skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are 2 ways to earn profit in the equity markets: dividends and capital gains.

Dividends, or excess capital returned to investors, generally require the business to have a stable profits/revenue streams.

Capital gains, or selling your equity for more than your purchase price, generally require nothing more than functional equity markets and investors with excess capital speculating on growth industries. Software is a growth industry where products can take hold and explode almost overnight, given software's scalability and the current availability of compute and networking infrastructure.

This move from investing based on present fundamentals (dividend) vs. theoretical future potential (capital gains) is puzzling some "value investors" that have relied on P/E (price to earnings) ratios to inform decisions in the past: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-08/goldman-s...

There's plenty of capital to go around, but everyone is trying to beat the very low returns you can get on safe, theoretically "risk-free", assets, and they want to do it as quick as possible. You do that by investing early in software, and waiting for the IPO or acquisition from entrenched players.

The real question is - who is left holding the bag when banks start to write the value of their equity holdings down? A lot of pension/retirement/index funds might have a lot less to return to their clients once central banks start to tighten monetary policy and reverse QE by selling bonds back on the market and raising short term interest rates.
Feels better. But something has to be done about the overly long sidebar.
How did you select those disks? Did you just hard code a list of ASINs to query through their API or is this done by scraping Amazon front-end?
> How many people were buying Fujitsu, Samsung and HGST drives before the acquisitions?

People? Not sure. But I was seeing a ton of Fujitsu and HGST drives in Dell and Apple stuff.
Well, it's like that:

You have to be employed for at least 12 months in the last two years AND you have to be fired. Then you get 12 months long 60% of your last salary.

If you quit by yourself (like me) you only get 9 months benefits.
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I don't mean to be all, "ugh," but syntax should be at the top. Looking at that shot, as opposed to the one in the blog post, it will be common for syntax sections to fall off the bottom of the screen, "below the fold." This will make it less useful than sites that don't require the user to scroll to get the most basic information, such as method signatures, and MDN will continue to be a second choice.

OK, that all got a little sharp, but I do wonder what "design language" (per the blog post) is steering their information design.
> So, if we’ve already got ~40 milliseconds of round-trip network latency in the first place, will our users be able to perceive the difference in a web application which renders a response in 1 millisecond or 100 milliseconds? That is, one application will take 41 milliseconds in total and the other 141.

Yes. Definitely. Absolutely. The users will perceive the difference. This is a slowdown of over 3X. If you're loading resources (in a variety of synchronous batches of asynchronous requests) for your web application, these slowdowns compound significantly.

Of course, the design of the web application plays a huge role, but assuming the worst (every user action triggers a request), a 3X slowdown is perceived by a variety of users.
That is going to be an issue with any project with many developers that uses a popular framework irregardless of the language. It is very difficult to keep quality code hygiene with that many people touching a project. The key is compartmentalization: multiple applications, libraries, etc.
Priced equity means you're actually transferring ownership of shares. It's going to involve a lot of diligence and negotiation around rights, etc.

The short answer: lawyer time.
well, yeah.

There are doctors who, for example, treat your kidneys. They never need to prescribe opioids.

There are doctors who perform surgeries, and prescribe a week of pain killers for recovery.

There are doctors who manage chronic pain. (Often anesthesiologists by specialty, hence that list is all pain management specialists and anesthesiologists.)

How is this surprising? Frankly, if the numbers are accurate (5% prescribe 60%), I'm tempted to think it's not concentrated enough-- sounds like docs of type 1 and 2 should knock it off.

But, what is this number "opioid prescriptions?" Is a script for 1 week of meds a 1:1 unit with a script for a month or 3 months? If you're using medicaid/medicare/insurance payer data, then probably, meaning these numbers do not reliably proxy amount of drugs or number of people receiving them.

By all means, we need to pay attention to the problems with opioids. But context-free clickbait numbers are a really bad place to start.
Still no Wayland with Nvidia drivers. Yes, I have read perhaps too much about GBM/EGLStream debate, but right now I am out of luck with my GTX1080 :(

(And, frankly, Wayland guys are wrong and Nvidia is right.)
I took his class in college and it is one of the few decisions I completely regret in life.

