jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm part of that group of people. I held back on starting my own business for almost a year because I would not have had access to health insurance at all due to my medical history. Obamacare means that I can buy it. After that it's just money. Bill a few more hours and/or raise my rate a few percent and I don't notice the difference.
History, my brother, check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Thanks for the link - I had only discovered the white paper. IMO they should still have these things in there...
yea i know but practically it looks different for me.

1.) with tools like browserify i have to look at the folder structure. if i move things around i have to change some paths inside my codebase. or i have to change a map config. with my approach i need two paths. the path to my bower package.json to include all my bower packages and the path to my codebase with two fixed js files. beneath that directory level i can organize stuff how i want and change it every time completely. create folders, move things, rename stuff etc. my script concats always the libs first, then my bootstrap.js, all my app modules and at last a init.js. every project looks the same and works the same. it´s compatible with every big frontend framework and easy to understand.

2.) most bower packages are in js global format. so they just have to be loaded first at runtime and the order of loading things is very clear.

3.) im aware that browserify aims at some problems like lazy loading or reuse stuff in the background/frontend but i am not having to deal with those problems atm. and dont know if i ever have to...
Also offers have to be changed every 3 months in the UK, otherwise it is no longer considered an offer/bonus but the standard price and has to be advertised as such.
> How do you politely refuse to disclose previous salary information?

Say you're under a salary NDA?

Although this mightn't be the best answer to the question, answering with a figure, made up or not, might help you in some way.

> Living costs

Well this is none of there business and is a signal of sorts. But that said it's an intriguing question if they are not in the 'stay far away' category.

Firstly the interviewer might just be a nerd with bad people skills/inexperience in interviewing (Assuming you're in IT)

Secondly maybe the company is very serious about work life balance rather than hard cash.

I'd be asking why they want to know living costs and why as an employee it's important for them to know. Then politely declining or continuing depending on how you feel after a conversation.

But this is an out there question you can't prepare for, next time it'll be something else weird. Everything is easy in hindsight.

The salary question is more common.
... what is the problem here? Investment is being made and people are better off for it. Isn't this how trickle down works?
Just go sign up for Mullvad. That's all it is.
If they are able to beat the interbank rate it means they are either buying the currency from someone below market value (in which case that person is being shafted) or taking on Forex risk themselves.
Just out of curiosity how and what do you eat to fit in 5 Euros a day?

I'm thrifty as well but that is stretching it.

I mean, I eat meat and only buy organic free range stuff if I can, which is of course, more expensive, but as long as I make a dev salary, why would I eat lower quality stuff to save a few bucks if I can afford the best quality?

I feel like when it comes to what you put inside your body you should not make compromises if you can. There are other areas in your life you can save money(car, subscription services, eating out, fancy clothes), but food is not one of them, as long as you can afford it.
Value investors use the insurance example as a plank in their argument that “loss avoidance” is the most important value investing principle.

Buffet famously said loss avoidance is rule number one, and rule two is to remember rule one.

You buy flood insurance every year, even if it only floods once every 15 years on average, and even when it hasn’t flooded in 25 years.

If you make 10% for 9 years and then lose 20% on year 10 (1,886.36 from 1,000), you’d be better off making 8% for ten years (2,158.92 from 1,000).
crushingly depressing, tbh
I remember reading in Poor Economics by Duflo and Banerjee that poor people having a TV is not uncommon at all. They take the example of a Moroccan family in a rural area. They explain that because that's the only thing there is to do, owning a TV makes a massive difference to your everyday life.
This makes me think, why Intel doesn't actually care? There's a lot of money poured into marketing, and today it's always about "AI-optimized muti-core nano-whateverer GPU", so isn't it obvious making your shitty GPUs compatible with software written for competition's less shitty GPUs is probably even more profitable in the 5-year run than trying to make your GPUs a bit less trash? Yes, Nvidia wouldn't want that, so it won't be easy to make your product CUDA-compatible, but not impossible. Is it illegal for them to do, or what? We all are kind of accustomed to the idea that Intel doesn't care, but why don't they care? It is money laying around waiting to be taken, and they just ignore it.
How does a 19 year old have an Amex card with over 130k limit?

These stories always blow my mind that purport just an ordinary person could do this...
Don't worry, after a while (assuming you smoke heavily) you'll have crazy-ass dreams all the time, whether you want them or not. Smoke will buy you 90 minutes of peaceful sleep tops. It's not a long-term insomnia medication.
I'd love to go up in a U2. Managed to get within touching distance of one at an airshow in Winnipeg back in 1998, I think it was. Beautiful aircraft!
Are scientists prohibited from distributing their own research and papers for free as part of their standard contracts with the big journals? If not, then magnet links make sense; researchers can then seed their own papers, and by downloading from them, you're essentially downloading a paper with their consent.

