jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To start with - the top 1% is a relatively accessible level of "rich." That's an L5/L6 software engineer at Google, or a mid career doctor. Are offshore tax shelters actually available and economically feasible to these people?

The article's use of $200K is very weird, and the top 1%-5% definitely make much more than that (and they don't depend on an annual income/salary). $200K after taxes is not that much, especially if you have a house, more than one car, children, student loan debt, want to save, etc. I don't know of anyone at $200K or even more to be involved in any sort of offshore tax shelters.

As for pass-through businesses: I had a pass-through LLC when I ran a consultancy. Was I engaged in tax evasion? I'm pretty sure I wasn't - as I understood, this was exactly what I was supposed to be doing.

Pass-through isn't tax evasion, but as an example opposite to yours, I used to know someone who created an LLC and then bought things as LLC expenses (like computers, printers, etc) that were really for personal use.

Edit: I have no idea how to quote text on HN
a) has the implication that you suck if you can't do it in two weeks. It's pretty sad that we can't state the cold, hard facts but have to lie.
I would not say it is disaster, it is a strong father imposing his vision over his daughter, the intentions and integrity are commendable, but he has to also consider "what he does not know", she may be really interested in Programming but a Mathematics and Physics foundation would help her in field of Game Programming or knowledge of Biology etc. would help with Bioinformatics. Things of that nature.
Poor girl. You can learn to code, web development, or any kind of those hard skills almost anytime at your life phase, but man, your highschool life is just once, can't miss that..
Microsoft and their various 3rd party hardware vendors have been selling Windows 7 with touch screen monitors for a very long time now. Of course, no one really knows that because they're usually just sitting there at the local Fry's with no interest.
Banking is easier than software, and more prestigious.
I'm holding out for Mr Potato Head combining characters.
I don't know, but it would sure make it easier to add a bare-bones media player widget or a weather report widget to a spartan desktop interface such as xmonad. Plus your widgets would be automatically restyled to be aesthetically consistent with the rest of the interface!
I mean they also ran taxi services and love hotels. But I guess other than the taxi service, everything really was about entertainment.

Often though, a younger company just assumes the "body" of the older one. It helps with getting loans from the bank, etc.
I'm saying people shouldn't work 80-hour weeks. I'm asking for a 30 hour a week cap. The data is pretty clear that your judgment starts going downhill after that, and much faster than you subjectively think it does, and as you say, the data is also pretty clear that this area is a market failure.
Entire "pain management" stores...
Yeah, I think that's what it is. "Sending our thoughts and prayers" lost its actual impact and now it's associated with hopelessness.
Coming into your house isn't even almost the same thing as walking through someone's yard.

Walking through someone's yard isn't a good comparison wither because a medium plot of land is maybe 4 thousand square feet and his property is 4 million square feet.
Thanks. None of these are peer-reviewed articles or scientific conference presentations (although it will be great to see what comes out of the meeting).

The original poster was pointing out that this is, so far, vaporware because Toshiba has not presented any actual scientific results, unlike Grail, Guardiant and others. Everything seen on this so far is just marketing (all of the scientific literature links on Toshiba's website are to cancer epidemiology surveys, not articles about this technology). The parent poster has yet to back up their assertion that there is "extensive research" behind it. I've been unable to find any publications or patent applications on this, so I'm very interested if someone has links.
I came away with a feeling that the article was not representative. It felt creepy, even.

It's frankly a disgusting argument.
Why is everything a Tech company? How does anyone justify WeWork as a tech company? I heard about some tools WeWork engineering built and thought, why didnt they just buy off the shelf products and invest in more office space or acquire the competition?

Slack is a true tech company, Uber/Lyft and AirBnB are app tech companies but not WeWork. Peloton is not a tech company. Zoom, Crowdstrike, and Pager Duty are tech companies.
I'm sure they'll then get you with noise complaints that the motors are too loud, then have boats banned from being within any meaningful distance of the beach.
Was attribution removed? The only links in the elance posts that I can see are links to the original repository.

Yes, he can profit from them. That's the entire point of MIT/BSD licenses, so that companies can use certain libraries and/or components in their commercial software.
Having built small discrete projects myself, the effort that has gone into linking all those parts without a board and ensuring that there are no touching wires makes my head hurt.

Beautiful!
>Recently my father took a helicopter flight and when this family friend heard about it he was absolutely livid at my father for risking his life and made my father swear to never fly a helicopter again.

