skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just how many migrants arrived in Germany last year? Do you suggest they are all somehow "privileged"? And that's just the beginning!

Of course they are relatively privileged. Do you think the average person from Afghanistan or Iraq or Central Africa can afford to travel to Germany, illegally? Do you think it's cheap to travel overland and pay smugglers!? The average person from a first world country doesn't even have that much disposable income. Use some common sense - the wave of illegal migrants a few years back weren't made up of the lower class, it's economically infeasible.

You (probably) live in a place which is geographically hard to migrate to, as you'd basically need to cross the ocean to do so[1]. On the other hand, and on the other side of the pond, we've seen hundreds of thousands of people come here on foot or on boats that I'm amazed even kept afloat as long as they did.
It may look far-fetched to you, but it's already happening. It will get to you sooner or later.

It has nothing to do with sheer numbers, it's willpower. You're absolutely right in that it would be foolish to purchase property and the like from a country that doesn't even have the political and social will to protect itself from unarmed invasion. Luckily not every place is as short sighted as Germany or Western Europe in general.

I think that such policies were developed by people with a mindset similar to yours: whatever happens there it's not here, so whatever. It is not so. Whatever happens anywhere will, sooner or later, come here and sit on your lawn.

I've never advocated military regime change or any other such nonsense. So no, the mindset is not similar to mine. I am against aggression.

[1] And even then there are people who view migration as a major, significant problem - some of them are even in positions of power.

Who are you eluding to here? The Government of China, Japan, South Korea...?
Success, especially in science, which is what the article is about, comes from working on the right problem, and concentrating on it, more than from long hours or strenuous effort.
> Does it? That person is going to have the anchor of that 60k follow them around. When they move on from the startup, most likely their new company is going to base the offer around that 60k. Whereas the other one is going to have their raises and offers based around the 100k.

Never say what you're already earning and try to not give a number first.
People who are successful and don't work hard are probably more an exception than the rule. Or maybe they're working hard and not in the office?

Higher likelihood of being successful if you work hard than not.

That said, these type of clikbaity articles are making me wonder where HN is going and if we have any measures in place to de-clickbait-ize the stories to prevent something like this from occuring..
"The startup has been trying to muster a turnaround effort under the helm of new Chief Executive Officer James Beriker, the former head of recruiting company Simply Hired. He has cut jobs across the company this year to stop the bleeding."

Ironic that the former head of a recruiting company has cut jobs at Munchery
In the UK it's nearly unheard of to be suing for anything other than material/health damages. An unspecified "disruption to neighbours" is worth exactly zero in court.
The host seems to think it was, since that's what he originally claimed.
Dropbox won't analyse and sell you left and right.

You cannot compare these two services. One is a service, one is an ad machine.
MERGE Stack Proposal for Universal JavaScript Applications (GraphQL and SSR)
I believe gender bias is a huge issue, but I wonder if the riddle was worded differently if the responses would be different:

>Here’s an old riddle. If you haven’t heard it, give yourself time to answer before reading past this paragraph: a father and daughter are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The daughter is rushed to the hospital; just as she’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate—that girl is my daughter!” Explain…

I'd also be curious to see what the results would be if it was a mother/daughter crash — I suspect that most people would say the father is the surgeon (rather than saying the girl has two moms), but I'd like to see at what rate.

My answer in the original question was two dads, but I'm not entirely sure if I misinterpreted "he's about to go under the knife" originally, or if I'm biased (I also might want to think I misinterpreted it because I don't want to be biased).

The article provides a lot of additional evidence of bias. I just found the first riddle interesting.
I a bit torn here. I love Stripe, but I feel like this is awful advice for API-first companies.

If you are building a developer product where your API is your business, using rate-limiters is akin to preventing customers from giving you money. If your product is an API, you should encourage usage. The more usage you get, the more success both you and your customer will have. It's a win-win.

Because of this, I believe implementing rate-limiting strategies result in not only poor-DX for the product, but also a loss of trust (if these limits are in place to prevent your backend from failing, what other things do I need to worry about while using your product?), AND most importantly, they result in loss of business for both the API company and the customer.

IMO, if you're an API company, and you can't handle bursts of traffic from your customers, you should work on improving your backend and stop wasting time messing around with implementing patterns like this. It's a lose-lose situation for you and your customers.

I was really inspired by this recently after spending some time @ Twilio. Jeff (and the rest of the Twilio team) are hardcore about their API first product / thinking. They have a motto which is something along the lines of this: if you and your customer are both more successful and both make more money when the API usage goes up, do whatever you can to get out of the way and let the API be used as much as possible. I thought that was an awesome approach to take.
If you are mentioned in a tweet, you can never leave the tweet chain or mute it
> But the population is only 83, so running the whole place off renewable energy isn't difficult.

