skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For niches there are many and many are making big money inside that niche. As generic tool it is much harder. You can turn things around, if possible, but letting your designer use such a tool. Then she is locked inside this constraint to make it look nice. Ours, rightfully, as head design, does not want to do that and I believe many won't though.
I very much agree with you. Related to the parent comment I think it's not so
much about killing their motivation, more a case that many people's skills will
no longer be, or already are not needed. My simple theory about the current
political anger in the US is that it's not so much money, though still
important, that hurts people from unemployment. Instead I think that it is
feeling that you are no longer needed by society or the people around you that
hurts the most. I imagine that it must be existentially distressful to feel
that you have nothing to contribute and very likely never will again.

The Dalai Lama puts it better than I can:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/opinion/dalai-lama-behind...

My guess is that in additional to a basic income, you'll need to find a way to
make people feel that they are needed and useful. I think it's easy for the men
and women on HN, who tend to be the go-getter type to say that they would start
up a business or take up painting. However I think we could all probably learn
learn a little from the unemployed factory worker in Akron Ohio about what
would they do with basic income, unlimited free time, but limited job
prospects.
The lesser known Curse of Smart People, but one that follows directly from this this article, involves hours spent reading about wifi routers and signal processing.
I highly recommend Steven Pinker's "The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century".

It is full of practical advice. I've read a lot of amateur (students/hobbyists) writing, so I can say his advice addresses a lot of common mistakes.

[] https://www.amazon.com/Sense-Style-Thinking-Persons-Writing/...
This blog post gives examples.
They should make the rest of the site dark to match. Problem solved.
Well, I took a 10% pay cut (and moved house) to get a job that I could walk to in <10 minutes. I think the point of the grandparent is that proximity to the office is of greater primacy than some other traditionally valued attributes, like career prospects or pay.
Probably the team? Tech leads:

BRYAN SALESKY, CEO - ex. Director, Hardware Development, Self-Driving Cars at Google (http://google.academia.edu/BryanSalesky)

DR. PETER RANDER, COO - ex. Engineering Lead at Uber (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brett_Browning/publicat...)

DR. BRETT BROWNING, VP ROBOTICS – Engineering Lead at Uber (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UKUngBoAAAAJ)

"$1 billion over a five year schedule" seems to be a safe bet for Ford to secure themselves from missing the SDC future.
The thing I absolutely miss the most from grad school is porting my advisor's whiteboard chicken scratch into parametric METAPOST graphics. It let us size & scope images to their target: posters, conference papers, slides, journal publications, etc.
You want that but in reality, how often does it happen for popular sites? The small startup sites no one will ever visit are ready for the handicapped, slow connections, work on every browser and mobile while my banks, airlines and others I need and/or visit daily barely work for normal users on high powered desktops. And the bad apps they have. Oh boy. They would benefit from a more generic bootstrap/react based wysiwyg component approach.
I'm in the process of moving from SLC to SF myself, and if you are okay with staying in like a five block radius, there are quite decent walkable food and living options in SLC. The air gets pretty bad, though.
I'm pretty similar. I let Wordpress push my new posts to Twitter and that's about it. No one engages, no one comments, they just click through to my site. Sometimes I use Twitter to talk to other related businesses, but real actual people don't interact with me there.

Instagram, I get real actual people reacting, but there's no good way to drive people directly to my site from Instagram. I use it more to engage with the audience and not to drive clicks.

I held off on using Facebook for the longest time, but I've had more engagement there than anywhere else. At this point, 90% of my clicks come from Facebook, and about that much of the social media engagement too. My secret? I have a $1/day ad sitting out there generating about 20 likes per week. Once I hit 500-600 likes from the ad, it because self-sustaining. Enough people would engage with posts that their friends would see it and like or follow as well. Sucks that I had to pay to see any benefit, but I paid Twitter and Instagram too and didn't get squat from it.
The few people I know to be whole-enchilada smart know ordinary people better than ordinary people know themselves. I think parent's pet theory only applies to a subspecies of google-smart.
It is hard to take Business Insider news about this company seriously. They reported in June that Magic Leap was going to start production by the summer (of 2016)

http://www.businessinsider.com/magic-leap-production-begins-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13603831
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Wendy's twitter I think is a funny, good example. I don't often eat there. I'm sure the exposure influences me in subtle ways.
A Video, a Wheelchair, a Suitcase: Mystery of Vanished Tycoon Deepens
People who have experience in using the proper tools, and driving the automation forward are essential.

At the same time management needs to get out of their way - and it often doesn't happen, at least that is what I tried to convey in the article.

