skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related to the graphs in the article:

When you want to show that something grows exponentially, plot it with a log scale on the y axis. That way, an exponential function becomes a line, and humans are much better at judging whether something is a line than judging whether something is an exponential function.

In fact, whenever you want to honestly show that something follows a certain law, scale your axes so that you get a line in the best case.
How much lower are Google's offers in Seattle or other cities? After all, what matters is comparing like-to-like.
You are correct, even if you meant to be trolling. It was never the case that suing required iron clad empirical evidence. Civil cases in the United States use the "preponderance of evidence" standard, not the "iron clad" standard you just made up.
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So only after they had exhausted all other options.
I disagree: You're describing what fans of him will think of his son.

But in this kid's day-to-day life after graduating, unless he becomes famous on his own, nobody will know who he is. They'll just see a dude that dresses well, lives in a well-off neighborhood, and got an education like everybody else. He won't have been raised in a violent neighborhood with poor access to education. And no employer will think twice about his application on account of his looks or the way he speaks.
Yep, it's very broad. Let's say it depends how "majestic" a person's monolith is? :D

One point of context I'd like to inject here is that chatter between AuthN and a host app is pretty minimal. Aside from executing admin actions like locking an account, the main dependency is fetching a public key to verify JWTs. This public key can be cached using a standard key fingerprint, which means it only needs to happen once per process.

Architecture does matter, and I've been pretty happy with how AuthN's boundary has played out.
Hi phirschybar, in the future please put the "FULL DISCLOSURE" part up top, rather than as an after thought.

It didn't feel very good to read your comment and then only find out at the end that you have both a personal and professional stake in the matter.
It's outrageous to the extent we're completely unprepared and maybe unwilling to deal with it.

Radio Free Europe was at least just using the airwaves. These efforts are using US corporations against the US.
A former president of the United States led successful efforts to overturn the Smith-Mundt Act, a long-standing piece of legislation that has been amended numerous times over the years, perhaps most consequentially by Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright. In the 1970s, Fulbright was no friend of VOA and Radio Free Europe, and moved to restrict them from domestic distribution, saying they "should be given the opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of Cold War relics." Fulbright’s amendment to Smith-Mundt was bolstered in 1985 by Nebraska Senator Edward Zorinsky, who argued that such "propaganda" should be kept out of America as to distinguish the U.S. "from the Soviet Union where domestic propaganda is a principal government activity."
Yeah. And he's expressed remorse at selling it. He did an interview some while ago where he said he is disappointed in the network since his departure, and a bunch of other words i don't recall right now.
I also found this apology to be pretty weak sauce. Obviously the damage can't be undone, but why not take a stab at trying? He owes it to this person, after all.

Things I dislike:

- The actual apology is one sentence long

- He doesn't state what he did wrong

- He doesn't acknowledge the harm he has caused

- It's not clear he's learned anything from this event

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/how-be-grown/201206/how...
Here are some random thoughts on the matter.

1. This is scary. Any app you've installed and forgot to remove may receive an update and start doing it and you simply won't be aware. The apps from the article were doing during the night when the device was charging, zero chance one could've noticed it.

2. AV companies are happy. Finally, there is a (one more?) legitimate reason for using a mobile AV app.

3. I think the idea of mining in exchange for goods has a great potential, but it seems that nobody even tries to use it in a legit manner. It might replace ads or paywalls, but it's more likely to end up being a "new adware" if nothing changes.
Twitter has many, many other issues, including an absolutely terrible interface for meaningful discussion.

Good for swapping gifs; bad for talking about anything with complexity.
My issue with her isn't with her at all, but rather with what Bunnie calls the Idol Effect. She posts projects on Reddit[0] from time to time, and they pretty much always gets upvoted way beyond their technical merit. One was a pair of 3D printed shoes with storage for lockpicks and a wireless router, the album was close to 40 pictures, several of them of her in a very small dress.

I don't follow her, I don't have anything against her. I don't like how people upvote her projects simply because of girl.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/user/SexyCyborg
Most of the population also live close to the sea, which helps keeps the winters mild.

If you spend a good amount of time at a winter cabin in the mountains, there is a good chance you got two car and can take your non-electric there.
Right, but the point the author is trying to make is that having that vision of the 'prototype' in your head changes your behavior and keeps people who are not the 'status quo' out of the field.
Give me access and I'll get your open issues to 0. ;)

But seriously, that's a good idea for a metric.
You can visit https://messenger.com for just the chat, without any extensions.
Can you share some of these blog posts that show the examples you've used?
There is a strong case to be against relative inequality.