The point he makes in the book is in fact very interesting (essentially, the lifepaths of creative individuals fall into two discernible categories: innovators, whose main contributions are early in the career and slowly fade, and those who slowly master a craft, whose most noteworthy contributions come later in life), and the techniques he marshals to study it in different context noteworthy, but it would have made for a great two week class. Instead, Galenson spent the entire time basically assigning everything he ever wrote -- which made the same point over, and over, and over again -- and constantly berated students who tried to respectfully dialogue with him.

Sorry, didn't mean to hijack your post, but every mention I see of him just elicits this visceral reaction in me and I just needed to get it off my chest.
I once scanned myself at a maker fair in a similar manner. A swimming pool of blue dye with a camera facing above was used so that objects could be scanned by looking at their outline in the blue dye as they were dipped in(a different approach to the volume transforms presented here). Now to do this with a person involved strapping that person to a board and slowly dunking them in. Overall, the experience was unpleasant and what I imagine waterboarding is like, but hey at least I got a 3d scan of myself.
Short answer: attorneys.

When you do a priced round, you have to go in and change many aspects of a company's legal structure. For example, the documents drafted in a priced round may include amendments to the charter, a voting agreement, a stock purchase agreement, a right of first refusal agreement, a shareholder agreement. Drafting the legal docs for a convertible note or SAFE is less intensive and time consuming.
Visual Studio Code 1.14 released
Python in Engineering – Modeling the Physical World
Yep, and the article does propose boredom as a possble cause BUT the data seems like excluding it being the major factor.

>In this case, however, boredom was not the answer – at least not entirely. Students who reported lower interest in the class did tend to have lower exam scores, but this relationship did not account for the relationship between internet use and exam performance.
I realize many will say Ruby is fast enough.

But if you're a web developer, why WOULDNT you just develop your next net new project in Phoenix/Erlang instead of Rails/Ruby?

Phoenix has most of the development bedofits of Rails, yet way better performance and scalability.

Seems like a win-win. You get a Rails like development environment without any downside of perf.
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Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street in 1908– A Breakdown of Life in New York
Wow. I wonder if that page actually has the intended overall effect. I've never seen this site before, but the actual content seems useful and (perhaps unsurprisingly) well presented. That said, hijacking me to another page to condescendingly nag me (and not even including a link back to the content I was originally linked to) really puts me off. I really think that the kind of people the author claims to want money from would be better reached by simply making it easy to donate.
Agreed it wont end middle people but What if the BlockChain middle person is faster cheaper and more secure.
Many hiring managers will be carrying around at least some latent racism from previous interactions with offshored developers that worked out as well as a car crash.
Ask HN: How to get software development contract jobs?
Hey Everyone. My name is Peter Kalvin, I'm the CEO of Konstruktor Online. We build beautiful, simple, performant mobile and web applications, that makes users happy.

We are team of 14 developers based in Budapest, Hungary, focusing on Ruby on Rails, React, React Native and Golang.

We already have a nice portfolio of products that we developed from ground up. We have mainly clients from Switzerland and Hungary. What do you guys suggest where we should start? We haven't done any sales in the last 2 years, because our current clients providing us way enough stuff to develop, but we want to expand and look for new clients, interesting projects. We are completely okay with travelling and remote contracting, because we already did this a lot in Switzerland. How we should start prospecting? Maybe PPC? Google Adwords? Facebook Ads?

Kindly thanks so much for your help.

Peter
https://konstruktor.online/
Not OP, but maths, maths again, and still more maths.

Type systems, algorithm proof, complexity, boolean logic...

And if we go into CS applications: games are maths, bioinformatics is maths, accounting is maths, ...

Or in the implementation: electronics, semi-conductors physic, eletrical engineering, ...
> if you think you can manage and allocate resources better than your government.

This phrase gets used from time to time to give some moral or net efficiency argument for avoiding taxes. I don't think it's useful. A corporation and government have completely different responsibilities and constituencies. Of course Apple can allocate resources better for Apple than the government would choose to, because Apple has no duty to care about most of the issues the government is tasked with.

> And rest assured: somebody always does.

We only have to consider the bizarrely inefficient US healthcare system compared to the rest of the developed world to see that 'always' is not true.
> Languages aren’t dying based on their concurrency or performance features alone.

I'm afraid this is going to be more and more about which languages run on serverless platforms. Those companies decide which languages win.

