skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very cheapest medical plan I can find (as a healthy young person) post-ACA is $200. ACA definitely made health insurance more expensive for some categories of people and is a real burden on freelancers.
The downside is that you need to be a landlord and this can be a risky proposition. You have to navigate a potential mine-field of tenant friendly regulations and pray that a tenant doesn't destroy your property.
If you define "make sense" as "having an explanation not rooted in the supernatural", then yes.

By that definition, Brainf*ck[1] also makes sense.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Say you have a small factory ,employing 50 older welders doing a risky job at relatively little pay.

Say you need 10 more welders - but those guys really don't like risk so they would need a big increase in the salary, maybe 50%-100%. But you know that than the word will get out and the older workers will demand similar salaries.

So it's a big jump in total labor-costs per work-unit. And let's not forget - revenue per employee can be quite limited in many places. So maybe paying low is the better state for the business.
I have similar experience. My father's German-descended family lives in St. Louis, and they still say it. I asked my mother as a child, and she had a similar answer to your mom.
Corporate and local government bureaucracy.

I've lived in very affluent neighborhoods that have access to a single, shitty, ISP. So even when you can afford the inflated and outrageous prices you're still at the mercy of an incredibly corrupt and poor preforming corporation.
Vanguard is considered the best in the business.
We're using https://geekbot.io at Goldbely to organize this.

Handy to have the Slack bot remind us in the morning so no one forgets.
Don't forget the "Appease my manager so he can feel good that people are doing work" standup.
There's a lot of others though.

- Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, is having similar CEO problems as NEST. Word has it Verily has a whole lot of nothing to show for all the money they've blown so far.

- Chris Urmson just left the Self-Driving Car program. From my understanding, of whatever the Self-Driving Car program allegedly managed to do (debatable), Urmson was pretty key in them doing it.

- Google Fiber just backed out of plans to dig fiber for a whole bunch of cities they said they would, and are now looking at some cheaper wireless broadcast option.

Also, I am almost certain that Tony Fadell was actually "fired". Being fired is always phrased as "resigning" when you're that rich. But yeah, NEST has been a paperweight since Google bought it. The only thing they've done is rebranded Dropcam. And apparently ruined the Dropcam team while doing it.
Sorry, but this is flat out wrong. I had a protracted exchange with your support and unfortunately I could not get past your first level support who and I do mean this harshly, sounded like they didn't pass first year business school.

I tried to speak to a manager who actually had a clue with business and was denied. In fact, I was pushed from pillar to post and spoke with 6 different people from the first tier support team.

It was at this point, I thought stripe was some fly by night operation, not garnering the level of praise that technical people here on hackernews were giving. Definitely not.

I think in future, should someone present you with a case that falls outside your remit. But is willing to do whatever it takes to work with you. You give them the benefit of the doubt and at least try to help them. In my case, you did not and that's not really great. In fact, you turned me into an enemy who went out to his community and turned a lot of people off you and onto your competitors.
Body cameras solve this problem.
"Instead, because the website has explicit tutorials, it still falls under the umbrella of unsupportable businesses."

The excuse given here for this instance (OMGYes) is directly from the POV of Stripe, not their mysterious shady partners holding them back.

From my POV, they may not have meant it that way, but in this day and age there's always tradeoffs to actions. They opted for the economical one (work with partners) at the expense of making an actionable statement ("we refuse to work with X because of Y"). Words are cheap and they are just cashing in on the modern doublespeak: speak for change in the "honest and open" way but keep your actions opaque so all people can really evaluate is the positive sentiment.

Nothing wrong with this, more positive discussions are needed. But I don't weigh them as heavily positive as others.
I found a happy medium in working remotely from a vacation spot one week a month. On months where I didn't want to take a week, we spent a weekend somewhere. This worked fine with two kids under four. Admittedly I was already in my thirties and perfectly happy with my life.
If you disguise it so that a constantly updating piece of software can't recognise it that means you've disguised it enough that the ad blocker creators can no longer tell it's an ad - Which is illegal in at least the UK, EU and US.
Key management. It is easy to recall and/or rotate keys.
Actually Understanding Timezones in PostgreSQL
'screencapture' and the sandbox in macOS Sierra
Probably 1746 confirmed but undoubtedly more.
I haven't found something I enjoy, mostly. This feeds into not prioritizing it, as other people have already noted, "Preferring doing just about anything else", which leads into feeling like there isn't time for it...

In theory the trick is finding something I enjoy, but I haven't had a good track record there.
The Greatest Cognitive Dissonance Trap of All Time
Time and energy. I used to exercise a lot. Last year I ran a mile a day and this year I was going to the gym three times a week and regularly played basketball after work.

