skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Explaining a gap in your resume is a reasonable thing for people to do when applying for a job.

Except you often don't get the opportunity to explain anything because you've been culled by a computer for having any gap at all.
You confusing legal with cultural. If you go around taking about marriage only few will think about gay relationship.

And in any case there is simply no real value for gays to become 'married' other than getting a sticker.
Ask HN: How do I start an analytics consulting company?
My background is in business intelligence and analytics. I've worked at both large corporations and small companies.

However, I'm itching to start an analytics consulting company and am wondering how do I begin? First, is analytics consulting even in demand? I have decent programming skills and thought about starting a web development agency but it seems like there's a ton of people out there already doing it.

Any ideas on how to begin or get started?
While you might find it hard to believe given all the negative sentiments echoed by Western media, in China there are lots of stories like this. I also know a lot of people that have done it this way. Not necessarily multi billionaire, but definitely rags to riches.
This is the core fact.

Assume airbnb has to go inspect a property before any use by a customer. The tire swing passes. Do they come back once a month/year to re-verify the property is safe? Do they say "Once a man was killed by a tire swing so all tire swings must be removed or using one is not covered by insurance". The 2nd scenario is far more likely.

I too feel sorry for the author but the world is not a perfectly safe place. If anything I think it has become SO safe in many 1st world countries that we are incredibly offended and angered by the rare chance death that occurs from incidents like this and we are searching for someone to blame because then it makes it seem preventable.
Computers aren't normally so good at predicting the future?
I wouldn't down play the "neat" product or culture, or the burn out from past experience. Money isn't everything. Personally, if I was given a low ball offer and was told I wasn't allowed to negotiate, I would negotiate anyway. That might include negotiating with my feet: "Sorry I can't accept that offer, if you aren't willing to come up to $X then I will have to look elsewhere." Of course, they might say "We can't negotiate" and I will have to look elsewhere.

On the other hand, there are times when making less money but enjoying what I do is very much worth it. These jobs aren't forever, we don't get into jobs in this industry and stay there until we retire very often. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad making half as much but really enjoying getting up every morning and having the opportunity to go into work because the product challenges are exciting or because the culture makes me feel good about myself. Obviously, if it causes deep financial stresses than that's not a good trade off. But if you can swing it personally, it might be a great experience. I wouldn't call this "being taken serious advantage of". This could be just the benefit some engineers are looking for in their career.
I'm guessing it's high enough that the exhaust is catching the sunlight. It's an amazing sight certainly.

I'd love to find out what makes the blue portion of the trail. I note that it does not disperse as much.
I would use this once it's stable. I'm too much of a newb to handle alpha.
I have never seen "DNM" before. According to the urban dictionary, it means "deep and meaningful". Is that what you meant?
How can I buy shares?
I'm not sure about texting, but calling is both synchronous and verbose. These are incredibly relevant criteria for determining whether something is immediate. While email can be verbose, it seldom is, and if anything critical is going on when multiple people are involved, a phone call is still the best way to communicate real-time. If you disagree, see whether you do or do not adjust what you are saying on the phone vs what you would type. I know that I favor fast-to-type sentence structure when emailing, which isn't always the most illuminating/explanatory.

Right now, I think the pendulum has swung away from phone calls and too far toward emails. Maybe this is because minutes on phones used to cost money, maybe it is because conference call spam devalued the speed of communication too far. But I think a one on one call is hard to beat and can often accomplish what a whole thread of email can in a fraction of the time. Phone calls are good for communicating fast and figuring out what to do. Emails are good for having a written record and working asynchronously.
Executive branch creates it and gives to the legislative to rubberstramp. I.e. they aren't involved in the design process. Of course formally legislative branch can reject it based on various poisonous parts in the agreement, but they'll be pressured under pretense that it's "valuable as a whole". I.e. it's a complete farce, and not a democratic process.
I would be looking for another employer if that's the sort of petty behavior they promote.
"we need to start considering alternatives for the Discourse project."

Discourse hasn't even worked properly on beefy desktops for years. You reap what you sow when you choose to render your entire application with Javascript. Inefficient software makes for poor performance on weak machines ? What a surprise...
2. Corruption

Really, that is the default pattern for explaining how clerks with government jobs end up with such riches.

Have seen it happen many times in corrupt countries.

Judge or prosecutor on a $10k yearly salary builds a mansion house costing $2m+.

Even in my own extended family have an uncle who was in the Soviet military, relatively high rank. A few years after fall of the empire ends up with large duffel bags full of $100 bills. Rumor has it, he was implicated in selling SAMs to Syria and other ME countries. There was a trial but you see if you have duffel bags full of $100 bills you don't convicted.
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> The reason Congress created fast track is that different
> people will see different parts as good and bad.

