skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you start looking up everything you eat on http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/, you know it's gone too far.
even if the educational system is fixed, it doesn't change the fact that if you're poor you first have to find a job, and entry level jobs in careers are hard to find, so you might end up getting something you're overqualified for just to pay the bills, something unrelated, then maybe while you work at something unrelated life happens, you maybe get married, or have kids, and now leaving your underqualified but paying unrelated job becomes impossible, and by the time you can you've lost 10-15 years and your opportunities will be minimal.

If you're rich, you start working in your parents' business, you're also likely to intern in it, and/or in your parents' peers' companies, and if you're any decent you're likely going to be groomed for an exec position, a position the poor college grad will never be able to aspire to, and if you're not decent you're probably going to get some sort of face-saving "consultancy" position, paying again way more than the poor graduate can ever hope to get.

This is unrelated to the education system, and it's not something you can ever fix, because people will always try to make sure their family has an advantage, which means that as soon as a family reaches a position of influence it will use it to perpetuate its position.

Meritocracy is nice in theory, but humans as a species are wired a lot more for tribalism than for meritocracy, hence why to get some semblance of it you need a culture/government that fosters it, and those are in short supply.
Satya Nadella is in charge of Microsoft, not Ballmer, so I don't see the relevance of 2018 for the article.
All true. But what I said was,

> it can help you write stateless code if you assume immutability
Yeah it is really good, and I'd like to post it on my fb, but it says nothing about how to protect against phishing, Ie. check the url. (Even that I'm not so sure about.)
How Game Makers Are Struggling to Make VR Fun
It's Yubikey.

Google Authenticator doesn't do any kind of push notification when you log in. Each endpoint uses a shared secret (the server and the mobile app share that secret beforehand) to generate a time-limited code.
All of our smart entrepreneurs go to Silicon Valley where the money and other talent is? I live in Toronto and can't count the number of friends I've know who moved to either SF or Seattle. The only reason I didn't move there was because I didn't have a 4yr "advanced degree" to qualify for a T1 visa (despite having a job + lawyer). Most leave right out of university. Considering jobs are $60-70k vs $150-200k I don't blame any of them.

Otherwise I believe it's a pretty good place to start a company. Our income taxes are equivalent to California and I believe our corporate taxes are lower but we have health care and relatively cheap housing downtown thanks to a housing development boom.

We also have a startup founder visa and an easier immigration policy. Access to seed capital and higher-end talent is the only constraint.
Washington DC lines up to block AT&T's Time Warner mega-buy
I've run into several websites that use the "security image", and to be honest most of them I don't actually remember what they are until I see them. I can't choose the image myself, so one of them is something banal like a toaster. If I see the toaster, okay, I'm good. But am I 100% certain that if I see a banana instead that I'll say "Something is amiss here!"? I really don't know.

On the other hand, if I could upload my own security image for each site, I guarantee I would remember it, because I'd probably use something I drew myself.
In this http://suffadv.wikidot.com/ RPG, one of your stats represents the level of "applied psychology" in use in your home culture. The more advanced / pervasive the use of the applied psychology, the stronger your character's inherent ability to defend against it.
When you first go to a Google sign-on, it asks for your email. Once you input your email, it then shows you the profile picture corresponding to the account, and asks you to input the password. If the account has no profile picture, the icon is blue instead of gray. (Tested in Incognito mode)
Bringing doctors to patients for on-demand house calls, Heal raises $26.9 mln
This was puzzling me (as a UK citizen). A clue in another comment hinted that it is about insurance.

Still not sure why a dolphin would be covered in a policy but not an orca...
I think you underestimate the demographics of 4chan
> I think that fundamentally, the school should just teach you to read as soon as possible and from there on it should just give you things to read.

I fail to see how this won't devolve into parents that have more time to devote to their children's education through encouragement, steering, tutoring, or paying for the same having a better outcome. And since I think having more money is causal for having more time, I think that's just a way to make the problem worse, not better.
Good point, there shouldn't be that bias.
Well rent doesn't create any wealth either, you're just paying monthly a landlord so he doesn't have to work.

If you want to create value, you should make sure that housing prices (both renting and buying) stay low. This way not only wealth can go to other investments, but more people can take the risk to start a business if they don't have the risk to be unable to pay their rent or mortgage.
>1. I highlight gap / issue in code.

