skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole point of venture investing is that you are playing in that realm. You won't get far in venture fundraising if you are stating that you would take a <100M exit. Regardless of how rare.
Memorizing a log table is a heck of a lot better bang for the buck than memorizing square roots, cube roots, etc.
Econ is still the most popular major at every ivey league school.

And CS isn't even in the top ten among all colleges. Overall CS is an order of magnitude smaller than business adminstration.
I think most people pay their balance off every month in the USA. Credit card doesn't mean borrowing. The big problem with credit cards in China is fraud: banks like ICBC will put the burden of proof on the card holder when a fraud transaction occurs, rather than the merchant as in the west. I really hate ICBC.

Anyways, debit cards work just like QR pay does, just like UnionPay already does. The problem QR codes are solving is the lack of a POS terminal and stream lining the swipe. Many countries have an even better technology in NFC contact (including China, many newer UnionPay POS's include NFC, though the card must have a chip to support it). Then you could just glue your debit card to the back of your phone...(or use NFC in your phone via something like Apple or Android Pay).
This is featured (with scenes from the digital full-motion exhibit) in the "Golden Age" episode of Michael Wood's The Story of China[0].

[0] http://www.pbs.org/show/story-china/
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> peddles pricy products and overuses the word “empower” while dabbling in many forms of pseudoscience and quackery—everything from homeopathy to magic crystals and garden-variety dietary-supplement nonsense.

Just like there is an industry advantage of the poor segments of the population - lottery, liquor stores, cash advance places, rent to own, etc. There is a parallel industry geared for the wealthy. It is specifically designed appeal to them, to stroke their ego. It can't sell something that's a necessity so it was brilliant to focus on that just a little extra "feel a bit better", "be empowered".

It really is an art.

> Similarly, Goop has also recommended vaginal steam cleaning, which is

And as if Hollywood and pop culture in general hasn't done enough damage, just couldn't resist preying on the insecurity and tell women their bodies are yucky. Someone evil there went through the use cases and the detailed analysis and decided that no matter how wealthy or successful, that's one thing they could tap into and monetize.

The scheme was probably supposed to includes its own insurance against a lawsuit - embarrassment. Which powerful or wealthy woman is going to launch a lawsuit against them saying they've been hurt by this product?

The homeopathy bit in there is also not random. It is designed to filter through only clients who would think that stuff works. That's a bit like scammers claiming they are all from Nigeria. It's a counter intuitive bit but it's very important.

You gotta wonder how much are these celebrities involved in these scheme. It is hands off just someone managing their wealth or are they all micromanaging. I know someone who worked for one of the well known Hollywood celebrities and you'd be surprised how different they are in private compared to their on screen persona.
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>Yes, and replace the word "human" with horse", and tell me the invention did not have a dramatic impact on the population that was doing the work.

Humans are incomparable to horses. Horses cannot buy automobiles. They do not have property rights, or the capability to utilize them.
i have no problem with accepting cash, just when its cash only. Or at least don't scam people when they want to withdraw 20 EUR from a bank that is not their with 5 EUR fee.

Sometimes i just don't have cash on me and when i learn i can't pay for the 40 EUR dinner i just had by card and have to go look for an ATM, it's just annoying.
I'm talking about ordering an ultra sound / MRI and running other tests.

I'm talking about sinuses so collapsed they couldn't be scoped so the ENT Dr just assumed they were fine.
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I was wondering who he thinks a programmer is?
To add to this: it's not just low transactions fees for the merchant, it's cheaper payments for the customer as well.

Both Alipay and WeChat have spent billions subsidizing and discounting. Go into a restaurant in Beijing and there's a good chance you could get 10 or 15% off your bill by paying with WeChat.

So given that it's both cheaper for the merchant and cheaper for the customer it's no surprise it has taken off so much.
When I lived to Switzerland, I was pretty surprised my debit card (Maestro) couldn't work on credit card networks (Master Card, heck, the logos looked almost the same!).

I'm surprised Germany is so far behind switzerland though, I mean, even when I lived there 10 years ago I could use my debit card via chip in a kiosk and have my train ticket very quickly.

I don't think standard Beijing city buses take wepay yet. You still hand over paper bills to the conductor or use your beijing transit NFC card.
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The Nordic countries also have that distinction, indeed credit cards are often charged 1-3% in fees, while debit cards are usually free.

That hasn't prevented the demise of cash, and MobilePay, Swish etc are popular for personal and commercial transactions.

The RFID card works on all public transport all across Denmark. Sweden has regional systems. I don't know about elsewhere.

