skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from ex-communist country and now living in the democratic country which uses collective contracts for government workforce I am willing to argue there is nothing worse for economy (or at least quality of service) then collective contracts.

Not all people work the same or contribute the same, and they should not be paid the same.

What we have where I live is that people don't do anything and still get paid from my taxes just cos they were able to get collective contract signed. And all this leads to less effective government services.

(I am talking a government collective contracts as I am not sure that there are any in real sector)
I'll link to some of my own code, since I know it better than any other

https://github.com/tomjaguarpaw/haskell-opaleye/blob/master/...

For someone who knows Haskell idioms this is extremely readable compared to functionally equivalant code in another language.
Consumer prices for cheap ram is 2.5$/ Gig, I assume they pay less than that. https://www.walmart.com/ip/16GB-Kit-2x-8GB-Modules-PC3-10600...

Though 4GB of Laptop ram seems to be ~29$ so YMMV. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Crucial-4-GB-DDR3-SDRAM-Memory-Mo...
> Are you going to accuse me of peddling pseudoscience?

For that example, no. The actual issue is analogous to making calculations with very high precision when your input data is of much lower precision; if you use those latter decimals to draw conclusions, you may as well be casting tea leaves or whatever.

I think where people have an issue with Econ is where it takes some vague tendency in human behavior that kind of makes sense to think of as a rule that maybe holds, and then use it as a basis for making rigorous deductions on the supposition that the rule holds absolutely. (At least this is the complaint I'm familiar with, that much of its grounding is based in outmoded pop psychology.)
There's another scenario that is becoming more common, especially in the company where I work: Changing countries by changing jobs. The markets are dramatically different so any salary comparison makes no sense. Instead you have to compare level and experience, which is what we should be basing salary decisions on in the first place.
> In most companies, I have worked the bathrooms are just one toilet and sink. That way anyone can use it.

it cost more this way?

All the companies I worked at in Chicago prime real state I can think of had gendered bathrooms, at least monthly. Common setup was 2 stalls 2 urinals and 2 sinks for the men (and I assume either 3 or 4 stalls for the ladies, depending on how tight they packed it).

My guess it would take the same space to make 2 single use bathrooms as a single bathroom with 2 stalls / 2 urinals / 2 sinks. The throughput of a 2 stall / 2 urinal bathroom for men would be about triple the single bathroom setup, depending on your exact pee to poop ratio.

And when you are counting dollars and cents, if a decision can save you from having another 600 square feet of bathroom space (at say $300 a squarefoot a year in lease), it can add up to some decent chunk of change (at perhaps the cost of some sanity).
How does this compare with the competition? Like Signal, for example?
First you observe that something is unfair and then you defend it.
https://pastebin.com/ZmNB2DiT
A common response from defenders of nuclear when concerns are raised is to point to the impact of other energy sources, and say that nuclear is better in those terms. But I just cannot get away from the thought that whilst in aggregate those other forms of energy (fossil fuels, etc) might be provably worse than well managed nuclear within a particular analysis, humanity does not seem capable of this good management of nuclear, and when things do go wrong with fossil fuels they don't have the same potential to go quite so spectacularly bad. Yes an oil spill can affect a large area, but you don't get harmful particles washing up on the coast of the US from a spill in Japan in the same way, for example.
Honestly, it just looks like price gouging. You can get a 40 inch LG IPS 4K TV for half the price.

And this Dell isn't even 10 bit IPS, which is what monitors for professional graphics use, it's the standard 8bit IPS, very likely made by LG.

It's curved though.
You can assign a c++ lambda into an object for later use, you just have to be careful about capture by reference and capturing pointer types... But the capture using the copy constructor is handy here, eg. you can copy a shared_ptr and get reference counted captures...

It's funny in this way how c++ lambdas lead to very c++ specific issues and uniquely c++-ish solutions. I think the wackiness of the closure capture mechanism is the best example of this I can think of.
Sounds like it was coworkers not the boss. And if you quit every job with an awful coworker, I am not sure you would have many jobs left ;)
I think that the "feelings of being or not being productive" are often fairly disconnected from the actual levels of productivity.

I do agree that productivity itself exhibits complex patterns, especially with relation to time. These patterns can vary significantly from person to person and over time, though.

I've had inklings of some of own trends for some time now, but it's still pretty fuzzy. I expect to slowly learn more through patient, dispassionate self-observation over the coming years and decades, to the best of my ability. It's tricky stuff, but very interesting.
The first problem is that the product should be suggested by the users, not thought up by the developers. If the users tell you what they need, they are more likely to buy it. This is called market-driven product development.

