skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's assume that a consumer device vendor does not want to pay more for hardware than what is required by their application. It's an assumption, but I think it's a fairly reasonable one to start from.

So the game boils down to "required by". For any non-trivial application (larger than x kB microcontroller) running on non-trivial hardware and using non-trivial software constructs you need non-trivial drivers. Those non-trivial drivers have to come from somewhere. That is the reason why OS's are scaled down (i.e. hacked to pieces) to fit the embedded market.

When you start looking at constructing the software stack from the perspective of the requirements of the application, not those of the OS, you can leave a huge amount of gunk out since you know precisely what you will need.

Why wouldn't you build your software stack to consume only the necessary amount of resources?
First, Wall Street players flooded into this market because of the Federal Reserve's actions following the 2008 market crash. The risky experiment that's being run in production is global monetary policy. Central banks around the world are engaging in unprecedented behavior that is causing all sorts of market distortions.

Second, the mainstream media tends to exaggerate when writing about financial products. A $479 million bond backed by rental payments? If you're going to lose sleep over that, are you going to lose sleep over Tesla's $2.2 billion in debt, which was rated junk by S&P in 2014?

Third, a lot of discussions around Wall Street are presented in a false us-versus-them fashion. Blackstone is publicly-traded. You can buy shares of Blackstone stock and collect a ~6% dividend if you so desire. You can invest in pure-play single family home renters like American Homes 4 Rent and Silver Bay Realty Trust, which are also publicly-traded. American Homes 4 Rent even has classes of participating preferred stock that give shareholders the ability to profit from appreciation in the value of the company's portfolio of single family residences. Too risky for your taste? You can bet on the rental trend by investing in well-established REITs like Equity Residential and Avalonbay Communities, which own lots of apartments and pay ~3% dividends.

Finally, you insinuate that Wall Street is placing risk on the American economy, but the inconvenient truth about the last real estate bubble is that many Americans were just as deserving of blame as Wall Street and government agencies. Lots of people bought houses they couldn't afford based on the assumption that prices would continue to rise. Lots of people used their home equity like a piggy bank. Liar's loans? You can't have a liar's loan without somebody willing to lie.

Bottom line: there was plenty of greed in all corners of the housing market and while people who didn't do anything wrong did suffer, it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that everybody who lost a home was a victim.
An alternative solution to a viewbox property would be to use CSS transforms. It is a bit harder to work with, since you have to specify translation and scale instead of simply specifying the bounding box, but I don't think it is unreasonably hard.

See for example: https://jsfiddle.net/kuvodbax/1/
Quick question - how many more times infusible is it? The article mentions roughly 7.5 million times from 512 to 1024, what is the rough jump required for 2048?

My math fu is not up to this at the moment.
The "look inside" link for Mastering Emacs shows the complete table of contents. I saw a few topics with which I wasn't familiar (e.g., text expansion). I realized I could just search the available on-line documentation for those topics, without buying the book. This is something I'm going to keep in mind if I ever do an ebook for the Common Draft contract form book.
If the scales ever tip to the point where CCTV is being genuinely abused, all you need is a few people with masks and rocks. Or maybe some metal poles.

Until then, they are being used to solve serious crimes, like the very recent murder of Hanna K. in Berlin.
How does an accountant make that kind of money?
The effort to try to change a massive project like Firefox to the better vastly exceeds the effort to rightfully complain and abandon it. Seeing the course of mozilla over the past half decade makes me doubt that one would have any chance to get them on the "right" track again. I hope there will be another phoenix, that does not assume everyone to be a dumb post-privacy tablet user
“Mess this up and sleep with one eye open at night.”

Some examples of what these traders discussed in the chat rooms, from the Barclays consent order (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2084...)

Quote:

One particular chat room, referred to by the participating traders and other traders as the “Cartel” included FX traders from Citigroup, JP Morgan, UBS, RBS and Barclays who specialized in trading the Euro.

One Barclays FX trader, when he became the main Euro trader for Barclays in 2011, was desperate to be invited to join the Cartel because of the trading advantages from sharing information with the other main traders of the Euro. After extensive discussion of whether or not this trader “would add value” to the Cartel, he was invited to join for a “1 month trial,” but was advised “mess this up and sleep with one eye open at night.”

On one occasion, a Barclays FX trader explicitly discussed with a JP Morgan trader coordinating the prices offered for USD/South African Rand to a particular customer, stating, in a November 4, 2010 chat, “if you win this we should coordinate you can show a real low one and will still mark it little lower haha.” After the JP Morgan trader suggested that they “prolly shudnt put this on perma chat,” the Barclays trader responded “if this is the chat that puts me over the edge than oh well. much worse out there.”

On June 10, 2011, the Barclays trader stated explicitly in another chat that “we trying to manipulate it a bit more in ny now . . . a coupld buddies of mine and I.”