The leader for this is London, where any contactless payment card works on public transport.
Also, $70,000 is meaningless unless you specify your location. There are places in the world where you can live like absolute royalty on $70k/year. There are places where $70K will get you an extremely comfortable life with no need to budget. There are places where $70K is solidly working/middle class. And there are places where $70K qualifies you as low income.
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We could be mining gold instead with the energy.
For me these are the best places not to compromise...

First: shoes, jacket, headphones.

Then: bed, computer, stereo.

Then: floor, kitchen, bathroom.

Then: tools, truck, yard, garden, grill.

Last: a good view and plenty of time to enjoy it.

Always remember above all else good health and good friends are worth pursuing.
Put this write-up together over the course of the last 3 months when everyone started talking about getting VPN's. I know there's a lot of folks here building the "next best thing" on the Internet. Would be good if we started thinking about the privacy implications of our map-reduced, low-latency, high availability, machine learning algorithms.

Cheers!
Kinda, I needed a new card to power two 4k monitors for my office setup. Needed it that day, so amazon was out of the question. All the local stores had 1060s for basically what 1080s run at. Ended up just buying a 1080 for a few bucks more, because why not. Apparently the 1060s are really good for ethereum...
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I've gotten some of them irritated, not on purpose, but it ended up them being quite angr, yelling new and interesting expletives I had never heard before, I took it as an enriching cultural exchange with country all the way across the globe. But then I started to wonder if they'd just go and add my number to some "please call me" database in revenge.
> To me, what you described is an app that was not designed to be easy to test component-by-component & will have a high overhead on maintenance. Apple’s restriction on virtualising MacOS seems unrelated to how the app was architected, so it feels unfair to expect Apple to alter their position to better support something they weren’t responsible for.

We have complex commercial apps with fully automated user interface tests (e.g. it'll test that you can enter your username + password, actually login and you'll be able to see content). You could test all the individual components as much as you want but you're still going to get bugs at the UI layer that you can automatically test for.

We do the same for Android and CI for that is so much simpler.

> Apple’s restriction on virtualising MacOS seems unrelated to how the app was architected, so it feels unfair to expect Apple to alter their position to better support something they weren’t responsible for.

You'd think they'd want to support workflows that led to better quality apps being created. Surely it's their responsibility to support developers?
It's easy to build a lifestyle that you feel is "essential" while spending almost any amount of cash. Some people continue to sit in those meetings so they can continue paying for a very expensive lifestyle.
0.1x could still be above average

http://wiki.c2.com/?NetNegativeProducingProgrammer
A friend of mine who graduated with honors from an Ivy econ program moved to Palo Alto and went into PE. I asked him why he didn't go into VC in the heart of venture capital.

He replied that PE was as close as you could get to formulaically printing money while seed-stage (and even later) VC was more like splattering paint at a wall and seeing what sticks, and that the former suited his personality better.

An interesting comparison; food for thought.
because they found cancer and removed it, in addition to doing things like ordering tests, like ultrasounds to find out why a shoulder was in pain instead of just dismissing it.

Once my mother in law was given nitro and told to come back in a week, we went to a different hospital later that night after symptoms reappeared and then they did a test and she had open heart surgery that night.
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They most definitely have not abandoned Proof of Stake
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Went to the donut shop, got a $1.50 donut with a credit card, no minimums here in LA. This NYC place sounds fairly strange.

I lived in Beijing for 9 years. It changed much since then, but the tech brought out was solving mostly local problems with local solutions. When I started living there, I used to pay for rent by withdrawing 20K or so RMB from the ATM machine (in 100 bills), loading it into a bag, then giving it the landlord. I never did that in the USA before, never had to, it wasn't the problem the USA had. Now I can use Wepay, oh, or I can go to the bank and do a direct funds transfer (as a foreigner, I could never get ebanking setup).

> If every American had to fly to Tokyo or Seoul for a week, I think we'd put up less with our failing infrastructure.

All of these places have their own thing. Don't get confused and think that the problems they are solving are much better than the ones we are. I've had plenty of trouble in Tokyo that I wouldn't experience in the states (dammit, streets should have names!), they are just different.
Success in anything challenging gives you confidence in your ability to shape your own life. Success helps you avoid "victim thinking" and gives you a greater ability to take risks. That in turn is an _opportunity_ to be happy, although there are plenty of successful-but-miserable people out there. It doesn't have to be success at work though - could be success in a hobby.
But that's the thing: places which fit those requirements usually run some IBM solution (AS/400 and the likes). I've never encountered VMS in production before, so I'm really curious to some concrete examples of companies using it.
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I'm truly happy:

My quality of life improves constantly albeit quite slowly because that's something I work on. I found work that's challenging and rewarding without being stressful. I am working towards a long-term plan and it's going quite well.
Don't chase "success". Chase happiness. If you chase success, you're chasing a moving goal post. You will never truly be happy until you get content. Your frustration may come from the fact that you have high expectations for yourself. Slow down and enjoy the little things, that morning coffee, that lunch with friends, etc. Chase every work opportunity and do work hard, but don't chase success to obtain a state of permanent happiness.

