skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that the reselling behavior is the bane of the e-cigarette market. 18650's that you can get from most resellers may have good specs printed on them, but the battery won't necessarily have anything to do with the wrapper.

Edit: https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/blog-entry/list-of-b...
This is the same with laws like no education for illegal immigrant.

Outside any humane argument, technically the schools are not equipped to determine the legal status of every child parents. Even outside any malicious application (which is by itself a wide opened door) it becomes a forced legal discrimination: the school cannot afford to take risk on children in case they lose their government allowance if his parents are found illegal.
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It should be noted that the GFW currently has the ability to detect most or all of those. Long gone are the days when OpenVPN over TCP 443 could fool them.
"I'll show up when I want" is totally reasonable so long as that's what the employer and employee agreed upon (eg, flex hours).

As a person with a "non-traditional sleep schedule", and an employment agreement that allows me to work when I want, I do not apologize or even remotely feel bad for coming in after 9am, just as I don't look down on anyone that leaves at or before 5pm.
And you would still do that if they were complete frauds?
The federal government doesn't dictate common core. You're either uninformed or using alternative facts.
Am I reading this wrong, or is it basically just making a restatement of the Drake equation with updated numbers in place? [Edit: and ignoring some terms to allow for time irrelevance]. I was hoping for something addressing the Fermi paradox or something more than just a refined probabilistic estimate with such a definitive title.
Silicon Valley billionaires are ‘prepping’ to survive in underground bunkers
>On the one hand I agree that bad policy is still bad even if it does end up saving some jobs, but it seems the economy is already so tilted in favor of white coastal urban voters that I find it somewhat hard to sympathize.

The economy is tilted in favor of white coastal urban voters. The government is tilted in favor of white rural landlocked voters. All voters skew more relatively wealthy than non-voters, and indeed neither of our political parties tilt in favor of non-wealthy non-white people.

>While this is certainly disappointing, it is so prevalent on both sides I can't take it seriously unless you're willing to call out similar denigration of the rural poor by coastal urbanites.

While I do call that out, I think there's a difference: one kind of denigration comes from the permanent minority party, and the other comes from the permanently dominant party. I cannot name one time in my life when the Republican Party and its base of rural white landlocked relatively wealthy people did not set the national agenda, and I'm 27 years old.

Even when they "lost" elections, in the theoretical sense of no longer holding majorities, they used various procedural tactics to maintain their chokehold over the actual mechanisms of policymaking.

So as much as the economy has inflicted horrible suffering on that base, those rural white landlocked voters still maintain the actual power. They've been supporting policies that hurt people like them, but as they tell it, those are their moral values and their notion of dignity -- if people suffer, so be it.
It's nice to see this sort of sentiment expressed more scientifically than "well come on, this place is huge and old, so... yeah, probably".

But I think it stands to reason and always has. After all, this place is old and huge, so...
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We can use similar logic to "prove" that in fact we are just living in a computer simulation.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-living-in-...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20160901-we-might-live-in-a...
I'm curious, what's the fraud's mental model of what he is doing? Does he know he is cheating, and is he telling himself that's what he has to do to survive? Or does he not actually know that the code has meaning and that he can't, in general, cut and paste to solve a problem?

If it's something like the latter, I wonder if this behavior is encouraged by our school system. The jr high/high school homework I hear about is mainly done by cutting and pasting answers, with no effort to learn or understand the content itself.
Thanks for sharing. Regarding Korean skills being a double-edged sword, yeah, expectations leveled against you rise with your skills, and there's a high bar before those skills really pay off meaningfully (in a job context - in private life they pay off almost immediately), so there's a tough plateau inbetween.

Super interesting that you're in Berlin now - that's where I came from.
> A post apocalypse in which internet survives seems far fetched.

The apocalypse is already here, it's just unevenly distributed.
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You are describing the Fermi Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox - there is a lot of interesting reading on that Wiki page.

The usual response I think is that the timescales and distances involved are simply still too big / spread out that we're still searching for the metaphorical needle in the haystack.
Lol.

There is definitively a barrier of entry in software and it helps if you do a bunch of things that are discussed here in this thread.

On the other hand, if you just need a job as a programmer and have skills like OP seems to have, and apply for junior positions, possibly through a contractor, then you will get a job.

This is for anyone who reads these threads and wonders "am I good enough?" "can I be a programmer?"

Yes.
3 months at that same company did it to me.

For me it was the work culture at the company. Problem wasn't that they expected me to work late nights, weekends and what not. By the way, they did want me to do all that, of course.

