skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish this would stop getting spread as much as it is without any qualification to it.

> Studies show that happiness increases proportional to salary up to USD$70,000.

One study shows this, and it's this one[1].

The study was conducted using polled responses, and discriminates between "happiness" and "lifetime satisfaction."

In particular, the study has the following conclusions:

1. money and happiness are positively correlated up to $75,000, but are then uncorrelated,

2. money is positively correlated with lifetime satisfaction, without any particular point at which the correlation ceases, and

3. more money is not positively correlated with less happiness at any point.

In other words, what you said is not at all supported by the original literature. Despite the way in which this study is usually used to support an argument, more money is probably better than less money at any arbitrary amount for overall contentment, given that "lifetime satisfaction" increases arbitrarily and "happiness" (which I interpret as "good mood") doesn't decrease.

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1. https://www.princeton.edu/~deaton/downloads/deaton_kahneman_...
Very recent thread (ongoing) discussing this:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-07/msg00...

Copyright assignments allow the FSF to enforce the GPL on Emacs.
Or phone stolen.
Does your QR code change from one transaction to next?
Very useful. Earlier I would search for Angular and hope to get a good article. This helped.
It's 3-4 cents in China. 2.3cents in Quebec. 2cents in Washington State (which is what the GP was referencing).
The grain of truth behind the article is that if you move into a new position with more responsibility you will likely receive a good jump in pay. And conversely if you stay in the same position your pay rate is likely to stagnate or rise with inflation at best.

But the author has conflated this basic principle with changing companies, which I believe is a false statement in general. The effectiveness of changing company as a strategy to increase pay will vary wildly across industries and professions.
I've had one semester of Computer Science, and have zero clue of how people do stuff like this.

How does he get the UI working so fast and looking so good? How do you reverse engineer an API - this seems like some hacker stuff you'd see in Halt & Catch Fire, in my mind anyways.

I'm sure I'll get there, but right now there's a major disconnect between the C investment calculator text program I made, and these super functional, beautiful works of art.
For anyone interested (I was...), here's a good recap of Forbes' "contributor" model which is based in 'entrepreneurial journalism.'

Non-professional writers get paid based on unique visitors (like presumably with this piece). So you get what you incentivize.

http://www.poynter.org/2012/what-the-forbes-model-of-contrib...
Thanks for the heads-up! I saw NiceHash and MinerGate mentioned off-hand in a random well-SEO'd article as easier alternatives instead of setting up everything manually[1] (before that I didn't even realize this was a thing!), and Awesome Miner came up recently as an option that appears to be freemium with a one-time purchase instead of a percentage.

I chose NiceHash personally because it is open source. It was literally download, click 'Benchmark', then after that finished, click 'Start'. They even transferred the ~$3 I had earned when the Bitcoin transaction fees dropped low enough to make it "worth it" even well below their normal minimum payout threshold.

Do you have time to provide a bit of context for your links? The first one doesn't even mention "MinerGate" on the first page of the 30 page discussion, and the second is just a yes/no list with no explanation of why things are where they are on the list or credentials for who made the list. There doesn't seem to be any recent or ongoing massive backlash against MinerGate anywhere online.

[1]https://www.bestvpn.com/ethereum-mining/

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Maybe https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/4bx1td/im_just_gonn...

> "not as strong" connection between MinerGate + bytecoin scam

And the list is by an /r/Monero moderator; all about 1 year ago.
Yeah, it's taken us more than two years to bring our product to market. It is a medical device. 2 years seems specific to web apps or something, where there isn't any hardware to support and there aren't any other engineering disciplines changing their stuff. After the first year of development we had a prototype. After the first year of verification testing we learned a lot about how the product needs to work to meet standards. After the second year we've learned about most of the edge cases.

Now that we have a working product we're marketing it, and we'll finally get feedback from the field rather than product-market fit data. That's easily two more years of data.

I hope GP isn't really throwing out candidates that have more than two years in the same position.
What makes it different than react in that respect?
So Seattle is completely missing in the first graph. Is this accurate? I would think Seattle area is definitely at #3 behind SF and SV.
Just wish everyone would hop onboard quicker. We still need a lot of consumer education.

For example, Apple Pay works great at Whole Foods. I use it every time. Other people in line painstakingly pay with credit cards, despite holding an iPhone in their other hand. The new chip cards take longer to process, even, 5 seconds or so.
Make this a bookmarklet (I call it "wsj unlock") and use it from the wsj page.