As the future Co-Head of UK FX Hedge Fund Sales (who was then a Vice President in the New York Branch) wrote in a November 5, 2010 chat: “markup is making sure you make the right decision on price . . . which is whats the worst price i can put on this where the customers decision to trade with me or give me future business doesn’t change . . . if you aint cheating, you aint trying.”
First we will support ftp/sftp deploy to any host. We have integration with different hosting companies on the roadmap. You could use our service as an staging environment directly, because you can launch instances with just one click. Here is a sample video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-RT7cfYBpk

Thank you
That is incorrect. I'm writing this on a 2015 13" MBP w/ 16GB.
LaunchPx – Modern and Creative Logo Design
If multiple people submit the same article around the same time, the duplicate submissions are considered to be immediate upvotes.

That said, 100+ upvotes with 4 posts is quite unusual, particularly for an article about front end dev technology.
Why would you bounce around the world? That doesn't sound like the key to success for early retirement.
Ceres Bright Spots Seen Closer Than Ever
FYI - Deathmaze 5000 was released for the TRS-80 two years prior.

http://www.trs-80.org/deathmaze-5000/
10 Questions That Will Change the Way You View Your Problems
Early retirement does not imply any preferences regarding travel.

Early retirement means that you are financially independent, which is defined as the state of having sufficient personal wealth to live, without having to work actively for basic necessities.
Ask HN: Anyone code on a rMB?
Going to replace my mid-2012 rMBP, I wonder if anyone is coding using a new MacBook and how they feel about it?

I am planing to either a buy a 15" rMBP or maxed-out new MacBook. That's a huge gap in term of CPU/GPU/RAM.
A Ping pong table and a Xbox

Never used.
I have a relative who make more than that as an accountant. He does forensic accounting, essentially auditing financial records in corporate lawsuits. Reconstructing where money did or did not go. Testifies at trials as an expert witness and so on.
StartCards: important concepts for founders
>There are lots and lots of market participants that are looking for low risk, small fixed return style investments.

And you think hopping on the next CDO bandwagon is a low risk investment?
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Of course. Pensions are by far the largest part of the UK welfare bill. But pensioners are a very important voter demographic...
Deep Unsupervised Learning Using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics [pdf]
I'm sorry, what are you saying?
I assumed the social security benefits aren't that good if you only worked until 35?

In Canada, e.g., the Canada Pension Plan (our version of social security) pays on a schedule based on how many years you worked. You must work for 39 years to get the maximum benefit.

If you work fewer than 39 years, no consideration is afforded to whether you worked those years at the start of your life or the end of your life. i.e., the time value of money is completely ignored.

Thus, I think the subjects of this article are likely being shortchanged by SS in some ways: they contributed, say, $200K to the coffers of SS. SS then had 30 years to grow that money, but will pay out ignoring the 30 years of growth.
Here is the transcript for those who missed that easily-overlooked link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

"Things that have only a 50 percent chance of happening in 20 years from now are supposed to sound like science fiction."

This interview with de Grey is one part of a longer piece with other interviews:

http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/408023272/the-fou...

Of which the one with Cynthia Kenyon is also interesting, particularly as a contrast on fundamental philosophy and strategy in the approach to treating aging as a medical condition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

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Aubrey de Grey is the cofounder of the SENS Research Foundation and coordinator of rejuvenation research programs. Cynthia Kenyon worked on single gene manipulations that extend nematode longevity back in the 1990s, efforts that arguably kicked off the modern wave of interest in slowing aging.

In these two short interviews you can see illustrated the most important division in the modern work aimed at intervention into the aging process: on the one hand the mainstream approach of altering the operation of metabolism so as to slow down aging, based on traditional drug discovery methodologies, and on the other hand the radical, disruptive approach of repairing the damage caused by the normal operation of metabolism, requiring the development of new biotechnologies. The strategy here is to avoid changing the operation of metabolism, because that is very hard and far too little is known of the important details, but rather periodically clean up the consequences of normal metabolic activity in order to prevent that damage from overwhelming and altering biological systems so as to cause degenerative aging.

I'm greatly in favor of the latter approach because all the signs suggest it should be far more efficient and effective at extending healthy life spans, not to mention producing actual rejuvenation in the old. You can't greatly help the old by slowing down aging: better technologies are needed. Rejuvenation is needed. You can't bring aging under medical control by working on metabolic alteration to slow aging. Repair is needed, not merely dialing down the pace of new damage.
Seriously, way better the quora link. Some proven to me through direct first-hand experience.

