skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi there,
I have made an awesome free iphone app and I would like to know what is the best way to get the word out there? It is an app that let's people see verses from the Bible in their surroundings. Its Like putting on faith glasses.
Thanks for your help!
Antoni
> They want good standards of living too.

That's the problem in a nutshell. In the very short run, economic well-being is a zero sum game. Eventually, globalization might lead to more jobs in the grand scheme of things. People don't care about "eventually" or "the rest of the world". They have bills to worry about, and they don't care what the Third World countries want.

(Pet peeve. Third World technically means countries not aligned with either the US or Russia during the cold war.)
That all sounds like fear mongering hyperbole. I just read over the text of the bill here (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5181...) and nothing in it suggests that would happen. Most of it is purely about identifying foreign propaganda.
Let me put it in more obvious terms: if he were to run against Trump in 2020, who would you vote for? What's a "possibility" is largely determined by circumstances.
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(Also curious.)
I am trying to gather data to test this hypothesis.
Not hard to see the obvious.

Look at Costco compared with Sam's Club. You can see the difference since Costco employees tend to stay longer there.

https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-high-cost-of-low-wages
> Blockchain is so badly needed in the startup world when allocating shares of a company. Eshares is promising but too pricey for bootstrapping entrepreneurs.

What, exactly, does a blockchain have to do with this? ISTM all that's needed is a spreadsheet with an audit log, and even the audit log is somewhat optional.
The front page is covered in people seeking dating or sex. I don't think this is a viable Reddit alternative.
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Great, thanks! I also found this video on the about page of Medium to include an example: https://about.medium.com/.
The blocking would occur when the server changes the identity key of a user. If the server does that with the goal of finding out if the user has enabled safety number change notifications, it could just change the identity key to one under the server's control and see whether it receives any garbage.
Doesn't AWS do this too?
Three words why The Gimp isn't taken seriously by anyone who uses Photoshop: "Non-Destructive Editing"

[Oh yes. The interface is awful, too]
I believe they did eliminate all loopholes for one day to see how it would affect traffic and subscriptions.

I'm able to get this article but not others. I think they might be doing more cross-sectional A/B type tests along this line now, making different articles available open or closed to the google-referral-loophole. Maybe even different access to different IP blocks?
> Cats and dogs are engineered to be happy as pets.

Cats and dogs have evolved to be happy as pets.

Let's leave the use of 'engineered' to the creationists :)
No. He's measuring the difference in overall power consumption of the same computer using two different processors under two different states: idle and heavy load. Two states which TDP does not seek to measure.

Again, TDP is NOT peak thermal dissipation.
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Connecting the emergence of Modern art to developments in Capitalism is hardly novel in the field of art history. Here is a very mainstream art history book that develops this thesis in detail [1]. Here is MoMA explicitly linking the developments in Modernism to changing
economic and technological conditions [2]. And that's before you talk to anyone working from the tradition of Marxism [3].
It's an undergrad art history 101 observation.

Also, he's off on his origin story. German Romanticism was an elaboration on Kant's theory of the sublime, developed in 1790 in The Critique of Judgement. So the theoretical groundwork happened at least a generation earlier.

But my bigger question for him: Is global capitalism fundamentally changing such that something that appears to look like artistic practices from 400 years ago will return? Is capitalism over? Or are we entering some new atavistic phase? and if so, why?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Art-1851-1929-Capitalism-Repre...
[2] https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/what-is-mode...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism,_or,_the_Cultura...
I am not clear if the money saved is after paying off Accenture consultants or before. If it is after it is too good to be true.
Not sure, why you are getting downvoted here. I believe the point you make is valid, Apple configurations have diminished as their product line expands. I would rather the opposite be true.
Except its because the collective has given smart people these entitlements. "Hey this guys pretty smart, lets give him tenure." Did you personally pay the taxes to run that university? Did you make those policies? How much of an island do you think 'smart' people really are?

Or "Hey this guy is pretty good at business, lets give him low taxes to reward him and keep him happy."

I think its difficult for successful people to see how much they're lifted up by everyday people in society doing their best to incentivize meritocracy and creating an even playing field where the smart people can succeed.

Lets remember, the idea of the meritorious succeeding is rare in society. Up until recently you had to be a non-woman, non-slave, and at the very least come from a wealthy or political family. Or perhaps sidestep this by having powerful political patrons but then still be under the gun of, say, the inquisition.

