skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and an obese man might speculate that he'll starve in the future. That's not a reason for him to eat 3 cheeseburgers today.

If we had a simple scarcity of labor, you'd see rapid, across the board increases in the market clearing cost of labor, you do not.

This is simply not true. The way to check for a scarcity of labor is simply to determine whether there is labor worth performing at some non-zero price. Scarcity is merely a situation where more of a good is wanted than is available.

You can disagree that either is something we ought to address, but by (earlier in the thread) presenting an alternative solution to BI, you are implicitly agreeing with the problem it is being offered to solve.

I'm proposing a solution to two completely different problems: the problem of people claiming they'll starve if others don't transfer them resources, and the problem of labor scarcity.

The great recession didn't produce a scarcity of labor, it produced a surplus of labor.

Not according to Keynesians - they believe there was productive work people people could do that wasn't getting done, simply because nominal wages were too high. That's why they proposed stimulus to inflate away the value of real wages.

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

I take it you believe stimulus was ill-advised?

EITC increases incentive to earn additional income within a narrow range at the bottom

And this narrow range is the place our slack labor force lives.
Or, you know, eyes.
That's from Senator Byrd. He was known for bringing home the bacon (pork spending).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
What a surprise. Amazon is a terrible company. They built it on the backs of smaller sellers and are now turning around and pushing them away.

There is always a subtext to Amazon's actions. The reality is that margins are decreasing for everyone (even the original manufacturers) and by forcing people to prove that they are an 'authorized reseller', it also allows these manufacturers to not only control the largest secondary market in the world, but profit handsomely from it.

The rich get richer and the rest of us are slowly pushed out of the marketplace and forced to work for the rich.

I used to be an Amazon seller about 5 years ago. They banned my account, held my money for 90 days (which nearly bankrupted me) and I couldn't actually talk to a real human about what happened.

I only got canned responses telling me they were sorry, but the information was proprietary to their business and they couldn't tell me why I was banned. I had 100% feedback and bent over backwards for all of my customers. I still didn't ever figure out why I was banned.

Jeff Bezos is a snot-nosed, Arrogant, child, in the body of an adult. What they do is criminal and they should be investigated and shut-down.
How I Used and Abused My Tesla – What a Tesla Looks Like After 100,000 Miles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-F-q-LDMmw&feature=youtu.be
Maybe we could actually fix the problem instead of just moving it around.
Data is the ammo that will win the war of self-driving car companies.

Tesla, with a large, update-able fleet in the field, has a much larger data-collection platform than Google. Even if they're not using it for full automation now, the collection itself is very valuable.

This is almost certainly why Uber is putting self-driving cars into the field now as well, even though they are clearly not ready for prime-time. They need those sensor packages to be driving around on real roads and in real traffic.
At least back in 2010, Facebook and Twitter were both reportedly using torrents to do code deploys.

https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-de...

https://torrentfreak.com/facebook-uses-bittorrent-and-they-l...
State militia? Are you from the 1800s? The California State Army Reserve is 1500 strong. The California National Guard is 18000.
> That's because the others are more PC-like and therefore don't have these special requirements during (software) development.

Requirements are based on the task, not the hardware. I have written firm real-time software for multi-processor, multi-node Xeon and POWER7 systems.
It's not the size that makes it embedded. It's that it's something that isn't supposed to be a computer - it's supposed to be a nuclear power plant, or a railroad locomotive, or a microwave oven. Size has nothing to do with it.
Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy
It's Eclipse Season for Solar Dynamics Observatory
For anyone looking for a Mac graphical git client, I should mention GitBox here (http://gitboxapp.com) as I've used it for years to augment the command line. Not all the GUI clients for git are useful, but I really like GitBox. Right mix of features.
What's so interesting to me is that the more we want to do and further we want to go in space the more unity and collaboration we seem to need at the planetary level
Of course, giving people money to buy these things is easier and probably cheaper than giving either the things themselves or special vouchers that the merchants for approved necessities can exchange for money. Someone has to administer all of these things and come up with rules for them and monitor compliance.

I mean, look at SNAP and the ridiculous recurring argument over what parts of a cow it is permissible to purchase with a voucher.

With vouchers, you are ultimately giving someone with a gun the power to enforce that the voucher is spent correctly, with cash you are not (although the why is proving hard to articulate, I'm pretty sure this is true)
Yeah, I had to do a double take because it's almost screen for screen the UI of sourcetree.
>Worthless but happy is not a worthy goal.

How should one measure self worth?

>Verify any approach to life by generalisation: what would happen if everyone followed it?
The Buddhist approach leads to stagnation.

Who said everyone should follow any given approach? If everyone followed any particular approach to life it would lead to stagnation, extinction.

