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Exactly this.

The human psyche has its pluses and minuses. The fact is, humans are never satisfied with what they have, they always want more.

This is good when it comes to driving progress. We’d never have gone to the moon if we were satisfied with just colonizing the earth.

At the same time, it’s the root of a lot of unhappiness. People have grand expectations for their life - and fall into depression if they never reach them, despite the fact their life is far richer than most people experience.
That's one of the reasons I put my neighbours' address as my home address on Uber/Lyft (the other being I don't really trust them as a company, especially Uber).
I have a similar problem, but they are actively making new messy code.

When basic things are not being done right, it feels almost demeaning to try to start a conversation with someone that the variable name "stuff" might not be descriptive.
Refusing to share their code falls under the "we all make mistakes" umbrella you think?
You’re correct, training is centralized but the devices that use it to function are operated at the edge.
Thanks. Curious, where do you stash the NUC in your car? I imagine it's insulated and not exposed -- otherwise a hot day or a very cold day might kill it.
Irrelevant. Let us assume Buzzfeed is a paragon of journalistic virtue. Still does not mean the journalist deserves a Chinese visa. It is a privilege and not a right. Pretty much how a US visa is a privilege and not a right.

Americans outraging that their journalist was denied is nothing but very imperialistic attitude.
I read it in the same way, and it just felt really off to me.

Also just factually incorrect. I'm fairly certain "most fashion" in the US has not come from the Black American community. A lot, sure. Most? Name me a top 10 fashion brand that is run / was started by a person of color.
On the other hand, essential costs like food and clothing have dropped substantially over time. In the 40s and 50s food and clothing accounted for approximately 50% of one's disposable income. Now it is closer to 30%.

But your comment does raise an interesting question: If I were to hypothetically spend $100,000 for an optional status symbol like a Ferrari or higher education and can no longer afford to own a home due to that purchase, does that indicate a problem with the housing market?
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I'm not sure about "any" measure, the average startup probably has no surviving code in production.. Even the average in acquired startups, if we count acquihires..
The original post refers to the golden era as well and its decline.
"Prosperity has been increasing in the 20th century, but has not increased for a few decades."
No goalposts are changing.
* Tesla sells well in places without a tax credit.

* There is no reason to think that Tesla want be selling a 35k car

* If 400000 preorders and the most talked about car in human history is not enough for you to prove that there is 'demand', I don't know how t oargue agianst that.

* Of course they can raise money, and I think even most bears would agree that this is the case. They have not raised more money because they currently don't need to raise more money, if that changes, they can do so.

Honest, people have been making doom and gloom prediction about Tesla 'cash position' for about 10 years and by now their actual cash inflow is growing massively.

* If you had actual prove that those 8000 are all broken and a warranty liability then you might have point but up to now very little of these problems have materialized and the quality has gotten better over time
It's fair enough that people will rate according to their expectations.

Curt, even surly service is pretty much trademark for Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants in my mind. I find the notion of "good service" actually a little overbearing sometimes honestly
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All open-source contributors are certainly not volunteers! Open-source contributors come in all shapes and sizes, and how much they get paid for it has no incidence on the quality or authenticity of their work. It does, however, have a huge impact on who can contribute, and how much.

Since we as a society rely on open-source enormously, it seems to make sense to try and allow as many people as possible to contribute as much as possible. And that requires giving up on antiquated notions that “only unpaid open-source is real open-source!”. Wouldn’t you agree?
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Given the most AAA games are written in native C++, I don't see how mono makes much difference at all. No .net CLR or mono are used at all in those cases.

The only major platform using C# is Unity, and there are a few AAA games written in it, like KSP.
Geez, man. You represent it like Onavo wasn't collecting that user data and selling it to any random company before Facebook bought them:

https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/08/onavo-insights/
I find the idea of prosperity==happiness a bit silly. Being satisfied with the quality of life you have does not equate happiness.

The list is quite long but to name a few: horrible personality disorders,childhood trauma,relationship issues(opposite sex,parent,society,coworkers,etc...),physhical health ailments and so on... All these can become obstacles to happiness and throwing money at them to the most part does not help overcome these issues.

Here is my question: 1) isn't happiness a bit overrated? 2) is happiness really all that important? 3) if prosperity is happiness then why are there so many happy poor people in 3rd world countries?
I know that we don't all have the same sense of humour but rgrieselhuber did not deserve to be DVd. I will accept that their comment was not exactly useful but it could be construed as funny.

Why, HN, why?
My question (as an American) is: what ugly thing happened in the US that most of us don't know about?
Iot device control, such as timers for food, and cameras tracking food (to name a few). These also output streams of data that is interesting to us, such that we want to exfiltrate them up to the cloud.

