skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a third measurement. Experience. And the superstar developers tend to have more of it, although not exclusively.

Specifically they have probably seen and done the problem you are trying to solve already and don't need to spend as much time learning and researching.

Less seasoned developers take a lot of mentoring and not every company can do that. In fact the words "mentor" and "train" are nowhere in this article.

Granted you don't have to be a superstar to have experience. And also, on some projects (like CRUD as someone else mentioned) less experienced developers have plenty enough experience to do the job.

There is also the added benefit of experienced developers being able to see when something is being done the hard way. I've seen many cases in my career where a less experienced developer didn't know a tool or technique and would have (or did) go down the more expensive and time consuming path.

What this article should be (and i think might be getting at slightly) is "you don't need superstar developers if you have superstar mentors." If you have neither you're in for longer development time and higher cost over time.

The flip side of the coin is that superstars also have a tendency to favor projects that are mentally / academically challenging which leads to over-engineering or boredom and attrition.
The United States is host to the most semiconductor design firms, the second most manufacturing facilities. TSMC is mostly in Taiwan and the United States; and they seem to manufacture a lot of microcontrollers, WiFi chips, and things that you mention.

Scaling up capacity for almost anything you mentioned would be a bit expensive, but ultimately not crippling.
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Yes and then people will use the same password at multiple sites with their new unique id and be right back in the same boat.
I'd guess pin-count and driver availability. SPI has pretty well-established kernel drivers with usermode access. Using the parallel busses is either going to involve driving a ton of GPIOs or trying to map some kind of parallel peripheral into driving each screen.
I just use Twitrss for those.
I booked an 8.9 and only found out afterwards some of the rooms aren’t cleaned if you book through booking, because those rooms aren’t actually from the hotel but a private owner renting out their rooms. I contacted booking about it, they did nothing.

The private owner also put a hold on my credit card, as did the hotel, with the sum of both being high enough i bumped into my card’s limit before the end of my stay. Oh, and the very low rate of booking.ccom turned out to be the same price as booking direct once all the semi-hidden charges were added.

Lesson learned: always book directly with the hotel.
I find your message confusing. Are you saying that this is way too much or way too little?

Because 1 million is pocket change for a government project.
It barely pays a couple of people for the year.
I don't know if other people have any dramatically different thoughts on the matter, but if you don't want to miss out but don't want the blatant risk of dealing in ICO's, it seems somewhat reasonable (nothing is reasonable or save in cryptocurrencies, really) way to involve yourself then I'd suggest having a look at just purchasing some of the larger coins (eg Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin) and sitting on it for a couple of years. Cost average your buy in, especially since it's dipped a little recently. Then again, only at an amount that you could lose and not regret it too much.

I've been following the progression of the tech in general and have friends who try and play the ICO game, but it's just too fickle for me. I'm not ready to go full day trader over that stuff. However the long term trend (zooming out) tends toward:

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Minimal attention > growing attention > hype and burst > pop and settle > stagnation > return to attention, and start over

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repeatedly, and all generally on an upwards trend over the past ~6 years from what I can tell so far. Just speaking to the prices, here. Something different is happening with the ICOs and the ability to build upon the networks like Ethereum. It's hard to predict, and it's curious what all the calamity surrounding those gambles will amount to. I'm sure a few of the companies will stand out and remain, but most of it just seems so... poorly footed.
We have been spending a lot of time evaluating Fauna to Spanner and Coackroach. I think the most interesting thing about Fauna is it does not rely on Atomic Clocks or TrueTime. According to Coackroach TrueTime can cause delays of up to 250ms (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/tags/truetime/index.xml) The alternative approach that Fauna takes of deriving the total ordering of transactions using a raft replicated log does not have this limitation. This also means Fauna is not dependent on a particular cloud provider or infrastructure. The other really unique approach Fauna took is not trying to provide SQL compatibility, which makes the Query Language used to interact with the database much more powerful.
Try out Last10K.com for SEC Filings. Admittedly it's not as "pretty" but it's free and includes some unique features including sentiment analysis.

Disclosure: Last10K.com is a side project of mine
For the record, I'm not opposed to credit agencies buying data breach insurance on whatever terms they can negotiate. I'm just opposed to the idea that any amount of caution on their part should dissipate their (or their insurer's) legal liability in the event of a breach.

I do agree that would probably be a de facto ban on the industry, or at least a radical restructuring thereof. My suspicion is that the industry is actually not a profitable enterprise once all the externalities are properly accounted for. But I'd be happy to be proved wrong, and I'm more than willing to give the industry a chance to figure out a model that works.

