skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I probably agree with something near your point, but I don't think your examples work. This case - where laws block the sale of internet services - isn't a case of not regulating markets in the hope that a free market magically appears. Rather, it's just bad law.

Healthcare is also not an example of not regulating markets; rather, it's one of the most regulated markets in the USA. Some of the regulations are net-harmful, leading to problems like the gigantic prices of monopolized products.

I think you're mistaken about high prices for monopolized pharmaceuticals being a new phenomenon. Are you referring to the EpiPen, Daraprim, Alcortin A, Novacort, and Aloquin price hikes? But high prices are typical in monopolized pharmaceuticals. For example, Harvoni costs $32,000 in the USA, while its generic version costs $900 in India. This kind of price difference between the monopoly price and non-monopoly price is common.

All that aside, I agree that we can often do better than just not regulating industries. Much care should be taken to craft helpful regulations, and perhaps some kind of technology or institution can be developed to inhibit regulatory capture.
This sort of underminds the fact that, like any art, many authors write books because they actually enjoy the act of writing (perhaps not physically) and telling a story, and are doing so for their own sake. They aren't making their work convenient for you, but producing a work that they personally feel happy about. Sure, cut the Great Gatsby down to the bare essentials.. but then it probably wouldn't be the Great Gatsby.
1. If you love writing software, don't give it up just because you don't fit into the existing mono-culture of "top-tier" tech companies. Recall that WhatsApp's founders were both rejected by Facebook, but still managed to build a game changing company that Facebook later bought for ~$19B.

2. Find an interview coach or service that suits you and can help you improve by giving you detailed feedback and concrete advice. The cost of professional help is noise compared to developer compensation. Reward yourself for steady, incremental progress, don't beat yourself up for not being at a specific level yet.

3. Take classes on algorithms and data structures until you can solve problems cold. Master key topics, don't settle for incomplete understanding of your craft. Be curious.
As programmers, we suffer from various maladies. NIH is one, laziness and shiny-chasing are others. As in life, balance is needed. Don't forget the cost part of cost/benefit analysis.
There is a difference between free markets and unregulated ones. An unregulated market is unlikely to be a free market, turn into one or stay one.

Most self-proclaimed free market proponents aren't advocating for free markets at all and couldn't care less about free markets, they just want an unregulated one in which they can do whatever they want.

Free markets are a tool, they don't always work (infrastructure, health care, other natural monopolies) and require careful maintenance in form of anti-trust regulation.
Good thing that location is not a requirement.
The known unknowns speech ought to be engraved on every engineering school in America
They are more common in the US than I think people realize as well. What type of equipment have you been using?
Chris,
you have an impressive resume. Do you mind me asking why you went from vice president of engineering to engineer?

What made you go back into an Engineer role again?
We use React Router on our project. Looks like 4.0 does break pretty much everything.

My thoughts on the upgrade are pretty much:

- Do we actually need to upgrade? Old react router works fine.

- If we do need to upgrade - how long will it take? If it's just a few hours to shift some code around, maybe it's not that bad. Especially if it's moving to a cleaner more "react" API.

At the end of the day, we could write our own routing class, or another. We'll probably stick with react-router though - but save the upgrade for a day where we've got nothing else to do, or if an engineer has some free time.
On most lenses I've used, the infinity mark is incorrect. Find the true infinity. The method is to focus on a distant light source. Switch to Live View, magnify and focus until the light source is "smallest" (if it is far enough, it will be a point).

(By magnify I mean digitally on the display - not by zooming in your lens).

Now you're at infinity.

As for ISO, it'll depend on how good your sensor is. But most people need well beyond 800.
As complexity increases, the probability approaches zero that any code works exactly as desired on first execution. I'd still take that bet. Of course, I'd have to be able to use the REPL about as often as a someone uses a compiler.
One of the ways we managed to get a microservices system on prem (vSphere or Openstack) is to configure it with a system that can handle the whole provision/build/configure/deploy as a single unit: http://bosh.io .. though the learning curve was steep.
I've often wondered if this is a vulnerability in all kinds of services. Try to log in to some website with the wrong password and you're probably giving them your Facebook password by accident.
Not all open source is the same. The language you use might come with an open source standard library which is likely very high quality. On the other hand, piping in a few dozen packages from github or npm does not come with the same sort of quality, and here the "crowd" could actually just be a single developer
> Did you use LaTeX for that?

I'm not OP, but yes. The "creator" field in the PDF is: "LaTeX with hyperref package" and the "producer" field is "xdvipdfmx (0.7.9)".
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F/8 will allow so little light in you really won't get much of the Milky Way.

