skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most valuable thing we have is time. Unless you are born rich or wealthy time is sustenance and living money. The tradeoffs and risks involved for those born rich and those who have to work for a living are world's apart.

In the era Newton came from you would have to be wealthy to be able to afford other interests beyond surviving. So a lot of the big leaps were made by those from rich families or those lucky enough to have some sort of wealthy backer.

Plus certain things like education, family, kids are attached to specific timelines in a typical life. Health and the ability to do things are also attached to timelines. When you take a risk you could be putting all of those on line.

The ability to expend time with no certainty of returns is a luxury only those from a wealthy background have. And naturally they will be more successfuly as there are more efforts from people of those backgrounds.
Newtons dabbling in Alchemy made him very sick, so there was definitely a risk there. He also invested and lost his life savings in a speculative stock bubble. The bet that really paid off financially was his occult connections that got him a job as warden of the royal mint where his currency manipulation lead to an increase in demand for coins and made him a huge personal fortune. At least that's what I heard. Happy to be corrected.
Larger companies require more and more areas of micro specialization, and yes, it does get more bureaucratic - but the paradox is - you need that scale to have certain advantages: economies of scale and the ability to micro specialize.

So, while individuals might be less productive ... on the whole, it does add to a level of total productivity by the machine.

Example: I worked with the 'pricing' team for a large service oriented product with 100's of millions of customers.

Sometimes they were inactive, argued for months about things etc. - and at the end of the year they did relatively little - but their impact was huge on the market, and our businesses. Much like a Uni of profs don't seem very productive until every once and a while, one of them strikes it huge with some innovation.
This is the subtitle of the article:

> FCA allegedly installed and failed to disclose software
> that increases air pollution from vehicles

Second sentence of the first paragraph:

> The undisclosed software results in increased
> emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the vehicles.

What more do you want?
> And by cheap I mean cheaper than OS threads. The reactor pattern still adds a lot of CPU overhead to each I/O operation.

You need to pay for concurrency one way or another, there is always going to be some bookkeeping overhead. Whether you pay the price in your language's runtime (like Go) or in a library doesn't mean you're getting for free. However, it looks like the design of Rust's futures will let it reach very throughput.
Squeezed light cools tiny drum to coldest temperature ever
Jeff Bezos is a master. The game he's playing is "talk, talk, fight, fight". On the one hand, his public utterances and announcements signal a detente viz-a-vis Trump. On the other hand, he continues to direct WaPo's attacks against Trump.

Those saying this is not politics fail to realize that companies that reach a certain threshold size have no choice but to play politics. If they don't, avaricious politicians will take the politics to them. This is the lesson Google learned from Microsoft, and Bezos didn't fail to learn it.
I've read and heard that FDA rules allow generic to get 80% - 125% of the active ingredient into the bloodstream as the original drug. Of course the manufacturing tolerances are much better than that, so makers often put just enough to make the 80%.
A sizable corporate environment is far different than this discussion pertains to. My company for 3000+ is all windows based, for obvious reasons. I still use Mac as my primary dev machine, and Windows, and Linux, and Freebsd, and everything else.
You forgot: gender, ethnicity/culture
I personally don't think that jail for simply emitting NOx above limits is worth it
Because those don't use mobility processors and Apple won't make laptops with 2 to 3 hours of battery life or huge batteries.

Apple have criteria for what processors they are prepared to use and the ones in the Lenovo don't meet them. If they do meet yours, it's cool, buy the Lenovo.
This is probably one of the most revisionist and poorly-written articles I've read in a while.

"Wearables and VR are good gimmicks, but even if they become ubiquitous, it's not a revolution, just an extension of the use cases that the iPhone revolution bootstrapped."

This took the cake. Apple has nothing to do with VR. Nothing they've done has helped that industry at all, except maybe cheaper LCD screens (which likely would have happened anyway). Apple has no hardware or software which is VR capable. To claim they built the VR ecosystem is, at best, delusional.
We are really going to pretend that he and his supporters didn't credit for it?
Is the answer to your original question just really simple? It might just be: fewer ER visits and fewer medical bankruptcies, both of which were rampant and quietly increasing costs for everyone prior to ACA. The "extra money in the system" is money that was previously being paid surreptitiously in the form of higher costs for services for everyone.
Vivaldi is a layer of Javascript on top of a cut-down chrome. You're right. It can't ever be faster than Chrome, nor really fast, for that matter.
A closed source browser owned by the Chinese? No chance.
No, the proxy is a trusted CA and so it can mint a valid cert.

It does mean they are not pinning their cert, but most apps do not.

