skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have something along those lines where I live. People without jobs can apply for job at a local municipal job center. They centralize demands from people for small jobs like lawn mowing, cutting the bushes, painting, etc. People buy checks from them and pay the worker with those checks (with a fixed price per hour). Then the worker goes back to the center to deposit the checks. Then the center forwards the checks to the social welfare administration that converts them into real money for the worker.

I knew someone in a rough spot that went there and spent a day building a rabbit cage or something. When he got back to the center he was told that his SO earned too much for him to work there, they had failed to mention that when he got there first. So now he has checks worth nothing hanging on his walls.
I used Windows Phone for a few years but I recently moved off. Buggy ports, no google apps, or groups refusing to make apps for certain hardware like the Pebble Time put me on the fence. What tipped the balance for me may have not been fully related, but Windows 10's approach to privacy blew my trust for the future.

The Lumias did have a superior camera to the other phones and my current phone. That is one thing I miss.
I used to go to SlashDot, in the same way that I come to HN now- for good tech-related news that I couldn't find anywhere else. The comments used to spawn great swaths of related research but now I might as well go to 4chan. Fortunately HN is still awesome and the comments always add to a discussion.
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I really really want to love this editor, it's beautiful, but it burns me every time I use it and I end up going back to sublime text. Slow, buggy, hangs, 100% cpu usage, huge amounts of memory usage...
> The new hip language that solves all concurrent bigdata: RustScript on Rails.

> I posted this last week and no one gave a fuck.

> Why I quit my job, shot my dog, and left my wife for JavaScript.
I read this book, was skeptical given the gungho attitude, so I did some due diligence: Roberty Kiyosaki claimed to have founded a company that went public. So I figured Kiyosaki was a rare enough name and searched the SEC records to find out if this was true. Was unable to find any evidence that he had taken a company public, and so he lost credibility with me.

You meet really entertaining characters in bars sometimes too. They are fine for entertainment but don't take them too seriously.

Putting money to work for you is wise, good advice and there are better books for it. Like "The millionaire next door" and "the wealthy barber" (a little lite but a good intro) and "Buffetology" and "The dummies guide to REITs" and the like.

Managing real estate yourself is no small task- you have tenants and a lot of work to do for them. Putting an agency in between you and the tenants means you may be giving up a lot of your profits to the agency.

The best thing that happened to me, though was I started reading http://mises.org. There in 2000ish I learned about how the fed and CRA were going to create a housing bubble. And the consequences of that. I invested along that thesis in the mid 2000s, getting out of the market in 2007 when things were too crazy to make sense (missed the top by a year, but still good timing.)

Macroeconomic understanding (And I don't mean what politicians talk about or the politically connected people like Paul "we need a housing bubble" Krugman) has been very profitable for me. More profitable than any stock tip.

Also gained a lot of insight from attending Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meetings, but now I just read the annual reports.
Yes of course but there may be other explanations other than 'a broken business model'.
Putting strings on your gift to ensure it'll be put to good use is one thing. Now, putting strings on it to ensure you'll get more money from people using your "gift", and then insist on calling it a gift, that's an entirely different thing.
entrepreneurship is a 1/0 game generally. Investing everything you have into something that has a 95% chance of failure is pretty risky. I would argue putting more than 10-20% of your money into one venture is really risky.
RDPD seemed to me as parasitic - the "solutions" there work only if somebody gets into trouble, like foreclosures etc. Not a "wealth creation" book, rather a misfortune-of-others exploitation one.
Dragon 2 has full engine out redundancy for landing already. And even if that's not good enough for NASA, they probably won't be the only customers.
How do we get involved if we would like to contribute to this project?
Computer Museum bids farewell to Babbage engine
> it's all gone

Well, that depends. The core lessons really stuck with me and changed the way I thought about money. Especially about the cash flow differences between poor people vs rich people (income goes into assets and the income generated by assets is what can be spent).

I would directly credit this book for my start in real-estate investments and for changing my mindset. I used to be blind to the opportunities around me.

As with most things in life, it's what you get out of it. If you want to forget it, you probably will.
Any hosting/cloud service provider 'hosts your data'. I'm curious if you run your webservers in-house?
As one of the first SharePoint MSMVPs (there were two of us for SharePoint Team Services) I watched what was once a meaningful "place at the table" - where MVPs could evangelize for the users in the communities they served - devolve to a place at the bar. As in, a literal bar, because to stay an MVP it sure seemed like you had a lot of parties to go to so you could make the right person laugh at the right time.

