skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say this is true for a lot of jobs like CEO of a big company, corporate lawyer or even being politician (who would want to go through the grueling campaigning necessary to run for president?). Most people don't want to put in the hard work to of these jobs. Myself included.

I am not saying that this justifies the crazy high pay of CEOs but it's a tough job.
Not specific ad targeting (what ever that means). Every other use I am sure is full speed ahead. Machine learning, group ad targeting, prediction algorithms for google assistant, etc. I have used gmail for a long time and recently my employer switched over. Got me really thinking about alternative ecosystems but still have not made any big changes.
Counter point: I love programming, but it also pays very well (due to value it creates, and supply/demand for programmers)
Is there a reason to do this other than security against DB rollbacks? It seems like a lot of complexity to add another stateful (micro?)service just to solve this problem. It's certainly trivial to implement—it's probably even interview-sized—but it doesn't sound trivial at all to operate, since it has reliability, scalability, security, and possibly NIH concerns. (Am I building this on top of another database? On top of a Paxos of some sort? What happens during an extended network partition?)
Thanks for the tip, I just added it back.
This is pretty cool. From just reading the repo, it's built on this library I'd never heard of before called Yue[0] that seems to be similar to electron, but more lightweight.

[0]: https://github.com/yue/yue
> ASK FOR FACTS, NOT OPINIONS.

Three of the four examples you give - polite, safe, good communication - are mostly opinions, though.
> few come to US public schools

This is a list of universities with the most international students:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/25-us-univ...

The vast majority of them are public schools.
What if it didn't get you on time because of you or because of an external event that couldn't have been planned for? Life is not black and white.
It can also be argued that countries in which the majority of the housing and labor markets are "off the books" are still pre-capitalist.

So just because much of the world is not post-scarcity, it doesn't mean that he's wrong.

I just don't know if attention really will be the new currency or whatever. I think that part's ridiculous.

The real danger to post-capitalist possibilities is greed and the effect greed has on structures. Crypto could be the vehicle to take us past capitalism, but it looks like it's just gonna turn into capitalism 2.0. An even better way for the rich to use their wealth to put pressure on those without it.
Is this article a total rip off of a reddit thread from yesterday?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8aqs7q/whats_a_j...

EDIT: I'm an idiot. The author mentions this fact. I should really read the full article.
Glad to hear we aren't the only ones. :)
I'm not an Ethereum expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I do know a bit about funds. This fund appears to suffer from an exploitable race condition. Suppose the owner of the fund changes the price by more than ~6% in a single transaction. Then anyone who has the power to race with the owner can buy at hte old price and sell at the new price or vice versa. Instant arbitrage!

This looks like it can probably by mitigated by changing the price in tiny steps and waiting for confirmations (slow and expensive) or by withdrawing the entire Ether balance of the fund, waiting for confirmation, changing the price, waiting for confirmation, and re-adding the balance (slow, expensive, and very very annoying).

Also, I would be amazed if this fund were not deemed a regulated security, in which case, if the operator is going to comply with securities laws, I see no benefit to using a smart contract at all.

Also, 3% fees for each transaction? Yikes!
about cabinet size: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.2202
The programming I love and web development are very different things.

Sadly, the latter is the most prevalent.
Most CEOs also don’t get crazy high pay, only the ones you hear about.
Make the top schools open up more seats, be they public or private.
Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes

It reminds me that life is suppose to be fun and not just about algorithm and technologies!
Hi make some good points, although he also refers to the profession of teaching as prestigious, which it is not. At least not in the United States, unfortunately.
My troop had a Heavy Cream Patrol which prided itself on making gourmet food in the backcountry. This usually meant carrying extra equipment, learning to cook well with both backpacking stoves and live fire (more than just boiling water), and spending extra time cooking at night. After hiking all day you are going to sit around the campfire anyway, why not make it a productive period? Plus there is nothing better than a stellar meal and dessert while sitting in a beautiful spot.

Cooking is still a way I relax and one way I show affection to friends and family. There is a certain satisfaction from having a meal where you raised and/or made every item on the table from raw materials. For instance this morning I made my wife and I egg sandwiches with sourdough bread we baked yesterday morning, red pepper jelly we put up last year, onions we grew and stored over winter, bacon we smoked from a hog we helped raise, eggs from some chickens we help take care of, and microgreens we grew in the basement. We (clearly) live in a rural-ish setting so I realize what is possible for us is not possible for those living in a major metro area (except maaaaybe Portland), but aspects of this are possible almost anywhere if you want to try.

Then there is the nerd factor where you can get into the science of cooking a la modernist cuisine and that takes it to a whole other level in engaging with my engineering side....
It is a response to it, which I, the author, call out in the 7th paragraph.
What do you do when you want to find the value a pointer points to? You dereference it of course!

