skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This coupled with the Amazon news is starting to get distressing. With the amount of companies that copycat them it’s like the rich are getting richer and the economic benefits are still going to be concentrated only in the most affluent cities. The rest of the country desperately needs real industry and good paying jobs - and will go to huge lengths to try to get them but it appears nobody can come up with a business plan. We’re truly heading for Elysium.
Tim Cook himself flat out said they have no intention of ever merging MacOS and iOS or converging the two in any way.
Congrats, MDG. What does this mean for Meteor?
Right on! You picked a great time in history, with a ham operator (Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor) currently on the ISS and making contacts. It's exciting stuff. :-) Here's one operator's contact from this last Saturday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwm-6tf7KCs

(That amazing feeling post-contact...funny that he left in those clips, but I definitely identify with the adrenaline rush. :-))

Be sure to check out #hamradio and #hamr on Twitter, and /r/amateurradio on Reddit. Edit: And your local club, too! And welcome!
Well, problem with Orlando etc., as opposed to NYC is it would be harder to attract elite talent there. In fact, it will be hard enough to attract talent at NYC when most tech companies are still in SV.
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I feel like the very point of choosing gait recognition in the first place was because it is difficult to mimic (at that level of detail).
Tweet Storm about the origin of some common Unix directories
Warning: If you don't also squash the entire topic branch, then you will sometimes break git bisect with this workflow.
Actually it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Refuting the initial generalization by saying that no "serious" computer users use their Touch Bar because their computers are closed is nearly a textbook example of the fallacy.
I am not sure that it can be considered doxxing if the personally identifying information is what used to be available in the phone book. Ma Bell was apparently doxxing us for decades before it was cool.
Minimalism doesn't really buy you a whole lot when just rent is already half of your paycheck, anyway. There likely just isn't much left to cut. The things I already own don't add to my cost of living, I already own them.
Yes, because unsubscribing or filtering an e-mail is significantly more difficult than hand-coding these templates...seriously, it's an e-mail address dude.

OP - really good stuff. I hope you do extremely well.
Totally agree, I have a cold water replacement seat type of model, I can't justify getting my bathroom rewired when a $60 device is pretty close almost there. :)

My master bathroom toilet is right up against the closet my water heater is in, so the "cold" water is never that cold.
Folks need to resist the inclination to just gather maximum data for the hell of it.

If you're pumping out a million metrics per minute, almost none of those are ever going to actually be used to generate meaningful insight.
I use AirTable for something similar. It's like excel on steroids & let's you "link" cells of data to one another. Kind of a low-tech solution but depending on the scope of your project it could work.
I suspect that for humans, it’s actually not that difficult a feat.

Totally anecdotal, but I can often identify people I know just by listening to their footsteps.
"It’s just that existing versions are in some way unsatisfactory," was exactly the problem that plagued smartphones before the iPhone.
> Even if they spent 150k per engineer in relocation costs (1 time fee), it’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t make that up in terms of cheaper real estate and lower salaries.

Are you suggest that elite talent wants lower salaries in the Midwest or Florida as long as they can get a one time relocation payout?

Google might save support staff salaries, but I don't think they'll save engineer salaries with your plan, they might even have to boost them.
While I understand your point, you are quite mistaken if you think that time is just another key. Dealing with time properly requires a concept of point distance, similar to GIS systems requiring 2d distance understanding. You cannot do joins on time with SQL databases unless you want to throw away important data.

As an example, in the industry I work in, you may have no readings for days or weeks, and then hundreds of readings from the same sensor. Why? Many systems in industrial environments send new readings only "on-change", and assume the underlying data storage architecture will forward fill to in-between times. This is why the practically ancient time series architecture of data historians still dominates in these use cases.

In fact, for many time series functions you actually have to throw away the notion of relational joins to be able to efficiently perform time-preserving joins. Window functions only work in basic use cases with relatively small amounts of data where you're aggregating.
Thank you Phoenix team - changed my career for the better. My stress levels dropped drastically since moving to Elixir and Phoenix.

Immutable language, blazing fast predictable performance, super quick test suite, real-time capabilities that don't require gigabytes of RAM... the list goes on.
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I worked at the polls in California for the first time this year. We were required to post a public list of everyone who voted including their address. It's posted on the outside of the polling place for anyone to review if they so choose.

The point of anonymous voting is to ensure that the voter's choices are secret, not to conceal the fact that someone voted. Even in Afghanistan where voting can cost your life, purple dye is placed on a finger to maintain a rudimentary system of tracking who has voted and who hasn't.