The usual suggestion is the lowest F-stop, and the widest lens. On my 21mm, at F/2.8 shooting at ISO 1600 for 30 seconds, I get a poor Milky Way. Were I to do it at F/8.0, I'd get virtually no milky way.
All sorts of very mis guided comments below. Here are some points:

1/ Im an advertiser I can tell you that big brands still love the platform (and spend heavily)
2/ Revenue is $2bn+ a year, how is this not successful?
3/ Balance sheet has $1bn+
4/ NFL deal is huge, ditto bloomberg streaming
5/ Product needs to ship much quicker than Facebook does to stay relevant
6/ It is the only place that has nailed real time properly, if there is a bomb in a major city you will hear it first on twitter no where else has this edge, nowhere
7/ The worlds most important people are on this platform and readily accessible in most cases, not true on FB in terms of accessibility
8/ 80% Gross Margin business
9/ Needs to stay independent and ramp up advertising spend once logged out tweets ad product rolls out
10/ True reach of Twitter is almost 1bn users when we consider tweets appearing on TV, off the platform, in newspapers etc. This is comparable to FB

Some of the ignorant stuff people are saying about all the employees is disrespectful.

WhatsApp and IG when they were acquired were making very little money, if they had stayed independent and no one acquired them they would not be running today (they would exhaust the capital chain). WhatsApp maybe was making £10ml a year but was losing money; IG was making £0. I can tell you with certainty if they were independent and around today the growth would be stalling and there is a high chance they would not be able to continue raising venture money, it is very easy to grow products to 1bn users when you add FB growth's team which is best in class to an already solid product.

Twitter has been generating solid revenue from around 2009/10 (someone correct me if im off here) and big brands love it and there is lots of data I have seen to support the value to advertisers around the world.

Twitter does however need to tell its story a lot better afterall a Tweet means many different things to many people, its just not as easy to communicate as Facebook to an outside but this doesn't mean it is not valuable or should not exist independently.
You made me realize I should've said time/money from the get go.

With startups specifically, I'm hoping Title III is just the beginning of making them a lot more accessible for more casual investment, like throwing $5 at whatever cool/useful thing has caught your attention lately.
I highly recommend to move off password-based SSH at all in favor of SSH keys or (even better, certificates).

Here are some projects to help you roll out new infrastructure without SSH passwords:

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport ( I work on this one with our team) and
https://github.com/Netflix/bless (heard great things about it, especially if you are using AWS)
>The EU is going to make an example of the U.K.

If this supposedly gentle, peace-loving, democratic association of free and independent nations is going to vengefully "make an example" of the UK for trying to leave, then that demonstrates the Leavers are right about its true nature.
Maybe it should be a public service though. Would be nice to see IPFS tackle this in a distributed, uncensorable manner, or maybe some kind of Torrent-based Twitter.
Yep, this is a thing I push with my team all the time. Always vet your deps. In the long run is is WAY worth it. In the short run the cost is rather minimal unless you have devs that cannot actually deliver on the needs the dependency covers.
related topic but how important is having a financial advisor?
It's been the other way for me. Uber/Lyft says a car is two minutes away, but it takes 5-10 between DC traffic and driver confusion. It's refreshing to just hop into the can that's waiting on the corner (cabs in DC are pretty readily available).

The only reason I don't use taxis is because I love paying $1-5 to commute across DC in an Uber/Lyft.
The article is fairly poor, compared to other ones. I used to have a list of good ones, but lost the list :-(

Googling, these look familiar:

http://www.lonelyspeck.com/how-to-process-milky-way-astropho...

http://petapixel.com/2015/08/13/how-to-post-process-a-milky-...

https://www.slrlounge.com/process-milky-way-photos-maximum-e...

The last 2 are about post-processing. You will not get good Milky Way photos without serious post-processing!
>The thing about referendum democracy is, if they voted again today the result would probably be different. Why is the public's desire from the past more binding than the public's desire today?

Except you could say that about any election ever. Why is the public's desire to have Party X in power three weeks ago more binding than the public's desire to have Party X in power today?
I am the only employee in a company of about 60/70 who is completely remote. I was actually working from the headquarters and then ended up relocating to a new city. While I enjoy the peace and quite and get 3 times more stuff done, I cannot shake the feeling of isolation. Some days I feel like i'm going fucking insane not having somebody to just walk up and talk to or go to lunch with.

Yeah there are coffee shops. But really how much time are you going to spend working out of a busy coffee shop? Maybe 3 or 4 hours before you realize that you can't hear anybody on a conference call or you're irritating someone next to you who's studying for an exam.

There are also co-working spaces, which cost on average about 25% of what I pay for my apartment. Seriously, if you're thinking about working remote REALLY consider what you're getting into. Being stuck in 4 walls 8 hours a day does amazing things to productivity but is ultimately a fucking mental torture.
It still seems weird. I can think of many small municipalities around here that can't quite do things on their own. Sharing water, fire, police, electricity, sewer, gas, roads, busses, trains, schools, hospitals and garbage services with a larger town seems pretty reasonable. I mean, as long as it's not forced on any of the participants.