The problem, the real problem, was they just didn't get it why I wouldn't want to spend my evenings and nights, and weekends in the office fixing bugs, writing code etc. They really didn't get it. By "they" I mean my colleagues and managers there.

Language barrier was another problem. Your team might have been a bit different on this but in my team it was difficult to communicate in English. And so was outside.

But whatever the communication I could manage, esp. with people outside work, it was really really awesome. But that was too little, too seldom.
Clarke had such a positive view of humanity. I've read all of his novels and I don't think that he ever had a villian character.
Just speculating, but I think Google is at such a huge scale whenever the internet wins Google wins. That's why they're trying to improve internet access with Project Loon and WiFi in Indian railway stations.

If privacy improves that will benefit the internet (privacy has real costs that don't involve state actors like hackers, etc). Many people, especially in developing countries, are afraid of transactions over the internet and use cash on delivery.
I'm kind of tired of these sorts of calculations that essentially boil down to "The universe is big and old". The idea that maybe millions of years ago another civilization existed in another galaxy just doesn't seem that important. And while actually encountering an alien species, especially a technology using one, would have a huge impact on our culture, philosophy, and religion one existing in theory doesn't. If you think the only reason that humans exist is because God created us then it doesn't matter how many stars are out there because the probability of life evolving on any of them is 0.
No but they would survive the collapse of one country and it's economy.

(Not saying that this is a smart way to park your money...)
> the general direction is towards that.

What general direction? What are the specific examples of this general direction?
I can't use paper since my wrist injury. Writing now get's sudden jolting punctuation of pain, depending on the motion.

Typing on the other hand is painless for me. So now I use a combination of Dropbox Paper, OneNote (in office) and plaintext. And like others have said, Ctrl+F is gold!
No, that's exactly it. Those numbers will just keep on getting more precise as time goes on, though - we'll never know from the Drake equation alone, but it's the best guideline we have right now.
The engineer who built this, Lior Abraham, went on to start data analytics startup Interana (YC W13).
The fundamental difference is the way poker is played repeatedly, tracking winnings over a long period. Winning a single hand is meaningless.

Chess can be modeled with each game serving as a single observation. Poker must consider each player's entire lifetime as a single observation. Not simply a hand, but all hands that player has ever played, including what that player knew about all opponents ever faced. This quantitative increase in data creates a qualitative difference.

Poker is less like chess and more like repeated rock-paper-scissors.
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Arch is the oddball. I'm not aware of anybody else who's made the switch.

Given that they're not mutually compatible except in rare cases, it's a very silly thing to do. You can upgrade GCC with the same name because you know it will handle most of the same input. If you do that with Python you're breaking tons of existing scripts for very close to zero benefit. Why would you do that?
I think people tend to push way way too optimistic numbers into the Drake equation. I would gander the jump from "life" to multicellular organisms to be one in a million times that life forms.
This is how recruiters and companies classify engineers in Silicon Valley (and beyond I believe). I'm not a fan of that classification personally, but it makes it easy to trim a pile of 5000 Resumes. What happens is that Google, FB, etc. will most likely attract 'A' engineers, while other companies will have to deal with B's and C's (sometimes A's as well).

So to answer your question, an A engineer is someone who can potentially crack a Google interview, or someone who worked for one of the big-5 in the past (FB, amazon, google, apple, microsoft). I let you guess for B and C... same concept.
Why? Isn't his name Trump?
Eh. As much as we like to complain about it tech is still one of the most meritocratic fields out there. If you can code you can get jobs. And as someone who's done a couple hundred interviews I don't really care what's on someone's resume. If there is a correlation between a good resume and good coding skills it's pretty weak.
Could you provide some specific examples of the "shocking" difference?
That's what I'm talking about. Must have used better wording to make it clear, sorry. It is possible seamlessly at the OS level (as one of commenters noted about CM). But OS devs just kicked the responsibility to app devs.
Yeah NC and GA seem to have much more / better jobs than SC (where I am stuck). I might have a developer job if I was still in the Atlanta metro area.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2016/10/24/distrusting-new...
Dr. David Pook, who wrote a large part of Common Core wrote it not because it was a "better" education system, but because "white privilege" and the evil white man meme. Here he is saying it at a conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724

No thanks, I'll go the private or homeschool route. The public system is bad enough with BS like zero tolerance, no recess, no horseplay, no fun zone learning, adding anti-white features to the learning system is just the cherry on top.
Submariner article.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
>You realise that no bank was fined for _actively_ laundering money?

