skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not that I agree with Amazon's policy for no open source contributions, but imagine that an employee decides to spend the 6-8hrs out of the remaining 24hrs meant for sleep on something other than sleep, what do you think will happen? That employee's productivity during those critical 8hrs of the day that is being paid for by the employer would drop like a rock, because whether we like it or not, we need time to recharge our batteries.
Indeed this is what I meant. I pondered my informal phrasing afterwards.

Also I entered single carriage feeds between sentences, forgetting that they're going to get stripped on HN anyway.
Quite a disagreeable post, in my opinion.

> Which leads me to the "but money can't buy happiness" position so many people have repeated over the years. Bull. Shit. Anyone who has ever said that simply doesn't know where to shop.

If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense. The next statement: "money spent on physical items can bring people a huge amount of pleasure" reinforces the impression that you have some concepts confused.

It's great to have cool stuff, and thanks for the probably sound advice on how to achieve that. You don't have to try to convince (yourself?) that this equates happiness.
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Years ago I had to wear a Holter device for 24h, and wondered the same when I was asked to note the time of any events.

I've also had a 12-lead ECG done 3 times that I recall Each time it was done by a nurse rather than a doctor, and each time they barely even glanced at the output before announcing everything was OK. Is ECG output really that easy to read and unambiguous?
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Yada Yada Taxes are theft... oh my.

Just gotta love how this white, Australian born cis-male was educated in a public school, going there every day over public roads, in a town kept safe by public police, in a house that never burned down because of public firefighters, never fearing saying the wrong thing in a free constitutional democracy protected by judges, politicians and a military — lecturing everyone about that TAXES ARE THEFT, BADLY SPENT and he did it ALL BY HIMSELF.

Smart boy, bravo you combined the vulnerabilities of three dozen international laws to get down to 1,3% combined tax rate.

I don't even have a word for people like this.

Here's my take:

youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
I strongly encourage Technology professionals (and everyone else) to learn some basic personal finance and how to effectively (1) set aside some cash for emergencies, (2) pay off and keep off high interest debt, and (3) invest for the long term, i.e., retirement. But this rambling post which is heavily focused on Troy's personal experiences and anecdotes isn't a particularly great resource for teaching anyone personal finance; nor is it especially interesting.
Variables are not the only names in a program. Attribute lookups do use a dictionary.
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ONLY when moving within the same county, or to one of the 9 (?) that accepts such transfers.

Prop 5 would have applied statewide and would have freed up thousands of such homes in the Bay Area.
The Fortune article has more context- http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/

Considering CES responded two months ago, why publish this response now? Seems more of a strategic PR play in the news cycle IMO. I'm 100% for the equality/equity movement but this seems to be an attempt at co-oping it for PR in order to boost a bottom line, at the expense of providing ammo to those who wish to discredit the movement entirely.
> In a comment below the main post they say that the app they wrote is approximately 45,000 lines of code over 170 Elm files.

One thing I've found a bit weird about the Elm community is how common it is to highlight or even brag about the size of the codebases.

One of the reasons I have come to particularly enjoy Clojurescript on the front-end is because of how much code I don't have to write. I once ported an Elm app to Clojurescript and it was only one-third the line count for the same functionality, and generally a smoother experience.

I think some developers just love building up these huge, complex worlds and living inside them, and then telling others how big those worlds are.
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I mean, you're right that those particular examples don't fit the conventional advice, but they are common traps people fall into.

You also didn't mention the other examples from the article which definitely do come up in conventional advice: things like tracking churn, ARPU & LTV, and making it easy for customers to try the product.
Transaction fees for European PIN transactions aren't that crippling, and the convenience of being able to actually recharge is easily worth a couple of cents. These required signups are just needless fragmentation of an already small market.

What I don't get is why every gas station does not also have at least one charging point. They've got air for your tires, sometimes a car wash, and tons of other conveniences, but no electricity? Electricity should be the easiest thing in the world.

The whole point is of course that eventually you can recharge wherever you park, but that means there must be more places to recharge than there are gas stations, not less. This situation is ridiculous.
Working remotely as a dev.
Everyone always recommends latex, but I always end up spending more time googling cryptic errors that actually writing when using latex. I would not recommend it to a friend.
Eh, to each their own. If Troy enjoys expensive cars, what the hell. It's his money. I'm not into expensive toys either but I don't judge other people for "materialism" and feel superior about my woo-woo individuality / spirituality.

I would agree with Troy's conclusion that "money buys happiness," but take a different tack. Money buys financial security, and financial security buys avoiding many kinds of hardship and grief.