C++ and Java have their own specific language-lawyer definitions of the word reference, but outside of those languages, "reference" is a catch-all term that includes pointers, handles, and indexes.
There are different views of sustainability. My view is that the only path is continued progress. Here is what I write early on in the book https://worldaftercapital.gitbooks.io/worldaftercapital/cont...
Applebees could be all cooked by Robots also since all their food is microwaved frozen food. (I tell friends if you can't smell (edit) cooking outside the restaurant they are just a microwave kitchen.)

Fast food could also be run by robots fairly easily. I am imagining in 15 years most places will have robots doing the majority of cooking in restaurants. They won't spread disease, make food consistently, won't call out sick nor require an hourly wage.
An alternative is "no union" obviously.

It works for other government employees, active duty military for example, and I wouldn't think your average E-1 has any more negotiating leverage than an individual public school teacher.

Military has IG; that could perhaps serve as a model to protect those employees in ways that they ought be protected but without the thuggish protectionist aspects that unions often fall to.
Is that a problem of scarcity though?

In most other developed countries, there is some form of universal healthcare, and this hasn't caused these countries to come grinding to a halt. Which suggests that the problem in the US is not "scarcity" but how the existing resources are allocated.
> Chefs / Pastry Chefs (Delightful): Lots of people love cooking or baking (including me!) and they think that means that it would be a good career. Unfortunately, based on the basic principles of supply and demand, this leads to more people wanting to be chefs than one would see if it didn’t look so fun. Too many cooks spoil the market for restaurant labor.

I am not sure if the author ever talked to a cook or a baker.
First time I'm seeing Yue [0]. Seems like C++ w/ some Lua and JS bindings. Are there C bindings available so it can be used in other ecosystems without writing C++ glue? Writing a lib in C++ is rough for sharing across ecosystems and I'd say is a reason Qt and wxWidgets aren't more widespread than they already are.

0 - https://github.com/yue/yue
I recently traveled to the states from Canada and was amazed at the number of places that didn't even have the infrastructure for chip & pin - I was at a popular tourist spot and it was all iPads & Square Readers.
Baggage Optimization
Don't worry, if it doesn't than the network will just fork to return all investors money. Because "the code is the contract" except when it's not.
I half expect to wake up some morning and find out that someone has figured out the killer app (mass market) for Eth or the blockchain in general, but stuff like this also makes me wonder if it can go on indefinitely, without producing any real value other than investing in itself with money hungry crowds and hopefuls (especially those invested) propping it up.

It's been years since Eth launched and this and Cryptokitties are about it.

Currently investing in a range of different cryptocurrencies requires a lot of technical knowledge. This has spawned the need for easy way to invest while reducing entry barriers.

Ex. Is a lack of funding something that's really limiting what's possible there? You'd figure with the millions thrown at projects that don't have anything to show (Eth at the beginning, even), that if there was really some problem searching for a solution, someone would have hit it. I suppose that could seem luddite-ish.
I disagree. I feel chasing money is a sure fire way to end up miserable. If you don't get there, you were doing something that was making you unhappy for nothing. If you do get their and up rich, you might find the money doesn't really bring you what you were after anyway.

It seems a dangerous gamble.
It's not as much of a 'rip off' as a commentary on it. It specifically mentions the AskReddit thread in the article.
I am a business account. I have an option to pay more each month and not experience these limits. Is that not what net neutrality is designed to avoid?
> wat? By "top edge" do you mean "it's showing a resize cursor"? And if yes, is there a difference between double-clicking there and doubleclicking the titlebar? Genuinely curious.

Yes, in Windows since 8 (i think) if you doubleclick on the top edge (where the mouse cursor becomes the top/down arrows) you maximize the window vertically (its width remains the same as it was).

> What is it about the freedom to move windows anywhere that is particularly appealing? I ask because I'm trying to get a bit of design perspective.

It is really what you wrote: being able to put things wherever i like and at the size that i like them (the size bit is important since with tiling you can only resize on one dimension), but also because i want to be able to overlap things when that makes sense.

> I think I'm trying to rank the un/usability of tiling versus MDI window grouping (which I can see breaking down outside of carefully scoped situations).

I think that it isn't that different from regular tiling vs floating/overlapping window management (regardless of MDI). But this might be my own bias since i also prefer overlapping window managers to tiling window managers for similar reasons.

> Interesting! I'm curious why. The different aesthetic of a bigger icon? (The task buttons did also have an app icon)

Note that i'm talking about the MDI subwindows here, not the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Here is an image showing what i mean:

https://i.imgur.com/Asi9rk8.png

On the left side is the Windows 3.1 File Manager and on the right the linked File Manager (basically the same program but improved a bit) running in Windows 10, in both cases with three MDI subwindows open, two of them being minimized at the bottom left area of the main window.

