skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some professional educations confer nigh-automatic professional class (Fussell's "upper middle") status, and tend to include socialization into that class as part of the package. Doctors, lawyers, certain fields in business. They may be rich, they may not, but every parent says "oh, your new SO's a lawyer! Better hang on to that one, kid!"

Programmers, engineers, and the like don't get that automatically, without more context—money, notable employer and notable position at that employer, and even then maybe not quite placed at the same social rank as a doctor/lawyer without even more context, e.g. school, other non-tech accomplishments (languages and arts especially), and so on. Going to any Ivy, top public, or famous European (especially British) school gets you closer (see the part above in paragraph one about socialization into the upper-middle).

[EDIT] I should add that you also don't gain Academic cred that puts you on a kind of adjacent track on the whole class system, with full professorships granting similar social standing to doctors/lawyers and the like. Unless you are in academia, and don't bail on it for private industry too early.
Crypto-Spatial Coordinates – the open location standard on Ethereum
I used FROM scratch to build a docker container for AppFS, which just has 2 files: init, and appfsd

http://appfs.rkeene.org/web/artifact/42acc0ed9e8f4327

init comes from: http://appfs.rkeene.org/web/artifact/ecb8eda1cfb32ecc

And just sets up some symlinks and starts appfsd, followed by running bash (which is cached and run transparently).
I'd guess from the fact that he's using two 55" displays he's sitting a good distance away from them.

Distance from the display is as important as DPI when discussing pixel clarity.
I am agreeing with you :-)
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lockdown&utm...
> There's certainly a psychological benefit (for some people) to have the mortgage paid off; it's one less bill to keep track of, but of course, over a long period of time such as a 30 year mortgage, it's quite possible that it'd appreciate more than your home (plus mortgage interest) will.

This is such a great point. I’ve been switching off between student loan payments, investing in index funds, and investing in individual stocks I’m interested in.

Objectively, an algorithm would tell me to invest in index funds only because they are considered to have the best risk vs return ratio - my student loans have a low interest rate (3-4%) and individual stocks are hugely variable for an uninformed investor. You could imagine adding a couple more things into this mix such as gold, crytocoins, and property as well.

I have started to rationalize this behavior as implicitly “buying the ability to choose”. Choosing where and how to allocate my money is surprisingly empowering and there is a hidden value associated with that which may be worth more than the difference between the marginal gains. Does anyone else see themselves rationalizig similar behavior that may be economically irrational through this route? I wonder how this could be exploited in some sense by a financial device that gives that same sense, but instead captures some of the value left on the table normally.
How business bullshit took over
What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off?
Many of the people studying Stanford are the 1 % of people.
Sounds like the exports would be transportation related. Wonder if solar or nuclear would be more viable.
Don't take it to heart -- people are intimidated by finance. Engineers like a scope-defined problem set and finance doesn't work with them.

IMO, do the boglehead thing for 80-90% and play with 10-20%. If you spend some time on it and educate yourself, that play portfolio will often beat the Vanguard strategy. If you lose, you're not dead.
This song break world record today
With the going rate for blue collar skills going to shop class might have been a good idea too.
Exactly. If they're so guilty then doing everything perfect and by the book should be a walk in the park.
I always allowed laptops in my lectures. I encouraged the kids to google things and challenge me when they thought me wrong. If i was unsure of a fact id have them look it up. That back-and-forth kept them engaged, and made my life much easier. If your lecture isnt more interesting than facebook you have to up your game.
Beijing also. Officially it has 20 million people but less than 10 million are urban. Chinese cities are defined like little states.
This is a complete red herring. You should read the OP.

The poster said nothing about 'ending' war or a superpower instantly disrupting the balance of power.

