skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A large amount of individual debt is wholly optional."

And a lot isn't.

Apart from my mortgage, ALL of my debt is accrued when I'm too sick to work, and the medical bills pile up.

Some huge fraction (1/3?, 1/2?) of bankruptcies are caused by medical related expenses.
The median house price for Palo Alto is $2.6M. For SV it's much lower (~$1M). You can't just count the top location to get the median. But you'll likely get much nicer (bigger,better structure,etc) median houses in other areas.
forestry.io is a great one, too.
The difference is that in the US there little social support for people who lost their jobs. Even employed people have a comparable lower standard of life, because there are so many social services available in Eastern EU countries not available in the US. Just for the biggest example, consider that Americans have no public option for health care, so if they lose a job their lives are at risk.
You're missing the biggest issue above all of them, comfort. VR headsets are not something you can wear for long gaming sessions. They get uncomfortable, sweaty, and your eyes absolutely need a break after a while.
Right, so this site uses CSS selectors to show the user a different colour for each site they've visited.

In the past the site would also be able to access the different style information rendered by the browser and use it to find out which sites you'd visited. Luckily that privacy leak was patched up a while ago: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-cs...

Now you'd have to do something like use timing attacks on the browser's cache... :)
This would be my "primary driver" had they implemented LTE, GPS, and no-nonsense USB tethering.

I don't need, nor want, anything else.

Also, get off my lawn.
That's likely part of their calculus. By shelling out shares in a massively profitable company, they tie their interests to the buyers, who are likely to have considerable influence and will further continue to prop up their regime.
> Travis Kalanick is famously supportive of Objectivism, the philosophy where altruism is for losers and acting purely in motivated self-interest is the highest possible good.

The little I've read about Objectivism (and about Rand) sounds incredibly immature to me. The naive definition of 'self-interest', the stubborn insistence that 'rational' merely means 'doing whatever I want to'. There's no nuance, no depth of understanding.
The Burning Chrome collection by William Gibson is always worth a read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Chrome_(short_story_co...
Can someone explain why they decided to suddenly go public after all these years?
All companies I've been at were hiring grads at >= 40k in London.

It's not credible to me to say that £43k is mid level. That's a junior salary for any tech position.

Regarding DevOps, it is so bad in demand right now, you'll get 60-70k easy without lifting a finger if you can handle any interview. There is noone to take these jobs anyway, all people who are interested in money have long gone contractors at > 500 £ a day anyway.
I totally get the attraction of learning one set of tooling, rather than k8s and ami/homebrew. Blue/green deploys are nice, particularly because we deploy for most PRs.

But it just seems like you're trying to shove a very stateful management problem (the schema, the associated storage) into a system designed for mostly stateless stuff. And that way lies a giant hassle.

Plus we're certainly not at huge scale, but db rollbacks are nontrivial, and we have to be somewhat careful about schema modifications.

Thanks for your comment!
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The cost of SaaS apps can really start to add up. What's interesting is that there's a very similar "stack" that almost all SaaS apps need to buy from other SaaS apps, and many of them don't have a free alternative.

There exists a whole class of apps/services that could gain a lot of traction by providing a freemium model. By becoming one of the best solutions AND having a free version (for limited use), I think you have a better shot of becoming part of a new bootstrapped SaaS business' "default stack".

This is why we gave HelpSite.io [1] a free version that includes features that I consider "necessary" for any business no matter how small, even when most of our competitors are charging for some of them. The more you can align with a startup's own business model (e.g. they need lots of light services up front even when they have no revenue; later they will have revenue and use those services more heavily) the better off you will do.

1. https://helpsite.io
Thank you kindly for the heads' up.
the thing is that deep learning is like 3 years old. I'm 28 years old and even I have seen the world without the internet, forget about cellphones and smartphones

What I mean to say is, progress is incredibly, impossibly blazingly fast. 2060 is extreeeemely far away.
More range -> greater expressivity -> better voting system

There is no reason to give your favorite candidate less than max score, and no reason to give your least favorite candidate more than 0 score, but the middle does serve a purpose. Scoring other candidates in the middle is to boost their chances of winning against your less-favored candidates at the cost of boosting their chances of winning against your more-favored candidates.

There are some variants, such as Range2Runoff, which beats Range often in simulations. I hear that it is much better than pure Range when there are many strategic voters.
futurism as a whole is 100% un-scientific
Who wouldn't jump at the chance to make a kickass acronym.
It was in 2006 which is way before AI started seeing it's recent progress. And it was a conference full of old fashioned AI people.
They need cash now. Think of it as preselling oil.
Kahan has another great paper, https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf , which discusses the futility of attempting to rely on floating-point numbers.
That's probably the biggest problem, then.

