skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At some point, they could be. The heaviest of elements are formed in the "r-process" [1]. We're not really sure where it happens (either core-collapse supernova or neutron star mergers, but that is a different topic altogether), but we know in general what is happening in it.

The r-process starts with something fairly stable and relatively light, like iron. Then you start throwing phenomenal amounts of neutrons at it. Outside of a nucleus, neutrons are unstable, and decay to protons in about 15 minute, so this can only happen if something is producing lots and lots of neutrons, all at once. Anyways, the iron catching those neutrons, becoming heavier and heavier.

Eventually, the nucleus becomes heavy enough that beta decay, in which a neutron inside the nucleus changes into a proton, starts happening at the same rate as neutron capture. At this point, it is a competition. In the table of isotopes [2], neutron capture moves to the right, and beta decay moves diagonally up and to the left. Between the two, the nuclei get heavier and heavier, with more and more protons and neutrons. The general path is known [3], zig-zagging through the isotopes, becoming more and more unstable.

The process stops when the source of neutrons runs out. At that point, everything beta-decays back to stability. Everything is finished, and the heavy elements of the universe have been produced.

There is a theorized "island of stability" [4]. We have enough protons, but not enough neutrons. Remember how the r-process adds one neutron at a time? Well, if the island of stability is as stable as predicted (half-lives of a few hours are typically predicted), then we might be able to produce those isotopes by careful selection of the input nuclei. Nature is limited to what exists in stellar environments, and can't choose. So (and here I'm stepping out of my area of expertise), since this selection wouldn't happen in nature, it is entirely possible that we are creating conditions that haven't existed in large quantities elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process
[2] http://cdn.iopscience.com/images/0034-4885/76/5/056301/Full/...
[3] http://www.onafarawayday.com/Radiogenic/Ch1/Ch1-2_files/imag...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_stability
You stopped reading after "I used it for two weeks?" Really? How much time do developers need to waste before realizing some software is bad? A month? A quarter? A year or two?

I should be able to look at a library or framework's API examples and say "I don't want to use this," and not have to waste a second more.
A guy has 2 phones with different Uber accounts: driver, and passenger. He hails himself, and immediately picks up a hail from himself from his driver account.

At some times, the rate for a ride is less than the driver payout as Uber subsidises rides from time to time.

Another schemes are when people exploit "first ride free" and referral bonuses.

All of this refers to rather casual cheating, done by non-technically literate people to offset the cost of their own driving or supplementing their normal income from Ubering.

People who do Uber frauding professionally are in the different league. These are the guys whom engx is referring.
I'm sorry, I'm not following. If their apps aren't gaining traction, how do you want them to act? Should they apologize for failing? Refuse the offer to allow their team to be acquired?
We're getting awfully close to "capable of repetition, yet evading review" territory. I hope there's a court soon that doesn't just let the government drop the case.
Totally agree.

When I found that I storing the water that falls on your property might be illegal I was flabbergasted.

Also all the subsoil mineral rights. A company might just demand to extract oil from your property.

These things change according to jurisdiction but they are not uncommon.
It's a Lync client, according to Wikipedia. One of the customers of my company uses it.

The amount of different apps and solutions for teleconferences is just astounding. One might think that there is a common standard or something... but no, I have at least four distinct communication apps on my Mac. m(
"Spending all this money"? How much did they spend?
It’s what, 20%? 30%? 40%? more expensive than the normal version. I’m not sure that the market for that exists.
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I honestly disagree. Because in that case any evolution of anything would be impossible. Take a look at Wolfram's New Kind of Science for an analysis of how massive complexity arises from simple beginnings.

I will go further and tell you thay the state of AI so far is nowhere as advanced as you think. It is not a flexible intelligence that can figure out connections between concepts (look up Cyc for the closest we've got). It's PARAMETRIC MODELS made by HUMANS where a neural net simply runs an algorithm written by HUMANS to optimize something. It's just an optimization problem.

You know where all the ingenuity and progressin machines comes from currently? The ability to make PERFECT COPIES AND SEARCH QUICKLY. You see, learning takes a long time and imperfectly copies information. Books could be copied but search is slow. Now with computers we can try algorithms out and the ones that work better are SELECTED FOR AND COPIED and anyone around the world can contribute. That is also why open source outcompetes closed solutions.

