skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on Shark Tank. It is a lie (but not unlike almost every other TV show) with just enough truth to keep "suspension of disbelief" aloft. It was designed that way from the beginning. Almost all TV shows are designed this way. The "lie" is called entertainment. The subject of "high stakes" investing is ready-made for TV, but no investor can adequately research a business in the 15 minutes it takes to shoot each pitch.
>I have always thought a good book (probably a novelty but whatever) would be how to prepare for prison. For example what sort of physical training + psychological training + diet would be optimal. What sort of defense training would you study. Where would you put some if any remaining assets.

Yeah, but thieves and burglars would just steal it.
What's "astroturf rhetoric"?
I am reading the book "The Sharing Platform" right now and it has a lot of discussion of Uber. I have mixed feelings about Uber's business model: as an occasional user when I travel to large cities I think that Uber provides a great service inexpensively; as a business model, I find it disturbing that heavy investment is used to temporarily keep prices low. I suppose it is common to 'buy into a market' but in Uber's and some other platform companys' cases I think it is getting to extreme.
Haskell, too. And these days you can even, if you really want, run things before they type check.
Also neglects to mention you can have a 401k and a Roth IRA and that if you have a spouse with income they can open up a Roth as well. For financial advice I think it's really important not to miss details like that.

Also an HSA can be used to shelter a bit more income. If you don't consume much health care a HDHP may be the way to go.

There is also the backdoor Roth, but I never wrapped my head around it.
I spent some time in Albania back maybe 15 years ago. It's an amazingly beautiful country, especially as you get away from Tirana. The people were open and welcoming, even in areas that are poor and desperate, whether that had anything to do with being seen as a rich westerner or not, I've no idea.

We were warned about besa before we went there, from the perspective of "You have to be very careful what you say", for example if you're a guest and you compliment the rug, there's a good chance they'll offer it to you and you'll have to take it or cause offense. I really dislike coffee, but offering "Albanian coffee" to guests (not too dissimilar to Turkish coffee) was a staple part of the culture. So I dutifully practised schooling my expression and drinking coffee, so that if the situation came up I could drink it without grimacing and even be appropriately positive.
Uber is an example of what happens when central banks attempt to 'stimulate' the economy through misguided central planning. By forcing down interest rates and essentially moving spending from the future into the present, they're stimulating investment in general. But what they forget (or more likely, choose to ignore) is that investments can be just bad investments.

Uber is a bad investment. There is no barrier to entry in ride sharing. Drivers can install multiple hailing apps. Riders can too. Building a real time ridesharing engine is not hard - I did it once as a prototype years ago but it was unfortunately in the pre-smartphone era and you had to find ride matches using your regular computer.

So central banks print money in order to buy up safe investments. That forces institutional investors to pour their money into risky investments like venture capital firms. VC firms look around at a field with slim pickings but that torrent of money has to go somewhere, so it ends up being used to fight vast unsustainable price wars. And in the end people's savings that they will depend on in retirement don't end up invested in productive assets that'll yield ROI into the future .... their money ends up subsidising a 10 minute taxi ride and being lost forever.

The people who run Uber may feel that they 'have' to do this otherwise their competitors would do so instead, but that just reinforces how hopeless the situation is: they know perfectly well that their main competitive advantage is illusory, or at best, is merely a result of better access to capital flows. All it'll take is a sustained set of interest rate hikes and the end of QE, and suddenly Uber will have to charge the real underlying market rates. How will it end?
​The open-source Dronecode dog fight
I would say there isn't. If your economic situation is so bad, that you are willing to throw yourself into the sea on a rubber dinghy, you are a refugee from severe poverty and life so horrible that you are willing to risk dying just to escape it.

If it was up to me, I would expand charter of human rights to include this.
The ability to launch heavy payloads into orbit strikes me as having obvious military and intelligence implications. China and most of the rest of the world are not friends, it's more like detente with a brutally co-dependent economic relationship.
That's just not how you correct for confounding effects.
Kind of similar to (WARNING, play load music on load) https://highscore.money/ that is just a list of people.

Seems to highscore.money was popular because of the network of the creator https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge

Maybe ask him for advice.
Close Viewing: Touring the history of poetry in the YouTube age
> and thus need less money.

Medical bills.
I agree†. Sentences in general are too long. I don't think there's a corrective goal that a 5 year sentence for a non-financial computer crime that isn't served just as well in 1.

† With the nit that I don't believe a 5 year sentence would be in the cards for this particular offender.
One reason to go with components over a switch statement is so you can render a specific component on all '/about' pages along with an additional specific component on all '/about/team' pages. With a switch statement you can only match a specific branch.
No, he shouldn't be forced to version his product. Being taken advantage of by a large media house != being bad at business.
I believe part of their positioning is to become beloved by regulators. Become part of the routine of the politically elite in Washington, and you're more likely to have favorable laws passed. Whether they're able to scale this to less-friendly jurisdictions is an open question.
Several big warning signs, if you read between the lines:

1) All the string people are saying they are applying strings to different fields. That means funding is drying up.

