skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting a work permit for a non-EU national is a hassle. We just hired a canadian and I can tell you, no employer really wants to go through this. Without a work visa no job (unless your prefer illegal jobs). You might have some luck being registered in the UK and pretending to work remotely as a freelancer, but all in all, you'll have a mess at your hands. Air travel will be risky (might need to show passport, visa), air travel to non-schengen destinations quite impossible. No proper way of getting insurance coverage. Don't get stopped by the police, don't have a car accident, no speeding, ...

You certainly can sit tight and never move around - because that's what the illegals do - but I don't think you really want that.
Have you considered an online Master's degree in machine learning from Georgia Tech? Its offered through Udacity so its cheaper and more flexible, but you also get a full degree from Georgia Tech.

Full disclosure- I'm currently in that program and loving it.
A lot of people around here do "invest" in this type of tech by working for companies producing that tech. For the average person, you can't throw your money at a random startup.

And generally, its not exactly a safe bet either. People who do throw their money at startups tend to also have lots of other very safe, diversified investments to balance out the risk of larger singular investments on specific bets/companies/tech/ideas.

For example, the author is advocating and claims to invest in your basic Vanguard Retirement Target fund, but he's also an accredited investor who also does just what you suggest
1) no one starts at the top.

2) you have done enough prep. Get some real world experience.

3) make them want you. Establish yourself.
The Fantastic World of Professor Tolkien (1956)
Quick question for you: I've noticed that in most cities there's at least one nondescript, windowless brick building with 70's era architecture and some connection to a telephone company. Examples: [1] [2] [3] Now, those were probably made back in the days when everything was built from mechanical switches, or at best, transistors. What do they do with all that space when modern, miniaturized tech comes to town? Are they just filled with cobwebs and bits of ancient mainframe computers nowadays?

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6767102,-122.2095201,3a,75y,...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Museum+of+Communications/@...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/place/AT%26T+Long+Lines+Building...
> what's wrong with paying for Twitter? $20 per year for personal account, $300 for businesses.

Well, there's plenty wrong with the system you describe. Is Taylor Swift's account personal or business?

To me it seems like it would make sense to charge for accounts based on the number of followers. Followers are what make an account valuable.
Show HN: Herd location+interest based chat
Location+interest based chat (beta) built on:

React Native, Relay, Relay Subscriptions, Node, Bookshelf, Postgres, Redis

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.herditall.herd&hl=en
I could never get through Pynchon or whatever but Infinite Jest wasn't a slog at all. Wonderful prose full of hilarious details and moments. Wacky sci-fi alternative universe stuff. Great descriptions of dynamics in a tennis match.

It's certainly a long book but you don't have to treat it like a academic paper to enjoy reading it. It's a fun read, for real! Well actually it's kind of depressing but moment to moment it's fun.
When you have postal code check on, the cardholder's bank checks to see if the postal code you collect matches the one they have on file—these results are passed directly from the bank. While we can't control the bank's decision to decline a charge, we work hard to improve decline rates for both individual businesses and across Stripe—we'd be happy to take a look into your integration to see if there's anything amiss. Could you get in touch with me at edwin.wee@stripe.com?
When you are out and about with your laptop you are usually making your DNS calls to the local router which many view as a big privacy concern. Even if you use something like google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 public DNS servers as your defaults the traffic is easily sniffable.
A Udacity nano degree is more like a Graduate Certificate but much much cheaper. What udacity has going for them is that at the end of the nano degree you have projects you can show off. Not all certificate programs will make you have a final project for you portfolio.
> As for Shkreli--he's an asshole, but it makes no sense to focus narrowly on isolated abuses.

I take it nobody in your family was affected by the price of a Daraprim tablet going from around $10 to $700 per pill?

> The big problem here is that manufacturers of generics have almost zero ability to invest in even minimal R&D.

Because that's not what they do. That's like complaining that Belkin makes lightning cables and they aren't even investing in developing new computers.
So IPv6 is the Brasilia of Internet real estate :-)
There's references in the 2 Warren Buffett links
yes, that as well, though that's a bit more about the EURO than the EU and Britain never was EURO member.
> There is no barrier to entry in ride sharing. Drivers can install multiple hailing apps. Riders can too.

This is not true. There are big network effects when you consider products like UberPOOL. A new app would burn through a lot of cash to subsidize rates below the rates Uber can offer profitably through pooling.
If you need your solar to generate your AC in California or another southern state of the US, sure.

Here in the Netherlands, our complete solar system with installation cost us EUR 4,500, and we do run some AC in the hottest summer months. We are currently generating more than we use, with a household of 2 adults and 4 kids.
Ask HN: What is the most novel program you saw?
i am talking about the source code of course, not what the program does
Twitter _is_ a giant.

