jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It does apply, that's why I said:

> all these jobs were shipped abroad (or just disappeared)

If we start imposing heavy regulation on the gig economy, it will not be viable anymore, these companies will need to shut down and those jobs will disappear.

As for jobs like cleaners or waitress, companies will hire much less of them to the strict minimum. Jobs that would have existed would disappear too which is why you get long wait and horrible service in French restaurants for example where minimum wage and employee tax are super high even though France was known to invent the saying "the customer is king" and offering top tier commercial service, not anymore.

What I'm saying is that making the cost of work and hiring more expensive artificially always ends up in job losses and worse quality service. When I say artificially I mean because of government imposition, not market force (which is usually due to growth so not an issue).
Great work! Mind doing a compare / contrast with flask-security? (First comes to mind is that flask-security is a mix-match of a bunch of libraries)

https://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Security/
Wow, just how many concepts from Xerox PARC have made other companies (MS, Logitech, etc in this case) insane amounts of money.
Yep, you could use a queue. On the plus side that isolates the work from the fragility of a Node process. On the downside it comes with a specialist infrastructure requirement, often complex configuration rules and can be awkward when you need to return the result in a single HTTP cycle.
You joke, but...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/06/condom-ambulance-se...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3775771.stm
Your points are good. I think most people can agree that dynastic wealth is a social ill, but good luck trying to devise a loophole-free way to stop it. But the IRS is not fooled by things that look like a duck, swim like a duck, and quack like a duck. For example, they catch employers who try to pass off employees as contractors. I think if there was political and cultural will, our society is capable of stopping perpetual dynastic wealth transfer.
I'd worry about an appliance too quickly re-ordering. My printer refused to print because it thought the toner was all gone. A black marker to the sensor on the side of the toner and I'm back and printing. It's been almost a month now and still going strong.
Do the good researchers themselves need to be near the viruses? Debt they just need some people to handle the work?
I've only been sorta paying attention so i could be wrong but trades were not suspended or halted? only buying was prevented, and only for some brokerages?
Stripe isn't a monopoly, if you can get better value/pricing elsewhere you should switch, irrespective of the "real" reason for the change.
Bombs under your neighbor's porches, according to this sister comment - more seriously, the offensive capabilities outlined in the original article. I think both of you are taking an over-literal reading of my comment despite the qualification therein.
What can we learn from this? That we shouldn't attempt major changes that aren't backwards compatible?
This is identical to the article from Yahoo that was extensively discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8904638
It might be more accurate to say that there are no existential threats to the US.

The US certainly has competitors for geopolitcal influence (~enemies), as does any other nation.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of Groovy (and Kotlin, though I know it less), but what bugs me about Gradle is, at least when I last used it which to be fair is some years, is that it solves 50% out of the box. Maven was closer to 85%. The Gradle manual started with, "here's how you write your own tasks!"

I don't want to write my own; I want to know how if I need to, but you're saying I need to right off the bat. Maybe that was an issue with the manual vs. the tool, but if the build tool needs documentation to tell me how to build a build tool on chapter one...
> Although I wish they documented how much compute and data was used to get these results.

I'm hearing astonishing numbers, in the tens of megawatts range for training these billion-parameter models.

And I wish they showed us all the rejected images. If those images (like the snail harp) were the FIRST pass of the release candidate model.... wow... but how much curating did they do?

EDIT: Units. Derp.
What are your sources for the expectation that sources should be provided?
> It's weird though since in the US people actively fight against mass transit.

It's kind of understandable that people protest against having their money stolen and used to build things they don't like. Why do you think it's weird?
What does Walmart, Facebook and Medallia have to do with it?
Are you sure? At some point someone along the line needs to convert it to currency. The only time that wouldn’t be true is if there was a big enough marketplace that anything you might ever want can be purchased in Bitcoin. Otherwise you’d need some way to convert to currency to access other goods and services.
I think there are two major benefits: first is that you don't have to call or hail a cab. People don't like talking on the phone, so being able to pull up an app and press a button and have a cab pull up in less than five minutes is pretty awesome.

Second, the cars are much nicer. Fairly new black cars and large SUV's vs smelly Ford Crown Vic's.

Also all payment happens on the backend so you never exchange any cards or cash. I expense Uber rides all the time and believe that enterprise sales might end up being one of their largest markets.
The blog "Shady Characters" has a lot of great investigation about the history of the Octothorpe[1], and similarly the Pilcrow[2], Ampersand[3], and "commercial at"[4].

[1]: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/05/the-octothorpe-part...