2) No new blood: they are quoting all the same people as 10 years ago. No breakthroughs since Maldacena, it sounds like.
I'd love some backstory on this too. I (kind of) understand JSX for HTML, but declaring routing rules seems very far from that.
> Real-world friends are the basis for your FBK graph, work colleagues are the basis for Linkedin. But Twitter? What's the community?

Twitter communities are formed by people with similar interests or opinions. This was THE promise of the internet at some point in the past - communication with people all over the world. Why is it beneficial to limit our communities to geographic or otherwise circumstantial boundaries which we often have little control over?
> You can only disappear until your first run-in with police. Even if you've never been arrested you're still in the system.

I'm not sure about the comparative odds of having a run-in with the police in a busy urban environment, vs. living off land you don't own.
Big data and container orchestration get better in DC/OS 1.8
As an american who works just as he does, and have for roughly 10 years, this is simply not true.

Working down to the bone, "every second", will lead to serious burn out. Your mental health suffers, as do your relationships.

I won't make any assumptions about who you are or how you work, but I tend to see this mindset from new blood who wants to get the edge over others. I understand this mindset, as it's very productive - like a short sprint - but it's not sustainable.

If you want to last the whole race, you need to pace yourself.
Income early in one's career is typically lower than incomes later in one's career. So even if retirement income is lower than final career income, there's still a good chance it's greater than entry-level income and would be taxed at a higher rate. You've also got to keep in mind that taxes may eventually rise. America's top rate today is much, much lower than the top rate historically--no reason to believe it couldn't swing back the other way.
1. The thing that makes headspace worth it for me is Andy Puddicome. I'm British and listening to his vaguely northern accent is very calming. It's a fine balance whether you find listening to the same voice every day irritating or helpful.

2. It depends on how stressed you are. I felt an immediate difference in calmness at the end of each headspace session. This was almost immediately worth it for me to spend $70 on. All I need it to do is give me one extra hours work done from being calmer to make it worthwhile.

3. Also there's laziness of having everything setup for you. I wouldn't keep it up if I had to read my own way through and make my own path. Headspace makes it very easy just to follow a guided path but with some choice. A lot of it is using the same techniques in slightly different ways.

Calm's CTO's comment about having new content each day I don't find very important. I know this is a very long term thing (i.e. decades of learning), so I know each section requires a lot of practice and repetition. I'm happy to repeat sections and practice until I get the full benefit.
You Can have an ADSL Internet connections for the Price of one dvd or two theater ticket per month. A cheap player Will play all your downloaded content. I don't believe most of the pirates have the capabilities of watching more than one or two film per month in theater. I do believe services like netflix are a game changer. Even with the poor french catalog.
Talking only about the cost issue.
I think the Oracle/Android debacle is why people should move from the Java ecosystem. Oracle has demonstrated that they'll countermand the spirit of the Java ecosystem and license any way they can if they think it's valuable enough.

It's a tax on success they want to impose. They want to turn Java into the same business model as their databases.
Yeah but for $50 you can build something that someone might find useful and pay you for it. I wished I had more of an entrepreneur spirit in my college days, it would of paid for all those books that I barely used.
The only situations I can think of where Roth might make sense are 1) early stages of your career, before you hit the 28% marginal rate and 2) if you are still eligible for a Roth, but already maximized your other tax-advantaged space in 401(k)s and IRAs.
Why does Uber keep keep getting called a "ride share" service? Passengers don't share the ride with other customers. The driver wasn't already going in that direction. It's just a simple transaction. I'm paying X dollars to someone to drive me to Y place. It's a cab with an app.

Uber is "ride sharing" like hiring a carpenter is "hammer sharing."
Calm seems interesting, though not something I'd want to do with my phone (even though I get the appeal of it being everywhere). Wouldn't mind an AndroidTV app so I can do it at home, sitting on my carpeted floor, in the relative darkness, in front of a TV.. rather than squinting at a phone
Is Mark Cuban's claim that he funds approximately half of the deals he makes on the show in the ballpark? I also remember him saying something about the each pitch actually taking up to an hour, that is then cut down for TV. But you're saying it takes 15 minutes to shoot each. Which is it?
I entered "minecraft" in to google scholar, found a few you might find helpful.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=minecraft&btnG=&a...
I looked at that person's profile. I would not be altogether surprised if it was a troll account.
- Worldwide, 60–90% of school children and nearly 100% of adults have dental cavities.