You will find that the huge innovation in technology and software from 40s and 50s til now has all been because HUMANS added to the snowball and replicated good ideas. The ideas themselves require HUMANS to generate new ideas.

Show me one AI today that can form connections between concepts to teach itself to solve arbitrary problems, instead of just optimizing some parametric pattern recognizer.
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Probably nearly all of them. Changing how Bitmap talks to ashmem doesn't really get a vendor anything.
People should write articles instead of "How I loose my account with Google". That would be much more accurate and interesting reading.
Yep, the absence of enforcement ends up hurting people who abide by the rules.
>Giving "kickbacks" is just another word for "charging customers less money".

No, it's not. It's another word for bribing the person in the company in charge of selecting insurance.
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Out of curiosity, why does Amazon consider it their responsibility to prevent that? I'm personally glad that they do, but bots use resources, which is good for Amazon (money in their pocket), and as far as I know Amazon doesn't have anything it wants to protect from bots (at least, anything that would be heavily limited by IP).
Ok I hear you. Maybe I just lashed out too quickly. You're right that when you point out something like "some people deny that Crimea was an invasion", saying "the other side did X" adds nothing. But I guess that I find the hypocrisy so disgusting that I go out of my way to add it to conversations, even when not directly related :-/
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We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13083552.
Our organizations and commercial environment select for bad behavior. There's nothing uniquely evil about Nestle.

The real evil are the organizations and structures that nurture this type of behavior. This type of behavior is nurtured, otherwise it wouldn't exist. These issues affect all organizations, including countries.

We are losing at fighting the symptoms: bad behaviors. We need to figure out how to fix the root cause.
I'd say most of it, at this point. As a long-time goon, getting banned and rereging the account is a way of patronage. No joke, it's very common behaviour there.
I wonder if there are adoption-difficulties for software that tries too hard to replace those asynchronous messages with a single synchronous source-of-truth.
Oh, I totally get it. I used to work in the industry myself. Well, the magazine industry, not "news" per se.

I worked at InfoWorld when InfoWorld was still a print pub. The print side died when I was working there, and we were the 1st IDG pub to go full online-only. It was rough, to say the least. I don't envy the small core team that will stay behind. the print pub often over-inflated the value of the online offering. Once that piece is lobbed off, the remaining team eventually gets whittled down to a skeleton crew. It can be profitable, but margins are thin and cost-cutting is everywhere.

All good things for any business to do, but it can also be a massive change in culture and morale.

I also worked at AFAR, the travel pub. Getting online mags to profitability is no easy task. And print mags can cost a fortune. When print ad dollars go elsewhere... well, you can see what's going on.
fencepost error
The only Toronto office I can see listed for TCS is downtown @ 400 University Avenue (which hilariously enough is the building I worked in previously) - I'm sure they'll gladly work anywhere in the city though! As of now, the project managers and team leads are on site, with the majority of their technical staff being back in India.
>>The risk is that a well funded company gives away their product, drives all their competitors out of business and creates a monopoly, then jacks their prices up. It could be viewed as anti-competitive.

So... Uber? They aren't exactly "giving away" their product but the rides are massively subsidized.
I imagine the wealth management clients understand #6 but are hoping to flip their stock at a higher price in the IPO or similar.
When social sciences try to use the mathematical tools of physical sciences, I wish they would use the same measure of statistical significance: "the chance that the detections were random events was estimated to be less than one part in 100000"
My guess: Twitter spent $3,133,731.41 --- and spent at least a month negotiating which magic numbers to encode in the price --- and then flew to the Marianas Islands on Jack Dorsey's private dirigible to eat whale sushi. I read it somewhere on the Internet that that happens all the time with Twitter, the epicenter of valley nepotism: to get acquihired you have to think of at least 2 magic numbers and be the niece or nephew of an executive vice president at Twitter. That's the scam they're running on the public markets, you see.

How you know it's happening here is you can count the app store reviews for their apps. That's the tell-tale sign.
On a per pound basis?
It does if you give all of the interests paid on that debt back to the government like the Federal Reserve does.
It really annoys me when people make a declaration like "X is terrible" when what they actually mean "X isn't a good fit for me." Angular2 has some ... quirks ... that some developers don't like, but to write off the whole thing as terrible because you prefer something else comes across as overly critic.

If you can't see any good in something like Angular2 then it's you who has failed to look hard enough. There's some great stuff in there.

