skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a very similar experience to yours -- I was also a programmer and likewise saved up a bunch of money for grad school. I even got my BA while in the service thanks to generous education subsidies to active duty personnel. As for not laughing well most of us have been there. That feeling lasts well beyond basic training.

Even though I started this thread by talking about wanting to fake my death being in the military was overall a very good experience. As somebody else already said down-thread it forces you to mix with a wide variety of people, something we don't do nearly enough as a society. For that reason alone I think it would beneficial to bring back the draft though perhaps minus the part about fighting wars all over the place.
Killing a dog is a direct action. Yes it is wrong, at least unless there was a shortage of food.. then I guess it beats cannibalism.

Running a private experiment to gather data.. that data is private. Sharing that data is opt-in, not opt-out. Google has no obligation to release it. (If they do, cool. But not evil of them not to).

Now it is valid to say the government should run more studies on self driving cars and share that data. But I am not sure any business would exist in this country if every private R&D effort they did got open-sourced.
Where I work, days off are logged but only to make sure you aren't "abusing" the informal policy. Abuse means you get treated more formally and may be told "No, you need to come in today."

Email/call in sick, stay at home. There is an implicit "stay a little later when you're feeling better and/or make up lost time on the weekend". As long as nothing falls behind it isn't an issue. That's the informal policy. If you were ahead or don't fall behind - the extra hours don't need to be picked up. The only important thing is that things remain on schedule.

Hungover, sick, just don't feel like coming in that day, doesn't really matter.
Even though the numbers are pretty misleading, there are a couple interesting things in them. Presumably iOS had almost no market share in K-12 in 2009 (pre-iPad), yet it took 39% share by 2013. Then Chromebooks took that share and more. Maybe once a market gets disrupted there is an opening for another player to re-disrupt it since customers haven't had time to grow too attached.
> Not world domination but still a success.

Not to current and past Twitter investors. They expected a lot more.
> Apple turned white earbuds into a fashion accessory back with the iPod.

Fair point, I remember how obvious it was iPods were getting popular when you saw lots of people in public wearing white cored earphones for the first time.
Prison Inventions
Let me rephrase that: Do you spin up a new copy of any necessary data stores when you deploy a topic branch of an app, or do all versions of the app share the same view of data in their environment (e.g. staging/production)?
It's also worth noting that by historical standards tax rates are actually low. So if we assume the possibility of mean reversion they could well be higher.

I see the Roth/Regular as a bet-hedging opportunity - ideally, put some in each type and then you are ensured against either scenario.
> No government can reasonably expect from another to break its own laws and it is certainly not in US interest for Sweden to go down that route.

I feel and respect your desire for and belief in integrity on the part of the system, but it's extremely naive to believe that.

Maybe it's the fact that I've lived in many different cultures (including Sweden for a year btw!) or maybe it's my age, but what I've taken away from life so far is this:

There's the story which all people (should) believe and then there's the shit that happens.

We're being lied to since we're born - santa claus, tooth fairy, God, then justice, patriotism, news, terrorism, traitors and so on.

Wikileaks is one of the tools which shows us a glimpse of the shit that really happens.

Corruption, under-the-table deals, intimidations - including members of foreign governments, illegal detentions of foreign citizens, surveillance..

Always treat 'the System' with healthy skepticism - and that is because the information that it broadcasts is often false - due to incompetence on the part of the 'reporters' (usually) or due to hidden agendas that so many groups have.

The world is a combination of many chess games played at the same time - in some you're a pawn, in some you're a rook, in some you're the board ;).
Medicare.
If you really think types are only useful for verifying code correctness, you probably never used a language with a modern type system.
Isn't Twitter quite unprofitable? They may have raised money to be able to pay salaries but that's hardly a business, right?
That doesn't matter. Roth vs. Traditional is purely a bet on current vs. future tax rates.

P = principal,
T_0 = current tax rate,
T_t = Tax rate at retirement (t years in the future).
r = rate of return between time 0 and t

Roth IRA: (P * (1-T_0)) * (1+r)^t
Traditional IRA: (P * (1+r)^t) * (1-T_t)

Which are identical save for the tax rates.
It seems to be the latest trend on YC. If you disagree with someone's opinion, down vote it, regardless whether the post was well argumented or not.
> The nature of the ozone hole also didn't let people hide behind nonsense like "The climate changes naturally" and "Well, there are natural sources of carbon" and "The climate was different in the past."

I'm sure they would have found a way if the incentives were as strong.
Unfortunately, if you're stuck in a pathologic environment, this advice sounds pretty applicable.

I've worked for a BigCo where I would definitely recommend this, and some public government sector offices here in Uruguay are unbelievable - they unfortunately combine decent wages, a special cannot-get-fired provision (you have to do something absurdly bad such as murder) and some extremely pathological behavior from petty leaders.

