skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a classic case of where a smaller PE firm will come in and buy it out for a few million, purposefully cut the services revenue, go hog wild selling software, and flip it a few years later for 10-20x what they paid.

Or the classic case where PE buys it, cuts services and all the staff who know anything about the product, go hog wild trying to sell software and realize that that the market isn't there and never was and the services path actually was the only the way to make inroads. The investment craters and everybody loses money.
Our life planet data set is an N=1 so we are searching what we know. It is certainly possible life is found on non-Earth-like planets and isn't carbon-based, however we don't have any examples so we don't know what to look for. The initial search is focusing on Earth-like planets because we know the signs of life in that case.

As for Antarctica, that may true but there would still be life, maybe not humans, on Earth. The fossil record shows there was life before Antarctica existed.
The dissonance between that title versus the actual contents completely destroys what would otherwise be an interesting, albeit not especially remarkable read.

The article itself makes no attempt to live up to the title, and in fact downplays it throughout the whole thing, almost as if admitting "yes, I got you to click, now here's a fairly normal article."

edit: 2nd paragraph is my mistake, it's the HN title that I'm critical of, not the article title.
Now you made me think. I agree this sounds really hard, but it's not clear that this requires hardware changes. After all, transport protocols are written in software. In fact, I don't think that this needs changes to the transport protocol either.

Consider, your ISP knows most of this information. For instance, if you have 2 GB of 4G cell service and then it throttles to 3G, then the cell company must have real time info of how much data you have left, or they would not be able to throttle you. They will often give you an app so you can check how close you are to the limit. The only trouble is that there is no STANDARD way to ask them any of this.

So make one up. This is one of the few cases where network effects mostly take care of themselves. Here is a straw man proposal. Feel free to bike shed this. Let's say we extend DCHP so that in addition to giving you the default gateway, it also gives you cost parameters for the current connection, or possibly the IP address of who to ask for the cost.

If the network supports this, the OS can find out when connecting and then provide it to apps via an API. If the network doesn't support it, the OS can still expose the API, but fall back to heuristics such as whether you're on cell or Wi-Fi. Of course, the user typically knows what they are paying, so you should allow them to override the heuristics and supply real data. The apps need not know whether the data came from the network of from heuristics or the user.
All of the above, including her own subliminal bias which is reinforced by being around a lot of peers who run services businesses.
Perhaps some JS script design to add Google or Wikipedia links that is malfunctioning?
Thx, fixed
FWIW: Two reasons (among many) that people can end up banned without anything in their comment record to explain it:

1. They've somehow participated in vote manipulation.

2. They were associated somehow with a sockpuppet account, which was itself banned.

It's probably better to stick to vouching for good comments that you think shouldn't be banned, and less on analyzing the reason for a ban (as you say, they can always just mail hn@ycombinator.com to find out what's going on).
To me, the reference to Netflix seems like something that may be problematic in terms of what it communicates to investors with an historic perspective regarding technology companies. The technology problem Netflix solved to become a successful startup was bandwidth. It did so by mailing DVD's using 'snail mail' and the value proposition it offered consumers was unlimited DVD rental for a flat fee. It's competitive advantages were convenience for a specific class of customers -- those with internet access to view the catalog and comfort using the web -- and the lower overhead of a website versus retail locations for video rental stores. One enabling technology was DVD's which could be mailed for less cost than VHS tapes and were less subject to physical damage and provided higher quality (for which retail locations initially charged a premium despite requiring less shelf space). There's nothing on the web page that conveys those kinds of similarities to Netflix...instead from a business standpoint I wondered how it would compete with iTunes. From a personal standpoint, all I want in terms of podcasts is an interface to handle whatever URL I throw at it.

In terms of the podcast industry, I get the sense that there may be plays in the B2B end from listening to Jeff Meyerson's Software Engineering Daily. But I am not sure that exclusive content is part of it...I wonder why a podcaster would want to be exclusively on Podfino versus iTunes? Exclusive content requires a two sided marketplace and the moves by Netflix and Amazon (and HBO years ago) came long after they had established large subscriber bases for third party content.

All that of course is absent knowledge about "What problem this solves" or why it will destroy iTunes.

Good luck.
I'm guessing the end-goal of this is to be an ncurses replacement. Anything else wouldn't make sense... right?
Found this https://gist.github.com/abulte/4079819
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"What did X ever do for us?" is the standard catch phrase of this guy in any pirate movie wanting to take command of the ship.

It's not the words of somebody who wants to help anybody, just somebody wanting the power.
You made sokoloff's point. A fresh college grad on day 1 of working makes the median family income in Boston.

