skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but what caught my eye was:

> About the author
> Hey! I’m Marc, an eighteen years old software engineer located in Germany.

You're obviously quite knowledgeable and well spoken for such a young age, and presumably English isn't your first language either. I just wanted to say keep up the good work, you have a bright future ahead of you – kudos!
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If you are a non-citizen national of the U.S. or have been admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence and hold a valid green card then you can work at 18F.
I think we don't know what we would miss out on. Suppose Apple had disappeared before releasing the iPhone or iPad? Suppose Google had disappeared before it launched Wave or Glass?.....er...

Ok, cheap shot, but seriously though, without these companies flagship products the world would be a poorer place. Even their competitors products would be significantly poorer. But it's not so much the present that would suffer from the loss of these companies as it is the future.
No everyone - there's a lot of money to be made from volatile price swings.
I'm not an expert, but I researched this once. You can train any particular question that's asked at an IQ test, but someone can always think of new IQ test questions that you will fail if you're not smart enough (i.e. your brain adapts to new problems fast enough). There is a training program (I forgot the name) that trains you at solving IQ test problems sort of in general but it's unclear if it just trains people at solving the sort of questions that IQ test people tend to think of.

The way I understand it the most reliable way of training for plasticity if it is possible at all is to learn as many different things as you can. That means: Learn to program, learn a language with a different root (Chinese), learn to dance, learn woodworking, learn to practice law, learn to do team sport, etc.. Basically have as many hobbies as you can. (Switching every X months) making sure they have as little in common as possible.

Here's a talk on how long it takes to become 'good enough' at anything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgBikgcWnY

Have fun ;)
Is there something like this for objective-C or swift? Still getting used to the syntax
Honest question: why Norway? I thought it was more about Russia, Iran, Venezuela, ISIS and that Norway was simply collateral.
There isn't a set grade level for engineers, but most of our staff starts at a GS 14 or 15.
Love the idea. Having worked in the RE industry as a developer, it's got a lot of fun data and plenty of inefficiencies.

Good luck!
The key phrase here was 'aging population'. If the majority of Japan's population are retired then there will still be a huge deficit.

Japan needs to bite the bullet and accept immigration as part of its economic strategy.
You could also set up a cookie-free domain and have your static assets accelerated by the CDN while keeping your files (which send cookies) on a separate domain.

You can still use a CDN in this case however, by default files with cookies cannot be cached on a CDN's edge servers. Some CDNs have the ability to exclude the cookie from the static file such as KeyCDN which allows you to ignore the cookie and/or strip it entirely (https://www.keycdn.com/support/pull-zone-settings/). This ensures that your file is now cacheable which is important for instance if you are using Cloudflare which adds a Set-Cookie header to domains routed through them.
Rocket Internet’s Spotcap Raises Further €31.5M to Lend to Small Businesses
It's a matter of personal taste. I'd say the brutalist style is at its worst when juxtaposed with more traditional styles, and at its best when completely alone in the landscape where its unusual proportions are less jarring, and the bare concrete looks earthy rather than dirty

At least the Ulster Museum architect - whose creation looks like it's in the process of devouring the older building - seems to have had a sense of humour.
You would have to make the Promise object from your choosen promise library global before any calls to require.ensure.
Instead of pushing people to reinvest into the economy, there is a more sustainable way:

1. R&D AND ROBOTS

2. TAX AUTOMATION

3. BASIC INCOME FOR ALL, growing as tax revenues grow

This will let a shrinking population be more productive and align the resources more usefully for everyone - including old people - to spend on their needs.
Reddit itself was not like Reddit is now less than a decade ago. It itself was more like HN, although clearly not the same.
Show HN: Serverless GraphQL
People don't want to use the phrase "worldwide depression", so they call it by another phenomenon that is highly correlated to it: low oil price.

Just substitute them. Economists are not this bad.
The Pine A64 is about to become the cheapest ARM 64-bit platform to run Docker
I worked at companies with all of the perks, and I've worked at companies with almost none. While I'd much rather prefer higher cash compensation over workplace perks, I'd be more likely to stay longer at a place that had a few creature comforts.
That's right. There's no set grade or step for engineers, but most of our senior engineers start at a 15. Your grade and step (and therefore your pay) are determined by previous experience and previous pay.
but serving appropriate ads can be well served by AI. There may be a question of the increased margin that can come from keyword-based to AI-based ads, but it is there.
Does anybody know of any major open source contributor that lives in SF?

I used to be active in the Python/Django community earlier and am getting involved in the JS-React-Redux community. Not only do most people live outside SF, they live in a remote place that you wouldn't have heard about.

