skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created https://bitbank.nz providing live crypto forecasts.

I havn't reached that amount but in terms of income...
You don't need to build a 10M+ business, just one with a 80k a year income rate, which is fairly achievable.

I only just launched it, i have negligible traffic and we are already getting about 1 customer every week, each customer pays .03 Bitcoin for 3 months ~300 usd perhaps the lifetime value may be 1000 usd if they continue, i'm sure there will be some churn but its fairly achievable that in a few years we will have atleast 80 paying customers.

I'm currently reinvesting the money that comes in into marketing/improving the business and into trading the cryptocurrency markets with the product to validate that its got value for our customers, its not too hard to double your money every few weeks using a high leverage trading platform like bitmex, or something like poloniex if you pick the right coins with our forecasts :)

I built the product in between my day job at Weta Digital.

You can do the same!

Also checkout our referral program where you can earn .003btc every paying user :)

The Sooner you get your business/secondary income stream off the ground the sooner you'll hit your financial freedom goals, with running a business you build trust/authority and traffic over time through many sources and the sooner you start the easier it will be, i started bitbank.nz as just a ghost blog about cryptocurrency trading about a year ago to get something out and eventually snowballed into doing things in a more advanced way, now the company is benefiting from the odd blog post i writ a year ago,

Keep doing things that don't scale and hitting 80k year on year is very reasonable, you don't need to have hockey stick growth or be unicorn level, you should be happy to run a business that would never get funded because your aiming for 80k and not the moon.
I guess it is AWS day at HN today... Soon we will need a new sections just for AWS
Different people also I different expectations of senior. I know people a year or two out of bootcamp that have senior engineer titles. Likewise I recently interviewed with Riot games and was told I wasn't a senior engineer and was a good mid level candidate with 10 years game industry experience, and with my title being senior software engineer at time.

Granted the responsibilities of this role sounded more like lead or principal engineer role, but its a good example of senior meaning wildly different things at different companies.
Yeah the salary listed on the Labor Condition Application is a minimum the company must meet or exceed. When I was on H1-B it was lower than my actual salary.
The only free thing I found to sort of work is gcov. It's integrated in gcc. Many projects compile on both gcc and msvc.

Compile the unit tests with the coverage flags. Run the exe. Collect the coverage file.
I think it depends on the timing and scope of the crash. Given the current level of doubt, it's still a highly speculative asset that bears significant risk. History suggests a crash would spark a "flight to quality" in which people would likely dump bitcoin in favor of low-risk assets.
> it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra

So uh... where are all those people who lost their mind about Windows 10 forcing updates?

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/042/619/4ea...
Mastodon has Embrace/Extended the GNU Social protocol, walling-off large parts of the federated network in an act of mass-censorship.

Be wary of jumping out of the frying pan and into another frying pan.
It's frustrating how hit or miss their service availability is in each region. I can understand other countries with different laws and regulations but they can't even get some services multi-region in the US.
> What exactly does a graph database actually do if it doesn't manage the data fed to it?

It provides tools to run complex queries on graphs, and manages data models and indices to execute them fast.
Why would they? Traffic signs and sensors should be all you need to navigate in traffic. If it takes some service to keep you safe then suddenly traffic is as safe as that service is reliable.

And lots of this stuff is reactive or generated on the spot and the city will have no knowledge of it.
if you are in a FAANG level company add another ~$100k for total comp (bonus, RSUs, ect). housing maybe high on the west coast; but not that high.
Images I post to social media are already on my phone, so I just use that. However I think most mobile apps allow you to 'share' photos with a phone number via SMS.
We're not talking about sugar coated donuts are we?

We're talking about a supposedly innocuous looking water that turns out it's sugar laden and a healthy looking breakfast cereal that again has huge amounts of added sugar.

While in the us/UK/etc. there is now widespread knowledge that coke and sweets are bad for you, the healthy looking alternatives also have tons of sugar added, deliberately, with manipulative packaging. But in poorer countries they're just using the old cheaper tactics, showing deliberate malice even though they know their product is generally damaging.

