skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a Chinese so my family usually have some Chinese contractor do the moving. A couple years ago my family and I bought a home (finally!) and we hired a contractor to come in, after my family and I had packed up everything (since my dad is a jack-of-all-trade kind of a smart man).

The contractor paid two Hispanic workers to do most of the heavy-lifting work, but we also helped anyway so we get the move done ASAP. The hardest thing to move was the heavy massage chair so we let them moved the chair. They are strong...

I don't know how much we paid the contractor in total, but I know it didn't go above 1000. We tipped the contractor and also tipped the workers separately ($150 each). We are very generous when we work with nice and hardworking people. They deserve the bonus, especially knowing the contractor wouldn't pay them a lot. So tipping to us have to be personal, and shouldn't be part of a system.

I mention this story because the hiring process may seem bizarre to the non-Chinese immigrants. Contractors (construction or moving) usually hire workers off the street. There is a place the contractors will find workers waiting to get a job. So yes, these workers are literally picked that morning like 7AM and the guy came around 11AM since the contractor had another job early that morning. The contractor might find another pair the next day.

The truth is, every community has its own way to find people to do work for them. In the Chinese immigrant community, we almost never hire an expensive professional contractor. We (at least the people I know) believe Americans charge us way more for the same, if not, less quality work. We "joke" about how schools can save so much money if they'd pay a licensed Chinese contractor.

My dad also doesn't use Uber because (1) he doesn't speak very good English, and (2) he can call a driver for $25 going to JFK with just one call (plus maybe $10, $20 tip). We can go anywhere in the tri-state area in range of $20-$75 in a comfortable SUV. The Chinese community (Korean and Spanish community also have this) also have a shuttle bus that goes from Queens<->Chinatown, Flushing<->Chinatown, Brookyln 8 ave<->Chinatown for $2-$3 dollar. You call the call center, tell the operator which shuttle stop to pick up from.

"If it ain't broken, don't change." For the same service quality, why go for something more expensive?
Go 1.9.2 and Go 1.8.5 are released
> Well, the winner writes the history books.

Russia was the winner.
Unfortunately the author's analogy with the ancient silk road rings as false as the Chinese government's. For example in discussing the rail link, the author failed to note that beyond Xinjiang there lie Shaanxi and Sichuan, two of China's most populous inland provinces. And Xi'an was the ancient Chinese capital for over a millennium. The Chongqing-Europe railroad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe_Rail... creates real economic value, not just propaganda.
True enough, doesn't explain his "there's another reason than the oil for the fighting" suggestion. Germany is also "a high-tech powerhouse and has over 80 million people".. =)

Now readers are bound to come up with common tropes like "sectarian strife" or "tribal rivalry", but again.. he made it sound like there's a transdimensional portal hidden in the ME or something.. clearly had a non-obvious aspect in mind, that I wanted elaboration on. =)
My apartment complex had the same thing, except the box held a key to the front door. But then some junkies literally chiseled out the box from the masonry. Now I think they just gave UPS a key and they give it to whoever does the deliveries. There are so many better low-tech solutions that aren't complete security and liability nightmares.
depends how you calibrate kooky. how do you feel about plasma cosmology?
Useless unless you want to do motion capture or any one of a bunch of other non-useless tasks.
> It seems the world is poorer, and people greedier, than can possibly be imagined.

And processes are slower, and people more reluctant to change.
First off, neat tool! I see Finviz.com does much of the same for free.

> we (folks behind stockrow) are hobby investors who do not plan to pay for services like bloomberg and ycharts yet require tools and access to data

Respectfully, you do not require tools and data. You need to play a winners game and not pick stocks. Key to winning investing is to lower fees and taxes. Why?

> Contrary to their oft articulated goal of outperforming the market averages, investment managers are not beating the market: The market is beating them.

via "The Loser's Game" by Charles D. Ellis, written in 1995. www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v51.n1.1865

A related podcast with the legend Charlie Ellis (via Masters in Business radio podcast). Mr. Ellis is a former chairman of the Yale University Investments Office and CFA Institute and one-time director of Vanguard Group. He also is the author of "Winning the Loser’s Game: Timeless Strategies for Successful Investing."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-17/charles-e...
It's a bit more complicated. I'm measuring geographical distances so I'm using haversine

