skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Jobs/Work

2. Most people don't like their jobs but suck it up. The 9-5 grind, climb-ladder, can't switch careers, lack of meaning, social pressure to have job. Getting laid off, searching new job, financial downsides of being unemployed

3. Restructure the job model/market (flexible choices, live comfortably, security)

Unengaged workers- Gallup poll on American workforce trends http://www.gallup.com/reports/199961/state-american-workplac...
Disagreed - i is distinct enough from l (if you look at the URL at all)
There's "not for performance-critical use", and then there's "why is it gobbling up all the RAM (~10GB) and make it impossible for me to do anything, when the entire data I fed it is several hundred MB."

Python frequently saunters into the second territory. Well, I guess there are tools available to profile memory usage and stuff, but if I had to spend that much effort tracking down memory issues, I might as well rewrite it in C++. (It doesn't help (or it helps?) that I'm much more comfortable with C++ than Python. YMMV.)
What about links on websites? Do you also not click those?
Indeed. Sorry for a brain fart.
Lots of good replies to this -- and some good links which I am going to follow. I appreciate the comments!

I appreciate this comment as well -- and indeed I will agree that my expectations are part of the problem.

I'm not actually doing 'performance critical' work -- but rather prototyping tasks -- the speed of my feedback cycle is the only thing that's performance sensitive within the context of my rant -- and this includes time to run the code and the time to debug it.

I should also acknowledge other (self-induced) problems including the need to run code on a remote server for extra hardware capability vs my pitiful laptop.

I should acknowledge that part of my frustration could come from my development process as from the inherent nature of the underlying tools themselves ... I've experimented with my process -- trying to find something that works for me and I've ended up with this hobbled kludge of tools:

- a script that re-runs rsync on file changes
- atom + hydrogen extension connected via ssh to a jupyter kernel_gateway
- some ssh terminals where I run longer running code from command line
- an sshfs mount of a remote directory on the server for viewing some output artifacts ...

Avoidable runtime errors after longish-running processing tasks are a very frustrating time-sync ...
Edit:

I didn't explain the Rosa Parks analogy fully, so here's my thought process:

1. Sometimes there are unjust laws or company policies

2. People have busy lives, and in general just go with the flow.

3. Putting a face and a concrete story to a policy is what really makes the general population realize the unjustness of a policy. Public uproar leads to market and political policy changes. Rosa Parks' story led to uproar and changes in a similar way that Dr. Dao's story has. United has already changed their law enforcement policy and crew booking policy. Delta upped their max amount for compensation. The situation was talked about in a presidential press conference, and by countless politicians. This wouldn't have happened without the public uproar, which wouldn't have happened if Dr Dao went peacefully. Future airline consumers now have more rights because of Dr Dao, and they should be thankful for his actions (I know I am).

I will clarify again, all analogies break down, and I am not comparing the magnitude of the injustices or the societal importance of the policy changes... just the general process. They do seem similar to me.
The status bar is completely worthless and unreliable from a security standpoint unless you disable javascript. javascript can intercept your click and navigate you anywhere it wants.
Uniqlo.
The current generation of solid state lidar uses silicon, because of the different wavelength.
Honestly, I wish rkt would get some more momentum. In my opinion it's superior to Docker.
Yes, very true. In case you've started a company and you're fumbling, think about the problems you've encountered in starting a company. Some of the major issues I faced which seemed to me should not be problems ended up being huge companies e.g. several years ago why we had to have our own email server to send confirmation emails (there were no email apis and it's non-trivial to set up an email server) or why it was a pain/unreliable to get a taxi. It's even mystifying why it's so expensive just to start a company...if you start with some kind of reasonable investment, legal fees are between $7500 to $25k.
Ahh but are you going to plenty of meetings? I think that's all that really counts.
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> China builds its technologies all by itself

Well, if you want to be technical about it: they are using Russian designs and got help from Russia.

Russian designs are also very reliable, which is why we use them ourselves.
> It generates enough structure to scale up to reasonable projects.

It generates stupidly deep structure because Java requires a stupidly deep structure.

> Every maven project puts its source in the same structure, with the result that you can jump into any project and know how its build will work and where to find the source.

Rust, Elixir and Erlang achieve this with tooling that is practically trivial to use. Without an IDE.

> Verbose is worth it for clarity, particularly in a file you edit rarely.

Being concise is a big factor in clarity.
Maybe with web standards (maybe, I'm not sure), but not the rest.

Just the fact that the address bar font is the same size as the rest of the UI gives me the impression that they didn't think it through. Downloading files has the same problem, it's relegated in a small button, while it's one of the main features.

