skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an anecdotal data point, I'm trying to establish a robust, poly-culture, mostly chemical-free agricultural system on my hobby farm. We do seem to get more flying insects on my place than our neighbors, all of whom have grass lawns. Critters of all kinds, in fact - lots of frogs and toads as well, and box turtles. Obviously I haven't done a scientific study, but we see butterflies, lighting bugs, and so on; not as many as I saw growing up but they are there in some numbers.

If you look around suburbia, there really isn't much ecological space for anything to grow unless it can survive on grass. Even in a lot of rural areas, with the advent of heavy-chemical farming and bigger and bigger monocultures, we're taking a lot of living space away from mother nature.
Peeking under the hood of express.js dependencies
They have elixir there, which is another language for Erlang VM, and they have erlang for other benchmarks.
Hardware will always fail at some point. You can either add extra resources elsewhere, or deal with that inevitable downtime. Both are reasonable, depending on the impact of downtime.
> experts also tell you to avoid any mobile OS

Experts I know recommend iOS above any other consumer platform (though that might have something to do with Apple's hardware and of course you can't use iOS without Apple hardware).
This Is the Kind of Porn Women Are Secretly Watching
>> I do not want my family and friends to know how much I make.

> But have you thought about why you feel this way?

Not every family is healthy. Some become _decidedly_ unhealthy as soon as money comes into play, and having precise figures available can be really destructive.

It might work better in more egalitarian societies, where the difference in pay is less to begin with (eg Scandinavia). But that's not a road the US (and many other places) is willing to take.
Curious if you have examples of the types of sitemaps you mentioned: segmentation, namespacing, one per pagetype etc. and the reasoning behind the variations.
Could you elaborate? This looks like a very throw-away, pithy comment.

Edit: Thanks
> As someone running a large organization, this is also a logistical nightmare since I usually have very good reasons to compensate X more than Y even if Y might think they should be paid the same amount.

That's the key. I want to know what reasons. It is the best possible feedback for me. If you want to earn X more, you need to do this and that like this colleague does.

It will force management to have better salary policies. I have seen people getting offered almost doubling their salaries when they say that they are leaving. Just because they were badly underpaid to begin with.

Openness forces for better justifications of your actions.

> Besides, even as a hiring manager, I really think it's none of my business how much that previous employer valued this person. What matters is here and now. I just ask people how much they want then I counter with what we're comfortable paying, and then we negotiate.

That's a really good approach. And looks like you are someone that will easily be able to justify the salaries of your hires. But there is a lot of managers that will not, and they will need to get better at their jobs if salaries where open.
Oh, unfortunately he did not, but I did. :) Michigan now, though, so not too far.
I don't see this is a big deal. You don't have to answer this question, I regularly deflect the question and tell potential employers that I'll be happy to give feedback at the offer point.

The question is asked initially before interviews in most cases and therefore I tell them my expectation is to remain competitive based on what I bring to the table.

Why is it so hard to be a grown up?
Made me think of this nicely written piece, 'the last invention of man': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15419619
Was on a plane ride this weekend and was thinking how I needed to re-install Dash so I could have an offline docs viewer. Personally like the web format much better, thanks!
There was a fun Quora post not too long ago about someone asking "I made up a number, now they want proof as part of a background check, what do I do?" My own strategy I intend to apply in the future is to give my base salary + bonuses etc. If they never clarify I can only assume they had meant total compensation, not base, and who am I to complain if they offer me my current total as my new base?
On your edit: Is that really a problem? All police cars are heavily modified anyway.
This is making the headlines in Germany right now:

http://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2017-10/insektensterben-flu...

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/insekten-in-deutsch...

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/insektensterben-dramatisch...

Der Spiegel discusses issues in the methodology of the data collection. The intervals over the years weren't uniform, data was collected by volunteers/hobbyists and they did not measure the dry mass weight. There are differing opinions whether or not those issues have relevance.

SZ gives some details on suspected causes. Neither climate change (warmer weather should yield more insects, not less) nor changes in plant diversity can explain the observed effects alone. Main suspects:

- agricultural fertilizers, especially nitrogen

- pesticides, especially neonicotinoides
No, it's not that you're too thick, it's just that you're right that that only administrators and faculty see the cracks forming. They want to hide these cracks from undergrads. Because undergrads are the main source of university revenue right now. And if undergrads think the school is failing, fewer will come, effectively destroying the school.
ElixirLS 0.2: Better builds, code formatter, and incremental Dialyzer
yeah so did we.. and then also from auth0. aws status page was next thing to check.
Apparently resolved now? Saw this on RSS:

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Service is operating normally: [RESOLVED] Network Connectivity

Between 1:46 PM and 2:15 PM PDT we experienced network connectivity issues in the US-WEST-2 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
Don't you think you're going to far when you "halt all work immediately until [you] can find a mouse" when using anything but an Apple-branded device? That actually sounds like the human-interface-device equivalent of the audiophile attitude.