from math import radians, cos, sin, asin, sqrt
def distance(lat1: float, lon1: float, lat2: float, lon2: float) -> float:
# taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4913653/35364
# convert decimal degrees to radians
lon1 = radians(lon1)
lon2 = radians(lon2)
lat1 = radians(lat1)
lat2 = radians(lat2)
# haversine formula
dlon = lon2 - lon1
dlat = lat2 - lat1
a = sin(dlat/2)**2 + cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) * sin(dlon/2)**2
c = 2 * asin(sqrt(a))
r = 6371008 # Average radius of earth in meters
return c * r
Sure, but they have some influence with the EPA. They will at least be able to get a meeting with someone reasonably high up at the EPA and if that fails they can introduce legislation to force the EPA to change the regulations.
I'm seeing that too. Ok, we'll change the URL from https://numenta.com/papers/why-does-the-neocortex-have-layer... to the pdf of the paper. There's also a summary at https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/10/25/why-does-the-neocortex-h... that other commenters have mentioned.
I use zoom.us
While opaque companies might not release raise figures, everyone generally knows that a promotion involves a raise, in addition to any status bump (assuming no real increase in responsibilities). So promotions can serve as a proxy for raises, causing the same ego issue.
I get a similar impression that the article was a little odd - I think the author seems to be confusing the intent of the message coming from China's leadership.

China is saying, here is a 'story' to help you understand what we're trying to do with the Belt & Road Initiative. In essence, the focus is not on the truth claims of history, but it is a guidepost of what they want to do in the future.

The author on the other-hand seems to be saying, because the history is inaccurate, the corollary is that the Belt & Road initiative will not succeed (which is not a logically consistent argument).
And what about Twitter allowing the US intelligence agencies access to account information about potential overseas national security interests?

But of course, Trump is president so we need to get him out of office. Right? News flash: Trump is your president and will continue to be for years to come.
Guidance is really the job of the parks services. The problems come when the burdens get thrust upon the landowners.
An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible
El Faro is a vivid example of how the Jones Act chokes competitiveness in the domestic shipping market. El Faro was 40 years old at the time of sinking - the global average container ship age is ~11 years. El Faro would've not met modern shipbuilding standards. Domestic shippers are not incentivized to modernize their ships. The Jones Act shipping industry is sustained on corruption, lobbying, and special interests.

The Jones Act makes me very mad.
When did ad-hominem attacks become accepted on Hacker News? I might look back a decade from now and realize that all those 12 to 14-hour days were wasted time that I could've been using to live "the good life," but I'm not sure that makes me, or anyone else who puts in long hours for a sustained period of time, a fool.
Banks don't touch startups unless you have personal assets you're willing to put up as collateral.
Square makes most of it's money from offering small businesses loans secured off the credit card transactions they process for their merchants. They have sold billions of dollars in loans to merchants in the past two years with interest rates very favorable to Square.
My first task in the industry, in the early 90's, involved writing to excel files. At the time I worked at microsoft, so you'd have thought they'd have given me the super secret documentation to the excel format. Instead, they gave me a book published by microsoft press, describing the BIFF format which is what they'd called the format, apparently dreaming that it might one day become a semi-open standard for spreadsheets. (there was no danger of that ever happening, the format was distilled madness, based on a million performance optimizations)

Later they made the format a lot saner, but either way I'm pretty sure google would be fine.
I think people believe that pay transparency will result in increasing wages.

This has never happened in economic history. You cannot make two people equal by raising the low producer, you can only cut down the high producer.

When train transport prices were regulated because local trains were more expensive than long haul trains, the result was the raising of long haul prices.
Is there any expectation that you will be making hydrogen peroxide for sale in the usual brown bottle, like you can get at pharmacies, etc? If so, what kind of price point would you expect.

As someone who uses a lot of peroxide and prefers nontoxic cleaners, the product sounds great to me, but the cost seems on the high side. I am thinking that as a minimum, you should have a blog or FAQ or something that outlines ...hidden costs of traditional peroxide? Like show the externalities of those processes and place a dollar amount on them. This might be a means to make it clear that the cost difference isn't really as big as it might sound, if that makes sense.
Give me bikes over horses every day. Not sure exactly why hiking in a bit of horseshit, here and there, bothers me so much. I think it mostly is that I imagine that when you are on a horse you are much higher off the trail and don't have to deal with the stink your horse created.
I can’t tell if there’s a play on words here that I’m missing or...
Show HN: Get your local IP address in the browser
Or to cheekily summarize your post: "You don't need to outrun the bear/hacker. You just need to outrun the other people."
This seems like a pretty benign "cash grab" since it depends on helping the client succeed.
That would be awesome. I’d love to have c or root on zfs as well. That could make clients really easy to back up.
It's not really clear from the write up exactly what they're offering... How is this different from any other VC outfit?

IndieVC[0] is the only really interesting spin on investing I've seen out there and they open-sourced their terms sheet publicly at launch.

[0] http://www.indie.vc/
I cannot edit my previous comment but just now I revisited the code and noticed there was an import inside the function measuring the distance. One I moved the import out of the function, the execution time was cut by a bit more than half, to about 20ms.