You can have money and be unhappy, and you can be evicted because you can't meet rent and be happy, but it's probably easier to be happy when you aren't worried about paying the bills.
I understand your point, but this isn't a special risk introduced by the GDPR, and from the perspective of a regulator, I don't think they are going to consider the linking someone to illegal behaviour to be additional liabilities for the company suffering the breach.

That being said, if your "chan" provides a safe haven for illegal behaviour, you might have other non-GDPR problems as well.
Is there some kind of sync mechanism? I couldn't see anything about account creation. You say "offline first". Is it not "offline only"?
”Robotic” vibrators are not banned. OhMiBod (woman founder, too) has had them on display for years, and have a booth this year. Apparently it adjusts intensity based on your heartbeat from your apple watch now!

Also, a smart vibrator from last year, also by a woman founder:

https://sextechguide.com/news/mysteryvibe-crescendo-app-upda...

The lewdness thing is inconsistent but clearly has nothing whatsoever to do with gender bias or sexism.
Most people in the world.
Gary Kildall had every opportunity to do what Gates did, and did not come from a wealthy family nor did he go to Harvard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall

In fact, IBM first went to Gary Kildall for DOS.

Lots of people got rich off of software in those days, hardly any of them went to Harvard.
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Seems he would have done very well out of property as Australia hasn't been affected by 2008 GFC. There are young people that would have invested in property in Ireland before GFC and would have dug themselves a financial hole. This guy doesn't like calling it luck but I don't know what you call different outcomes for investors between the two countries. We are living in the time of quantitative easing, cheap credit and this seems to result in speculative asset bubbles and busts. Dow Jones is over 200% up in last 10 years. I think outcome of central banks printing money at this scale is unknown and puts a big question mark on long term investing and the 'time in the market' advice.
We used MongoDB in my last job and I just want to say that I would have given up management of that beast in a heartbeat. We didn't stress MongoDB nearly enough to warrant all the effort required to construct it, monitor it, back it up, etc. Even if the performance was crappy, I would have lobbied hard to change to DocumentDB ASAP.
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The idea that there are types of foods which make you gain weight is incorrect. Anecdotal, but I've actually lost several kilos this year on a diet of pizza, fried chicken, and Coca-Cola (I was skinny to begin with -- I'm just even skinnier now). I'm not saying my diet is "healthy", but I do know that it hasn't made me obese.

I do, however, worry about the damage I might be causing my body without realising. All my research seems to point to obesity being the main cause of diet-related health issues -- but I'm not obese. I fast for most of the day, so I don't imagine I'll develop insulin sensitivity anytime soon. I walk for over an hour a day, so I don't imagine I'm at a high risk for heart disease. I lift weights twice a week, so I don't have a disproportionate amount of fat on my frame. Is there something I might be doing to myself without realising? I really just eat this way out of convenience. I'd hate to think I was going to die 30 years early because of it.
By that argument they should also prohibit people from playing competitive chess outside of work, because it's mentally challenging.
Those tweets seem more like something a rapper would do than a security guy.

What have we become?
The longer term risk argument is interesting, but my pension investments would say otherwise. Also even if its 'only' zero sum, that money is still going somewhere, either allowing someone else to make a long term investment, or something more immediate.

What would you say are the "society wide impacts"? I tend to subscribe to the view that money is the root of all evil[1], so at the extreme, a 100% inheritance rate would solve the problem.

[1]In the sense that money leads to power, increased education opportunities for children etc etc.
That sounds plausible. And I think if the first communication on the matter had been about the difference between robots and devices containing robotics technology, that would be correct. However the first communication (according to the original post) was about indecent / not in keeping with CES image. The "Oh well, it's not even a real robot" seems like an afterthought.

So not really a "baseless claim". A stretch, maybe, but a pretty reasonable one, all things considered.
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I am very interested in how game dev does e2e testing. Arent there millions of strategies that players can follow and the games must therefore respond consistently in all these scenarios ? How is this type of combinatorial explosion avoided ? Any references ?
Statements like "before the Nasdaq craters (later in 2019)" are not data.
His mother also (probably) helped very directly, since she was in the same committee as the chairman and president of IBM when Bill was just starting Microsoft: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-...
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> If happiness for you is about things you buy in shops, then you are a shallow person, and you are missing out. A lot. In fact you are poor, but in a spiritual sense.

That's a fair point. From my understanding he was talking about "buying happiness" in a broad sense. Sure he did mention material goods. But also the ability take out time out and being with family and friends and not having to worry about making ends meet.
There's no sync (at this point) and no account creation by design. It's all stored in your browser - I suppose in that regard it is not 'online'!