Also when we look at many of the enlightenment thinkers and supporters, we see a slew of milquetoast intellects and ordinary people fighting against the old order of theocracies, monarchs, and dictators. Why did the smart need them to build the society they needed to succeed in? Newton wasn't writing about the freedom of man, instead he was obsessed over his place in the kingdom of heaven and went a bit mad about non-violent coin counterfeiters, advocating for their death, and often delivering it using the power of his position in the mint.

I think there's an Ayn Rand sized fallacy hole that you're falling into here.
That's interesting. Can you recommend me some pro-China Western media? I am having trouble finding one.
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I must say, the practice of publishing a single chapter or section from a book as a way to promote it can be really effective, especially if the book is well-written and chapter/section leaves with a cliffhanger. I'm totally tempted to buy this book now.
Yes, even light bulbs. A typical household LED is very easy to run off AC. You just need a capacitor big enough to hold the charge between each cycle of AC (which is very little). More information here: http://www.ledsmagazine.com/articles/2006/05/running-leds-fr...

It'd be vastly more expensive to wire up an entire house for low voltage DC than it is to include the simple rectification components in every light bulb. In a house you're talking about many wire runs of many dozens of meters. This is not a good environment for low voltage DC at all.
> Can't people simply leave at will?

Im actually not sure how this interacts with visas -- can visa employees freely leave without having to leave the country as well?

It's anecdata, but when I interviewed with Amazon, not a single person born in the US interviewed me. (Which seems suspicious, that none of 7 people were from the US.)

I've suspected that tech companies use visas to permit such toxic practices because foreign workers don't have the same negotiating position.
While yes, it's important to quantify, I'm not sure the article is that actionable for most startups, or even businesses that don't have large HR departments. Most software development managers I know would just pull estimated values out of their ass, instead of actually creating a formal model for tracking things like "cost of onboarding and training".

It sure would be nice to have some case studies, perhaps? Has anyone worked at a place that tried to calculate required onboarding costs for high-skill, salaried positions? I've only ever seen places just create random budgets for online programs like Linda.com, but these programs never seemed relevant to the positions that, well, were the most significant to the company, to put it nicely.

I just suspect unless you had a quant in an HR department, this sort of thing just will never get calculated correctly.
i'd say our political machine in the US has done a great job for the last 35 years at distracting us from the biggest social threat of our times: wealth disparity. instead, the public conversations revolve around terrorism, who uses which bathroom, twitter, celebrities, and even health insurance.

if recent political movements (tea party, the 99%) and national elections have taught us anything, it's that this is increasingly on the minds of americans (and seemingly others, but i won't speak for them), yet politicians seem to want to talk about anything but that, lest they lose the financial backing of the economic elite.

at its core, this is about fairness, which is one of those fundamental psychological forces we can't and shouldn't ignore. game theory studies show time and again that we are willing to play into lose-lose situations if it means maintaining a semblance of fairness among participants. the trump election seems to be an example of that. the arab spring uprisings seem to be larger, more international examples.

we should be relentless about leading our politicians back to the topic of wealth disparity every single time they try to distract us with something else (particularly terrorism, which has killed far fewer people in the last 15 years than a single year of car accidents has, yet we have sacrificed so much monetarily and psychologically trying to battle that phantom).
Please post such links only with the article title and leave the extra bits at the end off, per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I suppose as long as they keep being showered with money from Steam, they don't really have an incentive to end with that chaotic way of organising the corporation.
This just confirms what I have always suspected. That Valve's flat structure couldn't get people to work on it.

Which is a shame because even an inferior hl3 would have been guaranteed to make money. Hell they couldn't even finish hl2 episode3.
> The interface is awful, too

It's really a shame. As an example, it's been more than a decade and they still haven't fixed the utterly absurd "layer boundaries" system that it has. There's a reason no other image editor does that, and it's because it makes no sense.

(To elaborate, every layer in GIMP has a defined "boundary rectangle" which cannot be drawn outside of.)
It was not recent but a century ago Ohio came up with chewing gum, light bulbs, the first gas powered auto, flight, the, the first vacuum, and founded the first coed and interracial college.

A little more innovate than online banking stuff.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/technological-innovation...
It's all anecdotes, but in my experience native devs are by far more willing to step outside of their area of expertise and use the right tool for the job when building for the web. Yeah they'll groan, but at the end of the day they realize that HTML+CSS+JS is how web front end works and so they write that. Very few bother compiling their favored language to JS or asm.js or whatever because it adds an unnecessary step/level of indirection and feels like trying to use a hammer as a handsaw.

By comparison web front end devs tend to cling much more tightly to their favored language+toolchain, taking it with them to every platform they decide to develop for.
>the irony of the term "fake news" is that it creates the false notion that there was once such a thing as "real news".

