skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> distracting us from the biggest social threat of our times: wealth disparity

That's not the biggest threat, any more than Diarrhea is a bigger threat than other health issues, despite Diarrhea killing more people: https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html

By that I mean the two - wealth disparity and Diarrhea - are outcomes, not causes. Diarrhea is the outcome of poor infrastructure (food and water) and poverty that lead to weaker, susceptible immune systems.

Wealth disparity is the outcome of a bunch of things, like automation, a better ability to detect good workers, a greater desire to be rewarded for good work (if two people provide X and 10X performance and are rewarded as such... disparity), the DECREASE in wealth distribution globally (China is richer than in 1980, as is all of Asia), that geographically set people have global wealth, e.g. Gates, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin et al are top not of the US, but a world economy, whereas many people still earn a percentage of local money (trades people, waitresses etc) and probably many more elements I don't know about.

The problem is we live locally, so the disparity looks worse, even as globally it is coming down.

That is why there is more LOCAL choice than ever - in say beers - as we get imports, but LESS global variety, as we all get the best X of something, rather than having a vast array of isolated areas with their own unique elements. It is why Sydney, Australia is home to some of the best Thai food in the world, and the UK home to some of the best Indian.

> we should be relentless about leading our politicians back to the topic of wealth disparity

But towards what policy? Basic Income? Higher taxes? Less automation? Open borders? What is the policy prescription for this issue?
> Now with short selling it looks like you can instantly borrow a bitcoin on the exchange that's inflated, then sell it immediately

This sounds more like speculation than arbitrate. With arbitrage, you transfer liquidity from one exchange to another by having a short leg on the higher-price exchange and a long leg on the lower price one. This is great for Bitcoin because it evens out the price differences between the exchanges, and at the same time transfers the liquidity of one exchange to another one, while the arbitrageur makes a profit.

I don't see how leveraged trading can replace this. Arbitrate is, essentially, taking orders from one exchange and selling them on another one, thereby matching a buyer and a seller on separate exchanges. It's a genuine service to the market.
Ask yourself this question: If my current company gave me 50% ownership of the company, would I want it, and if so, how much is it worth? Without knowing all the details it is hard to say, but working in a larger organization with more engineers to help get you going is a much better spot than trying to find good engineers to join a struggling company and get them going.
For that tax deductible $12k a year you get access to the local economy. If you're in tech, it's usually worth it
I've tried really hard to like Postgres, but coming from SQL Server land, the tooling is mind blowingly atrocious. Every few months I go on a google spree trying to find the magic tool to make it less painful, but everything is either just as awful as pgadmin or costs way too much.
The situation I'm in now is that I'm very good at several aspects of security, but I'm not an rock-star at any of them (although in many ways I feel just a step or two away). In a way, being a jack-of-all trades is very useful for my current role, which involves a lot of incident response type things: network forensics, host-based malware forensics, log analysis, etc. I get great performance reviews in a company full of talent, but its hard to accurately assess yourself (and like many I struggle with impostor syndrome). This year, I'm focusing on getting better at programming and going beyond the basic aspects of reverse engineering. Basically, I'm trying to find a path to specialization in order to progress. I could probably easily land a job making ~50k more than I do now, but I'm planning on attempting to negotiate for a decent raise the next time I get promoted. I like everything else about the company,so if we could come to some kind of an acceptable situation I would love to stay.

However, if someone offered me $200k today for a full-time position at a private company, I would almost certainly accept. I can deal with less than ideal or even boring work as long as there's a good work/life balance that lets me keep working on projects at home. And even if the work isn't glamorous, I'm the type of person that enjoys all kinds of work, physical or mental. Before I got into security I did everything from shovel half-rotten fish into buckets for a living to running network cable. As a caveat, if its a government/contracting job, it would probably have to be $300k (which is probably unrealistic). There are aspects of government work that are interesting, but from my experience the negatives almost always outweigh the positives.
And by taking over they mean has been going on for 2+ years now.
Exactly this. RethinkDB's value proposition wasn't really that attractive compared to Postgres.

Replication and a nice UI, sure, those are nice. But Postgres has fantastic single-host performance, and Rethink is not yet in a position to compete there, except in some horizontally scaled use cases. Rethink doesn't even have transactions, making it potentially useless for some things that require strict atomicity over a complicated data model. In general, Postgres has such a richness of features that it's hard to compete with it; PostGIS alone is a "killer app" if you do any kind of GIS stuff.

