skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very, very few retired CHP are getting $200k/year. The average CHP pension is <$100k/year and is worth $2.6 million. Only about 1000 retired CHP are getting more than $100k/year.

The average Googler should be making 300-400k+/yr after 5 years. If that Googler is willing to live on a CHP salary for 30 years, it should be trivial to have saved well over $2.6million. They should, in fact, be able to save well over double that over 30yrs giving you the equivalent of that $200k a year in benefits.
I am suspicious of your division: "complainers" and "majority who never has issues".

I agree some people are born complainers, and you should not implement things mentioned by just one user or one especially noisy user. I also agree that support requests shouldn't be the only way one understands users. But I suspect there are very few improvements valuable to people who don't contact support that would never be mentioned by someone who does.

To me the people who contact support with suggestions aren't just the most irritating fraction of your user base. They're also the most dedicated users. The ones who love your product the most. The ones who are doing something you didn't expect because they are an early adopter in a different market. The new users that you'd like to have more of but won't until your product is easier to learn.
CD-ROM Under the Microscope [2000x]
Wow, now even window is being written in js. Do you have any info or read on why this is the case?
This looks like a really good resource! Sadly at my work we are just finally getting most of our web stack on top of a REST API. So it may be a while before I get to work with something like this a production environment.
Great job. This is a great resource for a person like myself that is getting into the world of GraphQL
The fact that your country makes an even bigger mess of voting is no reason to gloat.
Yes, indeed: https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-mailer-well-tell-your-neig...
I just saw this and came back to HN to share it :)
Thanks!
U.S. court: Qualcomm must license tech to competitors
Actually we don't know that. Apple and Microsoft are the only companies which can really deliver on this promise and I can't see Microsoft being in the position to move their dev base to a convertible future, but Apple... If they try they can deliver (its not a given, but if they execute and the strs align, it could happen).
You might also think about how often you walk right past your friends without recognizing them.
Scientific American: Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweete...

Appears Foodinsight is a mouthpiece for huge chemical corporations . . . .
Zinc.io (YC W14) Hiring PM for $200k+ MRR SaaS Product
Rich, coming from this man: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cyb...
'Companies are no longer able to (or unwilling to) do internal innovation and so you need to outsource that'
I'm assuming you only mean huge, mature enterprises here.
there will always be something to do because once software A is so easy to use anyone can do it, you can jump to support software B that isn't there yet.

But if you poured resources in A with the hope of making supporting A your bread and butter, and A is so easy to use no one needs help, well, you kind of wasted your time and money, UNLESS you managed to make it so popular that the 5% of people who still need help anyway are enough to keep you afloat. That's hard though.
They don't give 'half a shit' because they are crappy. And that's not necessarily their fault.

Given the current performance numbers and the fact that we are switching to USB-C, which allows high speed connections to multiple types of devices, and we may be reaching a point where this is actually feasible.
A cryptocurrency millionaire buying up land to build a village run on Ethereum
this quote has stayed with me ever since I first read it and I catch myself at points where I think I've just made a free decision thinking "I should try to overcome my will now and do the opposite", which I can never do, but wouldn't overcoming one's will do something be even more free will ?
Compulsory voting is wrong for many reasons, it fixes a symptom (low voter turnout as a proxy for reduced participation) but not the cause (reduced participation due to a disconnect between politics and the voters).

Turnout by itself should not be a goal, but free and willing participation should be.
Google results are still miles ahead of Bing results in my experience. Sometimes when I set up a new computer I'll accidentally search Bing, and the designs are similar enough I don't notice until I realize that the results I'm getting suck.
We can start with nodejs. Nodejs with async model will be the best solution to achieve the best performance(after 'delete spaces' method of course).
I wrote up my (possibly incomplete) understanding of client cert auth on the reddit post when someone had a similar question: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9v0xr8/rewritt...
In the context of US history, the World Wars transformed the United States from a parochial, isolationist regional power into a powerful superpower.

The Korean War transformed the United States from a country that occupied half of Korea with the permission of a local, democratically elected government to a country that occupies half of Korea with the permission of a local, democratically elected government. Vietnam transformed the United States into a slightly less interventionist country for 20-30 years and reduced the scope of Johnson's social welfare reforms.

The World Wars also saw the wide-scale mobilization of the entire nation, including rationing, large-scale transformation of American industry to war production, coastal blackouts at night to protect shipping traffic, ubiquitous propaganda, and other measures. World War II was more disruptive to the life of the typical American at home than any other war that didn't physically take place on American soil. (In fact, parts of World War II did take place on American soil.) Korea and Vietnam--"major" wars maybe in isolation, but not at all compared to WWII.
Just to chime in, I saw an old-timer keep a daily work log in a text file, and that appealed to me so I started it too. This was in 1998, and to this day I still keep writing new entries to that same text file pretty much every business day. Old test account credentials, notes on what got done, ticket numbers, ideas, unfinished todos, the works. It also helps with time sheets at the end of the month :-)
It's over 1 year for an albeit big point release. Not necessarily fast compared to Rails even in the early days [1]. I think the main problem is there aren't enough quality independent tech blogs like when Rails came onto the scene.

