jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm going to be harsh, but this needs a LOT of work.

1)Maybe its my screen resolution (1280*1024), but the "Pay now" box overlaps the content of invoice sheet.

2)Where the hell is login? Not where I would expect it, somewhere at the top. its at the left side... In the middle?

3)Why is there a "tip" box that is titled "How?" What does that even mean?

4)What does the open button do in the bottom left corner? Er... Ok.. It saves my invoice...

5)Everything is just kind of floating around, no defining lines or colors. Makes it very hard to decide what is part of the web app and what is not.

This needs a major amount of UI changes to even make sense.
So that's the catch though.

A $400k wage in SFBay for Microsoft (which I've never heard of for a regular position) won't just translate to anywhere else in the world.
When starting salary in SF for Microsoft new college hire might be $120k+, in the UK it's £40k.

I realize you are specifcally talking about relocating to work remotely only within the US, but what I'm getting is that today Microsoft pays wildly differently based on location, and proposes to continue to pay wildly differently based on location with people relocating to work remotely.

I don't know if there will some special exception for United States, but the poster I replied to specifically brought up International.

Will Microsoft pay 1:1 for SF employee relocating to Texas while paying a UK employee 1/4 the wage?
If so, why... it doesn't make good business sense.
Update 3: After about a day - they expanded their pool of IPs to more than 2k new ones.

I blocked what I could and then I blocked the whole country (Russia) behind a CloudFlare javasript challenge (so that any legit traffic that wanted to pass it - could).

Everything stayed blocked for about a day and now it seems they gave up:

- all domains that pulled dynamic content from my site now show some other content and do not try to scrape Next Episode

- all static domains that delivered the cached version of the Next Episode homepage now deliver some other website(s)

- CloudFlare shows no further traffic on the firewall rules I've set (so the bots from those IPs are, for now, gone)

As this post is relatively old now (more than 3 days) I doubt many people will go back and check for new developments, but I wanted to give this the proper closure and let you know of the apparent happy end.
"Longer explanation: This feature has always triggered in one of two ways: keyword tab key search term and keyword spacebar search term. We have disabled the latter because we believe that it was resulting in unintentional triggering for some users."

The second triggering did happen to me occasionally so I understand the rationale behind this change but switching to tab is going to seriously require some re-learning of muscle memory. Since custom search engines seems like a pro feature and pros probably are used to them by now, maybe let it be?
have you got a link to that please?
Declaring a dependency on https://packages.debian.org/buster/default-jre makes apt install the LTS release. A lot of comments here are actually advocating static linking, which is kind of a shock—I don’t see a good reason for it at all.
New construction is actually pretty good in Texas. But most houses are not new and have little.
Make hay while the sun shines. A true shift to remote work, should it happen, spells the eventual end of insanely high SF FANMAG salaries. Market forces will soon close these opportunities.

My limited experience tells me people aren't prepared for homogenization of salaries across geographies:

South East England, outside London: 1x
London: 2x
New York: 3x
San Francisco: 6x

On making hay: A friend of mine is currently earning around 3-4x in Romania paying almost no tax.
Pricing seem to be (too?) close to DO or Linode and they are established players that provide way more technical specs, not sure why I'd go with mediapig.
A play at Patreon, it seems.
i've just started calling it "shift 3". that seems to be the least confusing way to communicate the character haha
Terrible to think that the species cannot survive in the wild anymore without massive suffering. I wonder if there are other such species.
Thank you for chiming in. My circuit breaker box is in the wall as well, but it seems possible to take off the cover. Maybe there is enough space behind it.
Seems to me like you're more playing "semantic ju-jitsu" than OP.

Facebook collect data to sell targetted adspace, they do not sell data. This is a plain fact.
The key is that "containers" don't actually exist -- they're just processes running under a variety of different namespaces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starving_artist
It isn't the same. At least only FB has my data instead of thousands of advertisers who paid for a copy. Leaks may be an issue, but it still isn't the same as selling the data to anyone who will pay.
Are the profits not shared with the animators?

It boggles my mind that an anime as popular as One Punch Man got awarded to a bottom-of-the-barrel anime studio for S2. I mean, you can see the stark contrast between seasons 1 and 2. Season 2 has very sparse action scenes, and heavily utilizes off-screen talking (i.e. the camera is panning some static background while a conversation is taking place so the animators don't have to animate). That leads me to believe the money/profits generated by the success of a season is getting eaten by ip owners and middlemen, and that the studio itself is fighting for the scraps. If so, that incentive structure needs to change if you want to increase the quality of the anime. Can anyone who knows more about the anime business model in Japan chime in? Is this a case of IP owners holding an iron grip on the rights and profits and being stingy with anime studios?

