skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True or Not, it makes no difference, given the choice between a robotic product made in china delivered in two weeks and a robotic product made in the USA delivered in 24 hours, consumers will always pick the later. And given this example why would the cost be any different to the consumer? If anything you would expect the Chinese example to have higher shipping costs. When talking about a truly competitive global economy which we do not really have no because of wildly different costs of labor. A robot in the US costs just as much to run as in China.
Glad to hear it! That was my first thought on glancing over the figures: 'hmm, I bet they're located in Silicon Valley, they could save money by moving somewhere cheaper'. But if the money is actually going to hiring the best people instead of into the pockets of San Francisco landlords, fair play to them.
This reminds me of an old George Carlin trope:

How many big oil companies are out there: Three. Big banks: Three, four. Presidential candidates: Hillary or "The Donald". Visa or Mastercard. Red or Blue.

But: 32 ice cream flavors! 50 different types of noodles!! 250 varieties of sneakers!!!

Everything important is laid out for you.

Everything unimportant: endless, meaningless choices.

(I miss him so much. What would I give to see what he'd do with the material a Donald presidency would hand him?!)

I for one am happy with Apple. But still, it would be nice to have another good player out there. You wouldn't even need to be visionary. Just not-creepy would be nice already!
Show HN: Kello, the sleep revolution device
Honestly just need email, calendar and contacts. How is the spam filter with fastmail? When I google I see bad things.
I've noticed it just straight up doesn't work with Purify enabled, refreshing the page with content blockers disabled has fixed it every time.
All the +1 in the world for this. I've been browsing the Twitter bot for a while just thinking "some of these are great; I'd happily hang one".
Being dead.
Thanks for the response and totally agree with the sitting in traffic, wasted time thing ,but with all due respect it still seems inefficient, wouldn't public transport and telecommuting be better options in a connected world?

How will there still be no traffic jams, or the car will be like an office? In that case why not just work from home and come to work for meetings here and there? Might flexible / less work hours help?

I mean people will still be driving around in vehicle which often makes people motion sick if not paying attention to surroundings , cars requires a lot of energy, take up space etc.

I used to travel to work via train, it was 1.5 hours one way, it was highly productive time for me, but for some reason trains don't seem to make people as motion sick?

I guess one other thing to note is that in Australia, where I'm from originally, some see people think of others using public transport or biking as kind of peasants or feel it's inferior, that might be part of it too ? They're also the kind of people who often like to drive fast and own expensive cars as a status thing, so I'm still note sure it's going to take?
Some other comment threads here have linked it to different page scroll behavior. Is that what you're experiencing?
The graphs have unlabeled axes which made it hard for me to take anything it said seriously.
This Week’s Hype: The Strange Second Life of String Theory
"Though most tags in an AMP HTML page are regular HTML tags, some HTML tags are replaced with AMP-specific tags"

If Microsoft were introducing this, I suspect we'd see a lot of "embrace, extend, extinguish" comments.
for item in resume:
print("Tell me more about %s" % item)
answer = input()
print("How to do you feel about %s" % answer)
answer = input()
gnome Ann's best friend perhaps?
https://xkcd.com/1704/
Science can't tell us whether something will ever be testable or falsifiable; we just know what we know now.

So there's no scientific reason to hate any particular idea. Rather, the concepts direct the priority of effort--let's not spend time on things that are not currently testable or falsifiable.

The "hatred" aspect comes from somewhere else besides science, and honestly I think it's harmful more often than it is helpful.
Yet another csv command line tool
I don't understand this anti-autonomy cheerleading. It's like people on HN live in a parallel universe where there have been a bunch of deaths from cars running Autopilot, whereas in the world I live in, it seems to be somewhat safer than a human alone. Like, people can mess up either way, but they seem to be less likely to do so when the car is also looking out for them. What am I missing?
We can take that to an extreme: <br>
(from 2015) http://time.com/3651697/afghanistan-war-cost/

"...the CRS (Congressional Research Service) report says the cost of keeping a single American soldier there (Afghanistan) this year is an eye-watering $3.9 million..."
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I don't think there's too many millionaires coming back from Afghanistan.
Your point about referencing socialist revolutionaries is indeed part of what I'm going for, and is why I'm very reluctant to align myself with vanguardists, but we're not discussing the efficacy of revolutionary socialist parties. I meant precisely what I said, if a state is socialist-in-name-only, then how can you compare it to an actual socialist economic model. If these countries we're discussing ran a system of worker ownership, that I'm simply unaware of, then I'd love to be provided with some names so I can study their history.

