skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your impression that nothing ever happened does not align with the facts.

The project applied 2 years in a row, and mentored several students. Some developers mentored more than one student.

https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2014/orgs/openbs...
https://www.google-melange.com/archive/gsoc/2015/orgs/openbs...
Depends on design and cost. Your thinking of a vault. Vaults have a solid door (as described above) and essentially its layers of security. The other 5 sides sometimes are the weakest point, but will still take significant amounts of time to penetrate on any properly designed vault.

No point in putting an extremely expensive vault door in a room that's got just concrete and re-bar.

The other thing is to make it harder to access those other walls as opposed to the front where you can walk up to it.
I'm pretty surprised by the comments here on decorum and civility. The customer called the product a "piece of shit" - yes he used bad language, but he's criticising the product itself. An object. The rep. directly insulted the customer's character (saying he had "poor impulse control" and was throwing a "tantrum").

Is this another example of American tendencies to be extra sensitive about "profanity" or am I missing something? From my reading, the rep. was significantly more out of line even in his tone and message than the customer, even before he went and defacto-bricked the device in his own little tantrum.

The character assassination gets even more childish if you look at the customer's account:

> This user is suspended until Dec 28, 2019 3:37 am.

> Reason: attitude
You are so misinterpreting the world. There are people who only review when they are facing an issue, and if they are happy they think there's no need of review because they got what they paid for. I wouldn't judge a customer as having abusive nature even if he has 100% negative reviews..
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Everyone sells residency and citizenship. The list of desirable countries that don't is probably shorter than the list that do.

Latvia, for instance, is much cheaper and gets you into Schengen with an investor visa followed up by investor citizenship.
This is so contrastingly similar (yup, that's a phrase) with an equally thought provoking set of tweets notch put up a couple of months after selling minecraft:

"The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying, and human interaction becomes impossible due to imbalance.

In sweden, I will sit around and wait for my friends with jobs and families to have time to do shit, watching my reflection in the monitor

When we sold the company, the biggest effort went into making sure the employees got taken care of, and they all hate me now.

Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.

I would Musk and try to save the world, but that just exposes me to the same type of assholes that made me sell minecraft again

People who made sudden success are telling me this is normal and will pass. That's good to know! I guess I'll take a shower then!"

Really puts a light on the whole, money will make you happy spin that so many technologists seem to have fallen into.

References:

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637562496056995840

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637563038258868224

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637563226755067904

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637563481139638272

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637563733124980736

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637565210266570752

https://twitter.com/notch/status/637569407208849408
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Amazon, occasionally, but not always.

Also happened to me at least twice with Spreadshirt (but they don't really sell devices). Once the product clearly had a defect (part of the print was coming off), once I ordered it just too small.
Can you elaborate on this? If you bought something from me then I think you paid too much and you think that you paid too little. That's, like, how buying things works. I wouldn't sell it to you if I thought you were paying too little and you wouldn't buy it from me if you thought you were paying too much.
> touchscreen - no one uses this after day 2 or wants fingerprints on their screen

As a counterpoint: I've turned off the touchpad on my Surface pro 4 - and constantly touch non-touch screens when I'm helping others...

I rarely use a pointing device though - for example I use vimperator/vimium for web browsing and vi for editing (or vi keybindingings in vs code).

But I guess I agree that I don't want a touch screen without a great pen with at least some pressure sensitivity - drawing really is so much more fun and easy - both diagrams, notes and doodles.
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yea i really liked the tone. its tough not to piss people off when you complain about being rich, but he does it in the right way, not too melodramatic, and very matter of fact.
When I had a streaming website, featuring only embedded videos, we decided to put a form so that people could tell us if something was wrong. 90% of it was garbage:

- gibberish
- insults
- useless comment either empty of content or context
- people asking us to fix things that weren't broken, or weren't broken on our site

We didn't ban them. Instead, we extracted each useful information out of it:

- adding missing informations to guide people on the site
- adding features to remove frustrations from people
- adding filters to remove fake email addresses (dns lookup on the domain name) so that we spent only time on those who are expecting an answer

The client is not always right. And I don't try to be nice to rude people. But that doesn't mean you can't use rude people to improve your business.

And clearly, if you can't stomach the stupidity and nastiness of humanity, don't sell to the average human. It's like getting angry at mosquitoes because they bite you, it's the most useless reaction ever. Worst, those particular mosquitoes give you money and you are not allowed to kill them.

So either do your job professionally or leave. Leaving is a very sane option IMO. There is not reason you should live this experience if you don't want to if you have the choice.

