skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, having children and having a family are two different if related things. You can have children without having a family, and you can have family without having children. Having children alone does not give you any stronger a support network than you otherwise would have.

Second, if we prioritize being financially secure over having kids early, that /is/ a priority, and criticize that priority all you want, but it is a consciously made and valid choice, and one that does not take away from being "grown up", whatever that means. Settling down and being responsible does not require having children, and as we too often see, the reverse is also true.

Egg harvesting + IVF + surrogate is certainly very expensive. However I doubt it is more expensive than having a nanny for a few years, especially if nothing is done under the table, so for those who have enough money to pay for a full-time nanny, trading the nanny for a surrogate is not necessarily financially illogical.

> You are proposing a world where some privileged "elite" gets to postpone their fertile years and make more money at the expense of poorer women who will nothing but breeders for you, and that in the end might not even be able to have kids of their own.

It's better than a world where the "elite" have to choose between having children early and forgoing earnings (and non-childraising contributions to the world) or not having kids at all and the poor often lack resources to raise children to prevailing standards. If that's a dystopia, then that's one I'd rather live in than the world we have right now.
> A powerful microprocessor in your charger?
> One unexpected component is a tiny circuit board with a microcontroller, which can be seen above. This 16-bit processor constantly monitors the charger's voltage and current. It enables the output when the charger is connected to a Macbook, disables the output when the charger is disconnected, and shuts the charger off if there is a problem. This processor is a Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller, roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh.

I'm not surprised at all. Microcontrollers are ubiquitous. There's little reason to use something like a 555 timer anymore. I wouldn't have been surprised if this had been a 32-bit ARM MCU (or a 8-bit PIC).
What point are you even trying to make?
Now - THAT - sounds awesome
I share your experience - I lived in both Texas and Florida in modest houses, and I think we could take the MID only once.

It's getting to where it's not that clear that a McMansion is a "have" thing, especially if it take maxing out the mortgage.

The real difference between "haves" and "have nots" is their credit rating. In places, the premium for rental may approach 100% of the payment if the same owner occupied the same house in a 20% down mortgage.

But at the same time, people will max the mortgage out, so selling a 3-1 in Manhattan, Ks may be a very real challenge.
>which really is the only beneficent

You may be forgetting the banking sector.
I've been there, and this is a real concern. My cofounder and I both didn't succeed to get our experience really recognised and we both got to start again with entry level jobs. However, we've found that we got up in the ladder quickly. My cofounder is almost CTO again now after only 4-5 years.
There's definitely reason to be optimistic.
Emissions have started decreasing majorly in Europe [1], slightly in the USA [2], and are even leveling off in China [3].
Those three entities account for half the world's emissions.

Solar power has become cheap enough now that it's reasonable for developing countries (especially India) to rely on it heavily as they become fully electrified.

[1]
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...

[2]
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/National...

[3]
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/07/chinas-c...
It seems like if you install a package via a Launchpad PPA, you can be confident it will receive updates along with the rest of your installed packages; if it was from github, you'd have to add a cronjob to pull updates or something else along those lines, which would be more prone to (silently) fail. Though my general experience of PPAs is that they are fairly failure-prone themselves...
All the "we're going to change the world" startups?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-silicon-valley...

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder):
In Silicon Valley few entrepreneurs and technologists dream of changing the zip code, or even the state. Here, the goal is to change the world"

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-worl...

The phrase “change the world” is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of “early-stage investing” and “beta tests.”

ad for the University of San Francisco that I spotted on a public bus shelter south of Market Street: “Become wildly successful without becoming a jerk no one likes. Change the world from here.”

https://medium.com/the-mission/silicon-valley-has-a-problem-...

https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=eK52augjU98C&pg=PA97&lp...

... and many, many more.

It paint Silicon Valley as an utopian, idealistic band of technocrats wanting to change the world (which can be interpreted as building a just society, might be a stretch). I'm in Uruguay (South America), and that's very definitely the perception I have (I haven't been to the U.S.)
Postrges: Why we lost Uber as a user
Maybe it's just someone who's aware that homicide is a leading cause of death of children, and that neglect at an abusive level is very common in childhood?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-34491753

> A mother has been jailed for five years after her toddler son drowned in a pond while she chatted on Facebook.

> Claire Barnett pleaded guilty at Hull Crown Court to four charges of neglect.

> The court heard the 31-year-old was on Facebook instead of supervising Joshua, two, while he was in the back garden.

