skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is _more_ contraception options now available to teens. I know for a fact that IUDs were not being given to teens a decade ago, they were barely just being given to adult women in the U.S. Access to the Morning After pill has greatly increased for everyone. Then you have options like Depo-Provera.

On top of that, the stigma around using the pill decreases all the time. Parents are willing to get the pill for their daughters.

There is more access for contraception for women. Sadly no real changes for men. Although now you buy condoms online which reduces the stigma many young people have about buying them in person.
Context and disclaimer: I run a bootcamp for technical interview prep: http://InterviewKickstart.com.

Your frustration is understandable. But you also have to ask and understand how our industry has come to this point. There are concrete reasons for it, and despite this process not being the best, it's the least evil when hiring is done at scale.

The process is here to stay. If you want to work at some of those companies, don't overthink it. Just prepare for interviews. It'll also give you a refreshing perspective to software development.
Do you think this effect has any more drastic consequences than the average celebrity endorsement of any product in any other industry?
Again, the point is not that SF has "jobs," the point is that it is stupid expensive and competitive as you have just pointed out to live out here regardless of the job you have, and in a free market society different skills have different demand, value, and pay as a result. It is entitlement to expect to make it out here on the wage she was making without having done some googling and research first, and looked to see if her skillset was enough to be able to live reasonably in SF. Someone with a bit more forthought would get the experience necessary in a more affordable city first before making the jump to SF or NYC.

Those hostels and other rentals available in that price range are a short term solution to finding an ideal roommate situation rather than jumping right into getting a one year lease on your own right off the bat.

I'm curious, do you think someone at a company in charge of updating the twitter feed should make as much as the CEO? Or the sales reps chasing down leads and bringing in business? Or the developers building the platform? How and why is the job she signed up for more valuable than the on-demand cab drivers who help bring people to work each day and are also forced to compete for decent housing situations in a city where one bedroom costs $3000 a month on average to live downtown?
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The demise of Venezuela cannot be attributed to a single cause. Incompetent management of the economy, oil prices and relentless sabotage by internal economic interests (supported by external ones) all contributed to the current situation. And probably a hundred more causes could be found in less than an afternoon.
For all the complaints on methodology, I think the biggest issue is sample size. 25 people?
Of course there's room, but there aren't obvious ways to deploy billions of dollars. Products need to be developed for AWS, whereas for the e-commerce business there is a much stronger link between investment and ROI it seems.
It seems a little silly to me. Especially because when we talk about obesity, most people visualize morbid obesity. There are plenty of textbook definition "obese" people who can still attract mates.
The birth rate is always lower than the pregnancy rate. Miscarriages are common.
It was ridiculous that the author even brought it up. The privacy-aware and technologist audiences will be smart enough to see that he in no way connected Le Roux to Truecrypt in the whole series. The others will mentally connect "mass murdering, drug lord" to "Truecrypt" due to repetition. This image will be the one they hear the likes of Comey say in public media where encryption is the tool of thugs and must be backdoored/squashed. The author is doing a disservice to both Truecrypt and encryption in general by constantly trying to tie it in.

It should've been mentioned in the beginning with his E4M work and then later in the follow-up question. That's it unless the author has more evidence with a solid or highly-probable tie-in to Truecrypt.
How do you anticipate SME's dealing with security issues, e.g. patches and initial design, related the attack surface exposed by over the air updates to IOT devices?
I think it is clear. When someone invests in your business, it is not your money. It belongs to the business and is there to help the business grow.
1. it doesn't have to be that way and often you don't need to move across the country, in some cases 40 min to an hour away would probably make a difference.

2. In life we have a responsibility to understand what happens when we put people in difficult situations, even if they don't. Sometimes your employees get trapped. They start out trying to make it work, but find themselves in trouble. For example: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/online-vancouver-ads...
Im mobile, and cant find sources atm, but doesnt obesity correlate to lower fertility rates as well?
Why not? Many people have been the CEO up to their seventies...
I wonder how much lower rates of in-person interaction is a factor here.
It's been in the process of national suicide for a long time. Abnormally high oil prices are likely the only thing that let the country survive this long.
Why not? There are plenty of CEOs in their 70s:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/06/the-14-o...

And there are a number of CEOs with multi-decade tenures:

http://fortune.com/2015/05/05/14-longest-serving-ceos/

The Bell System had something like a 70-year monopoly, and it's certainly possible that Facebook has staked out something equally enduring.
Well, Jobs would have been until at least his mid-late sixties if it wasn't for the unfortunate disease.

And in other lines of work, including finance, it's not rare to continue to be a CEO well into your 60s or 70s...
Having just spent 8 months in Sweden, I can assure you that their Socialism is purely 'children's creche' socialism, and not 'free bread' socialism.

