skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. Lots to digest here, and I think I detect some strong frustration. My sympathies on that.

I have worked at the big 4 (MS) but I'm a consultant now. I do a fair bit of interviewing and what I propose is that you don't actually have a clue what the finances of your interviewers are like, and you don't actually have a clue what the finances of your competitors are like. You would be far better served putting it out of your mind and focus on just trying to be a good engineer (presuming that's what you are trying to be) and enjoying it.

The reason being is that, not only are you almost certainly wrong, but it doesn't matter. Interviewers don't care about how much money the candidates have because...

1. they get a perk if you get hired and retained regardless, so they're incentivized to place anyone that can do the job

2. the competition often doesn't exist: the big 4 will often just hire anyone and everyone who fit their criteria (high turnover and need leads to a few hundred engineers starting each week)

3. the job has a pay band, and if you're currently making low or nil, then you're far more likely to HAPPILY fit into the lower segment of the band

BTW: The other interviewers and I can tell when the candidate is crusty and/or resentful during the interview, and it reflects negatively on their performance.
What criteria do you use to exit then? Do you track returns over time somehow? Would be really interesting to compare to Nasdaq or another relevant benchmark.
The question isn't whether you like ipods 10 years ago or not. It's what information you had, that you incorporated into a model that you then traded on that gave you a real, statistically valid edge to the market price when making that trade.

When you buy a stock, you pay two main fees: the basic broker fee and the market spread to the mid price. The moment you make a trade, you're down.

When you toss chips on a roulette number, you pay one fee. You know there's 36-1 chance of your number being chosen but there's also the zeros that give the house the edge, which give you a 36-1 payout on a 38-1 event (depending how many zeros). The fee is 2-3% percent (on a european roulette table). Moreover, you actually KNOW the real probability in the casino and you KNOW the house edge.

In the market, you have absolutely no idea what the real price is. Maybe Steve Jobs dies earlier in an alternate universe and the company implodes before the iPhone money press gets going. Maybe in another universe, he lives longer and tanks the company because he starts believing the hype about himself. Who knows? In this universe your AAPL bet paid off wonderfully. Liking a product and buying shares in the company is a completely reasonable thing to do, but unless you genuinely know something others don't it's gambling and convincing yourself otherwise is a really really dangerous thing to do.
> No need for Gtk+ on Plasma Mobile phones, for example.

Plasma Mobile officially supports Gtk+.

"Native apps are developed using Qt; it will also support apps written in GTK, Android apps, Ubuntu apps, and many others" https://dot.kde.org/2015/07/25/plasma-mobile-free-mobile-pla...

> Gtk+2 has some major apps like Gimp that ensure that it's here to stay for a while. Gtk+3's life will sure be shorter, more like Qt4's.

Why? Also: GIMP will move to Gtk+ 3 in a few years. Furthermore Gtk+ 3 has even bigger apps: Firefox and Chrome.

> For some it might be even hard to integrate the glib's mainloop.

That's a valid argument.
We used them in a web agency that has lots of different projects running on different stacks, and we have to go back to old projects from time to time. Having your dependencies, version, setup and even build tools all referenced in a compose file made it really easy and quick to switch projects or get a new developer set up. Simply git clone, docker-compose up and voilà. No more messing around with installing different and conflicting dependencies on the same machine, and much faster, easier and more stable than the vagrant/ansible-combo we used before that.
I went to Cambridge University, UK and got a first in maths. I have friends who did to. Those of us who came from poor backgrounds had real difficulties getting a good job. We just weren't a "good fit". One of my friends with a 2.1 Cambridge maths degree was a waitress for 3 years after graduating.
I would argue that this means we should fix the constitution through the amendment process, not toss the baby out with the bathwater.
That's Fox's slight of hand. They appear fairly good most of the time, and as far as what they publish they're generally not too bad when it comes to being crazy, for that you go to Breitbart. However Fox's real sin is their television station, watch Fox & Friends or any of the others and its Coney Island.
It's not such thing, it's just not equally applied to all demographics.
Speaking of the bikes, I'm usually not nationalistic, but the most patriotic thing I ever did as a Dutchman was complain about the bike infrastructure in Copenhagen :P

Obviously, this should be taken about as seriously as trash-talking at a sports game. It was fun to provoke my Danish friends.

Having said that, I sincerely wasn't impressed at the time; it was my first time living abroad, and later I realised that Groningen, with its car-free city centre, is bit exceptional.

However, Copenhagen does annoy me a bit with their PR machine (although not much more than any other European capital city, I suppose).

