skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked there for quite a while. I'll try to address some of your specific questions directly.

> it's just a portal that gives the news

A portal? Bloomberg News has its very own reporters (and jourobots). They investigate and write original content. People usually don't buy the terminal (~2000 USD/month) only for that, but if they do, they can read everything directly in the terminal.

> What I don't get is why have a custom monitor, keyboard?

The monitor is, these days, only about branding. Ten to fifteen years ago, Bloomberg offered good-quality LCD screens with integrated mounting arms for 2 or 4, at a time when that was a pretty high-end setup. As LCD screens became cheap and ubiquitous, many users don't have the Bloomberg ones, but they still have the Bloomberg keyboard. It's useful because it has special labels for a few hotkeys, plus some of them have extras like fingerprint readers. If you lack the special keyboard you can press Alt+K on any keyboard and the terminal will show you a graphic of the special keys for reference.

But to really understand why they have a special keyboard, you need to look back a good long while. That's covered here: https://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/behind-the-brand/the-blo... - the gist is that a "Bloomberg terminal" used to be a real terminal, connected to a magic box on the customer premises (which served several terminals). There have been many, many iterations of the terminal hardware, from a dedicated proprietary box, to software running on Sparc workstations, to software running on Windows, with the keyboard becoming more like a PC keyboard around the turn of the century.

> is it a VPN

No. Traditionally, customers connect their terminals back to the Bloomberg service via leased lines (i.e. not the internet). But for many years now you have the option of using the internet, though not everyone wants that.

> The cost of the product is ridiculous.

The cost of the product is much less than what some customers would be willing to pay. Most customers pay about the same monthly fee, regardless of where they are in the world, regardless of their corporate income statement, etc. So yes, it seems expensive to people who wouldn't get that much out of it. Some schools get a discount.

> Is there a cheaper alternative that does not require specialised hardware?

Bloomberg does not require specialized hardware at all. You can install it on any Windows laptop, and you are more than welcome to do so. As for cheaper--yes, there are lots of things which are cheaper, but you will be hard-pressed to find any combination of those which is still cheaper and yet does most of what Bloomberg does (i.e. has similar quantity and quality of data, and applications built up).

> I know Bloomberg is a politician

He is now, but he was not when his company went from 0 users to 100,000 users.
That is a powerful moat. Vi users or Emacs users may die out at one point in time but they are unlikely to switch in larger numbers.
How do I answer questions about oil tanker availability? I don't see anything in the manual about that. I guess it might be under BMAP or BI, but nothing obvious stands out to me...
> As executives reflect on LivingSocial’s fatal moment, all point to a security breach in April 2013. Hackers gained access to the account information of 50 million subscribers, and LivingSocial forced all of them to reset their passwords. About 20 percent never came back.

I don't know how they came to this number, but at least it's something to point to when the c-level executives decide password security is something that they can just skip doing. Obviously part of that 20% is are just dead accounts but still, something to show next time you're in this situation.
You can look at it like this: you carry around in your brain a computational model of the world, and the model includes yourself, because you are part of the world. The apparatus for receiving and making sense of input from our external senses, and input from the rest of the brain itself, is the same.

Consciousness is the brain perceiving and modeling itself. If that sounds totally recursive, it's not, because there is much more to the brain than consciousness.

For example consider recent research showing that emotions are essential to making decisions. We don't consciously choose which emotions to experience. But take away emotions, and people find it very difficult to make decisions. They can evaluate the options, but can't choose which one to take action towards.

Our conscious minds spend most of their time reacting. After all most people don't think to themselves "I consciously choose to like chocolate ice cream better than vanilla." But they might think "I consciously choose to not eat ice cream tonight."
When I used to eat at Subway, I liked that the meat was mostly soy. It is very obvious.

But then I got bad food poisoning at a Subway, and the weird Subway "bread" smell makes me gag still to this day.
> Mandate reversible sterilization at birth.

This sounds like an absolutely atrocious idea ripe for corruption. It would be only a matter of time before those programs target the poor, those who whose political views, religious views, or ethnic origins are unwanted or inconvenient.
I get 50,000 IU every week like it says on the bottle. I sleep around 8 hours a day. I lift weights 3 times a week and I play football 1-3 times a week.

Saying I'm improving my motivation would be a lie. I'm not improving it and I can't lie to myself.
In many cases it is not Bloomberg's monopoly but the data provider's. The licensing and royalty agreements between Bloomberg and the data provider have very onerous terms including restricting how many screens the data can be displayed on, what mediums the data can be transferred to, and where and for what purpose the data can be used. The terminal restrictions and API limitations that Bloomberg imposes are usually driven by these concerns.

