skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HP recently started a new program where you can buy a printer subscription. You no longer have to pay for any ink -- the printer phones homes and orders new ink whenever it gets low.

Instead you pay by the page.

Apple did a similar thing last year with their phone rental program.

If appliance makers are really worried about recurring revenue, maybe they should explore the subscription program. It would then be in their best interest to make things that last longer, since they would have to replace broken equipment sooner, but at the same time, if they make it last long enough, they can get more revenue out of that with a subscription than without it, and it's much smoother revenue.
If you read the details of the article, there's some pretty open questions about whether Xpoint is 3x the endurance of NAND, or even higher duration than NAND.

And the latency improvement seems to be 2x, not the 10x you claim, or the 1000x Intel originally claimed. (Intel's own numbers compare 20ms for flash versus 10ms for XPoint...) Which isn't nothing, to be sure, but...
[Modern] Union disliker here--that is hella true. Uber has earned it
As a language for creating a web frontend, well there isn't anything really else. Coffeescript, typescript or something like GWT excepted.

But it will be a cold day in hell when I suggest using node for the backend.
It's a terrible practice, the article doesn't even go into some other things like how easy is it to actually break into the intercepting software and steal the private cert so you can mitm the network for free!

and I'm a dev at one of these companies!

We really didn't want to add the feature but we were bleeding customer's who for some reason had to have it.
( Yes, we do validate the certificates )

We decided to bite the bullet when it looked like even Google was "supporting" being mitmed as a customer pointed out.

Reading this article...
https://support.google.com/a/answer/1668854?hl=en

was my biggest "fuck you" moment.
Thought this was interesting:

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Littlepage is also a recent convert. During the primaries, he was a Cruz supporter, and he even tried making some left-wing pages on Facebook but discovered that they just didn’t make him as much money.
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Now with Trump in charge, will this flip? With angry leftists flocking to Occupy Democrats, Young Turks, etc?

We'll see.
I'm not sure DIP form factor is a pro these days - it ups manufacturing costs a lot - unless of course all you are making is breadboards - are there SMT versions available?
If 10 people's cost of living drop 50%, then one drop of 100% of income would be acceptable.
Yeah call me 'Ron Swanson'. I understand the 'R&D is expensive and people wouldn't bother' argument but I'm not sure I buy it? Won't people always create and invent? They can't help themselves. The actual people who have the ideas rarely benefit from them nowadays anyway. It can also have perverse consequences such as pharmaceuticals only investing in stuff that eases symptoms and not cures? (I have no actual data on that). Thanks.
Is a 5-line example really a great basis for a comparison?
Interestingly this whole argument holds true for cars, too.
If they are using USD I fail to see how country even plays a role. It makes sense if you are converting currency, you want to have a local office to keep some sort of buoyancy. However, if the currency matches your origin, then you can do digital business anywhere there's an ip address. I fail to see how country can play a role in what is presumably an entirely USD-based transaction.
At current burn rate they won't survive long enough for that to happen.
Re: bed mattresses, see http://sleeplikethedead.com

By far the most helpful resource out there for learning about available types and characteristics of each so you can make an informed decision.

EDIT: Unclear on why this is getting downvoted; explanation would be appreciated. I posted this hoping others might find it useful.
Gah I was writing you a long answer and my browser crashed, this very rarely happens :(

The re-run:

> It is not the responsibility of the citizens of the United States to save the world.

The United States do not exist in a vacuum. If the world does well so does the US and if the world is doing worse then the US will automatically also do worse. So it's a fallacy to think that the United States is (a) saving the world (the world does plenty already) and (b) that any help the United States does export is at its own expense.

Short term thinking vs long term thinking.

> I'll reap what I've sown. We all will, what we've sown and what our predecessors have. To imagine the sowing began in 2016 disregards a very great deal of history. But you are of course welcome to do so as you choose.

This obviously did not start in 2016, but it did get a lot worse starting 2017 and hopefully it will not break beyond repair before the music stops. If it does then you and yours will be the ones to pay the price.

If you really want to improve the situation you need:

- to get money out of politics

- reduce the power of the presidency (stop voting for a king/queen)

- get rid of the 'winner takes all' system so there can be viable third (and fourth and so on) political parties

Also: note that the United States' problems are far from unique to the United States in so far as the economy goes, and that other countries have managed to fix or at least reduce the impact. In the United States anything along those lines gets resolutely destroyed along the lines of fear of communism, even though those things are not even closely related.

Such irrationality does not help.

Anyway, you're about 2 months into your favorite presidency, do you get the impression that you are making meaningful progress towards your stated goals?
Serious question - why hasn't the Uber board replaced Kalanick yet? While it is indisputable he successfully brought Uber to where it is now, it doesn't seem like he has the good judgement to be leading Uber at this stage of the company's lifecycle. Wouldn't the best thing for the company at this point be a complete overhaul of leadership?
I like it.

