skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This entirely depends on what utility you assign to a given amount of money.

For many people who are well-enough off to consider having a good risk floor, the utility of a non-life-changing amount of extra money is nearly zero. It is only once you get into the high jackpots that it gets interesting.

Depending on your situation it can be completely rational to play the lottery or be a startup employee.
I'm always amazed to see minimalist used to describe a dozen placeholder directories and files. That said, the code is clean and modern php.
> Such a shame that Sun was acquired by Oracle.

For many reasons, but what makes you mention it here; what's the relevance?
So you believe that intelligence agencies have no way to read your mail if they wanted to? Come on.
Not necessarily: The article states that ants are deliberately maintaining aphid herds, possibly for many seasons, by carefully selecting for a ratio of red and green insects. The wording of that statement implies intent and intention on the part of the ants.

Except for the fact that we don't what the ants are doing at all. It may simply be (and likely more likely be) that over many, many generations of ants, evolution, a purely random, intentionless process, has resulted in ants with a preference for the 2-1 green-to-red ratio.

The ants aren't selecting or managing or farming. They are pruning the herd to match the distribution encoded in ant DNA, an encoding arrived at over many, many generations, but simple random mutations conveying slight survival benefits.
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Perhaps it's my English that's just not allowing me to communicate clearly but I think people are missing the point here.

There are plenty of other ways to credit companies could gauge inside your economic maturity as much of your financial history have been done via debit card for more or less the same transactions that you are going to use your credit card for.

In other words the information is there already because you have been using your debit card already.

And yes it is accurate to describe it as not trusted which is why you need to increase your credit score by using your credit and paying it back.
Okay. Well, I'm glad I at least convinced you on everything else :)
I'm not associated with that region in any way, but I'm struggling to find a way in which calling someone a camel-herder isn't designed to be an ethnic slur.
In no way is Israel an apartheid state (Israeli Muslims/Arabs have full citizenship on par with Jews)

The lives lost are the making of the so-called Palestinians who have never wanted peace with Israelis and terrorist organisations like Hamas and the Iran-backed Hezbollah who just hates Jews and wants them to disappear - via any means necessary.

Two small examples: the Embajada and the AMIA attacks in Argentina, both by Hezbollah, both protected by Iran, both a bloody and hateful disgrace.

EDIT: if you are downvoting this entry, please reply and explain where I'm wrong.
I've been reading about Middle East politics and this article was incredibly revealing. It deals with the disastrous effects of UN sanctions against Iraq in the 90s.

«The change in 10 years is unparalleled, in my experience," Anupama Rao Singh, Unicef's senior representative in Iraq, told me. "In 1989, the literacy rate was 95%; and 93% of the population had free access to modern health facilities. Parents were fined for failing to send their children to school. The phenomenon of street children or children begging was unheard of. Iraq had reached a stage where the basic indicators we use to measure the overall well-being of human beings, including children, were some of the best in the world. Now it is among the bottom 20%. In 10 years, child mortality has gone from one of the lowest in the world, to the highest.»
It's hard to base anything off opinion polls like that. They don't ask "Who, at of all eligible men and women in the US, should be elected?" They ask, "Who, of these <small set> candidates do you support?" Someone can support Trump if only because they don't support Hillary (fuck, the reverse is probably half her vote).
I don't know. I remember reading that other DBs use SQLite's test suite
Awesome thanks. Looking for more references if anyone has them. Also if there's any work combining things like this with genetic algorithms?
Ah, thanks. I've got to slow down my scanning of articles.

Intriguing that the simulation and experiment match. Now I'm curious about alternative explanations for the experimental findings.
The presentation of the page and the aesthetics has a lot to do with it.
So, Iran was more trustworthy, even though the US felt it necessary to depose their leader? How does that make sense?
Seems to me the biggest takeaway from the article was that it was Lego's partnerships that saved the company. Without those deals with Star Wars (for example), the company would have not needed to meet demands in the first place. This seems like a big lesson to learn from.
Interesting analysis of a very brilliant but very flawed personality
>That’s when you realize that you’re nothing more than a “single-digit millionaire”. You’re just not that special.

Well... you're not. It's not that difficult to accumulate a million dollars over the course of a technical or managerial career if you don't have a family.

>The rest of us? Like everyone else, we’re increasingly underserved by the banks and the rest of the financial services industry, and our needs are growing.

