skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the book is not free to read online, would you provide a tl;dr?
Here's a book on caffeine. Interesting light read, if you have any interest on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Caffeinated-Daily-Habit-Helps-Hurts/d...
> 1 block per second on average

What stops a double-spend or other attacks like that in a 1-second timeframe? The 10 minute threshold of Bitcoin was chosen under belief that the network would be settled after roughly 10 minutes.
mindshare exists with 9-5ers

That just reads as if they have a much less enthusiastic community.
> I am literally quoting the head of the largest aluminum processing conglomerate in the WORLD on what he said to my dad.

One part of your post was framed as a quote, the part about "dental benefit BS" and "why isn't any other medical benefit made free and literally forced upon you like fluoride is???" was not.
cmd-R. I don't think I've ever refreshed via F5
Yeah, it's pretty crazy.
I wonder what "Final" even means in this context. Google has already admitted that the Angular team uses the term "Release Candidate" to mean something completely different to how every other software company in the universe understands it. (Listen to Adventures in Angular podcast, episode 105.)

A very rocky road ahead, methinks.
There are enormous tax breaks for individuals. The mortgage interest deduction (which is an abomination), for instance, costs $70bn.
The idea that you can't interact casually without risking personal offense is just a knee-jerk reaction. If restricting work conversations about personal appearance, sex, gender, race, religion, rape, etc. is equivalent to eliminating all personal interactions, your conversations must be quite impoverished.

Telling you that your jokes are offensive would indeed be harassment---if you worked at a late night show or another joke-telling profession! Otherwise, no, telling you that your jokes are offensive is in fact not a form of workplace harassment.

Also, you might want to reflect on why making friends, telling jokes, laughing, and enjoying life requires you to say racist and/or sexist things at work.
This is true throughout history. Publicly selfless heroes (Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Elon Musk) often have to "sacrifice" (is it conscious?) their private selves, to be able to be the incarnation of what their work is.

It bothers a lot of people, personally I am fine with it and would make the same decision. I think it's a personality thing.
phew. That totally changes this from "dude..." to "added to list"
10 Pieces-10 Outfits Live Fridays  10am PT
It now uses semantic versioning: http://semver.org
> ask for an adequate compensation when doing this job

That appears to be one of the motivations for certain prominent voices in the industry dismissing the value of experience. To be fair, even in early 90s there were telltale ads for "senior engineer, 3 years of experience" :)) I used to laugh when I saw those back then but now the joke's on me.

> I'll probably switch to project management or something like that when I'll feel that it's the right moment

None of my business but why not build a business around Redis and tend to your garden in the warmer climes. Milan is charming in a way but it[']s the coldest (in the psychological/emotional sense) Italian city I have ever visited.
Philosophy for Children, p4c
If I would pray I'd pray for Elon. He's been such a source of inspiration to me. He's so brave in carrying his burden. May the fruits of his work prosper soon. Then he can take a break.
> conflate academic computer science with software engineering

Which is mind boggling. I took an introductory "software engineering" class in (a reasonably prestigious) university ~15 yrs ago which was ostensibly about learning how to use the right tool for the right job, and one of the assignments was to build a web application in C++!

Perhaps the intent of that assignment was to show that it wasn't the right tool, but that was certainly never communicated by the professor.

I didn't really learn any software engineering until I got my first job and had to build software, with a team, that people actually used.
ESR: Why I Am an Anarchist (1999)
You can't have 30 years of experience in your job when your job didn't exist 30 years ago.

You can't have 15 years of experience in [whatever thing] when [whatever thing] didn't exist 15 years ago.

Note: 15 years ago = 56k internet, paying by the hour, for the 0.xyz% of select few people on the planet
I'm on the Cloud Foundry buildpacks team, my time is donated by Pivotal.

If you want to run dotnet core apps on GCP right now, you can do it by installing Cloud Foundry and the dotnet-core buildpack[0].

Of course, installing Cloud Foundry on CF is still harder than it ought to be for tire-kicking.

So we've added the dotnet-core buildpack in Pivotal Web Services, as a beta[1], looking for feedback. Please give it a go and come find us on Slack[2] in the buildpacks channel.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-community/dotnet-core-buildp...
[1] https://blog.run.pivotal.io/introducing-the-net-core-buildpa...
[2] https://cloudfoundry.slack.com/
For children, it works better in the water as you're trying to get flouride to the developing adult teeth rather than their baby teeth.
My biggest peeve so far is that I can't disable spell checking on my physical keyboard.
Successfully adopting React in your company
Hey wlamartin. PHP is not the only option, we support dozens of programming languages. When you sign up you pick which languages you already know. The other people will do the same. When you are matched we randomly pick one language from the a list that combines both of your languages. What this guarantees is that at least one person will know the language. If that's the case, one person will have to learn from another, and that's precisely what we want to happen.. collaborative and peer to peer learning!

