skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're just trading one arbitrary thing for another, IMO, but what's worse is you are now abusing the URL specification for the HTTP(S) protocol, so nobody can use existing HTTP URL libraries.

You could easily say everything before either ? or ; always refers to a database, and use a query parameter or a semicolon to delineate a dataset. Or you resource paths:

Address a dataset:

http://demo.noms.io/?dataset=cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections/raw
http://demo.noms.io/;cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections/raw
http://demo.noms.io/dataset/cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections/raw

Address database (catalog):

http://demo.noms.io/database/cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections
http://demo.noms.io/catalog/cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections

Address dataset in that database:

http://demo.noms.io/database/cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections;raw
http://demo.noms.io/database/cli-tour/sf-fire-inspections?dataset=raw
I remember the days of Firefox 2 and it was consuming even a bit more than that, which was a disaster if you compare the amount of RAM available back then (And I'm not even talking about speed here).
Calling 'a spade - a spade.'
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Companies don't always have the same rights as people other wise companies would be allowed second amendment rights
GM Just Sold Its 100,000th Chevy Volt
Sorry, but the NSPE has no say on the definition of what an "engineer" is or isn't.

I mean, they say so as much:

> "What makes a PE different from an engineer?"

They're talking about a specific type of certification, not what an engineer is or isn't.
I'd love to see an estimation of NetFlix for running the same infrastructure on GCE.

All the instances are cheaper and faster.

The networking is substantially faster, especially on smaller instances (I can imagine they have a lot of network IO given their business).

No more reserved instances to manage. The discount is automatic on GCE when instances ran 24/24 for the month. (Reserved instances are a management nightmare when you have many servers, you can actually loose money).

Replace all spot instances with the equivalent on GCE, which has fix pricing (about 70% discount) and is more dependable. (I imagine the core video business is extremely spot friendly).
When I wrote my book, I intentionally left a few bricks lying around in it, so that I could make them look like foreshadowing later on. Really, I have no idea what they will connect to, just that they're not connected to anything right now.

Several of the loose ends are already planned to connect to books 2, 3, and the (presumptively) conclusive book 4, but there are others that I just threw in as an investment that might pay off later. But no reader would know for sure whether any given loose end is a forward link or just a brick, until the series is pinched off and it's still left hanging.
I don't know how much I would pay for this, but it would be more than zero dollars.
Apple now licensing OpenTV streaming technologies, ends worldwide litigation
I am at a higher end of market salary range and when I tell potential recruiters my expectations and my previous salary they take my desires into account but ask for documentation.

There was a discussion here on HN a couple months ago that this approach is common in such cases.
To put it in simpler terms, if an employee creates $100 in value but only costs $10, competitors will line up to outbid that $10 to poach that employee.
I've read a fair amount online about ibogaine, derived from iboga root, as a treatment for addiction, and opiate addiction in particular. It doesn't seem to be very well-known, but everything I've read makes it seem like a miracle cure. It is a schedule 1 psychedelic in the US, but there are apparently clinics/retreats in Mexico and Canada where it is used to treat addiction.

Reportedly, withdrawal symptoms immediately begin to subside when the trip hits and then disappear completely, never to return. Cravings don't return either. The success rate is incredible--one study I read about from ~2011 followed up with its participants, and 30/30 were still not using, and they and their partners reported a much higher quality of life. All from a single six-hour trip (though it seems like these places want people to hang out for a week or so afterward, too).

When I say "miracle cure" and "incredible" I mean them in the superlative sense, but these kinds of claims also make me suspicious because I'd expect to hear more noise about them if they worked as well as advertised. So consider this post both a plea to share more info if anyone has it, either for or against, as well as a jumping-off point for further research for anyone who is personally or knows someone who is suffering from an addiction. On the one hand, it sounds too good to be true, but on the other hand, psychedelics are so demonized that I could believe the word just hasn't gotten out yet. (After all, clinical LSD treatment showed a lot of promise in curing/greatly reducing alcohol addiction 50 years ago, among a host of other things, but you wouldn't know it unless you go looking yourself.)
>We didn’t have a product roadmap outside of these two weeks and every product meeting we would start from scratch with the new goal, new analytics data from our last two weeks, and also often new insights from in-person user testing, which we tried to do once a month.

Would it help to have some milestones a few months out or something? Do people really operate with zero goals/milestones other than the measurables of the current 1-2 week sprint? Does this work for a team to operate like this for several years? How do you plan for larger-scale product changes, new products, or tech architecture implementations/changes?
Humans dam lots of small streams too for agricultural and recreational uses. They don't get much news, but if you look at aerial surveys of places where people live you will see lots of small dams.
Couldn't agree more with the characterization of this article as sensationalist. Also, why post this to a forum such as Hacker News? If I wanted to read "news" of this nature, I'd go to Fox or Yahoo!
My expectation is that more and more apps will push for user authentication, at which time they will send some sort of hashed identifier to any number of cookie onboarding services that can then identify the user for ad networks (and pay the game owner a CPM rate based on successfully matched IDs).

