skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's a scaling problem, which means software opportunity.

From the perspective of someone who's not a software engineer but rather an ops engineer (a software concierge [1]), I find the idea of a scaling problem to be far more attractive than a software (writing) problem, for obvious reasons.

> Maybe it's because most business models in energy tech aren't compatible with VC?

> Maybe the assumption is that energy is super slow and bureaucratic?

The above two combined would be enough. As sibling comments have pointed out, the nature of the industry means that the players involved will be very large and/or political.

It's not that the above three qualities are somehow magical. It's that they're generally necessary (but not sufficient) to create that small, startup (usually high-growth) company environment that appeals to a certain subset here.

Focussing on just one aspect of such an environment without understanding the totality of the appeal (and/or effectiveness) can end up turning into cargo-culting, as with (if you'll forgive the caricature) large, bureaucratic companies attempting to attract talent by refurnishing their common areas with brightly-colored beanbags chairs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17484840
I always tell dealers that I already have financing when I ask them for a price. The ones that balk when I say that are the ones I don't go any further with.
> The Wall Street Journal has a long history of thorough research and well-respected publications.

This is a bullshit appeal to authority.

Let's be very clear about the process:

* The WSJ reports the claims of anonymous sources. It bases entire reports off these claims and makes no effort to provide verifiable evidence of what it is reporting.

* When called on the sordid affair the WSJ and its defenders insist the paper is a serious journalist effort.

This happens over and over at major American newspapers to the extreme detriment of the American people. And yet, here we are again in 2018.

Here's an idea: instead of appealing to authority why not provide evidence? Why not make the sources go on record? Or provide verifiable evidence of the source's anonymous claims? Isn't this what journalism actually is?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17582652
I predict that no progress will be made with educational reform until we learn to talk about it with more sophistication than witless metaphors like "marks", "grades" and "report cards".
I am honestly excited for you. I can't believe you haven't seen The Woodwright Shop. Roy has been doing this for at least 37 years!

Pick an episode that you think sounds interesting. Roy's presentation style can be a little strange at first but give him a chance...

https://www.pbs.org/show/woodwrights-shop/
> I think the answer is that low-interest car loans often come from a finance arm of the auto maker.

Exactly. Most auto makers would actually be better described as financing companies that happen to build autos on the side. Particularly when you look at their financials and realize that all of the actual profits are coming from financing and that actual vehicle sales are often a net loss if taken by themselves.
Read "PayPal Wars" loved it. Can't wait to read the 3-4+ books to come out from SpaceX & Tesla as time passes.
>Doing these sort of puzzles has very little to do with 90% of what programmers do.

On the other hand, it's not a waste of time for a young person to just go through a few of these a week as they are job hunting. And you really do get better at them as you do more and more. Certain patterns repeat, and the tricky ones usually have nice explanations that you can certainly learn from. They are also FUN if you do them in a stress-free situation outside an interview.
Funny that this is being posted here. Don't the foundations of computing come from Philosophy?
Every once in a while I feel exactly what many Trump voters claim to feel when I see/hear this attitude. If a guy like Musk gets shredded for being authentic and at times a bit manic seeming, then it's no wonder polite society is such a sham. Real people who do stuff in the real world have off days. They make mistakes that they genuinely regret not because they got caught, but because those incidents represent them at their worst and they strive to spend more time at their best. Let's all cut everyone a little slack. Hanlon's razor applies when dealing with humans, no matter what their IQ and accomplishments.
About half of all big deals that are announced in the press don't close. They collapse for lots of reasons.
Just the reverse. As volume increases, the relative amount of surface area decreases.
More like, philosophy is the extreme version of the 'Uncategorized' box of science -- it's almost the leftover pile which gets slowly picked up and put into neat boxes of knowledge. Mechanical nature of life was once philosophical musings, now is biology. Atomic nature of matter were philosophical musings, now physics. Nature of consciousness is now philosophy, will sooner or later become neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Philosophy isn't useless. It is a ground for preliminary discussion before the matter is ready to shift into more solid ground -- mathematics, logic, or hard sciences.

That it suffers from (a degree of) infinite dwelling on pointless topics is inevitable, because it is very hard to judge what will one day be useful or legitimate of discussion; making the false positive nil will increase the false negatives too much. Plus if philosophy decided on a too strict topic regime, soon another field would be born to house the outcasts of academic philosophy, thus becoming the new leftover pile of reason.
It isn't immediately clear to me, but could someone throw an nginx proxy in front of this and use it like Plex, either over the internet or local network?
See the FAQ: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/01/28.html#limit-to-posix
Yes, I agree that software engineering is still in its infancy compared to other engineering fields. I always keep in mind the final passage of They Write the Right Stuff (1996):

"And that’s the point: the shuttle process is so extreme, the drive for perfection is so focused, that it reveals what’s required to achieve relentless execution. The most important things the shuttle group does — carefully planning the software in advance, writing no code until the design is complete, making no changes without supporting blueprints, keeping a completely accurate record of the code — are not expensive. The process isn’t even rocket science. Its standard practice in almost every engineering discipline except software engineering."

https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
I suspect it wouldn't be as simple as that. The elites have many ways to make their earnings appear as zero on paper, or in fact don't have any earnings.
I've never used Org Timeline, but these two links may be of interest to you:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/7hps9j/rip_orgtime...