For me, there weren't any such "killer app" features. The change streaming is nice, but it's not difficult to do that with Postgres either. That's it really: Every solution offered by Rethink could be countered with "that's nice, but trivial with Postgres".

The one exception being horizontal replication. I have yet to launch a project where Postgres couldn't scale out well enough, and I suspect that if I got to that point, I would reach for bigger/different guns such as Cassandra. For our apps we typically use Elasticsearch in front as a kind of read-only mirror of Postgres; the latter being the slow, serializable path, and the former the fast, slightly-out-of-sync path. Users don't know the difference.
Plus, you can improve your house cheaply for the cost of materials and some elbow grease. I can't buy more $AAPL with sweat.
Benchling (YC S12) is building a biotech R&D platform and hiring product engineers
You may mean to be helpful, but think about what that can sound like like to the other person (I can't speak for the GP):

* You are so dumb that the problem ruining your life is one I can solve in five words.

* It's as easy as five words; obviously you are not trying.

It can sound worse to someone suffering from a (unfairly, ignorantly) stigmatized illness such as depression.

Also, consider that probably the other person likely has been dealing with this problem for awhile. The simplistic solution that comes to mind in 30 seconds probably is one they also considered in the first 30 seconds, and probably they are well beyond it at this point.
Tokyo also has the greatest public transit system in the world, and fewer restrictions on building near transit hubs. That probably helps a bit.

The SF peninsula is full of commuter rail stations that should be surrounded by mid-rises, but aren't. It's an economic tragedy.
If you love technology, the new place offers it, and the old place doesn't, then that alone is a good reason for moving. You aren't causing your vested options to lose value by moving since your current employer sounds like it values marketing and sales more than technology. The only thing keeping you are 1) inertia and 2) the move and remote work. (The hiring probably doesn't compare to the much bigger pool of engineers at the new place.)

Unless the move and remote work are incredibly important to you, it sounds like an easy choice.

(One thing you haven't mentioned is big company vs. startup. Think about that too.)
Not entirely obvious to me. I mean, we are talking about Yahoo! and I remember when I used to get those AOL CDs in the mail on a weekly basis.
REvolve for Vive
Housing also depreciates in Japan, which is unique to that market. I mean, the actual building does....
From the article:

> Money taints everything, why not writing too?
I think we're all thoroughly aware of the pen and paper option. What would the quality of discussion here be if the threads were filled with obvious comments that provided no new insight?
Interesting searches of the cache include "LSD", "hacker", "Martin Luther King", and "psilocybin". After those searches, the resource was suddenly unavailable.
The data structures in Clojure are built on shallow 32-way trees. When you "change" a map or a vector, the algorithm only copies from the root node down to the parent of the leaf you're changing. That's log32(N) copied nodes in a tree of N nodes total.
My hunch is that you opened up a Chromebook Pixel (2013). I thought about it but decided against 'mutilating' the design classic that is the original Pixel, stepped back from the edge and bought an Acer 14" full HD Chromebook with 4Gb RAM for £250.

One thing though - sound. This only works on HDMI which again is a feature - I can't procrastinate with videos. Installing 'WinZip' on a PC back in the day when I used 'Windows' was harder and certainly more fraught with danger.
There are plenty of successful companies where telling the CEO "no" doesn't really happen.
Not more expensive anymore
"A peek under the purple rug!" sounds awfully suggestive. I hope that's as obvious to everyone else.
"optionality bias"
The top 1000 has a lot of software. The thought of running pirated software always filled me with unease, having been burned by malware in my younger days. Only tangentially related to this really well done torrent search (so snappy!), but does anyone have a feel for how safe this software is in general? Do security firms do any analysis on it?
Same deal in NYC, honestly.
Nothing about leading a team? Most certainly a requirement for CTO.
I would so love to read your book, hint hint!
Server side sorting is already being done :)
Or they buy smaller and have a condo and kids share a room
It's much lower barrier to buy managed database service from Amazon or Microsoft than from a start-up.

They have the credibility. You don't question if these companies really have the people to keep the stuff running. In many cases the customers also already have a billing relationship with them. Much less friction to just add one new service to the already quite big invoice vs buying from a different company.

Competing with AWS or Google is hard, they would be still making money on the infra even if they gave the managed database out for free.
The key to building developer tools is to build the ones that a developer needs but has no interest in creating. Backend for mobile, infrastructure for backend, etc.

