skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was easier and cheaper than commuting from his home in Perth

so it would be fair if somebody who did a poor job in his school days (probably, I never heard that anybody work at Amazon with higher education and even than in germany amazon pays way more than other employers Zalando for example) and already have a home to get as much money to have two homes because one of the fact that his job is too far away from his regular house?
Btw. I'm dropped out of "College" (in germany it's called different) but I tried hard to get a decent job and search a place to live (which is extremly hard here in Freiburg) but I got a cheap one that I can afford, besides the fact that it's not big, but it's fine. And I never complained since It was my own fault that I don't live like the rich boys now and "only" drive a "small" car, but some people are just ridicoulus.

I know there are a lot of problems in the world but actually Europe and USA are actually still not the one's with "really really" big problems, actually we discuss about problems that some people did not get enough money blabla, while in other countries they barly get any money, food and water, it's just ridicoulus that we live in the cockaigne and call out some big companies because they don't pay their workers more. What all people forgot, they have a job, without one they would get way way less.
Hate speech, bullying, none of that shit needs to be protected speech. It's not as delicate or complicated as people who generally aren't on the receiving end of it try to make it out to be.
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I suspect the "up to 49 pounds" is some sort of legal limit on the amount of weight a healthy adult is expected to be able to carry.
Yes, we already discussed that at some point but we haven't decided yet how to implement it. We don't like how most players perform which use SQLite as their database backend, but we do like how foobar2000 performs with its custom database and ~100,000 tracks with arbitrary tag fields. Maybe others who use SQLite do something wrong, maybe SQLite isn't the right tool for the job and maybe there's a third option worth considering. Once we get some time and motivation to build some prototypes we'll hopefully find that out.
What did you migrate to?
I like what this project is intending to do, also find interesting that it uses Plan 9 bits/concepts, but not sure how I could get involved as a n00b.
I am not an economist but Krugman is, a left leaning one at that which spent a large time arguing against Bush/Trump. And he is arguing a similar position:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...

(This is getting close to politics, a really tiresome subject which happily is banned right now on HN.)
I'm not exactly sure what I'm using. I registered for a free organization years ago for my domain with gmail, and still have that. It says its G Suite in the control panel.

However, using this disables all kinds of google now functionality, and other stuff, as mentioned in the posts above.
This has been proposed many times. Here is one plan from 1937 that would have been located where the Market Street BART tunnel is now:

http://blog.sfgate.com/thebigevent/2015/07/10/35-years-befor...
We bought Orchard by Haba for our 2yo and she absolutely loved it, still plays it sometimes 2yrs later, and it motivated her interest in board games in general.
A Guide to Worrying
Creator of generals.io here - thanks for everyone's feedback and responses! If you're interested in remaining active with the community you can follow our subreddit at https://reddit.com/r/generalsio

The game servers are a bit overloaded right now so the game is running kind of slow, but the congestion should improve soon - thanks for your patience.
I think it could be argued the other way around. The point he was making, of which there are many examples, is that these jobs are better than no job at all.

You can be "empathetic" by pushing for higher minimum wages, but your empathy will more likely hurt the very people you want to help - the unskilled workers.

As is often the case with "feel good" legislation it typical does more harm than good - in the long run.
Did they ask to hold the full retail value of the device for the advanced replacement? Because when I was having issues with my surface book they asked me to send it in. At that time I couldn't be without the device and I asked for an advance replacement. At that point they wanted to hold the full retail amount until they received the new one.

I went ahead and did it but I struggled since it was not a small purchase price. I received the replacement and sent the defective unit back. Expecting the hold to be released with in 2-3 business days after they received the defect unit. Nope. They ended up holding the money for 15 business days.

I don't know if I'll ever buy something Microsoft again.
I thought there's nothing worse than Apple fanbois trapped in the reality distortion field. There is: scorned Apple fanbois trapped in the reality distortion field.
The problem with that is, "troll" basically just means "internet asshole", and everybody on the internet is an asshole according to somebody.

Of course there's some blurry line past which behaviour can't be allowed, but "get rid of the trolls" is an extremely unspecific manifesto.
Here we have the consequence of trying to solve poverty by making it illegal. Having raised the standard of living so high, on the notion of ending bad conditions by simply prohibiting them, we now have to reverse regulations so people can live as they can at their level.
Ask HN: Connecting form to output
I've created a simple form using Paperform (would work also with Typeform), and would like to give users who submit the form an automated output depending on their answers (e.g. almost like their ranking). Any idea whether that's doable, and how I can do this easily?
Thanks!
1. Ads are based on the user. Its unlikely i ever see the same my users see

2. It is against the adsense rules to do that and could get me banned

I dont know how others do that, but you are supposed to not create ad traffic on your own account.

