skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much leverage do you think a poor person should take for speculating in the stock market? 15% annual return on nothing is still nothing. For most poor, doubling salary would have dramatically more impact than doubling their savings account.
Didn't knew about that. If true (and I trust you on this one) that's a little relief.
America could do with some more socialism, yes it costs money, but payed holiday, proper maternity leave, pension contribution and such help employees feel like a human being, instead of an exploitable company asset.
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Regardless of reality, sellers see the buyers as being less serious and/or more likely to back out of a deal with a lower down payment.

As someone who bought their house with a smaller than normal down payment it was quite frustrating. I wound up starting to bid much higher than I wanted in an effort to put more room between myself and normal down payments

Note that this only really matters in a hot market where sellers can pick and choose
`cal` does try to use the expected first day of the week based on the locale. It seems to at least use LC_TIME from some quick local testing:

bratch@serenity ~ $ LC_TIME=en_GB cal | head -n2
May 2017
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su

bratch@serenity ~ $ LC_TIME=en_US cal | head -n2
May 2017
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
I'm betting we are not going to be able to prevent substantial climate change. The effects are too slow and diffuse, and the changes required too costly. We could do it, but we'd only do it if we were scared, and we're not scared yet.

Some time during the 21st century there will be a critical event that prods us into dramatic action, some real disaster that even the critics won't be able to deny. After that, things will be different. It may be the first time we have to abandon a major city. Perhaps Miami. Unfortunately, at that point, it will be too late to stop many large-scale effects.
Agreed. As I wrote, you can and should change scenes but with the intent to do something fun or where you feel successful. OP seemingly wants to grind new skills the hard way but that is just more agony.

To regain a sense of control and success in ones life requires more than following through on feelings of escapism.
Inside the WannaCry ransomware attack [long read]
The deeper question then is the following: Why is it so hard to have people care about privacy enough?

If there would be such a strong gradient towards privacy-favoring products and services, why does society so slowly adapt?

+ It might be that the risks are not yet understood. As argued here: http://laoutaris.info/index.php/2016/09/11/oh-but-people-don...

+ It is politically a much stronger move to act upon feelings of fear than on more abstract risk calculations. Advocated here: https://openmedia.org/en/why-it-so-hard-convince-people-care...

+ From our bubble we might think privacy is valuable, but this might just not be shared broadly. Rich people admire privacy: http://www.businessinsider.de/wealthy-people-care-about-priv...

+ People might not want privacy, but something slightly related: they do not want surprises. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/12/people-dont-....

I don't know how many business models are based on privacy, but my assumption is that it's much more likely to succeed with your startup on betting that people will share what you didn't think they would share, then to build a security minded niche product or service.
Yep, but you'll have to read the man everytime to figure out if you need -1, -2 or -3, or a combination of those. combine gives you a better interface with boolean operators you know.
I'm curious to hear what you've built with LFE, and what the experience was like? What would you say were the biggest stumbling blocks you ran into?

I'm also in your camp (not liking Elixir or Erlang's syntax, but really liking BEAM). I like Clojure a whole lot, but would prefer it on BEAM for a whole variety of reasons. LFE seemed like a step back from Clojure in many ways when I looked at it.
The parent is on the hook if you want to completely destroy your relationship with your parent, sure.
It can end up with direct code generation. No JIT, no interpreter, no loading a "JVM." C++ (Clang) generates LLVM, not JVM. So does Rust. Two languages where performance is a requirement. As other have pointed out, any optimizations that can be preformed by the cumbersome JVM can be preformed in LLVM. But in addition, instead of using registers, the JVM uses variables on the stack frame. Why use slower hardware than the build in registers? Then there is that automatic garbage collection which can interrupt a processor randomly.

Using a JVM or CLR by MS (who with C# was making their own Java) seems cumbersome compared with direct code generation with the LLVM as intermediate code.

Apple derives $150 billion per year as an iOS phone headset company and it chose to use LLVM years ago when the processors were not nearly as powerful as today. When an Android headset even with good hardware would require 1 GB RAM, iPhones could run with better performance on 500 MB.
The whole article starts off with bs: First, non-competes are rarely so airtight that a person can't work in their field for another employer. Second, the whole FUD about healthcare is total bs as well--the ACA is screwed up and Americans badly need any replacement that might control costs better. The whole "pre-existing" condition FUD is crap, too, since the new healthcare bill doesn't do away with that "protection". I should add that I don't think it is fair that un-insurable people push their problems onto the rest of us because all that does is bring everyone down! It's nice to think we can look out for our nation's most vulnerable people, but what if we can't do that and maintain viable economic growth? What then?

