skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$50k in RSUs annually is a decent target for a mid-level engineer (non-management). With overlap of grants after the first year and price appreciation of the stock, you can imagine how this can grow.

That said, I think Amazon has some unfriendly vesting terms compared to the SFBA-based companies I'm more familiar with.
Stuart Halloway said "Datomic is not and will not be open source" in the latest defn podcast, so don't hold your breath. Hopefully they change their mind.
They seem to be focused on a cloud (managed?) solution offering at the moment.
There is support for automatic certificate rotation in the recently released 1.7. Pretty sure this was also in 1.6, albeit as an experimental alpha feature:

http://blog.kubernetes.io/2017/06/kubernetes-1.7-security-ha...
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I believe the $75k minimum salary is for non-skilled jobs (the point being, if you're in a non-skilled but 'high' paying role we're still interested in you). The minimum salary for skilled jobs is $50k [1][2]

That and I doubt you would find many people working at F&P Healthcare that earn less than $75k.

[1] https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/media-centre/news-n...
[2] https://www.immigration.govt.nz/employ-migrants/hire-a-candi...
However there are other uses for oil other than gasoline like jet fuel, asphalt for roads, making plastics.
Agreed that it's unfair to call it a failure. GoPro is what most people think of when you suggest filming something sports-related. They made a product which does what it says it does, and has become a very recognizable brand for action filming. Nothing lasts forever, I'd mark their efforts a success.
If marketing were really about "product discovery" there would just be a yellow pages for all products and we'd call it a day.

It is a zero sum game of trying to get a manipulate a consumer to like your product over another.
Yikes; usually one really bad experience that costs me more than $100 or so is enough to sour me on a company/service entirely, full stop. You are much more patient than I would've been.
> organic certified

That may be a use case, but the large majority of grown food is not organic-certified. Does it make sense for such productions?
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Not unless someone 'creates' another source of organic fertilizer because there won't be enough to go around.

You'd still have a need for insecticides although GMO's continue to reduce the need. But there's awesome potential for agchemical sales to go down and I say that as a former salesman of them.
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I haven't thought it through, but feedback lets you do a few (perhaps connected?) things: 1. explore a trade-off between gain and bandwidth, 2. Reject disturbances and nonlinearities.

So you could have a high gain but "low precision" (in the sense of deviating from an ideal, not in the sense of not being noisy) component, and through feedback you can make a low gain, high precision (having desired properties, not low noise) component.
I'm not sure if I understand your main thrust, but running data through a trained NN can be done in relatively few operations - it is training the network which takes a lot of compute resources.
I think it's likely that the brain violates the Church-Turing thesis. It doesn't seem possible that a Turing machine can produce subjective/conscious experience. This strongly limits our ability to make a synthetic brain via solely computation.

Update:

I'm not sure I'd say supernatural. I think consciousness is different in kind from the rest of how we understand the universe to work. It seems likely that it's a fundamental property of the universe.

I see this all pretty much the same way that the philosopher David Chalmers does. He probably does a better job of explaining it than me. It's worth looking at his thinking on the matter.
I think modern hardware is "recursive" in the relevant sense.

In an ethereal sense sense every Turing complete machine is recursive, because by definition you can implement another Turing complete VM on it. CPUs with kernel/user separation took it further by allowing vanilla instructions to run on bare metal within a virtual world defined by the kernel. Modern CPU virtualisation features extend this to the control instructions that an OS would use.

What else can you ask for?
We've been running a small Kubernetes cluster of < 30 nodes that handles a variety of workloads using kops for almost a year now. kops is a significant improvement over other provisioning tools like kube-up.sh and kube-aws and has simplified infrastructure management a great deal. We can provision a brand new cluster and a couple dozen services across multiple namespaces in less than an hour - kops helps a lot with making that process smooth and reliable.

We have run into some issues with kops. Customizing the Kubernetes executables, e.g. using a particular Docker version or storage driver, has been buggy pre-1.5. Upgrading clusters to later Kubernetes versions has left some of the kube-system services, like kube-dns, in a weird state. Occasionally we encounter issues with pods failing to schedule/volumes failing to mount - these are fixed by either restarting the Kubernetes (systemd) services on the problem nodes or by reprovisioning nodes entirely. On one occasion, a bad kops cluster update left our networking in an unrecoverable state (and our cluster inaccessible).

I don't think there are any missing pieces, the initial configuration is what usually takes the most time to set up. You'll have to become familiar with the kops source as not everything is documented. As far as running 30 clusters with a 2-person team, it's definitely feasible, just complicated when you're constantly switching between clusters.
What might have happened is that your content was getting copied and the copy was assumed to be the original.