Even if it was pinned, you just have to disassemble and modify the pin and you can still MITM.
He recommends git blame to identify which files should be prioritized when improving the codebase, but git log and a bit of shell-fu can make remove the need for manual browsing.

For example, obtaining the list of the 10 most modified files is as easy as:

git log --name-only --pretty=format: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 10

This is only a simple example but something non much different could be used to get a better indication of actual activity, limit the search to specific timeframes or users, etc...
Somehow the grey metal Mac Pro case shown beside the current Mac Pro and this Mac Pro concept design looks to me much better and functional than any of the other two.

It makes a much more professional, high-quality, clean impression and has definitely the potential to house at least the same if not more hardware than the cyclindric ones.
r/dataisbeautiful
r/EDC
Would you be saying the same thing if Hillary had won and Bezos pledged these jobs? I'm guessing not.
It's so crazy how everyone's personal preference is different. My experience is the exact opposite. Give me KDE over MacOS any day.
OSHA paid $200,000 for what was essentially a glorified weather app. $70,000 for this seems like a bargain.

http://www.cultofmac.com/132300/occupy-app-store-u-s-governm...
yep - it exposes the 'unknown unknowns'.
"On Wednesday, the company announced a new suite of initiatives aimed at improving its collaboration with journalists and media companies."

FB announcement: https://media.fb.com/2017/01/11/facebook-journalism-project/
Prefix: A lightweight ASP.NET profiler helping you write better software
An awd sedan works great on the unplowed roads in Colorado.
Why would I use this versus the other frameworks out there?
There is also lots of Node software running in environments where downtime is unacceptable. And having uncontrolled dependency churn is a great way to break your CI and demoralize your team. I know I've spent way more time than I care to admit debugging failures in test and production because for some reason there was no subdependency freeze. It's the kind of problem that makes you very frustrated.

This discussion is based on a false dichotomy. Yes, shops can be bad at updating dependencies. That's a matter of culture. Technically, I shouldn't have to constantly scan my dependencies for updates, much less security updates. That's what CVEs and release notes are for. Not freezing the dependency tree in CI and production on account of security updates is a bad pattern.
I think this is a bad assumption. My feeling is that the biggest shortfall from many people working shorter hours primarily cultural, followed by the economic capture of generated productivity away from labor and toward capital owners - which in a way is also cultural in the bucket of accepted business philosophy trends.
If DJB is eaten by a bear I think we'll manage to use Ed25519 and Chapoly just fine

Moreover, you can't cryptanalyze Daniel Bernstein himself to break Curve25519 or Chapoly, so he's not a single point of failure. :)
That reminds me, any news from Rex Neo[1] ? There is no activity on its mailing list.

[1] http://rexcomputing.com/#neoarch
Basically simpler and more Ghz/Watt than Parallela.
If you stay in the "new" past, you can just enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you jump back to the future by conventional means, like hibernation/cryogenic sleep, you will wake up in the same changed universe, including altered versions of the loved ones you left behind (if you are lucky [or unlucky if they change in a bad way]).

If you jump back into the old universe, nothing will have changed – so that is pretty much the only place you should stay away from.

There won't be a future where people knowingly will have experienced the results of your heroic deeds, which might be sad to some, but you can just tell/try to convince them of what good you did. Maybe take some videos or other proof.
It could also be that Bezos is making a calculated play for a 2020 or 2024 run for President, now that Fuckface Von Clownstick has proved that a Businessman with no Political experience can Win American Elections.
Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick
> and so it did cause another round of "repair" to code that was inadvertently broken on a functional level.

As the Uncle says, if you have tests that's just a minor annoyance.
how many jobs it destroys?
Free in the UK due to the NHS - however, the NHS is reluctant to prescribe them unless there's a good chance of anaphylactic shock or life-threatening breathing difficulty, because the pens are expensive, go out of date quickly, and usually need to be issued 2-4 at a time.
Really? Pretty much all feedback for OMSCS has been very positive. It sounds like you're bitter about something, or had a particularly bad experience. Can you provide more details about classes you thought were poor and what was poor about them?
Find a good Youtube video tutorial for what you want to learn and follow along. I'm doing a series on character creation right now. There are probably some very good resources on Udemy and the like for a small amount of money. Once you learn the short cuts and the tools it is very easy to use, much like Photoshop.
I was thinking of mentioning this, but I wanted to avoid given design advice for systems I haven't seen. In virtually all of my own projects, I use business-logic-generated GUIDs for IDs. There are a whole bunch of easily-Googleable benefits for GUIDs over database-generated IDs.
Tweet? No. Press Releases? Plenty of them. You could have just done a Google search.[1]

