skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could overlay Apple vs. Microsoft from 2001 but you won't like that graph...

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

or how about Google?

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...

Success and failure can and should be measured relative to other related companies in the same industry.

Last 3 years

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
You haven't been watching the news dude: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603431/as-goldman-embrace...

Yay, bring the downvotes, doesn't change the fact that not even our jobs are safe and downvoting such opinions won't make the problem go away - in the future we'll probably build software systems the way we train dogs today! And yes, we'll taste our own medicine :-)
It's like the traditional model of the universe and solar system with the world balanced on the back of a giant turtle, which is standing on several more turtles, and other turtles underneath that, all the way down to the base of the universe.

Except that it's scams and assholes all the way down.
Don't believe military wargames anymore. They have become a mechanism to bolster the procurement status quo. A Trillion dollar industry has developed around military procurement--they resist disruption using political means. Military procurement is not a free market. Its a network of old boys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
The question isn't really whether it's ok it's whether M F-35's are better than N alternative fighters at some task, for M<N.

A problem is that it needs to replace a lot of different planes (a-10, f-18, f-16, harrier...) and those have different roles. It's likely to suck royally at replacing the A-10 for example, or to act as an interceptor for defending the airspace Norway and Denmark which have no alternative fighters to back it up - but if a decision is made to e.f extend A-10 life, or buy a light attack plane for that role, then F-35 numbers go down, and unit price up.

Basically the F-35 has to be bought to do things it doesn't do very well or very cost effectively because otherwise not enough will be sold for it to be economical
The Misunderstood Conditional (Ternary) Operator
Package Hunt
We have a special task force in the US to deal with plants entering from foreign countries. There are lots of rules on this and some plants and plants from some regions aren't allowed. So it's not really as free as suggested even pre Trump.
Someone at work wrote this and I wanted to know what others thought of the subject...
It's a bit more than a weekend project but I've been working on Cachet [1] for a while now.

[1] https://cachethq.io
> Option A: get elected, spend first few years of my time in office trying to understand what's going on. By the time I achieve enlightenment, my term is over and I will not be reelected because I have nothing to show for my time in office.

I don't think we are really disagreeing... The electorate is just stuck in a loop in this case where their own impatience (no doubt stirred by those looking to challenge the status quo) works against them.

> Option B: study the problem first. It may take longer this way, because politicians have access to resources that not everyone has. Eventually understand the problem well enough to propose a solution I think will help, and then run on a platform advocating that solution.

Likely the only solution that will work, but it's hard, and you have the problem of convincing people that your understanding and solution is correct. I suspect being correct might even be an impediment to being elected, because you'll likely have some hard truths to swallow for the electorate, which some other less robust solutions can likely sidestep - or safely target towards only a specific segment of the electorate - since they don't have the added burden of actually having to solve the problem.

> (There is also option C: make up a plausible sounding solution without even caring whether it works or not; but then you're just seeking power and don't care about the problem at all. Let's ignore that for now, despite the fact that I sometimes worry that this may account for a large fraction of politicians.)

Well, I think we can't ignore that, because that's almost exactly what I was referring to. :) The main difference being that the politicians may not be purposefully - or at least not consciously - trying to put forth solutions that are incorrect or at least very poorly researched and understood. It's expedient to their worldview to not look too closely at whether their "hunches" about the problem and solution stand up under scrutiny, and confirmation bias takes care of the rest.

Combine this with an electorate that is increasingly upset about the problem and wants a solution ASAP, and you get a revolving door of politicians that espouse their pet solutions to the problem, possibly alternating between opposing extremes that can both be incorrect.
Dollar Tea Club LAUNCH ALERT!!
> Maybe the "entire South" should increase their rates if they want to compete on talent. I have no sympathy for a company that can't find talent because "we don't pay SV rates because we're not in SV".

Then the "entire South" is going to start charging you and me SV rates for their products and services. Probably not what you had in mind.
Yes but canceling a lot of your orders is not necessarily indicative of spoofing. In fact it's kind of the crux of market making. These are ver different behaviors.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-10-08/why-do-hi...
Does a College Degree still matter?
If you read the full article this is comprehensive exercise where the F35 is shielded from airborne threats by the much more vaunted F22s, and the fourth gen aircrafts were used for most of the actual striker roles.

I have no doubt the F35 is a capable platform, but this does not represent its standalone performance. If anything, the enemy forces will be primarily targeting the F22 and other strike crafts.
Is a College Education Worth the Cost or Is It a Hoax?
> "And now, turning right on a red light is just a cash cow for the slimy red light camera companies."

Hm? I'm pretty sure that revenues from red light camera tickets generally go to municipalities, not the companies that make the cameras themselves.
pfsense uses FreeBSD's fork of pf, which is years out of date

It is true that FreeBSD's pf lacks some of the recent improvements which have been made in OpenBSD's pf.

