skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question is: how much do the top 20% make and/or own? If it's 95% or more, then those taxes seem quite fair, don't they?

Found some data: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Uni...

Top 20% owned 93% of wealth in 2014, and I don't see why that number wouldn't go up.

It's a bit harder to find numbers for income, though.
Thank yous do help a lot. And they help outweigh the nasty stuff many maintainers get (harassment, death threats, rape threats, doxing, etc).
Good care and feeding for vendors as well.
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The most common case is overnight with a geographically distributed team.
800$ is a very big sum for a lot of my countrymen. Also it is true that a lot of Indian schools operate with very few resources, that would be required to appropriately educate all the students they serve. And this makes them noncompetitive in international university rankings. And to be frank it is not in our interest to pander to the rankings, because they encourage expenditure of a large amount of resources to train a few people who may or may not directly help the nation's economy.

I don't think rankings are as important to even individuals as access to employment opportunities. The cost of college education has to be weighed against the return on investment. If for example, the H1B restrictions are tightened to the extent that foreign students aren't able to find job opportunities, then the ranking of the university would be irrelevant in absence of decent return on investment.

I believe the same holds true for the native students seeking graduate education. If the cost of education is too high, be it monetary cost or opportunity cost, the people will not seek it.
Bezos has taken to recently calling his immense wealth, his "Amazon lottery winnings." Which gives you an indication that he is fully aware of the role good luck has played in his life. I'm sure it's also meant to disarm or preempt criticism to an extent, Warren Buffet has done the same thing the entire time he has been famous & wealthy (using various explanatory concepts such as "the ovarian lottery," and joking about how he'd be dinosaur lunch in a different time given how a vicious carnivore might respond to his capital allocation skills). To the extent that Bezos's wealth is particularly wildly outsized, I'm sure - based on what he has said - that he recognizes it as being well beyond just the result of hard work and intelligence (both of which he usually gets credit for).
Rent-control policies likely 'fueled' SF gentrification, Stanford economists say
Well, from the OP:

> Gothamist, on the other hand, was profitable...
Based on what I've read you are a professor, correct? Your salary being frozen isn't what I am talking about. When I went to college we had a 12% raise in tuition one year, and then spent several hundred thousand on a party for the new Dean we got next year. Those are the type of costs I am talking about

Edit: sports teams as well. Our basketball team was bringing in more money than they spent so that's fine for the university. However they also spent millions on our football team who lost money year after year. Why are universities in a position where they can increase tuition by 12% in a single year and then still dump money into a losing sports team for the prestige factor? The universities do not seem to be price concious at all except when it comes to professor compensation
You’re being downvoted but it’s extremely true.

Code should strive to be as self-documenting as possible but there will always need to be some level of documentation- and good comments are part of that.

One other part of that effort should be good unit, integration, and acceptance, tests.
Have you used recent versions of Android with priority and aggregation? I've found that iOS users have no idea how good notifications are on Android.
I think it depends on the startup and the people involved.

If it’s a two person startup, then obviously it makes total sense.

If it’s a two million person “startup”, then it almost certainly doesn’t make sense.

If it’s somewhere between those extremes, then maybe it does and maybe it doesn’t. But there are many factors to be considered.
I think you missed his point: he meant manipulating an (vector) image with cli. So you type what to change and then you see the change.
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As a profession, we need a set of ethical standards.

I tell companies I "Won't build products that hurt people."

You wouldn't be surprised how many doors this closes.
"Grabbing an edge of a window is the least elegant gesture ever created."

Yes! But only because they made it 1px wide, and do not auto increase the border once you get close ... really stupid and inconviniend.
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This is a great piece of polemic.
"Radiologically inert" is a bit much. Both uranium and plutonium are alpha emitters. This basically means that if you can keep the stuff outside your body, you're OK. A chunk of metal is safe; breathing dust is lethal.
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If someone was looking to jump into working on bcachefs, adding SMR support would be an excellent project.
Yes https://lwn.net/Articles/637035/
One fundamental problem is that many people are aroused by the unspeakable.
Gratitude has its place. Still, doesn't pay the bills. Perhaps Patreon and GitTip like solutions will prove more sustainable.
I guess if you use these for a log-style database, write only backup (e.g. a replacement for tapes with better random read), you'll be happy. But for a general purpose drive they suck.
Guess it's relative. Different lisps are probably syntactically the smallest group of languages, but compared to Java (which most people would say is a bloated language) it's a tiny one.
You're doing it for weight loss, so the following is not interesting to you, but maybe other people think that bicycle generators are a good idea for generating electricity. They're not: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electric...
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If you focus on computer vision / machine learning at least
> "So to be sure nobody issued a cert for one of my properties I would have to check regularly on CT logs to be sure that only certs requested by me are issued."