> Prosecutors said Barnett was told to cover the pond by relatives and had been warned by social services after two of her children were nearly run over while playing unsupervised.

Or maybe this one?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/nov/17/binge-mother-drug...

> Stark photographs have emerged of the home in which a 22-year-old woman abandoned her four children for 24 hours while she went on a drink and drugs binge. The pictures show their pitiable attempts to find some food in the family kitchen.

There are countless others.

If social services are only having a chat it doesn't seem too onerous. Obviously how they have that chat makes a difference, and it's a bad thing if they leap in with over restrictive "protective measures" in families that don't need it.
Well then, I'm a long way from CA, but I'm still rooting for them.
Didn't realize that was part of it. But yea, creating a dummy gmail address and only use it for Pokemon Go seems extremely easy to do and not get caught.
This is just amazing. One percenter gives us some imbecile advice like defer gratification and don't buy a house. What is worse, he actually has the audacity to suggest to keep having children. Newsflash for you, Mr. Beck, the world is overpopulated and the planet is crumbling under our weight and impact. But then again, as a corporation, FB needs a constant stream of customers to assure growth, so keep breeding, sheeple, 1% needs its money.

Mr. Beck should get hell for the advice like that, if, of course, the breeding masses are aware of our predicament.
I usually skip feature flags for things like bug fixes where the risk that my 'fix' is actually worse than the initial bug is very small, or changes where it cannot make sense to have both modes operating at once. An example of this might be a new billing scheme, where the old system billed by the item, and the new system billed by the pound. There might not be a technical reason why both cannot co-exist, but it would cause marketing/support headaches to have some customers billed one way, and some billed another.

One surprising use case that I have had great success with, though, is in database migrations. I detailed my approach here, if you are interested: http://blog.launchdarkly.com/feature-flagging-to-mitigate-ri...
Singapore definitely has some of the worst driving standards of any major city I've lived in around the world, so if you can stand up against them with a self-driving car, that is definitely promising.
Those externalities are already being paid.
And it is a way to a job serfdom - the cost of unemployment is greater. And - is anything worth risking my family health plans for?

Employer provided insurance should stop existing.
Ironically made by... HTC. (The Rift is probably the first FB consumer device where they were completely responsible for the hardware.)
> Please don't reference Mother Jones. It's incredibly biased.

What specifically do you disagree with in the linked timeline?

> mental health, is complicated and there isn't one reason or person for the way things are...
Blaming Reagan ignores the dact that new antipsychotics were developed that allowed patients that were previous confinded to institutions to be released to the community.

The linked timeline mentions these and doesn't "blame Reagan for everything". However the current context of this discussion is slashed budgets for mental health inpatient care and comparisons to the Reagan administration are both obvious and relevant.
Like the guy you replied to, I don't want any tone inferred into my question.

Those points you made, while worrisome, are not "civilization-ending" or catastrophic. Is there worse, or is that what you expect to continue?
Pokemon Go launched in Brazil
AV1 royalty-free video codec from AOM (Google,Mozilla,Cisco,Intel,Microsoft,...)
Uh.. The fact that FB is fully capable of pressing a button to turn off the stream suggests that they are, in fact, responsible for its broadcast.
The equivalent in the UK (MIRAS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage_interest_relief_at_so...) was abolished in 2000 without too much fuss.
Or, for that matter:

3 Unlucky people who have a tendency to get hired just before the company changes course and begins laying people off

That was the case with my last employer. Right after I was hired, our revenue sources began to dry up, and we couldn't stop the bleeding, so eventually a third of the company, including me, got laid off. I lasted 15 months before the axe fell, and I was worried when applying for new positions that my resume would be thrown out because I was there less than two years.
It's in the first page of the user's comment history, not that hard to find on a quick skim.
What about implementing an equivalent deduction for renters? I know renters theoretically benefit from their landlord's deduction, but that only applies if the landlord is carrying a mortgage, and tax benefits for landlords have a dubious record of filtering down to renters.
I think Lisp is the best all-rounder. If it isn't the best at something, you can MAKE it the best.
> NT-esque architecture of a decoupled microkernel-ish design running in one address space

