skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$50 an hour is $104k a year, figure MTA has not been hiring many people as their effective budget has shrunk, so what started as a low $100k salary has risen as their workforce ages.
This kind of thing has been done for a couple of years now, if I understand the Vodafone offer correctly. Binge On in the U.S. (or StreamOn in Germany) by T-Mobile is the same thing, and the Deutsche Telekom used to offer a plan where you get free Spotify streaming, no matter the state of your data plan.

But then again: Does this kind of marketing touch the _core_ problem of net neutrality? You could argue that--as long as the user's high-speed data is intact--all of these services operate at the same speed.

Of course, this is an incentive to users to choose Spotify or WhatsApp over some competitor, but you could argue that _because_ they're giving you the same speed for everything as long as you still have data, it's not as bad as other approaches (not that I think it's a good thing).

Then again, it probably is a really slippery slope.
Well Wikipedia can claim that the speed of light is around 3x10^8 ms^-1. Wikipedia can claim that gravity exists, and that fish live in the sea.

The fact that the earth is an oblate spheroid is a scientific fact with just as much certainty as the other claims are.

Being neutrality minded doesn't mean you can't outright dismiss false beliefs.
Right next to distributed logging and failure reporting problems.
When you have zero locally installable apps, it's not really hard to support a different CPU type.
That's a different problem. They're building a new line, yes. But the problems are more with the reliability of the existing infrastructure.
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This is already happening in the rest of the world. Here's how it works:

In many places, having a data plan is not affordable. It might cost $10 per month, but it's a lot since most people in the developing world make like $200 per month.

So, companies like Facebook, WhatsApp, etc, offer SIM cards that have free data for their services. Customers get a free service, and they get the customer.

The biggest issue I see there is, it helps big companies get bigger, and there's no real way to for small companies to get in on these kinds of deals.
Don't get me started on the framework buzzword bullshit. I'm so sick of developers that launch into 50 tool stacks just to tick the boxes. Whether it's resume driven development or just plain ignorance, it seems to be pervasive.

I hate that every other interaction I have with the developer community is suggesting that a newbie back up a few steps and understand the problem they're trying to solve before introducing a solution, or worse yet, suggesting that the person trying to help them shut the fuck up and stop recommending things this beginner has no business using. The mindset is literally everywhere. It's like I'm surrounded by a cult of redux middleware worshippers that is trying to drain my will to live before they hand me a cup of cyanide.

I'm interviewing candidates for front-end roles at the moment and every other one is someone that has launched into a huge React project with barely any basic understanding of Javascript or web development. Half the candidates have every buzzword under the sun in their resume, and a GitHub full of little React projects with all the dependencies checked off nicely, then you get them into an interview and half of them can't name a single HTTP method, while the other half have done 5+ years of jQuery, and yet couldn't tell a closure from a prototype.

One of my first questions is always to ask them what front-end tools they are familiar with, and then follow up with "what problem does that tool solve?". 90% of the interviews are pretty much donezo by the time that question is answered (or more often not), and it feels like the rest of the time is wasted just running out the string.

Since most of the people in this thread are candidates rather than interviewers, if anyone has any suggestions about how to make the interviews more inviting and find out quicker and easier whether someone is the right fit, please let me know! I feel like I'm strugglinga bit.
Cost of insurance and wear & tear are direct costs of each trip outside gas, not including those (which is ~50% of the cost of each trip) is deceiving yourself.
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UBIT 40% tax on charities was not created to hit university endowments

So you're saying we can all simply pick and choose which laws were created with us in mind?
Your wording is slightly ambiguous, but just to be clear: The NYT isn't making this argument, they're quoting someone.

(and the quote is $700,000, by the way)
> I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?
> "This is not the right job for me" and end it yourself. I've done that a few times now for various reasons.

I think this is the only weapon the interviewed person has. Not applying is not a solution as it will lead to even more disconnection. Apply, talk with people, disconnect when the bullshit level is too high.

Looking for years of experience in your exact Angular/React stack? Cheerio.
We're talking 25k to 45k passengers an hour on a train versus ~1000 people per hour with Elon Musk's Boring company. It isn't even vaguely competitive.
In US, as well. In fact, all kinds of things that have to do with both active IR, and protection against it, are regulated.

For example, there's a popular firearm (and other things, technically, but it's mostly used for firearms) coating called Cerakote. Comes in a bunch of colors, including those commonly used for camouflage - indeed, you can mix and match to create some very impressive patterns. Example:

http://i64.tinypic.com/21bw5lc.jpg

This is available to civilians, and pretty popular - mostly for aesthetics, but it does work well as a camouflage. The catch is that, being an epoxy polymer coating, it reflects NIR really well - so for someone observing through a night vision device, these things basically glow, especially if an infrared illuminator is also used.

