skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about the first sentence. And I'd be all for the second, but I'm even more sure that simply won't happen in this political climate.
I have it installed, and it's fine for quick file edits.

It's also been mentioned a few times here on hn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12388654

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14427473

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13735395

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13636239

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13633578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13300940
72% of DACA illegal aliens are 21 or older
That's a modulated carrier type system. Those aren't useful in sunlight, because they have to outshine ambient lighting continuously. Pulse-type devices only have to outshine the sun in a narrow frequency band for a nanosecond, which is quite possible.
Make sure you marry another high earner, because you’ll be competing with other households pulling in $300k+. Then get one set of in laws to live with you to defray babysitting costs and time.
Nah, it was Scheme plus (a stripped-down) CLOS. A possible point of confusion was that the development environment, including the CPS Scheme compoiler, was written in Common Lisp. Also, all values were instances of (mini-CLOS) classes.
This doesn't give me a great feeling for whether they're recapturing losses from the downturn (from which the rich 'suffered' disproportionately due to their heavy involvement in asset markets), or whether that 85% of the gains is in proportion to what they already took home in proportion of total dollars.

It could be they're taking home 95% of the income so capturing 85% of the growth is actually relatively low. I just don't know.
We need a better cross-platform terminal! Not editor. The current state of cross-platform terminals is fairly poor. Other than Alacritty[0] there hasn't really been any new innovation here.

[0] https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty
Little Snitch is not so much a firewall in the usual sense as a phone-home prevention device. It's primarily interested in blocking outbound traffic (exfiltration), not inbound traffic.
Wonder if Dyson will be successful in their leap. Vacuums -> EVs.
Most any bit of "random wire" should work for receiving FM (in quotes because "random wire" has specific meaning amongst some; in contrast to wire that has a specific length for the frequency). IOW, without having ever looked up the specifics, the two wires going to your ears act as a dipole antenna. Now, would a piece of wire cut specifically to receive FM frequencies do better? Certainly, back in the early days it was common to hook your new tube FM receiver to your TV antenna. That antenna was just a directional Yagi, and FM isn't very far away from TV (in fact, you can pick up TV channel 6 on FM if your receiver goes low enough). EDIT: after doing a bit of math, an optimal FM antenna would be around 36 inches or so. Take a set of headphones with about 18 inches on each side, and hey, you've got a pretty-close-to-optimal FM antenna. Could be coincidence, could be by-design, dunno.

In summary, yes, you could replicate this on a PC using a couple of pieces of wire you have rattling around your toolbox.
I would fit in the same category of users like you. I've been using micro for a few months and I find it a very pleasant experience. My downsides so far are: haven't found a way to disable the somewhat aggressive mouse control, haven't found a way to disable coloring background (slow rendering on remote ssh) and paste buffers being messed up in recent releases. I just opened a 500mb csv which arguably was slower than using vi/vim but still fast enough and snappy after the initial load.
FYI, I believe you can disable retries and replace them with a DLQ (which you can then ignore, if you don't care about failures).

I would be interested, though, if anyone has figured out a way to raise the 30 second RequestResponse timeout. Both that and the 300s Lambda timeout are annoyingly low. Google is slightly better, they go to 600s!
All of the above might be great, but that doesn't mean the day-to-day or debt obligations of fellow Americans have improved.
How many multiples of the average salary does a SV tech worker earn?
Uber adds a new feature for riders that teaches basic sign language
Building a simple HTTP server in Clojure
What are some good examples of complex system properties you've seen verified with sufficiently advanced types?
> Why is it not true for them? Sales are not magic, it is a profession that can be learned

Like software engineering. And like writing software, some people are better at it / enjoy it more than others. Software engineers and good salespeople are very well compensated because they're hard to replace.

> I have seen a lot of companies stating how important is sales, and how unique they are. It can't be true for all companies. It is like everyone thinking that they are above average, it is just not possible.

Most companies, particularly most start-ups, suck at sales. "Great engineers, shit sales" is a more common failure mode in Silicon Valley than "sold something couldn't be built." Also, "good at sales" isn't a one dimensional metric. There are different sales processes, some of which some people (and consequently companies) are better at than others.

> If your product is software, literally it is impossible that sales add more value than the engineering organization that builds the product

You're conflating how essential a step is to a process with how valuable it is. Mediating those factors is how difficult it is to replace the parts in the step. Consider, for example, an automobile assembly line. It would be incorrect to assume that just because the vehicle is useless without an engine, it is impossible for anyone to be more valuable than the person who mounts the engine.
How does encryption sidestep this issue at all?
Show HN: Judgin – Video-based automated reference checking for companies
> That isn't to say we're not under-appreciated and under-compensated

This is possibly the most HN thing I've ever read. Bay Area developers are under-compensated?
Yeah, that's what they want you to think. "We're just here to get this cleared up and get you on your way. Just talk to me, buddy."

