skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the point is that the absolute figures don't matter themselves. Investors chase revenue growth.

The huge absolute revenues of Wal-Mart do suggest that revenue growth opportunities are structurally limited by the size of the domestic economy. But then again, unless and until every brick & mortar store in the U.S. says "Wal-Mart", they could still grow. That sounds unreasonable, but it's basically how people see Amazon: capable of growing revenues in large part by capturing existing markets, and being able to do that for the foreseeable future.

You said you could never understand why Amazon attracts so much investment despite their P/E and despite the poor margins of the retail industry. I realize you probably said that rhetorically, but in any event my point was simply that profit margins don't matter; what attracts investment is revenue growth. I'm sure there are many reasons--some rational (the corollary of revenue growth is growing marginal profit _potential_), some not--but it is what it is. And it's pretty much how investment has always worked.

Indicators like P/E only matter because of what they signal about future revenue growth. A poor P/E often suggests poor capacity for growing revenue. It's a heuristic, and if more direct evidence gives you reason to believe otherwise then you discount the predictive value of the P/E metric accordingly.

I suppose another way of looking at it is that Wal-Mart is at the phase where they're capturing profits, not growth. Their profit taking years were priced into their stock during the growth period; as they grew revenue their potential for future profits grew and this was immediately reflected in their stock price. If you look at the financial graphs, their stock price has remained steady with their revenue. When overall revenue declined the stock price dropped sharply, because revenue decline implies a decline in future profits and markets will quickly price future prospects into today's stock price. So in the language of "fundamentals" investing, profits are ultimately what matter; but _future_ profits, not today's profits. Future profits is just another way of saying profit potential; and the best indicator of profit potential is today's revenue growth.
No, the theory put forward by the U.S. government was that he was a lone actor (with Communist sympathies).

Had we believed that an agent of a foreign state had assassinated our head of state, we'd have been obliged to go to war.
bleeping butterfingers...

Fixed.
Distributed Deep Learning on AWS with the P3.16xlarge
author here, I posted about publishing the smart contract[1] which might be interesting to some people as I had no idea how much it would cost prior to doing this.

The source code is on etherscan.io[2] so you can check it for yourself, there are no functions that allow me to remove a post by someone. Whatever ends up there will stay there. Images and videos are not hosted on the blockchain though (thank humanity it's already large enough), so there are always ways to get rid of CP. Right now most of the images there are from imgur.

[1]: https://cryptologie.net/article/425/publishing-my-smart-cont...

[2]: https://etherscan.io/address/0x470fb19D08c3d2eB8923A31d1408c...
Watched the video, read the article, but I'm not entirely clear how 'in memory' components differ in principle from just having a CPU with very large register sets?
A long tap just selects text from the url.

https://imgur.com/gallery/rHqJp
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> Most exoskeletons have motors or hydraulics powering the hip and knee joints, but the Phoenix has only two motors at the hips, powered by a battery in a small backpack. Hinges keep your knees straight when your weight is on them and allow your lower leg to swing when you take a step.

Interesting, the knee hinge is unpowered but locks and unlocks synchronously with the hip motors.

More about the phoenix exoskeleton by SuitX:
http://www.suitx.com/phoenix

> SuitX already makes industrial exoskeletons used, for instance, by airport baggage handlers.

So ... no FDA process there? Easier to get to market? (edit: I mean for the baggage handler exos, easier to get to market than the phoenix, which is targeted to the disabled.)
Well I know I was vague but I really mean the systematic approach to saving 25X your annual spending, investing to earn over 7%, withdrawing 4% per year, and living forever on that plan. You can spend frugally to get to that 25X number, or save aggressively. I'm drawn to the latter.

>Back to the original intent of the post, even if I save sufficiently I would still be interested in doing useful productive work, there are some real life problems to be tackled

The beauty of achieving FI is that you can work on ANYTHING you want. Including noble pursuits like yours.
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You left out some other frequent experiences: having your car broken into, bums pooping on your fire escape, used needles all over, BART general unsanitary and unsafe conditions, bad service and crowded restaurants, I could go on and on.

San Francisco is the most expensive and over-priced shithole. I’ve lived here for 10 years and I’m completely over it. I can’t wait for some startup or tech company to use this as a disruptive opportunity. I only live here because my job is here. I’d move if my job would let me.
Different Perspective,

they don't loose out, they minimize their risk by not hiring someone who on the surface seems to know how to code but deep down below does not add a whole lot of value to the team because they lack in depth knowledge on subjects that go beyond coding.

I have 15 years of experience and went back to get a degree in CS.
Why, because I realized there is a huge gap in my theoretical knowledge. Everyone nowadays seems so convinced that you can equate watching a couple of youtube videos to getting a 4 year education in a field.

