skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have to eke out a living making mud. I know how to work with AWS. I can find a job working for a web development shop and teach myself new skills along the way.

I don't know what you mean by gang aspect. Yes organized crime exists and forces people to participate. Are you saying there's a high likelihood that the people who set up these scams are being forced to do it by a gang? I don't know anything about the likelihood of that. As far as I know, all participants in tech criminal rings are willing. If people are being forced to join against their will, someone should shed light on that.
I would say Operation Mockingbird never went away and the conspiratorial view is the correct one. Media was never just about giving the people what they wanted, it was about telling them what they wanted in the first place, with a side effect of mass control.
Wait, it isn't? My understanding of double entry is that asset moves across accounts are recorded in both accounts, so if I were to, say, pay a credit card bill, I show a debit from my checking account and a credit to my card account.

Is this incorrect?
I'm okay with tolerating verbal abuse as a gesture of compassion but no fucking way should we characterize this as an ideal. I say it that way to prove I'm not talking about offensive language, if someone said any of my code was brain damaged, I would take it as a personal attack. It's not emphasis, it's cruelty.
Google actually changed their policy: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-hiring-non-graduate...
This is something of a reaction to the last ten years of anti-science rhetoric from the former governing party. I'm happy to see it in place and especially happy that we are no longer muzzling our scientists.
Racism? By whom?
I got a 404 on the language showdown.
This is generally false in Silicon Valley, both currently and in the past. The only company that made having a big school name important was Google, and even then it's only a factor. The vast majority of Silicon Valley companies don't care where you come from, or even if you graduated from college. All they care about is if you're smart and if you can contribute quickly.

Half my current team at a well-known company doesn't even have CS degrees. The youngest one never went to college, but he's one of the smartest members of our team. I was recently hired, and I'm in my 40s and there's another guy who's older than me. My boss was a high school teacher, and he was one of the instrumental programmers in the entire company for the last several years.

Over the last several years, I've been intimately involved in hiring, and I can tell you straight up that no one looks at schools, and anyone who has half a chance at passing a phone screen will get a call. People might get more excited if they have a good name on the resume, but we called everyone that seems like a decent candidate.
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Looks pretty sweet, going to have to give this a look.
We were informed that it was common and no trouble for you to accept a dataset and handle the import into your system.

Upon pulling that dataset and waiting on several multi-day delays we were told that, oh, you don't do that in our case and that most clients just did it themselves over an API. Which we then did internally as a last minute item on a very tight, very big deadline. Just the sort of thing that's fun to do with client credit card data.

Past that I'm not interested in giving out any more info about my company.

EDIT: Wow. Sure am glad that I bothered to type up an honest answer.
Can you explain what a comet is, exactly? If I were to setup my own "comet" would that mean that I'd have my own network, detached from the one the urbit developers are a part of?

I'm interested in playing with urbit, but I'd also like to try it with some people to talk to, and not on my own island.
We prefer keyboards for data entry because keyboards are what enter the actual data we need to enter: we prefer typing text over the 'point and grunt' method of GUIs, where some interface takes our clicks and tries to intelligently convert them to command line instructions using context and guesswork.

Once we've deleted the written word from human existence and no longer have need of text, have transcended proper known computational structure and can express computations soley by thought and avoid programming altogether certainly we will move beyond the command line.

The command line remains the simplest, cleanest, most leak-free abstraction we have to interact with a computer effectively. I'll agree with you that it's possible there's a better one, but we've been trying for 40 years and haven't even come close -- all we've done is written some translations which let people enter command line instructions by pointing and clicking and having the machine guess how to interpret it instead of typing what they actually mean. I think it's the best we're ever going to get though I'm happy to leave room for optimism if you have any. In the meantime, those of us who have to get work done (I assume you are one of our cohort) will live in the real world and use it without complaint.

The only reason the command line is complicated is because computers are complicated. If you want to use computers in a deep way you can't hide behind the GUI and run away from actually dealing with the machine forever.
Then every court case becomes a philosophical argument about the meaning, bound, and effects of those 'few basic principals.' Without a steady legal framework with predictable outcomes large society binds up pretty quick.
> Sure, they need to be verified, but if someone breaks their API with a critical update, that's a separate issue with their release model.

Actually, it goes both way, and if your production is down, it is your problem. You can't expect everyone to be nice to you with guarantee. It is a shared responsibility.
This is exactly what I'm trying to find: We use Office 365 as Google just doesn't have the quality of features or integrations or control that MS does.

I've been looking for a different alternative but can't find any business reviews of FastMail and this is too critical to a business to just experiment with. Wish there was a detailed breakdown in features and functionality compared to the other options.
It is possible to use fine grained access control with dynamodb in order to restrict access within a ddb table
I'm using that.

