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Braintree seem to be advertising aggressively. I've been surprised to see a lot of phone boxes in Melbourne, Australia that are covered with Braintree ads promising better payments integrations.
I agree that in a perfectly egalitarian existence that would be an ideal.

More pragmatically, in the world in which we live, under what precedent could such a thing happen? Facebook has a market cap of $350B right now and the controlling interest is held privately. The U.S. is founded on strong property rights and historically nationalization has been used under very dire circumstances.
Personally I hope demand will rise enough to make the stupid oppressive darkness-destroying asinine "security lights" the damnpowercompany constantly pushes much less affordable.

It seems unlikely that demand will rise to daytime and early evening levels, however.
Ask HN: How did you make first million dollars?
Really curious to know your story. If you have built a product or played a key role or started a company, then can you describe -

1. How did you come up with the idea and how did you validate?

2. How did you market your product ?

3. How did you manage daytime job+ commute+ family?

4. What do you do now?
An even bigger cliché is the "new technology is evil". I've been thinking about it for a minute and can't even come up with a movie that depicts recent or futuristic technology in a favorable light.
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This should be aimed at me just as much then. My comment was more snide if anything.

Also, I disagree, irony has its place and one of them is to poke fun at commonly held but profoundly mistaken beliefs that result in widespread suffering. Even if that has a high chance of offending people who don't like smart ass comments chipping away at the pedestal holding up their privilege.

I'm sure you meant well, and I'm not attack you. I have noticed that often cutting jokes are considered acceptable here only when they align with certain political beliefs, and I feel it's eminently constructive to politely push back on that, so please take this as my intent.
I used to be baffled and surprised. But now i know, developers and hardware nerds are different. Or basically they have different fields of knowledge.

There isn't a better CPU at Apple's required TDP. And there isn't a better GPU at these TDP either.

If people constantly complain and said they should have waited 3-4 more months for Kaby Lake, or 6 months for Nvidia. Then MBP will never get released.
Yeah but it always makes the crust soggy.
That is false. Coincidentally, we just banned your account for chronic abuse of this site, but seeing this certainly solidifies that decision.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13038244 and marked it off-topic.
I'm not a real economist, just a really interested amateur.

My impression is that "behavioral" economics is a promising field that can help explain some unusual phenomena. But it doesn't change the solid core of the science.

I think it gets talked about like that sometimes by people who don't like the implications of the established science. Much like what happens with Climate Change and Evolution when any seemingly contradictory study appears.
Would be cool if this article detailed what the deal/trade is.
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Those are very minor conflicts (in terms of the percentage of the world population involved in them) compared to historical norms. Even if you killed the entire population of Syria you still would not still reach the number of people who died in WWII, not even in terms of absolute numbers, and certainly not in terms of percentage of world population (which has tripled since 1945).
If you can get access to a bloomberg terminal - Bloomberg publishes briefs every week for each of those industries. Useful to understand the players, strategies, historical performance etc.

Also, http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/
Distributivism is the classic American Dream: own your own home and small business. It's a "balance of power" that resists hegemony.

To create a distributive economy: taxing the wealth, and have strong anti-trust law, and strong individual rights (but not "Koch/Soros" style individual writes to extreme amounts of speech rights in the form of lobbying dollars).

America's greatest success has come from its distributive policies. Sadly, we are moving away from those.
Kids can't walk 2 blocks to school in the US.
I remember a certain criticism of Trump's: "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it," campaign. So the argument went that Trump's phrasing cleverly drew attention from whether or not building a wall was a good idea, and created redirected discussion to a straw man argument about whether Mexico should pay for it.

Right now the media coverage appears as: "fake news is _____ insert headline," like "motivated by profit," is the focus of the article. It's the same as Trump's clever phrasing: What is assumed is that there exists this problem with fake news, and it's bad. The debate has been shifted about why fake news exists, or what to do about fake news, the debate in the media was never about "is it right to try to suppress fake news, or does that lead us down a slippery slope?" Same tactic. Don't fall for it. Clearly the big media corporations have not just political pressure (which is undisputed) but a very obvious profit motive behind squashing out alternative news.
Actually the more specialized you get, the harder it becomes. Think of all the mainframe guys who saw that technology disappear before they retired. Either they were independently learning a new skill by themselves so they could move from Senior Mainframe Developer to Junior Frontend Rockstar (with the appropriate pay cut), or they're now unskilled workers at McDonalds.
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So what's the end game though? Investors want their return at some point.
Hah, you're right. That would improve the article, fixed.
Apart from VM usage ( Which i have no idea if this could be minimized ), May be we should ask the Apps developers, and even Apple is guilty in this, Why their Apps are using GB of memory? Why is Slack using 3GB? iTunes 1.2GB? OSX consuming 4GB.

