skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmmm, this is a really interesting line of logic.

With this logic, I think you can look at the income share agreement more as us taking on the risk rather than aligned incentives.

The problem with some potentially good career coaching services out there is that charging students thousands of dollars upfront without actually having placed them yet just feels unfair.

On the other hand, with income sharing, students know we have a similar risk of getting nothing out of the experience as they do, which motivates us to make their experience as impactful as possible.

Even if we continue at an extremely high rate of placements, let's say 95%+, for the other 5% of students where the worst case happens, the income share agreement model is much better than upfront payment because the cost of these invested advising hours and resources is on us rather than on the student.

Outside of that, I think from a purely revenue perspective you're basically right that the incentive to invest a lot of time for a little salary is not incentivized.

Part of the reason why we are still incentivized to put effort into our students (especially if we can track measurable results) is that those results will ultimately lead to much better user acquisition anyways, especially since we expect natural referrals for Pathrise to be one of our main sources of growth moving forward.

I do have to admit though, that though this is a very real incentive core to our business, it isn't an incentive that's actually integrated into the revenue model itself.
I was also frustrated with the poor git support by blueprints. I ended up just writing long commit messages so that I could read about what I (thought) I had changed
That's true. You do have the option to disable it though.

Seeing as Go was suggested above (which is also garbage collected), I figured I would mention Nim too.
>Declare anyone against you as against women in business.

ie Sophia Amoruso, who ran her company into bankruptcy and immediately jumped into running a media company and having a Netflix show about women in business
DigitalOcean's Remote Culture
I'm so disappointed that California doesn't have something like Mexico's Seismic Alert System, which has historically given 60 seconds of warning before an earthquake.[1] Something like that could save so many lives.

"CIRES transmits earthquake early warning alerts through a network of VHF stations similar to the NOAA Weather Radio service in the United States, including use of Specific Area Message Encoding, but with faster lead times in order to issue more timely warnings within two seconds or less. CIRES offers alert systems for buildings and personal use, which also come pre-installed with the official warning sound used for earthquake alerts in Mexico. On its network of transmitters, CIRES issues required weekly tests every three hours to ensure receivers are connected to its network, as well as earthquake warnings when necessary. More than 90,000 users in Mexico City, including almost all public schools, have receivers. The Mexico City Metro additionally receives SASMEX alerts, although not for public dissemination but instead to stop trains or delay departures as necessary."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SASMEX
It is because Amazon purposefully depressing the earnings part of P/E by outlaying massive amounts into capex and R&D. They have a gross profit of ~$66b but a operating income of ~$4b. If they halved their operating expenses that ~$4b becomes ~$34b and the P/E becomes ~30 which is much more reasonable.
> most/all of those only ever had a single implementation each.

At its peak, there were many different vendors delivering JVM implementations. How we forget Kaffe, even.
I only know one person who this happened to (the ban). It took a somewhat ridiculous amount of abuse on their part. Like thousands of dollars worth of PC parts being used and returned.
Sure, for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Bsq5IcrFA
I think that’s the conclusion I ultimately reached. At one point I have to choose my principles, or rules of thumb, and realize that objectively, they’re going to be arbitrary, and intimately connected to my own set of circumstances most of which I had no control over.
> No they wouldn't. They still need to turn WebAsm/IR into assembly, which is the thing they already do today anyway. Nothing changes for compilers, other than the potential for optimizations gets much, much worse as the IR is comparatively crippled and restricted to the IR they already have.

Most compilers today have separate assembly generation for MIPS, ARM, x86_64. They could turn source into WebAssembly and no more (the job of WebAssembly -> native is left to some other architecture specific compiler).

> This has never been the result of CPU instructions. That's a library problem, not an IR problem. WebAsm does nothing to help with this, particularly as it intentionally has no real standard library to speak of.

