skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, while Flickr would never be Facebook, they could have been Instagram.

Turns out people still like to snap pictures and post them online in 2017. And they don't care that much about quality.

If people cared about quality, vimeo would be bigger than youtube. It isn't.
> The "always pass on the left and never on the right" seemed like it led to more systematic and predictable behaviors, and also tremendously reduced the competitiveness of the driving experience as compared to the U.S.

Isn't that a thing in the U.S. as well? At least where I'm from (the northeast), passing someone on the right generally gets you a loud honk on the horn and occasionally a flip-off.
> it should seem surprising that borrowing money to put it into real estate will help the economy to recover

Usually that's right. Since there were a ton of MBS (and CDO's etc) based on real estate, there was a lot of incentive for money to flow to individuals and reverse the crash.

Now that the banks have delevered, a crash in real estate would not be the systemic event it was in 2008. Of course, the bagholders would be those holding the assets.
Providing eyeglasses reduces the selective pressure for good eyesight.
Germany has had flat land prices in real terms for a long time because they have many small banks who are issuing against productive endeavor first and foremost. Hence Germany as an industrial superpower. They also make it easy to procure land to build on to avoid the artificial scarcity used to drive up prices.

These are all understood problems.
> Google would rather buy a company with 1m free users than a company with 10k paid users paying 100usd each.

Absolutely. This is why you have companies who have not proven to have a profitable business model, yet they are valued far higher than your small, bootstrapped startup. This is one more angle to look at it. I can happily claim that my tiny little bootstrapped startup is actually more profitable than Twitter :)
In most states, it's illegal to braid hair without a license.

http://braidingfreedom.com/
I think the police departments get those from the federal government for free [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1033_program
Brett Favre and Peyton Manning are the only quarterbacks to have beaten all 32 NFL teams.
That's ... quite an assumption.
Speed limits are about all I ever see the police enforcing, which is yet another reason to do away with them or raise them.
One of the consequences of the authorities in the US tacitly accepting normal traffic to flow at speeds considerably above the posted maxima is that they could, if they choose to, pull over almost any of the drivers without there being pesky issue with whether there was a valid reason to do so.
The pinboard bookmarklet seems to work for me in Firefox on almost every site except Github (where the CSP blocks it).
It is likewise quite easy to throw a rock on the highway from a bridge. What you are really worrying about is new creative ways to kill and destroy.

Yes, hostile input will have to be taken into account. Fortunately, this is easily detectable (just look at the logs). And if people die as the result, it will count as murder. Finally, one does not simply jam sensors from across the planet. You need a physical presence on site, and that's riskier than a remote hack.
My favorite are the 7.5mph, 14mph, and other odd increments ment to convey percision, while we just ballpark most slow speed limits. Reminds me of the guy who set all his meetings at exactly 7 minutes after the hour to convey promptness.
Considering how many laptops I've seen broken after going through checked-in luggage, it's annoying enough that I suspect you would lose a lot of people on that flight if you told them you had to check in the laptop.
government and law trumping math and science. It saddens me.
I think that's a great parallel. I didn't even think about inhaling them. I was thinking more about just the breakdown of the product they're in, and it eventually ending up in the water system.
That's solving the wrong problem. We want to keep the roads safe and fine drivers that drive at an unsafe speed. Since speed limits are not tied to the safe speed in most cases then you are just fining people in a way that does nothing to help society.

You need to fix the core speed limit problem before fully enforcing the limits.
The biggest problem is following distance... 100mph is safe on the highway if you have enough distance to safely stop
Yeah, for now. I'll eventually add some way to pass in custom classes or something.
https://www.amazon.com/Progress-Poverty-Industrial-Depressio...

It's a fantastic read. Great author. Great person. Once you see his ideas you will view our "economy" utterly differently and IMHO for the better.
MWC 2017 focus in graphene uses and 5G
There's so much irrational hatred here it makes me wonder if having a real conversation is a hopeless endeavor, but here's to hoping...

'Good' CEO's deserve expensive exit packages EVEN if they fail.

The expected value of a company under the leadership of a 'good' CEO and an 'average' CEO is substantial.

In the absence of alternatives, the board of directors should be willing to compensate the good CEO up to the difference in these expected values. Let's call this difference EVdiff.

The final negotiated contract value depends on the alternatives 'good' CEO and company have available to them. Because there are so few 'good CEO candidates, the two parties often arrive at a fair, final contract value (CV) that is a large fraction of EVdiff.

Once the company and CEO have arrived at a contract value (CV), they must negotiate whether this compensation will be paid on a performance basis.

The company's rational preference is to make compensation 100% performance based because it will lead to better performance. I.e. 'Good' CEO only gets paid if they succeed, and the amount they get paid in those success outcomes is CV divided by risk

The 'good' CEO's rational preference is to get paid CV regardless of outcome because volatility is bad for the individual.

