skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but on the other I realize that these people are competing with people who come from places without a minimum wage at all.

"Places", or "countries" might have low minimum wage compared to US or even below the average of world. But no minimum wage at all seems unlikely.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_count...

I wonder if there is a 18+ check involved.

> To me the answer is to tell yourself that it's not work but a hobby that happens to pay, and at least seek out work that pays minimum wage in your area, if that applies.

But it isn't a hobby; it is paid; hence work.

From Wikipedia: "A Hobby is a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time."

The type of labour on Amazon Turk is extremely repetitive just like (physical) hard labour. The goal also isn't pleasure, and the income isn't a gift; it is part of one's income (I wonder if it is being tracked though).

I also find the name Amazon Turk offensive. I am aware that the word Turk has multiple meanings, but in a good part of the 90s in Europe cheap labour and Turkish people went hand in hand. It was the kind of labour the native Europeans didn't want to do (e.g. garbagemen), it paid very badly.

Now we are at the next step of globalisation and because the competition goes via the Internet the lowest common denominator becomes standard. Which is very bad for those who are unemployed, underskilled, homeless etc in higher civilized countries where the standard of living is higher, but so is things like rent. Heck, I wouldn't even be able to pay my rent with Amazon Turk.

> The same thing happens on freelancer sites. Jobs for pennies on the dollar of their worth are fought over by people barely making it in the US, and people who are enjoying a rather livable stream of income in other countries.

Yes, and fake freelance like Uber and MLM.
Elon Musk hates sitting in traffic, says he’s going to build tunnels
Create a URL Shortener with Golang and Couchbase NoSQL
I showed a few people who have no idea about programming whatsoever how to hack websites to download .mp4 or .mp3 from source code of the website. How would you show them that using DOM...
Christine Lagarde, IMF Chief, Is Found Guilty of Negligence
I saw the headline and thought: This is the best news ever! I love saunas, but I don't even come close to once a week. It's a special treat for us that we do maybe once every few months. To do it daily or weekly, it needs to be part of your routine, and really close to home.

But if the Finns really sauna this much more often than anyone else, then there should also be a noticeable difference in dementia between Finnish people and anyone else.
A good manager minimizes the amount of time a developer has to spend on stuff that isn't developing.

In the right situations, a good manager can make a team of a few devs far more productive than if you added another dev in place of that manager.

Bad managers, of course, can be disastrous, though.
Ask HN: Pros / cons of salty language in tech titles
In recent years I've noticed salty language starting to appear in the titles of technology-related job postings and blog/article titles.

What do writers see as the pros / cons of choosing to use such language in those settings? And what responses does such language actually evoke in readers?
I had avery similar course to this in college. We build a 4-bit machine (with a very limited instruction set) from scratch (well from basic logic gates and RAM). For the final project grade the professor ran a test program through it and saw if the output matched what was expected.

We actually physically built it on a breadboard.

It was fun and I learned a lot. Hopefully this is a similar experience for those who take it.
A falling currency signals a weak economy.
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No, because when you want to view the source you mean to view the source of this very document, not the source you'd get by asking to reload the page, it is often different.
Flat Tummy Doesn't Mean You Are Eating Healthy
Low rates increase borrowing, which tends to lead to asset inflation, which in turn will make the rich richer. That in turn might incentives some to put more of their excess capital to work in riskier ventures.
Yes, that is a depressing place - more slaves now than in all human history, if one counts indentured labour and other forms rather than "owning" someone by outright slave trading.
Naive question. The platform computing acquisition was fairly large IIRC. I keep seeing workload scheduling pop up in different places. Is this really a large market? I thought scheduling made sense in grid computing/HPC systems. Having trouble seeing the economic value here. Any comments on the market/business side would help this old hacker.
With this canceled there is no official direction, and any further movement will likely be based on what is decided in the community.
https works as well: https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-7.4

Maybe submitter here on HN just put http. Would be better if it did the redirect automatically though.
These are rational people making a decision for themselves if the pain relief is worth and side effects or other Iissues. Let the people of WV make up their own minds and let the market speak for itself.
Cool story!
In order to maintain an ever increasing wealth disparity society will have to become more fascist and taxes more confiscatory. To prevent this you simply need to fight fascism in all its forms (including socialism and political correctness). This is guaranteed to happen eventually as fascist states are inherently unstable.
"There is a glut in speculation. [...] Savers are punished by artificially low interest rates"

I thought interest rates were kept low to entice those having money to, rather than put it in the bank, invest it, that is: speculate. Problem seems to be that that's not what households did. In many countries, they paid back on their mortgages and put more money in the bank, despite the low interest rates. The science of psychological economics isn't that well developed, it seems.
The risk to scamming people is also much lower to the scammer.
Orbit – Artificial Intelligence as a service
I've gotta say thatI disagree.

