skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an unvoiced logic here that I question.

The contention is that a CEO saves $x million, and thereby 'earns' some [preposterous] fraction thereof, as a finders' fee.

This is a similar logic to a broker taking a percentage of a large market transaction.

That part I disagree with and think many upset about CEO compensation (or market speculators/industry windfalls) is that this is earning in any meaningful way.

In particular, the presumption that there is some intrinsic relationship between the compensation earned and the numbers transacted seems baseless.

The CEO and market trader alike do not provide the value; they are simply in a desk where the numbers are large.

The reason a CEO can 'save millions or make billions' is merely because they have been seated where their quotidian decisions (however talented) have disproportionate leverage and consequence.

That is not a result of ability or skill, except in the unconvincing sense that they had the skill to weasel (my word) their way into that desk, nominally on personal merit, in fact, usually by virtue of connection and political merit.

That sort of 'earning' does not pass the smell test for most of us who have not lucked into those seats, and never shall.
You can solve that by buying a trusted brand.

Everything you just said applies to normal power adapters (USB or not) the issue is that USB-C is newer so less market saturation of quality, cheap, goods.

It'll happen - until then go with already proven products in the market.
Bingo. Tons of money can't buy you the home run, but it can buy you a stronger bat, a slower pitch, and as many swings as you need to hit that home run.
There's a somewhat fair way of adjudicating this discussion, where the truth is obviously neither "highway robbery" nor "best deal ever", and that's the Mac App store.

Mac developers are free to choose distribution via the App store, or to roll their own and not pay a cent to Apple.

I don't have any numbers (and I'd guess very few people do), but I'd guess that the majority of developers is still in the App store, even though there were a few high-profile defections. OTOH, the Mac app store may be <50% in total revenue because the really expensive stuff is usually distributed independently (Adobe, for example, is big enough not to need the platform).

So right now I'd say most iOS developers are probably still getting a positive return on investment. Although that doesn't mean that it's a completely fair price–Apple is probably getting the lion's share of the App Store's value.
Only thing I can think of is that they've been granted some extremely broad patents on the general idea of IoT-based food processing.
Sounds like business plans I can get behind. I find it hard to believe the large-scale goals that are common in SV.
Also, you can look forward to the day when apple raises it's tax from 30% to 50%. I suspect this is coming. They're certainly powerful enough to pull it off. Developers won't like it but there's nothing devs can really do about it.
The form I usually use is (cd TARGET && COMMAND), including the parentheses to make it a subshell. That seems close enough to not be worth adding features to something as simple as cd, given the basic shell philosophy of composability.
But a 3 years old $3000 computer won't have been obsoleted by software updates (the OP contention). So... that won't be an issue.
Actually the primary source - at least for this article - is the latest episode of STEAL THIS SHOW: https://stealthisshow.com/s02e14. The interview has some detail on when he'll start the enterprise et cetera.

We also go into the pre-history of BitTorrent at Mojo Nation.
The cities of the future are people-friendly cities
"There must have been insistence that the pack must be crushed between two flat plates."

Either it was intentional, or somebody didn't realize that you could do things much cheaper by pinching between rollers and applying a more limited force over a longer time. I would think the result is pretty much the same.
Sure. But it means I can write device drivers up to a single page application UI.
How Denmark became a cycling nation
Why not just charge a fair price for their service? And why is this such a novel concept?

It's offensive for a company to a) be involved in shady data practices like this and b) for them to believe their customers are naive enough to fall for it.
whether the corporate rate will also apply to pass-through entities is still an open question. most news articles about this topic just ignore this very important detail. the more tax-oriented sources however discuss the vagueness openly:

- http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/will-new-trump-tax-...
- http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/22/trump-could-gain-the-most-fro...
- https://taxfoundation.org/details-analysis-donald-trump-tax-...
I'm 50 and still writing new code and launching new apps. In fact, I've probably release more apps in the last 5 years that I did in my previous 25+ years of programming (started when I was about 18).