The abundance of memory and CPU has let developers create monster apps that doesn't take performance or resources in mind.
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The "own your own stuff" part is a misdirection. What matters more is that there should be a competitive market for consumer / small business stuff, so no one pays usurious/extortionate rents.
> > We're in the middle of the longest stretch of world peace in history...

> But what is the status of military expenses?

Looks like they've been at historically-low levels for the last 15 years: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS (I seriosuly doubt they were lower in the 40s to 80s, the period before this graph, or in the 10s - maybe the 19th century had really low expenses?)

> >There is less poverty (in terms of percentage of the population) than ever.

> How much of that is loaned? I mean, aren't more people in perpetual, often unnecessary, debt now?

This is clearly a comment about world-wide poverty, not in your neck-of-the-woods, so: http://data.worldbank.org/topic/poverty

and just in the US, it's somewhat lower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...

> >People are healthier and living longer than ever.

> And totally dependent on drugs, often from very young, even when they are not necessary. Not to mention obesity, depression...but hey, more drugs, cola and fast food.

As someone dependent on drugs since a young age, I'm really all for those drugs. My mother had to put up with "oh, it's just psychological", I'll take the drugs instead (this was asthma, FWIW).

> >And we have Pokemon! It's a golden era.

> Sure. I see you now.

> The "awesomeness" you see is very superficial, and is quite possibly short lived. Things are far rotten if you look deep down.

My perception: the people who think things are horrible now, and getting worse, have little to no understanding of how life was 50, 100, 1000 years ago.
I apologize, yes I was defensive. Probably because I need more practice having my ideas challenged. Thank you for bringing this to my attention and I will work on it. (and thank you HN for somehow cultivating a community where we can have such a forum).

Absolutely, I agree that the field is not perfect. Let me address the link you sent (I haven't read the book):
Psychoanalysis (also called the psychodynamic method) is but one of several prominent forms of therapy. I've never undertaken it, as I cannot afford to go 3hrs/week for a year or more, so I cannot talk from experience.
I have read quite a bit about it from textbooks and I see a lot of merit to at least the theory. Merit, I say, because it appeared to corroborate with anecdotal evidence from my own life. I have seen the pattern in people, over and over again, who re-enact the behaviors they learned during their youth. You particularly hear about it with domestic violence: girls that grow up seeing mommy getting beat up (somehow) (very often) seem to become attracted to violent men and repeat the cycle. Boys who grow up seeing daddy beat up mommy (tend to) become aggressive toward women when they are adults.

So I don't personally think the entire field of psychoanalysis is bullshit. The books I've read said that a good psychoanalyst can shake the patient to their core. It sounds like they are trained to sniff out the patient's malignant / self-defeating behaviors and show them how they are reenacting them in the therapeutic relationship. From there, I don't know exactly how they motivate change, but once they break you down on such a primitive emotional level, once your defenses are removed and layed before you, it makes sense that you would be weakened enough to consider making a change.

So that's my case for psychoanalysis. Now, of course someone could take advantage of that. Maybe a patient is simply bipolar and their problems have nothing to do with reenacting their mom's abuse cycle. An unethical therapist could take advantage of that and milk the patient for 3 years' therapy and then say "oh yeah actually you just need to be on meds". It's malpractice and I'm sure it goes on every day in the medical field. MD's milking medicare. experienced dr's running unnecessary tests "just to be sure" when they know exactly whats wrong. Doing an X-ray in the hospital instead of an outpatient clinic so they can charge 3X more. Malpractice will always be around both in medicine and psychology.
It's quite untrue.

I can think of a single example where we edited a user's comment without them asking us to, and it happened a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13012176. As you can see, I posted what we did and why. The alternative would have been to kill the comment outright.

Edit: my conscience reminds me that I've also edited several spelling mistakes over the years. That was mostly when I was filling in for pg.
Did you ever own such a car? Did you find the regular tuneups (points, plugs, distributor, vacuum, etc...) to constitute "little maintenance"?
Ensembles are well-known to be more accurate. But this is not an advantage exclusive to humans: NNs ensembled will do better than any of the individual NNs.

There's no reason one couldn't train 5 or 10 RNNs for transcription and ensemble them. (Indeed, one cute trick this ICLR was how to get an ensemble of NNs for free so you don't have to spend 5 or 10x time training: simply lower the learning rate during training until it stops improving, save the model, then jack the learning rate way up for a while and start lowering it until it stops improving, save that model, and when finished, now you have _n_ models you can ensemble.) And computing hardware is cheaper than humans, so it will be cheaper to have 5 or 10 RNNs process an audio file than it would be to have 2 or 3 humans independently check, so the ensembling advantage is actually bigger for the NNs in this scenario.

