skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gap between the wealthy and poor in the US and the opportunities provided are so extreme that even though you theoretically have more opportunities the reality is you have less.

In more left leaning countries you are guaranteed a high quality education and to be healthy, you can't make that guaranty in parts of the US unfortunately.

But, you shouldn't make the mistake of viewing Europe as one whole, just like others shouldn't make the same mistake about the US. As in the US there are some states which are more socialist and others which are less, in Europe there are some countries which are more right wing than others. People in Europe are free to move if their ideology doesn't reflect their home, or they can vote for change as their governments tend to be proportional.
If you try GNU social and Mastodon I believe with a high confidence that you'll find that Mastodon is a much better execution of the idea. So yeah my goal is for this to be the most popular thing. But they're not mutually exclusive, GNU social is still the same network.
"There is very little real risk associated with this strategy"

Once you get to inter-generational wealth there is catastrophic risk that is almost uninsurable; managing that risk is extremely difficult. It is not as simple as "buy bonds", you have to deal with things like confiscatory tax rates, hyperinflation, default, being targeted by the government as a juicy source of funds, fall of a government you had previously been associated with, a dumb heir coming into control of the fortune and getting swindled...

If being rich was easy everyone would do it.
Does OBD-II have any direct control capability? I had thought it was a diagnostic (read-only) interface.
Absolutely. I see it a lot, especially in charities and non-profits, and it makes me angry.

They're sold on platforms which are too complex and expensive, just because they don't know (or are not informed) how much things should cost or what the alternatives are.

Like you say, it's our job to provide what people need, and trustworthy relationships over short-term gain are always more valuable in the long run.
Alternatively,

0. Stop letting people tell you that your personality and preferences are defective, and the only way to be a functioning human is to adopt theirs.

It's not more correct to be at home on the dance floor. Exhortations to "get out of your comfort zone" and adopt behaviors that are the most fun, natural thing in the world for the person making the exhortation are... unconvincing, at least. Over time I've come to believe that it's really all just preferences, with one side being at times obnoxiously preachy about theirs.

We are not lesser. The compulsively social have as much to learn from us as we do from them. I mean, sure, work to change your behaviors to the extent you feel is useful, but you don't have to start from the assumption that your current state is inferior.
This is something I would really like to read more about. No pressure, but this would be excellent subject for a blog post.
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Networkapp is an app focussed around Networking at events and in communities. We are looking for a web developer that can work on both frond end backend of the customer dashboard that controls the app as well as the API and backend for the app. We currently work with: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, jQuery.

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A bit about us:
Phaxio is a simple, yet powerful, faxing API (you heard that right, faxing). We power small companies from places like YC and Techstars to major banks and Fortune 100 companies.

Who we're looking for:
As a full stack developer at Phaxio, you will be working with a variety of technologies on the front and back end. We recently rewrote our API in Rails and just rolled out a whole new look and feel.

On an average day you might find yourself:
- Updating chef recipes to deploy a new service

- Working to add a new feature to our Rails web dashboard or the flagship API

- Tweaking our packer or vagrant development setup to optimize dev time for other engineers

- Using Wireshark to diagnose issues with one of our carriers

- Improving fabric scripts we use to automate our infrastructure on AWS

- Answering a technical support ticket that involves a feature you created

- Work on an open source library that helps developers or even non-technical end-users integrate with Phaxio

For interviews:
After a brief conversation to make sure that we're all on the same page, we'll send over an interesting issue for you to diagnose and solve. Nobody looking over your shoulder or breathing down your neck :)

If you're interested, send an email to howard at Phaxio.com
Tophatter (https://tophatter.com) | San Francisco + Palo Alto | Full Stack Software Engineer | Full Time - Onsite

We make shopping fun again. We're one of the fastest growing e-commerce startups in the world - our revenue is doubling year over year and we're profitable. Looking to double the size of the engineering team in 2017. Looking for hungry engineers to grow with us. We pay above market, and we offer among the most competitive benefits.

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If you find Earth boring, just the same old, same thing...
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Live Patching developer

"Live Patching" is the Linux kernel infrastructure by which one can apply changes to a running kernel; this allows, for instance, to fix a security vulnerability with no downtime. As a live patching developer you will extend and maintain our live patching tooling, both for kernel and userspace live patching. The main purpose of this role is working on improving the automation that helps with generation and verification of the actual live patches. In addition to that, you will implement tooling for userspace live patching and participate in developing the actual live patches as well.