"How This Startup Is Disturbing The Equipment Financing Market"

"A startup is disturbing the consulting industry"

"16 Startups Poised to Disturb the Education Market"
There is a flag to tell it to process commonJS. I played with that here: http://www.syntaxsuccess.com/viewarticle/combining-es2015-mo...

Combining es6 and commonJS in the same project.
Completely agree. There are niches were quality is paid for, where appliances no not self-destroy after a couple of years. Cases in point: Kitchenette, Thermomix.

But outside these niches, it is a race to the bottom.
Ah, that solves that mystery. Thanks! Also means that them being a Serbian company hasn't really got anything to do with why they had issues with Braintree.
I agree with your sentiment: to analyze these amounts of documents you need computers. And I understand the importance of parallelism, GPU computing can be way faster than CPUs for certain tasks.

In a sense, and correct me if I'm wrong, I get the feeling that the whole ML is just starting now because we have faster computers. To analyze such amounts of text and make some sense of it, you'd need a massive "database" or "fitted model" to decipher what the legalese means. Only recently has this been possible to create (thanks to Moore's law). It's not like there is a breakthrough in mathematics (statistics) right? The theory probably has been around for ages but is only now becoming practical.
I think you handled the situation correctly. You can't do much. Just like you can't do much if a loved one is injured or sick and dying but they do not want to go to a doctor (this actually happened to a friend). It's very hard to get a handle on these situations because most 1st world countries have a strong concept of individual liberty. I am actually glad it is that way, but I also realize how awful those situations are. But frankly, I'd rather not erode liberty to better deal with such cases, I think the problem has to be attacked from another direction, i.e. not stigmatising mental health problems, more conversation, tolerance, education about mental health, etc.
I think you are right. The older I get and the more people I work with I realize that most people are just ignorant. They come up with a "good idea" based on their ignorance and then push it. I know what it is like, because I have done it in the past, and still have to check myself even today. The best way I have found to combat this sort of situation is have a core group of trusted friends with various backgrounds. They will be the first to let me know my "good idea" is actually a bad idea and usually point me in the right direction to educate myself.

The problem is in the corporate world there is no trust. People seem to get the notion that if you use facts to show them their idea is bad that it is some sort of personal attack. Or worse, there are those in the corporate world that can spot a bad idea and not say anything -- only to watch it fail.
Because the owners of that network are a consortium of banks, whose motivation is profit, reinforced by regulation.
An enormous amount of the shavings and inlining that the Closure compiler is capable of assumes that you write your code according to rules that reduce ambiguity and dynamic features in your code. Variable names get mangled, so things like using string names for properties is out the window, which means invoking methods by string names is out as well. It uses objects for namespaces so things like `Shape.Quad.Square` get renamed to `Shape$Quad$Square` before getting minified to some one-letter variable, so don't use `this` outside of constructors or prototype methods.

There's a larger list of restrictions at https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/limitati...

If you do write code obeying these rules (check out the closure library), or you use something like ClojureScript that generates straightforward, monomorphic, closure-compiler-compatible js, the payoff in both file size and parse/execution performance is pretty great.
Here is a much simpler explanation: people want to buy cheap stuff. If given a choice between $1200 appliance which lasts 25 years, and $1000 appliance which last 15 years, and no infomation about the actual lifetimes, most people would choose the cheaper model. The people feel good, the sales rise, and who cares what happens in 15 years -- the company will have different execs by that time. And once people get used to 15 years life, the company can introduce even cheaper mode which lasts 10 years only!

See -- no conspiracy theories required, just general greed and irresponsibility. :)
This isn't the first piece to claim that new appliances, and cars, and other manufactured goods, are made to lower standards as a conspiracy to sell more.

But planned obsolescence isn't a conspiracy, it's a design requirement: there is a requirement to reduce costs, at a greater rate than reduce in production cost due to advancements in manufacturing and logistics. That reduction in cost can not come from thin air, so most balance it by designing products that are not designed to last as long as those that were made 70 years ago.

That reduced cost isn't driven as much by consumers no longer ready to pay the high costs that they used to. You can find a premium fridge for +$5,000, but would you be willing to pay that much for a fridge?

When adjusted for inflation, that isn't much more than a good refrigerator cost in the 1950s. Only today, a $5,000 would get you a top end fridge, while $495 in 1950's Dollars might allow you to buy an average one then. iow, you'd have to spend much more for premium products then. And because there is less market for $5,000 fridges, it only drives the price of those upwards.