I ran the largest online community for SharePoint users at the time, and was awarded because of that. I think 7 years total? Maybe 8? I spoke at an internal sales conference (TechReady, where it was suggested I cover up the glowing apple logo on my laptop, and I made anti-FrontPage jokes - that were, incidentally, approved by PMs in the FrontPage team!), and was asked for input on several features. Later, my community outreach was deemed less important, because I wasn't contributing to the official newsgroups. The input MVPs gave came too late in the cycle to have any effect. I wasn't the type to enjoy pub crawls, so the networking that became a de facto requirement to continued participation was out of my reach. The program grew to include people whose only motivation to join the ranks of MSMVPs was to get early access to software and to curry favor with some PMs or RDs. Several of us started to see it becoming a "good ol' boys club", and we knew our days were numbered.

Another former MSMVP (who also didn't play the reindeer games, as we called it) is now my business partner. We both occasionally miss the camaraderie of the summits, the opportunity to (we naively thought) influence the direction of SharePoint, and the relevance that the little blue and silver badge had. MSMVPs (at least in our product) were once seen as leaders and ombudsmen simultaneously, and now they're seen primarily as a way to score free drinks at a conference. We miss the olden days, and wish for the program to mean what it was supposed to mean.

I never really wrote all that out before, never really came to terms with the loss I experienced when I found out that I wasn't renewed. It didn't diminish my evangelism for SharePoint (we still train and consult), but part of me wonders if my pragmatism, my willingness to be brutally honest when SharePoint didn't make sense, and my quiet protest at being asked to focus on MS-official communities contributed to that. Not wonder, actually. That's not the right word. I'm pretty sure all those things contributed to it.

I guess I wonder if there was anything I could've done to effect change in the MSMVP program, to make it something where our opinions actually mattered. I'm not bitter about it. I was, but I got over that in a hurry. Now, I'm just sad. It could've been so much more.

Edit: meant to be a reply to Evan's comment, sorry about that.
General advice for anyone young who is reading this-- if the person you're trying to learn from offers seminars, it's a good sign he's not worth your time, and seminars are rarely worth the money. "Free" ones are the worst.

Good books are the best educational value (though maybe some MooCs are a better value now.)
While Markdown isn't difficult, it isn't someone everybody is automatically aware of. This makes discovering and learning it even easier, both for newbie technical users and non-technical people that e.g. have to use GitHub to report issues, work on docs, ...

Yes, you might call it "bells and whistles" or "polish", but that polish is one of the reasons that GitHub is where it is (instead of Bitbucket, despite Bitbucket having the better free offering etc). They've gotten were they are by being easy to get started.
It's simply wrong to assume people would gladly want to be exposed to ads in general. The only unethical thing here is to call people unethical who simply decide not to participate in ad viewing.
Funnily, not many people think about money this way. Most people see it purely as something that needs to be spent.
> Not with APIs we've shipped.

To be fair to allengeorge's analogy, writers also rarely edit written works that have already been published.
Absolutely nothing. Just a little discordant to see grep et al being discussed in a project packaged as a zip. I suppose people might want to play with this in Windows, although to be honest if you have gone to the trouble to install grep et al, you will have no trouble with tar either.
I wish they outlined a plan to push this icon out to Stable. Even better the plan should call for the browser to eventually refuse to submit forms with password fields unless HTTPS was used for both loading the form and submitting it.

I think that developers who are still using HTTP with passwords either don't understand the implications (and a tiny icon won't help), don't care, or don't have "management buy-in" to spend the time to fix it. Having the browser force best security practices will benefit them and everyone using their websites.
Background story: I applied to 10+ companies a month ago. I did keep track, I did follow up etc. Couple of them didn't follow up, couple of them I remembered not replying last time I applied for them as well. Nothing changed. I was tired of Excel, Notepad, Gmail.

The pain you're describing is being handled by at least 10 companies that I know and which sent me updates about the jobs. Granted they're not the best, but they work.

The pain I wanted to reduce was the pain that comes with the entire process. When you're simultaneously in 10+ process it can become easy to lose your focus and forget to follow up, read notes, to dos (google most recent interviews etc).

The pain I also wanted to remove was the pain of re-applying to companies that are god awful at providing feedback, that do not reply, that forget to close job ads etc. Think job app history.

Another pain I wanted to remove was weighing the offers via charts and summaries on the offer page and show communication and interest from the company on the reports page.

Another idea as suggested in comments:
Provide this data transparently, blind the important information and that might take the product to a whole new level.

I do not want this to be another job board or an email newsletter. There are plenty out there.
It's been great watching Nuitka progress over the past couple of years.

I suggested the tl;dr section to Kay in the Overview ;)

I've also donated to the guy. I'd help out in the development, but to be honest a lot of what he's doing goes way over my head and I don't have the time to sit down and try to understand it all.

I encourage others better than me to help in Nuitka's development :)
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Should say 2012
or you could argue this content is too political for this platform and should move to another platform.
Brave Web Browser
Am I reading this right? The software has bugs, so it limits flying time, so it limits testing, so they're reducing the number of tests it has to make to qualify?