I'm friends with a journalist. He has opinions, slants, lenses, and even biases. However, he lives around here, and the stuff he publishes is based on events he has actually witnessed, live, in real-time. There is no equivalence between my friend the journalist (real news), and some teenager in Macedonia getting paid to make up sensational bullshit (fake news).
Professional 35+ women in the DC area would probably love this. Currently, after giving up on finding a man that meets their lofty standards (in a dating market where the single women in their age range outnumber the single men by a greater percentage than probably any place except NYC), they turn to IVF with an anonymous donor.
conspicuously missing from this discussion is the self-healing capabilities of the signal protocol, which as far as i understand is a major feature. when marlinspike says, "This is called a \"man in the middle\" attack, or MITM, and is endemic to public key cryptography, not just WhatsApp," i find it odd that he wouldn't even address the fact that the signal protocol has protections against this built into the protocol.
Well employees health is also quite important and vacations help with productivity and are useful against burnout. I worked in several French startups and they seemed to be able to care about their employees and make money
If measuring the cost is important and not many organisations do it, then clearly some people might benefit from hearing this.
bread and circus

We've known this for a few millenia.
> but technical debt occurs when you don't do things like that

When you don't do things like that you may or may not simply weaken your flexibility or/and simplicity. It doesn't mean that it's a bad thing or a debt, because you have no idea whether you you may need any of that later. Long-term software projects, for example, might benefit from DSLs so much more, than solving those problems on a lower level with all the decoupling and everything, is it a debt then? Absolutely unclear. Because it's all about productivity and risks and all of the non-measurable things.
>If the goal of Correct The Record was to brainwash the public then it failed spectacularly. If the puppetmasters of the world are behind it, they don't seem very effective at all.

They did brainwash the public, and would have succeeded, if not for the sheer determination and force of will behind the campaign of Donald Trump, whose steadfast commitment to truth and purity of character achieved the impossible and overturned the corrupt established order like Jesus overturning the tables of the moneylenders... is how you're supposed to resolve that paradox.
As much as that author may wish to take all the credit, "Poor/Black people using food stamps to buy things that anger conservatives" is a long established genre in certain media circles, and it's clear he just put a small twist on it.

The most recent one I saw was people using food stamps to buy food from Amazon. I don't even understand why that's a bad thing, but someone wrote a story trying to gin up some outrage over it.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/16/amazon-be...

http://www.infowars.com/amazon-to-accept-food-stamps-under-n...
I can't see a table like what's in the article without poking at it some more in Excel. Anyway, as you go down the table, the increasing cores do indeed have a higher cores*GHz. If you look at dollars per core-GHz (yes, I recognize this is silly), you get a generally increasing trend as you go down the table, but the E5-1680 is $63.35 per core-GHz and the E5-2680 is only $60.59 per core-GHz.
It's pretty much how open source works everywhere - you have to convince the maintainer to adopt your code. If they don't, you've got the options of either being sad or forking it and trying to get people to use your subjectively better version.

It's open source, not anarchist source.
Many managers have the mindset that they can find replacements easily. If you don't do the job, there are 5 people lining up for this position. They don't realize the cost of turnover, partially because it is hard to quantify the cost. In the good old days, IBM and other blue chips would spend lots of money and send employees back to school and train them well. Nowadays, everyone is considered to be replaceable.
I think you're using a different meaning of "blocking" than Moxie is. I believe they mean "blocking" in the sense of waiting for the user to confirm that the message should be re-sent -- i.e. blocking on the user's input. Whereas you're using "blocking" to mean refusing to re-encrypt the message.

Presumably any message which would be detectable enough as garbage to not be displayed on the reader's phone could be treated as them having this feature enabled, allowing the information-leak Moxie mentioned.

(To be clear, I do think there's a argument to be had over which of these leaks is worse. I just don't think this suggested approach actually addresses Moxie's concern.)
It may just be my own hang-ups, but in the company of unequivocal members of the "professional" class I definitely get the sense that as a software developer I sit somewhere above blue-collar, but barely, and that largely due to salary rather than the work I do.

I'd imagine it's a bit different for the (giving a very generous estimate) 1% of developers who do work that is all of: challenging, difficult, and important, on a regular basis, but that's not me, or the overwhelming majority of people making pretty damn good money writing software.
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Ask HN: What's your experience hiring contractors direct vs. recruiter?
I used to be freelancer but currently full time employee. My company hires a lot of contractors through different recruiting companies and so far I am not very impressed by the people we get. When I was freelance myself I avoided recruiting companies as much as I could because of the high cut they took. As direct contractor I could often make more for myself while still being cheaper to the company than other contractors.

