skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems wasteful on space (when I have fancier native apps using much less). I'm not sure it matters that much in practise (though it did recently, before I upgraded my laptop SSD size). But neither am I 100% comfortable with giving comparatively minor apps carte blanche to use as much disk space as they wish.

As I say, I'm unresolved on the matter. Really nice electron apps like Insomnia are prompting a rethink.
I don't think 'the right' (whatever that means) has abandoned the environment.

At least libertarians have not.

Check out www.perc.org, these are free market people who are extremely passionate about the environment and they are quite popular and have made great inroads to provide an alternative way of thinking about the environment compared to the leftist big government bureaucracy style of protecting it.

They support great projects like Oregon Water Trust, The Nature Conservancy and do research on how to think in an economically sensible way about these questions.

Here some cool videos, Terry Anderson about Wildlife in Yellow-Stone and about the history of property rights in Montana.

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBcpal2le2Y

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPrzUwl0suM
It seems like you'd lose your highest performers that way. People who put in a lot of extra hours expect to be compensated for it.

Also, do you really want to set up your incentives such that the smart thing to do is work just hard enough to avoid getting fired?
Reminds me of a project the NYT did a year ago, The Human Toll of Terror: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/27/world/human-t...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/insider/terror-attacks-vi...

They decided during a "particularly intense spate of attacks back in March" to cover all of the victims as much as possible. This period included the 32 killed in Brussels, but that ended up being the only attack in the West. The rest were in Africa and Asia, and were generally barely covered by the world media.

It took the NYT team, which looked like a couple dozen staffers and reporters, about a third of a year to publish the project. They were only able to find 222 of the 247 known victims -- some of the attacks took place in locales where local officials didn't collect the information themselves. It's a project I use as an example of "data journalism", the kind that's incredibly hard and constly to collect.
You just don’t get it. They are disrupting the VC industry with data. It’s an OS not an S. wait maybe you are right. ;)
I was always intrigued by Georgism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism) but idk if it would really work in 21st century.
(There is only one, at least in English. The word "the".)
I had them come by for a quote. I never bothered to put their numbers in to compare to other offers because it was a terrible experience. I have no idea if they are even working on changing that, or just pivoting to industrial installations.
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The FCC plans to roll back some of its biggest rules against media consolidation
Posted an hour earlier, 53+ comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15550028
Weird. I had them come by for a quote and they were about 25% more than the second closest bid. I never did the full math. This was on a 5kW installation.
I moved several times in Japan. Extreme care was taken in each case to correctly estimate the work, itemize the inventory and note existing damage, to secure the home, elevator, and common areas against new damage, and to obtain necessary approvals from building and local officials. The price was quite low — about USD$1,500 to move a four bedroom household to a two bedroom penthouse condo in a city three hours’ drive away, including removal, transport, and installation of four AC units. No tips allowed. There are even movers who specialize in overnight moves where great care is taken to be as silent as possible. After seeing this in action as a customer, I think the level of service elsewhere is quite low and providers have set very low expectations for themselves.
Great article! I got a lot of useful insights from this. Thanks for sharing!
just sad that it was all a cashgrab in the end

Do you get paid for the code you write? If so, would it be fair to characterize your work as a "cashgrab"?
I've known only one other person to share that view; a toxic as fuck manager. What he (and I can be very confident you) are saying is "fuck you got mine". Income opens a lot of doors and letting a company (and those leading it) ride high off of your work just because the employee should be "living a happy life with what they have" is fucking bullshit.

If you're paying your employees porportional to the value they bring to the company (and both of you agree on this) there are no downsides to having transparent salaries. The system breaks down when the employees find out that the managers telling them "you don't need income to be happy" are making 5-10x everyone else while complaining that budgets are tight.
Given the fate of Pebble just ~3 years or so after launching their original watch, I’d question that it proved the commercial viability!

Apple outselling Rolex in 2016 (the same year Pebble died) arguably did far more to cement this, and in a significantly shorter period of time.
Clickbait title. The home has negative value; it's all about the lot.
As long as competition is not outlawed.
I don't know how true it is, but I've read a major fraction (most?) of the companies in the S&P100 have been bailed out and saved by the government at one time or another.
An interesting aside is that Israel football team is considered part of Europe for the Euros/World cup.
Using anecdote against unsubstantiated claims on productivity to support a post hoc conclusion (Twitter is doing poorly right now) feels like a poor strategy to me.
In a perfect world, no one's feelings get hurt in love, and there is no war. We do not live in that world, and as mere mortals we are incapable of creating such a utopia.

