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The threaded replies model was stupid. If a post had 20 replies, I have to click 20 times. Each click to show one reply. Many of the replies were moronic. I ended up just reading the main posts only.

I used many threaded discussion software. The one IMDb used was the most annoying. I have never seen it used on any other site. I guessed it must have been developed in-house and wondered why they never enhanced it.
By due diligence I mean not only understanding each platform and how its audience differs, but understanding what's happening around the time that you post. What's the mood?

There's a huge amount of value to be gained by participating in a larger conversation at any given moment (thinking mostly of Twitter here). It's not about just jumping on hashtags or Trends, though if relevant that's an opportunity. But if everyone is talking about a big topic, then customizing a post to add value to the conversation can have huge benefits.

Or just interacting on a human level. I've seen my best gains and actual new customers when participating in hashtag chats for my industry. Not selling my product, just trading ideas and opinions. That's how we met some great influencers who have ended up being major magnifiers of our messaging.

Also evaluating the overall tone on a social channel. Did your last post on FB a few hours ago result in a bunch of snarking by readers? Then maybe a humble tone is in order.

It's also about knowing when not to post. An earthquake kills 25,000 people in the Yucatan? Your fluffy happy emoji-laden post looks really out of touch.

Anyways, I just think it's very hard to pre-schedule content that's truly relevant. So instead, as someone mentioned above, people spray and pray with a mix of product/feature advertorials and rarely-clever memes. Noise.
Sure, but the vast majority of the funds from tickets go to the city - that's who it's really a "cash cow" for. And the municipalities are the ones actually making the rules that govern the tickets themselves. Why "slimy companies", and not "slimy City Halls"?
I agree that dealing with the front-end can be a drain sometimes, but unfortunately it's necessary for many types of MVPs that require a rich UI.

Do you have any such MVPs or projects you could share?
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I can't think of any major industry that has a 0% unemployment rate. Virtually all industries have some level of unemployment, and 2% is on the very low end compared to other industries. Even if all immigrants were paid at the same rate, you would still see a number of American tech workers unemployed.

> "indigenous workers shouldn't have to compete against low wage emerging economies in their own country"

Are you saying that it's ok for foreign workers to displace natives as long as its on the basis of skill, and not costs? I can get behind this proposition, but it sounds very different from what you were saying earlier.

If someone believes that it's never ok for a foreign worker to displace a native worker, even on the basis of skill, the only way I can think of to guarantee this is to shut off immigration completely.
Sure there are multiple commits on a branch, but when we merge back to the trunk the whole user story has to go in one shot. We can't put a partial user story on the trunk because then it wouldn't be in a fit state to release.
Some of those 360 people were involved in other things, like developing the HTC Vive VR rig, which is nothing to thumb your nose at.
Just because the addresses are publicly routable doesn't necessarily mean they're accessible to the public. I used to work at a place with a Class B block, but nevertheless advertised no routes for most of those IPs. Internally any traffic to the internet had to go through proxies.
Wow, this is really exciting. I love the idea for a fairly high recoupable application fee in order to weed out the crap.
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Basic Income will never be politically possible in places where it's culturally expected that a living must be "earned". It's more likely we'll end up paying 50% of the population to dig holes and paying the other 50% to fill them in, than implementing a basic income.
But the theory was that the source would be different, and only the rendered content would be the same at the sample place, right? How would you find the 'same place' without fully rendering the page?
They also called it a "recoupable application fee" so it sounds like they might reduce their 30% cut until the fee is earned back.

So as long as a game sells even reasonably well they could get the fee back in full while low quality shovelware gets discouraged.
I don't know anyone who can live on "just 15"--most people are scraping by.
Putting aside our political slants, one might ask when exactly in the history of human civilization has any fraction of humanity ever consistently demonstrated that they were willing to devote themselves to the sole pursuit of "the arts and sciences, pure creativity and discovery" for any significant length of time?

If such instances existed, did those noble pursuits come without costs? To either themselves or others?

Say they did manage to exist in harmony with other civilizations (who may not have had any such lofty ideals or pursuits) then how long did they manage to keep doing so? [1] [2]

How long did they survive?

How long did their inventions or works of knowledge survive, in their intended forms?

In fact the evidence is to the contrary that when humans are bequeathed with a surfeit of riches and time to devote, they indulged in decadence, degeneracy and if nothing else sloth.

At which time, they were quickly wiped off by their geopolitical peers who placed a higher importance on self-preservation than they did on arts, science & discovery.