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
If gmail is your password recovery address, hacking your gmail, will give the hacker access anyway.
Do something every day for 5-10 years and you get better at it? I think it’s good but he’s probably using electron or react native desktop, which cuts out time.
for a while at least, yes : ]
American tech companies censor themselves in foreign markets
> when the price of ETH inevitability goes up again

ETH has been around less than 2 years; it spent only 2 months over $150. I don't see how any analysis that it will rise is better than a coin flip.
If your single sign on provider is also the email address for password recovery, single sign on doesn't compromise you further.
It seems to me that QR codes could make it easy for someone to replace the original QR code with a different QR code at any place that accepts them and the merchant is none-the-wiser (unless there is some form of integration back to their PoS system) -- it seems like this could be a new form of skimming (stick your own QR code over any merchants :-)).
Travel. Usually plane tickets open the most doors.

I'm happy to save on accommodation and food costs if it means more money to spend on experiences and time with people where I'm traveling.
Ok.

So how do iOS and Windows Mobile fare in your opinion?
If the article was even based on actual facts and figures, wouldn't survivorship bias be a huge factor here? Maybe the bottom of the barrel are bringing the average down because they are stuck with jobs with no mobility and aren't valuable enough to get the raises.
i would also love to know how to love them :) DM on twitter if you want to chat and dont want to put your email here
I think the things I've been happiest with, at least visually, have been a result of the things I've been the most unhappy with to the point where I want to fix them. Things where I understand how I use them and understand how I'd _prefer_ to use them end up working well.

> I've had one semester of Computer Science, and have zero clue of how people do stuff like this.

Just wait, I've had about a decade of front-end dev experience and I think I could reverse engineer an API like this (maybe not quite so quickly). What I couldn't do, however, is write a C investment calculator text program. You're a whiz :)
No thanks. Cash is king. Money should never be traceable, and you should be able to buy with anonymity.
For anything but C, one can't really trust the distributions to care enough for that to be an option. You can install Common Lisp libraries from the Debian repositories, but if you do, you'll find yourself in a world of problems since they are mostly severely out of date, if they work at all.

Far too many times have I had to explain to newcomers to Common Lisp that they can't install stuff from the repositories, and instead have to download their CL implementation separately and then use Quicklisp.
I'm not disagreeing with anything you said but I suppose I am more commenting on the difference in attitude and execution.

While services like Android/Watsapp were created in the West and do service the lower end market, they still follow the "leader", isn't seen by the population as "cool/hip/etc." Even with credit cards, there are many merchants here that don't accept them (especially Amex) and Visa because of the prohibitive fees. The attitude in America is, define your market (high end/low end) and then extract the absolute amount of wealth you can, and defend your market share by any means possible.

In contrast, as you saw with the busker in the article, when it is rolled out in China, it is truly (almost) for everyone. They try to use economics of scale to get everyone on board so the entire nation is moving as a collective. Another example is the high speed rail; I recall reading an article that even though wages doubled, the fares didn't budge at all. It just allowed more and more people to take advantage of a good service. In America, you'd bet they try to increase fares as much as possible to extract as much as possible out of the consumer. Obviously there are problems, as with inferior phones, but when everyone is on board, there is an acceleration in innovation and they start solve those problems. Then you see things like people wanting higher end models and companies are forced to innovate. A company like Xiaomi which dominated suddenly drops to 4th place and needs to innovate - that is a sign of a healthy market.
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From what I've heard (I don't use proprietary OSes), Windows had a lot of issues with HiDPI in exactly the situation you're describing. They also had scaling issues with having different resolution monitors.
> Python has/had a terrible packaging story though. As you said, dependencies weren't really documented.

I wonder where have you lived? I rarely found (if ever) an undocumented dependency list for any serious Python project in the last couple of years.
What a junk article. Link bait. "Humans can't understand" is ambiguous, and the article wants you to believe this means "above human comprehension," when really it just means "makes up some new language that we could absolutely reverse engineer."
is there a link to django code?
> If anything, it takes years for you to realize design flaws in components of the earliest-developed systems.

This is more a symptom of the lack of engineering that occurs in this industry than it is an indication of deep technical knowledge gained over years of study.

I'd agree with what you say if I thought there were anything like engineering happening. I've worked on code bases and systems that are quite large. I never saw the learning you suggest. I saw lots of fighting the last battle and the accumulation of years of poor engineering decisions, usually by people who had been a lead for years.
It helps me feel ego-gratified, not happy.
Fucking non-sense, American's strive to create products that are different. The Chinese stereotype is to copy those. The copies are often not cost equivalent won't perform the same function as the original. Further it is often done with the full intent of tricking people, for example knock off Apple stores, Italian clothing etc.