If any one language targets WebAssembly, as long as you resolve your libraries within that language, you'll be able to deploy to any target that supports WebAssembly. This is pretty much the defacto solution to the library problem in a variety of ecosystems: in Java you'll make a fatjar and in C/C++/Rust you'll make a staticly linked binary.

> WebAsm is an intermediate, not a source. Formally verifying it is about as useful as formally verifying assembly. Which is to say, not useful at all. That doesn't help you verify anything about your code, which was a compiler, optimizer, and god knows what else away from the webasm that was generated.

Are you familiar with binary analysis?
I agree. Particularly because the voice acting is usually just distracting you from what you're reading. There you are, reading the fifth sentence, and the voice is still slowly speaking the beginning of the second one.
Nor tobacco, firearms or alcohol as I understand it.
XxHash for small keys: the impressive power of modern compilers
Agreed.

In the UK the SMB accounting market is owned by Freeagent and Xero, which are both really easy to use. We used QB for a short period of time. It was a terrible piece of software and we couldn't dump it fast enough. They are still entrenched in the US but I wouldn't expect their so-called competitive advantage of "hard to use" to last.
Lunar Soil – Steam time
> It's one less thing to think about.

I've been a professional C++ programmer for almost two decades (and a C++ amateur for almost a decade before that). I've written large amounts of fairly advanced C++ using the latest standards.

My current job however, is all plain C.

One of the interesting (and, for a C++ fan like me, disturbing) things I've found is that the cognitive load is much lower when writing plain well-structured C.

Sure, you need to remember to release that lock and free that memory but this you can do in a very structured way. What you win over C++ is that you don't need to view each line of code with suspicion ("What happens if this line throws an exception?", "I wonder what this line will cost in terms of performance?", "Could this operation cause a cascading destruction of objects I'm going to access further down?").

I love RAII, yet I've debugged enough crashes where "seemingly innocuous operation destructs some local object that has an owning reference to an object that shouldn't be destructed just yet and BAM!", that I'm beginning to doubt its usefulness outside of an exception-generating language (in C++ it's essential for proper exception-handling).
Facebook: Hey everyone! No more cryptocurrency ads.

Google: We're banning them too.

Big Pharma: But not us right?

Google: No, we appreciate your business...

Facebook: How much are you looking to spend??
> A lot of people simply don't understand why source control isn't a problem solved 100% by tooling in a way that requires little to no interaction at all.

This is true of basically all problem domains: "Why isn't X easy? Can't you just do Y?" And it usually just indicates that the person asking the question doesn't appreciate how difficult and nuanced a real solution to X is.

Real-world problems are often difficult and have non-obvious, sometimes-intractable challenges. "Easy" solutions often cause more problems than they solve — there's a reason why more complicated tools like git have taken over from less-capable tools like Subversion and CVS.
I believe this is how bullet trains avoid catastrophe in Japan. They have an early warning system and the trains stop before the actual ground starts trembling.
I think you're using the words differently than the post you're replying to. As defined in that post:

"apps": entertainment or disposable

"software": serious, mission critical

Aside from the difference in terminology, it sounds like your opinions go in the same general direction.
Ranging from 10 minutes to 3.5 hours (from lofoten to bodø, longest I've taken, but there might be other longer routes).

You often end up going on multiple ferries on a trip, and timing ferries is an art ;)

If you want to travel between Bergen and Stavanger (A regular route for many people between two major cities on the south-west coast - along European Route E39 - total 5h travel time) you'll hit two ferries [2] - Halhjem->Sanvikvåg (40 min) and Arsvågen->Mortavika (22 min). In the past you'd hit 3 ferries, but one was replaced by one of the world's deepest and longest subsea tunnels[3].

A popular scenic route along Helgelandskysten has 6 ferries[4].