Some make the argument that amortized the cost over the lifetime of the appliance, a $5K fridge would cost the same or less per year of service, than a $1,000 one. This discounts the cost to operate the refrigerator (newer ones are more efficient,) and that a dollar spent today is worth more than a dollar saved today. Assuming you can even spend $5,000 today. Most can't.

In 10 years, I'd throw that old fridge, and buy a new one, cheaper and better, more efficient, quieter (those 50's refrigerator are quite noisy), and that won't contain as many hazardous and poisonous materials. The problem this creates is one of disposal and recycling, which is one to solve; but arguing that things used to be give better bang for the buck. You get same bang/buck, at a difference balance of features.
I kept it simple to try to illustrate the main difference between the two approaches.
No, the person I know who is in the last round is an economics major with no Masters/PhD. She has a very impressive background in industry.

Although a lot of folks in the course do indeed have graduate degrees in other fields (including English Lit, Neuroscience, Radiology, etc...)
Because most of the failures I see are simply a product of bad design/cost cutting.

Otherwise we would have plenty of other devices based on the same technology fail.
Understanding existing and emerging trends in global research collaboration
>> When DARPA invented the internet..b&m employees.. programmers

As for being less brick-and-mortar employees ? i think that was an historical trend, so it makes sense it will continue, supported by tech.

Also It's somewhere between 1960 and 1970(darpa and the internet), i think. But Moore made his law in 1965. So we guess that in 2017 computers are extremely abundant and fast, connected at high speeds(moore + internet), and we know they are versatile.

So we can guess they'll have many uses(and a lot of room for imagining), and maybe we'll need many programmers for that.

furthermore , see my comment on predicting jobs, i don't think it's that hard(in general) :https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13910181&goto=threads%...
So you guys relied on a single payment provider? And you chose a PayPal company to rely on? Well of course your accounts would be frozen someday. It's a PayPal company. Seriously what did you expect?
There's a lot of Java at Google, so it wouldn't be surprising that Go would be Java-esque. But, I find it more like C. It has literally no accommodation for "enterprise" things. It's kind of its own thing that bubbled up out of a parallel timeline (which is kinda true, since it evolved out of the Plan 9 ecosystem and from Plan 9 developers), without much baggage from the couple of decades of commercialization of languages.

It's a pretty close to pure expression of a few language designer's vision, with very little in the way of corporate influence (that I can discern). And, I think that's the point of Go; it's the language its designers wanted for the tasks they wanted to work on (web scale services). It just happens that a lot of people want/need to work on the same sort of thing.

I agree that most people embracing massive scale are doing so way too early and probably aint gonna need it. But, that doesn't mean Go isn't a useful tool, anyway. I've watched a few videos, and read a few tutorials, and the brevity of Go for things like network servers is breathtaking. The cleverness of interfaces is...well, it really has to be seen to be understood. It's not OO, it's not functional. It's...something else. Contrary to the impression that maybe I've given in other comments, Go does have some features that aren't commonly seen elsewhere (or, if they are, they're bolted on). It has some fancy features, but only a few, and only in specific areas.

It seems like a very well thought out language, to me. Which might have been true of Java in its very early days...I'm not sure. I've never really been a Java developer, though I've read some Java code now and then.

So, Go might be merely "good enough" on some fronts, but I think it's great on a few specific fronts. And, it does it without requiring total buy-in on a new paradigm, which is probably its killer feature. It looks a little like Python or whatever in syntax, but acts a little like Erlang on a few specific details. Pretty good combination, and the community seems to agree.
> because the proles can now decide for themselves what news they will read.

Except that Facebook is very much like minitrue, a large machine with people as its cogs that outputs information that may or may not be correlated with facts. Not to mention that it's also targeted at each prole, so the proles always get an echo chamber that will quell the rebellion.

The 1984 analogies go both ways.
Ads are hard to get a decent return unless you have hundreds of thousands of visitors. I, myself, hardly like to pay for anything, and love free products, however, I've recently tried to figure out a pricing plan that I personally would pay for.. and use that mentality to price my products, which are often far cheaper than the average, but still enough to profit.

My pricing is based on two audiences: individual and small business.

I assume if I were to ever get a big business, they could always register for multiple accounts.

So this is how I normally create and price:

I offer a "free version" of all my products that have X amount of whatever I am offering, usually around 5 or 10 for the month.

Each time the product is used, X amount drops until it hits 0, at which point, the user cannot use the product any more. If they need more X, however, they may purchase more X.

For a few products I wrote (still in beta), it is subscription-based where they hop on a plan that gives them X a month. There are variations of the plan that offer a certain amount of X depending on how much they need. If they use more than that, they can either upgrade their plan OR purchase more of X outright.

On their renew date (each month from which they subscribed to the plan), the number of X restores back to that amount.