The go version runs in about 3ms, not 6ms.

The D version runs in 2ms.

So overall the python version is 10x slower than native, not 20x slower.

Which is still kind of bad.
This is one of of the biggest developments in the software industry ever because it incentivizes innovation (good for innovators, bad for copycats). It also fills part of the void left by a broken patent system. We all know many software companies are ripping off other companies ideas on a regular basis. In many cases it's big incumbents taking ideas from upstarts competing with them (example: Facebook via Instagram ripping off stories from Snap).

This decision should allow more competition from innovative newcomers and higher prices in software generally. Right now software is priced artificially low because very few vendors have any pricing power... because competitors can just rip off what they are doing. If that's not as easy companies with innovative ideas protected by strong ToS should be able to compete more aggressively and price their products much higher.

I believe you're going to see many companies put all their content behind an "agree" button.

This shift should also make acquisition prices go WAY up since companies will have to be priced more by the opportunity/IP rather than their replacement cost.

This is a big deal.
If you read the article, OP was obviously responding to the silly claim that

"More likely, however, China’s dependence on trade, and particularly its interest in Middle East oil, may fall almost as fast as it has risen over the past thirty years."

I think OP was just pointing out that there is more than oil in the Middle East.
New techniques expand potential of Crispr gene editing tool
The self-pipe trick
Thank you posting this. It really gives some context about how rural western folks think that I never really appreciated in past dealings.
The author seems to think because it Silk Road 2.0 won't directly ship to China it has little value?

All the railways, shipping ports etc also add value to the countries they are in. The same as China is building so many dams around the world. There's a lot of power being played here benefiting China and locally.

Do these countries really care is there's a border dispute in the Caucasus?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming%E2%80%93Singapore_rail...
Except that it'll become the same as any other public indicator of performance if public - you don't make X because you perform, you clearly must perform because you make X.

Transparent compensation inherently ranks performance, what's valued by the company, etc.

"Secret" compensation allows the thinking of "I am equal to my coworker" to arise in the first place. So when a discrepancy in that ranking suddenly appears, there's significant cognitive dissonance, and a desire to re-establish equality (or rise above it).

Transparency means from day one, you know who are the movers and shakers, and how much you need to step out up in the eyes of management.

This whole argument is sort of silly, as we already have a less specific public designation of performance in job titles, and that hasn't stopped the world. Should we get rid of job titles so that employee A doesn't actually know they are junior to employee B? That's dumb - the job title hierarchy informs the junior employee they aren't as valuable or experienced, and as they improve, it's extremely likely that title will change over time (and in a not so well kept secret, their compensation as well).

We can all cite one off examples where there was drama associated with job titles, but in general, having them provides more benefit to both the organization and the employees than the outliers where it's an issue. Transparent compensation would likely be no different.
How do these people get visas?
If that's true for credit cards, then they're losing massive amounts of money on cash back and rewards
I can definitely understand why a team could dissolve. But there are really only upsides for employees to understand why they're being paid X and to be able to model their behavior after the person that gets paid Y.
One part of this I've never seen discussed is that they reveal the salaries but they almost never reveal what the company believes it can afford to pay everyone involved and how the salaries influence the health of the company. It becomes employee vs employee vs company then instead of people seeing how it all fits together.

I often think its that the transparency is only halfway that causes many of these peer to peer problems. It also doesn't help that most white collar work these days isn't directly translatable to revenue. Its easier to tell a salesman what he's worth than a designer etc...
On Earth, 2053
Facebook's virtual reality goals may be harder to reach than Zuckerberg thinks
It's almost like trying to argue that doctors shouldn't heal their patients because it would be too upsetting for them to change themselves. How about we give them the information they need to learn how to make proper evaluations of their situation? Yes people can be stupid about things. But keeping information from them is not the cure for this, it is the cause. People would not be so concerned if they were part of a professional culture which rewarded them for responding maturely to such discrepancies.

If team cohesion breaks down because pay information is revealed, give them pay cuts for being petty and disruptive. This is not an unsolvable conflict. People are not advantaged by remaining ignorant of their status in a transaction.

>I like the privacy of my coworkers not knowing my exact compensation, it is not their business.

It is their business to conduct the business of the company which employs them, which includes the distribution of that company's funds. Maybe people in other companies don't need to know, but people in yours do, because it is their business.
Not unless they bought your product and agreed to your EULA.
So , the company tries to extract free labor but the person who doesn’t let them get away with it is the person you blame???
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The funny part is, SAS used to run on IBM mainframes, so most of the core computational libraries are highly portable. Probably just the GUI front end was tightly coupled to Windows.
The upside of bureaucracies is that they are pretty consistent. The downside is that change is impossible.
If it were true, new companies would emerge that paid good employees more -- closer to their fair value.