Edit:// I realize how stupid this all is. Internet advertisment IS stupid. But it makes me money and keeps me interested making new sites and fixing old sites.
Collective knowledge of important, relevant things. But that is a small, constantly changing set of theories and knowledge.

Inability to stop focusing on irrelevant details (ie, too much information intake) or inability to move on from no-longer-accurate information (ie, too good a memory) are both heavily involved with mental illness and psychiatric disorders -- and I think are causing society level mental illness, now.
Huh strange, I've had excellent customer experience with GCE and Google in general. AWS also has excellent customer support.
FWIW, Reddit's /r/politics is also liberals-only.
The problem with Reddit (the company) is that it chooses to represent its service as a single community, and thus allows all of its communities to be tarred by the same brush.

If Reddit was more like, say, StackExchange, or Wordpress.com, or Discourse—a hosting site for "communities" which happened to use the "Reddit engine"—then it wouldn't have nearly the PR problem it has now. Nobody blames Wordpress.com for the content of somebody's blog hosted there.
If the Universal Credit computer system ever works then it could provide a way to track down which companies are over using zero-hour contracts.
Have a look at gmusicbrowser. You might be surprised. I also used to use foobar2000 on windows... years ago...
great suggestions, thanks

(if you didn't see my comment i'm the creator of generals.io)
There's no controversial changes in python3? Except if you consider print() controversial but that's so silly it's laughable.

There are however non backwards compatible changes, like unicode by default, IE7 was also non backwards compatible so the comparision still holds. (with the exception that IE had a compatibility mode if you sent some magic http headers)
This isn't particle physics. Particle physics has the luxury and burden of dealing with trillions of experimental trials, not a measly 2.
Nobody knows how to build a teleporter, whereas moving sidewalks are pretty mundane technology by now.
Same exact story on my grandparents. Once the healty one is gone, the other one sees a drastic reduction in quality of life as well as life expectancy.

The cost incourred for at-home help with a dedicated easter european colf were huge. Might still be a couple of decades away but i can totally see a model where you rent a house robot that takes care of cooking, personal cleaning and limited interaction (no need to have super intelligent AI when chatting to a 80 years old man with Alzheimer)
Maybe or maybe not. The glass doesn't look damaged. But it's not really important. Google should not have even asked the question -- just offer to send a replacement.

This is a new phone that they want to be successful, so they need to go above and beyond.
Are you just coming up with new uses for domain generation algorithms to refute my comment for the sake of refuting it, or do you personally know the developer? Or do you at least personally know developers who have used DGAs for that?

I've seen lots of DGAs, but I've never seen one being used for the purpose you're describing.

You're suggesting a pretty novel use case here, why is that?

>Also, I think you're overestimating the ease of taking over someone else's registrant account. Possible? Absolutely. Easy? Well, that depends on a great many things, but typically not easy without a court order.

While it's not at all what I was referring to, many domain registrars are actually surprisingly happy to just hand over malware domains to "whitehats".

See goatsis comment for the issue I was originally referring to.
Amazon SDE. I know this was not the primary point of your post but I need to respond to "It seems too corporate and too micromanaged a place to work".

There are many legitimate criticisms of Amazon work culture. It is aggressive. A lot is expected from you. The perks are nowhere near a Google's or many SV shops.

But corporate and micromanaged are the furthest thing from the truth. There are VERY few "top-down" directives. (we call them S-team goals for the SVP team). And each and every team is given a TON of autonomy, independence and ownership.

This of course has its own problems, and why sometimes some teams breed awful internal cultures that lead to NY times articles. It's why the AWS console is built with 23 different web technologies and each one is slightly inconsistent from the other. It's why most of the company's internal services are still not on native AWS (though we are essentially 100‰ on EC2).

But this ownership and independence is 90% Fabulous and genuinely freeing. You are given a tremendous amount of autonomy over your technical decisions. You get a chance to decide on the working culture and attitude towards software development that makes sense for the people on your team, depending on your strengths, preferences, projects, and customers.

Amazon is not for everybody. But it is far closer to a group of a few thousand startups than a corporate behemoth.

Also, the SDEs here put a stop to all that Proctor-driven interviewing, though sadly Amazon PR doesn't want to make a public declaration as such. Oh well.
I think the point of PureScript was to have a Haskell that would compile to JS, but which (unlike GHCJS) would have breaking changes to integrate better with JS features. Trying to look like JavaScript might be a bit hard then...

