skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oil rig workers generally are paid well and in low cost areas.
There is obvious evidence that algorithmic trading has improved spreads: look at the spreads. Since the advent of electronic trading, they've fallen from almost a dollar(!) to pennies. Human traders colluded to keep spreads high; Google [odd eighths].
If you say another single bad thing about Carnivale we go to war...
Links doesn't even support modern SSL :/

The modern age requires a multi-gigabyte program to use the Internet, that's just our reality. So the whole point of Browsh is that you can now offload this from your local machine (eg. to a remote VM) and re-experience the net as pure text, how it used to be.
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Pointing out the simple, obvious definition is still better than any argument that you’ve made about anything here, IMO.

I’d love to hear you make an argument that will shed light on things from your knowledge of the “murky the field of empiricism” though. Let’s hear it!

So far all of you’ve done is point out what it is. I don’t think you really explained how it helps your case at all. How does it invalidate the easily observable fact that you can see plenty of people leaving reviews for apps that they are just fine with?

You said people don’t leave those types of reviews but there they are. So what are you going to say that makes them somehow disappear? Really, I’d like to understand. Do we really need Plato though to explore this? I think if you really understand something you should be able to explain in pretty simple terms.
Great ideas, I'd not thought of them. So might be worth researching some contacts in those fields.
This is also true with many consumer electronics companies. Design and some level of QC in house, most everything else from the vendors, at cut throat rates.
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The year I bought my Jetta it was the most efficient midsize sedan by a wide margin. I bought it because my friends had Priuses and it was feeling pretty monochromatic at my house.

The skeptic in me should have known better. One manufacturer was blowing everyone else out of the water? German engineering? A seriously nifty gearbox? Are those enough to explain the difference? Apparently not.
Yes! So much covered in so few words. This ordering works shockingly well for constructing robust solutions to complex problems.

Keep it simple. Do what needs to be done now, leave off for later everything else. By the time later arrives, what the project needs will have gone in new and surprising directions. Refactoring complex and coupled code into logical discrete units pays off in multiples down the road. Removing that which is no longer needed is like giving your whole team extra time to breath and new room to think. For all the times that simplifying also solved the two other problems, we used that time for making more cool stuff.
Please share any device currently out there that can watch what you do and tell you where it can insert itself. We'll wait.
Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Sex And the City and The Wire are currently "free" in Amazon Prime.

At some point those licenses will expire but this illustrates the "innovator's dilemma" as applied to HBO.

They have a good business of selling cable subscriptions for new stuff, licensing their past shows to Amazon, Hulu and other willing buyers and selling on-demand access via Apple, Amazon etc.

Now they need to compete with Netlifx, which has a large catalog of licensed, popular shows from all over and their own exclusive content.

To compete with that HBO would have to drop revenue from licensing (there's less reasons to pay for HBO if I can get a lot of their good stuff elsewhere)

Their cable subscriptions are probably going to decline no matter what. Cable subscriber count is on a steady, 6 year decline (http://www.businessinsider.com/cable-tv-subscriber-losses-q2...) despite being propped by internet + cable bundles.

That decline is accelerating i.e. every year more people are cancelling cable as a percentage. If that continues, it'll be a bloodbath. If the decline stops accelerating, it'll still be bloodbath, just later. I don't see a scenario in which cable starts growing again.

Netlifx model is easy to explain but almost impossible to replicate.

The model is: get so many subscribers from all over the world paying you relatively small amount that you'll be able to outspend any other company in quantity of TV/movie exclusive content, thus making it even more likely to get new subscribers.

This is "rich get richer" model and Netflix is already the richest.

People will be willing to buy 2-3 such subscriptions so that's how many winning slots there are.

So HBO better fight hard for that 2nd or 3rd position, but unfortunately just like BlockBuster or Borders had a good business until they didn't, HBO might not do enough to compete.
lol this dude hates PEG parsers
Another comment mentioned Western Digital switching to RISC-V which makes a lot of sense and that's about it. I'm struggling to see how RISC-V would improve the situation with edge devices or personal computing devices where the implementations will probably end up being propriety in nature and beholden to the vendor for any updates.

Even when we do get something like a custom ROM for a router or smartphone it will still be reliant on custom kernel modules or other lock-ins hindering open source support.

It just feels like more of the same with a chance for ODMs to save some on the BOM while not passing the savings on to us.

I guess it's just hard to get excited about it without seeing some sort of benefit to the end user. That doesn't mean I feel like we should stick with ARM or x86, I frankly don't care.
Also less for everyone to work on. So it is a trade-off, especially from 3 to 4.
Lie by emission.
The whole point of relativity is that there are no absolute time stamps. There are only causal relationships which are observer dependent.