I didn't even read the rest--the NY Times needs to go out of business if they can't do honest journalism without injecting their anti-Trump agenda into Every. Single. Article.
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tl;dr

- this is not a Google announcement but a Google patent. Not sure if this will be implemented

- the idea would be to use two devices at same time to improve Google Assistant's understanding of voice commands (reduce transcription mistakes, "hear" the difference between "of" and "off" etc...)
Better integration and monetization of Github Apps (formerly Integrations)?
I think you're reading it too literally: the iPod didn't make you a "better person", but it made your life better by allowing you to take all your music with you anywhere.

(Obviously you have some disdain for big music content producers, but that's not really relevant. Most people don't, and they believed the iPod really did make their lives better, which is the thing that matters from a marketing standpoint.)
Repeat the process 10 times, and you're at 95% desalination.
If you use your freedom to voluntarily give away your freedom, can you be called "unfree"?
Title is misleading. This isn't a new feature of Google Assistant; just a patent. The actual article title is a bit better, but still implies this is a feature we'll be seeing in the near future, which isn't necessarily the case.
Interestingly most of the comments in this thread are about the quality of existing organisations in this space. My experience echoes this sentiment.

Over the years I've worked on systems that have been pen-tested and it's always been the same thing. The testing picks up a bunch of standard/generic and not all that important issues, while missing much worse and glaring specific issues. I've sat in meetings with people from pentesting companies who couldn't describe the attack vector/risk of an exploit they'd said needed patching.

I'm sure there are some companies that do it properly but I guess the good ones charge a load more money. Then again, as a lay-enterprise, how do you know who to hire? I know that if I was hired to pentest various systems I've had to work on in the past I'd have picked holes in them all over the place.
True. But some writers (even science writers) sensationalize by focusing on upper-bound estimates. And most people never see primary sources, even abstracts or executive summaries.
> But at least from your quote, the actual effects are not supposed to happen by the year 2000.

> It's just that the amount of CO2 emitted by year 2000 has already committed us to a certain amount of climate change, that will just take a while to happen.

I agree visible effects by 2000 are not strictly implied by the quote, but it's a bit strained to say it's not suggested. Carbon stays in the atmosphere for a long time, but, unless I'm mistaken, the earth thermalizes to the temperature associated with a steady carbon level (inducing a corresponding sea level rise) fairly quickly. (Original commenter said 2000s.) My understanding is that most of the worrying "inertia" for warming, where the damage appear later, comes from either more complicated climate mechanisms (beyond just sea level rise from melting ice) and the slowness of changing the energy sector.
> I got the impression that being a dev is a low-prestige job with very slim chances of moving into any position of power.

It used to be like that in EE (Poland) in the first decade of 2000. Now, with remote jobs paying $10k+ per month and low costs of living, who cares about power? Unless you genuinely want to be "important" and not just well paid.
Especially in 64ks, assembly isn't particularly necessary - limited use of the standard API and a good exe packer will almost always get you under the limit (especially when a lot of your code is GLSL, as text compresses well).

Smaller intros like 4ks, on the other hand, will often use assembly (although completely shader-based ones are becoming more common).
>filed a report on their developer support site - of course, this being Google, there's been no answer more than a month later, and I doubt there ever will be...

Don't lose hope, we filed a similar request and then forgot about it. Several months later, we got a response and the issue has now been resolved. Good luck!
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If I have my iPad and iPhone in front of me, both with "Hey Siri" activation turned on, both will register that I asked. But only one of them will respond 'verbally'.

I'm not sure if that's what the OP meant, though.
Astro Teller of Google X used to do that sort of thing at BodyMedia. It wouldn't surprise me if Google also has some projects in the works.
Another reason could be that SO itself is trending downward. I know that there are people, like myself, who don't often use it or who just use it as part of a set of google results for the topic they are researching.
I actually think that exchange rebates reinforce my point. I've seen algos that would dump trading profit to get their trade levels into particular rebate levels for instance. Those algos would look bad under the metric of "never lost money trading" but look good under the metric of "holistic profitability".

I just am annoyed when people site the former when talking about Virtu, both using it pejoratively or in praise of the firm, because I don't think its a terribly useful thing to say. We can judge Virtu the same way we judge every other firm on the planet, by actual profits, there is no need to come up with a new metric for them.
Backend: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, Redis (All components proved to be rock stable for me)

Frontend: Vue.js, ?, ?
Building and selling is a wonderful thing. It gives FREEDOM.
> instead of an exploitable company asset.