To say that wages are not reflecting the shortage (the comment originally replied to), is ignoring the statistics.
" The sale of recreational marijuana is legal in some US states and other parts of the world. The main hurdle for online retailers of controversial industries is the lack of support from financial institutions."

The reason why many financial institutions don't accept Marijuana related clients is not because they don't want to its because they can't by law. In the USA, Marijuana is still illegal at a federal level. This is the same reason why you can't ship weed products in the post. State lines.

I have a client who's in the medical Marijuana industry so I have to deal with some issues relating to all of this.

Banks that don't cross state lines often do accept such customers (i.e credit unions).
The demographics indicate that coding bootcamps are mostly retraining people who already educated and giving them a new set of specific skills. That's a good thing. Jobs change, and people have to learn new skills from time to time.
Curious who your landlord is - I know a lot of people in Bozeman, MT who work for Fish and Game, and that might be someone I know!
An interesting addition to the mix. The design space around solar power systems focuses on either cost (like in this example where efficiency is low) or efficiency gains regardless of cost[1].

Presumably if we get to a point where you can cheaply print 25+% efficient cells then we're "done" as it were on improving solar cells :-)

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/japanese-company-dev...
One cannot stop a determined thief.

One technique that bothers me quite a bit is constant random changes in class names or DOM structure, which can make it more difficult. Not impossible but more difficult.
The Apophenic Machine
"quite yet".. does this mean you're working on it? That's exciting!

I want to run a store like www.itch.io (DRM free games) that accepts BTC. I'm also interested in automating microtransactions for games.
Given that Pittsburgh has a lot of security talent, do you think it is a good idea for someone out of state to apply for security jobs there?
This is one way Facebook could bring us closer together
... which means the CI - CO is a useless equation because CO cannot be measured reliably in a standard setting.

You know that obviously, and so do I, but there are a lot of people (including here on HN) who argue that eating an Apple daily and otherwise not changing anything is guaranteed to make you gain weight, and that's just not true.

You say "cut 250" but the article just gave an example that 120 cals of different composition were netting amounts different by 40. That's a 30 percent difference based on composition.
To sum up, anthropogenic sulfur emissions appear to be the main cause of the mid-century cooling. These emissions decreased the mean global surface temperature by approximately 0.5°C during this period, while anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions caused a warming of approximately 0.4°C. Therefore, even though greenhouse gas emissions continued to have a warming effect during this period, it was more than offset (hidden) by anthropogenic aerosol emissions, until those emissions were brought under control by government intervention while greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase unabated.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-mid-20th-cen...
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Quite a few publications re-post older articles, and I vaguely recall Aeon doing so in the past (not 100%).

That said, usually they're a bit older than a year or so.
Longer programs would also compete with flexible programs from traditional institutions. For example, Mills College's MA in Interdisciplinary Computer Science [0]. The traditional institutions arguably have large advantages in accreditation, financial aid, quality control, social status, signaling, and branding.

[0] https://www.mills.edu/academics/graduate-programs/computer-s...
The article isn't advocating "immutability everywhere". It complains about Go making it difficult to create immutable (or otherwise customized) data structures at all. So it is you who is moving the goalposts.

I mentioned global mutable state as an anecdote and also as an example on one extreme end of the spectrum that should make it clear what the problem is in principle: Not knowing what code changes what state.

But I see that you have decided to avoid debating the core issue entirely.

Your mention of Go's const keyword in this context leaves me scratching my head as you probably know that it doesn't allow you to define immutable maps, global or otherwise.
Do you need a degree to do that? Or can you test your way in?
Why do people seem to assume that those most capable of implementing the cryptography, networking, or other code are also those most capable of understanding the economics of cryptocurrencies or determining their future?

Most of the arguments against the core team revolve around the economics and future of the coin, but the tech team seems to think that somehow their coding experience gives them insight into that.

Bitcoin seems like technically great but it fails on many of the economic aspects (e.g. making a currency with a fixed amount basically ensures it can never be used to write long term counteracts in).
How deep doesn't App Academy go into stuff like data structures, algorithms, memory management, architecture, scaling, etc.? I see mention of algorithms on the site, but not much else that would lead me to believe developers understand more fundamental CS concepts.
As a CWRU grad, I don't really see what power they have fix Cleveland's problems. One of them is due to the high levels segregation (both wealth and race) and sprawl due to white flight from the inner city.

