skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that overleveraged companies tend to outcompete more conservative ones in the short term, they just have more weight to throw. And if enough of them go down at the same time, the resulting slump won't do decent investors any good either.
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I think it's ridiculous for us to look for alien civilizations. Why would any intelligent person think that civilizations are stable? I mean, would you really think such a system is stable: Billions of independent sentient planet-polluting evolving biological machines with their own goals continually rewriting their own software (culture) and exponentially increasing their capabilities and rates of change? That has Chaos written all over it.

Whatever prospers and lasts in the universe as we know it isn't going to be anything like a civilization. It's certainly going to be nothing like our civilization. In fact, if there is a galactic meta-"society" of some sort, then one should think they'd disdain a chaotic exponentially-expanding civilization in much the same was as we'd individually view an incontinent, incoherent, and violent member of our own species.

The fact that we'd expect other civilizations out there is just evidence of our own parochial bias. The stark truth of the Fermi Paradox is that civilizations as we conceive of them simply don't last very long -- which also matches everything we as a civilization have come to know about systems that resemble our civilization. If "we" are going to last, "we" will have become something hard to comprehend and hard to accept by our present day selves.

https://xkcd.com/638/

https://xkcd.com/1377/
While the phone is locked, double click the home button and leave your thumb rested on the button for a second. It will set up an Apple Pay payment and leave it ready to go. It lasts for 60 seconds before requiring authorisation again.

So simply preload the transaction as you're walking to the barrier, then touch your phone on the reader. Usually it is fractionally faster than contactless cards.
Last year I developed tendonitis from bad laptop posture and stress. Any attempt to put my hands towards 'keyboard' position was extremely painful in both forearms.

It was kinda mindbending just how useless I felt without my hands to type at my computer... I felt like I was missing a part of myself.

It still flares up occasionally, I'm much more careful with my hands now.

Hands, man.
What if we had an web API for using client certificates? Would that help with usability?
Good recruiters absolutely do exist. I've met them at local tech meetups.
Our app is like Tinder for networking and we're looking for Beta testers
We found a "build relationships" type recruiter, but he keeps trying to take us out to basketball games, etc. That's fine but uncomfortable because we can't guarantee him any new business. We haven't hired anyone since the last placement and aren't likely to soon.
Yahoo.

Mayer is a very competent woman, as anyone at Google would tell you.
I mean, we're already pretty good, but we really want some feedback so we can be the best.
Plus, you can help us out, and while you're collecting karma points for that, maybe you'll spend them right away on a life-changing connection.
I think what a lot of people are ignoring in big cities demand for affordable apartments is much higher than supply. What I see happening a lot, is that people are renting apartments just to put it up on airbnb. I really don't think its a deal with hotels and more to do with this problem of available affordable housing.
I've seen similar thoughts, but where the backing product was the pension fund. In addition to the benefits you already listed, because the pension fund is communal, it encourages police officers to keep their brethren on the up and up, as the results of misconduct are now distributed amongst the entirety of the police force.

On the flip side, I worry that it would have the opposite effect of thickening the blue line, as officers are more and more incentivized towards cover up.
"Who says that guns would be adequate to the task against the well-equipped US military?"

I have often seen this argument made, but do not find it persuasive. For one, the U.S. military has famously had trouble fighting insurgents in numerous recent conflicts. For another, you are assuming that the "U.S. military" is a monolithic whole that would automatically be on the side of the government. From my reading of history, it is quite rare for the entire military to be on the same side of a civil war. Certainly that was not the case in this country; the U.S. Civil War had West Point graduates in command on both sides.

Heck, Grant and Longstreet (who was one of the Southern commanders at Gettysburg) were close friends at West Point, and Grant was married to one of Longstreet's cousins.

I note in passing that a Military Times poll had Obama losing the military vote to Romney by 40 points.
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Yes, but it's terrible design to use this in a dynamic interpreter. You can either use a proper text type or use identifier substitution.
Good luck with Bugsee! Thanks for sharing your experience.

I love this advice you got from your investor:

"If you’re going to do anything within the restaurant industry, IMHO it would have to be done in such a way that the restaurants come to you and you don’t have to go and sell to them. Otherwise the cost of customer acquisition with a sales team ends up being way too high, slow to scale, and just painful." ~ Manu
It is derived from that word, similar to a common saying ertsnats in the small town my grandparents grew up in, which comes from ersatz. shrug
Might turn nasty but you could always reward people that rat on other cops.
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>CC fees for merchants can range up to 4%, most of it goes to the CC providers.

It mostly seems smaller merchants simply don't switch their acquirer to get cheaper rates and complain about "high costs". FWIW, credit cards are capped at 0.3% interchange (which is what the bank gets), debit cards at 0.2% since last year. Scheme fees for MasterCard/Visa are peanuts and even AmEx doesn't cost 4%.