That's like going "QA is identifying a lot of bugs. QA are a problem. Fire QA. There we go. No more bug reports.".

This'll end as well as it has gone so far - I wonder how many pilots will need to die from malfunctioning hardware and software for them to consider a different course of action.
> The judge called [Goldman Sachs' actions] “professionally negligent”

> the jury concluded that the banking team satisfactorily performed its role for Dragon Systems in all respects

> I [the judge] conclude otherwise

Yuck.
soylentnews.org has became quite good in the short time they are alive.
Can you expand on "You just need to be careful not to use the vanilla reducer composer from Redux." a bit more? Is that 'combineReducers' from Redux?

What's wrong with that? What are the alternatives?
Week 1 of My App in the Slack App Directory
This is such a great point.

The bottom line, as I've always thought about it, is that if you can usefully create significant value, then you will always have a livelihood, and just basic common sense will get you to your goals.

"Creating significant value" is a pretty high bar though, and a different story.
most likely. Thought about how long it'll take for someone to release it as an app - not sure how they will cover the server costs for rendering the images if it's not done on device.

$2.99/user will probably cover AWS bill for a while, if users don't keep hammering it
I don't know how much people will apply for 30+ jobs, probably graduates? A tool targeting students could be useful. Most experienced job seekers only apply for a handful of positions.
The 10 Best Startup Pitches of All Time [video]
No need for a dispatching macro, the usual solution in c++03 was to have a template with a fixed maximum arity like this:

template<class T1 = default_, class T2 = default ..., class T10 = default_> struct Signal;

where default is a placeholder type, and then have it dispatch internally to the correct Signal/N/ via template specialization.

The template specialization themselves were generated either via preprocessor metaprogramming or by an external tool.
Oh please! Can someone go ask Jeff Dean to create a CMS in some semi-serious way and video the result.
Would you mind going into detail on how higher res is achieved? Splitting the original image into smaller regions, and rendering each separately?
True but they still lack a wrapped and simple to use solution like Parse. That is why I run everything on AWS except the BAAS.
I still wish Malda and the other guys writing the Slashcode would've realized that the future was not in blogging/advertising but in making Slashcode great. They had a good start on building something just like Drupal and a big head start but they never saw that as a business. (not like I saw it either, sadly)
So 6 [sets of] owners.

When Andover bought VA Linux one of the assets they bought was /., so that should count as a sale.
What I've learned about .NET Native
Wow, this is still even a thing.

The form, all its js assets and form api endpoint all have to be secured. And https for everything that contains code. Deploying SRI for web pages over https is also another layer of defense against js tampering.

Also, sending passwords across the wire in any reversible manner is really more dangerous than is necessary. Passwords/passphrases could be salted hashed by the browser in JavaScript using a PBKDF similar to scrypt or bcrypt, before being sent to the backend for constant-time comparison... it just takes a little more prudence and effort, but it's absolutely doable.
IMHO it's not worthless. Nim has ptr and addr, but they are explicitly described as unsafe and only used "when you have to", like interfacing with C/C++ etc. I have never used them outside of C/C++ integration. Rust also has unsafe, but I presume you don't think that invalidates safety.
I don't think many people pay much attention to the address bar, let alone a little lock icon with a red line through it.

If they want to get serious about it, they should just disable http support and require https for all actions. Or throw up a big in-your-face warning on http pages, not just make a small change to an obscure icon that nobody really understands.
I can't understand why HackerRank gained such popularity. Among many similar sites it has lowest quality of problems, especially input/output specification. The "pay for more test suites" strongly reminds me Pay to Win ...
Funding is not really relevant. You can't do that in a big institution. Much less with fixed grants from government.

"If you were building an online school", you could do that. But if you manage a public school, you have no chance.
A cautionary tale about relying entirely on external advisors. There had been rumours about L&H's book-cooking for a couple of years before the Dragon acquisition and a Goldman Sachs analyst was quoted on the topic [1].

A sad outcome for the Bakers but they weren't entirely blameless (although Goldman Sachs were certainly very lucky to get away scot-free).

1: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB912638848485991000
Great idea!

My path to solution:

Get a list of CLUEs:

grep -C 3 CLUE crimescene

Get a list of the 3 possible suspects based on CLUEs:

grep -f <(grep -f memberships/AAA memberships/Delta_SkyMiles | grep -f memberships/Terminal_City_Library | grep -f memberships/Museum_of_Bash_History) -C 3 vehicles | grep -A 6 L337..9 | grep -B 1 -A 4 Honda

Then read their interviews:

grep <Owner> people
tail -n +<line> streets/<street> | head -n 1
less interviews/interview-<interview number>

Take your guess :)
Reads like the typical big budget product that has a deadline that "absolutely cannot move" but does move because ain't no one going to sign their name to that mess. Really comes from having too many people in the decision making process and none of them accountable.
cx_Freeze is still very effective for distribution - I use it all the time to produce a standalone version of my software and then I use Inno Setup to create an installer package for my customers.