Humans still have the advantage of more semantic understanding, but RNNs can be trained on much larger corpuses and read all related transcripts, so even there the human advantage is not guaranteed.
The World Economic Forum estimates tech advances will destroy 5 to 7 million jobs in the next four years alone. In the coming years, Universal Basic Income will sound less and less fanciful after hordes of workers become completely unemployable through no fault of their own. And we aren't just talking about low skilled jobs anymore but white collar, professional and even creative jobs are all on the chopping block.
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I think you took him a little too literally.

It's true that sitting and reading isn't really going to help you live any longer. If you're going to read, however, you should at least get something meaningful out of it.

It may be different for some, but I get much more out of HN than I ever did when I used Facebook.
Those spikes look like a tripping hazard and also something that would be very painful and potentially lethal if you tripped and landed on these.

I wonder about the liability concerning such events.
So is it the same as an addiction? I know drinking soda is addictive. I would not say it is voluntary since the urges are not coming from me but rather my mind. The first few times it was voluntary. Not anymore. I cannot just stop cold turkey or the cravings will be quite bad. Instead I'm weaning myself off of it.
Agreed. Though to be honest the political alignment doesn't matter to me so much. I see so much acrimony on both sides which I've tried to push back against in general. I'm sure I unconsciously push back on one side more than another, but I have tried to be even handed and civil (as you have, and I thank you for that) when I do so.
The economics completely change with fleet vehicles (aka, self driving taxis). Instead of taking an entire car out of commission for half an hour, you can just replace the battery in 1 minute and keep the car on the road and earning money. Because both the car and battery swap station is owned by the same company, there's no arbitrage between trading an old, worn out battery and a new battery and fleet cars can be designed alongside the swap station to make the entire process entirely automated.

But the big plus is that if you design a fleet system around battery swap, you can get away with puny batteries on the vehicles. A battery sufficient for 1 - 2 hours of city driving is optimal which saves both cost and weight for the vehicles. Instead of relying on expensive, power dense advanced Lithium batteries, you can shove cheap batteries into the thing, scatter the entire city with drive-thru swap stations and drive the cost of transportation way down.
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Especially when they did a $225M stock buybacks from employees in May.

http://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-employee-stock-buyba...
Sure, the nature of work isn't static. Before there were permanent settlements, people hunted and gathered. Then we started agriculture, then construction and this leads to writing and scholarship. These articles are simply bemoaning change, but change is making us stronger.
Does anyone else find it ironic that for an article blasting "fake news"... they sure have a lot "trending stories" at the bottom of their page
Training loss pretty much always decreases. NNs are extremely powerful models, so they can overfit most data. What you want to see is the validation loss graph.
When the steam machine was invented, it seriously disrupted Europe where most of people were working in the fields.

Some people rebelled and destroyed these machines who "stole their jobs". Some thinkers thought it would be the end of work.

There was a long and difficult transition period, but in the end, they were wrong. People moved to cities and did different jobs. New jobs.

It will be the same over and over again.
NetFlix offers gift cards, so you don't even have to worry about a real address if you don't want to.
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I think I had mild self-diagnosed anxiety for a large portion of my life, which really took hold in college. I went through a majority of college without speaking to anyone, evaded those that did try to reach out to me, and eventually dropped out. And my online persona wasn't much different; I still remember strangers messaging me on IRC and my heart rate jumping several BPM from just a "hi".

I think I have arrived at a point in life where I am no longer nervous around strangers, but despite that I can't help but want that feeling back. It's relieving that I can interact with the rest of the world, but I can't help but feel like I've lost an important part of me; not just the anxiety but a major part of my personality.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13033507 and marked it off-topic.
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I thought the call-center example was dumb too, but he got his point across. What you describe is the way I read it as well.

That's why I don't think I'm going to pursue a career in software engineering despite doing it as a hobby since a young age. I think there'd be some irreversible damage to my brain if I used something I've liked and identified with for my whole life as a means to do something I hate. To me it seems like a form of self-induced brainwashing. I'll stick with blue collar jobs. The pay is not nearly as good, but my mind can be free.
A hard or interesting enough problem.
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If you can't charge overnight, you really shouldn't have an electric vehicle. You end up MORE inconvenienced than a gasoline/diesel driver, instead of LESS inconvenienced.

Apartment landlords are coming around, quickly, though - it's a selling point and not all that expensive to install a few 240V outlets in the garage.