You can't understand mathematics without doing mathematics anymore than you can understand a complicated program without having a commensurate amount of experience in programming.
SoftBank set to invest more than $3B in WeWork
They need money.
My assumption is to prevent any future sanctions against the Saudi regime.
Once the markets and 401Ks are invested in the Saudi oil, the US government will have a lot less options to put sanctions on them as the Wall Street powerful lobby system will block it.
Yep, your main point that economics' rational man is a complete fiction is absolutely correct.
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Stats and linear algebra are what you want...

On the linear algebra front, you get some understanding from your first course, but the more you internalize it by meeting the ideas in different contexts, the more useful it will be. A decent amount of higher math is turning things into almost-linear problems, and then trying to sort out the parts which don't quite fit...
IMHO on on the long run, the only valuable thing is information (I'm talking really long run, think multiplanetary). A bit too long to describe all aspects of it, but if you think it through I should become obvious. One of the aspects is that with enough technological progress energy should be abundant, so what's valuable is knowing how to apply it to get desirable results.
How Futile Are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation? [pdf]
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> In this instance the other side is largely a tiny fraction of the population.

You're correct but it's irrelevant. A smaller representation does NOT make an issue lopsided in justification.

This is all highly contextual and will only lead to further, circular arguments.

> This issue is lopsided in that destroying net neutrality would harm almost everyone to benefit a few thousand people[...]It's easy to understand the goals of for-profit corporations. They exist to maximize profit. There is nothing else to understand. They will support any legislation that will increase their profit and oppose any legislation that will reduce it.

This isn't true. There are many people, not part of the corporations that are constantly referred to, that also do not want net neutrality as it gives the government control over vital, information sharing infrastructure. Remember Prism?

Not only do I see the issue as not lop sided but I see each point as being a series of trade offs. I do not see an outcome that is great for everyone in any of the available directions.
A bit unrelated but I've been told biohacklabs reimplemented lab/med equipement for a hundredth (even a thousandth) of the price. Not 2015 state of art, but still usable.

Free market has blind spots.
Here, take a look at open H1B data: Pick your favorite location, your favorite company, select the year 2016.

http://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=GOOGLE+INC&job=&city=MOUNTA...

That's only base salary of course, they don't publish "package" data. Add 10% because all H1B workers are underpaid and exploited.
Theocracy with me as high priest and world temple tax.

God says...
dalmatians smooch's condescended Odysseus bo's'n's Erse's outbalancing chanticleer wedded bunches shoos Tijuana's howitzer's petitioning punishing Oberon weights have's exiguous foregather binomial Benghazi's quivers scrutiny's irritant humbugged Mandy numismatic disputations étude's decried lieutenant's

You have a problem with authorty.

You must bow your head to God. slave

When you raise yer gun to shoot me with slavery, I nail you dead with divine justice and laugh.
You are conflating consumer debt, i.e., hold by consumers, with asset wealth, which is hold mostly by corporations and their owners. The first is usually carried by the poorest part of the population, since rich people have little need for consumer debt.
Instead of arguing against microservices, it would be better to ask the team to plan out solutions to the hard problems associated with microservices, namely the hard problems associated with distributed systems.

Things like:

* How will transactions across multiple services be handled, and as a followup, how will rollbacks happen when an error happens mid-transaction

* When all the data is distributed across multiple service DBs, how consistency be enforced? What happens when data is no longer consistent (e.g. data in one DB references data in another DB that is no longer there, or has been updated)?

* [basically, how will anything related to ACID be handled when you no longer have a single ACID DB?]

* How will errors be handled with various permutations of individual services being unavailable? If a single service going down brings down the site, has anything really been gained?

* How will distributed logging be done such that bugs can be tracked down in production. How will a given single request be tracked across services?

* How will automated tests be written when everything is now a network call instead of a function call? Mocking out all the things gets old fast and introduces its own set of problems relating to testing code that isn't the actual production code.

* How will API versioning be handled for each service, especially if different services are being built in silos by different developers?

If they have solutions for things like this, great! If not, perhaps they should before pushing forward.
The salaries shown on H1BPay are the salaries that the company promises to pay or is currently paying the H-1B applicant.

