jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Everything in that article is dated 2008, but even then the minimum salary requirements for japanese people were 35k baht to get a work permit.

All the japanese expats I've gotten to know in Bangkok last year were well paid and no japanese person would normally work for that kind of money.

30k baht is what a company would get away with for a thai person fluent in japanese doing customer support.

Normal office worker salaries in Bangkok are about 20-25k baht without any language skills and they live hand to mouth on that money.
The easiest form of investment to get started with are investment funds (aka mutual funds in the US). They are a form of collective investment (i.e. you invest along with other people in a basket of goods, rather than a single share). The advantage of this is lower cost (buying and selling shares has a cost, with a fund there are economies of scale so it's usually cheaper to invest via a fund than directly in a similar basket of shares), and generally lower risk (if a company that the fund invested in goes bust, you usually lose less money than if you invest in the company directly, because the fund invests in many different companies whereas you'd usually invest in a smaller number of stocks).

ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and Investment Trusts are similar to investment funds in that they are also collectives, relatively low cost. The current fashion in investing is to buy 'passive', 'tracker' or 'index' funds (or ETFs), which all follow an index such as the FTSE or S&P. These tend to be lower cost than 'actively managed' funds (where the fund manager tries to beat the index). Vanguard is a popular 'passive' fund manager.

Other types of investments include property (you generally need quite a lot of capital), and more risky types of investment such as forex trading, spread betting, etc. Even experienced investors tend to consider these risky.

Investments have done reasonably well over the past year in some areas (some UK income funds are up 8% in the past 12 months), not so well in others (a FTSE All Share tracker is only up 0.6% over the year). Investing is not risk-free, and generally speaking there is no guarantee to make a profit. You could also consider saving in cash, but with interest rates as they are now, you'd probably be worse off in real terms by the end of the year than you were at the beginning (because interest rates are generally lower than inflation)

Some investment brokers in the UK include: rplan (disclosure: I work for rplan), Hargreaves Lansdown (the largest), Fidelity, Nutmeg (another startup).

As others have mentioned, it's definitely worth doing a bit of research to find out more about how things work. If you don't mind the shameless plug, we have a 'guide to investing' available on our site which we think is quite a good overview of what's available (it's fairly UK-specific though): https://www.rplan.co.uk/investment-guide (note: registration required, let me know if you'd rather not register and I can send you a copy).
Yeah, I realize my naiveté on hindsight. It's not the end of the world, but it does seem rather unfortunate.
Hopefully most people learned from the MTGox fiasco and weren't keeping all of their coins on a Bitstamp provided deposit wallet (not that there's any indication at this stage that the bulk of bitstamp's deposits are under threat but, you know, better to be safe than sorry...)
This is an excellent idea! There couldn't be a more random assortment of internet users and if the rest of the internet is any indication they'll be more than happy to be describe using a website. The way they phrase their descriptions will tell you a lot about what they find significant, annoying, or simply what they don't even mention, e.g. not clicking on a link to a page that you spent 30hrs on. Call it a learning experience. :)

I think a lot of people are, like us, commonly frustrated by UX decisions and would love to have some input on the subject, even if it's for a nobody. The number of $20-iTunes-card focus group ads on Craigslist seems to support this.

Part and parcel to this (and MT) is that anybody can be successful On The Internet, so random strangers will give you the benefit of the doubt that you could indeed be the next Zappos guy (don't say you're the next Zappos guy), optimistically speaking.
Touchscreen sensitive computer monitors are way overdue. They've had them in Kiosks forever, and I could never understand why they never tried building monitors with that functionality built right in. I want a Star Trek console already!!
Although I didn't go to MIT or Stanford, I never learnt HTML or CSS in university. No, that's not what a Computer Science degree teaches.
It's implied, but not explicitly stated, in paragraph 20:

> Uber moved back to Omaha because "I knew I could go from couch to couch to couch"
My personal opinion is that Zuckerberg is damn smart, but as thinkcomp points out below, he shouldn't have a monopoly on the "syndrome" as there are a ton of smart people out there who we haven't heard of. I remember reading articles on HN and elsewhere about a fellow who managed to write drivers for the Kinect within a day or two after launch. To me, stuff like that is ludicrously smart.

Edit: From the article(I went back and reread it):
"Reading HN for the pass 3 years, you come across smart if not brilliant "hacking" minds. People who build projects in a weekend that would take me months. I got sucked into the belief that unless I had unbelievable programming skills I will not be able to create anything worthwhile. I call it the Zuckerberg Syndrome."

After reading it again, I'm not sure what exactly the "syndrome" is here. Is it putting someone like Zuckerberg on a pedestal and thinking, "I can't match that so why try?" I think a lot people are affected by that sort of thinking in many facets of life. It's important to keep in mind that Facebook was NOT built in a day or weekend, for that matter. It took a lot of time.
To be fair, I borrowed from a couple others here, but that was generally the approach I had in mind.

