skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you've described doesn't sound like a value-add at all to me. In stores they can manipulate your senses to get you to make emotion-based purchases whether or not it makes economic sense or if you're going to actually get your money's worth out of the product.

You only think it's better reading the manual on the way home and not waiting a few days because you're still riding that emotional high.

I much prefer the Amazon approach where feasible, because that detachment helps you keep a more level head while purchasing, which reduces the expenditures on frivolities and you'll have more savings for more meaningful things later.
So relative. This will essentially eliminates vast majority of married candidates with family and offspring obligations and older gens that just won't have a drink with you. Nor is it an effective measurement of a person's capabilities of doing their jobs. Well, maybe that's what some startups want.
But then how would we keep the Don Quixote imagery?
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True, but apparently that value was less than the cost to provide it.

Toys R Us is a pretty basic economic transaction. They sold toys, and the people buying them get the value. We're not dealing with public goods or externalities or any other type of market failure where this type of value might be tricky to pick up.
There are laws that specify that certain types of surveillance/tracking cannot take place. In most states, you cannot be recorded in the bathroom, for example. There are also federal laws against recording of audio in most public places - this is why casinos have incredibly sophisticated video surveillance and analysis software, but do not have microphones to listen in on conversations.

So the rules of the tracking and surveillance road are well defined, and most businesses adhere to those rules. All of the privacy complaints I have seen recently did not involve violations of the law. Rather, these complaints are essentially that people have a fundamental human right to use private services being run at the cost of private entities on the terms that users choose, which just isn't how the world works.
compared to leveraged borrowers is hardly a reasonable comparison as as toys r US did not fall into that category before the buyout.
I think you might be missing astura 's point: you are essentially doing your own thing, restricted to the investment choices your company made HOWEVER, the government gives you a tax break on it that is much bigger than the tax break they would offer if you just did an IRA at the company you picked.

I think it points out the dangers of government regulating too closely, but it IS a valid point.
Right, but my point is that the reason for not happening is not a lack of monetization strategies, but one of critical mass.

If a free software collaboration platform gains traction in the enterprise, it could be pushed as a safe alternative in the next data scandal, and maybe enough people could switch to it to become a viable public resource like Linux and Apache have been since the turn of the century. It's a plausible scenario, even if it's not guaranteed to happen soon.
> some left their corporate job and are mindlessly trying to be entrepreneurs

"mindlessly"?

What are they missing? I'm curious, because this is a path that has always appealed to me, but that I didn't take in my twenties or early thirties. I hope to be in a position to be able to do it in my late thirties, but am not committed to the idea.
I've realized in regards to 2016 elections, and probably Brexit vote, when you can't hack the election machines to give you the results you want, you hack the electorate to accomplish that. As a bonus, unallowed entry to computer systems is illegal, putting targeted ads and spamming Facebook/Twitter with bots? Not really illegal...
The job market is actually pretty healthy right now. Unemployment is nearing a 45 year low and prime age labor force participation rate has been on the upswing for about 3 years. We're also starting to see some growth in wages which is nice.

And sure, it's weird to contrast a theory of firm destruction being necessary for a vibrant economy with the reality of individuals you can point to losing their jobs but the fact remains that doesn't really distract from the truth of my statements. Just because it's a bit harder to point at specific individuals who will benefit from the demise of Toys R Us doesn't mean the link isn't real.
I mean you definitely need the culture for that, not every place is like that. Too often I have worked with people accusing me of not knowing about the Domain in question enough. (Even if it's something that can be learned in a short amount of time, if would be properly explained...) And what happens is then that I must work on something else.

Especially in really culturally old school IT places you need to earn your (invisible) badges.

So you are definitely right but at many places you shoot yourself in the foot with that big time...
"We're talking about thousands of people losing their jobs. These people then go into a smaller labour market where they compete with other vulnerable retail workers, affecting far more people."

Expand your time horizon a bit. Having freed up the malinvested resources, other enterprises will arise which will hire them, at jobs that are now almost by definition more solid than the one they left behind, since the one they left behind couldn't sustain itself.

"But what if they can't wait around?" They don't necessarily have to. The job market is not so tight that one job has to instantly open up as soon as one person is fired. There is some fluidity in it. The only place there will be any particular trouble would be around the HQ of Toys R Us; the individual stores are going to be in economies where the store going out of business is just a tiny blip hardly affecting the local retail employment environment.

"But what about the permanently unemployed?" Well, if you're used to the "new normal", be sure to have a look at the current unemployment trends before getting too far into that sort of argument.

