skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The salary of a CEO could do with more reference to the cost of the next available substitute, rather than how much the CEO changes the stock price. That would require changes in how CEOs are compensated [...]"

Would it? I assume that just like in every market, the pay of the CEO is based on exactly this. Supply & demand tend to be the cause of prices.

When we talk about the value that CEOs bring, and quite specifically talk about how no one else could've done the job that Marissa Mayer did, we're implicitly talking about supply & demand - the supply of people who can do the job she did is very small, the amount of companies who would love to have a high-functioning CEO that can raise their stock price is very high, and therefore CEO pay is what it is. I assume that if Yahoo could've gotten some other succesfull figure at a fracftion of the price, they would've done so - it's in the shareholder's interests and they more-or-less make the decisions.

Of course, I'm not naive enough to think that this is a purely technical matter - I assume a lot of human psychology, precedent and culture goes into this, e.g. the amount that exectuvies make is well-known, which causes other executives to raise their price to "compete", etc. This effectively makes wages higher than they "should have been". But I do assume that none of us are smart or knoweldgeable enough to say what CEO pay really "should" be, even assuming that's a well-defined concept. I think that most people just hear a big number, say "that's way too much" and have this as the bottom-line of their thinking, then come up with all sorts of arguments for why their bottom line is right, rather than questioning the core assumption and realising that maybe, CEOs are worth their price.
I work for a large bank as OPS engineer. The idea that I could even read a production database without password approval from someone else is too crazy to consider. Updating or deleting takes a small committee and a sizeable "paper trail" to approve.

Sometimes when I read stories like these, I think it's no wonder a company like WhatsApp can have a billion customers with less than 100 employees. And then I make some backups to get that cozy safe feeling again.
The next generation of the cellphone protocol should include some kind of PKI so the telco can't be spoofed without its permission.

Don't know if that will actually help, because the telcos are already quite compliant about giving every bit of data that passes through their systems to the NSA.
And?

You can always get better faster service if you pay more.

Disney World, health care, cars, political favors, nutrition, hospice, climbing Everest, prosthetics, cleaning staff, coaches, going to outer space, etc.

I wouldn't expect Health Care for the proletariat to be somehow different from the rest of our brief mortal existence. Somehow, it has seemed recently to gain a special status all to itself.

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"Wish not so much to live long as to live well."

- Benjamin Franklin
Can this work with Atari 8bit and 2600 or just C64?
also, one key aspect is. There are may be individuals out there that can do this.

however, usually code is written by multiple people. (and i would also count your future self as another person).

that collaboration on the same code base requires automatic tests, otherwise the next person will break the code in non-obvious ways.
As usual the elite can afford the best and will get it.
I was under the impression that the whole point of auto-financing was to get even even more money out of the consumer. When I bought my last car, I just bought it outright (because it wasn't particularly expensive) which appeared to baffle the dealership. I was actually a little concerned that the dealership told me it was the largest check they'd ever seen (for ~$14k).

Getting people to sign off on a contract they don't really understand is a great way to get more money out of the consumer than they'd otherwise spend.
Assume that most people are right-handed.

If you lay a book with the front cover facing up, the top to bottom printing will be right side up.

If you lay the book with the printing bottom to top, the binding print will be right-side up, but, assuming a right handed person grabs the book with their left hand, and turns it as one would so they can open it and turn the pages with their right hand, then its a natural movement - pull the book with the left hand, turn to face you, open and flip through with the right hand...
I don't know what they use. I do know that you can use the proc events over "connector" to get all the forks and execs. That is how I would do it.
As a one-time national Scripps Bee competitor who ultimately lost out in an early round to a (now-known to be) ridiculously easy word[1], this was a very good article.

Point 1 (Length) can't be stressed enough, while point 2 (Latin) is not always as helpful as you want it to be.

The one thing that isn't really covered there is that you have to know a whole friggin lot to be competitive. Sure, spelling is just spelling, but having effectively memorized the meager dictionaries that my poor upbringing brought me access to, that doesn't begin to prepare you for Scripps, which is sure to challenge you with words from most language origins, and are beyond the memorization capabilities of all but the very best.

I wasn't a "contender" by any stretch of the imagination, and I never had any coaching done, so I was at a strategic disadvantage as well as a skill disadvantage of the others, but I remember how smart I was when going to the library and trying to familiarize myself with Latin, Greek and other language origins, if only to familiarize myself with the structure and which things were most likely to reoccur so that, if challenged, I could at least make some good guesses, but unless you're absolutely, positively dedicated, it's really, really hard to know "enough" to do well.