But Cerakote also does have a version that was specifically designed to reduce the near-infrared signature to the point where it works just as well as camo in NIR, as it does in visual spectrum. Except it's only available to military and police - and I believe this is, in fact, because of some law that restricts them from offering it on civilian market.
In fact, MTA have been investing in vacuum cleaning systems for the tracks with the aim of reducing fires that lead to delays. You're being disingenuous. Here's an article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/nyregion/with-new-vacuums...

So it's frankly absurd of the commenter to say that just 4-5 people could manage this task. One manager mentioned in the article leads a team of 300(!) cleaners.
When I got my parents their first android phone, the app drawer worked on swiping left/right. Then came the change in orientation where the swipe went to up/down

Someone on here, I don't remember who sorry, commented that Snapchat works by deliberately breaking UI conventions that people have grown accustomed to who have used computers for a while. That's the mechanism by which they exclude older people and "lock in" people who have little pre-existing computing experience. I strongly suspect this is exactly what the Android developers are trying to do as well.
Sorry, I didn't mean it's funny dealing with your parents, I know that feeling myself. Rather that they phoned you because their phone didn't work.
I don't know if it holds for every scenario, but when it comes to microtransactions or DLC, I judge from the rule: Is this just bitflipping?

If they want me to pay for simply giving me a higher value of X resources, it's bad.

If they want me to pay for adding new content to the game, that's fine.

There is a grey area when it becomes apparent that they removed key content from the "full game" in order to charge extra for it. The new Battlefront 2 debacle shows that.

This should also cover the cases of user added mods since making your own content or hacking your copy of the game would be fine.
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If you believe just buy them back. Your guess is as good as anyone else's
Thanks for your reply. I have another question though : how would you do if there were already a lot of undocumented code ? Would you organise a "documentation retreat" to catch up then doing as you say, documenting before coding ?
It is estimated that bears kill over two million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare.
I'd love this book but unfortunately I can only address it as a starting point. It's good enough for a collection but it isn't a survey neither a complete book. I've worked a lot with evolution strategies and the starting point was this book although a bit limiting.
that's so far from the meaning of "falling behind"
Surely it's better for the deaf people to have unlimited free video communication even if it is worse quality? I understand how it would be really bad for you trying to sell the superior service, but it should be about the desires of the deaf people at the end of the day. If they want superior quality that you can sell them, then they can just pay extra for it. Maybe free whatsapp is perfectly fine?
> They're a great demonstration of how the illusion of progressing at something is all you need to keep people interested, even when the only thing they're progressing towards is... the opportunity for more progression.

If anyone wants to try this type of "game" give cookie clicker a try.
Not only the US. It seems the rest of the world managed to build most of their infrastructure in the 60s and 70s.

Now if you look at large infrastructure projects, they are much more expensive, and proceed at a glacial pace.

Except in China, of course.
As your quote points out: these are state-run businesses. I'm sceptical of the sate running ski resorts. But ignoring that for a second, it's not out of the ordinary to cover a loss that was the result from extraordinary events such as a warm winter.

Presumably, they didn't have to bail them out in other years, meaning they ran a profit in other years.
> If they don't eat as much due to higher satiety, then you are not replacing with equivalent calories.

That's one factor of why eating fat instead of carbs defeat the calories-in-calories-out idea. But it's not the only one. Both the lack of release of insulin and ketosis helps the body work much better.

> 5 calories of one really will have the same effect on your waistline as 5 of another, holding all else equal.

That's the problem, nothing else is equal when you have a vastly different proportion of macronutrients.
Brave Browser is a product from Brendan Eich, ex-CEO of Mozilla and creator of JS.
For starters let's start with this question: Where do you came from? Do you believe humankind started with Adam, or do you believe humankind started with _millions_ of years of evolution? If the latter, how much you trust statistical physics and modern science and the variance of carbon-12 dating and the publications of the researchers themselves?

I took the revealed knowledge route, study Islam, study Quran, study Hadeeth. Glad I did. As side bonus my logic, reasoning and critical thinking have improved a lot.

In the end it is your choice what to believe after witnessing proofs after proofs, after proofs. Choose wisely.
If it is so moral what they are doing, why don't they make the whole thing public by themselves. Its not like Universities need to hide anything (sorry for that paraphrase), they are public figures.