There are some goods that have positive externalities and high fixed costs - the government should subsidise these. Education, defence, roads.

There are some goods that do not have positive externalities - the government should let the free market provide these. Bread, personal firearms, petrol.

Sweden subsidises the former, not the latter. Venezuela has subsidised the latter, often at the expense of the former.
Only the match is over before the transaction clears
Are we still counting for Nokia?
I think many people in SF have been introduced to the law of supply and the law of demand, they just don't believe in them.

Many people also don't believe in anthropogenic climate change, but have certainly been introduced to the concept.
Everyone has moved to voat anyway. reddit is too much of an echo-chamber for overweight people.
Why is the latest official GitLab CE docker image 7 months old[1]? Is that no longer a recommended install method?

[1] https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/builds/

EDIT: Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? The "latest builds" page shows activity from 7 months ago, but the "tags" page is showing "latest" updated 6 days ago. Does that just refer to the source repo tag, or a successful build that (for some reason) doesn't show in the builds page?
Curious as to the size of the market and the ways it might be monetized.
China peak growth was far slower than several other Asian countries post WWII. That was intended as steady growth was intended to reduce political instability. But, it also slowed down there overall growth significantly.

EX: Japan went from 2T to 3T in just 2 years. That's completly unsustainable.
The CDC has been reporting decreases in childhood obesity rates over the past decade or so.
Why aren't you encrypting communication with the web client via ssl? Please do this -- I would love to check this out, but transmitting my password in plaintext does not bode well for
treating my other data securely.

Sort of ironically, my attempts to report a bug, and request a feature, have both been stymied; one by a 500 error, and one with a warning from chrome that synchronous xhr requests have been deprecated.
Since the government doesn't currently pay for Media, how should journalists currently get paid?
Non-executive employee stock comp is a tiny fraction of total stock. Yes, the sales will increase supply and push the price down by a pitifully-small amount, and an institutional investor will buy them and push the price back up.
Using your assumptions, the math comes to 99.87%. (Your excellent point remains, of course.)
I didn't go far into set theory but, informally, it seems to me that for any given natural number N, there will be N natural numbers less than or equal to N (obviously) and P prime numbers less than or equal to N, and P < N. Doesn't taking the limit as N goes to infinity show that there are fewer primes than there are natural numbers? Where am I going wrong?
If he's giving any of his "paper money" away, I'm first in line.
They are worse than socialist because they destroy other's ownership for personal gain.
Ns: single-command static hosting
Well, I think they're more similar than different!
These days, interacting less with reddit can only be a good thing.
From the perspective of someone who would have to run a study like this, a tremendous amount of pregnancies end before detection. To do actual pregnancy-initiation studies, you have to do absurdly intensive things like have women collect their urine on a frequent basis for analysis. Birth is a much less difficult outcome to collect for a large scale population estimate, as it usually just involves a data pull from vital records.
and this is why I like state-run media sources.

99% of the time I'm not looking for things the ministry of foreign policy doesn't want me to know

and it is favorable toward high quality accessible content. everyone concerned about competition and the competition gave you shit that makes state run news a breath of fresh air
The Apply HN has closed this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11588730

Perhaps you can resubmit this as a normal post.
Yes, but that was the one that made him successful.
Meaning that if you're suffocating it could be because you've got a noose around your neck, not because you've forgotten how to breathe.
Perhaps I am missing something/unable to interpret the article properly.

I remember there was a day when it clicked in my head that the way the lexical scope/compiler in common lisp works means that the variable names don't stick around at run-time, but are compiled away. So of course, using the lexical scope of (let) forms in lisp means that yes, it is quite impossible to have a naive variable symbol passed into a let form and looked up at run time as though it were still around.

But does that mean its not possible? I mean...doesn't Common Lisp at least have both lexical and dynamic scope? What if there was some kind of primitive function or form available that told lisp that you actually want to keep the names around and use that name to do run time environment/variable lookup instead. Then you could pass in such a quoted form and evaluate it and it would work.

Hang on a second...

Lets see if we can re-write that form from the article that "doesn't work" in lisp...in an easy and convenient fashion.