Really? How so? If I don't need shell companies created in Caymen, what kind of special service do I really need from a bank?
I was really confused. The title and author in the header really looked like the title and author of that post with that formatting. Until I read the tiny link at the top. Just goes to show that minimalist HTML/CSS can be used for terrible layouts - just like an overuse of JS.
Alliances from kingdoms of 2000 years ago aren't very useful.
one of the greatest failings of the US 'intelligence' aparatus.
Which countries are true friends of any other? Is US true friends of any?
Your central thesis -- molecules that taste like sugar have the same shape -- is unalloyed horseshit.

Pull up the structures for glucose and aspartame. Are you seriously claiming they are similar?

Incidentally, I'm probably old enough to be your father, unless you're in a nursing home.
the queer compassion of the poor for the relatively well-off is quite an amusing thing. You can see many examples of this in everyday life too.
> A lot of problems in Rust seem to involve replacing (smart) pointers with handles. Sometimes you really do want to do that, but it's bad if it's a necessary kludge.

It's not a kludge. It's how you prove to the compiler that you're using those structures safely.

If you aren't used to programming with compiler-enforced safety, you might be tempted to call working with the safety mechanisms a "kludge". But in reality all you're doing is doing things a little differently so that the compiler can ensure safety.
>> but the US is involved in the Middle East making it worse and worse since the early nineties, well before 9/11.

I think we've found out people want freedom in the Middle East, they just don't want to have to fight to keep it anymore. We gave Iraq freedom and look what happened. We toppled several dictators in the Middle East and what happened? It created a power vacuum and ISIS stepped into the fold and look what they're doing. The pseudo democratic governments we set up were rotten to the core. How soon we forgot that here religion and family ties means nothing to the people voting. There, your family and religious views dictate everything you do - it turned into a huge dumpster fire because of our nativity in thinking all we have to do is give you this incredibly powerful thing (freedom) and you'll be fine keeping and protecting it.

Even in this country we had a fairly long revolution and a very nasty civil war in order to get where we are today - something these countries are now having to go through and endure the pain and misery of doing so. I won't touch on how having several global super powers running proxy wars between these countries involved in civil war isn't help them figure it out at all either.
Yes, it does. You can use a trait to provide extensibility.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467375
Is there any chance of a systemic failure that would affect the entire economy caused by Silicon Valley? I am not talking about some shares losing value but with the Credit Crunch, we had thousands of average Joes in above their head in debt which couldn't be refinanced while the value of their home crashed.
Raft for dummies and those like me
Yes, I was saying that. But from the POV of Iran, not US.

As far as Iran is concerned SA attacked the US, Bin Ladin is from there, as were most of the attackers.

At a high level the US and SA governments are not enemies, but at a lower level (the people) it's not so simple.
The title should indicate that it is linking to a book review (of a now rather dated doorstop of a book). Although the linked article follows a standard journal book-review format, which makes it obvious on context what is going on, it is not obvious to someone following an HN link.
> Since this construct is in the lowest energy state it could in principle survive the heat death of the universe and continue forever.

This made me very excited. The ultimate legacy.
It's still more complicated than that. Israel still deploys settlers in Palestinian territory, as a land grab and as human shields. And I stale government has factions explicitly in favor of territorial expansion.
The JS engine manages the life cycle of all DOM objects. Other trees such as the flow tree just use reference counting and traits.
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If it isn't a bubble the rest of the world is in an 'anti-bubble', which will hopefully anti-pop any time soon resulting in more money for tech workers :-)
> is ~19% of your time.

Let's not count the 8 hours you sleep. That gives us 8 hours out of 16 spent working. Also your employer isn't paying you for your commute let's count that at 1 hour per day this comes out to 9 hours /16 @ 5 days per week

45 hours out of 112 waking hours in a week spent working (and commuting). That's if you're lucky enough to work at a place that allows you to leave after "only" 8 hours worked without raising eyebrows.

That's 40% of your premium waking hours devoted to earning those precious clams.

Let's not kid ourselves. Your employer gets the best hours of the day and the best years of your life.

Work sucks.
The problem is that the marketing isn't that it's driver assist, it's that it is self-driving.
How many engineers get 1000% more? I thought it was the founders and investors that got more.
Facts are stubborn things. With the administrative "hit" on coal, gas looks to be the choice to make up the gap ( in the US) :

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
Primaries get about 50% turnout per party. And "we don't care to use our power to decide who are leaders are" isn't much of a moral defense against what those leaders do.
No, of course not, but they're a bit extreme about it.
First of all. Yes you can have an excellent credit score without paying a penny of interest, but the second you use it you are by definition in debt. Whether there is interest is besides the point. You can't just decide not to pay it back. And most people don't use it like that which is why it's such a good business.

