skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it all boils down to playing the blame game. It takes time to do so and implementing an idea takes a lot of time. Having an idea is the easiest thing ever.

I can have five ideas before lunch with time to spate on blaming the people who will actually implement them for the past failures of my "great ideas with poor implementation"

But engineers/implementers who get into politics have a huge advantage: they can produce proofs, especially in tech. Nothing is more scary for an executive type than an engineer who refuses to be bullied into accepting the blame.
China isn't angry at NK for building nukes. They're angry because now they have to be given that the U.S. wants them to be "or else". I'm not sure that the "or else" is real, but China has a lot to lose, while NK only has Kim to lose, so I expect China will continue attempting to appear angry at NK.
No,but the government isn't also paying employees to tell people in schools and since they were children that they _need_ to go to on a cruise or be doomed to a life of mediocrity/poverty. Our college system in the US is having a similar problem as our healthcare. We've decided everyone needs it badly and it's better for all of society to have it, but we leave it up to corporations to serve that need when they will take advantage of the extremely inelastic demand.

It's like having an open wound next to a hungry tiger and being surprised when they try to eat you. The government should be setting price ceilings on schools that take Federal loans if we as a society have agreed that it's such a worthwhile goal as to ensure everyone can go and that we will pay for it
They haven't been wrong about that in the past...
the base unit

a lot of trading is quoted in satoshis instead of "x thousandth fractions of a bitcoin"
That's the median starting salary for a lot of places. I was actually speaking to a UPS driver about how that was his starting salary..
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Bad analogy: people stay in dysfunctional relationships with awful people all the time. Companies do too.
How does Barefoot plan to position themselves?

Do the plan to compete had to head with Cisco and Arista in the datacenter segment with this switch?

Or do they see themselves more as Broadcom competitors, and the their switch is a reference implementation for their chips?
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/TaskRabbit-makes-so...
There is definitely a lot of truth to this, but when talking about exponential growth in particular, the growth is often so huge that it eclipses any conceivable linear function in practice pretty quickly.

Also, given sufficiently large numbers, better asymptotic growth always beats. So this is less wrong when talking about huge businesses.
I know the university I'm at has been holding the line in my college as long as it could, and its finances are screaming. And it's done a great deal of trimming along the way.

Purdue also has a $2.443 billion endowment. The university I'm discussing is a public university with maybe a sixth of that after a major capital campaign.

But what actually happened? It's state allotment got slashed in half, capital improvements are no longer covered, and the per-capita payment per student has stalled while we've admitted more students.
Haskell is beautiful, but it's worth mentioning out that Haskell's quicksort is not written that way, because in this case beautiful means incredibly slow (and also because that's not even quicksort, which is an algorithm defined by how it modifies data in-place). The real quicksort implementation uses mutable arrays to perform an in-place sort, and isn't beautiful at all.
Actually any vi editor is better than nano on slow connections. It has commands to move the cursor wherever you like with way less keypresses than using the directional keys.
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It's not just planning rules, but lack of viable alternative transit that force the parking. Taking a bus to Caltrain, Caltrain to Mountain View, then a bus from Caltrain to Google is not a viable alternative to driving.

Privately run buses help, but that's still not a transit solution.
Elon Musk teases pictures of a SpaceX Moon base and Martian city
As easy as childsplay as long as your target is supported. I cannot run Go code on my router which runs OpenWRT... Nano works there just fine.
Whole Foods' restaurants hit by credit card data breach
SpaceX: Making Life Multiplanetary [video]
> it vanished for Comcast users whose DNS servers at the time enforced DNSSEC

Interestingly, Comcast had their own DNSSEC outage earlier today:

https://ianix.com/pub/dnssec-outages/20170928-comcast.com/

> Enough is enough! Kill DNSSEC and go back to the drawing board.

Yeah, at this point it boggles the mind at how people can continue to support this foot cannon -- even the main backers can't get it right. I don't blame them for outages because DNSSEC is absurdly overly complicated, to the point it almost seems designed to fail. Part of me wonders if elements of the consensus design process made it that way, trying to prevent secure DNS from coming about. So far they've succeeded.
"Finally, certain types of property are specifically excluded from Section 1031 treatment. Section 1031 does not apply to exchanges of:

Inventory or stock in trade
Stocks, bonds, or notes
Other securities or debt
Partnership interests
Certificates of trust"
I'm a big fan of pushpin.

1.This landing page doesn't make the use cases clear. I think you need to show architecture comparisons that makes it clear.

Ex: https://heartbeat.appbase.io/index.html

Btw appbase is a pushpin user right?