This is a remote working position; if you want to work at a SUSE office instead, that is fine as well.

What we offer

You will take part in the development of the core parts of our enterprise and community distributions and you will be encouraged to submit your work upstream. We will sponsor travel to relevant conferences where you can present your work. Working time is flexible and we offer a bunch of the usual benefits (these differ in different countries, though).

How to apply

Preferably, submit all relevant information in a single PDF file, so that no important detail is lost in transit. Give us some time to process your application. Expect the interview to be done over phone. Form submission for this position at https://jobs.suse.com/job/nuremberg/live-patching-developer-...

This is not the only job opening currently available at SUSE, see suse.com/jobs
If what a startup is offering can be competed against on quality or price then that startup will not be long for this world.

My widget is more expensive and, wait for it, less reliable!
Whenever you do /anything/ your brain may be selecting from a probability distribution over things that can be done immediately.

There is no concrete evidence that the brain does math. If the brain did select things from a probability distribution, then why isn't everyone a math genius.

No one really knows how it works.
online and offline are both important. Is pgp implemented on any formally verified code base?
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JOMO, which stands for Joy of Missing Out, is committed (somewhat ironically) to delivering
software and campaigns that challenge people to miss out on all the noise in the online world,
and re-engage with people in the real-world.

Full list of requirements can be found at: https://getjomo.com/images/resources/LeadiOSDeveloper.pdf

Benefits​:
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● Family health insurance
● Company stock options
● Four beers on tap and fully-stocked pantry
● Lunches on JOMO
● Unlimited vacation
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Something I've noticed during this election cycle, is that the poor see multiple classes within the poor, with "white working class males" as a sort of minor aristocracy.
There are exceptions, yes.

An interesting model to look at is that of the Rothschild family. If you can cut past the conspiracy theories, they run the family wealth as a family bank. Family members can borrow from the bank, but they must attend an annual meeting and share their learnings with the rest of the family (at least that's my old memory of something I read).

It's interesting how different folks approach it. The Vanderbilt family largely lost it all, the Rockefellers kept it (even after large charity).

Personally, I'd put myself in the Buffett camp. Leave your children enough that they can do anything, but not so much that they can do nothing.
They took a great laptop and ruined it by putting the page up/down buttons next to the arrow keys where we can all accidentally hit them. Sign me up.
The tourists are a net benefit for cities. If anything, they should pay LESS taxes, not more.
I partly agree with you (especially about #7) though as someone who's currently working on expanding his circle of friends, some social gatherings (I use Meetup.com a lot) provide better opportunities than others: noisy bars/restaurants where it's almost impossible to have conversation beyond a sentence a couple words long, limit the ability to get to know someone and find what you have in common/build rapport. Same goes for movies.
I moved from dual booting mine to running Windows in a VM. I find it to be much more convenient and so far windows runs almost seamlessly (after upgrading to 32GB memory).
Exactly. I'm sad to see that the comments here are trying to lead the discussion that way though.
What I remember of L'étranger (other than the story) is its short sentences and rhythm that drags you into the story right from its opening words: "Aujourd'hui, maman est morte." I found that the short sentences combined with Camus' French worked wonders to force me into the story. I just could not stop reading, and I really felt inside Meursault's head.

If you shared that feeling, then we could say the translator kept the spirit of the book :)
I'm having first child in few months. I'm stressed out as it is, can't even imagine what will happen when he is born. Even worse, I'm working from home.
Markets predictions were at 20% of Brexit and Trump the day before the vote. And moving from 15 to 50% during the week before that. Noting they followed similar patterns.

They assessed the risk fine.
Ah, I just assumed it was 3 in S1 (as mentioned in another comment) and 1 in S1 (pulled out of my rear). If it's 6 per vehicle, that would mean at least 540 fills, not counting scrubs and R&D tests.

