skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth considering what a subscription would be worth as a fixed cost. Like say the company was going to invest the fixed cost into the market, and take the interest as if it was continuous income from subscriptions. Or if a user wanted to just invest a fixed amount of money so the interest will always be there for to pay for the subscription.

At 5% interest, a subscription of $1 a month is worth a fixed cost of $240. Photoshop and Netflix's $10 a month is worth a fixed cost of $2400. Xbox Live's $60 a year subscription makes it worth about $1200, making it cost 3 times more than the console itself. World of Warcraft's $15 a month subscription comes out to a whopping $3600, making it 60 times more expensive than a normal new game (if you wanted to subscribe to it forever.)
Is that surprising though? I doubt mech engs graduate with enough (any?) experience with manufacturability [1].

Seems the lesson learned here is that unlike software, physical goods require an experienced up-front design that can't be haphazardly iterated on by new-grads to be fixed later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability
I actually had a chance to ask one of the co-founders about this very subject as I was working on a similar, albeit it much smaller, problem.

Their approach: suck it up and take it. Literally, they did almost nothing special and followed standard techniques. The result was a dip in search results and revenue, but that was expected and part of their plan for moving to a single brand.
Do you plan to curate the free plans? If not, how will you prevent abuse? (thinking in terms of both the service and its users)
What is this site doing with my geolocation information?
Even today, allowing unaligned accesses is still not free -- there is an implementation cost in transistors and in design complexity. There's a tradeoff here, as usual. There are a lot of places with a CPU architecture where there's a choice of "do we handle this in hardware, at the cost of having to have more hardware, or do we say it's software's job to deal with this, and hardware provides either nothing or just some helpful tools". You can see this for instance in whether software has to perform icache/dcache maintenance vs the CPU doing a lot of snooping to present the illusion of a completely coherent system; in whether hypervisor virtual machine switching is done with a single "switch all my state" operation on by letting hypervisor software switch register state itself; and in many other places. x86 has in my view generally ended up on the "handle things in hardware and make software's life easier", which it's been able to do because its natural territory is desktop/server where extra transistors don't hurt much. Other architectures tend towards different points on this spectrum because their constraints differ -- in embedded systems the extra power and are cost of more transistors can really matter. "Tend to prefer that software do something" is also a strand of the original RISC philosophies.

Practically speaking, the world is not going to converge on a single endianness or on a no-alignment-restrictions setup any time soon, so we have to deal with the world as it is. If you're programming in a sensible high-level language, it will deal with this kind of low-level nit for you. If you're programming in a low-level language (like C), well, I think you wouldn't be doing that if you didn't have fun at some level in feeling like you had a mastery of the low-level nits :-)
I personally like the more serious tone here. I get enough of the memes on reddit (and slack) so it's nice to have a place that actually generally has serious discussion. Also if you want less serious discussions there are already tons of places that have that so it's not like you can't get programming puns if you want them
No one has claimed Juicero is useless, just that the value-proposition is a very hard sell when a $0 substitute can get similar results.
The Wayfair founders also had made millions on selling their internet services firm to a company called iXL years before - so they had the money to fund the venture.
If you want some current generation GPUs ;) check out https://paperspace.com
Is there an option to be able to sign up using Github? That would make life much easier for me.
Ask HN: Tools to analyze hype?
Say there's some particular search term that you want to analyze hype for. trends.google.com is useful here, what other tools are there?

What would be great would be a trends.twitter.com type site where you could analyze frequency of tweets including keywords with or without the hashtag. It looks like there are some tools for twitter, but they focus too much on hashtags.

Any other ideas?
In software it sometimes means overcomplicated for the scope that delivers little value but high cost in usage due to the complexity.

Think J2EE and their xml config files.

Or using hadoop and kubernetes when a sqllite db on digital ocean will do
That is the only reason I am reading your comment. I have spent decades honing my bullshit filter. I would have folded a pun thread up. I might have accidentally read some posts and had a chuckle first. Now I am reading about something entirely different than an overpriced juicer.
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It uses `array` (somewhat mutable Erlang structure) and NOTP (no idea how it makes code "zippy" and the repo [1] does not explain anything... it seems to be bypassing the normal way modules are loaded?).

I am unsure why anyone would use Erlang for number crunching. Training neural nets is basically just multiplying big matrices. I was hoping this project would come up with an interesting approach (how about using SIMD on the binary comprehensions that can use it? now that would be cool) but performance / memory usage does not seem to be looked at here.