The OP posited that wars can be prevented via internal power struggles between war-mongers and the rest. That is a notion one can certainly argue with, but saying "war is about limited resources", while true in an abstract sense, is not engaging with it in any meaningful way - it is simply non-responsive.
I tried the Samsung 40" 4K monitor route and the worst part about it (other than being a tad too large) is dealing with the "smart tv" software. Immensely annoying.
The problem with the AI Effect is that people keep expecting solving one toy problem or another to give us some insight into how to break Moravec's paradox for the general case. Statistical learning, especially deep learning, have been massive advances precisely because they at least allow us to break the paradox for specific problems, where we happen to have large datasets.
Many people opt for mobile data, this has been happening in many countries for a long time. When 3G data came, people started to switching to mobile data from physical connections. Many people seem to think that having physical networking infrastructure is great waste of resources.
This is also one of the reasons why some countries got mobile data average traffic over 15 gigabytes / month. That's because people watch Netflix and YouTube all day using mobile data.

Number of people who actually need high speed networking is quite low. Yet this naturally means, that the high speed option might not be available at all, with reasonable cost. 4G and 5G means that there will be less and less wired (copper or fiber) connections.
> My guess is that a browser based micropayment solution/ecosystem will emerge

I think so too, I think it's just a question of outlets realizing that the lost profits from cannibalizing their subscription sales does not compare to the income from allowing consumers to buy pieces of your publication.
This is only "obvious" in hindsight. To make those gains, you need to time things very well.

I do both. I put the majority of my funds into low fee ETFs. I keep another 20% for higher risk investments.
Is PHP cool anymore?
They changed it to 39 a few years ago. That is just a limit, not a target.
I am neither a professional financial analyst nor a writer, but I wanted to share what I've learned about financial management over the last 25 years with my 18 and 20 year old kids, so I wrote a series of posts called Hacker Finances. I take a lot of liberties with the Hacker notion, but all of the advice is painfully learned and hopefully the kids will read it and profit, or at least avoid major mistakes, when they are ready.

https://hackernoon.com/https-medium-com-davisjames-hacker-fi...
WTF !!He make song on 'Floor'
There might also be a connection to Weird Al's parody of that song, titled "I Think I'm A Clone Now" from 1988: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kw_d3d0XAo
I wonder why they announce it the week of AWS conference reinvent? Shouldn't they wait two days and do it during keynote?

Or they just run out of space during keynote?
How Alexa was trained for India, a multilingual country
To people who believe it's not a bubble. Please explain what wasn't priced in yesterday that warranted +17% today.
He shows a more complete version in another essay http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
I agree with the general direction of your argument, but wholeheartedly disagree that this doesn't constitute "planning", and find your de-emphasis of 'using the aircraft in a covert operation to attack the US', disconcerting.
The thing that's so odd to me here is that she's giving advice as someone currently in the situation she's advising on, in fact, just embarking on this path. This article might be totally different for her if she was a 25 yo dev who skipped school, or 30 yo, etc.

It's a well reasoned article, and I don't know how useful having a degree is for CS. It doesn't seem like she's in a position to have the self-awareness of her position, let alone to advise others on it.
Lockbox: a new Mozilla password manager
The DVD shops have been disappearing as more content is pirated online. Progress I guess.
Idk, I thought they were both pretty good. Especially since he sang on both of them.
Is it possible to use Parameter Store without configuring System Manager for the instances where it's used?

I recently looked into SSM but was put off because the docs[1] suggested that you add the managed AmazonEC2RoleforSSM policy to instances, which among other things give them full read/write access to all S3 buckets.
Edit: also discovered by others[2].

[1] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/...

[2] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2016-10-09-EC2s-most-dangero...
Cryptocurrency prices without the clutter
Let me make this as simple as possible.