For the broken link, there's just a stray semicolon at the end. Working version: http://spaceflight101.com/falcon-9-amos-6/wp-content/uploads...
If GPU manufacturers can make an eGPU that's standalone and connect to PC/Laptop via Thunderbolt3(USB-C), that'd be pretty neat especially if they can make it <$100 more expensive than the cost of GPU in PC version. I can see a large portion of people who doesn't want to spend $300+ on an external GPU box just to be able to upgrade the $200 card inside.
I use DDG but only because of the bang system. In other words I can supply a !g anywhere in the query and it will use the encrypted google search. This is also useful when you also use other ones like !yt !fl !gh !r and so forth. But to be honest, I hardly ever actually use the ddg search engine.
Thanks for asking! I'm really excited about a ZK note app!

We haven't yet determined the priority of this vs. other projects in 2017. If you haven't already, please signal your interest below[1].

So far it is a prototype, although it is based on the already proven code used in Semaphor[2], our encrypted group chat and file sharing application, so it's "just" a bunch of UI work now :-)

[1] https://spideroak.com/about/noteapp-signup
[2] https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor/business/tour
Yes but labor rights is a poor substitute for a system that allows and encourages small business. I'm not talking about "Entrepreneurs" in the new sense of the term, I'm talking about the sense that the first 200 years of America fostered, where basically after apprenticeship any tradesman started their own firm and became their own boss.

Labor rights are a bad consolation prize for a system that should be encouraging self determination.
> Couldn't you argue that the majority of cars are built mostly with robots? There may not be a brake changing robot, but I bet there's a brake installing one. When it gets to the point that the automated labor is cheaper than or more efficient to the human labor, you'd see the switch.

For a different perspective you should look at Toyota's business model. And Moravec's Paradox.

The companies (mostly American) which follow the paradigm you're describing tend to have flashy but less valuable products because they break down more frequently. If you examine the car market you'll notice Toyota vehicles have a huge premium. This is because customers know they are reliable.

It is easy to say "oh, we won't be naive about automation, we'll do it properly", but in practice not many companies manage to do this because the savings from automation are an obvious win, the hiccups come later.
Yes, but they make 2x of what most engineers in Europe make (excluding Switzerland/London).

Blue-collar workers are screwed, though.
That works for some. But there is a loss of social capital and cultural capital in moving. Over a few years it's possible to build a new friendship circle (although I'm told that gets harder as one gets older). Additionally, while a basket of goods might be cheaper in Florida, as Rumsfeld said, there are unknown unknowns.

Perhaps Florida is more expensive than you might think because the cost of air-conditioning is expensive. And while lots can go without it, as a non-native, you might find the heat unbearable. I'm using this as an example of why it's difficult to estimate the true costs of living somewhere until you've put down roots there.

Furthermore, when you're on 100k a year and saving $10k, spending $400 on a new phone is a negligible expense. If you're on $30k, and saving $6k it is a bigger proportion of your savings. If you plan on moving, you're going to readjust your standard of living and your creature comforts.

Obviously your strategy can and does work, but counting on a move working out and being able to reduce living costs is a riskier strategy (with a potentially bigger payout), and it comes with its own costs.
> 1. a lot of third party advertisers/ad servers still run on http, these ads need to be embedded via DFP usually, which you can understand does not work out well. We made the switch months ago, to this date i am still making advertisers switch to https.

So not only the ads collect personal data, slow down web experience and make every non-adblocked site a pain to watch... you go the extra step to not even encrypt transfer due to them?
I don't think it even failed under it's rated strength, it was that their supplier for the struts provided sub-par/faulty struts and they couldn't handle the pressure they were supposed to be rated for
Several countries in the EU aim for neutrality. A common front on defense issues is and will always will be difficult to pull of because of that. Additionally some countries have very high barriers for military interventions. Every time the German military does anything outside of German territory they're on questionable ground constitutionally. You either have the EU always be neutral or it will be split on matters of defense. Neither is necessarily bad.
>Stop caring about binary labels that bin you in a category A or B, limiting how you perceive yourself.

These "binary labels" allowed me to read about other people's experience and feel "normal", that my disdain for certain experiences or environments wasn't a flaw. In fact, it's common. You can dismiss them, but they've been helpful to me.
I'm flattered; thank you.

The performance claim is from my memory of reading LISPCraft, the 1984 edition written before generational GC, where Wilensky claims that something like a third to half of your program runtime is typically spent in GC, so consing is much more expensive than it appears. But I don't have a copy of LISPCraft here, and I read it in probably 1990 or so, so I might be misremembering.