EDIT: Let me add, I'm no Kemp apologist, but let's keep the focus on the real failures that occurred in GA... Not exaggerated problems.
Here's the terms and conditions you'd ordinarily have to agree to:
https://georgiasecretaryofstate.net/pages/terms-and-conditio...
Was it this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V35Vw29tay0
I just want a self driving RV, but not badly enough to consider hiring a full-time driver
NYC is already an engineering office on a large scale. There are major services single-homed there with elite engineers and no competition from MTV.
"The macbook modifying words have lost all meaning when systems labeled pro have major expansion and repair limitations, the device named air isn't the smallest or lightest and the model without a modifier isn't the cheapest."

This eloquently summarizes much of the disconnect customers have been feeling about the Mac product lineup. Jobs never would have allowed this to happen.
Yeah, and Apple never turns around in a couple years and does what the CEO said they had no intention of doing. (Big phones, tablet stylus, ...)
> Everything on your phone--everywhere--is the endgame.

The endgame is everything on every device you own. Sometimes you'll use your watch. Sometimes your phone. Sometimes your tablet or laptop and sometimes your big screen TV. It's just differently sized screens that all connect to your data in the cloud.

That is the endgame here. Nobody wants to go swimming with their phone or watch a feature film on their phones or do 8 hours of office work on their phones.
10k software engineers in Des Moines? What planet do you live on? Is it the same quadrant of the Milky Way as mine?
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You'd definitely have to boost them. I feel like it's always grossly understated in these sorts of threads just how much better quality of life is in a dense city like NYC. Access to culture, to food, to public transportation, to other job opportunities is hard to put a dollar amount on. There's a reason so many people moves to places like NYC and not isolated towns in the midwest.
You can't dance, you can't talk, the only thing about you is the way that you walk?
That’s how it works in medicine - salaries are higher in less desirable areas.
Not many people want to work in those places though. And I say this as an engineer at Google living and working in Manhattan. NYC has a huge draw to it that most other places don't. Good luck attracting top talent to Des Moines or Orlando. Way more would rather work in NYC. You don't want to be in a one-company town either; if you left Google in Orlando, where else could you work without moving? There's no credible competition at the same tier.

Network effects are real.
Nice segway.
There's another option: just build new housing in the cities that have a proven track-record of economic dynamism. There are several factors that I believe these "winner take all" cities have that many smaller cities either can't or refuse to implement. This includes not just a tolerating, but welcoming immigrants; robust public transit investment; and a great education system.
The phone book didn't tell you that someone was an absentee voter.
agree with most of your points. i also dont think karma matters much, but i always wanted a green username. and also, how did you get 5777 karma points? i was looking at your submissions, it’s almost like mine, 2-3 points on average. this is somewhat like an seo challenge, i’m assuming your comments of someone else’s article received lots of karma.
Ah OK, I wasn't aware. In terms of purely engineering talent, how would you rank Google's Mountain View, Seattle, NYC and London offices?
I live in a block of flats with a flat mate. I can tell when she is home before she even gets to the front door as you can hear people walking in the corridor and she has a particularly heavy, almost clumsy walk that is completely and easily distinguishable.
My angry libturd threads?
I've had great success using event timestamp ( milliseconds since 1970 ) as a column, with an index on it. And then when you query you can use BETWEEN. If you write your own ORM you can make it automatically calculate the time range according to some defaults - minute, second, etc. Works great.

If you are using spatial data, You can also use two columns like this for longitude and latitude.
I rarely use them unless I have a "just fill this space between eachother" problem.
Time-series data handling/storage seems a mostly solved problem in the mining, oil, and manufacturing industries. Deployed in the field since the 80's,

https://www.osisoft.com/about-osisoft/#more-about-pi-system

Discourse: Industry user now OSIsoft employee
An iPad is already the only computer my parents own. They don't even have smart phones.
Or if they were disabled.
My entire engineering team is in the NYC office. We've made some front page headlines on HN. https://registry.google for more info.

And we're very small compared to the Search, Cloud, ads, Maps, etc. engineering presences.
This is a pet peeve of mine.. Steve didn't mock the idea of styluses in abstract, he didn't want it to be the default and only way people interact with their devices. So Apple made the operation of iPad be all about the touch experience. Now, later on Apple released a much improved stylus as an optional, secondary and not at all necessary input method. That has nothing to do with the truth or untruth of Job's statement, nor is it inconsistent with what he said.
Looks like 1917 russian revolution to me... no, thank you.
That and SpaceChem arebtwo games that transfer a lot of skills to the SE space. I need to pick up factorio again, one if the best I've ever played.
NYC is #2 worldwide by engineering size, ahead of Seattle, London, and SF.
I can't wait for telemetry. Better monitoring will be a huge addition to the ecosystem!
Often per-click stuff ends up with dozens or hundreds of data points from different parts of the code -- heartbeats, feature usage, funnels, experiment entry, etc.
> Wait, are you really looking at the second derivative of the revenue? Q2 revenue (September 2018) was up 14% against September 2017.

