skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a touch-and-go end user I'll take you up on that at least with some anecdotes:

In 2007 I joined the powershell enthusiasts excited by the notion of a bash-like capability treating .NET constructs as a first-class citizen. I invested time into learning common use cases. Certain things you would THINK would be easy like loading a DLL as well as it's corresponding config file were actually quite difficult in practice which was a shame because the primary vision for powershell was to be flexible glue between compiled assemblies. Have you ever tried to invoke ms-test with powershell on a DLL which has a config xml?

I had a touch-and-go relationship with poweshell. I returned to use it a few years later to find that many of my powershell V1 scripts were obseleted by the powershell V2 runtime. Writing C#/.NET code to execute on many versions of windows this is rarely an issue. Writing powershell code to execute on many versions of windows you have a serious problem on your hands as the commands syntax and general practices vary significantly between versions.

To this day googling for examples on how to accomplish something basic such as running a dos command line call with parameters constructed within powershell is not only highly vexing for the occasional casual user such as myself but many of the answers I see in blogs or stackoverflow are completely temporal and you need to be careful to look for results dating around 2013 for powershell v2 because anything before that wont work, but not too new because v4 has a new approach and that would require a service pack not all my users can currently procure. Not to mention everyone writes powershell in a different style. You often end up with a handful of different code examples that look wildly different each with their own issues as well.

Sure there are expert powershell users out there with muscle memory that can write elegant solutions for version incompatibility issues and common gotchas, however for the casual seldom user the overall experience that too much frustration, less than intuitive approach and 10 ways to solve a common problem. It feels sort of like running perl in a dos prompt that is constantly changing. Compare this with zen of python where [There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.] I find myself installing python runtime and avoiding powershell when I'm required to make something of significant complexity and high compatibility.
When I first found out about Fuchsia (and from the comments on the HN post), I got the impression that it was supposed to be designed for both laptop/desktop (which excited me) and for mobile (which I couldn't care less about), but all the news I've read about it from third parties seem to describe it almost exclusively as a mobile OS. Is this just the media focusing on the parts that they think nontechnical people will find interesting, or were my initial impressions mistaken?
I suppose that it makes sense that the only employer in the country that needs to be able to (legally) routinely put its "employees" in mortal peril would have a carve-out from the health and safety regulations.
The sector I'm most curious about for this is the rental car industry.

Even more opaque than airlines.
MIT 6.0002 Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science, Fall 2016
See https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam
> It's not a terrible metric. It's only bad for companies who have high debt loads, or companies who have to periodically upgrade costly equipment.

Right, ignoring depreciation and debt service is only horrible for assessing companies with significant depreciation or debt service.

> For a company that rents all its equipment, EBITDA is a pretty good metric.

Sure, if you don't have significant depreciation/amortization and debt service, EBITDA is just an approximationation of EBT, which is a perfectly good measure.

And EBT's a perfectly good measure even for companies with debt service and depreciating equipment.
> Did they decide to reinvent all the wheels badly just because someone at Google was bored?

If I had to guess, it would be that (bored), or perhaps trying to specifically avoid existing patents/copyrights/etc by showing that they did completely reinvent the wheel instead of copying from existing "common knowledge"?

I'm no lawyer though, especially not a patent lawyer, so I could be way off the mark...
That's fair but should note that smart != depth of cryptographic knowledge. I am not saying that these are geniuses​, programmers or even necessarily evil but (so far) they haven't been caught.

So if these were poor teenagers who mostly copy pasted code and built the rest on the fly then as long as (opportunity cost < ransom >
(chance of getting caught * penalty)) then it was "smart".

That's what is good and bad these days; powerful tools empower motivated people.

> There seems to be an inverse correlation between smart and evil

Hopefully you're right.
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Competition is an empty suit of armor at this point.

It's something we'll try to explain to our grandchildren and they'll try to understand it like we try to understand how people fought duels in the 17th century.
True.

All I was trying to point out is that the return isn't just the sales price having to beat inflation.

You are completely right that I forgot to mention buying and selling costs (which, as you note, are very high in real estate).
It predates even usenet, eg FidoNet, BIX, CompuServe.

My gamer and geek friends have been spewing libertarian flavored Randian nonsense since middle school, circa 1983. I never imagined that worldview would prevail. It was just so puerile. Not so different than the tortured coming of age fantasies embraced by the other subcultures (stoners, metalheads, preppies). Though maybe the nerds were more aggrieved, seeing themselves as an oppressed minority.

Of course, none of us knew about the well funded propaganda machine pushing the whole Austrian/Chicago school of economics. Young Republicans, trickle-down economics, John Birch Society, Hertitage Foundation, disaster capitalism, Grover Norquist, etc.