European feudalism was over by about ~1500, the Industrial Revolution started in about ~1750, but it certainly makes for a cute soundbite. People on the left often cite the enclosures[1] in England as the beginnings of capitalism. Laws such as vagrancy[2] laws were in place to force people to work, land which was previously agreed to be communal was taken into private hands. If you consider this to be a 'capitalist revolution' then it could easily be argued

[1] This has a lot to do with the lefts definition of capitalism, which I recognise is not universal so enclosures being the origin of capitalism isn't an argument which is likely to be fruitful, especially on HN.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(people)#United_Kingd...
I should clarify - it absolutely is visual. Just less so than pure maths.
Lots of people are talking about how expensive Silicon Valley is and how they have to compete with other salaries... but this is the justifying reason to me. If you pay enough that money is off the table, you can trust them a lot better.
The NHTSA is hinting in that direction, indicating that manufacturers must clearly distinguish between driver assistance systems (levels 1 and 2) and real self driving (levels 3 - 5). There will probably be some standard on this. There has to be; consider what happens when car rental fleets start having some of these features.

There was an accident with a Volvo where someone was showing off the pedestrian safety system, and hit a pedestrian. It turned out they hadn't purchased the pedestrian safety system.[1] Something is needed to prevent problems like that.

Then there's mode switching trouble. Classic problem with aircraft control systems. Tesla disengages the "autopilot" if the driver touches the brake. The trouble is that this also disables automatic braking, as the driver is assumed to now be in control. So tapping the brake without applying it fully in a hazardous situation causes a crash.

All these driver behavior problems with shared control authority are hard. Maybe harder than going for level 3 and letting the automation do it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_47utWAoupo
Some TLS implementations return a randomised date for the handshake anyway, which is why constraints works the way it does. TLS 1.3 killing it is just gravy.

If you're worried about a caching proxy you can set the constraint to a URL that returns something dynamic. Although it would be interesting to see what % of the top TLS-enabled webservers don't return something recent for HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Salaries at tech companies are six figure but minimum wage is just above $10/hr.

Guess what, same here. An engineer at Statoil makes a lot more than a janitor. Minimum wage here is higher and there's a more elaborate safety net, still living at that end is very uncomfortable. Again I don't see any takeaway from this.

> That's not a realistic claim if the government is waving taxes that would otherwise amount to half the total cost of the car.

This is a realistic claim because the government does not subsidize a vehicle with own money as it is often presented here, but withholds extra taxation. No taxpayer money harmed. Tax discounts are not unprecedented, e.g. tax code here has elaborate cases for families with children, people with disabilities etc. Two people doing identical job can be paying very different amount of tax. Different categories of imported food can have taxes differing by magnitude, and so on.

> What's interesting to compare is the Tesla cost there vs California relative to other options.

I don't think anyone had illusions that Tesla isn't economic in Norway relative to other options. That's why people buy it and I mentioned it before.

The end result is people here drive tons of Teslas and other EVs, and the market has changed for good. When tax incentives removed, people will still drive them, as they are simply better rides overall with simpler maintenance routine.

I don't see in any way why has Tesla miscalculated the market as initially stated. I see tons of their cars on the roads every day, so it arrived here. It is hilarious my benign remark was treated as some classist rub.

> I don't know about Norway, but most cars sold in Europe are not Audis or BMWs.

Look, I'm not sure how it's in the States, but a BMW or Audi won't get you laid in Europe. Kids won't drop their candy and men won't think of your "status". Cabbies drive Merc E class here (not just in Norway). Pakistani immigrants drive German sedans. Everyone knows they are more expensive but not out of range of a middle income family on a financing - just a matter of your priorities. Porsche Cayenne is "luxury", Maibach is, but A5 and the likes, made in hundreds thousands each year is not. Tesla is cool in its own high tech way, but salon trim doesn't give a luxury vibe either.
simple csv tool written in go. should be able to handle big files. hopefully it makes working with csv a bit more joyful. could definitely use some more work. but hey its a start.
As always, replace unlabeled axes with, "My Level of Arousal".
Kafka is a lot of fun to read. All these stories are available online already, by the way [1]. First story's title is translated as "On Parables" in this version. Presumably the letters/journal entries are what will be new with this book. I've always been a fan of his story "A Little Fable":

"Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I am running into."

"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.

1. PDF warning: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/Franz_Kafka.p...
Funny! I'd never heard "near-sighted" before that Wikipedia article.

Surely in using 'short' exclusively metaphorically, its metaphoric effect is lost entirely?
Right, but my point is that between Google Analytics, Chrome, and Doubleclick, Google is already tracking basically every pageview on the Internet. There's no need to introduce yet another product to accomplish this.

