skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not. It is just a deal worse than average, not necessarily when it's possible to get a better deal (it's not that the early employees in startups are all rock stars, many just can't get a job in a better place).

Putting skin in the game is:

* paying from your own wallet when there's a cash shortage

* being mentally prepared to have guns pointed at you and your personal assets for violating an obscure regulation No. 389343A, or just attacked by employees, investors, partners for whatever reason they can come up with

* being a face of a commercial entity and putting your reputation at stake. Most people on this planet don't see a difference between a billion dollar corporation and a penniless startup, and assume all companies are powerful and have unlimited funds. Hence, their key people are to be hated and mistrusted.

* and, last but not least, being prepared to be woken up at any given minute to fix an issue of any nature
Physically settled allows the future to better match the price of the underlying since you can take or give delivery in it.
Please don’t use codeblocks for quotes. Can’t read them on mobile.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried swoole PHP in prod? Does it really beat Node.js?
I came across this link recently: https://gist.github.com/nkt/e49289321c744155484c . Towards the end someone posted a benchmark suggesting that swoole PHP (an async PHP framework) outperformed node.js significantly. I've personally never heard of swoole before, but I was intrigued. I was wondering if anyone has tried it and found it to be as performant as the link claimed?
And that is a new thing this year? You weren’t able to do this last year?
I've been wrong about the use cases of half a dozen things I've created. Satoshi was a programmer, not a pope. I doubt that people using the word "deflation" in this context understand what deflation is. Deflation in currency follows from the economy going bad, not the other way around. This is why we don't call gold and real estate appreciation "deflation".
A ton of ARM boards like this already exist. You can bring up most Allwinner chips with 100% open source code. The bootmask from for many have been dumped and disassembled even.

The trouble is they all suck in some slightly different way. Maybe only 1gb ram, maybe a bottleneck bus in front of your net or storage io. Graphics are the big pain point right now. Etnaviv/vivante is your only choice for free accelerated graphics, and you'll only find it in a few chips. Mali and PowerVR are all around, but have absurdly difficult to work with closed source drivers.

The nicest oss-all-the-way-down arm socs are i.MX6, which is expensive and frankly old/slow.

To be clear: riscv doesn't solve any of these concerns. That doesn't mean it isn't an amazing project.
Pilots have almost no leverage and the pilots association screwed up years ago. Because so many of them were the same age, the pilots voted long ago to screw over the younger pilots.

It’s pretty easy to replace pilots. Entry level pilots make less than a fast food manager.
> No need to get all conspiratorial

How I wish large scale surveillance was conspiratorial. Do you really believe in what you say or is it only habit?
> But where does the union come from?

Of all union members in the country, only 7% actually have ever cast a vote in favor of the union that represents them.

The vast majority never have the opportunity to vote one way or the other, because once a union is formed, it is legally granted authority in perpetuity. They only lose that right if a majority for decertification or deauthorization, but for a number of legal reasons, it's almost impossible for those elections to even be held, even in cases when the majority of workers oppose union representation.

So, to answer your question, "But where does the union come from?" - most likely, from the people who happened to work there years ago, when 50% (plus one) voted in favor of it. It may or may not actually represent the wishes of the current workforce, were an election to be held today.
It would be interesting to see how fast the startup time of the docker containers will be. If its for faster than EC2, this could be used for some super elastic job processing. Somewhere between EC2 and lambda. I doubt the startup time would be faster, since the docker image download would hit the startup timing.

If the startup time is fast, and it can run of GPU, a killer Deep learning platform could run on this.
12 weeks out of the year is a pretty huge time, so it's likely you were present during those times. If you were in more touristy areas I think there are huge exceptions there (especially in Paris).

You can totally do things like BOGO if you're selling things way above cost, or if you're not a reseller but the actual manufacturer of the good.

An example of this is take out pizza, which usually offers BOGO if you don't opt for delivery.

The Sales rule is usually about when you are just being a market maker and not part of the production process itself. Similar rules exist for things like book sellers (you can not discount the price of a new book by more than 5% of the MSRP).
this could also be understood as the inherent shortcomings of photography as a medium to capture your recollection of the experience of an event.

or in another way, photography exposes the difficulty of translating your recollection to a third party. when I show you a grainy photo of some bright lights and blurred, sweaty people, I remember a great concert with friends.. but you just see the grainy photo.

though I agree with what you are saying, I think this is just the mass adoption of the imagification (both actual and meta) of life that began with portraiture back in the middle ages. why rail against snapchat when we already live in a world of fake family portraits?
>Amazon FreeRTOS ... and extends it with software libraries that make it easy to securely connect your small, low-power devices to AWS cloud services

why do IoT devices have to connect to the cloud? Is there any legitimate use case other than reporting data gathered on the customer? Why do have all these gadgets have to snoop on us?
I have a feeling you would enjoy this paper by Scott Aaronson. It outlines some interesting issues at the intersection of philosophy and computation. Page 9 is “known integers” and touches on your argument.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf
Not sure if these folks have an angle as i have not checked them out, but they claim they've found obvious fraud:

http://www.emprata.com/reports/fcc-restoring-internet-freedo...