1. http://railsapps.github.io/rails-release-history.html
Been waiting for this release to start playing with Phoenix.

I'm super interested to see how liveview turns out. Can it be a game changer and free us from JS framework morass? Anyone know if there's a public liveview repo/work to look at somewhere?
Do your own homework!
"self regulation"
I disagree. A powerful smart TV is more practical for the average consumer than a more sophisticated system.

A big problem for entertainment lovers is that there are too many things to control, thus creating the all-in-one market. On the other hand, power users will insist on highly functional subcomponents that each bring a specific and glorious benefit.

And there you have it, all-in-one vs. subcomponents. Which does the average consumer belong?
> I think one thing you’re missing is how good Apple’s GPU have become (and will be in 1-2 years).

Not compared to other discreet GPUs they haven't. They are still 5 years behind consoles. The only time mobile ever "catches up" and achieves "console-class" is near the end of a consoles ~5-8 year lifetime.

The performance is superb for mobile, and certainly good enough for integrated (it'd be perfect in something like a macbook air), but it's still getting destroyed by the relatively crappy Radeon Pro 560X in the 2018 MBP.
Thanks. Looks like a good proper learning material for Prolog. However, I just needed to get a feel or taste of what Prolog is without spending too much time reading concepts.

Thanks for the book suggestion. Quick duckduck for it gives me this pdf:

http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs372/spring15/Programmin...
I believe the Shopify CEO mentioned it recently in a podcast, together with Starcraft 2, as one of his favorite games that translate well to skills applicable to startups.
It’s insane that the person running the election commission can run in the election.
It's rare to see arguments in favor of being a generalist over a specialist. In the end, they both have their pros and cons.

> You simply have more chance of career success if you have more skills.

I think that depends on how one intends to apply those skills. Being a generalist means that you don't depend on any one particular skill to always keep you in demand, and you can do more on your own to do tasks that specialists need to do in groups. However, I think a group of specialists will always outperform a lone generalist. Because of that, I imagine specialists are in general more preferable in a company environment.

EDIT: I'm curious if there are people here that have chosen to practice a wide breadth of related skills, as opposed to lasering in to one very specific skill. Do you feel glad/happy about it, or have you regretted it?

EDIT 2: What is a generalist or a specialist is of course very relative. One's specialist is another's generalist. I also get the sense that, in the tech world, what is a specialist today, is a generalist tomorrow. Maybe that's just natural of an expanding industry.
Initial stress-derived noun
For VHF and UHF , that's not generally true - e.g. a simple quarter-wavelength antenna (exactly what it says on the tin - a stick antenna that is 1/4 of the wavelength on which you intend to operate - so e.g. for VHF 2m band, we're talking ~20" long, and for UHF 70cm it's even shorter) is perfectly sufficient to work repeaters, and to communicate with others directly within the radio horizon.

For HF, you do need a large antenna, but it's not necessarily what people think of when they think "antenna" - i.e. not a tower with a giant vertical rod. An HF antenna can just be a piece of cable of the right length and type, properly arranged; and it's usually strung more horizontally than vertically. Using trees for that is pretty common, too. Something like this:

https://hamcall.net/images/BuckmasterOCFInstallDiagram.png
You can look up whether a voter in the state is casting an absentee ballot with just their name and birthday?

Gosh, if I were a criminal, there's an awful lot of homes that are likely candidates for robbing now that a list of "who is not home + their address" is public.
NYC is one of the most diverse cities in the world. There are 800 languages alone spoken in Queens. NYC will never become a monoculture because it can never price out immigrants, otherwise the city would die, unless they want to replace cheap labor with robots. Who else is going to make all the avocado toasts, bus, drive taxis, deliver seamless, and serve drinks in the city that never sleeps?

https://amp.businessinsider.com/queens-languages-map-2017-2
Yay for webpack as default.
My perception of phoenix is not only that it is the best in class but that it also keeps getting better instead of bloated.
I already have a ctrl key, though. Whatever works for you, though--personally, I prefer not installing extra third-party systems-level software over making ctrl marginally more convenient to press.
"cognitive load of advertisement inundation"

Well said, you articulated my thoughts exactly. I wish we could vote on banning public advertising eyesores. With TV or radio I simply choose not to view or listen, but being bombarded with unwanted ads on my walk or commute is insidiously brainwashing the public without recourse.
Technological Requirements for Terraforming Mars
Low solar activity means that there is less EUV (extreme ultraviolet) radiation hitting the ionosphere. This leads to weaker plasma formation, as well as shifting geometries of the plasma layer. In general the lower and weaker plasma tends to restrict the range of HF transmissions attempting long distance communications via refraction through ionospheric plasma.
Disclaimer: Your concern is exactly what pays my salary. Take what I say with a grain of salt.

