skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an interpreter with U.S. army as well, 617th MP Co. I also worked as a contractor for BearingPoint (bought by Deloitte) on an INL funded project to build a centralized database for the Iraqi Justice System (lookup IJIP - Iraqi justice integration project). I too wanted to help rebuild the country but was labeled as a traitor. I literally dodged death twice and received multiple direct and indirect death threats during the time I worked with American forces and companies. I was lucky enough to be granted a refugee status in 2008. I had multiple recommendations from the people I worked with including one from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad that helped push my case forward a lot faster. Other interpreters weren't so lucky, many have died and many are still stuck waiting for their refugee status including, unfortunately, my best friend.
What is wrong with greed? Most people want more money.

Is it wrong for a poor person to earn more money?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
"...fans ultimately had trouble making the leap from “Super Bowl” to “potato” to “Cards Against Humanity.” " you're right!!! I can't seem to be able to make the leap, not even after reading the article and all comments on HN
Seems that this should point directly to the brief itself:

https://cloud.app.box.com/s/mx6vhp0m8c1jyc8fh5yvned3nlu6ihec
Unfortunately CGAL is not suitable, and yes you do need to support it in the underlying representation and database. The litmus test for a suitable computational geometry engine is the ability to do arbitrary ellipsoid computational geometry at something like one part per trillion error, and the ability to compute intersections of very complex polygons on that surface quickly.

On that last point, you can execute an effective denial of service attack on most GIS databases with a well-crafted set of polygons and polygon intersection queries. It doesn't even require malicious intent. (Yet another thing I learned the hard way.)
> As far as I know, the social security program in the US isn't actually structured in such a way that each person's SS taxes are going into an individual investment account under their own name (despite the "how much I've earned" statements which might seem to suggest this).

It's not structured that way, but you do need to 'earn credits' to establish eligibility for benefits, and the benefits are calculated with a formula based on the amount of your wages that were subject to social security tax; and the official name is old age insurance. It certainly feels like it's retirement insurance that you pay into while you're working, and get the benefits should you live long enough.
Those ships were ordered a long time ago.
It is wrong to idealize the desire for more money to the point where you hurt people to achieve it. That's what "greed" means. It doesn't mean "wanting more". It means wanting too much. And tautologically, "too much" is too much to want.
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Is this it [0] ? Even if not, this looks pretty good. Thanks.

[0] https://unpack.debug.su/pocorgtfo/
Why GoPro App Shows “Preview Not Supported” and “Playback Not Supported”?
A Trump Presidency and the Future of Tech World
I think it's actually being slowly eroded away from different angles. It's niche providers. WordPress being a huge niche, I've been watching it grow from everyone being in the ~$20-30/month range to full on enterprise grade hosting (http://reviewsignal.com/blog/2016/09/14/500month-enterprise-...).

But there's at least a couple dozen providers now who have built WP specific infrastructure at all sorts of price tiers for consumers.

You've also got your SquareSpace/Wix/etc. Shopify. Traditional shared hosting is becoming less necessary in my mind for a lot of use cases because companies are specializing in areas where you would normally say 'just get a shared hosting plan.'

The biggest problem though to completely get rid of the shared hosting space is price. Digital Ocean works because the lack of customer service. Shared hosting needs to have a lot more customer service (or you get EIG). But at the $5/month price point, the economics of it are terrible. The way to get around it is specializing, reducing complexity and issues, which is exactly what I see happening.
If nothing more, this brief is very informative for those wanting to understand the issues at play here - a good jumping off point to case law, historical context, and current news.
Reading more comments, now thinking:

1. Air ad on cheapest superbowl small market slot to get bare minimum definition of "super bowl ad"

2. Publications and blogs write about weird superbowl ad which brings in the brand name

3. The story about the ad is shared on Facebook and news feeds, making the ad the articles and not the ad
Is Stripe Atlas not an option where you are based?
Emacs user with hundreds of Chrome tabs open? This extension will change your life. It's iswitchb, for tabs.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/powerswitch/lljbpn...
Kindness, Efficiency, Hard work. In that order.
Agreed. I make software for or with advertising companies from time to time, and I love this to death.