Their findings are pretty interesting.
Does this mean that tons of money could be invested in these - let's say a trillion dollars going long on bitcoin via cash settled futures - and the underlying price wouldn't necessarily go up at all? I always thought the play with bitcoin was to wait until the "dumb money" got in via financial institutions. But if the whales are just betting on the real price with cash settled futures, does that mess up my assumptions about supply/demand?
What I assume IncRnd is referring to is the deterministic behavior of an RTOS. Here is a good white paper from National Instruments:

http://www.ni.com/white-paper/3938/en/
That's not correct. They still have to pick a settlement price. Physically settled futures makes sense when customers are interested in the commodity itself and cash settled makes more sense for pure speculation.
AWS employee on the ECS team here.

First of all you are using the wrong measurement of growth vs stagnation. We've continually been releasing features (not all of which are part of ecs-agent), while also working on many interesting backend projects such as Fargate. Much of what we develop is closed source or open sourced later, so the ecs-agent repo is not a good measurement of progress or attention.

Second the idea that ECS is on death's doorstep is just false. In the container state of the union at re:Invent Anthony Suarez, head of engineering on ECS, shared that ECS has experienced 450% growth, with millions of container instances under management, and hundreds of millions launched per week: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DP1sWVZUMAAflSW.jpg

This matches up with my personal experience as a developer advocate for ECS talking to customers pretty much every day who are considering ECS or moving to ECS because it makes it easier to connect your containers to other AWS services.
> I understand that it’s hard to compare non-salary compensation. But these figures give the impression that compensation for a Bay Area software engineer is shockingly lower than the reality.

Are you kidding me? I go and check salaries on Glassdoor and find out that about $85k/year is still the standard here in Boston for junior and mid-level engineers. And you're telling me that a median of $134k/year in the Bay Area is low?
Toronto has a crazy underground city
You can build an irreversible payment system that uses less energy and requires a much smaller transaction fee on a plain old transactional database. For everything you listed, there are better options.
Argh! I wish the NTP servers were usable from outside of AWS.

Outside of North America and Europe, there aren't as many public NTP servers as there should be. For example, according to http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/south-america, South America has less than 50 NTP servers.

It would be awesome if the large, widely-distributed providers (not just AWS with CloudFront, but also Akami, Cloudflare, etc.) provided public, Stratum-1 NTP servers at their POPs.
many of those third parties do not own the data - the data is owned by whoever's account (will obviously vary).
How to Recover Deleted Files from SanDisk USB/SD
Financial markets always price the future utility, not the present one.

A bitcoin bull could point out to bitcoin futures on professional financial exchanges as an increased utility, as in now professional money managers can trade bitcoin in a professional way.
No. We have historical precedent :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

The only thing it did was increase the value of gold. And our world is far far far more able to circumvent any order like this, as any wealthy person storing their money in panama will tell you.

Bitcoin is the reckoning for that belief. Rather than discuss the reason for the failure of their fiat system, which is what they're discussing right now, they want to restrict your freedom of exchanging the fruits of your labor for tokens in a system outside of their control.

Freedom isn't about you asking the the government what you can do. Freedom is about the government asking your permission to govern in the interests of their constituents. If they can't convince you to use their token, they should start working now to come to a resolution that respects the rights of the people who choose not to buy their token for anything other than taxes.
«the price has increased by ~10^5»

Actually more than 10^6: http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/
Superlatives are problematic because for instance "fast" is relative to something and that something might change over time.

Superlatives are usually challenged and you will require proof. The proof itself can also be challenged. Suddenly you are spending a lot of time.

I would rather say: "SIMD math library" rather than "Fast library".
I'm obviously not talking about robots containing humans.

We should not pretend robots are people under any circumstances. If the robot needs me to move for it to continue on, then it better decide to wait.

Maybe you think it should call in a robo cop;)

This should be obvious, but I'll be more verbose, my original comment was in ref to robots with wheels, possessing possibly >MJ of KE, recording their surroundings and uploading it in real time to whatever the skynet equiv is at the time. It's an awful idea, and you are living in a bubble if you think the general population will accept it in the US. Sure, it will happen in more tightly controlled societies.
little bit less experience than you, but I'm a director at fortune 50 company in north east and I blown away by these numbers.
Standard monetary deflation happens exactly when the growth of the economy outpaces the growth of the money supply. Things become cheaper, money will be worth more.
Hmm, that really is quite impressive if correct. I'm intrigued enough to try and replicate the results at the weekend!
There are plenty in Boston, and apparently our salaries remain a fair bit lower than those in the Bay Area. Come on over and bid our incomes up! Please!
Your argument fails even with traditional currencies.