The thing is that we as a society have decided that we impose taxes in order to fund common things like protection, infrastructure etc. If now certain members of this society decide they do not want to pay their share anymore, they can say that publicly and we can all decide whether it is for the public good or not (and in the latter case, they can decide whether they want to leave the society in consequence). But what they are currently doing now is hiding that they do not contribute their share to our common good anymore and yes, that is amoral. Its acceptable (and anyones right) to have an opinion (about taxes) but I can expect you to be honest about it.
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Are Japanese houses even worse than American houses ?
From a European stand point most American houses are built cheaply and especially their insulation is much worse than in Middle Europe. At least that is what I've been told and what I've experienced some years ago.
> London and Toronto have been able to modernize much of their transit systems in last 5 years and its not because they have more money. Once you fix the top everything else will fall into place.

TBF NYC does have the exceptional — almost unique — feature that it runs 24/7.
Thanks for your reply. So even at Microsoft developers have to write documentation themselves ? There are no technical writers to help ? I do not know how to catch up with the documentation now there are tons of undocumented code - your ideas are great for ensuring the situation won't reproduce but I need to catch up too. Thanks.
In free to play games, significant money may be spent in user acquisition. The business model for many games is:

effective cost per new unique user <= life time value of the user

That gives you a profitability margin. Then, you need to acquire a lot of users, put them in the game and, move them from 1 to 3:

1. New user

2. Recurring user

3. Paying user

Additionally, if users invite other users, that lowers your effective cost per new user, increasing your profitability.

The process of getting paying users is very lossy, with only a small minority becoming paying users. That's why paying users have to pay so much.

For a while it was generally accepted that freemium games monetize more than premium games. But with the recent proliferation of games I am unaware if that is the case anymore.
In New York we have a public service union for virtually every public employee. Politicians buy the votes and political support of these unions (and their union members). This means that the average cop, transit worker, prison guard, and members of most other public service unions often make well over $100,000 a year salary (plus massive benefits) with many making upwards of $200,000 a year (with some making far more than that) plus full retirement after 20 years with a full pension for life. That means if you start working for the city or county at 21, you retire at 41, with a full pension and benefits for life (which needless to say, is a crushing financial cost).

As of 2014 over 100,000 MTA workers in New York City were making over $100,000 a year each, not counting benefits or pension costs.

https://www.empirecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MTA-...

Take the time to see how many pages of police offers you have to scroll through in Nassau County New York alone before you get to a page where they start making under $200,000 a year.

http://data.newsday.com/long-island/data/nassau/payroll-2015...

I'm all for paying people a living wage, but its not hard to understand how, when you are spending countless billions (that increase every year) on paying countless cops and other public service workers $200,000+ a year how there is no money left over for maintaining (or, god forbid, upgrading) equipment. It doesn't matter which corporate party you vote for - Democrats and Republicans are both corrupt to the core and falling over themselves to secure these service-union votes. As a result our infrastructure is going to continue to crumble and our debt will continue to rise until we reach a breaking point which won't be pretty.
De novo lipogenesis is inefficient, but that's not the point. It happens because carbs stimulate release of insulin, which puts the body in fat storage mode. Eating fat alongside carbs only makes things worse. If you eat the fats alone (and if you get enough sodium, too), you don't store them.

Take a look at these videos (or any other of that channel, I'm not affiliated but happens to explain a lot of things I've learned myself), or read the sources in the description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4Q9Iv7_Ao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dan8qtgQRi8
The heat density of off-chip interconnects are low, but that does not mean non-zero power consumption.
My Thinkpad Workstation disagrees.
You can all keep playing the updated base game, and they even allow you to pin a specific version if you don't like the updates.

And for multiplayer just 1 player (I think the host) has to have the DLCs, everyone else gets them for free.

And BTW, Cities: Skylines is distributed by Paradox :)
No, there should not, and in California there is not.

"You're a GPU specialist, you don't get to quit anymore"? Fuck that, it's insane.
It seems the app economy has really skewed our sense of value when it comes to mobile games. If we can get over the mental hurdle of $1 to $5 apps we might be able to dig ourselves out of this F2P hole.
There was an article recently about someone (perhaps EA) who was looking to implement a scheme to reward players for purchasing upgrades.

