skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to argue from a premise that there is an absolute truth that is discoverable without obscene expenditure in research, and that getting closer to the truth is likely to cause great advancements on our quality of life.

I dispute that premise; it seems to me unlikely that we know anything from certain, and it seems to be that expanding our understanding of the world has had diminishing returns; fire has had greater returns than agriculture, and that engineering, than Newtonian mechanics, that than relativity and quantum mechanics, and so on.

From the above observation of the utility of scientific discoveries, if Ether theory nevertheless is closer to how the world functions, it seems very unlikely, and the conditions that enable it to exhibit its characteristics seem so alien to our present way of life that it is unlikely that funding research in such a direction gives better expected returns than research into other questions.
You could live a truly fulfilling life in this time instead of cowering to increase your chances of not doing anything.
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So I saw Rayman Jungle Run on sale awhile back but it has "In app purchases." I bought one or two paid apps with in app purchases and never again. You can nickel and dime me if you're a free app but not if I spend money on it. How is Rayman?
Is this a real issue? My understanding was that there is a significantly lower demand for electricity at night. This is reflected in my energy tariff at least (daytime ~3x cost per kWh over night time).
I had a chance to meet Tom Wheeler to discuss net neutrality in the summer of 2014. It was coming off of a bad press cycle for him (John Oliver calling him a dingo), so I didn't know what to expect.

He was extremely reasonable and very receptive to the needs of the tech community and small businesses. I came away from the meeting pleasantly surprised and have been happy with his actions during his tenure. Sad to see him go.
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Fedora and Ubuntu zero-days show that hacking desktop Linux is now a thing
Wow! I have to go back and play through these games. I really do wonder how hard the games will feel now that I'm a grown adult..
yes and no. Aging research wont, but that does not mean other science stops. Traffic accidents are at all time lows (in comparison to the amount of traffic) and will continue to do so (via automated driving, imidiate ambulance dispatching, etc.), homicide as well (maybe not in US but certainly in europe), and depression is under active research like being partly caused by the microbiome etc. Nothing is endless but getting 600 years old would still change a lot.
It's not free-to-play. It's a $10 game with a free demo. Pay attention.
If the F&A is 70%, you'd need to raise $333k to have $100k left for your research budget...
Agreeing with you, and also answering the GP:

The issue I see is that "Academia" is not the same as "the scientists", there is a larger community, that includes institutions, processes, administrative people, etc.

So, yes, for instance, I would love that we all published our papers in, say, arxive, an we were evaluated by the actual impact of our publications (~ PageRank). But that is not how the funding organizations, hiring committees, etc, are going to do it.

How to do the transition from the current state of things to a better one, and not to commit career suicide?
That is the question, and that is what those boycotts are aiming to, I believe.
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The problem at the moment is Amazon logistics (at least here in the UK) is terrible. Prime went from a next day, 1-hour delivery window, fully tracked with DPD generally delivered by 1 pm to next day sometime between 8 and 8, no tracking and sometimes not delivered at all for no reason. If a parcel arrives at 8 pm the day after it's ordered it's not a next day service as far as I'm concerned, it might as well arrive 9 am the following day.

My new hobby seems to be not getting a prime delivery next day, calling Amazon, them apologising and giving me an extra month on my prime subscription for free - which is nice and everything but I'd rather get the service they promise.
> I've seen lots of second hand evidence that getting hired is a lot harder now for everybody, regardless of age.

Is this in the US? Because I don't think it's global. I live in Netherland, and I never have any problem finding a new job. I don't know any unemployed programmers, and a lot of desperate recruiters.

Maybe it's the result of Netherland neglecting to invest more in STEM education, and underpaying programmers. Managers tend to get paid better than programmers here, so that's draining the programmer population, keeping demand high.
Centre to absorb MDR on debit card payments of up to Rs 1 lakh to govt
Rotational energy is already harvested using tidal power and wind power.
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> just too marketing

I suppose just an upvote would suffice, but I had to applaud you.
I really don't understand why they made it always on. They could have made it like steam where if you don't login for a few days you get locked out (or very limited access). I still want to buy it when it comes out on Android to support the paid game model with no IAPs.
Actually, no, please don't. Build system should not download shit from the internets. Build system should only build.
You pay more for the same electricity for your toaster, when it's a brand that isn't owned by the power company.
The problems in the West are far more complex than simply making better CAM software.

Our supply chain is long and expensive. Start there. And by this I mean everything, from raw materials, components and sub-assemblies to tooling, equipment and consumables. The length and complexity of our supply pipe can easily double or triple a manufacturer's costs and impose very high inventory costs.

Our regulations are crippling. For example, try to get a steel weldment porcelain enamel coated. In China, no problem. In the US. Nearly impossible and definitely not even in the realm of being competitive.