It's super interesting to see how easy it is to learn the basics of a new programming language when you are coding with someone else that already knows it. It's like having a teacher just for you.

In any case, we have removed PHP from the list... everyone hates it haha.
Last time I checked, not only were the number of EVs produced and sold in the US minuscule, but the derivative was negative. I don't recall the precise year, probably 2013-2014, but fewer cars were sold in the second than the first.

I can't locate the post presently, and don't know how trends have progressed. The statistic surprised me when I found it.
Faith. Google has already broken that faith with 1.0, why do I renew the faith?
> How does that help the USA? Do we really make it up in the goods we export to Mexico?

We run a trade deficit with Mexico, which can be looked at as arbitrage of the USD as a reserve currency. We pay an IOU and get cars, they give us cars and get a means of parking their money safely.

This being said, comparative advantage is a simplistic but not terrible way of looking at international trade in general. Though US workers are more productive at making cars than Mexican workers, they're also more productive at other things and you end up with more net production at some form of equilibrium when the workers that were making cars do something else.

Now, the funny thing about auto manufacturing is that the job losses we've seen are all due to automation. We keep making just as many cars, and it's unlikely that we'll ever employ as many people making cars as we used to, because people can only use so many cars at once. Mexico could fall into the ocean and this trend would not change.
Great talk, thanks for the link!
While I tend to agree with the thesis, personal anecdote does not make a valid conclusion.

We probably have decent research on this at this point. Anybody versed in it weighing it?
It reads like the artist was looking for an excuse to stop drawing pixel art rather than any sort of further introspection as to why Auro might be encountering issues. It's utterly ridiculous that he thinks that the retro-game market is somehow splintering on the issue of making the pixels go away as increasingly sprite filters are being viewed in a negative light versus getting the experience as it actually was at the time.

The whole 'But customers want HD!' era has long since ended, with many of the most popular hits on PC games being pixel-based. The issue was never fully the artwork, but the cutthroat nature of the mobile market.

That said, the artwork of Auro reeks of faux-retroism and unlike Shovel Knight which embraced it, it seems like they were only really willing to go half-way.
I also brush before I go to bed. I would need 2 pastes and be careful not to mix them up. I've accidentally put hand soap and moisturiser on my toothbrush before because I was so sleepy.
Right? Like no one could actually be proud to work in an inclusive environment.
> You'd be wasting your time trying to get a deep understanding of the Russian phrase, but there's a reason to do it with the mathematical phrase.

I think you're simply wrong here.

You're not talking about the amount of conceptual depth underlying it, you're talking about the relative delta in the conceptual structures between languages you already know and the language you're learning.

On the whole, the Russian phrase has greater conceptual depth; however, Russian is closer to English than mathematics is, and thus you get greater conceptual transfer between your knowledge of English and Russian than your knowledge of English and mathematics, so more of your past experience remains relevant.

In essence, I have something like 36-72k hours considering semantically equivalent statements to the Russian one in English, while I have something like 5-10k hours of studying mathematical statements at all.

Your comment just amounts to saying that having 6x as much practice at task A as task B makes task A relatively easier, which, while true, isn't perhaps as profound as you'd meant it.

Consider this: the entire field of academic inquiry containing Euler's identity is fundamentally an effort to fully understand "I went to the store".
Thats fair...

But the sentiment I have is the same: on the one hand, I quoted some questionable logic from head of alcoa - then I asked a fair question: "if the government is so concerned with my health, why is all other healthcare not free/forced upon me???"

As another user pointed out, Iodized salt is mandated.

How about other medical practices? Why are mammograms not free and forced upon all those with breasts?

Prostate exams?

Lung cancer checks?

Liver issues???

it doesnt matter that its beneficial - what I am asking is "Why these, and not those?"
No issues with that on our end. Plenty of investors using funds or LLCs with multiple members to invest.

You'll want to work with a lawyer to structure the vehicle, and have a full understanding of legal, compliance and tax considerations associated with it.

Edit: the entity investing must be accredited. Here's an overview of the criteria:

https://angel.co/help/accreditation/what-is-an-accredited-in...
And destroying the livelihood of your workers, neighbors, friends, and community is the action of a monster, not of a responsible and friendly organization.
Is your position that people should be able to say whatever they want in the work place?
I like magsafe as well, apparently making the cable that goes from the charger to the computer should be user replaceable, as some have issues with fraying and it's very costly.

Lightning, I'm kind of meh on, I don't use external drives, and only use it for ethernet and external displays (mini-dv to X), but would like to keep 2 of said ports... USB would prefer 2x A and 2x C if possible as a migration step intermediately.. and I ABSOLUTELY use the headphone jack gor analog headphones.