Just don't create front end tools for front end developers, for example. Firebug had a donate button and we funneled all of it to volunteers in places where the currency was weak to make it at least seem material.
Especially if your government doesn't give you access to a therapist b/c your health care system is a bad joke or if you don't want to suffer side-effects due to anti-depressants, then do :

1. Mindful meditation [free] -> Daily practice (30+ minutes)

John Kabat-Zinn [0] masters the link between science and meditation and has published very valuable books (including guided/audio meditation exercises) [1]. There are a couple of scientific studies which prove effectiveness [2] [3].

2. LSD [$5-10/dose + $25/multi-use test kit] -> One-time experience (every 6 months max.)

LSD however requires one to literally read/understand/know everything about the substance before applying it (minimum literature: "The psychedelic explorer's guide" by Fadiman). Also, order a test kit and test before you ingest. Certain "edge cases"/people should not try it and educating yourself about everything will allow you to decide if it's a good idea in your case or not. In addition, you may be able to access your spiritual dimension, which increases quality of life even further (it is less immediate with meditation).

You may combine micro-dosing LSD with meditation for accessing the meditative state easier (it's quite a challenge for depressed people).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zinn

[1] https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4180277/Mindful_Way_Through...

[2] http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...

[3] http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9214697/meditation-brain-neuros...
Forget "medical professional". Forget my criteria. Just cite someone, anyone, whom YOU believe is well-respected in medicine and whose view on this agrees with you. If you can't find anyone well-respected, then cite the best source you can. My point is, just cite someone. For someone who cares about science it's sure ironic that you're expecting us to trust your judgment with zero backing.
We'd would love to have your help on Postage. We want to be the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio of PostgreSQL. Just file issues at Github for bugs and features, we'll do our best to keep up.
Note: the article confuses two distinct things wth each other, or at least makes it unclear: the transaction volume that is allegedly dominated by high-speed traders is in the forex market, with people trading a promise to e.g. USD, EUR and Yuan for a promise to bitcoins.

Only when someone withdraws his Bitcoin promise does it become a transaction on the blockchain. Until then it's just an exchange saying it owes you a certain amount of bitcoins. This becomes evident when an exchange defaults on this promise because of e.g. a hack, as has been the case with Mt. Gox, Bitfinex, Bitfloor and many others.
This is typically only a problem for first time home buyers. If you already own a home in the bay area for more than a few years, you will have a significate amount of equity that will allow you to move up in more expensive area with a larger downpayment and a similar monthly payment.

So try buy a home in the less expensive area first.
My problem with "they" is that it's overloading the plural pronoun and using it like a singular. This can cause confusion, for example, it makes the comment we're discussing a bit hard to read when in one sentence "they" means Manning and in the next sentence "they" means the government.
Google was overwhelmingly against Trump, now it's trying to win him over
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy
ASCII+Art+With+Python
Totally! Thanks for the links, checking these out! Haha yeah totally sim life !== implementation
We have an AI based differentiater which detects fake or malware infested torrents. However, since this is alpha state and is used sometimes. Once we are satisfied, it will be deployed. We still have deployed different mechanism to detect and fake torrents. There is also Voting and commenting for the community
Mortgage deduction doesn't change the numbers by that much. People tend to overestimate how much of the mortgage will be offset by the deduction. With a good interest rate (which you have, if you're paying $5k/mo on a 1.2M house), about 65% of the P&I payment is interest (and this declines every year). If you're earning $300k married filing jointly, your top tax bracket will be 33%. So your $5k turns into $1072 that the government basically gives you back for owning a house.

But don't forget that claiming this means giving up the standard deduction, so back up and take $12600 out of your interest for a more accurate number. Instead of 39K for the first year, it's more like $26.4k. So now you're down to $726/month saved.

That's about 14.5% saved due to the deductibility of mortgage interest. So if you could afford $1.2MM without the deduction, you can afford about $1.37 with it, which is a decent jump but it's not putting you into even a $1.5MM house.

If you're earning $300K/year, you can likely afford a 1.2MM home without too much trouble, but it depends on whether you have kids (if you live somewhere expensive, childcare is also crazy expensive), have student loans, need two cars to commute, are investing for retirement heavily, etc. $300/year can easily put a 1.2MM house at the top of the budget for many couples. I say that as someone with a family income in that ballpark and a home that cost exactly that much. I cannot imagine trying to make ends meet with a higher mortgage payment, and we don't have student loans, or a second car, or a drug habit.
This is against Instagram's Terms of Use. I don't know where exactly this is written but you are not allowed to use any third party client to upload pictures to Instagram. So this business is illegal... even bigger social media companies like buffer cannot upload to Instagram directly.
I took the GP in a very figurative way as well. A lot of the learning being done at the moment though is simply framework churn, there are developers out their familiar with a million web and client side frameworks that would have been much better served learning SQL. Our apps would be better if we focused more and learning about usability and our users than on CSS compilers. As an industry I think we're under serving everyone right now, people have machines a thousand times more powerful than a couple of decades ago but what they can do with them is almost identical.
No, you pretty much have to wait for the mods to notice it.
I'll never understand how this is not unusual. I make decent money and could offer my portion of the 300-400k total, but every girl I've dated out here is making < 40k/year.