Software, good software is creative and creativity needs serendipity. The pressure to meet the next funding round criteria or to get an Uber through the traffic hearing my next track not making eye contact with my uber-pooler isn't the best frame of mind conducive to creativity.

I'm sure a lot of top CEOs and the top guys in select areas have a great social circle - smartest people who they eat/hangout with, which is very good. But there are also a lot of me-toos, for whom just living in SF is the thing they are achieving that feed their egos.
TalkTalk admits losing £60m and 101,000 customers after THAT hack
There's a lot of professional and personal acrimony toward Lander dating back at least to the Human Genome Project. I don't know if this is just a continuation of that, but throughout the late '00s it was surprising to hear the venom his rivals were eager to dish out.
Can see the similarity but "built mostly with unfinished concrete" != Brutalism.

It has a defined style, my absolute favourite is The Barbican Estate in London

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/London_b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate

When done without style it's horribly oppressive though but I don't think any less oppressive than the nasty steel and glass monoliths going up everywhere.

Also I love concrete, when done using high grade materials and polished it leaves a lovely finish approaching marble.

I'd quite like to use it as a material for furniture but for the weight problems.
Interesting. How long does it take an "iron worker" to start code execution after a webhook (latency)?
You should handle errors, not unwrap them.
ملف+مُسرّب+من+مكتب+FBI+لتحقيق+حول+ستيف+جوبز+يكشف+تفاصيلاً+مثيرة+من+حياته
in fairness as much as this iGiveHead discussion is the stuff of nonsense I have in fact been skirting around this nomenclature - coincidentally with leader/follower too - and I do agree that this falls on the other side of appropriate. It's not "Master" that's offensive, but "Slave" does carry some obvious negative connotations that are best avoided. As a society we don't "do" slavery any more and I do kind of feel that the usage of this terminology in anything but a derisory context should be discouraged.

TL;DR I totally agree that commonly used terminology that can be perceived as insensitive to some is best avoided.
Do they force you to go? Every company I've ever worked at had optional parties.
The gay marriage side of this is a complete straw man. In a free society, a private group has every right to refuse service for any reason. It has nothing to do with discrimination and it's definitely a case the government should be siding with the bakers.

I support gay marriage, but I also support this couple's decision. To support otherwise is supporting the removal of individual freedoms.
I wonder how much of Google's massive ad revenue is things like this. From a purely financial point of view, fixing this wouldn't be much of a priority.
Sincerely, it was kind of funny, specially taking into account the dark mood that sets in in the beginning of the article.
Wasm may make this useless, but this is pretty exciting. After working with a Emscripten module recently I can tell you debugging it is a pain. Wrappers around internal functions. Destroying objects after you are done with them. Memory leaks start becoming a huge issue that were once fringe after thoughts.

Im very excited sbout competition in this space even if it becomes impractical
Normally, sudden financial movements are bad for all involved parties.
Maybe OT:

Isn't this just proof that Japan needs to let go of it's biggest barrier to growth? By which I mean it's non-existing immigration?

I've been recently to Japan and despite my fears Tokio was a really affordable place (leaving out the hotel prices of course). I thought this was due to the lack of growth and the recent quantitative easing and other government measures. Measurements that seem to be failing at the moment (thus the negative rates).

So cheap Tokio-Sushi is nice for European tourists, sure, but just a sign of how much growth Japan has lacked over the past years/decades that it suddenly becomes a tourist destination.

In contrast to that: I could imagine Japan, with its still high quality of living and modern, orderly society as a real draw for young and skilled talent from abroad if it were to open it's borders (and society).

Think about it in the terms of Gentrification: It's an artificially undervalued "part of town". One which value and (currently) cheap prices would sureley be appreciated by the pioneers this country needs.
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You know one of the big problems with brutalist isn't necessarily the architecture itself as opposed to how it it weathers in some climates like either England (new or old). I remember seeing some brutalist buildings in Washington DC and being like 'wow those don't look like shit' so used to seeing Boston city hall and Alewife station, which do.
Fine example of a Wikipedia page where the discussion page is a much more informative and interesting read than the article itself.
But you could live in a hotel for that kind of money in great part of the world.
Tell HN: Don't post if you're not actually hiring
Second time this has happened to me and I'm frankly annoyed. I'm dabblin with the idea of full time and over the last two "Who's Hiring" posts I've found company's which have both piqued my interest and for who I have many many years of relevant experience in their stack. I write, excited to have a conversation, point to a relatively polished portfolio, and an HR person comes back to tell me that the position is filled or they are hiring a stronger match.