Example: AWS Lambda is still Nodejs, Python and Java. We can hack about any language into it (I did with mruby), if we make Python or Nodejs exec it, but it's not worth the effort.
This confirms what I remember. A 3D modeller I worked with was deeply upset when Maxtor took over Quantum as the 2Gb SCSI disks that were carried around at the time were LaCie, apparently with Quantum disks which were allegedly the best for replaying video frames. At the time I did not know LaCie was owned by Quantum. Back then there wasn't the internet to quickly Google brands so you only had marketing information to go on.
Most interesting, engaging class I have ever had was Philip Greenspun's short database class at MIT. All day for three days, a cycle of ~15 minute lecture, ~15 minute problem sets worked by each student on their own laptop, ~15 minutes of reviewing student solutions (and, if needed, presenting the "correct" solution).

I imagine that many classes could be presented in a similar format. I also imagine it would be a lot of work on the part of the educators to do this.
All the time: virtual machines.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. Jam packed with ideas crucial to the next 100-150 years. I reference these the way more insufferable people reference Ayn Rand.
Forming an opinion like this, based on assumptions due to lack of information, isn't a way to move forward.

Do you want me to review what we have?
19 Eponymous Laws of Software Development (2007)
That's really good. I like the "good excuse" if someone is being pushy over stealth mode approach.
That's a cop out. If your actions reasonably cause harm to other people, regardless if those actions are "calling attention to" or actually pulling the trigger, that's a moral evil.

If someone goes around the town telling everyone that you leave your door unlocked, while they can't be legally held responsible, they're still morally responsible if someone goes in and steals your stuff armed with that knowledge.

Companies fixing their stuff before that happens is in everyone's best interests at the end of the day - hence responsible disclosure.
I have about 3TB of SSD on my workstation. It's about 3/4 full of builds. They're often staging branches of one kind or another, where the features I'm working on can be worked on in isolation.

When I worked at Microsoft, I had several TB of spinning disk. Management was too bloody cheap to buy SSDs ("If we buy you one, we have to buy everyone an SSD..."). I calculated that my lost time was costing enought for Microsoft to buy me a complete new insanely high-end workstation every three or four months, complete with monitors. Insanity.

I wound up buying my own hardware in that group, on several occasions. That was terrible.
I completely agree it would be more laborius, including the beginner.

Maybe I didn't make my point clearly. I'm not arguing against the use of notation or symbols. I'm asking whether Greek specifically is slowing learning down or intimidating people from starting. I'm asking whether learning the symbols with the concepts is the most efficient way to learn math, not whether it's the most efficient way to do math.

Maybe the laborious way is better if more people are comfortable starting that way, and easing more slowly into symbolic syntax.

Maybe there's a more compelling story about math that will get more people interested in it than teaching what symbols do.

If Greek is intimidating enough that many people never start, it doesn't matter how actually laborious the symbols are or not, the battle is lost.
This is indeed a politicized topic, and moderation is hard, but FWIW I see no issue with the parent comment. The point has been discussed here before using similar terms.[1][2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13360522#13360887

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111531#7113442
They go through quality boom-and-bust cycles. They had an excellent shared universe of Warehouse 13 and Eureka a number of years ago.
It's like we never left the Middle Ages, when books were expensive and the point of lecturing was to read the book, which was the only book, or one of a few, to students, who'd then copy it down in their notebooks so they'd have at least a copy of what was in the book.

These days, despite the textbook publishers' best efforts, the information is freely available (up until you run into paywalled research papers, but that's at a whole different level from undergrad work, mostly) but the lecture format has barely changed.
I've dropped Rails for new projects and I'm using Elixir/Phoenix exclusively now. Too many benefits to list out here, but probably my favorite feature is Elixir's pattern matching. Also running my test suite in 1.4 seconds always makes me smile.
Agreed its a little weird, but if you look at best sellers the first Toshiba is on the 3rd page.

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Internal-Har...
Yes, that is true and in that sense it is not that surprising but I do not think that is why most people live in cities. And I do those things too when I visit cities, but am happy when I can go home. Matter of taste for sure.