[1] - The word was "paunchy", from the Latin "pantex", and borrowed from French "panche" and Old Northern French "pance". None of the above have a 'u', and neither did my spelling. Such was the pain of my failure, I now know this without having to look it up.
> I don't buy the "people are blind idiots" narrative

That's like saying criminal defendants shouldn't have lawyers because they aren't "idiots".

The problem is that the negotiation between the corporation and the worker is skewed by information asymmetry. Furthermore, the cost of changing jobs is high, and the same negotiation disparities exist elsewhere.

Collective bargaining would address those concerns, as it allows workers to amortize the cost of analysis across all their transactions. But labor unions are a heavyweight solution.

It would be nice to see other suggestions from people who don't wave off concerns over information asymmetry as paternalism.
Several years back I worked as a DBA at a managed database
services company, and something very similar happened to one of our customers who ran a fairly successful startup. When we first onboarded them I strongly recommended that the first thing we do is get their DB backups happening on a fixed schedule, rather than an ad-hoc basis, as their last backup was several months old. The CEO shuts me down, and instead insists that we focus on finding a subtle bug (you can't nest transactions in MySQL) in one of their massive stored procedures.

It turns out their production and QA database instances shared the same credentials, and one day somebody pointed a script that initializes the QA instances (truncate all tables, insert some dummy data) at the production master. Those TRUNCATE TABLE statements replicated to all their DB replicas, and within a few minutes their entire production DB cluster was completely hosed.

Their data thankfully still existed inside the InnoDB files on disk, but all the organizational metadata data was gone. I spent a week of 12 hour days working with folks from Percona to recover the data from the ibdata files. The old backup was of no use to us since it was several months old, but it was helpful in that it provided us a mapping of the old table names to their InnoDB tablespace ids, a mapping destroyed by the TRUNCATE TABLE statements.
yes they are. rich people get loans to buy expensive things instead of giving up the cash, often collateralized by their other toys/stock/trust fund/whatever. rich people also overspend, over-leverage, and overindulge just like everyone else.

the difference is they call up their banker and accountant instead of filling out a form at the dealership.

if you're expecting an asset like a 918 or 911RS or R to go up in price, you'd be stupid to not leverage your cash at a low interest rate and put the rest of it to work somewhere else. at this point it becomes a business move, not a trip to the mall. it's like financing a construction project.

do you think they buy jets and yachts and big homes in cash also? of course not. they setup holding companies and finance the purchases, and then charter or rent the asset out to make some of the money back and to pay the crew of people that run these types of properties. that's why you can rent an amazing vacation home for $1k a night, or spend a few days on that yacht with a bunch of friends for $5k, or rent a ferrari for a few hundred bucks.

rich people are exceptionally good at monetizing and leveraging facets of their life that look like giant expenditures to you or i. poor people try to emulate this behavior, and meet their financial ruin, because they aren't savvy or rich enough to make it work.
from the article:

About 2 per cent of American children are now allergic to peanuts, a figure that has more than quadrupled since 1997.
Presentation of scala 3 (dotty) by Martin Odersky
You are equating health care with going to Disney World ?
Hospital _stay_ -- no. Hospital visits -- yes. Most of my medical expenses to date were unrelated to hospital stay (though it is the hospital who issued the bulk of the bills). All in all, I have payed around $100k for medical expenses since 2011.

I.e. I am OK with the terms. I would prefer to pay a little less, $40k is outside of my affordable range ($24k is more like it). However, if absolutely unnegotiable, I might put it on wishlist for the next 3-4 years.
Almost entirely because cell phones are both a radio and a computer platform in one battery powered unit. No additional work, and they are small. And generally they get thrown away alot so there are cheap ones on the market.

But to your point, it would be straight forward to build imsi catcher catchers (ic^2 :-) with an SDR setup and with something like the ADALM-PLUTO[1] it would be reasonably cost effective.

[1] http://www.analog.com/en/design-center/evaluation-hardware-a...
There are likely other things that can be done. My understanding is that some sports leagues require a certain amount of financial education because they pay a LOT, careers tend to be short and players tend to make a lot less after their sports career ends. So when young players just piss it all away and live large, it is often a lost one time opportunity. Trying to do more financial education for hackers would not be a bad idea.

Improving monetization for open source would address one element of your question. There are probably a lot of things that can be done, but they aren't likely to happen due to one question being posted to HN. Are you planning to put your back into it and run with it if given a good idea? Or are you hoping that someone else will.

I have done tons of volunteer work and voluntary projects to further things I believe in for quite a lot of years. It has put damn little money in my pocket and I get no real respect. I am currently desperately poor and no one cares. For me, $20k-$30k would be life changing. Most hackers don't even want to white list my sites on ad blocker nor leave a tip. They don't want to promote my work and they accuse me of pan handling the internet when I even try to talk about the serious challenges faced by content providers who want to do something good and also somehow make money.