It is not just about having the better mechanic or better wheels on your car, or better roads - you not just need to pick the right road and drive in the right direction but also remove the impediments along the way.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619868
What you describe isn't someone taking advantage of the spoofer's intention not to actually trade, though. Or rather, it's not someone who has perfect information using that information to understand that the spoofer's order does not represent actual knowledge. It is, in fact, someone who has limited information and believes the market does not reflect reality, and then using that to place an order that just happens to use the spoofer's order. So in this case, it's no different at all from them trading with a market maker.

Also, I would assume spoofers don't typically place orders in illiquid markets, precisely because they risk having someone use their new order as a source of liquidity. I mean, spoofers don't actually want their orders filled. Plus, the whole point of the spoofed order is to trick market makers into moving their positions, and if the market isn't liquid then clearly there's no market makers (because if there were market makers, then the market would be liquid), and if there's no market makers then spoofing isn't going to work to begin with.
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Microservices on ECS rolling update challenge
Hi,
I am working on the ECS cloud deployment for migrating monolith to microservices.

In the website https://convox.com/blog/ecs-challenges/ the challenges are outlined very well.
Could anyone please provide information about how did you solved the challenge of Rolling Deploys especially to maintain 2 versions.
Did we need to create new ecs service for every version? Use api gateway to manage version? What are the best practices?

Thanks
Vaibhav V
As a smart person, I see things a different way. There are certain hobbies that are only appeal to smart people, like pure math. But there are a lot of things that appeal to a broad range of people, like sport, arts, music and literature. I think it's very good to get involved in these things because they bring balance and a way to related to other people. In fact I created a "no programming related hobbies" rule for myself.

You would be amazed how much you can relate to other people, and how little intelligence is an issue, once you have common interests. I remember in my Judo club (which was open to the public but based at the university) a guy who wasn't attending the university commenting that he kept forgetting that a lot of the people in the club were really smart and accomplished (it came up because another guy complained about getting hit in the face, saying he had to present at a conference the next day).

That's not to say intelligence isn't an advantage in these other areas of life. But it's not a big deal or something that creates distance from others. People will appreciate your intelligence just as you appreciate their spontaneity, athleticism, kindness or any other qualities.
I'm typing off the top of my head, but didn't they have like 400GB of database? That would probably take 27 hours to get fully available via S3 at 32,000/kbps which is about what s3 will provide for first time hits in my experience.
>> the cloud is just another word for someone else's server.

No. The cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure etc) is not "just" like your own server.

Just consider some basic details - you pay someone else to worry about things like power outages, disk failures, network issues, other hardware failures, and so on.
But to be fair if you enable both you're paying for 3 servers total instead of 2, you can't read from the HA standby. (I'd imagine there are reasons not to do that anyway, but you don't even have the option of making that compromise to save on the cost)
Courts run with the predictability of law/codes...it's one of the reason 90% of cases settle without trial.

If an arbitration clause isn't held up, it's not because of unpredictability of the court it's because the clause runs afoul of the actual law/code the court applies which is predictable. Moreover, smart contracts are not going to permit parties to circumvent law, in other words a smart contract arbitration clause would not be enforceable in a jurisdiction they are not otherwise enforceable.
I'm by no means an expert but from my experience the Maude translation of War and Peace is rather nice. Can be a little difficult to find though.
I enjoy your updated profile.
The Ilitch's have made a mostly positive contribution to Detroit's recovery. As a big Detroit Tiger's fan I'm really sorry they weren't able to win a world series championship for him. The man accomplished virtually every other goal in his life.
> If we're all on basic income, we no longer have any leverage if our "wages" are reduced. [...] Sure, we can "vote", but we can't strike, which is a far more powerful way to fight against pay decreases.

Actually, if no one needs your labor (which is the only situation in which you have BI but not actual wages) you can't strike, whether or not you are getting BI. The loss of leverage is a result of the declining demand for labor, not the presence of UBI redistributing income.
You are completely right. There are reasons to oppose the cloud, but maybe they should focus on improving their systems before moving out of the cloud. At this point in time it is clear that GitLab lacks the talent to run everything themselves. I mean 5 backups worthless or lost? You can't let interns write your backups system. After all backup is a large portion of their product.
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So Sinovsy hid the existence of Microsoft's ARM Surface (Surface RT) from a team making Office for ARM? Why?
> Imagine if the world's nail salon workers could spend their time curing cancer, fighting hunger or homelessness instead of the useless primping of rich people's hands and feet.

The nail salon workers could use their free time for this purpose if they wanted. They (perhaps with some rare exceptions) don't do it. On the other hand: The fact that someone is willing to give money to the nail salon workers for getting hands/feet pimped shows that someone values this kind of work.
Fair enough. I've dug into the haskell-as-scala stuff and found it academically interesting but somewhat divorced from reality with respect to how immediately useful it would be to most projects.
>> RDS does not support a hot standby replica you can use for read-only queries

This is not true anymore.