Lots of people get stuck there, they cannot enter the private sector anymore and they need to "put in time" to be able to retire.
Yes, this is all well stated.

In basic training, I ended up being very close to a lot of different people that I would have otherwise never come in contact with, to that level.

And in my opinion, this is a very healthy thing.

One thing I'd like to share that cracks me up, all these years later. Pardon the forthcoming ramble.

I had been handling guns from a pretty early age, but I was still looking forward to training on the M-16.

Well, at least in the early 90s, there is exactly one (1) day of weapons training in USAF basic training.

In the morning, we got on a bus and went to the ass-end of Lackland AFB where the gun ranges were. We then received our weapons, with no ammo in sight, and 'trained' on them in several hours of classes.

Note, this classroom was just a classroom, with desks, with the normal classroom density. And so 50 young men and women were sitting at desks with M-16s. And, on various cadences, we all held them up, put the clip in, simulated chambering a round, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

But we had to aim...kind of up and to our left. Because we were never suppose to point the weapon at another person we didn't mean to shoot, loaded or otherwise.

It was an absolutely absurd scene.

Many of my class-mates were openly afraid of handling these weapons, and it showed.

After lunch we marched, weapons slung, over to the firing range. We were to each fire sixty rounds that day. The first thirty were warmup/practice. The second 30 were for qualification. We each lay supine with the weapon on sandbags. Only then were each of us handed three rounds each, which we pushed into the clip. And then we fired those three rounds.

The young lady next to me was terrified of guns, and had never touched one. I noticed that she was closing her eyes before each shot.

After we fired our 30 rounds into the targets, our final scores were calculated. My target had 30 holes tightly grouped in the middle. But there was another hole, off all by itself, right on the edge of the target.

Somehow I managed to score 31 out of 30 that day, though it was recorded as 30.

The young lady next to me repeated 'gun day' twice more, with different flights (groups), before she qualified.

Sorry for the ramble!

The real punch line came when I asked my training instructor, later on, why we bothered with only a single day of weapon training.

He laughed out loud and said something like, fuck if I know. Think about it, Diederich. What do you think would be going on if Airmen were forced to actually use their weapons against an enemy. The war would already be over!

Indeed! The USAF: where the best chance of direct enemy contact comes from becoming one of the few tens of thousands of officers who actually venture into enemy territory on occasion. The 'grunts', the enlisted, no way.
Yes, but economy is a dirty word these days when it comes to the people's economic needs and demands.

It's all about what big corporations, banks etc need.
I've always been curious what happens if your records get hacked or accidentally lost/changed. How do you allow people to correct problems here without leaving it open to exploits?

I'm guessing you're asked to prove who you are with data from lots of different departments (e.g. employers, passport office, bank)?
Our journey building Imzy in the first year
I agree with you. Elon will get there first. You need a gorilla mindset to get to Mars and he has it over Jeff Bezos.
I'm available here to answer any questions!
No, it is not fair. If you look at the global stock market (which is 'the market' as such) the returns have not been that high. 8% is based on a nation that has indeed done exceptionally well. If you look at current P/E ratios and dividend yields it is almost impossible we would see that as a consistent average going forward. Also look at bond yields: very very low - so a balanced portfolio will do less well, too.
The decision was not about Apple's 200B globally but about the profit Apple has generated within the EU in a time period limited by legal statues of limitation. Without the de-facto only for tax purposes existing legal entity in the Irland Apple would have had to pay these taxes in the past. In any legal regime when one does intra-company transactions just for tax labeling cosmetics one runs a severe risk that whatever one did is ruled irrelevant and one is taxed as if the distorting transactions never happened.

Apple could have generated a lot of profit in the US and would have paid taxes in the US on it and at the same time minimized their profit in the EU. Alternatively Apple could have made the profit in the EU and less in the US and paid taxes there. What they came up with - with the Irish Government looking deliberately the other way - was allocating the profit to a fictional vacuum and not paying taxes anywhere.

People should happy that this scheme ends. It is a slap on the wrists of the Irish(!) government and primarily that. I believe intention goes beyond Apple and Ireland - there are a lot of odd constructs out there also in the pharma space involving other EU countries. Besides the taxman in the EU and also the US the other main beneficiary of this decision will be all the big tax accounting firms like PWC, EY etc. scrambling now to review their past advice, cautioning less aggressiveness and trying to find more robust holes.

Stopping this nonsense is good for everyone. Having large pools of untaxed money in regular companies is ultimately distorting the business focus, reporting and capital allocation. People may believe Tim Cook is not an innovator worthy leading Apple or exactly the right guy moving the company along a stable growth path. Nobody thinks he is a good investment banker and nor should he need to be one.