The second thing to keep in mind is that you will probably think your product is about three times as valuable as your competitor thinks your product is. And your customer will think your product is about a third as special as your competitor thinks your product is. So basically, your customer thinks your product is about one ninth as special and beautifully different as you do.

In my humble opinion, these are the mistakes the author made, not the ones he discussed in his piece.
I don't see how this is related to public salaries.

If the first company you mentioned doesn't make their salaries public, while the second one does, if this is even the case (can't really tell from your story), that sounds more like a coincidence than anything else.

I'd even expect a company that pays people exactly what they believe them to be worth to be less likely to make salaries public, because then seeing you are paid less than someone else would directly tell you you are valued less.
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They used makeshift robots when photographing elephant's foot. Unfortunately for the worker in the picture, they didn't use it then.
I just think that is why it is so interesting; that they share a similar structure even though they are formed in completely different ways may not tell us anything about the Universe but it is still something to note.
Isn't the difference simply that physics has theories backed by reproducible experiments, whereas economics has theories but one can't do such reproducible experiments without an inspectable multiverse to settle all the counterfactuals.
Small memory footprints not-concidnentally help significantly with both power consumption and benchmarks. It's a win all around for the manufacturer to short change the standard ram offering.
I have a little hypothesis that I dreamed up a couple nights ago:

Life is exogenous to the universe. That gives life it's meaning-to define what it is through it's impact on the universe. This is because the universe is in average empty and lifeless. The inanimate universe vastly outweighs the animate. Life could not ever overcome the average emptiness of the universe. But still it must try. It must try because if it ceases it becomes the inanimate. Life is that exogenous influence on the universe not attributable to any other physical or chemical process. If you simply cannot explain it then it may be life.

Brain evolution over time is definitely dependent upon physics/chemistry - but it's also dependent on conditions at higher levels of abstraction. We know neurons change their associations every day based on many factors at the conscious and subconscious levels (observations/thoughts).
I don't know if it's just me but I just find the graphic design here impressive. It's indistinguishable from modern/current design.
Current hires are not a fixed supply to be taken for granted.

Hire someone else for a ton extra, refuse me a raise, and I'll leave.

That is, if that information was available. Kinda convenient that it isn't, huh?
I'm afraid I've never been able to understand macros. What does this do? Is it something like

greet :: String -> String
greet "bob" = "Hey bob"
greet x = "Greeting, " ++ x

addmatches :: (String -> String) -> String -> String
addmatches f = \case
"emeril" -> "Love the zest"
"child" -> "First, we baste the chicken!"
x -> f x

If so, you'd have to design it slightly differently to do removematches in Haskell, I guess.
The housing crisis is much MUCH older than the tech boom. From your privileged position, with lots of income relative to normal Americans, there wasn’t a crisis until you couldn’t afford San Francisco.

My parents are poor, so I watched the market from the bottom end. What I experienced was that the amount we paid for what we got was sort of dumb, but at least we could afford an illegal in-law. Then, in the early 1990s, we got an OMI eviction and moved in with relatives. And now I’m paying twice as much for a fourth of the space in the same neighborhood, while my parents were ripped from their communities and moved out of the Bay Area.

For the low end of the market, any restriction will make housing more scarce, and San Francisco is not short on restrictions. That is why I support the YIMBY movement.

https://sf.curbed.com/2013/4/3/10257506/navigating-the-treac...

Even without the tech boom, California hasn’t been keeping up with housing demand:

“Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians - we call them ‘children.’” - Hannah Arendt

http://ochousingnews.com/california-nimbys-dont-love-childre...
Edit - Dragon blog post describes "software radiation mitigation" better than I can:
http://aviationweek.com/blog/dragons-radiation-tolerant-desi...
From the type perspective, one challenge is processing data where you don't know and don't care what types and what structure parts of that data will have.

One domain is deserialization of json or xml in a way that's agnostic to the structure of any extra data that I'm not explicitly referencing. For example, if I want to take a structured message (json or xml), do computation on parts of that message (so I need to decode these parts to "normal" data structures), and create a modification of the original message where my results are added but everything else is unchanged.

The last time I had to do this it was a bit painful as the serialization/deserialization libraries (I don't even recall which I used in the end. aeson? I tried a bunch.) expected me to know/define the whole structure if I wanted to properly serialize the updated data afterwards, and would break whenever the an updated api started returning a different message structure than expected (e.g. added new fields).

Perhaps I didn't find the right tools/approach to do this, but it's a rather common need and doing the same is quite trivial in python/javascript/etc.
Nice write up, but is the chat interface really necessary?
Here's the HiDPI version: http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-8k-monitor...