It is naive / uneducated to think that "Erlang’s multi-core support" + distributedness will enable many things for you. How does the VM scale on 32, 64 threads? Have you tried making a cluster of 50+ VMs? Unfortunately Erlang Solutions Ltd.'s marketing has hyped many.

I am not against projects like these, I am just looking for reasons behind the choices made.

[1]: https://bitbucket.org/nato/notp/src
> Not only our understanding, but also the customer/user's understanding of their needs and priorities change.

And not only does understanding change, but the business requirements actually change too depending on market conditions.
Oh sweet, I wasn't aware of this.
I'll believe that when a raven starts tenaciously suggesting we go for ice cream any time we are even discussing the possibility of being anywhere close to the ice cream shop.
> That is a profound misunderstanding of the role of 'lawyer'. It's an advocacy system.

Let me assure you, I have no misunderstanding of what being a lawyer entails. I also have no illusion that it is not an advocacy system.

> Someone must stand and advocate for the murderer, even if guilty.

That's your view. My view is that only those that believe the defendant should advocate on defendants behalf. It is also my view that lawyers need to have skin in the game. Laywers having no skin in the game is the reason why we have bad lawyering.
Thanks for releasing. Looks useful and aligned with several projects I've worked on.

The first thing I looked for was a canonical package / resource specification in build.py. Any chance supporting Frictionless data resource spec for interop?

https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/data-resource/
Don't forget Pete Shelley's XL1 which ran on a Spectrum from a vinyl record.
We'll, you can't host from mainland - big distinction, mainland HK is far more liberal and long let that be supported - without an ICP licence.

An ICP licence is issued according to mainland policy, requirements bot exclusive to including having legal entity/people and agreeing to be part of the Golden Shield which extends far from China's firewall but also personal information tracking, both online and offline.
This is the reason that I disagree with those who say they like to control their own hardware. AWS immediately has 10s, 100s of people attacking the problem with full vendor support. Meanwhile, I'm trying to find out why my SAN firmware update borked 3 disks and HP will be on-site is about 4 hours.

One thing that AWS could do better is actually reporting these outages to their customers. It's a running joke that every time AWS does something funny, their status page stays green. Even when the status updates the indicator is a tiny light grey exclamation point; basically invisible.
Exactly. If you've worked in any startup, I'd imagine you've had the same experience, I sure have.

When the founder wants something that doesn't make sense, you try to reason about it, you try to get other voices helping in a chorus that something doesn't work, but when the founder is the one with the money, the vision, and the ego, it can be impossible to move them off their idea regardless of the merits.
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I would not recommend using any of the Chinese cloud services unless you need to reach the Chinese market.

And yes, there are all sorts of bureaucratic surprises that will make your blood boil.
I agree. 5K seems very light for violating this woman's civil rights. I would say at the very least some community service needs to be tacked on.
Looks like slow time of day for HN, Erlang kids have taken over the top spot for the last hour or so, lol.
I have been working on this idea for a little bit. Started putting together a list of intermediate projects for people that finished a bootcamp. It is still in its infancy. I ran a programming bootcamp for a year and a half and think there is a need for this, but still figuring out the right way.

https://github.com/Jbot29/intermediate-programming-projects
That genuine belief in the concept necessitates any action.
> I always say the customer/client does not have requirements, they have problems.

And those problems change as the business adapts to changing market forces.
"Software Engineering" does exist as a degree. Or it used to (15 years ago).
I disagree and find puns amusing. Certainly not noxious enough to encounter the outright hatred expressed here.
Games came on vinyl in the 80s: https://unicornbooty.com/video-games-vinyl/
USPS has weight limits, their carriers are trained to deliver anything within those weight limits.

If they can't deliver an item that meets their own USPS requirements then that's their own fault not yours.
We also used something we called turbotape to load our games. We would first load turbotape, forward to where the game was on the tape and then either type <leftarrow>L or SYS<someNumberIcantRemember> to load the game.
I'd say that if you don't want your packets inspected, use encryption and only trust specific certificate authorities.

A regular HTTP GET is meant to be cacheable and meant not to be considered private. If you want private, use SSL and do not encode information in URLs that can be abused by intermediaries.

I realize you consider the attempt to charge upstream providers a fee to ensure high quality throughput extortion, but the fact is, some services utilize 99% of bandwidth.

Take the typical residential ISP, 99% of the upstream bandwidth it purchases likely moves traffic from youtube, youporn, etc. In the remaining 1% are gmail, HN, VOIP, etc.

The natural move would be for the ISP to adjust QoS to favor minimal streaming quality that will prevent customers from defecting to another ISP.