On the contrary, Buddhism emphasizes change, as opposed to stagnation.
You have to evaluate it in a model with an explicit cache width size, then O(log_b(n)) < O(log(n))
The reason not to do this: cost.

There is no reason that you can't run both in parallel.

There are times when graphite graphs are a hell of a lot easier to share than Splunk.
Hasn't that ship sailed?

We're all carrying cameras into the voting booth.
Prospects for Characterizing the Atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b
The greatest takeaway here is that, by using live action as reference for both character posing and timing, you're able to shortcut visual appeal.

Read The Illusion of Life, Animators Survival Kit and the Preston Blair book if you're serious about including animation in a project -- or befriend an animator. Animators don't let other animators rotoscope.
Giving up Angular did force me to think more about the DOM. Vanilla jQuery doesn't insert itself as readily into HTML code as an Angular directive can.

And that's why you should use http://intercoolerjs.org for most of your stuff, and a bit of jQuery where necessary for more exotic UX needs. The people who got sick of a mess of jQuery code were right, but they went the wrong direction to fix it. We have to go back.

I know people get tired of my shilling, but intercooler really is a better way for many, and maybe most, web apps to be developed.
SVGs can contain CSS and Javascript, and even without that, you can make all kinds of animations completely in SVG markup, using SVG-SMIL. I'm just saying this as trivia, and emphatically do not recommend that you go down this collapsing rabbit-hole.

Ignore that the Wikipedia page currently calls it "a recommended means[1][2][3] of animating SVG-based hypermedia" (lol). It's a complex feature that browsers have been dragging along for years while nobody's using it. Though it seems that Chrome is finally taking the initiative of dropping support, or at least discouraging its use.
If you want to +1, use the voting feature. If you have a comment that will add to determining the problem or arriving at the solution, type that. +1 in comments is just noise.
Around the world in an iPhone
FBI says state election boards targeted by hackers
Do you have an example of a domain being seized for hosting legitimate torrents?
> Then just post that.

Having the +1 or -1 at the start of the comment helps a reader scan through quickly to find the pro/con comments. It's easier to track the conversation.
The requirement of what you need to compare with that data though, is important. Tesla's cars are training off less detailed data, yes. But that also means they're designed to work with less data available. Google's cars require $150,000 worth of sensor hardware. Will that price go down, sure? But Tesla's will be even cheaper.
I wish someone would maintain a list of all current (and past, abandoned) Git UIs, including a feature grid. This would both help the community using them, and help people who think "oh, I'll write a Git UI!".
Your Lemma doesn't hold if the time to execute one instruction is dependent on N - which is pretty much the entire point the blog post makes.
For the analysis in the article, it is enough to assume an unlimited amount of space into which you can put your memory as well as an unlimited amount of time. For your own analysis, you can of course make any assumptions you wish, but the author argues (and I agree with him there) that the spatial scaling O(sqrt(N)) for random access is both relevant in practice (as seen by the caching graph) and cannot be improved on when considering the laws of physics.

> The limits of the real world are good to remember but that does not invalidate Big O analysis.

No, it just means that you failed to take one specific bit into account and that your analysis may hence be less relevant to the real world. Much the same way we can say that integer addition is O(1), because usually we deal with fixed-size integers, we can say that memory access is O(1), because usually we deal with a fixed maximal memory size. Of course, integer addition is O(log(N)) and, according to the arguments made in the article, memory access is O(sqrt(N)).
Taken from [1], under the heading "Will I need a TV Licence for all on demand programmes?".

You won't need a licence to:

(1) Download or watch S4C TV on demand on BBC iPlayer or listen to radio on BBC iPlayer.

(2) Download or watch programmes on demand from other providers, such as:

* ITV Hub, All 4 or Demand 5

* BT Vision, Virgin Media or Sky Go

* Netflix or Now TV

* Apple, Roku or Amazon

[1] http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/bb...
Seems like the best system is electronic that prints out a machine readable and human readable tape that the voter can verify, and in the event of a dispute, a human recount based on the tape is the final word on the result.
They 'complicate' it because your simplified version is inaccurate. If the only good thing in my life is a party I'm looking forward to in 6 months time I can assure you I will be unhappy for the vast majority of those 6 months. If it was as easy as you say we would all be happy and that is far from the case.
European Commission to rule against Ireland's tax arrangement with Apple: Source
> But damn, read the books!

I tried reading it after seeing a lot of recommendations, but gave it up quickly; my sentiments are echoed by this[1] Goodreads reviewer (2nd most 'like'd review there, 1st most liked gives the book 5-stars though):

> I honestly don’t remember the last time I was so bored and annoyed by a book. Barring a massive conspiracy, maybe I just didn’t get this book? This is what I got from the book. Please help me if missed something. We drove more than 100 miles an hour while drunk and high. WAHAHAHA! We ran up a huge bill and fled the hotel without paying it. WAHAHAHA! We picked up a teenage girl and gave her drugs and then left her alone, all scared and paranoid. WAHAHAHA! We nearly strangled the poor cleaning lady. WAHAHAHA!

