skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My great-great-great-great-great grandfather lived on $1/day! Stop whining!
A simulation of digestion, does not digest pizza.

> Either a computer can perfectly imitate digestion, or it can't.

Yeah, it cant.

What you seem to think is that "imitation in form" means being the same as. A photograph of me is imitation in the form of me, it isnt me. It doenst have a pulse.

The universe is not an idealised abstract world of Forms, and so anything with the same abstract pattern is equivalent.

Abstract patterns exist only form our point of view. They are our way of describing things.

To say a computer imitates anything is only to say that when we look at it, we can use it to inform ourselves. Simulating digestion is a means of learning about digestion because we design it to correlate across systems.

Without a point-of-view to impose correspondence, the two systems are a like in no respect. "Being a simulation of" is like Beauty. Its not a process in the universe, its not a property of objects.

A piece of silicon with an oscillating electric field across it remains the same regardless of whether it is running the "digestion simulation" or the "consciousness simulation". It is only a matter of electrical frequencies and amplitudes.

This acquires meaning to us when we look at them. In the case of digestion one 01010 pattern means "too acidic", in the case of a lifelike chat bot "01010" means "hi!".

The cinema screen is not a train. It's a movie. Its just light hitting a canvas. It wont hurt you. 01010 isnt acid. It isnt thought. It's just a voltage fluctuation, it cant talk to you.
A lot our missing the point. 100k/year is good but it takes just one major expense for that to set you back, put you in the hole, and usually leads to more interest, fees and spirals out of control.

"The report, put out by Pew Charitable Trust, includes the results of surveys conducted in 2014 and 2015 to see how Americans were coping with what are referred to as financial shocks—those one-off expenses that crop up from time to time. Pew found that in large part, Americans’ ability to weather financial shocks is partially dependent on something that Americans still struggle to accumulate: savings."
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/savings...
Glad to hear!
Could you please read the guidelines before posting again? You've been breaking them a lot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think you have cause and effect backwards. It's not fighting against that. It's not like these people are opposed up deep connections any more than I'm opposed to having a million dollars in my bank account. They just don't happen to have any, so they take what they can get.
What he wants is to stir up some controversy so that an executive is convinced that his engineers are doing things wrong and will bring him in to "fix" things.

His part about pushing that stuff down the stack reads to me like: "read my latest book!"
Thanks, but the point is, the OS shouldn't get in the way of you getting stuff done. That's against Apple's intent which was "making technology disappear so that you can focus on what you're doing, not tweak the tech at your hand".
I think choosing to migrate to a completely different language rather than rewriting in python 3 is a totally valid strategy.

Maybe they’ve switched to c# lately and are using lack of py2 as a trigger to rewrite. Maybe going after the benefits of a compiled language. Maybe just wanting to use c# because it’s one of the best languages out there.

There are some python apps out there I’ve contributed to that I’d rather rewrite in a static type lang rather than migrate to py3. Others I’d move to py3 no problem.
It's CTC vetting rather than DV, significantly less costly to undertake.
Proposal for keeping code docs up-to-date
Crap cars are also expensive as hell to keep running nowadays. Buying new or nearly new, if you need the transportation for your job, can be more economical. That wasn’t the case 40 years ago. That labor that his mom presumably put in is also not without monetary value - two working parents cost a fortune in childcare, and many people need both salaries to make the equivalent of what just one used to.
AWS Cognito just announced some security features to help with that.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/announcin...
I've only ever heard the term "coastal elites" from people the live near the coast and wish they were elites.
The point is that the difference the extra income makes is less than it appears, and the risk is entirely on the shoulders of the 100k earner. Not only no benefits but more taxes and more stress because no safety net.
Your router MAC address is tracked by Google Location services. They do this with their wardriving vehicles and from Android phones.
All good but your MAC address never leaves the LAN.
This Poisonous Cult of Personality
I think Phoenix (and Elixir) is mature enough already to use in production. I've made pretty good, bordering on oracle-like :) predictions about directions in technology over more years than I care to think about; so I'm confident that Phoenix is only going to grow in use and positive attention.

It will be the logical successor to Rails. It already is.

That said, I use a good mix of Elixir+Phoenix and old-school cron launched Python utility scripts, and that works nicely. Anything that's difficult (probably because I am still a newb) in Elixir I can easily do out of band with a Python script.