But content providers compete on the basis of content variety, quality, etc., and so their incentive is to maximize quality. If you are 1% more likely to click on an ad after watching porn at 4K, then it's potentially worth it to youporn to serve only 4K quality video since bandwidth is cheaper at scale and highly predictable.

But an ISP is operating at smaller scale. For last mile circuits, bandwidth cost is bound by hardware investments, and so a disproportionate amount of the cost of Youporn's added 1% chance you'll click is borne by the ISP.

So how can the ISP align its own incentives with youporn? Simple, by threatening a QoS that will reduce network load in exchange for a fee that helps share the cost of the additional bits.

So it's not extortion any more than Uber surge pricing is extortion. It helps increase the efficiency of the market process going on by aligning incentives where previously they were less aligned. Strong market incentive exists for ISPs not to overplay their hand, and to date as far as I know this hasn't been a problem.

I agree that last mile monopolies are bad, but the solution isn't to entrench them with top-down regs that hide the problem.
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How does one use the show dead feature?
In erlang you an interop with c++ libraries using NIFs so maybe the author down line will move to heavy matrix operations to a NIF
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Would be great if you also had the schema / file format information as well on the site.
If you are at intermediate level, you can always just follow video lectures/assignments for free and try to improve on your own. That's what i do.
Spot-on.

It's almost impossible to keep mature products going without a subscription model. Mature products eventually only need:

a) support and
b) compatibility/stability/performance updates.

But, these types of updates can be very expensive to develop and are very difficult to market as a new release (works with XXXX now isn't a very compelling proposition for upgrades).

It's kind of the same problem that open source software faces after it matures. Nobody wants to just sit and do support/incremental changes on old software, at least not for free.
Limbo was not freely available.
Investors put close to thirty million into a wireless charging company in four rounds completely disregarding it's impossible to create what they want according to the law of physics.
Another anti-trump PR action?
Ah, that would be useful. In the meantime our docs are browsable without JS https://docs.quiltdata.com/. The articles linked at the bottom of the docs landing page are also legible without JS. Unfortunately the docs menu is not available without JS. I will look into fixing these issues. Email is feedback at quiltdata dot io if you have questions :)
and it also plays a sexy clarinet??
Also, if we want to produce our own data set for community consumption, what are your requirements, and what kind of payout could we expect?
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The "nipping through the mask" part and "Hannibal Lecter" rhetoric aside, if you have a good muzzle, why not bring the dog to the park? That's why you muzzle dogs, so they can take walks in the part without biting.
Asking people for all of their contact details in order to simply read course descriptions seems pretty lame. I also can't imagine that's doing the business any favors.
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hmm not sure. My username appeared green till i got 50/100 upvotes. I think that makes sense since the number upvotes on HN usually indicates that the person makes valid comments and is not trolling.
Yeah, because there WAS a really big one and they expect another BIG one. Just because of that.
It can. Depends on how much you make and spend. You can retire with zero savings if you can control costs to beneath what social security pays you, but it'll be really rough.
Valve was founded by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, both of whom had a 7-figure net worths because of MS shares. I'm not sure if it really counts.
Thanks bud! my bleeding brokerage account needed this pretty bad. Extended hours trade vols are usually low, as such it's sometimes a hit and miss when it comes to picking a trade. I think even regular hours will yield same results with this trade.
True, anything else would've been better - even a 404. Kept me wandering
It could be that by doing a roller system, it wouldn't be able to be sold at a premium and generate the funding they have.

Some of this all works together, would they have been here with a workable, reasonable product? Probably not, they would have been just an appliance.

But with a completely unreasonable product, they get to flaunt it's ridiculous merits as value. You could even imagine marketing around the full press having some bs nutritional value versus not.
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120 might be meh, but it's a pretty satisfying amount even with self-employment tax and health care costs. What are the specific tech roles that pay 200/hr? Are these people that were CTOs or extremely senior managers prior?
The host is also required to take a course in Asian American studies.
I had someone in Palo Alto decline my request because of my gender. Would that be viewed differently in the law?
I can't wait to get a monologue, if you play microtonal Indian ragas or Turkish music Aphex took the normal autotuning modern analog synth use to keep in tune to enable microtonal scales outside the standard 12 tones, but you can edit on device, some Moog synths can do microtuning but only with a janky pc editor. The result of their collaboration is extremely exciting and for less than the cost of a decent guitar.
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In Erlang you cannot run non-BEAM code for more than ~10ms or your VM will crash. GEMM will be hard to use this way...
Yeah programmers / developers / software engineers act as an interface for other people for computers. It's not surprising that these qualities of that 'interface' affects price:

- intuitiveness i.e how easy is it to communicate with this person (language fluency, etc...)

