jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
as far as i can tell the numbers in wikipedia are completely off: the "10% pension" is (1) still your money (it's a personal fund, not a social security system); (2) capped at $300 a month; and (3) completely optional if you're self-employed; i pay less than $100 for optional health insurance monthly (no idea where 7% comes from).

also, your link to sii doesn't work, but my understanding is that if you are paid from abroad and it's wired to you each month, and you convert it to pesos locally, it's just income and charged at the same rate as any other income.

in general the tax system is very transparent and open - it's easy to be self employed and you just pay 10% monthly as i described. at the end of the year chilean banks declare your interest etc etc, you get a web page that lists everything that you click "ok" on, and then you get a refund.

i have no idea about $200,000 a year salaries. i am just describing normal life working for an american company as a contractor (ie self employed from the chilean pov). frankly, if you earn that much, or you're looking for some kind of tax haven, pay someone for some advice instead of reciting stuff from wikipedia that you don't have the context to understand.
I'm the author.

I was planning to post this link later, when the book becomes available. I can't share any details yet, but look for an announcement next week. I run @coffeescript on Twitter, so you'll definitely stay updated if you follow me there.
I used to use Delicious, but I amm-scrayed to Diigo during the rumours of it's collapse. So what's my point?

1. I'm not going to sign in to Delicious.
2. They won't get my data.
3. My data won't be lost, because it's now on Diigo.

So there! Nyah! :)
You forgot the backlit keyboard.
Relaxing after a hectic week of bringing Shanghai online and upgrading all of Houston.

By relaxing I mean traveling to Austin for a 2 day rave!!
Trying talk someone into being my cofounder!
Out of curiosity, how much do those products cost?
More up to date: https://github.com/jaytaylor/sql-layer
I think the supply shortage of soylent initially helped with their marketing and buzz.

I wonder if they are now claiming an artificial shortage to try and continue to sustain the illusion.
That's an odd thing to say.

Internal networks can easily be more reliable than applications given that higher end equipment has a lot more money poured into it at a development level, and anything above the bottom end of the market typically has multiple layers of redundancy options available. Wether it's VRRP, stacking, bonding, IPMP, iSCSI channels etc.

EBS is unreliable, granted, but blaming the network seems faulty.

For one, it's nothing like NFS. For two, NFS can be adapted to highly-available systems fairly easily. These days it's a pretty simple system. Even with just a single Array, put two FreeBSD "heads" on it, MPIO connectivity, and CARP between the boxes. Monitor the CARP interface to import/export the file-systems and there you go. If you can tolerate a minute or two of downtime when a host fails you have reliable, automatic redundancy.

EBS, FCoE, iSCSI, et all are entirely different beasts. But again, you can make the hosts redundant pretty easily. With iSCSI you can give the clients multiple paths to the devices increasing reliability and available bandwidth without LACP. Consolidate storage needs to save money. It's win/win/win.

Networked storage, wether it's block devices or shared file-systems, whatever the technology, aren't going away anytime soon. Matter of fact, they're becoming more critical to operations day by day. And these days, they're one of the easiest things to setup, and ensure availability on.

That EBS is the weak-link at Amazon is a bit counter-intuitive based on my own experience. I wonder what the root problems actually are...
There is no such thing as a "collective decision". There is only the decision of each person. Any movement to quit these sickness-inducing manipulators has to start somewhere otherwise you end up like those Buddhists who won't enter Nirvana until all other creatures are also ready to enter Nirvana, so they all end up hanging about outside the gates (as it were...), forever waiting.

The decision to be the first,... to lead,... to tread without trepidation where others fear to go,... that's what I called growing a spine. "Won't work because everybody else is still stuck in there" is simply an expression of that fear.
got an email from uber saying they'll fight. not sure, but seems like a big win for kapten now.
The US government runs .gov and only allows registration by governments inside the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.gov
I don't have the exact command at hand, but it just uses tesseract. Something like "import - | tesseract <whatever options for language and page format> | xclip". The accuracy is not amazing by any means.
Ah, OK. Thanks for the update - good to know.
> But the Vatican at the time was seriously considering a number of models including some heliocentric models.

Could you point to publicly available source for this?
> I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax."[...] It's not about breaking even, its about the profit.

No no, stop it. You should know the drill already - it's because of privacy! Everyone in the world knows for sure (or should!) that anything Apple does is for customers privacy.
:)
I'm more interested in bots hogging camping spaces. Why? What's the purpose?

Edit: This seems to explain it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21625871
Which is the exact problem. Ubers smaller competitors have no incentive for heavy regulatory features because they can get away with it. That in turn pushes Uber to not implement them either, until the very last moment.
I'd sat that you need to start small if you don't want to take on a bunch of investment money. A lot of magazine articles make it sound like anyone with $25k can get a cubesat launched, but it is clearly not that simple.