Sync may well be coming, but I'm not yet certain how to do it securely. That being said, import & export is available now, so it can be manually sync'd.
Agreed, this seems like a blatant attempt at co-oping the empowerment movement in order to boost their bottom line.

According to Fortune (http://fortune.com/2019/01/09/the-ose-toy-ces2019/), CES responded to the author two months ago. If this is truly about airing grievances about losing the award, why wait until now to publish a respose?
> The Java ecosystem has been irreparably harmed by Dalvik and its lack of support for more modern versions of Java.

So if ReactOS gets popular but doesn't support Windows 10 APIs, will it be harming the windows ecosystem? If popular implementations of a tool exist that don't chase other (official or not) implementations' features but still get lots of users, that probably means that the popular implementations provide other benefits.

> API design is a creative endeavor

I agree with that.

> and worthy of [legal] protection

But not that.
The right word would have been challenging. It's challenging to talk to customers. But challenges are fun and what got me into CS in the first place
That's something we're working on - right now it's possible to link against Yggdrasil but there isn't much to separate IP traffic from your own custom traffic. Soon we will have the ability to separate the two and we will publish a better-defined API with which to do it.
here's some material i found useful:

* the concept of savings rate, and relationship with time until retirement. e.g. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/01/13/the-shockingly-si...

* good books about investment. William J Bernstein has a reading list here: http://www.efficientfrontier.com/reading.htm

* Bernstein also has some advice for a younger US audience here: "If you can", very short book, free download: http://efficientfrontier.com/ef/0adhoc/2books.htm

* the other useful discovery, which wasn't a book, was randomly finding out that i could double my annual revenue for doing the same or easier (but more frustrating) development work by switching to contract work for large orgs rather than being a permanent employee at a small business. this will be very location / market dependent i guess, but perhaps the general lesson might be something like "consider if you could sell your skills in a slightly different market" & being open to exploring opportunities
This unfortunately happens all the time, it's called hostile architecture. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
I want a phone without voice. I hate when people call me and I never call anyone. I wouldn't want to be friends with anyone forcing me to call them to interact.
If someone is badly underperforming, then they can fire them. It's simply ridiculous for a company to own a second of your time outside work hours, excepting things like people on call, of course, but I count that under work hours.
>Linus is asked at the end if he's bothered that he's not cashing out on billions of dollars of use

Linus has an annual salary of $10 million, https://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celebrity-business/...
I have some time to spare, let me help you in your project
I'm doing professionally Cloud/Pipeline/DevOps/Node stuff. But since I'm currently not working (voluntarily) I've got some time to spare.

If there are any FOSS or similar projects out there, who need a helping hand within my field of expertise, I would like to get in contact.

I neither do it for fame, nor for my CV. Just for fun about tech.
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Public transportation agencies and their supplying vendors are taking notice of the trends in Public Transit Services and developing similar technology for an intra-city public transport system that can run on preset routes.
Here i find an article about Trends in Public Transit Services: https://cabstartup.com/key-trends-in-public-transit-services...
Will be glad to hear your thoughts on this.
I think the idea there is that one body shouldn't have a proprietary lock on what counts as Open Source and what doesn't. OSI/OSD as the loudest voices of what is OSS, is helpful, but they shouldn't be the only voices.

(As much as I get annoyed by things claiming to be open source, that really aren't proper open source, I have to accept that this is a movement brought about by a rag-tag bunch of hackers who don't much care for single entities telling them what to do, so they should also be measured by that)
I've been using Stripe Atlas since the beta and I have experienced a few issues similar to the OP. However, I've also saved a ton of time because Stripe emails me about pending issues/changes that I probably wouldn't have known about.

SVB is ok - the fee is annoying and their UI kind of sucks, but I haven't switched yet.
Funny that your meta comment is not an example of 'such comments' and is 'more or less irrelevant'
I didnt know this perception existed. I believe QA would be crucial in avoiding disastrous customer interactions (customers get ticked by the slightest bugs ) and in mission critical software. Didnt a QA guy find out about the bugs in Ubers self driving car dep and Uber still ignored it and then killed a pedestrian ?
I think it's because it made the frontpage of reddit
One thing I learned from reading Wittgenstein is that language is far more than speech and words. If you want to understand language, or rather "communication" in a Wittgensteinian-way, I think you'd have better luck analysing YouTube videos, where body language, environment, context, intonation, prosody, implicit emotion, etc is far more visible, rather than just analysing text.