This is a fallacious oversimplification of reality, no one in their right mind would say the same about engineering or medicine or law.

My 2c
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> Whoever the winner of this fight is, it will be a sad day for Europe, because nationalism and national borders will have prevailed and this goes against everything we need to build a stronger and better EU.

I presume it was also a 'sad day for Europe' when 'nationalism prevailed' and the Baltic states gained independence from the Soviet Union?

Catalonia, more so than Estonia, has a distinct culture, including a language which has, at points, been illegal to write, teach, or even speak publicly on their own land. Their ties to Spain are a result of a fascist dictator who managed to largely avoid WWII and continue his reign until he died of natural causes, with his formed empire still intact.

Why is their desire for independence some negative form of nationalism that must be stomped out? If they want to join the EU in the future, shouldn't it be on their own terms, or should they be forced to partake?

Your comments are otherwise accurate and unbiased on some points, but I don't see the problem with the whole of Europe not yearning for the same dream of a globalized, economically united continent void of national identity.
Author here, if you have any questions/comments I'll check back in periodically and answer them here!
Last time I did this I just created a base VM that had Ansible set up and anytime you wanted to get the latest environment you just ran a script. Although I admit that I'm sort of an infrastructure fanatic and love Ansible, so that might be why I steer away from things like Vagrant.
> If you budgeted $10 for a project, and at the $10 spent mark you discover you need to spend $1 more to complete it, it's not necessarily falling into the fallacy to spend that $1 if the end benefit from that completed project still justifies the overall cost.

It's not the sunk cost fallacy even if the benefit of completion only justified the additional $1 cost; the $10 already spent is irrelevant, since if you choose not to finish, you don't get it back, it's only the sunk cost fallacy if you are treating the cost already spent as a loss of not proceeding.

You sort of did the opposite fallacy, where instead of treating the sunk cost as a loss if you don't proceed, you counted it as a loss if you do. But the sunk cost is neither.
Time stamps are not unique, you definitely need something unique, like a GUID to distinguish it from such tokens bound to other client requests.

And you'd be better served learning about the more general abstraction rather than learning a single domain-specific trick. This solution is obvious once you know about promises.
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The point is, you (your nation state) are still doing it.
Thanks for taking the time to answer everyone's questions!

Do you simply use Nodejs to do the SSR? I've seen some complaints about the difficulty of scaling node to run well in a cluster, and about security things. Have you had to deal with that?

I'd honestly love to see what you did there. People use Java for the reason that all of those questions have decent answers by now.
Why? Noon is just a number on a clock. Midday is when the sun is half-way between dawn and dusk.
More like you and a couple millions of buddies?
Those of us who grew up in less desirable environments (where they have real winter) are perfectly content with living out farther, and commuting in on the BART.

I personally live out by the Delta surrounded by fresh air, fresh fruit, and nice people (we have a strong community and frequently see people we know out and about, it's great). My commute into SF is about 90 min one way, and it is the easiest, least stressful commute I have had in my life.
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The CSV version (with one field per line) is identical to the plain text version.
What is Baader-Meinhof? I only know the terrorist group with that name.
if market is your model of choice, sure, and if your model of russia is simple enough, too.
I wonder what the relative production cost is for the 3D Xpoint vs NAND. Given the newer state of the technology it seems like there might be more low hanging fruit in terms of performance/cost improvement.

If Intel can hit a production cost per GB close to standard NAND it seems like they would be able to absolutely dominate the premium consumer/enterprise SSD market.
That's like saying "properly use indexes in SQL databases to fix performance problems" shouldn't be an article because it's obvious.

The devil (or god depending on who you ask) is in the details. We don't get into the details without a lot of discussion.

Your views on electification feasibility sound archaic and uselessly pessimistic. Try out an EV today. They accelerate & decelerate faster, usually handle better and are lower maintenance and charge/fuel cost. Today is the swan song of ICE cars.
Something something definition of insanity is something something.
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Brazil never had this problem and it is still 'developing' 195 years after its independence. Same language, not that different regional culture (similar to USA I guess). And Europe as a whole was able to become developed despite its language barriers.
Oh, of course! Depending on your application needs, it certainly can work. The benefit of PostgreSQL UUID is that you effectively have twice the bits, so you have more room to encode data and satisfy your uniqueness guarantees.
That’s true. Catalonia was independent for three days in 1931 and one night in 1934.
The worker pooling system you describe is eminently possible in the browser these days. Web Workers [1] are really just threads with a JS execution context and a facility for messaging back to the thread which created them. (Or, if you set them up with a MessageChannel [2], they can do full-duplex messaging with any thread that gets the other end of the pipe)

Of course, you're still dealing with the event loop in most cases, which is probably a stumbling block when it comes to really low-level stuff. That said, there are even facilities for shared memory and atomics operations [3] these days, which helps. I've messed around with it a little bit on a side project- as a JS developer, it's really weird and fun to say "screw the event loop!" and just enter an endless synchronous loop. :D

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Worker
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MessageChan...
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
No, you don't need that. Many people think you need it, but only because they have never experienced the alternative. Once you try it you won't want to go back.
Wouldn't gini be better than either of those?
This answer provides designers with no insight on how they can improve products to make them more reparable, even if they intended to try to adhere to your world view.

