skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can buy Vanguard via their ETF funds using any broker. I do.

Just beware of taxes.
Westworld Is Strikingly Real: AI Could Be Conscious and Unpredictable
> It seems safe to assume, then, that the services are having similar effects in poverty reduction and economic development around the world.

I'm not so sure. M-pesa-like services haven't really achieved a critical mass in India, for example.
Juno mission prepares for December 11 Jupiter flyby
It's been done before, check out Brasilia, Yamoussoukro, Naypyidaw more recently.

I think it's fair to say that it's not been a massive success, and that federal employees generally did/do everything they could to stay in the old capital.

Aside from the fact that the entertainment and cultural options available tend to be limited, distance from the rest of the family and friends, as well as the perspective of being tied very strongly to a single employer are usually unappealing.

You run a real risk of losing anyone senior/competent, and keeping only the most junior of your staff, who have no other option but to relocate.

To stand any chance of success, I would think that the process needs to be fairly gradual, with good transport connections with the historical centres of activity.
Correction: it's money given under the condition it will be paid back at some point in future. Someone who acquires credit, 'trade-credit' (i.e. deferred invoice payment) or whatever you call the employee/employer equivalent in the full knowledge that they will not be able to pay it back is basically committing fraud. As in, 'obtaining a financial benefit by means of deception'.

But putting aside the legalism, it's just plain wrong.
We are manually deploying it. We'll describe this process a bit later in our docs. And provide scripts for ansible.

All information about how we managing storage, we'll describe in separate blog post. I think it will be interesting for devs and ops )
Scaling Uber's Real-Time Market Platform [video]
why do you call kotlin a joke? because it is extremely popular in the Android world for large production apps.

plus with the upcoming kotlin 1.1 release and vertx's upcoming first class support for kotlin.. it is beginning to build traction on the server side.

what is really exciting is Kotlin scripting. Gradle is the first project to start using it.
> It just means that code under GPL is orders of magnitude less valuable to the world than code under less restrictive licenses.

The most-installed kernel in the world is GPL-licensed. I'm not sure how it could possibly be orders of magnitude more valuable.

> What GPL does is hold the developer ransom with a lighter over the GPL code

It's not a 'ransom' when the ticket price is clearly displayed for all to see. If you don't want to play, that's cool, find another sandpit to play in.

Like it or not, the GPL moved the needle back towards end-user friendliness, and without it and it's knock-on effects elsewhere, being a developer today would be a much more frustrating experience.
I recommened reading the parents link but if it's all a bit too much for you vanguard does funds that are already diversified and deals with the rebalancing on your behalf.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/lifestrategy/#/
Largely through hypothesis which you then test. Eg you might see a lot of people abandoning your cart. You might guess (perhaps based on some or other evidence, but it can be a straight guess) that this is because the final price isn't prominent enough on the page. So you to test that you make the price bigger. And if the abandonment goes down then that's ONE data point in support of your hypothesis. You should then re-rest the idea in a different way to make sure, for example by moving the price to a different place on the screen such that it achieves more prominence. And it if abandonment goes down further then you have TWO supporting tests. But abandonment might go up, so you need to then re-evaluate your hypothesis (eg maybe it's some notion of apparent "honesty" you need to confer, not visual prominence).

This is the work of the UX designer. It takes time an effort. PMs usually don't have the time or understanding to do it properly, so products and companies often suffer. This is why, personally, I would be more inclined to invest in companies that have actual UX designers working for them than mere jack-of-all PMs. But hey.
My passive income has mostly dried up this year. Years ago I built an automated webshop deployment system for a bloke who makes hundreds of small websites a year, and dozens of webshops a year. The deal was that I'd build it for free, but I'd get a fee per shop he deployed. This worked out pretty well for a couple of years, but now he's swimming in money and is retiring, and my passive income source has dried up.

Of course, because of my laziness, I took the passiveness too far and it's now all but impossible to reuse it for another potential client.

It was fun while it lasted.
No, X-Ray is no APM solution (yet). For example, it is missing End-User Experience Monitoring (for more information see http://www.apmdigest.com/gartners-5-dimensions-of-apm).

The similarity to Dynatrace is that - like the PurePath - X-Ray enables distributed tracing. But the approach is different: whereas Dynatrace instruments your application using an agent^, X-Ray needs you to instrument an application using the provided SDK. Moreover, X-Ray seems to be limited to applications communicating via HTTP(S).

^ in the most cases
If you sell you pay taxes on the gains, so you are probably better off borrowing against your investments if you need cash, since borrowing isn't a realization event for tax purposes.