If you start being able to travel >c those relationships immediately get impossibly and paradoxically twisted.

See e.g.

http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/000089.htm...
Lynx uses whatever SSL is on your system, so if your OpenSSL doesn't support modern SSL, then it's time for you to upgrade ;)
Overall the energy sector is still the best paying.

Median compensation for energy sector employees: $123k (tech is at $96k).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-05/shale-cou...
Does the influence of gravity reach through the wormhole?
it would be really cool to be able to verify the ownership of any property on earth by checking Bitcoin or Eth block chain, but there would have to be a way to have authority unanimously change the record.
Because of the demographics at HN and my tenure in the tech industry and lack of it in others on that list.
That was oddly specific and disturbing. Well done!
Also, I can't imagine what it'd be like for jobs to be easy to find!

I’m curious. What do you mean?
Mostly it works with genetic counseling. If both you and your prospective spouse are carriers you'll be advised to find someone else.
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in other words, "I used a chainsaw to cut an apple and it SUCKED at it."

If you're processing an amount of data that comfortably fits in memory on a single machine, then obviously Hadoop is going to perform poorly in comparison. The costs of scheduling a job onto N mappers/reducers, transferring code to each node, waiting for the slowest mapper/reducer to finish, transferring data from mappers -> reducers, replicating output on HDFS, etc. are well-understood. It's true that many people try to use Hadoop when they'd be better served with simpler solutions, but that does not justify the amount of shade that the author throws at it.
It's not useless. There are not that few IOT style applications where one could extract significant energy from e.g. atmospheric temperature cycling during the day relative to a thermal mass. This would not require sunshine, only that the temperature over the day changes about 10K between minimum and maximum. Or with a large enough thermal mass it could use this cycling over multiple days, which might be more reliable. It also has the great benefit of not requiring something fragile exposed to the sun. This makes the feasible reliability potentially much higher, depending on how good this thermoelectric generator lives.
What about efficiency of capital?
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Why do you deserve to invest in my company?
Basically, yes.

Newer tech with greater power density would surely help, but a far bigger issue is infrastructure. Not in charging stations, but in manufacturing, servicing and recycling batteries. Once the infrastructure is in place, prices will fall naturally. Batteries are highly recyclable.
There are likely papers on the exact effect over to be found on google scholar.
It's not just consumer software and not just the last 20 years.

There is an axiom that software gets bigger, for no particularly good reason, for at least 40 years.

This can be witnessed in how the size of /bin/true on Unix went from 0 bytes to whatever size it is today [1]. I can't find it now, but there was an article with a bar chart showing a gradual progression through time.

Of course, on-disk size doesn't translate directly to performance, but the trivial example demonstrates mechanisms by which bloat/cruft can accumulate so gradually that no outcry is ever caused.

It also refutes the sibling/downthread comment the "cruft" is (necessarily) someone else's use case.

[1] e.g. 13k MacOS native, 52k GNU coreutils from MacPorts
I'd say drop the first 7 questions. You have no reason to doubt anyone who can do the last 4 can do the first 7, and you have no reason to care whether anyone who can't do the last 4 can do the first 7.
Don't feel so bad about the analog satellite downlink hack box and torrenting anymore. The question is: will programming decline?
MoviePass is running out of money and needs to raise $1.2B
Hadoop has a very narrow best fit use case but it has been oversold as the best solution for big data.
Isn't the point that it can be disposed of by paving roads?
Sorry, you're right. I did mean "trivial" rather than "non-trivial" but barfed the second out anyways. :-P

I think that problem is much harder than just plain machine learning because you have to somehow gauge what the user is doing or what tasks they're performing well enough for the AI to be able to even tell where it can insert itself. I don't know of any product or service right now that can "watch" a user's behavior and suggest places where the AI can insert itself and I suspect the reason why is because doing something like that is very, very difficult.

It's one thing to detect that you leave work at 5pm every day and that you usually drive home. It's another to say "I noticed that you set a cooking timer every day around 6pm, do you want me to set that for you automatically?" You're not setting a timer just to set a timer, you're setting a timer because maybe the recipe you're using requires it. Different recipes will have different timers. The AI doesn't know the intent behind the action just the action itself.
In no way does it imply that.
Revenue per employee is not a measure at all of your production as an employee.
from earlier today "WordPress aims to make the WordPress Admin and bundled themes fully WCAG 2.0 AA compliant where possible."