> [...] This book must have been really cool and hip when it was published in 1971. If anyone writes a book like this these days, the only thing that I have to say is: grow the fuck up.

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/102994163?book_show_act...
David Revoy does have a patreon at https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy. It's for a comic.
It happens all the time. In real world code people throw hash tables and maps at all types of problems of all sizes. If you hit arbitrary boundaries where your fundamental assertion of access time becomes non constant its an issue.

This post might spur new thought about containers and how there usage should really be governed by their expected capacity.
Maybe, much like employers offering medical benefits as a way to compete on compensation with each other, it's a differentiator that used to make sense at one point but has since spiraled out of control.
The US constitution recognizes rights that are inherent to people and enumerates them in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights does not grant the rights within it, it merely recognizes them. Theoretically, the government has no authority to infringe on these rights. Obviously, in practice this is different.
Yet another Git GUI front end :-)

The homebrew version of the Git is bundled with two Git GUI frontends called gitk (invoked with `gitk`) and git-ui (invoked with `git gui`)
If you go on to read the later parts, the author explains how physics limits random access to N bits to O(sqrt(N)) even without a memory hierarchy. This has practical implications when comparing sequential access in an array to random access in a hashmap.
What I mean, is that $0.90/month is not a price point that works well with a credit card processing fee. Unless it's billed yearly or something.
That acronym should really not exist.
Corporations are infinitely selfish and completely merciless, not evil. They're as likely to do good for good's sake as they are to do evil for evil's sake.
Assuming they drop support for the Chromecast add-on, doesn't this effectively eliminate the ability for other browsers that can use chrome extensions to cast to a Chromecast? (e.g., Opera, Vivaldi, maybe Chromium)?
This quotation seems pretty apt and in my view makes his suicide seem reasonable and consistent with his views:

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S. Thompson
I'm fairly sure that even if you own a box that can receive TV you don't need to pay the license if you don't actually use it to watch TV.

Having said that, given the recent changes in the laws I would recommend getting a TV licence anyway since the burden of proof lies on you to prove you don't use the device rather than them to prove that you do. Furthermore enforcement it is a criminal matter which adds a level of annoyance if you get convicted.
Instruction Selection: Principles, Methods, and Applications [pdf]
Same here. When an issue goes unaddressed for a long time, yet the user base clearly needs it to be addressed, there has to be a mechanism by which the user base can make it annoying to the developers who continue to choose not to address it.

Making it annoying for them, e.g. by a constant reminder that many people support some action to be taken, is the whole point. That way, projects can't simply define away critical changes that users have good reason for wanting.

If it's easy for project maintainers to make a dictatorial or unilateral decision to ignore something a large body of users wants, and they can do that without paying any sort of annoyance penalty, it's super bad for the project. The mechanism of user needs no longer steers development priorities.

I see this happen often on projects where someone wants publicity or credit for their work on something open source, and so prioritizes demo-ware aspects of the project, or showy new features, over critical long-term problems, refactoring workflows, or basic utilities that are sorely needed.

Typically there are arguments of the sort, "I'm giving my development time for free, so leave me alone to work only on the aspects that I want" -- and these broadly form the basis of wanting to disallow +1-like pinging, annoying reminder behaviors.

The trouble is no one cares what your motivations are for choosing to contribute to the project. No one who uses the open source project has any reason whatsoever to care that you found some cost/benefit tradeoff to be favorable, for personal reasons, and to motivate you to contribute.

The project ecosystem generally just wants implementers who will prioritize things as-needed by large sections of the user base, and who will not complain if that means they don't get to use their "donated" time to work only on aspects they personally want.

So it creates a natural tension. Getting rid of +1-like pedancy would be bad, IMO, because it puts all of the prioritization power into the hands of the people who are choosing what to do by their mere wants rather than project needs. I'd like there to be a mechanism that penalizes want-pursuit a little more.
My comment is not an argument that access to electricity is impossible and you reiterating physical needs seems to suggest you missed my point. That last sentence was only pointing out that you happened to pick as an example the name of a particular chain that (not unlike many other coffee shops) tends to exist in more urban and more affluent neighborhoods.
What is your exercise window on the options? Are they ISO or RSU?

If you have ISO options with a 90 day exercise window, you'll need to pay the AMT tax on the difference between current valuation and strike price. If you joined as employee #3 and valuation of options is now $1m, that could be a substantial tax bill. If the company never exits you will have paid a bunch of tax money for shares you'll never be able to liquidate.

Also consider that if you feel you're so important to the company that leaving might cause it to fail, then your leaving will decrease the possibility of any exit and effectively devalue your options.