I’m not a fan of hype... k8s is one of the few hyped technologies that has delivered on its promises.
Samba was reverse engineered, MS somewhat tried to make it an open standard, now are agnostic to it and are still developing closed extensions.

Mono became big enough, and they opensourced their own CLR, and it runs on Linux.

DirectX was implemented as a compatibility layer and runs games at close to native speeds on Linux and MS dumps it for Vulkan. Or so the wish goes.
If you're embarrassed by your research code, how do you know it works, and how do you know what you're going to publish isn't built on quicksand?
Everywhere I look, I also see people not struggling in that way. And they generally seem happier than the ones trying desperately to climb the ladder.
Hm... if true, this is both great and scary. The reasons it could be good are covered in the article. I wonder if anyone else can see how dangerous this could also be. Medical research is beautiful but can often be very dark. I would hope there are regulations on usage. Always a shame to see promising research be sold to big Pharma or any other business that doesn't put patient care first.
Why would this tweak the developers. Isn’t this precisely what the license they chose was made for to include and allow?

In this case Amazon functions like a hosting company. So would you be surprised if a hardware vendor automated the install and patching of Elastic? They’re basically just installing OSS for end users.
>it’s increasingly expected of developers to have a track record of open-source contributions if they want to move up into the higher tiers of their profession.

Is it really? Of the people I know who have had excellent career paths in software/computing none have a track record of open source contributions.
Hey Lionel! I bet they have a lot of Braintree alums interviewing there. Dan is great to work with.

Also, we should catch up!
This is probably better as you aren't relying on Amazon's API. Scrape every product, get all the sellers, then start flagging each seller as valid or not. Amazon won't really be able to shut you down. Even better is once the extension runs on the users computer, you will be able to scrape using your customers which makes it harder to block. This looks like a great idea.
Machine learning, inductive reasoning, and reliability of generalisations
They don't directly enforce any laws. Think of it like neighboorhood watch people that find suspicious criminal activity and call the cops.

They do all the investigation and leave the guns,handcuffs and prosecution to the government.
You are right but this sort of news reporting is usually cover fire for the current administration and arbitrary functioning of USCICS. Even paying less is not a problem for visa holders as long as it is higher than the wage floors set by Labour department. I believe for H1b it is like 80K or so.

All companies I know pay less to visa holders for following reasons and even lesser if you are Indian or Chinese national.

- They have to spend resources worth $10K for visa transfer. It is higher for visa petition.
- they have to spend addtional $3k per year for renewals.
- Processing an EB2/EB3 petition costs around $30k for the company in resources.

I think it is unfair to even expect that Cisco must match penny to penny the salary.
Except games either (1) are pay-per-purchase, or (2) are free-to-play and subsidized by whales. In both cases, high usage games tend to make enough to justify the economics of continued support and development.

That's almost exactly the opposite of very popular OSS software, which generates an endless wave of free users. And generally no whales. And high demands for bug fixes. And serious temper tantrums (this has happened to me too) when you explain to users of your free software that you owe them exactly fuck. and. all. and won't be hopping-to in order to fix something for them.
What software skills are "not available locally" in Silicon Valley that need to be imported from places like India? No, these are available locally, just not at the rate Cisco wanted to pay.

I've worked at many tech cos and this is very common. Companies will post jobs and even sometimes send email blasts to "help find us an Android developer!" but it's all for show in case they get audited -- they have to prove they 'tried' to hire locally before importing labor.

EDIT: Just saw your comment about $130k being a 'good salary.' HA! Not in Bay Area, not for a senior hire. That's a good salary for an engineer that's a few years out of college. Hardly competitive for anything beyond that.
I'd be surprised if those careers represented more than 1% of the workforce combined. Do 100% of parents need to provide money to their adult offspring on the slim chance they decide that they are going to enter into a field that expects a degree but is not lucrative enough to justify paying for said degree by oneself?

You've found the outliers, but the vast majority of people will never find themselves in that kind of work to begin with.
> Regulation is a very very touchy subject, ... We need real due process.

What scares me even shitlesser is that the legislative and regulatory momentum is pointing in the wrong direction. Governments and political movements are calling on platforms to policing their users more tightly along various axes. They are doing little or nothing to help folks act independently on the net.

