skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a sub point of your point.

For server's wage, the business is required that a server make at least $7.25 an hour. So,

- if nobody comes, the restaurant can't pay you server's wage, they pay you minimum wage ($7.25)

- If a server receives $4 in an hour of tips, the restaurant has to add in $1 to the $2.35

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And for long term employees with weekly/monthly paychecks, hopefully this all equals out or benefits the server. If the server takes cash tips and doesn't report them, or works under that expectation, then that server has somewhat unlawfully opted out of the system.
its sad that even an article about cactus can't remain apolitical.
Usually the modifying of behaviour in these cases just means writing down stuff more, which is usually beneficial to everyone.

On another note, having remote employees without supporting that type of working company wide is just silly squandering of resources. Sadly that is fairly common anyways.
This looks like the VueJS Hacker news script. Not knocking it but just curious if it is. I've used that script to build a few things myself. https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0
The original author just called it, but phrased it in a more "hardliner" fashion. It would have been great if the blog post gave some deeper/original insight to read about, but it really does not. Calling the comment condescending a judgement too hard.
To be fair, at this point the overwhelming majority of the comments for this submission are politics-free.
Well, Moore's law is already dead. Intel missed the mark last year.

As far as shrinking transistors further, isn't 7nm the physical limit?

Edit: I'm mistaken. Transistors as small as 1nm have been developed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nanometer#Technology_demos
The only thing i feel about procrastination -- problem exist only when it receives your attention. Have no hunger? Keep it simple: don't eat.
I just enabled this, you have to create a campaign on ads.twitter.com and then add a credit card to enable the compose button; it looks like you can then schedule standard tweets that i don't think incur any cost
I see your point. "deep depression" or "clinical depression" are probably good enough.
I hate it, I can't even see my (mostly black) avatar against the black background.
...and everything else (Sturgeon's law).
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>> mimic the leader, so if the leader does X, then their reports do X...

Certainly true - perhaps the best definition of a leader.

There are plenty of people who are managers and not leaders, though.
Thimbleweed Park is an old-school adventure game just the way you remember them
Maybe if you have an agenda against H-1Bs. Otherwise it looks like they just pay them the normal amount.
Also known as the XY problem [1]. It's almost tragic how often the best opening question to a request is "what are you really trying to do?". The fact that it is a widely-known Stackexchange anti-pattern is pretty telling.

[1]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy...
Infosys pays a sub-par salary of $52k to a systems engineer in Sunnyvale California: http://h1bpay.com/companies/Infosys/cities/Sunnyvale-CA/job-...
I had the interesting honor of contacting Edward Snowden so Perry and Ken Taylor could get a radio interview with him once for their philosophy radio show. He does cool stuff
Oh good grief, that happened to me by accident once and I had no idea what was going on. I think I had to restart the game! Thank you for clearing up this mystery for eight-year-old me.
I think (assuming I'm reading the announcement correctly) there's an extra wrinkle here, though.

In the old model, the way to get your game onto Steam was to put it through Greenlight, where if it gathered enough support it could get promoted to the main storefront. You had to pay a fee to Valve to submit games to Greenlight, but it was a one-time fee ($100, IIRC), after which you could submit as many games to Greenlight as you wanted.

In the new model, Greenlight goes away; you just submit your game directly, and after you pay a publication fee, the amount of which is still up in the air (anywhere from $100-$5,000), it goes into the storefront. But, and this is the wrinkle, now you pay the publication fee for each game you submit rather than just paying it once. So if you submit ten games for publication, you pay the publication fee ten times.

So why the change? My guess is that Valve has decided that the essential premise of Greenlight -- that community curation would surface the gems within the vast pile of dross that gets submitted -- has been comprehensively broken by tactics like voting rings and giving out free keys in exchange for votes. So this represents them abandoning that idea and replacing it with a more blunt filter: a per-title publication fee. In the old model it cost the same to submit a thousand games as it did to submit one, so developers just threw lots of things against the wall and prayed one would stick. Now there will be a financial incentive for developers to put more wood behind fewer arrows, as the saying goes.

The big question is whether this will improve the overall quality of games on Steam, or reduce it further (if that's even possible). I'm honestly not sure. A lot will depend on where precisely they set that publication fee -- too high will drive off cash-starved indie devs, too low will mean the crap merchants will just swallow it as the cost of doing business.
This place looks amazing. Like really really amazing. A bit off topic, but how much did you enjoy your time there?
Can confirm all of the above.

I study in an average college in India, and it seems the only motivation for studying computer science is to get a "lucrative" job at an outsourcing company. Getting a job at an top outsourcing company is considered pretty respectful by all of society.

