skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All they saw was a $450 annual fee.

I read the article [1] because I was dubious about the potential cost/benefit given that I pay zero dollars in interest on my cards (I pay the statement balance every month), and I found that the benefit is for rewards programs.

My understanding is that rewards programs are an arms race: the merchants cover the extra rewards amount. That means that they're bundling the cost of rewards into their products anyhow and charging you for the "pleasure" of getting your money back. If you can get in on it before the costs rise to the full amount of the reward, then other people subsidize your reward by purchasing the cost-adjusted product without getting rewards. I'll pass on paying $450 to further that, no cost-benefit required.

1) http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/business/dealbook/credit-c...
People don't respect children as actual humans. I think that's pretty much the answer with most children related problems.
The Uber drivers probably not, but I bet the truck drivers really care, and they're 3.5 million on the USA, which is more than 1% of the population.
What is that outcome, and in what sense is it "Scandinavian democratic socialism"?
I suggest In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides. More bad luck for Arctic explorers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Kingdom_of_Ice

Also, The Man Who Ate His Boots which covers some of Franklin's earlier overland exploration.
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Ate-His-Boots/dp/0307276562
What no love for Knuth's Surreal numbers? https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/sn.html

I think if you're not into sci fi, you've discovered what most call the distinction between hard and soft sci fi. Soft sci fi is the usual boring eternal "human condition" story thats been told a million times before, but maybe if I put space ships in as my gimmick I can sell more copies. Hard sci fi is what if this really thought provoking component datasheet or speculative theoretical physics paper were true, maybe I could sell more copies if I put some humans into the story as filler for my gimmick. I'm personally pretty bored with human condition stories; I've read them all or lived thru the experience myself over the decades, but sci fi still delights me with glorious creativity even if the bolted on characters are sometimes one dimensional cardboard cutouts.

The system you suggest of a human story teller deferring to the scientists is usually screwed up by one side or the other; when it isn't, its noteworthy. One example of an English Lit major not screwing up the science would be KSR's famous Mars Trilogy from around the turn of the century. That's a really good trilogy! Proving that at least theoretically your system is possible, having been successfully implemented at least once historically.
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> because they/we are more likely to have worked at one, and see how it actually works, or doesn't work.

They were talking about building a startup right after a PhD.
Rust barely registers outside HN and a few other web gathering places.

All those other languages have their niches and ecosystems and are safe enough.
Wow. This is intense. Did this play out in real life or was this just prep.
Still has a lot of regulation:

http://marketurbanism.com/2016/06/02/houston-beautiful-yet-p...

But it is affordable, which is good.
Bear in mind at least some of the responses are by Googlers who aren't disclosing that they're Google employees at the office. That's also where most of the downvotes come from.
At some point we're going to have to take something like responsibility for our actions in the face of other sentient species... Or accept that we do things only because we can, and abandon even the semblance of ethics. It's starting to become very clear even with a strong degree of skepticism, that while we may be the most advanced intelligence on Earth, we're not the only ones.

That should have implications for our species, if we let it.
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From the article, there was another SFENCE after PCOMMIT.
When I worked at a speech recognition startup in the late 90s I was told that anything over 5% is essentially useless for no-touch recognition.
It reads like early Iain Banks. Wasp Factory etc.
One of the last companies I worked for I had all of 3 sick days per year. If I used them now what if I get flu later in the year?
> […] and how smooth Elon Musk's skin is.

It's really hard to take you seriously when you say something like this. If someone's behavior really is remarkable, then there should be no need to exaggerate. If you exaggerate, it suggests that maybe your complaint isn't legitimate.

> it's doubtful that the Model 3 will be as profitable, infact it won't be by design

Why do you say that? People seem to be in agreement that GM can sell their car at a loss because they make up for it in the ability to sell other gas-guzzling cars. Tesla can't sell their cars at a loss because they don't have any way to make it up. The people who claim Tesla is losing money on their cars are doing so by including R&D costs as part of the cost of the car, which is nonsense. If Tesla sells 10k more cars, they didn't just lose a bunch of money, they made money on each car. Sure, if Tesla doesn't sell enough to recoup their R&D then they've taken a loss overall, but the idea is that they should sell enough cars to make a profit, which they can then plow back into R&D to make even better cars. And they can take a loss in the short term if it leads to profitability later, what they can't do is take a loss on each unit sold.