The internet must be really dangerous in some way to require the special regulation.

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"Electric is provided with a contract with the City of Wilson, however Pinetops owns and maintains all distribution lines to Pinetops citizens and businesses." [1]

[1] http://pinetopsnc.publishpath.com/departments
> Now that I'm a little more senior ... I can see that its pretty miserable doing the interviews as well.

I think part of this is that people too often view interviewing as an adversarial process.

It may help you to enjoy it more if you look at it as a collaborative game that you are playing with the applicant. Your role in the game is to guide them through the process without breaking any rules like asking questions that are too leading, etc. I find this mindset helps me to maximise the applicant's chance of success without compromising the goals of the process. I think it also helps you to subconsciously adopt a manner of speaking and body language that is a bit more friendly and approachable.
I'm currently investing $1000/week into Vanguard funds. I've been doing this since 2007, started at $500/week, and gradually moved up. The key is to always be investing. Currently I am focused on international and energy. I feel these are "low" and will come back in 5 or 10 years. Maybe I'm a fool.

Sometimes, it is difficult to resist trying to time things, and if the market drops 2% or 3%, I'll buy more. So far, it has worked out, but holding on through massive losses can really hurt. Throwing your money into a correction can feel really strange. In February, I was down probably 40 or 50K over a month. But I stuck it out. I even bought some individual stocks (mostly SaaS companies) that are up 40% or 50% (CRM, HUBS, etc.)
Yup I know the guys at Utah Broadband :) I worked at Rise broadband (used to be Digis) for about 10 years, if you know Utah Broadband you've probably heard of them? Vivint was doing some of this in Utah as well, I spent a few years with them.
Can things become more scalable if we replace some staff with robots? For higher end dining, the problem is that we have come to expect a certain level of human service as part of the dance, so automation will be most successful at the low end fast lunch places.
The proof of this is trivial, and left to the reader.
Isn't the risk sharing a component in the discount? That is, aren't the providers more likely to collect from people participating in a risk sharing arrangement?
"Substaining a company on advertising is a dead model"

A Deloitte report explained FB has created $40bn of economic value across the world. Let me explain to you how:

- People are selling shit on social all day everyday
- Every organisation markets themselves using social
- social media is where most attention on mobile is
- All social media platforms make ads
- Ads are charged on CPM (Cost per 1000)
- Trillions of impressions are served, therefore billions of ad dollars flow to the platform, billions with a b
- All these businesses have 100s of millions if not billions in cash on their balance sheets

For the record these ad products have kept 1000s of people in advertising jobs around the world and helped around 3 million advertisers spending billions collectively sell shit online.
I tried to read The Art of Explanation a couple years ago. 60 pages in the book just started repeating itself. I gave up at about 100 pages, came back later and I can't remember if I finished it or gave up again.

For a book about the Art of explaining things it sure did a lousy job of getting to the point.

Often audio book versions of books are abridged. You might try those for the classics. If you get a good narrator it can add to the experience as well.
My favorite version is from http://hpmor.com/chapter/64

...

MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?

NEO: Anyone who's made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!

MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?

(Pause.)

NEO: ...in the Matrix.

MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.
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I still wouldn't use 'understanding' in that context. It makes as if a static typing compiler sounds "magical".

I could say "python is better at understanding what the programmer wants to do". But I think you'd disagree with me.

The compiler is doing lexical analysis of the program being fed into it. That's it.
I much prefer a plain resume. It's so effortless to pass around a pdf file that sites like enhancv.com should be considered supplements, not requirements.

https://michael.chisari.us/michaelchisari-resume.pdf
Thats pretty much it. Its funny how a lot of the Tech community values personal privacy, but forget that people like Peter Thiel are private citizens too.
Here's a good piece on what changed:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/features/who...

Different manufactures gave different reasons, but in general you should always go by sight and not a ∞ mark. Even in a manual Nikkor lens there will be a shift based on temperature so you don't want to strictly go by the numbers (which is why ∞ is often juuust past focus, it lets you work in more environments).
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> but save the upgrade for a day where we've got nothing else to do, or if an engineer has some free time.

Or when you stumble on a show-stopping bug right before a deadline, that is only fixed in supported newer versions.
Let's assume the elephant chart is (still) right. I don't understand how it denounces capitalism. Every single group besides the upper middle class and the very very bottom have gotten richer.

It's impossible to have a perfect system so I would expect, in any SUSTAINABLE system, for the bottom tier to remain unchanged. As for the upper middle class, the middle and lower middle class improves so much more than them. Isn't that what everyone who denounces capitalism wants anyways?

I think the chart is stupid regardless but I don't see how it says anything disproving capitalism.
I'm a second year graduate student in CS and also debating getting an MBA.