But your point about difficult to hire experienced people is the reason for my reply. This is the mentality that is ruining IT and development. Yes, having someone with hands on experience in all of your tools is nice - a rare luxury in fact. But it's really not necessary. I would be quite happy to have someone that has willingly built something in Rails, Django, and Nodejs with an "Oh I can learn that" attitude. Especially if you come from a modern MVC framework, Phoenix itself is easy. Elixir is the part that requires some real effort, imo.
Did this ever get resolved?
I'm a bit sympathetic to the idea that the American dream, when compared to the average paycheck, just doesn't add up for most people. I don't empathize with the poor financial choices folks make to place their expectations above their reality.
I've updated the guide to reflect your valid points here.
You are not writing a function in a vacuum. You make choices about how arguments are passed into the function and choices about how results are returned from the function including errors. Optional values and exceptions offer different trade-offs and you should pick the one that is probably most useful and most easy to work with. What do I know what the caller will do with my return value, I will just return a XML string with the serialized result and let them do with that whatever they want is probably not a good design philosophy to adopt either.
I think a photo editing app is thought, no matter what technology you are using. As the question is rather vague, would you mind listing a few specific case where react native couldn't help you?
There is a very relevant set of articles right now on reddit on this topic.

It started when an Austrian software engineer published his entire spending, and where every cent of his taxes goes, in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7h2idb/wha...

Other users, employed in all industries, quickly responded, some from Japan https://redd.it/7h99vj , Seattle https://redd.it/7h6bsr , Brisbane, Australia https://redd.it/7h9gpe , New York City https://redd.it/7has76 , rural TN https://redd.it/7hbhe9 , London, UK https://redd.it/7h9tjf , a Major in the US Air Force https://redd.it/7ha2q0 , and another one from Switzerland https://redd.it/7hbehc

There’s dozens more posts, I can’t link them all, you can find the rest at https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/ – but many of them show how people can live very successfully on low wages, and others yet struggle with much more money.
>When I think quality tapestries I always think India and Pakistan.

I think you and Amazon have different priorities when choosing tapestry manufacturers
Is this just a reverse indexed WHOIS database? If so, it's no surprise that my domains don't appear in yhe results: I signed up for Whois anonymization through my DNS provider. I was recently considering unsubscribing, so thank you to the creators of this for reminding me that my privacy is under attack at all times and I should do whatever I can to protect it.
In my opinion it's been a while that his articles have been rather bad
Ask HN: How do I learn advanced math?
I am currently trying to learn computability and complexity theory and other advanced topics in computer science and mathematics but most of my attempts are fruitless.
Often I am just sitting there stressing myself out without learning anything.
How do I correctly acquire the skill to correctly and peacefully approach a problem and solving it ?

I believe I can save myself a whole lot of pain and time if I can improve myself here.
ThrowAway
I live in Baltimore, MD. My salary is $100k flat (80k base + 20k bonuses). I would not say that I am king of the hill, but I am in much better position than majority of my friends, though. To be honest, I don't feel like it such a high salary.
Even if what you say about "HN software folk" (what do you and why are you on HN?) is true, I bet that you could not live on $30k/yr while building savings and supporting an average family, without relying on the charity of others. Particularly in a major metropolitan area in the US.
This service is great, I just wish it was about half the price. $600/yr (for something that doesn't increase sales) is just slightly too expensive, for me, for a small-time solo software business.
SEEKING WORK | Seattle (remote preferred, travel OK)

I'm a visually and scientifically literate programmer specializing in data analysis, visualization, and Node apps. As a freelancer, I've worked with clients on dashboards, apps, data visualization for scientists, and APIs. I've helped bring products to market and built proof-of-concepts. I have dual degrees in CS and studio art, and spent several years at the University of Washington working on serious games.

I'm currently looking for projects starting in mid to late January.

Most-used tools:

* Javascript stack: Node.js, ES6, React, D3.js, React Native, Electron

* Python data science stack: pandas, matplotlib, scikit, sklearn, basemap

Also-used tools:

* C# + .NET stack

* MongoDB, MySQL

A few of my projects:

Node apps shipped: http://gochip.com/apps

Nanocrafter: http://nanocrafter.com

Map with D3.js: http://dovinmu.github.io/cascadia-maps/washington.html

Python data viz: https://github.com/dovinmu/python-viz-notebooks/
Where are you seeing those US numbers? Effective rates for the wealthy in the US are often much lower than the expected rate due to deductions and loopholes.
Yes and even if you changed your Mac every day, your neighbors probably wouldn’t. So google can still see the three routers around you, look up the gps those routers have been seen concurrently with, and know where you are.
In my many years of estimating, the ONLY thing I have found to work consistently is to meticulously break work into a series of tasks taking no longer than a few hours. Real time, not points.

Don't estimate in a meeting. Let people go back to their desks to research and document the issue. Give them time. It takes longer, but it yields more accurate estimates.

Have the team meet up again afterward and let everyone discuss the estimates and how they arrived at each piece. Let the team come to a group consensus about each estimate.