It's a strawman that "your first romantic move with someone shouldn't be a grope or an offer to get naked." The reality is that ham-fisted proposals and hurtful rejection are rampant 'out there on the dance floor' and the purpose of sexual harassment policy is not, in fact, a idealized manual on how to behave in love and romance, but rules which apply exclusively in the workplace in order to ensure equality in the workplace.

If you're talking about sexual harassment outside of the workplace, then you're Doing It Wrong. If you're conflating poorly executed romantic endeavor with what is actually assault, that's even worse.

Please understand I'm engaging in the debate not to defend some asshole who I don't know and couldn't care two shits about, but I think there's a deeper meaning & understanding to be had here...

It seems to me, only from what little I've read about the man, that Scoble quite clearly is a jerk and an ass, and he owes quite a few people quite a few apologies. That much I most certainly am not debating!

I feel like we're on the cusp of a great wave of progress in the area. But I think if mere jerks and assholes are the new target, the inevitable backlash could set the whole movement back a decade.
I've been using Finviz for easily 5 years and loved the simplicity of it, but stockrow brought it to the next level.

I don't know of any other tool that offers P/E, P/S and P/B Ratios that can be embedded right over a candlestick price chart. That loads in < 2 seconds! It's a gamechanger for me. Thanks so much for building this.
Here's what I've done for something like this - a few days before I was set to do rounds of interviews, I took a couple hours for each of my old side projects to comment what I would have done differently in my code. It's much easier to do and it gives the employers a dive into your current thinking when it comes to development.

As an example, check the source on my homepage: http://jjcm.org
I don't expect my surgeon to do surgery in his spare time. Nor my plumber, dentist, gardener, or any other professional. I look at their past work history and reviews from customers and/or coworkers.

I will never understand the belief that side projects are in any way necessary. I'd much rather have a well rounded individual who isn't moonlighting on other things but rather can bring his clear focused mind to the office.
Is it legal? Yes.

Do companies do it? Usually not.
Yes, I've been thinking a lot about value the last few months and this is similar to the conclusion I reached. No one is paid based on the value of their output because it is nigh impossible to actually determine for most people!

So we use a proxy for value that is much more closely tied to an employee's leverage in the market place. Does your profession have a government granted monopoly (law/medicine)? Certification to entry? Are you a better negotiator? Do you have another higher job offer? Do you have personal relationships with a business's customers (sales)? All of these things are correlated with increased leverage and thus increased compensation.

Output is largely not. It may set a ceiling for compensation, but it is not as related to compensation as a persons' leverage.

And it follows that people with high amounts of leverage and comparatively low amounts of output will be "screwed" by salary transparency. They will have to justify why their leverage is worth more than someone else's output and that will make them unhappy.
A boardgamegeek [1] user named Pete Belli has been creating and playing scenarios that use Little Wars rules. He has posted reports (with photos) showing how the plays went. [2].

[1]. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/

[2]. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/154344/1913-2013-cent...
The Trump administration appointed the FCC head, so it's safe to assume this is something they're OK with. Given the right wing ownership of many large media companies, that makes sense.
That's actually not always true. Usually, yes. Not always.
Sinclair owns those companies. How is that any different than, let's say cnn, telling it's reporters what they can report on? I think it's bad that 6 corporations own 90% of the media, but until this changes don't expect the owners of those corporations to not inject their (left or right) bias to those stations.
reminiscent of Spolsky's law of leaky abstractions, definitely another side of the same problem
Filecoin vc deal was the best imho executed vc play I have seen in a while. for 50m with a discount they were able to sell approx 200m to coin buyers. This not only offset their risk but literally gave the x4 in raw cash infusion in 2 weeks, growing the valuation without any time and this was done all on vc reputation/ name recognition/ and hype building. Very well done...
The article says that there are more than 20x as many victims of terrorism in Africa, though...
I don't understand the intention of this comparison. Does this make anything better? Is this considered surprising? Is anybody relieved now because the next vacation to Europe was about to be cancelled in fear of terror attacks? Is anybody "relieved" because when counting lost human souls Europe is not that badly affected after all (because counting bodies apparently is a thing)? Does this make any of these terror attacks less bad?