At any rate, I'm surprised more American-based anime studios aren't springing up to poach Japan's top animation talent with top pay.
I have implemented application for clients using xamarin and have been pleased. Portions of the code can truly be written once, compiled once and bundled into iOS or Android, using portable class libraries. Xamarin can call into native code on either platform, as well as has support for opengl.

That said, I don't think you could write cross platform opengl code unless there was an abstraction. However, there is a framework called monogame, which depending on what you're trying to do, may be useful. See http://www.monogame.net/showcase/

I keep a lot of business logic and networking code in shared modules, then have the UI be very thin. These shared pieces can be tested on a desktop system. The biggest negative about Xamarin is it feels like they push some things out the door too soon, without sufficient quality or documentation.

If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email at curtis [at] saltydogtechnology [dot] com.
You'll probably enjoy The Biodeterminist's Guide to Parenting[1] by Scott Alexander[2]. It's a good overview of environmental effects on cognition. There's a section on birth month, and the answer is: It's a trade-off. If you're sending your child to public school, August is best. This makes them the oldest in their grade, giving them advantages that compound throughout school. For private school, February/March might be best, as winter babies have slightly higher intelligence and social skills.

1. http://squid314.livejournal.com/346391.html

2. You may have heard of him. Scott is a resident psychologist and writer of Slate Star Codex (http://slatestarcodex.com/).
This seems to follow Betteridges' Law. No coherent argument made for the case that there's any interaction between tech and jewelry. Intuitively, I think the Millenial generation cares less about ways to show material wealth, so that extends to cars, jewelry, clothing, etc...
I wonder if IBM would change their plan based on this leaking. If he really had this totally and completely wrong, then of course that is very irresponsible of him to say.

I don't see how you can stop listening to Cringely altogether though. They did abandon their $20/share EPS plan, which was a pretty epic change. The claims about global services having <50% college grads servicing IBM clients from india is also pretty damning for the company.

I would like to see IBM do well, it makes me angry to see big companies squander their history and abuse their people.
There's a blog post that sort of summarizes the slides here (which'll have to do until I get the white paper written): http://darthnull.org/2015/01/23/shmoocon-ios-auth
I am suspect that IBM would layoff so many at once even if it were their intention to reorganize. The negative press involved with such a huge record breaking layoff would just add insult to injury. It would be much more likely to be 100,000+ over a length of time.

Regardless I am sorry for the terror that this week must be based on this potentially unethical news article.
Diversification is a great idea and I think your advice is sound, but I'd also like to point out that there are limits to it. FDIC doesn't quite belong in the same category as Bulgaria or Cyprus. When small countries have a shock like that, it's bad for the people with money in their banks. If the same thing happened in the US, it would either happen because of a massive worldwide economic crisis, or it would cause one. I'm not sure there's anywhere you can diversify and be safe with something like that.
>A trivially simple change fundamentally alters the process for the better: soak the pasta in cold water for a couple hours (as far in advance as you like, for convenience). The pasta rehydrates and takes on the texture (but not flavor) of cooked pasta.

>Cook it in any hot liquid, quickly (3-4 minutes). Done.

I was always told to presoak stuff like pasta while camping, as it cuts down on fuel use. I guess that's an unexpected side benefit to the above too.

(Not sure if it would be enough to make a noticeable difference in a domestic setting. But when you're running a small gas stove, every little helps.)
Those who desire the least will tend to get it.

And I don't think "the least" is in any way an accurate description of what you have or want.
I would literally switch jobs (and perhaps careers, if every company was like this) if forced to work in an open office like this. I cannot work that way; I can't focus.

I realize that I'm adding nothing constructive to this thread; I don't care. Maybe some manager somewhere will see this and a hundred other anecdotal opinions and think twice about open offices.

I am the opposite of a prima donna. I just want to work. I want to make awesome stuff, keep my skills sharp and make the company some money. Preferably lots of it.

I'd be fine with an office that's literally 5x5', a desk, a door, a wifi connection, and some shared working areas for when it's time to collaborate. Because yes, collaboration is crucial (and fun) but if I have to hunt all over the damn building for a bit of quiet space (that might not even be avaiable) when it's time to bear down and do some solo coding then this is not going to work.

Hell, I'll even bring my own damn desk, chair, and laptop. Supplied my own laptop to my last two jobs. No big deal. I'm an engineer; I get paid decently. But I need a freaking place to focus for at least half of any given working week - and sometimes, for close to the entire week.

I don't need: famous guest speakers, catered food, fancy architecture, anything. I wouldn't even care if the office was a poorly-insulated garage that gets cold in the winter. I'll bring my own $20 space heater that will heat a 5x5' office just fine.