By breaking it out into a series of small tasks, you also have a daily schedule and a daily benchmark to work against:

[x] X (2 hours est., 2 hours actual)

[x] Y (3 hours, 5 hours actual)

[ ] Z (1 hour)

Now you have a daily update: "I went 2 hours over on Y yesterday and didn't get to Z, but I stayed a little later to get Y finished. I'm at least 1 hour behind schedule, but I think I can make it up today and tomorrow."

This makes you super dependable to management and keeps you on task. Super dependable means you make them look good--which means you're first to get the choice assignments, first to get a bonus or raise, first to get a promotion.

Managers know that schedules occasionally slip; what they want is to know as early as humanly possible so they can make a decision about the project.
Email in the profile works great. Thank you much!
Make leadership as ritual, not a single day performance
Just a heads up: The numbers for Germany on that page include all social security contributions, including health insurance (4.7k€) and pension contributions (6k€). (Not sure if you accounted for these in your number for Maryland.)
I can attest to the fact that Aetna does cover flu shots now.
Maybe Tacotron will interest you?
It's an end-to-end model, that's reasonably close to the state of the art:

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron/inde...

They are some open source implementations.
100 Years Until We Reach Gender Parity?
Yeah, I hope people realise that everybody has these magnets IN their computer. You might have a NAS in which case you have several of these magnets much closer than 6 inches to the other drives and power supply and nothing happens.

Magnets near your or even on the computer do nothing.
Just so yall know I open sourced this project recently!

https://github.com/oakes/Nightcoders.net

My server is not the best so if you get out of memory errors in your projects just wait until this falls off the front page :)
Why don't Netflix or Amazon pick them up?

Cheap production. These companies eat copyright problems for breakfast. Documentary series seem to be popular lately, and Every Frame is already a well-known name.
I suspect that this is actually something done purposefully so that when things get leaked to the press there's deniability. "Oh, that wasn't me, that was one of the many people with access to my computer. What a shame we'll never know who it was."
> A take-away I had from Trump's election was that there still is a lot of economic struggle in the interior of the US. Nobody seems to be interested in improving the situation, and very few of these communities have the means and/or the willingness to move towards greener pastures. Is there anything that can be done to improve the situation?

I work in a typical liberal as hell company in a very expensive city. The level of hate/class superiority towards the unwashed masses from my co-workers is absolutely mind blowing. It is casual hate that shows up everywhere, every day in a unrelated conversations. If one was to do s/<who they talk about>/gay|minority/g they would be terminated on the spot. It goes all the way up the corporate latter. All of them are card carrying progressives.
Link to Report:

https://www.weforum.org/reports/the-global-gender-gap-report...
> That's the same outcome of terrorist attacks and massive ad campaigns.

You mean those things that have changed the world in massive ways?
Usually temporary assistance, which is when you get cash is considered welfare.

Most people who understand this stuff don’t consider safety net programs like food stamps or WIC that way. The difference is that the Food stamps/WIC allow you to work, and most people on them do. “Welfare” requires you to not work in order to get a benefit.

The most vociferous disgust regarding people on welfare usually comes from people who you would consider to be on “welfare”.
I think I had one of these for a while at school in Canada! Much nostalgia.
Doesn't work in Safari on MacOS, either. Oh, well.
You can enjoy those rights on your own video hosting.
Philosophy success stories
Not to mention high quality education through university.
Why Constant Learners All Embrace the 5-Hour Rule (2016)
"Nearly zero" doesn't have any well-defined meaning. Either there are legitimate, non-subjective differences in job performance, or there aren't. What's your take on the NBA - do we need diversity quotas to insure a proper gender and ethnic balance? How about professional chess?
Regarding the top salaries, I found this comment interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15836919
Yup: I used to use one of the older models for drafting rough text on the train on the way to various College annexes. Light, lasted months on a set of batteries, and mimicked a USB keyboard - cost me twenty quid off ebay. I left mine in a drawer when I left sometime in 2007. We had class sets of the newer Neo version shown here for SLDD students.

I'm imagining tablets with onscreen keyboards and cheaper laptops have seen them off.
Any plans on making it work with longer audio?
I read the article and I still don't know why these people can't live comfortably on $100k. It is never explained, and I have lived reasonably comfortably with a household income of <$100k in some of the mentioned locales. You don't have to be frugal, just not wasteful. It leads me to believe that it has more to do with life and lifestyle choices than income per se.

It is also hard to be sympathetic given that $100k is substantially higher than the median income in many of these areas, and while not wealthy by any means, many people living a little closer to the median have a pretty decent standard of living simply by managing their finances wisely.

I have many friends in this situation. Too many people refuse to live a lifestyle afforded by their income even though it would be pretty comfortable if they did. My lifestyle, which is far from austere and in Seattle, easily fits into $100k income (though I'd probably have to cut back on the luxury a bit if I had kids).
Most likely mechanism for this incident was:

1) external magnet messed up heads movement closed control loop (internal drive's magnets + voice coil + positioning marks on the platters), and as a result head actual position became different from what controller thought it was.