On Windows 3.1 the minimized MDI subwindows have a clear icon showing what exactly they are and a clearly visible caption. On Windows 10 the minimized MDI subwindows use a "tiny" framed appearance instead of an icon, the caption is not visible at all and you basically have no idea what you are looking at. Note that on Windows 95 and NT4 (which used the same look/theme) things were slightly better, but not much:

https://i.imgur.com/5pKYvcv.png

Personally i think the bigger and clearer icon, the caption below the icon and the lack of a border/titlebar/buttons/etc that in Win95 and later only waste space is superior both from a visual and from a practical perspective.

> I'm guessing that infrastructure was primarily built out at all for Program Manager.

In Windows 3.1 everything used that, even the Program Manager was an MDI application and the groups were just minimized MDI subwindows. In Windows 95 they changed the look for the minimized subwindows to use the look i show in the shots above instead of using icons, but i remember reading in the win95 visual design guidelines about icons in MDI windows that were supposed to be about something else. However i haven't seen any program using that and the code that previously (in Windows 3.x) created minimized windows as icons, in Win95 created minimized windows as those long bars.
Even nowadays Excel is not fully SDI - if you do VBA or work with 3rd party add ins, there is a whole bunch of stuff that goes wrong since Excel is a SDI interface put on top of a MDI program.
I think you will find very few people who disagree with the abstract idea of "progress," but that isn't really a program.
Artificial Intelligence and Drone Surveillance:Why Pentagon and Google Teamed Up
Is the UK most advanced? In Australia they can pay for anything up to $100 with tap. Over $100, they can still tap, but then need to enter their PIN into the terminal (i.e. no need to insert the card for PIN entry – a tap is sufficient). We don't have that in the UK.
My first reaction was that this looks cool. A friend has been looking for an open ended fund/ICO on the ethereum blockchain.

But, reading through this has left me confused as to what am I looking at? I can be wrong but my understanding is that this is meant to serve as a framework for anyone who wants to start an open-ended fund. If that is the case - what kind of audits have been done on the code?
I _think_ you could set up a direct debit, for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm although this was almost ten years ago, i think the protections are still the same.
Ask HN: List of programmable AR glasses
I made Crème Brulee at a camporee with my Troop once. They still talk about it.
Is there an active site for that?

https://tt-rss.org/ seems to be gone/down.
The one part of live encoding that needs innovating is RTMP for ingest. It's crazy to me that this lousy protocol is the first step for most live video.
Driving data collection device (from MIT)
Awesome! ...also kinda depressing that it's neccessary.

Hey Slack! How about an app for your service that doesn't grind my macbook pro to a halt?
Average life spans in the first world beginning to actually fall is a sign of some kind of decline.
Yes, doing things for money does have a tendency to suck the joy out of those things.
Or a pilot, or anybody who works in television, or cancer researchers, or professors, or...
The opposite of scarcity is not abundance. There is a state in-between which I call "sufficient." See https://worldaftercapital.gitbooks.io/worldaftercapital/cont...
The plan is to shut down the coordinator when network will be big enough. Even with the coordinator running, to say that Iota is not a crypto currency is quite wrong (also it is much more than a currency). In any case, to not mention Iota in an article about "IoT and blockchains" is just plain dumb considering this is the certainly the major project in this field (even if it only to mention that Iota is not running a blockchain but a DAG, and that it is not currently fully decentralized)
I am personally very interested in developing a robot that is able to wield a knife and slice food, particularly healthy vegetables.

Here's a compilation video of various food robots from July 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRngacYpi7E
http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html
This is not a new situation...

I was involved with Australia's chip-and-pin switch in 2006. At the time, we were amazed how slow USA was getting rid of magstripe cards and signatures. And that was 12 years ago...
When you are in the position to do so, hire people with unconventional backgrounds. Prefer the un-credentialed person with promise who had to drop out of university because they had a kid; take the rough diamonds; ignore the degree and look at the experience or side projects or life story.

How?

Demand a cover letter with every application. Weight that massively higher than the resume. In interviews, select overwhelmingly for raw intelligence and grit - look for a spark in the conversation; go off the track a bit and ask about broader implications of some thing you're working on; probe for resilience and determination in overcoming problems.

Then, keep in mind the composition of your entire team when hiring. Try to build a heterogeneous group with a variety of skills and experience. You could use a few top-school people for sure; they have great polish and poise and facility with words (usually) and those attributes are useful in representing your company to others.

By far the easiest way to let this happen is to have a very wide default accept at the resume review stage.

Point is, no one person is in a position to make that broad systemic change. Make some changes in your particular corner of the world and, over time, it'll spread.