And no banker was jailed for 2008.

> And by that I mean there was no institutional conspiracy to do so.

That simply means that the conspiracy was too big to reasonably punish. Too many friends of the prosecution would have been hurt, so miraculously nobody was charged.

> But given the potential repercussions, banks are being very cautious. They cannot afford more scandals.

Which is what the OP was saying. We've dumped risk on the banks and now they're hurting legitimate customers to avoid that risk. And because it's essentially mandatory to have a bank, customers are being forced to use services that - like Paypal - will hold their money for months or years without feedback simply because they can.

They don't care that they freeze your accounts and you can't pay your mortgage, they're indemnified against claims from customers. "Oh, sorry, it was vaguely related to anti-money laundering. Check back in 90 days."

It's almost like our governments are trying to make us use non-bank solutions.
Start contributing to open source projects on github that solve business problems. Usually for popular projects there are a good number of issues that are available to solve at varying levels of difficulty.
There definitely is an appeal to the analog and the idea of slowing down to be more creative and productive.

Photography is a hobby of mine. I own a Nikon D500, which is one of Nikon's flagship professional DSLR cameras. It can shoot at 10 frames per second with a buffer of 200 shots. The storage cards hold thousands of images. All of this is great when you're shooting high-speed action where every shot in a short time frame counts, but it also means there's very little risk in each shot. So if you take 900 pictures and only 9 are keepers it's no big deal. I shoot in RAW mode so any type of color and lighting adjustments can be made in post, and the resolution's high enough that I can crop for a good composition after the fact.

But recently I've decided to get into plain old fashioned 35mm film photography. The equipment is all still relatively inexpensive, but the film costs $5-10 per roll of 24 or 36 exposures. Then you either have to send the film out to be developed, which can take days or weeks (since there are very few places that do it in house anymore), or you can develop it yourself (as I have started to do) which involves an hour long process mixing chemicals, making sure everything's the right temperature, shaking and stirring, drying and cutting, then finally scanning the processed film. Each shot has more risk, and so you take more time and compose more carefully, which makes the end result that much better. I've found it to be incredibly enjoyable and rewarding.
They did, until recently. Until 12/2015 the federal department of education withheld some funding from schools that didn't use it. The situation is explained more fully here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_In....
Big Clive does a really amazing (and dangerous) tear down of what's inside a Lithium Ion cell, in case anyone wants to see what the parts in the diagram physically look like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1eRy0uBI8
How to shoot down a stealth fighter
I've got a titanium spork and some dental floss in my backpack and in the trunk of my car I've got a hi-vis vest, white hard hat, and a two-way radio. Am I missing anything?

Are some of these prepper people are missing out on the key concept that to live by your wits you need wits? Or maybe they're aware of that and that's why they stockpile the shotgun shells and dehydrated water capsules...?
Purchasing a car at a dealership is honestly one of the most painful consumer experiences ever. Last car I bought, I walked into the dealership knowing exactly what I wanted and what it should cost, with my down payment check and loan approval in-hand, and it still took 6 hours to purchase the car.

The salesman kept "making math mistakes" on the invoice that would have inflated the overall price of the purchase by several thousand dollars. If I didn't know ahead of time what I was buying and what it would cost, I would have been taken for a ride.

One of the most frustrating, disgusting, and disheartening purchases I've ever made. Anything that can bypass that BS is a very welcome change.
Can't speak for above, but for me, establishing an axis of opposition to Trump and his agenda, as well as attacking the narrative that he has any kind of popular mandate, which is a narrative his campaign and administration has pushed ever since barely winning the presidency.
It's also perfectly conceivable that we do just happen to be the first. Looking less likely with every advance in astronomy, but still possible nonetheless.
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> It's just an established one.

I'd say that this is more important than your comment suggests.

Across society at large, it's generally incredibly valuable that workers tend to work at the same time and be available to work together at the same time. This not only enhances productivity at work, but also enhances social lives since as a corollary it means that many workers tend to be off work at the same time too.

If anybody you work with directly needs to work during the day, then in most cases you will need to work during the day as well -- otherwise you'd be hindering the ability of that person to communicate with you when they need to. For instance, maybe your boss has to work during normal business hours because he/she is in frequent communication with other business contacts. But your boss also needs to be able to get into contact with you on the spot, often to facilitate said communication with other contacts. So you pretty much need to work during normal hours now too.

