skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google Honoured What Would Have Been Steve Biko's 70th Birthday with a Doodle
Without sounding like a curmudgeon, "An even more egregious form of negative work is a developer who is stuck using out of date programming practices AND has a large amount of influence at a company. " can happen when new developers come up with ways of re-writing applications without understanding the full problem statement or spending the time to understand the existing codebase.
Usually, they might have worked on a small to medium sized projects and show up to work on a project with millions of lines of code with teams in different geographies and expect to change things across the board. When the same explanation has to be given the 15th time, you can turn into a toad and start saying "NO" first. :)
If the Upstate is a hotbed for sex trafficking, then it only makes sense that the Greenville County Sheriffs Office spent $26,000 over the course of a year at a single strip club "investigating" illegal prostitution.

Source: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article25716517.html
No, I suspect that may be clairvoyance.
There is no such thing as "more money than you can spend" basic human nature. The issue is "more money in the system than the system is producing". And that's exactly what the digging holes and filling it system is about. . . it's actually an example that Keynes himself thought up to describe his theory of how to get out of the depression. And as great a man as Keynes was, unfortunately he was wrong because he didn't have the benefit of research into monetary policy. It'll be the same thing as if you printed a whole wackload of money and set it loose in the system.
> It would be a massive waste of my training to be working in an unrelated field

This is an example of what I'm talking about.

What's more of a waste of your training? To be work in a career field only 60% overlapping with your training, or to be unemployed (with 0% overlap) ?
Single page application for donating stuff
Hi I wrote a single page application using Angular v.1 and openStreetMap, to reduce the latency I used template inline, the current cheap hosting don't me use a pre gzipped html page ( it could save 800Kb), so the first loading is slow, the further loading are fast because is mostly a single file application (fontAwesome excluded).

www.ReteRegalo.com connects people who want to donating unused stuff with those who are looking for them.
What do you thing? any feedback are appreciated!
I assume the bit where individuals would have to pay to have the filter removed would immediately put them on a list.
Using INCLUDE comes at the cost of bloating your indexes making scans take a considerable longer time, not having to chase that extra pointer works well enough in most cases (and if you are able to benefit from Heap-Only Tuples you can even have in-place UPDATES without needing to rewrite the pointer in every index).
Funny! I read the first paragraph and maybe not? "Bush administration officials said today."

Still, the media outlet/sources relationship needs to change. You are either a journalist or a propaganda wing.
What everyone is missing here is that one in ten thousand users needs this, so why optimize for the vast minority?
thanks for bringing semantic-ui. heaven't heard of it till now, and love what I see very much!
> I feel sympathy for the author, but at the same time one thing that I miss from the article is whether he tried to raise his qualifications in any way. Did he try other market segments? Picked up any courses? Broadened his education in any way in the time he was unemployed?

Raising qualifications usually costs money. He's tried when he had work. When he didn't it sounds like money was so tight and stress to high that he couldn't afford it and was focused on the immediate need to get another job. Strategic thinking and action is actually a bit of a luxury.

He wrote:

> Often, the jobs I could get were so disposable that I was never given responsibilities that could help me grow into a promotion, no matter how hard I pushed.

> Even though my wife works a steady job, money has been tight — we’ve gone through periods where we’ve had only $30 to support a family of four for a whole week. Slipping into neurotic budgeting mode has become a well-rehearsed drill at this point. We cancel [all of the things]...

> [W]e’re still living paycheck to paycheck. We’ve cashed out most of our savings accounts, including retirement, and haven’t been able to replenish them.