Edit: Completely off topic, but this is the nicest internet argument I've had in a long time. Thanks, scrumper, for being an excellent debating partner!
If oil was the only cause of climate change perhaps there would be an argument. But what next? Suing Iceland over volcanic eruptions? Suing lumber companies for cutting down trees? It has become absurd. Climate change is big business. Case in point: financially strapped Oakland wants to get paid. How to do that? It’s just like Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition’s shakedown of corporations: “donate” or we’ll call you racist and picket your business.

When the solution to climate change is “pay me” then I am skeptical. Perhaps the San Fran area ought to immediately ban all gasoline and diesel sales and close all highways to non electric vehicles. And close the shipping port. And the airport.

No, they won’t do that because this isn’t about some immediate threat, this is about getting paid. As long as there is a single gasoline station in the Bay Area, Oakland and friends are doing nothing more that leveraging FUD to get paid.
the statistics are relevant, and should help. but the rational part of the PFC is just a single participant in our mental cacophony, so its not like knowing this is going to fix the problem right away. not saying you are guilty of thinking this, but ive seen alot of people who are. flying being safe statistically is a perfect example of how knowing something is but a small step towards really knowing it.
I wish it was that simple.

Technology isn't inevitable but to the extent that we wan't to reap the benefits of it is. In other word, we aren't designing anything other than our own replacements.

With regards to how SV tries to paint it thats a different discussion and have nothing to do with whether it will happen or not.

It doesn't have to be dystopian (ex. Post scarcity society) but until we get there it's going to be worse not better for a lot of people.

But I would challenge you to come up with an alternative that by and large at least compete with the reliance on technology.

The problem is that no specific part of the whole system is responsible and everyone in the system is more or less acting rationally.

So I fundamentally disagree it's not inevitable (with the above context considered)
Your creds don’t convince me. Maybe if you expressed how painful it was for you to wear the pump...or any of the points I’m about to make.

My wife stopped using the pump altogether because of discomfort and the knowledge that saliva-to-aureola contact is healthier for the child.

The price really isn’t the problem as insurance will cover at least part of it, and it is marketed to breastfeeding women who have jobs and health insurance (have the means to make the purchase), and the developer is sending clear signals they understand the price issue and the price will likely scale down as production scales up. And there’s also an exit strategy as Medela would probably buy them too.

The key problems for this market are breast pumps are often handed down to other families, limiting the sales potential, and there is a large segment that will prefer contact breast feeding over pumping due to the health benefits.

And why is it that when a man understands the full implications of a crowdsourcing campaign and chums the water with press, he’s a “growth hacker”, yet you employ an invective by labeling this woman’s effort as “Submarine PR”?
> In The Emoji Code, Vyvyan Evans takes aim at the Unicode Consortium, painting it as an institution in the mould of the Académie française, tyranically subjugating the linguistic will of the people by restricting their free use of cartoon icons, behind it all compelled by Silicon Valley corporate greed, since the members of its technical committee include such blue-chip tech companies as Apple, Google, Facebook and IBM.

This is bullshit. I just finished reading this book and Evans does nothing of the sort.

Evans is a respected linguist who takes his training and applies it to emoji. I also have some training in linguistics and the only thing that really bothered me about the book is that it wasn't academic enough. I thought it was a bit too pop-sci, but this just means it wasn't written with people like me in mind. It was written for a more lay audience and that's OK. Evans does a very good job of explaining complex subjects to people without any prior exposure to academic linguistics. In general, The Emoji Code is a good book. I just would have preferred something a bit deeper.

The real strength in Evans book for me was his discussion of Emoji's metonymic and metaphorical qualities. This helped me place it in a context of what I already knew in cog-ling. But I'm really digressing here. It's a good book for a non-academic audience. And this review is kinda click baity.
You say that like there's a surfeit of talent in tech. That's not the case in my experience. I do think there is an oversupply of fungibles though and companies seem to be adapting to that.
Boy, they really messed up at that, letting folks like DJI tool up and export high quality goods.
For tweets naive bayes with bow approach works very well.

You need to do a ton of preprocessing. Think text transformation..
Stephenson is my absolute favorite living author (RIP, DFW) when he's good (Anathem, Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash), but appallingly bad when he's bad (The Rise and Fall of DODO, REAMDE). You can safely give Seveneves a miss, and should go read the really good stuff first in any case.
Similar thing happened in Queensland,Australia. IBM is barred from bidding on contracts (actually, the government forbade anyone on awarding contracts to IBM). IBM sued and won, but the government still will ignore all IBM bids. I only wish they would be able to do more than just ignore IBM, a few stupid bureaucrats signed a bad contract cost Australia too much.

