jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You missed the "for quarter time work". Earning $10k/month working 10 hours a week is pretty close to getting $400k/year for an FT job at Amazon (especially if FT ends up being more than 40 hours a week).

I say "pretty close" because if you're working on a 1099 basis there are a bunch of extra costs (extra SSDI payments, health care premiums, etc.) that you have to cover.

But still, nothing about the article suggests that the pay rates are poor, and the upper end ($250/hour) is quite good, especially when combined with the ability to work less than full time.
Uber without the exploitation of gig workers is an absolute dream. In what sense is the word "just" justifiable?
Oh for fucks sake, I never made such a claim and the election is incredibly scrutinized. It is the reason that we know about the handful of fraud cases that have happened. Of course no one believes that there is literally no fraud. Why do we need to be so perfectly specific that the amount of fraud that does happen is less than .0001%?

Stop being obtuse, all you are doing is eroding trust for the sake of eroding trust.

It's also hilarious how much of the fraud that does happen is perpetuated by Republicans because their party tells them that Democrats commit fraud.
Clearly, they didn't want to take the risk of injuring an off-duty officer.
> how exactly does that “shift everyone to a paid App model

You nailed it. Facebook wants to confuse and distract. There's absolutely no reason why Apple's push for user permission on tracking would cause the Facebook app to become subscription-based. WTF?
The recent support pg gave to expanding the H1B program is arguably prima facie evidence of this "hypothetical malfeasance" behavior. Except I wouldn't characterize it as malfeasance. It is human nature to shy away from fractally complex issues, and supply chain ethics are very fractal. It would be a sufficient nightmare to validate the ethics of a lead pencil supply chain (cf., classic essay, "I, Pencil" [1], leaven with healthy critiques [2]), not to speak of programmer labor markets and laptop manufacturing supply chains.

It is counter-productive to use a binary evil/not-evil bit switch here. Rather, once you realize we all value our time, and an "I can't be bothered with those details" is an expression of that time preference (albeit in a manner that can be interpreted as malicious), it becomes easier to understand why we see this behavior. This doesn't mean you have to condone it and throw your hands in the air; understanding is the first step in debugging.

The line-crossing and bit flip can happen when someone else performs the dogged time-consuming legwork, assiduously gathers the evidence, and presents it on a silver platter, and the response is still a reflexive "I can't be bothered with those details". When that happens, at the very least Upton Sinclair's pithy observation is at play, and yes, at the very worst the basest of human nature is on full display.

There are nuances beyond all this of course, but that's a wall of text I shan't inflict upon you.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Pencil

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=i%2C+pencil+criticism&ie=utf...

[3] It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! From I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked (1935), ISBN 0-520-08198-6.
I get

"We can't find any local CSS or JS files on the site. Stay informed about a new version of this service which will allow you to process remote files as well. "

For my blog at http://alicious.com

However it lists both a local CSS and a local JS file.

Could be something to do with apache security module being enabled on that site.
I'm not trying to give grief here. I respect Jeff highly and found this article to be insightful. If people dislike my comment for its tone, I accept it. It was probably a bit overly antagonistic.
I and a few of my co-workers stand all day. We are moving to a new office and I took a survey in order to buy appropriate furniture. Everyone wanted stand up desks. I just ordered 20 of these http://www.ergodepot.com/Ergo_Depot_adjustable_desk_AD127HD_... and only 6 chairs.
I'm not sure what the (profit-generating) use case is, but the IntoNow iPhone app passed my tests surprisingly well. Consider me impressed.
Try to enter : http://www.frid.ge - this should work. Without www it does not seem to get a domain name from it properly...
And for all of the troubles in California and other states, I'm not sure if any of them required the sort of bailouts that the PIIGS needed.
Arena or pool memory allocation is a very old idea, and has been implemented by many different systems (e.g., Apache/APR, PostgreSQL, lcc).
Leaving aside such issues as time of the day/week when articles were posted (I have no idea if that has played a factor in this case) I agree that the specificity issue is likely to be applicable.

> wouldn't you prefer to read about somebody who
> ended up with a hundred thousand instead of a hundred?

How about if it's presented as "$100,000 with full time hours" compared with "a $100 with a few hours"?

From my perspective at least, I view an article about how to achieve "a $100 with a few hours (spread over a year)" as seeming more attainable and accessible than one about "$100,000 with full time hours (spread over a year)". I'd think "Hey, maybe I could do that" about the former and more "That'd be cool to do that" about the latter.

I like that you've got a "mission" to show that what you've achieved is attainable for others as well and I look forward to reading more about how.
I've found this service useful for simple projects hosted on places like App Engine which require that you use CNAMEs to point your domain at them. Essentially you an point any domain's A record at 174.129.25.170 and it will redirect you to the www subdomain.
You should file a patent. I'm sure the automotive industry has not thought of using multiple spark plugs.
Yes, but if the object fall into the default autorelease pool you have no way to control when the memory is going to be released (at least without risking a segfault).
Yeah, I have always been very excited about fuel cells -- in fact I still think they could fundamentally change our notion of how energy is harvested and transferred.