That said, I'm curious about what sorts of things you think they could have done to have a more JS-like syntax. Any ideas?
did you not see the part about WASD moves in the tutorial? It actually is in the tutorial, but maybe the fact that you captured the city early skipped the WASD part
Reset your SMC - took me from 5 hours up to 9 1/2
Sorry, but I really have to say that I think adding a waypoint through yet another language can't be a good thing. You're probably much better served by using the time saved from the second rewrite on the actual rewrite (C to Rust) you want to do, giving yourself more time to make it right.
You get my upvote, I recently published animated versions of kaomoji in a 2 month sprint to learn how to create a basic Swift app, find someone to help me make the animations, and so forth (https://www.kaomotion.com). This could've certainly helped me with some of my research and creation of my own designs. I like how you deconstructed their sections. ( ಠ_ರೃ)
I don't think you should be downvoted. Its amazing to me that people will spout high minded "living wage" nonsense and then spend an hour on their computer searching for the cheapest retailer on the whole internet.

If Amazon took the advice and paid higher, the products would cost more and the web-potificators would congratulate them profusely for their magnanimity while putting them straight out of business with their buying habits.

Amazon is huge so it distorts the picture and seems to muddle the thinking a bit but even the largest of ships are beached by a receding tide.

I'm not saying that this is the desired order of things, just things work at the moment.
What people use Mono for on Wine, which is mentioned in release notes?
>> There are dietitian-run food delivery services, but not ones that create meals from clients' recipes.

The problem is that you need volume for it to make sense. One way to get that is aggregating a few people who want the same recipe. The other way is ordering those meals, frozen, for a bunch of days.

In either case, the people to talk to it about it are probably cooks on https://www.josephine.com/ .
Google Fi support is extremely friendly and often almost zero hold time. The actual substance of the support however is very much lacking. Google Fi sent me somebody else's SIM card with my Pixel. It turns out Google Fi pairs a SIM to a specific Google account. So when I booted my Pixel for the first time the email field was pre-populated with someone else's email address (but not the password luckily) and I got a "B010" error trying to activate. This is a very specific error code which I later found out means that I was sent the wrong SIM card (or trying to activate someone else's SIM card). But they didn't have this properly documented so they spent a long time on the phone with me factory resetting it, clearing data for certain system apps, booting in safe mode, etc... before escalating the issue and saying someone will get back to me later. A week later they contact me and say I was sent the wrong SIM and send me a new one. It was a terribly frustrating introduction to using their service. Also seems a needlessly frustrating experience if their support documentation and call back times were better.
Get a T460. After extensive research I settled on this machine since the specs are very well balanced. You can get >15 hour battery life on this machine on both windows and linux and it is practically silent all the time.
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Can you provide evidence to support how your solution addresses the issue?

Would the wage you propose all workers make allow this individual to live closer to his work site? Does the wage he makes now specifically disallow him from living close to his work site? Would his employer treating him better mean he doesn't sleep in a tent?

This article doesn't give us enough information to know.
> process was horrendous and really showed that Amazon just wants anyone and everyone to become part of their fulfillment center

It sounds like you're saying this is a bad thing. Here we are with a hiring process that really lives up to the ideals we've been preaching for the past 50 years. Equality. Actual, real equality. Women, Blacks, Ethnic Undesirables, Special Needs... It doesn't matter who you are, you can get the job.

And it's "horrendous."

For what it's worth, I actually agree with you, but it does seem telling that this process that clearly lives up to the requirements all the underprivileged of our society demanded, we call it horrendous.

Are you suggesting that a meritocracy is better?
No right is limitless. I don't know about other countries but in elementary school where I am we're taught a person's freedom is limited by the freedoms of others, and freedom of speech is certainly limited by other people's human rights, including the right to human dignity. AFAIK the declaration of human rights include that right. There is no freedom without responsibility, and that's why people who aren't or can't be responsible are often excluded from the community temporarily or permanently.
> accelerated curriculums and gifted and talented programs

I may be an edge case, but I was put in those programs and hated them. I had a high IQ but also untreated Attention-Deficit Disorder. The last thing I wanted to do was to "wrack my brain" on difficult questions that felt like they were above my level, with the people around me suddenly placing high expectations on my being able to solve those problems. Sure, I probably could have solved those problems, but instead I just locked up.