Could just mean that pilots can be irrational too.
"The most extraordinary things about Stephen Harding's The Last Battle, a truly incredible tale of World War II, are that it hasn’t been told before in English"

I'm quite sure I've read this story before, in English.
They have clearly original Trello content checked in the repository.
Wow, so many steps. Great idea for a side project to make this a 3 step process instead
We just moved to the crowdbooster.com domain (formerly converse.ly) and re-did our landing and about pages in the past few days; SEO is definitely something we need to look at soon. We're loyal GinzaMetrics (YCS10) users so that should help us fix everything pretty well!
They most likely did it on purpose to limit the amount of traffic.
That still sounds way too much like a stroke for me to fully believe it wasn't. Maybe it's because I'm a fan of college football, but I don't believe injury reports.
WWJD was a pretty hot pseudo brand for awhile! Is there a way to truly quantify one's religiosity? I mean it's not too surprising to see people who claim asceticism as a good thing to be a little list impressed by branding, but to draw the conclusion that secular people are more brand sensitive because they are secular feels a smidge like denying the antecedent, but these people look like they're smarter about this stuff than I am.
At what point does "fragile" become "targeted"? Seriously, if it's that narrow...
50m is not the valuation; it's the amount of stock they're selling.
Much of modern economics was influenced by the experience of the great depression, a long period of persistent deflation that led to severe hardship. Its the real worst case. The various theories and mechanisms are attempts to avoid that happening again.

I mostly agree with your last paragraph though.
"...you can switch to almost any old pointy-haired-boss management scheme and still survive"

That's actually exactly the way its supposed to work in the minds of <for lack of better person to put here> suits

Steve Blank has a great articles about this.

http://steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1/
One man's hobby is another man's addiction.
My suspicion would be they use plausible deniability. "We're not giving out great raises this year". Which is technically not a lie, I suppose. They're not giving out a great raise _to you_.
Unless it's one of those rare Pyrex mason jars.
It doesn't. I could go into a long explanation as to why, but basically it is like this: they're assholes and they interpret the law as they see fit.

This is the beauty of phrases like "in the interests of national security".
Why does that, IBM XT, sound like yesterday? I mean it sounds like just yesterday?
I find it extremely frustrating that services like Gravatar and forums didn't inform me that I won't be able to wipe clean my account. It is not acceptable.
The hardware pictured is not included in the auction, since it burned in a fire. What is left is some circuit boards, a power supply, and cd-rom.
wow. a steap price for a few modems, pc104 mainboards and a cd. it doesnt look like the cool looking rock is even included.

despite that, that backgrounf story is quite intersting and does look plausable, no major missuse of terms or jargon that I could find.
Comparing stock prices directly for these two companies is ignorant - they are completely different. AT&T is an ancient telco with dividend, while Apple is a (relatively) young, tech, growth stock.
Sometimes this effect of multiple lossy compressions is very apparent on certain... ahem... adult sites, which steal content from other adult sites. When the content has been decompressed and recompressed enough times certain artifacts start to appear, as well as other issues like aspect ratio problems.
Very interesting. I'm interested in hearing about working with open source projects, selling data, and customer support; I'm especially interested in how startups handle bugs in newer open source projects. Do you spend time identifying the cause and submitting a patch, switch technologies, or work on something else and punt the decision?

This is a specific system design question, but I'd also like to hear about choosing between job queues (e.g., Beanstalk) and batch systems (e.g., Hadoop) for soft real-time data processing.

Interesting startups to interview:

- FlightCaster and BackType (lots of data, users get product for free, discuss process of finding and selling to customers interested in associated data; both also deal with real-time data)

- Shopify (supporting users that use your product to sell their product)

- banksimple (regulated industry)

- DuckDuckGo (building a system to compete with a wealthy behemoth)

- WakeMate and Square (designing and manufacturing hardware)
Take a look at Ruby on Rails Tutorial (http://www.railstutorial.org/). The sample application, a tiny Twitter clone, is designed to be fully up-to-date in coding style (though of course it reflects some of my particular idiosyncrasies). I just finished the Rails 2.3 book last week, so a definitive version of the source isn't ready yet, but there will be one eventually. (I'm focusing on the Rails 3 version first.)

On the other hand, if you want to follow the tutorial and make a definitive version of the code yourself (preferably with tags for each chapter end), I'd be happy to throw it up on GitHub. And you might just get a nod in the acknowledgments. ;-)
I think the technical reason is that DDG defaults to search over HTTPS (for privacy reasons), and most browsers won't set the referer HTTP header when moving from HTTPS to HTTP.
It seems like a great idea and if it works in practice, great. It's the sort of idea that could cause bad feelings to fester with the wrong group of people though. [Warning: gross generalizations ahead..] Think what happens when grumpy-but-reliable "server guy" doesn't ever get any bonuses because people don't understand what he does while "pretty girl on reception who buys candy bars for everyone on Thursday" does OK, etc.
I agree, but...

One day for 1000 iterations means 86.4 seconds to upload to youtube, wait for encoding to finish, then download it.

Youtube is slower than that. :-)

Better give it a week. Maybe a month.
Ok, so whats the difference if someone posts to reddit or a site dedicated to solving problems? That person is still going to consult the masses, they might as well be educated.

