jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I merely said that by using the word slave to describe voluntary employment, you desensitize people to it.

I feel the opposite. We can look at these horrible conditions and say, "thank goodness it doesn't happen here in America" and "at least we aren't that bad". Our sense of responsibility is wiped clean because "we are better than them".

> FYI I live in one of those third world countries. I still reserve the word slave for people who are not permitted to quit.

Treating slavery as a rare anomaly encourages abuses that aren't considered "slavery". We then complain that people are "whining"; they should be grateful because they aren't "slaves". Disrespecting the "complainers" results in the "complainers" becoming marginalized and censored.

Some racial minorities have a long history of being marginalized and censored. Just because black people are no longer unpaid slaves does not wipe the slate clean and make everything ok.

The dichotomy is even stronger in India, so maybe that desensitizes the nuances of income inequality in 1st world countries. However, I don't know of too many who would want to live in poverty working in a McJob.

There's also a malaise of people who work in relatively high paying jobs they don't enjoy. This addiction to money & convenience motivates people to do strange things and to view others & the planet in an unhealthy way.
I can see why Braintree would have no interest in businesses that are destined to maintain smallness, but they're missing out on getting into bed with some young companies whose payment volume will eventually pop. And leaving the door open for a more nurturing payment portal to grab young companies (and presumably keep them).

So it might be wise to for Braintree to loosen up the fees a bit for promising young companies - an incubator program for payments of sorts. At least for the YC/HN community :)

Though, honestly, looking at their pricing, Braintree ins't crazy expensive even for a company that gets $0 sales out of the gate... $99 initial setup, $35 monthly, $10 for cc storage, $75 as a zero sales "penalty". Setup delay seems to be an issue here as well, but that just seems like Braintree doing its diligence.

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/pricing
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It's a bit damning that Microsoft is up 6% after CEO Steve Ballmer announced he's retiring in 12 months. $MSFT
I will say that I would rather pick cans in the ditches (did that as a kid in summer) or dig ditches than do a fast food / customer service job like my brother in his youth. There seems to be a large concentration of entitled a-holes in a food service line or at a store. My one brush with customer service was being the score board kid at a softball tournament. Drunk middle aged softball players cannot count.

I do say my brother was much better prepared to gather software requirements when we both entered our careers.
How much overlap is there between OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD? Like can I use the FreeBSD one to learn how to use the other BSDs?
Google Firebase?
i guess it depends on what type of fish you eat. I often eat relatively fresh salmon. I wouldn't say it tastes fishy even though its fish. It tasty oily, so much oil comes out in the baking process.
stopped reading the "engineers good pms bad" thread.
I work remotely for a company which does this. Every role and level has a salary range, independent of location and close to german standards.
I never had a summer, college, or teen job. Money was never a problem and still isn't.
I think GP is arguing that (in a lot of jurisdictions)

> the norm is to be legal and unregulated

doesn't hold for anything that touches employment; as soon as there is deemed by the courts to be an employer--employee relation, all the existing statutes and case law are applicable, so without carve-outs for this specific type of employment it is automatically regulated.

Assuming the above, if the employment is _treated_ as though it is not subject to regulations, despite this not being the case, then presumably the law is being broken somewhere.

A sibling comment makes the point that if the legal system is underdeveloped, then the it may not be able to capture all the instances of employment that would otherwise fall under regulation.
§ 113 StGB could be applicable if you resist officers enforcing the ban. Fine or up to three years. § 111 StGB could be applicable if you make Facebook posts calling for people to ignore the ban. Fine or up to five years.
This resonates a lot with me. For example, a forcing function that works very well for me ist putting distractions like HN on a block list on my mobile device. Whenever I am trying to access HN on my mobile mindlessly I am reminded that it’s probably not a good idea. Then, gently as you ascribe, I bring my mind back.

I’m sure I miss out on cool stuff, but then again I could read HN all day :-)
Yes, I tried the 0.5x version, but it's not the way that a Spanish teacher talks. A good Spanish teacher emphasizes the parts of the sounds that are different from English, and doesn't slow down even close to 0.5x -- it's more like 10%, but a much clearer 10%.

In this example, a Spanish teacher would have put more of a pause between "Mi" and "hermano", not such a weird elongation of the "o" in "hermano", and less emphasis on the "es" (even a native conversation would not have that kind of stress on the "es").
I absolutely love "Safe to Spend". Best, most transparent feature I've ever been offered by any bank.

Great job on Simple. I am so, so sorry to see you go.