As for the original article, I think I must be stuck in my midwestern mindset. Living near Kansas City (which I consider something of an homage to suburban sprawl) I have a hard time believing that people will adopt new notions of energy conversion and distribution (like fuel cells) as opposed to throwing a couple new-fangled spark plugs in their SUVs.
iOS is more polished and has more room for actual design. Android is a drastic improvement on what was running on smartphones before, but the built-in UI doesn't have the same fit and finish as the iPhone UI.

For example, look at the iPhone status bar (the bar at the top of the screen that shows the battery, signal, and time). Now look at the default android status bar. The iPhone one just looks better because all of the icons are the same height. The android icons' goofy roundedness only almost fits with the other standard UI elements. Designers/Developers on a polished platform will make more polished apps. Designers/Developers on a rougher platform will tend to make rougher apps. Note that there are exceptions, but this represents the overall trend.
I wonder if the simplenote guys can provide some input?

http://simplenoteapp.com/about/
>That B12 can be produced by bacteria is significant because it means it is obtainable from non-animal sources.

I wouldn't try to insult the intelligence of people here by suggesting vegans are hypocritical because B12 comes from animals. Outside of that assumption, I'm still not really getting why a random nutrition lesson is in order.
Al Franken is also a big TSA supporter.

“You’re doing a fabulous job and you ought to be supported,” the Minnesota Democrat told a gathering of about 25 transportation security officers (TSOs) and representatives of their union, Local 899 of the American Federation of Government Employees.

http://blog.alfranken.com/2010/02/18/workday-minnesota-tsa-o...
"death by committee" is like "death by one thousand knives" i know what a delegated identity is. and if you can show me 10% of facebook users that care, i am interested.

the problem is that so many people want simple these days. in the beginning the internet was for geeks. today the internet needs to be for everyone.

my really smart friends in social games, always get frustrated, because they can never create a game that is fun for them. rather they need to create games for the masses. many of us still enjoy the complexity of supreme commander or civ5, but instead design things like mobsters and farm-ville because that is what people ( on average ) can handle.

OpenID has been designed by way to many smart people for their own needs and does not often times take the simple shortcut. there are people from government institutions at these committee meetings trying to leverage OpenID into a government ready spec.

the OpenID groups should really segment along a few different paths and focus on unique consumer segments like social, fiscal, and real identity.

the other problem is that RP ( relying parties ) otherwise known as the 3rd party site don't like OpenIDs because there is not a guaranteed messaging protocol for communication between end users and the OpenID. RPs have been asking for email address as part of the registration process, and OpenID providers always stand on the legs of privacy when asked for this, but the reality is that relieving email address leaves Providers vulnerable as their motives for OpenID are around engagement numbers.

There are political challenges to overcome with OpenID before it can move forwards. I think that is why Facebook is walking over everyone here. They don't have to deal with those issues.
It depends on the way the crystal is cut, usually they are optimized to have a maximum around room temperature so that effects from variations are minimized. The effects might partly be compensated by measuring the temperature and applying a correction to the data since the temperature dependency is known, but the sensitivity is also affected. So, temperature control is definitely important for accurate measurements.
If the New York Times had put a "nofollow" on the link to the guy's site, it would have been the ultimate subversive twist to the story. Not poetic justice ... NERD justice.

I just checked the source code, though, and there's no "nofollow."
programming books are typically reference manuals for me.
Learning Perl.
C Programming Language.
UNIX Programming Environment.
Programming in Haskell.

Code Complete.
Practice of Programming.

Cathedral and the Bazaar.
Open Sources.
Hackers and Painters.
Joel on Software.
Coders at Work.
Just for Fun.

SICP seems to be really well written so far, but it's not the kind of book you're going to read in one sitting.
Putting this here because you don't have an email address:

- Upvoting an article is the group's way of saying, "This article has something interesting in it."

- Bad articles, spam, linkbait or things that don't fit in the guidelines or don't follow common sense usually get flagged and filtered out.