I share your intuition that any good solution will involve government action. But if we just shout "there oughtta be a law" then law we get will do the opposite of what we want.
Or keep a Bloom filter of hashes of repeat customers’ cards on the edge to accelerate their experiences.
Nice machines, fast enough, VESA mount to the back of a monitor, and easy to upgrade. They've basically replaced Mac minis and iMacs in our labs. Have not had one bit of trouble with any of them.
The 37% makes sense, as that almost perfectly aligns with disposable income data if you assume relatively few people save their disposable income at that percentile (also likely true). Most people I know in that zone would put it on a credit card.
Ha! Only tens of thousands of LOC? I've worked in places with millions of lines of spaghetti code. The reality is that most business software that's been around for a while looks like this.

If the environment itself is good, and you like the people you work with, then you should see it for the great opportunity that it is; learn how to slowly evolve a large software project for the better. There's none of the stress of trying to figure out the "right" architecture, no worrying about making bad decisions. You can just chip away tidying things up.

Things that are probably a bad idea: Trying to rewrite (will almost certainly fail), Blaming others (it's no one's fault, it just is what it is), Walking away (negative signal for future employers).
Why do you say it’s scary / dangerous?
Your interpretation is far from the original point "There's nothing wrong with open source as long as you are honest to yourself regarding the intentions." If you're entering OSS to make money, it's incumbent upon you to find a business model.

Many open source developers start with intentions like "advancing the state of the art" and over time become disappointed because others build businesses and profit off of their creations. The intention at the onset wasn't to make money, and continued investment of time and money into OSS should be weighed against the original intention.

We are elated when we find others using open source SheetJS libraries and code in their profitable business applications. Others may regret and wish they didn't open source, but you don't know how things would have played out if you didn't open source. The yardstick we apply to our open source contributions is whether we're advancing the state of the art, since that's why we entered the space in the first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14886481 is a similar comment that probably better reflects the opinion expressed here.

(note: we ended up developing paid offerings after conversations with @patio11 and others. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/01/28/design-and-implementati... discusses these points)
There are not enough Young Americans anymore. That sound weird but true. Also a college grad fresh out of college can not compete with the huge supply of experienced and better Indian/Chinese/Korean engineers.
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> The accuracy would be higher, but there are limited number of comments on HN.

Could you elaborate on that?
Very cool, a lot of people don't understand that most of the top cryptocurrencies are not merely Bitcoin clones. This chart underscores that point and distinguishes the differences between them. I would expect the number of categories and the difficulty in creating classifications to increase over time, however, so I'm not sure how well these boxes will hold up in the long run.
Nuclear Weapons Nerds
Firebombing of Japan

Bombing the shit out of Laos

Massive numbers killed in the CIA operations overthrowing governments in South America

The duplicitous and two-faced foreign policies which fund genocides and killings all over the globe while we try to put on some good face about making the world a better more democratic place

Selling arms to murderous regimes who torture and kill as we turn a blind eye to profits

Repatriating Nazis responsible for the war crimes we decry in order to get their tech/medical advancements

The extent at which Native Americans were murdered

Lots and lots of things get rose-colored glasses because the populous lives rather comfortable now...
This is exactly my perspective. An announcement post that Redis modules would now be distributed under a proprietary license with shared source would have caught nobodies attention. The problem for me is with trying to paint the Commons Clause as a legitimate foss license, thereby arguably attacking the very principles of foss.
I don't like caping for VC firms, but this irked me, so I've got to respond.

1) Since when have VC's been scientists, engineers, or mathematicians? I think they'd be horrible at it.

2) In the article, they go over a whole list of technical and non-technical people of color that they've funded:

> So, when we started the firm in 2009, it made logical sense to us that as software eats the world and technology’s primary target audience becomes consumers we would focus on this unique talent pool. In the early days, this meant hiring African Americans in the firm and backing the best African American entrepreneurs such as Paul Judge, Tristan Walker, Diishan Imira, Donnell Baird, Steve Stoute, Ryan Williams, Debo Olaosebikan, and most recently Chris Bennett.

3) If you were expecting a VC firm to solve racism, you were always going to be disappointed.
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That’s certainly one way to look at it.

Another view might be that they are playing the long game, and they think that increasing the pool of minority founders is +++ev for them. This is my personal view.

My personal take on this issue is that a big challenge in funding African American tech businesses is that the deal flow starts seeing a bottleneck before many of these potential founders are even college age. This has been discussed on HN before (I will try to find the link and post it in a reply).
..who get ripped on HN for every reason possible as well (and rightfully so).
If they are flush with cash write a plan with a case for roi and a summary for easy approval. If not, give up.
> if we can believe that there really is enough for us

What I am saying is that humans are not wired for the concept of "enough".