Edit: TL;DR: Mockery is the only appropriate response.
Although this also would be a huge boon for Type 2 diabetics like me, I thought that the pancreas generated insulin from the Islets of Langerhans (or something like that - IANAB), which sounds a lot more complex to replicate than a scaffolding to support egg precursors - but this may just be my ignorance. Is there any progress in this regard that you could point me to?
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It's really sad how many execs who claim to be very technical do not understand this. Recently had a debate on this exact issue where they were going to assign after hours support duty to the sole engineer on a particular API that's supporting a mission critical dashboard.

The right way to do it would have been to work with other teams and product to share the burden of alert triage and filtering false positives. If and only if it's a real problem that can't remediated with a restart, then we can wake up the sole engineer.

Otherwise, burnout and churn...
Ask HN: Swap jobs to commute less?
I just want to hear some opinions on a problem that I have thought of addressing:

If person A and person B essentially have the same job, but commute to opposite directions... Shouldn't they just try to swap jobs with each other?

I know that there are numerous variables playing a role here (salary, company culture, employee performance), but I just think it's bonkers to have all these people driving their car to work every day and causing the infamous rush hour.

What do you think? Is a more transparent and efficient labor market possible?
Any question about it, ask here or on vPopulus Discord ;)
I, too, wanted a Unicorn Job of this sort: http://pgbovine.net/unicorn-jobs.htm

After some trial and error bouncing around in industry/postdoc/etc., I've found that being a PI in a field where I have to raise relatively small amounts of money (compared to Big Science labs) to be the best balance for me at this point. I agree with Fomite that unless I magically get amazing at grant-writing, there's no way that I could afford to sustain full-time staff ... I don't envision myself going down this path since I want to minimize time spent writing grants and maximize my research/teaching/service time.
Fraud tends to be able to be pursued civilly. (And if he sold Uber a bunch of IP that he didn't own, then that's textbook fraud)
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yes. we absolutely want to encourage whistle blowers.

obviously the level of immunity will vary based on the circumstances of each case, but again, we absolutely want to encourage this type of behavior.
Almost every comment you're leaving here seems based on a Just World Fallacy, which is very close to survivor bias. It's easy but misleading to look back at the good aspects of the past and derive a teleological theory that ignores opportunity costs.
The only mystifying part is your abstract analogy that never seems to happen in reality
Cheaper that way. Get some web "devs" to also write a "desktop" "app" in React.
Not exactly surprising.

Even something like Kotlin as 1st party language has been kept under wraps until the last moment.

Whether Kotlin is an experiment, the future of Android or something else, Google is not going to discuss about it for a while.
Of course smart != depth of cryptographic knowledge, but smart => acquiring said cryptographic knowledge when building a tool that deals with cryptography. If they were just teenagers, maybe you have a point.
Just to clarify, this isn't personalized pricing based on how much a user is willing to pay (user history), but rather pricing based on the "net-worth" of trip's origin or destination?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298753
OneNote, Google Keep, Evernote, Wunderlist...the list goes on
> and currently very inefficient.

Inefficient compared to what? Does it lead to Go apps use more memory? more CPU? longer execution time? Because I haven't seen much difference in those respect. In Fact in general Go apps use 2-10 times less memory than Java.
I'm suggesting that overemphasis on the "profit motive" affected the strategic judgement of the VW corporation as a whole.

Whether your metric for this disaster is cash or clean air I think the proximate cause was profit-seeking to the exclusion of other values.
I didn't mean to put things in your mouth. I read your comment as complaining about an extreme anti-capitalism position; I wanted only to complement that with an example of extreme pro-capitalism position that I also frequently notice here.

You're 100% right about the hierarchy of needs (and about my baseline need satisfaction too; I can bitch about the state of the world exactly because I have somewhat stable income, health, safety and social sphere). I'm not disputing that. But since there are people who have those needs satisfied and are free to worry about more abstract things, is it wrong for them to ask how can they contribute so that more people reach that level of Maslow's pyramid (or, alternatively, so that the whole world won't go deeper into shit than it already is)?
I agree. My title has "architect" in it at my insistence, but I'm also the only dedicated developer in the department. So I have to "architect" my own solutions.
Funny enough, I was actually searching for a ToDo app 'that-does all' one more time after fixing on one three months ago. The issue I generally see with Todo lists are that they are one part of a very nuanced workflow. For eg. I often get worked up choose between a ToDo app or a Note app when I still working on the details. Currently settled on Trello for a multi-modal workflow of saving links, notes, keeping lists of tasks classified by stages is feeling good. But I miss a good mobile app, markdown support and easy creation and maintenance. Any suggestions?!
Once a friend of mine had famously quipped: Pick one profession and any country in world - rules of that business kind of remain same. Uber is a taxi company and they are acting like one.

