skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how it works for markets but not individual products.

Cellular phones started with professionals, then prosumer, then consumer. The iPhone followed that track only because the market was significant in all areas, but it's worth noting they don't really have a "pro" phone.

Likewise, a lot of their pro gear is really expensive to engineer and the sales are thin. They'd rather make prosumer and consumer gear that they can crank out in volume.

Can't blame them, really. The entire PC market is imploding, so it's a lost cause to try and carve out new market share when everything's going to hell.
The difference is the space of time between experiences.

I'm a "lover of serious music" and I do have some favorite albums that I come back to every now and then. But I don't listen to the same song in a constant loop on repeat. That would be dreadfully boring.

Similarly, most people would not enjoy a song consisting solely of a single measure repeated verbatim over and over again. Even the most repetitive music has some variation.
Artificial intelligence writes ‘perfect’ horror script, seeks crowdfunding
In efficient markets, like sports teams, even average team members often make more than the manager (or coach). This also happens in some financial organizations that reward profit and loss on individual levels (it's very rare, and not as efficient as sports teams).

It's not particularly interesting to observe that outside of efficient businesses, managerial layers have a lot of room for rent seeking to ensure manager pay is higher than team contributor pay.

It's more interesting to try to understand why it persists, and what can be done to make employment more efficient in general. Or at least help people see which employers / fields are relatively more or less efficient, so you can decide if being paid way less than someone demonstrably reducing productivity (it happens with a lot of managers) is an ok tradeoff for you.

You can be sure it's a whole lot of Hansonian status signaling. For example, the well-documented resistance of project leaders to agree to be paid according to prediction markets about the expected project outcomes, delivery deadlines, etc. Even when experiments with such things led to better project outcomes, the managers then refused to agree to use the idea again or even to be part of, owing largely to the fact that their ability to manipulate things politically, and thus ensure higher pay regardless of the measured outcomes, was removed by the function of the prediction market. Without that angle to politically manipulate, they outright refused to work!
I've seen enough YouTube videos of battery fires that those things freak me out. It's like having a stick of dynamite laying around with a smoldering fuse.
1) Improving yields is exactly what you don't want to do if you want to bolster local agriculture. We've learned this lesson multiple times over the past 50 years, from Africa to Asia. If you want to address famines, you're either going to do so by fixing the logistics problem OR you need to inflate prices through trade barriers to induce large-scale, economically viable domestic farming. Improving yields only shifts more agriculture to nations like the U.S., Europe, Brazil, and China, because by reducing labor requirements and shifting to technology and logistics those nations have a comparative advantage over every other country.

2) There are plenty of insane farmers. Just sayin'. And that's not a bad thing, per se. See #1. The core problem is that too much centralization can lead to unstable outcomes; it pays to subsidize some amount of economic diversity.
You were a not-great person to deal with in this interaction, I shouldn't have to hand-feed you information like this. Do some research next time.
Microsoft's first "Surface" was in fact literally a table.
> Somewhere in between is novelty

Most 12-bar blues use a similar chord progression but have different melodies. Even the same song performed by two different musicians will sound different enough to be perceived as "novel".
I'm generally sympathetic to descriptivism, but I encourage people to stick to prescriptivist rules in situations where departing from them would lead to reputational damage. (Then again, it's probably worse to be branded a pedant...)

Of course this situation is manifestly unfair to ESL speakers, or anyone whose lack of familiarity with formal English leads to misconceptions about their intelligence.
3/4 of nothing.
And then the Russians might control our love lives!
Yes, there is a lot of reading involved. Educational sources, bug reports, commit messages, logs, documentation and code itself, these all require reading and are things you have to do multiple times a day.

As far as having a hard time reading, could you be more specific? I'm a very slow reader myself (can listen to an audiobook faster than I can read the same book) and it's not something that's ever worried me professionally.
Why are all the DNC hack related threads on HN being censored?

edit: threads, not threats
You will need to break out your sales skills and tap the network you just mentioned.

On paper, having built stuff for YC startups sounds like you are plugged into an amazing network. So it is a balance of being direct "hey we are taking on new clients!", and a balance of going to events and being more indirect and observant.

Go to events, go to trade shows, be social, make yourself known, write blog articles under the name of your group that they can find you under, and if you can manage it publish some open source code.

All of this sounds way easier and like less time investment than it really is sadly, but it will build your reputation.

But in summary, the consulting gig requires a healthy portion of creative sales skills and other skills, so have fun practicing them all in addition to tech skills.

good luck!
The SNI only has the host, not the complete url.
I'm not sure making more is expected. In my other comment I mentioned e.g. sports teams or quant trading as examples where even average performing subordinates can make more than their managers.

