skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you notice when they fall out (anecdotally, this happens to me all the time with the current generation of Apple headphones) - how will this help when you're walking down a sidewalk and they get crushed under someone else's feet? Or fall down a drain? Under your seat in your car?

Headphones are one case where a wire is eminently helpful to have.
Surprised to see Andorra on that list!
Yeah... the utility offered needs to be super compelling to outweigh the weirdness factor.

I think that's partially the genius of something like Alexa (and eventually Google Home). You're in your own space so you're more likely to feel comfortable blurting out questions and commands.
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You're also assuming that plants and animals can migrate/adapt at a fast enough rate. Trees seem especially at risk.

We'll move the corn potatoes and Roundup, but nature will have to manage the rest. If a few keystone species go who knows what havoc will be wrought.
I want to know how many more of these rooms exist, and where exactly they are. I'm surprised we haven't had many more leaks about them given what I would consider the ease of identifying them. (ie, how many doors out there don't have door handles and sit next to a huge fiber optic networking infrastructure.)
Lucidchart has the ability to generate SQL for you to run and it'll generate a schema for you. I used it to figure out the schema for a particularly poorly designed DB I had to get data out of.
Well, this explains the 3.2 pence drop of GBP vs USD today.

I'm glad that they are going through with it, even though I voted to stay. Backing down would have been a big signal to the public that it has no voice. At least we can say that democracy is still functioning (partially).
He did say "or their production software isn't working"
Minus the strong AI behind the UI, minus a snug fit in the ear, plus one smartphone, and plus a hanging microphone.

The concept is sound, in my opinion, but the airpods are a miss.
The problem is a combination of sugar over-consumption and bad dental hygiene. Those are the issues that need to be addressed. Adding flouride to our drinking supply does not address these issues.
Interesting characterization of the US voter base:

> While rich people believe in one tax dollar one vote, more humanistic ones in one man one vote, Monsanto in one lobbyist one vote, the IYI [Intellectual Yet Idiot] believes in one Ivy League degree one-vote ...
Here is the real reason why they did this (declining population):

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/...
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12252995
I was an officer, but went to Officer Training School (OTS) which is a 12-week boot camp kind of approach, and I came to post similar thoughts. My dad was in the AF so I knew there was some level of BS to deal with, and just put up with it until I finished. I looked at it as a small price to pay to have an opportunity to get out in the world and do something better with my life which has paid massive dividends ever since.
Having a, "Holy shit, why didn't I think of that?" moment over here. Thanks for the tip!
I mostly follow fellow developers too, but I get most of my developer news from people's blogs and this site.
And if the healthcare becomes socialized who will make EpiPens ?
Interest rates just explain why there's money looking for a better return. But why invest in Uber as opposed to other start-ups? And why invest in start-ups at all as opposed to property or existing companies that are available at lower P/E values?

The answer seems to be that many people feel Uber is a decent investment compared to alternatives. If Uber ended up owning some share of self-driving transportation that choice might look prescient or at least not so hard to understand. Something analogous has happened at Amazon, where an unrelated business--AWS--now seems to be driving profitability
Trump makes bigoted statements. It's not a debate or a "view". It's just a fact.
Having been inside Google when Docker started to get big, there's a really simple explanation for all of this:

Kubernetes is a well designed descendant of a well-designed API with pretty specific tradeoffs for distributed systems (that mostly still work at the small scale).

Docker is a reverse-engineered mishmash of experiments attempting to replicate the same ancestor. Things like the horrible network abstraction layer - Google had the advantage of being able to move all their apps to a well understood naming scheme, rather than treating IP addresses as immutable. That any app does this is technical debt, but it worked for a long time. Now it doesn't.

Docker has tried to fix these things by wrapping them, not fixing the underlying debt. That only ever accumulates more debt, and rarely even provides the stopgap solution that is required. It's an admirable effort, and they've done a fantastic job - but a fantastic job at a fool's errand is still not behavior to emulate.
This is why any analysis of Roth vs Tradiational is inherently flawed.

The maximum contribution amount for both Roth and Tradional accounts is $5,500.

If you're condidering funding a Roth with $5,500, that means that you committing $8,209 of pretax income (if your marginal rate is 33%) to the cause.

If you chose to go the Tradiational route with that $8,209, you'll put $5,500 in your Tradational account and have $2,709 of pretax earnings left over. Once you pay your 33% marginal tax on that, you'll have $1,815 left over to put into a taxable account.

So the real question is Would I rather have:
$5,500 in a Roth IRA
or
$5,500 in a traditional IRA AND $1,815 in a taxable account.