Should not be the way forward for Uber-like (read other 'push a button') services should be decentralized / p2p (sure i've watched Silicon Valley this week) in a way such that service provider and payer are not screwed like this. (Next Richard Hendricks out there - are you listening to this mate ;)
I suspect this is a require prerequisite for enabling higher performance on AMD tuned codes. Like say AMD's ACML library (much like Intel's MKL). Give that Naples isn't shipping yet, and that's the target for things like ACML the timing seems about right.
"You won't understand it for a few years, you have not yet developed the cognitive capacity and you don't understand the basic concepts. Go watch a Star War"
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With your approach the (symmetric) key used to encrypt the files is still unprotected in memory for at least a short period of time.

I'm surprised ransomware doesn't use the TPM to protect their private keys - given that more computers have it now.
Rebutting the idea that capitalism is pure evil has nothing at all to do with suggesting that people should not be seeking to make the world a better place.

So, perhaps we should just let this be as we seem to be talking at cross purposes.
Same here. I feel like in the early days of the web, I was able to find this kind of content on forums specific to a particular topic. Now it seems like forums are on the way out in favor of social media or social sharing sites like Reddit where as you mentioned the SNR is out of whack. I miss the smaller more intimate communities.
For surface objects, there is at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_exposure_dating
Hey Beager!

1. We actually have a load balancer of sorts. When we get flooded with requests and won't be able to maintain conversational quality, people get put into the line. It's effective for launches like this. We prefer to not put people into the line, as instant-access users are 38% more likely to engage, but quality trumps all else.

2. Fun you mention this! This is how our business worked at the beginning, but it led to some really absurd dynamics at scale. People above mentioned ethics questions... well, when the company's and coach's profit-motive is to place you in a new role, the advice slants that way. Especially if it's $15k a pop for an engineer. Secondly, this model only work with engineering and SV-based recruiting... and we want to help people who are facing uphill battles in the US -- not just those who already have it pretty good.

3. As we develop a larger network of industry experts and train our coaches, we'll be able to expand further.

4. People can send us whatever they want, but we don't actively encourage proprietary information in any specific way.

5. We attempted a user mentor network before and it didn't scale. The user experience was often terrible for users because we couldn't guarantee consistency or quality of advice -- a LOT of mentors would give terrible advice, and then we'd have to come in to fix the situation. To even detect that, you have to give mentors a shot. Secondarily, if a mentee slacked, the mentor wouldn't feel empathy for them and also slack. When we control the experience, we can play "coach" and get real with people -- mentors don't look to do that usually. Sometimes there are hard conversations and people need to be told their being lazy, making excuses, etc.

6. It works with chat and email. We're trying to think about scale, and live video would require a price point that is about double or triple. That would make it unaffordable for middle America.

Thanks for the thoughts + analysis! Curious your take on my replies.
I'm also divorced and have almost no friends. I'd rather work at home. The noise and distraction of the open-office environment makes it impossible to get much done at work.
Contribute to the Tor Project, aka The Onion Router.

https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Pro...
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That's great but you have to consider the social cost of the day job, which the parent comment assumes to be neutral even though in practice this may not be the case. I think the OP's real question is how to pick ethically efficient employment, not how to make money in order to be more charitable.
Be that as it may, enough of the wealth remains with the 99% to make parent's point valid (with caveats applied).
The airline personalized pricing is (or used to be) based on 'purchase city' - they may be using a method to identify it that incognito mode doesn't break
how is it free if you have to pay for netflix?
I honestly use Wunderlist because I just need something bare bones simple. Trello might honestly be your best option if you are looking to do stuff like custom values etc.
Sounds good - will look out for your email :)
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Windows XP systems were the primary victims of WannaCry.
You're describing a "race to the bottom" those 2 competing producers would participate in. But we all know that when there's a quasi-monopoly with only 2/3 big players, they would "cooperate" to maintain the high prices.

Phone providers are a good example of this: In France for many years there was phone providers with extremely high prices: 50, 60, or even 70 euros per month for unlimited plans. They were all telling how their prices were fair, that they need infrastructure investments, etc etc. Then came a disrupting player: 'Free', who started charging 20 euros per month for the unlimited plans. Immediately, the 3 other players started offering 20-25 euros unlimited plans as well. The infrastructure hasn't suffered from this, 4G came as expected, and Free is now one of the major players.

What would happen in your example, is, unless a 'Free' equivalent shows up, is that they would all charge something around $19.
GitUp is awesome too. 100% native Mac app.
Killing somebody needs great effort. Killing somebody secretly requires even greater effort. In addition killing involves large risk of getting killed instead. The risk increases when this practice becomes more common.