What I can't have, if you want me to get any work done, is multiple simultaneous conversations taking place five feet away from my head all day long.
From wikipedia:

"In 1999, Mitnick pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud, two counts of computer fraud and one count of illegally intercepting a wire communication,...

He was sentenced to 46 months in prison plus 22 months for violating the terms of his 1989 supervised release sentence for computer fraud."

I would have SERIOUS trust issues with a company run by a convicted hacker.
> edit: Just noticed that the Hetzner server in VA geolocates wrong and chooses servers in Kansas.

This is a common failure mode of geolocation, especially as it pertains to cloud providers. The databases can guess which country the IP address corresponds to, but not anything more (and as such, they default to something in the middle of the country).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_Unite...

Geolocation data tends to be worse for cloud providers for whatever reason (I believe it's a combination of differing Internet footprint characteristics, as well as IP aggregation mismatch on behalf of the geolocation database).

(Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island for another common geolocation placeholder)
Bought a desktop recently. Thought about setting up verified boot and disk encryption, but...

[M]y biggest takeaway was that all of this was quite complicated and did not really have anything to do with what I bought this system for. So I decided to throw in the towel and flip SecureBoot off.

(See last section here, on trust): https://cameronnemo.gitlab.io/posts/lagomorpha/
Yes, it’s brutal. With the Tax Cut and Jobs Act you can incorporate more expenses in to indirect COGS but sales, marketing, opex, admin are non-deductible.
Federal drug enforcement has jurisdiction over the states which have passed bills legalizing these products, and it is the stated position of Federal drug enforcement that they will not pursue any enforcement related to these substances in these states.

Thus the products and the businesses are de facto legal, even if they are de jure not.
History is written by the victors. Christians never claimed to be objective chroniclers of past events.
VPN if that isn't blocked or throttled by your carrier?

Though you need a trusted host to act as the other end, or you are just swapping one monitored link with another, and finding that could be a task in its own right depending on your threat model / paranoia level.
Could you point to the C2V source?
Are you sure about that after reading the rest of the thread? From what I can tell, banks are where they are not because they're good at what they do but because they're solidly entrenched.
Reading it now, thanks.
I don't think that's fair. The author states in very specific terms, referencing both the document and various definitions, that there is no reasonable way in which Schedule 7 could have been legally used for this purpose.

At a more general level, your point is valid, but on this specific discussion, less so.
How does it generate the sound?
Ok, got it. Then just keep your savings in gold or Bitcoin. Even if half the population did just that, the government would be shitting bricks already.
Freedom of speech does imply that people will say unpopular things. And Westboro Babtist Church does fall under this protection. Regarding extrajudicial consequences of e.g. whistleblowing in the private sector, I think that this area needs explicit protections since the consequences of pissing someone off are so severe. (From what I gather, whistleblowing against a US employer is more or less career suicide). It goes without saying that this is a democratic problem.

In fact, the protection of the freedom of speech is another prominent example that if you just leave the market forces to sort things out, you will eventually end up with a situation that is in opposition to the ideal of a functioning democratic society.
"Imagine someone's being hired for a front-end position, and we don't have months to get them up to speed."

First, I'll ignore the fact that contributions can be made to any stack far sooner than "months". It's uncommon for companies to be so incredibly short-sighted. In tech, the hiring goal is for talented people who will contribute for a long time (1 year+).
Either build your own or do not complain when it is free. Its fair. You cannot "demand" in exchange for FREE
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You mean a decadozen?
One might make the same point about the US government.

Sad to see this post flagged of the front page without further discussion.
> As the block reward goes down all the costs of running the Bitcoin network will end up as transaction fees.

You haven't mentioned off-chain transactions at all. Don't you think Coinbase and others could enable those micropayments you're worried about?
Yeah, you can definitely do that example in Haskell – if by Haskell you mean GHC. GHC has been slowly but surely adding dependently-typed features for quite some time now, which will culminate in a proper DependentTypes pragma sometime soon (for some meaning of soon, anyway).

There are a lot of other differences between Haskell and Idris, though. Totality is a pretty big thing, and Idris is also strict by default. It also has support for proof tactics, which I don't see Haskell getting anytime soon.
Site down, application error. But if it's essentially your daily balance , i would not want 30 emails a month about my balance. I don't use it enough - and know roughly the balance - and If i need to, i open up Chase's app.
Nice article! Speaking from experience one thing I'd add about prototyping is that you should really keep manufacturing - especially ease of assembly and your bill of material (BOM) costs in the back of your head during the whole prototyping process.

At every iteration you should have some idea of how you might actually bring it to production. Ignoring this early on may work for a group with a ton of resources to burn or some design shop getting paid a ton of money to "ideate" (and even then I think it's really foolish) but if you don't pay close attention early it could have costly consequences down the road and could kill your whole company or project. Even if you do everything "Right" something unforeseen could cause you to have to throw an entire design out late in the game. Budget 4x the time and money of what you think it will actually take especially if you have not brought hardware to market before.