We have already had something similar to UBI in the form of fossil fuels and the abundant energy they provide, which have tremendously lowered the cost of the bare essentials in the developed world in the last 100 years. You can go into any super market in the US and buy a days worth of calories for about $3. And then you can go into a Walmart and buy a complete wardrobe for about $200. If you want to get crazy and provide yourself with the utter luxury of gasoline powered personal transportation (not a thing available to any human being until about 100 years ago), you can buy a pretty good car on Craigslist for about $1000.

But rather than use the excess provided by cheap and abundant energy to just chill and enjoy the good times, all I see is people (myself included :P) tripping over themselves to buy nicer clothes, and nicer car, or a house in a nicer neighborhood. So I'm having a hard time seeing how people will act differently with UBI. That said, I think something like UBI will be necessary to keep the masses from revolting against the rich. I just don't see it bringing universal happiness.
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From a developer point of view one frequent advise is to never give a number first.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ has a chapter on that.

> Are there companies who provide this?

Yes, well, consultants and ebook writers. Most seem to target freelancers who want to raise their prices though, not job starters. For example https://doubleyourfreelancing.com/
"Malware: software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems."

It's hardly malware. Users should have the right to trade access to their data for free data compression, whether you personally think that's a good idea or not.
This happened a mere 5,000 generations ago... (before the separate admixture with European and Melanasian Homo Sapiens).

Were the Denisovans as different from Neanderthals as Sapiens were from either branch? †

Reading the branch/tree diagram it looks like only Europeans mixed it up with the Neanderthals, after splitting from Asians, and only Asians with the Denisovans, also after the split. Meanwhile Africans never encountered or mixed with either of those ancient hominid branches. Our ancestor branches and genome are so varied and rich!

† "Denisovans and Neanderthals split from Homo sapiens around 744,000 years ago and diverged from each other 300 generations after that."
Why post a paywall link?
Amazon does not offer you the option because the only way they could offer it is if they gave Apple their 30% cut. Same super annoying reason you cannot buy books in the kindle app.
You make a few substantial points, but any use of the "single income earner" argument is incomplete if it doesn't acknowledge that _women were also working at home_ while their husbands were doing income-earning work.

It's not only income-earning work that counts against prosperity: it's all work. Studies indicate that men and women gained 6-8 hours of leisure from 1965-2003. There are probably caveats and addenda to that, and you make other good points, but please also consider non-income work in your arguments.

Ref: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/55560/1/508634636.pd...
We have far more than 200 years experience with a market economy! What do you think they were doing on the Silk Road?
You're doing a lot of damage control on China stuff since that partnership thing was announced.
> The private bank lends funds at 5% interest

Hang on.. is that the rate the bank is lending at, or their yield, including any losses from things like defaults and costs?

> the added benefit of total control over its funds.

Actually, not quite, because one no longer has control of any funds that were lent out.

If a disproportionate number of borrowers all miss a payment during a particular month (even if the don't outright default and catch up next month), the city/bank will have to borrow those funds from the Fed. This can also happen if the city isn't the only depositor and there's a "run" on the bank. That borrowing, short-term though it may be, adds cost, and the rate is (occasionally) variable, unlike, say, many mortgages.

The point is, understanding interest rate spread is simple enough, but the reality (especially with fractional-reserve banking, which is another can of worms) is far more complicated. What seems obvious when explained with the simple model isn't actually so.
I see people like this the way I see my Mormon family. They usually try to be very kind and I value that.

At the same time, they harbor beliefs which are incredibly damaging to both me and those I love, so I keep a healthy distance while understanding that they mean well.

Don’t mistake their kind acts for open-mindedness or acceptance, though.
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• The CIA's experiments on American and Canadian citizens [0][1].

• Plans to nuke the Moon [2].

are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Not sure if they count as "that most of us don't know about."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_A119
There’s a sustainable model for librarians who don’t want to be paid.

OSS is diverse and there are many, obviously, who don’t mind not being paid directly.

But what’s confusing is that there are proprietary licenses. Anyone who doesn’t like volunteering time to OSS can write commercial software and charge for it. That’s the model that works for them.

But the talk of a 40 year old model not being sustainable is pretty funny. It’s more sustainable because it takes so much volunteer time.
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In many cases they are legal proof that something happened. If you can mess with history, proof can't be used in court.
Related: Sensor Tower puts out several free VPN products and sells the analytics observed.
Anyone know how this compares to Metromile? I see a lot of my friends who have cars in San Francisco switching to that and saving money.

Aside: I thought this was going to be about cybersecurity insurance. Root insurance would be a great name, and I think that's an industry that should see a huge amount of growth in the near future.