CertSpotter does this for you automatically: https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
Why do you think they have no real understanding of what the periodic table does? This is a really silly reaction.

If someone made a map of the US with only cities that have repositories named after them highlighted or some such thing would reasonable geographers think, "this is meaningless! They don't even understand what a map is!" (I hope not).

It's something for fun, and not presenting itself any other way... It's not even "abusing" the period table format for some other data (when I saw the link I thought it might be related to languages used on GitHub), it's literally mirroring the names of the elements that are in the real table but linking to projects with the same name...

Sometimes I just don't get some perspectives on HN--if I were a chemist who also knew that naming things in software is hard, it probably would have made me chuckle not furrow my brow.

Edit: missing word
Isn't Standard Oil considered to be the first $1T company in today's dollars?
I think, at a minimum, they would have needed support for something like HTML5 canvas. Then Flash would have never happened. HTML should probably should have been XML with a component centric model from the beginning. Modules from the start with JS. Scoped CSS...lots of things would have improved the web's position earlier...but you know, hindsight and all that.
The Sino-Soviet border conflict occured after both were nuclear powers, as did the Kargil War between India and Pakistan.
Github is a code management tool, so it isn’t too surprising that designers aren’t fond of it.

Imagine code diffs, but for visual designs instead. Showing you which palette colors have changed, which margins have been tweaked etc. - Github doesn’t do any of that.
I don't take incident with the 20% mark. I only take incident with the insinuation that the great societal benefits Bezos enjoys for his 20% was provided by someone else.
The standard is out there if you're willing to pay ETSI (or whomever - though the CDMA2000 specs are open and online) the money to get at it. They're not black boxes by any measure of the word.
The onboard crypto is still used to secure voice calls.
Please be more specific than that. I think you might have a point worth discussing, but your comment is ambiguous to the point of opacity, and The Fine Article is calling for the ability to talk explicitly (though not necessarily vulgarly) about these things.
How could it? Do you expect them to run some sort of headless Photoshop VM?
Given the NLRB issue, I suspect this was already heavily lawyered and gamed out. Not that he's not angry, but he'd already decided the vote would make it a total loss or close enough.

The change in union status may have made it difficult to sell anything ongoing. The biggest asset would be Gothamist's domain name and anyone with that domain was going to have to wade into the labor mess. "Here's an organization running in the red, obligated to negotiate an uncertain new contract with all its employees under NLRB rules! What are my bids?"

Might as well save the auction and lawyer fees and take the loss in 2017.
I've seen that revenue stat mentioned before, but never any evidence that this isn't due to something like Android having free options available for functionality that only paid apps have on iOS.
I will never understand ads for and blogs about writing that aren't themselves proofread first.
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Customer delight is one of our core values and we pride on fast & relevant responses. We would like to maintain this bar as we continue to grow rapidly and looking for a senior technical support leader. It's an exciting role with daily interactions with recruiters/hiring managers from a wide variety of companies (tech, banking, automobile, retail, etc.) & developers across the world to help them better use the product and share regular feedback with the product team. You will work in an intersection of customers & product.

We are based in Palo Alto and the ideal person should be technical (solve this challenge: http://hr.gs/support-engineering-challenge-2017), obsessed about customer delight and focused on fast & relevant responses to customers.

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I know in a few graduate medical labs international students are seen as a big labor plus. No family, no friends, in a foreign environment, under a lot of pressure to succeed. You can pretty much ask them to work 80+ hour weeks easily. Americans have family, friends, marriages, maybe children! It's not this way in a majority of labs, but I definitely have friends in labs just like this.

Also I agree with the points many others have made, debt is a major factor. I got a undergrad stem degree at a UC and only went back to great school after working for three years and paying that debt off.

Plus: I'm enjoying the research.

Negative: I'm the oldest student and halving my salary for several years is not a great experience!
That may have been the case in the 1990s, but isn't 10 seconds an eternity in today's HFT world? You'd need to arrange the sale off the exchange.
True.
My rule of thumb, anything over 4TB, 7200rpm or not - I use only for long backup. Not on production app that needs good IO speed.
I have no idea what Unix philosophy's got to do with Web Components, but your advice is terrible.