While I concur that I am not as energetic as I used to be in my 20's and 30's - i.e. I cannot do non stop 12 hour code marathons etc., I think my code these days is a lot more disciplined and well thought out, and better organised.

I will happily spend time to look at the latest and greatest bleeding edge technology or framework, but when it comes time to write 'money code', I usually fall back on tech that has been around for 5+ years.

My passion for coding has not diminished - I am still excited every time I sit down at the keyboard. As long as I feel that, I will keep coding or working around software.
This is the answer. Everyone wanted to make "... but on the Internet" because there was money in it. Then everyone wanted to make "Facebook, but for..." because they could get money. Now everyone wants to make cryptocurrency or do blockchain stuff because people are still willing to spend money on it.

It's the hot new thing, there's a frontrunner but not an established winner, and investors are still willing to give people money for it.
Pah, "complex" is just latin for "put together". Take it apart, divide and rule.
Nope. I doubt the drivers have a case. I mean, the public can see them, so there is no expectation of privacy whatsoever.

Lyft, itself, on the other hand, has a much better case against Uber
Using all those CNC milled parts is simply crazy. CNC is for prototypes, small runs, super specialised load characteristics or runs of parts that are practically impossible to make otherwise. This use does not tick any of those boxes.
》The result is that a startling 100% of CEOs report that they suffer from stress and, according to research by Apollo Life, one in four say they struggle with insomnia. Many multinationals have launched expensive well-being programmes in response, but these just wallpaper over the core problem: CEOs unnecessarily carry the full weight of company performance on their shoulders.

It is the job and responsibility of the CEO to delegate so that decisions can be made elsewhere.
I mean, I'm not entirely sure that moving from millions of small gas/diesel generators (which is, functionally, what modern cars are) to using the grid should be bashed because the current grid can't support it. That seems like a fully general argument against change.

For instance, no one claims you shouldn't vote because, if everyone voted, then Americans would have intolerable wait times at polling places (they wouldn't handle that volume). It's true, but I think the expectation is that we'd expand capacity. At least power generation (unlike voting) is done for profit, so I don't see the concern.
Industrial control components, from what I can tell, are a way to slap together something that works really reliably, at rather high cost, but with lower development time and engineering costs.

So if it costs you $5-10k to build a washing machine with such components, that's not really a bad deal, because how much does it cost to engineer a modern washing machine? A lot more than that.

For these street toilets, the question is: how many toilets are there? If it isn't a large enough amount, the engineering cost to develop something with a lower per-unit cost won't be worth it.
Python's regex library compiles the regex to a sequence of opcodes and then does recursive descent, so yes, it's exponential.
You're ignoring that the treasure is dynamic. If I can have 50% of $1 today or 20% of $10 tomorrow, a leader who can produce the second outcome is preferable to one who'll simply distribute à la the first.
There is something weird about the tactics of Uber execs. I don't think it's all an ethics failure.

A lot of the lying and cheating they do seems like an objectively poor risk/reward proposition and I think many companies would not even get to the ethics question because they would stop when realizing the ideas are stupid when you add up the negatives.

Stealing Google's autonomous auto IP could be a crime that actually moves the needle for the company (if it turns out they are guilty), so I guess they at least had significant upside with that one.
Author here. This repo got popular before I had a chance to write README and organize code. I am going to make the code more consistent, add tests, and write brief tutorials by the following month. Please let me know if you have suggestions.
Fresh-squeezed juice tastes better because you don't have to do all the things that need to be done to make juice safe to ship long distances. The idea that this super-expensive way of getting juice "damages the nutrients less" is a bunch of ridiculous hokum, and I'm betting if you got fresh orange juice that wasn't cold-pressed you wouldn't notice a 3X difference between it and cold-pressed.
God view is a fairly common term though in many products. Nothing innovative from Uber in that usage
> Wouldn't apply to S-corps

see my post above - at times trump has stated that this _would_ apply to pass-through entities (s-corps, sole proprietorships and LLCs). at the moment however, this point remains unclear.
> describing the author of the first article I wrote as an "NRA spokesman"

Go read the 1,000 articles Richard Feldman wrote for the NRA and his own gun lobbying group.