You are under no obligation to attest to your innocence. It's not your responsibility to do so. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

You cannot refuse to provide identification (or do a roadside sobriety test). But if there is no probable cause to pursue the matter further, there's only so much they can do without your testimony.

There's a lot of damage they can do with your testimony though.
>If your product is software, literally it is impossible that sales add more value than the engineering organization that builds the product. Without engineering organization, you don't have anything to sell. Without sales and marketing, you will also have a hard time. It is collaboration what brings success.

The distinction is that product development, sales and marketing can act as multipliers in a way that engineering seldom does. A tech company's growth is rarely due to the technical excellence of their product. There are obvious exceptions at the extremes, but very few of us are working for a Pied Piper with some truly amazing competitive advantage in technology.

For example, what would happen if magically Twitter's tech became 50% better overnight? That would certainly reduce costs, but would it lead to any growth? Would the average person use the service more if the tech was better? Would companies buy more ads? Would revenue increase?

Now imagine their product development, sales and marketing teams became 50% better. They could have actual product improvements beyond doubling Tweet length. They could instantly sell more ads. They could increase external partnerships to bring more attention to the platform. They would have all sorts of opportunities for added revenue and growth.
No, it's a fairly precisely defined technical term that has nothing to do with subsidy (but the part about the income group for whom it is affordable and the standards by which it is affordable are omitted from media accounts; there are HUD guidelines for affordability based on income level, and the plan at issue addresses housing affordable, by those HUD standards, for households at or below 50% of the Areawide Median Income for Santa Clara County.)
Web operating system written from scratch
It sounds like you’re kinda stretching the definition of the word a bit. If everything that can be sold is “affordable”, what does the word even mean?
Is it really cheaper or free for non-Europeans? (http://exchangestudentworld.com/student/costs/) Can it be easily done without going through an exchange service? Anyway, some other possible factors for why more Americans don't do it: not many European schools actually wanting them for various reasons (such as academic performance (or as sibling notes there may be an entrance exam), they're full enough with the locals, or would rather have non-American foreign exchange students), most Americans don't know a foreign language very well (and those that do are most likely to know only Spanish), most Americans stay in the same state of their birth, and lots of college students like being able to visit friends and family from their original location and that's a lot more difficult with an ocean in the way -- flights are expensive.
If you're being read your Miranda rights, you are already under arrest and your best course of action is to not say anything to anyone unless it's your lawyer.
Sorting the wheat from the chaff is Problem One you need to solve regardless of whether you offer below, at, or above market pay. I think the grandparent poster's point was that by offering well above market pay, you will have more of both (wheat and chaff) in your funnel so you'll be able to sort through more wheat. Assuming you have Problem One nailed you'll end up ahead of those offering below market (who might only attract chaff).
Unfortunately, what ends up happening in most cases is that people make products, give them a ridiculous 1y or 2y warranty, then claim that if there're any problems after that time period you'll have to pay to repair or replace.
This is the number one skill I've been trying to learn at work. Too many minor decisions add up and severely hurt
productivity if they aren't resolved quickly.
organically? Please, Google promoted Chrome through ads for months! -- disclaimer, I love Chrome!
I don't know if there are many countries with fully subsidized college but there are at least a few who don't seem to see any worse outcomes than the US's existing partial subsidization by loans and grants.
It depends on how many people you let go to college.
>3 years from now there'll be another election and presumably another misinformation campaign. Should we be optimistic that someone will be on top of it before the election?

I'd hope for a mildly more competent, less compromised candidate who can't be "defeated" by Russians with an $80k ad budget.

Of course, if the Russians are really serious about fixing the election they'll arrange for Hillary to run again.
The whole point of the security of TouchID hardware is to prevent someone else from authenticating as you by messing with the hardware. But that becomes a non-issue when your data is encrypted, since a thief wouldn't have the password to decrypt it anyway.
As a once-a-decade new car buyer, I think the problem with this strategy is the risk profile. There's a decent chance that the 3 year old car will be fine, but the risk is higher - and a lot of buyers that hold on to cars for a long time would view an unscheduled car purchase (due to a reliability issue) as worse than getting the very best deal on the purchase price.

Buying a new car every other year is for suckers. IMHO, buying any car every 3-4 years is for lesser suckers. Part of how you get to the comfortable decade on a car is to buy new and take care of it.