Facebook is an anomaly.

It is matter of perspective.
If you are going to contribute to a Roth, it is better to do it earlier than not, while your earnings are lower, so at least you have that going for you. It can also make it easier if you ever decide to do a backdoor Roth in the future(for you know, when you have tons of money kicking around after you are contributing the max to your 401k and have your mortgage(s) paid off), since it could be hard to open a Roth account after you are over the income limit.
Another example: here is a water pumping station disguised as a home in Raleigh, NC: http://wunc.org/post/video-whats-inside-house-wade-avenue
Here's one discussion that I don't think could have taken place on another social network: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/771434850863583233.

There a lot of people I follow on Twitter who value their anonymity, like https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus, and being able to see them debate others real-time about issues of substance is valuable to me.

Some other examples of recent, useful tweets:

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/775038793376231424

https://twitter.com/cblatts/status/685580497859252224

Twitter encourages interactivity in way that Facebook does not (though that might have more to due with the existing userbase than the UX), and it's text-focused in a way that Instagram, Snapchat, etc., are not.
Can you elaborate on this? I've been managing a post-tax account somewhat like a Roth IRA, though it is not an IRA because I plan to retire far before 59 1/2. I'm hoping for something in the middle of the two approaches with flexibility to withdraw early without penalty.
HN enjoys the occasional humorous posts lined with neat nuggets of information?
Is it possible to do a Master's from GA Tech without a BS/BA from a STEM major? I have a BA, but it's in the humanities, although I'm currently employed as a software engineer.
I think they mean Joules.
That's interesting. Why would they do that? I mean if somebody is willing to break through a balcony, traversing between floors shouldn't be a big problem. And the second balcony is quite far away, there could be the same secure entrance between it and the room, as the floor entrance (If you can't just get there through the elevator). Maybe it's more about being able to see people who work there?
I mentioned this in a sibling comment - I'm currently running the container using systemd which gives me restart ability and all that.

Do you think this is insufficient?
Doctors / nurses / pharmacists are required to submit dozens of hours of continuing medical education every year to maintain their licenses. There is an approximately 0% chance that a patient with no background in medicine will learn something useful from a TV Commercial that everyone in the treatment plan doesn't already know.
Yeah, I did that when I worked remotely as an employee for a company. They didn't like it, particularly my boss's boss, and it definitely only served to make the younger developers who quite literally live and socialize on Slack more wary of me (because of course if you're not online, you're not really working, right? Even if you're producing results.)

What I'm talking about now is working as a contractor/freelancer for short-term projects, like even as short as 3-4 week projects. Most of the good freelance jobs expect you to be on Slack coordinating with their team in Eastern European country X. It really didn't use to be like this, I used to be able to make good money as a freelancer just coordinating with other freelancers and the contracting company/individual a few times a day. And in my opinion, it worked a lot better. Yeah, the irresponsible devs can't screw around as much if someone's keeping tabs on Slack, but the productive ones are significantly less productive this way. And why would you hire a remote freelancer you didn't trust to do the work?

And jobs that are paid per job and not per hour aren't any better, in my experience. Everyone has to be online, checking in, chatting, exchanging memes.

Maybe I've just had a streak of bad luck this year, but it definitely seems to be a significant trend.

I don't know, maybe I need to make a concerted effort just to work for small businesses, and not start-ups or mid-sized companies.
Here's what the local CO looks like in my hometown (~6K people). It was still a SxS switch when I was in high school (early 90s) but has since been upgraded; I presume most of the building is empty at this point and it's just used as staging for repair parts (see the pic of the back fenced-in area).

http://imgur.com/a/MMSK4
I wish I had the skunklock when they stole my bikes front wheel.
One thing worth considering is that not everyone considers the same things to be worthwhile, but popularity is too coarse a metric to use to choose what to read. IJ was one of the most valuable (to me) books I've ever read, and I finally read it after about three false starts on the basis of some clues (eg Schwarz' review) that I might find it so valuable. A mainstream full of -you- would have misled me.

Figuring out what books you're going to like is really hard. If anyone knows a good way, besides the extensive process of collecting reviewers you trust and making friends who know your tastes - do share.
Yup, this. I agree.
> it only took two days of basic training to make clear that signing up for the US Air Force was the worst mistake of a heretofore untroubled life

Was it really impossible to just put your hand up and say "uh, guys, I made a mistake, can we please forget about it?"

I mean, what were the consequences of you just sitting on the ground and refusing, or even just walking out of the place? Do they physically own you like a prison?
They need to make money somehow. It's not a public service.
The Roth phaseout starts at $117k for single earners. That is a lot of money, more than most people in the US, let alone the world, make, but it is not a princely sum for most technologists, especially not ones on HN.
Albania itself is a very tolerant country (religious wise ... we think of having a large amount of people coming from arab countries as a regress in the freedom and quality of life. ... which will not be compatible with a tolerant one like Albania's.