A large part of the reason Google has been pushing to search while signed in over the past few years has been related to cross-device tracking and attribution.

For those that are not familiar with the problem advertisers face here... In short, if someone sees/clicks an ad on one device, and then converts on another, most of the time that tracking is lost unless you have the right tech setup and are passing some sort of unique identifier. This can have the effect of causing mobile or tablet traffic to look like it doesn't perform, just as an example. That in turn impacts budgeting and optimization decisions that could cause an advertiser to shoot themselves in the foot due to reporting limitations. Frequency capping is also important. Advertisers don't want to show more ads than they need to, and without the ability to identify a device, they can't set that limit, so you might see the same ad for the same advertiser nonstop.

Not arguing whether more tracking and ads are good or not as everyone has their own opinions there, but the technical challenge from an advertising and analytics standpoint is a tough and interesting one.
Not always I fired the last recruiter who tried that and that organisation is still in my little black book as never use"
So the CxOs get no credit for vision?

Basically you're saying that a developer's worth is tied to the worth of the company; that the same developer who works at a multimillion dollar company is worth millions, but if they then move to a startup that is struggling and then fails, they are only worth tens of thousands (or even zero).

If developers were paid relative to what the company was earning, there wouldn't even be a 'startup scene'.
Yes, maybe, but preceded by a lot of specific choices.
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Thanks, I'll have a look. But I'm slightly intimidated by new complex languages such as Haskell...
Executions also have symbolic value and all sorts of people have been buried with metal who were not human sacrifices.

> Prisoners are just worthless people that you want to get rid of.

That's not always true. Sometimes prisoners are important people you want to set an example of. These aren't the first ancient skeletons with iron shackles archeologists have found and the other ones (China, Rome, etc.) certainly aren't all human sacrifices.
Did you not think of sandboxing?
Economic theory mumbo jumbo is a red herring. It's all about risk. You "pay" a premium for an FTE position where you get paid every two weeks, get someone to deal with your benefits and pay your taxes.

If you create $1M of value, that's fine, but the check for that value may not arrive for a year -- or ever. But you still get paid. Engineers always talk about the money they save or value they create, but most of the savings are fixing mistakes and the value usually cannot be attributed to specific people.

If you want to get paid what you're "worth", you need to be at risk. Either work for yourself or work a gig where you get paid directly for outcomes like a salesman.
> If there exist jobs that produce $1MM in value but that have a going rate of 200k, then there should be more of those jobs: either the company doing the work should expand, or it should have competitors.

> in a well functioning market

All these big California technology firms argue to shareholders that their network effects create a "moat" (they prefer you not to call it a "natural monopoly"), and that this is exactly why their revenues are disproportionate to their spending/hiring.

I think your argument should be played backwards: the large-cap CA technology industry is not a "well functioning market" because everyone's just seeking natural monopolies--and sometimes capturing them.
The statistics are interesting, but they kind of miss the GGP's point. Decriminalization is not legalization. If you just decriminalize, drug users still have to buy their drugs from sketchy black-market suppliers. That's very dangerous compared to buying from a legal, regulated industry. For example, alcohol is predictable and pure today but in the prohibition era, when all suppliers were criminals, it wasn't [1][2].

[1] http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,288...
[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
The study was limited to looking for inefficient Dyson spheres that leaked a lot of energy in the infrared. Efficient Dyson spheres would be emitting at just above the cosmic microwave background level and would thus be undetectable.
The bottom line of the settlement is:

1. You still can't load openwrt etc to TP-Link routers

2. TP-Link needs to do something (e.g. lock down their routers not to allow third party firmware like openwrt) to make sure nobody can increase Wifi output power above the permitted threshold

3. TP-Link have agreed to investigate ways of locking down their routers that don't block openwrt etc, but only so long as this doesn't force them to use chipsets capable of enforcing the restriction at the hardware level (because that would be expensive).
If there exist jobs that produce $1MM in value but that have a going rate of 200k, then there should be more of those jobs

This is true generally, but I think it doesn't apply in context. Tech has saturated the existing market, there is no demand to be satisfied for more tech. Of course, the industry will continue to grow, but only because the very nature of tech is to innovate. Growth in tech doesn't come from creating new supply to fill an ever-growing demand, it comes from innovating and creating new demand. That means that the growth of tech is bound to the rate of scientific progress, of investor's wallets and of cultural change. You can't keep hiring more and more 200k developers to make more millions, because there's no one left to pay more millions.