These companies are emerging, though, right? 37Signals? I'm sure there are other small well-paid companies, if only from the evidence of a job ad I once saw. Now, "Compensation: Competitive" and "Compensation: Market" have been batted around for years, even around here, but this ad was for a programmer at a financial technology company and in the space for "Compensation" they put "Extremely high." Then again, those places are probably actually using the Big-O concepts they ask about in interviews.

You never see anything like that in Internet companies.
Thanks! There is no urgent challenge. Only that people started to compliment me for my emails explaining new features to the rest of the company and PR descriptions and commit messages. It is not that I am a great talented writer, only that I care about it. And it is not that the other devs are awful and are causing problems with bad writing. But they suggested I could help them with improving their writing.

"Medium is the message" and "generosity principle" are good topics I will definitely include. Thanks
>Pay transparency detrimental to you, as an individual. To live a happy life, you must figure out your own purpose and use your mind to achieve it. Happiness is not the result of income, nor is money required to be happy. Your happiness is a function of the achievement of the values you have defined for yourself. If you allow the income of others to influence your decision making, you are only hurting yourself. You should not leave a job that is satisfying in its essentials - that is, it fits with your purpose, you do meaningful work - merely because you discover someone else makes more; that would only hurt you. You don't know - can't know - their purpose, their value, their preferences, that lead to their income and work environment.

How about we let people judge that themselves? It's everyones job not to hurt themselves, so how about we make sure everyone has as much information as the most powerful in the room. Otherwise, let's make the top 1% "happier" and impose a 100% tax on all income more than 3 standard deviations from the median eh?

//edit: I saw in another comment, you talked about pay transparency not making the wages rise. It might now. But then it will cause people to quit jobs where they are not valued, increasing their happiness.

//edit2: also, you sidestepped the question. Humans are not as unique as random numbers, amazon goods are not all the same. If there are 5 brands of battery, we don't say it is immoral to share the prices and compare because "each brand carries its unique and special history". It's a battery, 5V, X watt, Y $. Likewise, if I get hired to design a product, they don't care about my extensive research in japanese mud ball culture. I'm a project designer, education X, working hours Y, pay Z, expected outcome for the company Z*(1+some positive number).
The schema should still be documented somewhere, like any API. But even if it's not: GraphQL supports a special "introspection query" that will tell you the entire schema that you can query. Pointing a tool like GraphiQL (https://github.com/graphql/graphiql) at a GraphQL endpoint will even run the introspection query automatically and turn the result into rendered explorable documentation. That's how you figure out what to query.
I think that goes way beyond casual "flirting" in most people's book. Obviously people differ, signals get misread, and tolerances vary. I'm aware of one "code of conduct violation" report based on a Tshirt that made me roll my eyes--as well as the eyes of quite a few women I know. But that doesn't seem like a particular edge case as reported.
Let's just fill HN with every article on statistics there is, why don't we? I'll start with the stuff from 100 years ago.
Overwhelming with garbage data is definitely something you can do with social network trackers, it's definitely something I engaged in when I was most active on Facebook. That said it seems to me the far better solution, if you actually value your privacy, is to give up the convenience it would offer and simply not let systems like this into your house.

In a fight to protect your privacy, the only way to win is to not willingly give up your data, even if that means not making use of new systems or taking active countermeasures against tracking systems.
This also means "Twitter could be eclipsed by Square in value".

I'm sure they debated hard whether to go for this headline or the other one, and decided to go with "Square could pass twitter in value" because it would generate more page view.

My point is, it's Twitter that's doing bad. I don't understand why he doesn't just give up his CEO role and let someone else more dedicated take over.

It may make sense if the problem Twitter is facing can be solved by some creative vision, but it can't. These problems are ones that require a lot of care and effort and no matter how he spins it, he's pouring half the effort he can pour into Twitter.
I dont use fragments, I feel if I need a fragment, the jsx file is too bloated just make more components and higher order components that connect with a small slice of your graphl queries. This is probably causes more duplication but I'll copy and paste if it makes things easier to read
I realize that you're being glib, but I have had a candidate ask me about someone I've mentored (which is basically a management side project) and I thought that was a great question.
The "doors and locks" analogy is not perfectly applicable in this case.

In the cases of house front doors in the suburbs, the overwhelming expectation is both that the door is intended to be locked and that the public is not intended to freely come and go from the interior of the residences. This is a custom so well-established that it is essentially universal, and a house with the door open and unlocked is an obvious outlier.

In the case of fileservers on the public internet, the overwhelming expectation is that anyone may connect to them, and if anonymous logins are accepted, access the files on the server. Again, this is well-established custom.

Because the customary behaviour in the two situations are so different, the analogy is inapplicable.