I see a surprising number of comments on HN taking this seriously, too. This might be one of those rare situations where HN plays the straight man ...
> Of course, doing this would almost entirely eliminate the economic incentive for companies to bring in foreign workers since they would be free to negotiate better deals once here

This is ignorant ranting at it's worst. Changing companies for H-1B visa holders is one of the easiest operations in otherwise byzantine world of US immigration. The only restrictions are that the new job should be in same or similar area of expertise which is usually not a problem at all (except in case the person is drastically changing career fields) and should pay at least prevalent wages etc. H-1B holders can and do use these opportunities to find better jobs (usually with higher pay) all the time.
Just like stealing, hurting people is not part of capitalism.

What is "too much"? Do people here, who are mostly globally (and often nationally) rich, earn "too much" money?
> "We are at a disadvantage as Americans," Ms. Hatten-Milholin said.

This is so ridiculous. A disadvantage against who? By any rational measure, it's the H1-B holders that are at a huge disadvantage against Americans.
Steve Jobs commencement speech

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA
AIMP3! it's the closest thing to Winamp I've found which is actually good.
Figure out some way to reliably get an IP connection between two any devices without help from a central server or service. Kill Skype, etc.
An extra point is that OEMs charge to distribute third-party software, which is usually called crapware. If you install a lot of crapware, you can reduce the cost of Windows close to zero. That's why OEMs do it even though users don't like it.

If one of your users subscribes to the bundled AV software then you can make a recurring income from Windows that can be larger than the profit you made on the hardware.

Offering Linux as well as Windows just increases costs. There's the extra hardware qualification, sourcing drivers etc, extra stock-keeping and distribution costs, and extra advertising costs. You may have to do that across dozens of languages for over 100 countries.

Ad costs can be significant because Microsoft and Intel provide advertising support, discounts or kickbacks for including phrases like "MightyCorp recommends Windows 10" in your adverts. Microsoft isn't going to pay out if your ad includes Linux.

If you survive that, you have to survive the cost of support and/or returns. When your user base has a vague idea how to use Windows, and zero idea of how to use Linux, that's a killer. One "support incident" kills any profits from at least five sales.
Thank you for your service and sacrifices! Really glad to hear that you are safe now!
Actually I believe the problem is more about relevance...

However I don't see why this problem isn't been solved yet! Just ask what the website is about and serve only ads in the same space would be already a big win...
Seems that there are a lot of people who find it completely normal.
I've had an IBM Thinkpad (2003-2009), a Lenovo netbook (2009-2011), a Sager-branded Clevo (2011-2016), and an HP Envy 15t (current). The Thinkpad...well, 2003 was still a rough time. Especially early on, the basics worked, but everything else was a fight. The netbook had to be connected to ethernet to grab the Broadcom wireless firmware. The Sager had Intel+Nvidia dual GPUs before that was a well-suported use case. The HP is the first machine I can think of where everything "just worked". I improved battery life by tweaking some things, but it was a longer fight to get Windows 7 working on it.

Comparing those to Windows installs on the same hardware at the time I bought them, the HP was lovely, the Lenovo was about equivalent, and the IBM and Sager stank (it'd be cheating to say that loading modern distros on them would be much nicer ;-) )
Your post is a whole bucket of wrong.

You have always been able to mix and match apps from a different desktop.

Vim and emacs are awesome.

Package formats have never ever been compatible, not even all distros that use the same format are compatible in fact. For open source software this is less of an issue than it seems basically the production of a package is 1/100000 of the effort required to produce the program itself and can even be done by individuals far less skilled than the original dev.

This means with only a relatively tiny additional input of labor a program can be packaged for all the most common distros.

I don't prefer unity but I think you bazaarly overstate the case.
"at-will" refers to the employer being able to fire the employee "at-will", meaning for any reason or no reason (excepting reasons that it is illegal to fire for) and without warning.
> The idea that you can get great developers from India for rock-bottom rates is mostly a fallacy.

Yes, at rock-bottom rates(< $25/hr), it is. But >$25/hr starts becoming good money for local Indian developers and you can start comparing them to the good developers in the west (>$50/hr).

That's just my opinion having worked in the industry for a while and seen both sides of that market.
I'm under the impression that both are true. There is overcapacity in the shipping market, which drives down prices. Because prices are low, shippers are investing in ever larger (more efficient) vessels, in order to turn a profit. This in turn leads to more overcapacity, which leads to a drive for even larger and more efficient ships.