That's one perspective. Public Citizen has another, http://www.citizen.org/documents/fast-track-chart.pdf

"When Richard Nixon was president, he cooked up Fast Track to seize power from Congress. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority to “regulate commerce with foreign nations” (Art. I-8). Fast Track was a mechanism that delegated away to the executive branch Congress’ authority to control the contents of U.S. trade pacts, as well as other important powers.

Fast Track empowered executive branch trade negotiators, advised by more than 600 official trade advisors who mostly represent large corporations, to choose trade partners and negotiate and sign trade pacts, all before Congress voted. Once signed, Fast Track put such deals on a legislative luge run: no matter how many domestic non-trade policies were implicated or threatened by the deal, Fast Tracked agreements hurtled through Congress within a set number of days, with normal democratic checks and balances iced over.

Fast Track ensured that Congress’ role came too late to influence trade pacts’ contents: Congress only got a yes or no vote after a pact was signed and “entered into.” That vote also OK’d hundreds of changes to U.S. non-trade law to conform our policies to “trade” deal terms. Federalism was also flattened by Fast Track via a form of international pre-emption: state officials had to conform local laws to expansive non-trade domestic policy restrictions in Fast Tracked “trade” pacts. State officials did not even get Congress’ cursory role.

… Fast Track should be relegated to a museum of inappropriate technology. Congress, state officials and the public need a new modern procedure for developing U.S. trade policy, one that takes into account the realities of 21st-century globalization agreements."
Limited computing power, uncertainty and the false perception of perfect information (or perfect intuition).
I walk my two mile commute through the winter, instead of biking. With boots and wool, it's rather pleasant.
Exactly right - this will count as a tragedy and there is lots of research aiming to help such people to have kids.
I would say it is, and I'm really excited about it. After seeing a demo of it at chef community summit London, I am currently moving all of my serverspec tests to InSpec.

InSpec has these additional features over serverspec:
- Transport options - Docker, WinRM, SSH, local, Sudo
- Custom resources - Build your own resources easily
- Support for unit, resource and integration tests

An added bonus is that inspec is mostly compatible with serverspec.
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> 13 years from starting to going public, so those of you who join a startup going on its 4th year, something to keep in mind

Atlassian started in Australia, a country where technology is generally considered a scam to separate idiots from their wallets. This significantly slowed down growth, and the founders have said they wished the company had left Australia sooner.

Edit: this went from +2 to -2 very quickly. For anyone unfamiliar with Australian technology industry, here's a reference for Atlassian CEO comments: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/557248/atlassian-ceo...

The Australian government also taxes employee options in such a way to make them non-viable: http://www.techworld.com.au/article/535906/what_atlassian_mo...

My own experience working in Australia (as an Australian) in innovative technology was extreme wariness of tech: it's an expense, not an investment. Local companies were cynical of technologies, even mainstream technologies in the US and UK, until there was at least one other Australian company using them.
I find your comment somewhat alarmist, and lacking historical context. The City of London (from which the Temple end of the Garden Bridge starts) is many many hundreds of years older than the UK itself, and has always been privately owned and governed by shadowy, corporate and arcane processes. Traditionally even the Queen is not allowed to enter the City of London without the say-so of the Lord Mayor. This "private place operating as a public space" has been operating for centuries and stewarded the emergence of London as a leading global financial centre and until recently capital of the largest Empire the world has ever seen.

I admit it's reasonable to debate the pros and cons of private ownership of public spaces in city centres, but my point is that in this case The City of London is both historically unique and important, and by many measures been a huge success for the host nation.

Informative/fun video on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrObZ_HZZUc
> Programmers spend their day alternately planning and building, in an interleaved way.

It seems to me that, even by your definition, the "planning" part of that is engineering.
I learned more from this post than from all of the finance classes I took in school combined.
Best move I ever made was turning off every single push notification other than the messaging app my GF and I use with each other (she's wonderful at not abusing it). That's personal choice, obviously.
wow, works just as well for dark net markets.

Prove you have a working zero day, for example.
This is a pretty good question... Not sure if it will be solved here.

I used to be a value investor around 2000-2008. A value investor would be something like Buffet or Peter Lynch. However I did make a lot money in Sept. 08 because I determined the market was over valued.

What I didn't forsee, was how much the dollars the Federal reserve would print and inflate the economy.

Regardless, after that I built my own algorithm, because I no longer believe in the structure of the market. I would rater trust numbers. Meaning there are to many analyst pumping stocks, federal reserve, insider trading, spoofing trades, ETFs, deratives, and financial warfare it's hard to make a true value investment. Yes, I have read the buffet / Grahm books, but those are over ~60 old.