And when Obama started tweeting before the 2008 election, everyone thought he was so "with it" in terms of technology. Trump does it and it's a problem.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/12/...
Eben Moglen said the same thing during the Q&A at his HOPE 2012 talk:

I don't think that the problem of collecting too much is now primarily a byproduct of careless regulation. The problem of collecting too much arises from the fact that the future of capitalism is in the data mining and control of its customers. When capitalist societies begin to depend more on consumption than they do on production for their overall economic health, and the GDP of the United States has been primarily consumption for more than 15 years now, then knowing how to control consumers becomes as important as knowing how to control productive machines was when the GDP was primarily based upon production rather than consumption. What is happening is that we are automating and instrumenting the portion of the economy which is most powerfully important, namely consumption.

Collecting information about consumers is the same thing as knowing how the mill machines worked to the capitalists of the 19th century. So what we are confronting is not the accident of perverse incentives created as a byproduct of unintended consequences of regulation. We are facing the fact that doing the wrong thing is the basis of future economic growth.

We are not trying to destroy future economic growth, we are trying to compromise among values. That's what regulation is. It's a messy process. Of course it has unintended consequences. Naturally it creates perverse incentives, because it's imperfect. But understanding the objective has to be clear: productive capitalism met ecological constraints. It dirtied the water too much, it dirtied the air too much, it created too many difficulties that had to be constrained as negative externalities produced by production. The attempt to regiment and govern consumption through data mining raises ecologic problems we must solve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY43zF_eHu4 at 54:20
Sorry. My point was protection from inflation is guaranteed. Bitcoin might lose its value because of market but no one can print Bitcoins at a whim to reduce the value of coins in my hand.
My links says The generic drug manufacturer must prove its drug is the same as (bioequivalent) the brand name drug. For example, after the patient takes the generic drug, the amount of drug in the bloodstream is measured. If the levels of the drug in the bloodstream are the same as the levels found when the brand name product is used, the generic drug will work the same.

So there should be some specific FDA regulation someone can find that explains what they mean by the same there. I can certainly believe that the regulation would specify a range, but I'd like to see it.

My link also contains a suspiciously pertinent paragraph when you consider that 125-80=45:

FACT: FDA does not allow a 45 percent difference in the effectiveness of the generic drug product.

It's not clear that they would actually be referring to the same meaning of 45% but it is at least an amusing coincidence and there is some chance the FDA is frustrated with whatever it is you read.
Seems like Trump is rewarding those who support him over actual qualified individuals.

Bummer.
Indians have a stigma for a very good reason: the 5% top engineers are drowned out by the 95% posers used by body shops (Infy, TCS, etc.) that have literally taken over numerous industries in the US tech market.

I worked in India for one of these BPO companies and know what I'm talking about. If the good engineers from India want to reclaim their status, they need to push back against the flood of H1Bs from these companies.

But instead, the majority of HN (or at least the guys who do more hiring, less coding) keeps pushing for more and more visas when we should be urging Congress to reform the system to allow the talent to come in (with Green Card), while disallowing US companies from using it to lower wages for all US engineers.
I'm enrolled in the OMSCS program currently (nearly graduated) while working full time. I started the program because I was already taking the online courses with Coursera, edX, etc, and it felt like a natural fit to get a degree while I continued to do so.

I didn't have a Computer Science undergrad degree, so perhaps I have a different outlook on this than you did. I'm currently working as a software engineer, so I'm also not forgoing earning a living by taking the time off from school.

In other words, while I can understand why you feel disappointed by your educational experience, there are other lenses through which this program makes sense. I feel good about having gone through it so far and I'm looking forward to finishing.
The screen-cap utility is the most useless thing they have to offer, as it'll inevitably recompress stuff that already had been compressed. It would be much more useful to have a tool to actually get you the link of the image you're seeing no matter how much the site tries to hide it.
Still seems like they go out of their way to not say that the increase in emissions exceeded any limits. The violation is specifically that the specific software was not disclosed.
So I'll put you down as a no for the Very Special Christmas at the Whitehouse Pay-Per-View event this December? I hear the Kardashians and Beyonce will be there!
And no one is forcing you to work, don't ever whine about your salary. It's voluntary agreement.

Google own the web and people have no choice. Monopoly.
Disagreements about gender and ethnicity/culture? I don't get it. Do people debate about those?
I moved from Plex to Emby for exactly that annoyance. (Emby is better but not perfect on that issue...)
Wow. Believe it or not, everyone doesn't work in Silicon Valley coding new apps.
I'm guessing the parent was asking about refilling due to the active ingredient expiring, not after an actual injector use. Hopefully most people who have epi-pens have to replace them due to expiry rather than due to frequently having to use them.