There are surely such individuals alive today and others that have been between now and then. They may not be as visible or, if they are, are rarely presented in the same domain as leonardo. I think it's better to say that no one alive today is as fetishized for their multi-disciplinary capibility as Da Vinci.

It's also not hard to argue that we have more surface area for innovation today as well a society that offers the 'resources' (i say this broadly) for individuals to pursue explorations and discovery.
I believe this is a common line of thinking. More so with phones, which are surprisingly difficult to get self written programs on. Compared to early computers where I literally bought printouts of programs. (Toys, but still...)

Not that it is impossible, but it is surprisingly difficult and not shocking that fewer do it. (Of course, I question myself on that claim. Fewer, but by what measure? And do I have proof?)
Why people commenting and on HN should think about what they've posted
This subject is just awful. Why are people so ignorant on this site?
You've given me plenty of food for thought - I'll take this idea back to my team and see what we can do with it, I completely understand where you're coming from. Thank you :)
Yes it would certainly be better :)
Thank you, I didn't think to manually check as I assumed it would have redirected me.
If 75% of the value of a good is from the imported raw materials and the rest is added by the processing applied in the UK then the remaining 25% benefits from the weaker Pound when the good is exported and the rest of is net unaffected by the change except to the extent that capital requirements effectively go up for the value of the intermediate goods in the supply line.
QnA Maker – Build, train and publish a simple question and answer bot
To me it seems you imply that its OK to coerce certain people into taking certain work. I view the second paragraph as an attempt to justify that position, despite its conflict with basic humanist ideals.

Ignoring the hypothetical nature of your second paragraph, I think you miss the incentive to all "work", which depends on how much the worker thinks his work is worth.

Take my friend the farmer, who happily works on a tiny organic farm (hard physical work) for very little pay, because he feels his work is sustainable, and productive (helps others, provides food).

Also take my friend the construction worker, who would love to build houses for the rest of his life despite low wages, but won't, because he is unable to find employer that will enable his labor to bear fruit. Sure he could build mansions, and commercial monoliths to no end, embedding stone chipped from the Italian coastline into German upper class house-fronts, or build shopping malls. But he's not an idiot, he won't waste his life pouring his talent into luxury products and consumption infrastructure that won't help anyone in the end. He wants to build sustainable housing for people to live in, houses so cost effective everybody can have one.

Depending on coercion to motivate a work force, implies that the work to be done is actually detrimental to society.
Currently only supported by Firefox (as of 49.0), according to Mozilla [1].

Interestingly, it's being used by the BBC [2], who have reported a 10.8% reduction in 304 responses as a result [3]. Google have also stated their intention to use it (comment 11 in the same Chromium ticket).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...

[2] https://mybbc.files.bbci.co.uk/notification-ui/2.6.8-mvt//sv...

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=611416
Yes, I'm a black woman in tech (web dev) who has trouble with dating and romance.

I'm pretty sure I would happily date almost any guy who knows Y Combinator exists, but I'm pretty much invisible to men who aren't illiterate, felons, drug addicts, drug dealers, or into hip hop culture.

I've tried dating sites, but every message I get is for sex, not dating. I send out plenty of messages, but few reply. I have almost no physical standards. Tall and handsome? I don't even bother, too much competition.

So I'm single, even though I would really like to share my life with someone.
My phone has a quite insane 3 GB of RAM.
The strange effects of thinking healthy food is costlier
Why it’s high time that attitudes to addiction changed – Aeon Essays
> It is not morally wrong ("greedy") for investors to seek high returns.

This is an example of isolating an action from a bigger picture. Of course, it's not morally wrong to seek high returns - in complete isolation from how they're sought.

What's more important is how the higher returns are sought. Is the investor privatizing water? Canceling funding for services like abortion? Or are they doing things that net benefit a society like building housing, designing and researching more efficient transportation.

Therefore the means through which the investment is sought can circumscribe morally wrong investments.
Skip lists are a hidden gem! I first learned about them from a GitHub developer at OSCon a few years ago, and at time they seemed like black magic.

It's a shame that universities (or at least mine) don't teach more interesting algorithms like this... it would make the algorithms/data structures coursework so much more interesting.
> Where do you meet women if you don't have social circle?

You're looking at this in the wrong order. You need to develop some sort of social circle first. Some friends that you look forward to seeing on a regular basis (weekly or bi-weekly). They can be men or women (not every woman has to be a potential partner). This isn't even necessarily about your future partner coming out of this social circle, but this is about having some balance in your life.