Investments that pay dividends aren't as good for individuals since the dividends are taxes at ordinary rates.
Literally the first letter of this is a typo. Sad story though.
Something like 10 years ago I heard about a book called emotional intelligence. That title shocked me. Few people told me everything that they found hard was easy for me, while everything that was easy for them was hard for me. There's a lot of knowledge about the emotional, or socio-affective, space that's worth not ignoring. Sadly society kinda put "wit" over "wise" and I, maybe others, fell in the brainiac race trap.
Rules are a bit different. I'm in the UK and you need £100,000 to go direct with Vanguard and thus you need to go with a broeker.

https://www.charles-stanley-direct.co.uk/ is a good shout, but there may be better depending on how you'd like to invest.
As an addendum for beets: If you're willing to experiment with a more radically different concept than most audioplayer applications provide, I would also recommend looking into MPD. There's a rather nice framework around it called Mopidy [1] which provides plugins for things like Spotify/Soundcloud support - and one such plugins provides integration with beets [2].

[1]: https://www.mopidy.com/

[2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Mopidy-Beets
She never had any unpleasant communication herself, for what it's worth.

Most people who are paid to contribute to Linux, including myself, are very happy to do so, and no, it's not a case of Stockholm syndrome.
Yeah, Deis is good.. We inspected it all. We are a quite young, but have a big motivation to create a new good cloud solution. So we are always open to discuss and would like to hear your ideas and features you need in modern cloud.
For a portion, it is the same sorts of things that cause folks to use other drugs. Curiousity at first or looking for a way to not feel bad. People don't usually start with heroin - they go for 'tame' highs. Cigarettes, alcohol, pot. And just explore from there.

For a (probably much bigger) portion, this is the result of pain pill addiction. It got harder and harder to get the pills and they grew in cost, so some folks switched to heroin because the pull of addiction is so great.
Watch as over 5,000 Eve Online pilots destroy a fully operational Death Star
I am massively skeptical of this. This seems to be the sort of thing that would come to the top on its own.

Also, this isn't Reddit. The commuity and moderation are pretty different here.

In addition, do big advertisers even know about us? We're pretty niche, and not all that well recognized outside of the programming community.
The attached PDF is wonderful. Is there any other cluster of companies in the world capable of such high-precision mechanical and electrical engineering outside of northern Europe?
Would you not spam Twitter if you were in debt and could make 11k/mo? I agree it's lame but gotta pay the bills :)
> It reduces a worker's agency to that of a farm animal or wild game

MS certainly treats Windows users like cattle so there is always a possibility that they would do something similar with job seeker or employee data. There is nothing offensive about pointing out unethical practices of such companies or the potential to abuse the data.
Most HN users are quite upset in the comments under any story about any capabilities, by any organization anywhere in the world, and regardless of their cooperation with America (where the three letter organizations I quoted are from) and regardless of their legality.

I put in "backdoor found" as a search query here https://hn.algolia.com/ after modifying it to search the last year.

The first article I clicked had this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10889008

which says:

>myth_buster 333 days ago [-]

>Please don't give away ideas. You be surprised how well these things would resonate with layperson.

Isn't it clear that they don't want these agencies to be able to have the support of populations?

I don't think I overstate the case that most HN users are against surveillance and related capabilities by anyone.
Is the strange geometry just one possible arrangement (current best optimisation) or is there something more specific about it? To an outside observer the apparent lack of symmetry etc is surprising.
Remember when little kids would die in factories doing dangerous jobs? No? Me neither.

A tangent, but http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandcon...

There's a Primark on every high street in the UK. Someone you've seen today is probably wearing an item of clothing made in those conditions.
2k/mo with zero work is indeed passive.
If you don't trust UK markets and gilts, it's easy to buy the same ETFs the Americans are buying (though you may pay a little more due to currency conversion). Vanguard also has non-UK ETFs denominated in GBP eg: https://www.google.com/finance?q=MUTF_GB%3AVANG_FTSE_DEV_5J6...
Dammit. That first 'withdrawals' was means to be 'overdoses'.
it would be great if you could fit in with the kargo or kops ecosystem (P. S. kargo is built on top of ansible).

Even if you dont consider the fact that it will be easier adoption for the community... it will help you in the long run because of the momentum behind these cluster ops tools.
Thing is, a very common model along these lines is to dual-license under copyleft for free, and proprietary commercial license for those who don't like copyleft "virality" (e.g. the way Qt used to do it until switching to LGPL).

This works great; but the proprietary part is completely antithetical to the whole "free software" concept.
I user interactive brokers and just buy VOO (vanguard S&P500 etf)
Basically, yes they do. if you build the housing that the market demands, as happens in most cities on Earth, people tend to move there voluntarily.