In fact, if I search for "tesla model 3 profitability" on DDG, the very first result is a Fox Business article from March saying that a goal of the Model 3 is to be profitable, something the other cars haven't been (I assume here that it means after taking R&D into account, as opposed to being a loss on each unit sold) - http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/03/31/tesla-counts-o....

> If you ask the average person to name car companies

If you ask the average consumer that cares about electric vehicles, they probably do know about Tesla. The average person doesn't really care much about that, beyond maybe thinking that a hybrid car is a good idea (or even thinking it's a bad idea because those usually compromise on power).

Edit: Corrected "Business Insider" to "Fox Business". Not sure why I mixed those two up.
I want to make sure I capture your feedback correctly, so let me know if this doesn't help: we recently released the ability to change your base branch on a PR. https://github.com/blog/2224-change-the-base-branch-of-a-pul...

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Robert Forward. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward

In the preface to Timemaster (which features time travel and various paradoxical events), he states anyone who wishes to argue against his hard science use of time travel must first have a published article in a peer reviewed journal refuting a particular paper.
I used to work at a group 2 company that was saved from failing because of H1B hires. We brought in one critical developer and another critical DBA who then stabilized our platform and enabled sales to move ahead.
I think it really depends on what you're looking for when you read SF.

For me, I usually don't care very much about the characters or excellent prose or a lot of the typical 'literary' qualities of a work. When I go to SF I typically am looking for exploration of interesting ideas, settings, or premises. So I find myself being more forgiving of 'bad fiction' if it's the only place where I can find a particular idea being explored.

The way I see it, "someone who writes stories deferring to actual scientists for review" tends to end up treating science as something to throw onto a story to give it a veneer of legitimacy -- like various fantasy/space-opera shows that have 'science advisers' to supply the technobabble needed to make it sound plausible. Interstellar was probably the best example of this going right that I can think of, with the feedback from scientists playing a big part in how things were portrayed and explored.

In general, though, I think that what makes a lot of good SF interesting is the focus on ideas that may only come from having a writer who obsesses so much about such ideas anyway. It's why I'm frustrated by a lot of recent popular SF TV/movie series that tend to gravitate into the typical "character-driven serial drama" format that everything becomes.
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I'm on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/dylanbriscall

All the songs on Early Mornings, Late Nights, and Long Roads were written and composed by me and were produced by Joel Kazmi--who’s worked with artists like The Tea Party, Rush, N’sync, Sum 41, and Anne Murray.

If you don't want to listen that is absolutely cool and if you can recommend some new music or mention any great shows you've seen lately, that would be great.

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We're suing the IRS for audits of Donald Trump's tax returns
Probably the same reason they vote against their own interest all the time. We're all convinced we'll be super rich soon.
Yes thank you.
I don't think the plan is for it to be faster necessarily, but rather to move the existing tools off of a technology they are (slowly) moving away from. While there will be some overhead due to the use of React I doubt it will be anything noticeable. In fact, I just checked it out in the Nightly version of Firefox and it doesn't feel any slower than the previous version of the debugger.

As for the remote debugging protocol, I don't think that will really cost much of anything. The debugger itself is using Javascript so the deserialization cost of JSON is pretty much nonexistent on that end.

As for everything needing to be written in HTML/CSS, this seems like an odd place to bring that up as this is quite literally a tool found inside of a web browser. As a whole though, I think HTML/CSS "apps" are cropping up largely because there are so many people familiar and comfortable with the technology, not because it's seen as more performant. And now that things like Electron and NW.js exist, it's trivial to leverage that knowledge to make a UI which uses it verses having to learn a new language/framework.
To make sure there is no confusion we now refer to ourselves as open core https://about.gitlab.com/about/#stewardship

I want to echo here what I said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12501271 "If there are features that people think that should belong in the open source edition we're all ears. We've done so before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931347 A feature comparison between CE and EE can be found on about.gitlab.com/features/#compare "

Regarding the examples please help me understand:

1. Can you rebase in the GitHub interface?

2. Does GitHub have an option to fast forward merges?

3. Please let me know if this is a feature people want open sourced. EDIT turns out that this is part of the open source edition already https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/app/cont... I created https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22185 to update the docs

4. We have a commit status API in GitLab CE https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/commits.html#commit-status and works with the open source https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin We do have additional integration in EE https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html

BTW you might be happy to learn that what you mention as an example of typical "enterprise-y" feature is available in GitLab CE https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/integration/saml.html
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This is like saying that Leo Messy scoring goals is luck.

