skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you raise a good point; I don't believe the HomePod even merits your "oops". It's not being heavily marketed because it's not all that impressive.

It is definitely the best speaker around, multiple reviews say the sound quality is amazing. However, we are in a golden age of ML and the Siri on HomePod is a joke when compared to Alexa and Google Assistant. Apple's culture of secrecy has left them woefully behind in the AI race (where researchers love to publish).

I agree with you that Apple does not really know where to go next. Awesome AR glasses that actually sell and do amazing things? An amazing smart home assistant that can run your home, but is handleable with simple within the Apple eco-system? I don't think Apple has done anything that bold in recent years and will struggle like you say.

Unless Apple secretly is doing something truly "Wow" and they're just quiet about it. Otherwise, I believe Tim Cook will earn more and more comparisons to Steve Ballmer: Great for sales/stock price, missed out on a game changing era of technology.
That the system is stacked against us.
Provided someone steps up to help with the cost, Ruger’s ARX avoids led. http://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/ruger-arx-ammunition-wicked-...
>I'm not sure why this is highlighted as a bad thing.

It, in and of itself, is not presented as a bad thing.

It lays the foundation for a conclusion that someone with that goal, might be less that prefect at separating it from their good-faith attempt to report accurately on a sexualized office culture.

Of course there are people who will not trust Wu's motivations. However, I'm trying to avoid that tangent by presenting a line of thought where even the most honest attempts to be fair, honest, accurate, etc... can be confounded by other motivations and it's worthwhile to bring those up. In general people are really bad at isolating multiple goals, we typically use systematic approaches and/or review from other people to minimize their influence when seeking accuracy.
Yes, however, it already is enormously difficult to double-spend. If this were the actual motives of miners adding ever-more hash power, we ought to discuss at some point how secure is "secure enough" and at which point the added security has a higher cost than benefit.

Otherwise the whole thing sounds like the paperclip maximizer justifying its actions: "But if I burn this forest, we will have even more paperclips!"
It seems like the article can be boiled down to 2 points.

1.) Deficit increasing projects (Infrastructure the main example) should be conserved for when the economy is weak so the Government can use it as a way to introduce money into the economy.

2.) Increasing deficits during an economic strong period requires the Government to increase the number of lenders by increasing the interest rates, which in turn puts unneeded pressure on companies to increase their interest rates.

I have a couple of confusions from this article. Isn't beneficial for the Government to increase interest rates so they are able to cut the rates during the next recession to increase borrowing? Also, why is it bad for companies to be increasing their interest rates? I am presuming that the tax cut bill will introduce more money into companies to be able to increase their rates.

I'm always worried reading the opinion articles on Five Thirty Eight since they tend to have a left-ward leaning bias. Their articles that focus on statistics are usually fantastic.
Few UK universities have adopted rules against impact-factor abuse
Very well said. Can you link to some things she's written you'd recommend in particular?
Google explains how Chrome's new ad filtering feature works
Unicorn Coin gives 1 000 000 free coins
nice. upvote. hopefully Bernie runs again and Stefanie Kelton gets a platform to bring MMT ideas to the masses.
I've got a junior dev under me that has gotten so good that that the thought of that scenario has occurred to me.

I decided to come to terms with it by accepting that if that happened, it'd be the push I needed to spread my wings a bit.
That works because the Netherlands standardised all tickets. German ICEs and Thalys are one of the rare exceptions and have a work-around. That needs one central body organising and standardising travel across the country. Few countries operate that way.

But you're right, it's actually not impossible just unlikely to happen. And I must say I really enjoyed the Dutch system where you don't have to print paper every time.
> Google and other companies don't want customers.

What do they want, by your reckoning?
Interesting that you mention London; I was there not long ago and was surprised that the bus fare is a flat 1.20, no matter where you go. That's very cheap IMO, and with a low barrier to pay for it too.
Also many European cities subsidize public transport and it would not be possible any other way. It would be too expensive for its core demographic without subsidies and still be unprofitable.

https://www.openstarts.units.it/bitstream/10077/5892/1/vanGo...
I am not sure from where you are relocating from and to. but relocating between countries are called immigration.
just my experience:
-if you don't know anybody on your target location and are relying on HN for advice, you are going to have really hard time.
-if you don't have a very solid reason of why you are doing this that can carry you through it, you are going to have really hard time.

when people are doing this(me included) they are always think about bright side, think about the worst case that you can imagine happen and in reality it would be 10 time worse :D
Home values are extremely inflated from the low interest rates. Credit became so cheap so people could “afford” much more expensive homes. As rates go back up, housing prices SHOULD fall. I worry they won’t though and people will no longer be able to own a home unless they are pretty wealthy.
Nobody has had their career ruined. She's just had a job offer at one of the most prestigious and influential sources of opinion writing change their mind about hiring her.