And in Vue. And Ember. And React. Etc.
PostGIS is awesome. I was only exposed to ESRI at university (ArcIMS) and can still remember how I felt when someone told me I could have a world-class spatial engine for free.

ESRI/ArcServer is just too expensive for smaller organisations especially once you add in the cost of licensing SQL Server or Oracle.
What if you bunched up multiple rides? Like a leader truck which has a human operator and multiple driver-less follower trucks that simply follow the leader.
(I hope this comment is useful. Perhaps I am just confused by the article).

Interesting article. The article emphasizes that the $2B loss that Uber runs is effectively a subsidy for riders. But that isn’t necessarily necessarily 100% true. If Uber loses $2B/yr because it pours $2B in a hole and sets in on fire, that isn’t a subsidy to riders. If that’s the case, then Uber can stop losing money simply by stopping doing that.

What percentage of the $2B is spent on growth (minus subsidy to ride cost; e.g., advertising) which can be shut off eventually? What percentage is spent on software, which is a fixed cost and actually infinitely scalable? What percentage of engineering headcount can be laid off/replaced with cheaper people as the service approaches feature completion?

Uber spends about $2.1B in sales and operating expenses. I don’t know what the breakdown is inside these. But if it can turn off some of those expenses as growth slows, and if others are fixed as it grows, then is there no hope?

The article doesn’t give Uber enough credit for offering a definitely superior product, IMHO. Uber doesn’t necessarily need to be price competitive with previously existing companies, which were garbage. The accountability of Uber drivers, the ability to call a car to a specific location within minutes, these are things that, when I lived in Chicago, simply did not exist at all.

That said, there’s a limit to how much Uber can charge extra. If it needs to charge double the prices of previously existing competitors, then the extra service isn’t worth it, and Uber wouldn’t be worth anything.

I don’t understand how Uber could possibly need to charge that much more than existing companies. Yes, it misses out on the “fleet effect;” but if the largest cost goes to driver compensation, the economy of running a fleet is maybe a small percentage of overall costs. Yes, Uber needs to build and maintain software; but that ought to be a fixed cost (and mostly in initial years!).

I guess it comes down to this: I don’t understand the contention that Uber has no meaningful scale economies (the software, right?) or how it could be possible that Uber’s model needs to cost significantly more than pre-existing competitors. Since I can’t see inside of what Uber spends its revenue on, I don’t know how much it would need to raise its current prices. But if Uber costs, say, 10% more than pre-existing taxi companies, I would still expect to be worth >>$0. I can’t speak to $70B.

(Also, I offer no opinion on long-term defensibility of Uber's business to new entrants).
Also, making a logo is a one-time service. What value can you provide in the month after the logo is done?
Yes. All the links have OP's affiliate tag => ?tag=laptophits-20
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Where is Paul Graham these days? What does Paul do on a daily basis? Is he still working full time at YC?
Well, one explanation might be the reputation of their IP ranges. Already, payment processors and some mail servers will give extra scrutiny to IP ranges belonging to AWS. If AWS is made attractive to that audience and damage is done to the reputation (in various systems) of those IP ranges, their offering becomes less compelling to all customer demographics.
> The issue with technology in municipal governments is with budgeting and the "It works, why do we need to change it?" mentality.

There is a very underserved segment of the municipal government open/closed software space: for village-scale governments that declare independence from annexation from a nearby larger municipality seeking tax bases with dense enough populations. Generally these villages that get annexed are taxed just like their big-city counterparts, but still have to drive all the way into the city to avail themselves of most the city amenities they pay dearly for.

In these smaller village governments, they are extremely open to staying modern to save money. Some of their annual budgets are measured in six figures in the US, with one part-time clerical employee. They'll spend money to retain attorneys who specialize in this sector to do all the paperwork to interface to regional civil authorities, and state and federal authorities, because it outsources complex work to someone who knows all the right boilerplates to use. There perhaps is a market opportunity for someone on the software side to package up the complexity of processes in the operations side.
Is anyone really surprised that Sweden, of all places, is suggesting this?
All you had to do was hover over the links. All the links have OP's affiliate tag => ?tag=laptophits-20
This is great! Very dense with information but gives a very good high level view of where it all comes from and goes to.
Is there some other buzz I'm missing or is the only buzz we're talking about literally just the blog post the company they acquired wrote to announce they'd been acquired?
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Ah, I see. Since the article was about sugar I assumed that was what you were referring to.