[2]: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/02/the-pilcrow-part-1/

[3]: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/the-ampersand-part-...

[4]: http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/07/the-symbol-part-1-o...
I would recommend OCaml over Lisp, once you've had type inference, there's no going back.
FTA:

The very fact that Google invented MapReduce, and Microsoft didn't, says something about why Microsoft is still playing catch up trying to get basic search features to work

I don't believe this is true, and that's easy to prove: There was parallelism of SELECTs in SQL Server 2000. So there is a part of MS that is perfectly happy with the idea, even in another bit of MS isn't. They just need to talk more...
I'm planning to build a stack for internal company domain knowledge, and I've been thinking about middleman (http://middlemanapp.com) instead of Jekyll.

Middleman has impressive workflows and markdown processing (I'm guessing parallel to that of the Github/Jekyll solution or better).
Also conrefs can be implemented by simple partials (which makes less contention for the probably huge conref file)

Though I have to be convinced by trying the Github/Jekyll stack, this does open my mind regarding Jekyll 2.0. I'm happy to see Github tell us their Jekyll story :)
Yep, I did that a while ago. https://mikewills.me/2014/11/14/now-powered-by-ssl.html
Our company was approached by a local bootcamp to be a hiring partner. Myself and our VP of R&D attended their graduation day to interview potential candidates. None of the candidates made it to the next level of interviews (essentially failing an in-person phone screen).

We came back to their next graduation, and that batch of candidates was even worse. Next time, we didn't come back, but we did interview some folks over Google hangout. No one made to the next level of interviews. We no longer participate as a hiring partner with the bootcamp.

Now, that's a sample size of 1 (well, sampled it 3 times, but still only one camp), but the experience was about what I would have expected. Most of the bootcampers were 1) wanting to make more money and heard that coding pays well, or 2) out of work and trying to learn new skills to land a job, or 3) switching careers. About 95% of the folks we talked to fell into the never-seen-code-in-my-life-till-this-camp group. And it showed. The camp touted the campers as junior developers, and they were not remotely developers, let alone junior. They were people who now knew what coding looked like. That was about it.

Worse, we got some initial false positives because one of the questions I asked was the very simple but classic fizzbuzz test. It turned out that the day before the hiring day, the camp covered that test, as well as others, that get used in interviews. Not cool.

Overall, I'm not yet convinced of the value of such camps, at least those that say they can take someone with 0% coding experience and turn them into a junior dev in 9 - 12 weeks. I don't think so. Maybe if they've already graduated with a technical degree, or minored in CS, but not for someone who's worked for 15 years as a legal secretary, etc.
It is specifically this product that Amazon is retiring later this year:

https://payments.amazon.com/help/201626250

They still have other payment products, but I couldn't tell you what the differences are.
I actually disagree pretty strongly with this essay. I think Lockhart is advocating for an educational approach that would cater strongly (and exclusively) to a particular learning style, specifically, those learners who thrive when going from abstract to specific (deductive learning).

For those of us who do best with inductive learning, the type of education he proposes would bring even greater misery to our grade school education. It was not until I took statistics and probability (for science and engineer majors) in college that I truly began to enjoy math once again. I was able to start with concrete ideas and applications, and then work my way back to the theory behind them.

I'm now reading "Concrete Mathematics" and really enjoying it. Knuth's ideas on math education are pretty diametrically opposed to those of Lockhart, as far as I can tell, and they give rise to something very close to my ideal learning environment for math.

Why not allow children to follow which ever of the two math paths that is best suited to them, instead of forcing concrete thinkers into an abstract world, and abstract thinkers into a concrete world?

Edit: I should probably add that I agree with Lockhart that there's a problem in the way math is taught, but I disagree with him on the solution.
I didn't have a blog post about this in the works and my gripes aren't 100% the same (though there is a lot of overlap), but this blog post resonates with me as well.

I'm 41 and have been doing software development professionally since the mid-90s (as a hobby since 1983) and I find the vast majority of the tech industry just so disappointing these days in that it is basically just another "widget factory" industry and I thought/hoped for something better.

If you start a cranky old tech man club, send me an invite.
So....in other words you are provided with more assurance of your suspicions. Thus increased suspicion.
I really appreciate your response, but I think there is a problem with our mental model of a moral paragon.

Is it really smart to believe that childlike simplicity of purpose is morally admirable? That never being seen to take a side in an ugly situation with horrible tradeoffs on all sides is a prerequisite for being a top quality "good person"?