I don't want to whine too much but I feel like there is some SV pedigree nonsense going down here. Bottom line. Don't post in that thread if you have no intention of talking with the people who email you.
Maybe Japan thinks it can benefit more from less congestion and higher wages.

"Poor Fiscal policy" is likely a better explanation.

If they need to "bite the bullet"; how about balancing the budget?
Not bad, but not quite Arcimbaldo [0].

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo#/media/F...
Handle errors, or use try! when you want to propagate errors to the caller:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.try!.html
You sure you realized what's the problem?! Because the solutions you're proposing will only going to make it worse (really quickly, really fast).
Immigration will not solve the problem of aging population. In a generation or two, the immigrants would face exactly the same problem.

Because with immigration, you didn't solve the underlying cause of why people don't have kids. You just muddled the observable status for a while.
I've read about it a long time ago, but I just found this paper: http://www.ugr.es/~santiago/Santiago-LeftRightTimeMetaphor-2...

EDIT: also the design of browser fwd/back buttons or VCR and tape recorder buttons seem to honor this theory.
Sometimes when you're more relaxed your mind can do other connections. It usually happens to me that I have great ideas while in the shower...
The practical problem is that concrete gets gross. I work in the Watergate, which is a mostly concrete crime against humanity from a slightly later era, and it's gross close-up. It looks in far worse shape than turn of the century masonry buildings around the country.
ZStack v1.0 release
The Euribor, widely used in EU, has also been negative for about a year now:

http://www.euribor-rates.eu/euribor-charts.asp
Anyway, I was inspired from the idea and made a https://www.toiletidea.com/ , so whenever I go to toilet and catch a great idea, I can share it anonymously with random anonymous people.
I don't know of any real TCP stacks that accept all RSTs with no validation checks. The trend has definitely been in the opposite direction...

That TCP implementations are interoperable almost all the time is a major feat of design and engineering. For the specific case of RST handling, there's two reasons why it does. First, the RSTs sent in reply to packets received on closed sockets allow the system to converge. That's a clever bit of design, and if it's taken out (as appears to have been the case in the last example), the teardown becomes fragile. Second, if a connection doesn't get closed properly all that happens normally is some resource wastage. The main purpose of the connection (transfering data) worked correctly, so the failure after that won't get noticed.
So does megabyte and megabit. Grow up! ;)
When implementing overloaded functions, explicitly defining an interface would allow for much easier debugging than testing it afterwards. Running tests (that can take up to seconds sometimes) is far less efficient than seeing the problem nearly immediately
In the UK there are/were so many "brutalist carpark" constructions with poor quality finishes that weathered terribly that the reputation is rather tarnished.
Interesting indeed.
Here's one more comparison, BTW:
http://const.me/tmp/versus-atl-map.png
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> Japan needs to bite the bullet and accept immigration.

Immigration isn't going to solve anything, immigration from where ? Japan isn't the US, they aren't talking English nor their society is build in a way it can accept huge immigration waves.

Japan needs to work on techs that will solve its problems, not resort to a massive immigration wave that will only kick the can down the road.
This isn't about the rate on government bonds, it's the overnight rate on savings deposits.
I have same thing with business ideas, best ones come up in shower or toilet
Yes, if you believed in a free-market economy. But if you believed the only way to success was growth, and were willing to push that growth at any price, negative interest rates.
That's awesome. You're lucky she didn't just elbow you in the face from adrenaline.
It's good that there is competition, but it speaks for emscripten that Cheerp (formerly known as duetto) had to pick two relatively obscure areas where emscripten+asm.js can be beaten.

The slower startup speed with asm.js enabled, at least in Spidermonkey is because it does Ahead-Of-Time (AoT) compilation. The advantage is that once the binary code is generated, it will never be touched again. Other JS engines might decide to de-optimize and re-compile some code, or go through several 'tiers' and only optimize the hot-running parts, which means slow first-time execution and at worst stuttering at unpredictable times. Both are deadly for apps where a smooth frame update is required.

I wonder why startup speed in V8 is slow though, AFAIK it doesn't do AOT compilation, or is this now the case with the new Turbofan module?