You're dissing custom frameworks at the same time as you're advocating using a custom framework. Or, as you call it, "a templating engine". Because you need much much much more than just a templating engine:

- Web Components provide a fraction of a fraction of React's capabilities. Even though React doesn't even have that many capabilities. After all, it's just the V in MVC.

- You still need data binding

- You still need state management

- You still need ways to deal with component hierarchies (good luck not forgetting to unbind all the event listeners etc.)

- You still need to re-implement your own forms [1]

- etc. etc. etc.

So what you really are proposing is: either use a framework/a bunch of helper libs (Polymer, Skate.js whatever) or end up getting crufty and unmanageable with the low-level DOM APIs that Web Components offer (there are no other APIs in the standard).

[1] There is no way to have custom elements include data in form submissions: https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/issues/187 and the solution is "to replicate the behaviour of form elements (which requires you to also to replicate <form />)" https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/issues/187#issuecomment...
The X has 3gb of RAM, this is one of the drivers moving me to upgrade
Ref: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
And on the other end of the scale, here's what not to say :) https://github.com/remy/nodemon/issues/824#issuecomment-2178...
I don’t know, that wasn’t the question.

In any case, is it that insane to imagine a visual diff tool? Illustrator files are basically just SVG, it’s all very parseable.
Lightning bolt, maybe. Static electricity, no way. The detonators used are exploding-wire devices. They're just hugely overloaded resistors.[1]

Regular detonators have a primary explosive which is triggered by a modest electric pulse. The primary explosive detonates and its energy detonates the secondary explosive. Those can go off by accident, cook off, etc.

The ones used in nuclear weapons are just inert wires. Without a hulking big electrical pulse (about a megawatt for a microsecond, which is one joule) they can't do anything. A big capacitor bank is required to fire such things. It's done this way because all the detonators have to go off within nanoseconds of each other to get the symmetrical implosion squeeze to work. Otherwise the thing just blows itself apart without a nuclear reaction. That's happened a few times in plane crashes.

Newer (post-1950s) nuclear weapons don't even have a full critical mass in them. The core is squeezed down by the implosion to achieve criticality at a density higher than the normal density of the material. Without a symmetrical implosion, not much happens.

This physics makes for a much safer device. It's why nobody has ever had one go off by accident.

(The Hiroshima bomb, though, was very unsafe. It was a gun bomb, basically a 5-inch
gun with conventional detonators and propelling charge. The crew of the Enola Gay was
told that if they had to return to base without having dropped the bomb, drop it in deep water. Don't try to land with it. A crash or fire on landing probably would have detonated the device. That design was only used once.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding-bridgewire_detonator
I strongly recommend making your estimate fill the timeframe you specified, break that down into what salary you would want and then bill hourly, every two weeks.

Do not base it on milestones unless it is something you have built before and "could do it in your sleep" because otherwise you are going to trip on a bunch of "gotchas" and at some point either you or the client are going to be frustrated and/or forced to renegotiate.
> Does such a person ever wake up, and wonder how the dice rolled so amazingly in their favor?

More likely they wake up thinking about how to further weight dice rolls into their favour, even those stretching years into the future.
Outside of a few very specific fields, I have trouble believing that a Master's degree will result in $500k+ salaries.

But if you have data, I'd love to see it.
What I was doing was large backups, no overwriting, and it slowed down massively. I reformatted to a linear log filesystem, and still had the same unusable performance trend. However, since the drive was already somewhat used, and the drive itself knows nothing about the filesystem but only about sectors, I'm sure it was shuffling all the old data around as well.

Strangely enough, I could imagine it might work for a primary hard drive, as writes tend to be small and bursty allowing the SMR shuffling to catch up. But installation would take days.

Marketing them as "Archive" drives as Seagate did is the absolute wrong case for these. It's impossible to get any backup/archive copied over in any timely fashion. As a live mirror which gets piecemeal changes as they happen, then maybe. But that's still not an "archive".
SMR drives can be thought of as tape libraries. You have a bunch of large, independent tapes that can all be written sequentially. But you can't do random writes to the tape. (SMR drives also have a lower density, non-SMR "scratch region" that can be used for metadata, or to build up to a larger I/O piecemeal. My metaphor is breaking down here.)

They're not generally useful for the kinds of applications harddrives are classically used for (classic filesystems). They're mostly useful for applications that already use tape, with the benefit of much quicker random reads.