It's only $5,000 and probably very few computers can drive it properly.
Constantly on my Surface, which remains rock steady due to the stand.
What does crossbeam have to do with #1? I already mentioned scoped thread pools.
He hasn't, law enforcement almost certainly know who he is. and there is significant evidence it's Nick Szabo and/or Hal Finney.

Most people in the community believe it's probably one or both of them. Hal Finney died in 2014. Also, it's better for Bitcoin if he is never found as the bitcoin holdings of Satoshi is so large if they were to become active it would crash the price of Bitcoin.
That is horrifying. How did you possibly think that was reasonable advice?
We use the java stubs. We briefly looked at some scala proto generators, but most times you dump the proto class into a rich scala type right away anyways.
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It's also quite random, they may live there and the background radiation isn't bad enough on average to kill them, but then if they accidentally ingest a few hot particles it could be game over pretty quickly. For most animals this might not even register in the top 10 existential threats, but for humans the psychological stress would be debilitating.
When you usually write headlines, you go for the most concise or compact version possible to conserve space.

Even though I'm a non native speaker, I haven't experienced any difficulties parsing and processing this headline. I am not sure what part of it that got you off balance.
If you RTFA, the competing Acer model has FreeSync with a lower price.
To me it's not wealth misdirection it's more the purpose of optimizing economy and currency which is flawed IMO. Energy, ideas, knowledge should be free; somehow they are, human systems distorded themself into making them appear not so.
Yep, solar water heating is a time-tested way to get energy from the sun and put it to use. A lot of the earliest solar power deployments (like Carter's White House) were solar water heaters.

There are even a few cheap off-the-shelf solar water heaters on Amazon these days (when I first researched the problem a few years ago, it was strictly a DIY project if you wanted panels small enough for an RV). Getting water to the roof is usually a difficult problem in an RV (requires breaching the roof without introducing leaks, and finding a path through the walls from the existing water heater to get there), but my current RV has an easier path than my previous one, so I might give it a go next time I've got a free weekend.
You seem to at least have some personal experiences/familiarity behind your criticism, unlike almost everyone in this thread. So here's a chance to substantiate your claim. Here is a paper that was recently published in the Journal of Economic Theory https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17516137/RapidWeaverSite...

This was a co-authored publication of an economist and a political scientist (at the University of Rochester). It's one of their several co-authored pieces; and it was published in a good field journal, but not a top general-interest journal. It has so far received a couple of cites from papers on the same topic. My point is, this paper is fairly "standard" for contemporary economic theory.

It also happens to use a decent amount of measure theory.

Now, I will personally venmo you $200 if you are able to find a single mistake or "abuse" of measure theoretic concepts in that paper in the following sense: a measure-theoretic theorem, definition, or proof technique was unnecessary for mathematical purposes, and you can demonstrate why that's true by writing an alternative proof, with the same generality but without such a concept.

I'm not baiting you, I'm genuinely curious to see if you or anyone else in this thread can do it, because I had taken plenty of measure theory in my PhD days, and this paper's usage of it seems perfectly on point to me. I'm also using it as an example because the authors' language is very clear and meticulous, and you shouldn't have trouble accessing that paper without knowing economic jargon.

I can also link you a few other random economics papers if you want. Alternatively, you could admit your disparagement of economists' intellectual ability, and intellectual honesty, was perhaps misplaced.
"You can do what you want as long as it's not measurably sub-optimal for the community as a whole" is the dominant attitude around here.
What is the Windows laptop to get if you want 32gb, a retina level bright display and latest gen processor?
Could you tell us more about how you did your auditing? Did you add more logging?
Always one for facile comparisons between China and developed entities aren’t we paradite?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14763085

Your response to me back then seemed in good faith, if a bit naive. This continued trend of blatant propagandizing is a bit worrying though.

Perhaps change it up so your work isn’t immediately recognizable? Even sounding the least bit neutral would probably be enough to blend in.
> I thought I was talking about the principal of static typing, rather than any language's implementation of it.

Then may I suggest expanding your mind by learning about good implementations of static type systems? Any of Haskell, Ocaml or F# would be a good place to start.
A system like this encourages others to compare salaries and make judgements about oneself related to how well one is doing compared to someone else. This creates unhappyness because some feel they work harder and shouldn't be paid a quarter less. The person getting the extra amount feels they are more successful than there peers. All this does is distract you from the fact that both of you are making only a few dollars above minimum wage. If you only look at total pay in relation to your needs you will accept and be proud of your wage.