I mostly use Thinkpads which are known for having good keyboards. While I do prefer the keyboards on these machines over those on the others spread around the place I don't "halt all work until I find an IBM M1" when dealing with other machines, not even when dealing with those modern chiclet-inspired monstrosities. I might grumble a bit, miss a key here and there and wonder what the designers were thinking but those keyboards do get the job done. The same goes for touchpads, some are better than others but most of them work.
See also: AvE on youtube.
Maybe American ideas about money work, given that we're the wealthiest[0] and most innovative people in the world. It seems that, barring good evidence to the contrary, the presumption should be in favor of how things are done in America.

[0] Among countries of substantial size. Countries that can have their entire economy based around a few niches aren't useful comparisons.
This article makes me think of all the people in The Mountaineers who sleep in their cars at trailheads for glacier climbs. There might be an untapped market for peak baggers here.
Definitely not what I see. Talking about salary among Americans is moderately taboo; among the Russians I know, it's a perfectly natural subject of conversation. It always feels weird to me because I mostly grew up in the US, but I definitely think the Russian approach is better: you get a real idea of what different companies and specialities can pay, and you'll know if people are trying to underpay you.
Ask HN: Anyone sells his/her side-project?
I'm curious if any of you have a side-project with little or non monetization willing to partner or sell the project?
I'm a full-stack dev willing to work on something new where I can make a living and better if the project is already started, so I can have some insights of the problem you guys are solving.
> No, chocolate is not health food.

It actually may be. The large about of sugar that usually accompanies it certainly is not.
That has a simple explanation, though. Monarch caterpillars can only survive on milkweed, and we've decimated the amount of milkweed around because we see it as, well, a weed.
X230 here, usually get 7 hours no problem.
It should be private information so long as it's not considerably out of the ordinary (that could easily be a listing requirement established by an exchange). Just as in the case of eg acquisitions, which often will be or must be reported in specific financial terms if they're above a certain size.

If an programmer makes $100,000 in a company where programmers regularly earn that, it should not be public information. If the programmer is earning $2 million, it may be material to the shareholders to know that depending on the size of the company. If the company is Google and the programmer is regarded as extraordinary for some reason, $2 million (vs Google's overall financial picture) isn't a huge sum. If the entire sales of the company are $30 million, it blatantly would be material.
Stay away from the batteries.

Most other things though - you realize how badly we are getting ripped off everywhere else.

Chocolate, canned things, paper.

I loathe going to the 'Dollar Store' because it's so tacky, but then, I feel like a fool for buying the more expensive 'same thing' elsewhere.

Here is a business plan: the 'Target' version of the 'Dollar Store'.

Someone needs to make 'the cheap store' that is hip - a little focus on colour, layout. Just some thoughtfulness in terms of merchandising would go a long way.
Agreed. People conveniently forget that a producer-only economy doesn't work. If consumers don't have the financial ability to consume, you're screwed.
I'm surprised that nobody has yet mentioned Boeing's SST effort. It was a much more ambitious aircraft, larger and faster. Prototypes were under construction. There were orders for 122 planes.

Development was expensive, and Boeing was relying on considerable contributions from the US government. The project was cancelled in 1971 amid cost and environmental concerns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_2707
Not sure why you were downvoted. Your answer is correct.
You mean tcc -> gcc 4.7 -> gcc 7.2?

I don't think that would work because gcc 4.7 is written in c++.
The structures necessary to support crazy-high incomes in the modern world are governmental creations of exactly that sort. If we stick to a by-the- and for-the-people kind of ethos, then adjusting how the government manages all this stuff it's creating on their behalf in order to increase the prosperity of the lower classes at some cost to the higher is entirely sensible and just. If inequality additionally means less-equal outcomes in the justice system and lower systemic stability then even more so, on both counts.

Alternatives include: abandoning that ethos and embracing Rule of the (economically) Strongest; or strictly sticking to a government that doesn't engage in that stuff at all and living with the fallout (until every sensible state re-organized under a new federal government that did that stuff again, and/or sought annexation). We do an awful lot of the former, in practice.
This really isn't that surprising and has been known for years. Lots of kids in grad school were doing experiments with cells at >200 passages that were obviously contaminated with mycoplasma. I think they knew it, but their HIV research had always been done that way. I'm guessing if they went back to lower passage / non-contaminated cell lines their results would change.

Similar thinking from the source [1]:

> Why does ATCC continue to distribute HeLa Contaminated Cell Lines?