It's easy to see how the network effect of this can be very powerful, and I think this explains why there's an established asymmetry here between employer and employee.
"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue"

Well, there's my quote for the day.
Re: Very OT: RE: “AW” and “SV” in the Subject Line (2000)
Do you happen to know if either of these are in a retail store such as Staples (would like to check it out in person, seems awesome).
We took out the 'yes' and put in a 'probably'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13452983
Of course, it may be that advanced civilizations, assuming they survive long enough, don't become expansionist or explorist. Imagine a post-scarcity homeworld. People would be happier on that world or in VR or whatever instead of breaking their backs mining some distant planet until their extinction event. Which scenario brings out the most personal satisfaction for hypothetical ET? Why would conscious beings who have reached a high technological development even bother with expansion? That's like asking a cush white collar person to mine coal on the weekends. It doesn't make sense. In his world, the heat comes in via electricity which is taken from a local nuclear power plant. That gives him the most utility and pleasure. Now imagine technology very much past that. Intelligent beings will move towards comfort and safety assuming all other things are provided. Actually considering near killing yourself from labor or risk in a far-off colony only happens when you don't have a satisfying life in your current place.

Its also worth mentioning that FTL travel probably isn't in the cards and even if we consider exploratory advanced civilizations working for billions of years, they most likely would not get far by the time they hit their extinction event anyway. Even an incredible case of E.T. exploring an entire galaxy would be an achievement without peer, but ultimately would leave 2 trillion other galaxies unexplored. Even that would be a stretch considering a galaxy is 100,000 long/wide and in 3 dimensions. Even if you could have a practical 1/10th lightspeed ship, you're looking at 1bn years right there. The universe is only 13bn years old so this civilization could explore maybe 3 or 4 galaxies at most considering inter-galaxy distances.
> we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history

Is there a term in the Drake Equation for our level of certainty that the Drake Equation isn't missing some terms?
All google would have to do is warn that +1w all symc new certs will come with a yellow warning.
Ask HN: Is it feasible for startups to launch a new app store?
Platforms today owe part of their popularity to the success of their app stores: iOS App Store, Google Play, Steam, Chrome plugins, Facebook Platform, etc. However innumerable other app stores, even from brand names, struggle to gain traction.

Emerging hardware platforms (e.g. those related to augmented reality, internet of things, smart car, etc.) require an app ecosystem, and startups in this space often presume developers will help build it. Is it feasible for a startup to successfully launch a new app store? Or is that a big red flag?
Now dang, those are alternative facts. [Aieow don't hit me - I'm kidding]

The ban was very welcome imho, we could all use that break following the election. But I personally only liked it because it was temporary. I'd feel very differently had it been permanent or long term.

Can you elaborate on the downsides?
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Emoluments.
> The problem, the real problem, was they just didn't get it why I wouldn't want to spend my evenings and nights, and weekends in the office fixing bugs, writing code etc. They really didn't get it. By "they" I mean my colleagues and managers there.

Hmm. The Koreans around me do get it. They gripe about it all the time. It's just inertia holding things back. But there are changes; around me I hear more and more of former employees litigating against former employers on contract issues, and succeeding. There's still much left to do in the way of labor law enforcement, though. But it's not "헬조선" for no reason.

> Your team might have been a bit different on this but in my team it was difficult to communicate in English. And so was outside.

Of course, imagine a Korean immigrant in the US writing "it was difficult to communicate in Korean".
Ask HN: Any great product onboarding experiences you've had lately?
Looking for some examples of simple yet effective onboarding journeys.
Ask HN: Anyone have a reference for HN REST end-points?
Apparently there are end-points like "/over" and you can pass "points" as a GET param and get a filtered result set. Anyone know of an exhaustive reference of end-points?
There's the possibility that God created life on Earth but it has evolved naturally elsewhere through the same processes by which our created version of life mutates. I haven't seen this argument much, but I could imagine it becoming more popular with the discovery of alien life. This is just a report on our most recent astronomical data, but the existence in life in theory could have a large effect on how much effort we put into searching for it.
This is indeed a version of no limit. What defines it as no limit is that there is "no limit" on the bet sizes. The fact that the chips are reset each hand doesn't mean it isn't no limit.

The chess analogy would be more akin to resetting after the flop.
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Do you need to use special pens? Or can you just use standard dry erase markers?
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There are very few jobs on the planet--including many where you own your own business--that do not involve some degree of being in some place or doing some task at particular times. Some are indeed more flexible than others, including remote programming with minimal team or client interaction.

So, yeah, I like others am pretty non-sympathetic to anyone who expects to be paid money for 100% schedule flexibility.