The interviews are pretty rough too. The screening is done based on an aptitude quiz (it's an entirely different thing that is hardly related to the CS curriculum) and once you crack that, the "smartness" factor gets involved. I have had people confess to me that they got the job just because their english speaking skills were good.

A lot of this is due to the fact, which I think is the primary motivation, that the salaries offered at these companies are actually quite high compared to other markets, all you have to do is shell out four years somehow. This leads to students not even caring about computer science as a subject, but a ticket to the "IT dream", if you will.

Also, note that this represents the "average" colleges of India, which is what most of India is filled with. The demand for studying engineering becomes higher every year, and to cope up with that, engineering colleges are built of nowhere with no real regard for education.
Ok Hacker News, I think I am done for the day after this.

Just to be clear, we are talking about a 30x return in someone's entire net worth, in 12 months, from trading.

I didn't say you couldn't construct a perfect hypothetical trade that in hindsight would have earned someone a huge 30x or 100x return or whatever. Not sure how that's even relevant though (unless maybe you trade from home and buy those expensive mega-ultimate-dragon options trading online skype courses and still think such trades are even worth talking about).

I didn't even say a 30x return of his net worth was impossible, I said it's "hard to believe" and "very high'.

But apparently a 30x return "is easy" and this guy has done it twice...

OK. Well it's been fun. HAGW everyone

P.S. I appreciate chrisatumd's disclaimer, nice to see, and a good reminder that investing and trading is gambling and you can lose it all, whether you're an amateur or pro.
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Exactly. They're doing even worse in terms of vision for their game franchises, which is what got them where they are in the first place.

This is a gaming company that hasn't really done anything major for gaming in nearly a decade. How is that even possible?
This looks like it might be inline with a philosophy that I've been developing independently. I should totally read this article at some point.
> "The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing."

I felt that way since I know the word "procrastination". When I talk about "procrastiantion" with other people I propose exactly this definition: Procrastination is a way to get stuff done, only that it's not the stuff with the closest deadline.

> Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.

This is why I felt the idea of the "instant gratification monkey"[0] doesn't fit my definition of procrastination so well. It's not just a pet in my head, but also friends, flatmates and co-workers whom I doing favors while I'm procrastinating.

Anecdotal example: When somethings broken in our flat, my flatmates asking me when I have much work to do, because then will be the time when I will fix the broken stuff instead of doing the actual (paid) work. There's also the joke about me that when I stop doing (paid) work the whole house will go down because I will have less motivations to fix things.

But there's also a dark side of this kind of behaviour: When I call it a day and review the things I have achieved that day, all the things I got done can easily drown in the sea of things which I have not but were on the top of the ToDo list. Sometimes this is the moment where "panic monster"[0] is seeing its chance.

And yes, even reading article about procrastination is still procrastination in the sense of my proposed definition.

[0] http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrastin...
Republicans are ready to take down the FCC
Allegedly, Monet painted with more blue colors after his cataract surgery, though it's not a sure thing: http://www.skepticalartist.com/2013/06/25/claude-monet-and-u...
Oh yeah, the number of questions in this thread without answers should tell you everything you need to know about Aragon.

Any founder with a legit business who shows his project to Hacker News and gets ~40 some odd people to comment on it would almost certainly want to keep up that conversation.
I disagree.

You might not be able to learn anything specifically practical in a day or two on a language, but I offer that it can provide a lot of insight.

Learning a bit of Scala helped me re-think how I write some other code.

Learning optionals in Swift made me think a lot about that as it applies to Java.

Yet I have no real competence in either Scala or Swift.

And this: spending one single day in TypeScript made me realize I want to learn the rest of it, and within a few days I decided that I would never write Javascript again :)

It's 'worth it' overall, to dabble on other platforms, I think.
Do you use any front-end libraries for your web projects?
I think you're giving too much credit to the majority of digital/social marketers. Yes, the best will follow similar strategies that you outlined but the vast majority will continue to spray and pray, with perhaps additional focus and time given to the one channel that performs the best.
Previously: business use typically comes with expectations that tend not to align well with consumer grade products (specifically: availability and performance).

Edit: Turns out the answer is yes, no commercial use.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

1.2 Using Your Files with the Services. You may use the Services only to store, retrieve, manage, organize, and access Your Files for personal, non-commercial purposes using the features and functionality we make available. You may not use the Services to store, transfer, or distribute content of or on behalf of third parties, to operate your own file storage application or service, to operate a photography business or other commercial service, or to resell any part of the Services.
This fits in with games like setting your clock forward 5 mins to trick yourself into being on time. It's a slippery slope.
I've tried to use some of these mentioned GUIs. For me, the learning curve is fairly steep. Beyond creating something very simple I always find myself spinning my wheels very soon. I know what I need, so it's much easier to jump into the IDE and just do it. Also. At some point even your HTML is going to be made live. Either through turning it into the template or inline code or etc. it just doesn't really blend with my workflow. I prefer to sketch out things on paper then just go straight to IDE seems to be quickest way to keep the iterations going and then push to prod with least amount of friction.