But yes, the decoupling of manager pay (fast growing) from subordinate pay (slow growing) is frightening. I don't see any evidence that the world gets more value from the activity of management now than previously, and in fact I see tons of evidence, say even just Moral Mazes to start, that managers actively destroy value for society in many cases.
This might be one of the few signs that Apple is giving out that it is moving more into the software field.
Only people who have never made music think in that way.
It's related to Postel's Law: you can be as prescriptivist as you like for your personal writing, just don't ding other people for being descriptivist, or a second-language speaker.
I'm guilty of jumping on the flat button band wagon a few years ago. I manage an internal application ui team at a pretty big company and despite their having less affordance than before, there hasn't been complaints.

Regardless, for our new version of UI patterns, I'm bringing back the rounded corners. Guess what? Pages are already looking more usable, and frankly easier to design.

It takes a very talented designer to create a beautiful looking page using flat, minimal motifs. And truth be told, most non-designers don't share the same aesthetics.

But if you throw in rounded corners and very subtle gradients and shadows... and all of a sudden, designing a good looking page is much easier.

And frankly, that's what I need in pressure cooker enterprise environment.
On Consensus and Humming in the IETF [1]

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282
Meetup.com

Find tech events in Manhattan/Brooklyn and show up for the free food and soak up as much as you can from the people giving talks.

You'll meet people who might be hiring, or maybe their company is hiring. And even if you don't, you'll be learning cool shit and eating free food!
I think these musical patterns discovered by the brain are multi-dimensional. The music is just a serialization of this multi-dimensional object, possessing various kinds of symmetries at different levels. It's as if a complex model was presented piece by piece, allowing the receiver to reassemble it. When the multi-dimensional structure was recovered, there is a feeling of "musical" pleasure. Every note is integrated with the other notes, has it's place in this structure its significance to us emerges by its relation to the whole structure.

The ability to enjoy music is related to how good the high-dimensional reconstruction is. A listener who has no experience with a genre might not perceive subtle symmetries and higher order patterns, thus, it's just some kind of noise. The more she listens, the more her musical "vocabulary" and ability to perceive these symmetries increase. Developing taste for it is developing ability to represent it fully as it is, a form of integrated information.
> To ignore that some people are harmed by innovation is as silly as pretending that all innovation is a positive.

You know who really got hammered by innovation? Tobacco companies.

The fact that some people are harmed by innovation doesn't mean we shouldn't ignore them.
Last I checked nobody used contactless payments in the first place.
Well, Obama is pretty incompetent. So don't expect anything from him. And if Hillary were the President, she would probably escalate it into something even worst, with her war-hawk personality.

It's like when North Korea hacked Sony. What did Obama do? Nothing. What else was the United States suppose to do? Drop a nuke on them?
If that's all they're getting out of their education, then they've squandered it.
What the spate of acquisitions in India really means
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Machine Learning! Neural Networks! Serverless! </hype>

But all hype has an element of truth. A sibling comment linked the Infoworld article (edit: now deleted, here it is [1]), it has some good points (binary protocols, IoT, WebAssembly), but is missing Machine Learning and other pattern-recognition-y, data analysis-flavored things and under the 'AI' umbrella, as a matured version of when we used to talk about 'Big Data'.

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/3022874/application-develop...
You do make some convincing arguments. I think, though, that you may be overlooking that it's not just ancillary participants that spend man hours on intellectual property matters. In a broad sense, artists of all kinds (that is, the authors of the copyrighted works) do the same thing. It seems undeniable that if it isn't possible to make a living as an artist or author, we'll have a lot less art to consume as a society. So even accepting your arguments, the decision to pirate a given piece of content is not one that is unambiguously virtuous.

I apologize for being rude earlier. I remember once feeling very self-righteous about my own disregard for copyright, and as my feelings have now switched to the opposite side of the issue I think I may have projected my own hang-ups onto you. It's a complicated topic, and I certainly don't think that always complying with copyright law makes anyone a saint either.
> You just rent colo and slap hypervisors in.

For most clients I work with (who often have this "oh but shouldn't we use AWS, they're the best right?" attitude) even a few rented VPS (i.e. on shared hardware) is sufficient.

I'm a big fan of the way some providers like Rimu allow more control, which helps with scaling up - by default most customers just use one or more Xen VM's on shared physical hosts, but you have the option to rent dedicated hardware (either existing stock, or custom orders), and then you can run one or more VMs - without noisy neighbour concerns.

The "single vm on a host" seems weird to most people at first, until you realise that it allows you to migrate the VM between physical hosts.