The second area, dynamic memory growth is unfortunate at first glance, but a trade-off for better performance, I wonder if pre-allocating a large chunk of memory is still as much an issue in 64-bit browsers as with 32-bit.
This was a lot more interesting and than I thought it would be. I never thought I'd see such a romantic story about a forum troll... Seems like most people involved are now in a better place than before. Good for them.
There’s Too Much Television
83.9c here. http://www.torontogasprices.com/
Utilizing/developing AI doesn't define your company as an AI company though. All of that has consistently been second to the advertising. Almost everything they do ties back into their advertising business in someway. They're an advertising company with a lot of (awesome) side projects.
Ignoring the obvious climate-change issues just for the moment to focus purely on the relation of oil prices and the economy...

From the global perspective, cheap oil is a very good thing. Cheap commodities in general are an unmitigated good thing. Cheap oil means that people spend less money to move vehicles around and heat homes, and can spend it elsewhere. Cheap oil means trade is cheaper, allowing goods to be produced in more-efficient places and then shipped instead. Cheap commodities mean that investors spend less money building oil rigs and mines, and can invest it elsewhere. Final goods and services where oil or other commodities are an input become less expensive, allowing other economic activity to be pursued.

The reasons cheap oil could be linked to bad stuff in the world economy are not because the oil itself is cheap, though. Cheap oil could be bad because it is a sign that no one wants to buy oil, which is a sign that people aren't shipping goods and other economic activity is depressed. (This is a cause of cheap oil, though, not an effect.) The other big reason it could be bad is that it is a sign that people have invested too much money drilling for oil and building oil-extracting machines and training people to be oilfield workers and the like. Too-cheap oil suggests that this investment was a bad idea and should not have been made, or at least not made yet, and now that effort has been at least partially wasted. But that's another cause of cheap oil, and not an effect.

The people who suffer from cheap oil are those who are involved in the production of oil: oil companies themselves, companies who provide services to oil companies, pipeline companies, railroad companies involved in shipping oil, workers out on the oil fields, companies involved in providing services in those regions (e.g. real estate firms in the right parts of the Dakotas)... and investors in any of those companies (including pension funds).

The US is involved in a lot more oil production than it used to be, so some of that suffering partially mitigates against the awesomeness of cheap oil to the rest of its economy. (Partially. Most of the US is not involved in producing oil.)
I used to work for Berkeley Lab, which is run by UC, on a network research group in the mid-2000s. Already by that time, Berkeley Lab, and the UCs were passing their traffic via passive fiber optic tap to a deep packet inspector developed by my team. It was called Bro (https://www.bro.org/). It didn't have the disk capacity to save 30 days of traffic (at Berkeley's level of traffic, that's quite a lot of storage) but it certainly did some pretty deep snooping. It was used primarily for security (it would log into the router and cut off connections that appeared to be hackers). I got a call from IT one day asking what I was torrenting (it was a linux distro).
Think of how revolutionary this is for people who incessantly take photos of their food and post to Instagram.

We need a "food->face" filter stat. If not for the poster, then one I can apply to any of my friends' photos they post.

Or maybe I need better friends.

Or eat more photogenic food myself.
Research into ketamine as a treatment for severe depression
The Normalisation of Deviance
Seems that vlc 3 would have chromecast support. I'm looking foward for that.
How much of this led to early stages of life ?
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Yeah, specially hate those "we are always hiring" companies that are just "waiting for antirez to apply".
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Negative risk free rates were theoretically possible, but thought at the time to be stupid. See for example the development of the Cox Ingersoll Ross model, "The standard deviation factor, \sigma \sqrt{r_t}, avoids the possibility of negative interest rates for all positive values of a and b."

Many interest rate models had been in the past either criticised for theoeretically allowing negative rates, or specially developed to avoid them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Ingersoll%E2%80%93...
You're going off the deep-end for fantasy when you start saying "pocket universes". Even dyson spheres are an exponentially advanced civilization problem, not just for energy but for material to build it from.

To achieve frequent non-robotic travel beyond a solar system, a species would have to first master unlimited "free" energy (ie. fusion). This seems to be an extreme non-trivial problem. Even a civilization tens of thousands of years ahead of us may not have mastered it on a portable scale, limiting their travel and making "home" far more comfortable.

And again, with unlimited energy, they still might not even feel the need to leave their solar system except for basic exploration, they might be xenophobic.

If the spark of the dna for virtually all life on earth maybe came from somewhere else, injected into our potent primordial soup, perhaps it happened when the galaxy, even the universe was closer together so it didn't have to travel so far. But now the few other "cousins" of life we have in the galaxy/universe may be too far away simply from the expansion of space itself, not just big-bang momentum.
I strongly agree. I had to set up a React application not so long ago and the Webpack docs were completely useless. I ended up following a step by step guide made by someone else, which was really easy to follow and reason about: http://survivejs.com/webpack_react/developing_with_webpack/