It seems to me poor and distasteful use of language is a pretty reasonable reason to not want someone in that position.

There are plenty of outlets for idiot 4chan style insults in the world, I'm not sure we really need people from that community holding one of the top positions in tech journalism and opinion writing.
The principles were never there. That is, in cryptocurrency space, you have a small minority of "true libertarians" (who'll likely stay with PoW scheme), and then the vast majority made of scammers, greedy people, and clueless ones who just want to get rich quick.
In the case of a real emergency, the FCC allows you to use a Ham radio without a license.

Those radios don’t work like they do on TV and in movies. You don’t just pick up the microphone, start talking, and miraculously raise someone. You need to know how to use the myriad of settings. If you don’t know how to use it, you’re just going to waste time and battery. If you do know how to use it, you’re just a little study time away from getting a license, so you might as well get a license. Because you’ll need a license to use the radio to practice. I’ve got a General license, and if I didn’t regularly use my radios, I’d be befuddled in a real emergency. Baofeng’s are cheap, but they are about the most user-unfriendly radios out there, and you’ll need to practice using them.

Summary: get a license.
Good to know. Still I wonder how many of those folks would have driven a car.

Don't get me wrong; public transport is a great thing. But just pasting it onto a culture of driving cars is going to fail, at least at the start.
I don't need to have a license to display my company's name in a system font on the user's OS. The user needs to have a license to the font to be able to have it installed in their OS.

If I was shipping the font with my app, then I would need a license to the font.
I have to remember to fill up my gas tank to use my own car or charge my phone to use Uber. Both of these tasks require similar amount of work as reloading a public transport card online.
MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automated Attacks Exploiting Coherence Protocols
Tech salaries in India
Thousands of government, orgs' websites found serving crypto mining script
The public transit card in the Netherlands will automatically keep itself topped up if you enable it, makes public transit basically worry-free. Unless you're low on funds, of course. There's also a version which will just send a bill to your employer at the end of the month, but IIRC that one's quite pricey in comparison.
On the contrary, when comparing the percentage of homeless people with the average income and wealth in a city, many cities in US, including San Francisco and Seattle, stand out for their striking inequality.

Many cities in other developed countries are doing much better.
Someone living in a studio apartment or a one bedroom apartment is not a edge case; it is a very common lifestyle choice.
> There is however also the european court of justice; again, not to be confused with the europea[n] justice court.

I really hope those names are more distinct in French or German something. Otherwise, they really need to work to make them less confusing.
If you haven't already, be sure to talk to the manager at the library to leave this feedback. They can't improve what they don't know.
It's pretty embarrassing to get caught. Prepare for angry fast German, a fine and threats of jail. Probably less funny when you live there and commute regularly :D
I we had better Job security. A dignified retirement system. Perhaps a job guarantee or transition job for the unemployed, there would be little need to save. Savings causes recessions.
You didn’t ask for technical interpretation, you asked why you keep getting negative feedback. A number of people have pointed you in the direction of “why” and your response is to blame everyone except yourself.

That’s... pathological.
Why does every piece of software have to be an """experience""" now? I don't want experiences. I want simple, usable tools that stay out of my way.

Why does it feel like every standard piece of software has been completely overtaken by marketers and designers? Do software developers actually get input on software written today by major companies? Or is it all driven by marketing and business analysts?

Software is a tool. It's like a hammer. I don't want my hammering to be an "experience". I am just trying to pound a nail. Same with my email client. I don't want an email "experience", I want a simple and productive tool that stays out of my way. Ideally, it should be easily extensible and feature keyboard shortcuts, a keyboard based workflow, and support for macros and API interaction.
Thank you! I was wondering whether I could use ‘diminutive’ or not in that context.

I happen to be Norwegian, by the way - and Dutch happens to be quite fascinating in that there are enough similarities with Norwegian and German for me to be able to read Dutch well enough to understand what is going on - I’d never read a novel in Dutch, but newspapers are fair game.
> To my fellow maintainers: stay harsh on code and don't be afraid to say "No" or "Why?"; there really are more bad ideas than good ones, and complexity is such a bright candle for us hacker-moths.

A breath of fresh air in the day and age of installing package managers to install another package manager to install an autoloader to load the plugin for the transpiler for the code we haven't started writing yet.[1]

1 - http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/05/10/a-moment-of-nostalg...
Which DB operations included into the test is not something you also might have to perform with neo4j?
The classic combo of Matrox for 2D and 3Dfx for 3D. Surprisingly Matrox still exists.
But it's also easy to store bitcoins in a way that makes them hard to destroy.