But we haven't. We've pretended that these urban engines of economic growth and fiscal productivity are simply an area of private real estate investments or money trees for state and federal governments to pluck to feed the less privileged. We've surrendered this massive amenity (the ability to move the jobless to places that can give them jobs) due to quirks of our electoral politics, quirks of our property law, quirks of our economy, and quirks of our welfare system. Instead we've propped up jobs and rural communities with massive subsidization, and watched as the very best that our economy can offer prices itself out of existence.

The Bay Area is only the most extreme example of this; It can cost 20x as much to house someone there, as to house them in Topeka. This is a massive productivity & economic growth success story that we are holding back because we're choking off housing and driving up prices, preventing the population of Topeka from moving there. The concept of natural limitations ("The peninsula is only so big!") is absolute bullshit, because the population density is drastically lower than many far more economically marginal places have achieved. For $2M in _construction costs_ to house each family you could house the population of the entire world, 7 billion people, comfortably in a place the size of the SF city limits.
This book taught me the fundamentals of passive investing (https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/03933...) and this website is THE online community for Bogle-style, passive investors (https://www.bogleheads.org/), once you understand the basics.
Looks good! What did you use to build this?
That is what being a salaried employee means - the normal hours are stipulated in the contract but also some clause like "and anything else that may be required".
What bothers me the most is that, in my limited view, these companies can do shady stuff like that, close down and it's end of story. What's in place to punish the owners so they have less incentive to try this again?

This extends to startups that sign support contracts for their products X years in the future and go belly up, leaving customers with dead weight equipment. A colleague, frustrated at such an event, said he would seek legal reparations to which he heard back "who are you going to sue? The company doesn't exist anymore" and that was it.

What's in place to go after irresponsible individuals in those situations?

EDIT: I understand there are risks in every business negotiation. Would this be an example of customer naivety (in not performing due diligence before acquiring products/service from companies if they expect long-term support?) Is the customer to blame for not knowing how to properly play this game?
Yes. "Hot" because neutrinos move quickly compared to the speed of light, "dark" because they do not feel electromagnetism, and "matter" because they couple to the metric.

They explain the anomalous momentum in beta decays, among other things, and are still difficult to detect.

To explain the anomalous momentum we infer around large scale structures at z << 1, it's pretty reasonable to consider neutrinos or neutrino-like particles that are "cold" -- moving slowly compared to the speed of light, thus more likely to "hang around" in a region of spacetime instead of quickly running away to infinity. Although they interact very weakly with matter, they still impart momentum, so hot dark matter would tend to smear apart gas clouds rather than encouraging them to collapse into denser objects like stars. Likewise, it is perfectly reasonable to search for them in ways analogous to how the neutrino itself was searched for experimentally and observationally, and like with the first detection of the neutrino, it is liable to take time to detect or let various non-detections exclude all the regions of the particle mass vs nucleon cross-section parameter space.

Moreover, the search for this sort of cold dark matter does not preclude concurrent searches for other possibilities.

So I can't agree with ThePhysicist that there is a problem here, other than that there is apparently a communications gap that affects even people with backgrounds in quantum mechanics.
Humanity has had numbers for some 200,000 years.

any hacker can, in the next ten minutes, cause their CPU to do more arithmetic than the arithmetic (explicitly adding 2+5, and so forth, multiplying two numbers in their heads) that every single person has done in the history of humanity. okay, but that's just numbers.

Today we live in a connected world where 2,000,000,000 people can be reached in any eight-hour period of time.

Any hacker can find any niche and make a product that will be the first search result within it (by being the first; making something that doesn't exist; and telling people).

Why save a salary, when you can create a business, create value, and scale to the entire Internet and give people some benefit?

Every hacker should start one or several businesses. While it may not exactly be a moral obligation, this brings humanity forward.

EDIT to clarify: I am disagreeing with the suggestion that hackers should save all or most of their money - (put in my parent comment as "save as much of your salary as you can") -- rather than saving it, they should invest it into their businesses, adwords to grow it, other advertising and business development expenses, hiring, etc.
> I'm not really sure smart house devices are ready yet for non programers to play with but as a dev, it'd be a huge amount of fun getting it to work :)

For me I agree until it starts to feel like a job and you wish you had a home that let you relax and debugging wasn't a prerequisite of relaxation.
12% sounds great but that's about how much the BRL has decreased against the dollar over the last five years. Just holding USD cash would have gotten you about the same returns.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDBRL:CUR
Do you have credible sources to prove the significant factor is race?

You see, I believe your point, but that won't convince those who believe it wasn't influenced by racism. They'll say "conspiracy theory" and move on.

Disregarding cannabis, it also seemed to me that LSD was to become illegal to harass the hippie community. But how to prove this?