Our unions have done of good job of helping kill-off industries. Union leaders (not union members, leaders) succeeded at pressing companies so hard without regards for long term viability that they eventually forced some of them out of business or out of the country.

Taxes are ridiculous. One way to look at it is how much of the year is devoted to, effectively, working for the government. In other words, in order to earn the tax money paid to the government you have to work.

Well, at a 39% corporate tax rate the entire company is working for the federal government for approximately the first 4.7 months of the year. After that they get to keep their profits.

In Ireland, with a rate of 12.5%, the people in a company work for the government for 1.5 months and the rest of the year they get to keep their profits.

So, taxes in the US means you are working 5 months to pay them vs. less than 2 in Ireland. That is horrific.

Liability and tort reform is a huge deal. As a manufacturer you are incredibly exposed to being sued out of existence (or out of being able to compete due to financially crippling lawsuits).

Labor force education and availability is becoming a greater issue every year. Skills development has stagnated over the years. We don't have a modern tech savvy workforce. Schools don't teach any of that stuff any more. As a software guy the "hour of code" is great but as a hardware guy I think the "hour of drilling a hole and cutting wood" is equally important.

So, again, there is so much more to making a product beyond rapid prototyping that at some point you have to wonder if people understand that there are far more pressing areas to be optimized, areas with far more significant impact on the bigger picture.
calling the actual ads 'creative' is common parlance in the display ad space. ( former Doubleclick employee )
I think this project is fantastic, and I'll be making a small contribution.

Intel having a backdoor to cloud servers in the current climate seems like a situation worth working to amerliorate. Best of luck!
Streamroot P2P Solution Experiences Strong Growth in 2016
They already did, UWP support for Window 10 IoT is older than Brillo/Android Things.
Where is the statement that they are moving away from fleet? There was no mention of anything related to that in the linked article.
Electric rates are the same around here 24/7. If it's more expensive to provide baseline load at night, increase the night rates.

Elastic uses of power, like charging car batteries, running the dryer, heating the water heater, etc., can be shifted to when power is cheaper.

I.e. reducing demand for night power is a cheap and effective means of dealing with the sun not shining at night.
Pretty much like the ones you're describing.

What I find extremely valuable is to Google search for specific stack trace error messages as search phrases.

Just as some other commenters said this requires experience. I sometimes jokingly say that I'm not a good programmer I just know how to use Google and Stack Overflow very effectively. In order to be able to do so you have to be able to ask the right questions though (e.g. not just pasting "NullPointerException" into the search box but the specific line in a 3rd party library this exception occurs in).
macOS is no longer available download but I tried many way to search for it, Windows version still there.
I have used owncloud before (seems quite similar) but the thing is, I _like_ Google Inbox, I really like the mobile app on Android, and I'd like to just have one place to see tasks (i.e. in Google Inbox, but I want to be able to manage it from bash, anywhere else)

Moving to next-cloud would mean I'd have to open up a different app to see my tasks, which isn't what I want.
w00t! big fan of metacrawler back in the day.
There's a famous quote, usually* attributed to Thomas J. Watson: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". This is usually trotted out as an example of expert predictions proving spectularly false. But in a roundabout way the consolidation in the cloud sector is proving a truth at the heart of it.

* wikipedia says there's no actual evidence that Watson himself said this.
I think you can reasonably estimate this simply. If you imagine that in any good or service you buy, there is a percentage that goes to salary and taxes and a percentage that goes to some physical thing. Now, assume that the physical thing's cost is 100% due to energy. It will be less than this, but even with this upper bound, it's not very high. For example, imagine a pair of shoes. You pay $100, but materials cost maybe $10. My guess is somewhere between 10-20%. My guess is that if energy costs were zero, the cost of living would still be at least $50K (in this stated scenario -- I actually have a hard time believing the cost of living is so high in the US).
Actually you made it sound pretty attractive. It's only $160 billion (plus a few for yearly maintenance why not) to get California entirely on renewable energy. That's amazing and gives me hope.
> Three is not too bad.

The internet was ment to be a fully decentralized system. If you think that only three players are not so bad, then I'd ask you to reconsider.
> perhaps where we differ is you think encryption only keeps information safe from those who play by the rules?

-No, that is not what I think and neither is it what I've been trying to bring across.

Let's just put it on the account of poor communication skills (at either end).
Sounds like we need to make it illegal to use government founds to publish in a non open access journal.
Sorry, I didn't mean that. My perception is that I see far less announcements about Fleet, but I don't know any official stance or anything. Didn't expect it to have as much activity as it does on GitHub, but the most frequent recent committer doesn't seem to be an employee (again, that doesn't necessarily mean anything). I was mostly agreeing that I don't see Fleet as a super popular tool these days (contrary to features they've contributed to Kubernetes or the ecosystem, etcd, coreos, flannel, etc)
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> I know the entire IoT sphere is completely pants on head stupid these days but... Android. On an embedded product.