What happens when the next difference is not yatchs, but something substantially different like access to longevity medicine, bionic instrumentation, genetic engineering, armament, whatever.

The great problem of some people being subdued to others clearly stems from the difference in power between them. Marx accounts that an English capitalist of his time could command 3 thousand servants, and as soon as he took them to america, literally all of them scrambled because they didn't have a dependency on him any more.

Not only that, but, there is a big question on why is this happening at all. Is it because the upper classes are better at tax dodging? Is it because its just how capitalism normally works and provides the best results? Is it because we have a crushing difference on how the State benefits one over others?

These are open questions, even Capital by Piketty doesnt have clear answers.
Your comment asserts that corporate tax has zero impact on corporate profit. If you don't fully agree with that statement, you may want to consider whether you fully agree with everything you wrote.
@plies, cool. just edited.
At 8k/s given a bunch of hardware a typical cloud service will throw at it it can be down to ~100ev/s per node.

Yes I’d like at least 1k/s per node. That’s something interesting.
> But a few guys literally built a communication tool (WhatsApp) to be used by billions of people. So maybe in the old world you could pick 2x as much corn,

But the problem is that anyone can build whatsapp. It's not technologically sophisticated or difficult to do.

> but in today's world you can build 1 billion times the communication tools as someone else.

Which depends on market access, free time ( wealth ) and most importantly - access to capital. Most people in the world don't have access to it.

> 2. The whole idea of inequality, while potentially useful, kind of assumes a fixed pie.

That is an argument. But it really doesn't matter if the pie grows if a small fraction of the population gets a greater share of the larger pie.

> 3. Does anyone care about equality, or do people care about poverty? Would a world where 1% of people had 100 yachts but 99% of people each had 1 yacht bother you?

Yes, if yachts = power. The problem in america is that money = power and more importantly, now money = speech.

> Would you rather live in a poor equal country or a rich unequal country?

Neither? You are offering a false dichotomy. It's the same argument posed by monarchists centuries ago. Either we have divine right monarchy or anarchy/complete chaos. How about democratic representative government?

You are offering us two extremes and falsely claiming those are our only two options. It isn't. Extreme poverty and extreme economic inequality are both terrible systems.
AMD is BARELY free cash flow positive. They have been on the brink of running out of cash as long as memory serves me.

https://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/free_cash_flow
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You can’t “compete” with a municipal service. How many competing options do you have for your water or sewer or trash pickup? It’s a reasonable argument that broadband should be provided municipally. But cloaking it in the guise of “competition” is disingenuous.
Former Yahoo CEO apologizes for data breaches, blames Russians
For someone who makes very outlandish statements, you never seem to support them in any way. Throwing mild profanity and colloquialisms into your statements (as if being 'cool and casual' will make you sound like an expert?) doesn't suffice.
I will check this campaign out, thanks
Knowing so little about the situation in Colorado, why can't they just allow more competition in the city, instead of running it themselves?
And yet even the poorest in the US still have TVs and refrigerators. I don't dismiss that life is difficult for many, but I also realize that they're working hard for a higher standard of living than is possible in many other times in history and many countries today.

And in actuality, the poorest quintile in the USA is the quintile that works the least hours, not the most! Why do the top 20% of Americans work so much, then they could potentially work less and earn less? Perhaps that's the tradeoff that they as a group make?

http://www.epi.org/publication/ib348-trends-us-work-hours-wa...
Intuit becomes latest technology company to offer direct lending
It seems reasonable to be against taking away tax deductions for state and local taxes; you're asking to be able to deduct taxes paid to a government. As a counter-example, it's also legal to take deductions for foreign taxes paid on foreign income. And plenty of lower-income people also pay state and local taxes.

It's hardly the same thing as taking away, say, the mortgage interest deduction.
The sad reality is that much of America, particularly suburban America but even in cities, public gathering places are nearly non-existent. The shopping mall (or more recently, lifestyle center, Festival Marketplaces, etc) is the closest thing many have to the town square or decently appointed public park.

However, the mall isn't a public space and things a healthy society allows for - protest, hand holding, being different looking, aren't necessarily allowed in a mall.

Regardless if a mall is preferable in 100 degree heat or -10 degree cold, those other spaces are important for other reasons.
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I guess I read it differently:

This lady gets (almost $17,000 a year in pension) and social security

Sorry, your probably right.
The problem isn't a lack of technology, but cost. You have to get your electric utility to make substantial improvements to their delivery infrastructure. This generally involves digging up the street and laying cables, not just flicking a switch. It gets more expensive depending on how far your proposed charging station is from the nearest high voltage distribution point.
I agree mostly. The narrative that "the world is being robbed by the rich" is far from being true.