It is also true that OpenBSD's pf lacks some of the recent improvements which have been made in FreeBSD's pf.
Samsung Chromebook Plus review: future imperfect
Even though I am considered 'skilled labor', I hardly consider myself so skilled to be making the incredible AI machines that will be the ones to take over the jobs (in comparison to the competition, anyway). As for "less skilled folks" like myself, here's an abridged list of things you can do (in additional to software) to start hedging your bet against AI.

- Real estate (Landlord): I'd suggest you save money and start buying some property. Dump some sweat equity into certain markets and you may have something here. AI can never beat the ultimate constraint -- land.

- Environmental science: AI is great, but I doubt computer vision and robotics will become good enough to replace foresters and the like anytime soon. If you live in a wooded area, it may be worth it to start investigating it. Plus, it's healthy to walk around in nature anyway. Double whammy.

- Teacher: It's unlikely any teaching will be done by an AI. Behavior management in particular is difficult enough with a human, let alone an AI. When an AI robot is teaching our students directly, we have bigger problems on our hand.
That's not the real issue. The real issue is that tech workers are not the only one's coming here on H1B, and those professions don't pay nearly what an SDE gets paid.
This weekend I'm hoping to compile and install a simple Gear VR project w/ Unity. I got all the tooling installed yesterday but haven't had a chance to open it yet. The goal is to get a simple "hello world" level application installed on my phone.

We will see how far I get on that.
of course, this isn't going to happen by itself. foss is famously bad at user acquisition and ui/ux. the interesting thing about federated (or federate-able) social networks is that they aren't designed as silos.

i'm in the very early stages of building a meta-social network[1] thing on top of matrix that gives you bi-directional access to gnu/social, irc, reddit, nntpchan, &c.

while I care deeply about what this statement has to say, I don't think my ideals fall in line with the average twitter user. They simply don't care about who's profiting off of it, as long as they get to announce their next vlog.

put your money where your mouth is and help us[2] fix it.

[1]: https://source.heropunch.io/bbnet

[2]: https://riot.im/app/#/room/#bbnet:matrix.heldscal.la
I'm not sure the Angular 2 AOT bit belongs here. Angular 2's AOT just parses your HTML into the backing angular component classes. It's still all Javascript that has to be loaded and parsed.
How  to Pretend You’re a Designer or how I created a landing page in 42 secs
and would be free of taxation and government regulation

Laws do not magically vanish when something goes into a blockchain.
the most direct path would be to get the OpenBSD pf into FreeBSD, but including all the performance work that has been done.
I found this:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/yes-some-companies-are-...

At the very least, the ACA does mandate what I said it does. I am not saying it necessarily leads to job losses, nor am I saying that the costs outweigh the benefits.
A guide to eliminating procrastination [video]
It does come up?

In the case of pensions and royalties, it is wealth from prior work, so it's not really in the same category morally (for a culture that believes in the virtue of work).

Social security and inherited wealth definately do have a sort of stigma attached to them though, precisely because of the lifestyles that "trust fund children" tend to live, and because the poor are already stigmatized in general. The structure of social security makes real problems here too, where people can't get jobs without losing their social security.
No True Scotsman would print funny things from a printer!
Show HN: Elasticsearch Operator for Kubernetes
Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster and enable snapshots to AWS S3 utilizing Kubernetes. Define which zones to deploy the data nodes to and they will be spread evenly across those zones as well as providing data persistence.

https://github.com/upmc-enterprises/elasticsearch-operator

Happy for feedback and missing use-cases. It's very new so there is much more to do to make it fully featured including making it production ready.

Walkthrough video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HnV7NfgP6A
I use a to-do ordered by perceived energy and alternate between low and high energy tasks over the course of the day. On most days this means that I do a lot of low energy things and few or no high energy things, but as with the structured procrastination approach, I am getting a lot done, the only difference being that I'm not couching it in terms of ineptitude and avoidance.

Edit: And I also had a huge issue before with concerning myself about the "right time" to do a thing. The right time is now when I have the energy and there are appropriate external conditions(time of day, weather).
> blue-collar ... physical labor and does not require skill

If you drop the physical labor requirement, some computer programming tasks can be performed by folks without much education.

Manufacturing has historically been a low-skilled, not un-skilled job. Programming can be, too, if we change the way we teach.
A Hacker News clone built with NX
I'm pretty sceptical about the value of stealth apart from being able to operate in contested airspace (read: attack). It's an advantage in BVR because of detection ranges etc but I'm not sure the stealth design is the most cost effective one for all those countries (probably) buying the F-35 without ever having to do "power projection" and instead will do territorial defense. Japan, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Canada(?) I think would probably have been better off with a non stealth design.
https://www.findlectures.com

Right now it has an index of ~70k conference talks / lectures / speeches. I'm working on improving it to get slide text and audio quality (for ranking), and getting more historical content.
Some learned observers say that's how we birthed communism, in the first place.