At first glace the second option seems better, but this quickly evaporates when your time horizion is many decades in the future. The $1,815 you invested in the taxable account will see a slightly lower compound growth rate (as you have to liquidate a small fraction each year to pay the dividend/capital gains taxes that year). Even if the tax drag on your growth is just 40 basis points anually, that means over a 40 year horizon identically invested funds in the taxable account will be worth 15% less than in a tax-sheltered account.

For any reasonablly long time horizon, the extra tax sheltering of the ROTH is more advantagous than the higher nominal balance in the tradional&taxable scenario.
this is not investment advice

It certainly looks like investment advice!
> Seems like his mental conditions (...) should have been enough to have the request denied.

No, not because of that. There's this thing called “jurisdiction”, and countries have it over their own territory, but not that of others. The US should sue him in the UK, and try to get him sent to prison in the UK.
The rate of increase has been going up, too. When I first started watching all this, which was 10 years ago or so, the rate was at 3.2 +- 0.4 mm/yr rather than 3.4. I haven't seen an estimate of that acceleration anywhere that gets it just from the data and not from assumptions about models or tipping points. I haven't really looked that hard, though.

I'm skeptical of tipping points. Right now, I'm taking a "just what I see in the data" approach because of how politicized everything is.

I don't know what the future holds, but I'm not convinced, yet, that it's going to be a complete catastrophe.
>If your code cannot quickly do graphics, you have failed to competently make use of the user's resources. You are bad and are wasting their time and power, and in the one place where that inefficiency isn't justifiable

Bzzt wrong. Nobody cares much about efficiency above a certain level. If they did we wouldn't be using your "efficient" canvas, where 30% of calls is JS overhead, but native code.

>Sure but we're also not all running MacBook Pros or GTX1080 cards on Xeons, now are we?

No, but we almost all are running multi-core PCs, laptops and phones that are perfectly capable to run SVG for most things people use it for.

Maybe not plots with 10.000 points, but then again those are just badly designed, the screen doesn't have 10.000 pixels horizontally or vertically to show them all at once anyway.
I figured it was relevant, since it relates to types as a whole.

Consider the following: I have a "rating" type, which is a whole number from 0 to 5. If you try rendering a view with a number outside of that range, that's a bug! Which means you probably made a mistake somewhere.

I want software to help me catch bugs. If something can't be confirmed with a linter or compiler, getting a good error message during runtime is also fine. Once I've established that I expect some value, I don't want to write extra checks to confirm that my expectations are met.
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A 401k without some matching shouldn't be called a 401k in my opinion. You'll have to weigh the pre-tax advantage vs. the limited selection of funds available in the 401k offerings and 10% early-withdrawal penalty.

If I had some unique situation where I wanted money more accessible, I'd forego the 401k and get into an IRA with Vanguard, with one or more index-tracking ETFs (VTI i think?). But, I'd make sure its done every single payday automatically and directly. No stop off at the savings/checking account.

*This is not professional investment advice.
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>Well, that writing style certainly is calculated to make me think that the author is a douche.

Funny thing, people name-calling others "a douche" for their writing does the exact same thing to me. Meta, huh?

>I suppose it's possible that the watch will eventually become a big success, but it just has not yet.

Big success compared to what? It already outsold all smart-waches 10 to 1, and is the number #2 watch brand (overall) in the world in sales. And that's in its first iteration, and from a company that never made watches before, and when technology (battery, etc) is still immature for most of things one could add. To contrast, it took several years for the iPod to be that succesful.

If that's failure, I'd like to see what success is like.
EU just can't afford to give the UK a good deal since this will start a chain reaction with other dissatisfied countries. Sadly this will only end up being a lose/lose situation.
If we pay taxes for these services, can we do away with ads and tracking?
I went from an original Kickstarter Pebble, to a Samsung Gear 2, to a Moto 360, back to the Pebble Time Steel. It really does seem like Pebble provides a better product all around. It was a fun trip, I guess.
I just finished the Udacity machine learning nanodegree a bit over a month ago. While it is good (and getting better) at teaching techniques and material, you miss a lot in terms of access to research faculty.

There aren't any research projects, and you won't ever operate at the cutting edge (WaveNet!) at Udacity. It's like trade school for software, which is fine if you're highly motivated or just want to acquire some skills.
A friend of mine told me that we shouldn't worry. A few years ago, he denied global warming but now his view has changed. His reasoning is the following. More pollution => more growth => more knowledge => humanity will find a way to solve this like it always had.

Apparently, many people think along those lines :(
They are losing money, so may be not.

Both pieces of their business model, advertising and users, strongly benefit or hurt because of network effects. As the network shrinks, the value does not drop linearly. This is an assault from both sides. Because Twitter's growth is now definitely flat and likely is shrinking this is pretty bad.