Still, its a problem that we don't understand yet, and we have no economic model to solve. Milton Friedman's economic paradigm does not help. We need something new.
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free market much ...
I’m car illiterate. Why is the braking power proportional to the engine rather than mass or drag or something? Or did i misunderstand?
You need to build a lair for your creatures
So your response can be summed up as "Well maybe the men are just better on average?"
Sure, but why not support it in an external facing product? No one externally depends on that old google code.
Anecdotally, I find pure black + pure white rather uncomfortable to look at for any long period of time. (Pure white especially, but the combination of the two is particularly bad.)

It wasn't always that way, maybe something to do with my current eyeglass prescription, or just fatigue from staring at monitors all day? I don't know.

But regardless, one of the things I've learned about UI design is not to dismiss other people's concerns about text readability. Just because you have great eyes (for now), doesn't mean everyone else does too. :)
This is a correction of the previous tendency, which was to take the default assumption that all discrimination was in fact rational and a reflection of consistent differences in merit between sub-populations. We've gone from assuming that discrimination is probably rational to assuming discrimination is probably irrational.

You could argue that we've over-corrected, but my own subjective experience leads me to disagree. I see constant reminders every day in the media and on the Internet of the persistence of irrational emotionally driven biases against groups of people. Wake me up when Reddit and Twitter are not overflowing with inane frothing at the mouth bigotry.
I believe Tencent also invested something like $50M in Kik.
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I am reading a lot and so far the greatest book published in 2017 for me is:

A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp

http://www.edwardothorp.com/books/a-man-for-all-markets/

A truly remarkable man and very inspirational life story...
How do we get everyone through Ivy League without lowering the bar? How do you propose the government manage social connections to powerful people?

You're right about it affecting the first, though. Also as a purely hypothetical illustration, it might create a multiple generation-spanning dependency on social programs, make single parent households more economically feasible and socially acceptable as a lifestyle, and foster class warfare that downplays the importance of one's own choices by blaming only others for one's own outcomes.
Interesting move on the price chart after this announcement: https://i.imgur.com/EkxgJb2_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&fidelity=high

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Thanks!

Have you seen the /stats endpoint? It exposes the metrics as JSON, which may be a good match for your suggestion. I'd also like to export the key events to a STATSD-compatible sink so a sophisticated user can manage metrics in their own system.

Redis is already on hand because of other features though, and HLL is a pretty cheap integration. I figure it's a decent starting point for many people.
> I hear you, at the same time you have embarassingly parallel problem that can be easily sharded per customer. (Do I understand your service correctly?)

The actual event ingestion from an external consumer to our queue is indeed very boring. What makes Sentry internally complex is how incredibly complicated those events can get. For instance before we can make sense of most iOS (as wlel as other native) or JavaScript events we need to go through a fairly complex event processing system. A lot of thought went into making this process very efficient.

Also obviously even if a problem like ours can be easily solved in parallel, you don't just want to add more servers you also want to run a reasonably lean operation. Instead of just throwing more machines at the issue we want to make sure we internally do not do completely crazy things but optimize our processes.
Ethereum works fine as a currency too (~15 sec per block, quite nice). It also works fine with simple contracts, it's the humans who aren't good enough (yet) to write bug-free code.

Bugs in software of various kinds cause billions of dollars worth of damage, deaths too. Yet I don't see people claiming it's the fault of C++.
What are you talking about? Bond index fund holdings are extremely liquid. And even if you directly hold individual bonds in your own account, investment grade bonds from large issuers are also very liquid. The vast majority of wealthy hedge fund investors still don't have investments large enough that liquidity becomes a serious concern for bond trading.
Perhaps Zuckerberg can ask another member of the Chinese government to name his next child to smooth this over.
Malls reliably have enough parking. Getting downtown is a major (and slow) production, particularly if your downtown is progressive enough to intentionally deter access by car.
> What annoys me the most is that, as a small company, I can't evade from my country tax system. I pay the taxes. All of them, at full rate.

This is a real problem in the US, too. The corporate tax rate is very high, but there's so many exemptions and deductions that few end up paying the headline rate. There's a lot of variation between businesses in what they pay.

Lowering the tax rate and simplifying the tax code could make it more fair in a revenue-neutral way.
What are the odds that the city will run an ISP better than, say, the DMV?
I mean, serving a web page is easy. Processing incoming events and everything else that Sentry does is not trivial. You're not comparing likes to likes.
I second this. Pathogen is beyond simple... Just `git clone`
The total size of the pie influences prices: if people have more money this by itself can cause inflation. See for example housing in San Francisco. Some people are forces to move, eventhough they have lived in the same house for years.