Amount of ferries required for a trip has been slowly dropping as we try to tunnel and bridge the most trafficked routes (ex: one of the world's longest suspension bridges - the Hardanger Bridge[5]). However, some of our fjords are really wide and over 1000 meters deep, I guess ferries are here to stay as building infrastructure is really hard in this country :)

[1]: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bergen/Stavanger/@59.6316846...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_route_E39#The_E39_Fer...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bømlafjord_Tunnel

[4]: https://www.nasjonaleturistveger.no/en/routes/helgelandskyst...

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardanger_Bridge
Despite the article's prolific use of "Attorney General Sessions," the bill would not only apply to him, but to all future Attorneys General.
Why does the internet have the power to hand out punishment?
Does WASM provide a canvas API at least (i.e. something more advanced than pushing pixels to a buffer)?
It's definitely possible. Japan, which is situated in another earthquake-prone region, has built an Earthquake Early Warning system.[0] It saves lives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Early_Warning_(Japa...
Looks awesome. Have you used it? How was the learning curve?
Similar experience here - I had a team of developers who had to move off of an internal TFS server to Bitbucket / git. I gave them all of the reference/doc links, gave them a brief overview about how git in fundamentally different than a centralized VCS. At the end of several sessions w/git (using git bash on Windows), their comment to me was: "But we're using to clicking on buttons in Visual Studio"
Martin Shkreli = 7 years, $7.5M fine

Investor capital lost = ~$0

Elizabeth Holmes = $500k fine, D&O bar

Company value lost = ~$8 billion
Whitelist closing on Monday 19th – Auctus
Does the author even know how reddit works? The vote numbers you see aren't real (sidebars and faq on the site itself explain this see https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq ) and many subs don't let you downvote unless you join them. Reddit is no panacea or utopia and has plenty of issues of its own, as pointed out by many already.
If they can text everyone about an Amber Alert dozens of miles away, they can text everyone about an incoming earthquake. No sense how this doesn't exist yet.
isn't there some personal responsibility to teach yourself these things and not be stupid? Why do government funded schools have to teach people everything? And what subject will we cut to teach these things?
Every time tech people invent a new way for people to interact, someone comes along and figures out a way to use it for a scammy interaction. And it's effective because it is new, which means it is both exciting and poorly understood.
I can't recommend inoreader.com enough. A worthy successor to Google reader. (I am not affiliated, just a happy user)
In my opinion, the most natural definition is the circumference of the unit circle, which is tau. The area of the unit circle is then simply the integral: tau/2*r^2.

Start at the lowest dimensional property (1D).
I am strictly referring to bank accounts and the like here. I want no such digital ID for citizenship/residency.

Edit: Granted it would end up being something that could be used like that most likely, but perhaps there is a way to limit the scope?
> I don't think that means you shouldn't be subject to some reputational consequence.

Why not? What if they were just unlucky? Why do you get to decided whether their reputation suffers?
We don’t have a yearly subscription so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.

If they accidentally renew we will. It makes business sense to keep customers happy and we want our users to really be getting the benefits of the app.

I feel that you may have a negative view of the entire subscription model not our application of it :)
The us govt actually sponsors some good (free) first aid training like https://www.dhs.gov/stopthebleed. That class is worth it, and i carry a basic 1st aid kit from Dark Angel medical in my backpack/car now.

I feel like I'm not very likely to need to perform CPR, but I've seen two people sustain major injuries doing yard work of all things. The 2nd time it took about 20 minutes for EMS to arrive. Had their cut been a bit deeper things could have easily ended up being much worst, and my crappy attempt at stopping their bleeding with a towel would have done nothing.

Stop the bleed is a 1 hour class, everyone should take it.
Yes, but look how much of the software economy's infrastructure* depends on underfunded products. OpenSSH, GnuPG and OpenSSL are just 3 projects which are installed on pretty much every Linux server on the internet, including the servers of billion-dollar-businesses. It got a lot better in recent years, but still: Quite a few economically viable software companies just depend on free labor for mission-critical software product which take a lot of resources to become solid.

And while we are at it:
http://www.openbsdfoundation.org
https://gnupg.org/donate/
https://www.openssl.org/support/donations.html
> Java and Perl came along (and later, Python).