2. The pricing page is confusing. Ex: $4/million minutes along with $25 monthly. So does $25 come with any minutes? Also instead of charging for minutes/received messages/delivered messages, I suggest charging for just one ideally 'delivered messages' and also bundle some with the $25 plan. Charging for all three feels like you are nickel-and-diming the customers

3. Separate out public cloud hosting & on-premise and make the pricing transparent. i.e offer people an easy to integrate fanout into their cloud infra. See here for an example - https://mlab.com/plans/pricing/#provider=amazon

4. On-premise option should have transparent pricing especially at this early stage. You are introducing friction into the process and that's fine for a known product but for a nascent one it's better to have standardised pricing

4. Fanout cloud (as it stands) seems like a weird product. Since you have only PoP the latency introduced is going to be huge. I think focusing on public cloud offering like mlab is the way to go.
And I'm jealous of his keyboard.
> It is always about respect, diligence, and humility

My 2yo nephew recently started watching Thomas. It was my first real exposure to it.

After watching a few episodes I remarked that the central messages of Thomas are:

- Authority always knows best.

- Never think for yourself.

- You have no value until you are 'useful'.
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Neither can inflation.
> given a remote machine and an SSH connection, just magically make Python code run on that machine, with no hacks involving error-prone shell snippets, temporary files, or hugely restrictive single use request-response shell pipelines, and suchlike.

I wonder if some of this functionality would be easier with a language that inherently supported distributing functions between nodes, e.g. Joe Armstrong's "favorite Erlang Program", the Universal Server:

https://joearms.github.io/published/2013-11-21-My-favorite-e...

I am missing a few of the points, re:

* how to bootstrap this onto a system with very limited assumptions about resources/access

* performance

* market effects of being able to re-use a bunch of existing libraries/scripts/tools written for configuration management or what-have-you in popular python

edit - and there's documentation for erlang over ssh:

* http://erlang.org/doc/apps/ssh/using_ssh.html

* http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-January/02...

* http://erlang.org/doc/man/slave.html
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No, being vicious is not their job, despite the fact that most of them think that it is their job and conduct themselves accordingly. Rather, the responsibility of a prosecutor is to seek justice - that means pursuing appropriate, reasonable outcomes based upon specific conduct and evidence in each case. It does not mean intimidating witnesses, manufacturing evidence, overcharging defendants so that they plead guilty lest they face decades in prison for relatively minor criminal infractions, and all of the other evil things that many prosecutors do. These things are a perversion of justice, engaged in by evil, selfish people looking for personal career advancement by inflicting misery on others at taxpayer expense.
To make a guess:
Could "FM sender + charged phone" vs "cellular network + charged phone" availability be a relevant distinction?

I.e. Fm sender + Cell broadcast -> better bet hedging.
From http://www.spacex.com/mars
As an engineer, being "really useful" is a goal that fits within my worldview as good and noble.
How to Use Signal Without Giving Out Your Phone Number
Does anyone have an alternate link, for some strange reason this link appears to be blocked at my work.
unfortunately, it seems feelings are a bit raw in this thread (a lot of people seem to have had a lot of bad experiences, and don't feel appreciated, which definitely sucks).

But i'd guess i'd say as a member of the likely scumbag group, i feel like you aren't really trying to see the multiple perspectives here.
As someone else said, we all create value.
It's rare successful companies can afford to keep people around who don't.
It's much more likely "they don't create value in ways that you value", or value that you see.
I think one of the things definitely holding you back here is the inability to see it from these other perspectives.
You are telling yourself you understand people's motivations and goals (you think they are ambitious and trying to sell themselves to get ahead), but i don't think you really understand the perspective, just your story of it. And you definitely, even in these few sentences, have a clear bias and story about a ton of people.

" i wish it layed out a path of how to build an industry that doesn't attract all those ambitious selfish (executives) people"

I think you need to question your assumptions a lot here. You are assuming that such an industry could exist, or that it would be successful.
You are assuming (as mentioned above) that your group is the only one that creates value.
If that was really true, do you really believe the other groups would still exist?

Why wouldn't someone, in each industry, already have made a successful company that doesn't have those roles, and because they produce much more value, taken over?

I could believe you don't value what they do, but like the author, i don't believe that deserves the judgement you seem to.
Assuming your definition of value is the right one, or better than others, is not a good place to start a real discussion from.

I think you would do well to rely less on personality stereotyping and more on understanding if you want to get to the place you desire (where the ambitious, selfish people you see, aren't causing you the annoyance they apparently do)
Could you highlight the differences in comparison with http://storm.apache.org/?
You should examine why you dream of this; what is the attraction?

This isn't my itch, but some possible answers could include having hardware enforced type safety and architectural support for efficient execution. To give a rather extreme example of what is possible with a dedicated architecture, study the Reduceron [1,2]. IMO, doing something similar for Lisp would be much much easier.