It's a type of 'tragedy of commons' situation, where every shipping company is making the right decisions from their individual perspective, but collectively they're driving themselves into the ground.

For me this explains the rise of slow-steaming. It makes a lot of sense in this market because it lowers the cost of shipping a container (less fuel), while simultaneously reducing the market capacity (# of containers / year).

Finally, very few shipping companies make money on the major lines (e.g. China to Europe), because it's pure price competition. They're much more likely to make money in places where they have a 'monopoly' on something: e.g. being the only ship that leaves in the next 3 days, or being the only shipper going to a specific location. For example inter-Africa shipping falls in this category.
I wrote a lisp in Go a while back and got to the point where it could parse and interpret basic lisp code. I got stuck on making it do proper tail call optimization since I didn't want it to do trampolining. Since Go doesn't support TCO the only way I came up with was to rewrite the interpreter either use a big while loop or gotos instead of relying on function calls. Does Swift do TCO making this trivial? Anyone else solved implementing a lisp with TCO in an elegant way in a non-TCO language?
You can order a pizza in 1kb of data and a 10 second latency would be no problem. Pizza web site can be cached.
I understand your focus here, but I'm not sure how you'd establish consumer confidence. Driving at least comes with a state issued certificate that you are capable of driving the car, and it's a bare minimum requirement. Obviously other factors will come into what makes a good taxi driver, but the bare essentials can be quickly verified.

I'm not sure what equivalent you could have for computer service to provide the same baseline of consumer trust; peek on craigslist and you'll find dozens of computer service postings for even a small town, and in large cities it gets even bigger. I agree that it's probably an area that could benefit from a loosely centralized provider, but adoption seems like it will be very difficult.
Flurry (now part of Yahoo) has experience with IoT storage at that scale (or near it). The "T" just happens to be your phone. Data processing (and staying in business) at that scale is a matter of great teams and solid architecture. This won't be a "service" easily sold to a general audience.

The data processing could become a commodity but the architecture won't be -- its highly tied to your specific industry.
3 emoji that cause iOS 10.2 to freeze / crash
How about a blockchain based decentralized ad bidding system. Ping me if interested there are plenty of ideas in this lucrative space.
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Do you really think that the playing field is leveled in favor of the H1-B holders?
> I was under the impression that cargo capacity is currently expanding

Further exacerbating the problem with the glut of cargo capacity.
The leading cause of death is cardiovascular disease. >90% of these cases can be attributed to an overweight population. It's not an easy problem to solve, but there has to be a way to fix it. Lots of calorie counting apps, activity trackers, motivational reminder apps, etc. Obesity is very complicated, but there are three basic facts:

1. Calories in, calories out is the golden rule.

2. The vast majority of calories come from carbohydrates.

3. Carbohydrates activate addictive dopaminergic pathways (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/pdf/nih...)

People overeat because food is easy to access, and it provides a short-term, immediate chemical reward. External rewards often need to be introduced to break this vicious cycle. Hobbies, relationships, career achievements, etc. can function as alternative rewards. Perhaps there is a way for technology to provide short-term rewards in lieu of eating?
The caveat is that for that $200k+ deposit on a 1-bedroom in SF, you could go travel the world for 4 or 5 years.

Or have 4.7 years of rent for the same place. After which you're likely to get tired of SF anyway and move somewhere else. Oh and in the 4.7 years you've been paying rent out of savings, you've saved up enough for the next 4.7 years of rent in NYC ... or many many years of rent anywhere else.

So yeah, I for one am def not ever buying unless I can cash it out in one go.

Then again, there are many things you could do for a million dollars in cash. Like retire for 10 years and do cool shit.
The beauty of the standard deduction is that it goes unqualified to everyone. The rich itemize their taxes almost without exception.

IANAA, but interest on a rental is a business expense, therefore will be be unaffected by this change.
> only answer that speaks to me

So what if a dev home brews parser for instance, and you use that to read in files from a legacy system via ftp. You wouldn't test the parser code on its own? You test it all end to end?
A good native LaTeX editor, with quality on par with modern IDEs (deep understanding of syntax and semantics, intellisense, etc).
Refusing life saving assistance except in return for payment is part of the pattern of Capitalism.

You cannot ignore externalities inherent to a system and claim yourself absolved of the consequences.
howdy fellow EIG alum! I worked there from '07 to '09 in their Ops department.
I misread this as "Hacker Cracker", which is another nonfiction book about a kid growing up in the bed-stuy and gets into computer hacking.

