skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say they can't issue bonds. I said they can't borrow at negative interest rates, or even negative real interest rates.

Here's what they sold in February 2016, for example (annual inflation was 1.0%):

- $500 million in 1.3% two-year notes issued at a spread of 60 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $500 million in three-year FRNs (floating rate notes) issued at three-month LIBOR + 82 basis points

- $1.0 billion in 1.3% three-year notes issued at a spread of 60 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $500 million in five-year FRNs issued at three-month LIBOR + 113 basis points

- $2.25 billion in 1.7% five-year notes issued at a spread of 80 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $1.5 billion in 2.25% seven-year green notes issued at a spread of 105 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $2.0 billion in 2.85% ten-year notes issued at a spread of 135 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $1.25 billion in 3.25% 20-year bonds issued at a spread of 150 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

- $2.5 billion in 4.5% 30-year bonds issued at a spread of 190 basis points over similar-maturity Treasuries

http://marketrealist.com/2016/02/investment-grade-corporate-...
The problem then becomes that you get bored halfway through setting this up ;)

But you raise an important point. Doing it with a friend. It helps so much because you motivate eachother and there's also a bit of friendly competition and raising eachother's bar.
Aggregates represent consistency boundaries. To enforce consistency you would theoretically need to have your entire state loaded when you go to process a command for a single bank aggregate.

Since each command produces a new version of the bank and many commands are coming in at the same time, most of them will fail when writing to the event store. Do they keep retrying until they succeed? Either way, this is not efficient and could effect the availability of your servers.

If you have multiple aggregates, the consistency boundaries are smaller and therefore you have a smaller state that you have to maintain consistency across. There are less operations on a single aggregate and less opportunities for contention that arise from simultaneous operations.

Also, if you are using queues for your commands and events (we are, but I suspect you are not), then you can partition your queues such that you can process your workload N ways without worrying about things happening out of order. Each aggregate processes serially within a partition. If you have just one large aggregate then you would have to jump through a lot of hoops to be able to partition the work while maintaining ordering guarantees.

I can really only guess at the details of your implementation, but I am guessing that your design has accounted for all of the above in some way. If there is one thing I've learned, it's that there are many, many ways to implement CQRS. If your software works correctly under load, then I am not sure it would matter if it fits squarely into the definition of CQRS. In fact, you may have something new altogether that presents a better way to achieve the same goals as CQRS without the same cognitive overhead.
So you want say 20% equity in a company and the same pay as you would make at Google?

Not sure a lot of VCs would back that.. as they can find another founder to work for 95k and 20% equity. Your pay cut would fund 3 more engineers.

If you really want lots of equity and lots of pay, you need to bootstrap and be patient and be a rockstar. I don't see other ways to get there.
The Third Transportation Revolution
>Just because the flotsam isn't visible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

They don't say it doesn't exist, period.

They say it doesn't exist in the particular (mythical) form described.

If the Lock Bigfoot turned out to be a stray gorilla from some local zoo, he would exist, but the "Bigfoot" as described would still be a myth.

(Myth after all is commonly based on some historical basis).
I'm in a similar situation as the op. I personally enjoy that phase of a company's lifecycle. So long as there is runway (1-2 yrs). I love that edge of the seat do whatever it takes to try and make it work feeling.

I think in my case I've just become more aware of the fact that an exit is the exception rather than the norm. I've also had to educate myself a hell of a lot more regarding the intricacies of equity, i.e. investors preference, etc.
Well now they are not homeless. They have a home. So yes the homeless rate drops. Now that they have stability, the security of a warm home to come home to. A safe place to sleep. Maybe you'll have more luck addressing the other problems that affect them.

I wish people wouldn't latch onto drug addiction as the first thing that must be solved, you're really picking the hardest problem to tackle first and trying to do it in the hardest possible environment to recover. Remember there are plenty of functioning drug addicts in the world wearing suits to their day jobs on Wall Street and the like.
The Case Against Reality: why our perceptions are not the real world
I'm no tax expert, but couldn't these losses be offset by Tax Loss Harvesting? It doesn't wipe them out, but does reduce the loss by approximately your top tax bracket.
Crowdsourced Health Research Studies: An Emerging Complement to Clinical Trials
Many mobile phone manufacturers did the same at some point. Sony used to cell phones with their own propietary sound output and their propietary memory sticks. LG did the same for sound.
Then the industry matured with standarized chargers, memory and sound output. But Apple somehow got their own way, sound is just one more thing.
It impacts how interesting the article is.

If they were together there could be a tech angle - like how this was going to insulate their data centres from problems with the grid, or how they were going to shed load when the wind wasn't blowing, or something like that.

Otherwise it sounds like AWS and Amazon Wind Power could basically be two unrelated companies.
The German Tank Problem (Wikipedia)
Are you reading what you're replying to? Series EE bonds are guaranteed to double your investment, a return of ~3.5%, if held for 20 years.