"Sorry, I didn't get the TPS report done. I was circumwhelmed by Hacker News and thedailywtf.com"
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Does the HONY project change the world, or does it help the world stay the same?

Does it increase the empathy of its viewers, leading them to make changes in their lives to benefit the HONY subjects, or people like them? Or does it just feed people's self-satisfaction about how empathetic they already are, by giving them a gift-wrapped simple story to "like" every day, and pretend they really did something?

Is reading HONY an act of consumption or an act of expression? Unlike reading a book, everything about consuming the HONY project on Facebook is publicized to your friends and family. They can see that you follow it. If you like, share, or comment, it gets pushed to their newsfeeds. Like any activity on social media, it's not just shaping who you are, it helps you construct your public identity: the mask you want other people to see.

Even the paper books can be seen through this lens. Are they popular because they provide stories that are notably better or different from what can be read online? Or are they popular because they tell the right story about their owner by sitting on the book shelf or coffee table?
I was following and agreeing with you (and was going to upvote you), until the last 2 sentences. You could have made your point without bashing "CS types" and CS/engineering education.
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Sold it for way less than what it could have become.
I promise you that "experienced" is more important than "smart". I hope everything works out for you long-term. It seems like the prosecutor is working with you to keep the charges to a minimum, and that's something to be grateful for. Whether or not we have a good legal system, you've certainly given it an excuse to come down on you like a ton of bricks.
You know that you can still buy a Leica and Tri-X film, right?
Yeah, in fairness he was saying "our accounting system is so antiquated that we've had to do $2.3 trillion worth of acquisitions in an alternate way that isn't tracked in it."
Anker has had problems with fakes.

Unless you bought it through Amazon using the links off Anker's website, it's probably a fake.

Though, if it's any consolation to Anker, scammers only counterfeit the best.
Good to hear the move away from gyp. The hand tuned build scripts (VS/nmake/make) before gyp were better.
It lists closed places. Isn't it possible to pull working hours data from Google Maps or even Foursquare?
We actually have such an amendment:

The powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
States, are reserved to the States respectively,
or to the people.

Unfortunately the Supreme Court treats it like a fucking joke[1]:

Even though the woman grew cannabis strictly for her own consumption and never sold any, the Supreme Court stated that growing one's own cannabis affects the interstate market of cannabis. The theory was that the cannabis could enter the stream of interstate commerce, even if it clearly wasn't grown for that purpose and that was unlikely ever to happen (the same reasoning as in the Wickard v. Filburn decision). It therefore ruled that this practice may be regulated by the federal government under the authority of the Commerce Clause.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_...
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When can I expect to be able to have my completely China based business use stripe? I love that alipay can be integrated seemlessly but I really don't have any reason to pay to convert to USD only to pay again to move my money back to RMB.
> I hope no-one hopes expanding the lifetime of non-migrated infrastructure with this.

LOL.. you can pretty much guarantee this is why it's happening, and why there is funding for it.
should be noted that

decriminalization != legalization
Terrible recommendations for my neighborhood in Oakland... the top 3 recommended places are the 3 of the most popular and crowded restaurants and bars in the area. The top one being the restaurant that's so busy it's generally hard to walk past on the sidewalk because there are so many people waiting out front.
Yes, up to first order. ( So it seems implausible that a rather small EM thruster would provide trust, but the thing is already implausible in the first place.)
In outline, that's not wrong, though in detail it might be because the $ are still, presumably, actually in your checking account. But that's correctable, with the right account structure. Instead of just "Checking" and "Holiday Budget", make it "Assets:Checking" and "Assets:Checking:Holiday Budget" (I'd prefer "Holiday Fund").
The constitution was agnostic on slavery so far as I can recall. Article and section please?
I think most developers, mostly correctly, assume that if their software is good and properly licensed that it'll make its way into distros' repositories on their own.

Having a simple build process is more helpful to packagers than something already built since distros are just going to repackage it anyway. Also, few developers are intimately familiar with their OS's packaging standards so they're just asking for obscure incompatibilities.

Man pages though -- for the love of god we need to keep them alive. No they're not fun to write but they're perhaps the most useful tool in the Linux ecosystem. I write them for all of my projects but I assume I'm in the minority at this point.
I'm colorblind[0] and already knew about the professors in Washington state doing gene therapy on this. I'm eager to join in the human trials when they begin, but my understanding from friends who are scientists that the legal hurdles of such a thing is enormous. My mother found out when as a child I said "wow the grass sure is red today". I've never really seen green grass other than in a painting. Grass varies of course, but it's closer to a reddish for sure though on average. I can't really tell when it's brown and dying very easily either. It's pretty difficult to explain to someone that you "don't know" what color something is really.