The fact is, money in a bank account, once you get enough to live, is just digits. Add a 0 at the end of it, that doesn't make you happy. And shopping therapy is a very short fix.

I find I'm much happier running projects with 0 expectations of deriving $ value. E.g. free games, free software, happy hacks. Once money is involved, expectations jump.
> For merchants taking WeChat pay, the transaction fee seems to be a flat 0.6%, compared to 2%-3% in the U.S.

Where the heck is 3% even allowed in the USA?

> However, it's quite difficult to argue that taking out the phone, unlock it, open the app and show the QR code is easier than using a card in the western world.

Tapping the card to the NFC terminal is super easy. You don't even need to take your card out of the wallet if its in front.
Are you referring to the 2->3 breakage, which was years ago and obviously breaky due to the change in major version, or is there regular breakage within the 3.x releases?
21st century ;).
> Fill us in; why did they fail?

That would take a book. Or at least a lot more blog posts.
Replace the word "car" with segway and this article seems like a repeat of claims of entire cities having to be redesigned around this marvelous new invention.
It's the whole point of patents. You want me to give you a list of patent lawsuits? :) Google is your friend.
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As an aside, I got a $60 Xiaomi Mi box and love it. It has Netflix, runs Android and is a Chromecast client (you can send videos to it). It's about the same price as a Chromecast for a ton more functionality, I highly recommend it.

I haven't tried the Roku/Fire etc though, so they may be good too.
I have good news for you! Android (which never had a JVM) Lollipop replaced its old runtime Dalvik with ART, which is on around 1.5B devices. ART actually compiles Android's bytecode to ELF, though Android calls their variant OAT.

OAT, in turn, is a playful anagram of AOT, because what Android now does is even more powerful than the JVM or ELF. Android includes a JIT but it also does nightly profile guided optimizations. So not only does Android perform the preloading optimization you mention for ELF but as the user continues to use their apps Android will continue to optimize the compiled binaries.
> Cash will never die.

I wouldn't say never. It can be marginalized to the point that it becomes annoying for vendors to rely on it and all you need is a little bit of regulatory push to stop cash. By then, most shoppers would not care enough to protest.

As for drug dealers... what can I say... i don't think their needs will be taken into account and as far as I know, bitcoin is already working for them in that regard.
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Lets just say... a weekend trip to Colorado definitely helps me with quality of life, and I certainly don't mind spending some money when I go there.
You might want to take a closer look who proposed this before being so dismissive.
Cash is still accepted.

I used Kuai Didi without the payment option easily enough, just hail a taxi with the app, pay the meter with cash, simple easy done.

Many merchants take credit cards, ATM machines are pretty ubiquitous now. By no means do you need Wepay to survive.
It really depends on the phrasing of it. "I'm confused, why on earth did you write that web app in perl in 2017?" does certainly come across as condescending. "I'm confused, we don't usually use perl. What's the benefit here?" opens it up for a discussion.

The secret, I've found, is to assume that everyone is doing their best with what they've got. Everyone has a different set of information, background, experience, etc. Maybe you'll have an opportunity to teach them something; maybe they'll have an opportunity to teach you something.
You're not naive but realistic.
As incredible as it sounds, it seems to be common. 2 out of my last 3 (tech, software) jobs featured mandatory timesheet reporting for salaried employees. One of them even had a fingerprint scanner at each door you were required to use so that you didn't "cheat".
> Many countries have an even better technology in NFC contact

NFC isn't "better technology", just different to QR code. NFC also handles 1 payer at a time whereas QR can handle multiple, in parallel depending on the physical display size.
Neither C++ or Rust has any characteristic that would make it slower than C. It's all up to what is your existing codebase, and what kind of experts you have. Also, both languages can mix with C. For example, the Linux Kernel could also accept C++ code easily if they wanted, but it's a conscious decision not to do so. So, yeah, C is not the only option.
That can't be right, I was told this was the best place to find remote jobs.
Improvement of life quality to spent money ratio, order by desc, two categories:

cheap things:

- a comfortable bed and a high quality bedding,

- a computer screen, mouse and keyboard,

- regular cleaning service in my home,

- books

expensive, but greatly improving my life quality:

- skiing,

- my family,

- a comfortable and well designed house.
Alternatively, you could have nine 5s and a 1 and you have an average of 4.6 with 90% above average.
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The fact that the companies that sell these ads are wildly profitable suggests otherwise.
Generally speaking, any slowdown in economic activity will lead to a slowdown in global warming. The question is always: is the new equilibrium better or worse for all involved? (Think of the unemployed)

I think a better metric would be $GDP / ton CO2 to see who's efficient and who's not. Unfortunately, GDP numbers are not really standardized, at least countrys' individual way of calculation GDP varies greatly.
I like doing this kind of estimation via binary logs expressed in base 12.