For example, take this list of "20 most bike friendly cities in the world of 2017" published in the Lonely Planet[0]. I'm still impressed they printed the following paragraphs unironically:

> Unsurprisingly, Copenhagen came out on top as the best city in the world for cycling, while the results also saw a selection of global destinations shifting position. Now in its fourth year, the index was released by urban design consultancy Copenhagenize.

> (skipping Copenhagen on nr 1 and Utrecht on nr 2)

> 3: Amsterdam. The index states that Amsterdam remains the most amazing city in the world for cycling, securing the highest in the baseline score in 2017. However, it came in third position due to the fact that it did not score bonus points that reflect the dynamics in the city moving forward.

So a design consultancy tasked with promoting Copenhagen as a bike-friendly city publishes a list of "most bike friendly cities" in 2017, and then puts Copenhagen on top because it scores bonus points for things that will happen in the future. This is about as unbiased as when the car industry ghost-wrote all those news-articles about jaywalking early last century.

Well, regarding those "dynamics moving forward": there is so much bike traffic in cities in the Netherlands that we're experimenting with funnel-shaped bike crossings that make better use of the swarm -like movements of groups of bicycles[1]. I haven't seen those in Copenhagen when I visited it a few weekends ago. And then it still makes no sense that Amsterdam has "the best baseline score", because if you ask any Dutch person if Amsterdam is the most bike-friendly city in the country and they will laugh at you. This includes people from Amsterdam.

Having said all that, I am glad that the Danes, and cities in the Nordic countries in general, are doing their best to become more bike-friendly. On a more global scale I hope the rise of small electric motors will help with the problem of elevated terrain, which you rightfully point out as a problem anywhere outside of countries like Denmark or the Netherlands.

[0] https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2017/08/25/cycling-europe-...

[1] https://vimeo.com/217846328
Common Law Marriage, a Violation of Human Rights?
The IRS reimbursement rate for auto expenses for business is about $0.50/mi. Uber rates (likely subsidized) are in the $1 - $1.50 range. You can argue about the details but your floor for self-driving cars is around what the cost to operate a vehicle is. Fleet operations have some economies of scale but they also have management and staffing costs.

Electric vehicles may someday bring down costs across the board.

Bottom line is that autonomous driving isn't a path to "too cheap to meter" transportation especially as it increases congestion in various ways.
I don't. I am willing to wager giving right wing nut bars a platform and place to "debate" their opinions on minorities and women is a great place to start trimming weeds, however.
It's also extremely well written, and a great introduction to how computers work in the inside that can be understood by non technical readers.
It's also the only book which succeeded in expressing both the rollercoaster I feel when programming.
I have read arguments that if you believe you have the skills to beat the market, a job on Wall Street is the best course of action - Other People’s Money means no risk to you, and the expected value of your incentive pay exceeds your own returns unless you have a ton of personal capital to play with already. If it turns out you’re right, take your saved bonuses and strike out on your own. If you’re wrong, being a Wall Stret alum opens plenty of career opportunities.
There are also tons of "good" patents that prevent startups from innovating.
The British-style civil service structure is much more suitable for long-term government investments like NASA, NIH, etc. They are too important and too complicated to be left to politicians.
Most of the world, yes. Silicon Valley? Not so much.
Of course, all models are wrong in as much as they simplify reality, but my opinion is that this model is not even useful _for understand the dynamics of American segregation_. It's interesting and probably has other legitimate applications in understanding real-life social phenomena, high school lunchroom seating segregated into jocks, geeks, stoners, and goths perhaps. But it's very misleading as a metaphor to describe American housing segregation.
I'm sorry, I'm still not following. How can CSP reporting be used by marketers? It requires a header sent from the server, so it's not like a tracking pixel that can be added by a third party. And I'm not sure about local debugging only, locally it offers no benefits over just viewing the devtools console, whereas it offers a lot of benefits when enabled on users of your sites.
Ok, that definitely works, assuming you set your process up that way. In my mind, "deploy" starts with build and targets a single environment. Eg: deploy to staging, deploy to production. I've been working with too many clients these past few years who do it that way. One has a real TeamCity CI setup, but they rebuild for production too.

Way back in the day, I helped push my company towards a process where build artifacts were tied to specific commit ids (SVN, back then) so that everything that reached production could be traced back through QA and Development. So, basically the process you described. No containers back then, of course, and no VMs either. We had real servers in our server farm.
I upvoted you because your post adds a valid discussion point, but I have to ask:

1. Are you actually getting any alpha using this method? Averaged over multiple years?

2. If you are, are you earning a decent hourly rate for researching companies and following the market?
I’m sure it’s a slip of the tongue, but you don’t mean Bill Joy but rather Jim Gosling.
Self-healing electronic skin will help robots have a sense of touch like humans
> How is that gambling?