.. and, of course, this all goes out the window if you find cars interesting or exciting, and therefore want to buy nicer cars more frequently just because you enjoy cars.
Well delivery can be just as important as the message. It sounds like she alienated male-audiences by implying it's a problem with a whole gender instead of implying it's a gender-neutral trait.

After all, how does she know who does the cleaning, planning, keeping track of birthdays in my relationship?

And I don't think it's fair to dismiss her gender-targeting delivery as a trivial detail such as grammar, she's clearly a professional writer and it's hard to imagine it's accidental.

I wonder if she's playing on her audience's pent-up emotions and intentionally stirring controversy to get more-internet attention? (not quite trolling, but a gentler form)
First: have a lot of money.
"But how close do you have to get to use that 3D capability?"

With a Lytro camera you could do it from just about any distance.

"but that’s hardly someone walking down the street and you getting a quick grab of their face."

All you have to do is even look remotely interested in your phone and pretend you're not taking a picture - boom info gotten surreptitiously. That's assuming the other person you're copying biometrics from is even paying attention - odds are they're probably too focused on their own phone to notice.
Apple products don't really seem to display this much. Maybe it's why (or because) they cost twice as much as products from other manufacturers.
Yeah, that's what I was trying to say with my "charitable interpretation", you articulated it much better.
Any tax plan that promises to increase taxes for the rich, often tends to be something that ends up increasing the taxes for the rest, while the rich will have enough loopholes to pay less taxes, legally.
Prosecutorial discretion is only that important because the rest of the criminal justice system (including the laws themselves) is so broken.

A truly healthy system would not allow an overzealous DA to get far.
Heh, broadcast random numbers at a slow, steady rate, set a bot to watch for news headlines including certain military keywords, have number station start broadcasting furiously.
Google not being to develop more offices is by no means “an incredible emergency”. The fact that there’s not enough space for people to live, that may qualify as one.
relative to demand and cost of living potentially
Actually, I collect new terminals as a hobby and the list is pretty long:

https://github.com/evmar/smash/wiki/Related-projects
Why have MOOCs provided no real competition?
More efficient engineering ships features faster, not just cheaper, which lets you respond quicker, which gets you more users/clients/your favorite metric.
Genuinely want to contribute to discussion. Asking respectfully: why is this rule against "personal" and not "ad hominem"? IMO quoting this person's own words contributes to discussion: there's a direct line from kid's willingness to log into customers' other accounts with their passwords, to middle-age person's co running spam-heavy viral loops and shady background audio + stonewalling Congress. Some aspects of character are stable and persistent, and these are relevant to hacker ethics.
I don't know if suggesting a laptop from a company that uses DRM to lock out 3rd party batteries is something suitable in this thread.
It's like "accessibility". Several times (long ago) I've mistaken that for meaning "easy to access" and been disappointed to find it was useless. I still don't know what a "walkable neighborhood" is. Can't you walk just as easily in any neighborhood? When I read this article, I wasn't sure if affordable meant restricted to poor people, subsidized, or small (cheap) houses. I only learnt the answer from this thread. These words are only useful to the groups who already use them and impede understanding to outsiders.
That is genuinely interesting, do you happen to have any links or archives to the phenomenon?
You can't just build a skyscraper because you decide you want to. There are a crazy amount of rules/laws/zoning/permits that surround high density construction.

"40% of the buildings in Manhattan could not be built today."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
What do folks use for event-driven scatter-gather job control using Lambdas only? For example, imagine I launch 10K Lambda jobs from an orchestrator Lambda. I can't guarantee they'll finish in 300s, so I can't just poll for completion. I could wake up a gather Lambda as a scheduled event, but the schedule granularity is too coarse. Waking up a gather lambda every time a job completes is wasteful and racy.

I would really like AWS to have an event that fires when all the lambdas in a set have completed, but that doesn't seem to exist. Any suggestions?
Yes and no. It's all true but too deep for most people. One punch to the nose works better than 3 body blows ;)
What's awkward about JOE?
HAX and Airbus Want to Help You Build Your Flying Car Company
I think is was meant, not can be.
Having not had a golf tee in my hands in a good ten years, aren't they too hard to snap off? IOW, I'd have to saw or sand it flush, right? Regardless, toothpicks I have. I'd have to go buy golf tees. :-)
> I haven't found much writing in that area

This book would _probably_ get you moving in the right direction: http://www.brendangregg.com/sysperfbook.html

It should be something like: look at your bottlenecks and utilization, look at your costs, look at (cost effective) ways to reduce or remove those bottlenecks or that utilization. Pick the cheapest place to have a bottleneck. Using SSD at an extra 30$ a month lets you use half the CPU and RAM, saving 60$ a month? Go for it.
> we will rather go without than get the current good-enough product

What are you using now?

