skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is actually problem for Microsoft/Apple.

The percentage between $PLATFORM users generally and $PLATFORM users using your product may or may be not correlated. It may happen, that then first percentage will rise but the second will not - you are making it difficult for them, so why bother - and you will miss it.

You might fix the software later, but that's the easy part. The more difficult part is to fix your reputation and users habits. They already have opinion of you and found alternatives that work for them. The Thank you, I go back to Google Apps suite. response is a perfect example of this.
I don't think people that know the industry are systematically less sceptical of this project than those who don't (if anything it's the other way round; industry insiders are less likely to be sympathetic to the idea that a former Groupon exec with a PPL and a bunch of software investors might understand the demand for commercial aircraft and how to build a supersonic model aircraft for $13m plus salaries without existing infrastructure better than companies with enormous piles of cash for skunkworks projects and decades of experience in making and selling aircraft)

Other industries have a much higher resistance to hype and estimates that sound like they're based on what people want to hear than software.
> A fundamental limitation of concentrating systems is they only work well with direct solar irradiance - it's very hard to concentrate diffuse solar rays coming from random directions, as you have on any overcast day.

It's impossible. That said, every type of solar panel works best with direct solar irradiance, what you can get from scatter off clouds and on overcast days is a pittance even in the best situations compared with direct light.

So this isn't nearly as big a step (yet) as it is made out to be, it may work out commercially but that is definitely not clear at this moment, and if it does work out commercially then it remains to be seen how much of that efficiency gain ends up reducing the per KWh installed cost of the panels. Any net gain of course is good.
This is a new and concise learn r guide on the stat methods site.
Yes, I'm confident that AI will have very little impact on software jobs in the next 20 years. Fact is, every usage of AI still requires labor intensive setup (choice of hypothesis, choice of data, assessment of signal-to-noise, choice of algorithm, intern of results), unless the 'intelligence' is embedded in hardware for easy (automatic) setup and reuse. But that requires a clear simple hypothesis and pose of problem, which most problems are not amenable to.

Specific repeatable tasks that follow strict guidelines (like smart cars) can easily be automated by AI (once the sensor problems are solved). But nonspecific tasks that follow loose guidelines or require substantial effort to organize and implement (like programming) -- these jobs will be very hard to automate. They just require too many custom steps and non-obvious decisions that require a lot of 'hand-holding' for a machine following a simple set of rules to succeed.

If you can describe the rules of the task simply and completely, then AI can do it (drive a car, play a board game like chess and go). If not, AI might be able to help a human with the more formulaic aspects of the job, but it can't glue all those pieces together and replace the human planner... not for the foreseeable future.
Not sure if clever joke, or irony.

(The lower-case 'P' in Polish)
That's the Econ 101 textbook statement, not reality.
How come freeze-dried is preferred over concentrate (pods)? It seems like the freeze drying process would inherently be more destructive that simply preserving the liquid in a pod, minus some water.
BSD had always several advantages over other open source systems which are widely available... I think the number of advantages and shortcomings didn't really change over the time but if you want to discuss WHY it is becoming NOW a more popular choice, my personal guess is:

- The state of the art of Ops and information in internet makes that today anyone with some curiosity can understand and start modifying/administrating tools and systems which decades ago was only possible for specialists in the area.
- Truly cross compatible source code and runtimes are widely available (not just C code that has to be compiled in the target architecture like in the old times.)
- With the raise of open information now technical choices can be made contrasting the experience from other teams or companies which made similar choices in the past.
Well isn't vi a bit bloated rendering irrelevant lines, shouldn't we just use ed?
I drink Mount Hagen too, whenever the coffee machine at work is broken. It's not bad.
This comment makes me so sad. Because it's so true.
Does physical pain impair abstract thinking?
Indeed, that's why I tried to list it as clearly as possible. Obviously we could essentially make income tax 0% in Sweden over night, by just moving it to payroll tax. But no one would argue Sweden was some kind of tax haven. So income taxes are relevant when discussing salaries (because really what you take home is the key figure). But for tax pressure you can't discuss just income taxes.

I don't know what the grandparent poster was trying to say "employer pays $1k payroll tax so you make $9k"? Just shows how confusing this is (apparently)
> It almost feels like he's saying 'our readers aren't smart enough to know good writing from clickbait'. Which might be true, but that's not exactly a sales pitch that's going to make me want to subscribe.

Yep. It's not really doing or saying anything to assure readers that they know where the quality lies, just giving the same 'media sucks, let's improve it' spiel that most publications start out with, minus the commitment a publication has to cater to its readers (donating through medium essentially gives up your control as to who gets supported, as opposed to the straightforward idea of donating to the publisher/writers you like directly).