If you have no friends and find a woman who shows the slightest interest in you, you will end up smothering them, because they become your entire social life. When they realize that you don't have any significant friends other than themselves, they will run for the hills (and so they should!). Someone having friends is a way to validate that they are likable and a fun person to be around.

Focus on finding friends, through whatever interests you have. Turn off the "looking for a girlfriend" vibe for a while, because it colours everything you do. I know this is super cliche, but when you've got a life that you are happy with, with social activities and pursuing your career and hobbies, that is when you will be at your most attractive to prospective partners.

I feel you though, online dating sucks... until it doesn't. There were times in my 20s when I felt a lot like you describe, but in my late 20s, I met my now wife. We now have 2 kids and I couldn't be happier, but I sure cursed the name of online dating for several years before that happened.
15 conferences for developers in 2017
UN: Key Action on ‘Killer Robots’
> It is not morally wrong ("greedy") for investors to seek high returns. If an investment does offer high returns, investors will flock to it, the price will increase, and it will quickly offer average returns, relative to the amount invested.

Companies ask governments for favors all the time. The Carrier deal is a widely viewed example. If you do x, Carrier will invest in your state. Sometimes the investment isn't even open for the public to take advantage of. In other words, a single hyper-wealthy person can have his/her agents lobby for their own personal benefit.

> Nor do investors "demand" high returns - who would they demand them from? - they simply look for the best place to put their money. Investors are not a cartel that lobbies the government. Government services were privatised in the UK for political reasons.

They lobby the government, or whomever has the power to grant them the higher returns. Sometimes that means displacing the local population, for example poor oil rich countries.

Maybe you are thinking about the small investor. Someone who is passive and without the power to change the playing field?
What he is trying to get at, is that some mental illness are genetic, people are born with them, and due to people frequently insisting that they are always result of external factors, it leads to people that were born with genetic problems to not get treated as parents either are ashamed or feel insulted and refuse treatment.

(Disclaimer: this happened to me. I have confirmed ADHD and maybe aspergers too, but my parents were so offended when schools asked them to take me to a doctor that only now in my adulthood I am being treated properly)
In practice the War on Drugs has involved arresting and imprisoning a lot of people and the militarization of police.

How many people are in prison for violating FDA rulings? I'm sure there are a few, but policing egregious behavior is probably a step that a reasonable society takes out onto that slippery slope of having rules about a thing.
I think FP is on the up and up. OCaml and Haskell have seen a lot more interest in the last 5-10 years (despite both being 20+ years old), and I've been working in Scala full time for 6+ years now.

There are still gaps and room for improvement to be sure, but I think progress is happening. Idris takes the best parts of Haskell and drops the laziness that was so problematic for performance. At the other end Rust is practically an ML-family language that offers low-level non-GC style. I don't think it's human nature that's kept less-functional languages popular so much as hardware limitations and business effects.
I thought the common stereotype was that Finns only chat with each other in the sauna.

Related: http://satwcomic.com/small-talk
Building a Financial Model with Pandas – Version 2
A related serious incident (mistaken units) in aerospace was the NASA Mars Climate Orbiter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

>However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound (force)-seconds (lbf·s) instead of the SI units of newton-seconds (N·s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed.
Would any programmer like to help 'The Spectator' fight for press freedom?
I thought about using Crystal for some roguelike game I wanted to program (but alas with a new baby do not have the time for anymore).

The reason being that it is OOP. I eschew OOP (particularly for biz software which is my day job) but have to admit OOP still is a pretty good fit for UI and video game programming. I tried some reactive FP game programming and I just didn't make as much progress as I would have liked.

I tried googling for some roguelike crystal programmed games and didn't find any yet (it is difficult because crystal has lots of conflicts particularly with rpg like games)....
I should have read the article before replying!

Indeed, the article seems blind to capital taxes, focusing instead on income tax. Wealth tax is a pretty alien concept in the US -- I think it would face strong cultural resistance, and cause even more wealth flight to tax havens. And yet, I can see how it would tackle a big part of the problems described here.

It may need to be implemented in a coordinated global fashion to avoid cheating. You'd need the rich nations to do it, with a working enforcement mechanism that spans international borders. That, combined with cultural resistance, sounds hard.
Archived: https://archive.fo/H7F9e

The site doesn't work without scripts and trips up links2, so you can use the archive link instead (it works without scripts).
I had a friend who was a pharmacist and worked at several places like CVS. He said they routinely refused to fulfill prescriptions to people they felt were either gaming the system or were using outright fraud to get their meds.

He said after a while it became a game. User would get a script and come in totally strung out. My buddy would refuse to refill their meds. User would call doctor and yell and them. Doctor would call Pharmacy and yell at my friend, who would then have to tell the Doctor what was going on. Most of the time, he said the Doctors had no idea this person had 15 different scripts for pain killers.