- Dental cavities can be prevented by maintaining a constant low level of fluoride in the oral cavity.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs318/en/

It doesn't seem like it's an issue to you, personally, because we have flourinated water.
Only 11 years. It seems like it was older. I guess it seems like such an idea of the late 90's internet, I just associate it with that era.
I do a mix. Some days I like working remotely. Others I will go into the office.

I think more than anything I just want freedom. I don't want to be locked into 8-5. Some days I want to work late and do stuff during the day (yardwork, appointments). I just want flexibility.
I think you are right.

However many people will mindlessly argue that "secure borders" will magically prevent the mass migration of 100+ million people.
A "revenge of the nerds" archetype is celebrated in The Big Bang Theory, not how actual nerds are. Some of its for the sake of comedy, but its more a stereotypical perception being celebrated not what actual nerdy people look/act like.
This is an interesting point, but not something we can solidly plan on. Vs we can absolutely say what the best way to play the game is based on todays rules.
Can you go into more detail regarding why he wasn't cut out? Did he just not have enough experience at the time to work on software?

It's always interesting to me what makes a 'bad' hire, a 'bad' hire because I'm starting to realize it is very subjective. My motivation level and productivity varies significantly depending on work conditions, and how well I am getting along with colleagues.
Forgive me, because I only have what you have said to work with. It sounds like this was a lot of smaller projects with smaller teams? If so, static typing increases value as project size and head count increases.

The more pieces of the project that you didn't write or otherwise have low knowledge of their inner workings, the more dangerous modifying code becomes. It's very useful to have something telling you that everything looks OK. That something can be testing, but why rely on writing good tests when we have formal proof systems available?
Yup, seeing that too. They made some changes to that since last night when I was first looking at it. In particular they were importing `Router` instead of `BrowserRouter`. `Router` doesn't exist.

Also based on my testing you need to render a single component inside router, so wrap everything in a <div> like the basic example does: https://react-router-website-xvufzcovng.now.sh/basic
> Uber is an example of what happens when central banks attempt to 'stimulate' the economy through misguided central planning. By forcing down interest rates and essentially moving spending from the future into the present, they're stimulating investment in general. But what they forget (or more likely, choose to ignore) is that investments can be just bad investments.

How do you explain things like the .com boom when interest rates were "normal"? Uber has raised a lot of money, but it's a drop in the bucket in the world of global finance (and a very small drop at that!).
I actually think it was bordering on generous to the Quantum article, and I'm not sure that in a similar position I would have been satisfied with only restrained mockery.
>Why is it Twitter's fault that people handed them 2.8 billion dollars?

It's not about "fault" as if it's some kind of moral argument. E.g. When the Twitter founders asked Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal to invest an additional $300 million in 2011[1], they had a set of revenue & profit projections to convince him to write that check. Obviously, their financial predictions didn't happen. Therefore, Twitter is judged harshly for not delivering.

The parent poster framed Twitter's criticism in terms of "Facebook envy". Instead, we should just look at the real underlying problem: Twitter has never made any money.

It's ok to be a much smaller company than Facebook if you're making profits and/or growing. Twitter doesn't seem to have an obvious path to profits. They also are not growing.

Linkedin is making profits. Snapchat is growing; it's reportedly losing money but at least it's still growing. Both are smaller companies than Facebook and yet they don't get the doom and gloom writings from the press.

[1]http://pitchbook.com/news/articles/twitter-goes-public-hatch...
You seem to object a lot to the tone of the article. But you don't seem to object too strongly to the facts, unless you are somehow claiming that money to La Raza is actually consumer relief. (I merely claimed that it isn't.)

If you want to see the list it's not hard to find. It confirms that BofA gave $1M to La Raza, and in return did not have to give out $2.3M in consumer relief. Similarly for Urban League and a variety of other organizations.

http://bankofamerica.mortgagesettlementmonitor.com/Reports/F...

Given the list of charities, it's extremely unlikely that any of the settlement money was used to "campaign against voter ID laws" as yummfajita's only source charges...

That's not the claim. The claim is that money is fungible, so if La Raza gets $1 for purpose X, nothing prevents them from shifting $1 of other money away from X and to source Y.

Do you claim any of the facts I've cited are false, or are you merely criticizing my tone?
Cognitive Bias Cheet Sheet
Do you realize that Uber and Lyft drivers are often making below minimum wage when you account for their costs? The only way they are getting drivers is by offering fat bonuses to both parties for driver referrals. The entire business model is unsustainable and now Uber is hemorrhaging money because all of their drivers figure this out, drive enough to get a bonus and move on.
As somebody that remote works most of the time, I will stick my head out and agree that working side by side tends to be my most productive times with co-workers.

Working remotely is great for ones health. Co-working is best for synergy and communication.