I have seen people who love there job find out someone they feel does not measure up to them make more money. This causes them to start hating the role they once loved and in some cases they left for the same salary elsewhere.
How so? That's how bank accounts work now. You put your money into them, and then you spend it as needed. Why is that a problem?
He read his father's without buying a second "license" himself for each book.
"Dell has managed to increase maximum brightness of its U3818DW to 350 nits (from 300 nits on competing monitors)"

Bah, why does everyone seem to love blinding themselves? Am I the only one who doesn't like a bright screen? (Ergonomically, we're supposed to have the monitor's backlight match the brightness of a white sheet of paper in the same lighting conditions.)
It's a chapter excerpt from a book, so there's that.

But it does seem to be a question we haven't successfully answered for ourselves as a society.
Well written, fully agree with your points. An bigger size endoscope with fiber cable would be best solution - low tech is better in such use case. And dumping contaminated water is really bad, unfortunately news gets censored everywhere in 2017.
I believe you're thinking about Layar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64_16K2e08
I think I'd be ok with the 16:9 if we're north of 32" and 4k
I think it refers to open unions, which are types specified with some constructors that might have additional constructors defined later. As you say, Google is curiously reticent, but see, for example, p. 60 of http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/cis500-f06/ocaml-book.pdf .
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I have done work I though was important, as in saving lives etc. But, it's not like I am the only person that can do this stuff. Really when someone else is paying you they could pay thousands or possibly millions of other people to do that job. The fact you happen to be the one doing it is not really important other than a sense you should not mess up.
> the point is to have a guaranteed revenue stream so you can, frankly, make unpopular content

That is one point, and that is currently being done. If the BBC were only to make unpopular content, it would be unpopular, and people would not want to pay for it. It is supposed to be balanced in a way that benefits the public the most.

I can see the argument that the balance between making popular and unpopular content is not currently as good as it could be, but the model when looked at as a whole seems quite sensible.
I know that's not what it means, but in the absence of knowledge regarding whether fefe23 is a native English speaker I think the interpretation I gave of his/her comment was a reasonable one.
Which hurts the original company such that they start making better salary decisions. Transparency seems like a good thing here but it does create chaos during periods of correction.
May be pricey but the Razer brand has good machines
That hurdle already exists in the UK in the form of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) certification (AKA Remote Pilot Competence), which requires passing a theory test, a practical test on the specific equipment that will be flown commercially, as well as development of an Operations Manual that is reviewed as part of the certification process. Commercial insurance is also required.

What the proposed registration process is attempting to address is the misuse of hobby multi-rotors.

The difficulty the it faces is in retrofitting it to an existing market. Those who are too dumb or ignorant to fly legally (and since multi-rotors have become too easy to acquire and fly, there are many), are going to be the ones who also fail to register.

Requiring registration prior to purchase is one possibility, and having mandatory geo-fencing on all new systems seems like the only way to gradually introduce a system that restricts use in controlled airspace, and over populated areas, but it will never be able to account for every scenario in which people insist on breaking the law, invading privacy or putting others at risk of injury.
"Get more often then not replaced" not quite sure what you meant here. Could you say a bit more?
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I've been pro-nuclear (fission) most of my life but I changed my opinion when I saw that Humanity can't manage when things go south.

Still waiting for nuclear fusion though.
>3. A lot of my need for goto statements vanished with nested functions.

How does that work? Not immediately obvious to me.
IMO the Alienware 15 or 17 series. They are pretty strong physically and aren't breaking easily, and have very generous hardware specs.

However, they are gaming machines and have pretty strong GPUs. They are also heavier -- 2.8kg and above. Finally, they're very expensive. They might not be what you're looking for.

But, I am still on the lookout -- just like you.
> What would have really helped was if staff weren't selfishly spending 5-10 minutes sitting on the toilet browsing the internet or playing games on their phones.

Consequence of open offices? People need their alone time, this one's Amazon's fault too.
Dell XPS 15" maybe.
Minimum notices for WFH days baffles me.

I can understand making it a policy to limit WFH days to a very minimum, but the idea of a notice period for WFH makes no sense to me.

It makes people more unproductive then they really have to be.
Show HN: Voice enabling hacker news navigation
was playing with the voice webspeech api and wrote a tampermonkey script to voice enable clicking links Click anywhere on page body and say anyone of the words appearing in bold font and voila ! it takes you there Please let me know if you find this useful
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If you could somehow project that as a HUD in a car, then you'll have a great solution to a big problem in the navigation space. Many people have trouble reading maps because they have difficulty in translating the pictographic display from some other screen into the roads and signage they see in front of them. If they no longer have to do this translation, then following directions becomes significantly easier for a large class of people that struggle with current navigation systems.
Let's focus on meaningful and substantial discussions instead of derailing into personal attacks. Happy to reply if you have anything interesting to say.
Read this as: I should just kill myself now because I have no future.