It's legal to own Euros in US (or the other way around), even if the US government can't control the Euro money supply, or people exchanging USD for Euros (yes, they have some levers, but it's not control)
I think this is a useful point, but the lived experience of a lot of us is that you can sleep relatively soundly at night knowing that your salary is negotiated and paid in U.S. Dollars or Euros or other currencies that are backed by stable governments.

About ten years ago I had a friend who had been convinced by blogs that we were on the path to hyperinflation. He started buying gold and silver like crazy. Back then you could read a lot of smart-sounding people who would tell you all about how the inflation apocalypse was imminent (Fed balance sheets, stimulus, etc.) I almost bought into it too, but I didn't really have any money to sink into gold and silver. Really glad in hindsight.

I think Satoshi, who ever he was or is, was a brilliant engineer and cryptographer but his skepticism of fractional reserve banking and his general distrust of the financial system makes me believe that he only really dabbled in macroeconomics and banking.

We should all be really, really glad that previous innovators did believe in fractional reserve banking, credit markets, and fiat currency. If you like modern life, I mean.
That is an excellent example of an indicator. Do any of those exist currently?
Stopping for something imaginary and brake-checking a tailgater are not the same thing. Another person's irresponsibility does not justify your own. Your responsibility does not change based on your value judgement of another person's actions.
Sex, Consent, and the Dangers of Misplaced Scale
Not CA, MD, or HI, where supposedly this sort of thing would happen.
Issues of energy and thermodynamics are pretty darn important:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
I’ve done this in crunch periods but it’s obviously unsustainable. I recently sustained that pattern for two weeks to deliver a big chunk of work to a deadline. Then I took a holiday.

As a younger person I routinely put in 36h of continuous work. Can’t do that no more.

Some of us actually prefer to sprint then rest.
Wait you can’t call another contract’s function (from a contract) if it takes a string as argument?
> Or, large investment banking houses will step in and create naked shorting opportunities to inflate sell pressure creating 'death spirals' to drive prices down and scoop them up and extreme discounts. This happens in the traditional public markets everyday.

Is there a term for this?
Bitcoin is still useful for settlement. It's not so useful for pricing things.
Yup. I heard on the radio (also NPR) that the union expects flights to be cancelled.

And the union seems to be laughing ("Santa Claus giving everyone the day off") about the problem.

And the union contract prevents paying more than 150% to fill the slots.

Yeah, this will go well.
What do you mean a "free pass"? Apple has been (rightly) grilled over this.

Also, though the patch does introduce this new bug, it's hardly a show-stopper, it has a simple fix, it will likely affect a tiny percentage of users, and I'm sure be resolved in a future release.
The superiority is always going to be the same: you don’t have to trust a third party anymore.
Cryptocurrencies are P2P so they can't be truly stopped, just like P2P piracy couldn't be stopped.

Centralized exchanges are about as big of a weakness as centralized public torrent sites are, but even that could be changed if the need for decentralized exchanges truly arises. Right now, decentralized exchanges have a big chicken and egg problem (you need sellers to buy, and viceversa). But if the top 10 cryptocurrency exchanges were shut down, the chicken and egg problem would disappear.
Whats not there
There are firm promises of them becoming available really soon now (TM).

http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/nasdaq-is...
Yup, that sound about right, I'd get in at 8am, go home at 5pm for ~30 minute dinner with my wife(then GF, I don't deserve her for sticking it through with me) and then back to the office till 10-12pm.

Got a ton of shit for it too because everyone else usually rolled in at 12-2pm and stayed till 2-3am so the time I worked from 8-12 wasn't noticed and I got called out for leaving "early" at 11pm.

Got into a huge fight with one of our content guys over it which was one of the catalysts for leaving that industry. That along with blowing a red light next to my place 2 times when I realized that job was literally going to kill me.

FWIW the previous gig was pretty similar.

That's not even half of the crazy war stories I have from that industry. I'm always happy to talk to engineers who are interested so I can tell them to stay the fuck away(or learn how to put proper boundaries on working hours, which will get you passed over on career progression).
Sure, or they could upload to imgur and share with SMS.
They've been available for over a year. I started doing this earlier in the year. Couldn't be happier.

Just so you know, I don't see visa / mastercard going anywhere. Until you can use bitcoin using the same paywave tech that credit cards use, the over-the-counter use case of bitcoin will not be realized. The alternative is just too easy. But with a bitcoin debit card, you get the best of both worlds. My money isn't being debased while it sits in my wallet, and I have the freedom to use it when I want.