Second it's a fairly know issue that the way creditscore is established is pretty flawed. You can have 10mio on your account, but if you have no job or own your own company it will actually affect your credit score. This whole thread is started because of some of the issues.

With regards to the debit card the point is that the kind of purchases you did before you got a credit card, aren't going to change dramatically or fundamentally after you get one.
To be honest, it really has to be close to perfect - else, the public will deem the technology killer, even if it is in fact safer.
Android+Arsenal+-+Amigo
Trying to wrap my mind around the paper. Could be a really important finding. Should now allow for efficient use of discrete variables in deep neural network models.
Agreed.

But isn't that true with everything? There's anyways somewhere better than the tourist trap; but only the locals know where.
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Huh. Well, I learned something new today.
Twitter: A Clusterfuck of UI Mistakes
The problem is that the police are being asked to do what amounts to population control, of a historic problem population in the US, that has no real desire to be controlled, on the behalf of people with no real desire to be seen as controlling them. The most the algorithm can do is provide a justification for well-known solutions to crime (or the perception of crime), but laundered through math & obfuscated reasoning so as to not be seen as too racist.

Considering a group of people a "problem population" due to their race is racist, but I think this perspective is shared by many people in America. How do we get police to stop being agents of racism when so much of the population condones it?

Somehow, up until like the 1960s-1970s, this was not an issue.

Was it not an issue, or did you just not hear about it? The 1960s civil rights movement happened (and in many ways is still happening) for a reason.
The entire point of the article in question is that startup employees make less on average, so forgive me if I'm a bit skeptical of your claim that the startup job will pay on average a full order of magnitude more.
Software that can end lives should not be beta tested on customers. Full stop.

In no way is it acceptable to give customers "experimental" software, overhype it, and disclaim responsibility when it inevitably fails.
Love the soft-pedaling of who precisely she was working on behalf of in 1936 Spain, a "pro-communist" govt. So she worked on freeing fascist aristocrats. Awesome.
Tesla will accuse you of industrial espionage, apparently.
Minimalist in regards to its design, perhaps not the code structure :)

In contrast to other projects such as YOURLS, Polr tries to be minimalist by avoiding heavy graphs or unnecessary bloat.
But we were talking about competition between companies.
If the theory fails to account for reality in any circumstance, the theory is inherently flawed.
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Vega program
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OMG+Fortune+7,000++Free+Coins
Building a sum method.... I get that these techniques should scale to real problems. I hate that I have never really seen them do so.
I was looking Dan's videos all day, nice closure for the day :)
"Autopilot" is "experimental" so whenever there's a problem, they blame it on the driver.

I wonder if they have heard of Six Sigma.
Mozilla is Messy
That was in 1953 and lead by the British, not the U.S.
Context: dropping this here because I've talked with an ESA guy yesterday who told me that the Russian mission that used balloons on Venus seems to not be widely known. This was brought up in context of NASA's proposed Venus airship idea.
An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software
I don't claim to be able to understand the pain of people who lost a family member, but I think the response may have to do with cultural programming where the suicide is always bad, no matter what. That makes person who committed it bad too, and nobody wants the last action of a beloved person to be that they become bad. I think in this regard, as in many other things that seemed good idea, US culture goes overboard and pushes too hard, adding to the suffering of the surviving family instead of easing it.

I think it's different in cultures where suicide is an acceptable (and sometimes even lauded) action in some circumstances.
Wow, someone gives a company $1million and you claim that the person is playing with dreams, time and skills?

Give us a break. No startup has to accept investor money. If you don't want their million, don't take it. Bootstrap with your own cash.

The reality is that going into startup for money is a big risk, it's a big gamble. Go in for the fun, go in to learn new things, play with new tech, go in to avoid ( big company politics, enterprise style software development, meetings, locked down environments).

Do it for the for the fun and if you make money great, if you don't, you come out with new experience. Long before fullstack became a buzz word, I earned my badges due to startup. I coded, I did design, I touched the DB, I setup the servers, wired the network, setup the firewalls. It was hella fun, I made $0. But my experiences from then still serves me till this very day.