- quality i.e. how well do this person understand not only the requirements but also the actual goals

- 'latency' i.e. how convenient and how fast can you communicate with this person (time zone, can you both see facial expressions, hear changes in voice, etc...)
Instead of resorting to hyperbole, look at it this way:

$2 trillion is parked overseas. It is parked overseas because the opportunity cost of bringing it back here is higher than leaving it overseas, mostly due to corporate tax rates that are higher than they are overseas. We can leave tax rates as they are and gain $0, we can lower corporate tax rates and hopefully bring a (large) fraction of that back here to benefit the economy as a whole, or some other solution that increases the wealth of the nation that has not been thought of yet.

If you're considering an alternate solution, bear in mind that history has shown that imposing taxes in situations like this results in increased friction in moving the wealth back and generally less wealth for the nation imposing the taxes.

So maybe it bears some resemblance to trickle-down economics, but is there even a marginally better solution available?
$5k? Stupid woman got off easy.
> I often find myself wondering why 'Software Engineering' isn't the degree required to be a Software Engineer and further doesn't really exist as a major

Because we don't yet understand software engineering. There has been insufficient empirical study of what yields maintainable/performant/what-have-you code, of what sorts of abstractions are "good" for maintenance/reuse/etc., at what's needed to reliably predict a program's resource requirements, and many software developers balk at design tools that restrict their style to detect certain errors as early as possible, like type systems.

Software development is not yet an engineering discipline for all of these reasons, and more.
Why don't you offer GTX 1080s?

I'm suggesting Nvidia is offering great deals on teslas to cloud providers but not offering those same discounts on 1080s; they're doing that because it lends support to their pitch to enterprises that they need Teslas instead of their competitively priced consumer line; if everyone was paying list price, cloud providers would be offering 1080s.

Even with all that, cloud GPU is not cost effective and end users are better off buying their own "consumer grade" stuff.
Agreed. We're considering doing more along these lines, such as generating the Hive DDL. So you would like to browse the schema, e.g. under Contents?
Eh, most of the software skills you bring from university need plenty of tweaking before it is useful in a real world environment. The academic goals are severely misaligned with the real world programming usage.
She also has to take a college level Asian American studies course.
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Hey, website did a good job of explaining what you are within like 2 seconds. I like
Interesting, I'll have to take a look. Thanks!
I've been getting back into using the terminal and bash recently, so these are nice to have.
Not for me. Even if wages don't go up, productivity does, and that makes things cheaper. I don't think we would be able to produce and consume so much with only half the workforce.

As for the destruction of families, that's going to happen under capitalism anyway. Free markets don't like nepotism and families don't like mobility of labor.

For the people who don't benefit from capitalism, it's a very bad deal to them because they gave up the safety nets of familial bonds in exchange for nothing. It's why conservatives aren't enthusiastic about capitalism and free markets (anymore?).
Yes, essentially the quilt library abstracts the serialization (building packages) and deserialization (importing packages) so that user/client code doesn't need to include the mechanics of loading data (e.g., from a file system path or URL in S3).
Autodesk. Started with $60,000 put in by the founders. No further investments until the IPO. Current market cap $24 billion.

(Autodesk did have some conversations with VCs, but they were so profitable and growing so fast that by the time the VCs had made an offer, it was ridiculously low. Here's the history of those deals.[1])

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_32.html
Do you think the host should be allowed to treat others that way?
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I imagine it would be the same. See "Who is protected?" on this page: https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/Housing/

Sex/gender is included.
You might be able to thank PulseAudio for that: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58746 From what I recall, with an unreliable enough Bluetooth connection it can easily hit tens of seconds of audio delay.
As disgusting as the host's behavior is, her reasoning is correct: the political atmosphere has approved bigotry, racism, homophobia, and misogyny at the highest levels. Given that, how do we hold the public accountable for those offenses for which we forgive the state?
Fellow ST user here! .prg was the most common extension but .app was certainly used in some cases. I think it denoted a different format.
Maybe you need an OK computer.
I'm curious what the circumstances are. The Barker case was open and shut - not only was it racially motivated but the defendant literally sent a text message incriminating herself.

If your host sent you a text message after canceling saying "I hate men, that's why I'm canceling you" I bet you'd find a lawyer who could take the case.
What type of representation would be most useful for schema information? Avro?
I do not see what forcing a class on someone like this (especially at their age) will accomplish. Does anyone really think a semester long course is going to make her go "well, gee whiz, guess I shouldn't discriminate against those Asians anymore"?
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