The whole interface is one of the most unintuitive things I've ever used, considering how simple a browser can be in terms of functionality the user must access. I'll also never forget they they thought tabs on top didn't make sense (it's actually still an option you can change).

Chrome had search integrated in the address bar from version 1, every time I opened Firefox year after year and I saw that little separate input for searching I felt like using grandma's browser.

In terms of how pretty the UI is, Firefox 53—which just got released—looks better, but it took them years to get to where Chrome was back at version 1.

Syncing of bookmarks, settings, addons, passwords, tabs across devices etc. on Firefox is a lot less efficient.

From a technological point of view, it took them years to implement sandboxing, and they're still not done. If a tab misbehaves in Firefox it can take down the whole thing. Chrome had it right away.

I briefly tried switching to Firefox again a few months ago. Initially I tried fixing it via changing the interface via XUL, but the problems were too deep. I got very frustrated and went back to Chrome.
It's not uncommon that we get responses back from people we email about support renewals after the first year that indicate the software was never installed, and everyone who knew about it is no longer at the company.

I assume people must be buying stuff to use up excess budget at the end of fiscal years.
I feel people are being excessively cynical about this. The most valuable people often do a small amount of work but make very good decisions. Example: you can have a manager with clear, attainable goals and an excellent staff. Or you can have a manager with a poor team and changing goals. The latter manager may work harder but to less effect.

Sometimes people are really busy because they are doing a bad job.
I used to covet my friend's Dell due to the lack of bezel (after making fun of his laptop choices for years.)

Then - we got on a video call. To compensate for the bezel, the webcam is on the BOTTOM of the monitor... which meant looking up his nose.
Who can say what would have happenned long term? My assumption is that a true monopoly is not sustainable, but I could be wrong. I don't think the evidence is there that microsoft would remain king for long.
"they" refers to the business creating the software--extjs or docker.

It's viral, any connection whatsoever, not sure where they draw the line. GPL is just not enforced except when it comes to selling software licenses.
Mastodon will yield a more insular experience because it allows moderation to happen by a few people and, since they are effectively own your online identity once you have established presence on their server you are bound by their decisions. Once given that power it is extremely unlikely that any server admin, unless they are explicitly committed to free and open speech, will continue to allow dissent when it is so easy to control it.

This is effectively a repeat of the sub-reddit moderation scheme, but applied to a twitter like messaging platform. Go look around reddit for a general discussion forum where there is healthy tolerant community, outside of very specific limited topics where moderation is focused solely on keeping people on topic you will find moderators who have used their ability to create insulated echo chambers.
You'd think but apparently not always the case.
See this
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-21/health-dr...
(unless its lastpass)
I'm currently using Anki to memorise vocabulary for Indonesian. One thing I find enormously useful is to link the Indonesian word I'm trying to learn to an English (or even another Indonesian word) word I already know.

For example, here's how I remember the word for 'choose': In The Matrix, Neo has to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. Therefore the Indonesian word for 'choose' is 'pilih'.

To remember the word for 'page' I think of newspaper pages blowing in the local park. I already know the Indonesian word for 'park' is 'taman' so it then becomes very easy to remember that the word for 'page' is 'laman'.

Thus each word has a little mnemonic story associated with it. Eventually through repeated exposure to the word I don't need the story any more, but it's enormously useful in getting to that stage.
The consumers, no? They get inferior products. Who wins? Seems like its just people who want a piece of the pie, and do they deserve it? Doesn't seem like it.
Search for users is bad, but the data is indexed and that index is being used and sold behind the scenes all the time.
Those companies are running platforms. Not really a fair comparison.

Besides, I'm not literally saying there is no money in development tools. I'm saying that it's a difficult market.
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Sadly no note on how much that cost.
It's not about what you pay or who you pay. It's about what you get for what you pay.

Tax dollars are not burned — they are used to provide collective goods
that are beyond the reach of any individual and benefit everyone.

In the US I pay multiple taxes (federal, state, local, property, sales, etc.), then pay again to put 3 kids through college, then pay again for health insurance, then pay again for all the medical bills the insurer doesn't cover.

Our household income is about 4x the US median, and it looks like we'd be better off in "high tax" Sweden.

I can only imagine that households with lower incomes would benefit even more.
> faulty parking brakes from supplier

When the parts in its cars work well, does Tesla give the suppliers the credit? Tesla is very good at PR, if not parking brakes. The faulty parking break is from Tesla, not the supplier; Tesla is responsible for the car, including all parts from suppliers; it's Tesla's responsibility, technically and legally, to make sure the part works properly. Any engineer would (I hope) be embarrassed if it was suggested otherwise about their work product.