As a business owner that meets other business owners every day I believe "luck" is not that important.

There is a lot of space for normal business in the world, that solves a problem, give a service or creates simple products. You can be good at it or not. Most successful owners I know are not lucky at all.

Luck applies to the "changing the wold" thing, but 99% of business are not that way. People at HN has a distorted view on that reality.
The man who walks people for a living
> It's only kind of open source, and only partly.

That's a pretty misleading characterisation. You can browse the source code, submit issues, see what's being worked on, contribute PRs, and freely download and run your own instance of GitLab. A handful of enterprise features aren't open sourced.

GitHub in contrast is a black box.
Do keep in mind portable here is with regards to "between implementations" and not "per platform." Code between PyPy and CPython isn't guaranteed to be 100% portable (although they try), and in Scheme it's much the same way.

And you shouldn't think in terms of C, C++, etc being portable. There's lots of code written for GCC that doesn't conform to an explicit C++ standard (C++11/14 try to change this, but still). In the same way, you're really writing to the standard of language your C/C++ compiler implements. It's hairy, but the fact that things are not portable is just given more visibility in Scheme. Reasons for this are probably varied, but it also has to do with the variation in how Schemes are implemented at the lowest level (think Guile vs. CHICKEN, just in terms of GC they're worlds apart). At the end of the day, some code can be written to be portable (see some SRFIs) but we usually don't worry about minor inconsistencies within the larger Scheme community.
> He made it exclusive. You had to have a .edu address to sign up so the people ON the network were initially only your peer group. You couldn't get in without that .edu address and therefore you WANTED to get in if you couldn't.

Don't forget that each college's network was segregated from each other's.

You couldn't view the full profiles of people at other schools unless you were friends with them, but by default, you could view the full profiles of everyone else at your school (you could set your profile to friends-only, but most people didn't back then). I know that I didn't care that everyone else on my network could see my home address and my phone number on my profile, because I knew that they were all classmates (or professors, but very few of them were on Facebook). After I graduated and networks became less prominent, I locked down my profile to friends-only.

Groups were restricted to single schools (and Pages didn't exist): this kept group sizes small and made them feel cozier. Pretty much every school had a group for most fandoms, and it was a big deal if you were able to be the person who got to create your school's group for your favorite subject. There were a number of groups that were basically memes; I forgot what they all were, but no real discussion happened in the group, and their only value was to be listed on your profile. They were classified as "Facebook Classics", and what would happen was that the meme would take off at one school, then the members' friends at other schools would notice them on their profiles and create versions at their schools, and so on. Again, there was some prestige in being the first person to spread the meme to your school.

And there were some college-specific things on your profile, too. There were fields for your class schedule, and you had a separate "mailbox" field for colleges that had dorms.
I think particularly here on HN, I've seen a good deal of concern over github's social agenda and the perception that they've hired a lot of non-engineering folks to push that agenda.
I usually agree with other posts here that too much science makes for fiction that I enjoy less. Blindsight was an exception for me. I liked the science ideas and the fiction.

If you like this kind of thing you may also like Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. He wrote an article about the science ideas here:
http://gregbear.com/pages/newbiology.php

I didn't enjoy this one as much, but the hard-science part was done fairly well.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model#Aspects
Google knowing where you go could make their models of you more valuable. Now they can specifically target ads based on where you go and when. Sitting in the cab waiting to get where you are going what are you going to do? Pull out your smart phone and see an ad offering a sale at a competitor to where you told the cab to go.
"we had A LOT of overseas investors solely wanting to buy properties for renting them out on AirBnB."

Wow, so people who don't even live in the country are buying housing to rent to other people that don'e live in the country or city.

Meanwhile people who live, work and pay taxes increasingly can't afford rents in their hometowns.
I get five sick days a year. Toward the end of last winter I got sick several times and used four of them.