I see using these tools like using photoshop to create a sculpture.
> Everyone knows that most H1-B visas are used up by Indian firms for Indian nationals. Not by American firms for international talent.

Indians are "international". Or did you mean that only Europeans qualify?
It's basically a publishing system. On Twitter I generally put only professional broadcasting related items for 90% of the content. Blog posts, that kind've thing. I rarely even read it.

There's even an app in the Mac App store that a friend of mine wrote called Wren that is just a simple little "store and tweet" system. Doesn't attempt to read anything, just lets you keep it on your desktop to tweet stuff periodically. That sums up my usage of Twitter.

It's largely replaced press releases. While people used to send out releases to outlets, now they tweet it and outlets follow you and report if they think it's news worthy.
Fair enough, but these don't all have to have the same cause (except maybe in a very abstract sense).
Are you referring to unicorn startups funded with venture capital money? Most of those companies don't have to worry about being profitable in the near short term (<2 years). Snap Inc. raised $2.5 billion dollars or so and has around 300 employees. I'm having a hard time believing a company that raised over $2 billion dollars, has 300 employees and doesn't have to worry about turning a profit will run out of business if they paid their software developers market rates.
Ford Investing $1B in Startup Founded by Two Autonomous Car Pioneers
No email on your profile...
It's not really about being incapable of learning new UIs though - I'm perfectly capable, I just don't want to. Why learn a UI that takes 3X as many steps to chop up a site design when there's one that takes X?

Sadly most artists who want to save money just pirate, which is what led to the terrible Creative Cloud situation. But that led to Affinity which seems to be a solid, buy-once (for cheap!) replacement. I agree the monolithic nature of Adobe is bad for everybody but that's not a reason to choose a subpar tool. Also people can write and sell their own plugins for Adobe products as well.

Anyway I think we're mostly on the same page.
I appreciate pfSense offering something that's better than the average firewall, but I really wish they would just build it on top of the latest release of OpenBSD.

OpenBSD and pf really is the best. As noted above, FreeBSD has wandered off into the weeds with pf for no good reason. There have been so many improvements to pf since 2009 that I wouldn't even consider using something that old.

I used pfSense years ago when I was first learning firewalls. These days the best GUI for me is no GUI but a CLI, but some people don't want to take the time to build a firewall. Granted, once you know how to do it, it doesn't take that much time to build a firewall, but it does take time to understand what you're doing and why. But really, not that much time, considering the aggravation it can save you down the road.
I don't mean to be combative, but when providing an example of how you're planning to mitigate vulnerabilities, it seems unwise to use code that contains an easily avoidable XSS vuln. I love pfSense and have used it for years, but this sort of thing doesn't inspire confidence.
I use IB most of the time for iOS layouts. Most of the time it's the fastest, easiest way to lay out a simple interface and get it right.

The other 10% of the time I have to get my hands dirty. This is pretty much par for the course with UI design. Any WYSWIG editor necessarily abstracts functionality in favor of simplicity, and when you need to get deep, you go back to the underlying general purpose language.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's a good workflow. Easy stuff is easy and hard stuff is hard, as nature intended. Fully committing to an IDE editor would mean that easy stuff is easy and hard stuff is impossible.
Yo man, everyone's got their brew. It's just how much of it you can remember and copy into the next batch each time.
MySQL actually just officially released "Group Replication" a few months ago to address this.

http://mysqlhighavailability.com/gr/doc/

> MySQL Group Replication is a MySQL Server plugin that provides distributed state machine replication with strong coordination between servers. Servers coordinate themselves automatically, when they are part of the same replication group.
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There's specifically a setting that you can select on any Page or Profile to "See First in News Feed." [https://www.facebook.com/help/1188278037864643]
New business model: For $1M per tweet, you can have a 50ms head-start on tweets from Trump. Just Trump, just one tier of headstart/pricing. You prepay for the next N tweets. You can set time-ranges (like, "when the markets are open") for when you want to pay for the headstart.

I bet they could get a few tens of millions of revenue there. Probably HFT firms would at least experiment with it, right?

Might get them into some serious regulatory crosshairs.
some sort of NLP/RNN chatbot thing
Obviously, the kind of thing I speculate on above is an industry-by-industry effect.

However, as mentioned in the article, the average house that is built today is larger than a house built in 1960 and that can account for some of the increase also.

Moreover, a 3x increase in one cost factor is a good start on explaining a 10x increase in overall costs. You can't expect any economic process, from grocery bills upwards, to yield an exactly proportional result between two "back of the envelope" estimates, now can you? One inflation estimator might not be akin to another etc, etc.
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Oh please.