And of course the magnet links isolate sci-hub. And it provides necessary and practical non-piracy validity to torrenting, which helps keep that protocol alive further.
Yeah, it will be interesting to see how he gets vilified as the "anti-Cathy Woods" (if) the trend reverses.

Unpopular views are always attacked/ridiculed, so keep this in check.
It's even clearer on WhatsApp, because every message is sent over the internet and never via SMS.
Ah yeah, you got me. Though I don't really count that as good evidence for an actual "redemption" since it apparently was burning Tethers that came from Bitfinex: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-just-burned-500-million-usdt...

And since Bitfinex is the owner of Tether Ltd., there is unfortunately no outsider that could credibly confirm to have actually received any USD in exchange for those burned Tethers. Bitfinex might just as well have sold Bitcoins from its own stash (or from customer wallets) to others for USDT and then burned those USDT in order to stabilize the USDT/USD price which wasn’t exactly holding up well at that time. If they had actually printed more USDT than they have USD in the past, this would be a smart move in order to distribute the "missing" funds more evenly across multiple crypto coins in their custody, which makes it less likely for them to run out of one of them and thus makes it less likely for the alleged scam to come to light.
I think it's partly the incentive structure that is to be blamed. Historically, quantitative PhDs in healthcare(medical physicists, statisticians, comp. genetics) have been underpaid (in my opinion). Now with FAANG and Quant Funds willing to pay $400K+ comp packages to these PhDs, there are far more exit opportunities for these PhDs.

On a positive note, I'm so glad that clinicians are taking interest in ML! As a practicing ophthalmologist, the fact that you were able to self teach is really impressive! I do know that a lot companies are looking for people like you, who have clinical experience. If you are interested you should explore roles/potential collaborations with some of these health research teams in tech.
I think a lot of eating organ meat involves washing it or soaking it to get the more unpalatable flavors off.

Not something I've really been adventurous enough to try though.
How about we target the laws that enable this obnoxious gatekeeping in the first place? We should simply get rid of copyright.
I've had simple for the last 5 years and this is truly upsetting. No other app I've seen tops their mobile app and their customer support is by far the best experience. Any other replacement banks that have joint bank accounts? My wife and I love it.
Cutting the middle man => having sex with some random dude who created an FB group.
Do you know what «fire and forget» means?
im wondering how many of these users are paying customers, since subscription is dropbox's only source of income as far as i know.
I imagine word of mouth has been a big factor for Dropbox. Who here has not at some point sung the holy gospel of Dropbox to someone else? Especially study groups.
Yes it can. In fact if the article was about how enterprise web development using SOAP and XML was broken I'd be fully supportive of it, given how web development has matured past that to leaner, more suitable technologies (REST/JSON)

But that's really a different conversation.
This and infoq seem to have a lot of the most useful videos that are not just randomly out there (people posting a few videos they made themselves or the like).
That's fine, but the way the UI behaves appears to be tied to the load % completion. So the fact that it freaks out is a bit of a problem.
Are you sure that namecheap.com doesnt automagically register the domain and then try to charge you a higher rate?
I'm always confused when stories like these are spun as a "strong debut" rather than saying Box left a lot of value on the table. Why do we care more about the people who've held the stock for < 1 day than the capitalization of the company?
Indeed it has. For a few more examples, see also http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/43777177, and http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/stackhack4.html. Pyret (http://pyret.org) uses similar stack techniques to these to simulate an arbitrarily deep stack while compiling to JS.
Full disclosure - because of some of the flack I've gotten as a CF developer I'm actually a bit self conscious about it. I'm glad you spoke up here!
I agree that tech journalists are at fault here. It might also help if Google wasn't calling this Project Zero.
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But if Google is paying her now for the use of her music in YouTube videos, how can they then claim after the agreement ends that they were unaware of the same videos?
>Who is buying this stock?!

Speculators that bought and sold to make a profit today.

I bought a few hundred shares, sold about half of them (guaranteeing a profit even if the other half crashes to 0) and am holding the other half as either a long term investment or waiting for the next pump and dump.
it doesn't redirect to the signup page. i believe it's to throttle streaming, but there are better ways to do it

https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551132865555996673

EDIT: Still from same author:

no, had already been logged in for hours; and only happened on YouTube

https://twitter.com/__apf__/status/551096550516994048
I have not been served with a warrant.
In so saying, I have just committed a crime? WTF
Title should be changed to "Programming sockets in Python". This blog post has nothing to do with websockets.
I use the Ubuntu, Unix/Linux, LaTeX, Math and Statistics stack exchange sites regularly and they have helped me tremendously in achieving a lot of stuff that would probably have taken me much more time to figure out by myself.