Anyway, can't wait to read the next article since I have been living this for the last 18 months or so.
Whenever I wanted to see how an English titled movie was called in another language I would look it up on Wikipedia, scroll down and click the corresponding language that I wanted on the left hand side. Well this little app does exactly that. The query inputted does not have to be a movie title, it can be anything that you want translated from English to another language. If a specific language is selected, you get to see a side by side comparison of Wikipedia translation and dictionary translation (powered by Yandex). This app is not perfect, but it has the basics needed to work. As of right now the app just picks the first Wikipedia article that it finds for the given query. In the future I plan to allow a user to pick from many related titles that Wikipedia returns. If you follow the link, on there you will find a link to the source on Github. Let me know what you think!
I think the "silently" part is not possible with the current iOS codebase. They could patch that, but it's probably not even necessary since I occasionally have my desktop pop up as a "new device" again.

It loses auth for whatever reason (a bug? an os update?), has me sign in again, and then a "new device" message with my desktop name pops up on all of my mobile devices. I really have no way of telling if it is a reauth from my desktop or a third party that happened to know my desktop name.
If you can make the cut at a top investment bank, hedge fund, PE firm, etc, it's fairly trivial to accumulate $1M in liquid assets after 10 years of work. Much much easier than trying to sell your startup for > $1M.
Maybe, but that's not what this discussion is about:

Original Post: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320439

> Despite the high risk/high reward, I think the
> expected value (in money) of going to Wall
> Street is still quite a bit higher than that of
> a startup.

pg's reply: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320447 :

> The one place data is easy to find is at
> the high end-- in the Forbes 400-- and there
> at least that is not the case.
Is there anything Lieberman comes up with that isn't a bad idea?
Top bloggers is usually egobait for links, especially if you cite bloggers who are just below the cusp of notability, since they'll cite you right back to socially demonstrate that they've made it.

Sorry, I hang around SEOs too much.
I've been using Time Machine on this setup. So far it hasn't complained. But I also haven't had need to restore yet.

As for power consumption, I unfortunately haven't kept tabs on the electricity nor have a Kill-a-Watt.

But I have told FreeNAS to pretty aggressively spin down unused drives.
A kind professor can sometimes use their administrative privileges to create a "testing" account, which they can pass on to a student. Many of the courses I took in my undergrad degree required electronic components which may cost as much as the textbook.
the one quote that struck me was this one:

The era of the all-in-one hardware and software solution has been gone for at least the last ten years

You know that era may be dead, but I cannot think of a better era to be a technical person. Sure the web is great but things where still exotic then. There was a plethora of exotic machines that where new and novel. I remember the first DEC machine I ran into, not to mention SGI, Amiga, Symbolics LISP machine each new job was filled with wonder lust for someone just out of school. I would not trade that experience for the world and am glad that there was a time when integrated machines reigned.
I moved from Germany to Paraguay. When I work from Paraguay I have to pay 10% income taxes (it does not matter if I do it as a person or a company) and if it is for a local client another 10% of VAT (IVA). When I travel and do onsite jobs in other countries the Paraguayan government does not demand any taxes.

To get permanent residence you need to visit Paraguay, proof that you have a fortune of at least 5K USD and run around a few days between different agencies. I helped a US citizen some month ago with his residency and we had everything together in 4 days, it would have been 3 if we not had forgotten one paper.
"Almost every other protocol on the Internet does not have such bottlenecks in its design. No one asks how many emails or websites can be served per second."

I think blockchain can be a good answer to problems that Bitcoin solves, however the blockchain used needs to not be designed as an MLM scheme with a financial incentive for its adoption, and designed to avoid other unavoidable pitfalls Bitcoin creates that we need to avoid. I think the current iteration of blockchain as Bitcoin only became the incumbent because of the MLM scheme, and that there is a non-MLM solution that can gain adoption - it just has to be understood by democratically elected decision makers first (save regulatory capture which will most certainly happen with the weight of the "army/mob of HODLers."
Frankly I think those are invented problems, invented to defend the status quo. You are also equating someone somewhere saying something is racist with broader censure - nobody us going to be ostracised for saying Lincoln high is a good school name.

I didn't say 'an abstract defense of free thought is racist', I said I knew the article would be defending a racist because of the excessive abstraction in the title to dance around the actual problem, which is not interesting views but racist views, something quite distinct.
There is not much here, I would say it isn’t really basic theory but rather a list of topics without much detail about those topics.
Given a bug-free spec to code generator, your only source of bugs can be in the state chart specification, so not bugs but rather errors.