Right after purchasing a new gizmo, you (in PvP matches) would be matched against players who don't have that gizmo. So you get to enjoy yourself with the purchase for a while. After that, the matchmaking system would then send you against players who have some other more awesome gizmo which you don't have yet. So you get to lose more, and are they incentivized to but the new gizmo too.
One more with the niche of this forum, and one that doesn't take that much time (depending on your take on the task), is Paperclips http://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
The purpose is to un-convince people from using it. Way too often people have already made up their mind by the time they reach the docs, based purely on how popular the tool is, how flashy the front page is, or whatever bad advice they've received from someone who feels the need to justify their library of choice.
The graph says it also uses Occupational Employment Statistics data, which tracks the number of people in those industries.
The NY subway is also able to run 24/7 because of redundancies in routes, so they can perform maintenance without the subway stopping. London doesn't have this option.
eg. Votrax SC-01, and friends. See Doug McIlroy's paper "Synthetic English speech by rule", Bell Telephone Laboratories CSTR #14 (1974) (available from http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/pubs.html)
So, in order to preserve NN, it is the USA, and not sub Saharan Africa that really needs a project Loon (not run by google, ideally).
>not being willing to punish politicians for incompetence.

Punish them how? Here in America (and especially New York) we have a "two-party" system that works arm in arm to steal as much money as possible to line their own pockets. Voting for a different party doesn't mean getting a different policy - it simply means that patronage money is going into the pocket of different politically connected cronies.
There are contextual concerns though, I'm often told that western-standard insulation would be very expensive in japan: you'd need to dehumidify like mad to keep the entire thing from moulding and rotting.
That is not remotely a representative experience of today’s Tube.
Job Scheduling as a service
Is there any product that will allow us to schedule via an api , and then if the time is triggered then it should call the destination via webhook(with payload preferably )

Right now we are using quartz scheduler which has more configuration (Including Mysql Connection ) .

Cons are
1) Does not have an admin UI
2) No reporting or history of jobs

Thanks
Perhaps the litigious nature of US? Everything has to be over-planned, over-provisioned and triple checked with lawyers in case there is a kitten on the rail.
That plus softice.
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Ask HN: How “minimal” can a server go?
My question here is intentionally broad and imprecise to invite discussion.

I currently have a virtual host running email, web and a few other servers for my personal use. At the moment, I'm in the process of migrating to local hosting an a Rasberry Pi Zero.

This got me thinking, what is the absolute minimum hardware I could run things on? Could I easily solder together some PCB and run a file server on "bare metal"? How about SMTP?

There are many interpretations of these questions, but I'd like to hear what kinds of "minimal" server hardware and software people are running for various meanings of "minimal".

The long term goal I have in mind is to build some server-like box of which I understand all the abstraction layers from the physics up.
Azure Logic Apps?
As for the "arms race" in IR, here's one specific example:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/10/12/swir-mawl-clad...
Why do you think this is a likely outcome? Considering that nothing of the sort has happened with airlines or network tv.
There is a fundamental disconnect here in the analysis and attribution of malice and disregard for social duty. Building a product and company is a messy affair. You have to earn your way into having a perspective and responsibility to society. Engagement and virality and advertising revenue built off digital addiction may have a dark side but you have to build the business before the self reflection. This is the reality of capitalism: make enough money that you can afford the luxury of guilt.
Which countries have good offerings in eyecare?
Unfortunately, most scientific and scholarly literature is among the most expensive pieces of literature.
Ask HN: Job Scheduling as a service
Is there any product that will allow us to schedule via an api , and then if the time is triggered then it should call the destination via webhook(with payload preferably )
Right now we are using quartz scheduler which has more configuration (Including Mysql Connection ) .

Cons are 1) Does not have an admin UI 2) No reporting or history of jobs

Thanks
Because in the mid 60' the immigration laws changed and the leftist thinking took over, the whole protestant hard working American ethos was erased within couple of decades and now America is just another miserable hodgepodge of tribes who can't unite even to decide about transgender toilets let alone have the vision and capacity to run huge infrastructure projects.
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There is a bit of a difference, though: if your shell has line-editing facilities (readline, libedit, and the like), they're available within the heredoc, but almost certainly not available on cat's stdin.

I suppose it's possible to have a version of cat that offers line-editing, but I'm not aware of one (nor do I think it's a particularly good idea to make one, "unix philosophy" and all that). Slap it into an rlwrap, maybe ;)
This was really interesting and I feel like I learned a bit more about how to deal with unreasonable people on the internet (and maybe recognize if I'm being unreasonable myself?)

> ...even if there is a slim chance beliefs on the margin may eventually gain wide consensus (as happened with the proposals of the round Earth in Archaic Periods and continental drift before the mechanism of plate tectonics...)

After reading this line, I'm curious how this article would read with an example that was once a fringe theory that ultimately did gain widespread consensus.