It's happened before; there was a HN post on it. Sorry can't remember the details off-hand.
>First, why would I want to start from "2 weeks ago"? Why can't I simply start from the tip of the chain and start "writing history" as I see fit

because blocks contains transactions, not balances, and transactions are validated individually (simplified: bitcoins are sent to public keys, and to spend those coins, you need to sign "send coins to public key x" with your private key), thus ensuring that if you took control right now, you can't make arbitrary transactions, and you're stuck with the current transaction state.
Thanks for the heads up - looks like we'll be adding support very soon then :-)
> The reasons that these products fail is usually feature creep.

That's part of the reason Pebble failed; they were forced (like from pressure from VCs) to expand their business and they really over extended.

But more than that, I think Pebble was dead the moment Apple, Samsung, and the other big players jumped into the market. Pebble's first mover advantage was destroyed almost immediately by the technology and marketing might of those companies.

Software is often harder for big companies and easier for small companies. Hardware works the other way.
Thought 1: Wow, I've replaced my income

Thought 2: Or, I've doubled it.

It's easy to go for 2 for a while and then go with 1
Last week Maersk was shutdown worldwide for 24 hours, how long do you think major cities can keep going without that cargo coming in? How long can the keep going if the water or electricity supply was compromised?

As terrible as a shooting war in Korea would be, it's still a lot better than a potential full scale cyber war.
YouTube as of present day is profitable. To me, and I'm sure Google thinks the same too, the data they've amassed and are exponentially amassing far outweigh in value any notion of profits. This is about playing the long game, not focusing on quarterly earnings.
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Right? I found myself wondering what the wearable technology of 20 years ago really was. A skinny, awkward teen with a 50 pound CRT TV strapped to his back?
Anyone working for a Congress person might want to heed dreamcompiler's comment and introduce a bill to ban WiFi at all nuclear power plants.
I think you're grossly undervaluing the impact Apple has had in computing over the years. The iPhone is an engineering accomplishment, which has served to remake the way that people interact with each other.

The comparison of Apple and Tesla/SpaceX in terms of what they produce is practically apples and oranges.

I don't get why people are so quick to dismiss the accomplishments of Apple; there've been numerous technologies that they backed, which are now critical to computing today. LLVM for example (yes, technically came out of a phd), this has been huge for the computing industry as a whole... I know it's not a rocket, but the software that runs and uses the satellites is just as important as launching the satellites (and no, I have no idea if any satellites use LLVM for any compilation).
Well it was copied by zune and probably others. The part of the equation that is glossed over is iPod provided a soup to nuts media product. You didn't have to mess around MP3 or aac encoding stuff, they have a portal with a staggering amount of content that you could just click and download to your iPod.
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I have no idea about Kubernetes, all i did is copy/paste. Any good resources?
The article pointed out the inventor's book, Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics. [1] Are there any other interesting/recommended texts for this domain?

The book refers to a website that seems to have been domain squatted by GoDaddy. An alternate .net tld is present, but unfortunately uses old Java applets. [2]

1. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0071427783/ref=rdr_ext_tub

2. http://www.behaviorbasedprogramming.net/manual.html
You can reimplement 95% of the "document model" with a relational database just fine, and you'll actually come out ahead given all its advantages.

Unstructured documents are very rare. Querying arbitrarily against them even more so. For the fields that do need querying in a document, put them apart and add a few indexes and you're good. That's been my experience and I've been around a while.
In Long Ago Days, didn't governments hand out benefits that resembled corporations but that were IN EXCHANGE FOR required civic duties? Is there a Historian in the house?
How does this work WRT amazon referrals on reddit and such?
In my experience, we often ran into strange issues with Datomic- like restoring new databases with same name but different logical id, excision.. is hard, ingesting a large amount of read-only data without impacting txs, inability to have non-JVM clients- as well as the cost, opaqueness and inability to hire. We're actually going the opposite direction and wrote a replication stream to Postgres using the tx log API.
The de-acceleration between 0:10 and 0:12 is really incredible. To my eye, constant and smooth, with a hard stop once the passenger section is reached. What crumple zones are designed for, I guess, but I've never seen a better example. Thanks for sharing the video!
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Hey, that's my post! :) Actually submitted this to HN previously, but didn't get any traction. Ah, the fickleness of upvotes :)

Spent a lot of time researching for this post. What I really _wanted_ to write was the second half of Part 2 [0], where I gave my opinions on why certain usages are good ideas or bad ideas, but I realized I needed to cover a lot of background before I got there :) Was really cool reading through the original discussions and seeing the vision Dan and Andrew had for Redux from the beginning.