2) control loop tried to correct itself, repeatedly failing, all while head kept moving across the platters, while controller was still thinking it's elsewhere.

3) controller was writing to disk, so it overwrote data in highly irregular tracks that followed erratic head dance. some of that overwrote positioning markers.

4) when recovering, even though 99.9% of data was still there, controller failed to position the head on erased markers, so reported "unreadable sectors"
With Share > Add to Home Screen, you can have an icon that opens a new safari tab on hn.

I’m not saying this is better than an app, but just wanted to share that it’s doable.
Many people do those jobs and aren’t miserable. That doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you if you would be. I don’t know what made you think of restaurant work but most are not busy all the time. It’s true that most are low-paying and often tiring.

I didn’t assume you code, I don’t really.
That’s low for a manager. Many individual contributors make more than that at large companies.
It’s worth noting that iOS has randomized MAC addresses in WiFi probes since iOS 8.[1] As far as I know your real MAC address is exposed upon connection. I’m curious to what extent other vendors have implemented this strategy.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/ios8-to-stymie-track...
Definitely Ethereum's DevCon 4
This seems like a reasonable way to police. My only issue is if the drones can be 'heard' flying over a location. For example, buzzing over a specific house or business. Neighbors would automatically assume danger or guilt. If they drone, they should stay out of ear-range from anyone on the ground. Nobody should hear surveillance.
Crap cars are a poor tax. They can't afford the lump sum payment for a nice car, so they basically pay the same amount or more but spread out over the life of their crap car.

It's not that they don't know it's a terrible financial move, they just don't have any other options besides high interest loans or not owning a car (which likely means not being able to get to
Some bits of the MAC address are significant. You're generating all 48 bits randomly which could have some side effects.
Not knowing of these cases is still not something you should be discharged for, and still isn't something you should judge their entire life on.

Basically, stop being an asshole. That's a real person you just told has never done anything honorable in their life.
Some devs seem to have actual phobias of estimates. My team was asked if we can deliver features x or x+ some time next year. (IMO as the dev who knows both the code and x best, we can deliver x in 2018 easily and x+ maybe). In our discussions about it, one guy would only say you can't predict the future, and another guy argued we should say either of them would take two years so that we could have time to rebuild the app from scratch while we delivered them. It's a web app.
Final assembly occurs in china. Many (probably most) of the components are made outside of china. It is still fairly easy for them to move final assembly to other countries and keep sourcing components from Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and so on.

China is much more valuable to Apple for its consumers than its final assembly powress.
I live in SF, work in tech, and do not share this experience at all. Not sure what environment you’re in but that’s far from ubiquitous.
The middle class has been unfairly burdened with paying for the expenses of the entire country. The poor, unable to, the rich, unwilling to.

That's not really supported by the data. A more accurate summary would be "the poor, unable to, the rich, not numerous enough to". Raising taxes on the top 1% or the top 0.1% or the top 0.01% has very little impact on total revenues simply because you need to raise taxes 50x, 500x, or 5000x as much in order to extract as much revenue as you would get by raising taxes on the top 50%.
It sounds like you are not budgeting appropriately for the amount and variability of your income. I just recently left the consulting game, but did so for nearly a decade. If you're truly interested in making a change I recommend reading The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.
When you say "entirely different" you mean they didn't even share the same rendering engine?
Historically consolidation of any kind in healthcare (hospitals, payers) tends to increase costs to consumers

This merger may create value but I'm sure Aetna / CVs will capture as much as possible themselves and consumers will see little of it
CVS is buying Aetna for 69B
Oh so terrible, how can they even survive, really heartbreaking. Meanwhile the UN is investigating the extreme poverty in the US, you know the people that don't even have their basic human rights guaranteed by their hyper capitalist government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-pov...
I'm a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929
That was hung on the door to the office of the DBA at my last job.

One day, we had a catastrophic loss of data due to a junior developer running a destructive script against the production server instead of the test server. We went to restore the database only to discover the hourly snapshots had been failing for months and he hadn't noticed
I hadn't seen this channel before, but the Jackie Chan video is fantastic -- it's a thesis that I'd never have come up with, but that immediately clicked and explains why the old Honk Kong kung fu films still hold so much charm and satisfaction compared to new action movies.
Ah maybe the one I talked to had a more senior role - your not thinking of MP's office staff instead of actual HOC staff
Yeah, that's something I always forget about when talking to people from the US: I don't have any student loans. A semester at a university in Germany costs around 250€ (plus housing and food), so it's hard to get to a point where you need 10 years to pack back loans. I had a part time job all through university and even saved up a reasonable amount of money.