skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree! I’m working on it, books hopefully delivered within two or three weeks.
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A roadworker should be paid amazing rates, then, because millions of people will end up using that road.
Can't you arguably make similar groupings within lawyers?
> People just need to overcome the bias that abstractions are costly.

C++ (which has a lot of zero-cost abstractions) tried to shift this bias since several decades with very limited success. Languages like Nim (or even Matlab with Embedded Coder) have the advantage there's intermediate C output that can be manually inspected for unintended runtime abstractions.
3-7 cents per mile is not "orders of magnitude" cheaper. Total burdened cost per mile (including insurance, maintenance, fuel, etc.) for cars today is about 55 cents per mile these days per the IRS.

The fuel only cost for a car that gets 25 mpg (which is not great fuel efficiency) is currently at around 12 cents per mile assuming $3/gal gas. Maintenance may be lower with an electric car but, in the case of Tesla, it's a luxury car brand with expensive sole-source parts and there's the big question about battery costs over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

PC sales are declining for years and there are easily twice as much mobile users than desktop/laptop users. This trend is not going away anytime soon. Things get even worse if you discount entreprise clients (I assume that VR applications will be mostly user focused).
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Details are a bit scarce, but this seems to be about distributing add-ins that stream pirated content from somewhere, presumably "popcorntime" or similar?
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Don't be Evil my Ass

"Google is NSA" - PUTIN

Now Putin got something right that the majority of USA people will not even admit, that the freely type their own dossier into the NSA/GOOGLE database daily, where all their private thoughts are kept forever in every form so that Google can sell their private data to the highest bidder, which is usually a criminal ( police ) intensity.

It's way beyond EVIL at this point, It's way beyond Goebbels or Hitler, or Stalin; google with their tracking and their big-data, its 100% Pre-Crime 'Minority Report', the bad is that its only 99% good, so that if 1 in 100 are sent to Room-101 (NSA torture chamber) google doesn't care, cuz it knows that badge-holders will never have to see the inside of rm-101, its only for little people.

Don't be evil my ass, If your NOT google, then you are little People.
> Then there is the issue that after 40 you can't get hired unless your connected,

Well that's not been my experience on the east coast. Most developers are over 35 in certain companies: finance, defence, high-status non-profits.

Sure, there's a clusters of 20 year olds without degrees slaving away in the same vertical, but they're not in the same companies.

I think for a young person, its harder to get a job unless you have a 'hot' skill because hot skills are typically in new strategies and technologies where the hiring pool is shallow.

For an older person, your experience means that you can get a job in even a 'dead' skill. Some people work using Java 1.2, some people work using Django/Rails instead of SPA Javascript. Some people get hired solely for their ability to write competent Fortran.

I don't think you need to be well connected to have these jobs. Most of those I know who got hired into them it was due to a recruiter, and not a personal invite.
Soon we'll be able to make full scale live action movies with no actors.
Scale is not the most important factor. It really is about supply and demand. If employers could get away with paying their developers 30K a year, they would (... and they do whenever possible).

The actual scale of the work certainly informs the compensation, like it might for other jobs like journalists for example, but that is only part of the story. If you need developers, you simply gotta pay them salaries the are competitive with what others pay for that particular role.
Only one of those really makes any money. What's the economic model that would bring a competing OS into existence?
I really loved the idea of it, it was so intutive. Really sad to see firefox os go :(
I teach computer science at a well-known, large and mediocre university.

I see bimodal grade distributions all the time. The more technical a subject, the more bimodal the grades.

In fluff subjects like software engineering where grading relates to essay writing and group projects, grade distribution tends to be gaussian.
OTOH in technical subjects where I grade by automated test suits, basically students fail almost all tests or pass almost all tests.

These grade distributions have been constant, regardless of university, regardless of who teaches the course.

There really is a sharp threshold that separates those who get programming from those who don't. And those who get programming really are a lot more productive than those who don't get it. Moreover, once you get it, learning further parts of CS (e.g. new algorithms, new programming languages, new OSes etc) is much easier then if you don't get it, and learning new things makes you even more powerful. The mastery of doing great things is joyful and makes you want to learn more. The frustration of failure drives you away from the subject.

I find it plausible that grade distributions turn into similar income distributions later in life.
Or just press space to go to the next slide.
> Problem with coding is that there are 1st,2nd,3rd, and 4th level programmers.

I'm a star-guy-from-big-name-cs-school, and I'm developing complex systems from scratch. However, few people from my promotion are actually doing that, most of them will work on mobile/front-end or small webservices in a random B2C startup (something that will fall into the hacking category?).