Could it be done? Yes, absolutely and it would be great fun.
You'd have to work with an FPGA though unless you have a
sizable fortune to fab a chip (though 28nm is almost
affordable).

[1] https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron
[2] https://github.com/tommythorn/Reduceron

PS: Reduceron has a hardware garbage collector
There's a section 'Is Barefoot a systems company, a software company or a chip company?'[1] which talks about this.

[1]:https://barefootnetworks.com/white-paper/the-worlds-fastest-...
Yeah I realized that in retrospect. I still subscribe to the view that the status of the cat is undecidable at that point.
Yeah! The whole history of vim is sort of what kicked off my interest in Unix history! For those not familiar with the story of how Ken Thompson came to write ed, there's a short fun read here:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html

I do ocassionally end up in ex mode if I need to run a few vim commands back to back. I'm curious if there are other reasons to use it though.
Any children's literature from 1940's England is going to be classist to some extent, but sure, it's definitely classist as all get out.
Isn't that kinda the ethos of Linux? Every program does one thing and does it well.
Even that I think could be a hit.
It seems patently obvious to me that if they had the luxury of a clean slate design (which they do, but have denied themselves in as clear an instance of what Sartre would call "bad faith" as I've seen since I was forced to read Sartre in high school), the IETF would come up with a very different system than DNSSEC. They'd eliminate the "offline signer" requirement and come up with a massively simpler system.

Instead, they took a dented-up whiffle ball of a protocol that some rando at TIS Labs hucked over to them in 1995 and have spent the last 20 years trying to play Major League Baseball with it by wrapping more and more duct tape around it.

I don't think a lot of DNSSEC advocates really appreciate how clear the lineage of this protocol is back to a DoD contract project from the 90's. That really is what they're trying to deploy.
> [Citation needed]

See "The Millionaire Next Door" by Stanley

It stands to reason that if wealthy people as a group are bad at investing, they'd sooner or later stop being wealthy. Then, by survivorship bias, the wealthy ones remaining were good at investing.
This is a topic I've thought about a lot.

Let's forget about the pure/applied divide. That's not what I am getting at and I want to make my language very clear. Let's instead talk about "maths for its own sake" and "maths for x" (physics, computer science, what have you).

Calculus is a nasty kind of maths to study for its own sake. It's not intuitive, and it's shaped by motivations that aren't at all clear until you've learned its applications.

Stuff like abstract algebra or graph theory on the other hand are - to me - "quite nice". They're certainly much more intuitive than anything in calculus world.

So, basically I agree with you - in high school, maths (by which we really mean geometry and calculus) should be hand in hand with physics. I mean that is its reason for being in the curriculum, to prepare future engineers. People who want to study "real maths" can learn something easier to grasp, and maybe a bit more profound.
And the remote sucks. The buttons are centered vertically, leaving equal empty space above and below. So I end up holding tne remote upside down half the time while my brain is trying to work out whether it is upside down and how that would affect the button placement relative to my fingers.
I find it quite an irony that people have a project claiming speed as the primary benefit, using virtualbox.

For those who aren't aware: virtualbox is a pig performance wise, on macOS. Parallels and VMWare Fusion both blow it away.
Some people's definition of "really useful" explicitly excludes everyone who can read or write, wears glasses, etc. Documentaries about those people consistently contain shots of roomfuls of human skulls.
Supported on virtually every OS and embedded platform in existence.
Implementing EventBus with RxJava – RxBus
Student loans are mostl federally backed, so the US taxpayers would lose out.
To add to your point. Schools have massive expenditures on things that have nothing to do with learning _and_ do not bring in money. Its one thing to spend money on something like basketball if you are UCONN and you routinely bring in enough revenue to cover the costs or even post a profit.[1] Its another thing to keep spending millions on your football team that does not bring in that much money[1] These are just one example in a school system. There's similar waste everywhere, like redoing the landscaping every few months so prospective students always see a fantastic looking campus, or the massive increase in administrative staff. The schools don't try to be more efficient because they don't have to be. They don't have legally set budgets and everyone can get students loans since they cannot be discharged so they can just dial up tuition.

Our whole financial system is built around accurately accessing the risk that an investment will be paid back and charging an interest rate commensurate to that, but its thrown out the window once you can try and convince the least experienced adults in the country to sign on the dotted line.

Until banks stop getting paid whether or not they made a good bet on someone's college expenses, or the schools are given a limit on what they can spend, its not going to change. My fear is that this won't happen in any way but a massive amount of defaults that cause the whole system to collapse unexpectedly and cause add on pain to the rest of the economy

[1]https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-financial-impact-of-champio...
Yes!

Children, developmentally challenged ones excluded, inherently trust parents who have given them adequate nurturing. Emotional outbursts, challenges to authority, and disrespectful behavior will happen as they become able to move around. The parent should be patient with, but not reward, uncontrollable emotional outbursts.