Any person working in an affordable bar, restaurant or shop knows that. Because they often don't have the choice.
>Repeatedly this point comes up in all the new age money related philosophies

And that is not a huge red flag right there?
interestingly, your 200 ms are close to the 150 ms telephony standards regard as the maximum one way delay for good speech quality. Seems to be in our physiology..
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Surprised this is so far down. I'm here in the Bay Area because that's where the jobs are. I also don't particularly enjoy remote work, but I do like to take advantage of the occasional WFH day.
Where did you get these specs from? A survey?
It is relatively easy to get a software engineer job in Germany and couple of years later get a residency, so no, residencies are not the only reason people moved to Cyprus.
Spark is eating the MapReduce market. HDFS is still going strong.
"get by", seriously?

The median salary for London is £34,473 (2015 data).
Fair enough, but please tell them that before they enter a contract with you. Don't take their cash followed by not providing a service for reasons not stipulated before accepting the money.
This is because some of the developers have children. And it is not guaranteed that their children will take the same career path.
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> discrete graphics

Who needs this? It is the one thing I tell people to stay away from when they're shopping for hardware.

If you can get by with integrated graphics, do it. It saves energy and a whole lot of frustration. Stick with upstreamed drivers only if you want to keep your sanity.
I was having something like "The 4 hour workweek" in my mind when I was referring that. You can see this same point in different forms in that book.

Edit: Another tangential stuff is Paul Graham's essay on wealth - http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html. There he specifically mentions that money is not wealth, but something used to move wealth. But the point about there is no fixed wealth and we can always create more wealth, also looks similar to the above mentioned point to me.
Did you try Claws Mail for email? I have been using it for years and it is the best thing I ever used. Nothing comes close.
There is also Sypheed, of which Claws is a fork.
I consider both a 100 times better than Thunderbird.
>Why everyone hasn't switched to Google Docs/Sheets is beyond me.

Much slower, much less features (people might not use all 100% of Word, but the 20% they do use has a lot of non-overlapping features between them), files are totally necessary, and not all businesses/organizations want (or are even allowed by law) to give their data to Google.
> From the Government.

Because we shouldn't be protected from business interests when they get too powerful?
Many mobs in WoW absolutely DO run away, especially humans and murlocks.
Printing in Fedora sucks. Big time. And I use it as my desktop machine.

If I ever want to print anything apart from a website, I go straight to a Mac. The preview is realistic, it does a rotate when I tell it to, it fits the page when I want it to. Printing in Fedora has a life of its own: it takes minutes of troubleshooting and reprinting before I get near what I need.
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In fact because of thermodynamics over 100% efficient LEDs are possible. This was practically demonstrated some years ago: https://phys.org/news/2012-03-efficiency.html

Converting light to electricity on the other hand cannot reach 100% efficiency.
I very much doubt that Nesticle used dynarec. With games of the era requiring precise timings, a JIT would have been more trouble than it's worth. I can't find any source for Nesticle having a JIT compiler either. It was however very inaccurate, which may have contributed to it running faster than most of the emulators of the time.

Dynarec has mostly been used from the N64/PS1/Dreamcast generation and onwards.
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Deus ex was spectacular for this. There were so many ways to do each thing. Imo it is the best game ever made (for its time period).
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Hadoop certified engineer here. I think Hadoop is losing its popularity or from a different point of view, it got 90% of its potential market saturated and having trouble entering other markets. The biggest challenges are operational stability and performance, and the lack of understanding from the Hadoop companies about the performance characteristics of their system. On the top of that there is always 2 version of everything (Tez vs Impala, ORC vs Parquet, etc.) because HWX and Cloudera cannot really work together in an opensource fashion. On the top of everything there are better products on the market for different use cases for Hadoop. The following list is incomplete: Alluxio, Apache Beam, Apache Kudu. These systems trying to address some of the aforementioned shortcomings of Hadoop. There are other products like PrestoDB that take a slightly different approach to a particular problem (accessing data via SQL like interface) and mix it with a extra goodness (in memory caching) and delivering an entirely different customer experience. If you leave Hadoop land you can also play with Spark or Storm (depending on your use case). Now that Facebook uses Spark there is a good chance that an average use won't be running into scaling issues with it. I left out products from vendors that target the same customers as Hadoop vendors on purpose. There are plenty of closed source solutions that will leave Hadoop in the dust in almost every aspect of big data processing (performance, security, UI, stability, availability, etc.).
Well, there is a huge difference between Europe and the US/Mexico: most people don't have guns. You will rarely see anybody with a weapon here. If you get attacked, it will be with fists, sometime a knife. Having the possibility that somebody pulls a gun on you is crazy to me, like something that should only happen in a movie.
I agree

But "subscription model" for a garage opener is, sorry to say, stupid

Of the things in my home I want a garage opener to have pretty good reliability. I need a plan B if the power is out for a conventional one. I don't want to get locked out if I miss a payment (this is not like rent where these things are regulated and lack of payments are handled through actual notices)

Relying on the internet to open your garage is just naive.
You are probably not an Indian construction worker.
> You can still have deep games that are Quake-like, Half-Life being the canonical example.