Sure, the new hotness is servers-as-cattle and we should just provision a new instance, but that doesn't always work for smaller outfits.
Really? In Canada, almost everyone uses them and almost everywhere supports them
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It's a very odd mix, pitching user freedom with "proprietary engine code" as the example of data that is protected.
It's interesting reading about chip+pin and contactless payments in the US - in Australia 95%+ of transactions are chip+pin, and 70% of that (almost all transactions under $100) are contactless.

The system isn't perfect, and anecdotal stories from LEOs indicate fraud has risen due to the low friction of contactless transactions, but obviously it's not too big a problem for the banks to wear (as all fraudulent contactless transactions are the bank's problem, not the card owner's).
This ML thread's only real argument is that some OS/Kernels may not support pread/pwrite. The readahead argument makes little to no sense IMO. Unless there are too many uses of random access IO in the codebase, they should use pread and friends if available there. Especially considering most people run it on Linux not some exotic OS nowadays.
I can easily imagine that state hackers in Russia would want to penetrate the DNC. It's full of great political information on one of their rivals.

Releasing it? I'm not sure if that is traditional spy craft.

Julian Assange has hinted that the WikiLeaks dump was originally sourced from an insider.

It's not impossible that BOTH narratives are true.

Conspiracy theories:

I'm not entirely convinced that it was Russia. They point to an IP address that is a proxy server in Russia. If it was Russia, wouldn't they put the proxy server in another jurisdiction to throw people off the trail?
It's frustrating how the US is the only country I travel to where I cannot use my non American NFC cards. Half the terminals I encounter really only accept apple pay or a form thereof.
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Most of my friends use Apple pay in cabs in New York and in Whole Foods.
From the article:

> Apple hasn’t revealed exact volume or usage numbers

> without a baseline usage number, it’s impossible know whether the current volume is significant.
I think a better market to look at for contactless payments is Australia. Over here we use them for everything. Apple pay has just started rolling out and pretty much 95% of places I've shopped/eaten at support it. If you're curious about adoption rate, it's a good case study as there's an existing contactless credit card system already in place.
Right. The article author seems to have re-invented steganography.

The hard problem is finding a way to encode data in video in a way that will survive recompression, resizing, or other video processing. The watermarking people have struggled with this for years. There are various spread-spectrum like schemes with good noise immunity that can do this.

YouTube has an ongoing battle between the copyright-infringement identification system and versions of audio and video modified to evade it.
The US Chip + Signature system is 1000x worse than the Chip + Pin systems I've experienced in any other contry
Here in Switzerland, nearly every terminal supports contactless payments and Apple Pay has launched ~1 month ago.

Yet, next to nobody uses it because it's generally not available even though it has officially launched: Nearly all of the banks here are boycotting it and are pushing their own mobile payment startup [1] which also has much worse usability and was initially launched by the Swiss post, a company that still thinks that a 4 digit pin on their debit card is good enough.

1) https://www.twint.ch/en/
Apple Pay’s Big Drop
Everything up to 1985 (I think?) is available to subscribers:

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser

There is even OCR done on the articles so you can do search.
I work on similar projects at Google, so I can say with certainty that this is not just about candy. YouTube makes up a sizable portion of Google's business. Providing 360 capture devices like this (ours is called Jump) allows people to create new content for YouTube, which can then be monetized.

Building cool VR hardware and software is not as distant from Google's and Facebook's core businesses as you believe. Watching 360 videos with 3D audio isn't necessarily the height of human experience, but it's a far cry from "pulling levers in a virtual casino".
I'm not going to sign up because their marketing pitch for making the engine "free[sic]" doesn't specify if they mean it is actually free software or just gratis + some proprietary source code you get a copy of.

Do you know which is the case? My hunch is it's probably the latter because they ask for royalties.
At this point it's amazing the number of terminals with chip capabilities which aren't even enabled
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Also very widely in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Some American visitors were recently surprised when I said interbank transfers clear within the hour. The environment in the US is quite different to the rest of the world.
The discussion of this post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12169891
And how many people work on that project? 10? 100? 200 people?
That's awesome and great work.

I know it's dumb that the thing holding me back from OCaml is the syntax, but after giving up on an Om project I've come to accept js will always be the greatest common denominator.
It's definitely a US thing. Here in Australia, everyone hardly uses Apple Pay and all major banks have their own cards/app that does NFC payments.

I find it really strange that it is not widely adopted in the US since it removes a lot of friction when it comes to paying for stuff ergo encourages more business. I.e. my usual coffee joint was always packed in the mornings and since they adopted NFC payments a few years back, I noticed the usual bottleneck queue of people paying at the cashier is significantly less unless someone starts jiggling for coins.
You're right. Usage in the U.S. is falling [1] and low compared to other markets, e.g. the U.K. and Canada [2].