Echo chamber fueled extremism is on the rise and affects people worldwide. Whoever has not realized how much terrorism is going on worldwide is advised to step out of their local news filter bubble. Wikipedia is maintaining some meticulous lists on terrorists incidents:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents
This concept gets a fascinating and thorough exploration in the form of post-icecap-melt “intertidal” zones in KSR’s epic _NY 2140_. Picture lower Manhattan submerged at high tide. A highly recommended read.
This is going backwards. I already get a lot of mail that I never signed up for (because I have a common username), and this will only make it worse. Sorry for all the businesses where double opt-in reduces your subscription rate, but you're only making things worse because I mark as spam anything I never signed up for, even if unsubscribing is super easy.
There seems to be a lot of push-back around here on the basis that nobody asks for it/cares/looks at it. I agree that would be annoying if that's your experience. But, speaking as a hiring manager, I can say that I won't even grant you a phone screen without a code sample. And do not be surprised if I ask questions about it (I don't always, but depending upon the nature of the resume and position, I do probably about half the time). I read every sample and assess it for competence, quality of construction, style and...unfortunately these days...whether it was plagiarized.

I just have to know that you can write decent code. I don't want to waste my time or yours if your code in the language we need is not up to a minimum standard. When I have to train a new candidate on a million line code base, I cannot afford to spend time also training them to be competent in the native language of that code base.

This is not about "coding passion" or notches on some Github post...this is about whether you can do the job. Although one advantage to a Github profile is I can look at your repos and see whether you understand the basics of using git as well (yet another requirement of the position).

I, for one, think your 15 hours was well-invested.
Yes, maybe evangelising would be a better word.
If you’d rather avoid Google Groups, the release summary is available at golang.org:

https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html#go1.9.minor
It really hasn't. With younger generations, sure. But a lot of people watch local news. For many older generations it's their main source of news. And they vote in much higher numbers than young voters.
Haha. That's called my kids and if you want them at your interview, I'll be more than happy to bring them.
This is the biggest sales event of Alibaba Cloud, you can get Elastic Compute Service(ECS) and RDS with up to 50% off.
Microsoft has stated they are still using the technology for VR/AR and robotics.
This is much more than just images, they are doing HTML / CSS / Images / JS at 1,000 FPS
This just in: Current FCC siding with corporations in the name of (but without) consumer interest.

Not great that every decision coming out of the FCC regulatory body as of late is beneficial to a small group of companies.
On Chrome, this referral link gives:

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But it renders fine on Opera.

In any case, please use native links[0], not referral links.

[0] http://www.impactjournals.com/oncotarget/index.php?journal=o...

Paper Title: "Induction of DISE in ovarian cancer cells in vivo"
Seems so.

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I don't understand you could get a job at a boutique app developer without a portfolio of work to show off.
What is the minimum size you could make it (footprint and capacity)? How small are your laboratory-scale generators today? What would you say about minimum size while remaining economically viable, not simply theoretical?

Seems the process is simplified in terms of stages over the existing pipelines,lending itself to smaller scales.
It’s supply and demand. There aren’t many people on the planet that can do what he does.
The US is using very little of its resources to wage wars. Military spending as a percentage of GDP is down to pre-WW II levels.

And you're underestimating the extent to which China is making enemies in the South China Sea region. These are countries with potentially significant military capability, too, like the Philippines and Japan, not bands of goat herders.
> they built a system to analyze company metrics and thus screen investments at scale

Wait, so they invented... financial analysis? KPIs? BI?

Really?
If I'm not mistaken the Xbox One and PS4 both sold at faster paces than their predecessors.
Einstein's Note on Happiness, Given to Bellboy in 1922, Fetches $1.6M
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Imagine I do the following: I contract a third party company to obtain a license of SAS, and use that license to produce a language specification.

Producing a language specification surely is not reverse engineering on its own. I could equally well contract the company to undertake a rigorous security analysis of the language to look for vulnerabilities or defects. Neither of these companies needs to know how I'll use what they produce. It seems unreasonable to consider the act of producing documentation about a product's public interface behavior as "reverse engineering".

Then, I use the language specification to build my own implementation. Is this permissible? If not, why not? Who is undertaking the act of reverse engineering prohibited by the license?
“In other words”

No, just what I said, although clearly it fell short of what you’d like to hear.
Gene editing takes another step forward
I guess the bit of cognitive dissonance is just coming from "local news stations" having megaconglomerate ownership at all. Of course CNN is going to have a policy for its reporters, but I'd be surprised to find out that my town-of-50k-people's nightly news is "part of" CNN and following their policies.
"For some reason Donald Trump always seems to produce garbage..."