This is slowly changing as Cleveland tries to revitalize the downtown, but I'm not sure there are any good plans to help out extremely poor areas such as East Cleveland.
Mail Chimp is not a great platform. There are better alternatives.
Not at all. In fact, as far as I can tell, you completely ignored the point I made, so I'll just repeat it:

> The state median household income includes high school dropouts working at McDonald's, and it includes folks living in very affordable rural areas with low wages. It's not a meaningful point of comparison when you're looking at a subset of workers who are highly educated and seeking jobs in a technically demanding field at companies located in almost exclusively expensive metro areas.

Replace "state median household income" with "Boston median family income" if you wish. Many elements here still apply after that substitution and must be addressed in detail if you wish to claim that I "made sokoloff's point".

The part you replied to and didn't ignore was just a correction to incorrect statistics that had been cited without reference. It seems pretty warped to suggest that I made his/her point by indicating that the cited statistics were off by a factor of 2 -- and not in the direction that favors their argument.

I think it would also help if you defined precisely what you mean by "shortage". You seem to be using an extremely loose definition that claims a shortage exists any time new workers in a particular industry are paid above the median family income. We must then conclude that there is a shortage of all kinds of workers across countless industries. For instance, because new engineers in the O&G industry are typically paid $80k-$100k, there must be a shortage, even though the industry has been having layoffs for years and certainly does not struggle to fill needed positions.
He doesn't mention the model number, plus it's a new account, so there's little trust that what he's saying is true. (I didn't downvote)
Someone usually replies to statements about not being able to raise a family on a professional income in SF by suggesting these sacrifices and acccusing the poster of being entitled and having unrealistically high lifestyle expectations. ("Of course you can't live a suburban lifestyle here. Change your lifestyle"). Looks like parent was responding preemptively.
> True and nobody is really arguing that point.

Or providing solutions, just automating their jobs away.

Ignore the social repercussions or try and shift responsibility for who should help them all you want, I suggest it is a very unwise thing to do.
> but there are authorised sellers

I don't believe this is true. It used to be the case but Twitter went and put all API sales under Gnip.
Years ago. It probably has changed to some degree.

But for example, what you just linked - that's a great resource, but it still doesn't get you very far; you'd have to jump from there to somewhere else to learn what a bootcamp would teach.
On the useless tautological sense. If you can't measure CO to within 20%, can hardly measure CI to within that range - then for all practical purposes, the equation does not work.

You may want to read about (lack of) precision in Atwater factors, to the tune of 50%, if you believe CI is easy to compute.
> we ask everyone here to please continue to refrain from using the pejorative "rust-belt"

Who is "we"? I spent the first few decades of my life in a great lakes rust belt city and this is the first time I've heard of anyone considering it a pejorative.
Well, unless we reach the limit of physics, "we can't" is always synonymous with "we don't want to". And it's usually a matter of resources, values or skills.

But it's bad PR to say "we don't want to spend that much" or "we are not skilled enough to do it". So big entities always say it's against moral/law to do it, or that it can't be done.
This question is incredibly broad, and has an element of bigotry. Most of the time, though, when people are talking about "Indians" they are talking about outsourcing shops. Outsourcing shops are stereotypically known to be difficult to work with, though in reality experiences may vary.

To answer your question, however, in my experience, I have met some software developers of Indian origin who are incredibly talented, and others who aren't so gifted. Just like every other nationality or race.
I use a modified digestive tract to minimize the amount of personal space I require. Thus far, it's working well.
Have you looked into pharmaceuticals to possibly mitigate damage? I'm not sure of their efficacy, but there are a few racetams that might aid recovery. Phenylpiracetam is perhaps the most potent.

From Wikipedia:

"A few small clinical studies have shown possible links between prescription of phenylpiracetam and improvement in a number of encephalopathic conditions, including lesions of cerebral blood pathways, traumatic brain injury and certain types of glioma."

Study in rats:

"In Wistar rats with gravitational cerebral ischemia, Phenylpiracetam reduced the extent of neuralgic deficiency manifestations, retained the locomotor, research, and memory functions, increased the survival rate, and lead to the favoring of local cerebral flow restoration upon the occlusion of carotid arteries to a greater extent than did piracetam."
Part of what's missing from this is an explanation of how bears feed before they go into hibernation. Bears are opportunistic in the extreme when preparing to hibernate - they feed single-mindedly on the easiest, most plentiful sources of calories they can find. There's actually some evidence to suggest that the bears have a means of knowing what's calorie rich (maybe through flavor? I dunno). It's well documented that salmon-fed Alaskan bears rarely eat the whole fish - they just yank off and eat the skin, which has the most fat and, consequently, the highest calorie-to-volume ratio.