Log filesystems may be able to take advantage of them. There will necessarily be I/O overhead to garbage collect deleted files out of SMR regions. (Because you have to rewrite the entire SMR region to compact.)

Is anyone using or planning to use SMR drives in production? If you're able to share, I'd be curious to learn about your use case and how you plan to make efficient use of the disk.
Before or after all the grad students couldn't get jobs because the market was full?
Yeah, that's the problem with drive-managed SMR — these drives are totally unusable by SMR-naive applications, so there's no point hiding it from the host. I think SMR drives have very niche application.
> the problem with Windows

Windows has a ton of problems.
Higher capacity drives often have higher platter data rates, because of the increased density (or more platters & heads) at the same rotational speed. They should have better I/O throughput than 4TB drives... as long as they're not SMR. :-P A SMR drive that takes multiple days to transfer 500GB to it isn't useful as a maintained backup either.
<<

I'm just genuinely curious what it feels like to be in their shoes.

The contemplation of this question satisfies ones need for introspection. Whether it's Bezos, or someone you are not there is great value in trying to answer this.

Struggle and pain and want is cleansing. Constant success can be a house of cards for children.

Wealth, enormous, is a burden. Just making it is freedom. Imo.

As he cant understand our life anymore we cant understand his.
This is kind of a non-sequitur. SMR drives have vastly worse performance than non-SMR drives. Neither RPM nor capacity has anything to do with SMR or non-SMR.
Sure, I can elaborate.

Most simply, many people are aroused by actions only if they don’t discuss it. Maybe a woman likes to be spanked with a belt — but not if she has to ask, “please spank me with a belt.”

Then, there are the multitude of illicit fantasies. Sex with the boss on his desk, with the door closed, while the rest of the office works. Sex with the neighbor’s wife.

50 Shades was a blockbuster.

Briefly, for many people, when it comes to sex, very bad is very good.
It can be really hard to get credit/background checks under the new name to work for a couple years after getting a name change. And you sometimes get stuck with having to use new name and old name for the same thing for different reasons with no resolution.

Credit checks would come back as "suspected fraud".
Well in a solid fuel missile, there was simply no way it was going to explode due to any kind of external damage (or at all, solid fuel does not explode). Good that nuclear safety of the warhead itself worked well, as none of the explosive lenses gone off.
Well, most design people also have side projects, be it a Tumblr page or an endless supply of drawings that they just do to improve their drawing skills.

But that's different from helping an (OSS) application look good. For that, you have to make tons of mockups, iterate again and again, until you have something that looks good and consistent across the entire application. Ideally, you'd also want at least one other person to bounce ideas back and forth, and have an opinion about what you're doing.

This is real work, which requires a lot of commitment upfront. The equivalent of requiring a programmer to lay out the entire architecture before they write a single line of code. That's also something that mainly happens in a corporate environment, whereas for hobby projects it tends to lead to frustration.
Affordable to students from America maybe, but many students take loans to complete their studies in the foreign countries as well(yes even for "public" universities) and it is very competitive environment if you want to get into public universities that cost a lot less.
Note that the conclusion of that article is that developers are thinking about it, not that it is solved in Linux. Linux may detect SMR drives and query them for zone information, but I don't believe ext4 or any other Linux filesystem works particularly well on them. I would love to be shown otherwise, though.

> Reinecke wondered if the host-managed SMR drives would actually sell. Petersen piled on, noting that the flash-device makers had made lots of requests for extra code to support their devices, but that eventually all of those requests disappeared when those types of devices didn't sell. Reinecke's conclusion was that it may not make a lot sense to try to make an existing filesystem work for host-managed SMR drives.

Edit: wmf points out that F2FS works reasonably well[0], until you have to do a garbage collection pass.

[0]: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
Ehm..
Are you aware that Lamborghini and Ferrari are two completely different car brands right?
Ferrari is Italian, Lamborghini was Italian and was sold to different parties since the 80's or something like that.
From 1998 Lamborghini is German.
In my original comment I said that I would be very surprised to find a Ferrari with a shit finish, and another user said that Lamborghini from 1998 to 2011 had abysmal paint quality.
So I don't see any contradiction in my comments.
What Bitcoin offers is a fraction of what "traditional banking" does. A lot of "labor intensiveness" in banks comes from various forms of what can be described as customer support.

Consider just one thing that Bitcoin doesn't offer: applying for a house loan. Even in an internet-only bank (such things exist) there will be a live person handling your case who will guide you through various processes.