How does one interpret this? No glue allowed at all in any product or subassembly? Do you seriously believe any iPhone engineer would say a connector or screw was there "for the hell of it"? You claim a software check prevents a device from working. I'm sure their software engineer would claim the check ensures it works as advertised (or safely or whatever) because they don't know what you just did to it.

Your reply very clearly shows you have not thought through the consequences of your request.
Iran's too.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/haggai-carmon/iran-nuclear-sc...

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/11/world/meast/iran-who-kills...
Another profession not to get into. Thank God my second choice is crab fishing in Alaska.

Nukes are the ULTIMATE weapons, expect no mercy from your geopolitical enemies.
That's a remarkable perspective, and one I happen to disagree with. The great thing about standardising elements is that we can standardise behaviour without having to grant every server in the world execute access on clients. HTML can be used simply as a bootloader to start up a JavaScript DOM-manipulator, but it shouldn't be, because it is far more secure and private to read a static web page than it is to execute untrusted code.
Promoting a language because the Prime minister finds himself more proficient orator in the language? I find that hard to believe. Do you have sources on this?
Transistors provide something that resistors, capacitors, inductors and memristors don't, and thus they can't be replaced. That thing is gain, ie, amplification (of either voltage or current). All the others are lossy, so if you imagine some building block, then cascade N of them in a row, eventually the signal will become too weak (at some N) to be useful.
Strapi: Node Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to Build Powerful API
It's not that they are unable to do the work remotely, it might be frowned upon or straight up not allowed for some workers.
The quote is a fancy marketing line to sell a product. Good companies don't use a coding test to straight out determine hirability. Or at least they shouldn't.
> I don't know if it has been covered specifically about NZ, but otherwise yes, many many times.

I'm still curious whether it has been covered in NZ. Canada, like NZ, is also a commonwealth country, and it's only recently that it is even remotely common that "reasonable people" dare broach such subjects. I find it rather interesting that my comment was heavily downvoted and flagged, as if there is an initiative to silence any voice that dare even suggest immigration may not be absolutely necessary. Is it truly possible that all countries on the planet need more immigration, and in all cases the need is greater than the associated harm?

Was Hans Rosling also a "racist"?
Maybe captchas could be implemented as opinion polls re: tiananmen square or something
An EC2 I3 has up to 3.3 million IOPS.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-avail...
Then, if I may ask, what's the point? That's a very expensive way of getting immutability just to not actually be immutable and depend on legacy HTTP hosts anyway.
Much of the transit infrastructure was torn down and replaced with roads. The bay area had a great rail system, but it was removed.

The Key System is one notable example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_System

The new Bay Bridge span was specifically not designed to carry rail, so rail over the bridge is not coming back.
Ok thanks for the explanations. Yes in some cases this seems like simpler than Google Drive etc. — I'm wondering though, if that's enough to make people want to try this. I've never sent a file larger than what I can already do via Dropbox etc.

Maybe people who send 10 - 20 GB files typically already have Google Drive accounts or something like that? .... They're not "normal" people. I've been developing software for 10+ years and never had the need to send that large files.

I agree about encryption, I would probably encrypt something also before uploading to Google. (In fact I do, already, any important stuff of mine.)

Book tips: http://www.startupwerkboek.nl/startupcenter/Momtest.pdf — it's about how to find out if a service like Seven Words is needed, without writing any code. The i.m.o. "most important" part is free: the first few chapters.

Best wishes anyway.
It's interesting, I have the same few spots as well. Dont' make it back often as I should (installed Adium to help with this), but it's interesting to see where we all met as teenagers, now talking about other things that have happened, whether it's marriage, family, business, etc.

The uncompromising and unquestioned loyalty that exists from having a buddy in another city is something social media (and maybe even dating sites) could learn a thing or ten from.

I'd say online message boards (phpbb, etc) in from 99 to 2007 or so were similar networks. There is something about semi long form communication that can't be liked, tweeted, shared, etc to be improved.
I'm not clear on where the logic is needed. Even if there are cells or boxes that need to be a percentage of their parent and/or have min and max sizes etc, that can still just be binary data.
I doubt they can ultimately protect them, research takes decades and they want to live normal lives. Even the US Presidents hate their security bubble.