Again, you're talking about the definition, not the thing. Half-life is very Quake-like in its mechanics (camera and controls), and not very Quake-like in its gameplay (exploration, puzzles, etc).

As such, saying something like "FPSes aren't deep" is more about terms than games. Whether you agree with it depends on whether you take "FPS" to mean Quake-like mechanics or Quake-like gameplay.

(Incidentally Deus Ex is first person. The newest ones have a hide-behind-cover feature that temporarily shows you in 3rd-person.)
Hmm ... maybe not. This is more or less similar to people like Musk, Jobs dreaming of doing something which might look like impossible for others (like starting a rocket company). In those cases, the central belief of people like Musk, Jobs is the prime reason for things happening, and the belief itself might be a limiting factor for other similar capable people in achieving what these guys have achieved.
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So ... just like the USA, then?
...and there's really not much comparison between a failed state in e.g. Europe vs Africa.
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It seems to me that in economic theory, capital should move around and people should stay at places. It would be rational and also it makes sense from human perspective (you're close to your family, you don't have to deal with the logistics of moving etc.).

However, in economic reality, quite the opposite is often true. Capital doesn't flow into underdeveloped regions even if they contain great talent. And people try to migrate, in fact so much that some think it's actually a threat.

Ha-Joon Chang's "23 Things about Capitalism" has a great chapter on capital not being that international (that is, interchangeable) as people typically think.
Best reply this far.
Huh. Actually, I would bet money on that kinda working, if you could actually convince him?

Remember when that one guy in New York, I think it was, gave a homeless guy a deal: money now, or programming lessons - and they made an app, and the app made money... that the guy couldn't collect because he couldn't get a bank account because he couldn't Deal with going into the government offices to get an identity?

Or that thing that happens when you give someone who's been homeless for awhile an apartment and they camp out in the apartment like they were still on the street?

It's like... min(x, y, z). It makes sense that belief does not get you money, but it also makes sense the lack of belief leads to lack of money.

I'm not saying that everyone is in that boat. That is definitely not the case. But I would say that most people are in that boat.

There's also a big difference in if the boat has three off-board motors and a Jacuzzi, or paddle... But if you don't believe there's someplace worth going that you can get to...?
Is not the developers, is the business that attracts developers there.

You cannot run a business from everywhere and have all the connections totally non personal. Is not working. So you must have the business in that locations, or you don't succeed. Then the developers come. And later they want to have their own businesses too. And need the connection, have a dinner with an investor, etc.

It feels like a fission reaction out of control, start-up acceleration programs made it into a real explosion.
Oh give me a break. The primary rule for being an adult: do not take on debt you may not be able to reliably pay back. No lender owes any borrower favors to help with their debt. If you can't afford the debt, don't borrow it. Debt isn't some magical tool to obtain free money. You're taking money from someone, with a straightforward contract to pay it back. If you can't pay it back, you shouldn't be borrowing.

The level of entitlement people have when borrowing money is insane. You're not borrowing from a family member that can be manipulated into forgiving you for being a freeloader who never pays back. Every single loan and line of credit is a serious matter - stop treating it like an externality where you get money now, completely pushing the eventuality of paying it back as "something that will magically happen". You need a plan to pay back debt. If you do not have an actionable plan to pay off debt, you have no business taking it on to begin with.

Why is debt considered "normal" in the 21st century? People are living beyond their means, trying to offload the blame on lenders, while the real fault lies entirely with the borrowers. Far too many people think that loans are just fake numbers on paper or a digital screen. No, loans are real money that you need to account for. Debt is not abstract concept that can be willed away.
No it isn't. It's a huge nightmare and this is why even current and former Mexican Presidents are calling for legalization - despite pressure from the U.S. against it.

https://qz.com/874497/mexico-is-moving-toward-medical-mariju...
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> Not designing an IoT product in the first place seems to me the right way to avoid this issue

Unfortunately there is demand for these products and companies will always fill that demand if there is money to be made.

If users want to control things in their house remotely, the commands need to be routed through a server one way or another. This is a matter of convenience and I'm sure most users would purchase a product they can control remotely vs. one they can only control on their home network.

> the only option is a distributed and/or federated network

What would a distributed network for this sort of product look like?
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