While you can't do X or Y on Instagram or Snapchat now doesn't mean you won't in the future. Clearly both took a big chunk of Twitter's users. Tweeting pictures was previously a large use case. So was tweeting and sharing things with friends. That you can create a video of what happened rather than typing it out isn't necessarily a different product or use case.

In terms of news - FB, Google, Apple are all going after that market hard right now. The mass use case for Twitter probably made this sub use case look bigger than it was - news and instant events. Things could still change, but it is hard to see Twitter out-innovating their problems when they no longer have the social tail winds pushing them forward. And at some point the cash is going to matter a lot too.

Does it make a lot of sense for someone with a lot of users to buy Twitter and try to revamp it? Plausibly, but the brand damage definitely has been done with the growth demographics. That is kind of the mistake Myspace's acquirers have made. At some point a brand goes from valuable to doing just the opposite.

I bought Twitter shares and ended up selling them all once this settled in. There still probably is a threshold where an executive that is looking for value vs growth tries to acquire and you can arbitrage the difference.

Unfortunately the bulk of Twitter's remaining value is probably going to be realized by there competitors as a case study for the survivors - FB/IG, Snapchat, and future players.
Such is life.

Some Epictetus or Boethius salve on their wounds, and they'll be alright.
> the airpods drip with sex appeal

That's like, your opinion man.

Some people need trinkets to get laid, others don't ;-)
Twitter is being told to be Facebook, when in-fact it needs to follow an entirely different paradigm, because it's intrinsically a different product. If Twitter is judge by what Facebook judges Facebook for success, it'll always fall short.
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> In Java it is used to let the compiler know and it will erase the <T> and make it a concrete type.

It's the opposite. In Java, when you instantiate a generic class with a concrete type, it will erase that type in the generic class. So, the actual code for Foo<String> and Foo<Integer> is the same; String and Integer are erased, and inside of Foo, it just uses Object. For that reason, Foo<T> is not allowed to do anything with T that would require knowing the actual type of T; that knowledge has been erased. See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/generics/erasur...

With this confusion, it's hard for me to orient myself with how this applies to Swift.
> How would 401k laws change, you are already taxed when you withdraw from a 401k normally?

I can imagine wealth taxes at some point ('those fat cats never paid taxes on all that money!').

Frankly, I don't think it's possible to be too pessimistic about the future.
I think this attitude is the problem. If you pay me for 40 hours of work, I owe you 40 hours of work. That is all.

If you want me to be on call, pay me to be on call.

If my code blows up, I don't owe you 45 hours of work for 40 hours of pay. If my code blows up, it's because you haven't managed testing and quality assurance properly. I shouldn't be able to get shitty code into production — that's why you're the manager and I'm the peon.

It may sound harsh, but demanding free work is exploitation. And trying to guilt people into working for free is immoral.
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Not really. Having an iPod was fashionable and the white earbuds just let you show off your iPod. Samsung has white earbuds, you don't see many people wearing those.
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> We generally only want to censor opposing viewpoints

Some people call that integrity or being self-aware: only doing things that you don't regret. I don't have to explain this, right?
Before I dive into my comment, let me just state that I agree with you on the impossibility of delivering 40 hours of "quality brain time" and on the stupidity of measuring productivity in "butt-in-chair hours".

That said, I always get worried whenever someone starts advocating for getting rid of 40-hour work week without a very clear idea of how to replace it in concrete terms. See, maybe I'm cynical, but it seems to me that a lot of people forget that the whole concept of 40-hour work week comes from a compromise between the workers and the employers: it's supposed to mean you can be expected to work no more than 40 hours a week. Naturally, the employer will expect you to work no less, otherwise they're "not getting their money's worth".

Whether we like it or not, there is a power imbalance between workers and employers and it's usually in favor of employers. I don't want to touch sensitive topics of how that imbalance might be redressed, but as long as the imbalance is there, having a fixed number of hours in a work week -- even if that's only nominal -- is still better than getting rid of that and making workers vulnerable to having their historically hard-earned rights eroded or downright stripped away.

If that sounds too jaded and bitter, consider the "unlimited" vacation policy. At best, it means you'll still take roughly the same time off as the rest of the team. At worst, everyone ends up taking less vacation time than before and the company profits because they don't have the financial liability of unused vacations anymore.
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I have two abcesses and a cavity. So this is very much an issue to me. My dental problems were caused by weak enamel and losing access to proper dental care.

As a child, I used to get nauseated after brushing my teeth and formed a physical aversion I had to overcome daily. After discovering flouride-free toothpaste a few years ago, I stopped feeling sick after brushing. It's possible I have an underactive thyroid but I haven't sought a real diagnoses.

Putting flouride in our tap doesn't solve sugar over-consumption or bad dental care. And it possibly aggravates hyperthyroidism in some people, though I don't know of any conclusive studies.
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I'll point out that before the whole Web 2.0 and "social networking" thing happened, we had... forums. Which were actually communities. You would actually recognise names, grow a connection with people, probably wind up messaging them through PM systems and maybe getting their Messenger handles.