> "Vigilante Mobilization and Local Order: Evidence from Mexico"

Comparing current conditions in America with the Cristero Rebellion or the Mexico drug war is odd. I argue we're not there yet.

What I really wanted from you is evidence that Goetz shooting people on the NYC subway resulted in lower crime rates.

> Also I note that you're pushing back against my statement regarding things being swept under the rug (e.g., your statements about "somehow" this making it to the news).

You were claiming BART was deliberately not informing the public about the robbery incident, just like Richard Feldman was claiming that the NYC subway system was deliberately not informing riders that crime plummeted because of the Goetz shooting.

I argue that BART was not withholding details of the shooting. As evidence of this, I maintain that there are tons of newspaper articles about the robbery out there. If BART was suppressing the incident, they're not doing a very good job of it.

> Did you also notice that the link to this article is gone from the HN front page?

No I don't pay attention.

> My intuition is that the public in general is going to turn a blind eye to this topic

We're all talking about it!
> but the article didn't say why it didn't open, which means it could very well have been due to a cause that would cause all other car doors to also fail to open (namely, the frame bending).

The article states that the rear-seat occupants "managed to exit through the front door" -- with no mention of any problems with opening the front doors. I think this means that the front doors opened just fine; likely due to the reinforcements around the doors/pillars, as shown on page 19 of http://assets.teslastatic.com/2016_Model_X_Emergency_Respons... doing their job.
WikiTribune – Evidence-based journalism
Rollers I don't think work right if you're squeezing intact, whole vegetables. But of course, these Juicero packets don't have intact, whole vegetables in them at all (proven by the ability for people to squeeze them out by hand).
This is happening; Cloudsmash - Decentralized VPS Cloud Open To The Public

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1869603
Windows 10 Data Collection
Have any of you looked into the windows 10 data collection that Microsoft performs?

Even though I have opted out of data collection and the user experience stuff, using fiddler I see regular json HTTP POST calls to microsoft.com and bing.com with a list of running processes, and list of installed applications, and some other information.

It appears to be the "searchui" process that's doing this.

One of the URLs it sends the HTTP POST request to is https://www.bing.com/threshold/xls.aspx
Lots of metadata being sent, stuff like:

"{removed UUID}\BurpSuitePro\BurpSuitePro.exe","DName":"Burp Suite Professional","LAD":"2017-04-18T18:34:22.590Z","AppLnch":22,"Args":0,"MDN":0,"Ext":".exe"}

"System.ParsingName","Id":"Microsoft.Office.lync.exe.15","DName":"Skype for Business 2016","LAD":"2017-04-20T12:02:11.691Z"
"System.ParsingName","Id":"{removed UUID}\Microsoft Office\Office15\lync.exe","DName":"Skype for Business 2015","LAD":"2017-01-24T21:49:26.227Z"

Id":"{removed UUID}\Wireshark\Wireshark-gtk.exe","DName":"Wireshark Legacy","LAD":"2017-04-18T02:13:47.773Z","AppLnch":0,"Args":0,"MDN":0,"Ext":".exe"}
Free apps must, just like paid apps, still get reviewed by human Apple employees on every release, which (I would assume) is a far greater cost than distribution, and might heavily outweigh the $99 charge in the case of complex free apps like Facebook or Chrome.
Principal is not normal.
Seems to be overloaded right now, but I found their campaign video via search in Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/214586867
That's interesting, can you provide a reference for NBOMEs having to be taken sublingually to have an effect?
Is there a separate lawsuit from Lyft Inc., or is the sole lawsuit originating as a class action filed on the behalf of the driver(s)?