The rest, SD/Mini-SD are sometimes useful, but could make do with USB adapter... Retina, Keyboard, touchpad, SSD are essential... in fact, I want the older travel for the thouchpad back... user serviceable ram and a standard ssd interface (m.2) and size would be nice. Was so pissed my current MBP is stuck with the ram soldered on. Don't know that I'll purchase another mbp if I can't upgrade the ram and drive later with standard parts.
I dunno. Given the fuzzy definition of "microservice" I tend to think of "OTP Applications" as logical microservices... ones you can even build a monolith (or distributed monolith) out of if you want.
Glad it helps. Thanks for the comment.
I'd flip that around and say that's $70bn saved for people. It's not called a tax break for nothing.

Why do you consider the mortgage interest deduction an abomination?
What about all the people working in marketing, software patent lawyers, drug dealers? You want them to quit their jobs?

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Let me make my point in a less obtuse way. Most people make decisions about their careers based on opportunity and maximising profit. No one becomes a footballer to make the world a better place. This would all be fine as long as the capitalist market rewarded choices that make the world a better place. Obviously it does not and it's not the fault of a footballer that we as a civilisation choose to channel our available resources their way and not towards frivolous play like space exploration.

If anyone ever figures out a way to make the free market choose the greater good they will win all the Nobel prizes forever (we won't need Nobel prizes after that).
"And for those that toe the line with dental benefit BS..."

you _did_ say this, i'm not sure why you keep getting defensive when someone replies to your words.
It's 'executive' not 'execution'
Had a couple colleagues when I lived in Austin leave for SF to work for IBM...
Why is that question so important to you? A lot of people are drains on everyone around them and they don't move mountains. If the quest is valuable enough to society, it far outweighs the costs to a single man's relationships.

As a rationalization for why you yourself would not want to live that way, that's fair enough. Neither would I.
Why didn't MS buy Sun? It seems like far more a natural fit, and would have shored them up against Oracle very nicely. MS even had a full Java compiler for .NET (and they still have a JavaScript one IIRC).

They were able to toss dozens of billions at Nokia. 25 for LinkedIn. Billions for Skype after bungling MSN Messenger into the ground (which would have also served as a perfect start for a real social network, including work!). But they couldn't find 6bn for Sun?

Was it just antitrust? Or were they that clueless?

.NET is pretty solid. F# is probably the "best" language once you figure in tooling, features, performance, libraries. If they made F# a first-class VS citizen, then it'd really be hyper competitive, but I guess they're hesitant to undermine C#. I've run F# on Linux for many years now and it's been pretty good. With Rust covering the true high-perf/no-runtime scenarios, I feel like I've got things well covered.
> we began fluoridation of the water because the only place we can store it is in your liver

"Oh, haha, my attorney is telling me to shut the f* * * up! Sorry about that slip of the tongue."
How would you exactly be paying for other people's decision? If you think your tax money is spent to fund the federal government, then you will be surprised to find out that the federal government doesn't use tax money for paying for anything.

Only downside would be more economic activity because well educated people can spend more of their money on things....oh wait, that isn't a downside.
Not just look different, but sometimes play differently too. Game mechanics were often tied into framerate, so 60Hz vs 50Hz could make a difference.
Why can't we merely strive to live in a world without workplace harassment?
And they all suck... the mini-DV ports double as thunderbolt, which is fine imho.
Elon Musk is worth $12B. He's a businessman. He lives in a giant mansion. Ghandi owned like 5 things. I'm not knocking Musk, but this is a strange interpretation of a very successful capitalist.
As a San Diego resident for the last 12 years, I have to agree it is not a good place for a tech worker. Salaries are quite low compared to other areas, companies aren't very many or particular successful, and housing costs in the good school districts are high (at least $600k for a SFR). Public transit is awful, and car traffic is quite bad as well.
If I didn't have family here, I'd definitely move.
What's the stack?
Just for reference, Ford has been hiring thousands of workers per year in the US, and they signed a new deal with the union last year: http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2015/11/uaw-ford_deal_in...

Also, the US factory will be getting new models, not closing down.

There's nothing "glib" about this move.
just fyi, swift 3 is now supported in xcode 8, there are quite a few changes that i've noticed when trying to convert:

1. you probably shouldn't convert to swift 3 yet, x8 allows you to use swift 2.3 which is safe for now, deprecated later meaning later releases of xcode (8.1, 8.1.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.0?)
2. if you have unchecked-in git changes, make sure you commit/push before "converting" as converting will make all sorts of changes to your code including cocoapod dependencies like Alamofire, etc. i did a 'pod update' to see if that would help, to see if dependencies like Alamofire converted their code to swift3, but doesn't seem like it from a cursory glance. i think that responsibility should be on the pod owners, not for you to do in your workspace.
3. once you convert to swift 3 the only way to get back to a swift 2.3 is to rm the entire project, clone from a remote git repo. at least that's if you're not already swift 3 compatible.
How do I buy one? How do I then use it?