Replacing the pen after actually using it seems entirely reasonable - if nothing else, the needle will be contaminated.
Opera Neon concept browser for Windows
> is total fantasy

Oh come on, can't we imagine things that don't exist for fun?
A Kernel Dev's Approach to Improving Mutt's Performance
I urge anyone to play a bit of 'why' with a young child, mixed with the Socrates method. If you can get them to try and answer beyond "I don't know"... you'll be taken to some crazy mental places no adult can take you.
Not a bad article. I was afraid this was just another Bloomberg owner-biased screed, where the price of employees is Just Too High, So We Need More Candidates On The Market To Keep Salaries Down.

But it wasn't. Bloomberg editors asleep at the wheel? Their oligarchical masters will be angry!
I thought I was only a borderline outlier, but I read nearly as many books as the top 35% in this poll does, in a typical month (especially winter months). 2-3 books a week is a normal week, not a heavy reading week.

The bulk of it is fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and it's easy, light reading, and is quite relaxing and entertaining. I have Kindle Unlimited and it seems there's no shortage of halfway decent fare for me to consume.

I do probably "read" (in that I start and don't finish, as you mention) those 11 books every week, thanks the to sheer amount of drek that is also on the KU platform, but a few pages in is typically enough for me to spot a steaming pile.
> I don't talk to my parents because they didn't really provide value in my life

Wow really? You view your relationship with your parents like a Business deal / transaction? "value". Wow. The biggest "value" they provided you was conceiving and giving Birth to your cold-hearted insensitive ass.

Think about that for a moment. I feel bad for your parents, and sad for you.
looks great but will never happen -- the mac pro is not a priority for Apple -- sometimes I wonder, what, if anything outside of the iPhone, really is a priority for them.
Yes. If you have doubts, check out the quality of data collected by the FDA's adverse event reporting system.

- https://open.fda.gov/

- https://github.com/rOpenHealth/openfda

- https://github.com/statwonk/openfda-dashboard
Reminded me of what Dustin Curtis did for American Airlines. http://www.flipthefunnelnow.com/dustin-curtis-%E2%80%93-dear...
s/human/me
Even the most fundamental comparison between two energy production techniques requires hours or days to calculate all relevant aspects: cost, production cycle, transmission, and storage. It isn't that surprising that anything that requires that much work could be considered as an article of faith.

Most people take the analysis provided to them by their trusted authorities: newspapers, magazines, television, public figures, esteemed friends and family; and form their world view based off of that. "Team" membership and identification also are prominent.
To anyone who might want some context, this relates to the Elbphilharmonie, a new opera house in Hamburg, Germany. Intended to rival the other great opera houses of the world, as-is tradition it was 10× over budget and eight years late

> The cost to taxpayers climbed from an initially planned
> 77 million euros to 789 million euros ($835 million).

It had it's opening on 2016-01-11 and 2016-01-12. It's already had it's ticket system hacked (and fixed) and it's beautiful. [1] [2] [3]

[1]:https://i.redd.it/ybs5ba59yt4y.jpg

[2]:http://seasidemagazin.de/wp-content/uploads/elbphilharmonie_...

[3]:http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/media/thumbs/d/dbba6ff9beacb55...
Writing high performance applications on Windows has been an 'open secret' for long time. Good free presentation I know of are Rick Vicik ones:

- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/winserverperformance/2008/04/25/designing-applications-for-high-performance-part-1/

- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/winserverperformance/2008/05/20/designing-applications-for-high-performance-part-ii/

- https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/winserverperformance/2008/06/25/designing-applications-for-high-performance-part-iii-2/

A simplified explanation is that for good throughput one creates a completion port and binds a thread pool to it with as many threads as CPUs. Then all IO is done via the completion port. If the system is partitioned (NUMA) then one should create a completion port per node and partition the thread pool. I skip the details, read the links for a better explanation. The gist of it that the code written this way has no procedural flow when you read it. Instead of a sequence of function calls (read socket -> parse -> read file -> write socket), it must be a state machine which always reacts to some IO completion, modifies the state, posts some more IO and then returns the thread back to the pool (post socket read, socket read callback -> parse -> post file read, file read callback -> post socket write, write socket callback). Writing it as FSM makes it lot easier to understand.

C# async/await is like a DSL that generates the FSM while you write fluent sequential code, easy to write and easy to read.