So for the rest of the year, say my insomnia shows up and I've been awake since 8 AM the previous day, I go to work anyway. I get maybe two hours of work done all day, but I sit at my desk and that's apparently what's important. That's only happened once this year, but it was Monday this week so it's fresh in my mind.

It's stupid. But I've got one sick day left and I might need it worse come flu season.

There are plenty of things I like about my job, but our time off policy is not among them... In the tech industry I'm guessing this is less common because it's not easy to hire good programmers. In other industries, I doubt it's an unusual experience.
Please stay home if you're sick. The productivity loss due to you not coming in < the productivity loss due to you coming in and infecting your coworkers.
The media will down play this. Blame it on Russia to try to detract attention from the content as always, but yes, it is very likely real.
I remember reading something about this... do you have a link?
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Others have suggested some very good counterexamples. David Brin is another. He's won the Hugo, Nebula and several other awards. Startide Rising is worth a read. You know an author is good when he can turn genetically altered dolphins and apes into compelling, realistic characters.
The human error rate on this task is 4% (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/387e/7349b8e31e316c2a738060...). What is amazing is how consistently people overestimate human performance.
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This is how it should be, but with some employers aggressively punishing people for being sick (e.g. docking pay, forcing make-up time, outright firing people for "poor performance") there's no incentive for people to look out for anyone else.

Instead come in, muddle along, and infect everyone.
Your posting specifically mentioned professional relationships and not 'casual social conversations', and professional connectivity is the key focus of LinkedIn. Though I keep my friends as contacts here too.

I do contact people casually and socially via either the messaging app or email periodically. It's not just for finding out who works at companies, although that's a handy feature. For me it's really more of a Rolodex of resumes and contact info that is kept up to date.

For example, I wouldn't care about reading all my colleagues daily Facebook or Twitter feeds of yet another picture of them on a beach or about to eat some fancy entree. (As mentioned, I'm not on Facebook).

But it's useful to see the regular LinkedIn updates of who's moved to new positions. And some people have written some interesting posts as well.
$10 off vs $10 credit is exactly the same thing unless you never buy anything from Amazon ever again.
Yeah.
Its a free forum and anyone can downvote as they see fit. But if he/she thinks because they house the beast they are safe, they are wrong. When the beast needs feeding it will eat and it wont discriminate. We are all in this together
Go LRH!
Google regularly manipulates search results in their best interests. They even modify their browser to behave differently around sites which they want to discourage or demote. And Google is proud of it. Regularly informing people of how Google will prioritize sites using Google's mobile framework or Google's definition of what's mobile friendly. Or preferring and promoting HTTPS websites, which are more expensive to operate and primarily from users with larger disposable income, over potentially equally valuable voices without. Far outside of content quality and relevance, the only things that should matter, Google regularly manipulates results to reward or punish behavior they want from the entire Internet.

When the chairman of Google's board is directly funding a startup with the mission of electing Hillary Clinton, and a Alphabet subsidiary CEO is one of Hillary's former aides, and Google has an incredible shield from prosecution under the current government leadership, I think we can safely assume Google considers it important to it's interests to ensure she's elected.

The article often cited isn't really a solid proof of Google manipulating results, but that doesn't mean it's true that they aren't. And of course, with Google's search algorithm one of the most guarded secrets at the company, some of the only code that regular rank and file Googlers aren't allowed to see, even you, a Googler who's failing to disclose your bias here in these comments... can't prove otherwise.
It might be, but the resource demands of higher fidelity acoustic models slows processing down. 44.1/16 has an order of magnitude greater bitrate than 8/8.
Yea I'm still in shock. Why isn't this getting more airtime ?
The human error rate on this task is 4% (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/387e/7349b8e31e316c2a738060...). So you are basically saying that telephones are a useless interface...

What is amazing is how consistently people overestimate human performance.
> Any social skill, unless natural, can be acquired.

How?
How does HN deal with programmer's block?
I have seen guides for defeating writer's block but I don't know how to deal with programmer's blocks. Any good suggestions?
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If my employer won't give me sick days, I'm not going to burn vacation unless I really, really don't feel like coming in.
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I, like so many around me in the Bay Area, work at a startup. Sick days are not even something that I can contemplate at an early stage startup.
Then you either have to use your vacation days or not get paid for any day not in the office.
No you looked at the wrong figure. It's figure 7 (Switchboard) and the WER for humans is 4%.