It's such a weird, but somewhat freeing perspective on language, where I once thought that the for instance the whistle language is absolutely fascinating and perplexing, it just makes perfect normal sense to me now. As long as you can recognize the human through the medium, there is room for language, and that's so cool! There's so much room for playing with communication and interaction I never thought about thanks to his writing, it also really makes me understand Jazz as a "language" way better, I never understood the almost pretentious way people talked about Jazz, "it's different, hard to explain if you never experienced it for yourself!", it really, truly is a conversation in music, super interesting.
But while examining this article, it should make people question everything that's implied
Here's a few things that produce such a phenomenon, pretty much universally:

1. Everyone alive has a lot of ancestors who lived 600 years ago. Let's say there are about 4 generations per century, so 24 in 600 years. In the extreme you could find about 2^24 = 16 million ancestors from those times. In reality there's some recombination, but you could easily have tens of thousands of (24 times grand)-parents. Some of those were beggars, some were princes.

2. Some societies had mechanisms to preserve wealth concentration within "the family", such as primogeniture [1]. With this arrangement, the majority of the wealth of a family was transferred to only one descended. The outcome was that if you were rich, a few generations down the line one single descendant would be rich, and pretty much all your others will be poor. Just look at Prince Charles in the UK who will one day inherit the crown, and Prince Harry who will be a nobody. Sure, they both have royal weddings, and people follow their various affairs in tabloids, but at the end of the day, Harry's grandsons will have inherited from their queen grand-grand-grand-grand-mother something around zilch compared to one of Charles's grand-sons who will be king.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture
> I don’t find sugar addictive

Try eliminating it from your diet and see if you still think the same! Seriously, for a few days you will crave carbs if you stop eating them altogether.

> Red meat, I suspect, transmits all kinds of...horomones, to antibiotics, to persistent organic pollutants...

Surely you could say the same about non-red meats such as chicken, pork and lamb?

> Red meat, I suspect, transmits all kinds of...persistent organic pollutants...

You could also argue this for just about any vegetable, legume, fruit or grain crop too.
Assortative mating perhaps? I'm sure the rich kids would have hung out with each other, known who each other were, and so on.

Similar mechanisms keep the business opportunities within certain spheres. Everyone's going to know who has money to help your new startup, and those people get the chance to invest.
Client side encryption with a passphrase derived key and synchronization to Google Drive? That would work great for me.
Thats... not quite what I meant, perhaps I worded that a little bit weird. I meant frequency invariant, not amplitude normalised. As in divide the frequencies by the fundamental frequency (i.e. subtract their logs on the 'scope), not divide the amplitudes by the amplitude on the fundamental.

Any deviation from the profile of the FT irrespective of its base frequency, from the normal sinus rhythm, would easily show. There might be a few problems dealing with cardiac load transitions, and I suppose if you are trying to differentiate the exact class of arrhythmia (as in the paper) then perhaps not, but differentiating normal (sinus), noise, abnormal it should work fine.
Card skimmers most definitely exist. Many ATMs have a warning sign to check if the card slot has been tampered with. And the use of chips instead of the magnetic strips they used in the past makes cards impossible to copy.

It's not a crippling problem, but that's largely because of such measures.
> Most of the "lessons" are not groundbreaking, they are rather things that are obvious and most of us know about.

Possibly. Looking at figures for unsecured household debt where I live I'd say these things are not that obvious. The other point is that fundamental truths don't always seem groundbreaking. E.g. spend less than you earn. Not groundbreaking...but I wonder how many people violate that principle...
That's... wow. Are you saying that the employers could (or even should) demand that employees do nothing else during their free time except rest, so that they are well rested for their on-the-clock time? No late night TV for you, no early morning pool swimming session, and don't even think about taking up that physically demanding hobby, because we need you 100% focused on the job!
Another mechanism may be that rich families tend to attract richer-than-average persons to marry into them.

The biggest problem is that wealth means power and power means you take wealth from less powerful people.
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Not true. Most I know use chipped cards. Magstripe is indeed dead because it's woefully outdated and insecure, but there's more than NFC.
Really digging the design. Feels extremely light and calm. Although, all those animations might get a little annoying with everything transitioning-in the page.

Good work, though!
What you describe is the Trump Foundation to a T.

Whose conduct has been called criminal...
>1)Nothing buries a bad product faster than good marketing (ahrefs is a great product)

I don't get this one, what do you mean exactly?
Has there ever been a drop that took 10 years to recover to its earlier level in the history of SV?

Ever?
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