17 is a bit over 5·5·2/3, which is a bit under 2^(1.4 + 1.4 + 1 – 1.7) = 2^4.1 [base 12], now to take the square root we get 2^2.06 ~ 4·35/34 [base 10], but we want something a bit higher, so for a round number to cancel the 4 we can guess 4·33/32 = 33/8 [base 10].
> I don't find free services that show me ads I can easily ignore scary.

Please tell me how to ignore google search and google maps.
Haha I love this statement. So true.
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Glad you liked the video.

Regarding...

"On the other side Boeing pay them money so they can proceed to mine."

Perhaps you know more about Boeing's business arrangements than me, but I certainly couldn't verify that that's true. From what little I know, it's possible Boeing's aluminium suppliers work exclusively for Boeing, but it's also possible these same aluminium suppliers have multiple customers. The point being, there could be people who work as part of the chain to produce and transport the aluminium who have no idea who will eventually use it.
It would be true in an ideal world, but in practice governments of different countries can and do regulate what can and cannot be done with bitcoins. Most of this is based on fear of losing control.
You haven't done your research, because ETH did not abandon PoS, and permission-less distributed databases have existed since the 70s and failed then for the same reason all these will fail now - you simply cannot scale and keep it distributed, it all ends up getting centralized to a few key points because of the cost to maintain the exponentially-growing distributed infrastructure.
One of the things that was interesting about reaching this level of wealth is having personal relationships with people at these companies before they became rich, and then seeing what they did after they became rich.

A few, many in senior management, live for the thrill of the hunt. They want to find their competitor, beat the crap of them, watch them slowly die, bury them, and then dig up the corpse and do it again just to make sure their competitor is really dead. I get why these people stay in the game. Getting a metric ton of money is just a by-product of the hunt. They reminded me of this Conan [1] clip.

Some of them, like me, just decided that they had enough and wandered off the ranch and did their own thing.

Some of them, as you point out, just have a lifestyle expectation that requires a large amount of income. This prevents them from accumulating the capital to become financially independent. This describes a lot of the people I know. They were dealt cards that would have allowed them to escape the matrix, but didn’t care about escape or didn’t understand the game.

I think a few just wouldn’t know what to do if they left the ranch. One guy I knew who was in the first twenty or so employees at one of my employers that made it big, who is probably worth $50M or more, just keeps going back to his cube every day writing software. He drives a Volkswagen and lives in a modest house. Why he’s still there is beyond my capacity to understand.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo9buo9Mtos
Several companies in Petrochemicals, refinery, utilities, Oil & Gas, Pharma still have OpenVMS in operation. The last one I encountered was in 2012, I was told it had been running for 10+ years nonstop.

I mostly worked with OpenVMS on VAX in mid-90s. They were the workhorse of manufacturing/process control systems.
My personal definition is that a programmer is someone who can write a computer program, and a developer is someone who writes computer programs for money. So you're a programmer, but not a developer. In the same way that you might be called a woodworker, but not a carpenter.
Thats a fair point, and good for you. I simply asked to provoke a bit of an answer. Several of my near relatives have died from a life long abuse of alcohol, and each and every one claimed they could stop cold turkey. Yet, neither did when they got fired, or missed a plane to vacation, or one of many other things that, caused by drinking, had a profound negative impact on their life.

I have gone meat free for a month, but the constant hassel of getting enough protein for myself, and double cooking because I'm not going to impose it on the rest of my family, was too much. I am now eating less meat now as a result though.
For those interested in DEC history, HP have put the text of their Digital Technical Journal articles online at http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/past.htm (no figures, alas).

Volume 4 issue 4 introduced the Alpha architecture and includes an article describing the effort to port OpenVMS:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol4num4/vol4num4art7.pd...
I am not sure if it's true. It would be good if there is some data on this. But when I was living in the US, more than a few of my friends were in debt either via credit card or student loans. It's quite common compared to Chinese students which usually pay in full.
And then you'd get evicted, and rightly so. You are in no way entitled to have your landlord fund your cryptocurrency speculation.
Though, in general, if you accept debit cards in Australia you need to accept that network's credit cards too. My Visa Platinum is going to be more than 7.5c for most transactions, I imagine.
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Bah ah ah ah ah. ;-)

Seriously though, I do have a strong preference for erring on the side of being ethical and respectful of others. (But that could be the reason none of my companies have succeeded.)