It does seem like they're trying to help though. They could choose to pull out completely but that wouldn't solve the problem.
It's always great to hear about people fighting this sort of thing. In part because it means people know that they can: the more people are seen fighting, the more people see that you can, and will fight.

If I had my copy of HPDH near me, I'd be quoting Neville on this.
GetFrenzy.com, a service of Yes, Inc. for making flash plans is apparently unrelated to GetFrenzy.co, a service of Shopify for making flash sales.
You can assess whether a framework is a good fit for your use case in two weeks. You can't assess whether or not the entire framework is good or bad in two weeks.
I know HN has a large fanbase of Tesla and Elon Musk, but yet I'm still surprised to see no one address the problem of the supply side of renewables before moving towards a larger consumer base of electric cars.

I would be a very happy man to be able to own a Tesla Model S, but gasoline just has some advantages, especially so if we still are powering the majority of our grid with fossil fuels: 1) it has extremely high energy density relative to lithium ion batteries, 2) IC technology is very well-developed, 3) it is low cost in the near-term, and 4) no energy loss through transmission over the grid.

Depending on where you live, most of the juice you put in your Tesla (or other EV) is generated by fossil fuels, anyways. It seems to me that we're putting the cart before the horse. We need to solve the problem of powering our grid with renewables first before we should pressure the car makers out of economic equilibrium.
I love reading accounts like this. It's fun and well written and I enjoy the photos too.

I work in a cube farm of grey cubes on boring LoB applications. I know I'll never be skilled enough (or, more correctly, I'll never be ambitious enough to become skilled enough) to work at Google et al but it's really fun to sample the experience from the outside. :)
Uber Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber USA, it's it's irrelevant.

If companies could just simply incorporate a local entity to avoid trade laws ... well, then there wouldn't be much point in those trade agreements :)
As a counter-example, someone posted our product on PH and we only noticed when we saw a spike in signups and had a look at where they were coming from. It ended up being #1 that day and still is the main source of signups.

I don't have a PH account myself though and never go to that website, it was pretty bad in terms of design/UX.
Are there any numbers now showing ACA helped startups? Just wondering.
Stack?
1. As others said, don't work more than 40 hours a week (or find a job where that's the norm if you can't do that at current job).

2. Beyond that, depends what you want. I've traded shorter workweeks for less pay, but I've got enough experience that the base pay is pretty good. There's also consulting and other routes... I made full list in an excerpt from the book I'm working on: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/16/sane-workweek/
Especially when Cyanogen was the worst thing about the One+
But do you think regulations are justified? I understand its inconvenience but I rather don't have people building pump stations that are not safe and may cause other problems in community.
Found answer (frustratingly): no you cannot.
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> I believe there's a ton of uncovered value in parsing Reddit threads, especially those centered around buying or discovering things

I'm very interested in doing something like this for an app idea. Can you (or OP or someone else) tell me what the "path of least friction" is, to parse sub-reddits programatically? Is it using their API? Are there PaaS (Parsers as service) available? After that, what would I do? Apply some sort of NLP or AI?
Maybe security? Because if we publish maps of nuclear power plants people might use them to get the bomb?

Not that I agree with that. A simple Google search would be sufficient for someone just looking for a location.
I heard that Norway is great for new businesses. Like if you are located outside the city you can pay lower taxes, that's not the case in Sweden. Also the culture seems a bit different when it comes to startups. A friend of mine said that it's easier to attract investors in Norway although the country is smaller, I don't know how deep those differences go but norwegians are probably more open to new companies.
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Ah I thought I saw their logo on top of one of the few non-CGI/AMD buildings last time I was in the area.

Anyhow I got a bit side tracked there, I hope you got decent notice and manage to land comfortably on your feet.
Love how they docked you for Work/Life balance. Grats on the productivity and keep up the building. :)
And if you're curious about how this sort of thing could look on the client/browser side of things, check out https://opbeat.com/react

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Thats not how it works. People still use IBM mainframes, despite linux being 10x cheaper or more. If you got locked in sometimes you get locked in.

Many AWS services have no easy migration path off it.
s/AWS/everywhere but Google/
It would be interesting to develop software that can colorize an image based on multiple images with different focus.