In my supermarket in the UK if you want to buy sugar free yoghurt you have to inspect the fine print. A large number have sugar as their second biggest ingredient. They're out to trick you all the time, with things that look like they have no sugar in them.

Not sure how your Obama beef is relevant.
Um, did nobody think to write ∞?
I would guess AMI + userdata to point to the master(s)
Obviously you’ve never played golf
By itself it isn't, but use the timestamps as part of an authenticated exchange, and you're fine.
> PowerPC days

But that was all a lie about the speed of Macs. It was absolutely smoke and mirrors. Intel CPU blew the doors off the Power PC. Case in point, Apple switched from Power PC to Intel and saw a huge speed increase. The "Cult of Mac" was 100% anti-Intel and people would tell me that the G5 Power PC was the fastest personal computer you could buy. All lies and dishonesty. Apple for years caused huge animosity of "Apple Fanboys" vs Intel.
I maintain auster[1] and am a contributor to cfer[2] for exactly that purpose. ;) CloudFormation really isn't a rough time anymore, IMO.

[1] - https://github.com/eropple/auster

[2] - https://github.com/seanedwards/cfer
Check the dictionary -- "login" is also used as a verb: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/login?s=t

With a usage note that some people dislike it:

> And yet, this gluing together of terms like login, logon, backup, and setup as verbs is common, especially in writing about computers. Not for everyone, however. Some well-known software companies, for example, carefully maintain the distinction in their programs and documentation.
But habits are difficult to change. Those who react to the one-word verb as an error will probably have to get used to it, and those who use the one-word verb will have to recognize that others will see it and wince.
I think it would be interesting if it were a meta news-source. Cover the connections between journalists and the world - who they vote for, who they are married to, whether they often have corrections on their stories, their blunders, their awards. What topics they cover, whether they are positive or negative toward certain ideas, who owns which news sources, etc.
I don't know of any specifically, sorry. But you can use elixir modules by just prefixing them with `Elixir.` in erlang. So to call the phoenix module in erlang you'd just do a regular function call to 'Elixir.Phoenix':xxx
Copy in the sense of the product features, not the product implementation. Joyent has long provided a "run your container as a service" which IMHO is the best way for a small/medium to run container services. The whole create VM's to run containers creates a lot of extra work. Plus this could be great for teams doing data analysis, just spin up 100 containers for 30 seconds type of workloads.

The OP is short on details anyways, does Fargate run on a tuned xen vm's or do they have linux servers under there (or maybe they're SmartOS ;) ).
Very nicely put, thank you!
Be wary of Mastodon. While they were a good idea in the begining, their embrace/extend of GNU Social's protocol, as well as the walling-off of a large chunk of the federated network, is blatant censorship.
> coinbase can loan out money, but have it be transparent and somewhat enforceable via smart contracts of some sort.

That is quite weird concept for me. How can I, as a borrower, use borrowed money in any meaningful way if that money is destined to go back to the lender? Why would anyone accept that as payment? To me, either you have credit (as in trust with risk that someone does not pay back) in the system, or you do not. If you do, you can count on financial engineers to build fractional reserve banking. And maybe it is just lack of my imagination, but I have difficulties seeing a modern society without credit.
You can use a test node called testrpc (now called ganache-cli ???) and connect to that.
Bitcoin could reach $40,000 by the end of 2018, hedge fund legend Novogratz says
Well, for one, spoofing is absolutely probably the most common bot trading strategy in use on any crypto exchange. You really can't trust the order book too much except for major support/resistance levels, because everybody's spoofing. Just an example.
Nasa to launch rover to Mars in attempt to find alien life
Honestly, I'd be surprised if any employees, C-level or not, get preferred stock. Unless you're putting skin in the game, you're probably stuck with common stock.
Most web apps are IO bound, not CPU bound, and a throttled T2 has IO to spare versus its CPU usage.
RISC won fully. Intel decodes its CISC into an internal RISC (micro-ops) in the hardware. And despite years and years of optimizations, they can't reduce their power requirements to ARM levels.
Usually hidden cameras are installed in hotels not by owners, but by staff.
"possible actions include calling technical support"

made me chuckle
I see one 2-3 times a week as I commute by bike up/down Bayshore Blvd.
I've been playing around with graph databases for a while (I am writing one that turns Postgres into one of my own for kicks[1], [2]) and one of the things that became obvious after using the project in production was that it promotes functional reactive programming in a way that most other database paradigms don't.