It is simply easier and considerably less risky not do something like this. But there still exists people who argue similarly to your ideas and act based on them. These people are called murderous psychopaths.
Ethereum profits used to save Father's life
> It takes real and significant effort to try to quantify in a meaningful way that "We prevented X amount of catastrophe with our work." It is much easier to see lives saved by an ambulance than lives saved by the local gym or the local organic grocer.

Maybe something could be done to help / teach people to better quantify it (caveats about Goodhart's law notwithstanding)?
If you take synth sounds as inputs you can just mix the parameters without any neural net and get the same result...

Sadly does not sound new at all.
I'm not an astronomer, so could someone explain why everyone's assuming this is an 'alien megastructure', rather than, say, a regular planet?
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"We"? You mean people that know C++ and low level native APIs, right? Which is decidedly not you. You are building a "hackable" "node.js" "npm" "app". The problem is, people who are indeed capable of making some improvements, including people on the V8 and WebKit teams themselves, do not believe in what these tools attempt to accomplish. (Listen to Don Melton's interviews on the subject, for example.)

I say "some improvements, as the problem cannot be solved completely; you'd understand why if you understood the underlying technology.
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Well we'll place you on the defeatist side. Please stand down then when the rest of us try to argue for progress by enshrining new rights and not tossing them up in the air.
You can read at:

https://www.thinkmind.org/download.php?articleid=icons_2012_....

"Thread-local allocation buffers (TLABs) are widely used in memory allocators of garbage-collected systems to speed up the fast-path (thread-local allocation) and reduce global heap contention yet at the expense of increased memory fragmentation. Larger TLABs generally improve performance and scalability but only up to the point where more frequent garbage collection triggered by increased memory fragmen- tation begins dominating the overall memory management overhead. Smaller TLABs decrease memory fragmentation but increase the frequency of executing the slow-path (global allocation) and thus may reduce performance and scalability..."
Today I had an Uber driver rant to me about a passenger who was charged $110, and he only got $45.

Charging more for trips based on supply and demand makes sense. Why wouldn't you charge more for passengers who are willing to pay more? But it seems completely ridiculous for Uber to treat that money differently and take 100% of it.
Yeah! We don't need the baby or the bathwater!
In most basic form, isn't this what a pace maker is? Its not a heart and doesn't replace an organ but serves a functional purpose.
No. Encryption is done with the public key only. No knowledge of the private key is required. The private key is only used for decryption and can be delivered to the victim after payment is made.
Also GitUp!
And .NET Core/C#
I have trouble seeing how this is supposed to work.

In the short run, my willingness to pay Uber is roughly "whatever Lyft is charging for the same route."

In the long run, if Uber and Lyft somehow collude to increase prices a lot, I buy another car and use both services much less. My short-run behavior won't tell them where this threshold lies, and once it has happened it is too late for them to get my business back for a few years.

Price discrimination works if you have real market power, or if marginal and average costs are hugely different (see: airlines, software). Uber's business doesn't seem to resemble either situation.
Of course it rarely happens. Let's say I say "go out and make a bus company that captures this market opportunity". How would you even begin to do it?
> thinking a Google project is going to save you from walled gardens is perhaps a bit silly

Not sure where you got that impression. I do not think this project will save me from anything.
I think that's optimistic. As thesuitonym says, when bad internet advertising is blocked, it evolves into even worse (and less blockable) advertising. We're already seeing the rise of "native advertising," i.e. "pay websites to run ads masquerading as their own content."
"Beside being absolutely hideous on the outside, there is no way that hall has good acoustics."

The architects are the Swiss practice Herzog and de Meuron. While your criticisms of the acoustics may be totally valid, it's a feature of the building that the shape of the hall is unrelated to the exterior envelope. So HdeM's exterior style is orthogonal (in principle) to the acoustic question.

It's unfortunate (for architects) that that the ideal concert hall is a wood-panelled shoebox shape. A bit of experimentation (Scharoun, Gehry) is inevitable but if it's a travesty like you say, that's very bad.
I wonder if one could introduce a secondary classifier which is immune (or more resistant) to this kind of attack as a fail safe. One idea that comes to mind is to back the neural net with a random forest, which I imagine would be very hard to trick with this kind of attack as a collection of independent (key) weak learners are trained on the data. To trick a random forest, you would have to trick the majority of the trees within it.
I have a zillion little blogs about various things that interest me (but, wait, there's more! I also leave comments like the ones above in various online forums!). Maybe over the course of the next 30 years, my writing shall become popular and this issue will substantially change.

:-)