry works, I was thinking that you were trying to explain more on their point, but I see I was wrong. Thanks.
1 - FINALLY!!!!!
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Right below that quote, it reads:

the scope of government regulation has grown so great

The unfortunately reality is laws are only growing NOT reducing.
>Except that the implication here is that the laws precipitate the use of lethal forc

Which they do by proxy.

Get a simple ticket and don't pay it or show up for court and it can become a bench warrant in which the cops can go arrest you. Serving warrants is a dangerous event, as in some percentage of the time the served fight back violently.

The only power police have is the power of violence.
Sharing Netflix or HBO Go Passwords Is Federal Crime Under 9th Circuit Ruling
Could you share a little more about your transition to Europe from California? I'm interested in doing such a move myself but I'm not sure if I can justify it yet.

Were you working in SF? Where in Europe are you now? Were you making an above average salary?
Just like anything else, the value is what you think others are willing to pay. It's just that for companies, the market is highly illiquid so you don't know exactly how much a company is worth until someone bought it, be it an acquirer or a stock exchange market.

Of course, this won't help you on a practical way, but it helps explain why it's not something with a simple formula.

To value a company, you need to consider what stage they are in. Early on, you are valuing the team more than anything else and there are simplistic formuals like the Scorecard[1] method. For SaaS companies, valuation is sometimes expressed as a multiple (typically 5x) of ARR, but again that depends on the stage and the domain.

But overall, it's what you feel comfortable it is worth.

[1] http://worthworm.com/valuation-methods-spotlight-on-the-scor...
I just upvoted you there because I'm nice like that.
Interesting... looks like they choose to dump the stack inside tail calls.
It's right in the app itself:

"$ minikube start
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Kubernetes is available at https://192.168.99.100:8443."
Id love too see partial classes.. It would be so helpful combined with generated classes. Do anyone know any alternative to partial classes with the same functionality as partials in C#?
Every post should have a summary or background note like this.
lol parking tickets ?
What makes you say Lambda is more expensive than things like EC2?

Obviously lambda is a hammer, not a swiss army knife - you shouldn't shoehorn it into your app just because it's the new tech on the block. But the use case isn't niche at all.

We're using lambda for our service to ingest and process Hearthstone replays. An HTTP POST is sent to the API gateway, this triggers a lambda which parses a 0.5-2MB file, scrapes the data in it and stores data in the db + converts it to another format. The whole process takes 3-6 seconds. Lambda lets us easily scale to dozens of requests per second without having to worry about anything other than the DB server. Our frontend/app servers don't need to be touched.

The alternative would be to provision and manage a lot of EC2 instances to handle the load. We'd have to worry about provisioning them dynamically so that it's economically viable. We'd have to manage the load balancing ourselves. Lambda's been a huge time saver.

PS: Let it be known that Lambda only supports python 2.7, not python 3, and that really frickin sucks. Get your shit together, Amazon.
There is a great deal of information (in studies and research) that shows post-secondary schooling is a good investment for the individual, but that does not mean that increasing the average amount of schooling is good for the country. A number of people are now making the argument that greater 'educational' achievement is mostly just signalling status, intelligence, socialization, and work ethic, not actually teaching people anything useful. If this view is correct, increasing the amount of education that the average citizen receives is just wasting their time (as most people do not enjoy their time in class), at great expense to them and the average taxpayer.[1]

[1] http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2014/02/why_the_college....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)
> The discussion of cigarette sales/taxes is clearly a strawman.

I'd suggest that Eric Garner's case very explicitly proves otherwise.
Rails Webconsole DNS Rebinding
Now put that in a loop to see if they have any memory leaks :)
Lots of countries don't have a literal war on drugs. Lots of countries don't have racials issues stemming from slavery. But what is amazing is those countries that do have higher levels of violence.
I use a Brother multifunction laser printer that comes with a sheet feeder and the ability to scan both sides. It will also send the resulting JPG/PDF/TIFF directly to a bunch of different cloud file storage providers. It's really handy.
Are you trolling?

"Strawman", really? Are you not aware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner?

> I would not choose to kill someone for driving drunk

You have completely missed the point of OP; it's not the punishment for the crime which results in death, but the enforcement of the law.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/serverless.html
It is conjecture, because the most parsimonious position is a form of Platonism, of which the mathematics describing our world is but one structure in the mathematical universe.

Even if you wanted to subscribe to some form of mathematical naturalism, that still doesn't support your point that math that doesn't appear to have a natural analogue, doesn't physically exist. We thought this of many prior mathematical abstractions, like complex numbers and non-euclidean geometry, and they are both now indispendensible tools for describing reality as we know it.
Just for the record: $70k is still an amazing salary for São Paulo. Actually, you can find good enough developers for half of that.
What I'm implying is that the Trolley Car Dilemma is a toy example that is very divorced from actual life, which makes consequentialism seem more compelling than other examples closer to implementable policy do.

The fundamental conceit that you can add and subtract lives, or happiness, or the like as though they were values in a formula is core to consequentialism, and I don't think that people are actually willing to follow through with the implications of that when it stops being at a safe remove.

I don't understand the bright line you're drawing between "murder someone by pointing a runaway trolley that would otherwise absolutely miss them in their direction" and "murder someone by harvesting their organs."

You can (and, I'd argue, should) believe that air bags are a good idea without believing that the reason that air bags are a good idea is that you can add and subtract lives. For example, you could say, "If YOU get into an accident, it is far more likely that an airbag will save you than it will kill you," which is a different thing than saying, "An air bag will kill YOU, but it will save two other people." And there are many other moral theories which would suggest that air bags are good for reasons other than that "I killed Bob but saved Alice and Charlie" is a generalizable rule for moral good.
Haha no, I'm building https://code.university in Berlin :)