I'm not interested in Enchroma though, you can't add lost information. I'm sure it helps differentiate between shades. Just as you can't upscale a 640x480 image to 4K without adding the missing information. I'd like to try them on to test, but without that I can't send these people ~$400 for something that seems dubious to begin with.

I did just learn this from the Enchroma page-
"something as ordinary as peanut butter, which should look brown, appears to be green for someone with color blindness!"
I had no idea peanut butter was brown. I remember seeing a Sesame Street episode as a kid in the mid 80s where they showed a peanut butter factory, noting the color as a child. I always thought it was greenish/tan.

I would love to see the world how it is to everyone else before I die at least.

[0]http://enchroma.com/test/result/strong-deutan/?completed=1&r...
I used to have one of those, but a few months ago I switched to the pressure cooker method (electric one, the [Instan Pot][1]):

- cook the eggs 6 minutes on low pressure.
- cool down (10 minutes).
- shock the eggs with iced water.

I know what the article says but in my experience pressure cooked eggs are much, much easy to peel.

[1]: http://instantpot.com/
There's the prior of the total number of women involved with the (respective) tech, though.

Of course it's a self-reinforcing cycle because the conferences being hostile is clearly one thing that'd keep them out.
Interestingly, there are experiments to be able to see into the infrared with nutrional suppements: https://experiment.com/projects/can-we-biologically-extend-t...

And I can't find a good reference, but I've read that direct stimulation of photoreceptors (or similar stimulus further downstream) can produce tristimulus combinations that would be impossible with light, due to overlapping sensitivity patterns of cone cells, resulting in experience of "unreal" colors.
I heard from an Amazon manager, during a hiring event, that Amazon never deletes reviews. The context was a specific negative review on the Kindle.
Right, but Bazel is public, so why not use that?
It's time to update the software update process
I found the company quite easily with your search words. This post may be read by someone there and affect your friend's offer or work. I feel you should edit your question to make it less obvious.
We make up new line-noise (=combinator runes) all the time in Haskell. The lens library alone has over 100, see https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic...

Haskell people invent and a lot of new and strange things. Renaming punctuation is not one of them.

I guess it doesn't matter as long as you never use your new names in writing. (And why would you, you can use use the symbols themselves.) But then, of course, why bother with these names at all apart from creating an oral tradition.
We hired some remote engineers from South Africa through stack overflow. Now we have a permanent office in Cape Town. Give that a go maybe. A lot more bang for the buck comparatively than hiring remote engineers from the U.S., and the programmers there (shouldn't even be surprise) are as good as from any country including the U.S.
Implementing a minimal version of haskell-servant
Some of each. And increasing empathy has rewards all down the line; not just to benefit the HONY subjects. Its education.
> deprecated!

totally using that in the future.
When I worked at Netscape, my main work machine was OS/2 based. Great for OS/2 builds as well as win16. Ran OS/2 until the late 90s. The multitasking worked well and I liked the speed and WPS.

Of course, I still have an Ecom Station VM for purposes of playing Galactic Civilizations. Stardock Systems started our on OS/2.
Glad you like it!

Not sure about whether it's the most advanced... Toc's feature set is pretty sparse (text chat only) considering what Telehash is capable of. We do hope it's the most user friendly one though. =)
Is it in the Public Domain? handbook (2014)
Article I, Section 9, cl. 1 (which was among the provisions explicitly shielded from Amendment prior to 1808 by Article V.)
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In 2005, the Amagasaki rail crash [0] claimed 107 lives. This was a significant disaster and puts the lie to your claim that Japan has had only 5 deaths due to train accidents in approximately the last 45 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_rail_crash

edit: changed "death" to "deaths due to train accidents"
Don't you think it is scary to invest that much power in a post that is unelected and for life?
1. I dont have matlab, and I dont want to buy it.
2. when you go into production (say.. predicting top customers for an ecommerce site), you are not going to run matlab on the server.

yes - python/pandas/scikit is pretty popular for writing production ML code. The question really is - any good courses ? Most of the top courses I see are using some variant of Matlab to teach.
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II am a big fan of soft-boiled eggs and I've always thought this was common knowledge since my mom taught me how to prepare them when I was young.

My recipe:

1. Boil water
2. Place eggs in boiling water
3. Cook eggs for 5 minutes
4. Place pot with eggs in the sink and let cold water run to replace the hot water, don't let the water get warm in the pot.
5. Wait for eggs to cool for a few minutes
6. Peel eggs easily now.

Total time: about 15 minutes
Today, yes. Tomorrow, next year, 5 years. You don't know. The more successful you are the more attention you'll get. Plenty of uncatchable people have been caught. Ulbricht, Gottfrid, ...
That's an interesting question. Growth has been modest the last few years, and has slowed to a crawl in 2015.