We like to think we have ridden ourselves from the shortsightedness of those older, less-prudent & ill-advised civilizations.

But really, on balance, have we?

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples

[2]
http://www.ancient.eu/Sea_Peoples/
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You don't need to fully understand what is in a Vangaurd target date fund to have high confidence that it isn't a ponzi scheme that's going to go to zero. You can't say the same thing about the ultra-exclusive off the market opportunity that some business manager wants to put you in.

For a pro athlete looking at making millions for a few years and then facing a sharp drop-off thereafter, a Vanguard target date fund is probably not close to optimal. But you could do far worse and many do!
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The topics of "boredom, vice and the indignity of receiving income without continual labor" come up whenever there is unearned income (from the point of view of the recipient). In this area, UBI and welfare benefits are very different from pensions, royalties or rents which - from the point of view of the recipient - have all been earned (through prior work) and thus don't come with indignity / stigma attached.

Inherited wealth is in some ways comparable and this is why there exist many examples where heirs have ruined family fortunes by desparately trying to make their own mark. (And many heirs of family fortunes would probably score high on the "vice" rankings, too.)

Look (because these posts don't seem to sit well with the HN crowd): I'm not against a UBI. I'm just saying that it will not solve all the problems. Getting people money to live is only one piece of the equation. Making it socially acceptable (both regarding the inside perspective of the recipients themselves and their self-esteem as well as regarding the outside view of society) to live off of UBI instead of being in regular employment will IMHO be far more challenging and will take time (maybe generations).
> FWIW, pfSense has been basically stock FreeBSD + software/skin for the past couple of years.

While we try to move things upstream as much as possible, there are still patches in pfSense that don't make sense for FreeBSD.

> I don't on my FreeBSD hosts and haven't had any problems

TSO and routing/forwarding (and thus filtering) are incompatible.
I hadn't heard of these before, the one you're referencing probably is:

"In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one tactical aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared by the Air Force and Navy 3½ days each per week except for leap year, when it will be made available to the Marines for the extra day."

but Law Number XI might apply to this audience the best:

"If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made to rotate twenty times as fast, everyone else would get twice as much done since all the managers would fly off."
We already do that--the number of government workers is insane. Healthcare is another place where there are tons of make work jobs. What you describe already exists right now.
From a historical perspective your reservation is totally fair. But I think the issue is a lot more complex than just looking at the impact automation has had in the past. Here are a few points worth mulling over:

1. Automation in the past has been good at increasing worker productivity, and making new avenues of work possible. This is true going forward too. But each new generation of technology isn't "something we've seen before", it's a new thing with new consequences. Technological development isn't cyclical, so estimating the impact a new technology will have on the impact previous technologies have had is a poor model. This isn't to say the consequences will be bad, just that they're hard to anticipate. For the most part, the historical perspective is probably right though.

2. Automation in the past has been very effective in improving worker productivity, but developments in AI and robotics are looking at ways to supplant workers (i.e. electric cars don't improve our ability to drive, it removes our need for drivers). While in the broad sense this trend is good, and people will over time shift into new industries, it is going to be disruptive. Timelines will have a big impact on the shock. New industries won't spring up over night.

3. The timeline for this level of automation is much shorter than previous automation trends. The shift in agriculture happened over generations. The shift caused by driverless cars will likely happen in less than a decade. Add to that the efficiency of market pressures we have today - once one business is able to shift entirely to an autonomous fleet and save money over their competitors, all their competitors will have to follow suite to remain competitive. Entire industries could be displaced, and those workers will need to move somewhere.

4. This is more hypothetical and longer term, but it gets at what I think is the general fear around automation. Imagine we develop the ability to automate any unskilled job (whether through broad automation improvements or development of an actual general-purpose automaton). The primary factor in whether a business would choose to employ that automaton over a human is cost. The automaton is a once-off fixed cost, whereas a human is an ongoing cost. Once the cost of the automation is lower than paying a salary, humans will no longer be employed in that role.

5. Following from this, if it's the unskilled jobs that get automated, where do those workers go? At this stage, even if automation is creating new lines of work, why wouldn't that work also be automated? Basically, once we automate unskilled work, we never need unskilled workers again. In order to find work they'll need to skill up, which takes time and money. And if it takes a year to train a worker to a level that they're a net benefit, why not invest that money instead into automating the skilled work too?
https://www.americanheraldry.org/heraldry-in-the-usa/arms-of...