The parties end up negotiating a fair outcome that falls somewhere in between. Because EVdiff is so large in public companies, this usually means a hefty payment even in the failure scenarios. However, what's critical to understand is that this is FAIR as long as the expected value of the contract (as a whole) is equal to or less than CV.

Running a company is inherently risky. You can't judge the fairness of a CEO's exit package based on just the end result.

Whether an exit package is 'fair' requires an understanding of the TOTAL expected value of the CEO's negotiated contract, and whether that TOTAL expected value was less than the added value that CEO brought to the table compared to their best alternative.

Defined in that manner, was MM's exit package 'fair'? Nobody in the public has enough information to answer that. We need to know what her entire package looked like, what other candidates the CEO's were considering, what those candidates negotiated packages would have looked like, and how their performance would have differed. The last point (on performance) is the part that I am most skeptical of any public bystander being able to judge accurately. The vast majority of us (myself included) don't know what it takes to be a public CEO. Heck, I doubt most of us would even be able to accurately guess what their material day-to-day work looks like.
Section 8 is only 8% of people in nyc.
Is there a standard for "real-world conditions"? I could easily see Waymo driving their cars up and down the highway near their headquarters for 50 million miles and calling that "real world".
> So that would point to Feynman's calculus book being "Calculus for the Practical Man" by J.E.Thompson rather than Silvanus P Thompson's "Calculus Made Easy", whose second edition came out in 1914. I would not be surprised that Feynman read and used both.

It's just that the quote on fools is very prominent in the beginning of Calculus Made Easy, and the author continues to hilariously refer to both other people and himself as fools. I searched inside Calculus for the Practical Man [1] on archive.org for the word "fool" without a single hit.

I'm sure Feynman read both, but I was interested in the origin of the quote, since I learned it a few days ago and think it's very inspirational. Feynman was constantly arguing that everyone has the capacity to figure things out, it's just that they rarely practice it.

[1] https://archive.org/details/calulusforthepra000526mbp
Nope, I'm good, thanks.

Fortunately the cops in CA don't share your opinion.
The focus on simplifying language reminds me of "Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity In Words of Four Letters or Less"

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
Linux on the Web (Hint: '$ import fs; import gui;')
Make sure it comes after a few rigorous lectures and exercises on requirements and specifications. I presume from the name of the course that there is already at least some emphasis on that.

If not students will conclude that writing the spec. and debugging the program are simply equal valued steps in a stepwise refinement process. Of course it sometimes is that way and can be no other, but generally it is better to think first and act afterwards.
I don't really buy this argument. Most of he stuff I own is sitting idle 95% of the time (except for computer I guess ;) and it is similar with other people I know. The outcome will depend on many factors, including cost of the car, the secondary functions it will get and similar (will it become an extension of our living space?).
No. Lawyers often develop their professional profile by writing introductory or analytical articles on legal topics to establish their professional competence to the interested public.

If you say you are a member of a profession and are not obviously fake, most people will take that assertion at face value, and take any of your comments on that subject as truth. Not enforcing licensing requirements is basically an invitation to scammers.
Thank you for enlightening me about Georgism.
> Why can't people just build products and ask for money upfront?

They can.

You just don't hear about them.

They tend to die fast.

Apart from app.net. That one got good publicity before it too died.
That's why you set it to the 85th percentile speed, as the article explains, rather than picking some arbitrary speed and expecting everyone to go at that speed.
> Microsoft does deserve some blame for deciding to support backwards-compatibility in-situ instead of introducing proper API versioning, packaging, isolation, and other proven techniques.

They did, in Windows 8. It is called Metro/Modern/UWP. Everyone hates it.
Because in the early days cars were not traveling at lethal speeds. Collisions are very rarely fatal to people being hit at speeds below 20mph, and somewhat easier to prevent at those speeds as well. In a real mixed use street, any driver can instinctually feel that 20 mph is recklessly fast. The problem was surrendering primacy to the cars.
Staying out of the passing lane when not passing someone is actually the law in many states. You must keep right if able.
Unfortunately you're asking people to gauge their own driving abilities. And it's known that most people are overconfident in their abilities.
Yes, I meant prosecute, it is a false friend. In other languages, like Spanish, "perseguir" could be translated to both, but in this context, you are absolutely right that I wanted to use "prosecute" :)
This post does a good job of telling me what linkerd is early on. I don't think a lot of projects realize posts like these are the first many see of the project. Maybe do a check for first visit and perhaps HN referrer?
Dallas, Austin or San Anton? 131 is(was?) the highest speed limit in the country. And had it's first fatality within 24 hours of raising to 85 MPH. I will take this over the previous 65 day / 55 night option. Nothing quite as infuriating as getting a ticket for driving 65 in Nowhere, West Texas.
Ask HN: How does your company/organization handle cloud account ownership?
For example, with both AWS and GCP there exists a "root" account.