> Every day involves endlessly scrolling through a list of jobs on Indeed.com and applying here and there with full knowledge that 99 percent of the time, I’ll never hear back.
News report seems accurate to me: US government officials from the Bush administration made these claims to NY Times reporters, and they reported them. That isn't 'fake news' unless you're claiming that government officials never made the claims?
Not to mention the fact that most healthy food is much more perishable and needs to be replenished more frequently.
Git-annex: peer to peer network with tor
Interestingly, the difference in SC sales tax (6%) and NC sales tax (4.75%, but county/city taxes make it ~6.75%), effectively come out to nearly $20 on a $2000 laptop.
I think 80-81 was when USA signed the Bern convention that defined copyright as life+50 for authors (when assigned to corporations it has a fixed duration of, iirc, 90 years).

But the Bern convention also have a stipulation that all signatories have to respect the duration of the initial nation of publication, and that can be longer than the minimum terms of the convention agreement.

Thus you get a ratcheting effect where multinationals will try to convince national governments to up their copyright terms to be "more competitive".

A kind of inverse to the race to the bottom that they first did on taxes between US states (leading to Delaware being the state to file your incorporation in), and has since applied across the globe under the banner of competition.

BTW, there is a claim that Lord of the Rings became popular because a US publisher thought he didn't need to respect Tolkien's UK copyright when publishing a cheap paperback. At the time USA had not yet signed the Bern convention.

Frankly it seems like a historic pattern where a industrial nation will begin to slow down, try to shore up its economy by using IP laws, and another nation coming along and ignoring those laws to bootstrap their own industry, and then repeating the patterns some decades down the road.

So far the changeover has been UK to USA to China. And you can basically see China trying to clamp down on their lax IP adherence right now.
> "No, because when you have a technical disagreement in the team, as manager, you have to make the final decision. And if you don't understand the issues, you're left deciding based on what, popularity of the engineers involved?"

And you've just done a mistake by forcing a decision.

You've got involved for a thing you didn't know and you didn't research. Right now, you're the least qualified people in the room to take that decision. You should have no say in it.
How Republics End
Let's perform a thought experiment.

Imagine yourself a little print shop. Now dream up a movable-type printing press and bolt it down in the workroom. Give yourself a few trays of letters, and some ink and paper. Give it some late-1780s appropriate decor.

Now imagine that Mr. Legis Socaro barges into your print shop one fine day and demands that you install a device on your press that prevents you from printing the word "aſshole" with it.

How much does that device cost, in relation to the cost of your press? Let's bear in mind that Mr. Socaro has not provided you with any such device to install, the plans to build one, nor even any expectation that any suitable device has been invented yet.

Might as well cite the article as the "Computer Trafficking Prevention Act".
All the best for the alexa tutorial! I use Go for writing servers and not for systems programming, the lang was initially focused on systems programming, but it has now become a general purpose language, python - C bridge!
You don't typically.

One case where you would View Source in addition to using Dev Tools is debugging how the browser is massaging your source HTML into the DOM, for example by inserting missing <tbody> elements. Validating your HTML mostly addresses this (I'm actually not sure about the <tbody> example, I would hope the validator at least issues a warning), but isn't something you necessarily want or can do with, for example, user-uploaded HTML snippets.
Knowledge. I received my Masters in CS last year and am thinking of either getting another one or a PhD. I didn't need my Masters as I probably could have gotten a dev job without it (my BS was in Economics) but there were things I wanted to learn (PL theory and Compilers) so I did it. I would love to be able to do one or more PhDs full time so I could just absorb as much information as I could in specialized areas.

The other thing that motivates me is financial freedom. It doesn't necessarily mean making tons of money but making enough to cover expenses and not have to worry about a budget. I'm currently working on a side project/business that I hope will at least cover my mortgage and student loans each month. I have low expectations but that is what I hope and if I get more than that it would be great.
Not sure if this will work/help on Galera but on a single mysql server I have used mytop [0] to watch for long running queries on the fly. Nothing beats the slow query log though for monitoring for problem queries. I only use mytop when there is an active issue I'm trying to debug.

[0] http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/
Something to Think About: Keep It Simple
Some people can't shave their heads for various reasons. People buy into the whole "balding isn't a choice, shaving is", etc, but it only applies until it doesn't.