On my non-subscription based products, I offer X amount and they can use it all up and purchase more whenever they need more, or just wait until the renew date from which they registered, which restores their account balance to whatever X amount is the default.

That has been my pricing method. I can't give you numbers yet on whether it works, as I've just begun my journey into charging for the things I create, but I just think: How much I pay for this?

Things that cost $50 a month? As an individual person, unless they were really useful, probably not.

Things that cost $1.99, $2.99, $3.99, $4.99, $5.99 or $9.99 a month? Probably more reasonable for an individual.

As for being a startup or small business? $49.99 or $99.99 is certainly a reasonable price.

Curious about .95 or .99 pricing? Basic psychology: You are technically getting the extra dollar, but in the mind of your consumer: they are not giving you that extra dollar.
The point of the article is to point out that the incidences of suicide in the military isn't disproportionate to civilians. This is something that's being blown out of proportion by the media and in return Congress pushes down DoD to make this a bigger issue than what it really is.

Furthermore, your relative is a grown adult who decided that he should stay the course and not see a therapist for his condition based on possible consequences on his career. Clearly this happens in every career where there are high rewards, in this case a life time pension(valued over $1mm). Well, shit guess what, he made to him what seems like the best choice.

For reference, look at a surgeon who is getting the shakes on his right hand or the NFL player hiding his broken collarbone injury during his free agent try outs. Or for a more military reference: the young guy hiding his fracture on X bone during selection phase for Y job. (doctor's typical question: "why didnt you come to us sooner when you knew something was wrong", clearly has no idea the drive and motivation behind the young man)
Yeow. Only good for rocks then.
Not entirely sure that is a fair description of human-style learning.
Our overall problem to solve is 'survive and reproduce'. Anything else can be seen as just a sub-problem of that.
Humans are taught by other humans how to solve problems since the day they are born.
Our DNA passes on a millions of generations worth of learning from our ancestors about how to solve problems.
I'm not sure that the hardware has been that much of a constraint lately. Evolution, not revolution.
Alan Kay on Augmented Reality
I'm from the US, bought some appliances a few years ago, and can confirm that $500 is about what you would expect to pay for a decent washer or dryer.
Not exactly.

The time you spend on the course, and the time spent by your instance running workloads are two completely separate things.

Your cost per-hour is accurate (plus a few bucks for an IP address), but the number of hours is off by an order of magnitude.

Also, I'm paying double that per instance per month for SSD using the provided scripts to build the instances. It's the smallest part of the cost, but I mention it because it can take newcomers to EC2 by surprise if they have an instance shut-down but consuming disk space.
Woops, meant to say disrupt of course.
Interestingly enough, here's a discussion from 2012 on GitHub on Gitlab on this particular topic (as it relates to Gitlab) https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/1298
And that modern washer would use less energy, water, and need less detergent, reducing the cost-per-load.
Apparently Serbia is 'supported' although to what degree is unknown. Specifically, the dinar is supported.

https://developers.braintreepayments.com/reference/general/c...
Because... you assume... that just because its USD means that it is through US accounts?

You can be Canadian and have a bank account in US dollars. But the way to transfer money would be the Canadian system.
I would pay for a credible source of information how long various household appliances last. (I buy by TOC, and I also value my time.)

The problem is credibility. Manufacturers have an incentive to astroturf "independent" reviews. Insurerers have an incentive to rule out every common fault. And I want the data collection audited.

At this point, I'm ripe for appliances-as-a-service unless a big consumer watchdog steps up. Maybe there is room for a built-to-last manufacturer who goes to great lengths to show me they mean it. Maybe commercial appliances marketed to consumers?
> Stupid jurisdiction should not be complied with above direct legal necessity

Kalanick or you don't get to decide which laws are stupid and should therefore be broken. There's an established process for that. And on the empirical level, it's not enough to show that customers and drivers are choosing to do business with Uber. If that were the standard, not single law protecting workers, customers, or third parties would be necessary.

Also, 'jurisdiction' means something different than you think,
I'd expect that most companies rely on one payment provider, at least in the early days. The cost of implementing, testing, etc. multiple providers is pretty high. I have only switched providers twice in the decade long life of my company, and only due to extreme pain from the previous one. It takes a lot to get me to sign on for the pain of a migration, and that's even more pronounced now that so much data ends up stored in your payment providers database; so, your customer data isn't even yours to migrate, anymore (AFAIK, I haven't crossed this bridge yet, but I guess I will one day, if Braintree, who I'm currently using, does something to make their service untenable for us).
There is no such thing as a "compiled language" or an "interpreted language", as this is a property of language implementations: interpreters (GHCi, Hugs) and compilers (GHC, JHC).