I don't think he was alluding to Machiavelli.
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Humans can, too, though not very well. Stare at a bright white LCD—you should see orthogonal double-fan shapes, one bluish, one yellowish.
Those are very good results (99%), I would like to see a calibration curve [0]

[0] http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.cal...
I live in NYC, and an important technology used here not mentioned is microturbines which can be used for co-generation and even try-generation. I spoke with an engineer that converted a Columbia Univ building from #2 oil to natural gas (Columbia is converting many/all buildings to natural gas) and used a micro turbine for the electric. He claimed the cost of conversion was $500K and the savings per year is $100K.

With tri-generation you get not only heat from steam and electric but also chilled water AC.

Unfortunately, microturbines don't get the tax breaks that solar and wind power gets.

During Hurricane Sandy we had a major power shortage below 42nd st (?) in Manhattan and everything was black except the Goldman Sachs building. There is a great magazine cover of Manhattan all dark except that one tower.
It reduces to a special case called the metric TSP. If going through node C is shorter than going from A to B directly, then just replace the A-to-B distance with the length of A-to-C-to-B. It's just as hard to solve as regular TSP, but easier to approximate.
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Do SSDs make any noticeable difference? I think I once read a post (maybe from Joel) where they bought SSDs and the difference in compilation time was negligible.
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AIUI, the difference is that, at the moment the HFTs place the order, they have every intention of filling them. Just because they might change their mind a fraction of a second later and modify their orders isn't particularly relevant.

Whereas spoofing is placing orders that you don't have any intention of filling. The only point of the orders is to move the market, rather than to actually make trades. And that's the thing that's illegal.
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>For the $20 mentioned in the post, I could set up four boxes in four AWS zones.

And for the $2.50 also mententioned, you could set up zero. Or you could buy a bandwidth based plan, where $20 will get you at least 250GB of bandwidth.
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This is incredibly easy to do, when 99.9% of the world relies on above-the-board banking to get shit done. My landlord doesn't accept rent payments in bitcoin, just like he doesn't accept payments in hooch, heroin, or pirate treasure - especially if it were illegal.

At some point, your internet crime ring will have to procure goods from the rest of the world. If the government wanted to crack down on it, they very easily could.

The underground drug markets only work because illegal drugs enjoy enormous profit margins (And because they are incredibly easy to conceal), due to lack of legal competition... And because, unlike crypto-currencies, cash transactions are common and untraceable (Which makes money laundering possible.) How is your illegal self-driving car company going to make those margins? How are they going to be able to afford to pay off all their suppliers (Who will charge a premium due to the legal risk), to keep your operations under wraps? How are you going to get customer to pay you, when it's illegal to drive your cars round town?

During prohibition, Al Capone was running moonshine, not beer. There weren't enough margins in beer, to risk federal prison. There aren't enough margins in <Whatever illegal bitcoin business you want to run, that doesn't involve a meth lab, or burning people alive in oil drums>, either.
Maybe Crunchbase is not up to date? The CEO's post says they have 71 investors, and Crunchbase lists 29.

But you're absolutely right. If they've only raised $3.9, it's an impressive run.
Does anyone have insights on how to refine this to only monitor specific elements of the page rather than the entire page?

I may not care if they change a template but would care if they change a price or a warrant canary etc?
Considering other factors that is still a fairly small adjustment. I meant what I said that the conditions should be fixed. It should, for instance, be easier for people to change jobs and find jobs on the open market. That would make salaries somewhat more competitive.

But that doesn't mean everyone are going to make the same salaries. Foreigners are always going to be more willing to pay their dues, be less knowledgeable of the local market and have more variable skillets.

People are talking about fixing H-1B by things like salary requirements. That isn't so much fixing it as excluding one set of people and giving preference to another set of people.
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Sam Altman is the epitomized replication of Steve Ballmer, just give it a few years until theres an Indian replacement before YC gets back on track.

Hubris makes it easy to deviate from the optimal form over function till it devolves into a wild goose chase.

Its just a matter of time but until someone gets that Sam Altman's head out of his orifice, we're bound to see that trend Microsoft experienced during the Ballmer days
> because we get all of our information digitally, we don't value it as much as a physical medium that we pay for.

This is not a new phenomenon. "today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper" is a lyric from 1981, and it's much older a sentiment than that.
Since this got me wasting time on Symmetry Magazine, I'll leave this here: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/the-deconstructed-st...

It's all interesting, and the first two paragraphs are directly relevant.
> It costs a lot of money to pay people to figure what hardware to buy, install servers, networking gear, maintain it, pay for bandwidth, backup etc.