And the point of that is that I know first hand how hard it is to accomplish anything good in this world and how hard it is to get money to do good. How committed are you to making something happen here? Because most likely it won't change unless one person or a small group of people decide to seriously commit to finding solutions and making something happen.

You are probably talking about effort comparable to a start up, but with probably zero hope of a big cash out down the road. Only fools or people like me who cannot readily walk away from the need for change bother to do something like that.
There are many amazing GNU projects. Just yesterday I found out about GNU radio. I also remember reading the initial commit for Gneural and thinking "wow, this code is really nice".

I think GNU deserves much more support then it's getting.
"Machines won’t become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of the human brain."

How arrogant! The features they list aren't unique to humans, or even to mammals. They're all present in the nidopallium of birds as well. Machines won't become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of intelligent life.
This isn't applicable to scheme as a config format, but some config formats are line based and have programmatic tools to manipulate them, e.g. the .ini-like format Git uses, try adding some comments to ~/.gitconfig and manipulating it with `git config --global <...>`, it'll all be preserved.

You will lose any comments like this though:

[user]
name = My Name ; that's my name!

Programming is hard in the face of arbitrary user data.
As I said, your viewpoint is true, which is why it's easy to believe. But throughout history, there have been many viewpoints that are true but became untenable. I think this is one of them.

As increased automation leads to fewer jobs, basic income is one way to avoid the ill effects. But the other half is entrepreneurship. Ownership. And the current system is not set up to let most people become entrepreneurs.

The other fib that rich people like to believe is that their wealth is merit-based. Again, it's partially true, so it's easy to believe. Just pluck an idea off of the idea tree, then turn your laser focus on. Grow it for ten years, and presto! Rich!

Not so easy. There's a lack of ideas, for one. It's no coincidence YC started in 2005. It was like Standard Oil starting right before the oil fields became monopolized.

Two, there's a lack of cofounders. I've been seeking a cofounder literally my entire adult life. It's possible to go through life and find zero, despite looking. And in the current system, if you don't have a parter, your options are severely limited. I know many people will disagree with this, but your disagreement matters less than the disagreement of VCs, whose money allows companies to form without turning a profit. And if your aim is to turn a profit immediately, not to grow a company, then that lack of ideas I mentioned earlier becomes a famine.
This is the sort of thing that ends up with rich people swinging from lamp posts.

Not the fact that you can hire a private doctor. Taking one doctor out of circulation, more or less, doesn't enrage people.

No, the offensive thing is that John Battelle's kid's broken leg is too important to be seen by a mere ER doctor, and instead the very senior orthopedics doctor is summoned away from dealing with serious problems to deal with a broken leg.

How does the head of orthopedics live with himself? I'm sure he comforts himself with money.

Battelle made his money by doing things, and hardly anyone begrudges him that. But his son now knows that his broken leg is more important than some grandmother's shattered hip, and is likely to keep that attitude as he rises to adulthood.
That job is in Germany.
One of the main new announcement is that dotty should ship as scala 3 next year (2018).
Printed dust jackets as we have them today didn't really exist in colonial times; they're basically a 20th-century innovation. As the article points out, the early convention was for titles to be stamped horizontally. The title would have been stamped on the binding, and a plain paper wrapper covered it for protection.
http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(14)01737-0/abst...
As with most middle men, particularly commissioned sales middlemen, they inflate costs and are incentived to do so.

I seen no valid reason a flat rate of $500 to $1000 per sale is not reasonable.
Webster made just such an attempt and it was responsible for a lot of the US/UK spelling divide.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/about-us/spelling-reform
I'm pretty sure my daughter will not stop breathing if she eats a peanut. I'm also 100% certain her stomach will empty itself in a way that makes 'The Exorcist' look like a gross-out comedy in comparison. We've also seen her break out head to toe in hives. While neither is life threatening, they're also not pretty and are violent enough that her throat closing is not unimaginable.
Sure off the record a lot of things are done. But at an industry level like this?

All your private insurance allowed you to do is do what the US system allow you to do through a better healthcare insurance.

The article as far as I understand it is another extra layer on top.
My favorite response to this:

"OK, how many times have you seen a $20 bill on the sidewalk???"
mom_i_posted_it_again.jpg

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Billionaire%20Cheese%20Pizza
TimeCamp: Automatically track time for your projects and control your budget
I wouldn't be surprised if the actual production db was never properly named and was left with an example name.
Can you send me your password again, I forgot it. Also, please reply to those emails from emily - or just delete them... they are cluttering up your inbox, and I am tired of having to sort through your guys' personal crap.

Thanks
Yes private healthcare systems of course they exist in other countries. But the article is as far as I understand it about something else. It's about a layer on top of the already existing private healthcare system in the US.
> Luckily the on-call dev knew there was a recent release and was able to identify the missing where clause and added it within the hour.