However when I got back home after a workout, all I could do was sit down and relax for the rest of the evening. I didn't have the energy to get behind the computer and work on any side projects.

For the past two months I've given up exercise for multiple side projects. I'll probably switch back again since I tend to get anxiety and the only cure for it has been running.
What a confusing article and discussion! I have a vague feeling we are witnessing a very significant breakdown of something, but I'm not sure what it is. So I'll just post some random thoughts

- The idea of educating intelligenzia by having them work on the fields for a year sounds a bit too much like the cultural revolution of China in the 1960's. It was bad.

- It seems very silly to me to question the value of education. Learning about earlier mistakes is a great way to avoid repeating those mistakes. Learning is good.

- If education is only available for those with a lot of wealth, it certainly brings about both an alienating effect and a lot of bitterness. That's too bad. I'm from a country with free universities and government subsidized students' loans. I think it's a good system, couldn't have afforded any university education without it, being from a poor family.

- In the discussion an idea seems to loom that a less informed opinion is evened out by the fact that more people share it. This I can not abide, although it is the basic idea of democracy. I always thought democracy is mostly a safety measure against tyrants and a pretty ineffective mode of government in its weakest. An enlightened democracy is much better than a populist one. Both are better than a non-democracy, at least most of the time.

- The difference between an enlightened democracy and a populist democracy is evident in its leaders. John Stuart Mill was an enlightened democrat for one. The bad ones can be spotted out by their spitefulness.

- Too bad some populists riding on the tide of anti-intellectualism have managed to turn democracies into tyrannies. Sometimes ships capsize.
That site looks like it will try to steal something. Dodgy as hell scam site feel to it.
Canonical Makes It Easy to Port Native iOS and Android Apps to Ubuntu Mobile OS
Not a chance. Sure, it will almost certainly decline at some point in the next decade, but to predict the biggest stock market decline in history is really far fetched. Especially in an era when investment funds are holding onto record cash reserves in hopes of buying up cheap stocks during the next decline.
Didn't they also put in the NUMA stuff in Linux kernel? Also, cutting bottlenecks between CPU's and GPU's that happens today was a large part of how their early boxes achieved their performance. PC architecture just looked dumb after you saw how SGI boxes did it. Also, might consider them an early inventor of blade systems if you look at a SGI Origin with case open and a blade box. Lining up a bunch of modules in one chassis with shared power, data bus, pluggable hardware, and management system are both systems MO except SGI's had single-system image. That's if blades did come later, which I'm fuzzy on.
I don't think he necessarily meant within the same company. If Apple or Amazon or some startup do it first, then your project is no longer something new, it's following what's been done already.
Depends on your income, like anything else. The idea of being a digital nomad means different things to different people.
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Can insurance help solve this problem? As in, police depts. require each cop to get some liability coverage. When incidents like this lead to a payout on the cop's behalf, their premium goes up. Eventually it's too high for them to afford so they must leave the job. If it's feasible then, regardless of how they feel about BLM, convince taxpaying citizens to get behind this scheme because their tax dollars shouldn't be going to settle these well-justified lawsuits.
this is my own personal experience from being pulled over multiple times per year for 17 years of driving

Wow. That's a lot. I've been driving for over 40 years and have been pulled over about a half dozen times total.

Part of it must be that you're not white, and part of it must be the sports cars. But maybe you're driving around in the "'hood" a lot? Policing is probably much more aggressive in certain parts of town.
FTC Sues 1-800 Contacts for Restricting Competitive Keyword Advertising
You need water to be a productive member of society. (Or to survive at all, but that's a prerequisite.) You need food to be a productive member of society. (Or to survive at all, but that's a prerequisite.) You need shelter to be a productive member of society. More often that not, you need electricity to be a productive member of society. Increasingly so, you need internet to be a productive member of society.

In every case, the person consuming these resources either:

[a] pays for them on their own

[b] is provided them but paid by someone else, possibly in aggregate (family, government services, charity)

[c] not provided them at all, in which case they are no longer a productive member of society (or worse, near-starving, starving, or dead)

Ethics and economic systems notwithstanding, the first few are 'hard problems' that humanity has struggled with for millennia. Internet access is comparatively easy, because the marginal costs of distribution are low, but just like other 'utilities' and 'necessities', the capital cost is high.

One way to offset this is to create a market like for electricity, where multiple players, some private, some government-owned, compete at the supply-side and distribution-side, to provide capacity at prices that are close to the cost of (production+transmission) for the area.