- https://github.com/Fuco1/org-timeline
This deserves more nuance. Trump didn’t win for this reason alone, but if his weren’t the case, Trump would not have won.

The main reason Trump won was the void of lost self-identity of so many Americans. In such a scenario, that void is often filled by becoming the antithesis to the external identities that seem to have robbed the person’s own identity. None of this would be such a big deal if it weren’t for the overwhelming tension of mass media and rapidly changing technology and swindling of corporations. Then there’s the Mexicans who took the construction jobs, the homosexuals who made feminine males acceptable, the computers that have to be learned at age 50 just to get through the day. The whole world seems to be telling middle aged average Americans that they are outdated unless they get young again, and telling some younger Americans that they can’t follow in their parent’s footsteps like they had hoped to. Combined with a dwindling income, these things are sure to be very angering. The resurgence of outward racism is an ignorant and immature desperation for self-identity. It’s not excusable, but it’s also not happening in a vacuum.

Corporate America absolutely created this environment, not to hurt others, but to help themselves. But it did hurt others, they didn’t care, and they still don’t.

As much as my emotions would like to, I can’t blame these people for voting against Hillary. She embodies all of it, and absolutely does not care.

Voting for Trump was really stupid but voting against Hillary was just a given.

I went with Bernie myself.
There's a dead comment:

Basically, don't expand... Or, add one employee every 5 1/2 years!

I want to address it though, because it's not entirely wrong. Zildjan stands as a counter-point to the prominent VC model. They did not rapidly expand, and yet, as the article states, they have managed to capture a huge portion of the market.

It's not really an apples-to-apples comparison, but I suspect there are many virtues that we sacrifice in the name of growth and speed.
I think the only difference between "then" and "now" is that "back then" you had to have some kind of mechanical, technical skill, like sculpting or painting. Now (1950s-present), anyone can do anything and call it "art". Without any kind of technical merit to separate "great", "good", "mediocre", and "bad", what do you have left but self-reinforcing popularity?

Consider outsider music. It's outsider because it weird and usually lacks something in execution, e.g. recording quality.
Not sure what that has to do with this case. It wasn't announced, WSJ reported a rumor.
Sadly, I use an Android and can't say if this is what I would want but it seems on a better path. Most things I've seen for Android are replicating a traditional graphing calculator. Which suffers from 2 major problems. One, graphing calculators already have confusing UIs. Two, the tiny buttons that work tolerably physically are much less tolerable on a touch screen.
Some thoughts:

1. Talk to a therapist about your stress/anxiety issues. This can totally kill an interview even if you're qualified, and is probably a bigger issue than your perceived lack of skill. Xanax or other anxiety drugs can help a ton for interview days, but talk to a therapist first.

2. Keep trying. It can take a surprisingly long time to land your first job.
I have a feeling that many people who constantly ask for "fixes" are the kind of people who want to "fix them all", by rewriting without understanding that it is a never ending cycle.
Don't pay attention to them. Just do your thing.

Gitlab has provided the much needed competition with real impact (consider Github boards, for example) and you have a company that can pay many people a living. That is more than good enough.
> Personally I decided buying cars a few years old made far more sense.

I think it absolutely does. I actually go for older than that, Typically 6-8 years or even more. Right now my newest car is a 2006 which I bought last year.
Wall Street Journal is reputable and I subscribe to it. It is probably the best one for US business news.

However it has a long history of publishing sensationalist articles especially about Tesla. I remember the articles about executives stepping away, NTSB probes, yellow lines, bankruptcy ... The recent article by Dan on how good Model 3 is is the only positive article I remember on WSJ about Tesla.
This probably varies a lot by culture (and sub-culture), but 'bookworm' doesn't really have perjorative connotations for me. I know it was probably originally intended that way, and it can still be used as an insult, but it feels neutral to me.
Long term, could it instigate an awareness of interdependence for suppliers? (Sincere question)
More detail from the authors: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/2...
This isn’t about a proposed deal not closing. This is about a proposed deal being reported as such, when in fact there had not ever been deal talks in the first place.
Since she didn't seek out a diagnosis, her actual pathology is still up in the air and I personally don't think autism is a good fit. The fact of the matter is, empathy can be a hard thing to develop, and I think many people's upbringings can cause it to not fully develop even into adulthood.