And you have to consider the flip side as well. What if you got to go to work for Toys R Us, and it was guaranteed that you would be employed indefinitely there no matter how badly things went for Toys R Us? Sweet deal, right? Well, sure, but it's not going to be unique to Toys R Us, right? It's going to be the deal for everybody. We've got experience with what that "sweet deal" produces; read about the Soviet Union's economy. Would you rather have to find a new job every so often and live in the US, or be stuck in the Soviet Union? We don't have to hypothesize the answer to that; people are still falling over themselves to get into the US.

It is vital that people understand that creative destruction trades some short-term inconvenience for massive long term wins, lest we foolishly legislate short-term conveniences for massive long-term losses because we collectively stopped understanding the full story.
Similarly, it's also worth noting that the means of verifying a story or claim weren't widely available for a long time either. Seriously, go back to before photographs became a thing in 1839 or so. How did you verify any claims at all?

You usually just took people's word for it, or assumed their writings/paintings/memories were accurate. Unless you had the means to actively verify a claim yourself and the claim was about something you still could verify (aka the people involved weren't dead and the organisations and places there still existed), you never really could be sure.

And the same sort of setup goes for other forms of evidence too. Audio evidence, video evidence, even things vital to crime solving now like fingerprinting and DNA testing are all new in the greater scheme of things. For most of human civilisation, being at least somewhat unsure of what's true and what isn't has been the norm, and the time periods where forms of evidence were easy to obtain and hard to fake few and far between.

So yeah, it's definitely like a reset back to the olden days, and the challenges are certainly more about how to deal with informed democracy becoming an illusion again.
On the other hand, if Risk Management is concerned about financial risk rather than student safety, calling search and rescue may not be cheap. But the risk of needing this seems _very_ small. In the club's 98 year history has it ever happened?

For actual student safety issues I would bet the top three are sports, drinking, and street crossings (especially Atherton).

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_9f27f...

>Josef Blunschi , a Ph.D. student and part-time university employee, was crossing the intersection of East Park Avenue and McKee Street around 6:50 p.m. when he was struck by a vehicle travelling westbound toward Atherton Street, police said.

>Three other pedestrians have been killed crossing streets on the north side of campus in the last 20 months, State College Police Chief Thomas King said at a press conference on Thursday.
>Getting people to click on advertisements.

Came here to post the same, as I take a break from getting people to click on advertisements, at a job that pays way too much money to even consider anything else.

It's pretty damn depressing that the brightest minds of our generation have been sucked up by these companies that really do nothing but further meaningless consumerism. When people ask what I do, I say I work at a button factory.
I always wondered the definition of "smart" in context of these questions. Am I considered a smart person if I work hard on a subject and succeed at it, or if I am a naturally talented prodigy, and excel on that same topic?
> I'd rather just work and spend my money and experience things during that time.

That makes sense if the things you enjoy cost a lot. But not everyone needs a lot of money to do things they enjoy. For those people, the real cost of having a day to day job is time. For example, I may really enjoy biking and that is a hobby which does not require much money - but it does need daylight and with a full time job you lose the majority of that.
Sounds like.......... a framework
They are working on it pretty actively [1], you can see a progress chart on their website. I think some of the PyTorch devs have said they'd welcome AMD compatibility. If you go to the ROCmSoftwarePlatform github page you can see some of their ports, most of which seem to be actively developed.

[1] https://rocm.github.io/dl.html
Palihapitiya is a great speaker and very brave for owning up to what many try to downplay their involvement in. Here's a link to the video this article pulls from, it's succinct and really hits home:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78oMjNCAayQ [4:05]
This idea that "merely stating a fact" means you can't be offensive is part of the problem. Your original statement was pretty insulting and offensive, no matter how true you believe it was. If you want to change things, culture is a huge part of achieving that, and being able to express these concerns without being insulting to other people like that is a huge part of it.
Probably quadratically, or even linear, but to the difference.
Yes, it used it's own money - the buyout companies came up with 20% of the purchase price (think of the 20% like a downpayment on a house; they borrowed the other 80%; like getting a mortgage). They lost a lot of $. They couldn't "flip" it and resell / IPO the company in this case, hence no profit.
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Yes we need a mix but right now we need more (positive) focus on nuclear (and other forms of more exploratory but potentially civilization altering technologies) as it's been almost banned out of existence in the US and Europe.

The current discusison is not based on what's optimal technologically but politically and thats in not small part due to some the unfortunate overreach of parts of the environmental organizations IMO.

I am all for tough legislation but what the current toxic political climate has made it almost impossible to discuss this in any proper matter.