That's part of what I do for a living, yet my clients tends to have recovered my fees in 2-3 months from the savings they make on reduced hosting costs. Those savings include factoring in the ongoing operational costs.

50%+ savings is not unusual. We've achieved 90% in rare cases (high bandwidth requirements - bandwidth costs are extreme at the cloud providers).

> But the cost becomes 'non starter' when you start to access all the nice things that cloud offers: Lambdas, S3, easy backups, etc. etc. and the fact that it 'scales on demand'.

Nothing in a bare metal setup precludes you from using cloud functionality when/where it makes economic sense to do that rather than implement an alternative. I have plenty of hybrid setups running.

> Then of course there are the financing aspects: you don't pay for expensive servers up front, you 'lease' them effectively - which has serious working capital benefits.

That's what we do when we use colocated servers too. There is no difference there.

> So sure - if you want to compare only 'server instance costs' - maybe 'buying your own instance' - specifically on a server by server basis ... maybe it's cheaper to buy a server.

I'm not comparing only server instance costs. I'm comparing total cost of operating fully managed environments, including total staff costs including staff overheads.

> I'd argue that 'rolling your own infrastructure'

You don't need to roll your own infrastructure - you can go to managed hosting providers, or the multitude of consultancies like mine that will do it for you. Heck, I'll happily sign deals with people where I'm paid in a given percent of the saving I generate, because the savings are large and predictable.

> And even then I'm not so sure - this is why so many big and successful companies still use the cloud.

Big, successful companies don't pay the published rates. I have direct knowledge of companies with 75%+ discounts from major cloud providers. At those rates: yes, it is cost effective.
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Great! Maybe we will finally have the excess capacity to finally send people into local archives all over the world so that we can save the data about the past and feed it to the machines. If you want data for models there is tons of it lurking in the basements of municipal buildings all over the world, and you might find a lost Da Vinci manuscript while you are at it!
I don't see the contradiction? If you inherit a lot of wealth you're likely to remain wealthy. Simultaneously you may not be motivated to work much and contribute to society.
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> The markets should not be predictable.

Uh, yeah they should. To someone with perfect knowledge, a proper free market should be 100% predictable. It's only unpredictable if other people know things that you don't (and the market itself is the vehicle by which that knowledge is disseminated). Introducing uncertainty into the market without introducing knowledge into the market is a bad thing. And spoofing trades in order to move the market isn't providing any knowledge, and it is in fact making the market less efficient because it no longer matches the knowledge of the participants.
Certain personalities interpret fairness in way where one doesn't draw distinctions based on superficial attributes (gender, race, etc.?). One set of rules for all.
Stephen Jay Gould often talked about how some evolved features happen not because they're beneficial to a species' success, and despite them being outright detrimental, but simply because they are linked to some other feature that is beneficial; they're necessary side effects.

Arseholery seems to fall into exactly that category. It's not helpful per se, but associated with many traits that obviously contribute to success, including clarity of vision and confidence in one's opinion against others' advice, and the ability to persist against all odds.

Nadella seems to be of another fabric entirely; he's not afraid of having a plurality of voices sing at the same time, he's more a conductor than a general.

What he's pulled off so far is amazing; lets hope it lasts.
The iPhone 7 is obviously inferior to the 3GS. For one thing it's larger, which is ridiculous, I mean I thought the whole point was to make phones smaller. And, can you believe it, it doesn't even have a headphone jack! Obviously worthless, throw that thing in the trash!

That's what I hear when people bandwagon bash the F35 without reference to avionics, comms, sensor systems, or low observability features.

In part, people are discontented that for the cost it's not as clearly superior in every way to the 4th generation as the 4th was to the 3rd. That's really because the manned jet fighter, like the smartphone or main battle tank, is a maturing technology.

The real frontiers of military innovation are in autonomous weapon systems and space warfare. So be careful what you wish for, I guess.
What surprised me, is that 54% of the energy of NYC comes from what is arguably clean energy, if you include nuclear in the mix. That's even more impressive if you consider how long it's been since the nuclear power capacity of NYC has expanded.
That honestly isn't the reason I got an iPhone, but you raise an excellent point: for a 600x improvement in speed, and less advertising, one only has to pay 4x the price.
The Middle Class would have never existed if it wasn't artificially created. It just doesn't naturally happen.
Same here. The notifications are the most annoying part to me. I really don't care about that stuff, and I don't need a message in my inbox about some new thingy.
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Handling errors is 90% of the job for a page monitor like this. Have fun getting spammed when the site goes offline briefly, or when your internet connection goes down.