I remember at one point sometime around the age of 20 I felt like there was something I was missing. I've always had a pretty good intuition and my intuition led me to explore a lot of really really sad anime. The exposure to so much tragedy seemed to kick-start my emotional processing system and I was able to interact with people a lot more authentically after that.

15 years later, I can now recognize the signs of an immature emotional processing center in others and I absolutely see them in her. It's a hard cross to bear, instead of just feeling things, you have to think your way into feeling them. Your 'range' is limited to a small spectrum.

It doesn't affect the ability to function, there's nothing 'really' wrong with you, your emotional system does work. It's just that everything's, well, blunted.

Once I got my emotional center processing again, I started to recognize feelings that I had had in the past, but didn't recognize. It's a strange thing thinking back to your childhood and realizing you were feeling things that you didn't understand that you were feeling. Not entirely sure how common it is, but I do run across immature emotional processing very often.

Now that I've had this opportunity to think about it more, it's like the cognitive part of your brain just isn't connected to the emotional part. So much of your emotions never really reach conscious awareness. If you see a lot of really ugly, senseless, or violent crap as a kid, I think you're prone to this kind of disconnection. Then by the time you're an adult, it almost ossifies. You can work on it, but you have to be motivated to somehow.
Are the shorts gearing up for a push to depress the stock price?
> I remember the articles about executives stepping away, NTSB probes, yellow lines, bankruptcy ... The recent article by Dan on how good Model 3 is is the only positive article I remember on WSJ about Tesla

Do you remember any of them being factually incorrect?
Eh, I don't know, I've never felt the need to call someone a 'pedo' with absolutely no evidence. That kind of thing is completely beyond the pale.
Android application developers
1. You agree with "you own the device, you should be able to control it"

2. You agree with "I think property rights seem like a decent idea so why not extend that to the digital realm"

thus, if you own the device and the physical property rights with it, and you want to extend the property rights into the digital realm, you should also own the software on the device. Isn't that the logical conclusion?
The irony, of course, being that Wittgenstein's view is itself a metaphysical view, albeit a reductive one.

Wittgenstein himself seems to be aware of this in his later works, where he walks back the claim of having solved philosophy to just the claim of having rendered metaphysics moot.
They price all this into the lease payment and down payment. You aren’t getting any sort of deal. All you are doing is saving yourself hassle when you return the car back at the end of the lease instead of selling it yourself at that time.
I know this may not be important 'yet' to your app but please change the name to "Video Hub" without the "App".
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
> somehow they could be convinced to vote for a guy who is part of the elite

You're politically left, that's why you don't see it. This is your blindspot.

Trump could be the leader of the elites, but he doesn't act, or talk like the 'elite', and most important of all, nearly all the elites genuinely loathe and hate him.

Bloomberg is part of the elite. If Bloomberg ran for election then the site which hates elite will not vote for him.

In fact, even if he did talk exactly like how Bloomberg, Laureen Powell Jobs, Zuckerberg, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, etc talk, he is the anti-elite because all the elites hate him.

It's sad that the who explicitly prefixes his claim as 'dare I say' is being downvoted because you don't like what he said.
I wish the mayor of San Francisco had the backbone to do something like this.
> Yeah, this is why people are mad now, and dare I say it exactly explains why Trump won.

How DARE YOU? This is HackerNews, if we don't like the stuff you have to say, don't dare saying it.
Wash. Post's Mark Thiessen: Why Democrats Are Powerless to Block Trump Nominee
The article specifies "Life expectancy at birth", which, many people have pointed out, is strongly skewed by the number of kids that die in childbirth or at a very young age. I'd be much more interested in life expectancy for those who survive to, say, 15 or 18. Unfortunately, Diamond doesn't give those numbers.
Let’s make it history.

http://dsausa.org
The sources are not anonymous to the WSJ. They're not publishing random uncorroborated things.
In a sense it's rather unfortunate that the market drives the evolution of obfuscated contractual agreements. Of course, it's not surprising at all.
Because in the current political climate you can only get money for something if it can be weaponized somehow.
> That's patently not true. One does not have "posession" by merely having access to the binary or source. One must first agree (implicitly, or explicitly) before they can acquire the software, such as agreeing to the licence when downloading.

Sorry, but you're the mistaken one here. You need a license to make copies of, derivative works, etc. If the copyright holder makes a copy and sends it to me I do not need any license to hold onto it or execute it. We can see this through, for example, Vault Corp. v. Quaid Software [0] (the portion about direct infringement, Wikipedia has a link to the actual ruling as well if you prefer that).