The parent, slg, was right in their analysis except for one point: employers have to compete on salary between each other, but they also have to compete against the engineer's opportunity to start their own company, which would let them earn directly in proportion to the value they produce. Engineers' salaries are therefore related to the level of risk and difficulty of entrepeneurship. The easier it becomes to start a startup (controlling for the expected returns of starting a startup), the more employers will pay their engineers.
Yes, because they are reading hackernews and will see your comment. You go arm chair hero!
Inline asm is still unstable, yes.
> Frankly, virtually everyone I've known who ended up in drug 'hell' did start with pot

Funny, everyone I've known who ended up in drug "hell" started with either tobacco or alcohol. Which means just as much nothing as yours...

> so while correlation does not equal causation, the belief or concern it's a gateway drug really should not be mocked.

Anecdote ("virtually everyone I've known...") doesn't equal meaningful correlation in the general population, much less causation.

And "people who end up in drug hell are likely to have used X drug in the past" is the wrong correlation, anyway, to support "dangerous gateway drug" claims (even leaving aside the need to move from correlation to causation.) You really want "people who use X drug are likely to go on to end up in drug hell".
>If I own a book, I can do anything I want to it.

Unless it's for fair use, you can't photocopy your textbook, for example. I think you may just be learning about the nuances of intellectual property for the first time.
That looks mostly like danger to corn.
Take a look at a system called Fiasco. It's a gm-less system designed around chaotic stories (not what you've got, but go with me). The concept is that you have playsets (objects, locations, types of relationships). You play out a game in the style of a movie like Fargo, where everything goes wrong. Players work together to generate the story. Each taking turns to setup or resolve scenes. Very character interaction and relationship focused.

Now, I haven't done this yet, but I want to take Fiasco and create less hostile games. The format is good for this. In your case, you could give people the characters from your story, give them a location and known relationships. Give them a goal (escape the cannibals, reach the town within a week before running out of food, etc.). Then let them play with the scenario. Your players would then be bringing the characters to life. Perhaps not directly mimicking the story that you had intended, because it's more freeform and player driven, but you can maybe get an idea for how your characters actually are as people.

Fiasco = Improv RPG. That's my way of describing it, at least. The rules as written are around tragic, horrible things happening to flawed people (literally, at the end of the game you roll your dice to determine your fate: worse than death, dead, in prison or similar, etc.; then you create a story to explain that fate, maybe you died in the game, maybe you died after when someone else came after you for revenge).

But I have a strong feeling that this could be converted into something less tragedy focused, if you can get player buy-in.
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It's evil to hinder development for other platforms (extend + extinguish part).
Thank you for sharing his story and I'm sorry for your loss.
> You cannot have 2x margins and claim your goals are idealistic.

I think that's very short sighted. If your goal actually requires a lot of resources then theoretically amassing a lot of money, or getting a lot of investor goodwill through making them a lot of money may be a way to go about it.

There may be completely different strategies required for acting on different timescales. If your plan is to achieve something in a year or two, the path may be fairly obvious to those looking on. If you are working on a timescale of decades, it may be much harder to see the plan. The quickest way between two points may be a straight line, but that doesn't mean that's the most likely way to succeed.

Now, for how this applies to Musk and Tesla, he's been very forthcoming about his eventual goals. For Tesla in the medium term, that's to prove the technology through a sports car (done), prove the automation and assembly through a factory (done), and to use this to build cars at scale and offer them much cheaper (a promise yet to be delivered on). It's not hard to see how high margins could have been useful in these prior steps. What remains to be seen is whether he actually follows through on the promise. In any case, I don't see any reason why current margins prevent an altruistic goal.
Same! In my case, i only started noticing tinnitus after a month or so of lots of stretching and exercises to relieve neck/shoulder pain, and i can even make it go away temporarily by tapping the back of my head.

Tinnitus is definitely muscle related for lots of us I suppose.
Or you can just get your non-competes redlined. I did it at literally every job I worked at after my first out of college (and that non-compete was "travel companies", BFD).
I wrote a book called The Final Six Days. It is a full length novel about 438 pages. Note that I am a software engineer by trade and not a writer, but I took a stab at it since I've always wanted to write a book.

Here are my takeaways:

1. If took me 8 months from idea to published novel (self-published on Amazon).

2. I used a variation of the snowflake method, as my analytical and natural tendency to architect solutions was a good fit for me. The process was: paragraph, outline (by chapter), short story.

3. Writing the book itself is fun and mind stimulating, it only took me 2 months (about an average of 2 hours per day). It was my favorite part of the process.