It would seem to me that the Lyft company has the strongest case here against Uber based on a violation of the terms of service for the private API that Uber abused.

If Lyft were successful in their lawsuit, that would lend confidence to a follow-on suit by drivers.
How about moving gigabytes of data that underlie the application? The egress cost is not that low. The access latency is utterly important. Raw computing power on small amounts of data has a limited applicability.
I will answer you simply and I hope concisely. Most industries have an incredibly high barrier to entry: if you woke up tomorrow wanting to sell heavy farm equipment, you felt this is what you were on this planet to do, the chances that you would be selling heavy farm equipment 12 months later is less than 0.0005%.

As such under natural conditions there are few competitors in most industries. This is natural.

When incumbents apply even a modicium of "stop competitors" sauce, what had been "nearly impossible" can become "impossible." One of many, many examples of this would be dropping prices until new competitors are out of business.

For a lot of further examples that might expand your thinking but which don't for the most part apply to Uber, look up Monopoly behaviors.

But in short, with very good reason, what modern society has determined is that with regard to raising barriers of entry against potential competitors, the only fair thing to do is to completely ignore them.

Responding to them even minimally, such as dropping your prices until they're dead, is not considered in the interests of society over the long term. For similar (though not exactly the same) reasons, it is considered standard practice not to have a single strategic meeting with all of the direct competitors in the room, such as regarding pricing or other strategic aspects.

Again, what society has determined is that competitors need to, largely, ignore each other, and operate with respect to the market as though their competition did not exist.

I'm no professor, but since your question seems in earnest, after Googling the concepts I've mentioned please let me know if you are still of the same opinion as when you wrote your comment.
IQ tests were common in recruiting for corporate America back then. Unfortunately they were ruled as discriminatory so everyone shifted to signaling with credentials from top universities which is much worse IMO.
Austin, Texas
>With all due respect, you are responsible for how much you get paid.

That's fine, but if I'm maximizing my pay for the effort spent, I'm just going to screw companies as hard as I can by charging them a ton of money while doing very little for them as a contractor. As much as you'd think the market would remove people like this from the industry, it isn't happening.

I could join up as a fulltime employee for 6 months only to find out they don't actually want to change anything (despite lying to my face in the interview) and increase value because they're a shitty non-profit, which means I won't get rewarded for putting ideas forth. WHERE IS MY RECOURSE FOR WASTING 6 MONTHS OF MY LIFE?!
Just got hit by this. Everybody in my team was using HipChat as a primary online communication tool. So, was nice to see nobody in the room for a while.

Fine, but I wonder why they didn't reset the API tokens while resetting password immediately. Are they managed by the different servers/services?
Again, this perfectly illustrates the attitude of white Californian liberals.

I didn't once advocate for, or even once mention, guns in this situation (obviously shooting at a crowd of people on a busy train is an absolutely terrible idea for a whopping number of reasons) - but now I - a person you have never interacted with previously - am a "selfish, cowardly sociopath" for simply explaining the attitude that accepts the fact that, as you put it, "robbery happens", that it is better to let 50 teenage gang members assault and rob a train full of passengers than to threaten a single one of them.

In fact, I never even actually disagreed with you! I'm just trying to explain to any other Europeans reading this the context of how your comments could possibly make sense, because outside of the Bay Area bubble, they seem quite shockingly absurd.
I'm a European founder as well. You certainly have extra options with your status; however, one option you seem to be dismissing is simply not to move.

Silicon Valley is extremely expensive. You'll burn through a large chunk of your $100k on moving costs and rent and waste a ton of time -- Changing your home continent takes several weeks of preparation and can take several more weeks of toll in energy and post-move management).