Hopefully this pair of posts helps clarify a lot of the discussion around Redux and its common usage patterns. Also, I'm always happy to answer questions about Redux (and React) usage, and encourage people to come by the Reactiflux chat channels on Discord [1]. Always a great place to learn and ask questions about React, Redux, and related technologies. Finally, if anyone is interested in learning React or Redux, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at [2]. Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics.

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-tao...

[1] https://www.reactiflux.com

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
it is always easier to criticize than to create
Tesla to help build world’s largest lithium ion battery for South Australia
We're still doing Kickstarter? Thought we all got burned on that AR/wifi deal and never went back.
There's no need to choose: kops uses kubeadm (not a lot of it, but more with each release), so choose kops and get kubeadm for free!

kubeadm is intended to be a building block that any installation tool can leverage, rather than each building the same low-level functionality. It isn't primarily meant for end-users, unless you want to build your own installation tool.

We want to accommodate everyone in kops, but there is a trade-off between making things easy vs. being entirely flexible, so there will always be people who can't use kops. You should absolutely use kubeadm if you're building your own installation tool - whether you're sharing it with the world or just within your company. luxas (the primary kubeadm author) does an amazing job.
And when they grow bored with it, they either dump it outside, or let their landlord deal with it when they move out. Meth, not even once.
As far as I know, the term is fine. A plant you don't want is a plant that you don't want, regardless of whether you appreciate why you should want it.
> especially considering the posts below, showing how exactly the same thing can be done trivially in Postgres.

So then where is the open source version / extension to Postgres?

How about this - I'll give you $1000 if you can give me a seamless extension on top of Postgres that has most of the functionality of Datomic.

Since it is trivial it is easy money for you.
Most subreddits don't allow Amazon referral links.
What are you talking about? PHP has been rightfully bashed ever since it was created. If anything the bashing has substantially gone down in the past years as sane array notation has been added and a lot of weirdness has gone away.
If it's any comfort, I don't think combustion engines will go anywhere. They will likely be relegated to a romantic niche, however.

It happened with vinyl and film already, most famously. They were announced to have met their end and were doomed to be but a mark in history books, yet they've found their place. A fine-tuned masterpiece of mid-20th century automotive engineering is a thing of beauty, but it's not sustainable on a vast scale anymore -- and that's what we need for transportation now. We need transport on a vast scale -- a worldwide, ubiquitous, affordable scale. Everyone needs access without harming the planet that we so happily live upon.

If it combustion engine vehicles become about beauty, they will last in some form. I hope they do.
You're implying that most articles on nytimes are written to preemtively lay support for future bills? That seems like a pretty strong statement that'd need at list a hint of evidence with it.

Has this been a pattern? Do you have examples? Are there stories that the nytimes covers that other papers don't cover that suddenly become bills? What inspired this?

Your post comes across as a lot of innuendo without providing any support... at all.
Most of the US population (and that of most other countries around the world) is concentrated in cities. So even if EV's were limited to just city driving, that would suit most people for most of the driving they do.

Electric trains exist, and they haul around way more mass than a simple truck.

As for battery charging times, why couldn't users just swap out empty batteries for fully-charged ones, and charge the empty ones while they're offline?
It's not an insurmountable limit; it's not the web framework's fault either. It's that there's not a way for a individual user to indicate to a shared system-wide webserver, "Here is the FastCGI (or whatever) socket that you should connect to, to generate dynamic content for my home directory." But certainly a way to express that could be created.
slapping a LAMP stack on it then creating a web interface

You know, that'd be really great and all, but please, please, please don't discount the potential for rampant, malicious destruction of food supply for kicks, revenge or maybe even strategy/tactics in state conflict. Consider how warlords and pirates operate in other countries and failed states.

Food security is important, and a robot that can selectively clip and gouge weeds can do the same to both critical food and cash crops too.

Furthermore, simple competition, big corporate espionage and personal differences can still affect small organic growers as well. Human factors are real, and novelty is good but it doesn't cure quite everything.
> Note that many of the working poor got themselves into that position because of their choices, generally they had a kid at 16 and dropped out of school as a result

The vast majority of teenage mothers in the United States do not choose to get pregnant and do not have the choice of terminating their pregnancy. They either do not have access to abortion providers - the majority of women in the United States do not have access to abortion clinics because of fundamentalist Christian activists and politicians: https://www.guttmacher.org/united-states/abortion/state-poli... - or they are coerced by their fundamentalist Christian parents into not having an abortion.
I guess that's one way of judging a software language's progress, sure.
We have a long history here in SA of being the first people in the world to do stuff, and it nearly never (I mean this literally) works out well.