I would be ashamed to deliver something to a client and blame a supplier for a problem. It implies that I'm not in control and that worse, I don't understand that I should be in control and my fundamental responsibilities, and that I lack judgement. My client couldn't care less why my product has a problem; from their perspective it's my fault - which is true and exactly how I want them to think.

I'm sure the supplier could blame their suppliers, who could blame yet more.
Cormac McCarthy's point can be summarized in this sentence that he wrote in TFA

"...the inheritance of ideas remains something of a sticky issue. It is difficult to see them as anything other than acquired."

which is an interesting way of putting it. we are very comfortable discussing evolutionary history of body parts. what is language though? it doesn't really seem like a body part (though certain structures in the brain, as well as in the mouth and throat, are very important for language) and it does rather seem like an idea. you can teach someone English. you can't teach someone Left Arm.

and yet, language is inherited. babies learn it automatically just by being around it in the environment. that makes it something like a communicable "disease", actually. the language-as-virus metaphor is one that McCarthy referenced frequently in his discussion.

so what if it's not just a metaphor? what if it really is something transmitted through the environment and that certain kinds of animals become "infected" by it?

it's interesting to consider things like this specifically because of the absence of clear evidence that language is like any other physical trait that an animal might have. it's not like those traits. it's something different. something stranger. we don't really have a clear understanding of what exactly it is and so positions like McCarthy's are interested to consider. I don't think you should mistake his own coherence for misplaced confidence though. He isn't saying "it definitely didn't evolve". He isn't making any strong claims like that, as far as I can tell. He's just exploring the interesting differences between language and other things that mammals have/do.
It often takes more thought and effort to do things properly. This seems like another service that treats the symptoms of a problem rather than the problem itself. That kind of solution encourages careless behaviour, because someone will come behind me and clean it up. Encouraging best practices is a better investment.

>(also as a 2nd security layer)

Except when it's not.[1] That means it gives careless folks a false sense of security, which I think conveys more risk than no security at all.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14157870
We do that at work. Things get complicated with the latest-generation MBP of course - now we have the old MagSafe charger, ThinkPad chargers, USB C chargers, as well as HDMI, DP, and USB-C Thunderbolt video connectors.
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> Just because it took them a lot of effort to come up with the numbers doesn't make the end result copyrightable

You're bringing up a valid point - facts aren't copyrightable. And while I was talking about the bigger picture, I'd have to agree that this argument may be harder for the celebrity net worth site than others.

But

Compilations of facts are copyrightable, and a large amount of effort spent compiling the numbers does in fact strengthen their case. It's called the "sweat of the brow doctrine", and copyright cases have been decided in favor of people primarily due to their efforts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow

I speculate this doctrine does apply to sleuthing celebrity net worth from a variety of sources. But nobody knowns until it goes to court, and it depends on the quality of the lawyers as well as the nitty gritty details about how celebrity net worth gather their data.

Either way, the bigger picture is that regardless of whether the celeb site lives, there may a problem with the way Google is doing business.
Watch out there is mobile banking malware on Google Play Store
It's a belief based on historical data and personal experience. The "state" and it's blind followers have one of the highest death tolls attributable to it, that's an objective truth. It's fascinating that so many people are fine having their lives decided by others, under the illusion of "authority".

Let's bomb some more kids in the middle east for no reason, shall we?
Whys that? Is that an offensive thing to say? You seem to think I'm incapable of changing my mind, why? You don't know me, and you think you do. Unbecoming behavior.

EDIT: And downvotes, too? I've been insulted, and I don't take kindly too it, yet I deserve to be downvoted? Thats ridiculous.
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man those accusations against WhatsApp are quite big....any truth ?
Sorry - that was the only way to send the message if I remember correctly. It was like 25 years ago.
And at the same time some of our banks are exploring the sale of uninsured, sub prime residential mortgages.

http://business.financialpost.com/news/fp-street/rbc-explori...

The Canadian housing mantra was always we're different from the US because:

- you can't walk away from your mortgage like you can in the US

- Our banks hold onto the mortgages they write, especially the sub prime ones as they can't liquidate them so the banks are more careful about handing out these types of mortgages.

- most of our mortgages that are written are backed by the government

- due to not having a vast secondary market for mortgages and derivative products, we don't write that many sub prime mortgages.

This was all true around 2008, now, it's debatable but IMHO only point one is correct any more.
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From the image at the top of the article: "up to 200m range" and "35 degree vertical field of view".
Don't forget to factor that in lots of developing countries your salary will probably be a lot less too.

Edit: I feel like I should expand here. I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Rent is through the roof if you want to get two work in less than 1 hour. The goods are very expensive, everything is taxed 100% when imported, plus there are a lot of taxes added to the local products price.