I "rent" a static IP from my ISP (Internode) because IPv6 still breaks random devices on my network (Xbox One, I'm looking at you).
Personally, I think we should go the other way and build this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project

I'd prefer the Nile variant, which would be hard to do for sure. But like the Salton Sea, flooding parts of the desert seems to have ecological benefits.
It is always easy to criticize a data-driven analysis by saying its assumptions could be wrong. In the real world, all analysis is based on assumptions, some of which you can always claim might not be correct. But you have to really present an argument as to why and by how much the assumption is likely to be wrong, you can't just state that the assumption might be wrong. The assumption that cases which don't settle are not at all indicative of how well a lawyer performs is a very bold claim, much bolder in my mind (admittedly I am not a lawyer) than the claim that there should be some correlation between lawyer performance and results in cases that did not settle. It is possible that lower ranking lawyers settle less often, I'd like to see the data on that.

Furthermore, on average the effects you are mentioning will wash-out, unless there is a systematic bias whereby lower ranking firms and higher ranking firms settle in different manners.
The best funds and GPs seem to consistently talk down their unrealized gains as paper gains that need to be steeply discounted. They cast doubt onto themselves willingly, preaching instead to look at cash on cash returns.

Take that as you may.
A word which totally not carries lessons learnt from microservices vs monoliths. But using that name is fine by me, I'm not trying to define other people world, just sharing mine.
Ask HN: What do you need apply to NFx Guild after being invited?
Hello - I see one requires an invitation to apply, and I suspect the process to get the invitation code works as vetting. But, what is needed after that? Complete business plan? Video by funders like YC? Has anyone heard or gone through the entire process?
(I think the important takeaway isn't what form of government or alternative system might better, but the overwhelming inherent dangers of mob rule. Millions of gullible people wanting something terrible doesn't transmute the morality of genocide.)
How do you test presentation components, by comparing with some "ideal" result?
In that case, Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" seems like a funnier joke while simultaneously avoiding the whole rape thing.
I've pondered the IPv4 issue a lot, having recently acquired a /24 block for running an Anycast network (blog post coming soon).

People have asked me my thoughts on IPv6 adoption, and I have to honestly say I'm pretty bearish on IPv6 being quickly adopted. I try to enable IPv6 on all my friends' routers, but even today, many routers, though they support 6 (notable exception being DD-WRT.. WTF), don't enable it by default, which means they don't enable the dual-stack configuration needed for transition. People then place these routers in a dusty area under their computers or behind their couches, where they sit, basically untouched, for 10+ years until they blow up and require replacement.

The people I've talked to that happen to control a lot of IPv4 addresses tell me that even at the current ~$10-12/ip strike price, nobody is interested in selling because the IPs are more valuable to them for use with datacenters and leasing than for selling them at auctions. And nobody's putting pressure on the people that own huge IPv4 subnets (and I genuinely doubt use all of it) to start splitting them up and releasing them. Not to name names, but the original developers of the Internet come to mind (huge research universities like MIT).

As such, I'm expecting the price of IPv4 addresses to increase substantially over the next 10 years, and I'm really not anticipating that price to drop for longer than that even. Because at the end of the day, if you want to support everybody, you need 4. And even today, dual stack is not the default option (despite ISPs like Comcast being ready for it). IMHO, If you need IPv4s for something like an Anycast network or a hosting service, the time to get them is now.

As for IPv6 transition, the best way to improve this problem is to do your part to get ready for it: https://blog.apnic.net/2016/05/04/you-have-ipv6-turn-it-on/
Voter ID isn't about ID; it's about racism and classism and making it more difficult for the non-rich-white minority to exercise their rights.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/08/03/...
>Why are these houses vacant in the first place?

Unknown. Until about 3 months ago, the municipal, provincial, and federal governments were all in lock-step agreement that there's no problem and everything is wonderful and there's no need to gather any kind of data about the housing crisis because that's just how things are in a World Class City™. As recently as May, our provincial finance minister was openly saying how great it was that "university students" were buying $32m mansions (that example was not a hypothetical). Right at the beginning of summer, some important election strategies went up in smoke very publicly. Between that and the Panama Papers leak showing that Vancouver real estate is a money laundering mecca, the housing crisis has become the #1 election issue. If you're trying to sneakily move money around using real estate, having a tenant calls a lot more attention to your activities than you'd probably want. Even if all your money is above board and you're just looking to hold onto a property to flip, a tenant can gum up the works. Evictions without cause take at least 2 months.

There has been some data collected by 3rd parties. The most reliable collected thus far shows ~12% of apartments in Vancouver are sitting completely vacant year-round. That was with a very narrow definition of "vacant" (staying in the apartment for 2 weeks in the summer counted as "occupied"). But that data was collected by the power company. They didn't care about why, just how many.
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