I set up two read-only RDS replicas, one in a different AWS region, and another in the same region, for read-only queries, just by clicking in AWS console.
Netlix Releases “Dear White People” Series
Also should add RedIT has fiber runs across Mexico and the US Southwest and has a smaller map [1]

[1] https://redit.com/en/
Sure but Microsoft was 'doing fine' well into the Ballmer period everyone now acknowledges was a decline. So was Blackberry for a few years after the iPhone was released.
> Root Cause Analysis
> [...]
> [List of technical problems]

No, the root cause is you have no senior engineers who have been through this before. A collection of distributed remote employees, none of whom has enough experience to know any of the list of "Basic Knowledge Needed to Run a Website at Scale" that you list as the root causes. $30 million in funding and still running the company like a hobby project among college roommates.

Mark my words, the board members from the VC firms will be removed by the VC partners due to letting the kids run the show. Then VC firms will put an experienced CEO and CTO in place to clean up the mess and get the company on track. Unfortunately they will probably have wasted a couple years and be down to the last million $ before they take action.
Ask HN: How to establish roles in a startup where founders have similar skills?
How would you establish roles in a startup where 3 of the founders are all technical with business experience? Two of them could easily be the cto and two of them could easily be the ceo. What would be a third role to in this case to consider or does it even really matter in beginning? Product is one area of focus possibly..
More like apex parasite :(
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It is interesting to me that you (and many others) associate cars with freedom. I think in a way it is ingrained into American culture (at least for people that grew up in the suburbs or further out) - getting your drivers license is a rite of passage here. Up until that point you have to rely on your parents to get anywhere, because the only place you can walk to other houses in your neighborhood.

I grew up in the suburbs and moved to the inner city when I had the choice. I own a car, but I find it hard to imagine not having so much walkability. To me that is more freeing than having to drive 20 minutes to get anywhere. If I want outdoor space I can walk to a park, or drive to the countryside.
I think you aren't seeing all the options:

1. super-dense city core (your current situation)
2. mega sprawl like LA and Houston
3. traditional suburb, with long commute into a city
4. out on the farm/ranch, maybe telecommuting
5. small town
6. small city

In particular, I think #6 is what you are missing out on. By that I mean the sort of place with 50 to 100 thousand people, laid out like a suburb but not oriented around commuting to a big city. The population density would be 1000 to 2000 per square mile.

In this sort of place, commuting is easy by both bicycle and car. Traffic is seldom much of a concern. Parking is plentiful. Usually the houses are cheap, frequently 100 to 500 thousand for free-standing homes with yards. Usually the schools are good, with enough people to have a full set of advanced classes at the local high school.

I've lived in several of these in several states. My commute is typically single-digit miles. I normally drive, but walking isn't much trouble. Currently I walk less than a mile. I'll need to do 5 miles in the near future, which should take 10 minutes by car.

What is not to like about it?
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Without insight into what the AWS RDS team workload and priorities are, I think it's unfair to use a term like disturbingly. Sure, as a user, we want features to be rolled out as quickly as possible. From what I've seen, Postgres RDS support has been slow, but consistently getting better: nothing to warrant suggesting Amazon isn't serious about continuing to improve their Postgres offering. That would be disturbing. Or data loss failures. Slower-than-I'd-like roll-out of new features? Frustrating.

By all means, RDS isn't perfect. It doesn't suit my current needs. But I understand that getting these things to work in a managed way that suits the needs of most customers is not an easy task. I'll remain frustrated in some small way until RDS does suit my needs. I hope they continue to add features to give customers more flexibility. And from what I've seen, they likely will.
I thought that any trades made during the crash were reversed after.
This remind me too much to Auroracoin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroracoin I'm not too much optimistic ...

"back the value of Grantcoin currency on markets where it trades" probably means that they use the money of the foundation to buy the coins to try to avoid a sharp reduction of the value. I doubt they have enough money to keep the price > 0.
By "live" is the intention that the program will recompile without losing the state of the running app? I remember seeing a cool Elm demo of that, but it seems like Ellie requires recompilation.
It's always fun to build things like this, but Hacker News is really good the way it is. Hard to change it and avoid making it worse.
"The real interesting comparison lies elsewhere. Also we have to take into account that we can not use the same tests on intelligence on both populations."