If you CAN charge overnight, waking up to a full 'tank' every morning is amazing! It's a surprising benefit that isn't immediately obvious to the new EV driver.
Of course a robot could do those things. Those are very easy things to do. The problem is, you wouldn't want to pay thousands of dollars for a robot to make you a sandwich or clean your toilet because those are things you can easily do yourself for free. And there's no economy of scale to offset the cost, because it's just doing it for only you.

How about "get your bot to build my microprocessors" or "get your bot to route my package through a warehouse" or "get your bot to weld a car"? There you can get robots to do amazing things, and they can cost whatever the company wants to charge because those robots are making money. If a robot can build a modern CPU, it could clean your toilet. That's not the problem.

Even still, there are household robots that are fairly common. I've got one running upstairs right now. It's called a Roomba.
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Fashion? Fashion is a terrible way to make a technical decision. I'll take a Rails stack over the JS framework(s) of the millisecond any day.
Is there any way to use these, let's say in a Facebook post (but not as an attached image)?
Just cover your nostrils with the side of your pointing finger. That usually stops the sneeze. My theory is that it stops the flow into your inner nose of whatever is causing you to sneeze; most likely some type of micro particles.
If it wasn't for the cliche of the "new technology is evil" we would not care about net neutrality or domestic spying. The cliche serves a purpose. Also, the problem with new technologies like radiation is not the good that it does curing cancer, it is the danger of it very quickly today in a matter of minutes ending all humanity.
Given what I've seen of your behavior (and sctb's) on HN, I didn't think my parent would be able to come up with any. I generally push back against apparently baseless accusations (which is what I assumed in this case) by asking for evidence.
Instead of just asking the question that many people think they have answered, why not say what you don't like about their answers?

For example, Elon's speech about Mars colonization gives one answer. Maybe you've got great reasons to disagree with him. Maybe there's someone else you'd like to reply to?

(Hint: folks advocating for Mars think the atmosphere is not unusable.)
there's more than 30000 - THIRTY THOUSAND - lobbyists in brussels. add lobbyists in berlin.

the oh-so-great industries in europe/germany cannot have legislation limiting their businesses. creating real privacy-focussed product is just too hard for a country where great inventions and innovation once came from.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/08/lobbyists-euro...
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In my first Silicon Valley job, I thought I was making X. I never really looked carefully at my paycheck. Honest. I was 20 something and I really just didn't check. Turned out I was making 2X.

My boss got a call one day (open seating) and said, Yes. Yes. Noooo. I'll talk to him about about it right now. We went into the closet (seriously) for privacy and he asked if I thought I was overpaid. I said no. He explained to me that I had been paid 2X.

1X was not that much different. I spent less. But really, I got used to it pretty quickly.
Apple doesnt believe in ventilation. Vents are ugly and destroy that iconic Ive look. Every single Apple laptop is cooking inside.

Edit: 15" 2016 runs 60 Celsius IDLE, and 99 (heavily throttled) under pure CPU load. Probably same 99 with GPU load.
There are a lot of musicians, playwrights, authors, and visual artists of various stripes who would love to practice their craft full time but work crappy jobs to pay the bills.

And don't even get me started on large-scale planet-care projects— is there a way we can pay people to reclaim destroyed farmland, to grow things locally and organically, replant forests, study and clean up the ocean garbage patches, etc etc.
> We just don't provide Linux binaries, except Ubuntu Snaps, because it is extremely difficult to do.

Have you considered packaging with Flatpak [0] as well? Very similar to Snaps, but it'll work with many distros instead of just Ubuntu.

[0] http://flatpak.org/
For some people it's a passion. For others it's a job. IMO anyone who is passionate about their work will have greater success and generally be more innovative. I'm sure this is true across all career paths not just engineering.

In software there is no one right answer, the passion comes into play when you look for the most elegant or most performant solution, that may not be obvious on the first pass. This makes it a highly creative position, which I don't think software engineers are given enough credit for.

So while I wouldn't have phrased it in the way that your lead did, I personally look for people passionate about their jobs. The actual hours they keep are less important (though should overlap with their team).
Thank you. That's a good approach to take, because if people do provide specific links, we can look into what happened and explain it. Grand accusations about HN moderation are nearly always without specific examples, which I suppose is a kind of evidence in its own right.
We do actually need valid treatment.
> Heck, even if you made that proposition to a fast food worker that he could do meaningful work instead of smelling like fried stuff all the time and always be worried about working enough hours for a crappy boss and no future, or to a janitor that he could help someone instead of cleaning pee all day, maybe they would do that instead. Maybe even to an office drone, who knows.

You imply that being a fast food worker, janitor, or "office drone" is not meaningful work. To many people it is. Your comment comes across as demeaning.