If you have a 90 day exercise window, perhaps you can negotiate it to 10 years, in exchange for reducing the back pay you are owed. That $60k is leverage you can use in any negotiation, whether for options terms, severance package, or non-compete agreement.
«There was a time when we left our jobs and decided to go for a venture. If you do a startup, you never know when you’ll get your first paycheck. We bootstrapped our living, counted money and felt ourself cheap. But we were craving for the good things, though.

I’ve started looking for a good free stuff, like concerts, exhibitions, hike, restaurant grand openings and other. Quickly I've realized that there is a lot of things are being given away by really nice brands, and there is a reason for that. My personal collection of these goodies and service referrals has been shared many times among friends.

The idea of giving your stuff for trial is way more powerful than any other type of advertising. Imagine all marketing $$ being spent on something valuable for everyone, like free foods, clothes, software, services, etc. This is the ideal picture of the future, though. But anyways, we decided to create FocFoc and start facilitating this idea.

FocFoc will leverage the power of free stuff given to people. We encourage all brands to reconsider their marketing budget towards freebie model.»
China Sets Up Indigenous Aircraft Engine Maker
I actually find that Medium pieces on the front page are more likely to be relevant to my work/life than other front-page posts. This is perhaps because I am less technical than many here, so the intricacies of hardware articles or specific coding languages do not resonate with me. The Medium-hosted pieces tend to be "lighter", and perhaps for this reason they have a (somewhat) higher hit rate for me.

I completely agree that most Medium posts on /newest are junk. Part of the reason I posted the Ask was because I'm curious what happens when I post something I've written (on Medium). How are people's first reactions affected by that? Is it like when people see a Business Insider article and then automatically ignore the post?

Also, I'd be interested to know more about Medium posts being penalized. Details?
Just to balance it out: http://www.fastcompany.com/3001441/do-steve-jobs-did-dont-fo... ('Do what Steve Jobs did, not what he said')
All of the ones I'm aware of are either cross platform (i.e. the user experience on single platforms is less than ideal) or closed source.
In 2009 the German Constitutional Court (similar to the U.S. Supreme Court) had to decide about voting machines and made an interesting decision which de-facto banned them. They didn't really ban them, but simply set some requirements (apart from the usual as anonymity etc.) for voting machines which as of today none of them can meet:

"When electronic voting machines are deployed, it must be possible for the citizen to check the essential steps in the election act and in the ascertainment of the results reliably and without special expert knowledge."

So your average neighbor, grandma and co-worker must be able to understand how you came to the result because that's important in a democratic process. Your open-source voting machine software doesn't meet that requirement and neither does your fancy blockchain-based cryptographic system. But paper does: You make a cross on paper, you count them.

You can find an official, full English translation of the ruling here: http://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheidu... (my quote is from paragraph 119).
My laptop has been frozen for half an hour now after running the benchmark from the article :(
Swifter Than a Bird Flies: An Account of Riding the First Passenger Train
Has the snoopers charter gone through yet? Once ISPs are forced to store usage logs it is only a matter of time before TV licensing start attempting to get hold of logs for enforcement purposes.
FWIW: Southern and Eastern Kentucky's economies are also virtually 99% coal (and 1% illicit marijuana).

Senator Mich McConnell has done the exact same for those poor people... Nada.
Yeah, the language goes into some pretty advanced territory, though our class didn't stick with it that long. We did use BJC as a secondary source though. Good stuff!
It sounds like you and the CEO both want something, which is often the basis for a reasonable compromise. You want to be let out of the strict non-compete clause, and you want your back-pay and ideally a raise. Meanwhile, the CEO doesn't want his company to fall apart in the wake of your departure. You could approach your CEO, and ask him to deliver a plan to pay down your backpay. During that discussion, you can tell him that since you're underpaid and haven't gotten a raise for years, you'd like to amend your employment contract so that the non-compete and invention clauses only apply to your corporate work (and not your consulting work). You can explain that this would let you do projects on the weekend that would help you make some more money to compensate for the undermarket salary.

Not tying the reason to your desire to be able to get another job easily also helps the CEO from freaking out as much. Also, limiting the non-compete edits to the consulting work helps him feel that his corporate work isn't threatened, while getting you what you want.

Amending your non-compete would also give you flexibility if you choose to leave, so that would be my primary goal here. To increase your leverage, you can also ask for a raise. Assuming he says that giving you more money is impossible, that increases pressure on him to concede on the only term that is non-monetary.
I'm curious about the "buddy" and "data" container patterns -- I didn't see those in the documents you linked to. Why do you mention these as being best avoided?
I think that in 10 years time, time of flight lidars will become ubiquitous, just as common as digital cameras are now. And this will usher a new revolution of interaction between reality and the digital world.