Even me posting on this lead to multiple downvotes. Thats just absurd.
Awesome!

From what I've seen, 18F serves a very valid purpose, has a lot of room to do great things, and would be a rewarding job. I never really looked into it myself because my ideology wouldn't allow me work for a government entity, but otherwise it would be near the top of my list.
you can't compare the buyout of dell with toys 'R' us.
I mean he actually got a 75% stake out of the buyout which means that he actually used a lot of his own cash to close the deal.
Also after two years he could double the value of Dell. Something that is just amazing. In 2015 he bought EMC and made the biggest tech mergers in history.
Dell now has 140.000 employees and has a revenue of like 60 billion annualy.

I mean it's way harder to die if you combine dell, emc, pivotal, rsa and vmware...
I think you may have missed the part where Toys 'R' Us' debt skyrocketed from $109M to $5B due to the leveraged buyout. The interest on that debt as well as the exorbitant management fees did Toys 'R' Us in.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-09/toys-r-us...
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Built a lead generation system. Looks at searches on our site and picks out the best people for our sales team to call.

Set up a bunch of rules created by the sales team. Tweaked it over months. Made money

Then used real sales data tied back to search history and built a machine learning model. It found new patterns that the sales team hadn't thought of, and performs much better
If John Glenn could do a Shuttle flight at 77, I suspect you're overstating the difficulties here. People voluntarily subject themselves to 3+ Gs and 360 degrees pitch/roll at amusement parks daily, with fairly minimal levels of physical fitness being required.
https://blog.kolide.com/monitoring-macos-hosts-with-osquery-...

Hope that helps!

I would also recommend joining the osquery slack:
https://osquery-slack.herokuapp.com/
How have you developed that faculty?
What is not the case? 1-2% of total CO2 footprint? That flying a full plane is equivalent to months if not a year of driving a nontrivial distance every day?

I'm not saying cars are more efficient. It's just that the distance travelled is huge when one uses an airplane.
What about https://unsplash.com/ ?
> gracefully enhances the SMS experience we're used to

I'm eagerly awaiting the gracefully enhanced experience of receiving unsolicited rich-content spam.

EDIT: Just realised this abbreviates to RCS. Pure luck.
Yes, and I can complain about sweatshops in India and Bangladesh without foregoing clothes. Appeals to hypocrisy are the weakest sort of argument.
> whether one chooses to trust NOAA and others

One of the biggest objections from (science-literate) people who reject climate change is precisely this - that 'methodology corrections' applied to NOAA data create a warming trend in underlying data that lacks it. The trust question applies at every level down to "the guy who goes out and looks at the thermometer".

Appeals to "you can run the data yourself" honestly feel like they're missing the point. Pretty much everything we know has some element of faith to it - some of it we can't verify directly, and almost all of it we won't verify, because that task is impossibly large.

Hell, I can't prove that China exists without relying on trust in others. Which is not exactly an academic question when you meet people who say things like "North Korea isn't repressive, that's just a lie our capitalist government tells us". It's not a hopeless case, you can try to push claims to the point where falseness would require a completely implausible conspiracy, but it's worth remembering that "just look at the data!" usually amounts to a call of "just trust these voices!"
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That's the FI (financial independence) part of FIRE. The retire early part is optional for many that are pursuing this goal.

There's an active community on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

One point that often comes up is that people shut their mouth about FIRE because if they bring it up, the reaction is often negative. There might be several people you know working towards FIRE but they don't evangelize it.
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I'd expect a city like Atlanta to be served by an off-shore landing zone, with high speed rail (hyperloop!) as the connection.
They also charged exorbitant management fees. It seems at least possible that they didn't actually lose money on the deal. Being a private company, it might be hard to find out how much cash they extracted from Toys 'R' Us.
If I had to give one Tipp about front-end development: transition the buildsystem to gradle and call webpack from there. Also npm can be managed with it.

Then you can slowly introduce kotlin code, which is way more productive.

In the end I found that writing everything in kotlin, using tachyons for CSS, the kotlin-minifier for code minification and closure-compiler for optimization is the most stable way to go.

JavaScript isn't a productive language. Having build-tools in JS just complicates everything.
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Yeah I know, I just didn't feel like going through all that while lying in bed at 4am. In any case I was thinking a cropped one would be better (hence the 'snip') — so here it is in all its desktop-edited glory:

https://i.imgur.com/XQKiEIp.png
I liked this meme better the first time around -- when it was called CASE tools.

Or how about the second, when it was called UML code generation?

The computer magazines of the 80s and 90s are littered with advertisements from fly-by-night companies promising: "Develop this app with ZERO lines of code!"