No, but then there's only 83 people to distribute the costs over as well, and a consequent lack of economies of scale.

For instance, from the article, they have four wind turbines, each 6 kW; I'm sure the multi-MW wind turbines used in larger wind parks produce power at a significantly lower price/kWh.
In a similar vein, this post on worker satisfaction found that these 8 metrics can predict 70% of the variance in overall satisfaction at work. Quality of coworkers was by far the highest predictor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997858
> I'm arguing more for $50k+. [...] The PR hit from this article is probably $500k already?

But if they've done this 12+ times, and "saved" ~$42k each time, then they're still ahead. It wouldn't surprise me.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/12/linux-patch-sheds-li...

Was this not the same thing? Some microcode update to patch a CPU flaw essentially?

That was almost a decade ago.
> it shouldn't take Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon too much work to put out a comparable product and offer it for free

This kind of thinking is exactly why Apple/Microsoft/Google/Amazon will never deliver something better.

Yes - they can deliver something better for free but they think "it shouldn't take a lot of effort" so whatever they deliver is not adequate.

They also do not have no business reason to do it since valuable engineers and time can be better spent on other business sectors. For example, Amazon Cloud Drive is just a checkbox (look you can save you photos and videos also on our storage) from point of view Amazon management. Google Drive is the same. Microsoft has the same thinking: look here is OneDrive - but we really want you to buy Sharepoint.

So do not expect anything of Dropbox quality from these companies.
Things I Learned in DevOps in Q1 2017 – Tit Petric
There is a big correlation there. Edit: But I guess it might be that people showing low ability at 5 are more likely to be long-term higher-ability kids underperforming their future ability level if their parents were higher.
As someone who lives in a condo with Airbnb rentals, I'd rather you didn't.
i'm not conflating anything more than what this article is doing.

On the other hand, you are guilty of taking my words out of context. It's convenient to just take michael jordan and use it as an argument, isn't it? I also mentioned another "knowledge work" example.

I'm not saying scientists should be working 18 hours a day. In fact when it comes to scientists and researchers I do agree that you should NOT work too hard because you will burn out, and most creative ideas come when you're taking a break.

But it's not cool to take that example and tell the world you should "slack off" because it's "scientific". That's not how the world works. If you want to achieve something, you can't win against someone who go all in. Simple as that.
Asking for confidentiality about the terms of a settlement is common, and there is nothing wrong with it.
Well yeah that's the problem. They dont pass the discount on to me. I pay full retail price, and they keep the discount. This is why Express Scripts is a $100 BILLION company. And that's for managing Formularies you say?

The discounts are passed through via lower insurance premiums. You don't really see that since your employer pays the premiums.

And yes, ESI is a $100B per year company with $3.4B in net income.[1] A stunning 3.4%. Not that different than a grocery store.

[1]http://financials.morningstar.com/ratios/r.html?t=ESRX
Cargo depends on curl right now.
I appreciate that you brought up induced demand, as I've read too many articles about the future of autonomous vehicles and cities that never even raised the subject. I think it’s an angle that people need to consider much further. I believe its impact will utterly dominate any road capacity gains that come from reducing “phantom jams” and related inefficiencies that come from human drivers.

In the worst case an autonomous car is just as space efficient as a human driven car (ie. a single person in a compact car still takes up quite a bit of room) and if this case is fairly prevalent it’s hard to see how traffic congestion changes much. Even if parking goes away, city councils may be eager to reclaim that space for pedestrians, cyclists, and parklets.

The question I’m most interested in is whether city governments will accommodate the increased demand that autonomous cars potentially induce with more road capacity, leading more cities down the path of Houston and LA with more and more land used for highway construction, or whether cities will take the approach of Vancouver and Paris, establishing policies to freeze and reduce the land space allocated to automobile exclusive transportation.
What's going on here? The first half of the story sounds like routine corporate incompetency. Representatives don't read your stuff, can't be bothered to follow their own procedures, and screw you over. Unacceptable but, alas, fairly common when dealing with big companies.

The NDA is where it goes off the rails. He's entitled to that money, so why would they try to put conditions on it? I'm sure they're not thrilled to have him talking, but it's not like they have a choice in the matter. Once someone who is allowed to use their brains got involved, the result should have been a quick payment and an end to the saga.
Back in December, I was onboard a flight out of JFK, ready to go, when we were delayed. They said there was a delay in getting the plane fueled. When we finally got moving, over an hour late, there were dozens of planes ahead of us, waiting for a runway. Late at night on a monday.

When we finally turned onto the runway, and in the distance, I could see a 747 parked far away from everything else, surrounded by dozens of emergency vehicles. Turns out there was a credible bomb threat to an international flight, and they had made an emergency landing at JFK.