The most important thing in personal finance is the delta between how much you net, and, how much you spend. Period. Increase the former, or decrease the latter. Preferably both. You will 'earn' far more in savings by the money YOU contributed than the amount paid to you in interest; unless you have much money over a long enough period of time, and you likely won't.
Everyone I know who got a job out of college in SV/SF got at least a 100k total comp package (usually more). Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and all of the bigger companies offer ~150k total comp or more to new grads. That said, some start-ups definitely do pay less, but it's not so bad that you can't at least get a room mate.
Send a message through a safe, private, and encrypted link
> Look out for your future self. Plan for her arrival; she's coming sooner than you think. When I was your age, I was chugging doen Cokes and pulling all-nighters learning how to write X11 programs from the man pages. I can't keep up that lifestyle anymore. I need sleep and balance in my life otherwise I get cranky.

Did you read the post? She's discussing stretching, yoga, meditation because of their benefits for someone learning to code.
To be honest, at this point CAPTCHAs don’t have benefits. If they’re the traditional sort then computers are better than people at them now, if they’re the select-from-a-grid type then you’re forced to help train Google’s AI, and either way they’re a massive accessibility hindrance (we blocked their use on GOV.UK[1]). Better to just care about your users and put a little bit of effort into spam classification.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-captchas
Oh how I wish the 16:10 aspect ratio hadn't been abandoned. Every time I get an urge to upgrade my home monitor, I remember it's 1920x1200 and I'll never find another like it.

Last time I bought a laptop, all the reasonably priced ones had 1366x768 displays. I hate it! The pixels are very visible. Finally picked up a 14" 1920x1080 Chromebook for web use and I couldn't be happier, it's so much nicer looking.
A basic income could boost the US economy by $2.5 trillion
... and tiling WMs make multiple monitor setups more usable as well. Xmonad is probably the best as it allows any virtual workspace to end up on any monitor more or less instantaneously. You can effortlessly juggle a whole whack of virtual workspaces to three monitors. You quickly end up with any possible combination of things you could possibly want in a virtual workspace and you don't have to touch the windows themselves. You can do everything by flipping between the workspaces with everything exactly as you want it and no pointlessly wasted screen space for stuff like window decorations.

It has gotten to the point where I feel I am watching something quaint and retro when I watch someone manually moving windows around on a screen.
The milk product placement was funny. The doctor/nurse scene was just so weird and out of place.
I have such terrible attention problems that I have secretly recorded just about every class, meeting, and discussion in the last ten years. Legalities and ethics aside, afterward I'll listen and make detailed notes, then depending on the content, destroy or keep the audio. The legalities and ethics will always trouble me but without the audio I get very lost. The medium has never made a difference, nor the delivery method.
I'm of the same opinion. I realized in college that I can write or think about the material being presented, but I can't do them simultaneously. So, I stopped taking notes and relied much more on memory and text books. I'm still that way in the work world.

My major was math. It would have been significantly better for my learning if we spent class time solving problems rather than watching the professor write out a proof, which was often enough already in the text. Active learning is really critical for me.
I don't remember needing to take notes for any lecture I've been in.

Either the lecture was designed to take "notes", i.e. the prof would literally explain and write a nice recap on the board that he wanted us to copy.

Or we got prints of the slides, where we could just add a few comments were needed.

Or we just got a printed "textbook" that the prof wrote, and the lecture was just to get an overview and see which parts are important...
Same here. I'm the only person at my company working off a single (27" 4k) display. I'm using Windows 10 so I can switch desktops with ctrl-win-left/right arrow. It's pretty much the first time I've been truly happy with my setup.
Interview with a developer sailing nomad, who created a social network on DAT
I thought Hangzhou was pretty cool. I had heard of it before going because it is famous for its tea. There is a lovely lake and mountain trails for hiking. Cool monastery and other holy places. I took a bike ride out into the tea fields and went to a tea museum too. It's a very popular destination for Chinese tourists, it has a lot of historic significance.
So the only analogue I know of for a device that was designed for that kind of task, and used a display with those kinds of limitations, was word processing appliances like the Xerox Memorywriter.