The post doesn't really seem to be outside of the guidelines. It may not meet your personal standard of quality, but the group likes it so it's on the front page. The best way to combat content that you think is spammy, irrelevant or wrong is to flag it.
"myusername has listed no skills" sounds better to my ear.
Hacker News has never claimed to be an entirely open forum for discussion, but I haven't seen any moderation I find particularly bothersome (I have showdead enabled). Have you?
Basically what I understand is they are saying "Hey, we're observing things that don't make sense to the big bang theory, so maybe there were multiple big bangs and then maybe if there were multiple big bangs there could be an infinite amount of them.. and what we are observing is the previous big bang's light. So we jumbled a bunch of numbers showing this is possible."
But the paper fails to deal with the fact that, yes, if there were multiple big bangs, then maybe the "big" bang isn't really the significant big event everybody has it thought out to be -- there wasn't just one event that created everything. Although it sounds great. So they are just making excuses to keep the big bang theory alive and should instead just say 'we don't know what created the universe' and abandon the 'big bang' theory all together. There own paper disproves the entire big bang theory.
My personal favorite (Mac only) is Arq: http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq

It uses Amazon S3 for storage, has versioned backups, very lightweight and fast, and leaves all Mac metadata/permissions intact. I've had 0 crashes or problems in a year of constant use.

They also supply an opensource tool you can use to restore your backups, in the event that you don't have access to your licensed copy of Arq (like if your laptop gets stolen)
Thanks, I had never noticed the "showdead" setting before.
This might make a good candidate architecture to become a future GPU (see discussion here):

Nyuzi – An Experimental Open-Source FPGA GPGPU Processor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26132726
I suppose what makes it more intractable in India is that a politically unignorable size of the population has become convinced that these are good things or an acceptable cost of good things to come
Trump didn’t endorse a riot either. And at the time of his speech, the pro-Trump protests after the election had been peaceful, to many people’s surprise. (DC had geared up for violence after the election, with plywood covering the windows, and until November 6 nothing happened.)

I think Trump should have gotten impeached back in December for continuing to deny the legitimacy of the election after losing his legal challenges. But saying he incited the riot was an extremely tenuous charge.
If a Rust closure doesn’t actually close over any variables, it can be coerced to a function pointer. Otherwise, you’re stuck with the workarounds others have mentioned.
I lost a ton of weight that way several years ago. Something about my mindset means I can't do the same thing twice though. I decided for my next push it would be a true lifestyle change. Meaning no temporary changes like eating different things than I'd normally eat, like keto or slow carb, nor forcing myself to be hungry. Neither of these tactics are sustainable over the long term.

I mean, if you can force yourself to eat once a day for the rest of your life, or never eat a donut ever again, well, more power to you. I'm not that disciplined. What I can do is pay close attention to how full I feel and eat only until then, never keep going until I'm stuffed. Even then it's only for the few times a week where I'm not eating one of my portioned out routine meals.

For awhile I was getting hungry during the day outside a meal so I keep pre-portioned 100 calorie snacks, usually nuts, for 3pm. As I slowly adjust my intake downwards, my need for these is slowly going away. I think when my current stash is gone, I may not need to re-up.

Now I can't even really imagine doing it significantly differently. If I drove to work I'd bring a week's worth of lunch from home and precook it, but since I walk I don't want to carry all that.
Agree.

While not an expert, I've tried the regression the author has done with CapitalIQ before. There's a third hidden axis which is whatever you want to define size/maturity/runway to be. That potentially explains some of the lift in multiple as well.

Similarly his example of investors not paying attention to gross margin seems a bit stretched. While I've never personally participated in a venture deal, pre-public private equity investors scrutinize gross margin a lot, and so does equity research converign listed firms.

While conceptually interesting, saying that a 30% EBITDA company that adds 1500 basis points of COGS goes to 15% margins and therefore ROIC falls (or valuation) is relatively boring. But his point about margins persevering post IPO was super interesting. I wonder if for the existing incumbents, after entry of one of these sexy unicorns, gross margin goes down after...
Correct. The author is a mentor of a GSoC recipient, so them calling Google generous (for sponsoring his mentee) makes perfect sense.
These are private prisons right? They just exist to make money anyway so this isn't surprising.
Reliable quantitative tests, what Theranos was promising, are significantly more difficult than screening/classification tests.
Yeah, the firmware seems based off of Odroid Go (even the bootloader) with a few changes in implementation. The build process is documented a bit better and the codebase is a bit simpler. The hardware is similar and also open source: https://github.com/pebri86/esplay_micro_hardware
About 2-3% of hourly paid workers earn minimum wage. For the most part, it's not about the masses, but the skills necessary to get onto the bottom rung.

As others have said elsewhere, in most cities, labor is at about $!5/hr already.
I think you're missing the parent's point, that you can use a /31 without separate network (not gateway) and broadcast addresses.

Putting multiple customers on the same /24 introduces all kinds of issues. Either you leave it open leaving IP's vulnerable to hijacking, or you have to create static ARP and/or MAC entries, and deal with all the hassle of managing that. Presumably, you're describing consumer service where they don't really have to care about your security unlike a business/enterprise level service.
I'm a foreigner who has started a number of companies in Japan over the past 25 years. Right now is a great time to be starting a company here.

BTW, shameless plug for my podcast:
https://www.disruptingjapan.com/

However, the idea of trying to get someone to move to Japan to start a startup is kind of odd. Ideally, you should be near your customers.