Of course, we aren't genuinely doing what the author intended. The point was not to copy-paste the line, but actually to perform what would be rather typical edits. I also was rather lucky that the file happened to be structured such that "3j" put the cursor in the right place each time.

It's also not clear whether or not the three times SHIFT must be pressed ("JD" = push and hold SHIFT = one press) should be counted as additional keystrokes.

The contest would have been better with a "tee" file and a "hole" file, stipulating that edits should be performed on the former in order to produce the latter.
I'm a programmer in NYC who doesn't have a work visa. (But I've worked as a freelancer in the city for years, so I have lots of experience.) How should I bring that up to potential employers? During the application or during the interview or after I get hired? How much would it affect my compensation?
You can use this technique with Tor to make a reasonable guess if a user on your LAN is visiting a certain website.

You can also use this technique with plain https to see if a user that visits a certain website is downloading certain files from it, or accessing certain pages inside the website.

It is an interesting attack, but it's not one to get seriously worried about.
Believe it or not the self-selecting group represented on Hacker News is absolutely not representative of the developer majority.

Furthermore, it's very unsettling that even on hacker news there's this prevalent anti-PHP attitude. With the release of PHP 5.3, and the current maturity of the numerous frameworks there's never been a better time to use PHP.
Great link on app dev/design process from the post: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2608-ryans-talk-at-future-of-...

Working on some UI improvements and wanted to bring some structure to my process. Still working on it, but this helps.
I didn't have the patience to read the whole thing, but the tl;dr I walked away with is "old person is getting old".
This just takes the cake, because it's so true and so old:

"On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
— Charles Babbage"
I do hope their promises of not contaminating the ecology will hold up in those undoubtedly very harsh conditions.
Would be a shame to waste all those years of drilling by introducing foreign 'samples' into the mix.
Such a rule could be abused in really bad ways. If you're losing by 5 points, kick the ball into your own goal -- you're now down 6 points and win by default.
> And YT deletes content mentioning election fraud, and twitter permanent bans the president, all under the historically totalitarian guise of "safety"

Also, really puts a dent into the anti-free speech argument that "you can go to another platform" argument.

I do love watching all these "tech/social media is evil" crowd here suddenly praising tech/social media and wanting them to have even more control over our lives.

Social media is so evil that we need them to control our lives even more. Wonderful logic that.
Threatening to deplatform is a criminal offense? What a world we live in.
Your first example:

> Are against open borders? Then you’re a racist.

It's immediately obvious you are arguing in bad faith. Literally no elected official says this.

Edit: instead of downvoting, please find a counterexample and I'll gladly eat my words.
A historic event occurred - how could you take that to mean it was coordinated?
Or like tearing down Confederate statues. There's no need to commemorate hate.
It's true that there was ultimately much more violence during the summer protests but a) they were quite widespread and ongoing, and poignantly b) they were not attacking the Capitol Building whilst votes were being counted, possibly trying to overthrow the Republic in an 'indirect coup'.

CNN reported today that as the Capitol Building was under attack - Trump was literally on the phone with Senators in lockdown (!!!) trying to convince them to press to 'stop the vote'.

Every time I think that Trump is 'Just playing games for TV and he's not actually that crazy' he really does something kind of shocking like a full-on E. Europe / African Dictator.

This 'riot' was incited by as sitting President and attacked part of the electoral process, for that reason it's much scarier than any of the possible excessive damage during the summer. Although in fairness, burning down Police Stations is also much more than just 'burning a building' as well.

Buildings can be replaced, Democracies cannot.
> It wasn't even close to a coup

You'd never say that if it wasn't "your people" in there. Never. Don't claim to be a patriot ever again if you think dismissing the first successful attack on a congressional session (hell, the VP was in there too) in the history of the republic is a good argument to make. Hell, five people died. That's more than at the Reichstag fire (I checked with Godwin, by the way, he approves).

This was a moment of deep shame. And comments like yours make it worse.
>A 2016 review that looked at research on children sharing not just a room but a bed with one or more of their parents found a high prevalence in many Asian countries:

Let me guess: there is a high correlation between sharing your room and poverty levels?
It is not abuse, if it used for the kids own good. Yes it is not always effective but in some case it is.
>There shouldn't be a profit motive attached to basic services like [...]

what about food, shelter, and clothing? Those are all privatized and arguably more important than electricity or medicine.
The very top of the store page it says to contact if your country is not listed. The shipping page lists 50 or so countries - It seems hard to miss!
I grew up in Puerto Rico, the power company there is run by the government, and serves a counter example. There are many articles about the age of the infrastructure and how it collapsed after Maria and the Earthquake. Of course part of the problem is poor management by the government and uncontrolled acquisition of debt.