My sense is that rather than courageous, it is extremely easy to take sides like opposing torture in all forms at all times. Such positions receive automatic praise and require little complex thinking. That does not necessarily make them wrong, but we should subject them to an extra shade of rational skepticism.

Relatedly, it is obvious to me that when Ronco takes a pro-torture position, it is not out of personal weakness or malice, as people seem to imagine, but could only be the result of serious careful thought. A sociopath, for example, would never ever take a position so likely to garner knee-jerk criticism for no personal gain. I suppose a troll might, but he is extremely obviously not a troll.
My post did "add to the conversation" --
it was the rest of the irony of the
statement I responded to and its
suggestion about the OP.

It's not a "random" reference, to
pop-culture or otherwise;
instead it's a famous statement
about public posturing and image and
now solidly part of US culture
and, thus, fully relevant to the OP.

If you want something that at first
glance looks more serious, read my
post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8920204

in this thread. There I reference Goffman,
about the most serious source there is on
public image. The quotes from
Casablanca are nearly as good.

But if you want something much more serious,
sure, see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8919311

on non-linear duality theory and Lagrangian
relaxation as an improvement on
simulated annealing.

"Here are your winnings, Sir"

competes with both Goffman and
duality theory for relevance.

I mean, you did see the movie, right?
> I think messaging apps are even more difficult, right?

More difficult as a business, maybe, and then only because it's a crowded market.

In terms of technology, messaging apps are hilariously less difficult than rockets.
I don't buy it. You could make a similar case against stone tablets.
I'm a little concerned that over time, it is going to become more difficult and less private to move money out of Coinbase. Even now they ask you "where do you send your money? is it another website?" when you try to withdraw. This is unacceptable.
I've been at NFLX for 7 months now. I agree with much of what Brendan has discussed here in terms of culture. If you are confident in your abilities it really is a great place to be and you really do get to work with some of the brightest minds in the valley.

The whole firing average performers thing is, in my opinion, really a means of making sure that only those applicants who feel strongly that they have something to bring to the table should apply. This is not where you go for job security, it is where you go to work on something that excites you. That being said, it is extremely rare to see someone let go who did not have some sort of fair warning or multiple indications that their work was somehow below par. I believe the multiple claims on glass door are remnant of the culture when this company was under serious duress in 2012/2013.

Of course, as with any organization, mileage may vary. One of the negative aspects of this culture is that as you get some very smart, very confident, very opinionated minds into a room - you are of course going to get into some head butting. Sometimes the overarching business strategy may change before a team can adapt to that change, and then persons may become defensible about their territory. While Netflix as an organism does a great job of eliminating this threat, it does take some time to formally fix the mojo within a deprecated organization / way of doing things.
Did you have to obtain any special visa or permits for this?

Australian citizens require a work visa to work in Spain [1]

[1] - http://www.expatica.co.uk/es/visas-and-permits/work-permits/...

..can I travel to Australia as a tourist and legally telework from there?

No. Again you need a work visa [2]

[2] - http://www.immi.gov.au/Work/Pages/Work.aspx

These articles like to paint a rosy picture of just jumping a plane with your laptop to an exotic location. The reality if you want to be legal is different and much more difficult that that.
I was going to say the same... except it's "voilà"
I used to be an AT&T customer, and although the reduced price is awesome their no-nonse way of doing business has been much more impactful. Never having to deal with AT&T, especially after they tack on ridiculous fees when I travel internationally, is arguable the best T-mobile feature.
No. This is not the entitled attitude and people definitely do not think that GH absolutely must open source all their products.

The problem begins when you close-source a text editor. For me, this is a deal-breaker. I would not want to invest time and effort in learning a new tool - my primary tool, in fact - that won't stay for more than 5 odd years.

Just take sublime as an example. I've seen so many ST users, right here on HN, drooling over Atom, ready to jump ship. On the other hand, I do not see any Emacs or Vim users saying the same. This is because Emacs and Vim are very powerful editors[1] and there's no point jumping ship to another new and shiny editor that might no longer be there after a few years. Also, I've seen a lot of friction around forums regarding the fact that the author pretty much left ST2 entirely (bug fixes/enhancements) in favour of ST3. Also, the features of a closed source editor might not be well aligned with what the community wants.[2]

[1] I'm not saying that ST isn't powerful - it's okay. But, Vim and Emacs are far more powerful - because you can hack at the source itself and because generally a much larger number of people can contribute to the project (given that not many people are competent enough to actually do that or do not have the time) - [2] and, if you feel the editor/project isn't going in the right direction, you can just create your own fork and if it's good, people will actually migrate to your fork for better usage. And that really is the power of FOSS.
où ;)
Vulnerable to what, exactly? Oh, at the end of the article they mention that SL might become vulnerable to some future security flaw. Kind of a link-baity headily if you ask me.
We would definitely give it a try - Video Thumbnails can be tricky, as it makes all the difference for a user to view it or not.