Housing prices in the neighbourhood go up, because potential buyers have a large piece of the pie. This causes average house prices to rise, which causes taxes to rise.

Suddenly the original piece of the pie is no longer enough to afford the house you always lived in.
> perhaps the answer to the "electron crisis" isn't whining, but developing a new and better option (or renovating an existing one) that developers will actually want to use.

This is a huge part of it.

If I want to make a cross platform app, and I don't want to spend 1/3rd of my dev budget on cross-plat abstraction layers, then electron solves a real problem.

I can spin up multiple teams, hiring talent that understands 3+ different UI toolkits in depth, write 3 different apps, or use Electron.

I can spin up a huge cross-plat team that papers over the file system, app permissions, authentication, the clipboard, sharing, media playback, and text editing, or use Electron.

Now as features get more advanced, platform specific implementations will be needed, but to get up and running quickly, and to get something that people want to use, Electron is a great solution.

As for the article's comment

> There is nothing desktop like about Electron applications, they always feel out of place, even the simplest elements like the native menu bar is not available.

Every app now days tries to be its own thing, Chrome feels out of place, Firefox feels out of place, Notepad++ is maybe the one app I use that feels like a Windows app. FWIW Microsoft Office, the parts of which, combined, likely make up the most commonly used Windows app, has always felt different from the rest of Windows, because they acknowledge that specialized apps can use specialized UIs.

In the case of Slack, the UI is designed around what the product does. And a browser as a chat room is obvious, chats have been hosted in HTML like containers for ages, and a browser engine supports all the types of things users want to do in chat now days. If you had to choose a tech stack that:

1. Is primarily text based
2. Allows for quick styling of text
3. Supports media inline with text

Then a browser fits all of those pretty well. The new HTML5 features that make video chat possible are just icing on the cake. Browsers have made what once used to be a huge differentiating factor (video chat) into something that almost feels commoditized. Not to discount the huge amount of work that is still needed to get video chat working, but working video chat used to be an idea that got huge amounts of startup funding, but now with modern tech stacks, it is measured in engineering sprints.

What to do video chat natively? Well, I've certainly noticed that all the native video chat apps on my PC are sorta iffy. The effort to make it work was put into Chrome, why shouldn't everyone else benefit?
Yes, poor people today have access to technology which didn't exist hundreds of years ago. What of it? Poor people everywhere in every era under every economic system have access to technology which didn't exist in the past; this is the nature of time. Paupers of the late Neolithic had access to wheels their ancestors could only dream of.

The comparison of note isn't between the present and the past, but between the system in place and alternative possible systems; between the present/future that is, and the present/future that could be. (Somehow, the same folks who love to proclaim "It's Econ 101…" also always go on to compare present to past to somehow prove the poor are getting a grand deal, instead of thinking about "opportunity cost" for the poor compared to alternative presents under alternative choices for how to structure society's wealth.)

As for the idea that the poorest 20% in the US are voluntarily choosing to live in poverty out of work-shyness, while the richest 20% have contrastingly simply opted-in to their different status along some trade-off curve, this is both laughably ignorant and cruelly smug.
we are not looking for causation here. simply correlation is sufficient to predict the trend.
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Hello HN:

As of recent I've been looking for a new SWE position at one of the bigger companies in my area. I have about 3 years of experience now, and have helped ship many in production applications. After many applications, I've only heard back from one company. I'm guessing that my resume is lacking.

I'm looking for a service that preferably specializes in technical resumes, with a reasonable fee.
> The company said Tuesday in response to questions that it is “now conducting a thorough and fully transparent investigation of the root cause” of the explosion. “SpaceX is committed to our current manifest, and we do not expect this to have any impact on our launch cadence.”
It's the american way.
I'm sure Evernote could do this.

I've been using two different kinds of apps for this:

- Offline-reading apps for stuff I want to read
- (Tech) support ticket apps for stuff I (might) want to do

I'm currently using Pocket for the first kind. Before that I was using Instapaper.

For the second kind I'm using GitLab but I've still got a lot of old content in FogBugz that's not yet migrated. Neither saves or indexes the contents of links tho so I manually include text about what it is I wanted to do or sometimes just specific text I'd expect future-me to use to find the stuff.

The main reason I use GitLab for stuff related to something I might want to do is that I use it for all of my other 'project' content too so it's nice to have everything of that nature in one place.
There was quite a wide spread issue with syncing the JoyCons on launch, particular with the left one - http://m.uk.ign.com/articles/2017/03/22/nintendo-confirms-sw...

I haven’t had any issues personally though, I think it’s a great console!
European airwaves, on European radios.
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