... you understand how socialism is paid for, right?
The one trick to improve your user onboarding
Answer: cell phone displaced my career/job

Taking a basic job like McD etc will give you new skills.

There will be plenty of upward mobility in service and retail if you show brains and hard work. You will stand out.

For me, going from office/ professional to service yielded these positives:

Working with young people. Youth keeps me feeling young. Plus i never realized that over50% of my old office environment was filled with adults that failed at marriage. Youth have everything in front of them and bring a great load of fun to work beside.

Feeling accomplished. Its easy to see how you help others in a service job. (i worked on the same system for years and never felt the way i do interacting with human customers.

My time after work. If im not on the clock the time is mine.

If you don't make the money you don't spend the money. It was difficult to see how I could have taken a 60% pay cut before i left the golden handcuffs job, but it was much easier than I fretted over.

But beware! Just like most McD employees could not get a job in tech the reverse is more than true. It is just not as obvious
I never said someone found it and is hiding it. I'm just a bit sad that there's probably more money that goes in treatment than in cure research.

It's economically understandable but humanly sad.
If you didn't see the cop, you might not have been as aware of your surroundings as one ought to be to run a red? Nevertheless I've found police in general not to care too much about what cyclists do. Once when I was cycling while completely wasted, a cop simply told me to walk my bike the rest of the way home. Which I did.
I guess that the main benefit of GitHub Marketplace would be the full-scale integration with GitHub Issue and Project board, launched last year. Consider a common situation: when CI fails, people need to reopen an issue manually, getting an error report via email. People who are in charge of project management may be seeking a better way to streamline the manual task, which probably increased since the introduction of Project board.

To be clear, I’ve been away from software development over the years, so I’m curious about the impact of Project board. Does it useful in the first place? Did it require manual tasks between other services such as CI? Do you, who is in charge of issue or board assignment, feel frustration using it?
Another factor to consider is how unsaturated a market is (how much unmet opportunity is available). It's easier to break into a field, and get good at working in that field, if you're competing with anyone. Most (all?) fields have room for people at the top of their game, but some fields are simply lacking enough people to do the work.
> It's because china is coordinates its activity like a giant company, in my opinion, to exploit markets.

Same thing Japan did after WWII. Works great if you can pull it off.
I wish there was simply a wall plug I could put in another room that connected to the main Home unit. So if I'm in a different room yada yada...
That is just a (rural) road without footpaths. Outside of the town limits pedestrians tend to share the space with the bicycles. Such roads aren't frequented by many pedestrians in any case because they cover larger distances that most Dutch would use a bicycle, car, or public transport for.

This is what a shared road within town limits can look like:

http://www.fietsberaad.nl/library/repository/ontwerpvoorbeel...
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underlying tech is the following:

- reprogram cells (could be any cells, here they are considering skin cells as they are easy to get) to become embryonic stem cells capable of growing into different kinds of cells

- use signaling factors that occur in nature to guide those stem cells to become eggs or sperm

This has been done with mice
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I used to be in security auditing. I don't know about market saturation – that would depend heavily on your location, as it often requires some face-to-face discussion – but I think for security the saturation is less relevant than your credentials. Once a company decides to spend some money on outside security, they tend to go for a name-company with good credentials and certifications such as approval for PCI-DSS compliance checking. Once you provide the needed services, your name needs comes up as one of the go-to companies. Reputation and word-of-mouth are pretty important. For instance in the CC and banking sector companies are very aware whose services are being used by other companies. No company wants to give a good chunk of money away on something as sensitive and invasive as security checks without being sure they're receiving quality service and not some random script-kiddie with an automated security scanner.

If your company (or the company you want to work for) floats up as one of the top security firms in your region, you will probably get a lot of business. If you start from zero with no reputation, you're going to have fight hard to get your name on the map.
You're missing the point - the point is that the value of a product to the customer is how they imagine it will positively impact their life, not necessarily the technical specifications of that device.

By rephrasing the technical prose in more human terms, it's more imaginable how an iPod can 'improve' your life - even if you personally disagree with the conclusion.

When marketing to a wide audience, appeals to lifestyle image are often more effective than appeals to reason. That's very much part of why Apple has been so successful.
There was a pretty strong article a while back (and I assume parent likely also read) that sunshine laws and a decrease in special interest spending ultimately increased partisanship and decreased compromise.