Then again, working in the same way as every other bureaucracy.
people want to pay less taxes.
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Did you even read the article ? The whole point is that as a consumer you have no choice to go elsewhere. Equifax has data about you that you never know and never consented to. They also sell their data to all sorts of agencies and their business practices are real shady. If you need to check your credit report multiple times in a year, they will sign you up for some useless monitoring program, and will make life really difficult to cancel it. At the very least, credit bureaus, who have enormous power over individual lives, without their knowledge, need to be made accountable and their profit motives squashed.
Ataris had plenty of security holes. And were vulnerable to viruses spread on floppy disks.
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Yes, however the confounding factor is that the large oil companies have spent a lot of money convincing people that these actions are harmless, despite internal data saying otherwise. In a world where these companies kept their mouth shut about climate research, then I don't see how they'd be at fault.
FLOSS graphics driver?
It’s refreshing to have a voice like yours added to the conversation.
The specs are widely available. This is chromebook Eve. It is very overpriced.
Juicero iirc was pitched based on a recurring revenue model for the packets. Printer and ink cartridge or razor handle and blade kind of business models, which should have very different financial prospects (if executed and marketed correctly) than a buy once and done gadget, no matter how useful the gadget may be.
here's the thing - i think the definition of fast is in two different dimensions and both of them count.

One is the generation: i actually run my startup's website on Hugo. There are quite a few pages - including landing pages - and jekll was sloooow.

Second, we have marketing people on windows + mac, dev people on linux. The time taken for someone to setup Hugo on their laptops is 5 minutes: its a single binary.

Jekyll - upwards of 30 minutes after fighting ruby and setting %PATH% variables in windows.
We're all arguing under a parent post which wants to reform the industry to bring some externalities back onto the agencies' books.

If it's legal to operate an explosives warehouse in town at the time you do it, then unfortunately yes I have to answer that, provided you'd complied with applicable laws in securing your warehouse full of bombs, then you could shrug your shoulders. But you'd then be shrugging in the face of a barrage of lawsuits (as is happening now with Equifax). Soon after your homeless guy blew up the block the laws would be changed. And that's the situation we're in now: rubble everywhere, with a chance to make legislative changes to prevent a recurrence.
For balance, a recent study conducted by the University of Bath and published in the BMJ showed that a series of simple exercises can drastically reduce (by 72%) injury in schoolboy rugby players.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1140
I'm curious why another study is needed. Is it because the results of past studies didn't make a strong case for the UBI?
> Which one?

UNIX, the genesis of C and all that derived from AT&T original code.

> And did it successfully compile with multiple compilers?

Any that was K&R C compatibile.

GCC was a toy compiler not used for any serious UNIX development until Sun decided to start selling the SDK as part of a SunOS developers edition, quickly followed by other UNIX vendors.

So by definition, until GCC became an usefull project, there were no UNIX kernels written with GCC C extensions.
It's not about the burning of fossil fuels, its about the misinformation campaign.
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Really wish the Beaglebone products had as much attention as the RPi stuff has.
If the government already chose a 9-digit 'secret' number that can be used to pay taxes and get tax refunds and do pretty much any other sensitive communication, is it the onus of private industry to supersede it?

Experian failed, but the system was designed to fail. You can already get all of this important info with this number, so there was little incentive to create a new system and ensure that every American participated in it. Their operation was also entrenched by government credit reporting acts, pretty much setting in stone how things are and preventing innovation. This was a pseudo-government 'industry', not a free market system with new startups frequently joining.
Looking for funding for my startup called Crackerstream /s
Wow, I didn't realize that there was no wifi on this thing.. that's a deal breaker for me.
Farting cows ruin the air. A baby exhaling ruins the air. Volcanos ruin the air. What percentage of temperature is directly and certainly caused by oil? Not “50 years from now” but right now. You can’t sue for something that hasn’t happened yet. There’s a thing called standing. Also, you can’t prove a harm happened until it actually happened. This isn’t pre-crime.
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It might be a better approach to have executing code signal if a segment is a security-critical section or not. In that way a performance hit might be taken while doing work in a properly secure way but the rest of the time things could be run in a looser manor.

Taking that concept further, it might be worth it to have an 'edgy' state as well, where the results aren't super critical but merely nice to have (EG for software video decoding).
It may also work by making basic income really basic, so there’s an incentive to still go out there and specialize.
Can't a RPi Zero W already be used like that? And it's cheaper than this.
> What's next, let's sue farmers for farming cows that belch methane into the atmosphere?

I mean, that'd be amazing. Beef is way too cheap in America; we're just having our grandkids pay it.
We're talking about Bitcoin so obviously you should trust no one. But most of this post is either his opinion or information that was already well-known, so I think we can get some value out of it even if we don't trust the author.
> Unicode correctly recognized this problem and yet picked a bad solution

What do you dislike about their solution?