And my thinking here is less about it being a generalized medical board and much more about concentrating educated brainpower on solving chronic conditions.

You could flip this around and make it a private tool for the doctor to use in extreme situations. Not even let the patient use it.

Say you live in podunk South Dakota. You go to the only doctor in town. Do they have the expertise to solve a complex condition? What if they aren't very good? How are they supposed to help you if your other options are out of reach? In this scenario a doctor with limited experience can tap into the crowd and get specialists chiming in from areas they would never think about. Pretty useful solution, I'd say
Interesting - thank you for your feedback. It's educational to see the different points of view.

However, I wonder if you've actually taken on board either the point of the exercise, or the fact that it isn't yet finished.

However, questions such as those you raise are, of course, of great interest in production code, and would be raised in the discussion this code is intended to start. If someone started to write correct code that took these things into consideration the test would be stopped - it would've served its purpose already.

I'd be interested to know:

* Do you think every routine, every piece of code should have comments?

* Do you think every routine should test its input parameters? Every time?

* Do you think every routine should be checking for memory corruption? All the time?

* How do you cope with memory corruption in the program code itself?

* Do you think the routine fails if the char to remove is '\0'? Are you sure? You seem to claim it does.

* Do you believe that all code should always be written to the same standard?

Having written code in an environment where any given memory location has a MTC (Mean Time to Corruption) of 12 hours, I have considered these issues. I'd be interested to hear your experiences in these matters.

I notice also that you created your username specifically to reply to this item.

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> The latest trend seems to be "rejection therapy". If this helps people, good, but I hate this. Can we instead please make the next trend "Make somebody's day every day for 30 days therapy"?

Actually, there are some people trying to do something called "make a difference Monday" around here (here being Phoenix, ironically). It amounts to helping out one random person in some way just because. Every Monday is "make a difference Monday."
How about getting a pair of decent tires? When riding my bike during the winter my usual problem is the fact the bike lanes become the dump site for the snow and mud mixture or the new parking lane.
...which would allow you to comment on a blog article as someone else. Yikes!
Actually, that's not true. Chrome, unlike other browsers, installs in user space so admin privs aren't required. This isn't true for Chrome Frame, which has to be installed using admin rights (ref: https://groups.google.com/forum/#topic/google-chrome-frame/F...).
As opposed to lockpicking, but they both involve putting on a show...

kb
I apologise if this was misleading. I can see how it can be interpreted as he confessed in court, but he's not had a hearing yet so he can't. He confessed to Adrian Lamo, who promptly turned the logs to wired magazine, who then published excerpts.
> not merely a computer in everyone's hand but a far more 'personal' and capable device than any Win 95 PC ever was.

I don't know if it's just me, but my feeling is that a Win 95 PC is far more "personal" than any modern smartphone. With a smartphone, you are limited by whatever the mass-produced OS and apps allow (and it's getting worse - more recent OS releases allow much less access to the filesystem, for instance), while a Win 95 PC was wide open and could be customized the way you wanted - in the extreme, the whole operating system could be easily replaced.

That is: when I use my smartphone, I feel like I'm a guest at a Google-owned hotel. When I use my PC, I feel like I'm at my own home.
My point is that you can probably get physical isolation for less money on x86.
The client SDK exposes just the actual API and not the web API which is typically much more complex.

I really don’t want to worry about setting http headers to make an add-if-not-exists call for example. The API in a client library with a method “TryAdd(...)” is understandable as an API, and the setting of headers and 4XX code you might receive on a duplicate is just returned as false.
Knowing it and having taken the lesson to heart are two different things. Plenty of people advocate for socialist policies of the "we already know the outcome" kind. They sound fair, and good to the poor, but are in fact harmful to those same people.

There are plenty of beneficial socialist policies, but sometimes the distinction between the two is not so clear.
TWs are just a CYA for incriminating content. It doesn't change the fact that people won't be either knowingly or baselessly offended by something.

Then again, I believe discomfort is a human experience and trying to insulate against it, runs against the human experience and life itself.
Do you honestly think both the S and 3 are ugly?
Your criticism (e.g. OMG wrong case, OMG C uses & to mean something else) seems mostly centered around the fact that rust isn't C and less around the merits of rust itself. But I'll bite...

Some of the confusion about the names might also stem from that I expect consistent capitalization when dealing with registers, why would `pioc` be lowercase if it's in reality a register being modified?

Typically in rust screaming snake case is reserved for constants. In this case, pioc is not a register (so there you go). In the context of the embedded stuff the peripherals typically get screaming snake case names at the top level struct. In this example I've configured it and assigned it to a local variable named pioc.

That is very cumbersome and illogical. Reconfiguration is quite common.