If you hold for 19 years, they are, as you point out, a terrible investment. But the 20 year yield is decent, for a low risk product, in today's market.
Detecting Human Presence Using Bluetooth
To a degree, i wonder if we need a new breed of atheist idols. The old guard is too gloomy and frail. Atheism can be a rosy cheeked child. This perceived unhealthiness attached to existentialism should go away.
Ask HN: How has your experience with Amazon Prime been?
Have you run into any issues? Would you stay with Amazon Prime for the long haul? Why or why not?

Thanks
You could have done this: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1011
A shared host isn't a virtual server for development.
While that case is terrible, I think most people will find a difference between one incident of rape between two people in their 20s and the statutory rape of 5 adolescent girls by a 45-year-old man. To me at least, there seems to be very little comparison.
I would agree that there's absolutely a difference between a review for a product you've used or helped support and a review written because somebody on HN told you to write it.
Phil Heath Wins Mr Olympia 2016 Title – He Is Now a 6x Mr Olympia Holder
The one star rating is not an honest attempt to review the product--it's just pushing an agenda. For the vast majority of people the third-party cartridge issue is a footnote, not something meriting a one-star review.
Pickens Plan actually did invest in huge wind farms. Not sure about in Texas, but Oklahoma is littered with his windmills.
I'm not going to touch on whether the 'gifted' only feel this sort of constancy of existential fear and depression. I don't think that matters. I think moving past it does.

It's a question of framing.

I have battled this sort of perspective, the existentialist depression, for a long time.

I am finally beginning to realize the radical openness of life can be viewed in another way. You can see this existential predicament we all share not as something ultimately harrowing , but rather a gift.

The future truly is open. Radically so. Existence does precede essence--rather there's no essence at all.

See what occurs as a gift, when you can.

The works of Samuel Beckett, though perhaps on a surface interpretation nihilistic and perhaps depressing, are actually a point of positivity for me. I find they really capture the open nature of life and its inherent lack of structure, or apparent (key word) purpose, and the human propensity, which is really quite admirable, to go on, in spite of all that.

The following are all quotes from Beckett I like to keep in mind when I am viewing life in a grim manner and want to improve my mood:

but who cares how things pass, provided they pass.

the end is the beginning, and yet you go on.

A story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

----

The important thing, I think, is to live. You can't control how things pass, but you can rest easier, perhaps, if you lay down your head knowing you at least tried.

I had a professor whom I will always cherish that said "what if, could have, should have, would have, if only" are the words of tragedy. I've finally taken that lesson to heart.

An importnat step for me was deciding and forcing myself to go out and do things I normally didn't do. I'm not an inherently social person, and I forced myself to modify that. I'm still not a butterfly by any means, but getting out there, meeting people, learning about them and how they lived their lives, genuinely starting to care about them, that all helps. Solitude, while it can be a sweet companion, I think is probably the worst possible thing to have when facing this sort of condition of existential worry.

A story is not compulsory. It is written, if you write it.

Sorry for personal ramblings, but I've been through what I'd call existential dread and its not fun, not fun at all. We only have one shot at this life thing. At the end of the day, spending it in a state of perpetual negativity is sorrowful. It's my hope, I guess, that maybe venting my own process of change and moving on from this incessant feeling of damnation will help someone else too, even just a little.

Keep on living guys.
Why should the lead developer of a software project need to stay with harassers? Holding "unity of the GNU system" is what is childish. There's basically no difference if a project is an official GNU project or not anyway.
The idea is to have a fresh environment for testing and development. Which companies do not charge for sleeping virtual servers?
I don't really believe in deciding whether to go full time based on how long you've been working on a side project, but rather based on its traction.
from the original emal list.

> The Free Software Foundation recently fired a transgendered employee of the FSF, just for being trans.

> I do not believe that the FSF or the GNU project deserve to exist.

> Libreboot is not part of GNU or FSF anymore. I hereby denounce both GNU and FSF.

> FSF and GNU can both go fuck themselves.

This sort of unsubstantiated accusation in public about GNU/FSF internal personnel decisions looks rather unhinged. It's a crude attempt to give the GNU/FSF and its members/employees a public black eye and solicit an internet outrage mob. Even if this person feels they have some legitimate concern these tactics are deplorable and should be denounced.
Tl;dr well organized paternalism which also excludes (or at least deprioritizes) the antisocial. Kind of the opposite of everything that is popular with the HN crowd.
The alleged issue even is not being fired because of being transgender, but being fired because of complaining too much about being harassed.
Google next world gaint in the world on internet
Paul, thank your for your reply. I currently go through the tutorials at https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutori... and think they are a good starting point for me. One thing I am a bit nervous about is whether a block-based environment would be helpful for the first steps. Espruino with its Blockly-based editor has a slight head start here.
Something this article didn't really get into that I've seen elsewhere: Utah also assigns a caseworker to these people, to help them work on their problems (drugs, drinking, whatever). It's a little more hands-on than just handing over some keys to an apartment; they seem to want this program to work, to have results that stick.
I know where you are coming from.