[1] "[As of March 2016] only 3.5 percent of eligible transactions for those consumers are via Apple Pay, down from 5.9 percent in March of 2015 and 4.6 percent in October. Eligible transactions are those where the consumer has the right phone and merchants have the right enabling POS technology — that is the intersection of consumers with iPhone 6/6S’s and merchants with contactless terminals."

http://www.pymnts.com/apple-pay-tracker/2016/apple-pays-big-...

[2] http://www.pymnts.com/nfc/2016/uk-lessons-for-us-mobile-paym...
Thanks buddy. People like you are keeping this community healty

Cheers!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159844
The same cert is how this should be handled. EV is /fine/ but is not practical for people that don't want to verify their legal identity (they just want to verify that they are the authorised source for x.com and y.onion).
> The flipside of course is that if you're on any kind of Linux, even getting your font rendering to something like palatable can be all manner of obnoxious

Have you tried Infinality on Linux?

http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/better-font-rendering-in-linu...
Yeah, but I see people using cards contactlessly (oof..) but rarely using their phone, and when I do it seems clunky and awkward...
Many, and many more on similarly interesting projects. All I can say is that ~nobody writes PHP :)
I think the counter point is Watson's application to healthcare:

http://www.ibm.com/watson/health/

Your point is valid though about there being silos of industries that don't have a lot of data, or the data not being accessible.

I think a great example of this is in Agricultural Tech. There is just incredible amounts of data that is totally siloed and fractured. But if you pay attention Google Ventures is right there, ready to fund or acquire whatever is happening in the space.
I kept my Australian bank issued Visa card for a while when I first moved to Thailand, and used it while we were getting stuff set up locally.

Even though it's never presented locally, with that card cashiers would often get the "sign or pin" prompt on the terminal, and then ask me (or gesture if their English wasn't great), and I'd usually pick pin, which would then produce a slip with "No signature required" printed, which they would then insist I sign.

Just in the last few months I've noticed more contactless terminals at larger stores (particularly the nation-wide chains) but I can't imagine what confusing unnecessary process they'll end up using for that...
For those not getting the reference, "senpai" is a Japanese honorific used to address one's upper classman in school.

A common trope in Japanese medium is that a character will have a crush on a senpai (equivalent to a prefect or hall monitor in that context), only for them to be utterly oblivious to it.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SempaiKohai

This is a witty paper, as other commenters are noting.
I'm not sure that paying (US) taxes is a good example. The effort required to buy some virtual currency is insignificant compared to the effort required to file a tax return.
> If it was Russia, wouldn't they put the proxy server in another jurisdiction to throw people off the trail?

Maybe. Or maybe they don't care, because they expect a Trump administration would be lenient on them for some reason.
Doing that already with Scala. But not sure if it's cutting edge. It's actually older than programming itself :)
Can't they simply use the least significant bit from each color channel to carry data? I think a single bit flip would change colors by a factor of 1/128, indetectable for the eye. Of course, use compression, encryption and redundancy too.
Less has always been used in English with counting nouns.

There has always been bad grammar too. Also forms that were once fully correct can become incorrect. I try (with mixed success) to stick with whatever pedantic people have claimed was the rule for the last 100 years or so.

Using "less" instead of "fewer" is not very damaging. But when style guides consistently say "you can do this, or that, it's up to you" then the language just becomes more ambiguous and opaque than it already is.

A good example is allowing "phenomena" as a singular. This just creates ambiguity. Now if people had started to use "phenomenons" as a plural, there might be a reason to rubber-stamp it.
I bet your proof is truly marvellous, though.
Wars, elections, terrorism have always existed, and if by "elections" you mean Trump, business in general would not care (of course, some businesses may benefit more from this or that candidate). Business has been and is being done regardless of politics for ages. The guy who organized the already heavily ailing GDR (East Germany) another 5 billion DM credit in 1983 was the most right-wing party head of Germany at the time - the political differences between the players can hardly be any more extreme. Terrorism has in Europe has been much higher in previous decades - Germany, Spain, Britain (and I may forget a few other countries) all had their own very active domestic terrorists.

What's the use of pointing to negative interest rates - if you can't make money with the business you'd always lose even more. Same reason why pointing to tax rates is disingenuous except for special cases - either a business makes sense or it doesn't. If you don't show a profit tax levels there's no need to worry about tax levels. Same goes for your example, if the business does not seem viable what use is it to point to an overall difficult situation, should you continue investing into what you think is a bad business just because of that?