There must be some middle ground that works.
This seems like a (perhaps deliberate, but I'll assume good faith) misunderstanding of what "safety first" means. It doesn't mean we should prioritise any safety improvement above any other objective. It simply means that before we start on a plan or action we should minimise any safety risk as low as is reasonable. Clearly we can debate what reasonable means, and it will differ for different people, but it isn't an absolutest point or mantra.
Usually rates like this are calculated "per mile traveled" or using some other normalising factor to make them comparable. And yeah, I don't need to go get your citations for you but you are now using "I would think" rather than looking at numbers and I'm telling you that the numbers say they are less safe.

They could go away pretty quickly if there was the political will. We have made large overhauls of societal infrastructure quickly in the past and we could do it again but people are too comfortable to take these matters seriously.
Fully agree. Some distros are packaging my software with bad patches constantly and then ignore requests to rename the package to make it clear that it's a fork.

Unfortunately for small projects registering a trademark is just not feasible. I have considered going from actual open source to source available though.
In this analogy google is the "friend" and the news site is the coffe shop. Telling you about the coffee shop is linking to it in search results.
https://i.imgur.com/iAPlVCr.mp4
Got myself a nice AMD Thinkpad T15, and boy is it nice for compilation and similar. So I agree, fully.
A media corporation that doesn’t want the bad PR around firing their most recognized employee (and co-founder in this case) need only make the life so difficult for that person that they quit in protest. The ol’ “cold shoulder” routine.

Some people would say “Yep! No foul play! He left totally of his own volition!” while others, not playing this corrupt PR game, will see it as the same thing as firing.
To be fair, I'm seeing so much bullshit on social media that I've probably reached the threshold of apathy to just don't care and let it all burn.
> There is no acknowledgement at all of the value search engines provide to media organisations by the links provided.

The bill deals with this in section 52ZZ(1)(b), which says that in determining the remuneration to be paid to a news business, the arbitral panel must consider "the benefit (whether monetary or otherwise) to the registered news business of the designated digital platform service making available the registered news business' covered news content."
And that's why you should always use a different domain for your status pages! GitHub does it well, for instance: https://www.githubstatus.com/
Basic needs mad to map?

If madmess means objectification relation issues, are object-relational pattern mapping recognition issues, then we need to address roots causes of offense being made (said infosec minus madus emosec) from the office of authority over self copy.

Systems thinking rarely accounts for system feeling (https://fb.com/groups/roboswears/permalink/574282622692010). Social contract terms can evolve past pleasure-trauma-based war compeatition business forms of safety, to register mental health as material health, user rights as business rights.

Data-legal-rational-emotional-empathic business terms are missing.

Our software and our hardware is taking turns at manipulating real physical and emotional problems by forgetting how many hands it takes to move a machine, and putting a dress over working parts, to light a figurine of determination that barely speaks without hurting.

Even Steve Jobs had to beat odds that respect objectification before emotional development, coming from acid trips wiring depth to doing ACID tests just to pass text notes, we live with tools that we want to share to help, but business terms are designed to define us as without legal-rational-medical parity to corporal hierachies of need.
From their point of view it may appear you value your communication preferences more than the relationship
That's not actually the point I'm making. I'm not speaking to the veracity or authenticity of the selected texts. I've no basis to make that judgement. Thanks for sharing that, however, I find this stuff super interesting will dig into that more!

The point I'm making is that the new testament was curated and texts were picked and chosen to advance the interests of those picking and choosing.
I agree with the logic of your argument, but I disagree with your last paragraph. Please let me appeal to your better nature.
We actually have chess! Do give it a try ;) We'll be adding a lot more!
It does work, but you are right that the optimization is definitely different.

I think imax lenses are easily 5-6 figures unfortunately.
Edit: It was a lens apparently, wow.
It doesn't look like any of the IMAX lenses I can find online!
Literally any organization has a history of lying. Completely pointless statement. You have to applies the same standards to both sides. If you want them impossible high then go for it.
If you only believe what you have seen with your own eyes then fine. But you cant make any statements about anything you have not seen then.
So everyone is presumed guilty until their innocence is proven? Does that sound like a working democracy or like China or Russia?
This is how side projects start :)
Humans also had lots more kids and invested less in each one because they died frequently. When we only have 1-3 kids rather than 6-10 (of which 4 live to adulthood), it makes sense to put more energy into improving the ability of each one.