For me, there's still too many loopholes to exploit in the process.
This was exactly what i was looking for. With this, i have something like a console, to control the panes, windows

My biggest usecase right now is when i get dropped to a pdb shell, right now i call os.system("tmux split-window ..." ) with specific commands to either open up the source code of the last frame, or to open up a log file dump . Using libtmux would be easier and cleaner.
Are addicts rational?
It sounds like some Google employees on TC-39 had significant resistance to the idea, and it is worrisome that employees of a private company can block proposals in favor of "their" way, in what is supposed to be an open and transparent Technical Committee, for a language that is supposed to be for all of us.

Google trying to strong-arm control of JS for themselves.
Thank you. Post author here. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll write many more blog posts over the christmas period on the same topic, so if you enjoyed then do keep checking.
Also, changes made by client-side JS.
It is a statement block. You need to say

f => ({ pizza })

to get an object literal. This isn't that hard to understand.
This shows a huge lack of empathy for addiction and big disrespect for the power of opioids.
How do you know if a developer is a Senior developer? When they screw up, it takes a LONG time to figure out what went wrong.
Implementing Inexpensive Honeytrap Techniques
As long as you understand the Bayesian.

P(problem|symptom) = P(symptom|problem) x P(problem) / P(symptom)

We only know P(symptom|problem) based on this research...
The problem with estimates is that once specific time quantities are attached to an estimate, it ceases to be an estimate and it becomes a delivery contract -- signed in blood.

It doesn't matter how many times you tell management it's just an estimate and should be treated flexibly; if you estimate that a feature will be done in about two weeks, come two weeks and one day you WILL be called out onto the carpet if it's missing or incomplete.
> The trouble with estimates is that they're always wrong, and we're left to deal with the degree in which they're wrong.

I would only ever say an estimate was wrong if it was widely out and you could have reasonably been a lot more accurate with a small amount of effort. Once people accept that some estimates will turn out to be too high and too some too low but they should mostly balance out instead of treating them all as very accurate it should be less of an issue.

> The problem with that is that we have no insight on how much they'll be wrong and our reputations as developers get hung out to dry on those.

That's a team problem with how estimates are treated that has to be fixed though. Estimates are estimates and not reading the future. If developers are treated like that for estimates the same problem will just manifest with whatever other system you come up with.

> I think its better to work with what you can control. You can size stories (S, M, L, XL) to the point of consensus with everyone in the room; so work with that.

What would you do for a fixed price project then where the client wants an agreed figure to pay for a delivered product (e.g. a few months of work)? If you're too high they won't accept the contract and if you're too low you'll lose money. You cannot avoid estimates here.
I think you are misunderstanding the figure, it is 72 pill/year/person, so if an average person with a prescription is taking 2-4 (let's just use 3) they will need 365*3 = 1095 pills/year. That rate of consumption implies that 72/1095 = 6.5% of the total population is on a never ending prescription for opiates.

As a percentage of the population, that still seems really high, but WV is taking 0.2 pills/person/day not 2-4 pills/person/day
What will your desktop look like when physical screens go the way of the dodo?
A person who says such a thing is "not surprising" could mean many things, and they're not necessarily trying to normalize bad behavior. A person who says "I don't know why anybody's shocked by this," the statement you made up, had gone a lot further down the road of normalization.

It would have been less douchey to feel out the person you were responding to as to what they meant, rather than simply assigning them to a category.
No, it is in the SQL standard. Best supported in Oracle because that is where it came from.
In this article, they found that ~10% of surveyed Americans used prescription painkillers in the last 30 days, including ~6% on narcotic analgesics.

Trends in Prescription Drug Use Among Adults in the United States From 1999-2012
E. Kantor et al., JAMA 2015

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2467552
Wait, you had 15 test cases, and didn't even say how the classifier did? I guess I could run the code myself, and that's nice you provided it on Github, but still, I feel like you gotta post results in a blog post like this.
Payment Service ( Paywall Video ) for Publisher Video Services
What Is a Thought Experiment, Anyhow? (2006) [pdf]
what's the big deal with "material"? Looks ugly as sin. I just don't get it.
If there was a specialized Observable that is guaranteed to only generate one value per subscription, and the API indicated this clearly by naming such an observable "Task" or "Future", I'd be all for it.

Otherwise, its like using Arrays or Lists instead of Maybe. Hope that clears up why its "bizarre", but if not, its because the contract is not restrictive enough.

Example: `let x:Observable<Row[]>`. Does this generate a single event with all the rows? Or does it do row batching? No idea. Can I consume both the same? Not really, depends on the use. e.g. if I want to sort the items, I'd have to implement merge sort for the second case.