And I also know that nobody actually liked working on those things; they just put up with them because because, at the time, an actual computer set up to do the same task could easily cost something upward of US$5,000 in today's dollars.
It's harder for folks to make impulse purchases if they have to take time to locate their credit card and enter the digits every time. This behavior you have observed is by design.
They're using linear extrapolation. and it's clearly an exponential curve after the fact. the problem is when does it hit saturation and flatten out like an s curve.
Come hack on Atlassian on Bugcrowd
How're you doing today? Do you want anyone to talk to?
Pretty much. I think people really want a silver bullet. Spend as little money as you're comfortable with. Invest the rest in an index fund. Wait. That's pretty much it.

EDIT: I also should add that the "spend as little money" part does not mean you should necessarily become homeless, or that you shouldn't experiment with things that might help you that cost money.
Bitcoin Price: A Rally of a Cosmic Speed
Would you use an alternative to facebook if...?

* It was free of advertisements

* Posts were fully encrypted so even facebook couldn't see read them

Meaning:

* There's no public posting

* They can't data mine

* They can't sell your data

* You could create different user groups to post to

* Everyone in a group had their own server side and/or local
copy of all posts to that group

* You could unfriend or ignore users

* You could create filters by users or groups and keep them off your main "timeline" (also complex filters based on attributes like title, content, photos)

* You could delete your copy of posts but not other people's copy

* You could easily download all the data including posts and pictures any time you want

* You could easily set up internal or private "facebooks" on your own servers

* If you forget your password, there's no recovering anything.

* You don't need a separate app for private messaging
Meanwhile most users are using a mobile device ...
How to achieve your goals, starting today
Not in print though, and the linked article is from the UK version, so statements about the status-quo in the UK edition are still relevant.
A moderator changed it to “Time Inc. Sells Itself to Meredith Corp, owner of Family Circle and AllRecipes” for that reason (after there were plenty of such tangential comments as evidence), but we've changed it back.
This is a middle class (no offense intended) view of wealth. You wont retire early or get rich from cutting down on 5$ lattes. Investments do accrue over time, but the idea that one should strive to save every dollar will not really help you in the long run. That extra 25k a year does almost nothing for you in the scope of your life.

To expand further, what is that saved money really getting you? Over the course of a decade, lets say you have an extra 200k in your pocket, then what? You have the comfort of knowing you can lose your job, but beyond that, what do you get? You will still retire at the same age, you are still locked in the daily drudges of going to work.
Uh, OP is not the dev, I am.

Just created this acc, didn't expect to see my stuff outside reddit and the Foundation forums.

I'm excited about making this game, and I'm pretty overwhelmed how popular it already is, even though it's barely got any gameplay yet.

I really like using Patreon and just the community to develop it, I want to keep everything free but spend some money on assets and MP servers.

(Oh, in case it wasn't obvious, yes, the final game will be multiplayer).

Anyway, ask me anything about the game. And feel free to join my Discord (http://discord.me/nmkd), especially if you want to help out :)
Can you point me to comprehensive and conclusive discourse on each of these; or even just:

> 20) If the cryptography gets broken the whole thing goes to zero

I bring it up often here and each time I am met with a similar argument that you are making, but loudly ignoring is different from discussing

It's like going to a doctor and each time saying 'ugh, the tired old cancer conversation..can we just talk about something new?!' until the cancer just kills you
>objections of the municipal IT staff

Where? I'd read that.
Transmission(TX): a Flux alternative
Elastic Transcoder could not handle 4K video, and only worked with static files stored in S3 - it wasn't designed for streaming content.

AWS purchased Elemental in 2015. There is some overlap but Elemental Media* services are more flexible and provide JIT encoding and dynamic ad insertion, to serve a broader market than ET did.

Disclaimer: AWS employee.
I didn't make a blanket statement, that's why I said "In my experience." Even if just 10% of universities are like that nowadays, that would dilute the value of a degree pretty considerably.
>>>1. US foreign policy over the last decades has been disastrous -- trillions of dollars and thousands of lives expended on middle eastern wars, culminating in utter defeat.