Given Mr Dillon's background I'd have called it Amiga-ish, but perhaps that's just nme.
Actually, the narrative today is to take up arms against the haters and anyone who tries to get between you and your dreams.
I think we're going to apply for Stripes Bring Your Own Team where they hire functional teams. Haven't decided to disband yet, we based it on time and revenue requirements for ourselves.
I bought my first house and only made 4 payments which brought me over the standard deduction. I only put 5% down though and I live in a more expensive area than most.
That would start a flamewar. Don't forget marshmallows.
You don't need a role model that has the same skin colour as you to be motivated to do stem or specifically get into programming. Stop caring about what people look like. stop trying to control how the industry hires because that's not the problem. People don't do programming or science because it's hard. Most people that go to university don't even improve or add to the field they studied. Let people choose for themself what they want to do and stop worrying about things that don't matter. Nobody is crying about the lack of diversity in nursing or finance or social work or whatever it is kids choose to study these days.
FASM Docker container
Hi! Just sharing my new FASM docker container :)

https://hub.docker.com/r/guitmz/fasm/
Which is the team and which is the place? Those are both place names to me.
They haven't nailed execution and/or experience. Simple as that. Do they have time to fix it? Maybe. But it's going to be a battle and it doesn't seem like they are in fighting mode.
Worth noting that Dalvik/ART has very different performance characteristics than a desktop or server JVM (many of the optimizations that proguard does matter a ton on Android where they wouldn't matter very much at all with the jvm).
I was about to wonder aloud why there can't be more private, for-profit mental health facilities instead of private prisons, as huge swathes of the incarcerated population are very mentally unwell and probably do need to be in custody but would likely benefit tremendously from a less oppressive setting. Surely there could be some profit to be extracted by privatization there.

Then I realized it's because they couldn't make mental health patients do slave labor, and why leave all that money on the table when the facilities they'd be building are basically the same, as are the people they'll be housing, once they and their political allies have successfully choked out the public mental health system. Ah the glory of the free market.
Racing with or Against the Machine? Evidence from Europe
>> When are those conditionals deleted?

> For us, almost never.

That's dangerous. I remember an incident in which a team accidentally emptied their production experiment config (which controls which features are on: during ramp-up as a whitelist of enabled users and/or a percentage in (0%, 100%); most experiments in the file had long since reached 100%). Suddenly all their experiments reverted to 0% and they were serving live traffic in a totally untested state. Some of these experiments had been on for literally years and now suddenly were off. The combination of experiments had never been tested. There had also been many changes to the code since most of these had last been disabled. As you might expect, this didn't go well.

(That incident could also be part of a long and sad cautionary tale about the dangers of global configuration files, btw.)

The best practice I've seen is for the configuration to specify an end date for each experiment. If it's still listed in that date, a ticket is automatically filed against the defined "owner" of the experiment. The ticket reminds the owner to finish the experiment, remove the conditionals from the code, do a release, wait until they're confident there will be no roll-back to prior to that release, and then remove the experiment from the config.
Even if a tax break is simply lowering a marginal rate (which it rarely is), it's not like enforcing a 36% tax is less costly than enforcing a 40% one.
> requires you to implement power factor correction (PFC), which makes complexity balloon

Depends on how much is required and what your size limits are. Apple used active PFC here to minimize the size of the brick. An ATX desktop or server supply might be able to get away with passive PFC, which is not very complicated but tends to be bulky.
> potential threats

Well, since "sex crime" (to the extent that this is even a cognizable category at all) has such a low recidivism rate, it's reasonable to say that they're aren't much of a threat to begin with.

More than 90% of the perpetrators of crimes against children, including sex crimes, are personally known to those children.
A paper proposing nearly complete anonymity for all Bitcoin transactions
The ACA was directionally correct in terms of the individual mandate though, and hard enough to pass as it was. I would expect with a Hillary presidency we'll see more progress made towards separating employment and healthcare.
If you want to learn more about Gary, watch the Computer Chronicles on YouTube or Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

Gary was a regular on the show, and talked about everything from programming to printers over the course of many years on the program.

This episode in particular is all about Gary: https://archive.org/details/GaryKild
Why Tokyo is the land of rising home construction–but not prices
Reminds me of the days when port scanning was considered malicious
Of course, MS was also not as willing to provide the MS-DOS OAKs/BAKs to random users than DR was with CP/M. When they finally stopping copying the model before OS/2 1.0 was released, they still did things like putting the floppy and hard drive drivers in the same file.
Another way to look at it: if you think Trump won't go through with his insanities, you're not scared enough.

One example: Trump said he would refuse to honor US debts, just as he has successfully refused to honor his own debts so many times. Even the smallest credible threat of devaluing US Treasury bonds would be an economic disaster.
Given that deductions come out of top bracket income, it might be more fair to adjust the brackets and reduce the standard deduction.