Your school and your degree will only matter for your first and maybe your second job. After that, experience is more appreciated.
Have you read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html yet?
The floating point I think comes from C bias.

In C you kind of have to know the size of a double -- you'll call "sizeof(double)" fairly often, you'll notice the number in your code.

In most languages, you don't have a way of knowing the size of a double -- and furthermore the size a double takes in your code won't be sizeof(double) anyway, it will be much more.
Valid point, but most roads aren't profitable. They're subsidized by tax payers.
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Well let's see Bill Gates was a drop-out, so was Edison, .. I think the majority of famous rich men were drop-outs,

What a degree or an A student usually means is that you are a kiss ass, not usually a good indication of someone who is a hard worker, and sees the problem and sticks with the problem until resolved.

Most educated elite don't work, they're spoiled, they ended up in grad school to defer working cuz ma&pa are rich,

Yes, PHDS at google.com can make $200k, but that doesn't mean that every PHD can make $200k at google,

In summary at google/microsoft/oracle, ... its not what you know, or what your degree says, its who you blow
No, but close. Seems to be about the sale of boxes that comes preloaded with addons that can stream and play copyrighted material.
I suspect even more so. Top school, law review, good federal clerkship, white shoe New York firm and everyone else.

(Of course, that's a gross oversimplification. There are lots of lawyers with, e.g. solid in-house corporate counsel jobs. But the overall "commodity" market for lawyers isn't great these days.)
I still love my FirefoxOS Geeks Phone Keon 2013, it still is my go-to backpacking phone. ongoing long battery runtime, a decent browser for the https://mbasic.facebook.com/, gmail HTML, hacker news. necessary apps are there and work fine: For me that's HERE maps & alarm function.

I love it, because it's un-addicting. android and ios are designed to get your attention, all the time. FirefoxOS ist a tool that is there for you when you need it.

I wish they had succeeded, I even ran an FirefoxOS meetup in Vienna, I will miss it. Now back to my Android Phone, I think it beeped, vibrated or needs me in some other way.
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I'm not trying to be a jerk, I am just curious if I missed something. Where is the humor?
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This. Depression is a lonely place, I have been there myself a few times. If you have sought help and you recognise the early symptoms you are more likely to control it before it becomes a problem, to you and your employer.

Answering honestly will either result in:

a) Your employer appreciates your honesty and hires you according to your skills. They will be considerate if you begin to relapse and help get you to a better place by familiarising themselves with the condition, or;

b) Your employer will discriminate you based on your mental illness (assuming your skills are not a factor). They will see it as a risk and be unwilling to help you and help manage your condition regardless of what you can contribute.

You do not want to work for company b), so consider them a dodged bullet. Although they aren't likely to disclose depression as a factor, you may be able to see it their reaction when you tell them. Subtle body language such as leaning back in their chair and looking away may indicate they have already made their decision.

If you were to answer dishonestly you will be at a greater risk of working for an apathetic employer. If you were to relapse you might find explaining your condition difficult and they may think you're disgruntled and let you go.

I don't work in the US either, I don't know how aware people are of mental health and how tolerant they are there. I like to assume people in the tech industry are very familiar. Speaking from experience I know a lot of developers (including myself) who suffer from depression from time to time and are empathetic to one another. Your potential employers should be very familiar already.
Good to see they at least thought some reasonable amount of time into the future; in contrast, the Apple Lisa, released 10 years after the Alto and a few years after the IBM PC, had an RTC that only went to 1995:

https://systemfolder.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/lisaem-date...

http://lisafaq.sunder.net/lisafaq-hw-io-cop421_clock.html

(Apart from this shortsightedness, the rest of the Lisa's design is also... interesting. Proprietary custom ICs, a pretty much locked-down user-is-an-idiot GUI, and complete separation between users and developers. It failed then, but unfortunately the same strategy is now considered the norm 30 years later...)
There are political avenues to explore. Just as Microsoft was hit hard by a number of anti-monopolistic EU decisions regarding Internet Explorer, Apple in particular could be the target of an action in that space.

But this is the kind of thing that requires citizen action. Also, expecting the EU commission to be the only political consumer protection for multinational corporations is not ideal, there ought to be more actions on the American side as well.

Until then, I highly doubt that there will be any hope of breaking the duopoly, at least until Google's or Apple's core business model starts failing them, which is unlikely to occur within twenty years.

From an economical perspective, monopolies are great for companies and for the country's GDP, but they tend to cause lower standards of living, because of the loss of competition.
HP with webOS :). I really loved it.
But it looks like you will need a really long breath to get attention and developers on your side for any new OS.
And there are many lawyers who work on social issues like tenant advocacy that make a whooole lot less than, say, an M&A lawyer.
A major shame that we are moving our technology from open playforms built to empower to walled gardens built to consume. One day maybe it will shift towards something more progressive again.
Why would people treat a rental from you any better
than one from Hertz?