It's all about the balance.
I quite agree. I like the repetitive edge of Headspace. Although I have to say that I don't feel compelled to do all of it. I know it's not a test and if I push myself to do things then it lessens the benefit.
Just route all emails without the + to the trash.
Because for tax reasons Uber wants to make it very clear they aren't the ones with the vehicles. You're using (sharing?) the driver's vehicle.
Your smartwatch can ask for help in case of stroke: please help funding YourBeat
ORMs model databases, databases don’t model objects
Why not skip to the end? When enough articles (ending in a question mark or not) are discussed the probability of Betteridge's law (as well as anything else) being mentioned approaches 1. There everybody goes, forever, we are completely done with that class of stuff now. You're welcome :P
Even if you can guarantee that your retirement income wouldn't be higher, you can't guarantee that your tax would be lower either. So I'd have both traditional and Roth IRA (e.g., 50/50)
mine craft or education I guess
I agree, Twitter's management definitely has to take the blame here. It was their responsibility to manage the narrative, and I remember early on all the rumors of management squabbles. It's clear that those inside the company who wanted to build a cool dev platform lost out to those with dollar signs in their eyes who wanted to go for a moonshot.

I can't help but feel there was a third path which is to say: we've now outgrown our free-for-all dev roots, and we need to standardize the experience so we can improve it unilaterally, but let's do so with the acknowledgement that we have something special, something which may be worth more than 10x growth or 100x growth achieved by a tremendous cash burn. Obviously hindsight is 20/20, so I can't hold it against them too strongly, but it still really makes me sad.
Are there solutions for the exercises?

Lot of the exercises, especially in the exploratory data analysis part are "why is blah?" or "is there a relationship in blah?"

I think I know the answers, but it would be nice to be able to check if I see what I'm supposed to se in the data.
Modsecurity is notoriously slow, and its rules are complex to read and to write, while the naxsi ones are simple: https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi/blob/master/naxsi_config...
Keep this in mind when you read the article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20061002142756/http://www.ncswa....

"Really good science writers need to lie, cheat, and steal, said K. C. Cole in the first plenary of the workshop. She outlined 15 rules for writing in her talk, but focused most on the value of lying."
Quick question, is it necessary to render a single component within a Router? All the examples except the quick-start example seem to do so.
Apple is not a technology company
Others are recording the need for a real on-call rotation, so I'll just jump into this:

>Aside from that, I expect 40 hours of "quality" braintime from you, and I don't really care where or when those hours occur, as long as you're collaborating with the team when they need you.

There is no way you are getting 40 hours of "quality brain time" from anyone. If you believe you are, you don't know what "quality brain time" is.

Assign the amount of work you feel is reasonable. Let the worker do the work. If the work gets done, it doesn't matter how much time it took. Knowledge workers sell their knowledge to help you accomplish a designated task, not their time.

How much work really gets done in a 40-hour work week? Anyone who has been in any office environment knows that probably at least 50% of that time is always just farting around trying to rack up butt-in-chair time. Consider also that promotions and political favors are usually withheld from people who do the "bare minimum" of 40 hours and that butt-in-chair time comprises 95% of an external entity's (like, say, your boss's boss) assessment of job performance, and the time constraints can become quite demanding.

We should do away with the Industrial-era culture of minutely managing hours (when time working was directly correlated to the quantity of products a company could assemble, and thus counting time allowed the company to reasonably reliably assign a portion of the revenue to its employees) and embrace the Information-era mandate of small, irregular work units moving the majority of the product.

We should accommodate workers such that they can cultivate a fruitful and creative mental state for use in employment when inspiration and flow is most likely to strike (which, for coders, is usually in the middle of the night when there is a solid block of 5-6 hours with 0 interruptions), instead of forcing our supposedly-revered knowledge workers into deadened, drooling blobs stuck to their chairs for 55 hours a week because they're vying for a promotion next year.

It's a major pet peeve to see someone treating knowledge workers like assembly linemen. More butt-in-chair time != more productivity, and in fact, once a certain threshold is reached (probably ~20 hours), it becomes counterproductive.
Wow, that's a roundabout justification. You don't need low interest rates for people to make stupid investments.

Uber could just as easily be an example of what happens when the weather is nice and we grow a surplus of food and food prices fall and therefore people spend their remaining capital on bad investments like Uber.
This reminds me of when Fidelity did a survey to find which of their customers had portfolios that performed the best, and they found that the customers who were DEAD had the best performing portfolios: http://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performed...
RIP Uber. 8/29/2016.

posted by readhn 16 days ago on: Google Takes on Uber with New Ride-Share Service
Do you realize that most Uber drivers aren't working it as a full time job? They're working when they have downtime and can make a few bucks.
It seems that the issue is fixed: https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi/issues/227#issuecomment-...
> I did it once as a prototype years ago but it was unfortunately in the pre-smartphone era and you had to find ride matches using your regular computer.

How was the driver side solved? SMS?