Good governance is about having sensible rules and enforcing them fairly. When rules get broken systemically for a longer period for whatever reason righting the ship gets messy. Is it fair to go back 10 years in case of Irland/Apple? Are 14B enough for the DB case? Is VW paying enough? Is Wells Fargo? They all get slapped on the wrist. Looking closer it seems with a feather - me doing the same I suspect it would be handcuffs. I guess I'm not systemically important enough.
In some ways, the problem is never the question, but how the results are evaluated.
Beyond Bayesians and Frequentists (2012) [pdf]
Congrats! This is awesome. I would be interested in hearing more about where you got financing (traditional bank/mortgage lender or other) and what locations you purchased your properties in.
If you are permanently lowering your exposure, you are not timing the market. If you are deciding that now the market is too hot and you don't like the risk, but plan on being invested later, you are timing the market.
I want to ask something. People always ask me why I rent and "waste money" instead of getting a mortgage etc.

I explain to them that I put most of the money I make into my company, and have a greater ROI than if I put the money into real estate. But, since I have to live somewhere, I rent.

Yet, I am not sure this argument is correct. If I had money for a down payment, perhaps the strategy of getting a mortgage would win in the long run. So, instead of getting into the details, I usually mention I also like to be able to change apartments every year or so.

What are your thoughts - those of you who have now, or have had, growing startups?
The Man Stuffed and Displayed Like a Wild Animal
People just don't care about those small differences. (Since solutions of pedantic version pinning or vendoring are known, anyone who doesn't adopt them clearly doesn't care that much.)

Or you can have all the devs pull images built by a central CI system, but you'll still have package differences creep in over time.
Just edited it to point out that it is a mutual fund, not an index fund. Still over the past 5 years, it is +43% total.
> If you are an investor you need to be in the market, period.

This. Another way to think of it: if you are out of the market when it goes up by X% that is functionally equivalent to an X% loss, i.e. you have X% less money than you otherwise would have had.

(Well, OK, technically it's equivalent to a loss of X/(1+X) but that's pretty close to X for X<<100%.)
I don't know about that specifically, but is there a reason why geoengineering in general is a bad idea?
I don't see how the IRS would crack down on that unless the rules change. I don't see the rules changing without notice (time for people doing this to self-reimburse medical expenses before the rules change).
Pretty much, they cannot show UK residents any advertising so they block based on IP address. In all circumstances the content is available on the BBC just not via that page. It would be nice to see them redirect to the content for UK readers but I expect that is a lot of work for little benefit.
There isn't a law that engineers need to be paid (or at least not any more than minimum wage.) I don't see how these are equivalent.

A more apt comparison would be "The US should make a law that all software must be released open source." Would we all be out of jobs if that happened? Maybe, but it's at least a debatable point.
Point of Sale + cashless society = problem solved.
There are highly competitive fields where this is the reality. Those also tend to pay very well and include large bonuses. And some of us like working in those fields. We don't just work on web projects or droid apps.
They moved the conversation with their closest connections to Instagram/Snapchat. (Which also allow you to follow celebrities and other popular people) Also a lot of group conversations went to Whatsapp and similar software
I don't disagree with your main argument, but I'd say there's at least some barrier to entry. The market definitely has some network effects. More drivers in the network makes it faster to get a ride and therefore more attractive to riders. Vice versa more riders makes it more attractive to drivers to be on Uber's network.

As you point out, drivers and riders can install multiple apps (and they often do, e.g. Lyft), but for a competitor to enter they'll likely need to jumpstart their network. Something which they'll likely have to do by subsidizing both drivers and riders. This means that whoever decides to take on Uber would probably need quite a big war chest themselves.
Apple's AirPods will probably suck, audio wise, but there's a chance they're sturdy as hell. I know because I've used Apple's otherwise useless EarPods to listen to spoken word content and to fall asleep with for years.

The only thing that break on the EarPods are the cables, and if you're not like making knots intentionally, you can wake up in the morning tangled in them for more than a year before they start to break.

So, yeah, I like the eur 500 worth of other headphones I own at the moment too. Sure, it's weird I'll need to use some goddamned dingus to attach them to my next phone.

But fuck me if we're still stuck with current wired tech for audiophile gear in 2030. It's not like I want to use shitty headphones out and about. I do because I don't want to fuck up the cables, etc. And wireless headphones still suck, universally.

We live in the future now for goodness' sakes and Bluetooth audio is only marginally less useless than it was ten years ago.

So yeah, if you've got any sense of pride over where wearable tech should be taking us, please, roll over and beg that this infusion of Apple's proprietary shitty cans into the marketplace will raise adoption of voice control and increase development of less shitty hardware to make music and user interface appear in our fucking ears with no wires.

I don't own any Apple stock so I don't really give shit, except I prefer to buy tech somehow designed to fit together. If Apple crashes and burns because they're trying to make wearable computers in your ears a thing, so be it.
"Many scientists suspect that the solar system has migrated to a region of the galaxy with high energy."