Perl 1987, Python 1991, Java 1995 (cf. Wikipedia "first appeared" info).

But yeah, the "coming along", i.e. gaining traction, may be said in that order.

Minor nit, a very level-headed assessment.
I've been using Newsbeuter but my needs are very minimal.
Depends on the state. In my state lawyers are not forbidden.
Why is there such a culture of fake it till you make it in SV? If the tech is good, no need for faking. If the tech is bad, figure it out, don't fake it. Otherwise, if it doesn't work and it is faked, things will get really bad and at worst lives could be lost.

It seems like there is a lot of stupid money around and a lot of scam artists trying to suck the supply dry.
> distribute the resulting new work

There are several mods of this sort in the Elder Scrolls community that work because they explicitly do not do this. You basically take an open-source engine and point it at an existing install of the game. It knows how to read all the original data files but does not do any modification or redistribution of them. AFAIK Bethesda explicitly gave them a blessing for this approach.
> some never even log in to take MOOCs they register for

> If we then look to justify why bother, its a little hard to warrant hosting costs, etc.

Presumably the people who never log in aren't imposing any load on the system, no? Just rescale to 2% of the size your user-metrics say you need.
It doesn't need a large number of gift cards, hence why debit/credit cards exist.
Any alert is better than no alert, but if you're sitting right on top of a fault it won't give you much time to act. I'd be surprised if it's even enough time to get under a desk.

Would any expert reading this like to comment?
I work in an Linux heavy company with open source core product. Quite a few developers use vim as their IDE and all the ops don't really use anything else.

I'm in the system files / remote box camp regarding vim, tho.
Tornado's are frequently a thing. Emergency services become easily overloaded.
So you could suggest your groups just move to IRC ... or something else more decentralized, which has an IRC gateway.
I’ve been using Inoreader for the past months, switching from NetNewsWire. It’s a web app, so now I have access outside of my Mac as well

Best part is that you can create a random email address to sign up to e.g., email notifications from organizations that don’t have RSS. This requires their 50 USD plan, but I’m just glad to support them!
Focal points are one of those things I didn't even know I was missing.
I self-host Selfoss (since about 3 years), pretty happy with it.

https://www.selfoss.aditu.de/
Isn’t she a pretty close relative of some congressman? If so, this could be a good test of how much justice there is left in the justice system. It’s pretty hard to deny she caused a significant amount of damage.
Achieving Human Parity on Automatic Chinese to English News Translation [pdf]
... You write as if Alexa wont also 'have already peaked and faded in popularity' in a couple of years. Growth doesn't mean shit. Retention does.

The example of fidget spinner is to highlight a counter example to the belief that selling well is an indicator for usefulness. It isn't.
I think you are overthinking it entirely
Inter-Universal Teichmüller Theory via Fumiharu Kato
That’s true. For what it’s worth this happened at an outdoor beach party, and they were concerned with the impression it would make. Far away but visible would not have fit their concerns. But yes don’t discount the danger of second hand smoke!
You're right, that was a poor description. But yes Hello is apparently based on Surface tech.
Regarding that[0]:

At ILC 2002 former Lisp giant now Python advocate Peter Norvig was for some reason allowed to give the keynote address like Martin Luther leading Easter Sunday mass at the Vatican and pitching Protestantism because in his talk Peter bravely repeated his claim that Python is a Lisp.

When he finished Peter took questions and to my surprise called first on the rumpled old guy who had wandered in just before the talk began and eased himself into a chair just across the aisle from me and a few rows up.

This guy had wild white hair and a scraggly white beard and looked hopelessly lost as if he had gotten separated from the tour group and wandered in mostly to rest his feet and just a little to see what we were all up to. My first thought was that he would be terribly disappointed by our bizarre topic and my second thought was that he would be about the right age, Stanford is just down the road, I think he is still at Stanford -- could it be?