Idiots destroy wealth in all sorts of stupid ways.
My direct ISP is a local monopoly.

My direct ISP is also a vertically integrated global media conglomerate which lobbies for abusive copyright practices, and maintains a large catalog of entertainment IP, which it walls-off from other providers, for the purpose of limiting competition.

My VPN provider may collect data. But they're not fucking evil monopolists.

And the other not-too-delicate point:
MOST of the harm that comes from data collection is not Gillette learning that you have sensitive skin and might benefit from a 7-blade razor.

MOST of the harm comes from LARGE corporate entities aggregating huge datasets from large quantities of people, such that they can draw statistical inferences. There can be a small subset of weirdos - who adblock and vpn. Doesn't matter, because all their neighbors share their data openly. The weirdos who protect themselves are still statistically outed - and even if they aren't the idiot neighbors are exposed to fake news, shitty campaign ads, and they vote, and that affects policy and law which applies to all of us, and that's why we should ALL be using VPN, but that's certainly not going to happen, and if it did, the VPN companies would just sell our data to aggregators anyway.
That depends on how taxes are collected. It might be true or not depending on the city.

As an example of why it can be bad, argentina has subway in Buenos Aires, and it used to be federally owned. That meant taxes from all the country paid for subway in the city.

OTOH if you have income taxes (i think they do), as a renter, you will pay a tax that goes to build a subway that makes the rent where you live higher.

My concerns of free public transportation would be that it would encourage very strange discentives. For example, a postmates company can say that all deliveries are done on public transport, which means basically the state will be subsidizing some kinds of businesses, to the detriment of others (whole sale retailers for example).

Also free transport will make people extend their commutes, because now a very long trip doesnt matter if its costly. This happens in argentina.
The library served the same function for my father when I was growing up. He could take us there, we'd do our homework, and there was a solid social code enforcing silence and focus. At the end, we got to pick out some new books to read.
> always had to lie, cheat, and steal your way into the field

Back in the 90's, when I wanted to move up to working with C++ (the hip, new, "in" thing at the time), I bought a book about C++, read through it, worked the examples, and then started interviewing. The interviewers asked all sorts of arcane questions that I hadn't come across in my few months of study, so I was tanking the interviews. The trick I figured out back then, though, was that the interviewers all tended to ask the same sorts of questions - so after getting my rejection, I'd go look up what the answers to all their questions were so that the next time I was asked the same question, I'd know the answer. I did eventually get a job doing C++ (and did well at it), but... yeah, looking back it was maybe a little bit dishonest.
Do you live in a small town? I've found that when I go home to visit my parents at their small town, it does feel slightly uncomfortable to be the only one on a laptop in any cafe.
I'd ask that we consider a different spectrum than good and bad, but naive and abused.

Look at LL Bean and their cancellation of their lifetime warranty [1]. That linked article talks about abuse of the warranty, but I'm fairly sure people were trolling through ebay + thrift shops and buying items to return and resell as new. That's abuse and they had to make changes to it.

Or consider how widely reviled PayPal is for how they "take" their customer's money and lock it up. I had a friend who worked there that described it as "a fraud detection company that occasionally takes payments". You can't even imagine the ingenious lengths people go to commit fraud and rip PayPal and other people off. So they have by necessity become this draconian organization.

When Google/Gmail was small it was easier, they were more naive. But now? I imagine every scammer in the world is trying to corrupt and steal gmail accounts as a stepping stone to greater fraud - and some significant portion are trying to do so by claiming that someone else's account was hacked and that ney need special access.

I don't think there's any easy answers to these thorny problems but forcing it into a false good/bad dichotomy isn't helping.

1 - https://slate.com/business/2018/02/l-l-bean-has-ended-unlimi...
Sure, but that's not as fun as the, uh, "organic" connection you can make over radio.
> Your private server can afford to not be inter operable with Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL, but not Google.

Citation needed. This is the opposite of much of the world of work, where emails often both originate and terminate in Exchange Servers, not touching gmail servers.
They seem to be on the other side of the extreme though.
Id say they are unrelated topics. Germany does not have the homelessness issue Seattle has.
Are novels not allowed?
>I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus’ thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe. If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. [tapping on pulpit] It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that’s the strong person. The strong person is the person who can cut off the chain of hate, the chain of evil. And that is the tragedy of hate, that it doesn’t cut it off. It only intensifies the existence of hate and evil in the universe.