>Not sure what I'm doing wrong...

probably you're doing it too serious and taking it too personal. After 20+ years in the industry, I got desensitiveized enough to bother that much about small things, and when i point to the issue i usually do it in the "constructive" "spirit-sharing" and "team-building" way - "Ha! Just imagine how those suckers - customers or downstream devs - would be hitting that bug, completely lost at what to do, they would have no chances to make it work so we should give out a Grand Prize to the unlikely one who would make it through... " I noticed that various leaders/management/etc. have hard time to full-heartedly subscribe to that vision of future. Not that that gets the thing fixed or anything like this, mind you. Yet it helps with the blame part if/when it still comes my way - "Wow! when _we_ (me and you, the manager/etc.) were laughing at it _we_ did look into the crystal ball! _We_ are that smart!" The management somehow don't enjoy sharing in on that smartness :)
> I wouldn't be so sure there is nothing special about the duration of a second. It comes from dividing a day into two sets of 12, then those 12 into five sets of 12 (12x5=60), then those 60s into 60 each.

That's exactly why, actually. This is what the second was once defined as, but the problem is that the length of a day varies slightly - up to ~8s depending on the time of year and other seconds. As the article mentions, the amount of time that is defined as one second is now taken as an arbitrary fraction of the decay time for Cs-137 that is close the mean value of the length of the second defined relative to the time it takes the planet to rotate.

In terms of keeping time in our common lives it's not really a problem for there to be a little bit of ambiguity in how long a day/minute/second is, but this is important for things that rely on precision timing - like tuning in music. It'd also be crazy hard to keep track of how long a second is at any given moment, since some of the variation is random from tidal forces.
I came here to say "Brogue". It was just an easy one to get into. Its pretty for a roguelike too.
Well there is nothing worng with playing the original games (perhaps with a beefed up engine if the original is too clunky for your taste). There's plenty of maps too so you'll never get bored. I think I've played around a hundred pwads now and it feels like I've only scratched the surface.
Google naturally has their own private APIs which will only show the profile image for legitimate logins.
And also plenty of salt and limes to dim the heat when necessary.
I would just add, that tolerance is worth developing. You get a new world of flavors open to you, but also you get this wonderfully stimulating sensation which can help you feel good, but isn't necessarily fatty or sugary.
Ask HN: If your economic necessities were taken care of, what would you work on?
Maybe you're already doing it, and income isn't part of the equation, but where would you focus your time and energy if you could work on anything?
Reviewing video games while eating hot peppers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTMIgyUZDDk
AT&T Is Buying Time Warner Because the Future Is Google
Mexican here too. I do like the burn, which is a separate sensation from the flavour. The burn is a pleasant, controlled pain. It also makes the flavours more intense.

I regularly consume habaneros, and I've recently tried ghost peppers in the form of hot chicken wings. I didn't know hot sauce could make my whole hand burn, but it did, for an entire day. I can see why people put on gloves to handle ghost peppers. I want to try them again, but my wife doesn't think I should.
Boston Gear
I referenced the articles for the facts therein. Are you disputing that Windows 10 bizarrely has two different control panels? Or that it has trouble moving applications between high-DPI and regular-DPI settings?

It's okay to "not be perfect" when it comes to extra features or marginal functions. But stuff like text display, configuration, and power management are things that an OS needs to get perfect.
After Almost a Century, the 2nd Avenue Subway Is Oh-So-Close to Arriving
I'm waiting for the day in which I can sign up for 2FA without giving my phone number. At this point, I believe they are holding it on purpose, as my phone number is a much more reliable unique identifier than my username and/or cookies.

(Yes, you can use the Google authenticator, but no, you can't do it if you haven't given your phone number first)

Edit: by "they" I mean GMail - other sites work just fine.
But there are over 600 on death row. Each person can give 15-25 useful organs. If they're in prison, it's likely that quite a few organs aren't viable for transplant, but at least it's a start.
I think the amount of people saved would far outnumber the wrongful convictions. The justice system would probably have to be revamped in order for this to work, yes, but why do you think so many more innocent would be convicted?
Mcmaster Carr will have all of the mechanical/drive parts but generally is quite expensive. Small parts (part of Amazon), De Anna flea market, Misumi which is the same idea as aluminum 8020 also has lots of industrial automation pieces.
Except that our day length is also changing -- very slowly, but changing it is. Further, given that the human clock, disconnected from day/night feedback, apparently treats 24.2 hours as a day.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_clock
Exactly.

I strongly suggest to speak with some actual teachers, instead of blindly relying on ridiculous propaganda. The problem is not the system, the problem is social mobility.

Poor kids don't do well in school because their families and their environment don't value education. They perceive (correctly, BTW, from a statistical perspective) that if you're born poor, there isn't much you can do. You're gonna die poor anyway. So why worry about school? Families don't care (exceptions do exist, of course), peers look down upon you if you're "bookish", it's a vicious cycle.

There's a lack of hope among those at the bottom. No amount of educational reform will fix that. People know they're in a social straightjacket from birth.

Fix whatever systemic problems keep America's social mobility so low, and the aforementioned issues will get a lot better.
I know (and knew). It was pain control, not capsaicin control. Fortunately they had some disgusting Oreo-cookie like ice cream sandwich that I got in the end.
Note that I wasn't talking about inheritance or legacy. The article makes the point that people with money are able to spend more time helping their children, or maybe pay for a tutor, or send them to a great private school. Basically spending money to help them learn how to be successful and be happy.