For instance, generally the first second of video is blank, though taking a thumbnail at the middle is not necessarily representative.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Too bad they don't feel the same way about the health insurance industry...instead they exempt health insurance companies from antitrust violations!
I don't know yet, and I'm too busy packing to look into it now---but I will.
His recent tweets have made me question him as well, however he's had a large number of threats over the past 24 hours (for allegedly destroying an impending a buyout of Gox by leaking fraud, which if true would have cost Gox patrons money). I think he's just wrapped up in it, and maybe a bit scared.
Regarding HQ4X, they used the algorithm to create 4X image but used Nearest neighbor to create 8X and 16X images. I think doing HQ4X two times would have resulted into a better 16X images without jags.
Is that opensource?
> But analyzing when VAT applies and when it doesn't for every possible sponsorship reward and every country that Sponsors works in is a ridiculous overhead to put on either GH or the developer being sponsored

Microsoft have a large legal team that operates in practically every country in the world, I'm sure it wouldn't be a ridiculous overhead to do this
YPG is actually run by the same PKK elements, Mazloum Abdi as an example. And both are under the same KCK umbrella of far leftist Kurdish organizations; Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, Democratic Union Party (PYD under which YPG operates) in Syria, Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) in Iran, and Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (PÇDK) in Iraq.

I'm not saying it is terrorist organization or not, but it's inconsistent to have one of these organizations on the terrorists list and others not, since they all share the same ideology, goals, and tactics.
Definitely not O, HO stands for 'half O', and OO is/was pretty rare outside of the UK, I'd bet on HO.
No Chinese products? I believe vegan is possible but no Chinese products? No chance. Not unless you live without electronics. But good idea anyways. Maybe a filter by country so you can optimise American and Israeli products out too.
Surprisingly, this is the norm for research with animal models
Love the screenshot. "Crazy sunset"

Like there's this great sunset, and you can't enjoy it because you're busy tweeting it. And there are a handful of others who can't see the sunset because their looking down at their phones, receiving the tweet.
I don't have numbers handy. The real power of kdb+/q comes from the column oriented architecture and the extremely powerful vector functional language q. The language q is inspired by APL. I highly recommend you to check out this article to get a sense of the APL family of languages https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/ruins-of-forgo...

If you want a database for blazing fast data-storage and retrieval, there are many options available. You start seeing the real benefits of kdb+/q when you use q to simplify very complex operations that aren't easily done in SQL. Also, the high level operators that q makes your code extremely terse. I've written complex backtesting systems that perform data mining on massive datasets - all in one page of very tight q code!
May as well use MaidSafe or Freenet
How is that surprising?

Do you seriously expect a company to commit to not only guarantee that their service will be supported forever but on top of that, that they guarantee they won't shut you down regardless of what you store on their servers?
Yes, even then. Even if you could be sure that there would be more civilian deaths (which you really can't be), there is a big ethical difference between choosing to kill someone and being forced to do it.
Could they compel your lawyer to respond to your (under duress) request? Your lawyer would know, unless they could also make you not inform your lawyer that you were being detained. I hope that is not legally possible.
No, I think you r bad. Not knowing how to participate in this forum.
Thanks for posting this.

I've heard of Node.js before, but had no clue what it was about. Your comment made me curious enough to go and look it up.

Ended up watching this video[0], and now it's all starting to make sense.

[0] http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/05/20/video-dahl/
it's so (Github for windows/metre apps) style :S
Competition at https://password-hashing.net

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This phenomenon is a symptom of the Relevance Paradox [1]: people trying to solve a problem try to minimize how much information they get (seeing most of it as irrelevant), when a seemingly-inconsequential piece of information may be the solution. It's also a major factor of Hierarchical Incompetence [2] and part of why one really needs to think about the costs and benefits of establishing a hierarchy to achieve a goal. Hierarchies can be efficient for solving some problems and devastating for others.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relevance_Paradox

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_incompetence
They've beaten pfSense to a release on FreeBSD 10, have modernized the web interface (still PHP though), and will hopefully work on tightening up security while simultaneously cooperating better with their upstream BSDs.

I wish them the best.
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