Here's his function definition:

(defun greater10 (value code) (if (> value 10) (eval code)))

And now lets set up a dynamic binding/evaluation using the less common progv form:

(progv '(msg) '("Hello")
(greater10 20 '(print msg)))

And the result:

"Hello"
Bank of americia Trains empties how to steel
Does any one know how to get my money that bank of america stole from my son? government is useless. I can’t aford an attorney. HELP!!!!!!!! Please. my son and I will die. They stole $50,000 from me. I have already strated closing account, but leave the negitive amount left after they stole. my money is safer under a mattress than BofA!!!!!! I even have documented proof. Bank of America changes times and dates. I take 10 screen shots every day and and look later. If they hang up, then they know they are lying, but what small penised coward steals from kids? I cant wait for them to all loose there jobs and how niece to think they will not goto jail. i will laugh as they are tapered and cuffed in front of there family, kids and fake friends. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! I have experience on my side and know it will come around. it has before.
Terraform works with whatever cloud provider https://www.terraform.io/intro/vs/cloudformation.html

hint hint
Curious about how you envision the rough business case for an insurer.
It basically represents a bet that a steady hand on the tiller is better than having the company run by whoever is the darling of whoever's happens to own a big chunk of shares.

It's not an unreasonable view. American public companies have generally become pretty short-sighted, and financial traders are positively myopic. (A friend of mine works for a "medium-term" hedge fund, which he says means they hold shares from hours to days.) If you think a company is better off with a serious long-term focus and a stable power structure, then you're better off betting on something where random stock purchasers don't have control.

Historically, I think this is more common in European family-controlled business empires. But it makes some sense here. Look at how well Amazon, Apple, and Facebook have done with CEOs who have a long-term focus. I'd be happier betting on Bezos, Jobs, or Zuckerberg than J Random CEO, who is much more concerned about hitting quarterly numbers than in maximizing impact on a multi-decade scale.
> A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform a method for X

Translation:

> do X, but with a computer
On the other hand, there is evidence showing that overweight teens engage in riskier sexual practices. That's the problem with this who hypothesis - it's nothing more than an ungrounded "Just So Story" with no evidence.
The Art of Larry Gagosian's Empire
Microsoft would not replace Satya Nadella with Bill Gates at this point. One of the counter points is very clear: they forced Bill to relinquish his chairman role. The board now would never allow Bill to return as CEO unless the company was in extreme crisis and they needed a temporary leader; they successfully just pried Bill's hands off of a big point of control over Microsoft.

There's also no evidence Bill is a stronger candidate to manage the current conglomerate version of Microsoft than Satya (who appears to be doing a fine job so far). Based on the work Bill did the last several years he was actively involved, he has lost a step or three. Further, Bill's age at this point - 60 - is a serious problem, Satya can run Microsoft for 12 years before catching up to that. Jobs by comparison returned to Apple at a mere 42 years old.
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The cynic in me assumes the 40% savings will just get shoveled into the F-35 furnace.
If Zendesk can charge tens of thousands of dollars, why wouldn't cards.is be able to charge approximately the same amount or more?
> Vz went down hill the moment that private property rights were lost.

The problem with that statement is Vz never had real private property rights. Nothing really changed when Chavez came to power other than who was doing taking away.
IIRC it's the "Security Notices" list from https://about.gitlab.com/contact/
Yep, that was the case for me. But two things: One, it's not the boys who decide when sex happens, for the most part, and two, the amount of effort a boy (or a man) is willing to put into wooing a woman depends in some part on how attractive she is to him.
LJS 423, a Spanish manuscript on ciphers from about 1600
Yes, MATLAB is a special case due to it being licensed software.
I've used it in the past by mounting my local MATLAB installation into the container and I think I had to pass the MAC too.
I believe we'll be able to get it to the point where we only need to mount the local license.

We're building a client on top of docker to deal with all this extra functionality. You can think about it like a specialized version of docker-compose
A great idea. Curious about the business model.
They got communism? I don't see the classless, stateless society in Venezuela.
Alternatives to Firing
Amazon guilty of billing parents for children's unauthorized in-app charges
runOnSentencesAsMethodNamesDidNotAppealToYou ?
You might enjoy Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness", which is a smart and personal look at how insane that system is.

After reading that, I ended up explicitly ignoring my portfolio except at rare scheduled intervals. I'm much happier, and I don't think my results are any worse.
So the fattest kids would be teenagers now?
My speculative money is on VR really taking off to the point that Oculus and Oculus content become Facebook's primary source of revenue. The reason tech companies that live for so long become unrecognizable when compared to their original business is because the ones that don't pivot die.
I am also an over 40 developer.

Honestly, the basic gist is this, stay current, pay attention and learn what is coming out and don't criticize what you don't yet know. If you stay current, learn and are always expanding your horizons, your age matters none. In fact, it works for your benefit because few can say they have the experience with the forethought that you can give a topic.

So the basic take away. Continue learning, don't be a dick, and help those coming in behind you. So basically, be a decent person and its amazingly a better place to be.

Sorry but overall that is how I read this.
Releasing the Fairphone 2 Open Operating System
The likely reason that they've pulled Alien Blue is because they're monetizing the new app with large obnoxious ads inserted into the timeline that look like stories (though, in fairness, are clearly marked sponsored).