For example see https://www.cashforless.de.

Visa/MasterCard credit and debit 0.98%
German debit (girocard) 0.25%
"What people don't understand is that people who do crazy stuff like this are not crazy. They are mostly doing what any reasonable logical person would do. They've just gotten to the bottom of the list."

This is a very important point. Anyone who reads an article like this and concludes that the self-inoculating patients are "crazy" has probably never suffered from a serious, quality-of-life-threatening autoimmune condition. I haven't myself, but an ex of mine suffers from Crohn's Disease; when it's at its worst, it seems to inflict severe misery.
BTW, I can even introduce you to some if you'd like. Send me an email at jason@benfranklinlabs.com and I'd be happy to make an intro. (I'm a freelancer too.)
NPRs Planet Money did a total fluff piece[0] where they talked about how slow chip cards were, and why they couldn't be adopted in the US because of the speed.

In Europe, even when being abroad (if that makes a difference), I have never had any issues with delays or payments, it only takes 1-2 seconds.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/04/13/474135422/episo...
It would be really interesting to see long-term stats on success rates of founders who pivoted vs those who persevered with the original idea.
The problem is that each tax payer is only affected a slight amount such that no one has a strong incentive to force accountability.
How does a traffic stop turn into assault, kidnapping, and false imprisonment. Why has this become a norm? The police have a duty to protects us from these exact crimes. If they commit the crimes themselves and we just pay them on admin leave because they deserve due process too. How can we resolve this? Whats to prevent them from doing it. Jailing them isn't working. We are jailing them right? Will it ever stop?

We're essentially paying for them to commit crime that we end up paying for with settlements. It takes away from other things in the budget. The city pays settlements, now the city needs money for school programs, and the rest of the public services. Police are working overtime. They get stressed out. They beat some guy up and then the cycle starts over again.

The city in turn needs state money, the state needs federal money. They don't have it so they print more up. Somewhere in another part of the country is another state sucking dick for federal money. It's one of the many reasons our deficit is the way it is. At what point do we say enough is enough. We can't keep spending money on this shit. Where is the accountability? I apologize for being crass. But we're literally paying for all of it.
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I wanted to like Borges, but could never get into him. His writing usually has interesting ideas in it, but once I finish one of his stories I never think about it again. Maybe I just don't like short stories.
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It's been a while, but...

Biology doesn't introduce any explanatory power that couldn't, in principle, be done by chemistry. Likewise, chemistry and physics. But they ain't nobody as is gonna work out the mating behavior of tree frogs from quantum mechanical first principles. That was, I thought, the point of the intentional stance: if you assume consciousness, you get a good model to understand behavior; if you don't, you may, in principle, be able to get a good model but you have a much greater distance to go.
Hacker news folks are just suckers for these stories
Let's put this another way. Would you, if given the option, go through this humiliation for 220k? I wouldn't. Not even for 2 million.
Interesting. But I need my own server to run pushpin?
Sometimes I got to talking to my passengers, and they'd soon ask, "what are you doing driving a taxi?" They thought someone with a very expensive college degree ought to be doing something more remunerative.

Intelligence is not genetic, it is cultivated. I grew up upper-middle-class, and my mother made an effort to feed us well.

John Taylor Gatto says [1][2] that public schools are specifically designed to dumb down the vast majority of its conscripts, which makes sense to me.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=OYzvBFsob0oC&printsec=fron...
[2] https://libcom.org/library/against-school-john-taylor-gatto
No that is actually a pretty typical placebo response for diarrhea or bowel movements. See my other comment here for specific details.
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Just tested it in some different editors with some javascript because I care way too much about editors or something.

Sublime Text 3 captures the independent 'i' correctly. Though it also picks it up in comments and strings.

VS Code incorrectly highlighted all instances of the character 'i', even if it was part of another symbol. "Change All Occurrences" affected all instances of the character 'i'.

Atom doesn't appear to have this feature without plugins (though someone should correct me if I'm wrong).

IntelliJ and it's variants handled it perfectly, even understanding the actual variable, rather than just the symbol. "Rename All" would ask if I wanted to affect strings and comments, or just code (if there was an ' i ' in a string or comment, otherwise it wouldn't prompt), and it would only rename the variable within the correct scope. I tried it with both var and let.

I would try more, but I think I'm wasting too much time, haha. But moreover, like others are saying, I can't think of a time where I've ever actually wanted to do that. Renaming all instances of a single letter variable? Generally the single letter is a very common convention I wouldn't change (i,j,k, u, x,y, _), or is in a very small, uncomplicated function where I wouldn't need a text editor's help to rename it because it only occurs once or twice. Anything more advanced than that gets a more verbose name that any of these editors could easily ctrl+F.
Does it? Fuck them over, that is?