https://wordpress.org/about/accessibility/

The jump from A to AA is difficult and to put the statement of AA out there, is bold (and probably naive).
I would think some of the first fully optical photonic devices would be network routers/switches. Stock traders have a lot to gain by shaving off microseconds. Possibly a fully photonic router could have a huge performance increase in the volume of packets per second and throughput as well?
Interesting project, however it looks like the last commit is from September 2017 so either it is just very stable or not maintained anymore?
I would hope that anyone who works for a non profitable startup is going in knowing the risks.
Well off course, anything near a road is deadly. Just standing on the side of the road can be deadly. Anything around cars at all is incredibly dangerous. It is absolutely insane we allow cars anywhere near people.
So what do they have planned?
Are you founding a startup or did you get promoted in someone else's company? I feel like we need a little bit more context.
> It's the bank who was harmed

The women would have been out $500 if she had not noticed it and because she did, she had to report it to get the money back. Both of those are problems that she had/would of had to suffer through.
Are you sure about that, or does it just feel like it should be true? Take AMC --- again, a basic cable channel that should be nowhere near HBO's level, and just look at the time span during which Breaking Bad ran.

During that time, HBO ran Curb Your Enthusiasm, True Blood, Big Love, Boardwalk Empire, The Newsroom, Treme, and (at the end) Game of Thrones.

Meanwhile, AMC ran Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Hell On Wheels, The Killing, and Walking Dead, plus The Prisoner and Hustle.

If you ranked those shows by importance, AMC would have played HBO to a draw in the top 10.

Succession is barely drawing half a million viewers, for what it's worth. If HBO is betting their future on Succession, I think we can call it.
No, the government is putting itself on the market.
This is a text automation dream coming true
I am fairly sure that both linx and lynx work with modern SSL.

In fact, just checked on Ubuntu 16.04 -- both links (2.12) and lynx (2.8.9...) work fine with https://google.com and https://news.ycombinator.com for example.
An excellent project. I've loved reading along as new chapters emerge!
You could (and people do) send gift cards, or pre-paid debit cards. These have the added benefit of being accepted in stores, etc, whereas cryptocurrencies... not really?
They'd need to adapt to something like aluminium foil or UHMWPE film (made like paper from the fiber-spinning solution) as a base and coat that with poly-Si. Even if it is only half as efficient, it should be a lot cheaper and possibly strong enough to be laminated into fabric like e.g. Gore-Tex membranes (extruded microporous PTFE film). A reverse electric blanket would be fancy...
I'm interested to know if you have any pointers on learning resources for awk.
That's misrepresenting what I said... the amount of communication pre-ICO will be a lot more than post-ICO, but not nothing.
That failed massively for me in Terminal.app on OS X. The browser showed garbled text and horizontal half-height lines.

Is there a reason why Terminal.app might not work?
That sounds like something AI can help solve. /s
Given the health crisis in cities like London, I think people prefering manual transmission is not a relevant point.
In that case foot meets door pretty quickly.
With its position as ISP, AT&T can make trouble for Netflix content delivery.

And they know how. Remember all those independent DSL providers, back around the millennium? I had one for years, then intermittent failures set in. After months of debugging, the cause was traced to misconfigured AT&T equipment in the local office.

It's as easy and untraceable as deprioritizing Netflix-sensitive operations tasks.
From the article:

> It includes “£246 million in research for next generation battery technology” and a dozen different initiatives to expand electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
ICO die is one extreme, ICO that has too much hype like Tron https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tron is the other spectrum of questionable
You might want to consider adding support for displaying proper terminal graphics, instead of using pixelated ones (which I assume are done using unicode block drawing symbols?).

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html
IntelliJ's linters are indeed unusually rich on the deepness and complexity of their rules. But not on the universality, the reason that I consider them unusable, since I just don't like to turn rules off.

Anyway, that's a feature of their linters. It just happens to be packaged with their IDE, but it's a completely different tool.
This is a pretty useless metric. It's really only used as a proxy to compare the value of similar companies in the same industry when no other data is available.

You know what measures your economic value as an employee? Wages.

Your value as an employee is that which is lost by removing you from the equation. If you can be replaced by virtually anyone, your value approaches zero.
I don't have that much to add to the other replies here. I used to never use pdb in Python for many years (not knowing or forgotten it exists) and doing perfectly well. Then I started using post-mortem debugging and finding/fixing bugs got so much faster. Basically, I'm using the computer to do the simulations I previously ran in my head (by evaluating things here and there). But that's just one point of data.

Another debugger I now recommend people (in general) to look at is Squeak Smalltalk's debugger which allows a form of "top down" programming where undefined functions are called and filled in at runtime. The debugger/editor in this post borrows a little bit from that idea in spirit. Part 3 in particular shows how it can be used even when they are no bugs.