Japan is a wonderful place to live, but there is much more they can do to make things attractive to Japanese entrepreneurs, which will, in turn, make it attractive to everyone, including foreign entrepreneurs.
i don't know how long they store those hashmark keys, but i have a feeling that the lengthy google maps URLs would last longer
I am actually just drafting up a list of stuff I may want to look into in 2015. Here are my pain points:

Threat Modelling Tools - Even the best ones are glorified drawing tools. I am unaware of anything at the moment which can track data as it passes through multiple systems (e.g. user enters in name, name propagates to internal server A during call y etc.) - any tool has to have an offline option for obvious reasons.

I will second the fragmented conversation issue. I will add email/messenger and face-to-face to the mix. e.g. If I ask someone a question in email and they answer me when we bump into each other on a coffee run then I want to record this information somewhere - best I have so far is a physical notepad combined with a text editor - which still means a lot of copying from one place to the other.

On that same front, knowledge capture. Once I have the answer to that question I don't want to lose it - but I may want to forget it, but I also want to be able to remember I know it :) - Wikis work somewhat for this, but mostly lack searchability because everyone, including myself, is lazy and linking to things is hard.
As a hint: When you run out of space in a function, then just tack the still needed blocks to the end of every call of that function. It is a bad real-life programming pattern but works in this language.

(This language seems non-turning complete without conditionals.)
Yeah but they also think heavy metal is Satanic speech. We're not talking about experts here. They have zero information content. This is the usual old generation hand wringing. Whether YT Kids is crap or not, these guys aren't who I'd go to to find out.
>This just shows that they have learned little after all the company has been through.

This is just yet another example of that. It's not like we didn't realize they don't care until this instance. It's hard wired in the DNA, and this is just more evidence of that.
People are ignoring by far the worst issue with YouTube Kids - as a parent you have no power to curate anything.

It would be one thing if you as a parent could say "anything from these channels is okay", but your only option is to block videos one at a time. As it is, I have no way to prevent my toddler from spending 4 hours watching random Serbian videos of toys being dipped paint.
You can thank OPB for that. They have been long time partners with PBS and they curate and provide the pbs kids app and YouTube stream.
How so you not notice a 15k/month shortfall? Assuming it was stolen at a constant rate.
So much of that low quality dreck is really really far from "new and exciting interests" or safe for kids to "explore on their own".

Blaming parents is pretty far off base here. The whole point of the app is to let kids use it on their own, but it's clearly not safe to do so, because they'll rapidly trigger the recommendation algorithm into some dopamine-producing engagement-optimized garbage.

You can direct your kids to only watch stuff you approve of, but as soon as the recommendations start coming up, you're put in the position of saying "no", which with toddlers often leads to disproportionate screaming fits. I'd rather save dealing with that for the times when it's actually important to say "no" rather than trying to screen out some crappy low quality toy videos.

I've deleted the YouTube app and instead given my toddler free reign with the PBS Kids app. Much higher quality content that I'm happy to support with donations to PBS and WGBH.
we propose that the bias towards additive solutions might be further compounded by the fact that subtractive solutions are also less likely to be appreciated. People might expect to receive less credit for subtractive solutions than for additive ones. A proposal to get rid of something might feel less creative than would coming up with something new to add, and it could also have negative social or political consequences — suggesting that an academic department be disbanded might not be appreciated by those who work in it, for instance.

I think there is probably a huge social component. Leaving existing stuff alone and adding something will get a lot less push back than removing something.

It is also a risk averse solution. You have to understand a problem space fairly well and be confident you are correct in order to effectively cut and have any hope that people will generally be happy with the outcome.

It can be done, but it tends to be a lot harder.

So it is also something we are simply inculcated with because adding stuff is the thing we experience the most often as the way things get handled.
I'd recommend blocking the entire channel each time you see a video like this, and also go through the top hundred recommended videos or so and block all the channels with content you don't like. I've only blocked a few dozen channels, and we barely see any of this stuff now. The UI might be a bit confusing, because you can only block a channel if you're currently viewing a video from it.

I do wish I could just whitelist channels, or get automatic recommendations for channels to block.
It’s hard to take seriously the review of the competition. But I guess it makes the bias clear
It's often a tradeoff between conciseness in one domain and generality in others. A similar story: Matlab is great for doing math and plotting, but I hated my life when I was developing a GUI in it. I later ported this project to Python, which was great for the GUI (relatively so) and a little less concise for the math. I find that tradeoff to be okay
It's not obvious that dollar-value is a good proxy for food quantity. How much of that is explained by crop choice? Large farms grow grains, which are relatively cheap; fruits and specialty items require more individual care and by-hand harvesting, so they should correlate with smaller farms, and they sell for much more $/calorie.