IMHO, from your post it doesn't sound like you have the cash to afford this and found your startup. Don't do it; you don't have to, that'll give you a huge advantage.
the value of 51% is something I failed to understand , wouldn't the attack also works even the attacker has less than 50%, but bigger than any other individual miner? for example if there are 3 miners in total, A has 40%, B and C has 30% each, wouldn't A still able to write a longer chain faster than B or C?
On the tax side, we neither have control over whether to pay taxes nor how it is spent, so that's not a reasonable example.
getting the square root of x from k-1 squarings means
(x^(2^(k-1))) ^ 2 = x, or x^(2^k) = x.
so x has multiplicative order (2^k)-1, which is the
order of GF(2^k) under multiplication.
> Why I said you were moving the goalposts

I wasn't moving the goalposts. I was pointing out that you were trying to argue for an untenable solution to a problem without actually having evidence that that was the real problem in the first place.
How is it actionable? Uber is under no obligation to give any driver rides. Favoring ones with a better BATNA is just good business.
Ditto! Could not have said it better.

me, 51yo, system administrator.

Grew up marvelling at Apple Writer knowing that a guy wrote it in a cabin in the woods.

Sir, you were (and still are) a great inspiration !
I'm 100% certain that you're absolutely right. Yet, I'm not aware of any way to use a lethal firearm in a capacity to stop in a way that is in some important and practical manner distinct from stopping a person lethally. I'm sure this is just a failure on my part to comprehend your point. Can you clarify, to help me with my personal failures? Perhaps you could detail what you mean about how police are trained in civilized countries?

Perhaps what you meant to communicate is that weapons other than inherently lethal firearms should be deployed?
I haven't done it, but you can get a B1 visa which gives you 6 months entry into the United States. http://www.ustraveldocs.com/au/au-niv-typeb1b2.asp

This gives you some time to figure out if Silicon Valley is the right move for you, and to help you grow your business in the US. However, it is a temporary visa, so the expectation is that you would return to the EU after it expires. I'm sure many people use the 6 months to find a way to stay in the US.
"Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors ?

Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill ?

So many reports.

So many questions."

https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/brecht/
In theory, sure. But, anyone who has run a pass-through business will tell you that it's a function of timing. If you don't manage to invest it all by the end of the tax year, then it's taxable profit.

And, it's nearly impossible to zero out your net by reinvesting it all before some contrived deadline. Even if you could, it is very unlikely that allowing this artificial timeline to drive your investment also happens to represent the best timing or the most efficient allocation of capital.
Try the New button
I had the same problem as OP. I fixed it by eating most of a small can of peanut butter a day, and working out (lifting, not a lot of cardio) 4-5 times a week.
> Alternatively, they are sane enthusiasts who enjoy using and taxing state of the art hardware

If you're complaining about the "Apple tax" of hardware in a thread about Apple taking 30% off the top of an App Store sale, then it stands to reason that you're talking about using that hardware to build applications that would be hit by the first. But even if you overlook the "sail into a topic and go grind that axe" non sequitur of it, the complaint here was that software was being "upgraded" to the point where it no longer suffices for "normal daily functions"--which is kinda silly, Sierra is about as performant on my older MBP (a 2011 midrange one) as OS X ever was even if applications running on it have gotten more grabby, but that's not Apple's fault either.

(But to be clear: gaming? Hey, that's totally fine. I keep a moderately recent gaming rig, myself. But I don't then turn around and complain about the "tax" of my own choices, because that would be transcendentally dumb.)
Makeup Lamps: Live Augmentation of Human Faces via Projection
How about an Erlang unikernel with its relup functionality, running under a VM with the ability to hibernate to disk? That gives you nearly the same set of benefits as Smalltalk, without being nearly as "fossilized."
Fat storage and retrieval (2007)
And countries. There are currently no real alternatives in Mexico.
> Why do people pay taxes, that are used to fund immoral actions? ... Typically, the answer is money.

That seems like a stretch; people pay their taxes because they don't want to go to prison, not because of money. If anything, money would be an incentive not to pay your taxes, so it seems obvious that there's something stronger than money at play there.
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