So, truth? Not hardly.
> It seems as if he is only trying to get paid for his damages and not even considering the damage and disruption to his neighbors (who unlike the host are wholly blameless in this manner).

I don't agree with this. Obviously, if a bystander's property was damaged, this would be true, however, the idea of being paid for a "disruption" is silly. It's called life and it's full of annoyances. I'd argue the people angling for compensation because they're annoyed probably fall into the jerk and freeloader category more than someone who is willing to forgo reimbursement for his damaged property in order to warn the public about a potential pitfall.
It's funny how I get down-modded for these comments, but no one ever has any actually productive things to say or counter with. All people want to do is whine and complain about MS's policies and actions lately, but suggest something productive and all they do is come up with excuses for why it can't ever work, and point out how these actions are perfectly sensible from MS's point of view (and their interest in making profit) and people get mad, as if somehow MS has some kind of responsibility to make them happy and act the way they think MS should. It's seriously dysfunctional behavior, at a societal level.
Rate limiters are fantastic for companies and developers starting to integrate with a new API. There's great comfort in knowing - no matter how badly I screw up I won't end up with a $10k+ bill at the end of the month.

The way most smart companies do it is totally sufficient. Low but reasonable entry-level rate limit with a simple support contact to get it lifted. Maybe you're not aware but that's the exact model that Twilio uses[0].

[0] - https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223183648-Sendi...
Speak for yourself. I'd rather have something high-quality and defect-free, rather than something slapped together by some tired and disinterested human.
VH-80: The World's First Bilateral Laser Distance Meter
Ask HN: How important is the bezzeless screen?
I was just mulling this over as I type this post on a Dell XPS 15 9560.

Samsung just recently announced their latest phone, the Galaxy S8. One of the touted features of this fancy schmancy phone is a nearly bezel-less screen. Dell's XPS line also features a similar engineering feat.

Ideally, we'd like a bezel-less screen to obtain that ever-so-slick design. As far as functionality is concerned, the bezel has done a marvelous job through the ages. What's the obbsession with the removal of the bezel? Is there something deeper about the bezel-less screen? Do we want to escape the feeling of being boxed in? What's life like after bezels? Won't the next bezel-less frontier for the screen be life, the universe, and everything?
Why on Earth would an oil change cost $2000, or even $400? Are these stealership prices or something? What keeps you from just changing the oil yourself in your garage? Surely a Lamborghini uses some standard oil like 5W-30 and some standard filter; it's not like they make their own oil and filters. And why would plugs cost $4000? Again, they surely don't make their own spark plugs, but instead get them from a vendor like NGK or Bosch, and are probably the exact same plugs used in various BMWs or something, which you can buy anywhere. Specialty parts, made specifically for that model (or for Lamborghinis in general), are of course going to be expensive because of limited supply, but the oil change thing really doesn't make sense, that just sounds like price-gouging.
I've never seen an autonomous vehicle drive with traffic before, let alone keep pace. Perhaps I simply haven't been keeping up with the latest advances in the technology, but this looks very cool.

It's mentioned in the video of course, but it's worth noting that there's still no way for the car to appropriately deal with heavy rain (or snow) obscuring the cameras.
>We have zero experience in building and living in actual offworld habitats.

It's too late to edit this, but I just want to qualify it: we have zero experience building and living in habitats on other celestial bodies. A small space station in low-Earth orbit within the Van Allen radiation-protection belts doesn't really count.
For those that say this is impossible, take a look at these slides from Dstillery, a major demand side advertising company:
https://www.matroid.com/scaledml/2017/claudia.pdf
Pay particular attention to slide #23, and also the following few slides, which shows the architecture of their data processing stack. They are deanonymizing most of what people do on the web, and they undoubtedly have a file on most all members of Congress. Part of the input to this model is the "anonymized" location data that mobile phone companies sell. If you already know where a person lives and works though, or simply have a few retail transactions with timestamps, you can deanonymize these location traces.
300ms was not unusual on a 56k modem, if my memory serves.
I would love to read through some of that. Would that be possible ?
Hacking and Making in the Himalayas
Rethinking Redux (and reducing its boilerplate)
Ugh...forgot to fix the title. Mod help? Should be: "How important is the bezel-less screen?"
$2 ARM Board Is a 32-bit Arduino with Debugging
Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor Graphics have been fighting it out in the EDA industry for decades. Synopsys and Cadence are the leaders of the pack. Synopsis has been the better stock over the last 7 years, however, Cadence has picked up well too.
Yes, I think it absolutely would happen. Incentive would still be there. People won't sit around idle just because they can't make a million times more money than their peers.
Right, looks like we're up to maybe 6 parameters. The claim was dozens which i take to mean at least 24, possibly 36 as the lower bound.
It almost seems ironic to me to run a personal privacy-protecting server in a cloud VM. If you assume that the "agencies" have access to the "clouds," whether directly through backdoors or through moles, don't you have to assume that they could crawl VMs, detect ones like this that are virtually identical, and automatically install rootkits in them? Or just monitor them by reading memory through the hypervisor? How would you even know if the hypervisor were compromised?
Company I used to work for did this. They held raises/bonuses down to the point we all knew we were underpaid. Entire software engineering team turned over in 18 months. They hired 1-2 year experienced developers replacing all of us who had 8-12 years experience at the company. Take a guess at how that department is doing now.
> The're VM's

They are definitely not VMs.