In absolute terms the average Chinese person can't afford higher quality items.
Isn't this what Google Wallet and Apple Pay were supposed to solve?
Who considers 10x settling?
Regardless of the secure computation done during the ceremony at the end of the day there is a degree of trust in the founding participants of Zcash. I think given the people involved, and that they are all essentially security zealots with provable records. messing this up doesn't seem likely. There is no monetary incentive to make a mistake in the trusted setup, and there is significant personal reputation damage to the participants if it was provably hijacked.

Further, the founder's reward despite having a slight smell is really not an unfair way to structure something like this. Significant resources were put into Zcash well before it was deployed, are the founder's supposed to just eat that cost? Why shouldn't their success be tied to the success of the coin they created over a period of time? Would a Satoshi style pre-mine be more fair? These questions are complicated, but without an ICO driving the development, this doesn't seem like the worse case scenario for a commercial entity.
Yeah, it is hard to overstate just how easy it is to use a credit card in the US.

I have only managed to use Android Pay a couple of times and the store that I did that with has removed it since then.

When it works, it is approximately the same level of annoyance as a credit card. When it fails, it is so much worse. I just don't see it taking off here in its current form.
Kind of odd to see the homepage show Vagrant as the install mechanism, even though it supports Docker as well. In 2017, I'd think more developers are likely to run Docker than Vagrant workloads on their machine.
Why? You don't get anonymity in China.
Did you not know about the Thinkpad? I think the T430 is built stronger than any Macbook.
More fun but definitely not reliable. Twilio interconnects directly with carriers and handles most of the gory details to make sure your texts reach their destination unmolested.

Sending directly from a SIM can have undesired side effects, deliverability issues, mangled text, etc.. and the carrier probably won't be too happy with you "abusing" their service (you'd be surprised how fussy they can be about 160 bytes of data).
I have some news for you. You are a programmer.
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I do contract work for a few clients. I always automate the boring tasks of vpn'ning, firing up remote desktop, connecting to database servers, their email system, etc.

Automating that is fiddly and tedious, but it's worth it because I can just click a button and get a menu of clients. I choose one, and in about 10 seconds my machine is ready to go on their work.
There is a song by a band called the "sprites" from a while back about him, its called "George Romero". Perhaps fitting on this sad day.

Its about learning how to survive the zombie Apocalypse because of his zombie movies.

(fan video of the song.. All I could find)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urvL9wUTg24

" It's the end of the world
We could gather half a dozen friends
We'd live in hiding over at JC Penney
Construct a wall to keep the mutants out

When it's the end of the world
We'd land a helicopter on the rooftop
Somebody breaks in through a boarded entrance
Maybe we could make a run for it

I know all I need to know...

I know all I need to do...

I learned everything from George Romero, Dario Argento

Maybe Tom Savini, Stuart Gordon, and Sam Raimi
"
This sounds a lot like my own usage habits. If I'm using a computer of any sort, I don't want to have to pull out my phone for hardly anything. My phone is for times when a more capable machine isn't readily available.
I never feel that good when I make someone else rich. I have yet to know how it feels to make myself rich but I'm sure its not that bad.
+1 for this. A GSM/3G/LTE stack isn't something you can write in an afternoon. I'm on such a project for my company for several months now and I'm probably still a year away from just being able to push a single IP packet through it.
Yes, democratic political culture is a culture of popular, low risk decisions, and stagnation. This limits how far these countries can develop. The problem with assuming China will reach the same stagnation, is because that outlook is the situation democracies accept as inevitable, because it's the best they've been able to achieve. It doesn't mean that's the best there is. China runs on a different engine. I believe it can go further. I hope it does, because then they've created a new system that we can all learn from. The current results of political rule in western liberal democracies i find disappointing, so i sincerely cheer on the Chinese for doing something different and hope they have created something better in some aspects.

As you point out, the Chinese are expert copiers. What i love about this is that it means they are open to taking the best parts of what's worked, and adapting it themselves. They're pragmatic, and flexible. I love that about them, because that adaptability and openness to achievements of others ( instead of insecurely insisting their existing way is superior ) means they are effective learners, and can effectively make the most of opportunities. So we can say they are simply doing this with policy, politics and governance, to create a new system.

Their risk taking attitude means they can run lots of experiments, different policies in different cities, and learn from the results. Remember tho, their scale didn't just happen. They built a country that big. Also, it's not just about having scale, it's about how skillful the choices you make with what you have, are. Russia and India also possesses scale of d different sorts, but they're not as successful to me as China.

yorwba and I believe different things about propaganda and harmony. I think the gap in beliefs is too much to cover here now. We agree that propos is an effective tool, but I believe it can be put to good and that's what the Chinese do. yorwba views propos cynically, and doesn't see it that way at all. Similarly, i think, differ our beliefs about harmony.