In the example I gave it's not possible. After an initial write to the watchdog's configuration register all subsequent writes are ignored by the MCU. That's the whole point of having compile time checks. If it compiles, it's probably OK. If it doesn't compile you're probably doing something that won't work or won't do what you expect.

If you were to take the example something that can be modified you'd still have the functions laying around to modify the register.

I think that's just your unfamiliarity with the platform and the example you chose.

I think you'd probably want to guess again. Which peripheral is being manipulated? What happens if I get a magic number wrong and that function operates on the wrong peripheral?
A passionate Bay Area resident, to be sure, but perhaps not one whose byline has ever appeared on a news article. Within the body, though...
I've posted in another thread about this but what interests me primarily is how housing has changed over time.

In 'ancient history', it's fairly well known that people lived in ridiculous conditions, ten to a house and so on.

But what strikes me is that in recent years (say, the last 50 or so), housing has rocketed out of proportion around the Western world whilst other goods have become basically irrelevant.

I could buy 1,000 decent spec laptops for the price of a modest home. Or over a hundred thousand cups of Starbucks coffee. The car I have outside? Sixty of them and I could get a bargain basement flat.

Renting? A brand new Android flagship for the price of a months' rent. An utterly imaginably spectacular device.

I'd much, much rather live in a world in which a laptop was a huge expense that I could only literally afford once every few years, but to be able to afford to put a roof over my head without hustling 8 hours a day.

Will we ever get there?
I really hope everyone who treated this as an abstract free speech debate has a chance to look at themselves in the mirror.
You can run as an LLC until you want to take outside investment or give employee stock options. Then you'll have to create a new company and transfer the IP to it. In general it's not a problem: lots of startups start as LLCs. YC (and most serious seed investors) can even do the paperwork for you.
She should be required to pay the full bill. She chose this type of service. She got the benefits when pricing was low,
now, she should also be responsible for the bill when the pricing is high. This is the price of market de-regulation and crazy fossil fuel energy policies.
How many players have they lost to excessive load times?
Booting from USB with the 3b should be pretty easy, and you probably won't need any sort of USB hub. A name brand portable SSD with a USB interface (not an adapter on a SATA drive or something) should serve you well here.

One thing: the errors you were getting with storage might have been because of an inadequate power supply. Make sure you're using the official Raspberry Pi PS for the 3b.
But that's my point; how can you be sure the compiler will emit the right code instead of assuming that the addition does not overflow and then proceed on pruning the test, since overflow on signed integers is not defined?
I don't even know hoe x86 experts got there. I'm constantly learning about all sorts of strange instruction that look like random strings and perform seemingly odd calculations.
That’s interesting. Yeah, what if they were mostly Jewish? I never really thought about the demonization of men now days in those terms. Took a long time until Jews fought back against the absolute constant throb of ‘Jewish cabal’ that runs the world. Very long time.

Interesting, that was profound.
Or, ideally, use mit-scheme, and have zero modification.
> Consider it a positive example of the "worse is better" paradigm.

I'd never heard of this before. TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Imagine you are interviewing a developer and find this line in his/her CV:

Personal achivement:
- I built my own OS and C compiler

Looks really impressive today, but perhaps it was the norm 3 or 4 decads ago. Anyway, I envy such people who can do that. Let me try that once again.... :)
No pro sport would be fine.
Well, considering many children learn to kill and dress game early in life; I don't see a problem with that. Depends on the child and the parent. But I appreciate you trying to show my point is invalid by trying to get me to disagree with a completely different example.
> because notation and nomenclature changes over time.

That is why there are desires to standardize Physics notation [1]. It would be nice if a newer field, such as CS, could learn from those mistakes early.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831497
try http://deeplearning4j.org/

they just partnered with canonical: http://insights.ubuntu.com/?p=9373
How can an enforcement action be made against an inanimate object? Sounds like a loophole the size of solar system.

Why not simply file judgement against ideas and imagination next?
They passed on the WhatsApp guy too and that cost FB $20 billion. So moral of the story is start a startup!
Submarines are the one thing that will survive the first strike, because your enemy doesn't know where they are. They thus provide a guarantee on the "Mutually" part of MAD.
Same reason we ban people going to Vegas
A tiresome, poorly written thrashed to death blog post. iPhone's haven't displayed iPods and Blackberry may have introduced some new models that appeal to a different user than the businessperson, but the Bold is as solid, reliable and indestructible as any previous model. I've owned many blackberries over the years and am more than happy with it. My friends are pretty evenly divided between blackberry and iPhone. Those I know that tried Android sold them and went with the iPhone.

I'm not parting with mine anytime soon. I don't need any of the apps. That said, I have an iPad, so maybe I get my app fix with that.
Is the difference between ios and osx really smaller than chromeos and Android? Chromeos is just a browser, after all... anything written for chromeos (presuming it doesn't depend on a mouse) should work on the Android browser.