I don't think I'll ever reach a point where I have a "fortune" to give to my kids :)
The US system is kind of broken. They don't equate high salary with high creditworthiness - maybe it's because of the american culture of consumerism (which implies that you might make lots of money, but if you spend it all and are going into debt to fund your lavish lifestyle, then you're not creditworthy). So the American system rates creditworthiness by a history of paying off debt on time (usually credit cards, mortgage, car loan, etc.).

It's stupid.

It would obviously be better if we judged creditworthiness by your bank balance history. But this is apparently hard/impossible to show.
"In the olden days it was relatively common for people to begin in the mail room and work their way up to CEO. Exchange floor traders would frequently start as clerks and runners."

One of the most famous examples: Jesse Livermore[1], whose Reminiscences of a Stock Operator[2] is one of the most recommended trading books ever. (I recommend it too. It's awesome.)

He never climbed the corporate ladder, but did start out writing prices on a blackboard for a brokerage. He went on to become a hugely successful trader, only to lose it all, and repeated this cycle many times.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Lauriston_Livermore

[2] - https://www.amazon.com/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Le...
It's culturally frowned upon to buy expensive cars or other luxury goods on credit unless absolutely necessary.

My grandmother taught it to me this way: credit is for necessities; for everything else you save. Also: low quality products are more expensive than high quality products in the long run (because you have to replace them more often).

So as an example, if you're in a tight spot and an expensive household appliance (or your car that you need for your job) breaks, it's okay to take out a loan or financing. But if you're already good and it's just a quality of life thing (e.g. a bigger TV when you already have a working one) you save money until you can afford it.

That said, in recent decades a lot of young people have started getting financing for things like bigger TVs or mail order products. This is generally seen as a lower-class problem and has been prominently featured on TV programmes about indebted teenagers and such (a decade earlier when TV was more relevant).

I'd say lifestyle financing is a thing these days, but it's still frowned upon by most people because it's not considered sustainable and basically a form of delayed personal bankruptcy.

(A note on "lower class": the term probably has different connotations in different cultures (and even in different parts of society); I'm specifically talking about people from a low educational background who make minimum wage in low prestige jobs or rely on social welfare.)
F..ck Dynamic Pricing
Machine Learning with Lambda: Scaling Hyperparameter Optimization
Hmm, it's not as if Pythagoras could measure exactly 27 Hz, or that we all hear down to exactly 27.00, or that it's easy to generate a pure tone that low without clearly audible harmonics. So I guess I'm not convinced.
yes, generalized you.
This is the fundamental conflation: SPA != a responsive web app.

There were and are other options that don't toss the advantages of the the web architecture and return us to the client-server programing paradigm of the 80s & 90s.
> entry level jobs in careers are hard to find

Jobs aren't hard to find if you are one of the few people in the world who can do the job. I know, these aren't entry level jobs but given the right education, you can skip those I think.

> This is unrelated to the education system,

Fundamentally, I think that few things in society aren't fundamentally related to the educational system. Or more precisely, quite a bit of society can be explained by looking at the educational system 10 years ago.
Wards' Wiki: http://wiki.c2.com/
It was worse before Obamacare for certain people, and better for others. ACA insurance premiums (combined with large deductibles) are causing a lot of pain for (self-employed) middle class families I know, even before the next set of rate hikes hits in a couple months. It's also sad to see that the most ''successful'' ACA insurers are running networks so narrow that some patients have called them unusable (search for Molina Healthcare in California).

The ACA was flawed from the start. My takeaway from the whole fiasco is that even the smartest, most well-educated policy analysts and lawmakers can allow some combination of enthusiasm, politics, and momentum to blind themselves to the most basic predictive models of human behavior and incentives. When the law was published it was obvious to me how insurance companies would make money - you create the narrowest, cheapest network possible in order to cherry-pick the healthiest patients, leaving competitors dumb enough to have broader (more attractive) networks to soak up the most expensive cases (and lose money). This is exactly what happened and the so-called ''death spiral'' will start next year when (my prediction) 1+ million unsubsidized middle class families refuse to pay for the next round of rate hikes.

I'm 100% for free, universal health care for all Americans. I don't think we're that far away. The bemused Federal Reserve searches for helicopter drop scenarios - Federally-funded (or re-insured) universal health care is not a bad option. I'd much rather bleed out the treasury in order to build a great health care system than in the middle east or some other boondoggle.
I think the clones (Heretic and heXen) did a pretty good job with it. I prefer heXen and Quake to Doom at the end of the day. There was a whole slew of FPS games in that style around that time, many of which were great (Dark Forces, Witchaven, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem 3D, etc.).