Lost me in the first paragraph. It hasn't been "thousands" but tens or hundreds of thousands dead. Thousands may be how many american military lives have been lost but that is certainly nowhere near the actual cost of any war. Such little assumptions belittle the value of non-american lives. If you want to muse about the decline of american exceptionalism, a good start might be to avoid repeating its mistakes in your own writing.

And there is more:

>>>Wars involving primitive religious fanatics in unimportant regions of the world should not distract us...

Um... "primitive religious fanatics" don't exist in only the "unimportant regions of the world". That is unless the author meant to include Europe, SE Asia, Africa and the US as unimportant. (I'd include south america but cannot recall any off the top of my head).
Is there a limit to the number of times one can state the same opinion on HN?
Works for me with instances having AmazonSSMReadOnlyAccess.
> I was taught budgeting and basic finances in both middle and high school (I went to public school in NJ) and whatever I learned evaporated immediately because I had next to no use for it at the time.

Absolutely. This is why, as a parent, I'm going to teach my kids about money early, letting them make consequential mistakes as early as possible, probably starting around 2nd or 3rd grade. We'll fund the roof over their heads, the food in the fridge, very basic clothes (shoes, socks and underwear, basic shirts and pants, basic outerwear) but anything else they'll have to spend their own money on. They'll get a fixed allowance plus they'll get extra money for doing things around the house. Initially this will be in "the bank of mom and dad" with a super high interest rate (like 5-10% per month) which will hopefully help make the concept of compounding interest stick earlier. Over time we'll transition to joint bank accounts with separate debit cards.
The 90s clones were officially approved and licensed by Apple. You might be thinking of the 80s Apple II clones, such as the Laser series, which were not approved by Apple. The more legally sound ones reverse-engineered the Apple II, much like Compaq did with the IBM PC. Apple tried to fight them legally, but failed.

The Mac largely avoided this by having massively more complex ROMs (huge chunks of the OS, including the GUI, were implemented in ROM) which was impractical to reverse engineer. Apparently one company tried and had some limited success: https://everymac.com/systems/nutek/index.html

In the mid-90s, Apple was in serious trouble and they saw official clones as a way to expand market share and revenue. They licensed the OS and ROMs to a bunch of different companies. The result was a wide range of non-Apple Mac-compatible computers with official OS support from Apple.

Unfortunately, the idea of expanding Apple's reach through clones never really materialized. Instead, the clones cannibalized Apple's Mac business. After the return of Steve Jobs, he killed the whole program and the clones disappeared. The whole thing only lasted about two years.

I remember the DayStar Genesis MP was the dream system of that time. The highest end model, the MP 932+, had four PowerPC 604e CPUs running at 225MHz. It could hold up to 1.5GB of RAM, although buying that much RAM would, I'm sure, have cost more than the GDP of a medium-sized country at the time. The computer itself cost $6,500 in 1997. Some of the earlier DayStar systems cost up to $12,000.

I owned a PowerCenter Pro 180, from Power Computing, which was probably the most active and interesting clone maker of the era. It was a great machine for a great price and continued to be well supported by Apple OS updates well after the demise of Power Computing. My first Linux experience was on that computer, first with MkLinux (which was a wacky hybrid made by Apple, running the Linux kernel on top of mach) and later LinuxPPC (basically Red Hat for the Mac). It became definitively obsolete when Mac OS X came out, because OS X wouldn't run on it. This was just part of the march of technology, though, as OS X didn't run on official Apple Macs of that vintage either.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7709556.
You can’t trust the supply chain in china. Even if you do everything right, someone will create a fake product using your brand if you are successful. Supermarkets will then use the fake product because it is cheaper, and consumers get screwed.

For babies, bad milk powder can be horrible, many parents won’t take the risk and will prefer what they can get via a verified supply chain, the only choice they have right now is buying abroad.