> Emoji is an inevitable but ugly addition of the Unicode standard

In fairness, Unicode has long had emoticons. Emoji merely expanded its repertoire.
Time is precious. The tasks I work on, no matter how trivial they seem to me personally, will save time in aggregate for all my users and the staff that supports them. I'm humbled by the trust they place in me to shift a widget, because they judged it would help them make better use of their time, and they believe I can help them achieve that.

As far as we know, we're alone in the universe. Programs are for people. We're counting on each other. To me, that's enough. Vent about a nuisance, fret about unanticipated consequences, but don't lose sight of that essential truth of programming.
Most will take a 5 year vacation.
Stop buying their products.
Humans are part of a larger system, that system is evolution. For millions of years evolution have favored those who adapt to a new environment.

Thats the proper perspective to understand this discussion, not pointing back to a few thousand years of human civilization, unless of course you claim that humans is the last word in evolutionary process.

If you (like me) believe technology will take over most jobs then (U)BI is so far the best model we have as it will always make it worthwhile to work.
A cursory search reveals guy who was involved in BitCoin from the very start. For example, here's an exchange he had in 2008 with Satoshi over the design of Bitcoin:

http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/5/
Something about this comment sparked a bunch of nasty nitpicking about who understands breast pumps better. I think the fault lies (first) at the root. Had you posted more thoughtfully, instead of dropping several conversational land mines, the conversation would not likely have turned toxic.

Other commenters have shown themselves to be quite capable of this, even when the subject is breast pumps, so I'm sure you are too. Would you please re-read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the principles of this site to heart?

Most of the time, when things go flameways, the push in that direction was unintentional. The solution is for us all to consciously hold an intention for higher-quality discussion here. This does make conversation a bit less spontaneous, but since the alternative is tire fires, there is little choice.
That sounds awfully static. The interesting thing will be to see if people with unconditional money end up becoming addicts at higher rates. Are the study researchers planning on making the data openly available? Is it going to be cash payments, or will it be some sort of debit card where the researchers can track whether people are spending money at grocery stores, or at casinos?
Well, you can't sue a volcano, and a baby exhaling does definitely not ruin the air in any significant sense. Cows do, though—we should definitely sue people raising cows for ruining it for everyone.
Thank you! I got a bit tired of seeing mostly (presumably) male voices talking about their partner or their indirect experiences (including my own partner, a bit!) and I just wanted to throw in my direct 2c. Especially as someone that pumps like 2 hours a day plus another hour of pumping-related stuff (and that's significantly down from the early days...).
It's nice that it's tiny, but you have to attach it to something else to do anything. I'd suggest providing the connectors, not just the holes, and providing mounting holes. Why make the Arduino crowd solder?
>They would probably pick something more secure than the government did

The government did NOT pick SSN's for ID. SSN cards used to have 'not to be used for identification purposes'. It was the private sector that appropriated SSN's as ID's. What the government failed in is adequately prohibiting and enforcing a prohibition of this type of use.
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> Most of the time, turning off wifi to preserve battery is more superstition than real.

This is not true in my experience. Having the WiFi radio on while network connectivity (including LTE/3G) isn't used hurts the battery runtime. It may be true for Bluetooth Low Energy, but not WiFi. Even when "disconnected" from a network, the WiFi radio now keeps looking for networks soon after the disconnect (I did see a "searching for network" message below the WiFi button in Control Center).
We're hoping to add support, ideally with the help of the open source community! You can follow along at https://github.com/HVF/franchise/issues/5
> I'm just opposed to the idea that any amount of caution on their part should dissipate their (or their insurer's) legal liability in the event of a breach.

Oh then yes we totally agree. If they're prudent, their insurer pays. Otherwise they do.

You might be right about the credit reference industry being ultimately unprofitable as a standalone business, but I think there's a lot of arguing to be had about the magnitude of those externalities. That's why we need a law to provide some automatic, per-individual-leaked fine - the insurable risk from way up-thread.
I am confused by this article. They were able to raise 6.5 million initially, which is not insignificant. But when they weren't able to raise more money anecdotes about sexism are mentioned?

I don't doubt for a minute that there is rampant sexism in the Valley but they were able to raise money just not a second round. This is not uncommon.
I've travelled a dozen times for work this year and the best tip I have, although not related to the flight itself, is to wear simple ear plus the entire time in the airport. I hadn't realized just how much all the noise and cross-talk announcements were having an effect but it makes a huge difference.
Very neat! Thanks for sharing
Huh. What do you mean by "3-byte Unicode characters"?
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Lime's policies on free and open source software and hardware (https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr#free-and-open...) pushed me over the edge. The LimeSDR Mini project (https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr-mini) has my money.
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