My company doesn't directly bill with individuals but there is an option for these to go through a company that charges only 3-5%. I have done this myself several times with large companies.

What's your experience hiring contractors? How do you find good people once personal connections are exhausted? Stackoverflow jobs? Craigslist?
Are only short term gains in shareholders' best interests? Is there a legal definition? I'm asking genuinely.
Well, I think one has to be alert to both possibilities.

This is perhaps a subtle and underappreciated reason that code quality is so important. If you're looking at an obviously well-written piece of code and you see something you don't understand, you can figure it's probably there for a good reason. If the code has visible sloppiness, it's much more difficult to tease apart the good parts from the bad.
Ask HN: Why didn't Amazon put a Zxxx hub into echo?
Anyone have any thoughts on why Amazon didn't put a Zwave or Zigbee or whatever RX/TX device into the echo. I suspect the cost would be very minimal for hardware. SW non-trivial but definitely do-able. Now I need to go out and buy a full hub for a tiny piece of silicon that Amazon could have included directly in the echo itself.
Doctorow's Law: "Anytime someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit."
Well, evolved due to human interference.

They were created by intelligent beings.
From what I know, pure logic or even math are useless without assumptions. This is what reason and science give us: a standard set of axioms from which logic and math can lead us to useful conclusions.
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> erasing blocks takes way longer than writing them

Honest question, could you elaborate on that? Intuitively I would've thought writing and erasing are _the same_ from a physical standpoint, insofar as "erasing" means writing zeros.
Tracking pixels are ubiquitous, and used in virtually almost every situation where you want to know if a person opened your email, which equates to virtually all ecommerce in my experience.
Authoritarian regimes usually rest on more fragile underpinnings. If anything it's the inverse, authoritarian regimes have a lot MORE to fear from a "misinformed" public.

This is borne out by the fact that we see authoritarian regimes crack down much harder on social media and other forms of free communication.
I see the directive "to develop, plan, and synchronize, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and other relevant departments and agencies, to ... proactively advance fact-based narratives that support United States allies and interests"

I see no reporting requirements for public oversight of exactly what narratives are advanced, nor does the cast of officers listed particularly hint that such information would be forthcoming, nor are there requirements to identify that its the government doing the pushing when a particular narrative is being advanced to the American public.

While there is value in countering foreign propaganda, I feel that to do it in secret is US propaganda and of less lasting value than doing it in the open.
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Thanks, corrected
thank you for the comment... of course its not yet... i am pushing all kinds of people in there it will take maybe 6-12 months before the traffic is reasonable
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> Doesn't Google do this? If you leak something to press, you're fired, then a company email goes out "Hey we canned dude for running his mouth..."

I've never heard of this happening. I've heard of people fired for taking photographs (or stealing prototypes!) of confidential products and handing them to journalists.
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If everyone know that, then why don't organizations prioritize this relative to the size of the potential cost?
In Australia you need to show ID to get a SIM card, even just a $2 SIM from the grocery store.
Would these be cases where Robert Martin's 'The Clean Architecture' [1] would help, where the core enterprise logic is separated from third party dependencies, making the latter easy to swap out and replace?

I'd imagine a number of these cases are caused by a heavy reliance on third party technologies that are no longer supported, or very few people still understand.

[1] https://8thlight.com/blog/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-arc...
How can this possibly matter without considering factors like the location and number of hours expected?
>You can still find teams dependent on an antique commercial version control system or IDE that greatly slows down or even stops work.

Sounds like Rational ClearCase.
Don't know if you are joking, I remember in 2006, Opera was 3.5 MB download, and 5MB including mail client.

I haven't used Opera recently, but AFAIK it was the smallest browser, by far.
> separate teams

Different teams inside a business can have coordinated long-term goals.

Regardless, their master plan[1] clearly shows "Redesign HTTP", "Browser", and "Next generation web (Fish Pod)" as precursors that lead to "Private Internet", "Walled Garden", "need more cache", and "NEWSBANK".

[1] http://undergoogle.com/tools/GoogleMasterPlan.html
Depends on which of their 150 services you're talking about. You can't do it on CodeDeploy.
Like great football players, tech geniuses like him never have anyone say no to them. This is the result.
Day 1 in my first job in the UK I ran an "update crucial_table set crucial_col = null" without a where clause on production. Turned out there were no backups. Luckily the previous day's staging env had come down from live, so that saved most of the data.

What most people don't realize is that very few places have a real (tested) backup system.

_goes off to check backups_