I'm also dying to know who you think your best competitor in UX is, because they're who I want to transfer my money to. I wouldn't have dreamed of asking if y'all were staying open.
Agreed. Really inspiring story. I'm not as far along on my entrepreneurial dreams as the CEO but as a freelancer, I'd be interested in working at a firm with a similar set up as Gumroad. I'm very much a mercenary and I find it's hard to be honest about this while still maintaining a good working relationship with colleagues.
We have a QB export compatible file. It's an export button on the top of our transactions page and has date, description, amount, status, bank description, reference and notes as column.

I don't think we have specific documentation of that feature, but I am happy to demo it. Our api documentation is here: mercury.com/api.

I am sure there is something specific Tyler was talking about. Would love to learn what it is so we can fix it.
Financially this makes sense. But for me, I’m sitting in a house that’s paid off. If I lose my job (or have to quit for medical reasons) and I can’t get a new job, I’ve got shelter. I can live Indefinitely where I am right now just paying utilities and property tax. Granted there is the reality of things just break on houses and require $$$.

Maybe it isn’t the best strategy. But there’s a nice feeling to know that I’ll have my house even if something bad happens.

And by bad I mean less than societal collapse. All bets are off in that situation.
It's still not great. You have to reauth accounts all the time, and I'm constantly getting the little wrench icon telling me they can't pull transactions right now. I've not found a single alternative that will give me a solid overview of all my various accounts as an api that I can build my OWN dashboard off of, otherwise I'd use that. YNAB still gets my money, but reluctantly until then.
it's amazing how the american right has managed to get sympathy from HNers thanks to their contrarianism. i guess it goes to show - being STEM-competent doesn't mean you have intelligence.
I've tried YNAB multiple times but would inevitably miss entering a transaction and then it would be a pain reconciling my bank accounts with YNAB. Without tracking the transactions I couldn't accurately use YNAB to determine how much was left in the budget.
Having an envelope like system built into a bank would be extremely useful.
I don't know if this will persuade you, but there was a filing today in court outright saying that the call on Saturday was not a settlement call:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.285271...

> The participation of counsel for Plaintiff in that call appears to be in violation of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 4.2, as Plaintiff’s counsel neither notified litigation counsel for Defendant Raffensperger nor sought nor obtained consent to conduct or participate in a conversation with Defendant Raffensperger.
I'd consider this inevitable, but that just makes it a race to strike a revenue-sharing (and integration) deal with the providers.
People often don’t know they have a fever. Not necessarily because they feel well, but because they fail to identify their ill feeling as “fever”. I’ve had tons of patients deny fever, endorse fever symptoms, and then have a fever on thermometer.
1) Not enough protections on $500 billion for businesses(corp slush fund)

2) No money to people who don’t earn enough to file taxes

3) Not enough state aid, SNAP money, health money

4) No protections against eviction, foreclosure

5) No student loan forgiveness(10k)
I think the word you're looking for is competitor rather than successor, since Hamachi is still in business with that product offering.
I mean, on-site once this all dies down, meanwhile we are all WFH.
I worked at FB, and I think they would probably do OK if they entered the space as they are very smart about physical infrastructure, but the most plausible explanation I heard from an executive (forget which one) when asked this was that they are already building out at a very fast clip, and feel that they can make a better ROI by using that infrastructure themselves rather than renting it out.
People also pay for unemployment insurance and the other things you mention through taxation.

The moral hazard you are deftly sidestepping is the fact that bonds/loans do not operate the same way for an individual with collateralized debt vs. a large corporation. And thus, a large corporation can - and does, occasionally - act in accordance with those incentives by assuming bailouts are coming after a black swan event.
You don't have to have your business model be advertising in order to be shitty at privacy.
The problem is that when the software works well, it's hard to attribute it to all the experience of the developer whose knowledge of what performance traps to avoid has helped the software. It is only when performance problem shows up that people actually notice things and measure things since it's worth measuring at that point. But there is still value to the experience based optimization steps developers use based on their prior experience with imilar software without any measurement (with the caveat that it doesn't complicate the software or make it hard to understand).
Yes, but we focused more on the "search using tags" feature to make it easier to discover unique packs as required by the user. We found that in many other similar sites, it is hard to find the right illustrations.
I'm happy to lead as long as I also am allowed to work on the code itself from design to actually writing code. I have been doing this full time for 35 years and I would be miserable had I switch to a pure management role at any point including now. Meetings kill motivation for me.
Count me as another data point. I deleted my Facebook and Twitter accounts, and it has not affected my social or professional life in any noticeable way. I was worried I would lose access to my Oculus purchases, but I did not.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was reading my ads profile summary in Facebook settings. It claimed I was in “Established Adult Family Life with Children” or something similar. This was revolting. I was disturbed that Facebook seemed to know I was expecting a baby. I realized that Facebook was extracting far more value than it was giving, so I deleted my account.
The new 'Dating' feature is pretty good too. Not overly monetised unlike the alternatives like Tinder.
Going by comments here it seems that most people equate "turning stolen CC into money" as laundering, even though that money is dirty and indeed not laundered. The IRS or whoever isn't gonna be fooled.
You're not crazy... Amazon patented it.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/15/15812986/amazon-patent-on...
I'm on the older end of those here on HN ... there's a specifically for our kind: https://gog.show/
I hate to say it, but in this day in age I would always just assume that my online communication is compromised. The idea of personal privacy is dead (at least where computers are concerned), and unless people start to wake up and demand change it is only going to get worse.
Thanks for your feedback. It's difficult to determine which books are worth my while up front.
How is XWayland doing these days? Last time I heard anything about it, it sounded like GLX programs didn't work yet, which would be a major impediment to switching fully to Wayland. Lots of older programs (especially games) won't ever be ported to use the new Wayland APIs, so compatibility is important.
Last year Amazon.com had almost a billion dollars in net income. It's quite likely that they can afford to maintain their hands-off approach with regards to subsidiaries, preserving Zappos' unique culture.