I don't get tickets in rentals because I assume, as well as my card being charged for the ticket, it'll also be charged a billion-dollar admin fee.

I'm surprised the car got towed or ticketed, whether it was rented from Hertz or GetAround.
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Because of the many certs already issued and in use for ecommerce (lovely 90's word!). This will encourage those users to move to new CAs without causing breakage. If we could move towards certs signed by multiple CAs that would be good too.
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I used WebOS, and I agree. I really enjoyed my Pre3. I could never bring myself to like Firefox OS.

The best now is Jolla, which I don't think has failed at all yet (I have a Jolla C, I wrote about it shortly here: https://blog.separateconcerns.com/2016-09-16-thoughts-1.html).
Yep, they're called the 'after Googlers':
https://youtu.be/ozYez0I0Xs8?t=1m25s
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Does anybody else think the salaries are a little high? Perhaps the sample size is skewed? I'm somewhat senior in software engineering, but I literally don't know a single person making over 200k. Nada. Not one. I also don't know any college grads who started making 150k. That seems absurd, unless you're only looking at certain companies and top performers or something.
> It is generally considered far more likely for the price of oil to go dramatically up, not down

When everybody agrees, someone is not thinking. So it was in 2014. And with houses in 2008. And .com stock in 1999.

There are any number of low-but-not-zero-probability events that can cause the price of oil to start rising very quickly. Including the collapse of the House of Saud.
I'm sorry, but I'm color blind and have difficulty telling some of these colors apart.
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Or in other words: Richie-rich New Yorker would have to make (100,000 * 367) / 21200 = 1731 round-trips per year to use 100,000 times as much fuel as the middle-class one.

Quite possible if he possesses multiple aircraft to race against each other.
It's always weird hardware combinations like that that makes me look batch at the early PC era and wonder what drove some of those decisions. Like all the sound cards that included a free extra ide controller for running CD-ROMs, you couldn't boot off them most of time but it meant you could play games and music CDs, assuming you had the correct extra audio cable to connect the two (many systems couldn't read the raw data fast enough to play without the drive doing the decoding).

And then I could swear at least one of my video cards added a joystick port.
Well the first rule in developing is 'lifestyle', I agree with you 100% that if you willing to work in a shit-hole be that east-coast or houston, or any shit-hole in USA, sure there will be a job,

But if you want to live in a nice place, say San Franciso, and make enough to own a house and eat out every night, then its not what you know, but who you blow.

I agree with you, but say your FORTRAN programmer, chances are he's been doing the same thing for 30+ years, and he miserable and unhappy, sure he's got a job, but does he have a life? NO

Take a few years off, then go back, and see how hard it is to find a job, most employers only hire people who stay employed,

The jobs your describing are the dreg jobs of the IT industry, I think some ugly disease would be preferable to working in a fortune 500 company post mid-life, unless of course your the CEO/COO/CFO

It's always been this way, if your willing to live in a shitty place, there's always a job, the problem is getting a job in the good places, and a good job.

Yes, there is always defense, you can always get a job with the GOVernment, now there is a hell on earth.

I agree with you about the kids, I know its hard for most kids today to get in the door, mostly cuz they have no work schools, and only the very lucky get hired at graduation, again its who you know

In summary my sale is on being your own boss, and not ending up when you 50+ years old being somebody wage slave coding cobol, In Dearborn Michigan.
Belgium paid on the basis of body parts received already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
How does this work, if I travel to Germany and use WhatsApp is Facebook compelled to delete all the shared data they have on me?
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> it took Mozilla this many years after the fact to admit this failure

The first Firefox OS phones shipped in early 2013. After spending around two years trying to make the project work, Mozilla stopped releasing new versions in May 2015 and officially started winding down the project by the end of 2015, as mentioned in the linked newsgroup post. So it wasn't really many years at all; also, it's hard to place the blame on "bad leadership" when the current CEO didn't come on board until the middle of 2014.
Developer compensation is high because developers produce more valuable work, and in the short term the labor market isn't that efficient. People don't make very efficient initial choices of career, and their initial choices are fairly sticky.

In the middle of a gold rush, how does it happen that people change their plans, and go out and mine the gold, sell the pick-axes etc? Dropping your plans generally sucks. All else being equal, you'd rather not. And you probably know less about the opportunity than the one you're pursuing. Because not everyone is going to drop everything and go mine gold, if the gold mining is profitable, the people who do pursue the opportunity are going to do very well. And that'll continue to be true for a long time — because people just don't respond to these opportunities that efficiently.