Even propagation and node invalidation are awesome for rapid what-if style experimentation, and I am so psyched to see more and more attention being paid to graph computing in general.

[1] https://www.github.com/kchoudhu/openarc
[2] https://www.anserinae.net/whats-cooking-openarc-edition.html...
What I'm using

site:snap.com
site:support.apple.com
site:aws.amazon.com
instagram
site:www.vox.com
site:theatlantic.com
site:sciencemag.org
site:digiday.com
site:theverge.com
site:nytimes.com
site:techcrunch.com
site:bbc.com
site:bloomberg.com
site:zdnet.com
site:www.theguardian.com
site:nature.com
site:www.washingtonpost.com
site:bbc.co.uk
site:qz.com
site:www.economist.com
site:reuters.com
site:newyorker.com
is hiring housing
market
bitcoin
(IOT.*security)|(security.*IOT)
apple
iphone
My compensation is roughly 40% of the lower end of any of these charts, and that's considered "not bad" in my area.

This makes me think: how valuable our work is really? Do I have a job only because I'm an inexpensive alternative to the devs from the US and western Europe?
I used the per-hour pricing in my numbers because I assumed the per-second was wrong, yeah.
FUD is the correct call, sometimes.

http://clutchofthedeadhand.com/fud/
I wish I could edit the hosts file of Android devices without root. Barring that, I wish I could force a DNS server for both wi-fi and mobile data links, which I believe also requires root.

Either one of these options would allow the use of DNS blackholing for adware/malware domains. Without it, protecting yourself on mobile is that much more difficult.
I realise that this is a facile topic for engendering scandal amongst our geek demographic (and rightly so), but given the gravity of the underlying issue it’s actually entirely reasonable and indeed preferable to the alternative scenario of N hundred million insouciant users lagging behind with a gaping security hole.
Well, I was half-joking :-) and I did expect that few people would know about C-\ for SIGQUIT. Myself, I find it very useful for programs written by people who think it's a good idea to capture SIGINT (it's not), because same people (and I will refrain from using adjectives) forget about SIGQUIT most of the time. Which means I can quickly kill a misbehaving program without typing something in a separate shell.
Awesome share!
It's true that we already deal with annoying vehicular noise, but that's hardly an argument in favor of repeating the same mistakes.

I'm not convinced it would be anything like a net gain. I'm not a fan of car noise, but a delivery truck carrying hundreds of packages makes less noise than a drone too small to even carry one of them.

Hopefully it's possible to make these things much quieter....
Bitcoin crosses $10000
AWS re:INVENT is on this week. Lots of announcements.
Is he working for a company with comparable revenue and reliance on software as Facebook? If not then it's like comparing the salary of a newly minted cardologist with her pediatrician father.
Unfortunately I didn't write my own code for that, I just used a pre-existing fingerprinting API.
No worms would live on Mars - worms consume the organic material (animal and plant) in the soil, not the minerals. since there is nothing on Mars living (including bacteria), then worm would not survive.
Ask HN: How do you start your morning?
It'd be interesting to know HNers' morning routines, both in terms of exercise and also reading, listening to a podcast, or whatever else.

How do you start your day, and why?
> shame on you, good thing you aren't doing it either way ;)

srt's in the container, not hard-overlaid into the video ;-) We've got asshole neighbors. They'll purposefully rev their Ferrari to wake my kid up if they hear the TV (e.g. sound is up enough to easily understand a whispered conversation, then there's a bass-heavy explosion). Then there's the less-common use-case of watching a movie on a plane without blasting the audio.