For once, I'd love it if our ever changing State Government would just spend its limited budget on tried and tested solutions rather than pissing money up the wall on things that may or may not work.
What a strange thing to say.

I pointed out that a university professor living in a small northern city actually turns out to have taught many of the other researchers currently pushing forward the field of Reinforcement Learning. I named one professor (at University College London) as an example.

I cannot imagine how that can be interpreted as corporate worship.
This is certainly a step in the right direction for South Australia.
A drone (or tractor) with high-powered lasers? Or a 10000 psi water stream?
Most of my problems are my own. For example, I wanted a place that I could write notes and even have the freedom to use HTML and CSS on the Internet. BUT.. I wanted to not have to enter in my email address or register for an account, so I came up with a web app called MyPost ( https://mypost.io ). MyPost helps me keep track of my URLs, projects, ideas, etc., and I can easily share them with anyone, and have those people edit that very same post with just the password.

I've never advertised it, monetized it for a month before I pulled the cord on the ads because they just got annoying, but mostly just talked about it on here or Twitter, and I let everyone else do the work of spreading it. 3,000 posts later and its being used in at least a dozen countries, including U.S., Russia, Brazil, Philippines, Germany, etc. This project was my first project that taught me a lot about user-interface, databases, etc. Interesting enough: I designed it the way I would like to use it and I've never received any complaints.

I think most founders and developers get upset when their startup or idea fails to gain much traction. One of the biggest reasons for this is the fact that they, themselves, created a system to help people with a problem, without ever having that same exact problem themselves. When it comes to an issue: be selfish. Solve it for yourself first, then solve it for others.

Now I could be wrong, but lets say I'm having a problem and I create a web app to help me deal with my issue. I'm using it everyday, modifying it, making changes, expanding upon it to make it do other things. I'm immersed in it and constantly making it better. When I talk about it, I'm passionate about it and I'm happy when others get to use it. I'm currently working on some other web apps that will be subscription-based, but they too are solving problems that I have... and I'm sure I'm not the only one having problems.

I'm currently working on some reminder and communication apps.. my memory is horrible... so I'm creating useful apps that help me, remind me, and push me to get out of my lackadaisical and relaxed state of mind into a sense of urgency.

I have found that I'm far less upset, even if something doesn't gain as much traction as I would have liked, when I do it for myself and use it for myself everyday. If other people want to use it, enjoy it, and even pay for it, than that is great. If not, I'm sure they'll find some other thing that will solve their problems. I do get a daily email from http://www.oppsdaily.com/ and that shows me problems that other people face -- some are not big issues or the solution already exists, while others -- I might brainstorm on how that might be worth working on, though I think I've only ever come across one opportunity where I looked into it further and decided to do something about it.
There's a fantastic report from UK that studies what would happen to oil companies if demand decreases at the rate needed to hit 2 and 3 degrees warming.

In general, it see oil prices falling and sovereign oil selling the most since they can undercut competition for a diminishing pie (basically a fire sale). The private oil companies get super screwed, with something like 80%+ stranded assets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_bubble
Airgapping alone isn't enough, as the success of Stuxnet demonstrated.
Come on out here and propose to our average Joe the idea of buying a Tesla Model 3 for $37,000

But that's not what the article is suggesting. It is saying with electric self driving cars, you won't own your own car, it will be cheaper to simply use one exactly when you need it.
When it comes to power generation, tried and tested also means to rely on something like gas or coal fired power plant. Do not want.
Most major sites these days have a referrer policy tag in their HTML that allows at least the domain of the site to flow through. But I think they also ban accounts for posting direct Amazon affiliate links on places like Reddit anyway. Amazon is similar to Adsense in its propensity to ban and confiscate earnings without legitimate reason, and sometimes without explanation. Personally, I wouldn't waste time or money sending traffic to them. It's like building a house on quicksand. CPA networks are far more reliable if you want to be an affiliate marketer.
A "good" rating video: https://youtu.be/5Ja3UCuvNLc

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/vehicle/v/mercedes-benz/e-c...

After looking through the report, it looks like it's a bit unfair that they did two tests and reported the worst outcome of both (versus this usually just being one test). It seems the structural bit lost its rating from this format. The HIC-15 value for the head was 3x higher on the Tesla but is still fairly safe.

Edit: Found the tab for data
Those concepts don't make any sense, so it's no wonder that a serious RDMBS like Postgres doesn't support them.
Only one example from 16 years ago?