Challenges to authority or dangerous activities (e.g., running into traffic) should be met with firm, kind correction (move the child away from danger, say "no" to hitting and hold the hands, etc.). To influence children to perform an action, leverage and bargaining is effective.

It is through this slow, persistent grinding of wills that teach children how to behave. Meanwhile, allowing as much autonomy from the child as is possible / practical allows the child to blossom, while reading and sharing in activities inspires the child and builds trust and affection.

I firmly believe that obedience is earned in some way or another: through fear of retribution, or through the trust and desire to please / aversion to disappoint.

It is apparent later in life which children were raised in the latter manner: they, in general, have good relationships with their parents; authoritarian parents have a harder time developing relationships and getting much-needed support from their adult children.

I didn't mention neglectful parenting, which will often produce worse outcomes than authoritarian parenting: crime, emotional instability, etc.
Libya was a failure of President Obama to honor a deal made by President Bush.

Qaddafi gave the U.S. his centrifuges and other equipment, which in turn laid bare the A. Q. Khan network and Iran's program, and also helped the U.S. and Israel hack Iran's program to slow it down. And just what did Qaddafi get for his troubles? He got killed.

After that betrayal no one will make any deals like that with the U.S. again. To say that President Obama's Libya adventure was destructive is to put it mildly.
He turns it on at the beginning and says it's because he likes having audio feedback.
Ask HN: How do you schedule job interviews when already working?
Working in the Bay Area as a SWE (first job, started ~1 year ago). I'm looking for a new opportunity. Do you take time off for phone and onsite interviews? Any suggestions on how to balance work and interviewing?
Once upon a time, there was an engine called Henry.
Henry was asked to help but refused.
So Henry was put in time out.
Henry didn't enjoy time out and wanted to be let out.
So was let out, and learned to be responsible and helpful.

The reason you teach a toddler this should be blindingly obvious.

Once upon a time, there was a journalist called Jia Tolentino. Jia was a special kind of stupid. Allegory, you see, was entirely lost on Jia. So, being neither helpful nor responsible, she called Henry's boss a fascist.
Ok. I must be misinterpreting your comments, then, because I read "Almost all the content we've got is representative of 'corporate-totalitarian dystopia', because we live in a corporate-totalitarian dystopia" as implying that all media (including Thomas the Tank Engine) is an allegory by the authors of the 'corporate-totalitarian dystopia' in which they live.

If your point is that content is interpreted by people who believe they live in a dystopia as being representative of it, then I suppose I would agree. I've seen people read dystopian symbolism into the Teletubbies, too, although that, like many such subversions, seems to be an attempt at contrarian humor. If that interpretation can be so broadly applied, then it's most likely lacking in depth. In this case, since the author had no intention for his stories to represent "corporate-totalitarian dystopia" then what does it signify to say that they do? It seems like a tautological statement.
Digging down into what investment is, your are providing money to a person with the expectation that he will give you more back. Somehow, that extra has to be produced.

Analogously to a flying airplane - it is producing more lift than its weight. This must be true even if you haven't the slightest idea how all the whorls of air and eddies around it are created or how they influence the airplane.

What derivatives do is they spread risk in exchange for a lower rate of return, as well as provide liquidity. This is a productive thing that financial markets provide.
Yeah, I asked my French teacher whether you could say "s'elle vous plait" instead of "s'il vous plait".

She laughed, probably because of the shear novelty of such a thought. It would never occur to a native speaker.
Friedman showed in MH that the stability of the money supply was greater with the "blind" operations of the market than with the enlightened levers of the Fed.
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> "You attack me and expect me to care about your feelings"

Mz did not attack you, you've blown their comments out of all proportion.
Lenovo ThinkPads and Dell Latitues are great for this.
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Christ, I've been struggling with this all month.

I finished college in 2014, worked in industry for three years, then came back to school for a PhD. I am now completely shocked that these undergrads are paying $60k/year to come here to listen to the same cookie-cutter lectures that are being given at thousands of other institutions across the country.

I almost feel embarrassed for the professors as well, having to act like they're doing something useful or valuable by giving this lecture, when in reality its just a mechanical performance.

I feel like you need 20-30 different MOOCs for each class. You need a tier 1 (MIT etc) level difficulty Physics I class, then a tier 2 class, and so on.

This would even be advantageous for students at 'top' schools (if they still exist), as it would be easier for a physics major to acquire cs skills if they don't have to go through their schools theoretically biased curriculum.

Its completely insane...
I remember a hilarious George Carlin rant about how evil corporations controlled all the media. He was on a stage owned by media corporations, was being paid by media corporations, and the show was broadcast by media corporations.