As a comparison: in Australia during the mining boom, the salaries available for work in the mining industry compared very favourably to other industries. And yet I knew lots of smart high-school grads starting degrees in fields like chemical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer engineering...Smart kids would eagerly enroll to study fields where there was no industry to speak of in Australia; even though a lot of them weren't planning to move overseas. In the meantime, salaries for mining-related fields were sky high.

My hand-wavey, empathic read on this is that following price signals into a field you don't have a particular affinity for feels somehow wrong. I think smart kids are very vulnerable to this sensation. They feel like simply going into the high-paying field is somehow too "obvious". It's an affront to their sense of individuality. I think the small/large company thing is in part a similar effect.
Hamburg's data commissioner is influential because he is very active and outspoken (the previous one was even more so), but that also means that he's a bit fast and loose.

His opinions and rulings are not always held up by the courts, and the other states' data commissioners (there are fifteen more, plus a federal one) quite often don't agree with him.
> I bet the answer is "possible but not easy".

I would bet the same. This seems like what you want for an exemption process: if it's too easy, people will use exemptions rather than fixing an underlying problem.

> someone's personal blog needs to have the same level of security as the apple app store's payment system

Different grades of security would not have helped in this case, because it was payment systems having trouble updating, and we put anything involving money on a high security tier - except when legacy systems get an exception.

It's not quite one-size-fits-all, because EV certificates are meant to show more trust, and most banks etc. will use those. That takes extra work, which isn't worth it for a personal site. But you don't save any work by using a weaker hash algorithm, so there's no reason for a personal blog to do so.

> the CAB chose to inflict a ton of pain and cause still-functioning hardware to be discarded

It does sound like they should have had an exemption process set up before the cutoff date, or put the cutoff further out to give people more time to upgrade systems. But using Hanlon's razor, it was probably an oversight rather than deliberate 'environmental vandalism'.
Likely they'll do it based on the phone number prefix +49
It wasn't obvious to me.
Now there's a nutjob theory.
The Verge doing investigative journalism?
> I'm aware that there are many groups who claim to know why (god)

This is a complicated example. The fact that people make these claims is itself a phenomenon with complicated, physiological explanations. Hence the process of investigation interferes such as to confound the investigation.
This sums up the points so well - I am not a pro musician (but hang out with musicians from time to time) - not only is having to use a dongle a pain, but the fact it is lower quality + a hissing noise has been observed when the phone is under heavy load is unacceptable.

It's annoying, as I was going to get an iphone 7, the UI on most Android phones a mess.. might just enjoy the reduction on a 6, though if I'd wanted a 6 I could have waited.

Bah, enough of my first world problem.
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A lot in the book is about geometry and Structure from Motion. It's an area that's becoming augmented but not superseded by Neural Nets. For example if you want to generate a 3D model from images you can't just throw a NN at it. Same for tracking etc...
For some context, here's a blog post from the Kodi devs about "Fully Loaded" boxes from earlier this year: https://kodi.tv/the-piracy-box-sellers-and-youtube-promoters...
Shoes are never worn in my house in Japan. Vacuuming is a more-than-weekly occurrence in the living room and at least bi-weekly in the bedrooms.
I guess that's Facebook's problem now. WhatsApp uses phone numbers as logins though, doesn't it? Shouldn't be too hard to map providers to different countries.
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There is one funny one: http://www.ndtv.com/blog/why-i-took-whatsapp-to-court-by-a-1...
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Say your Stanford or Harvard, your class-mate's will matter the rest of your life, and if you ever need a job, they help each other out.

Teir 2/3 schools your out of luck, Tier one schools take care of their own.

It's a club, and most people in the USA don't belong to the club.
Many RTC chips used in PC's behaved weirdly when set to any year >2000 (resp. <80 or so). These behaviors included setting year to some fixed value, setting it to correct value but not incrementing date ever again and so on.
Now things are going to get interesting! I completely understand the desire for privacy but I think it's unrealistic to expect that Facebook won't consolidate its data by user across all their applications. Facebook (and Google, etc.) are now in the same business as the credit reporting agencies ... You are their only product.

My hope is that the increasing outrage will drive users to one of the secure messaging applications.

Disclaimer: I have neither a Facebook nor a WhatsApp account.
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Does the Whitehouse even have them? I expect it has security, who would recognise Obama..
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Me, I hate spaghetti.

I won't eat white pasta (or white rice/bread) in general.
That's the truth.

It's going to take a plateau of performance coupled with a commoditization of mobile hardware for open source to move in.

Without a viable business model and with the rapid rate of change it's impossible for open source to even try and play in this arena.