The taxi driver is just trying to reduce his costs; he could allow riders to negotiate cheaper prices, benefiting everyone.
Citation needed. I found the following after a quick search: http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/life_history/age-specifi...

That seems to indicate that age specific mortality rates _have_ decreased across the board, not just infant mortality. And it also backs up that our in-city lifespans used to be ~30-35 after juveniles. To be clear, that's exactly the figure I'm interested in, not maximum lifespan. If, on average, most adults die around 30-35 2000 years ago and today most adults die around 70, then that, to me, is a clear indication that human driven engineering/science is succeeding on average compared to evolution and that our technologies (in particular, our synthetic chemicals) are more trustworthy than nature's.

> While quality of life wasn't always great

We've eliminated or nearly eliminated a great number of diseases in the modern age. These are diseases which don't reduce quality of life; they kill. You don't go from a bacterial infection to "Well, I'm alive, but my quality of life is worse". You just die. You don't get tetanus and have a sore jaw for the rest of your life; you die. You don't get diabetes and just live the rest of your life with high/low blood sugar. You pass out and die one day. These are all diseases which have existed through all of human history which by necessity of their mortality rates and incidences of occurrence must have increased the age specific mortality rates for all ages. We've cured these, and so age specific mortality rates must have decreased. If today we replaced all sugars with artificial sweeteners the same thing would happen; lower age specific mortality rates.
It can absolutely be abused, but that really just proves the point of the statement, that people tend to make biased and wrong decisions when they don't apply thorough logic. For clarity, it could have been "absence of evidence is not sufficient evidence of absence," but it just doesn't sound as nice. But it in that form and how it's intended by logicians, it's perfectly valid.
> I don't know what bubble you live in tbh.

Shrug. 4G just happens to work for me I guess. There's nothing wrong with the technology, but a lot is wrong with some carriers.

I honestly don't understand how people put up with carriers like AT&T and Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. Their plans are (almost) 10 years behind in performance and 10 years ahead in price.

I have 50 down/10 up 4G from work and "unlimited Mbps"/50 Mbps private, practically it's about 100-150/50 Mbps. My phone is capable of 450 Mbps, that shouldn't be the limiting factor. Neither have caps nor throttling. Some months I use almost 100 GB. Ping to my home server is about 15-20 ms (fiber).
It's a reference to https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
Because it serializes the operation, whereas printing as you go operates in parallel.

But the modern thermal receipt printers are pretty fast (the old dot-matrix ones weren't). Epson has one that does 350 mm/sec (13.75 inches per second). So as long as you aren't shopping at CVS with their infamously long receipts, it's not too long of a wait.
Very good read! Thank you for sharing your experience. Good luck with Bugsee and all the best to you and your team.
While on the one hand I agree with you, Google, Facebook and most consulting firms (I doubt they're that little) don't need you to fill their recruiting pipeline. You know they pay well, so obviously you're more likely to want to place with them.

When my small team went for our last engineering hire (a senior), we had to actually seek out a recruiter on our own to find someone for us. We posted in all of the usual places and went to meetups to network -- recruiters just didn't bother to connect with us until we cold-called them going "we're offering this much money". Only two of the ten or so we spoke to would we consider using again.

I'm sorry, but your profession is generally lazy.
Because the victim was provided "shut up" money courtesy the tax payers.
> Maybe just live in a third-world country for 2 weeks or 2 months, eating local street food, raw fruits, drinking local water would be easier and more effective to acquire 'necessary' parasites (along with parasites' cultivation conditions) to subdue such immune system 'imbalance'?

This is also a good way to make yourself really really sick. You can end up with hepatitis A, amoebic dysentery, cholera, typhoid, etc.

Or even if it’s just giardia and cryptosporidium (I assume these are among the “necessary parasites”?) folks who are immune-comporomised can end up in real danger.
If they're actually newcomers, any way is going to be a totally different way, right?
I had to laugh about

>This concept of “if you control the altitude you can actually control roughly where they go” was something Space Data demonstrated in February 2008 to Larry Page personally with over a dozen balloons in the sky which were actively flying at Space Data’s network control center."

for just this reason. The "concept" is, and has been for 300 years, the realization that allowed balloonists to steer their craft.

I suspect they have a point, though, even if it's not well made. If they've done enough experimentation to prove they can maintain the position of their balloons at all times (or nearly so) well enough to create a reliable network, that probably qualifies as a trade secret. Knowing that something is possible gets you halfway to copying it.
> They are bigint-encoding identifiers? There is no sane reason to do this.

There needn't be any "encoding" really. Modern CPUs have a 32-bit compare instruction. The CPU doesn't understand types as a compiler does; it will accept any aligned series of 4 bytes as a comparand. Some implementations of strcmp use that. Forcing the identifiers to 4 bytes eliminates some if-else edge casing before the compare, which might speed things up.