They obliquely refer to this with the example about the black bear eating moths until full, then going off to nap. He found a good source of calories, ate his fill, then stopped because he couldn't eat anymore.
A good programmer always looks at the bigger picture. They understand when SOLID is appropriate and when "worse is better". A good programmer is familiar with the best practices and guidelines and principles, but always question them to understand their context and limitation. A good programmer understand that all tools and techniques are means to an end.
BitCoin, where the inventor managed to convince people to accept a new currency, mined the first few blocks of it, and ended up with a billion dollars in paper wealth as a result.
Certainly, there is always risk of poor strategy and/or poor execution, with an outcome exactly as you describe. Having seen both scenarios play out however (as both an investor and an operator), in this case I think it would be the right move.
I remember that movie. It's all fun and games until TFL sends an Oyster collector after another Oyster collector.
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Pittsburgh is a great town. It looks a bit like it was on the barely winning side of a fist fight

I was born in Pittsburgh, and I have some experience with towns in the region and other rust belt river towns. Maybe I'm biased, but I'd say that Pittsburgh, in its good parts, looks better than most in the region. Also, I'm old enough to know the benefits of the Clean Air Act on that town. Once, you could literally smell when you were getting into Pittsburgh, and the sulfur from coal burning literally made it smell like excrement! (Not exactly, but it was a smell in the same family of smells, due to the sulfur.) Today, there's not a trace of this!
Since web content is dynamic, I like to think that we're the proofreaders (that is, if the author makes themselves available for contact and makes said correction when someone points out a typo).
Digital goods can be sold but automation isn't going to make it into the first release. Hopefully later this year.
Most open-source software is libraries or frameworks
The article title seems quite measured: "Could cows be the clue that leads to an HIV vaccine?"
"Having a sugar-sweetened drink with a high-protein meal may negatively affect energy balance, alter food preferences and cause the body to store more fat."

Damn that's a lot of negatives. I'm glad I haven't regularly drank soda in 5 years.
whats wrong with you google...

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> If there was a real worker shortage, employers would be hiring people without degrees and have them do the best they can.

Doesn't this kind of assume that even someone with very little skill can add value to a company as a software developer? It might be possible that below a certain skill level, they would make things worse instead of better.
Of course I referred to the language learning process in toddlers. By the time they reach school it's a different process, and they learn a lot of other subjects too.
Indian developers are just like other developers. You can find excellent ones, good ones, mediocre ones and horrid ones.

The reason they get a bit more negative publicity than others is because of the number of developers who are in the mediocre and horrid category.

The reason for that is a lot of young Indians getting into tech just because that is the easiest ticket to a decent income in a country like India where there are tons of young unemployed people striving for good jobs. Due to the population size, this number of young Indians is much larger than other countries.

So what I am saying that if you compare the excellent developers from India, they are on par with any other country. But most of the negativity comes from the excess availability of the bad ones which exist in other countries but much less due to the population differences and reasons for getting into tech.

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Classic internet.

The argument for bootcamps is easy! It costs a FRACTION of a college degree, takes a fraction of the time, and almost guarantees you a job.

"you'd be lucky to make it through a year as a junior dev without being fired if all the skills you have come from a bootcamp" LOL.

I know literally hundreds of people who have done just that, and it aint luck.

There is tons in a comp sci degree that you don't need to know right away to be an effective working programmer. And lots of bootcamps do teach "How to sort a lidt(sic) efficiently". It's a little hard to generalise because bootcamps vary in quality - like anything - but they give you a good structured introduction to lots of relevant material and the tools to keep learning as you go.
> I'm not.

Well, you clearly are, and in the process you're showing that you are completely clueless, and resorting to veiled personal attacks to try to hide the fact that you know nothing.

> But even Communism is not synonymous with Bolshevism.

This wouldn't be a standard communist revisionism discussion without the tired and old "no true scotsman" arguments.
In that case, what do you do?
Shedding light on the smart city revolution
Yep. Some of the headlines are particularly egregious. https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=%22jeremy+england%22&qs=n...

I suspect he is up for tenure review :P His proposals are not knew just spun differently. You can find critics from other physics/chemist regarding their suspicions as well.
software developers for amazon in Pittsburgh make between 56 and 107k, 78k mean (glassdoor).

Sanfrancisco, its 76 - 131k, 102k mean.
I love this article but in the comments I'm reminded of an issue in the discord around climate change.

It seems to be an issue of 'denial' and 'belief' to many - the same terms we use for religious belief.

We owe it to ourselves to treat doubt about climate change like any other valid doubt (see geology pre plate tectonics for an example of mainstream science being in short supply of doubt) and to stop treating climate change as a matter of belief.

'Believing' in climate change turns it into an opinion - the type of opinion that can never be truly right or wrong; "you have your opinions, I have mine."