Of course it all depends on what the hell fair means. The people with income in higher brackets are still paying more taxes after deductions.
Underwater in the Las Vegas Desert, Years After the Housing Crash
Can we get a list of swimming pools and lakes and ensure there are no pokestops near them as well?

I'm pretty sure far more children drown in bodies of water than are harmed by sex offenders on parole.
> but is an untenable conclusion if housing is supplied in a competitive market

Housing is not a very competitive market. Entitlements (whoever first claims land can generally hold onto it) and policy (predominantly zoning), leads housing stock to be fairly inelastic to demand, and those supplying housing tend to be price-takers.
Heh, yeah. It suddenly looks a lot better.
You are a dodecacorn!
The first line of the article is this:

"CLAIM: Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case."

That was the claim I referenced.
You are misinformed.
(Stupidly, IMO), many sex offenders in NY are indeed completely banned from using the Internet.
Why would a political party in florida have anything to do with florida's budget on defense spending

states don't spend any money on defense

sounds like you had something to say, but got lost along the way
Comcast supports higher prices for customers who want Web privacy
> Oh the horror of children exploring the physical world. They're not safe unless kept inside!

That's actually a major factor of our current social and political context of the last several decades, driven by a media-fueled public misperception of a rising tide of stranger-perpetrated crimes against children (even though the actual rates of such crimes have been decreasing, not increasing, for decades -- even during much of the period where the general crime rate actually increasing.)
Understanding Security by Country – A Look at SSL Usage
A lot of us have been there. Hell, I'm there now, but in a far more mild way than I have been in the past, luckily for me. It got so bad at one point a few years ago that I wound up taking four whole months of medical leave due to severe depression and panic attacks, so I know how bad it can be, and you have my sympathy. If you think it would help, you might look into doing the same.

I know it can be super hard to motivate yourself to take the necessary steps when you're depressed, but hopefully the thought of some relief is enough of a motivator, if only barely. The first step is to see a psychiatrist if you haven't already.

If you need/want someone (not a mental health professional) to talk to, my e-mail address is in my profile. Either way, I hope things get better for you soon :)
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Front-end Software Engineer: Our front-end is driven by React/Redux, Sass, Bootstrap, and we recently released a new section of our iOS app powered by React Native. You would join an excellent product team of 4 software engineers and 2 designers.

Requirements:

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- Expert-level fluency in Javascript and one modern front-end framework.

- Experience with OOCSS methodologies and an almost unhealthy obsession with keeping CSS (Sass) clean and scalable.

- Experience with modern front-end build tools (Babel, Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, etc).

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- You’re opinionated and care intensely about the little details that make a great user experience.

Senior Fullstack Engineer: Our server-side code is powered by Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Redis.

Requirements:

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Reference for people like me who didn't recognize the acronym OAK: "OEM Adaptaion Kit", <http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-dos-oaks/>
How Data/Analytics Revitalizes Your Business
but the difference in rates is big enough to be worth some risk

It is, and I won't even try and argue against that. However, short term capital gains are taxed at the same rate as my ordinary income. In the worst case, when I make money my tax situation is no worse than if I made the money working. That's good enough for me to just not spend the CPU cycles. Yeah, yeah, in some situations I'm leaving money on the table. I don't care because I'd rather spend the limited cycles I have for investing in finding the next good pick, not tax avoidance. At the very best, I can save 28% on taxes. Spending my time finding good companies, however, can do much better than that (see: TSLA, AAPL in the 2000s, et. al.). I'm also lazy, and find tax stuff boring in comparison to evaluating whether now is a good time to get into Lending Club.

Another way to look at it is with an eye toward always preserving capital. IOW, if I'm getting taxed I'm making money (and therefore not losing it). However, I could screw around with some tax avoidance scheme and end up losing money. I'd rather break even or slightly below than lose money; live to trade another day. So most of the time I set an 8% trailing stop and call it a day, let the machines worry about it.

This isn't investment advice, and even if it were there are a lot of unspoken assumptions that I haven't outlined. It's probably not even the smartest way to maximize gains. But for me, personally, it's the right combination of not overthinking it, not spending time obsessing over my portfolio, and still making positive returns. And last time I looked it up, I've had two negative years in the last sixteen. So it works for me (though at my age I need to start looking less at the TSLA's and more at those sexy, sexy bonds).