Do a single or multiple people retain control of this account?

Generally one should avoid using the root account, but there are situations when you must[1][2]

So if you limit access to this account to an individual and they take actions to secure the account (eg, random password, multi-factor authentication), what happens if they get hit by a bus[3]? get hacked? or lose/forget their credentials[4]?

To mitigate the bus and forgetfulness factors, you could provide ownership to another individual. But that increases your attack surface to hackers and to leaking credentials.

On a related note, system for permissions[5][6] are in place to delegate access to individual or groups of accounts to take actions on a project. But those projects/resources still need to be owned by some account.

Does your company/organization place ownership of company projects under a single account? Or a hierarchy of accounts? How is the latter managed?

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tasks-that-require-root.html

[2] Or for GCP, creating a project that should be owned by the company
https://cloud.google.com/docs/enterprise/best-practices-for-enterprise-organizations#use_projects_to_designate_ownership_of_resources

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

[4] Account recovery is a vector for attack especially by social engineering, who overseas recovery?

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/iam/

[6] https://cloud.google.com/iam/
Ah. SROs seem to have a reputation for extremely poor physical condition, predatory management, a high concentration of unstable and dangerous people with untreated mental illnesses as neighbors, and locations in rough neighborhoods like the Tenderloin.

There seems to be a consensus that enduring long commutes, or just moving away, are preferable to living in those kinds of conditions. I've never heard of someone considering an SRO unless they had been previously homeless or institutionalized.

Even the starving artists seem to prefer sharing apartments (or using former warehouse/factory space as apartments) in the less glamorous parts of the East Bay.

I'd love to to live in a clean, safe, quiet, well-maintained SRO close to work at that price.
If every car set its cruise control to the same speed, nobody would ever be able to change lanes; merging and exiting would become an impossibility.

That's why it's so bloody dangerous that clueless folks plod along in the left lane obstructing traffic. It's extremely common to see 1/4mi or more of open roadway ahead of knotted up traffic driving the same speed.
You are losing a lot of time and freedom in the desire to save money though.
My favorite is when people go 40mph on a 65mph road and nearly cause everybody else who was previously driving safely and happily to nearly rear end each other and cause unnecessary brake and tire wear. There ought to be some sterner punishments for driving too slow as well.
BTW, since you mention the Catmull-Rom spline later on, it might be worth-while to mention it is proven that only centripetal CR splines will never form cusps and self-intersections:

> In this paper we prove that, for cubic Catmull-Rom curves, centripetal parameterization is the only parameterization in this family that guarantees that the curves do not form cusps or self-intersections within curve segments.

http://www.cemyuksel.com/research/catmullrom_param/catmullro...

(speaking as someone who gets slightly twitchy whenever he sees interpolated animations go bad)
What do we mean by "productivity"? Do we mean that a person is creating more wealth to the benefit of him/herself and fellow citizens? Or do we mean they are accruing more fiat money in a flawed system that does not map wealth creation onto fiat accrual?

We've lost control of terminology, we are using rentier terms to debate against them and therefore we are going to lose. This is a classic way to control.

edit:

But they may well be producing absolutely nothing. If you have one company creating wealth and another appropriating the same amount Bloomberg would say that is twice the "productivity" of one entity. But we don't have more. Often many modern companies, due to our fantastic surpluses as a society, destroy value by inhibiting wealth creation as part of their appropriation.

It's critical we get control of these terms otherwise you are walking straight into a trap that will defeat your point.
George himself is extremely readable. "Social Problems", or his enormously popular "Progress and Poverty" are good introductions.

If that seems a bit too much, I recommend first essay in Robert de Fremery's "Rights vs. Privileges" as a short overview of George's concepts.[0]

[0] https://books.google.com/books/about/Rights_vs_privileges.ht...
While there is a standard for claims of speedo deviation, it usually is not claimed due to the 10mph or larger discrepancy commpn for tickets. You are right on about snow tires, but mine are larger, and my summer tires low profile. But those who swap wheels also tend to mentally recalibrate while passing those speed signs. I have to on all my motorcycles, as manufacuturers all seem to want me to think I am going 15% faster.
It's basically a configurable proxy for communication between services. Kubernetes has the concept of "services" which allow you to declare a dns name for service discovery, but it's fairly barebones.

By using linkerd, you manage and configure various things like load-balancing strategies, retry-windows, circuit breaking etc etc. Instead of doing these things with a library inside the application like hysterix, you move it to it's own layer. This also has the benefit of being code agnostic, so you can leverage the same service concepts for any type of app. You can also run linkerd outside of kubernetes.
I think it's low probability, but look at what Google has done in the past. They bought/created Android and made it free or low cost to get onto phones. They bought On2 to make codecs free - they give away hardware designs for VP8 and VP9. It would be right in line with that to port the OS to a free ISA so hardware makers could lower their costs by whatever that ARM license is costing them and reducing power (increased battery life). It just feels like something they might do.