I typically see this attitude at the developer level, but the line of business never sees it like that. Devs don't have incentive to care about these things. They also just want to deal with the vendor.

What you sell is more "insurance" and a guaranteed timeline on bug fixes/releases.

As someone who supports OSS, why should you be able to demand I ship something on a certain schedule if you're not paying me? If it's a business transaction, then there's a contract and aligned incentives on both sides.

Taking this a step further, this is usually not enough which is why we then see open core business models like elastic search, gitlab, (and also my company skymind) selling a combination of support + licensing.
Bixby as presented at SDC today is built on a different platform than the Bixby most people are familiar with. (The new Bixby is the work of Samsung-owned Viv Labs.)

It really is an interesting platform that’s worth playing around with. You essentially define a set of “concepts and actions” (objects and functions, effectively), and then give Bixby example sentences for natural language training that specify which words represent input concepts and what the goal is (for instance, an action like “BookUber” or “FindHotel”), and Bixby dynamically generates the program for you, including adding steps on its own to prompt the user for missing information (i.e, you say “book a table at The French Laundry next Saturday at 7” and it knows it needs to ask you “for how many”). You can easily teach Bixby about context and continuing conversation, so you could say “change the reservation to Sunday” and it would know what you were talking about. And, it can even learn the user’s preferred defaults over time, so if you usually specify a table for two, it assumes that’s what you mean. (You’d be able to change that on a confirmation screen before it books anything, of course.)

Full disclosure: I’m a tech writer at Viv Labs, so I’m absolutely biased. :) But I acquired this bias from working with the product.
How about a grassroots Internet?

http://hsmm-mesh.org/just-starting-read-this.html
> Is there any technical or other reason why MS doesn't provide a secure layer inside of windows for applications like online games?

Yes
Wait, what? You think a 45-minute commute is good? The 1.5-hour thing is simply beyond the pale.

You need to get out of the urban megacity.

I've lived in several parts of the USA. My worst commute was 20 minutes by car, and my current commute is 3 minutes by car or 15 to 20 minutes by foot. These were all software development jobs.

The reason is that I choose small cities. I choose places that have suburban density, though they aren't technically suburbs because people aren't commuting into an urban megacity. The jobs are local.

Another nice benefit of this choice is my expenses. Houses go for 10% to 20% of what you pay in a place like the Bay Area, not even counting the extra land you get. Nearly everything else is cheaper too. Gas is half the price. Groceries are cheaper. Taxes are much lower.
Actually, Australia's preferential voting & proportional representation do a far better job of connecting politics and voters than any country with a FPTP system (including US & Canada).

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Depart...
Not happening to me, but this question reminds me of something I've been wondering for a while: when did Google first start redirecting search result links so they could track what you end up clicking on? Was it like that before 2010? Has it always been that way? I feel like they had direct links throughout most of the 2000's but maybe I'm imagining it.
One caveat: at least in some locales, a license is required to own (or perhaps carry) a police scanner.
“Automating away jobs” is like “harvesting away corn”.

Sure you can delete someone’s job. But you just leave a job-shaped hole in the person that then goes and finds a new purpose. It only seems like a disappearance for the season, and then you find something new growing there.

The idea that we are anywhere near “doing all the work” is batshit. We are presently doing maybe 1% of the work that needs doing. You could automate the entire economy 50 times and still have 50 more careers waiting for the globe’s population.

Bioremediation in he wake of climate change alone could occupy an entire generation of earth humans. Mental health another. Building permaculture cities will be the work of an entire generation. None of those things will be amenable to robot labor.
Turning Bugs into Gems: Debugging Ruby Applications
This may have been the best comment I have read on HN. Sounds like the foundation of a blog post.
My problem with ragchewing is that here, I can respond to random comments as they interest me, and I can carry on a short conversation if I wish to, but I’m really not interested in shooting the breeze with a random stranger. Or frankly, even people I know.
Will Smart Contracts Eat the World?
That's likely what I'd do for my own child(ren) but there's absolutely no way that would happen in a school dominated by teachers who practice one particular religion, or in a district/state governed by followers of one particular religion.
Or clang.
New Mexico doesn't require an excuse to vote with an absentee ballot¹.

Lots of states that do restrict them allow anyone over a certain age to use it.

So it doesn't really imply that they aren't home.