You don't see that as much in modern games, though, because they seem to be targeting a very different audience. Neither Doom nor heXen style games are being made at all right now as far as I can see.

Demon's Souls is also excellent suspense wise, even though it's a different genre. The author mentions it as inspiration.
> Windows 10 is still a schizoid failure to merge the "desktop" and "modern" worlds: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/control-panel-and-settin....

Apple's "Lion is a Quitter" botched attempt to merge the iOS file paradigm with the Mac file paradigm was easily worse than this.

I think it's fair to say that both Apple and Microsoft have had difficulties bringing mobile paradigms to the desktop, and I think it's even fair to say that Windows 8 was deeply flawed. But at this point both Apple and Microsoft (heck, even GNOME 3) have gotten over their growing pains in this regard and have made quite usable systems. I switch between Mac, Windows, and Linux desktop frequently and I find that they've all converged to a pretty similar point of usability.
Hence "might" and the parenthetical "or at least not build a large gardening setup". To rephrase, without ownership of the asset, the renter (and landlord after contract signed) is less incentivized to "work the land" for whatever definition of that you have. Sometimes the setup (irrigation, structural changes, etc) is not worth it or not allowed to the renter. Also unfair to use your anecdotal opinion of whether or not to garden to keep from having the slightest clue why other renters might not.
This is presented as if this opinion journalist found a causative relationship when he's done no such thing. He's just looking at correlations and then shoehorning in his favorite explanations (glass floors, glass ceilings, diploma mills).

Take a look at his previous articles and maybe you'll identify a trend: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/matt-obrien/
I agree, but the context of my comment was jseliger comment further up about capacity alone.

No need to force people out of cars. But often the limiting factor for road transport happens to be congestion: when people are in effect running an auction with their time, and persons most willing to set in traffic are the highest bidder and `win the road'; then it is economically more efficient to make people pay with money instead of time and introduce a congestion charge or an Certificate of Entitlement system like in Singapore.

The road still gets rationed by an auction, but instead of bidding by wasting your time, you bid with actual money that can be re-used for other things. (And time is, of course, money.)

I hope you forgive me what seems like a digression: what looks like `forcing people out of their cars' might actually just be replacing wasteful time-bidding with money-bidding.
Double it
Also http://sdp-si.com
I like where you're going with this, but, it does a shit job of establishing what "poor" means. The words in the article first mention the middle class vs rich, which makes it harder to derive real conclusions. I mean, I think you're right - doesn't look so bad for the people in the "poor" category - we just don't know what category that actually is.
Ok, this article is great and I'd like to share it with all my friends. BUT, it says nothing about how to mitigate against phishing and so ... would leave the average internet user just vaguely paranoid, which is not helpful.

I'd like to contact the author and get him to append something about "check the url". But I guess they are not advertising their email addresses anymore :-)
It could also be that Apple doesn't see Alexa as something they need to compete with — that Siri on existing devices (and especially "Hey, Siri") addresses that niche for them.
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In Canada, there's a capital gains tax exemption for your (owned) primary residence. If I wanted to live in a given place, it would be stupid to buy the place, rent it out, and rent another place myself with the rent money minus the income tax I paid from it. When selling the place, I owe capital gains taxes on it. Taken together, that ends up being a worse deal for me than merely buying what I need and using it for myself, tax-free.

Of course, what renting gives you is the flexibility to live in a smaller place and avoid overpaying for extra space that you might want to use at a later time. Still, the savings from renting a smaller place have to be greater than the tax expenses that I get charged for renting out.
"fail early, fail often"
Selling a house costs tens of thousands of dollars. It takes a long time and can be frustrating and emotionally draining.
Two more:

- Temporary leases for residential properties are only allowed in very special circumstances

- For the landlord termination is almost impossible

Tenancy law is very one-sided in Germany which leads to a high vacancy rate for residential properties (around 5% [1]).
That doesn't mean that there is no housing shortage at the same time.

[1] https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/258767/umfrag...
And iCloud Photo Library. And HomeKit. And …
I remember wondering this same thing myself when Bower was the the new hotness.

"Don't I already have a tool that does exactly this?"
I think that's a separate topic, though, isn't it?

I'm going to do my best to paraphrase both you and GP. If either of you feel I'm doing so unfairly or want to expand or clarify, please do.

I understand you to be discussing whether or not someone should be allowed to support a candidate or campaign.

The one I understand ashark to be making is about the ramifications of supporting a candidate or campaign.

They are related in the sense that the ramifications be so severe that it prevents someone from contributing, and that's worthy of (a separate) discussion

In this case, I don't think Peter Thiel is being prevented from contributing. I'm pretty sure he considered the ramifications before he made his contribution. What do you think?
"The lights are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time. Or until they have finished updating their firmware."