Many of the so called and supposedly tolerant "social justice warriors" and the "PC crowd" would do well to understand this principle.

While indeed they may have a valid point about the vile hatred which their enemies are spreading, many of them become overridden by that hatred and echo it back creating a negative feedback loop.

>And this is what Jesus means, I think, in this very passage when he says, "Love your enemy." And it’s significant that he does not say, "Like your enemy." Like is a sentimental something, an affectionate something. There are a lot of people that I find it difficult to like. I don’t like what they do to me. I don’t like what they say about me and other people. I don’t like their attitudes. I don’t like some of the things they’re doing. I don’t like them. But Jesus says love them. And love is greater than like. Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody, because God loves them. You refuse to do anything that will defeat an individual, because you have agape in your soul. And here you come to the point that you love the individual who does the evil deed, while hating the deed that the person does. This is what Jesus means when he says, "Love your enemy." This is the way to do it. When the opportunity presents itself when you can defeat your enemy, you must not do it.

As he says, you don't have to like your enemy, but you should strive to understand them and where they are coming from as a human being; rather than writing them off as irrevocably stupid and completely irrational, as is done repetitively by either side in the 2 party system.

This is not merely a religious/moral principle, but a strategic/practical one:

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
> Gmail is a channel that Google has under monetized for a decade

Not because they're all nice and charitable.

But because Google sometimes sucks at monetizing things.
Problem is that this can get you in legal trouble after a few times. While first offender cases always get dropped, you'll get a court date if you get caught too often. I once witnessed a case where someone had to spend a short time in jail because of that. He got caught 13 times over two years (not sure how he managed that) but still appears quite harsh. The fact that Germany doesn't have massively overcrowded jails shows that most people end up paying at some point.
As far as I know, academic education is not meant to deliver practical skills, but rather theory and deeper understanding. CS degree is not a programming degree but the equivalent of theoretical physics.

It's become an unfortunate trend that the academy has somehow become stuck with the role of doing vocational education, rather than research and theory.
Great to know, thank you. Was the pricing reasonable?
I think you are being downvotes for the word "clearly". I think that is an extraordinary claim and requires something to back it up. I'd say (and have said [0]) that the fiat value of cryptos is the least valuable part of this technology.

0: http://isg-one.com/research/research-detail-page/cryptocurre...
I came to the comments to recommend a subscription model as well. If it's a great place, I would mind doing this at all.
I applaud EU countries of being so considerate about pollution and climate change, be it renewable energy, pollution control by traffic and other industries. On the other hand we have my country India where in budget 2018, not much attention is given to any of these matters.
> So Cryptocurrencies was all along the plan of Aliens to limit our quest to find them /s

That's just a side effect that prevents us from discovering them. The true purpose is to accelerate the process of making Earth more habitable to alien life (and less habitable to us). Apparently aliens like CO₂ and hot climate (makes me wonder why they don't just settle Venus, but maybe it's too warm for them there).
Isn't this the goal of every programmer? Programming their way out of a job?
Promises are not neutral enough
Personal story time...

I was a journeyman electrician for nearly a decade before obtaining my CS degree. The company that hired me, in order to pay me what I was making as a topped-out journeyman, brought me in as a Senior Developer (and its corresponding pay "bucket"). This was my first job actually developing software and I was, in title, a "Senior Developer," even though I knew next to nothing other than what was covered in my college curriculum.

TLDR: Titles don't mean much...
If you're mentoring jr devs ten it's going to be years before they rise up high enough to have any influence on you getting promotion.
“Scariest flight of my life”
This. Loyalty is a two-way street. Seeing a series of one-year terms on a resume means that the candidate is probably mercenary now, but it also means that none of those previous companies invested anything into retention or morale. They could probably be converted back to a company stalwart if only someone would treat them right.

On my resume, the "at-will" terminations outnumber the number of times I jumped ship for a better situation, 5 to 1. This last year's raise was just a cost of living increase, and they crappified the health benefits, so I may have to even those numbers up a bit soon. The only thing stopping me is the horrid, nauseating, bile-raising gauntlet of developer interviews.
Check out gridcoin. Its a cryptocurrency that rewards you for using boinc.
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And you have a perfect method of attributing causality in the social sciences? If this monetary crisis wasn't used as a tool to fuel antisemitism in Germany, I will eat my shoe.
When you move country, financial accounts can be a pain. Particularly when it relates to the US.

You might find it easier not to tell your bank/broker that you've moved abroad. Many US insitutions will close down your account if they find out you've left the country. If you have enough cash (I think the min. is $25,000) Charles Schwab International is a good one to go with.