The problem with codeless development environments is -- okay, instead of code I'm going to represent programs with something else, say, a symbolic language based on flowchart symbols. The problem is, once my flowchart symbols become concrete enough to be executable by computer, they also become isomorphic to constructs in some programming language. So you haven't really gained anything in expressive power, but you have:

* possibly made things more comprehensible for visual thinkers (at the expense of verbal thinkers). Note that men skew visual and women skew verbal, so this may be considered sex discrimination.

* forced the developers to engage in far more rat wrestling

* required as a hard dependency a particular development environment in order just to get the "code" up on the screen, let alone interpret or change it, thus committing the mortal sin of vendor lock and, in QuickBase's case, locking the application into a cloud platform which may go away when the company liquidates

* made the program more difficult to version-control, diff, or perform large-scale edits on (outside those explicitly supported by the tool)

* turned complex programs into visual clutter, making them far more difficult to manage

* made it difficult or impossible to do things which violate the tool's assumptions about the program structure or function

And there will be assumptions, because the way to gain more expressive succinctness than is exposed by a typical programming language, and hence to build the case for using such a visual tool in the first place, is to assume like crazy. Assume that there is a database, that the application will appear as various forms and reports, that programmers will never need or use certain constructs/patterns, etc.

So invariably these attempts to take the code out of software development fail, and get relegated to niches akin to the skeevy back pages of PC Magazine right next to the porn advertisements. It seems to be happening again, as lastI heard QuickBase wasn't doing too good.
Almost all mines and oil fields in Kazakhstan are developed by foreign companies (AFAIK mostly western ones). And it's not like they bring us western values, they are known to exploit local workers, to put their people in high positions instead of locals, to bribe corrupted officials, etc. It's simple: they have power, they could invade our country and we can do nothing about it. So we let them to drain our national wealth for a temporary truce. I don't see why this is any different with China and Europe. US or Russia is a respectable force for China, but Europe - not so much, so China will monetize its power and it'll buy your factories and ports if it can push it (and China has a lot of power to push).
Is that really the idiomatic JS way of creating string?

Jeez. Reading the code at first, I thought to myself: "this stinks. There has to be a better way", but apparently not. At least not unless you want to support anything lower than es6.
Longer flights have better fuel economy only in short range regimes where the BFR is definitely not a consideration.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:777-224_fuel_burn-...

Fuel economy improves at first due to reduced overhead of taxiing, takeoff, and ascent, but as you go farther the fuel consumption increases due to the need to actually carry the fuel.
I don't find it funny. I find it rather sad, but unfortunately rather predictable for this crowd.

Fortunately, at this point, the comment has been upvoted into the positive.
My problem with most of those apps is that they're too large and offer way more features than we're interested in, often to the point that they break the way we'd like to do things. Can you recommend an app that you use?
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Google analytics sent me a notification email that Gmail marked as spam. Why?
I agree with freddie_mecury I am not sure I see the argument or what you mean by "financially secure". But if I can guess at your point I would say that if "financially secure" means having cash then it would make sense that higher percentage renter countries would be that.

Another point I'd like to add is the US isn't far from Switzerland on that list. Also Singapore being in the #2 spot with 90% home ownership, but in my opinion Singapore is considered a wealthy country[1] with a GDP close to the US.

And lastly I will say that the sample size on is limited to about 25% of countries in the world, though there are most of the developed ones.

[1]https://tradingeconomics.com/singapore/gdp-per-capita
We don't actually know how it worked out for them, because reportedly they spent twelve years siphoning off cash from Toys 'R' Us.
This is a great docu, too bad there is no download button in vimeo.
Are you suggesting that reading the newspaper at home grants the publisher the right to peer in through my window?

No, nor did I even intimate that. That's your property, not mine. That suggestion is as ridiculous as the one I was trying to refute. But when you enter my property - be it virtual or phyiscal - expect to be observed using whatever technologies and vendors I want that are legal (with a few obvious legal exceptions, such as bathroom surveillance).
If, to continue with your newspaper example, you took your newspaper into my store and decided to read it there, I am fully within my rights to observe that you did that, watch you to see if you buy something while you're there, and see if others exhibit that same behavior. Depending on the results of that analysis, I might then decide to move the newspapers to the front of the store, near tables, where you can sit and read because I have determined that newspaper readers are profitable customers. There's nothing wrong with that - I've now used data obtained while you were in my store (where you have no expectation of privacy) to improve both your experience and my profitability.
I doubt that Mark understud what facebook was before it got to what it is. How could he.