Bloomberg offers less restrictive APIs but they are even more costly than a terminal license and often require the end user to sign agreements with the data providers directly and pay additional royalties.
> not everyone can meaningfully contribute to something that can't be done more efficiently by automation

I don't know if this statement is true, but a lot more jobs could be created in the area of teaching, caring for elderly and ill people, etc.
You're not the only one feeling the guilt. The only journalism I was paying for (well paying currency for at least) was my Private Eye subscription for a couple of years, but I found that I didn't want to read it in paper-form. I'd gladly have paid the same amount (which was something like a couple of pounds a month) or more if the same material was available online too.

update: just checked on a whim and it seems that some time over the last couple of years Private Eye have a completely new online portal. Time to put my money where my mouth is :)
Careful here... like many companies / industries, you should live in fear of Amazon.

Prime now already delivers alcohol in several cities, providing what seems to be a similiar service as Drizly. How does Drizly think they can compete with Prime Now? I'd think selling many products (Prime Now) has to be better than just selling one. Amazon has a history of destroying competitors (and occasionally buying them for rock bottom prices).

Competition is great, but competing with Amazon is not something in particular that I'd want to put money towards.

Here's a CNN writers (positive) experience with wine delivery through the service: http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/12/news/companies/amazon-prime-...
That's a very classist attitude founded on a view of economic activity that pertained to human history only over a short period of tube and otherwise is a completely unrealistic view of the human condition.

Humans are amazing creatures. Moreover there is no limit to the work that can be done, there is always something else that can or should be done should the labor become available. I can assure you, people will not run out of valuable, substantive work to do.

People got much more efficient at farming (by orders of magnitude), that didn't lead to people stopping working it led to people finding other things to do such as crafts, art, and later manufacturing. Now that the save thing has happened with manufacturing people are again finding other things to do.
Some role models I had (although in some ways some could be considered bad role models): geohot, Samy Kamkar, Aaron Swartz, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates.

When I was younger (before I was into computers) my role models were Albert Einstein, Harry Houdini, and the Wright brothers. This list was very easy to remember, because I did reports on all of them as assignments in elementary school. That basically forced me to pick role models. They're all STEM related except maybe Houdini, but he invented a lot of mechanisms for his tricks.
https://developers.google.com/glass/distribute/glass-at-work

Found this! :D
I agree, and I think the misleading headline is aligned with traditional resistance to consider BI as a serious economic policy.

In fact, what seems to be a common story in the article is that giving money directly in a way that is sustained over time allows people to plan long-term, stand on their feet and find better work or start businesses, making better long-term financial decisions to reverberate to the whole of the community.

The easy resistance to BI is to say that it will remove incentives to work, and that is what the headline seems to imply. The content of the article seems to suggest the opposite.
Depends on the number of unknowns, sparsity of the matrix, whether you want 3 correct digits or 16, etc.

Direct methods as Gaussian elimination with pivoting are proven to be stable. Iterative methods are not but can be a lot cheaper in computational costs. Also they can stop when a certain relative residual is reached, unlike direct methods.

If iterative methods like Krylov subspace methods where stable, then they could actually be seen as direct methods themselves, as the Krylov subspace has at most a dimension of N, where N is the number of unknowns; so after at most N iterations the solution could be extracted exactly from the search space. In practice this is not the case due to rounding errors.
I wont defend the exchanges, but they're exchanges not banks. Keep your bitcoin in your own wallet until you need to convert it another currency.
If honest and moral people will rise to the leadership positions - which is not what always happens.
Are there any good books you can recommend that will help a software engineer's soft skills?
get into some online class now that you have the time.

start putting your resume out as soon as you can. start finding a away to cut expenses and build more runway next time.

maybe look into something closer and/or a startup which is more fires and chaos at 75% of the pay but has an easier line of sight to "changing the world"
Was your clan of the Hazara group ?
Wouldn't you get a break on larger warehouses versus smaller ones?

Also, as a comparable, I'm checking out this:

https://www.houston.org/newgen/17_Commercial_Real_Estate/17C...

San Francisco (highest I could find) - is $34.32/sq foot/annually. So, applying your rule, one would pay $34/sq/foot/month. So - a typical 1500 square foot commercial office would be $51,000/month? Seems high even for San Francisco. If we instead divided by 12, $2.86/sf/month, then $4300/month for 1500 square feet seems within the realm of reason.

How certain are you that these rates are already converted into monthly values?

I found one monthly rate for Kentucky,
2,500 - 8,432 SF, $1,016 - 5,578 (Monthly).