> But they're really, really efficient compared to VM's.

I think that the virtualisation CPU overhead is below 1%. Layered file systems are possible with virtual machines as well so disk space usage could be comparable.

What do you mean that they are "really, really efficient" ?
When you hit the point of saying "if I just work one more hour I'll solve this", remind yourself that working long hours is counter-productive. And remind yourself of all the times you came in to work in the morning and figured out the impossible problem from the day before in just 5 minutes.

(Long version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/02/24/go-home-already/)
> (Though you've also got me thinking about what equivalents to own information spreading out there are, epidemiologically.)

This seems like a really good question, actually. The disease model of information is quite effective, at least in terms of ideas like herd immunity, transmission rates, quarantine, etc.

But at the "patient zero" level it's quite strange, with personal information being a thing you know you have and don't want to spread unintentionally. It definitely changes some things compared to the standard model, though I think you have a point that you can invert things fairly effectively (i.e. 'hygeine' is to avoid spreading info, instead of contracting it).

I also wish there was more good writing on information hazards, which follow the epidemiology model almost precisely. So much of what's out there descends into Cthulu references or 'fake news' rants, rather than looking at the actual metaphors for things like "herd immunity".

(Surely someone has written an ironic essay about "vaccinating against anti-vax ideas"?)
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I've seen the same. To me it always came across as "Your chosen field of study bores me. What's the least amount of this thing which you've devoted your life to that I can learn without it affecting my future in any way? Please provide this in checklist form." Why would any prof respond positively to that?
Thanks for the link. On page three this book refers to "high school vector calculus." Who studied vector calculus in high school?
So more out-of-core stuff. Sweet, thank you!
The Instagram 30-tag limit seems to work well in practice.

Plus the most common tags are all over-saturated at this point, so including many of them reaches more bots than people.
Should we have two teams or twenty researching drugs? How should we prioritize them? Focus on a couple diseases that are extraordinarily hard technically, but impact a small number of highly sympathetic, photogenic victims as with rare childhood diseases? Or problems that treat low intensity pains that could also be treated with behavior change like heartburn drugs and Type II diabetes meds?

What should we do if we find out that a heart disease is ineffective at reducing heart attacks, but seems to help treat erectile dysfunction as was the case with Viagra? Do we divert funds to commercialize that "breakthrough" or redeploy those research dollars back to primary research on heart health?

"Big Pharma" might not be optimal, and I have eaten in their mahogany-paneled executive dining rooms so I know there are healthy profits. But at the end of the day, they have turned death sentences like Leukemia into highly curable conditions. Are there examples of similarly impactful breakthroughs coming out of centrally-planned economies? Until then, I'm happy to pay high insurance premiums and deductibles for methotrexate, vincristine, dexamethasone, and the dozen other drugs I give my daughter to keep her alive.
The abstract of this paper says:

Consistent with previous research, the flow of articles by collaborators into affected fields decreases precipitously after the death of a star scientist (relative to control fields). In contrast, we find that the flow of articles by non-collaborators increases by 8% on average.

I haven't read the paper, and maybe this is just completely wrong, but wouldn't we expect the number of published papers by non-collaborators to rise no matter what?

I mean, a star scientist is dead now. There are no more papers coming from that person. Of course other people's papers fill the gap. The number of journals didn't change. The number of articles in an issue of each journal didn't change. These journals need to get articles from someone.
I agree with you about doing one thing really well. A little off topic, but: I think DropBox is missing a revenue opportunity by not having a yearly package for something like $20/year, for perhaps 20 or 30 gigabytes. I am not a paying customer because my use is well within the free tier, but I would pay for a smaller package if it was available.
Yes, I did say I get that.
Humans do too much harm. Yes, the world is violent. That doesn't mean we can kill anything at will.
If you're working in ways that you feel are unethical then you're not successful by definition: you've failed at being true to yourself.
It doesn't take many full-time rentals to be pulled to make $500k, especially with the type of halo properties that AirBnB probably loves to list.

But who would also be a bit concerned after reading an article that AirBnB's damage guarantee wasn't followed through on in a clear and reasonable manner.