I think it is Virtu (electronic trading / hedge fund) that hasn't had a day where they lost money since early 2009? I know Goldman and JP Morgan 90% of the time trade every day for a profit. So a lot of the market is already trading electronically. I think zerohedge.com has estimated the 70% of the market trades on electronically and that article was few years ago.

It's funny, because I have devised methods using social media / programming to manipulate the price of stocks. If I can think of ways to do that I'm sure sure Wall St. already is doing it.

Anyways here my algorithm it tracks over 500 stocks: http://www.strategic-options.com/trade/
Is there a way to contact you to get proper insight into this. I noticed there is no email to reach you on your profile. As a student, I am looking for ways to support myself and be totally in-charge of things. Thanks
Not at all. They are investing their profits into scaling and growing the business.
Denver has traditionally been very close to the national average for cost of living, and also has average wages (much lower on both fronts than, say, San Francisco.)

In the last 3 years or so, rents have gone up largely because laborers who can't find work in other cities have been able to find work in or near Denver, driving up demand for housing while simultaneously driving down average wages. This is slowly being alleviated as new housing is being built, but it'll be a few more years before an equilibrium is reached.
They've landed their rockets in one piece, which proceeded to tip over and explode. An important distinction.
> So who is picking up one aspect of the complex relationship here?

Who is making it hard to believe you're arguing in good faith here? You've consistently harped on a reductionist definition of marriage in this thread.

>If I get together with an AI in the future you'll call it marriage too?

Personally, I truly do not care what you call it. If they're able to give consent and you can find a place to have wedding, good for you. If the law wants to respect it, congratulations.
Members of parliament certainly have private conversations with each other before presenting legislation for a public debate and vote.
Not-All-That-Interesting-But-Relevant-Story-Time:

In Santa Barbara all of the parking lots downtown where the bars are had attendants. This was before people credit card machines allowed lots to be open 24/7. Anyways, most lots had the entrance/exits at the same location so if someone pulled in to get a ticket and then backed out the attendant would notice. One lot had the entrance all by itself on the opposite side of the lot, blocked by some trees. I have many friends who would go out for a night on the town and then get someone to drive them back in the morning, pick up a ticket without entering, then leave using that fresh ticket.
Here's another simplistic explanation for this concept - http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post3724_explain-it-like-i...

I've been reading alot about the cryptography (and alot of bitcoin stuff), there's alot of interesting material out there.
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I hope it works well for them. I've seen many companies go down the tubes after deciding to go public. Which makes me wonder why one would even want to go public in the first place? The allure of perhaps making more money?
> Limiting free speech, banning political opposition, arresting dissidents, persecuting people for their sexuality, invading neighbour sovereign states etc, etc.

I'm no fan of Russia, but many of these things you mentioned could be applied to the US and UK too.
> You can't just shoot up a rocket with a cable attached and expect the cable to stay upright...

Well, actually...

Package your cable up, launch it, move to geosynchronous orbit. Start deploying your cable. Once it gets long enough, say a few kilometres long, tides hold it rigidly pointing towards Earth. You solve the counterweight problem by also extending a cable outwards from your launch vehicle, so keeping the centre of gravity still. Eventually the bottom of the cable reaches ground level and you're done. On the plus side, you now also have a 36,000km long cable extending past geostationary orbit, ideal for interplanetary launches.

> What would we do if several kilometers of ultra-strong cable fell down into the earth?

Not much. If the point at which it's severed is low, the lower part will just fall down and you pick it up and weld it back on. If it's a bit higher, the lower part falls down and burns it. If it's a bit higher still, it goes into orbit.

People have been thinking about the engineering and geometry of space elevators for a long, long time...
Well, it's not quite as cut and dry as that.

While human and animal studies have shown that vitamin C does significantly improve immune function,[1] over 40 years of research suggests that routine vitamin C supplementation does not prevent the common cold but modestly reduces its duration and severity in the general population, and halves the risk of catching a cold in people exposed to extreme physical stress, while the few therapeutic trials of vitamin C treatment of the common cold have been inconsistent.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C_and_the_common_cold
Is it common for code to open sourced, but only for use on single machines?
I don't disagree it's not a democratic process, I just disagree with the portrayal of the legislative branch as a victim of the executive.
Ask HN: What would you tell your 20 something years old self?
People who are more than 30 years old, what advice would you give your 20+ years old self?

Take that challenging job, get higher degree, start something of your own when you still have time and energy?

I am trying to make very important decision and need perspective from people who have been in the game many years more than me. Thanks!
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I am not well versed in the stock exchange but I believe your options are: A. Work for Atlassian. B. Wait until they go public.
Might have something to do with Logitech: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/04/logitech-investiga...
>And gay people were only allowed to marry in 2014.