EULA's, unlike the GPL, use contract law to get around this. In order to purchase/download the software I enter into a contract with you giving up some of my rights. The FSFs position as I understand it is that the GPL and AGPL are not contracts though, just licenses, so they don't serve a similar function (assuming the courts agree with the FSF).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_Corp._v._Quaid_Software_....

(Disclaimer: IANAL)
It was an an honest question, and I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I can't say that I have ever bumped in to my typing speed limit when writing, even informally, and I am certain my max is well below 140. Different strokes and all that. :)
Why the f--- is this top of front page (second article today too)? It's a trivial signal about a freaking car company.

I understand that a lot of people root for Musk, as a symbol of science defeating entrenched power. But it feels like there's some unexplained payload of negativity too, and I'd be curious where that's coming from...
> Yuval Harari, author of the excellent "Sapiens"

Uh huh, Sapiens as excellent... there are ... problems. Some:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5613ac/in_hi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/4xvsia/how_d...
(Would be helpful to include "Scala" somewhere in the title)
Ask HN: Net worth of software engineer at retirement?
In the best case scenario, what net worth can a typical Google or Facebook engineer (not the highest paid, but the average engineer at Google or Facebook) expect to have if he/she retires at 55?

One estimate I have seen is $1 to $2 million USD, which I think is too low [1]. I would estimate it at at $7 to $14 million USD.

Here's the back-of-the-envelope calculation I used to come up with this number: Annual salary: $250K. Assume 25% tax, which leaves us with $187.5K, which is about $15K per month. Assume $5000 in monthly expenses, which leaves us with $10K per month investable money. (Note: since net worth includes house and 401(k) I have not deducted mortgage or 401(k) payments). So $10K includes those items.) Now use a compound interest calculator [2] to see what $10K per month at 8% interest (assume investment in S&P 500 and allow for some market crashes) will result in, at the end of 30 years. It is about $14 million, which would include your house and your 401(k).

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-software-engineer%E2%80%99s-e-g-working-at-Google-etc-usual-net-worth-by-the-age-of-55
[2] https://www.investor.gov/additional-resources/free-financial-planning-tools/compound-interest-calculator
"Tesla declined to comment on the specific memo. But it confirmed it is seeking price reductions from suppliers for projects, some of which date back to 2016, and some of which haven’t been completed."

Also, if you're going to create throwaway accounts just to comment you might want to remember which one you're logged into.
Thailand cave rescue relied on talent, luck, and on sticking to the rules
Eh, I think agriculture was inevitable. It isn't as if we could have had the world government at that time just ban agriculture, or create an information campaign to educate Farmers on the long term harm if the agrarian lifestyle.

Agriculture led to industrialization. When someone can make guns, and when others can't... Someone is getting conquered.
There's still old source code on Sourceforge that hasn't been moved elsewhere.

Some of that is 100% stagnant, some of that is lightly maintained with a bug fix once every few years, and a little of it is somewhat actively maintained.

I always thought that Freshmeat, while not a hosting site and therefore not comparable, was an ok brand, and didn't necessarily have to go inactive, even though, yes, it couldn't keep up with everything. It could've continued to play some interesting role.
Pretty much this. It's like pre-science. I could see how a lot of modern philosophy could be rehashing issues that have already been extensively formalized though
Thank you very much for the encouragement, I appreciate it after significant commenting today while flying from Mexico to San Francisco. You can rest assured we'll keep working on our vision https://about.gitlab.com/direction/product-vision/

The people that ask for fixes care about GitLab and are worth listening to. There is an almost infinite demand for new features and we can't make them all (even with more then 2000 open source contributors). But I've found that Hacker News readers have great insights and we'll keep listening and adjusting were we missed the mark.

GitLab as a company was born on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 and although the tone these days feels like different I hope it is a bond for live.
I would only do it if either I actually controlled the software that did the turning off or there were a third-party that could be trusted to monitor and provided an escrow account with a huge financial penalty payable to me if the utility ever broke the rules.

I have absolutely no reason to trust them unless their incentives align with mine, and, here, they do not.

Even in that case, I would only agree to the 75F limit, because, for the other ones, it would take way too much time (and possibly too much energy, as well) to get back down. Air conditioning isn't instantaneous, and one can't just turn it on when one needs it, if there's more than a trivial temperature (or humidity[1]) drop.

[1] For some areas of the country, that's another, bigger problem with allowing an outsider to turn off the AC: go too long without and the humidity goes up too high. Now you have to buy a thermostat with a humidistat, just in case, even if you didn't need one before.
There is nothing people can do. The only change will happen when the ones on top, decide it's enough and that is unlikely. Everyone has become docile and the old ways of getting people in power to do something doesn't work anymore. Culture has even started evolving into a broadcast what I can get away with doing and that shows how one sided the system has become.