Short of putting them in military bases for decades...but even then, a bomb from above will take them out.
Language is also a connection to culture.

More and more I think many places would benefit from embracing two languages—the utilitarian/economic one and the cultural/human one. Regional diversity is a good thing, and certainly doesn't deserve to be sacrificed in the name of economic convenience, at least not as long as we hold human life to be superior to material assets.
It's a nice proof of concept, but $0.3 for posting seems extremely expensive. In addition, there's no guaranteed visibility unlike creating an ad on any platform, so why would I want to post here? (I'm not trying to complain, I'm curious if I'm missing anything)
Not sure how your anecdote is relevant to averages.
Chatbots Will Actually Kill Phones and Email–Here’s How
It doesn't add a blockchain to TLS. It describes a TLS extension, and how you can use said extension to do something people in the blockchain space have asked for.
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There are already people wanting to do #2 (use verified data in blockchains), and this system is the answer to that problem. This system isn't tacking on blockchains to solve some other problem; this system is built partly to solve a problem encountered by people already using blockchains.
Yeah, but you also need to work for a company that will let you work remote. Or find another job.
>Fee to post: 0.001 ethers (0.30 USD)

>Fee to reply: 0.0005 ethers (0.15 USD)

DOA

Blockchain apps are too expensive to operate vs paying for traditional bandwidth and hdd space.
With 3 hours/day spent commuting plus a full day of work, when do you have time to see your neighbors?

I live in a Peninsula community with a 10 minute bike ride to work and that is the easiest least stressful commute I've had in my life.
Technically, wayland does not have a display server.

It has a compositor, which could be considered more equivalent to X11 window manager than to X11 server. The compositor handles display and input by itself (using KMS, DRI, libinput, etc.). Examples are Gnomes Mutter, KDEs KWin and Sway.

Among other things it means less context switches and synchronization when trying to display something, smoothly.
This idea has come around many times, all the way back to the ILLIAC IV, Thinking Machines, and the NCube. The only commercial success is GPUs, which really do have elements with both compute and memory crunching away in parallel. Other pure-crunch appilcations have been found for GPUs and things like them. There are now GPU-like compute units for servers, although in many cases they're still GPUs, with frame buffers and video hardware that will never generate an image.
It's true that it was a disaster but not because they tried to prevent it, but because they didn't the obvious thing and sent the police one day earlier. The videos that are in that page are not particularly violent, just what you would expect when people resist the police.
Thanks, no problem, we're working on that.

Can you tell me more about 'organizing the notes by date, client, part of the project, etc'?
> I'd agree here. There's no reason to discuss politics on HN when there are numerous other places to do so.
HN is a forum about technology and the startup world, let's keep it about that.
Why else would we have stuff like this?
https://github.com/Izzimach/react-three

As if ThreeJS is too hard or cumbersome without React.

Or this:
https://github.com/FormidableLabs/react-game-kit

Or this:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-audio (a relatively unknown library, but it's surprising how often projects will import packages like this)

I generally do what I can to avoid software snobbery, but it's examples like those that really cause me to scratch my head and exclaim "Why?"

React makes sense when you actually have a DOM to deal with, but as soon as you start trying to write something that goes beyond that model, well, I really don't get you. ("you" being rhetorical)

Generally, though, I think a lot of junior programmers or those new to React get very enthusiastic about it and try to solve whatever problem they can with a tool that works well for them, and that does speak quite a bit to how good React is. In general, I would avoid using React for things it was not designed for.
Do you remember when IBM sold off their hard drive research division?

I was convinced this meant they knew memristors were going to kill hard drives soon and they were profit taking before killing them off.

That’s been more than ten years now. I am still waiting, but made other plans.
but if you spent a bunch of time liking/following things on facebook and it's not in your feed anymore, a good chuck of your "experience" is gone. so it's not just the publishers that are losing out. Personally, I hate facebook and don't use it.
I agree with your sentiment.
However I think a well rounded education is important, having a group of well rounded individuals in a team will be more productive.
As a hiring manager I think about the team also and not only the individual I am hiring.
In Germany the curve is strange too.

When going from a low income to a medium income you get the steepest changes, then it flattens when you move into a high income.
An understanding of basic concepts such as supply and demand and the theory of price is essential if you want to run a sustainable business. A common fallacy for example is to calculate prices based on costs instead of the value one creates for one's customers.

Other than that knowledge about accounting and being able to read various kinds of reports in particular are highly useful skills as an entrepreneur. That's not economics in the stricter, scientific sense of the word though.