Just going by yahoo finance data:

Quarterly Earnings Growth (yoy)	-10.50%
It's a classic chicken and egg problem.

Companies don't want to establish new offices in cities where they cannot attract new talent or there isn't a large existing base of talent. This limits large new offices to large metro areas (5M+ people)

People don't want to relocate to cities where there aren't multiple job possibilities - you lose your job/hate it and don't want to have to relocate to find a new job or you want to move but your spouse can't find a job there because their industry isn't well represented there.

This leads to a reinforcement cycle where new jobs are created in a city, people flock there, found the next generation of companies, new jobs, more people fleeing less attractive cities and so on...

Things that can happen that could break this cycle include - new industries emerging (like tech in the 90s), poor governance, infrastructure in an area forcing companies to find alternatives (like bay area right now), new skills coming into demand and companies establishing offices to take advantage of that (e.g. Pittsburg emerging as an AI hub, Seattle for 'cloud' skills etc)
Forced? That sounds a bit too 1984-ish. I believe in a more Brave New World future, where people will pay good money to get chipped and the only "natties" (unchipped people) will be people who either cannot afford it, or "wackos".
The goal isn’t to reduce costs or move existing employees. It’s to tap a talent pool to hire new people.
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At least in my state, New Mexico, you can look that information up for any voter with just a name and birthday.
For a really nice solution to the error message problem, see this recent strangeloop talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jes3bD6P0To

Basically it uses the parse tree disambiguation from the GLR parser to look for the most likely mistake the user made - it's very clever.
Ask HN: Do I have to use WordPress?
I'm on a project now where content needs to be monetized so WordPress was selected as they have a few paid membership plugins[1][2] that can provide recurring payments, product subscriptions, free trials and much more with admin interfaces. Some scale issues with WordPress were encountered though (10 years of data equating to over 1M posts / 1TB of HTML, 60K authors) so I'm wondering if there are any other CMS platforms that provide the same kind of paid membership functionality but also scale to this level.

[1] https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/

[2] https://restrictcontentpro.com/
I think we're in agreement, except that I believe that whatever capacity you have for choice is also stored as state. What you call state and choice, I might call state and procedures. Both are stored in the substrate of the brain as state, just like data structures and the code that operates on them are both stored as data.
I'm not sure this doesn't scale. I assume you made enough on a reservation to pay for cheap third world labor to do this at scale
If there are good, seasoned engineers in Silicon Valley that can't pass the Google interview, they sure as hell can't find very many in Orlando or Des Moines.
The argument about students walking in the dark (however you feel about it) is in regards to the _winter_ months, when there has never been DST. Asking what they did before DST came around to save them is asking what happens right now. That is, it's not dark when they walk to school. It'll only be an issue (if you think it's an issue) if and only if DST is enacted _year round_.
What I don't get is that the state tracks party affiliation and publishes it. This information should not be public or even better not tracked.
> The South Pole is a smaller population than China so I'd be worried about false positives

Even if the false positive rate is really low, it's still a problem. All of these dragnet-style things mess with your priors. In a traditional investigation, the police have a handful of suspects and then gather evidence. Circumstantial evidence showing that the chances are 1 in 1000 that this one of the five suspects was not the culprit is pretty convincing, and probably enough to convict.

Cast a dragnet over a city of 1 million, and suddenly that same 1-in-1000 error rate will be giving you 1000 innocent people who, under the old system, are 'guilty beyond reasonable doubt'. They've been pre-selected to look pretty frikkin' bad regardless of whether they're guilty, which means any one of them will have a hell of a time proving their innocence.
I won’t miss them. They’ve been a very difficult vendor to work with. At least once they go to IBM it’s easier to justify sunsetting them.
Thanks. This news is a pretty big deal then.
I think things are going fine as it is. The more ridiculous question the media becomes the more discredited it gets and less people pay attention. Media is inherently flawed since it seeks to monetize views. Newspapers, while still relied on readership had less invasive ways of monetization. If you ask me, the current cycle of distrust in media is well deserved. When you have all but a few people controlling the worlds attention, we need to be highly skeptical of anything we come across. Real news can be found on actual news source sites, we don’t need political angles, spun opinions or clickbait titles to get actual news. Things have a tendency to resolve themselves so let’s not shove it down our kids throats at an early age. If we need something useful to teach them how about we start with personal finance- you know, things that actually matter to your life.
Personally, I have the opposite opinion. I took a pay cut to leave Seattle ( I lived in Chicago before that, I've lived in dense metro areas for many, many years now) so I could go live in a smaller town.