I think it will be several years before the layer-2 tech of bitcoin like lightning allows that type of functionality. The existing system is just too effective. I think it is more likely that lightning will be bootstrapped through organic growth like paying your local dealer than it will be by paying for your groceries.
I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to be liked by others or wanting affirmation, or even performing for your friends. We are social creatures and we live in groups and communities so of course we want to be liked by others. The problem is where it leads you. There are also loads of artists and creatives who didn't realize how amazing their works are until one day they decided to post it onto the internet and many strangers were amazed by what they made. Their fan base then goes on to encourage and affirm what the artists do and because of that they were able to reach new heights and break limits they never would have been able to on their own.

I think the real question is, who are you without this medium? Are you still the same person? The artist who was encouraged by the responses of strangers can continue to do his or her work without the medium. The affirmation has helped them but it's not something they rely on.

In contrast if you find yourself craving it so much that without it you are anxious and suffering, then you have a problem. If the concert kids you mentioned were enjoying the concerts anyways, dancing and cheering all the way through on snapchat or not, then it wouldn't be worrying at all.

This is really the same for anything that's potentially addictive. Can you live without it? Do you goto lengths that are otherwise uncomfortable to you to acquire it?

Yes, snapchat has made it easier for us to fake ourselves, but only in the same way the internet has made it easier for us to look at pornography, and the industrial revolution has made it easier for us to have access to alcohol and cigarettes. I think in time this will pass too, just like all the other harmful things we could indulge in, as people have self-control and are smart enough to eventually realize that being our authentic selves bring about the most happiness.
I agree that most of what I care about is typically aggregate anonymous (to me) data.

The nuance here though is that this data is often NOT anonymous or aggregate to the 3rd parties providing this tracking and collecting this data. Google and FB absolutely apply this data to an individual profile level. So while I might only see the anonymous aggregate data, my decision to include their tracking means I am making a decision on behalf of my users/visitors to share that data to parties for whom it will not be anonymous or aggregate, and it isn't a decision I take lightly.

There is obviously legal protection in the form of Privacy Policies and ToS, but I feel there's an implicit social contract here as well.
> Fear not that if union workers could collect a paycheck without showing up to work and no consequence, you would not see any working.

You can look to the TSA or the NYPD for examples of this happening in the US.

There are TSA employees who have patterns of repeatedly showing up to work drunk, sleeping on the job, or stealing from passengers' bags and have managed to keep their jobs, because

And let's not forget three years ago, when the NYPD openly refused to do their job for three weeks[0], but still got paid all the same[1].

[0] I'm not complaining that the NYPD stopped enforcing low-level drug offenses that shouldn't even be crimes in the first place, but they literally collected paychecks while openly refusing to do it.

[1] https://nypost.com/2014/12/29/arrests-plummet-following-exec...
I feel bad for the engineers, but seriously screw Apple on this. They have an overcomplicated setup with little internal Kerberos implementations on every Mac to make peer to peer networking easier.

If it’s like everything else, it’s probably ancient and crufty. The dude who wrote it probably cashed out years ago. Some engineer rushed through and made the original worst-case-scenario error, and the guys cleaning up the mess made this error, which is understandable given the severity of the problem.

For a company like Apple that prints money, it’s irresponsible and reflective of a broken engineering process. Personally I’m angry about this because on iOS, we’re 100% dependent on their engineering process to protect my customer’s data. Hopefully that trust is well placed.

If they don’t want to maintain Macs, don’t make them.
also empathy. Better to have a willing workforce than forcing them to fly, in the long term.

I imagine no one at AA is wringing their hands in glee at this situation
It's already been proven that even upon request, Facebook doesn't actually delete content.
Seems the link to the chapter 4 pdf is missing but its there in the entire book pdf.
I think you are saying that the publicity of Bitcoin will have created awareness of blockchain concepts, and from the ashes of Bitcoin will rise a blockchain that could be a good currency, and that new blockchain couldn't get awareness without BC's headline-grabbing hype that clears the way.

That makes sense. Maybe BC is just the sacrificial starter we needed to ultimately result in adoption of a blockchain that works better. And some people will make a lot of money from BC, some people will lose a lot, and in the end we'll get something better.
Yeah, it's easy to inflate. In this case I lived a few blocks from the studio(and was tracking my hours since I was accused for 'skimping' because I came in at 8am instead of 12-2pm).

Either way crunch has no place but that industry has so many wide-eyed people clamoring to get in that I don't see it ever changing.
Which is a bit ironic given the account suspensions on Twitter seem to affect more people on one side of the spectrum. I've seen pretty nasty things said from people on both sides, however, it appears that one side gets shut down more readily than the other, in essence building their own virtual echo wall.
Double your expenses and income, and you also double your savings.