I think most sites will quiet down with time, because once all questions have been asked there won't be as much interest, but they will always stay my number one source of information because in one swoop I can :

* Check if a question was asked on the topic I am looking for. The Ask Question page will do a search for you after you're done typing your question title.

* If not, ask the question, and most of the time in asking the question I solve my own problem.

* If problem not solved, wait for suggestions/answers.

The difference between this and forums or mailing lists is that the rating of answers allows you to pick out quickly the best and most approved answers.

I agree with the other comment here in that not all subjects are proper to a stack exchange site, they are clearly not the best medium to do discussions for various reasons: the ordering of answers is not preserved, you cannot start a sub-thread other than by doing comments, you cannot reply to a specific comment, etc.
> People behave very differently when they perceive they are anonymous.

I don't know about that. I see people on FB who are accurately identified by their real name who have no problem whatsoever expressing "F*ck your feelings" to people who are ostensibly their friends. Lack of anonymity doesn't seem to have helped.
> or Slack would be a suitable replacement

Jumping out of the Facebook frypan into the Salesforce fire doesn't seem to be a particularly winning move...

(Which also raises the question, whichever alternative you choose, you probably need to evaluate the risk of Facebook (or some equally evil corp) acquiring them down the track. I wonder how likely Discord/Telegram/Signal are to be able to resist Facebook-sized acquisition offers?)
That explanation doesn't quite fit with historical opinion polls. It wasn't until 2000 that strong dislike of the opposing party shot up, and dislike had been slowly growing before that. But it is possible that the sudden change in trajectory was delayed by the 4 year election cycle, which puts politics in the fore of people's minds for durations that are too short for contempt to really snowball.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/06/22/1-feelings-a...
In baseball, coaches and managers are all ex-players, but not necessarily good ex-players. (Well, anyone who plays in MLB is “good”, but relative to the rest of the league I mean.) Just like in other industries, the skills required for a good coach or manager don’t always correlate with being the best player.
> I said "less value" not "no value".

Value is subjective, you're just expressing the preference that there is less value to you.

> In general there's less value in providing fragmented help in small chunks to individual people than there is in providing help via a large coordinated effort to entire populations.

Only in the aggregate if less help is delivered. If the same amount of help gets there then the value is potentially the same, or more (or less).

> Even if the total is the same, the fact that it just trickled in and it lacked coordination can only hurt.

This is not true, the individual nature allows for more flexibility in meeting everyone's actual needs. "one size fits all" usually doesn't.

> And you won't effectively put out a big fire no matter how many cups of water you individually dump on it.

This is an inapt metaphor, probably because its physically false.

> Fittingly even the example you chose is bad simply because "malaria relief" still involves quite the coordinated effort, not the least financial, not individual people independently sending small help to a single other person.

Actually there are people sending malaria nets over there, the coordination problems you speak of are already solved.
My perspective on this is - To move fast, build product at a good speed, iterate and build new functionalities, to save time - we use 3rd party services after understanding their past record and kind of risk you go into if they stop - there is a silver lining to this.

I think Github is something you can be dependent on. Especially because they have been able to make it a profitable business. They charge for their service.

Whereas - branch.io is free for all. There is no clear business model as such. I would pay them a subscription fee and get a reliable service, rather than have a free unreliable service.
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE ?
I couldn't find the option to delete my account, so, how can I delete my account?
This is what they do - finance deals. This is as notable as saying Wells Fargo issued their home mortgage.
I've found the opposite. When I start to write a test, I often realize I don't know exactly what I need to do because the requirements are unclear or somehow conflict with some other assumption of the system. That realization prompts me to go talk to my product owner, which forces them to clarify their requirements and target a more coherent idea of what the system should be.
I think React.js is the CORBA of this generation.

k8's might be too but I think the fact that containers are so portable it will be easy to migrate your application away from k8s if you want and to a new infrastructure. That's kind of the beauty of it.
This campaign needs a punchier call to action. It should be something like "Tell the New York state attorney general to prosecute Fadi Chehade for self-dealing if this sale goes through". This movement is lacking stakes. People need to go to prison for this.
The problem with modern science is that there is no room for the unusual.

Faraday had no formal training, but his natural intuition, interest, and tenacity made him standout.

Newton was a brilliant, paranoid asshole.

Instead funding goes to credentialed career scientists whose greatest ability is self-promotion, fund raising, and stringing-along the public.