Luckily, unlike electricity, water, food, or shelter, information can be duplicated, format-shifted, batched, compressed, time-delayed, and the like. If fixed-fiber-based Internet to arbitrary endpoints is too expensive despite the presence of a market, cache or store more content closer to the consumer on CDNs. If last-mile distribution is too expensive, switch to a different last-mile distribution paradigm -- this latter one is what public libraries (and public hotspots) currently accomplish. If bi-directional communication is desired, investigate peer-to-peer solutions. There's so much potential in LANs, WANs, sneakernet, (TV/radio/data) broadcast that goes untapped.

We're stuck here because right now telcos are a terrible market and the monopolies are granted at the wrong level; but also because we're assuming that getting direct, end-to-end connection from one of the big telcos is the only way to digitally communicate.
> I find the whole genre depressing as hell because I can't help but think of kids watching the videos who have 0 hope of ever actually playing with those toys.

To be completely fair, I subscribe to more than a few blacksmithing, metalworking, machining, woodworking, and other heavy-duty crafty channels, and there's little-to-no chance that I'll ever get a lathe or a mill.
This is very true, startups can be a great place for people with a range of skills as long as they are deep enough in a few to really make an impact. Personally, after having been running my own companies and having been on my own for many years I recently joined a small startup. I am definitely the old guy, as I have 3 kids, 1 in college who is closer in age to my co-workers then I am. When I talked with the founders and team as a whole, everyone was totally straight forward, intelligent, honest and super concerned to make sure we all were on the same page. They gave me full confidence they were doing everything they could to do it right, and they are very transparent about what is happening and where we stand. That to me is what is important and you would almost never get that at an enterprise.

I would also argue that no job is guaranteed or "stable", they are there for as long as you can keep getting stuff done and provide value. And sometimes even if you can do that the position will still go away because of factors you cannot control. So in the end, you have to keep yourself marketable and pay attention to the little things happening around you. Yes, you can hide in an enterprise and collect a decent paycheck for quite a while, but that is just existing and not living or keeping yourself marketable and you are just as likely to get cut, if not more.
If you are going to down vote. At least explain why.

I know many who drop ship and are not money launders.
That site looks like a scam site.
I live in NYC and pay $35/month from TWC for 50/5. It's an introductory yearlong rate, and goes up to $45/month after a year. But if you ask really really nicely, they'll let you keep the $35/month rate :)
I also have police officers in my family and I have anecdotal evidence from them that there are bad cops and everybody in a department knows who they are and what the issues are with those officers.

The expectations of performance are different between a police officer and a sys admin. It may happen that a sys admin makes a mistake causing systems to go down. Coworkers might be involved in the cleanup and pull an all nighter to recover the systems. Immediately after the incident there will be changes to process and responsibilities to minimize the likelihood of a similar event from happening. Sometimes people are fired. Sometimes people are demoted. Sometimes management is held responsible. Sometimes there is retraining.

Policing does not take any such corrective actions. Individual officers have the protection of powerful unions which hold all officers equal regardless of their performance and efficacy. Sergeants and captains can't correct the actions of the officers under their responsibility without facing repercussions from union representatives. Management becomes damage control and officers regress to the lowest mean because that is what makes their job easiest.

I think there is a lot of blame to go around. I blame our society for allowing this to continue for so long without demanding change from public representatives. I blame our elected officials for not changing laws to reflect our current reality. I blame police unions for protecting bad officers. I blame police department management for not attempting to deal with bad officers and enabling poor policing. Lastly I blame individual officers who should know better but most likely are not incentivized to change their behavior.
Applying Deep Learning to Basketball Trajectories
I'm sorry to hear that. I'm guessing it's now too late, but if not I'd be happy to take a look at your case and escalate it. My email is john@stripe.com.
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You miss cool stuff like this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuMSk_S2ARI
> If drawing a gun because you think you're threatened is a US citizen's right, then it will remain a US police officer's right. You can have both, or you can have none.

I disagree - the police should absolutely be held to a higher standard, because they're empowered by the state.
>just

Why is building, distributing, and cutting over to a new container easier than "sudo apt-get upgrade postgres"?
In fairness with no changes on my part I'm seeing ads everywhere right now - most notable YouTube video ads. Did something change recently?
Here come the down votes from developers who hold Stripe into such esteem. That's right, if a business does not fit your view of a "business" then they must be a scammer.

Go live outside of your SF/SV bubble and see how it works in the real world!
This sounds like a half-closed socket. I helped with WinRT socket API for Windows; we had to decide whether to support that or not. In the end, we couldn't come up with a truly legitimate case where an app really needs to do this.

Even with no realistic use cases and no efficiency gains, we still got complaints from a small number of developers who wanted the flexibility of closing a socket one way but not the other.
So it's for casual gamers, is what you're saying?
I think the parent is referring to case last year where a drunk Taco Bell executive was caught on tape assaulting an Uber driver:

http://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-fires-executive-acc...
If you haven't looked at windows lately, look at Windows 10. It's wonderful; I "switched back" from Mac, and so has everyone else at the office, except for ios development.