Martin Platt and the AmbaSat project have given me some insight on how much work it takes just to design and get approval for really simple satellites. They post regular updates to their Kickstarter page. I think you can see the updates even if you aren't a backer: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ambasat/ambasat-1-an-ed....

Perhaps you should get in touch with some space industry insiders that know the regulatory environment and know what rules can be broken and what can't. Then also get in touch with people that have worked on space equipment before, because space is a complicated domain.
I'm pretty sure that isn't true
What's especially weird about this is that any executive will tell you they do a ton of their job on the phone and doing video calls both internally and with customers.

Speaking for myself, my job has become increasingly less local the further up I've moved, specifically because my influence is broader and requires touchpoints across the org regardless of geography.

Now as a staff manager? Yeah, remote 1:1s and coaching is inferior to in person, at least IME. But that's about the only part of my job I would prefer to do in person. And its just that, a preference, as witnessed by the fact that I continue to do it even though I work from home full time right now and haven't seen my direct reports in person in over a year.
That's been proposed, but it won't happen. There's too many edge cases, and it only works on the Go compiler because it has a particularly constrained style and rsc can make the relevant hacks as a one-off effort.
Note that CNAME cloaking is also an issue here, because Firefox is the only Browser with a userspace network stack whereas Chrome/Chromium relies on the OS...which means that Chromium or Electron based Browsers cannot protect themselves from CNAME cloaked domains.

Adblockers like uBlock Origin just have a domain list of known CNAME cloaked domains, but that's not based on the DNS entries directly because there's no API for this for web/chrome extensions.

Long story short: Sharding can be tricked with CNAME cloaking.
My partner and I were in a similar situation several years ago. Escaped from NYC and moved to the greater Boston area. We initially looked at places like Arlington, Waltham, Lexington, Watertown, Newton, and Somerville.

I agree that walk scores can be misleading, especially in this area. There are places that are listed as "walkable" because they have a lot of strip malls bunched together even though there are no actual sidewalks. On the flip side, we ended up moving to a small town with an abysmal walk score but good sidewalks, trails, and bike paths and a small but hardy contingent of neighbors who walk or bike to our local school and grocery store all year round.

I ended up just walking or biking around prospective neighborhoods during weekdays to get a sense of how many people actually get around in the neighborhood. I also ended up chatting with a couple of coordinators from the MA Safe Routes to Schools program to get a sense of which schools had the most kids walking to school. While they didn't have the numbers I was looking for they were friendly and helpful and I got a better sense of the different priorities in different towns.
Pretty close to shape rotating!
Wanting to read more I found this other article with a more nuanced take and some additional information:

https://grapecollective.com/articles/prohibitions-grape-bric...

> The grape of choice for home winemakers quickly became Alicante Bouschet. Thick, tough skins helped the grape survive the cross–country journey, and it grew in large quantities

> By the end of Prohibition in 1933, other grape varietals and fruits had been ripped up and 40,000 acres of Alicante had been planted.

> “Grape bricks had a disastrous effect on the early American wine industry,” Suttner wrote in an email. Grape bricks’ place in Prohibition history is largely glossed over, but Suttner was able to learn about them through period newspaper articles and Eric Burn’s book The Spirits of America. “By encouraging the production of cheap, fast–growing grapes like Alicante Bouschet at the expense of other, slower varieties, American wineries limited themselves severely.”
Have you not had a family member or close friend cured of disease that would have killed them a hundred years ago, thanks to modern pharma drug? I sure have.
Thanks (upvoted.) This was the answer to my question, thank you. It is interesting though that per the original write-up at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817299

"When I woke up the next morning, I had four emails from Amazon AWS and a missed phone call from Amazon AWS."

So Amazon clearly did have some very clear fraud signals.

I agree with you that my lack of knowledge isn't a guide, which is why I phrased it in the form of a question and asked HN. Your current comment is in fact the only actual (and perfectly sufficient) answer.

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EDIT: regarding 4), out of curiosity, if they could legally and were allowed to tell programmatically if miner proceses were running and stop these for you, would you want them to? [preauthorize them to check and not allow it unless/until you lift this]. I would do so personally, as an added measure of security simply due to the incentive people have to steal my keys for this reason, and the fact that as a practical matter it does happen - as in the write-up, in which a .gitignore was ignored.

>so I installed the Figaro gem (a rails API key security gem), and trusted it to keep my API key off of git when I pushed. I opened the console and git push origin master to send the new version of my app, Shriek to Heroku.

>Figaro pops up on the command line as usual, but this time instead of saying “created application.yml, created .gitignore” It just said “created application.yml”.

It certainly sounds like something that could happen to me, or anyone, and does every day. but it sounds like you would not opt in to this? just curious.
> My understanding of the FLP result is that it only applies to algorithms without timeouts.