That would be $0.40/month - $0.66/month, or, multiplied by 12, $4.80-$8/year. Right within the expected range.
You should only do things for love OR money, but not both.

Don't spread yourself thin serving two masters. Serving one, often brings the other, but both should not be your goal.

If you do things for love, and also seek out money, your art will suffer. If you do things for money, but try to do more of the things you like doing, you will fail to do the hard things that bring you financial success.

Pick one. Love or money. Commit to that.
I agree about your assesment of programming jobs. We are mostly replaceable cogs and means to an end. We're only getting paid so much because this job is so unpleasant and most people would rather make 2-3x less than learn to program and spend most of their life sitting in front of a screen going through code bases.

My personal answer to that was to start learning to draw. Getting from zero art skills to professional artist is a super-long journey (at least 5-10 years from what I'm reading), but at least it gives me hope.
Funny accident video
LG apresentará na MWC 2017 o celular X Power 2
Shipping Markets

SHIP Shipping functions menu

VSRC Vessel search

VSTK Vessel capacity data

FLET Aggregated fleet data

FIXS Research daily global tanker fixtures

BFX Baltic freight index

BMAP Generate energy-related maps
Could morph into detect hacked, whereby you maintain a list of sites where it is a good idea to change your password. E.g. Dropbox recently.
>>that ln(x) is log(x), and log(x) is log10(x).

Can you clarify what you mean? Are you missing a log_e_(x)?
The problem with bicycling in San Diego is geographic more than infrastructure. If you live and work in the same area, usually bicycling is fine. But the entire city and surrounding areas are segmented off by large mesas, hills, and mountains, with the connections between the areas mostly done by freeway or 50+ mph access roads. So if you live and work in Mira Mesa, fine. If you live and work in Clairemont, fine. But if you live in Clairemont and work in Mira Mesa, forget it.
This no longer works reliably for the WSJ.
> random odd generated crud in the middle of your source code, you will absolutely notice

like non-printing characters in comments?

Or, you know, random odd generated crud https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/firmware/radeo...
What does a $0 acquisition even mean? What would the purpose be?
I'd be super thrilled if Comcast or Frontier could reliably deliver 10mbps in rural Redmond, 3 miles from Microsoft
Some countries publish salary / income for all citizens..
> Yes, SHA2 will also become weak eventually - so then you bump it again.

I disagree here. I doubt SHA2 or any modern hash will become weak within our lifetime. JP Aumasson, who is one of the experts of the field, agrees with me on that:
https://twitter.com/veorq/status/834872988445065218
Yep would have been amazing in the industrial industry. However industrial industry is all about low volume high unit cost.

As for an example industrial phone here's an RFID reader Android phone for 2.5k. https://www.atlasrfidstore.com/trimble-juno-t41-rugged-rfid-...
> In technical stuff I've written using feminine pronouns I've had editors change to masculine.

Speaking as someone who has had to write headlines, there can be very strict guidelines we have to adhere to. Masculine is still the default neutral in professional English, in a number of places I've worked at.
you're not motivated because you put a lot of effort into something and your brain had a huge expectation miss; in other words it trained itself that 'effort is pointless'. My suggestion is to do a lot of very small things (that you know will work) that ramp up small successes and retrain your brain to appreciate effort.

I'm currently going through what would probably tear many people apart - out of money (literally had no money last week since I sold the last of my bitcoin to stay afloat and it didn't hit my bank account quickly enough), applied to several jobs in SV, all turned down because "they're looking for someone more senior", tried to start a company, couldn't find funding, can't finish some biochemistry work that I've been doing because I can't pay for the equipment I need... The part time coding job I took on still hasn't paid me for january's work...

But I have a bunch of small projects that keep me going and while it is slightly harder to get up in the morning, I am still productive. (I just wrote a library that transpiles Julia into Verilog)
FTFY: s/Some/Most/
Is there a way to clean up cached (intermediate) certs without having to nuke your entire firefox profile?
> there are still 10 other players in this field who would be willing to pay him a huge salary.

Seems unlikely if his work is the poisoned fruit of IP theft as Google claims
315,000 subscribers paying north of $20,000 per year, as of 2013.[0] Whoa.

[0] https://qz.com/84961/this-is-how-much-a-bloomberg-terminal-c...
I bake bread at home (in Britain, using a standard recipe). I use a single teaspoon of sugar to feed the yeast before mixing it in; so most is consumed by the yeast.