> ATCC continues to distribute these cell lines, even though they have been shown to be contaminated with HeLa, because researchers need them for purposes beyond use as models for specific disease/original source tissue.

Beyond that, certain cell lines started out as contaminated [2]:

> In the earliest stocks available, the level of contamination was 0.6%.

[1] https://www.atcc.org/Global/FAQs/3/6/HeLa%20contaminated%20C...

[2] https://www.atcc.org/Products/All/CRL-1593.2.aspx#characteri...
See my edit.
>There's all kind of post hoc explanations for why this historically contingent organizational structure is really super optimal... but frankly they aren't very convincing.

Disagree. The best place for undergrads to get a top-notch education is where they have the opportunity to work with or even around top-notch researchers and people at the top of their fields. Yes, many faculty don't spend that much time with undergrads, but they spend some. And they spend time with grad students who spend time with undergrads. This is the best way we know how to organize great teaching for undergrads.
Well, I don't agree, because we live in a society where your options are to work or starve. Essentially no matter what you do you're complicit in something. Your computer and phone probably have some conflict resources in them, it is very likely that sweatshops or even unfree labor was used at some point in the supply chain for your clothes, produce is picked in appalling conditions, etc.
"I'm not really sure what to make of this article, as I'm currently a 4th-year student at the main subject, Ohio State. Perhaps as an undergraduate, I am divorced from the specific administrative and funding roadblocks plaguing research faculty, but in my day-to-day activities I see little in the way of a hurting OSU."

If you were at my university, which is not so different from Ohio State, you would never meet me - save, perhaps, at the fast food places in the student union. I'm research faculty, and not only do I not teach undergrads, there isn't even an undergraduate program in my area - it's strictly graduate students.

And forgive me for saying this, but most undergraduates I do encounter are amazingly ignorant of the scope of the university, what it is their professors do, etc.

"The university this past year revamped the student living situation on north campus [1][2]. The university is expanding at a feverish pace because students want to come here; we are gaining recognition beyond being simply a football school and aspiring high school students are not considering OSU to be nearly the backup school it once was. Sure, it isn't as flashy to tell your relatives you go to OSU as opposed to MIT or Harvard, but it's not the disappointment most used to consider it to be."

Students are one of the few ways a state university now has to reliably bring in money, and as such, they have to compete for them. You are, in essence, the subject of a marketing campaign.

"This article exposes much that I've been ignorant to as an undergrad, but it feels to blow some issues out of proportion. Sure, we don't nearly have as much funding as private universities, but that's par for the course for a public university which offers cheap tuition for local students, and is generous with its scholarships."

One of the reasons tuition is rising, and the schools that have low tuition are under pressure, is that state and federal funding has dried up, so student tuition and fees are the only lever they have left. Many of these universities, even if they have managed to hold the line so far, are at the breaking point.

"Maybe I'm just a bit too thick to see the apocalypse the author is foretelling."

Universities have benefits beyond "Did we teach undergrads"? It's those benefits that are under strain.
Back in the day when I used to work on side projects in Sydney before there was really a coworking space culture I used to work at the library.

I soon stopped because it was full of high school students who didn't want to be there and the sound of a hushed conversation against a backdrop of silence was really distracting.

I quickly started going to foodcourts instead. Those are better than coffee shops for me. There's a lot more white-noise and less pressure to order anything because no vendor feels you're taking 'their space'.

Outlets were a bit harder but doable but outweighed by food choice at meal times and ability to run quick errands if needed.

This was from Waverley Library to Westfield's food court in Bondi Junction in 2012 fwiw.
> Bill Gates helped create real value for society by making the PC available to the masses, thereby revolutionizing life and business for pretty much everyone.

Yes, exactly. Bill Gates created way more value than I did, therefore it is not totally unreasonable that he has way more money than I do.

> But I do think we need to do a better job of not shafting the masses.

Yeah, there's the real problem. We want to reward value creators enough that people try to create value. And yet, those who don't (or who try and fail) shouldn't be left completely behind.
Primary effects.
Consider how inexpensive and high quality modern image sensors are. With this SoC, you can use so many amazing image processing algorithms. ML based object masking, deconvolution, focus stacking, exposure stacking, sensor fusion like FLIR, frame stitching multiple cameras, color compensating in camera flash. For serious heavy lifting you can send these bundles of images to the cloud for processing. All done without any more user input than tapping the take photo button.

It's going to seem like magic to the user.
Julian Assange in the house.