> If there were none of us, there would be no commercial incentive for any company to keep improving in the right direction

Well, no, the current Librem5 campaign shows there are folks who are willing to shell out money for something drastically better than any other solutions out there today. It's not perfect, but I would rather encourage companies who are striving towards perfection even if they are not perfect today.

I think Purism understands that there are still gaps in coverage, they even admit it on the campaign page. If they no longer make progress towards closing those gaps in future products, then I'm right there with you.. they should be dropped.

My philosophy aligns more with the FSFE than the FSF.
You don't even need it to be free if you fix the loans. In my country student loans are interest free but indexed with CPI and compulsory repayments are only taken from your tax once your income is above about 42k USD. Even then, the compulsory repayment amount is based on how much you're above the threshold. No-one really even notices that they're repaying their loans.
You are absolutely right. Just an addendum: there are modern B-Trees that are optimised to leverage the cache lines, part of the so called cache oblivious data structures ( http://erikdemaine.org/papers/CacheObliviousBTrees_SICOMP/pa... ). A cache oblivious B-Tree is the basis of Percona's TokuDB storage engine: https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-tokudb/ft-index.html
How would free college affect rent prices?
> Goods and services are always (and will always be) separate for those at the top of the economic food chain. Why should it be different for those who are less privileged? Looks like a likely avenue for exploiting or at least taking control/power/freedom from other people.

Can you come up with a concrete scenario?

> Don’t count on service quality laws to make up the disparity caused by losing the right to full ownership of one’s property.

Yeah, but now we're fighting for the "right to repair". And we need to fight for the "right of a clean environment". And a "right of no planned obsolescence". Seems much more complicated to me than just getting the incentives right in the first place.
Good points on how families in the Bay Area are setup today or established themselves a few years ago. To be fair, though, you have 37 years of employment after you reach 30... It's kind of scary to think about the Bay Area being a good place to establish yourself for only 15% of your career. Logan's Run effect indeed.
Agreed. And if someone mentions hyper.js I'm going to throw my laptop out the window.
I don't know why you are being downvoted for asking a question, but I think it's incredibly important to educate people on the dangers of your proposal, i.e. to answer it.

A short answer is "everything Stallman has ever warned us about (most of which has already come to pass)."

A longer answer contains many, many reasons, so I'll just throw out some paragraphs.

Ownership is more than psychological, it's about your right and ability to do what you want with your stuff. It's also about whether your stuff is designed to help you or to work against you. "Do what you want" includes modifications, repair, and any usage that you might want even if not officially sanctioned by the company. If you don't own your stuff, you can't control whether it's tracking you and sending back data about you. You can't control whether one day the company goes out of business, or gets bought by a new owner, or decides for liability reasons or whatever that they should remotely disable or recall the product (maybe at the moment you need it most).

There's also a reason that "rents" are a hugely important concept in economics. In general, the renter is open to exploitation by the rentee who continually makes money not by creating additional new welfare/value but due to a historical circumstance, i.e. being the one who originally owned the thing being rented.

More issues: paying for services actually accentuates the problem of planned obsolescence, because it gives the service-provider the ability to terminate or alter terms of the deal at intervals (or immediately via software update) thus virtually forcing an upgrade.

When products are built to actually last, buying is perfectly environmentally-friendly. If you look at a mid-20th-century family's home, almost everything in it was built to last for decades -- furniture, appliances, vehicles, even clothing (with appropriate repairs). That was a result of the purchasing equilibrium. Many people have had to move toward the renting equilibrium where they don't expect to own things permanently, and the stuff they own is crap.

I'll stop there, but reiterate that the number 1 issue is ownership and control. I suggest you try the thought experiment of placing goods on a scale from "most ownership" (purchased for long-term reasons, customizable, repairable) to "least ownership" (comes with terms and conditions, may be updated or changed by the company at any time), and evaluate each good by how long it lasts, environmental-friendliness, how much it respects the rights of the user versus the wishes of the producer, and how much it is subject to planned obsolescence. (Starter: the iPhone is on the far end in all categories.)
> Ummm....WA actually, as in Seattle.

Give it a few more years...
Yeah, I think there is still a play for LTFS and using tape for datasets, but for classic backup at scale? Seems untenable.
It is a documented problem [1]. That does not mean that every company does it though.

[1] http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/g202/planned-obso...
"it’s detecting color in the IR range,"

A very narrow bandwidth of IR thanks to what we term the "Infrared Window," which is trivially easy to duplicate or fool, as it's one of the same IR bands used for surface mineralogy done via satellite.

I'm really not oversimplifying at all; I am applying knowledge in fields in which I am competent to say "You think it can't be that easy, here's how easy it can really be."