Is there a TechMeetDoctor dating site I'm missing?
This will probably get your account banned. The feature list makes it look like it was built for spam purposes.

Don't use it on your personal accounts.
So if you're working on technology that enables the company to build products better/faster, is that part of the product machine or the company machine? At what point do those technology projects become internal enough to be considered Company instead of Product?
Deliveroo to add 300 UK tech jobs in new London office
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The widget will generate an additional channel of communication with clients; active users of the website will maintain live communication and dialogue with new customers. It to some extent may substitute the customer support service and the "Questions and answers" section on your website (if any). We believe that our product will create "brand advocates" for your business.
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This is wonderful FUD and misdirection. I will bookmark to use as a reference for when I want to careful discredit someone.
> using different types for things that are web observable, especially

Can you be more specific?

> has UI lagginess with large numbers of tabs due to IPC

The IPC lock contention is part of the issue (as well as tab per process model), but those can be all worked around (sorta, well, chromium got rid of no-sandbox ifdefs a year ago...).

> Vivaldi is mostly formed of ex-Opera employees

Morten Stenshorn, Dave Rune, Rafal Chlodnicki, Sigbjorn Finne - more than half of names in there! - are the names signed under layout engine and ES engine in the leaked tree. Same people you can find on https://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/

How many people I could track down who worked on opera 12 and now vivaldi? None.

I'm willing to counter-speculate: Whatever made original presto great was not because of their cofounder and CEO, but the people who actually wrote the code.
Ask HN: What's the simplest way to add a donation page to my side project
is there such a service available?
One Reason School Segregation Persists: White parents want it that way
The Future of the Web Is Emotionally Intelligent
I ran some pretty extensive numbers on a sub-comment and don't want to repost the entire thing in reply to you.

I estimated at $2,900/month rent in the valley and $900/month in the Midwest. Valley earned 160/year, Midwest at 80/year. My conclusion was that if everything froze and you could save all non-rent money (minus 20k for misc. other expenses), the end result would be pretty close. You'd have to commit to working in the valley fairly for about 4 years to save up for the downpayment (assuming you started at 0).

After the valley developer gets the house, the numbers may swing substantially in their favor, however it's a long timeline for that to happen, and the housing prices have a fair chance of continuing to rise or for the housing bubble to burst.

Full math: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13424430
does "they" imply a gender?
Story reminds me of the time that I literally squished a CPU with a fan. Being fairly inexperienced with those things, I had somehow managed to turn the fan 180 degrees before forcefully attaching it to the CPU. I even remember the hassle involved in making the little power wires extend all the way to the far side of the fan but at no time did my brain enter the loop.

Took the CPU back to the store the next day to complain that it didn't work and it took them about epsilon seconds to figure out what had happened. I bought a new CPU and hastily left the building. They must have been laughing at that for days.
Postico is very nice. I've been using it (and it's predecessor - PG Commander) for a few years. Worth the money I paid for it.

https://eggerapps.at/postico/
It's surprisingly hard to beat investing in real estate in growth markets like SV because of the leverage afforded by the ratio of down payment to home price....

For example in Los Gatos, appreciation has been 5% on average for many years, and so the 200k you put down on a 1m house will typically appreciate by 50k. 25% roi in year 1, increasing each year. Of course, property appreciation doesn't happen in a straight line, and houses cost money to maintain (property taxes, etc) but the larger point is valid.
This is what I needed to hear. Thank you for helping to bring me some clarity.

So, the big company vs. startup discussion gets even more interesting. I was hired at big company onto small team to work mainly on greenfield projects. Almost like the best of both worlds.
SBCL does treeshaking? I thought it just dumps the image.
Even Hawaii has a gradient of pricing. General cost of living is more expensive than most places on the mainland because almost everything has to be brought in on a ship, but outside of the major tourist cities prices are more manageable.
I thought Smalltalk's hayday was early-mid 80s. That would imply 5.25" floppies would still be in use and 3.5" floppies overtaking them circa 1988.