I think a far more likely explanation is to take Google's statement that they want to accelerate the mobile web at face value. When people view pages faster, they view more of them, which in turn means that they search more, they click on more ads, and Google makes more money. This makes far more sense to me as a direct revenue play than as a surveillance/tracking play.
If you are any good, I think you're better off developing a network or looking for customers than spending too much time over-polishing your skills.

Patrick McKenzie's advice is good, see:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

And I've also read some really good advice here on HN.

My own personal experience: Based on what I believed to be an unmet need/new opportunity, I built a pretty small project. With help from the university I graduated from, I got contacts with the local business community, and now I have more leads (not yet customers) than I have time (I'm currently full-time employed).

Businessmen were really kind and gave me 15 minutes to listen to their needs and pitch my product. We over-estimate the difficulty of securing a meeting (that's not the same as securing a sale though).
The battery itself is a far bigger point of failure than the connection to the battery. If your goal is to make a good product, it is worth introducing a small failure mode in order to remove a larger one. Since most phones no longer have replaceable batteries, they are hosed once the battery no longer holds a charge.
Why is this upvoted?

It's really just an advertisement without any data or information that could be taken seriously.
20 September 2015: Piggate
In a lot of cases, these bloatware apps are in the RO root partition, and so you wouldn't really gain usable disk space.
Last night a hacker stole my (digital) life
This is really impressive. I'll bet if you printed these out as high quality giclees and didn't tell anyone how you did it you could sell them for thousands of dollars in fine art galleries.
As a dev who has both interviewed and worked with several dozen PhDs and ABDs, the intersection of skills required to both be a great developer and complete (or nearly complete) a PhD are nearly zero.
What do you call "extremely" ? I am -6 and did not notice any of what you describe, so I assume I'm not nearly as bad a case as you are ?
> deep crypto

I'm sorry but this isn't "deep crypto". Very technical jobs that need a very good job done, since a lot of people depend on it? Sure. But they're not inventing anything new here. With all due respect, signing certificates is something you can grab from the openssl library, rewrite in a memory-safe language, have the community look at, and you're good to go.

I'm not saying I think 200k is too much. There are many reasons why it adds up to that much. I just think the technical requirements are not the reason for those wages.
Is this the first step towards the Electric Monk then?

"Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe. " -Douglas Adams
Chinese factories are already highly automated, indeed China has invested a lot into automation, much more so than the US has. The technical talent for automation lives in China, thanks to the Chinese government taking a long term view of research and development.

On top of that, the infrastructure for manufacturing exists in China.

To give an example:

You have a factory that makes a complex device. In theory, that factory can be brought over to the US just fine, and ran with US employees at a very comparable cost. (Trained technicians in China are not as cheap as you may thing!)

But, let's say you use an adhesive. Well that adhesive is sourced from China. And the glue machine used to apply the adhesive is also made in China. If you run out of glue, or a batch goes bad, or you need to reformulate it for some reason (which is going to happen a lot during pre-production in the very least!), then you have to go back and forth with the Chinese manufacturer of your adhesive, which may include flying personnel out, getting multiple batches of new adhesive formulas through customs, and so on and so forth.

In comparison, if your main factory is located in China, then the adhesive factory is right down the road.

The infrastructure argument is the same as for why startups happen in Silicon Valley, at first glance the location may not be optimal, but all the surrounding services smooth out all the details.
Lucky you. I did, and all I found was multiple full-window attempts at having me 'subscribe' to something.
Maybe you'd like Disable Manager [1], it's also on F-Droid [2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mayong.app...
[2] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=disable&fdid...
I know that "employees get screwed" is the hn conventional wisdom, but it's generally false. If a startup is huge success, there will be many wealthy employees. Companies like Google and Facebook created thousands of millionaires. Uber and Airbnb will likely do the same. Of course if the company exits for less than money raised, then yes, common will likely not be worth much, but that's the risk of startup equity.
teaching people to build web apps, especially without a framework in a language like Go, should buy you tons of leverage.
This exactly. Too many people make Chrome sites and Chrome apps instead of WEB apps.
Sensationalist headline : check

Graph without labeled axis: check

Veiled production promotion: check check check

Goes to show how easily HN can be gamed with a well thought headline.
The default kill on logout behaviour is a pisser, and relearning the new, more complicated way to do a wide variety of things (set hostname, automount, timed jobs, etc) is annoying, and the whole thing is a massive attack surface.

But it's certainly not unusable. It's not a good thing, by any stretch, it's a pretty face over a horrific monstrosity, but it's usable.

But the fight between the systemd/non-systemd camps, especially in the form of docker/rkt, is a real pain for both sides.
These sites have all broken because of the way browsers handle new css properties, and by that I mean the -browser prefix. Web developers see this new shiny feature that either makes the page prettier, or easier to create, of course they'll use them.