No, I don't think timeouts help. What does timeout mean here? You've sent a message and didn't get a response. If you timeout, did they receive the message or not?
Syntactically simple language actually tend to be harder for new/less-skilled programmers, as they require the programmer to figure out how to do more things that more complex languages handle as simple expressions.
Except for how that didn't work for me. Yes, I have a "reverse midas touch" when it comes to technology, but I think that makes me a good UX critic. :-) And even if/when it does work, I detest the whole GOPATH idea. I know the alternatives are not perfect. I know. But still...
A million dollars is actually not enough to secure a dignified existence in the US.

Nonsense:

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/how-to-retire-at-30-on-1-mil...

Not to face bankruptcy if a major health problem arises?

Health insurance isn't that expensive unless you have a pre-existing condition [1]. I won't talk about the college and home ownership questions other than to say that families have figured out how to live happy, healthy lives on far, far less. Go to a good state school, get some scholarships, don't live in Manhattan.

And you're only making my point: you don't really want the money. You want the things that you think only an abnormally large amount of money can buy. Sorry, but that just seems like lazy thinking to me.

1. And my sincere condolences to those that do. Seriously, that sucks and we need to fix the system somehow.
The website is somewhat unclear on what distinguishes Wusoup from all the other dating sites. What's your killer function? That's what should be highlighted. Also, maybe you should let people browse for free before signing up.
That's a good anecdote, thanks. We definitely think some more social interaction (primarily following/friending and commenting) is the next logical step for the service.
I suppose my initial comment was a bit flippant, after all women would have to sign up to 'fitfinder' as well to receive attention from the men.
"We cannot escape the fact that we will have to dramatically reduce our energy use."

I'm not sure I agree with this statement (though I like your first two paragraphs)...in the end, couldn't we replace most of our fossil fuel usage by just ramping up nuclear? I'm pretty sure there's enough supply there with breeder reactors to power our civilization long enough to invent something else.
No because you still have to remember that rule whether you use semicolons everywhere or not.
I was defining "idea" as "what you have before you start coding".

I don't think we disagree.
It's released now -- our new code always goes to the servers hosting free developer apps first, then a week or two later gets pushed to the production servers.

We use the free developer servers as sort of a beta environment. Once code passes QA and all our testing, we let it run there for a while to make sure we didn't miss any edge cases.
Put it this way, I am using D quite a lot for microarchitectural benchmarking because the inline asm is so easy to us, I have access to LLVM and GCC intrinsics, I can easily parameterize my code as a template at compile time etc.

Julia has impressive libraries, I don't really rate the language.

D gives more guarantees to the optimizer, makes it easy to give information to said optimizer and has much safer slices which prevent a lot of bugs.

For example of something cool: I have a library which can run a benchmark over a template - that is, imagine a template taking a parameter N or even a type, my library can iterate through these and perform statistics on them seamlessly.
Tough call. But hiring for talent vs. skills was probably a good move on your part as a start-up venture. Having the right people offering their own ideas is infinitely better than just filling a position.

I'm in a similar position, but on the other side of the equation. While I also run my own small business I'm looking for secondary employment offer a wide range of skills and experience. I was interviewed last week for a position I'd be really interested in with flexible part-time hours (bonus for the already self-employed). The only catch is I would offer them more than they bargained for, but I don't perfectly fit all the skills they are looking for. I would be capable of doing the job required and more, but I don't bear the corresponding position title on my resume. Anyhow, I find out next week.

So, kudos to you for taking a chance on talent when you recognized it. It may or may not work in your favor but run with it and see what ideas your new hire will bring to the business.
Bitcoin is awesome because it stands to make electronic payments extremely easy without any hassle from banks or outsiders. No more e-commerce hassles like a merchant account or payment gateway.

The anonymity is less strong than many initially presume since ALL PAYMENTS ARE PUBLICLY REGISTERED, including the payment chain. This is why it's important to generate a new btc receiving address whenever you perform a new transaction. The entire exchange history of that bitcoin is public knowledge, from the day it was generated until the very last transaction. Hence, if you use a bitcoin that was sent to a publicly disclosed address to pay for something, that transaction is linked to you forever. So people need to be careful about how they use which bitcoins, and the client doesn't really make that easy.

There really is a lot of potential in btc, I've been excited about it since I first learned of it, though as soon as the government catches on they will outlaw it (if they can't find a current law to justify prosecution and/or destruction of the btc network, which is doubtful) and do everything possible to destroy it. They won't like it at all, and neither will the banks that even btc users rely on to store their country's regularly denominated currency. I am scared and interested to see what happens to btc as demand rises.
That was cool, but unfortunately it starts to loop pretty quickly.
Yes, fair enough, perhaps we can agree on world wide web, or public use of the internet? ;)

And of course, this puts ICANN at risk itself, as it's forced to explain or decry the seizures. The FBI is taking short term actions which will have long term effects. You gotta wonder if they've got lawyers who understand the implications of what they're doing.
Because the FDA is such a good model for fostering innovation from individuals and small firms?
"You Don't Know JavaScript". Then, it says "With statements and why you shouldn't use them" is an advanced concept. I guess this post doesn't apply to hacker news :)
Ah, but you can make decisions in these games.