Cheer up, the world is not such a terrible place.
I don't think you understand how tax write offs work. A $1 million loss in investments does not equal a tax bill $1 million less. At most it only means only paying $150k less in taxes (based on 15% capital gains tax). This only off sets other capital gain taxes.
You can also see other cars "disappearing" under the sign. And the sign going up a bit as you move closer.
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So....no search engines?

Europe really doesn't like Google.
I don't see how debit card use would get the job done. Those transactions take money directly and immediately from your account. The whole idea of a credit score is to judge your ability to pay money that you owe later on when it's not automatic.
Considering the way the Palestinians have been treated by Israel I think it's unreasonable to expect them to want peace.
I'm aware of Google Location History. I turned it off.

In any case, there's a difference between Google storing my location (they don't), Tesla storing my location (they would), and NSA storing my location (they do).

Google gives me the option to opt out. If I opt in, they give me cool features that require said location history.

NSA doesn't let anyone opt out, naturally.

Tesla doesn't let users opt out, even if they don't use autopilot. As we've seen, they actively use their location data to attempt to exonerate themselves whenever there's any kind of accident. In any case, Tesla gives me nothing in return for this information. If I were to try to modify the car to send no data, I don't doubt that Tesla would disable the fucking car.
Good question :/
What will the iPhone 8 be made of?
Iranians are extremely racist towards Arabs. Still butthurt that their amazing ancient civilization was conquered by a bunch of 'camel herders'.
I don't think you understand credit scores if you think that's minimal. Having even one card is an enormous boost. And four years of history is not bad either. I graduated college with no credit history and couldn't get a non-secured credit card at all, despite proof of a six figure salary.
You know credit score isn't the only thing used in a credit decision, right? On a credit application you are asked about assets, income, amount of rent you pay, and account balances.

Credit score is one of many pieces of information used in lending.

Alternative credit scores are starting to come on the market for people who pay bills on time but may not otherwise have a traditional credit history but they are pretty experimental still. There's different algorithms too. The current one used most often is FICO 8 but there's a LOT more.

Each lender has their target borrower too. Some lenders are what is called subprime lenders meaning they lend to people with low or limited credit histories.

Debit card use makes no sense and is irrelevant.
This miscommunication was my fault. We don't use uint8_t or other such things, we use uint8, uint16, etc. These are typedefed to compiler-specific types that guarantee a required minimum size. This is also the reason we are not allowed to do arithmetic on chars. The types we use may eventually get typedefed to a char, but at least when I see someone else's function that requires a char as opposed to uint8, I know he's dealing with actual characters.

> then you have to do all the reasoning as if the type is of an unknown width

Well, no. If we are writing portable math routines for such types, it gives us nice ranges for which the code should behave with correct answers or should throw red flags during unit testing.
The new unvote/undown feature offers a more than palatable workaround.
I would say both Saudi Arabia and Iran have terrible records on human rights.

And in some cases Iran is clearly worse. For example Iran executes far more people each year than Saudi Arabia - something like 3 times as many.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-a...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/middle-east-and-north-a...
Yeah that was extremely underhanded. Really set the tone for the whole piece, for me.
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What is the point? Who would want to use Hadoop for something below 10GB? Hadoop is not good at doing what it is not designed for? How useful.
The startup deal is a much better deal than lottery tickets. If you can get a 1% ownership stake and we assume a 10% chance of a 100 million dollar startup, the expected value of that grant is 100k. The expected value of buying lottery tickets with 20% of your salary is close to zero
You should also consider the fact that if you are an early employee in a startup, your future expected payout is at least in part a function of your efforts
Jews? There are Jews living in Iran and by their law, there must always be a Jewish member of Parliament. They have no problem with Jews.
It'll be getting on a bit, so hopefully it will have made it into a management position by then.
How can the same link be submitted twice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12467708
Don't forget to prefix them as "so-called" Palestinians so the GP knows which non-people you're referencing.
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Some credit card companies issue secured credit cards: they basically request a payment of e.g. 1000$ called security deposit and keep it in escrow (I think. IANAL) and in return they give you a credit card with a credit limit of 1000$. If you don't pay your credit card bills, they will cancel the credit card and use the security deposit to pay off the remaining balance. If you do pay all your bills on time, they release the security deposit after 6 months to 2 years based on the issuer. At this point you will have a credit report showing several months of prompt payment and a reasonable score.

It is not perfect, but it is not that bad. It sucks having to have your money blocked in an account for a year though.