edit: good catch BobbyH.
Network World is owned by International Data Corp (aka IDC, IDG) and this[1] blog author seems to think that they are the puppet of Microsoft. While I certainly cannot make an argument one way or another, this raises the question of how valid this report is.

I couldn't believe when I read this article that in related content, the top item was "IE9 tops Chrome, Firefox in HTML5 Compatibility"[2]. That's what made me research if there was any connection between Network World and Microsoft.

[1] http://techrights.org/2010/06/11/idc-idg-and-propaganda/

[2] http://cl.ly/3A0q1F2o44000u1O2P3l
Another example of well-intentioned laws (the ADA and associated acts, in this case) having unfortunate semi-predictable side effects.

When you muddy the legal waters, you make it very difficult for your average Joe, who has no legal training, to protect themselves from legal abuses like those demonstrated in the article.

You're not going to stand up to assholes if you're afraid you might get sued for discrimination.
This is ultimately why I went with gtk in a recent Rust project. Qt bindings are a pain, and the license stuff was coming out. But most of the native Rust GUI libraries don't even try. Maybe its a maturity thing and they'll get there but I picked GTK for now
> Being good at FIFA 19 in no way will make you good at real football.

Not that I would consider FIFA a sim, but I have to assume that, like racing, at least some knowledge of the strategy carries over.
This was the great lesson of this book for me, and it is a constant inspiration to me.
Here's a recent preprint of mine:

https://engrxiv.org/nqhs5

This paper is on the different varieties of liquid jet breakup, e.g., for applications like fire hose streams and fuel sprays. At low speeds you have more regular breakup but this changes to various types of less regular breakup at higher speeds. (There are photos of each type in the preprint.) These varieties are called "regimes" in the literature. Because models are typically only valid in a particular regime, it's important to identify the correct regime. This is often done with a "regime diagram".

There's a lot I could write about what was wrong before. The easiest thing to do is compare figure 3 (old regime diagram, p. 5) and figure 4 (my new diagram, p. 13). These are in exactly the same coordinates but don't resemble each other much. If science were working correctly then the change would not be anywhere near as dramatic as it was.

Now, with the small amount of data past researchers used to construct these diagrams, they couldn't see that the diagram was wrong. The data was simply too sparse to see the big picture. But once you start adding tons of data it becomes dead obvious that the diagrams you see in textbooks and review articles are wrong. So I can't blame previous researchers that much, but compiling open data is something that should happen regularly. The current academic system does not incentivize data compilation, at least in engineering.

The most recent study mentioned in the paper used a grand total of 11 data points and claimed to have enough resolution to move some of the established boundaries slightly. This actually is a regression. The first study to construct a regime diagram had 63 data points. Mine has roughly 1200, and I still want more data! 11 data points is not scientifically acceptable, but it was enough to get a publication.

(I've since revised and extended this paper but I can't upload the new version yet due to the publisher's policies. One example: I determined that "turbulent dripping" is probably not possible so I removed it from the diagram. ;-)

I could list more if you want. There's no shortage of problems. But keep in mind that these problems are usually only obvious after you get enough data.
The fact that people respond with knee jerk reactions applies across all facets of society and is an orthogonal problem that should be independently addressed. In these cases, more evidence is both beneficial and necessary. The police will only fear youtube to the extent that their public image is already tarnished.
Not that it's hard to find out how I am based on my username, but I might hold back on posting my opinions on controversial matters if they were going to be sitting right next to my real name.
This is ridiculous, my ex-girlfriend once had this problem and she emailed support (I suggested her to do that) and got fixed.