When you buy the shares of company A instead of company B, because you want to gain more, you are betting that the price of company A is undervalued on the market compared to company B. This is perfectly fine IMHO, but it's still a bet.
The fact that counties around Northern Virginia are the wealthiest counties in the whole country (and 3rd wealthiest one is in Maryland, also close to DC) supports that statement:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccalerner/2017/07/13/top-10...
It looks really verbose only to render simple html.

I had one really bad experience with Scala.js. When I used it, I noticed Scala was just not designed for the web (front end) and it just didn't work well for things really simple in JS.
How many have been awarded to me?

There lies the ultimate discrimination resolution—at the level of the individual.
Well for one Greenland is outside the massive gravity well of England. So you can save a lot of fuel only shipping things back to Greenland between missions.
That example component code is hideous. It reminds me of Backbone, and not in a good way.
How is repeating something, which has been done already 50 years ago, inspirational? That sounds more like admission of defeat.
Or like England setting up a base at Sealand before crossing the Atlantic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Me too, was about to start pontificating about text files, and markdown.
Well, maybe that's just because there aren't many real fascists around these days. Or rather, that they use other labels, to avoid negative associations.

I believe that just about all national governments are in fact kleptocracies. The powerful veil themselves in whatever ideology that's required. There are some idealists, of course. Especially at lower levels. But systems reward those who shed their ideals, and play the game.
How does accountability to the public work with career civil servants? I'm not saying it's not possible, but I think for every country like Finland where civil servants hold themselves accountable you can find 2-5 countries where they are inefficient, or worse, corrupt. Would the USA be more like Finland or more like the other countries?
Containers solve one problem: if your team is bad at packaging and you have dependencies you aren't aware of.
I downvoted it, because it's an opinion about things some people do and has nothing to do with the technology. You can use it well, you can use it badly. If you claim "They are there to produce buzz, then busy engineers, then bills", then you haven't seen a problem they solve. That's fine. Just don't try to tell people there is no such problem.
>> It’s great to explore this topic. You can have a lot of fun in picking a random industry and imagining the effect that self driving will have.

Yes, it will be interesting to see the public's reaction in a few years, when the promised revolution fails to materialise.

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[1] I say this with some insight borrowed from people in the automotive industry. A commenter in another thread has recommended the following Medium post:

We’re still very much in the early days of making self-driving cars a reality. Those who think fully self-driving vehicles will be ubiquitous on city streets months from now or even in a few years are not well connected to the state of the art or committed to the safe deployment of the technology. For those of us who have been working on the technology for a long time, we’re going to tell you the issue is still really hard, as the systems are as complex as ever.

https://medium.com/self-driven/a-decade-after-darpa-our-view...
Alternative Step-1: Read /r/WallStreetBets, lose all your money in poorly planned, gung-ho margin trading adventures. :P
That’s under our control. They’re unimpeachable because we support an air of respect for them. We could do the same for those less privileged, but other agendas get in the way.
Previous Graal show offs had Ruby running C extensions by implementing a Graal JIT for x86. I imagine LLVM a nicer level of abstraction to intercept at

This seems to imply only implementing a C JIT, so my memory may be wrong: http://chrisseaton.com/rubytruffle/cext

Truffleruby seems to be using Sulong now: https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/commit/f16a52934437a96...
Similar stop in Japan (or at least was in 2016, according to the article the station has now closed):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-339582...
Most of the industry has settled on the CADT model instead. The GP of this post suggests Google has done a particularly good job formalizing it these days.

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
There are countless definitions of devops around, but a developer that also does the ops part is one of the worst.

Devops can also mean that you're developing automation to reduce manual maintenance or even remove some ops responsibilities entirely.

Think of self healing clusters, auto provisioning and so on.

I've also come across the the definition of devops as a traditional ops dude that just worked for the dev team, keeping their development environment maintained. I'm still confused why they called that a devops position...
> Forget trading on the stock market. You will lose.

Cognitive biases have a large effect on minimizing one's returns. I recommend reading "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman for an analysis of how those biases sabotage one's returns.

Those biases are hard to overcome even when you're aware of them, but at least one can try :-)
> In hindsight the last 30 years have been great for tech so maybe I just got lucky on my industry selection.