Can't tell if satire or hippies.
This was not our experience. We posted for a full-time remote frontend position in our 100% remote company and only received a few inquiries. Thankfully one of them was the right fit but I'm dubious to your "thousands of people".
Well, if states were to embrace a lot more violence than they do now "security" probably could do that (not an endorsement).
This is a really good point. I remember when all of Rackspace had just that many.. Around when swift launched there were about 1k employees in the cloud division, and about the same number as twitter across all business segments.
why is the United States the only country in the world where advertising prescription medicine to consumers is allowed?

Because the US has the strongest freedom of speech protections in the world.
> Suffix Automata

Reminds me of the Aho-Corasick string-matching algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aho–Corasick_algorithm
I can't stress how important it is to cut commuting out of your life. I know many people who commute an hour each way, each day. Two hours per day. ~500 hours per year. Thats 20 to 30 days of your life each year wasted commuting, depending on whether or not you just count waking hours. And not only are you not making money those hours, you are spending it - on gas, insurance, the life of your vehicle, etc.
>Inspite of that, ANYTHING is better than systemd.

Not really. It's a great replacement for the mess of init scripts and ad-hoc solutions in traditional unix, and it was an informed decision after many years of deliberations for most distros to adopt it.

Besides this is zero content.

>Having something like LLVM as a first class daemon, compared to something like systemd is not even comparable. It's like... evolution. systemd is like taking corporate backwash and trying to clean a pristine pond.

You keep using this word LLVM. I'm not sure it means what you think it means.

Systemd is not a compiler, it's a system for managing system services and processes.

LLVM is just a set backend libraries for writing compilers, and a collection of some compilers implemented with them.

"Having something like LLVM as a first class daemon" is close to being content free as a statement, especially when that's something's role will be to replace systemd. It's not even wrong, it's meaningless.

In the only way the sentence makes sense "LLVM as a deamon", would be a always-running compiler/server that you pass your programs to it, instead of invoking LLVM as a command line app.
> certainly its available to everyone to negotiate during the interview process no

Probably not. It would be available to those that are considered living too far away from the office. Those that work within a range that is considered close enough are expected to be in the office and attempting to negotiate that would take you out of consideration.
Cool, thanks.

It goes to show that when I'm thinking about a website, I go very quickly to Internet Archive to check out its past, often before even reading much into the web site.
Common Criteria Services
FWIW, the Google GitHub contribution guidelines encourage you to use your personal email address to make contributions if you already have one. They cite a few reasons, but one of them is to maintain access/credit/identity/whatever after you leave.
How would you go about doing something like this in a booming housing market like the Boston area?
It seems like neither company solved the social dilemma of popularity contests and influence, nor appears to have a desire to do so.

On these platforms, their users have to compete against a well funded media campaign of celebrities, media orgs, etc... even for their own family and friends' attention. It is a really absurd level of engagement.

edit: The way American tech companies have approached the social evolution and communication via internet is centered around their propaganda influence and reach. In every respect, they have insinuated themselves into the communicative aspects of the "users" by introducing subversive practices, manipulation, surveillance and the continued active threat of loss of privacy to very adversarial actors.

It's just completely absurd.
I thought the Bogleheads usually do recommend intl exposure for us investors. Like, for a not-too-agressive balance, 40% total-stock-market, 40% intl, 20% bonds.
Please, the problem is much bigger than one political figure.
Part of me wants to be proven wrong on how strong the EU will negotiate but I understand the reason and need for them to do so and I expect they will. I hate that it is likely that remain supporters will get to say "I told you so' in about 2 years time.
Still doesn't guarantee an actual Brexit. My guess is when all is said in done there either is no Brexit or there's a deal that is very close to staying in the Union with a few adjustments. The vote was critical to obtain a negotiating position. I don't see it as the end of the world.
S&P500 index funds are up 77% over the past 5 years. I would say that's kind of proving the point, except international indices have done poorly over that time period and I think that explains most of the difference. (VXUS is up only ~7% over the 5 year period.)

(All figures quoted above are "price" and ignore dividends, which is bad but I don't have easy access to dividends-included figures.)
Yeah, if your rationale isn't "it's easy and cheap", you're probably full of shit.

When it's to the point where I can push a button and have a TV show pop up on my NAS viewable on all my devices in a few minutes (yay Sonarr) or try to find somewhere to go buy it in some weird DRM-encumbered form that I can't even copy to my phone, well, I know what I'm doing.

I can't be assed to pay for things anymore. My sheer laziness is more valuable to me than other people's hard work and I won't even try to deny it, put me in front of a computer and I go into complete utilitarian mode.

This probably applies to more people than will care to admit it and it's exactly why the "piracy is a service problem" attitude is the only one to really put a dent in piracy in the past decade.