I think that means it's working correctly.
You can use the Kinect on PC.
Daimler Trucks Launches E-FUSO & All-Electric Heavy-Duty Truck Vision One [pdf]
It's not important. You're skipping out on a large pool of fantastic candidates who have families and hobbies outside of work. People who save their best programming effort for their job. Relying on GitHub / side projects as a barrier to entry is ridiculous to me.
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>Does one really ask a Mechanical Engineer or a Civil Engineer about their side projects?

Yes, sometimes. I'm a mechanical engineer, and frequently interviewers would ask what sorts of projects or engineering related hobbies I have. They're not necessarily looking for me to have brought a mass-produced consumer product to market in my spare time... most mechanical engineers I've met seem to be excited enough if you talk about working on cars or bikes.

I can see how software engineering may be similar. They may not be expecting you to be working on some hugely popular app, they may just be trying to get a gauge on what you're really passionate about. I don't like to wrench on cars in my spare time, but I've still gotten job offers after it comes up. In the end it's just a matter of finding the team that has similar values to you.
Researchers engineer CRISPR to edit single RNA letters in human cells
How is that number generally justified? Marketing opportunity, data collection? It seems like a lot per user.
Another thing that is often forgotten is that everyone has different opportunities in the market for jobs. Two people may contribute equally to a project, but one of those people might be paid more because the company had to outbid a competitor. This goes to your point about the health of the company. It might not be fair, but the company might not have the resources to offer a raise for the sake of fairness.
You mean you could make a YouTube clone in a weekend? It's easy to fall into this way of thinking. But hey, maybe you will build the next Screenhero, or TeamViewer. Or maybe you'll end up as one of the thousands of other versions of this nobody has ever heard of. The idea is usually not the hard part.
Touching someone's leg is considered flirting, is it not? Honestly, I did not mean to mis-characterize it.
It has a cost in the size of the object file or executable at least. What if I don't want my data segment being polluted with enum-string-values or, worse, your secret array/hash-table implementation, regardless of how little extra it is?

Something like this ought to be opt-in and explicit.
I don't see how it's free labor. I'm not sure if you're European or American, but in the U.S. most professional jobs don't have set hours, it's more you work until the task is satisfactorly completed within defined time constraints.
It is hard to believe they would waste your time or theirs with an onsite interview, if they decided apriori a candidate with no side/opensource projects is unfit for them.
You do know that "Ponzi scheme" has a very precise definition, right? It isn't a generic term for a scam.

In any case, Tesla/SolarCity/SpaceX definitely aren't scams. Go ride in a Model S and see how much of a "scam" it is. Go watch videos of SpaceX rockets returning to Earth and landing vertically and gently so they can easily be reused and try to call it a scam.
We migrated from Relay to Apollo after using Relay since 0.1 and then investing to change it for Relay Modern. Never looked back.

I introduced GraphQL and Relay into our stack so was biased towards Relay "because Facebook". As the app grew, we started having found it more difficult to bend Relay to our needs. For example, its focus on React makes it of little help for client<->server comms in vanilla JS or outside of components (e.g. background tasks, service workers, action functions). It also has limited options for directly accessing/manipulating store data, which further restricts its use-cases within the app.

I initially hesitated to change clients because who could do GraphQL+React better than Facebook? When I first evaluated Apollo a year ago, Relay was still more comprehensive so we stuck with it. But today, everything Relay does Apollo either did first (e.g. subscriptions), does as well (e.g. component wrappers), and often better (e.g. direct cache management). For us, the primary reason to change was that Apollo is "JS-First" rather than "React-First" - this provides more suitable building blocks to design components, interactions, caching layers etc. Our client<->server comms are more flexible, more predictable, and easier to explain/develop.

Apollo 2 introduces apollo engine, network links, and custom client-side memory managers - I was satisfied before, but now I'm excited by the new ways to extend & instrument the data-management layer in our app. I would encourage you to evaluate Apollo as it is a highly competitive alternative from a highly competent team.
I get where you're coming from but you don't seem to get that other people have different priorities.

The set of people living in the burbs with families are generally living for their kids first and themselves a distant second. Consuming more interesting culture is great and all but it's still just consumption. Even if you're producing art or music, that's something for people with a lot of time for it unless they're doing it professionally. (and lots of great music has been created by bored suburban kids, FWIW).
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They did, but that decision was a while ago and phased-array LIDAR has come along a lot faster than I think they expected.
>For Neoliberals that would be a great victory. Replacing American merchant sailors with Chinese or Filipinos on the Mississippi or the Great Lakes would be a great boon for them because it would undoubtedly reduce costs.

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

I think in the current political climate, the word Neoliberal is more likely to be misunderstood than understood as you intended.