The way this works appears to be rather easy; you look at the characteristics of your political opponents, and then decide what they have in common which your status quo group doesn't. Then a process is begun to incite FUD. Once that campaign in successful you got momentum in your group and you make a law which makes that thing illegal.
My passive income is quite standard. Three apartments in a new block. I bought all of them four years ago when the construction was still unfinished. This got me a good price. I knew that the area would be under continuous development, therefore it won't be hard to find renters. I was right. Best part is that I didn't even have to furnish them. I managed to rent them all unfurnished.
Aerospace is not performance critical, at least not the overall industry. There are parts that are important, but a lot of them are not.
I watched a talk where a company used clojure for diagnostics (board metrics and faults (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUC7noGU1mQ) for maintanenance).
I went for a computer technician degree and ended up getting a crappy job making $7 an hour. I ended up getting fired after one day on the job because I couldn't ghost a computer from one hard drive to another fast enough for the computer technician fast enough. I went home and cried my eyes out thinking I wasn't good enough to be in computers. I left the computer world.

I went on to college and studied psychology. This was over 10 years ago. I am now making a living as a web developer, a web designer, a programmer, a software developer, a software engineer, or any title you want to call me. To put it in blatant terms: I make a living working with computers and I'm very good at what I do.

We make mistakes. We aren't always good at what we do. We turn down jobs. We take crappy jobs for crap pay for a few years. We live. We learn. We end up working for horrible bosses. But eventually, we figure out how to do things, and eventually, we are smart enough to make life work our way, and work life to our advantage.

I'm not going to tell you that I'm exactly where I want to be.. but I will tell you that I am working a job I love.. I am in the process of starting up my own company. I run a few websites that are very popular and make me some money on the side. And I'm kept quite busy as a freelancer.

Keep doing what you are doing. Don't feel bummed for turning down an internship. Sometimes you will have to make choices in your life that don't always seem right at first.. but they might make sense later on. Maybe you made a mistake, maybe you didn't. Make it work in your favor and to your advantage.

I have heard stories of people turning down jobs working for Facebook and Google to work for smaller companies.. and not regretting it... because that is just what they wanted to do with their lives. Even take a look at Snapchat -- turned down Facebook -- who is now cloning Snapchat .. I'm sure they still don't regret it.

Make your decisions. Do what you gotta do. Live with the consequences. Sometimes they will be good choices. Sometimes bad. Live and learn. Good luck.
kind of a misleading title as it doesnt actually say what its spent on, just that it isnt spent on cigs and alcohol as they expected
Thanks for the reply. It's something I'm researching but without much background knowledge or experience, it's hard to know where to start.

How do you source your user generated content? Is the big earner a forum or the like? I'd kind of envisioned some kind of static sites with ads.

Have you taken a noticeable hit like others in this thread from diminishing ad revenue and rates?
> and now I can successfully sound like a lunatic with way too much free time on the internet.

Had me at "I've written my own firmware for them ". :-)
I think you're using the actual definition of passive income (make an investment, don't do anything else other than wait), whereas everyone else seems to be talking about fake-passive income, such as lifestyle businesses they pretend not to work on. (But really do.)
The specific skill set crytek game engine devs have is increasingly in demand, which will continue to grow. Specifically, the ability to write highly optimised code (mostly C++) to parallel process large amounts of data on GPUs.

If I were running one of the machine learning divisions in MS, Google et. al. I would be combing through linked-in and firing up the headhunters right about now.

The alternative is, of course, company acquisition. You're not really buying the IP in this case (although its a nice side bonus), you're 'buying' the dev talent in one big company-sized package.
I'm wondering if the Hough transform can also be used to detect shapes that look like circles (but are not necessarily circles). And if so, what are the limits, i.e., what is the worst "circular" shape still detected?

Also, can it be used to detect circular arcs?
Unwrap the gift (CSS experiment with backgrounds)
I wonder how long it will take starting from now (in years), until we detect the first lie coming from an AI.
Yah I figured this out quickly. The only things I use are a dumb but Wi-Fi thermostat and wemos for a couple automated lights.
I'm all for entrepreneurship but the original question asked about passive income. Your suggestion is clearly very active.
They are separate things, but one type of bond is indexed by the interest rate (another is indexed by inflation and a third type is completely preindexed on a fix rate).
No, they cannot do that. Delaying filing for insolvency is a crime in Germany. Unable to pay wages is reason enough to file for insolvency. German courts don't take that lightly.
How did you get the question bank? Did you pay students for questions? If so, how did the costs balance the profits?
Well, specialists have long hypothesized that there is a huge difference between "heavy drinkers" (usually in their teens/20s and who quit) and "alcoholics". Heavy drinkers usually overimbibe as part of their social circle (fraternities, etc.) whereas budding alcoholics are the ones drinking alone at home in their teens/20s.