As Loic states, Nuitka works differently from cx_Freeze in that Nuitka takes your Python source, compiles that to C++, then compiles the C++, whereas cx_Freeeze creates Python bytecode which is subsequently run by the included Python interpreter.

The result should be that the same Python code should run much faster in the form created by Nuitka, than the result created by cx_Freeze.
Looks a lot like iGoogle. I was a heavy user before they shut it down.
No, I'm an equal opportunity "big system" hater. Hating Wal-Mart but thinking the US Government is the bee's knees makes no sense to me.
This looks like native desktop notifications.
> The ensuing legal battle continues...

Really?
How fighting for a prize knocks down its value
That'll entirely depend on how you define the word "great", and just means you and the GP are talking about different kinds of teaching, done by different teachers, aimed at different students.
The myth of the ISIS encrypted messaging app
have a look at https://www.jobmindapp.com/landing/new/
India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook
On the topic of shoes, I recommend the Vibram Five Fingers, but there are some caveats involved. The main issue I have had is blisters (mainly on my big toe and the ball of my foot). For me wearing socks are a must (the injinji socks are great, but I found other toe socks at uniqlo that work just fine). Shoe size is a tricky thing, and some styles are definitely better than others in regards to comfort (I bought a pair I don't use at all because there is so much more friction on the areas where I get blisters). One of my feet is bigger than the other, and the general recommendation is to go with a snug fit, but on my bigger foot the big toe was poking into the end, and I feel like this messed up that foot a bit. I've since bought a pair of the larger size and I use my original pair on my smaller foot, and the new pair on only my bigger foot. Based on my experience too short is bad, and in general too large is probably bad because of the added friction.

Also, running barefoot style takes a lot of getting used to in regards to form. Keep your runs short at first so you can develop muscles that help you keep good form. Running in bad form exacerbates the blister issue and potentially can lead to other injuries. I've had some issues with my knee where the ilio-tibial band connects on the outside, but some stretches for that muscle have alleviated that issue, and my main limitation has been the blisters. As far as the blisters go, as long as I stick with a consistent running routine, don't overdo it and keep good form, they tend to be less of an issue. Also after having quite a few my skin has now started to toughen up. Combination of tough skin from healing a bunch of them, good form, and better shape and I think I will be able to run indefinitely without them being a problem.

The reason I switched to these shoes was because when I started running I would go through a $100+ pair of running shoes in less than a year. I would have problems with the cushioning in them becoming imbalanced, and a lot of pronation. This actually caused some legit injured feet for me and lots of foot pain that kept me out of running completely. Although there was the knee pain and the blisters with the five fingers, overall my feet feel great and the pain is nothing near what I had when I ran in regular shoes.
Stanford study: T-Mobile's Binge on is 'likely illegal'
Goldman did apparently win a jury trial. While this case looks horrible the idea of a judge respecting a jury's verdict doesn't seem like the horrible part.
Apparently you made me think of something else, I managed to do something similar to what you explained in a different workplace, but it seems that it needed to take forever to make you clarify your point. Anyway, thanks for coming back and writing, I really appreciate it.
Until?
Indeed, that's the point of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Its framework of the four quadrants that define where your money is coming from stuck with me.
Bezos set to expand empire to take on Spotify: sources
Persistent PostgreSQL inside Docker
If you break very large companies apart lots of other things come with it. CEO pay would probably drop for those companies. The problem is the way we fixed too big to fail was to create larger banks. And if they threaten to leave the country threat to take things like they're US copyrights or bank charters. Also, capital gains rates shouldn't apply over about 5-10 million dollars. How would you like to play a game of monopoly if started the game from the last turn of the last game. Ok roll. Well, you lost again. new game...
Well but that's a cop-out answer. There are several very interesting discussions in that thread, as in other big threads (see https://hn.algolia.com/?query=&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page...). Would HN be better or worse off without them?

Further, the conversations around link submissiones are one of the two core value propositions of HN (the other being the actual link curation, but I wouldn't be the first to say that the conversations are actually more valuable than the link curation itself). Shouldn't the platform be encouraging them (as long as they remain at the usual HN standards)?
Another alternative is to disable forms on http pages.
Many big-ticket items are not transacted through a sales funnel beginning in google ads, even for individuals (businesses tend to have more formal processes). Houses, cars, etc. are largely purchased by going to a specific place (digital or otherwise) where such things are bought and sold. Not just googling "3 bedroom 2 bath house close to Redmond". I do not think this process involves a lot of unmet demand.
Automatic bug-repair system fixes 10 times as many errors as its predecessors