Bored intelligentsia, often very very affluent themselves or under the tutelage of wealthy benefactors, who have been divorced from even the merest worry of a hand-to-mouth existence thought up Communism.

The rest as they say is history.
You want math? How many combinations are afforded by your "long, carefully chosen password" in a symmetric system? How many core seconds per hour does a typical botnet scriptmonger control? Cryptanalysis of GPG doesn't even matter if Eve has enough time to brute force your symmetric key.
GitHub, what's up with the nav bar?
it's dark now?
> I still learned to hack and everything else in Palau regardless,
> it was just like playing with a handicap, it's still possible to
> learn and all, it's just harder.

But in some ways so much easier. I remember how I treated the Internet
before I had a 24/7 connection. I'd make lists of stuff I needed, use
my time on the Internet effectively, learn from the material I
downloaded and use that to inform my next browsing session.

Whereas now there's so many distractions, case in point me posting on
this website right now.
I feel like stories is kind of misleading - I was hoping for literal stories, while instead it seems like it's just a non-standard name for your discussion/forum section
I write plenty of multithreaded code of my own. What I am grieving is our CS education teaching new programmers that they should avoid concurrency because it's "too hard." I don't have time to make Thunderbird use more CPU cores so that its user interface doesn't block at times.
Who is we? The 50% that's employed and thus can afford to live, or the 50% that's homeless?
I disagree on this. The companies culture is only a matter in terms of how it manifests within the product itself and the things around the product. It isn't THE product.

I don't buy a product because their CEO's salary is public and I can see what I'd make there in a hugely arbitrary / convoluted form based salary metric. I buy because the product is good and support is good.
I did the same a year ago, largely agree with this, though I would note that it has been extremely useful to follow journalists (and comedy people/funny users). Specifically in regard to journalists however, I feel, just barely, that its worth it. One is able to gain a sense of what these people actually feel, away from an editorial board. Which is both enlightening and highly useful, if you actually devote time to reading journalism. Its also been very useful for organizing, as in, "there is a rally ya'll, come to such and such, like, now". More than once I've missed emails or other communications that would have pulled me into an action, meeting or other event but saw references to it on twitter and was able to make it at the last minute.
Besides the obvious of "Don't lose money because that's bad", he's referring to how losses can quickly wipe returns.

If you're shooting for 10% per year and you lose 5%, you need to then get a gain of more than 5% to get even again, pushing you to take worse risks.

Hence, by simply focusing on a strategy of "Not losing money" you can come out ahead.

This was also the original Hedge strategy where you short some stuff and buy some stuff so you can get some of the gains without participating in all the losses. For instance, if you can capture 70% of market ups while only taking 70% of the downs, you'll beat the market.
How the EU works: who runs the EU?
I guess the question I'd ask is, do amafaceooglesoft contract out IT work to companies that use the H1B visa, and were any of these roles previously handled in-house.

I'm not sure of the answer, but it could be that these companies make use of both paths. If you're hired directly by these companies, you are paid the same, but a job that is eliminated and replaced through one of the body shops wouldn't be.

For instance, the workers eliminated at Disney aren't technically getting replaced by H1Bs, through a slight of hand. Disney is eliminating the positions, and then hiring a consulting company to provide that work. This way, it can be made to look like the H1Bs hired by Disney are paid the same as their American counterparts- by ensuring that jobs replaced that don't pay the same are no longer considered Disney employees.

Again, not sure if google and other companies do this, but all your data tells me is that developers who are formally hired by google are paid the same. If google eliminates a 150k a year position, and then contracts that job function out to a consulting company paying 75k a year, that wouldn't show up in google's numbers.
The DAO didn't need a physical office for it to be 'hacked' and drained.

And a car sharing scheme would need physical cars, making it pretty easy to take down the system or haul the car owners to court if the service is breaking laws.
Hexagons are surprisingly common in nature! Honeycomb, columnar basalt, snowflakes, benzene, soap bubbles...
Apple's financials are fine, for the time being. The pace of their product innovation has noticeably slowed down though, and many products seem to have gone backwards in terms of quality and desirability.
Good point. I've never actually worked with gtk+, but I have worked with windows forms development for desktop apps. I thought it was a really good approach for building a windows desktop applications, but I create all web-based UIs in a code editor.