An atheist or otherwise "religion tolerant" mentality implies compatibility with anyone.

It looks like you're "tolerant" only with atheists or somewhat less religious people. More importantly those people ran away from war risking their lives, religion and culture is of no importance to them when looking for shelter and food.
We are using these on materialized views with an explicit order by to do that for us. Have found these most helpful for those types of scenarios (summary / reporting data where we can control refresh/population) - but obviously that is our use case and it may not be very efficient for others.
Here's the somewhat passive aggressive approach.

1. Make sure you either arrive at work before your boss each day, or leave after your boss each day, or at least the large majority of days.

2. A couple times a week answer an email or two during the evening or weekend, preferably ones your boss will see. This doesn't have to take very much time. Don't force it, make sure they are emails that you are actually interested in and have a good response to.

3. Work smart and hard when you are working, be above average on your team despite probably spending less time in the office.

4. Work longer hours than you normally do when it's something really fun and you don't have much going on at home anyway. That situation does arise from time to time. Make sure, in a very natural way, that your boss notices when you do this, probably by telling him/her how fun it was.

5. When you have to duck out for an hour or two for the dentist or whatever, don't tell your boss unless you absolutely have to (e.g., you have to miss a meeting with him/her). You are an adult, he/she doesn't need to know where you are at all times. You don't ask permission to go to the bathroom, do you? In short, don't emphasize to your boss, "I'm not going to be working for the next little while" if you don't have to.

6. Keep all commitments that you make to be at work at a certain time. Try not to make very many of those commitments. Instead commit to getting work done, not just being somewhere.

If you are doing all that, you can work less than 40 hours most weeks and nobody will care.
What about the show where they faked signing a deal with The Sharper Image? Was that not a lie?
I think it's a way to count article reads and general engagement on the page.
I agree. Transportation companies just don't tend to be profitable. Airlines are super competitive and minimally profitable. The airlines folks have a saying- they can only be as profitable as their dumbest competitor- and these are people that actually own or lease their planes and have airports and routes granted to them. Even monopolies like taxi cab companies weren't that profitable if you consider the costs of the medallions. Its just hard to make money in transport- drivers make peanuts, car companies have razor thin margins, oil is too volatile, customers are too cost-conscious. Very different than enterprise software or pharma.
Thanks! Not done yet.
David Foster Wallace (amusingly enough) wrote on such themes. IIRC, the piece I'm thinking of is a review of a biography of Dostoevsky. He talked about how many old classics are full of sincere, deeply held beliefs, that in more modern (postmodern) literature would be mocked endlessly. Strong beliefs are now mainly written about to tear them down with snark, and being ironic/jaded is the default posture of fiction.

Is that accurate, and does that result in less interesting works? I think there's a definite argument to be made there.
The only thing that takes 15 minutes in television is airing 15 minutes of television. A rule of thumb is that each minute of edited television takes about nine minutes of shot footage if you're in a hurry. I'm suspicious, but not overly so.

Source: Former ENG photographer, production intern, technical director, occasional live broadcast director with an emphasis on sports. (Just tossing it out since people are demanding credentials; I'm not bothered if you believe me or not.)

Edit: Since the guy showed up and backed himself up and I immediately got downvoted, it's worth pointing out that I was actually somewhat standing up for the person and not accusing him of lying unlike the other commenters in this thread. I was suspicious, but not enough to question someone's integrity like other folks in this thread.
> In theory you can scale this up and copy the contents of memory into an FPGA ...

In practice it would have to be in external memory (DDR, flash, etc.) that the FPGA would use to back transactions because FPGAs don't have 32GB of memory capacity. Problems then become meeting bus timings that may very well be tuned for the PCB layout.
Last I checked Uber poached like 40 staff members from Carnegie Mellon's robotics lab.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...

They have driverless cars out on the streets in Pittsburgh to gather data.

How are they not innovating again?
DynamoDB transactions in Go
You might enjoy <http://adv-r.had.co.nz/>, which discusses R from more of a programming language perspective (albeit a programming language that is chiefly used for data analysis). There are a lot of misunderstanding about R the language.
Stock photos of women of color in tech, now free to use. (2015)
works indeed - thanks.
A good article on pursing excellence in a game, or any arbitrary activity really.
I find the idea of becoming really good at a game interesting, but I bounce around too much to ever really give it a shot I think. There are so many boardgames, cardgames, and computer games out there that I've never really made an effort to get good at any. My grandparents used to be devoted Bridge players. They read books, they went to tournaments at hotels, and played frequently with friends. They both had decades of experience with one game. On the other hand I doubt I'll be playing a game like Hearthstone or Netrunner two years from now even.
"Uber is an example of what happens when central banks attempt to 'stimulate' the economy through misguided central planning."