Now, give me creative freedom to pursue my own difficult questions with nobody evaluating my progress—and some good role-models with domain-experience who I could ask questions—and I would have been happy as a clam. But that is not what "gifted programs" tend to look like.
They pay them what the market dictates. Unfortunately these jobs are less than a decade away from being completely automated away.

This is sad but is not Amazons fault. The people of the western world need to demand Universal Basic Income. Maybe if the government provided such a safety net, Amazon would have to pay people more to get them to work.
I saw that you can _use_ WASD, but it doesn't say anything about queuing them.
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Get an iPhone. Christ. It's almost as if you people enjoy suffering for the sake of it.
Amarok has been horrible since they redesigned it for version 2/ kde 4. Amarok 1.4 was the best music player I've seen and, I believe, one of the inspirations for foobar2000
> I don't think it is up to us to decide how long someone should go before "moving on." That is deeply personal, and any length of time we set is going to be too short for some people.

The question of what a persons' internal emotional state should be, is a wholly separate topic from removing online records of an event.

It's like juvenile crimes. The event still happened. People will still remember, and no one will stop them from talking publicly about the topic but past the date of the criminals 18th birthday, but the public records are simply sealed.

RTBF, as it is currently implemented, is extremely similar. The past events still occurred, people can still talk about it publicly, but mentions of them are excluded from public search engines.
From what I've heard Amazon doesn't seem like a great place to work and this comment isn't meant to defend the company's overall work culture, but as someone who was once without any real marketable skills, little education, no job, and homeless, that honestly sounds like an awesome hiring process to me.
Buyers have to go through an identity verification stage to gain access to the homes, including, I believe, the taking of a credit card. Not impossible to spoof, but far more frustrating than merely downloading an app, clicking "I agree" and getting the unlock code to burgle.
Enterprise passwords/keys sharing with an audit trail, non-repudiation, expiration and all that jazz. Most (all?) companies I know, including ours have challenges sharing such info. Current solution is mostly to use google drive or dropbox in most businesses I know.
Ha, I was sitting here looking on Cambridge St. and thinking the exact same thing.
He complains the manual is 400 pages, then proceeds to write a review that is probably 20. And he isn't done yet. At least it is comprehensive.
(Not the user you replied to.)

I agree, but I think that it's difficult to accurately evaluate the quality of a customer service department with these anecdotes because every large company will have the occasional misstep. I have personally heard of bad stories from every company mentioned in this thread that supposedly has good customer support. What's less obvious is whether there is a bias between different types of users. I'm just throwing out a theory here, but perhaps Pixel users are more technologically minded than iPhone users (this wouldn't surprise me) and so they are more publicly vocal about their issues because they are more invested.

For instance, Nexus devices were probably more common among Android developers and reporters on blog sites, so Nexus problems were important to them and were popularized by the online media more than an equivalent problem would be in a more mass-market phone that might be popular in a different country.

tl;dr Every company has had missteps, and I don't think anecdotes provide a clear picture by which to rank them.
There's a new startup called Doxly that might be a good SaaS solution:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthunckler/2016/12/05/doxly-co...
> And the reason you can't add your digital signature to your vote is that you could then prove to someone you had voted for candidate X and collect your bribe.

I was arguing against treating a blot on a paper as a certification of one's opinion rather than proposing a real electronic voting protocol. Of course, simple digital signature doesn't solve all the problems, it only certifies with known assumptions that I and only I have signed the document.
> The "horrible hacking" already exists bundled into libraries and tools like Six and Future.

Only for the simplest cases. How is Six going to help you write a regex that matches emoji, for example?

On Python 3 you write a range that includes the emoji you want to match, and you're done. On Python 2, that regex may or may not compile, depending on what sys.maxunicode is. If sys.maxunicode is 65535 you have to fall back on a different complicated regex that has a bunch of cases to find emoji in their UTF-16 representation. If you want to avoid that system-specific behavior, you can I guess encode it to UTF-8 bytes and write an extremely complicated regex that finds emoji in UTF-8.

This is my prime example about how something that's easy on Python 3 can require horrible hacking on Python 2. A wrapper library doesn't fix that problem.

Python 2 and 3 have different semantics, and the only way a correct, automated translation between them would be possible would be to emulate one inside the other.
These days I just use mpd for playing music and icecast to stream it to wherever I want to listen to it.
The issue I had with Duolingo is that after a while I had advanced to a point where the bulk of my time was spent reviewing past lessons which didn't leave much time for new lessons (which added to the burden of lessons to review). Perhaps I shouldn't have been worried about it but the gamification is quite effective at making me feel bad for not having all my lessons at 100%.
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