There are 3 common cases of when the paperwork is filed. First, foreign students who graduated from American universities in certain fields can work for a certain period of time after which they can transition to H-1B. So the salary is pretty much what they are paid when the application was filed which is somewhere between 1 and 27 months. Second, people hired from overseas or within the US who aren't new graduates and don't have a current H-1B visa. Their salary would be what the company offered to get the talent. The third case is when you transfer you H-1B visa where an application is not required so there is no change to the salary in the application.
Triangles are superior. What shape did the Egyptians build the pyramids into?

http://www.nbc.com/the-office/video/power-of-the-pyramid/n21...
>"fueled by failing puppet states like KSA that are going"

A puppet state implies that some other state is pulling the strings. Saudi Arabia is controlled by the House of Saud no?
Confirm. Glassdoor is seriously biased by not having older, more experienced worker report their salary.

It's biased tower the numerous, new joiners, and they probably won't upgrade the information when they get promoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Won_the_War_(... - Asimov, 1961
Easy to install both nvidia and AMD and works like a charm for GPGPU on Arch Linux, though.
I want your points to be true, but there is NOTHING in history to indicate batteries will see an increase in capacity/decrease in cost similar to other technology products.

It's tempting to believe that all problems are soluble, but it's totally possible for there to be a problem, like "cheap, dense, durable energy storage" that ends up being more than humans are capable of solving.
They didn't exactly drop it. It's the Knights series (Xeon Phi). They just removed the graphics bits.
I believe the gear VR has a higher resolution than either the vive or the rift. FOV and rendering quality are another topic though.
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I use Dashlane. I used 1Password for along time, but Dashlane is much easier and better in my opinion. I bought the 5 year plan, in fact.
It's not perfect, though. I will say that I've had trouble with the Chrome extension, which could be another plugin or something unrelated, but that is my biggest complaint about them if I have one. It runs fine in Firefox and other browsers. It just crashes in Chrome every few days which I'm working with them on now, actually.
I think we're saying the same thing.

fwiw there was an IOCP-like capability added to AIX, again supposedly because IBM did not have fears about patent infringement (likely due to cross-licensing arrangements).
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Where are these £40k junior jobs? I've been in a junior position in London for 2 years earning mid £20k's and have been interviewing at other places for months, but the best offer I can find is £32k.

Everyone I've talked to about it is in a similar ballpark.
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That doesn't quite make sense. The interest on revolving debt is fixed at the level it was when you acquired the debt. Raising the rate across the board will definitely cause a lot of people to pay more, but only to the extent that they cannot stop themselves from buying more things on the card.
I don't know why you think energy will be free. It's a zero sum game that's built into the laws of the universe.
This is exactly right. In fact if any of the people running the Middle East were more intelligent, they would've done just that decades ago. Aramco use to belong at least in part to the US until the 80s when it was bought out fully by the Saudis. It looks like they are selling it back in hopes of keeping Saudis a float. But really for how long. On the other hand, I have heard from some Capitalists that it's an easy game if you have money as long as you manage it well. It just keeps making more money and you don't have to do shit. The Saudis are pretty used to this by now, not doing shit, messing up the world, and being rewarded for their misdeeds.
Honest question here, does this actually matter anymore? Do economists see it as a positive, negative or neutral thing?

When I hear about debt that big I wonder if $4.1T even a real thing. I mean is it a tangible number that actually represents something of real substance?
Selection bias is a thing. Also like others are mentioning glassdoors data is not always accurate. Especially for people with lots of experience. But I don't think 200k base salary is that abnormal in Silicon Valley to be honest. Also everything I've heard about google suggests their stocks have a 4 year vesting period at 1/4 a year. It is not a four year cliff so I think you're way off there. Talking about compensation only in base salary doesn't make sense to me.
burner for border crossings.

Finally, a phone for older relatives that doesn't suck.
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is there a tool/apps help organize course points and thoughts ?
Bluetooth headset. Wired headset. 'Hey Siri' voice control. Apple Watch with headset.

Why would it stop you making a phonecall?
I have the same question. Presumably, you could store fairly efficiently doing a git-like diff-based storage scheme or something. But I would be interested in hearing analysis of this.
Err, there are loads of (employed) programmers without CS degrees in the UK. I myself managed to get a (full time) Web development job without a degree at all, and I am by no means the only one. I'd say roughly 1/3 of the developers I've worked with have done a CS degree. Another chunk have done a degree in a related subject like maths or engineering. But there are many others who have done completely unrelated degrees, or none at all.
Canada is not a free society. There are various restrictions on pornography, just like the US for example. They have no problem with censorship.