A lot of tech companies went bankrupt. So you got "lucky" selecting the right tech companies and buying and selling them at the right time.

If you bought YHOO or Petsdotcom or any of AOL during the dot com boom and held on, then you would have lost a lot of money. For every AMZN there are dozens of tech companies that went under.

Also, the last 30 years have seen an absurd stock market boom. Take a look at the chart to see what the last 30 years have been like. The S&P has been on a tear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%26P_500_Index#/media/File:S_...

To the moon baby!
> Is no noteworthy mathematics being done at less prestigious institutions?

People with high-potential are detected early on and can choose to work in the most prestigious institutions.

It's like a pro-athlete. You don't expect Michael Jordan to be playing with a small local team.
It supports it, because it's just a regular GNU/Linux distro. It's not a good enough argument to bring in an unwanted dependency you might not have installed on your device otherwise, especially on a device with limited space and memory.

Why do you need arguments from me anyway? There's no good argument for CSD, and without it there wouldn't be any problem at all ;P
Poor whites don't have any more power than poor minorities. Was watching a pbs doc about the rise of the klan in North Carolina. One of the big attractions was that the wealthy whites looked down on the poor whites, and by joining the klan they could at least be above someone else.

The wealthy whites condoned and fought the Civil War. The poor didn't own slaves. They were probably racist and bigoted, but it was the kind of behavior learned form their masters.

It's incredibly frustrating to see people with the "correct" views gloat in their correctness and do nothing to actually fix racism or inequality (they are the benefactors of this inequality). I used to attend a small baptist church. One of my dad's friends loved to make off color jokes. That same man is friends with and has done more for illegal immigrants and minorities than some of the most progressive rich folk ever have. They'd probably tar and feather him and make a big show about how good they were for doing it.

School districts are a great example. Rich kids go to nice private cools and their parents often live in communities that don't pay taxes that support public schools. I've met good upstanding Republicans and rabid Obama supporters who do this, and somehow don't see the contradiction.
Sounds like they were feeling you out as a mark.
I'm thinking more long term. Things I'd like to see:

* Autonomous vehicles sent ahead of time to build habitats for people.

* Large underground bases dug into the bedrock positioned at the poles collecting solar energy.

* Long tracks to launch things into space/earth electromagnetically.

* Mining of ice which could get split into H and O for propellant.

* Mining of other materials to be used on site or sent back to earth.

* Attempt to get people to be self sufficient on another world, even if it took a hundred years.

* Depot for deep space asteroid mining ships/drones to drop off their cargo and refuel/repair without having to drop all the way down to Earth.
Both the company that brought the Apple //e and the company that brought the world the iPhone had Steve Jobs in charge and very much went for vertical integration.
I read a story a while ago about a guy on an airline flight, looked out the window and happened to see smoke coming from a factory; on landing, he made a phone call from the airport to sell his shares in the company that owned the factory, and was subsequently convicted of insider trading. It sounds from what you're saying like this story should not be accurate?
Top investor Warren Buffet agrees with this "dogma." He just won a bet that index funds would outperform hedge funds during 2007-2017. [1] Trust him, not /r/personalfinance.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/why-warren-buffett-says-inde...
The fundamental issue is that it's relatively hard for us to reasonably account for future costs against present costs. I also think it's interesting that in more social equitable countries (like the Scandis) the public and politicians tend to take climate change more seriously. Is Maslow's hierarchy actually coming into play?
The original problem was Go rather stupidlt pointing to a repo, instead of a specific commit on a repo. Normal github use at the very least would be to point to tags. Someone deleted their account, all those tags (which are empty commits) become invalid.

Because you're not building a list of just username and repo names for software dependent purposes, right? That would be a massive security failing on your part.
If it weren't containers it would be a new programming language, framework, or another agile methodology. Your argument has very little to do with containers.

Containers are just a better tool for writing OS configuration scripts. (If your team is full of Chef experts then it's not "better" for your team, but for a lot of teams it is).

What you're saying applies a lot more to microservices, which are a fundamental architecture choice. Containers aren't, they're just better than a tangle of bash scripts which create stateful VMs. And the problems you're describing apply no matter which tools a team uses.

Remember that you can use containers without complicated orchestration or microservices. I think a better argument would be to untangle these three things and describe how each one can solve certain problems or make the problem worse, and under which conditions.
Pretty good public transportation. Metro, busses and trains will bring you most places.

I've lived in Copenhagen for 3 years now and don't own a car. I am not an outlier.
step 6: move back in with your parents at 31