Finally i believe the option, the freedom, to make a bold move is a requirement, for taking care of your citizens well being. If your can't take risks because your political system disincentivizes you from doing so, then you're not not able to serve your citizens well being as much as you could. I don't know how you get around that weakness.
Very nice, but would someone pay for it?
I don't think it really matters what the acronym means. It's a project name, like VLC (which is VideoLAN Client, to save you the trip ;) ) and its known BY the acronym.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/sergeybrin416528...
Why the hostility? Are people not allowed to talk about events happening now?

I mean, do you make a similar comment on all the articles you read?

"Oh thanks a lot ENCODE for telling us that 80 percent of the genome had a biochemical function. I didn't know we were going to repeat stuff that everybody new in 2012."??
OK, can you name an example of that?
Metropolis comes this year which will not include PoS but will include zero knowledge and a few other things.

Casper is expected sometime next spring.
Mobile payments are much faster and easier than the credit card chip in my experience at places that have both options.
Chinese banks are pretty bad innovation wise, which is why it took tencent and alibaba to run this through. Even unionpay, with lower fees, fails to catch on because the banks kind of suck. Try dealing with a fraud report to Icbc, for example.
> Yeah, it is hard to overstate just how easy it is to use a credit card in the US.

You have got to be kidding. Handing my card over to someone who disappears off with it? Those bloody awful faux-pens to sign on an LCD? That's your idea of easy to use?

Paying for things in the US feels like the stone ages.
> Thus, in the US, I suspect that mobile payments haven't taken off as much because they are only very slightly faster to use than a credit card

Mobile payments haven't taken off in the US because the big players are all fighting to the death in the space.

I suspect that the space was equally as fractured until the big players in China simply got the "Party Blessing" and that was the end of the discussion.
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That's exactly what was said about Germany in the 1880s, and Japanese goods in the 1960s. It's the normal progression of truly developing economies.
> There are no "pure observations". There are only observations as understood and analyzed by reason.

There is no measure of the accuracy of knowledge about what correct "reasoning" is without empirical observation of minds and their physical makeup (e.g. psychology, neuroscience). How do you know you or the whole of humanity isn't mentally "color-blind," so to speak, without empiricism? You can't.

Rationalism pits reason against empiricism. Empiricism says that observation is necessary to build a firm foundation of reason.
why not say "Mathematics"?
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There are videos showing the Nexus 5, a midtier phone of its generation, outperforming the iPhone of the subsequent generation in launching apps and getting to first interaction. https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY

My own experience is that iOS feels more sluggish than Android for vanilla variants of Android.
That's a nice idea! Thanks for sharing.
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For some reason the idea of putting a VR visor to a toddler is unsettling to me. Maybe I am getting old...
Interesting. Mine is more than just a landing page generator though.
is there anything interesting to you in the notion that cos(x)+isin(x) is the unique analytic continuation of e^x in the complex plane?

It's not just a rotation by definition, I don't think.
Look at it this way: You spend an awful lot of your life working. If you have a choice, why spend that time doing something that doesn't make you happy?

Life is experience. Not numbers. And, as some of us know, it -- or our health -- can be taken away at any moment.

Living with some planning for the future means if and when you get there, hopefully you will enjoy it.

But don't forgo happiness now for some potential future. A successful life is enjoying now, the majority of the time.

(Nothing's perfect, and there will be down times. But too much down is a bad sign. And, it becomes self-reinforcing. Don't fall into that trap.)

All that said, having a decent income does help. If I'd moved around more in my career, I might have actually been happier and gained more financial security.

In short, take care of yourself, including your emotional self. That's probably the surest road to personal success, however you end up defining it. Positioning yourself to work from a position of strength, and with positive support.
Yes. Also if you keep it open for some time, the code will change automaticly
linear algebra, though, I feel is an excellent example.

Everyone has solved a system of linear equations in school. The concept is pretty accessible.
For my home line, I use a whitelist/blacklist approach, with numbers on neither getting an automated voice prompting them to press 1 to ring through, else they end up going to voicemail. This has eliminated all robocalls for years. I use Anveo's call flow since it was dumb simple to setup.

For my cell, Google Voice's spam blocking seems to work pretty well.
How often do the nations that base their economic policy on economic theory succeed, and how often do they fail? That's the crucial data that would tell us whether it has predictive value or not, and if so, to what extent.
Chips are unnaturally slow in the states, they are pretty fast in Europe.
It is Shenzhen, where Tencent's HQ locates, I would say WeChat pay is more common there.
The mkstemp you are seeing is probably the one from gnulib. A lot of GNU software uses their own versions if they detect the platform one is broken; it may be incorrectly replacing it in this case.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/mkstemp...

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/65eee8392ff95f58f...