I can actually afford a house. My dog has a yard to play in. I haven't been mugged since I left! No one uses my doorstep as a bathroom. My neighbors actually come say hi to me and are invested in forming relationships knowing I won't just up in move in the next year due to housing costs. We have decent enough restaurants, bars, bowling alleys, pool halls, movie theater, mall, etc, and if I really want to, I am within driving distance of the city (edit: for a day trip, no way in hell would it work for me as a commute). Yet, I haven't been back since I left.

I think it's more nuanced than your comment indicates. You might be surprised how many people might take up an offer from Google to move to the boonies (I'm at least one).
easy. the government feels threatened by ET's technological superiority. They could literally wipe us off this universe if they wanted to. This frightens the brass, so on. Just look at the people they interview, they are not some looney bins like Stanek.
> This includes not just a tolerating, but welcoming immigrants; robust public transit investment; and a great education system.

Well 2/3 of these don't apply to the Bay Area / SF
That's nice! On a related note, I just recalled the magazines with code listings in them - pages upon pages.

And yes, I would spend hours typing them all in. Even before I got my tape drive. :p
This is nothing new. This kind of data has always been available in most states. As long ago as at least the mid-90s, I recall using large databases of every voter in a particular state when I was politically active and doing work for a party. It included name, address, phone number, party, registration date, and which elections they had participated in for the previous dozen years (at least). We had other data that was bumped against those records to give a fairly complete picture of over two million voters in that state. The other party had similar databases. I don't understand the outcry here, other than suddenly the data is available to anyone.

For what it's worth, not making it publicly available isn't really feasible either, since that would make fraud trivially easy for any resourceful and determined organization.
I don't think you mean size. In which case it is very hard for anyone to judge the quality of engineers everywhere.
the misconceptions you hold about marketing and unit economics are hard to work through here given the limited time and space.

i'll just note that branding is first and foremost about pricing power. lower cost forms of marketing are employed to encourage volume.
>The GPL has explicit provisions for allowing access to the source code only if you pay, for example.

This is plainly untrue. The GPL allows you to charge a nominal fee for distributing the source code, so you could charge $5 for the costs of burning a CD and mailing it. It doesn't let you restrict that source code afterwards though. All it takes is a single customer paying $5 for a CD and now they can freely distribute that source code as much as they want to. The provision in the GPL is not there to allow people to profit from selling the source code, it's there to compensate for just the costs associated with sending them a copy. Those costs are never going to be anything substantial.
I used to work at a startup that made physical robots. The robot generated several GBs of data every time it turned on. You're correct, most of that data wasn't looked at most of the time. But every now and then, someone would say "Hey, I saw a robot do something funny the other day, what the hell happened?" And having all that data usually made it possible to figure out what happened. To me, "maximum data for the hell of it" isn't about generating insight by looking at trends, it's about generating insight during incident analysis.
A single unified accessory market to end all accessory markets would probably be worth it.
Ads are not a feature
If NYC becomes a monoculture like SV than it truly is a big deal.
Proper caching brings us back to the question of memory usage that I started out with. For the record, I don't think that Tilt Brush can be accused of a failure to cache properly. It need to recreate sketched 3d models for VR and I thibk there is some kind of LOD stuff going on when creating the final geometry, based on the performance of the computer it is running on.

And yes, any descriptions of nondestructive edits is by its nature a script that needs to be replayed by an interpreter to get the final state of the document. No matter the level at which you introduce the interpreter, you cannot upgrade it without risk to backwards compatibility to existing documents.

And if you you want the script language to be low level enough so that the implementations of your operators need to be dumped into the document, then you need to (a) write about half of your program in said scripting language and (b) end up duplicating that in every dicument that is created.
I posted this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18375562 Amsat and Ariss fundraiser to support new infrastructure for the ham stuff in ISS.
Whilst legally it may not be wrong. Morally, it's a dangerous path as what good do they expect to come from this by aggregating the data into packaged up form that enables joe public of all forms, easy access.

It is in effect, tarring all these people with a brush that is an edge-case scenario and that would be voter fraud.

Guilty until proven innocent in the social media age has become the norm alas.
This should be good for engineering salaries in general in NYC.