How can we verify the truth about these conflicting claims about LISP systems from the early 1980s? Maybe Gabriel's book has a more definitive answer?

(A possible confounding factor is that, at the time, the frequently-executed parts of Lisp programs were written in a more imperative style to reduce the load on the GC.)
Interesting... I'm having the same issue. In my case my daughter was born 5 months ago and the lack of sleep and sometimes the bad sleep is causing a direct effect on my memory. Before that, I was able to remember a lot of things, but I guess I'm too tired now. Even reading a book is challenging and I have thousand of books. In our case our daughter was born with hip dysplasia and I was under a lot of stress.
Ask HN: Will we ever return to variable residences?
ASK HN: Will we ever return to variable residences?

Lately I keep thinking about a world with containerization of houses. This could enable transportation of entire houses and stimulate people to live at multiple locations with the same house.

When people want from their relax weekend spot to their work in a city, they tell their home. The home takes care of the rest and registers itself for transport at for example a train. The house will be loaded automatically on the train and so the travel begins.
Benefits of variable residences are more frictionless travelling and it could also brake the large countryside to city movement of the last few decades.

What would be the challenges for culture, standarization or society if we ever embrace such a way of living?
"Doesn't this sound problematic?"

In some cases, absolutely - which is why we're discussing it.

But like everything, there are costs and benefits involved in everything (yes, everything). The idea that longer vacations or 35 hour work weeks have no trade-offs is a mistaken one.

The related idea: that american workers make the decisions they make just because they are stupid is also a mistaken one.
????

So are Uber's prices too low, because it is being subsidized by VC money, or are the prices too high, because it is a monopoly?

You can't have it both ways.

My argument is that their prices are just fine where they are now, and that there is no upcoming price hike, because the prices, in the USA, are profitable NOW.
I'm pretty sure diesel performance kits (small PDA-like device) that let you alter engine and transmission performance connects via the OBD-II port.
A lot of game developers agree with it, that's for sure. Many Golang fans probably will as well. (The author of the concept is both btw).

The goal in general is to produce code whose behaviour, compilation and runtime performance, and resource consumption characteristics are evident from reading it, while remaining clear and easy to write and maintain. Such code is explicit in what it does, and so tend to be the bugs in it (which means they are usually easier to catch).

It raises the minimum bar for programmer skill and discipline.
Well, I guess my sincerity detector is officially broken, huh?
It depends on the manufacturer as to what custom protocols/capabilities they have on top of OBD-II.
"Multiple complete losses" is quite a misleading statement, in my opinion.

It's been exactly two.
Huge JS ad injectors, JS template renderers and other dynamic stuff adds about 100x more latency on most web pages than anything TLS related.
Please note that SPARCs didn't ship until after generational GC had already been invented and shipped in commercial products.
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Kind of feels like an ad for Pearl they agreed to publish in exchange for anecdotes about working at Apple.

The Apple PR statement at the end made me laugh for some reason:

“Pearl Auto is a great example of the creativity and innovation driving the iPhone ecosystem,” said Josh Rosenstock, an Apple spokesman. “We wish them great success with their new product.”
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The server farm optimization is massive indeed.

They also provided value before but nothing has been made public about it yet, unfortunately.
The GP is pushing a particular solution they have for the problems of NN's applied to NLP. They might be right that this is a decent answer to the article's objections, for all I know.

But at the same time they say "It's true as well in my opinion that Google's Machine Translation is oversold" so the "they don't know what they're talking about except for all the points that I agree with them on" tone seems a bit silly.
Continuum, Android-Style – The Galaxy S8 and Next Mobile Workspace?
I kinda hate this perspective that introverts have no social skills. Its lazy. So, im an introvert. I've never held it as a shield, its just one of those thing I apparently am. I went out with a girl recently. She was delightful, I was (I think) delightful, the entire thing was fine but after a couple hours I was like "so now I gotta go stare at the sky and not be around people". (I didnt say this of course). Like, I was just done, it wasnt shyness I just felt a strong urge to be alone.
Because we're needed to write and maintain the AI.

well, until the day an AI will be good enough to write and improve itself, then we'll all be doomed equally.
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