That is what people asked for, apparently.

The initial plan for Brillo was to replicate some of the Android frameworks in C++.

"We incorporated the feedback from Project Brillo to include familiar tools such as Android Studio, the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), Google Play Services, and Google Cloud Platform."

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/announcing...
I wonder when will they shut it down.
I think that's what he described, plus adding a prefix in order to indicate it's been re-hashed.
Tab-completion is case-insensitive, so the names look good and are not a pain to type (and most importantly, they don't conflict with Unix names: Gobo predates /sys, so going with non-Unixy names proved to be a wise choice).
The general trend for embedded devices is in the direction of richer ways of user interaction.

That usually involves adding touchscreen LCD.

Once you add LCD, you want nice graphics, animations etc. While you can use microcontrollers for low-res LCDs, when you get past, say 640x480px resolution, due to increasing memory and CPU requirements it often makes sense to go with system-on-chip solution running high-level OS.

The existing libs/frameworks to create nice looking, polished UIs for embedded Linux devices are not as easy to use, well understood and having large base of developers as Android is.

So this leaves device manufacturers seriously considering Android. Working on software stack directly with SoC manufacturers is PITA (although they want you to buy chips from them, they don't want to spend time on support), so having a flavour of Android geared towards embedded devices is a good value proposition from Google.
Indeed. One data point: older house ("Altbau") in Berlin. Old copper limits DSL speed to 8 Mbit/s, no fiber or cable available. 25€/month.
> Couldn't you just require people to recuse themselves from hiring decisions involving relatives?

They used to have this nice trick where you hired the son of your friend and your friend hired your son. But at least now there are some non-subjective requirements to be met before anyone can get admitted.
I think the JS community doesn't nearly have a bullying problem like other industries have. Face it - people are shit to each other and that won't change, it's human nature. In fact I think tech is doing relatively well compared to the rest of the world (case in point - publication of this article).

Let's take a look at the financial sector, shall we? Or legal? I think the phrasing 'bullying in tech' discredits marginalized people working in other places.

But I also want to add, no, we don't need even more positivity. We need realism. One of the things I love about our sector is how so many people just speak their mind, rather than think for 5 minutes how to send an internal email without offending any hypersensitive people. As a child you might've played on rubber tiles, but if you fall on the pavement wrong you break your jaw regardless. The world is harsh by nature, and at some point you should learn to deal with that.
Uber's new tracking policy: An Improvement or just “invasive?”
Maybe this is culture-dependent, but at least in my environment, people who do this don't make a conscious pause before the "1". For example, when I played hide-and-seek as a kid (and when I see kids playing now), the commonly accepted rule is that you can start running when the player who counts says "1". So you effectively have 9 "time units" to hide, not 10.

Anyway, if you do make a conscious pause, I would argue that you are effectively counting from 0 even if you don't pronounce 0 due to the bias against that number caused by counting objects. The first pause needs to start somewhere, the start of that pause is in your mind (even if you don't pronounce it) and it corresponds to 0.
Intel has a back-door to cloud servers? I hadn't heard about that. Got a link?
If someone continues to announce vapor year after year their prospects don't magically phase change from vapor to solid. They are not real prospects. They are mythical prospects excited about an equally mythical imaginary product they can never buy.

Want to show an investor people want to buy your product? Show them the money you collected for your product.

> Why would investors give you money when they've never heard of you

Investors need to hear from you and your future plans. Potential customers should only hear about products they can buy, not vapor-ware. Investors will give you money for a vision and even an imperfect prototype.
Not Id, but Apogee, pioneered "the Apogee model" of shareware with the Kroz trilogy in 1987. Apogee published Id's Commander Keen and Wolfenstein games.
It's almost the same in Spain. And freelancing is not an option here: companies try to pay you the same as a regular employee but without benefits, or they want to hire you full time for half the rate.
Thanks for the clarification! I suppose I can see why they would call it something other than "ads" (which obviously has negative connotations.)

When reading the link I quoted from, I actually didn't realize it was talking about ads. I thought it was talking about any kind of content. I do wonder about something. I thought that Mobile platforms have a distinct advantage in displaying ads, in that most people (for example me) do not run any form of ad blocking on their mobile devices.

If this is true - and if the page a bit upthread that I'm talking about and quoted from is talking about ads - then when doesn't that page mention this advantage at all? (From the advertiser's perspective.)
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The issue is of scale, it is just a few euros difference.