I agree that going to the gym and getting in shape can really lead you to life improvements, but do so with a qualified trainer. It is easy to hurt yourself and leave things in a worse state.

I agree about socializing. Typically, people want to tell you something so you just open the door for them to do so as long as your approach is free of hidden objectives.

Regarding superficiality, I do find the above to be superficial, but I think things are just more superficial in general. With the rise of social media, people tend to gravitate towards people who meet their physical ideal before looking further. What that means is that there are fewer opportunities to "know" someone. So if you want to participate in the standard dating game, you have to participate in the superficiality of it to the best of your abilities.
To be fair, they might also go to Georgia.
I won't lie but this used to happen a lot at my university. Software Engineers would not find summer jobs (because they don't have experience - the usual chicken & egg problem).

So they'd create new startups every summer (or just one and keep progressing) and then work at one of the big 4 after graduation.
C# and Winforms, though that is slowly changing to C# and XAML
Anyone can read their blog! Since anyone can learn Latin, if they feel like it.

(Yes, I know I'm representing a terrible argument.)
If we are going to disregard the cause and effect, then there is such better methods available to deal with this high priority problem. Lets just eliminate free movement of people and require travel paper for anyone moving between cities and states. People may disagree with the method, but free movement is what enables sex trafficking. Drastic problem require drastic measures, and if the goal is to stop sex trafficking then indeed it should be applied, right?
At one point early in my software career I was between jobs for a few months.

I have construction skills, so I worked doing demolition and then framing an addition for a friend at $10/hr.

To quote Pulp Fiction

"The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That's pride fucking with you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps."

Over a couple of weeks I made a few thousand dollars, paid the mortgage, and got some exercise.

...and, besides, there's nothing embarrassing about using your hands and your back.
Can't seem to pronounce 'rural'
This. I'd feed puppies into a wood chipper with a smile on my face if the pay was good enough.
What makes a War on Drugs doable is the laws prohibiting drugs. It's literally what makes it legally possible. You'll note that very few adults are arrested for "possession of alcohol".
ESP8266 Programming: Building a IoT Weather Station – Episode 1
The ELK stack[1]. If you don't use the ELK stack for everything already, it might be considered an overkill as a safe deployment would take at least three nodes with 8GB of RAM at least.

[1] https://www.phase2technology.com/blog/adding-mysql-slow-quer...
The lack of insight into how computers work is breathtaking.
So Linux will die when Linus dies ?

That's a good reason to not use Linux
There's no actual spec.

Although there is discussion about creating one if you want to join the ISA-dev mailing list.
A Googolplex of Go Games [pdf]
> Also proximity to the in laws is worth something too.

They also have a non-portable living situation.

> Since moving to my mom’s old house after she switched to a retirement home, our living costs are considerably cheaper than the mortgage we once paid.
I wouldn't say someone who's never heard of first normal form has 'good CS fundamentals'.
This rings pretty true to me. I live in Manhattan, and my wife is a personal chef, so she has to be one of the world's foremost collectors of anecdotal grocery price data you'll ever meet.

She's noticed a lot of weird dissonances in the way people think about grocery pricing over the years I've known her. For example, despite its reputation, Whole Foods has some of the cheapest prices on staple pantry items in the city. Things like flour, sugar, eggs, butter, olive oil, milk, and rice, as well as many of the "365" branded packaged products are actually much cheaper than "low end" grocery stores like Gristedes or Key Food. Trader Joe's has a reputation as a high end grocery as well, but they have incredibly cheap produce and other perishables. If you go to Gristedes and buy a box of corn flakes you're going to spend $4-6. For that price you can buy 24 eggs! At Key Food you can buy pork chops for $2 / pound. Canned beans and other non-perishables can also be incredibly cheap. With the exception of the corn flakes, which - while delicious - is actually loaded with corn syrup - everything I just listed is perfectly healthy when prepared at home.