EDIT: sorry, I think this should have gone under forgottenpass's succinct reply which is saying the same thing.
I'm pretty sure we've already got 24 L5 representatives, but they only represent their own interests instead of everyone else's.
There are many states where tipped employees earn the same minimum wage as non-tipped employees. The social expectation remains the same in those places.
Ah yes, like the environmental attack of a hair dryer used to bias a hardware-based RNG's external entropy.
Privacy Labs - Bellevue, WA - iOS Engineer - Full Time - Onsite - https://privacylabs.io/

We believe the internet has changed because of the proliferation of cloud services that commoditize personal data. Companies masquerade "free" services in exchange for something quite valuable: collecting and storing user data like emails, contacts, purchases, travel and browsing history.

At Privacy Labs, we are building a different future. We are on the verge of a new computing revolution - one that puts the user and their data first by decentralizing the net.

We are looking for an iOS engineer with Swift experience who wants to make an impact in consumer privacy and security by bringing passion for the problem and expertise to the team. As a key partner in our endeavor, you will be someone with an owner's mindset; someone looking to take on everything from owning a specific feature to looking for creative ways to improve the product as a whole. This role reports directly to the CTO.

While we aren't publicly disclosing details right now, we can say that it's strategically central to the company and is going to change how we think about where we store our data and how we access it.

Full position details and info on how to apply: https://privacylabs.workable.com/
One problem with this is that your credit card isn't technically valid unless it's signed with your actual signature. Piss off the wrong clerk who's having a bad day, and it would be completely within their right to deny the sale (or car or hotel rental).
That's not a pragmatic solution though. Where will the top schools find more "top" professors to teach and mentor all those new students? There are some legitimate logistical realities that constrict the size of top schools. I'm not sure they can be made any larger without compromising educational quality.
I think most people talking about the end of capitalism are imagining the system caving in on itself rather than its gentle evolution into a Utopian post-capitalist state.
MediaShift to Change Focus to Trainings, Events, Studio
The U.S. educational system is needlessly slow and expensive. In other countries you don't need to pay for four years of college before starting medical school or law school. For example, I think in India a woman can finish medical school at age 23, whereas in the U.S. it would be age 26, assuming she graduates high school at 18. If women and men complete their education earlier, it is easier to have both a high-powered career and a family.
Part 3 of the book is a program for that reason https://worldaftercapital.gitbooks.io/worldaftercapital/cont...
Having babies is problematic now, because wages.
> Outlier was in the UK where I had to sign and show photo id

How long ago was this? Signatures haven't been a thing here for well over a decade. Also is Paywave just contactless? Because we've also had contactless for a fair while.
Food prep is a small portion of that, you also pay people to clean the bathrooms, take orders, handle inventory and disputes, etc. Food prep on it's own is almost a rounding error.

You might be getting 30 seconds of time from people making minimum wage for a combo, but that's about it and even at 15$/hour that's well under 15 cents per order.
Project manager tracking powerpoint template
I think he folded the comment tree.
That's a super important clarification. I'm sure a lot of us loved algorithm optimizations and solving fun problems, but for the majority of us programming devolves down to "Modify a CRUD website template for the next 20-35 years".
slack-term is pretty great, but mentions don’t really work wells.
This isn't really any different from apps that use tabbed interfaces and the solution is the same: allow creating multiple toplevel frames.
Amazon S3 Select Is Generally Available (April 2018)
Show HN: Top Machina, a standalone Wear OS app runners and cyclists
I totally agree. However, SMS is a protocol that just works on ANY mobile phone.
Huh, good thing I love web development then.
Yup, 46/30 subcompact double and an 11-36 11spd cassette. Got a decently low gear to get home after a long day.
Not on blockchain. Blockchain technology is just not efficient enough (scaling, throughput, fees, processing power) to support IoT use cases. It uses a different approach based on Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAG) that they decided to rename "Tangle" (a pretty poor marketing decision imho)
Rewriting the headline as an exhortation rather than a warning we get:

For money, do what others hate.

But you can do what others love and get compensated if you're better than amateurs (those who labor for love) and in an industry where your customers can discern quality, care about it, and can afford it.
JavaScript Is Dead. Long Live JavaScript (2011)
It's not so much about doing things for money. If you want to pay me for whatever hobbies I would pursue in any case, I'll be happy to tell you where to deposit the checks. Rather, it's that what I want to do even without being paid for it is probably different from what someone will pay me to do.

I like doing photography and used to do it somewhat more seriously (and did make beer money off of it in school which was nice). But I had no illusions that I was likely to become a well-known globe-trotting nature or documentary photographer--or perhaps that I would even enjoy that as a full-time profession.
Perhaps not prestigious, but appreciated ("devoting your life to helping kids... that's wonderful!"), which must be a major factor that keeps people doing it, given the modest remuneration and difficulty/stress of the work (along with nursing and other welfare work).