Especially level 2's last bullet point (keep your eyes and ears open), which reminds me of this:

http://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-eart...
I don't think negotiating ability is the issue, I think that the idea is that women are empirically less inclined to salary negotiation, for whatever reason. Since salary negotiation inclination (or ability, though I don't think that's the underlying reason here) isn't the job, isolating it from pay is a way to pay fairly (not just pay women fairly either, while on average there may be a gender difference here, there are also individual difference within the same gender on this axis).
Absolutely. Even today, you can't compare it to other markets where execution takes place on an exchange. "Honor among thieves" is the expression that comes to mind when talking about FX.
thanks, nice to re-read that from time to time.
One thing that really turns me off is when people talk really negatively about former employees.

I met a CTO of a company in Toronto who told me how his predecessor had set up MySQL all wrong. I pressed him for details, and it was not setup any differently to how I would have. This was not in the context of an interview, but it left a very lasting negative impression.
I don't know why you think social security is necessarily unsustainable. It's been running a massive surplus since the 80s. Unfortunately it was borrowed from to finance wars in the middle east, but that's not a problem with social security.

http://www.accuracy.org/release/social-security-has-a-large-...
Reverse Engineering Might and Magic III Compression
"Lots of people have the same opinion" and "objective truth" are not interchangeable concepts.
>Also, the idea that the mispricing was intentional is silly. The issuing banks mostly held onto the equity tranches and suffered as a result - not the actions one would take if you knew things would tank.

We've been over this before. Banks are not people. The people in the banks were trying to sell these things so that they could collect commissions. They didn't give a shit if the bank suffered.

I suggest you read this:

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

And then this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...

And then reconsider your notions of what is 'silly'.
I have a couple friends who refuse to give up their blackberries because of the physical keyboard. On the recent news of BB as a company going down they simply went to the local phone store and bought several "backup" blackberries in case the one they're using dies. That way they can continue to use it even if the company is dead.

My mom has a flipphone with a qwerty keyboard on it she uses for texting, and despite having an iPhone 4 sitting in a box for a year, hasn't bothered to activate it and use it since she likes her keyboard.

It's kind of mindboggling, but there really are consumers out there like that and BB as a brand is built around that idea.

The problem is that they needed to be willing to disappoint those customers in order to get into the larger market of people who don't give so much of a shit about.
I recently bought a 2015 13" MBP w/ 16GB precisely for professional iOS development. Works like a dream and is amazingly portable. I would really suggest to get 16GB memory if you're looking to run multiple vagrant boxes.

Specs of my 2015 MBP 13":
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) |
2,9 GHz Intel Core i5 |
16 GB 1867 MHz DDR3 |
250GB Flash Storage
Sorry, Managing Director. Hailing from the UK.
I quite like Haste for Haskell to JS compilation. Its output isn't too bloated.
I've always been an emacs user but have only recently gotten serious about customizing it to replace other applications I normally use. If anyone has bought this and at least skimmed through I'd love to hear your thoughts before I drop $35.99 to see for myself.
Unfortunately, this "problem" was already solved a long time ago... by cancer cells ! [1]

It turns out that having immortal cells (by either avoiding death signals or by having "enhanced" replicative machinery is a great way to develop cancerous cells. So you have to carefully regulate the lifetime of the cell... which is what telomere are doing in the first place.

[1] Many many sources, but for instance the "Enabling Replicative Immortality" of Hanahan&Weinberg 2011, "The Hallmarks of Cancer: the next generation" http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867411...
The misconception that reproducibility has anything to do with the things that we can criticize about this study. That's the only way I can figure out to read your original post. If that's not your point, then we don't have anything in particular to disagree about, and my only advice would be to be more explicit about what point you're trying to make.
Interested, but not enough to build it just to see. The new project needs to show me something. For a visual tool to provide no visuals is poor presentation. A feature list and sample screenshots are a minimum.
Using the FCG reaction speed test, I have a reaction time of about 30 frames; thats pretty terrible compared to the average 16 frames.
Meta: The static headers and footer eat up about 50% of the screen real-estate. Makes reading this a real chore.

On topic - If you can save up some 25x your living income, it's absolutely possible to retire from a normal job early and live off the interest of your investments. However, it's not a trivial amount of money to manage (it takes a savings of around 1 million to provide an "average" American household income), and your job can quickly become managing that money to ensure you get your interest on a regular basis.
Another "trick" is to pick a career that you don't love. I don't envy them at all. Look at all the people that don't want to retire and could.
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Thank you and do appreciate your response. We have fixed it.
Amazing ... I've been able to see sun spots clearly when I point my telescope at the sun but having the sun in continuous view and being able to assemble time-lapse video from your images shows how active it is. Now I feel like I've simply been looking at photographs!
> Also, it's not that cheap to live in Thailand.

That's an interesting perspective. My own perspective might be slightly skewed, since we moved from San Francisco, where we were splitting $4,400 per month for a 2 bedroom apartment.