So you can get exactly the hardware you want and a stable experience.
Plus having a library card often gets you access (even remote access!) to lots of expensive services - I use the OED, J-stor, etc. from home with gusto. I will say there's a small dark side to having gone digital, many libraries have culled a lot of their holdings, and/or can't afford to buy as many books as they once did (have to pay for those licenses somehow...). It's likely that there's less demand, but it still makes me a little sad.
... and the problem is that the new kids think all of this is acceptable in worlds where it really isn't acceptable
There seems to be a hn downvote brigade too
At the risk of a "he said / she said"....

First of all, the statistics for police violence in America are so incredibly awful compared to the rest of the world that we have to wonder what's going on here. It's not the press reports that is killing innocent people, it's the police.

Secondly, my personal experience doesn't support the idea that most police are bending over backwards for the people. My scorecard:

- Really great help with a flat tire and a missing jack.

- Decent, professional interactions in a handful of traffic tickets and that kind of thing.

But on the other hand:

- I watched a friend get roughed up (not exactly beaten, but rough physical treatment) for no reason at all.

- Been cursed at and had my IDs thrown around by annoyed cop (I understand why he was annoyed, but it was the result of him misinterpreting the situation)

- I've had false evidence entered against me over a speeding ticket (to be fair, I was guilty, but the actual evidence offered was fabricated)

- At about 13 y.o., in a market with a friend, and some bigger kids were physically bullying us. We turned to a police officer saying "those kids are trying to hurt us". The reply from the cop was, "better watch out, they'll probably hit you again".

It's impossible to quantify, but my experience shows me that there's a really large proportion of bad cops.
It's the daily circle-jerk. If you don't know what that is, then I envy you.
From your second link:

>Speculation is rampant that the move has allowed Depardieu to shift his legal residence to Belgium to dodge the 75% tax on income over $1.27 million that Socialist President François Hollande will apply as of 2013 as part of his response to France’s debt crisis.

Two things stand out:

1. Depardieu is avoiding a hit on his future income. The story is from 2012 talking about a future French tax hike in 2013. Avoiding tax on past income i.e. unrealized capital gains would be much harder I believe.

2. The story doesn't mention capital gains at all. I'm specifically interested in cases where people have successfully avoided a capital gains tax.
Jersey St? I love that street. Very picturesque. So many photo shoots and movies filmed there (like the intro to Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation).

The front in 1980 https://youtu.be/eAc59a90PBc?t=157
I use OSX and I'd much rather sleep than reboot. Lots of productivity programs will lose state - offhand the Adobe suite comes to mind, for instance. And if you have a bunch of tabs open in a web browser it takes forever for them to reload. If you use multiple desktops there's no guarantee of windows popping up on the same desktop after a reboot, even with Apple apps.

Waking the machine from sleep takes seconds; rebooting with stored state takes minutes.
This is felony menacing.

The cops are above the law.
I went to swimming club until age 13 to help with my athsma. I then did nothing beyond a bit of football (soccer) until University.

At University I started rowing, then doing triathlons and cycling from 1998 until 2008. The last thing I did (cycling 120 miles / day for 7 days) caused a lot of damage to my knees (which were already too painful to use rowing machines). Also I've had a flair up of eczema since then that causes my skin to get very red and itchy (that drives me insane, and ruins any concentration for trying to work) if I sweat at all.

I've since had a daughter who's now 3 and I'm responsible for picking her up and dropping off to school (school starts at age 3 in Belgium) which is a half hour drive away. So I have 9 - 12 to work on Mon / Wed and 9 - 3 to work on Tue, Thu and Fri. Plus I'm perpetually disorganised and stuggle to use what little time I have effectively.

The only things I do now:

- Yoga (about 2 minutes to do the sun salutation twice) x 2 per day. This keeps most back problems at bay

- Occasional 20 minute walks

- Occasional cycling (once per month)

Two things got me training when I was healthy:

1. signing up for things - I'd sign up for the London Triathlon which you typically do 9 months in advance. Then the panic monster kicks in at some point to get you to train.

2. Join a club. All the sport I was inspired to do was either at a rowing club or training with much better triathlon / iron man nutters (in a good way) from work.
Reaching outside my car window sort of sounds like a really bad idea. That's what someone would do when holding a gun trying to aim backwards at the cop.
Every time I am fighting with the Android SDK, and specially with the NDK since they deprecated Eclipse CDT or a new Support Library or Android Studio version comes out, I wonder how many of "the smartest engineers on the planet" do actually work on Android.