I actually think that intelligence test questions have highly correlated difficulty when given to people from different cultures (even more different than US/China). I.e. there's broad agreement in terms of what questions are hard/easy.
Pay off the neighbors. The benefits of intensification are city wide and not local, so create a local benefit.
One thing to keep in mind:

The problem with VC-funded competitors is that they can afford to lose money on every customer and live off investor money (for a while, anyway). You can't afford that.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, especially if you can do it in market they're not actually doing anything about. Just something to keep in mind.
In the meantime solution architects and sales people from AWS are going to run around with annotated copies of this public post-mortem to enterprises and say "look, RDS would have solved x,y,z and we can do that for you if you pay us"

:)
Ask Kyril Faenov if you think Satya can be an asshole.
I pointed this out on HN before with the same opinion and someone pointed out that they might just throw away MacOS. iOS is a smaller codebase, has superior multitasking (ever needed Activity Monitor on iOS?) and generally more future proof than MacOS is. An iOS laptop or desktop (like the Surface) wouldn't be out of the question.
> For instance, if you can capture 70% of market ups while only taking 70% of the downs, you'll beat the market.

Is not correct.
Much of Seattle, and virtually all new construction for the last several years, is like this. I think it may be a requirement of the city. It is one of the reasons many people live here without a car, or own one but never use it, if they live vaguely close to the urban core. Many of the outlying neighborhoods are similar too, though not as dense.

Seattle high-rises usually have retail/restaurants on the 1st and sometimes 2nd floor; if the building is tall, there may be some commercial office space on some floors above retail; and then residential is the majority of the building above that. It means you generally don't have to walk very far for anything.

From a quality of life standpoint, I love it. I only need to drive if I am leaving the city.
I'd say transpiler, or at least preprocessor. It does add a language feature, after all.
Thanks for the info. Glad this stuff is being taken seriously by the core part of the community.
> Wise people realize that the smartest human is still hopelessly incapable of really understanding the universe.

Still the best theories that physics has to offer are the best that humankind has found in recorded history. And they were only found because there were people that did not tolerate this situation (being incapable to understand the universe).

> Smart people can come up with better models of reality, but they are still subject to the chaotic nature of the universe just like the rest of existence.

The moral should rather be: Because of this fact, sit down and develop better mathematics that will lead to us understanding this kind of chaotic situations much better in, say, 50 years.
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> I was initially surprised to learn that clearing bidders are not even paid to generate; they're paid to be ready to generate,

It is, however, a very serious commitment. If you fail in your generation requirement you can be fined significantly or excluded from future auctions.
I wonder when the fixed costs of upgrading will be less than the operating costs of inefficient 15 year old hardware
well, i think the point is two-fold.

first, that it can be more difficult for people to get an education (and in many cases, a professional job) depending on their background and thus have a much higher barrier to "cure cancer" type work. simply saying that they could is all well and good, but it ignores some harsh realities of life.

second, the fact that people value something does not necessarily make it important. so what if someone values their nails being done? who does it benefit? capital is a distribution of resources in order to maximise output. some of that output is chaff, but i'd argue that less chaff and more useful product is better for a society to prosper.
That like looking at Windows 3.1 screenshots and saying Windows 10 is horrible. Obviously thing would have evolved and improved. My point is that it was encumbered by licensing issues and therefore wasn't adopted.
There is no need for the animated fluff. It is also slow. This site adds no value but takes away a lot of speed and UX.
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If we fail at the grid management level and the entire grid collapses, it's a non-trivial process to get it back up. It can take hours to days to get everything up and running. It's a process called blackstart.

In the meantime hospitals and other facilities with backup gensets will quickly run out of fuel. Those fuel delivery contracts everyone has will go out the window once the entire grid is down and everyone needs fuel.
Compiler:

a program that converts instructions into a machine-code or lower-level form so that they can be read and executed by a computer

Since they add features, I guess this would qualify as it outputs a "lower level form", but man it's really pushing the definition.
Wonder how you can deliberately target Chrome only.
I do like his writing style.

"Now that we can sleep easily on the nuclear holocaust issue, I’ll add a few more observations about this plutonium."
ERCOT in Austin, TX.
> second, the fact that people value something does not necessarily make it important. so what if someone values their nails being done? who does it benefit? capital is a distribution of resources in order to maximise output. some of that output is chaff, but i'd argue that less chaff and more useful product is better for a society to prosper.

Markets form a democracy: Everybody can vote with their wallet what they want and consider as important.
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For anyone considering using stylish on chrome, you should know that the latest update turned on tracking by default. It will send your current url to fetch a list of "styles for this url", but does it even when the popup isn't visible. You can check by looking at the network tab of the `background.js`.
Are those fiber optic cables connecting the glasses to the backpack or just power and data? If they've really built a fibre scanning display into glasses that size then some of the hype may be justified.