I can't see many people as opinionated as medium users lining up to give up that control for blind faith in a platform, but hey, I guess tumblr got enough people to buy into the idea of their convention to fund their ball pit, so who knows, maybe it'll work out.
The comments point out a perfectly reasonable explanation for why this charge might exist:

One reason that drivers can specify for a cancellation is that the rider wasn't at the pickup location. Even though it's the driver cancelling in this case, it's reasonable for Uber to charge the rider in my opinion. If this is the case, the poster is still being improperly charged the fee, but it's more about the driver lying about a cancellation reason than some plot on Uber's part.
What you are calling the gig economy in this case is really a service economy, which existed long before cell phones or SF tech startup silliness. It's not some amazing new step forward for humanity.
I'm French. My grandparents were farmers/carpenters/etc who didn't attend school past 12 years old for the most educated one because they had to work to support themselves. My maternal grandparents had only one child, and my paternal grandparents had children 10 years apart, such that they could give the best to their progeny.

My uncle became a surgeon, and my parents become engineers, through the means of a free public university, which propelled them to upper middle class.

There is still much to achieve in French social mobility, but these kind of stories are plenty. Having spent some time in the US now, and seeing the stories of people who go on to go to engineering/medical/etc schools, I can't say that I see comparable things happening. Everyone I know who went to med school comes from upper middle class family AND had to take on tons of debt.

You shouldn't be looking at the top 0.001%, but the top 10%, perhaps even 20-30%, and how they live/what kind of social protections they benefit from.
Once I asked for a Uber driver on my corporate account during a business trip and the driver cancelled on me. I asked for the cancellation fee back and got $5 on my account.

Wait, what? Weren't my business supposed to get the $5 fee back? I am just an employee there and even if I was the point of contact or the owner, it's not how things should work.

I just earned $5 (that was probably charged) for being cancelled on and I most likely used it on a private trip later on.

I bet the contracts they have for corporate accounts make it clear (or else companies would be mad at them already) so it's not my problem, but it's weird nonetheless.
You had me at "faster than C"
> Some bones suggested that the individual was born into a roaming tribe but later settled down; others indicated the opposite lifestyle change.

Not sure what history Susanne Hakenbeck studies, but asiatic hersdmen populations in Eastern Europe have a long documented history of looting for slaves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean%E2%80%93Nogai_raids_in...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devshirme
I meant no value for anyone else. For instance, they could use these resources to support more people that was jailed in the complex he came from. Or to advance the state of the art of science and technology. But he choose to waste lots of resources like light and materials just for himself.
Empathy, in this context, means to me that I care about the problem of the person I am supposed to help, which increases my motivation to actually help them.

Saying I care and actually caring are not the same. When I call a hotline with a problem and am stuck in a loop telling me how important my call is to them, it tells me they don't care at all.

At least that how I understand the comment, and since I also wear a helpdesk-monkey-hat at work, it is how I try to deal with our users.
Around here it seems like solar installation companies are taking every decrease in material costs and increase in efficiencies and eating it up by increasing labour costs or profit margins.

It always works out to a bullshit calculation that "the system pays for itself in 10 years" [if you ignore inflation, opportunity cost, and accept their electricity rate projections and assume the gov't won't cut green electricity subsidies]. That number never seems to change, it's always 10 years.

I'd love to get panels put on my house and shop, I have a lot of square footage. But it seems like there's some very greedy middlemen between me and the panels and I lack the skill to install myself.
Sent some money that way. I'd like to have a working ZFS like filesystem in the kernel.
While we're correcting misconceptions... it is most definitely 'free' in Scotland.
History is written by the... victors. It's not surprising to get a single-sided story when the other side didn't care much about leaving written detailed records.
The Shrewd AI Strategy Behind Google's Kaggle Acquisition
> 1) How can I find ways to enjoy my current work more and provide more value for my current employer?

Start reaching out to senior leaders in the organization-- group heads, directors, VPs for a friendly get acquainted/talk-shop coffee meeting. You'll want to be attuned to corporate politics, be diplomatic. When appropriate-- ask if they need any particular help-- areas where they're struggling? priority projects? Spec ideas that need nurturing?

There's huge value in helping senior leadership get what they want. It also affords you a unique opportunity to peek into their 30K FT world view.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10...

That says 200 miles a day roughly, so with morning and lunch break and a 70 mile range it would be half to 2/3rds powered by electric. A lot would depend on how fast the car can charge.
Beginner’s Guide to Smart Contracts on the Blockchain
> As we iterated on our approach, we have decided to follow more recent recommendations and not limit our identifiers to the deprecated concept of URN.