Edit: to be clear, I am referring to written or drawn pornography depicting fictional minors engaged in sexual acts. Not photography or video of child abuse, or rape porn, or even bestiality (although I am against the lattermost item being illegal too).
FWIW, an England and Wales law degree (or Scottish law degree) is usually an undergraduate qualification.
>"My assumption is to prevent any future sanctions against the Saudi regime."

I'm not aware of any impending sanctions by the UN against Saudi Arabia. I haven't even heard this suggested. What would these be for? Can you elaborate?
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what is the point of this headline, other than to decieve? it is not the headline of the article and is not a quote from the text in the article

edit: I hope I'm not just being a killjoy here - I actually thought this was going to be some kind of political article.
I swear to god this article is harder read than Nietzsche
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It was crazy. At her peak she has three personal assistants on the company dime. One to handle work stuff, one to handle household stuff like her dogs, and there other for special projects. She also spent at least $1MM on her wedding which btw only lasted 6 months before she got divorced.
I used that phone (the unlocked international w/ fingerprint scanner) for about a year, but the heat problems in the one I had left me helpless/incommunicado in a few inconvenient situations. Eventually preordered a Pixel and haven't looked back.

The only good Android phones I've used (and I've been using Android since the G1) have been ones Google had a hand in: Nexuses, the original Moto X, and the Pixel. The Sony came close, but the heat problems killed it for me.

I would still jump on a well done, small, Android phone.
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There's https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos for OSX and, as mentioned, also Microsoft's https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows for Win10/UWP
Ask HN: How did you learn DevOps as a developer?
I'm particularly interested in the experiences of web developers that have made the switch from pure development to a dev ops role? What did you learn first, what was useful, how did your background prepare you for your first role etc?

It's an area that I'm interested in, but don't get much exposure to in my day job as a junior web developer. I'm fairly confident with tweaking Ansible scripts to setup DigitalOcean droplets, but want to learn more.
And it's ridiculous because I want to buy a PSVR now and the longer this artificial shortage continues the less interested I grow and may settle for a Daydream to get my fix.
The titles of her books are so childish. That's her prerogative, but it feels like a real "Two Cultures" situation: I wish Cheng or someone else would span recreational/popular math and serious culture where the world is not considered as a hilarious two-dimensional cardboard cut-out or slapstick prop.
Cheng's definition of anarchism is "not having rules imposed on you". I'm afraid this article leftist-triggered me.
She's legit not a good person, that I can guarantee you. Look at her story. It's borderline sociopathic. She brags about stealing and swindling to get her start. She had terrible eBay feedback. She's been sued multiple times for mistreatment of employees. She spent $1m on a wedding that was annulled 6 months later. She has a clear pattern of terrible behavior.
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi... (no Syria data)

http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/40ebdf12-8960-4d18...
That process isn't allowed to fork, I assume, which is problematic.
Like this?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/File...
I have had family members play pranks on me, so that is one attack I'm trying to avoid. But even ignoring that there are problems. Do I keep the paper at my desk? If so, what do I do if I want to log in on my phone when I'm not at home? And like I said, there's the risk of the house burning down. My house is kind of a mess, and I have lost pieces of paper before. I could keep it in my wallet, but what if I lose my wallet? I guess I could keep multiple pieces of paper, but that just increases the chance that I would lose one. And I then I have to worry about keeping the papers in sync. And it's not just the video game account, they also attack the email associated with the video game account, so I have to put that there too. And then the recovery email for that email. Maybe I need to put my cell provider password there too, because people hijack mobile phone numbers some times for sms account hijacking. This just leads to a paperwork overhead problem that would be better for a computer to solve. Digging through my wallet or digging around my desk trying to find a piece of paper, and then typing a password character by character from the paper sounds really annoying.

I don't see what benefit the paper would have. Whether it's paper or a password manager, if my computer is compromised they'll get my accounts with a keylogger.
Fantastic. The rate of internal raises over the years at a company is something I've not seen a lot of statistics on. Your responses was exactly the claritrty I was looking for! Thanks!
Not as polished, but I wrote something similar that leverages Google or DuckDuckGo on top of Hammerspoon. If you're in to little tweaks like this to boost your productivity on a Mac, definitely check out Hammerspoon. Hammerspoon is quite light, and runs on Lua.

Here's my version, Anycomplete: http://github.com/nathancahill/Anycomplete/

And the Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13065670
I can say with experience that access to pornography produced by consensual adults is largely unhindered here.

If this is how you draw the line between free and not-free, I can only imagine that your definition of freedom is anarchy.
As an anarchist myself, how I wish the article lived up to its title. Interesting nevertheless.
Yes, I picked this style up form Pieter Hintjens