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about urbit. I agree such an optimization is surprising. The more normal pattern is to convert human-readable symbols to integers early, thus avoiding string comparison in performance-critical sections.
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Because the victim was provided "shut up" money courtesy the tax payer.
If their efforts were actually productive, which they aren't, it wouldn't bother me so much. Their reward depends on everyone else paying higher costs but not getting the reward

The whole shenanigans is only possible because the issuers have a monopoly where the merchant can't charge the true cost of a transition to each specific consumer. If the consumer was paying for his own kickback, the whole party would end. It works because of obfuscation and free loading off others, especially those who pay by debit card and cash.
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Oh, changing the filter definitely changes the timbre, but that's not what I meant. Even with a symmetric filter using only two values[0], there will still be an audible difference. The point of using the symmetric filter wasn't to get a more correct timbre, but to avoid changing the fundamental frequency.

Timbre is not the same as fundamental frequency. A guitar, a piano or a violin playing the same note, say, a middle C, will have wildly different timbres, but they should have the same fundamental frequency (261 Hz). That's what allows them to play together in orchestras. However, if you use, say 50 samples per buffer and a sample rate of 8192, with your original filter you won't get a frequency of 163.84 Hz, but 8192/49.5 = 165.49 Hz. That might look like a small difference, but to our ears it sounds wildly out of tune. You can use a tone analyzer app to verify it.

Thanks for the shout out :) I know I'm nitpicking :p

0: like for example, replacing with the average of the two surrounding values
People who have done the job before can both understand the needs of the position, and properly vet the candidates.

Unfortunately the industry economics encourage short-termism so it can be hard to sort through the sleazeballs, and the honest ones can find themselves out of work in a down market.
Need a contingency agreement to get paid anything significant. Doesn't make much sense since a good referral is worth a lot no matter what source it comes from.

Right now I find out as much as I can about a company and if I like them I try to get an agreement. If I can't and a candidate seems like a perfect match I'll still refer them just bc I'm trying to build out relationships with the hopes of getting an agreement for the next one.

As I build out my sourcing tools I'm using and automating more of my business I will either sell my tools, get agreements with everyone, experiment with all alternative payment methods (retained agreements, SaaS model, etc), or all of the above.

I like the outlook in the industry though. Lots of players but lots of room for growth esp. b/c looking at eng- lots of future demand for jobs, lots of companies moving between stages (startup to big co), and lots of companies bad at retaining employees.
Could you explain your app in one sentence without 'like Tinder for'?
Like, TLS client certificates? No. The TLS handshake needs to occur before any other content is exchanged. This is a user-agent problem to solve, not a code-executing-inside-the-user-agent problem.

If you meant some other notion of 'client certificates', that's called a password manager.
Not very common. But you're right you do not want to be in the seedier parts of town. It's usually random as they pick and choose, they're not stupid. I live in one of the seediest parts in a small major city in the north east. And the police will stop you for being a different color. Yep you guessed it...white. My friends have been stopped multiple times for those exact reasons. or because they have a shitty car, or seemed disoriented because they're not familiar with the one way traps.
In the vast majority of cases the accepted answer is the most upvoted answer http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/178439/can-we-exempt...

But then again: the most upvoted answer doesn't mean that it is the most correct (whatever it means) one. Though likely it is.
Other people have explained the reference, but as for what it means: AFAIK it basically means to produce a binary tree with the same values but with parent-child relationships reversed.
Unfortunately he really only writes short stories. Some of his work is even shorter (like most of the work in Dreamtigers). I would give the stories there a try, as they don't take very long to read and will almost certainly stay with you.

https://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/09/13/a-problem/

(dreamtigers): https://thefloatinglibrary.com/borges/
Who does this refer to?
It means take a binary tree and invert it. On a white board. You have 20 minutes otherwise we're not interested :)

Edit: tough crowd
Nice one.

Another option is `date -u`, which can be put in the MacOS menu bar with bitbar, https://getbitbar.com/
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I read that as weasel word bullshit. The lowest possible rate would be 0.
cyarvin: As Dijkstra said: "the purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise."

So, for instance, Urbit has three abstract concepts matching the word "type", as normally used: "span" (set of nouns), "mold" (constructor), and "mark" (external/MIME type). It's not just that it's confusing to assign the word "type" arbitrarily to one of these (it will still be used indiscriminately for all, and is).

Yes, it would be confusing to assign the word "type" to these concepts. Which is why we don't do that! We use "constructor" for an operation that instantiates a type, "external representation" ("printed rep", etc) for how we encoded it for storage and transport, and "domain" for the set of values belonging to a data type.