Another very good read if you are into old-school hacker stories.
This is not true. Any network topology, including the present-day Internet, can be considered a subset of a mesh network topology.
"Millennials want to live in cities."

Says who? The article doesn't:

"Overall, more than 80 percent of millennials already live in suburbs and exurbs, and they are, if anything, moving away from the dense, expensive cities"

Some of it is due to cost, as it has always been, but there are hundreds of other lifestyle factors at work. Backyards are neat too, as it turns out. So are excellent public schools. So is your child riding their bike to the park.

Nearly all of my friends and I lived in the city after college, got married, had kids, and moved to the burbs...just like our parents did.
The lack of open drivers is the primary reason why there are so few chromebooks with ARM processors. I don't see why so ma ny people think ARM is more open.
Indeed. Isn't that part of supply and demand running its course?
Your dad sounds cool.
A marketplace for specialized micro-consulting(30 minutes to an hour).

I've seen plenty of projects that are rife with anti-patterns because a team was unfamiliar with a problem or technology and made a bunch of bad decisions while they were still coming up to speed.

The use-case I envision would fix this. Because it's really a travesty that when we're the least familiar with technologies is when we make some of the most important architectural decisions. And these mistakes could be avoided with questions like "What issues will we run into?" "What patterns should we follow?" "What are good resources to get started?"

For instance I recently joined a project that was built by devs coming up to speed on React. And boy did they abuse Flux, they didn't build a store for every drop-down but it's pretty damn close. However I really think a React Guru could have steered them around this mistake with just 30 minutes of his time.

Obviously the biggest problem is ensuring quality without having to hike rates too much.
Not everyone who wants to be a math genius is. Desire is not sufficient for mathematical aptitude, and I'm not sure how you can honestly define potential to yield a case where both potential and desire can exist without achievement.
I have the same problem. My co-founder (a developer nonetheless) has never taken time to familiarise himself with with ledger, making him uncomfortable to run our taxes.
It's my opinion that the Trump tax plan is good. There will be less financial incentive to owning a home or taking out a huge loan.
Having worked with mostly remote Devs for the past 5 years as a designer I have some thoughts on this.

1) bandwidth in many parts of the world is still not nearly good enough for high quality video

2) need good inexpensive remote whiteboarding tech. The MS surface TV looks good but too expensive to fit in everyone's remote office

3) initiating remote video should (either for screen sharing or video chat) be immediate, like 3 secs max, zero friction, not something you have to schedule or spend minutes setting up - just like turning your chair to talk to someone sitting next to you in an office
>Tech is basically the most overpaid career there is.

I think we get paid what a middle class wage should be. There was a huge downward spiral in wages due to rapid economic changes that cause a large fraction of the workforce to make very substandard wages.
And you are talking about mostly hosting PHP application. For some stacks these stagnant players do not even exist.

The user experience of deploying a Python/Django code to production is so bad in my opinion that I started a shared hosting service focused only on that: https://prodmatic.com
What 7 year wait? I got mine in 10 months.
They are both still produced. Phrack drops randomly ever so often. Last issue was released on 2016-05-06: http://www.phrack.org/issues/69/1.html
Obviously this can be used in a malicious manner, but is that not a problem of ui and not "let's not have the browser talk to Bluetooth devices at"?

Allowing every site access to quietly scan for devices would be pretty horrible, but that's not the case from my understanding.
While the rest are generally sound, Number 6 abandons the market and capitalism in favor of government intervention again, which is unfortunate and invites the system to be abused and gamed by the usual set of cronies. I'm against it.

Number 1 should avoid use of the proposed exception for the same reason that mortgage interest shouldn't be deductible: it's a subsidy that distorts the market and is unfair to the good people who are still renting (who are, broadly speaking, probably not as well off in general, so it's a regressive subsidy where we pay the rich).

You should add a #8 to remove all government subsidies of flood insurance and similar vehicles, especially along rivers and coasts, as they're basically paying people money to build homes (often luxury or vacation homes) in dangerous places.
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What I like mostly is that more and more companies are feeling confident enough to put more-or-less autonomous robots in real-world environments.

That's different from the military using drones, which are highly trained operators with robots in the air, which is a lot less cluttered.