They've never made much money, with relatively slim operating income margins.

Yet they managed to sell for 300 times 2014 earnings (with the first two quarters of 2015 being negative on net income). That's an extraordinary multiple to say the least.

They managed to sell themselves for what they might have potentially been worth ten years from now, if you priced them similar to how the market prices Expedia or Priceline. That's assuming the competition doesn't gradually erode them of course.
Jet.com's strategy is to get large enough that the brands have to list on their site (like they do an all major marketplaces). Many of the larger brands are currently sitting on the sidelines "seeing how it goes". You can think of their current strategy as "buying one side of a two sided marketplace". This may or may not work, but calling the strategy stupid just demonstrates a lack of familiarity with ecommerce marketpaces.

If Jet.com's strategy does work then its cemented itself as a multi-billion $ marketplace. In an era of near-zero % interest rates, funds are willing to take that risk for the potential return.
That is highly variable on the strain of the plant smoked. Mainly two categories exist[0].

Sativa is a cerebal head high, kinda energetic, clear thinking creative high its like floating opposed to indica which is like sinking.

Indica is a body high, sorta narcotic feeling, you can actually feel the tingling in your body, your limbs, it's really heavy couch lock and such.

There are also hybrids which have both in 1 plant.

Go exploring at Leafly [1].

[0]
https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/sativa-indica-and-h...

[1] https://www.leafly.com/explore
ag is meant to be identical. It is a lot faster.
Stephen Fry's QI has an episode about color, or maybe ancient rome? anyway I seem to remember Romans not having a word for blue and calling it red or something.
It takes less time to make 7 (or 3, or 12) perfect boiled eggs in a saucepan, it's trivial to do and to clean! I note your cooker also poaches eggs, though, which is much trickier in a pan (unless you have your own chooks, or a similarly fresh source of eggs).
I wonder why they don't do concurrency for big files?
I have a similar egg maker. I like the fact that it is very water and energy efficient. It's also interesting that as you boil more eggs, it requires less water.
I believe their main language is F#.
> Kirsty Duncan, a medical geographer at the University of Toronto, will be the first to hold the job. Duncan, who contributed to the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Climate change, not a surprise.

> “If we take it at face value, we now have two ministers responsible for science,” says Rees Kassen

Sure do, might have something to do with this being about winning an election.
Jack Ma talks about the “four cannots” and the dangers of success
I am honestly almost speechless at that. The command line is complicated, because people are terrible at designing console apps and parsers. They end up with two or three ways of expressing anything, and give little or no clue (usage? really?) as to what they mean or how they differ.

Clean? I could agree with 'concise' but not clean. Some apps take multiple switches behind a single cue character (is it '/'? is it '-'? '--'? something else?) and some can only parse one at a time. Some take switches before text and filenames, some after, some have a mix.

Command line apps are the sort that only a mother could love. They are ugly, opaque, have an enormous learning curve, and even experts tend to type them into files because they would hate to have to craft them all over again each time they need them. Macros; cheat sheets; scripts are all crutches to escape the tyranny of command lines.
The manpage format isn't even all that great. Their main benefit is that they are available at your fingertips in a common format at the console.
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You don't like GNU grep either, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/221921/use-grep-exclude-... ?
Also the Workplace Shell. The old MS OS/2 2.0 SDK versions from 1990 didn't have it.
Why did the old maintainer Stefan Monnier is stepping down?
Yes, and also (former PM) Harper's abysmal record on climate change.
Any way to make this open source so one could create the same service in reverse (maybe with Google popularity data if possible)?

Use case: finding a popular bar in a new town.
I think dark territory means unmonitored sections of track or switches (to be more precise, I guess), that which isn't yet hooked up to the system to watch for speed and other issues that would cause accidents? New to me too :)
I have had Prime literally since the day it launched. It makes little difference really. People without Prime in my area generally get stuff in a couple days. And few orders are below the free shipping threshhold. I'd bet the vast majority of Amazon orders have free shipping and as a result, the cost is factored in.

Maybe I'm lucky (price-wise) to live in suburbia. Example from yesterday, I bought some bromine for my hot tub on Amazon (cheapest they had because it's all the same) then in Lowe's later the same day saw it for less than half the price. Didn't even know Lowe's sold it!

Amazon prices are really only competitive on things that have a high cost to shipping weight ratio. Buy anything that is bulky or low margin (most stuff in Wal-Mart outside of electronics is one of those) and it's considerably more.

Also, there are a large number of items, like a Nest Thermostat, that for one reason or another have the same price anywhere. Those I buy on Amazon as well.
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