This guy said he tried to send a support request to gmail but I bet he didn't. He said he had trouble finding the forms but even my ex found them.
This is why you go slow and use easy weights when starting a new free weight workout. Having bad form can be dangerous (for example, the deadlift), but in general I find that it's just not as effective and that bothers me enough to make my form better.
Oh, that's a great idea. I could possibly even do those inside if it's raining out! I'll look these up. Thanks very much!
FYI, I dug up an email from my close relative who had this.

Her levels at the time she had the condition were: B12 at 328 pg/ml and folic acid was 15.1. She said that that was considered on the low end of normal (which is why it went undetected for so long). After the shots, the B12 levels have been in the 600 range. Like most anything biological, B12 levels can affect everyone differently.

Good luck!
I disagree. Anything up to 2 lb per week is a reasonably healthy rate of weight loss, especially if you're quite overweight to start with. Losing 40 lb in six months is both perfectly healthy and a damn good achievement.
Vojislav,

Thank you. Well written and fair points. I was expecting negative comments and wrote "let 'er rip" as a way to add some levity. But you're right that it doesn't achieve what I'm after. I will change it.

Mark
There's a difference between what you want and what you need. Launch softly on a VPS, and hold off on the adwords for a bit.

I'm very skeptical that you need a piece of hardware; VPS' can be ordered up to almost any spec, nowadays.
>If he has showed you he's interested in programming then go ahead,

>As a counterpoint, I started programming on my own at 7 with no guidance.

To nitpick, that's not really a counterpoint. Parent comment already allowed for the possibility that OP's 7yr old is independently interested in programming. If a child develops that interest of their own volition, with no pressure or leading from the parents, then by all means support and cultivate it. It's only a problem when the parents try to force the child in that direction before the child has developed their own interest first.
From March 16, so 8 days ago.

There's a prediction - "In the United States, if the total death toll increases at about the same rate, the current 67 deaths should translate into about 500 deaths at the end."

https://ncov2019.live/ says there's already 550 deaths in the US.

Note that the author wrote of New York "but only two deaths even after two weeks of exposure". There's currently 157 deaths.

Hence it's safe to conclude that the author's "analysis is all wrong", as mentioned at the end, disregard this article, and lend credence to the idea that perhaps it takes more than a couple weeks of contrarian study to become an epidemiologist.
Which is why he neefs the sponsorship of a rich country, so there would be a legitimate army to force the warlord to stop.
I'm colorblind and have used this. I find it frustrating, because the names are often completely useless. The app's author points this out in the linked thread:

"The whimsical color names made me think that the app would be less useful for the colorblind, as most people don't understand colors like "Cosmic" and "Hippie Green." So I thought the app would be mostly used as a toy; a fun way to see what the "color" of your friend's face is ("Tacao"!)."
That's a pretty lame excuse. There also isn't a simple line for line relationship between C code and x86 code or C# code and MSIL code. But there's a standard solution to this problem when debugging: let the compilers generate mapping information.

For something like CoffeeScript, you'd probably have a debug compilation mode where each line of generated code is annotated with comments containing line numbers or full lines of code from the original CoffeeScript source code. It wouldn't be as convenient as a true source-level debugger for CoffeeScript, but it should suffice.
I think you mistake an indicator for an indicated. A theory tends to be widely accepted because it is the best explanation for evidence.

If something is a theory just because it is widely accepted, then that would make the idea that "lifting our arms is hard due to gravity" a theory, whereas the correct view is merely an idea that experts believe is correct.
Linux version auto-updates, force it like this:

$ dropbox stop
$ rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
$ dropbox start -i
Do you ever feel like you should be working on bigger, more important projects and you are wasting your time with current ones? (by important, i mean impacting more people's lives on large scale). And how do you approach what to work on?
If these recommendations are too extreme, treat them as a thought experiment. Just don’t lie to yourself.
One thing I've heard is quasars show the red-shift phenomena may not be as good of an indicator of universe age as we'd thought. The red shift, I believe, is one of our primary evidences for a big bang.
Couldn't God have created everything from nothing? God is philosophically understood to be a self sufficient being. He is also understood to be all powerful, thus capable of creating something from nothing.

Seems a justified and tidy resolution to the supposed problem you refer to.
The deb version is different from the internal version. The debs are just wrappers, the important binaries get downloaded to ~/.dropbox-dist, and those are auto-updated. If you want to force an auto-update, do this:

$ dropbox stop
$ rm -rf ~/.dropbox-dist
$ dropbox start -i
> I'm inclined to argue about the title "most powerful nation on this planet".

Richest underdeveloped country? Most powerful failed state?
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