> you seem to imply by analogy to homerecording, torrenting stuff you once payed for (or didn't directly as with yt) might be ok, but sure enough, taperecordings were campaigned against, too.

Tape recordings don't involve automatic sharing of the data with other people in the swarm as an implementation detail. I did a fair amount of downloading 8-15 years ago, but mostly dropped it when I started working.
Something I would have liked to see - but perhaps this letter wasn't the right place.

Let's talk about how the ubiquitous use of SSN and credit reports puts a massively unfair burden on every US citizen.

Right now, it's all on me. I need to safeguard everything related to my government-issued nine digit ID that I never asked for - yet is somehow accepted as my financial identity, well beyond its intended scope.

If I fail to do so, or if I fail to aggressively identify fraudulent use of it by monitoring reports from 3-4 different agencies, it's on me. It's my credit that's screwed.

It's hard to emphasize enough how unreasonable that is. This isn't a house or other peace of real property that's in my control - it's 4 bytes of data that is assigned to me, but that I fundamentally have no control over.

In spite of that, I am accountable for any and all uses of that data. It's hours of my life each time a breach occurs - more if it's actually misused. The assumption of 'bad credit risk unless and until you convince the reporting agencies that fraud has happened' is a fundamentally flawed one.

I can't opt out. I can only keep spending my time and money to play the game - because it's the only one in town.
AI Safety: problem of accidents in machine learning systems
I recently went through the Triplebyte process and can confirm. I went SDE2@MS -> SDE2@AMZN, but my Triplebyte offers (and others outside of the big 5) were for Senior roles.
I just bought some - I’m considering snap another case of what Facebook went through. Very well informed about their user, lots of talent working for them, tons of users. However, I think their success will need to come from tailored paid content (also read, they need to collect more data on their users).

Note: this is not investment advice.
given that the biggest software companies of the last 20 years have mostly been in the Bay Area, maybe there's a flaw in your assumption that there are "more experienced people pretty much anywhere."
Given that you don't seem to see this sort of rhetorical pattern throughout, you just find fault with one specific sentence

No, when I said I would "focus on a specific example", I didn't mean to imply this was the only example. I was hoping to focus on just one at a time for clarity. It's a relatively short list, but there are others, mostly in the same section "DRM has nothing to do with copyright".

The next down the list for bothering me would be "It's not a copyright infringement to record a Netflix movie to watch later." While another fine example of something that arguably should not be copyright infringement, legally this is uncharted territory. There's a great summary of the issue here: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/legal-playlater-record-netflix,....

I think the implied part of the sentence you're tearing apart is: "it's obviously not copyright infringement (in terms of what that actually means as both a general and legal concept and yet our screwed up legal system has allowed people to make a legal argument to that effect!)"

Yes, I think that's a fair summary. It's certainly easier to make the argument "DRM has nothing to copyright" if you are able to start with the premise that "Copyright infringement has nothing to do with copyright". But I'd rather see that premise made explicit, since concealing it leaves me worried about what other legally dubious but rhetorically useful premises are hidden elsewhere.

(Thanks for your patience in discussing this. I'll drop out now.)
Your utopia sounds wonderful. However, that's not how bureaucracy and public safety work.
It really does seem like something an elite private club would do to get a laugh out of fooling the proles while smoking a cigar and browsing the pictures.
That would explain it!
1) if they have competitors, they can't do much "passing along to consumers" to begin with, and 2) I thought insurance companies were supposed to be really good at assessing risk, and markets are magically efficient and all that, so shouldn't the better insurers unravel such schemes? Plus it's not like losing, you know, brand recognition and such is nothing. Point is it should hurt a lot to leak personal data, and it's this or directly regulate (this sort of thing used to be the right-wing way of doing things, but now doing anything at all about these problems, no matter the mechanism, is "left", at least in the US—see also health care)
COL multipliers for San Francisco are about 1.8x...
Care to share more details of how it works? Thanks!
Does anyone know an easy way to derive a Cost/$ of profit for various tech companies based upon reasonable estimates of how many engineers of whatever salary they've got? Obviously it would be a rough estimate, but it would be interesting to see, if only within an order of magnitude, just how terribly the cost center of software engineering is destroying their earnings.
I have a amazing idea. Why not let the companies be liable for their own data breaches. Wow, what an amazing idea! /s
How on earth is using the wonkiest possible representation a better solution when you need precise results? In this case, even integer overflow would be a better failure mode than being a few cents off - because it would get noticed pretty quickly in comparison.