I felt that I was a member of a different species, to the point where that idea quite literally manifested itself as a concrete possibility in my head.

You're right man, it's all thought based...it's all brain weirdness. It's a conflict between biosocial and intellectual factors.

The only way to push past it is to change your mindset. I can't speak for others, obviously, but for me that's been a long and arduous process.

There are ways to question the nature of life and the world and to remain calm and serene about it. To remain level.

I found too that little things are a big help...I lived a long time not bothering myself with "minor" and "vain" concerns... i.e. fancy clothing, delicious meals etc... but truly taking care and investing in these little things, concerning yourself with the quality of the little practices you partake in everyday really does begin to help.

Caring about yourself in little ways slowly but surely leads to a more positive overall conception of your own self and your movement through the world.
Very neat! But possibly afflicted somewhat with rounding errors; I spent a few minutes reading about Lagrangian mechanics, and came back to find the pendulum whirling around its origin point like a thrown bolas. It looks like you've put the proper amount of effort into scope hygiene and the debugger doesn't seem to want to work, so I can't give the values of any of your code's variables, but I'm using Firefox 45 ESR, if that helps at all.
Dogmatism is dogmatism whether or not there's a man in the sky behind it.
Why Computer Science Education in K-12 Settings Is Essential
A big problem lies from the MOOC end, not the student end, in unnecessarily enforcing a schedule and penalizing those who fall behind. That's a huge detractor to catching up and finishing the course when "life happens".

If I could resume at my own pace, I'd have finished courses that I gave up on.
Sion: A Solarcar for everyone
It's worth noting that homelessness =/= rough sleeping. For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there are several who are squatting, living in vans, crashing on couches etc. Hidden homelessness is much more difficult to identify, so the headline statistics on homelessness rates can be misleading.
A note about How python3.5 async-await work
The fact that a printer even needs "firmware upgrades" should be a big turn-off, because inkjets have been around for decades; they're not a bleeding-edge technology with many unknowns, they're relatively mature and essentially all bugs should've been found and fixed long ago.

From what I understand, most inkjets are pretty dumb devices in that they just accept raster graphics and spray the pixels onto the page. A lot of them can't even do ASCII/text-mode anymore.

Maybe they're now deliberately leaving bugs in so they can ostensibly "fix" them while also doing anti-user things like cartridge blacklisting...
Completely agree here... we did that. Bootstrap, small team but still at scale (and highly profitable).
> I'm not sure how efficient this approach is. I got the impression when I tried to donate some cycles recently (spare servers) that its not widely used. Anybody has any experiences they would like to share? I'd love to hear.

I remember it has been used to crack firmware signing keys for TI calculators.

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145273.h...
That's what you get from a movement that more resembles a religious cult. Everything has to bow to their arbitrarily defined software freedoms first and foremost. IMO an even better reason to leave the GNU project and the FSF is that Richard Stallman is a pedophilia apologist. (See the quotes at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pedophilia of him)
Bitcoin doesn't gain much currency at MIT
Don't forget part of Pickens' Plan included water rights from West Texas to Dallas under those wind farms. If I remember correctly, there were some disagreements and TBP wasn't able to complete the water pipeline portion.

He didn't miss the boat. His master plan of connecting West Texas water to Dallas for marked up resale fell through.

https://gigaom.com/2008/06/20/t-boone-pickens-taps-water-win...
Years ago I read about an excellent effort in Italy to reduce the homeless problems there. They examined what made folk homeless and what kept them there.

A big focus was on re-employment and having a fixed postal address. Those who lost their jobs and then their homes with no fixed address were unable to obtain another job and hence fell into a spiral of chronic homelessness.

One of the big takeaways from Italian policy was to firstly provide temporary housing. The second was to create a 'virtual' postal address for anyone affected by homelessness. This apparently helped a lot in enabling people to climb out of homelessness and back onto the career ladder.
Memes, memes everywhere..

Existential depression, my ass! Gifted adults, and even children, would surely read things like Stepenwolf, On The Road, Cuckoos Nest, Nausea, Age Of Reason and the likes and cure themselves.

Depression is nothing but a set of acquired habits. Change in behavior, caused by traveling and excessive reading, will produce a different perspective upon so called reality and an altered set of habits which will change ones personality. For better or worse.

This kind of CBT goes back to the seers and sages of the East and the first great philosophers of the West somewhere about 600 B.C. It still works.
Is there any reason to use debian instead of ubuntu LTS?