Edit: also age maybe. Needs change during life. I know enough people who 'would never leave the city' for all the reason you cite and now claim they will never go back.
It kinda works. Font scaling in Gnome .24 allows for fractional coefficients, and it works for 98% of cases (I have a single HiDPI display; I have heard it doesn't work as well for multiple displays).
Leverage your Rails knowledge and jump onto greener pastures with Elixir/Phoenix.
One year I lived from the benefits, 60% were about 1600€ a month. Got this for 9 months, which made about 14k€. I also had about 18k€ in savings, back in the days and a month cost me about 1k€. So I could have done this without benetifs, but it was nicer with.
Nice work. I was a bit confused by the background video of someone apparently playing a video game. I didn't even realize this was for people who film their own live videos at first.

Perhaps you could focus on what the hobbyist broadcaster imagines being a professional broadcaster might look like (camera crew, nice lighting… I'm not the target here so not exactly sure what that would be).
Because Phoenix's library ecosystem is probably 3% of the size of Rails'.
Their fates were not determined by the other's superior technology but rather by the other's inferior social values that now, at last, we know are horrendous.
Article is obnoxiously long and borderline idiotic. Dude spends way too long talking about way too much stuff, and in scanning the words all I saw was fluff. TL;DR, nonsense, typical Medium blog
How are you planning to pay for webscale computational resources?..
and perhaps better prices and service for customers.
Yup. If Ruby is good enough for Github, Soundcloud, and many many other large-scale companies, Ruby is good enough for anyone. Knowing what the hell you're doing is half the battle. I've heard places convert from a Ruby stack to Java, and a lot of it was just to hide the fact that the programmers didn't know what the hell they were doing.
I generally agree with your comment but have specific disagreements with two parts:

Its hard to explain, or even to grasp, how fundamental basic arithmetic is to almost everything in math.

I disagree. Not hard to explain at all. Point the person at a page of geometry problems and say, "Imagine struggling with 90 + 90 at the same time as you struggle with the concepts here." Point the person at a page of polynomials to factor and say, "Imagine trying to do these if you hadn't memorized basic multiplication facts." And so on.

I still believe that the long division algorithm taught isn't so useful.

At the risk of not knowing precisely which algorithm you're talking about, I can't imagine one that doesn't work by taking a large/hard division problem and breaking it down into small/easy division problems. And that's useful because it's a great example of what math does for your thinking.

To be specific, I think the important principle math teaches is that, when faced with a big, hard problem, break it down into smaller, easier problems. I would rather describe math as a "learn how to break down problems" discipline rather than use the vague and pretentious "learn how to think" description. All areas of education help your thinking.
i dont know why people fail to understand. most of the slowness is not the language but the code.

for instance, raw php is really fast but apps like magento and wordpress slows it down to a crawl, more slower than a typical rails app.

depends per project but usually the slowness comes mostly from the abstraction with the db layer. where this means the latency to the db needs to be factored in to the benchmarks as well as to see if there are any lighter ORMs that can be used.
Safe AND Lazy: Automated Code Generation with GenKit
I think this is a highly personal topic. As a student myself i find a laptop in class is very nice, i can type my notes faster, and organize them better. Most of my professors lectures are scatter brained and i frequently have to go back to previous section and annotate or insert new sections. With a computer i just go back and type, with a pen and paper i have to scribble, or write in the margins. Of course computers can be distractions, but that is the students responsibility, let natural selection take its course and stop hindering my ability to learn how i do best (I am a CS major so computers are >= paper to me). If you cannot do your work with a computer, then don't bring one yourself, dont ban them for everyone.
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Intel launches its new precious metal Xeon platform
Interesting! Glad you are having a positive experience. Is your E560 using Intel graphics or AMD? I believe these models come with both.
Watch as the language and framework vultures descend on this thread...
There's a less-edited version here:

http://archive-server.liveatc.net/ksfo/KSFO-Twr2-Jul-08-2017...

The action starts at about 14:45. I suspect there isn't much silence removed in this particular area, so 40 seconds may be close to the actual time.

I haven't been able to find a pure unedited version. They may not be saved.
The post mentions updating the "design language" of the site, is there a description of that language anywhere?
AFAIK Toshiba is the smallest one of the 3, it is not their primary business, and there's a high likelihood of their HDD business being sold off to one of the 2 big ones in the near future.
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