Years ago I was teaching English in Japan to a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 3-year-old. We were playing some utterly moronic game where the kids took turns drawing cards, having me read the letter of the alphabet they drew, and then moving their pawn as appropriate.

It was really more for the younger kids, so the 6-year-old made a decision: he attempted to cheat! He simply moved his pawn forward ten squares or so when he guessed we weren't looking.

Regrettably for him, we were indeed all looking at the board. He offered to move his pawn back the ten spaces, but no, it was back to the beginning for him.
Their servers must be getting hammered now. Even pragprog.com is a bit slow.

It's going to be interesting on Black Friday if this is how responsive it is just for the announcement.
Maybe a misunderstanding, but the law in question (WAA) does not mention male or female employees but deals only with the right of changing th eweekly work hours for everyone. It is probably exercised most often after child birth, other than that, I would think that "women have the right" is wrong as a statement.
I feel it is similair to the motivation when one attempts to install Linux on some random device.

I expect to see a lot more 'interesting' projects that create NoSQL datastores in creative ways.
Data point: As someone with a five-figure Stack Overflow reputation, I have received zero (0) job offers related to my Stack Overflow account.
I wonder if most humans can crawl straight?
Because sqlite stores everything in a flatfile, so your are just doing version control on flatfile changes.
Back in the University I've had an assignment in Prolog that I've completely forgot about, so night before the deadline I've sit down around 9-10pm with a huge cup of coffee and by 4am I've learned enough Prolog to finish it (it was a simple path finder for the given graph), I even had some time left for a nap that night. And trust me, I was more than average programmer at that moment - had a lot of enthusiasm and energy back then, but not that much previous experience and I've literally never seen Prolog before. So if you're interested in playing with a quite unique syntax and a mental model of Prolog, just go for it, it will not be a huge investment of your time. You can easily cover the basics in a couple of weekends in your leisure time, instead of Netflix or something.
Bummer that George Washington Carter died penniless and insane, trying to make a peanut into a phonograph needle.[0]

[0]https://snltranscripts.jt.org/84/84iminute.phtml
The exception might be boardgames. Boardgames are huge on Kickstarter. 30-50 new board game campaigns come out every week (most non-board gamers are surprised to learn that about 5,000 new board games are released every year). Many are from new small publishers that use it for its intended purpose.
I do git add -up

Same thing, sorta but all in one go.
The thing that changed for Gene was that he no longer had a day job. When he was working, he'd get up at 5 am to writer for two hours before leaving for work. The whole of the Book of the New Sun was written that way. Which meant there was a certain commercial pressure to sell books, and I think his consistency flagged. I worked at Tor in the mid-to-late 1990s. I don't think that Hartwell just accepted anything he sent, the process was a little more complicated than that, because David knew what he was working on. Gene had a tendency to resist editing; once he was done with a thing it was done.

I think he had some good books in that period, but there wasn't going to be another Peace or Fifth Head of Cerebus.
The "other Chinese apps" are:
CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/trump-signs-order-bannin...
I mean they could have just not spent any time on it and moved on. I agree that it’s stupid government thing they have to deal with, but at least they did something and hopefully the government will fix its ways.
In Japan, separated heat pump unit / tank is pretty ubiquitous and never seen union unit.

https://echonet.jp/introduce_en/gz-000505/
Well, to be fair, only CNN isn't blocked now. Everyone else just aren't harmonious enough.
Thanks for the explanation. I was looking for any dealbreakers with the MQ approach, but the concern you mentioned is valid. About pushing discovery down a layer, sure, but you'd do it the same way you'd query etcd, as you say.
Well, I had some classes you mentioned (statistics, numerical methods, linear regressions) and never touched matlab.
Is map and fold really that bad in Python?
True. I guess I meant programmers.

programmers : hackers :: designers : artists.

The difference between an artist and a designer is that the designer is incapable of using ugliness to express a truth. (Also, money.)

I like to liken programmers to poets, but only because of the volume of bad meter and code humanity has produced.
Where I live in London I can't move for ISP's. Where my brother lives in Norfolk (the countryside) he technically has the exact same number of ADSL ISP's but only two will actually give him contracts.
I would imagine it's reverse attribution -- most people who read SF are bright, therefore bright people read SF...
Too bad there's no section for males. Clothes shopping is so hit-or-miss in department stores, especially if you know exactly what you want.