Anecdotally, my mother spends an absolute fortune on nasty weight watchers meals because she believes they are "healthier" than just cooking herself a piece of chicken and some broccoli. My sister will eat a $3 lara bar that is "made with real fruit!" instead of a 25c banana.

It doesn't surprise me that within the universe of packaged foods, people think that the expensive ones are healthier than the cheap ones. But I just wish people would figure out that within the universe of foods, the packaged ones are both more expensive and typically less healthy than cooking your own food.
Sure, VCs could invest in less risky, less rewarding companies, but then they wouldn't be VCs. VCs are an asset class defined by their risk portfolio. Taken on their own, they are clearly using a suboptimal strategy. But no one invests all their money in VCs. As part of a diversified portfolio, it's actually their high risk strategy that hedges againsts other kinds of risks (like the risks that the old, stable companies underperform).
Uber self driving vehicle runs red-light
Internet Comments Are Awful. Could They Be Awesome?
if you're allergic to pineapple, then not eating pineapples is healthier, but it says fuckall about the general "health" attributes of the "diet".
yeah my dad made me learn all that shit at my uncles old house.
was worth it, if you have kids and are reading this right now, teach them to fix stuff, its a gift that keeps on giving.
Repository for command line version: https://github.com/SonarSource/sonarlint-cli
The '200 crimes' refers to the number of different crimes which carried this punishment, not the number committed before receiving the punishment.
This wouldn't work unless the employer we are talking about is a software/tech company where they can hire remote/setup a office with very less money. On the other side, people who work on industries which are located on certain areas has to move there to be placed.
The British(+) proposed system is much more extreme - complete ISP-level censorship of listed sites.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaigns/digital-economy-bi...

(+) It's not a devolved matter.
Are you just talking about salaries? Total compensation has been on the rise lately. Google and Facebook pay between $150-200k to new grads, and a senior programmer at either of these companies can get double that.
Hi Spooky23. Thank you. I'll be writing more posts on the topic over the christmas period, so keep checking. I also find it more interesting with data I find interesting.
Hanlon's razor?

I think in the case of many politicians it's necessary to invoke the 'adequately' and look for the malice.
It would be if you were using HTTPS Everywhere.
As a WV resident well aware of the drug problem (In the 'major' WV city I live next to, 28 people OD'd in one day recently), I'm wondering what this would look like if it DID in fact account for people that take none, myself included. I know of TONS of families around me that have been torn apart from opioid addiction. It is hard to describe the impact because to be an addict in this area especially, is to be stigmatized and essentially cast out from the society. I'm not sure if it's due to the prevalence of fire-and-brimstone religious folk in this area, but a lot of the folks around here would rather lose the drug addicts completely than rectify the problem and help them. The only input I can offer is that the current model of Rx drug abuse can't be sustained and is ruining lives while certain people/organizations are profiting greatly...
> Every day involves endlessly scrolling through a list of jobs on Indeed.com and applying here and there with full knowledge that 99 percent of the time, I’ll never hear back.

That means he is literally wasting time, which he could use in other, more productive ways. Sorry, but if I would be 99 percent sure that something I do will bring me 0 benefits, I would stop and do something else.

If you don't have money to raise your qualifications you can still apply for unpaid practice in many places. It will not help with finances immediately, but will make looking for job easier afterwards.
Well there are about 370 hospitals who agree to have patient outcomes on cardiac surgery published [1]. And there are 173 hospitals who agree to have patient outcomes on stem cell transplants published [2].

And if we keep the identity of the hospital confidential, the number of hospitals willing to provide data on patient outcome grows substantially. The study referenced by the New York Times article [3] had 22 million hospital admissions, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has gathered detailed data from all US Cystic Fibrosis treatment centers for 50 years [4]. Although it would be better for all hospitals to be completely transparent, there are still significant benefits to judging hospitals in anonymous fashion, as described in [4] (which is a fascinating article in its own right).