I suppose if there was only one browser to target, then we might actually see more use of a GUI editor. Kind of how FrontPage was for IE a long time ago.
My understanding is the current fee is per-developer, not per-game. The new plan is to charge per-game, which might help combat the issue to some degree.
I don't think anyone is complaining about companies like Facebook and Google, who, by many accounts in this thread, are paying market rate for H-1B holders. These guys are not abusing the system. People are complaining about those outsourcing consultant companies who are abusing the system by paying far below market rate to H1B holders.
"Look at all the good times we kids had burning VC money at wonderful places knowing nobody cares about us running something sustainable."
I'm curious why you submit CVEs for development repositories of code that is not supposed to be run in production?

SMF 2.1 for instance is purely development releases that are _not_ supposed to be used in production.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=5354...

> As always, keep in mind that Beta Releases are NOT recommended for production sites.

It is just the first time I've ever seen someone create a CVE for what is essentially a do-not-run-this-in-production code branch for an open source project. I'm used to people waiting until at least a Release Candidate version before doing that.
Passport Revoked: When Brands Fail Internationally
I value variety as well. I mostly work from home when I'm not traveling but I like to go into the office at least one day a week even when I don't really need to. I'm similar with traveling. There are times when it really wears me down but then I'm doing the routine day-to-day in the office/home for three weeks and I'm ready for a change.
That is so frustrating to read about the Millenium Challenge. I had never heard of that idiocy before.
Physics comes to mind, also that Moore's law stopped in the strict sense (doubling every 18 months) years ago.
I think a sliding scale of fee based on sell price would be a good thing as well.
> How would you move an S3 user off cloud? Do you have networking, load-balancing and performance experts on call if something goes sideways?

The vast majority of S3 users have loads that can be handled with a couple of low end dedicated servers.

If you can afford to pay the S3 bandwidth charges, then by the time you can't serve the load with a handful of servers, you're paying so much that you can afford hefty retainers with consulting/devops companies larger than mine and still make massive savings.

S3 can be cost effective, but only if you rarely retrieve the data.

> I guess we are aiming for different companies, my clients want scalability and do not want to deal with BGP issues, power outages, vendor RMAs and the other things people forget to add to the basket when comparing cloud vendors to dedicated hosting.

Same with my customers, which is why they pay me to set up and operate systems for them. Still ends up far cheaper than cloud setups.

> Amazon buys networking equipment and servers on a discount you would not able to buy, they also get a great discount for the networking bandwidth and energy as well.

I'm sure they do, the problem is they're not passing those savings on. Especially on bandwidth.

As an example, S3 bandwidth out for up to 10TB/month is $90 per TB. I pay ~$2 per TB for most of my own projects. Depending client needs we use providers that charge from ~$2/TB to $20/TB.

It sounds to me as if you've not actually looked at prices at alternative providers.
Thanks for that. Don't really understand how the firebase peak connection limit is calculated. From what I see on Google Analytics, I don't have 100 simultaneous connection.

Edit: I upgraded, so it should be good.
Thanks for the feedback. The "Hello World" was supposed to be tongue in cheek, but obviously didn't come off that way. Oops!

We initially built the tool for this app:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/7-second-meditation-daily/id...

From hundreds of different daily meditations it has learned precisely which order to show the content in to maximize retention. So it knows the best message for day 1, day 2, day 3, etc.

The first month retention for this app is 43%, up from the 20s before optimization. The current rating is solid 5 stars ands usually in the top 10 in the mindfulness category.

The In App Purchase prices are automatically optimized, and soon we'll be throwing in a bunch of different background images, all of which will be automatically optimized.

Anyway, I really appreciate the feedback.
Ultimately it's helped far more people than it's hurt. It's given us medicine, it's given us affordable food, clothing and incredible technology. To the extent that I can comfortably say I'd rather be lower class now than upper class just a few hundred years ago.
I came from Rails into WordPress and the stink that I've picked up from having this on my resume has definitely hurt my career prospects...not like I'd rather be working on Rails right now anyway.

I've resigned myself to digging deeper into Elixir and Erlang and using my Ruby background to get the next gig.

I interviewed with some folks recently who are primarily CodeIgniter and transitioning to Laravel -- wasn't a fun interview. They just couldn't see the benefits of a functional style anywhere in PHP.
Yes, Safari seems to beat everybody, and Apple's mobile processors excel at single-thread performance.

However, Edge doesn't appear to have an advantage - the graph shows chrome on a Thinkpad T430 beating Edge on the same hardware.

Also, it shows the Nexus 5X (Qualcomm 808 processor) beating the Pixel XL (Qualcomm 821 processor).

Is this accurate? Seems fishy, but I haven't run any benchmarks.

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*dnhO1M_zlmAhvtQY_7...
> a simple object which holds your DOM handles via incrementing numeric IDs and pass them back to your Rust (or C++) code.

How do you know when to release those handles so the GC can clean them up?
http://niemanreports.org/articles/the-transformation-of-netw...