I have a good salary for the place and even so, if my wife wasn't working we wouldn't be able to afford our two bedroom apartment within a 30 minute commute to the city center.
No kidding. I guess it has been awhile since I tried to look them up. Thanks!
You make a good point. It reminds me of the Legend of the Handyman's Invoice as described on Snopes:

Nikola Tesla visited Henry Ford at his factory, which was having some kind of difficulty. Ford asked Tesla if he could help identify the problem area. Tesla walked up to a wall of boilerplate and made a small X in chalk on one of the plates. Ford was thrilled, and told him to send an invoice.

The bill arrived, for $10,000. Ford asked for a breakdown. Tesla sent another invoice, indicating a $1 charge for marking the wall with an X, and $9,999 for knowing where to put it.
It does become zero sum when you consider they're all vying for similar ad dollars. For years, Twitter didn't mind being compared to Facebook because it meant higher valuations for potential growth and ad revenue. But playing that game meant it actually had to deliver on the growth and ad performance. Snapchat is interesting in that it appears to be going after more traditional brand/TV dollars, which is still evading the performant-oriented ad dollars on Facebook.

And both Twitter and Snapchat knew the game they were playing by raising so much venture capital at such high valuations. They could have stayed private longer, raised less at lower valuations and laser-focused on product and making nominal returns. But they chose to go the other route and that means they have to deliver on outsized profits eventually.
> Is their co-op apartment worth $2mm USD or something?

As expats in Sweden, they might not live in Wisconsin often enough for it to be considered their "primary residence" or homestead, and might have to pay a higher tax rate because of that.

I don't know about Wisconsin, but in Michigan if you can't claim primary residency exemption, your property taxes automatically jump up by roughly 50%
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Not knowing the difference isn't the same as preferring one because it's a buzzword.
220,000 cores of preemptible was about $2200/hr (I believe Drew is using n1-highcpu-32s).

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud, launched Preemptible (and approved Drew's quota requests!)
If you'd be willing to share, I'd love to read some high level bullets about your work.
drug-assisted weird things

Minor point - whilst Lynch's work certainly frequently looks like it was drug-assisted, Lynch is actually not at all a fan of drugs as a creativity aid:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/498489-we-all-want-expanded-...

He just has a remarkable vision and ability with the weird.
No, sci-fi is not "anything set in the future", which is why I didn't use the word "future" in my post at all. By that token, SF is also NOT "filled with blasters and droids and space battles"... that's space opera! ;)

It's true there are no clones in the first Dune book, but there is genetic engineering (that's what the Bene Gesserit breeding program is, after all). There is drug assisted navigation -- how else do you think the Guild Navigators manage to do it? That's a main plot point and why Arrakis and melange are so important. The mentats go beyond being "highly trained" people (they are the "human" response to computers after the Butlerian Jihad), and they claim the drugs they sip (called "sapho juice") assist them in their mental powers -- but if they were merely highly trained people, that would still be firmly within the realm of SF and outside Fantasy :) This is all from the first book, by the way.

Dune has plenty of SF, as myself and others have already mentioned.
I think he's actually right about the attacker being near you most of the time - compromising a data center is much harder than compromising a LAN most of the time.

However, he completely ignores the fact that some users may be sophisticated enough the handle the hard-fail scenarios mentioned. Well, I am. And so are many others. So what am I supposed to do if I want security and can handle hard-fails?

Not use Chrome seems to be the answer. Chrome fails to account for power users and developers who would rather have improved security and functionality.
I think you make a fair point, and I concede that my accusation is not airtight abstracted from this incident and industry. I don't know what the absolute dividing line to corporatism is. This is murky water.

I would say that calling Dr Dao a trespasser is stretching either the term or the truth. The actions of police vis-a-vis passengers are not dictated by just general laws (like trespassing) that govern everything. They a dictated by industry specific regulations & policies about what is & isn't OK for the passenger and/or airline to do. These regulations are implicitly and explicitly written around the business models of the airlines, in collaboration with them.

We could probably litigate the details of this incident incident at length along the lines you suggest, but I don't think you can ever find the smoking gun of corporatism in individual details. Corporatism is about the systemic.

Corporatism exists where corporate and state power are merged.

In this case, a tell tale sign is how confused commenters on this thread (and journalists) get about about what is airline policy and what is industry regulation.

For example, it turns out (I think) that the regulator sets maximum compensation for involuntary deboarding while airlines set their own max for voluntary deboarding. I imagine that most passengers, crew & airport police have as much trouble demarcating these as journalists do.

When the regulator sits down to try and prevent future incidents like this (maybe right now), they'll ask to see United's policies on involuntary deboarding. They might get United to revise the lottery policy. They might issue new guidelines. They might standardise deboarding policies banning lotteries. Or United might, it's hard to tell.
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