"Yes, John?" Peter said.

I won't pretend to remember Lisp inventor John McCarthy's exact words which is odd because there were only about ten but he simply asked if Python could gracefully manipulate Python code as data.

"No, John, it can't," said Peter and nothing more, graciously assenting to the professor's critique, and McCarthy said no more though Peter waited a moment to see if he would and in the silence a thousand words were said.

0: http://smuglispweeny.blogspot.com/2008/02/ooh-ooh-my-turn-wh...
I hope everyone in California who reads HN is prepared with emergency supplies. At the very least stock up on emergency drinking water so that you won't have to go out of your way to get it if things get particularly bad. You'll have plenty of other things to worry about, so you may as well mitigate what's arguably one of the easiest and cheapest issues to prepare for now.
> an app people install on their phones for identity verification

I believe the consensus in the US that we don't want a form of national ID. Hence the use of Social Security numbers as a proxy for identification.
Link to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RickSteves/videos
Hello uses an IR emitter (I said cam but I wasn't thinking)
Dark matter is considered a likely candidate for catalysing galaxy creation. This could lead itself to keeping the ratios of regular matter to dark matter densities being largely the same across most galaxies.
Happy 0x50th Birthday, Donald Knuth
Is due. Just because something hasn't happened for some time doesn't by itself mean it's immminent. How are the distributions of earthquake events and magnitudes typically modeled?
The USGS has been working on one, the funding for rollout has been short with Trump zeroing out the line item in his budget requests.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-early...
I finally understand what you are saying: it's as if Uber is like Kozmo.com and Uber's service of safe, convenient, affordable transportation, despite existing in reality now, won't exist in some near future, much like Kozmo's subsidized service of same day turnaround of food, groceries, alcohol, coffee, home goods, etc. was part of a fleeting moment never to be realized again...
That isn’t that simple. https://www.sqlite.org/download.html has separate libraries for 32-bit and 64-bit windows, and you have to write code to figure out what DLL to load (see http://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/faq.w...)

Nowadays, you mostly can ignore x86, but I guess you still hit similar problems if you want your code to run on Windows for ARM, .NET core on Linux, etc.
Martha Stewart went to jail for lying to investigators, not for any other crime.
Why Hasn’t Samsung Ditched the Headphone Jack Yet?
This looks really similar to Apple's Live Photos with a bit of video stabilization.
I quite like feedbin.com. Simple, straightforward and reasonably priced.
AWS was surprising.

Stage 1: Railroads are going to be the next big thing. Smart play: Be one of the first with a railroad.

Stage 2: Everyone knows railroads are the next big thing. Tons of people are raising money to build railroads. Smart play: Sell those people the stuff to build railroads.
That's the general consensus on Reddit. Becoming a default sub is widely regarded as a death knell for a subreddit.

The best one are well focused, well moderated, large enough to not stagnate but without tipping over into 'lowest-common-denominator' mode.
https://miniflux.net if you like Go and hosting it yourself, there's also a hosted version that's paid though.
This is the real reason for why array indices start with 0, not 1
Here's the website for the project: https://www.shakealert.org/
How many of these businesses are fly-by-night vendors offloading junk-tier goods at inflated prices? Most of the unbranded goods are straight from Alibaba, with a 40%+ markup.

Just try buying batteries on Amazon. You'll wade through countless reviews claiming "counterfeit" before tiring and just buying some batteries that you hope are legit. Or driving to an actual store that you trust sells legit items on its shelves.

3rd party sellers are going to be a pain in Amazon's ass and a massive ding to their reputation if they don't fix it soon.
The point of the pizzeria (at least for its owners) is to make money. If you're spending 5 minutes at the destination cooking a pizza, that's either going to be one expensive pizza or the pizzeria is going out of business in a few months.
Wish more people saw his Iran special. Might make them think a little harder before sanctioning and/or drone-striking the shit out of that part of the world.

The man is an all-around hero.