Now, to replace forums, we have... Reddit and Hacker News. Where even though you might recognise nicknames once in a while, you're unlikely to PM them, and in the case of HN that's actively impossible. And so people desire some system which gives them some sense of community, which Twitter (along with Tumblr, and a couple of other sites) gives them.
Ask HN: Is it possible for someone to not be cut out for software engineering?
I'm pretty new to software engineering (~1 year out of college as a CS major) and am having some serious problems improving my skillset (particularly with interviews).

Background:

- I worked as a linux sysadmin at a startup before going to school for CS. After 3 years, I graduated with a decent GPA (>3.6) and a couple internships at a large tech company.

- In college, I always felt like I had to work a harder than most of my classmates in order to get the same result. I would regularly spend 60 - 80 hours per week on schoolwork.

- Upon graduation, I accepted a job with the company I interned with and have worked there for ~1.3 years. However, I've been prepping to jump to a different role for a few months now.

- Recently (past 1.5 months), I've spent 1 - 3 hours per day on tech interview prep using CLRS, Cracking the Coding Interview, etc. My current target is a role at one of the "big four" tech companies or a high-quality startup doing either webdev or infrastructure engineering.

- So far, I have interviewed for and been rejected by no less than 10 different roles. I was also rejected by approximately 20 companies during college. I always fail during tech portions.

- I am REALLY bad at algorithm problems and experience serious performance anxiety. Concentrated studying and mass interviewing haven’t led to positive results so far. I can solve most problems correctly given enough time (usually 2x+ longer than interviews).

Questions:

1.) Does there ever come a point where it just isn't worth it to continue trying to be a software engineer who can get into top-tier companies / projects?

2.) How can I find some positive reinforcement in interviewing / interview prep even if I constantly get rejected? I do perform post mortems on every interview in order to find areas to improve.

3.) If my goal isn't an impossibility, how can I efficiently progress towards it? Would a mentor be helpful?
Key distinction. As well as assembling an incredible logistics system. Uber has... a trivial app that's already been cloned dozens of times?

Uber's saving grace, if it will ever get one, will be autonomous vehicles. First the technology has to get good enough, then the law has to catch up. All while Uber is just dumping cash to fend off the aforementioned dozens of clones by artificially deflating their prices?

My bet is that they'll run out of time/money.
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>that we don't realize yet we don't really need it ... remove the Phone from the iPhone

Only we use the phone tons of times a day, and there is no replacement with existing carrier services etc.
It's obviously fraud. If your windshield breaks and your deductible (co-pay) is $500, I can't quote you $500 above market rate to fix it and give it back to you in cash to stick it to your insurance company.
Sounds like a great product.
To the authors:

You should try set track_io_timing = on before running the query. That will show you the actual amount of time spent on i/o. Additionally, if you are using RAID, and haven't tuned it yet, you should try increasing the effective_io_concurrency parameter.
Its a bit deeper than that, freedom of movement of people/goods/services/capital lies at the very root of why the EU was founded

Even Norway and Switzerland and Iceland had to compromise to gain access to this market.

It would be absolutely hilarious (from a political point of view) if the UK endsup in same position of having to pay into the EU and implement most of the laws without having any say in how its run.
“I wish there were a trillion humans in the solar system. Think how cool that would be. There would be so much dynamism with all of that human intelligence. You’d have a thousand Einsteins at any given moment—and more.

This one sentence nails everything wrong with the expansionist mindset: we could have a 1000x as many active geniuses as we do now, and all that dynamism and intelligence with our current population if we could just figure out how to better organize the society that we have, stop wasting resources on things that don't matter (like most of the crap Amazon sells), and stop grinding people into dust (the the people toiling in Bezos's warehouses, for example) for the sake of short-term gain, vindictiveness or simple neglect.

That's where our future lies. Not in throwing in the towel, and simply scaling the current social model out by 1000x.
"Discipline is remembering what you want" - David Campbell, Founder of Saks Fifth Avenue. So if you want to motivate yourself, then remember what you want. Then if you find you are not doing what is necessary, it means that you have to confront the fact that you may not actually want what you are telling yourself you want.
>Then I saw a photo of what wearing AirPods looks like from the front

Compared to what? Not wearing in ear headphones at all? Because with all of them you look the same, just with cables dangling too...
Weird that Lyft is still a part of this discussion since all you read about is how Uber is murdering them... and that's all we've been hearing for years and years... and yet here they are right here in this comment thread.

We'll see how strong "user preference" is when Uber can no longer afford to subsidize the living hell out of every ride, but the next little service with a strong VC backing is just getting started doing so.