Steam on Linux hasn't ushered in "Linux on every desktop" but it's done quite a bit for Linux gaming.

Dota 2 came out 4 years ago and is huge.

Greenlight was launched 5 years ago. That achieved nothing for indie game devs I guess.

Anyone of those was a pretty major event in "gaming".
Still have hard time believing he's going to be in jail for life. Also hard time to believe he was doing what HFTs don't do already.
A stable coin is a token that, using some mechanism, is able to hold a stable value. The most prominent group trying to make this work using ethereum, I think, is http://makerdao.com/docs/.
Ah, thanks. I'm surprised I haven't heard of body modders getting that done so they can see UV, that sounds like a neat superpower akin to people who get magnets embedded in their fingers. Going to research risks now..
I'd rather live in a liberal area where I can be myself, than have boring/inconsequential/fake/superficial conversations about BBQ, football, weather etc.

Source: Lived in Dallas and Austin for 7 years.
I like that.

I don't have the time or energy to consume the firehose that my Twitter feed has become - so I just don't use it anymore.
Especially because the effect of Trump's tweets has rapidly shifted. His Boeing tweet hurt their stock price considerably. But just a few weeks later, his Nordstrom tweet helped quite a bit.

I guess you could weigh it against his favorability polling, but you're right, this is all just guesswork masquerading as science.
> Meanwhile Twitter struggles at implementing the most requested feature for many years - to edit Tweets

I thought that the immutability of tweets is a feature, to be honest.
For me, the guilt comes from knowing I -could- do more, but never doing as much as I could theoretically do if I did not procrastinate, rather than the self-deception itself.

And I don't think the self-deception for me is on purpose. It just happens to my natural, procrastinating self.
Amazon Tap now works without pushing a button
You wrote the first HN comment that made me sad I only can upvote it once.
Why don't you see Moore's law progressing beyond 3nm and maybe even stopping at 7nm or 10nm?
> there's no underlying system that can tell me to fuck off and that I'm not getting paid

No reason an arbitration clause couldn't be included in the contract.
Awesome Google easter-egg
I believe the GP is saying that they have the same right-of-way as if they were going straight. Admittedly, the difficulty in talking about this stuff precisely does leave me wondering if some people ITT are total menaces on the roads.
This just confirms that H-1B visa is yet another piece of corporate welfare pushed through by lobbyists for the benefit of large corporations at the expense of small businesses and the middle class.

My small software business can't compete with slave labor from India that large corporations with an army of lawyers can acquire.

Just one of the many reasons that self-employment and small businesses are struggling against a tide of complicated regulations and legislation and immigration meant to crush the workers and small businesses.

As you can see, self-employment has been on a steady downward trend since 1967:
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2010/09/art2full.pdf
This is one of those ridiculously pointless exercises that keep me coming back to Hacker News for more. What a waste.

http://www.tarsnap.com/
Not remotely true, many buy and hold investors have stops to limit their losses and/or exit their positions at certain levels. Flash crashes hurt them greatly.
Saw one of these on a dive in the Maldives. The colors of it's shell are mind blowing. Glad I didn't try to pick it up.
I am not debating the existence of subsidized loans. I am questioning the correlation b/w subsidized loans and high tuition which you seem to be making.

e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-r...
Although adjusting pay based on location isn't exactly rare. And I suspect that a lot of companies with remote work are OK with missing out on some talent in Little Rock because they won't pay Silicon Valley rates to someone living there. (And/or they make exceptions for people they really want on a case by case basis.)
Strong black tea can be a nice middle ground to get a bit of caffeine without going full bore, especially in the afternoon.
One data point here. I never have an issue opening documents created in Word via LibreOffice Writer and then sending them back. I often do this while looking for jobs.
Using functional programming in Python like a boss
Better advice is to allow yourself to do other things sometimes. We all have this idea of what we should be doing, usually work related and when we are not doing it we feel guilty. It took me a long time to accept that it was OK to sometimes go off on a tangent to satisfy my own curiosity and that not only did I not need to feel guilty about it but that it was actually good for me mentally and for my career because I learned new and valuable skills and avoided burnout.
Cite on teachers/firefighters in CA not getting Social Security [1]. Amazing they get taxed for something they never benefit from.

The special-case where a non-teacher who paid into SS for years and then became a teacher losing out on years of SS he'd built up is very unfortunate.

[1] http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Ripoff-Social-Securi...
It doesn't seem to matter. It's not as if "utm_" encodes to anything other than "utm_".
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Lucky you elaborated and supported your opinion with facts.
On the intuition behind deep learning and GANs–towards a fundamental understanding
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