I can see an argument for forcing public companies to post anonymized data about salaries, perhaps including gender, race and age. Thus ensuring employees or advocates can understand if they are being treated fairly. But, My salary is very private. Exposing it means I have less leverage in some negotiations. Not just wage, but sticking with that example, what if employers created a cabal that said "hey, we're not going to give anyone more than a 10% raise for jumping ship to ensure that theres still some incentive, but less, for 'disloyalty.'" This isn't exactly speculation either, there have been numerous reports of companies creating back door policies not to hire away from each other, which ultimately only hurts the employee.
The opportunity to work with research faculty I would otherwise not have encountered literally changed my life.
Has anyone read Adaptive Markets? If so would you recommend it? I'm concerned about this line from the article:

> Lo’s next step is to develop mathematical models to test the ability of his hypothesis to explain market behavior.

Is there any experimental data to back up his theoretical framework? It's a very tempting idea to buy into (people in general work things out, on an individual level they make a lot of mistakes). I worry about his arguments following logically but falling apart once his theories have been tested.
> great to be able to experience the star-filled night sky

...with the dash lights on.

That's a problem for seeing anything more than a faint smudge of the Milky Way. Andromeda is right out.
As far as we know the brain is just a "linear algebra blackbox". It's an uninteresting reduction since linear algebra can describe almost everything. Yes NNs aren't magic, but neither is the brain. Likely they use similar principles. Hinton has a theory about how real neurons might be implementing a variation of backpropagation and there are a number of other theories.
Trader Joe's has a 72% bar that is really good.
Sure, but those politicians continue to be supported by their constituents, many of whom are poor and vote directly against their self interest.

I'm not going to claim that the Democratic party has no problems, but at least they tend to support social-support programs. Republicans work to cut funding for them whenever they're in power.
Yeah except those jobs began to leave due to the actions of government and the elite.

Let's not wrap well documented history in overly reductionist loops to sound smart. This isn't a natural economic process. It's based upon decisions made by the rich to keep getting richer.

The process played out a century ago when factories left urban centers for rural.

Humans go in room, come out of that room talking austerity of some kind for the masses. It's not a mystery.

Economics is not physics.
It's not paying double. Take the total number of instances serving the app and divide them across data centers and availability zones within datacenters. This might require adding a few of servers if the app is replicated across a very small number of instances, but for apps that already have a significant number of instances to handle the capacity, it's just a matter of rearranging things.

Depending on how quickly new instances of the app can be brought up to, it may be worthwhile to run a bit more capacity so that the remaining instances don't melt down should all the instances in one zone become unavailable.
This is profoundly short sighted.
On further search, I can't cite any specific instances that call out vehicle shutoff specifically, but from what I've heard, it is a big problem.

Overheating in cars is the leading cause of traumatic death for K9 units.

Police cars are heavily modified, but they are still based on consumer vehicle architecture, much like a shared code base.
This is overstating the issue in the present day. An immortalised cell line is after all a very convenient but very contrived model of a real system. For example, the greatest revolution in cancer treatment in the last 10 years has been immunotherapy, which was developed using more realistic models than 'cell line in a dish'.
That would be illegal under this new law as well:

> The bill also would prohibit an employer from seeking salary history information about an applicant for employment and would require an employer, upon reasonable request, to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment.

They're not allowed to try to find out from someone else, either.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
>This is another problem that boils down to short-sighted politicians

No, it's worse than that. It's not short-sighted politicians. It's politicians who are purchased by the very wealthy. Politicians who are selected for their desire to destroy public institutions to cut taxes on the very wealthy.

It's not that the politians are just stupid or feckless. They actually have bad intentions because they're paid off. Scott Walker in Wisconsin and Scott Pruitt at EPA are good examples of this kind of politician.
Cool. By this article's own logic, only 33% of innocent people tried were wrongly convicted. What a great system.
That's a bit different than "excellence not being rewarded" isn't it? Salaries in general seem to be very non-meritocratic, and there are other ways of compensating exceptional people that don't wind up in the check.
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Oh, it doesn't benefit the stores. It removes them from our roads and stores for a short while. During tourist season, we get up to 10x the population which is not something it's really designed for. It's pretty good money for the locals, they are well adapted to the breaks.

The foliage peepers, with tour buses and whatever, have finally gone home. Almost without fail I get a whole bus driving up my driveway because their GPS insists it is a road.

I don't mind, actually. Our local sport is making fun of tourists. We all go down to the boat landing on Memorial Day. You can watch them wreck $80,000 worth of boat, trailer, and truck. We don't get much amusement, otherwise.

If tourism stopped, the town would be dead. They milk them for all they are worth. Locals just go to Farmington where things are often about half the price.

So, no... It doesn't help the stors but it gets used to give a quick break and prepare for the winter rush. There are still tourists, but not as many. It's a tourist area, pretty much exclusively, all year long. Skiing, hunting, hiking, climbing, fishing, boating, swimming, camping, etc...