If browser developers really wanted web developers not to use these properties they would have to be enabled, manually, per browser. That would allow people to create implementations and test them, but stop prefixes getting onto the general web. Instead we are left with many browsers (i.e. not chrome) being forced to implement each others prefixes, and to a lesser extend JS libraries.
I fully agree: most rational nations have invested in public transportation to solve this problem. The US has a myriad of problems that has made public transportation an afterthought and not viable for most of the country.

I also agree that telecommuting or flexible hours would work well. But again, for most office workers in the country and world, there is significant inflexibility: they must arrive at their appointed time, leave at their appointed time, and take breaks at appointed times. My statement was intended to be broad and to apply to all workers instead of just for the high-tech industry.

So I see self-driving cars as a backdoor solution to the above problems: replace regular cars with self-driving cars, maybe with car-sharing, and now a country that has so much invested in the car suddenly is able to significantly reduce the latter's influence on society without realizing it. Well, one can but hope anyways.
The use of line charts in this article makes me weep tiny tears shaped like Tufte sparklines.
Why? I don't think it is surprising. Throwaway account, but when I interviewed at FB and Apple I got offers for over $1m/4yr total comp, which is $250k/yr. Is Let's Encrypt doing less valuable work? Should the employees voluntarily give up compensation for some reason?

My previous startup job was similar in salary to the FB offer, though without the guaranteed RSUs (>300k/4yr).

When I look at the public salary data it seems low
I built some "medium" sized vue applications, ie a client ui for an upcoming multiplayer modification. the vue components play nicely together but your global store tends to get a little hard to read. sure, you can split it into even more files but that might just make it even more confusing. especially always adding mutations to the store is a pain in the ass. I also didn't find a proper way for built-in events and using this.$parent.$broadcast and co. feel like a hack. I eventually built my own event system for that.
Other than that, I really like vue and would not pick anything else for my projects right now. I am excited for the upcoming changes in vue 2, iirc my complaint about Vuex will be solved too, then.
Was this posted on Hacker News because we love Claude Shannon or because you knew that we would hate the layout?
Resume, not start. But yeah, simple as that I'd say.

But I very much doubt it will get that far: the only cost they can't cut back on is hosting. The rest remains as-is if you don't touch it. Those hosting costs I feel like we could easily cover with the community, but they even have big corporations behind them to drive it when need be.
Yes, I'd love to see the compression ratio vs. image quality comparison.
Possibly naive question: can this be used for image compression? Use this for a rough approximation to the original colours, and encode the diff to the actual image using some efficient algorithm (lossless or not)?
Forth has been used for boot firmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
Aside from the dripping snark -- that's quite a conspicuous assumed gender prerequisite, in reference to both the CEO and PM roles (where it's clear he's talking about these roles in the abstract, not just in regard to the individuals filling them in his current company):

This guy is a... It’s his baby after all... no matter how much experience he has... Hence, he needs... His job is to...
Docker for mac .. hyperkit/bhybe overview
h1b data is a good source. Especially for Netflix since almost all their compensation is in salary, rather than benefits/stock/etc like a lot of other tech companies.

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=Netflix+Inc&job=&city=&year...
There may well be more robots in China than anywhere else in the world, but they don't manufacture most of them.

Most articulated robots are manufactured in (unsurprisingly) Germany, Japan and South Korea.
You can easily opt out: don't use Google.
> - a series of swimsuit modeling and sexy emails from some lady to her boyfriend, followed by angry emails about his lack of attention

Do you not correct people after the first wrong email they send you?
Where your customers are, insofar as there is capital and labor (even robotic factories break down) there to support it. That might mean onshoring for Americans, but I don't think that's true everywhere.

Look at how China is investing in Africa. In this hypothetical future, I can still see a country with large amounts of robotic equipment, lots of people educated to operate and program them, and good shipping infrastructure dominating global trade.

It will just be a highly developed China shipping to developing nations, instead of a developing China shipping to developed nations.

You can plug in your choice of robotic manufacturing country for China if you'd like, the point stands, but I see China as well positioned to maintain their lead in manufacturing if they are very smart.
Indeed! It is also a nice real-world analogy to the idea of a Turing machine. As long as the machine can advance and rewind the tape, and read and write to the tape, it can accomplish any computational task...
Depends but there are computer vision techniques for deriving depth from two or more calibrated cameras. It may not be super accurate but it is likely do-able.
That book was good, and I agree that it worked out for longshoremen, but consumers are the ones who've paid for their job security and high salaries.
That's pretty insulting to suggest in any case and borders on a reprehensible attitude to take personally against someone.