I was not aware URN was deprecated... Is there a reference somewhere to these recommendations?
I can not have aging grandma nor children in google offices. I can not engage in personal hobbies that are not company sanctioned there. I dont have privacy there.
I find it hard to believe nobody in the Netherlands dislikes traveling.
I wonder who uses this. If you have a fleet, cluster, group or 'multiple' boxes you need to SSH to, doesn't Kerberos make more sense? Or at least something like SSSD's public key proxy? And if you're doing it for configuration management, doesn't actual configuration management make more sense?
Social mobility in the US is lower than in most OECD countries [1].

Of all OECD countries, only in Slovenia, Chile, Italy and the UK are the intergenerational correlations between the earnings of fathers and sons stronger, for example.

The rest of the OECD, including most of Europe, does far better in that respect.

Representation of immigrants is something I haven't looked at, and it may very well be that the US does well there, but there are a number of confounding factors, and it in any case doesn't change the fact that social mobility is poor in the US.

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobil...
Good point. Greater London, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Essex and Kent all have a higher population density than Holland, and between them count for a significant part of the UK population.
I have never heard that anesthesiologists make anywhere close to what specialized surgeons make.

Where are you getting this information from?
> You pay $2k in taxes (Employer pays an additional $1k in tax), so your income is 9k.

How did the employer paying an extra k mean you make more? I think it's only relevant to talk about 2 figures: a) the expense to the employer and b) your take home (net) salary.

Everything in between there is "taxes" and who pays them and when is less important. If the employer needs $9k to hire you that's what it costs. Then the tax man takes $1k payroll, you get $8k, pay $2k income tax. That leaves you $6k after all payroll and income taxes from a starting $9k making the income+payroll taxes 33%.
Funcom Guarantees 'Conan Exiles' Players Won't Get Hurt by the Server Reset
LastPass security flaw allows malicious script to steal passwords
> You might think that, but Airbus developed the A350XWB — a direct competitor for the 787 — on a budget of €11Bn. Even taking into account exchange rate issues, that's less than half the cost.

Airbus also had the same kind of experience and expertise in house already built up. So, that doesn't challenge the GPs contention that for someone without that, the cost would be substantially more.
The Best Exercise for Aging Muscles
1. Hits the classic micropayments problem. People are unlikely to pay an amount for a single article which is profitable, given credit card fees, to process.

Various people have tried various workarounds for that, but a really successful one has yet to emerge (although I believe the Dutch publishing startup whose name I can't remember is gaining some traction with this model).
A software engineer in SF is also paying somewhere around 400% more for housing, and 100% more for everything else than a software engineer in Berlin. Quite an important note when comparing salaries.

Higher costs, lower stability, and no safety net... I think that I would prefer that Berlin salary (and I'm a US resident).
> "Whats more is that they don't refund the money they took unlawfully - instead they credit it to your Uber account."

I think that's the part that seems the most messed up. However, I will say that in the USA (Chicago) I've had this happen before (it's only a $5 charge, not $10) and when I disputed it, I got a credit back to my credit card and not an Uber credit like they mentioned. I wonder if it's different in Australia (assuming this is where it happened because r/australia)?

EDIT: As others have mentioned both here and on reddit, I am chalking this up to the drivers trying to scam riders, and not Uber directly doing it out of malice. I've had the same issue before when a driver tries to call me and tell me to cancel the ride for X reason that is their fault, that way they don't get the fee/penalty, but I'm not stupid. I know what they are trying to do. ha As someone else here said, this just bad design that is a lose-lose for either side, driver or rider, depending how it's done. All in all, I think Uber will always make this right if you just dispute it, and contact their support. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why I Stayed with Elixir
I think your comment is the first use of "breakthrough," to be fair. The article title and body refer to it as "breaking" the record. You are correct about the (vastly more expensive) multi-junction concentrating cells having higher efficiency, of course.

You're also correct that not all improvements make it to market. Without research and continuing efforts to improve, nothing makes it to market. What's the point of your second paragraph? The article makes it _very_ clear that this is not in production, and speaks specifically to concerns about whether the process is suitable for industrialization.
How would a French press wake up your kids?
The arcade world’s first Easter egg discovered after fraught journey
I've seen this button. The main problem with it that I've found is that it only shows up at the very start of a show. I'd really like to see the intro, then skip the opening credits. As it is now there's no way to do that.
I think it is one of those cases where this applies: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

I think it may be a loophole or bad system design rather than a willful scam by uber to make some extra money.
Even on C++ RAII requires a lexical scope at some point in the program.

Somewhere in the whole workflow there must be a class allocated in the stack.

You can have destructor like behavior in Lisp as well, just register a file handle cleanup action by giving a cleanup lambda when creating the map instance.