4. Editing took me 4 months, and it was the most painful, dreadful, unstimulating, and daunting task I ever had to do. Imagine writing code for months, then self-QA'ing your code. Yes, it's that bad. Hire someone (even a spouse or loved-one) to help you.

5. You will find when you go from short story to full story, your story will mutate into something far more beautiful and deeper than you can imagine. It's because when you write continuously without stopping, ideas just flow out from your subconscious.

6. No matter how many times you read your own novel, you will never, ever, ever find every possible mistake, syntax (i.e. misspelling, misused word, etc), or otherwise. Get a pro to help you.

7. Every reader you invite to read your draft will inevitably come back with a ton of feedback, much of it negative (and unnecessarily nitpicky). Ignore most of it. Write the novel you want to write.

8. No matter what, don't give up. If you get writer's block just have a beer, and come back to it tomorrow.

9. Have your cover professionally designed. Yes, a cover does matter.

Bonus: I read a book called Writing the Breakout Novel that was a huge help, perfect for an engineering mind. It's very technical in nature and deals with ensuring each chapter has enough intrigue. It also takes about character development, POV, etc. I rewrote many areas after that. Everyone I know who read my book has done so from beginning to end so I did something right.

I planned on writing an article on Medium at some point getting into more details about the process, specifically from an engineering point of view.

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Days-Time-Crossers-Book-ebook/d...
Porn and hookup apps have commodified sex to the point where it isn't necessarily as liberating or stimulating as it once was.

That being said, I'd be interested in seeing this broken down geographically. I live in a big east coast city and let me assure millennials are having a lot of sex.
Off the top of my head: git can only use sha1 which makes it unsuitable for any use case where you need to cryptographically verify the origin of data (so far nobody was able to tell me definitely how secure git signed commits and tags really are).
Just bought a copy for the Kindle. Looking forward to reading it.
This is a really compelling vision but I've always wondered how one stays relevant in this scenario. Science is a conversation and it is really hard to avoid becoming an equivalent of a babbling madman standing on a soapbox when doing research on your own terms in your own garage.
As I mentioned in previous comment - companies would do this in case they really want a candidate but feel that previous compensation is somewhat above the market. They OK to pay market rate (if you can prove that) but are weary that a candidate employs the strategy suggested by the parent comment. I this case showing proof of previous compensation usually helps with negotiations.
You have to postulate that all civilisations fail to spreed, not just some. On the economics once you can make the first von Neumann probe the cost of taking over the universe is zero.
I would like to read that article. :)
Copyright is a limitation on distributing a work, not on receiving one. Copyright has no bearing on me after I get a work, as long as I don't distribute it to anyone else.
Good job man.
As a user who hasn't yet developed a lot of trust with most adtech companies in the mobile space today, I'm happy to see this. (By not yet developing trust, I mean across several fronts: their security rigor, their concern for end user privacy, their business practices and ethics broadly, etc. Would be happy for companies in the space to prove themselves out on these fronts, but it hasn't happened broadly yet, imo.)

This will cause some hacks in the industry, though. We might see a resurgence of device fingerprinting within apps, and it might lead to an increase brand-like advertising vs pure performance marketing. Also, users that have ad tracking enabled might be considered more valuable and unless the practice is banned by AAPL (or maybe it already is), I could see apps that rely on ad revenue to a large degree incentivizing users to enable ad tracking.

I wonder if the default setting will be to limit ad tracking or not. I assume not, but this could have a really large impact if it's on by default.
Commonplace-style book indexed by works you're reading. Don't really need to index further within each work, even 5-10 pages of notes per 100 pages or so isn't hard to flip through to find something, especially if you've got little drawings and such here and there to act (as a secondary function) as signposts.

Note the exact edition you've got at the beginning (so you can probably track it down again if your copy is lost/sold/destroyed/whatever) then feel free to use page numbers liberally to reference stuff you don't want to copy completely. Consider using a set format, maybe with a box around it or something, for making note of extended quotes or passages you want to refer back to in the work—something like two lines consisting of a short phrase describing it (this is just for you to recognize later, don't worry about precision or even making sense), the first few words of the quote, then a page number(s).

Use headings however they make sense to you. Chapters/sections from the book are usually all I use.

I use notebooks roughly trade paperback sized, 120-200 pages. Can usually fit a few books in each one. Keep a separate sheet or (much smaller) notebook for a global alphabetical (or whatever makes sense to you) index of the notebooks to answer "which notebook did I use for that book I read six years ago, again?" questions.

Done right you can use these, with the book itself, to do super-fast refreshers on the high points of a book. Really handy. If you want to use it for that, include very rough plot outlines and such, too, at least for fiction. Bonus: writing all that stuff helps you remember some of it unaided, too.
Nothing, i believe... in Go, at least.