Hell, floating point isn't even a good way of doing imprecise arithmetic on larger numbers. What you would actually want is log arithmetic, but that's not what the hardware implements (even though it's simpler). It gives you roughly the same overall precision over each range but stops it from suddenly being cut in half as the exponent changes.
For what it's worth, a big company in NYC that we work with definitely pays contractors with lots of experience (10+ years) $1000 a day. That's closing in on a quarter of a million dollars a year and you probably won't even have to invert a binary tree whilst juggling martinis in your interview.
> Since companies owe a fiduciary duty to their investors this should not at all be surprising.

When is the myth that a company's fiduciary duty to its shareholders includes funnelling all profits back to them going to die?
Wikis are everywhere. What the fuck are you on about?
It probably has something to do with this ruling:

http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/judge-rules-that-dishs-slin...

It sounds like Dish and Fox did end up settling out of court (with Dish adding some commercial-skipping limits for Fox-owned content), but apparently that was done more in response to claims of copyright infringement for Dish/Sling features that allowed content to be viewed in unauthorized locations (not the commercial skipping itself).

That said, I don't know if there's a major distinction between what Dish was/is doing with recorded content and what Plex is doing.
Nvidia joins Udacity nanodegree program with tx2 to shape robotics education
How closely can it correlate audio broadcasts of the same audio that were captured at different offsets?

e.g. two independent streams, identifying the same 30-second commercial, but the audio streams are offset from each other by half a sample length?
Look at it from my point of view - I am an attractive male, tall, handsome face , muscular, do photography and compose music, have that creative spark, now run my own company, yet my religious upbringing tells me I can't fornicate freely like the zeitgeist suggests, and can't tell you how many times even married women were hitting on me, willing to dump their husbands immediately - "it's just marriage". Whenever I turn any of them down, I need to have my back extremely well covered as they don't take rejection lightly. I am wondering when in the future some of them accuses me of "abusing" her because she couldn't have me (Potiphar's wife-style). Heck, I even had a female boss once that was luring me to her hotel room. This is what I call "politics de jour", being always aware of actors and nasty games they play to get into power regardless of justice and react on it real-time.
Paraphrasing the same thing would not be ok either. People are here for conversation, not repetition.
Buzzfeed Laying Off 100 Employees in US, Reports IPO Delay, Revenue Shortfall
Not in all the really old photos I've seen. Lots of stern serious looks there. Smiles came later.
This is a trend that will only accelerate in the future. We've finally reaching the point where the rate of change is impacting people's careers. The half-life of useful knowledge keeps shrinking, and there is no end in sight.
This is very cool, almost magic... but I have no idea if I will ever integrate it into my automated testing work. I guess only one way to find out.
I hope some good comes from this testimony. I help run a product that works with a tremendous amount of data. I welcome additional accountability as well as the security that would come from knowing that any regulatory requirements are properly met.

On a second note, will this be the historic first time anyone says the word "Pwned" before congress?
What is the sample size? I would be in interested in hearing about this dataset.
Apple Notes - fine with plaintext, would handle a stylus, 0 markdown support.
Microsoft and Google both have something similar. The problem is that it's IMO really not good enough for most purposes. One of these days I'll give it another try but, unless I'm just looking for a very rough cut of a talk or whatever, I would need to spend way too much time to cleanup.