This is true, of course, but potentially a little misleading for people not familiar with the UK, since civil partnerships have been available since 2004.
Ah yes, thanks. I had forgotten about that outside investment in craigslist.
You have to build space elevators up to geostationary orbit (and beyond). That's the whole point; they don't work otherwise.
The best way to run original Starcraft these days is Wine (implementing windows XP behavior), on OS X or linux. I've done both, it works pretty well.

IIRC the mouse acceleration was sometimes problematic in OS X, you might need one of the many third-party utilities for OS X that let you disable or tweak it, e.g. USB Overdrive, or maybe Smoothmouse would work.
Product tables are missing too. Let's say you have tables `foo` and `bar`. For every `foo` and every `bar`, you want the user to specify a `qux` value. Presently, what you need to do is:

(0) Create a table `foo_bar`, with fields `foo_id`, `bar_id` and `qux`. In particular, `qux` must be nullable. [Yuck!]

(1) Add triggers to `foo` and `bar` that automatically insert or delete rows from `foo_bar`.

(2) Hope [I'm not joking] the user remembers to set all the `qux` values in `foo_bar` whenever he inserts a row into either `foo` or `bar`.
How do you propose coordinating the amendment processes between a dozen or more legislatures?

It doesn't really make sense to let any legislature amend a treaty under the current system, where the President and his designated functionaries do the negotiating - then you have Congress modifying a negotiated agreement which would make treaties wildly impractical, especially when multiplied by all the member-legislatures.

It doesn't make sense under an imaginary primary-legislature system either. The US Congress has different rules for amendments and debate than say, the Japanese Diet.

If Congress doesn't like the TPP, it is entirely in their power to refuse to ratify the treaty and send it back to the negotiating table. And it was entirely in their power to not grant the President the Trade Promotion Authority.
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They don't have to but an employer is probably going to want to know. They can't ask about your health and you don't have to tell them but there are a number of vague ways to describe it. I'd probably go with something like "I was taking care of family health issues."

I've not seen anyone address an employment gap in their cover letter but I could see someone doing so. If your resume has a notable gap and another resume is similar but doesn't, you're less likely to get an interview. With that in mind, you might explain the gap in a cover letter, especially if it can be described as a positive or you can put a positive spin on it (I'm not just talking about gaps for health reasons).
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>And in any case there is simply no real value for gays to become 'married' other than getting a sticker.

The "sticker" was a visa in my husband's case. Although the UK does not require you to be married to your partner in order for them to get a visa, you have to provide all kinds of ridiculous documentation in the absence of a marriage certificate. In other countries (e.g. the US), being married is an absolute requirement.
hmmm. Google does not seem to agree. Your assertion is a wish not a fact. Dogmatic 3.x people are being shown, yet again, the uncomfortable, brutal truth, that 3.x is not happening in science.

Seriously. If you're advising someone considering Python on the 2 v 3 question today, how can you not tell them that possibly one of the most important new machine learning libraries, only works on 2.7.
It really helps to not need funding when you go to seek funding.
I work for a defense contractor, and pretty much the only good thing about our (government-mandated) insanely bureaucratic timekeeping policies is that you will never see something like this happen at my employer.

Edit: Giving some details about defense contractor billing.

For those not aware of defense contractor timekeeping, every single paid hour has to be billed to exactly one thing, and each employee needs to explicitly bill the hours themselves on their timesheets.

If you're on vacation, you bill your hours to vacation. If you're working on a project, you bill your hours to the contract that funds the project. If you're sick, you bill the hours to sick leave. If you're working on a purely-internal project, you bill the hours to internal projects.

Billing hours to the wrong project is legally considered fraud, and it can get the company in serious hot water. Besides, no defense contractor would want to bill working hours to vacation: the company makes no money from hours billed to vacation, while the company makes money for each hour billed to a contract. Now, if they want to interrupt your vacation by making you bill hours to a contract, they can, but that eats into the amount of available hours they're allowed to bill for that contract (hours which would be much better being billed when you're in the office and are able to sit down at a work computer and do real work), and you get to keep your vacation hours, so you can prolong your vacation.
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So are you saying that millions (and now billions) of Chinese and Indians who never had Bible and were absolutely poor used marriage to pass inheritance along? Also there were thousands of tribes who never had to worry about inheritance but who have traditions for marriages, no?
Notepad++ defaults to Ansi (although it can be changed).
Visual Studio defaults to UTF-8 with BOM. (And I don't think you can change that easily.)
Sure, they voluntarily gave up the minimal control they had with Fast Track. So they aren't victims, but rather accomplices of this farce.
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