1. http://www.sos.state.nm.us/Voter_Information/Absentee_and_Ea...
Guide d'achat drone
Nah, the TOS probably has text buried in it that absolves them from any responsibilities.
Shameless plug: If you want to try out a modem in your browser, check out https://quiet.github.io/quiet-js
:)

Fortunately for us, it was DAP (planting fertilizer) and CAN (topdress fertilizer). The nice thing about Kenyan agriculture is that most farmers, if they have a cow, already are making sure to use their manure. The bad news is there's not nearly enough cows making nearly enough poop in Kenya to provide the nitrogen the crops need. We're literally shit out of luck... :)
There are much easier ways of finding out whether or not someone is home than looking up if they are going to be voting. Just find out if everyone living there has a 9-5 job, for example.
Sure, but it is a much stronger indication that they are not home than just having a list of all registered voters in a state.
I really need to try SC2, I played a ridiculous amount of SC:BW back in HS. Do you remember which podcast? I'd love to listen to the episode.
It's not about what people do once they vote, it's about how to get people to vote.

Compulsory voting is great if you are running a dictatorship, it is not a good idea if you want to create a functioning democracy because voter turnout is an excellent way to judge how engaged people are. That signal is lost when you force people to vote.

Yes, proportional representation is better than first-past-the-post. But you can have that irrespective of how you get people to vote in the first place.
Thank you for this. The deoplete defaults are much more sane than ycm. I've started using your plugin. I'm glad to see the author of tabnine has asked to feature it on his site.
Interesting, thanks. Despite much complaint at the state of UK broadband, particularly speed variance from distance to exchange or cabinet, LLU has always included whatever came next from ADSL+ through to the current fibre (mostly FTTC) that's almost complete apart from some rural areas. FTTH is still pretty rare sadly.

So any speed differences between ISPs are mostly down to the quality or not of the ISP's network. Which means roughly Talktalk bad, A&A good, but the sync speed should be the same. :)
Any more good links from them?
The “compulsory” part applies to both the voter and the Government. People in the remotest of remote communities, troops on deployment, researchers in Antartica, the Government is obliged that they all have a reasonable chance to lodge a vote.

Also of note is how EASY it is to vote here. Postal votes can be lodged. There are “early voting” places open a couple of weeks before the Election Day, and the elections are held on Saturdays.
> But that's the essence of the disparity. If you controlled for gendered roles, there would be no significant gender wage gap in any direction.

Only if you ignored them. If you pass out a net economic benefit there is a gap. It's not as big as some stats name, but it's very much there.

Heck, the very study we're discussing asserts these metrics grow!

> Arbitration agreements became popular when plaintiffs attorneys realized that defending against an unmeritorious lawsuit costs millions of dollars in legal expenses and companies would pay thousands of dollars to avoid paying millions of dollars. Arbitration agreements were a flawed attempt to defend against that practice. Eliminating them eliminates their flaws while reintroducing the problem they were adopted to solve to begin with, so what's your alternative solution for that?

This wasn't ever really a problem to begin with. Forced arbitration is always worse for the workers and it's good that it's gone. They're as unethical as non-disparage agreements and no-competes.

> It does have bearing on our current conversation because it's the same issue. If gender imbalances are a problem that needs to be solved then they are a problem across the board regardless of which gender they favor in a particular context and they should be addressed in a consistent way. It is disingenuous to say that we should address imbalances that disfavor women today and imbalances that disfavor men at some indeterminate future date that in practice never comes. Neither or both, not one without the other.

Then treat them as such. Stop making excuses for one but not the other. I'm the one saying either both phenomenon need to be examined for systemic influence factors. You can't simultaneously dismiss one problem as "choice" and the other as "a problem" and retain any integrity.

> Which is essentially the same thing, when the argument for why boys are doing poorly in primary school is that they're being disciplined too often and disproportionately.

The stats I was quoting do not imply this. I've not heard boy children are disciplined in school more than girls.

> If you have 17 male prison inmates, 80 male truck drivers, 100 female medical professionals and 3 male billionaires, just averaging their incomes by gender provides a very distorted picture of what is actually going on.

Personally, I don't believe you're accidentally ignoring the number of women engaged in the strenuous but uncompensated labor of homemaking who are conveniently stricken from such discussions but if considered along with male homemakers destroy the average you're distribution you're attempting to describe.
I just got a $136 ticket from a stoplight camera for failing to Completely Stop at an intersection where there were no other cars for at least 1 mile in any direction, and made a right turn on red at about 3mph. It is serviced by a company 6 states away. Automated injustice is very alive today.
China's Brightest Children Are Being Recruited to Develop AI 'Killer Bots'
Krokodil: how ‘flesh-eating zombie drug’ is causing a global crisis
Space Solar Power: A New Beginning
I suspect there’s quite a bit of case law on what probability of false positives is acceptable?
I don't think many people yet realize that this is what people are arguing for every time they say it's okay for a private company to not do business with whoever they dislike.