So unless you are mass producing and need to save each cent per unit, the comfort of using something more productive will always win out in total project costs (hardware cost + development time).
Well, I'm quite sorry to hear that, but the paper was written for specialists, and its results are primarily interpretable by and relevant to specialists. Why exactly it made it into a press release and news articles is completely inexplicable when analyzed within the bounds of the work.
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Poor choice of words. I don't mean outliving in the sense that CoreOS is dead, I mean it's living a much bigger life than the distro.
It feels that GitHub failed to create an ecosystem and did little innovating it just turned a single-tenant application to multi-tenant (which sometimes is no small feat). They could've created other developer-oriented products - issue management, CI, code review etc and they could've innovated more in their primary area that is storing code like providing better tools for code exploration than simple search (see GitQL project).
That cannot be emphasised enough. Unfortunately it falls on deaf ears. If a compile does not download at least 56 megabytes these days you can consider it a failure ;).
I've already read this refrain: it seems to make sense, but I cannot really justify why "build systems should only build" should be the case

What's the advantage over a build system that downloads the dependencies, but which gives you the ability to prefetch all the dependencies (so you can reliably do work without connectivity after prefetching)?
Is there any nuance? We're all equal on here or not.
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Not just rebranded, they dropped the plan of having the frameworks redone in C++ as discussed at Embedded Linux talks, and took the Java ones from Android instead.
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agree with everything you said.

there's this demonization of wall street and financial institutions as if it's a brain drain to make money. what does that make the millions of ad tech and food delivery startups then?

its the backbone of the economy. no companies can be formed and no biz's can do transactions without the banks working well. the more efficient and sophisticated they can be, the better off everyone else is.

ultimately, much of the money on sand hill road is coming from LPs who made it in finance
Github was founded in 2008. I think it's fairly reasonable to expect that an 8 years old company shows some kind of path to profitability, especially when you consider the popularity of the plarform an the amount of VC money it attracted. When you're near peak popularity and competition is heating up, being profitable or at least being cash flow positive is a good thing.
You still need to generate the energy in the first place.
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This is roughly correct. The README says it best: https://github.com/coreos/fleet#current-status

Also, as you mention there are very compelling reasons that when Kubernetes came on the scene 2 years ago we started contributing heavily instead of trying to compete. We started to say something with fleet and Kubernetes completed our sentence: https://github.com/coreos/fleet/blob/master/Documentation/fl...

Overall, we recommend everyone use Kubernetes as the way to orchestrate containers.
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Their kings were. Imho there's a certain minority of people, maybe 0.001%, who are definitely not what I call "makers", with waaaay above average "communication/leadership/manipulation + sword swindling" skills who end up kings/emperors/etc. (at least the first time; then it's just because they were born in the right bloodline - hence another reason for "bloodline obsession"). And their scribes (the guys with good communication but bad sword swindling skills and of the wrong bloodline).

The rest of the people were more obsessed with "what steps to follow to plant my seeds in the ground so as to increase the probability of crop yield" or "what steps to take when preserving food so as not to get really sick" or "what steps to do in what order when building my house do it does not fall down on me at the next storm" etc.

Oh, and lineage is pretty much retrospective "how-to knowledge" anyway: it describes what the sequences of actions where that resulted in someone existing today: 'X1 and X2 had a baby", then "the son of X1 and X2 married Y0" and "moved to village Q" after "fighting in war Z" etc. History is pretty much recorded procedure.

Not until we got to philosophy, geometry and other types of math did we really have clear what-is knowledge... (Except maybe for religion, and no wonder that smart priests and monks were pretty damn good at math.)

As an example, go to any remote village with and ask them "where is X" and what they'll inevitable tell you is "what actions to perform to get from here to place X". (The infuriating part is that some of the modern humans kept this thought pattern and good luck getting indications to how to get anywhere from them... thank god for the "what is" knowledge provided easily by google maps :) )
Technically correct, but the specific Apogee model of shareware (one free episode, two or more commercial episodes) was much more successful than the original model of distributing everything for free and politely asking people to pay for it; it was pioneered by Id's publisher Apogee.
Take a look at itjobwatch.co.uk - they say 90% of "Developer" positions have a salary greater than 30K GBP.
This if for permanent positions.

For contracting, 90% of contractors have a 300GBP daily rate ( 300 * 22 days/month * 11 months/year = 72600GBP/year if you are fully booked for the year)
FTC (fiber To cab) makes economic sense as you can get decent speeds with the massive expense of doing FTP.
> If a parcel arrives at 8 pm the day after it's ordered it's not a next day service as far as I'm concerned

A parcel arriving the day after it's ordered is pretty much the definition of a next day service.