Substitute the word 'stimulate' with the word 'influence' but this is actually the job of a central bank.
After about two paragraphs I chose not to read it.
Not every vote is expected to be a one-off setting the policy direction for a generation or three. And whilst it's normal for older people to be more conservative and more reliable voters, the skew by age was unusually strong in this one (56% of 25-49 year olds voted Remain, 75% of the under 25s that actually voted voted Remain, but 56% of over 50s and 61% of those over 65 swung it in favour of Leave)

As for alternatives, I mentioned higher quorums ("If 50% of the entire electorate vote Leave, we'll leave" would have seen no change happen, at least until Cameron was undermined by his own party) which are actually pretty common for major changes in democratic votes within organizations. There were also calls for 16/17 year olds to vote although this certainly wouldn't have affected the end result.

Tangential point for futile rhetorical arguments: the split between net taxpayers vs net recipients of state benefits/pensions which I don't think any pollster has been bold enough to evaluate. Usually pensioners are strongly conservative and the unemployed and unskilled part-time workers strongly left-wing which makes "our voters are the ones paying for it" arguments redundant, but Brexit is one cause that almost certainly united the votes of pensioners and the unemployed and underemployed, and depended on them to prevail
How do you securely consume those secrets though - from everything I have seen with vault or consul you end up with the secret as a environmental variable that is then visible in ps listing.
I wonder about this. Without the profit motive / investor dollars, would anything ever get done?
While this species is bad by Earth standards, it is in no way comparable to the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. Get some perspective.
Measure Health, Not Health Insurance
> Who would want a pair of running shoes from a gift basket anyway?

Well, I'd say that claiming they are getting something that they are not leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, even as a viewer.
Yeah. The last war in Iran was with Saddam and ended in 1988. Although Iran has a military presence in Syria and an uneasy relationship with many of the countries in the region, there has not been any fights within Iranian borders since the Iran-Iraq war ended [1].

Maybe the author was thinking about Iraq.

[1] Well, there is the war on drugs and some separatist movements, but nothing enough to warrant calling any region war-torn.
Yes, it's called desertion, and penalties are pretty serious.

http://military.findlaw.com/criminal-law/failure-to-report-f...
In 8th grade I had a great teacher in a class called "Literary French". This was in a French-oriented high school in a boring Nordic city. Usually the teachers there were a motley crew of random francophones with no credentials whatsoever... Except for this one incredibly smart guy, who was actually a published author from Paris. (The general assumption was that he had ended up as a teacher in that nowhere place because of a woman.)

This being a literature-oriented full-year class, there was naturally a list of books to be read. Somebody asked: "Do we have to actually read these?" His answer was: "No. In school, you can almost always manage if you read 30 pages from the start, 30 pages from the end, and the author's bio. The important thing is not to read every page but that we talk about the books."

No other teacher at that school would have said that. For an 8th grader, it was like turning a key to unlock something that felt fundamental: books are not checkmarks on an assignment list; school is not a collection of tightly defined rote tasks to be performed for their own sake; what you get out of books and school depends entirely on what you bring to the table yourself.
so in order not to show us any ads, they prefer to show us nothing? How weird/ wonderful.
Doctors in the US are reimbursed by Medicare/Medicaid and private insurances based on the rates of generics they prescribe. They look at each type of doc (Oncologists obviously use more Brand Name drugs than pediatricians) and make sure that every doctor falls in a tight band with incentives to 'beat' the number.

Most hospitals have specific formularies tilted toward generics as well, if a doctor writes "Tylenol" for a patient, they're given generic acetaminophen. More interesting is that if a doctor writes a script for something like a Brand Name statin, the formulary will auto-substitute for the hospital's drug of choice, now typically generic Lipitor.
A room full of those, piled up in columns/towers seven or eight feet tall, gets pretty loud.

But yeah, as mentioned, a building with decent insulation can contain the noise. A flimsy cottage, probably not.
Yes Alan Watts, everything is connected, but organizations and people can still remain distinct and have different motivations. :)
http://monevator.com/ is UK-centric.
Thanks. I may be misreading this, but that seems to say that the object of education is to familiarize young people, by practice, with their constitutional rights and duties. There's talk of immunizing young people against the frivolities and corruption of the previous age. (He probably means the court at Versailles. Marie Antoinette and all that.) Prejudice comes up on page 5, as a result of those goals, not a object of it. He means class prejudice. Remember, they'd just dumped the nobility and killed off many of them. This is a sketch for the implementation plan for Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.