About being off-topic, well, no-one has made another top level comment and by the time of your first post it was already 5 hours in. Some discussion is definitely better than none. So thank you for inciting that. If it burried some more on-topic discussion, that would be unfortunate though.
which make it not healthy. old time miners do not expect instant return mining coins, and today ico investors want out fast
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> are well-understood. It's true that many people try to use Hadoop when they'd be better served with simpler solutions

I posit that these two assertions are contradictory.

My own understanding of the term "well understood" is that it is synonymous with "widely understood". If many people are still making the mistake of using Hadoop when those costs outweight the benefits, it seems that understanding isn't quite wide enough.

That said, although I have a grasp of when the tradeoff is so loopsided as to be obvious, I don't know where to go (or where to point other people to go) for a better understanding of where the boundary is.

Where should we go to better learn that understanding of those costs?
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When turning off the NC they were noticeably lacking.
> Maybe such scams have become easier to perpetuate, whatwith the ability to fake your lifestyle and credentials with social media (and eBay, apparently)

If you make your fake name distinct enough, you could also get legitimate sounding domains and put up articles about yourself, and they will show up on the front page of a search on your name. Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" did this:

http://www.lorenzovonmatterhorn.com/

http://bigbusinessjournal.com/

http://www.balloonexplorersclub.com/

http://www.extremitiesquarterly.com/

Of course, he also did social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzovonmatterhorn/

I had not realized that LinkedIn allowed fake people. In this case, not only is it a fake person, it is a fake person made up by a fictional person!

And that fictional person is also on LinkedIn [1], which is also something I didn't realize they allowed, but looking around I see a lot of fictional characters, such as Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler from "Big Bang Theory", Tony Stark and Obadiah Stane from "Iron Man", and most of the staff of Dunder Mifflin.

Anyway, you could do the fake article thing before the net, but it took some real effort. There was a con man in the late 19th century who pulled an investment scam in a western town. He told people to check out the stories written about his company in leading financial publications from back east. Of course no one in the town personally subscribed, so they had to go to the town library, and there they found there were indeed positive articles about him, and of course those were fake issues he had printed that added articles about him to the real issues. A nice touch was that on the way out of town with his victims money, he stopped by the library and replaced the modified magazines with the originals.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/barneystinson/
Is there such thing as a canonical definition of a boring or interesting upbringing?

Looking at my own life, some may find it fascinating, and some may find it banal.

And when I compare it to my father's or some of my friends, it can seem really tame.
Compared against other friends, it could be riveting.

But I don't think I've met a person with a boring upbringing. Everyone has a story, a list of hurts and triumphs that add the seasoning of their life experience.

Assuming that the rich don't have these, or that they're required to enumerate them to the press is its own form of myopic elitism.

And, I know plenty of people with interesting backgrounds who grew up to be a net drain on society.

What are we measuring here, and really, who cares?
What is it that you think the prestige networks do to develop shows? They're not writing them themselves; they buy them from writers and production companies. Nobody is suggesting that AT&T is going to pull the next Sopranos out of a conference room meeting.
The author also created “rate.sx” for bitcoin prices
I dropped out of the university a day before defending my thesis — had a conflict with my supervisor. 5 full years, but still no bachelors. I shrugged it off at that point to proceed and have a 15-year career rising to a CTO in 4 years, and building several companies after.

However, now I am in China as a founder of a new company, and in order to self-employ and sponsor a work visa for myself, I either have to go finish my degree or set a ridiculous salary which is roughly 30x times country average wage.

So if you plan on working in other countries, lack of a degree may pose some difficulties.
ethereum lets people create a coin and conduct ICO
there are thousands of them https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/all?asset_platform_id=279
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I would be scared of a service where a 404 response means it's down.
We all clearly understand the angle you're coming from, but you haven't been able to make the case it isn't fraud. Because it is textbook fraud.

If you think the test is bullshit, then you make that case separately. You don't lie about how you're passing it and then when caught say 'but it's the test's fault!'.
this is basically exactly what cars and on street parking is...
> Unless you possess a serious passion for the subject, you’re unlikely to survive.

I mean, should you really get a PhD without a serious passion for the subject? I won't disagree one bit that it's not for everybody.

Speaking as someone wrapping up an engineering PhD from a good school though, I enjoyed it quite a lot and I think most of the people I work with enjoyed doing their PhD. It was not easy, but it was interesting and rewarding. The environment varies a lot depending on the school and the adviser. Some programs are indeed quite toxic, but there are also plenty that are challenging, but fulfilling and nurturing.
I think it’s clear from the market that manual transmission lovers are basically fringe group, at least in the US. Even many of the brands that used to cater to them, like BMW, have given up due to low sales.

It seems clear that they’ll be relegated to restorations and kit cars and such.
No, I disagree strongly. I don't binge Netflix and I still feel the same way.