As an example: The next big particle accelerator sucks up billions; while alternative approaches to QM never get any attention because it’s a guaranteed way to kill a career and become a pariah.

So nobody is available to even try to create the theoretical framework at the investment of a few million.
Probably not... until some unexpected eureka moment comes.

What if bus tickets of certain style correlate to lower accident rates or more reliable schedules and no one else has noticed before?

What if a certain property of bus tickets is a predictor for some other societal result or economic trend in a way few would expect?

What if they are really tasty and nutritious but no one ever tried eating them?

Each one of these is farfetched enough that is no one is getting involved in collecting just to chase these possibilities. But only a collector, motivated by curiosity, is ever likely to catch them.
I thought Mars is the god of marriage, and Venus is the god of venturing. It's right there in the name.
The difference in living costs of having your home close to work is often ignored. It’s frequently cheaper to pay for the car, gas, and maintenance than it is to live that 40km closer.

Not to mention, there are other things, such as green spaces, good schools, and work for spouses, which make living “closer to work” impractical.
I'm interested in exploring synergies. Ping me if you want (email on my profile)
Very cool! Nice descriptions and presentation (and the movie reference at the end is great).

I look forward to going through this in finer detail.
Are you open to cooperation with small scale projects? If so, message me and we can get in to the details!
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I think Lincoln's case doesn't support the "good to have supportive spouse" idea but rather (1) persist, and (2) talent/genius wins out in the end, given the right context and times that let it manifest and become critical. Heck, even without much talent, persistance is helpful.
Whenever I hear that word I still think of the AI that Jem uses to generate her hologram-self.
We don't have any materials that are can be strong enough along the entire length of the strand to use in an elevator, and likely will not for some time.

142 gigapascals, along say 38,000 kilometers, ain't easy.

(Disclaimer, I work for google, but not on the sekrit space elevator team, which may or may not exist)
Yes, in the US "apple's way or the highway" includes AT&T, but as I said in reply to this excellent comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918854), most discussion on HN is ridiculously US-centric. In other countries, selling unlocked contract-less phones is common and Android will still dominate because it can cater to people's needs better.
It's not exactly banned, but just removed from their curriculum. It will still be found in the school's library.
Because it doesn't matter. Quite often, those parties are two sides of the same coin.

If they didn't list party affiliation on ballots, people would instead vote based on what? The names they like most? That's about how informed some voters are, unfortunately. It takes effort to get informed, and the entities that should inform them, often fail to do so.
Matt, here's a tiny, easily accomplished (by Google) project that would give me and my friends serious joy-- we were discussing this today:

How about an app that lets Google Books fans read on an iPad or on Android that doesn't involve looking at HTML rendering and/or converting files to ePub?
I'm not JFDI, I'm INTJ.
> I do hope law enforcement catches up with these guys sooner rather than later.

Me not. Sony and MS need to be taught that online DRM is a massive customer experience clusterfuck, and they will only listen and learn one way: hit 'em in their pockets. Only when enough customers are angry and demand refunds that it hurts their bottom lines, then maybe online DRM measures will be finally allowed to rot in hell.
Cthulhuism: is MS-DOS Batch scripting. It's a similar notion to Satanism. Some argue that it precedes Satanism but, in truth, it's more obscure and just weirder.
This makes far more sense. Second hand markets for computers aren't really that big anyway. Everyone wants the latest and greatest.
You missed the critical conditional of "when the owner's asked you not to do it".

A closer comparison might be passing information onto a friend, when the person who told you the information in the first place asked you not to pass it on.
If you're in the beta program or have access to youtube, you would know that is not what it is at all.
> (frameworks) require you to learn how they want to do everything; which can be both cumbersome and time consuming.

New teammates will have to learn how to do things anyway. But with frameworks there's a chance they already know.
Doesn't explain why _only_ phone numbers are (currently) supported. Having phone numbers as the default or even asking permission to import your contacts would have been fine-ish if it was also possible to register using another anonymous method like email...

One counterpoint to using phone numbers: In China mobile phone numbers are almost universally enforced as your digital identifier because it makes surveillance extremely easy for a government while making it relatively hard for platforms themselves. Registering for a phone number mandates an ID check at the point of the service provider. This means that with a phone number based login, (1) you can be largely anonymous to platforms as you can have > 1 phone number, (2) you have 2fa built in automatically, but also (3) that the government can easily figure out who owns what accounts because your accounts are directly linked to your phone(s) and your phone(s) directly to you.

It would be a great step forward if Signal moves towards alternate verifications that don't involve phone numbers...