If monetizing the mobile client becomes a main source of revenue for them you can expect them to pull a move like Twitter did and disable every 3rd party client to force you to use theirs.
The fundamental issue is fairly simple. Chavez was pushing a sort of ethnic nationalism for the mestizo majority. But his supporters just didn't have the technical skills to run an advanced economy.

Instead of trying to fix that his government kept appointing people with degrees in Marxist Studies. Bad decisions were chronically made and the country decayed.

The infrastructure will continue to decay unless the voters find technocrats they trust. Eventually buildings are going to start collapsing.
For me the best part is working from home, without actually working and not being at home.
This is exactly how the market is supposed to work - SpaceX is delivering the same service for a lower price and now ULA is finally forced to put serious effort into competing. I'm curious what they intend to do once the reusable first stage program gets going and launch costs drop even further.
That's a fantasy scenario, wishful thinking.

Facebook won, they locked up the market. The match is over, there will be no meaningful direct challenger in the next 10 or 15 years to what Facebook does at its core.

Facebook is Google, MySpace is AltaVista.
So your Aunt Susan doesn't see the dank memes you posted. Or those photos of what you did last weekend.
Pixel Dungeon is life.
> a dire situation (i.e. mass estrangement)

I don't know - could there be some observation bias given the forum we're discussing this in? It also undermines digital relationships which have their own positives aspects. Here we are having a civil conversation about an important topic without having to commit to meeting at a certain time or place or without knowing what shared interests we have.

The internet can act as a social lubricant of sorts which is valuable. The legacy social lubricant is alcohol.
Childhood includes teenagers.
I think many people in SF have been introduced to the law of supply and the law of demand, they just don't believe in them.

Or they like the way things are, because new housing would driver their property values down.
I'm not sure what you're getting at? This isn't something that'd happen with bitcoin either.
It's easy to hit the downvote button by mistake, especially on mobile. I've done it myself several times.

The upvote/downvote buttons are obviously some kind of in-joke at YC, because otherwise this problem would have been fixed a long time ago.
> your code is now used to take away users freedom

No it's not. My code is still available to any who want it.

Other modifications made to my code may not be free, but that isn't my code, so your statement is incorrect.

Sounds like you're contorting the perspective.

What's ridiculous is that you're presupposing that I don't care about "perpetual freedom." But I do---that's why I released the code into the public domain.

What you seem to be talking about is something quite a bit different. I guess it's, "perpetual freedom of my code and any other modifications distributed by others."

But that doesn't sound as good, now does it? Your phrasing makes it look like I'm so ogre, which is why it's ridiculous and why it's misleading. Your phrasing is also convenient to certain philosophical leanings among programmers, which potentially makes it disingenuous.
You know what this means, right?

Jeff Bezos will increase investment into AWS and Blue Origin, while not investing anything into improving engineer work-life balance.

Seriously, at least cover MSP and transit! Even partially covering a transit pass would be nice!

Sincerely, an Amazon Vancouver SDE I
>Seriously? It would have such an absolutely negligible effect that the only thing more conclusive is your bias.

You sound pretty sure of yourself.

Why is that?
NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report
28c3: Open source music: Tracking 2.0
I think the point is that obesity causes infertility....
Serve first-party ads that integrate well with your content, and establish direct relationships with your advertisers... same as print has done for over a century.
The Pivot Mindset: What It Is and How to Use It
One of the world's most popular pieces of software is distributed under the public domain. I used that term to emphasize the extent to which I care about freedom.

> And talking about how "the original code is free" misses the point

It doesn't miss the point. That the original code is free is a crucial and important point. It just may not be the extent to what you care about, but your phrasing suggests otherwise.

> enslaving users using your software

Enslaving? Oh please.

> arguing that you like permissive licenses while stating that you care about perpetual user freedom is having your cake and eating it.

That's FSF doublethink, plain and simple. Co-opting the word "freedom" was one of the most genius marketing ploys ever done. It's such an overloaded term that nobody will notice, but it's such an enticing term to use to brow beat anyone who disagrees with you into freedom hating slaveowners.
Of course- the internet's effect (as information source) on population rise is presumably largely mediated by contraceptives, but this in itself isn't inconsiderable. With access to information, people can use contraception more effectively and overcome ideological biases that inhibit its use.
Reddit? I see lots of comments about how people are amazed Reddit has remained (or, really, grown) as popular as it is while still having a very "low rent" UI.

I'd actually argue hallelujah that reddit hasn't significantly altered their UI. It may not be pretty, but it doesn't take that long to get used to its quirks, and when you do it is extremely fast and easy to navigate and find meaningful content. I contrast this to slashdot, who proceeded to make their UI WORSE with every update (more "modern" styling and response, but they made it totally broke the usability of their commenting system).
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