The function that removes entries from the map will call the provided lambda.
The best thing for me has been that VS code has a sane php debugger (PHP has a truly awful debugging experience in general, though that's in line with the rest of the language ;) ). Sublime's PHP debugging addons are not good.

I think my biggest VS Code complaint right now is it seems to hide tabs away once I have like 3-5 open. Is there a way to get it to shrink tabs (like browsers/sublime) to have them all open and visible?
Take living costs and so forth into account also. California probably isn't as great at the figures suggest.

That said, speaking as a New Zealander: don't come here. There are no jobs, and if you find one, you will be underpaid. If you're looking for the weather and standard-of-living combination offered by the southern hemisphere, consider Melbourne or Sydney instead. Very few of my graduating class at the University of Auckland will end up remaining in the city, I suspect.
Social mobility is lower in US. Sources are easy to find, you can start at https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/america...
> Americans would shit themselves if they had to deal with that.

Are Americans some kind of special subspecies where the bottom 80% of earners inherently enjoys being screwed?
2A Cool Wind Bladeless Fan
You will be successful
> If by "taking refugees" you mean "using as troops and mercenaries in their wars against other border groups" sure.

He was informed that the North was agitated by a furious tempest; that the irruption of the Huns, an unknown and monstrous race of savages, had subverted the power of the Goths; and that the suppliant multitudes of that warlike nation, whose pride was now humbled in the dust, covered a space many miles along the banks of the river. With outstretched arms and pathetic lamentations they loudly deplored their past misfortunes and their present danger; acknowledged that their only hope of safety was in the clemency of the Roman government; and most solemnly protested that, if the gracious liberality of the emperor would permit them to cultivate the waste lands of Thrace, they should ever hold themselves bound, by the strongest obligations of duty and gratitude, to obey the laws and to guard the limits of the republic.

I think it is more than fair to describe this as "taking refugees", though the Romans didn't really have the option of saying "no", because the consequence would have been more immediately ruinous.

It was thought expedient that an accurate account should be taken of their numbers; but the persons who were employed soon desisted, with amazement and dismay, from the prosecution of the endless and impracticable task;(67) and the principal historian of the age most seriously affirms that the prodigious armies of Darius and Xerxes, which had so long been considered as the fables of vain and credulous antiquity, were now justified, in the eyes of mankind, by the evidence of fact and experience. A probable testimony has fixed the number of the Gothic warriors at two hundred thousand men; and if we can venture to add the just proportion of women, of children, and of slaves, the whole mass of people which composed this formidable emigration must have amounted to near a million of persons, of both sexes and of all ages.

http://www.ccel.org/g/gibbon/decline/volume1/chap26.htm

Yes, the Romans did use Goths in their military, but this particular situation was quite a bit different.
I would definitely buy this, and know of around 20 other people who probably would do also, but only if it was available as a one-off. I appreciate why you're chasing subscriptions, and I wouldn't have a problem with paying (some) premium for one-off orders, but I honestly think that buy not offering any non-subscription packages you're leaving a lot of money on the table.
Coffee paraphernalia I use semi-regularly:

- Electric percolator with pre-ground Starbucks light-roast coffee (used to be Intelligentsia Honey Badger, before they souled-out to shitty Peet's).

- IKEA steel french press

- Nespresso (Original - not the supersize American version)

- Hario coffee hand mill for coffee beans (much rarely than before for time-availablity issues)

But, my go-to coffee on many days is the Folgers/Nescafé instant coffee.

If your instant coffee is really better (and I mean really) than what's on the market, and you can maintain consistent quality over time, I am in your target demographic.

Sign me up with a sampler!
Very interesting product. I'm glad to see an instant that's dedicated to quality. (Edit: Found a bit on your page on the tubes not being biodegradeable: "we simply aren’t big enough to get a packaging company to make us biodegradable alternatives", hopefully this is addressed later.)

I do have a question to do with your Transparent Pricing page, where the following is stated:

> It costs us $2.34 to make each cup.

followed by

> A general rule of thumb for most packaged goods is that you must mark up the product by 50% to cover your expenses marketing and selling the product. Luckily we don’t follow the rules. If we did, we’d have to charge $4.68 a cup!

Marking up 50% sounds like you should charge an extra 50% of the cost of the product, but that statement uses an extra 100%. I'm not sure if it's wording or phrasing but that sounds like bolstering an exaggerated markup price to increase the perceived value of your actual price. Any clarification on this?
Why do people fail?
Yup, this is similar to a mentality I've seen celebrated in some Crossfit cliques and it 'works' for a certain type of people. Until the imbalance catches up to them and makes them re-assess their priorities (injury,depression,sickness...)