Reason being that previous periods of American legislative politics were characterized by back room deals unknown to the public. This afforded politicans an opportunity to strike bargains with the opposition without having a spotlight trained on them (and being crucified in the next primary for "working with the enemy").

The check was that every 2/4 years voters still had an opportunity to toss out the incumbent based on his or her track record of results. (Admittedly without knowing how the sausage was made)

While I agree that transparency is a good thing, I'm humble enough to admit that the US legislative / election process is complex and has a lot of feedback. So the article's thesis seems plausible.

Which do you want more: non-partisan cooperation or absolute-transparency?
Optane is the "marketing name" the technology behind Optane is 3D-XPoint.
:-)

Beyonce agrees with me too.
sounds like a good system.
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I think a dev-social site like that should be separate to GitHub and just use their API to pull in repo data.

Someone should probably give a go at making a site like that. Making it easier for project owners to find contributors and for potential contributors to find projects. Facilitating discussions beyond in issues, etc.
"Big Pharma" has been trying that for decades. There are rather big companies involved. Find any reference about the "100x funding".
This sounds great, congratulations. How hard was it? Were you outstanding in your field? (that's what people report on the internet on the difficulty on landing academia position in biology).
Imagine a situation where people can be reliably psychologically manipulated into "voluntarily" giving away their freedom.
Agreed. Also unsaturated markets may mean that there is either not enough potential or there is a huge problem that isn't resolved yet. So yeah, I agree that having at least some saturation is necessary.
I would rather a larger portion of the value I create go to social programs than to shareholders. If I am going to be an exploitable asset, I would prefer to be exploited for reasons that do some good in the world.
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> I should add that I don't think it is fair that un-insurable people push their problems onto the rest of us because all that does is bring everyone down!

May you and your extended family continue to enjoy the perfect health with which you have all been blessed.

> It's nice to think we can look out for our nation's most vulnerable people, but what if we can't do that and maintain viable economic growth? What then?

I dunno, take down the statue of liberty I guess?
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These approaches can easily be A/B tested, though, by using both feature-based and benefit-based marketing, and seeing if there's a significant difference in conversion rate. Just knowing that there are different marketing strategies you can employ will help you narrow down the best way to get people to want your product.
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Yeah, if you have a better title for this,PLEASE suggest it.

Thought it would be interesting for the HN community.
"what Google needed to light a fire under Oracle's ass" What a strange sentence. To be clear: Kotlin is created by Jetbrains (makers of IntelliJ and Resharper).

And why in the world would Google want to light a fire under Oracle's ass? Perhaps I'm missing something...
My original statement was about how much money goes in treatment research vs in cure research. Not about some conspiracy :-)
Think faces. The feature is a nose. The benefit of a nose is that you can smell stuff. The advantage that confers on you is that you don't get sick from eating spoiled meat.
I expected GitHub to attempt further monetizing but perhaps not something as cheesy as an "app store".
HP has NVDIMMs that you can order for the DL series of servers. I'm waiting on a POC machine with 16GB of NVDIMM right now.
When you talk about un-insured people pushing their problems onto the rest of us, well that would happen without the laws anyway. Those problems generally reverberate throughout a society, so why not just treat them with laws? Also, non-competes may not be airtight, but how many people do you expect to even attempt to legally challenge the non-compete clauses enforced by these multi-billion dollar corporations?
>Camera and microphone on the mobile phone activate when I press the button to activate them.

Allow me to put on my tinfoil hat for just a moment and remind you that, should Google want to, they could just turn on your microphone and camera without letting you know. Would they? Probably not, but they certainly could, and unless you're in the habit of regularly checking your network traffic, you wouldn't know.
There is a difference between ice and sea ice.

Basically Antartica has been losing land ice while sea ice has been growing.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice-inte...

The important bit about sea vs land ice.

> when land ice melts and flows into the oceans global sea levels rise on average; when sea ice melts sea levels do not change measurably but other parts of the climate system are affected, like increased absorbtion of solar energy by the darker oceans.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Goethe
In the US the rhetoric is "free market". But in political practice this means responding to large corporations who often want laws that make if difficult for others to compete with them. Telecoms want to be able to coalesce into an anti-competitive oligopoly. IP holders want to control their rights for longer and longer. Commodity producers like farmers want state subsidies.

Americans love capitalism because it is the best system known to distribute resources. But we need to separate the idea of being pro-capitalism from the idea of being pro-corporate lobbying. They are not always the same.
Still quite interesting if it becomes a reality.

Let's see what other thinks.
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What is the BATNA? Homeless and starving in the streets for a majority of these employees?