I currently study optimization and machine learning, and in the future I'd like to lead a team of people studying similar topics. Initially, my goal was to stay an academia and become a professor, but now I believe I'd like to be in industry doing similar tasks.
They tend to degrade into cartels. With the absence of courts, they do stuff like decapitate the competition.
I love your logic, highly persuasive and I tend to agree. My only concern has been and will remain until proven otherwise, that like many things "Government", Net Neutrality while having the best of intentions will slowly be eroded by corporate interests and lobbyists. Eventually destroying it's original intent, and leaving us in a worse, or much more complicated position than when we started. Hopefully not.
> you can have your cake and eat it, too.

Like a dynamic language with optional type hints? As I said, both techniques can mimic each other, with the corresponding tradeoffs. As you use more generics in a statically typed language, you're sacrificing safety. As you use more type hints in a dynamically typed language, you're increasing syntax clutter and decreasing flexibility.
Reading between the lines, it was probably more along the lines of instructions that don't have efficiency a priority.

Like only do one project at a time. Doesn't sound terrible, but it increases wait times.
Sure, there's a feedback loop. There always is in culture. But then the voices that go against the culture are sometimes the ones most worth hearing.
It seems to be w.r.t. self-driving cars Ford et al will just offer "Fords on demand" etc and not need Uber. The self-driving car is the hard part, not the app. Network effects are a lot less of a barrier to entry if you don't need drivers.
Taming the Quantum Spooks
> personally I don't see any validity in the "it's free so I am beyond reproach" mentality that open source people seem to have. What makes you think that I would thank someone for something that was free even if I didn't want it? Or that anyone would for that matter. Thanking people regardless of what they did, just because they did it for free, is one way to erase market signals which govern the direction of open source projects.

Damn. Most of the time people follow their reasoning with, "I am paying for this, so do the stuff I want exactly how I want." But, This is the first time I've seen someone using the free-market to excuse being a dick to someone who's giving their work out to the world for free. The amount of entitlement mentality in this person is so unreal, I'm literally almost exploding in rage here, because I can't believe anyone would treat anyone else like that.

To the maintainers: 99.999% of people out there are not like this person, and we appreciate your work very much. Thanks for putting that work out there. Your effort is also unreal, but a kind version of unreal!
what's your current gain % since 2007?
It's hard. 1) Gain experience. 2) Talk to tech veterans and journeymen. 3) Look to other communities for lessons.
I'm amazed literary critique is a job. Definitely Ark B material. This book fetishism always rubs me the wrong way. A book is a conveyer of thought. Like a conversation, phone, film, comic, game, diagram, chart. As much as I appreciate your agonising over Infinite Jest your opinion of it based on not having read it is not convincing. There is a solution to your conundrum you face in this article - don't talk about Infinite Jest.

The whole idea of the Great Conversation or the like is preposterous and not only because it's not physically possible (and hasn't been for decades). You don't have to have been to all the countries on the planet to find common ground and common language to talk about travelling and contribute to the conversation.
I use a resume which I hand coded in HTML&css and while sending it to HR folks, I manually turn the HTML page into a PDF and usually include a reference to the online version too (http://veerasundar.com/resume)
I'm basing that on what I've seen of police interactions with homeless people in the cities versus my own experiences hunting, hiking, and camping. If you're out in the woods in a place you have a right to be, and you appear to know what you're doing, the ranger will usually just make sure you look like you'll live through the night. By contrast, a homeless person is likely to face a presumption of guilt in a city cop's eyes and at the very least be questioned, which can lead to identity issues. A ranger is likely to just say "carry on" without asking for ID if you're just camping.

That said, it's a good idea to not haunt a particular area too long, city or countryside.
You've just described phishing.
> retiring exceptionally early, with less than 20 years of working life

This is an assumption I'm working under, but I've thought about it for a more normal case as well.

Still, the usual advice for saving for a normal retirement is 10%-15%, and you only have to break $185k before a 401(k) doesn't cover even the low end of that.
> Shows how far the university has fallen.

Does it? Unless things have changed, graduates of elite universities are disproportionately represented at the AppAmaGooBookSoft companies. It seems more accurate to say that those companies play a similar role to HBS and Yale Law.
I've noticed that having no choice in the matter makes it significantly more likely to be the case. After making the switch, I do feel that my experience is nicer for it.

Expansion lives on the outside, tailored to the environment in which it resides, and the battery lasts long enough that I can spend most of my day without the power adapter connected.
Another analogy would be a policy of "No letter-carrier may open or tamper with the content of their customers' mail."

Or perhaps "No company may dump doomtoxin into a river."

Both affect the market, but neither establishes a monopoly and the companies "harmed" are simply being prevented from doing ethically-dubious things that may harm others.