It's not always some place to spend money. It can be the park that you're meeting your kid's best friend at, or the natural history museum you go to every day after school, or just your friend's house or the field that your soccer practice meets at. Sure, you can stay in the area within a few miles of your home/school and get around exclusively by bike or walking, but lots of kids and parents want more than that.
Yes, I'm French and I agree. The message is well translated, but the original is made with much more precision, and it is more gracious. But English has some nice poetry, I like Whitman and e. e. cummings. When it comes to French, I'd recommend this classic from Victor Hugo, Tomorrow at dawn, it's simple but human, and the translation is fair, it's dedicated to his daughter:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/972635-tomorrow-at-dawn-the...

There's also this poem of Baudelaire about female homosexuality, which I like, Damned women, also called Delphine and Hippolyta. His whole book "Les fleurs du mal" (The Flowers of Evil) was heresy at the time (1860), it was about the beauty of evil, well, in part. There are English versions there but it's not easy to translate: http://fleursdumal.org/poem/180
It's easy to see how this benefits startups, but what's the upside for the landlords?
I believe Kickstarter requires more upfront for hardware projects (prototype, etc)
5 degrees above absolute zero, in a 7 tesla magnetic field produces a 12% effect by a completely unexplained and unpredicted mechanism.

I will wait for another researcher to confirm before I get too excited.
* unnecessary extreme suffering is unjustifiable.*

I'm wondering, what is the vegan's position on eating: fish; oysters/mussels; squid, octopus; crabs etc.
It's refreshing to see some left-wing economic nonsense on HN instead of the right-wing economic nonsense that usually makes the front page (where's the hyper-inflation you promised me? oh, you meant next year. of course. of course.)

Anyway, arguments aside (I'm not convinced he truly understands comparative advantage), isn't the relative decline of America something we want? I can't be the only one who wants to live in a world where wealth is distributed more equally among nations.

55 million people in China make less than $125 a year (the official "low income" line). How about we let them get to $125 a month before we start worrying about the rise of China and the decline of America?

I'm assuming he means relative decline and not absolute decline. To posit absolute decline would be just bonkers.
I believe you are correct that there are no limits to what U.S. Customs can do so long as you are being processed within the physical borders of the United States.

At a land crossing, once you attempt to gain entry you cannot simply decide "it's not worth it" anymore and return back to the originating country. You have no rights, not even the right to turn around and leave.

In an airport setting (most mid-sized and larger Canadian airports have US Customs processing stations before you depart), you can indeed decide to turn around and not proceed with the crossing.

From a legal standpoint I believe it has to do with the fact that at a land crossing you are already on U.S. soil by the time you reach Customs. In the airport scenario above you are subject to the laws of the originating country since you haven't left their territory.

It goes without saying that refusing to proceed with a crossing at an airport once it has commenced would likely have other very serious implications. The local authorities would almost certainly want to have a word with you and you'd be flagged by U.S. Customs as suspicious.
So if animals were raised and killed in humane manner would you be more willing to eat meat? This seems to be the most coherent ethical stance. Otherwise you enter into the "like-us conundrum" wherein the value of a living organism is directly proportional to it's similarity to our species.
Most people work at startups because they can't get a job at google if they do they leave. Those who work at google at somepoint feel they need to be closer to the product/customer/action many leave and create a startup (because they have the google brand and can raise money). Those startups hire developers who can't get into google.

You are at a certain point in the cycle. At somepoint you may move to creating your own startup (maybe not because you had a negative experience earlier).

It's just the circle of life.
I know what you meant, and you meant contempt.

> For people who have no self control without resorting to playing tricks on themselves I guess
> that's a moralist, religious-derived, US-centric concern

It's a conflict of interest, like an employee sleeping with their boss. It's hard to trust somebody to fairly assess somebody they're sleeping with.
The women got shot for breaching the the final barrier into the Capitol building, where a security detail was protecting the Vice President and members of Congress.

It's impossible for me to believe you are unaware of the circumstances surrounding her death.
Great points Ben. That is persuasive :) I'll add this comment to my reminders as I update the FAQ this weekend. Thanks so much!
Denialism. Wanting something so badly to be true that you try to change the world to make it true. Humans have a unique ability to shape their world with thoughts alone. Borders, nations, cultures, laws etc. are humans making up stuff that then becomes real (as in having real consequences).
Simple was savings only until pretty recently too so I’m not sure it’d be a deal breaker for most.
I hope this isn't crass, but many people 1) set up automatic billpay and then 2) get out of living paycheck-to-paycheck. That combination along with some financial restraint is enough to skip complicated budgeting systems.
Isn't it obvious when the surge would happen? Cases spike about 10 days after the precipitating events. Deaths spike about 3 weeks after the event, so, we'll be seeing a huge increase in deaths in about 2 weeks.
MDN is a wiki. If you want to add a link from one page of MDN to another, you're welcome to do so.