18oz flour, 0.5oz butter, 1 tsp salt, 10fl.oz warm water + yeast

The biggest taste difference is if you forget the salt, and then varying the type of flour e,g. mixing in rye, spelt or other types and changing butter for olive oil, adding seeds etc.

Adding multiple tablespoons of sugar sounds quite disgusting; it has plenty of taste without. A warm freshly-baked loaf is just the best!
Here's good comparable with monthly and annual rates (it's big, modern):

http://www.kcrea.com/listing/29969851/9101-Minor-Ln-Louisvil...

324,730 sq feet. $3.95 PSF/Annual or $106,890/month.

$106,890 * 12 = $1,282,680/year / 324730 sq feet = $3.95/year/sq foot.

And you get 35 Docks on 21 acres to boot.
80% of total members continued to use the website after the password reset? That seems too high. Perhaps they meant 80% of active members. Unless the website had an incredibly low churn rate.
Yeah it was a bit unfair of me, just highlighting how difficult it is to get a sense of relativity when using different units.
> Here's a sample document

Looks broken on Mobile Safari. "Viewing URL" and "Editing URL" are both empty, there's a blank two-line textarea and that's about it.
I am Brazilian but have lived overseas in the last 15 years, currently in Sweden.
I can understand both your point of view (not being able to believe someone can do things like this to a completely innocent person) and the point of view of Brazilians, who are used to seeing this every day and come to think this is normal.

Here in Sweden, people don't seem to understand that some people are just capable of doing the most evil things. What they don't understand is that these people were born and raised in a place where society sees them as a disease to be exterminated. Even people who live in the "favelas" (extremely poor slums) would do anything to move to nicer areas and be seen as normal people. They are not all bad, but the ones who have a tendency to be violent become monsters. They don't see you as an innocent person. They see you as the enemy, the symbol of a society that wants them dead. They absolutely hate you and all of your kind. When you understand this, you can see how kidnapping someone for 5 days and terrorizing the person the whole time is not that surprising. If they found out by coincidence the guy was a police officer, they would have cut his head off and sent it in a package to the family.

On the other side, it's common for some educated people to talk about these criminals as scum, that they deserve to be sent to the dirtiest, darkest prison they can find and let there to die. There's absolutely no belief in rehabilitation. In Sweden, prisons are quite similar to nice hostels. People see prisons as a place to re-educate offenders. In Brazil, they are places to dump the rubbish and hope they kill each other. If they manage to get out alive, they become a hell of a lot more dangerous as they make contacts with the organised crime (to which they always aspired to belong to). This is called "graduating" for them (because graduating in a real university is not even a remote possibility). They graduate in the university of crime. They actually feel respected after that... and go on to commit more advanced crimes (robbing a bank, managing a drug-dealing region...).

That's how you get to the current situation.
> This aggressive rant crosses the line on HN. If you can't contain your anger

I'm not angry at all, really. Merely stating my perspective.

> enough to post substantively and with respect for opposing views, you're not welcome to post here.

It seems to me that my view is the opposing one. Balancing the different views, in my opinion, is the job of the (critical) reader. How is the reader supposed to do this if all opposing views are “not welcome” (and my guess is ultimately banned). Again, I am merely stating my perspective.

And why the hell do I have to respect anyone('s opinion)? I don't go around randomly respecting people. Respect has to be earned.

> It's not in your interest to do this anyhow, since it undercuts everything you're saying.

I think I'll decide what's in my interest. And, really, that's the whole point here: you should judge what I say, not how I say it.
Speaking and lobbying are completely different things. You and I speak, ExxonMobile lobbies. Guess where half of congress (slightly more) currently stand on global warming?
All the modularity one would ever need is a robust mechanical interface for the back side cover and a ribbon connector standard for internal USB (a convention might even be enough, e.g. "microSD with wires"), or at least power.

The mechanical challenge of integrating your combined pong controller wheel/tire pressure gauge (or whatever your personal long tail use case might be) into a custom made back cover would be the excuse for existence all those dust-gathering 3D-printers have been waiting for.
>North Korea launching a weapon of mass destruction on anyone on this planet

This will mean that China has ordered them to do that. It will not happen in any other way.
>They'll also donate large chunks of their wealth to charity because only the most heartless wouldn't.

Heh. Now who's generalizing? (sorry, a little snarky). There's a little over 500 billionaires in the US. Gates and Buffet are on record pledging to do this, as are some of their friends. That's a whole lot shy of "most."
My first month of blogging – expectations vs. reality
I’m boycotting Zenimax and you should too
I've been asking browsers to provide per tab security isolation for a long time. Would make many of the attacks much less efficient. Each new tab should be clean as well as closed tabs should get destroyed.