Raises questions about deployment. Didn't the on-call have a previous build they could rollback to? Customers shouldn't have been left with an issue while someone tried to hunt down the bug (which "luckily" they located), instead the first step should have been a rollback to a known good build and then the bug tracked down before a re-release (e.g. review all changesets in the latest).
Came here to also suggest wallabag. Getting running on your own host is dead simple (just a few 'apt-get's and a 'make' script) and the community has made
apps for just about every platform. Also, as a limited-vision reader, the accessibility options are really well done!

I was looking for a pocket replacement due to privacy concerns and an ever growing annoyance with ads. Wallabag has a Pocket importer and the rss feeds are a really nice touch! I even put up a parser on my website to show people my starred articles: http://desandoval.net/i-am

I'll try the ebook trick. That is a really good idea! I was looking for a reason to pull out my old B&N Nook again ;)
Pay more and cut the line all day long, access to exclusive restaurants, private meet and greets with characters, etc.
Are you one of those people?
Completely agree. I didn't mean to say only the US has private healthcare. I was reading the article as an extra layer on top of the already existing private healthcare with even better access than ex my Aethna all access bla bla thing.
Do you know a good plain text warehouse inventory tool?
As much as I'm looking forward to leverage Matthias Beyer's imag libraries (text based personal information management suite) to connect my tools, I have yet to find a simple way to keep track of inventory and customer orders in plain text. At first sight, and with some imagination, this may be like a ledger, but the goods may have many properties, like an expiration date, online refs, etc ...

Warehousing and order management are typically done in bulky GUI applications. I like to know what people do to run a small business as much as possible in plain text (and without a graphical environment) in that regard. Any advice?
One example agreeing with this idea is:

In Swedish north, word for "yes" is pretty much shaped by what would be easiest sound to produce when one's lips are frozen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URgdIAz4QNg
Apple’s WWDC 2017: a Siri speaker, iOS 11, and what else to expect
Those are the exceptions, not the rule.
>This is the sort of thing that ends up with rich people swinging from lamp posts.

i don't understand why smart-ish people keep repeating this. there will never be another revolution in a first-world (western) nation. it's just not happening.
Not in Canada. In Canada, this would be illegal.
Horror stories from Data Science interviews
Key feature of cellular networks is mobility and if the user interaction is needed it would make it unwieldy
Don’t pay the for-loop tax
Ha, you got me there. I was actually thinking "am I missing something? Why does a good one (2000) follow after another good one (98SE)...
David Enrich wrote The Spider Network about the manipulation of Libor in the 2007-ish era that resulted in a long prison sentence for the trader Tom Hayes (who may have Aspergers').

Libor like 'gentleman's agreements' depend on a shared understanding of the barriers. Tough if you don't see barriers...
"It isn't safe to take someone at face value once they can buy a PR firm without blinking."

Well I agree with that. But it seems like you're saying that there's literally no evidence in the world that can convince you that your cynical view of them is wrong, which is a pretty hard position to hold IMO.
OTOH, one could argue that damage/theft/etc. to a home could involve much larger sums of money and be less easily resolved with a check from the middleman handling the rental--especially if it's not specifically a rental property.

Another issue with car sharing is that a fair bit of the depreciation is going to be mile-based rather than time-based. A "good" renter is going to put fairly minimal wear and tear on a bedroom. A good car renter is still going to put miles on a car.

Once you capture that cost and add it to your profit, it's unclear to me why you'd expect to be competitive with an outfit like Zipcar which is probably a generally better experience for the renter in any case.
My thought when going around the investment communities is that the challenge is not really the quantity of information/advice, but the quality. Anyone can give stock picks. To me, I'd like to understand more about the person's track records (historical returns) before following his advice.

I started working with my colleague to build Keel to facilitate the verified information flow. People who are selling their stock/fund ideas on Keel will have to integrate directly with their personal brokerages. This way, users who are looking to follow credible ideas can see not only the historical returns, but also the real buy/sell activities.

Working around brokerages is challenging but I believe transparency is an important missing piece in all of the online/offline sources of investment advice. Hope this will help those who offer credible ideas shine, and save time and money for those who look for advice. And (here comes to the self-promote part), if you think this is interesting, check it out: https://keel.io

Of course, if you don't think it's interesting, still let us know how we can make it more interesting to you!
I have a feeling the CTO was actually one of those "I just graduated bootcamp and started a website, so I can inflate my title 10x" types.
Yeah, there's certainly some people who would like to make a living on books and speaking, but every single one of them that I know of has a job as an iOS (or macOS) developer of some sort and no one's even in the range where they can pretend that maybe one day they'll be able to quit their day job.