EDIT: for server use.
I've also noticed that the simulation goes berserk, but only if you leave the page (I mean if you go to an other window or tab). I don't think it's due to Runge-Kutta but rather to the way HTML5/javascript behaves when the page is running in the background.

I have no idea what could be done to avoid it.
I think my 17+ year old SETI@Home account may be the oldest non-email account I have. Great to see BOINC still going.
QE really doesnt make that much difference, it only affects the bond market directly a bit. VC is getting more money as the returns have been good (finally, historically they werent), while say hedge funds have had bad returns. The amount of money in private markets depends highly on risk preferences.
What's your business model like for Office Snapshots?
The problem with "analogue" black holes is that they are modeling what we think we already know about black holes. So we've essentially looked up at space, said "There's a weird thing that breaks the laws of physics and works like XYZ, so let's model exactly XYZ to see if the behaviors match up to predictions in the lab."

You shouldn't expect to find any surprises if your lab mockup of the thing you're studying is based off the predictive models.

To find something novel you need something that actually does break the laws of physics, not something that will merely produce the same result if our assumptions about the object were correct. It's kind of a tautology.
I had a sudden "wake up call" about a year ago, and since then things have been getting much better. Partly because I have become more independent, but also because I have perfected the art of simply not thinking about things that I want to ignore. I'm not sure if that's healthy or not, but it seems to work.
According to Reserved IP addresses there are 588,514,304 reserved addresses and since there are 4,294,967,296 (2^32) IPv4 addressess in total, there are 3,706,452,992 public addresses. There are 65536 ports, so one would have to scan all those ports on all those addresses.
I have to wonder, as this has been around for quite some time now, is there any particular reason this was posted today? New developments?
Bear in mind: not invented by Apple. Japanese kitchen appliances (e.g. deep fryers, fondue appliances) have had that type of connector since the late 90s/early 2000s.
That terminal '}()' is there for a reason.

https://play.golang.org/p/zyMbmJsnUz // minor mod of
donatj's example.
I love BOINC! My first serious research project was to try and parallelize some experiments using BOINC installed on all our library computers.

The resulting throughput wasn't much faster than our servers at the time, but was a fantastic learning experience.
Comes free with Prime.
What's your feedback on it so far? I saw the course a few weeks back and it seemed kind of gimmicky so didn't dive deeper.
There have been significant inquiries into the validity of the Big Bang theory for some time. It appears there are a lot of things we cannot account for:

http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Cosmology-Big-Bang-Theory.htm
So why did they buy Beats Audio?
Depends on the perspective. I've had family who rolled their eyes when I'd tell them about seeing homeless people just walk up to trees and start pissing or drop their trousers and shit in trash cans, by bushes, on the sidewalk, etc. Invariably the ones who visit marvel at my relatively tame descriptions afterward. I'm sure the homeless find it quite a positive that they can relieve themselves without much interference, while I find it a net negative.
I think the problem is the "Get Started" button leads directly to a sign up page.

I'd find it more useful if it used my geolocation to go straight to my representatives. After getting engaged and wanting to follow them, I would then be more inclined to sign up in order to follow updates.
How to appreciate your Daughters on upcoming National daughters day
yep and being a generator will probably give them direct access to this market. I'm wondering if turning some of the AWS computing power toward playing the energy market isn't some of the motivation here.
I spend 33% more than that on just my rent (small, attached townhouse) and my commute to the city is an hour all together. So, yeah, $32k per homeless person seems stingy.
Which is yet another reason for a modern language to handle generics.
Better than a Gallon of Gall: Abe Lincoln addresses a temperance society (1842)
The main reason imho is that academia is overcrowded. When a field becomes crowded, popularity starts weighing more than inventiveness, perseverence, creativity and risk-taking. It may sound counterintuitive, but maybe they should reduce public spending for research.
I think someone who is used to putting together a product using creative people would do better as a manager for a software project than a person who see all the developers as numbers or cogs.
Ask HN: Is there a URI for identifying points in time?
So is there a YouTube link to actually listen to what it sounds like? :)
Mobile phone companies didn't "mature" into using the same micro USB charger. The European Union sat them all down at a table and said "you standardize on something you like, or we make a law to force a standard". They agreed, and renewed the agreement yearly.

Few years down the line and Samsung says "I'm not signing this year, because Apple doesn't play ball and use their own cable", and the EU moved on their threat and started process on a law. Don't know if it's finally passed or not.

(the EU original intent was to limit waste, and was triggered by seemingly every single Nokia phone needing its own specific charger)
I've seen $350k-400k for a lead frontend position around the Valley, and $250k + bonuses for a director of engineering position in the Valley - these are firsthand numbers. The numbers possible are higher than you might expect, and I am even relatively young in terms of experience (a little under 4 years).