As for statistically significant results, it's true that we will be unable to judge the effectiveness of smaller hospitals (unless they are extremely good or extremely bad). But for medium-sized and large hospitals this is not a problem - in the stem cell study [3] there were 43 out of 173 hospitals whose 2015 results were judged to be outside the 95% confidence interval (26 were better than predicted to a statistically significant degree, while 17 were worse). Of those 43 outliers, 26 were also outliers in 2014 which suggests this is not just a fluke.

Regarding your question: "Did the patient die because his heart bypass surgeon was incompetent, or because he went right back to eating Big Macs as soon as he was discharged from the hospital?": Keep in mind that we can control for body-mass index, so the question is whether people with similar BMI will be more likely to eat Big Macs after treatment at Hospital A, rather than Hospital B? Yes it's possible, but it seems to me more likely to be an effect of the hospital. Also note that it may not be down to the quality of the heart bypass surgeon - it may be simply that Hospital A is more effective at encouraging healthier eating after patients are discharged.

[1] http://www.sts.org/quality-research-patient-safety/sts-publi...

[2] https://www.seattlecca.org/sites/default/files/content_page/...

[3] http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

[4] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/06/the-bell-curve
UK follows American lead on ‘driver mode’ for smartphones
It's 190€ till age 26(!) in Germany but you get other benefits (most significantly a large income tax break, and 14 month parental leave).

Childcare is about 0-400 depending on your income but you have to be outrigh wealthy to get close to the latter (we pay 128€/m with a high 5-figures €/year household income).
Show HN: Openly Annotatable Edition of The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling
The Future of APIs
While I've had a hard time finding good information about this source, the bill is real.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess122_2017-2018/bills/3003.htm
Raising qualifications usually costs money

Browsing twitter from 9AM to 1:15PM (an activity he mentions he does) costs the same amount of money as working through codeacademy.com or learn python the hard way.
> Run arbitrary binaries that you don't trust safely (maybe you downloaded it from the internet).

I don't think sandboxing is an appropriate solutionto this. Especially just filesystem sandboxing. This does nothing to prevent security exploits via any means.

Also how does this compare to chroot?
Hey man, it's all for the protection of kids and to prevent human trafficking! I mean, it's in the name: Human Trafficking Prevention Act. It doesn't matter that we're stepping on the toes of other citizens and their right to browse the Internet freely. It's for the sake of protecting the helpless and, most of all, the children!

Note: For the sake of Poe's Law, this post is scathing sarcasm.
That's probably not what's happening in this case (this is just good, old-fashioned puritanism), but what you're referring to is exactly what a certain party did in congress for a few decades with flag-burning bills and amendments.
>things like prawns and raspberries (two of my favourites) are great low cal options, but not cheap in quantity.

One of the things you have to realize is that if you're trying to save money, you don't get to eat what you want to eat all the time.

That's like saying "It's much more expensive to eat fresh produce, my two favorite are foie gras and truffles, and those are fresh, but not cheap."

Most people (in the world) eat a diet of starches and pulses with some spices. Considering how cheap beans, rice, and vegetables are at ethnic markets and farmers's markets, eating healthier is more time consuming, not more expensive than eating crappy food.

Of course, you'll have to give up on the fact that you can have raspberries year round. Raspberries are a seasonal fruit, and in season, they are cheap as heck, are as all produce.
Healthy food does not cost more and comparing them by calories is restrictive.

If you use the satiety factor, it is possible to eat healthy and spend less. For example, eat oatmeal instead of sugary cereals for breakfast, eat bananas as snacks instead of chips or others, eat beans or brown rice instead of hamburgers for lunches and dinners. Drink water instead of buying diet or sugar beverages. All these (oatmeal, bananas, beans) are healthier and not necessarily more expensive.
Where are you getting soda for $0.30 a can?