I see what you mean about luxury items costing more, so it definitely depends on your lifestyle. We're renting a house for $200 per month, and we've found great meals for under a dollar at local restaurants. Going out to eat at western restaurants rarely costs more than $5 per person.

About the visa details, I met someone in Chiang Mai who was here on a retirement visa. He said he had to leave the country every 90 days, but I think he mentioned that they had recently changed the rules.
Lyric Intelligence in Popular Music: A Ten Year Analysis
This seems exciting. I'm not familiar with the availability of new Python features. When can I use this in my day to day Python?
Go HTTP routing benchmark. Round 2
I didn't find any mention about the speed of the output... so I wonder if they just disabled the optimiser completely.

TCC is an extremely fast C compiler because it doesn't do any optimising at all.
Monetization: purely by selling the product itself in shops (approximately $100)

Thanks for the detailed answer and I like the idea to have it open but restricted

Is there a way to forbid that an app can control our product ? it is a pure bluetooth smart object easy to reverse engineer, a competitor could have his app control our product. That's what Im afraid of
Ask HN: Preventing Starbucks card type hacks
What strategies have you employed when creating a system to prevent race conditions like happened to Starbucks where people are able add money to their cards?
The irony is not lost on me, but at least my voice in the debate doesn't really matter (I'm more concerned about people on the Senate floor, TV, radio, etc). For what it's worth, I replied elsewhere in this thread with a summary of the bigger problem as I see it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5888705
If you think that creating a new browser from scratch is less effort than helping Mozilla then I believe that you're in for a big surprise.

Let me pose a simple honest question, if not Mozilla, then who? Which major browser vendor you see going in the direction you want? If no one is going there, then, what entity you think could create a succesful browser with the values you want?
When your manager is mostly concerned about scheduling you for meetings.
Do you really think that if google gets the chance to earn a lot more money, if they refer only healthy people to insurance A and the rest to insurance B. That there is no chance they woudn't do it? Google could probably destroy other insurances this way.
My grandparents bought their place in Saratoga .ca for 26k in 1959 and sold it for 2.5mm in 2003
Haven't used the new Macbook but Marco Arment wrote a post about his experience:
http://www.marco.org/2015/05/19/mistake-one
You're using it every time you buy airline tickets. The vast majority of Dynamic Pricing algorithms are just PID algorithms that are designed to maintain sales rates such that the last ticket is sold at flight time.
I was thinking about smaller devices than the Pi. Security devices, monitors, IoT type stuff. Especially where you want to minimise the amount of C code running and know exactly what it's doing.

I think it's also fun from a hobbiest point of view to do useful things without a traditional OS (Xen still requires Linux or similar in Dom0), but instead using a safe high-level language for most of it.
Sure, AAA really was more about the label than actual benefit. Still, I think it's important to understand most of these people where not idiots. There incentives just got wacky.

I spoke with a few Mortgage issuers in this time period they could generally resell the whole mortgage fairly easily so throughput quickly became more important than quality because they where just selling them to someone else. And often wondering who the bleep would buy this crap.

The buyers where often working with other peoples money, sure it might tank in a few years but they had little exposure to the downside. Making a few years of slightly above average returns worth it.

Finally, I am not sure US regulators dropped to ball on this one as much as you might think. A huge chunk of these security's where sold outside of the US, so over a 20 year period this extracted a lot of foreign money 'for free'. As in we sold paper and got paid for it.
Ask HN: Do you feel like you're missing out?
It seems like with all this amazing stuff going on in the world (surging web 2.0 valuations, people becoming instantly rich & famous in tech, booming stocks & home prices, new discoveries in physics, twitter debates, viral content and insta-fame) does it ever feel like you're missing out, like there is a big party going and you're watching from the sidelines.
>SS is being more strained

What article did you read this in?

>giving diminishing returns as time passes by

You mean that we're choosing to pay less to SS beneficiaries? SS is not an investment vehicle.

>It's unsustainable

It's entirely sustainable. What article are you referring to here?
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https://github.com/JukkaL/mypy is the/one implementation of a static checker that conforms to PEP 484. (Naturally, as far as I know, JukkaL with mypy almost singlehandedly inspired the PEP.)
If they have the manpower to stay in sync with clang's upstream that is great for them. If they don't, they're going to have to open source it to stay in sync with upstream.

When it comes to large, fast moving projects the BSD license allows you to close the source but you're only going to obsolete yourself.

This is what is happening with several vendors who took FreeBSD closed source: Isilon, Citrix, etc. Their FreeBSD forks are so far behind they are struggling and can't backport changes anymore. So they're forward-porting their proprietary enhancements or rewriting them again (eg NFS performance fixes, Xen Dom0) by pushing them back upstream to FreeBSD so they can move their product to a modern OS release.

The fantasy you people have with "BSD lets them steal code and never give back again!" doesn't really work in practice. It saves them tons of time and money to cooperate with the community.