Having said that, RISC V doesn't need something like that to happen. It's going places already because it's better in a number of ways.

Here, watch this:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-R...

And notice that they indicate a desire to run a full OS and apps in the future. Tell me that doesn't seem like a step toward Tegra with RISC V.

And then there is Samsung aiming at IoT with it. And others...
https://github.com

There are A LOT of projects that could use your help there.
Trust me, it works!
Also, for teams in the opposite conference, 2 are home and two are away. So, every team plays each team in the opposite conference every four years, but only plays them each at home every 8 years.
Maybe it's finger spelling. :)
The sale prices for some of those don't factor in homeowners insurance or property taxes, which can easily double the total payment. Also, I don't see anything from Oviedo, specifically, in that list.

The first item, for example, is just north of I-10, which is northern Florida and even more conservative than the rest of the state.
Corporations and the rich (according to some definition of rich) are doing fabulous. The "rest" of us are discussing the phenomenon of children being worse off than their parents.

I would (and already have, for myself) condense your post down to: Capital has figured out how, and decided, to keep a larger share of labor's product.

The so called recovery from the Great Recession included the paradox that corporations were recovering and thriving, but individuals didn't feel so. "But we're doing so well!" they say, as they gaze at the ticker. Well, not so much. Look down.
Saying the price of labor in the 1950s was high due to unions is a simplistic explanation. Prior to that, almost every industrialized nation had been turned into rubble( see WWII) except the United States. In addition, labor participation especially for the high paying jobs was severely limited due to sex ( high proportion of single income households with with stay at home moms) and race discrimination.

So you have a high demand for labor coupled with a lower supply and thus increased wages. Labor was a contributor to it, but not the main driver. As other countries became industrialized and more people that had previously not been in the workforce entered, the supply and demand for labor in the United States changed and the industries that were heavily unionized got destroyed by the competition (see the auto industry)
> Can anyone give some insight that can affirm or refute the claims made in the post?

You're responding rationally, which is admirable but will lead you nowhere. This editorial is not about science, it's about spreading fear and hatred among Denninger's readers.
The Best Git Client
> Enforcing the limits when they are artificially low helps no one except for the police.

Sufficient enforcement will, over time, reduce speed variance, which is the behavioral problem which leads to the conclusion that speed limits are "too low". So, no, increasing enforcement of limits that are "too low" based on the variance of speeds produced on those roads given present enforcement patterns helps safety in the same way as raising speed limits does, by reducing speed variance. And it does so without increasing the number of people who are driving faster than is safe for their own abilities because of traffic pressure.

Now, you might argue that the cost of enforcement or the travel time make it undesirable.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. The same thing is true of Canadian citizens graduating from Canadian universities. If you want to work as a Professional Engineer in Canada you have to go through your provinces Engineer in Training program before you can become a PEng. I have Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from an accredited engineering program and would have to do the same thing as the OP if I wanted to become a PEng. For example, in BC (PDF): https://www.apeg.bc.ca/getmedia/f71c99f7-44d3-42c6-a313-70de...
This makes sense (and I have often advocated for it as well) but I would imagine enforcement would be ridiculous.

I'd like to see more license classes than "Car, Car with Motorcycle rider, CDL (over 13 tons), and CDL with Trailer". One could start with a "light weight class" like moped/motorcycle/small car, then have a progressive system for "heavy weight cars" (SUV or pickup truck) or "high HP/Ton cars" (Sports car). These "advanced licenses" would have a higher standard of testing and stiffer penalties if you are driving a car that meets these higher-spec classes.
Just a friendly reminder (most) quotas are techically illegal, yet we still all accept it as the norm.
I don't appreciate your comment. I left my own native tongue for a reason, and came back to it for one too. I'm not even boasting superiority. I don't give the slightest damn if you talk with metaphores, or whatever figure of speech there is, I don't submit to cultural ideals or snobbery. It's a point of view on how one likes to communicate. And I very very rarely encountered it even when talking, reading and watching almost entirely English sources for many months.

Also how can England be more influenced by countries as an Island ? the naval conquests, the commonwealth ? I don't know history much, but it seemed to me they kept a very cohesive identity except for the not so French/English feedback loop.
One of the most important determiners of whether you're happy and satisfied in your job is your commute time. Happiness, job satisfaction and longevity at your job decrease significantly as your commute time extends more than 20 minutes.
> Plus programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap.

This is entirely a matter of scale. 1 dev can make faster software that runs on thousands of machines with far more ROI than the hours they spent. This is common in several industries.