skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've traveled to EU a lot and even in a country like France I had zero problems getting by."

Only if you travel along established tourist routes. Go to a local marketplace or try to ask for directions in a smaller town and you will find it hard in many EU countries. Yes, in Northern countries even most elders speak English fluently, but in South I have had many situations where finding a single English speaking person was a challenge (notably in Greece and Italy).
+1 for gingko -- it's especially great when starting a big document from scratch as it allows you to move and restructure entire documents, something that would be a lot of trouble with copy paste.
We've been telling people lots of things and haven't seen [insert expected improvement from awareness campaign].

The matter of fact is that telling people about things they do wrong tends to not be very effective in general. It's not an indictment of a particular topic.
Definitely, I LOVE digging through RethinkDB queries. Relational documents with change feeds is exactly what I've always wanted in a database.
It is funny you mention diamonds, since they are the epitome of marketing a valueless product into something everybody (except you) wants to buy.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...

'In its 1947 strategy plan, the advertising agency strongly emphasized a psychological approach. "We are dealing with a problem in mass psychology." '
$25k https://www.cncf.io/blog/2017/02/06/cncf-purchases-rethinkdb...
that's an excellent option
> But banning AirBnB seems unlikely to improve your salary

I have nothing against AirBnb itself, I was generally talking about the bigger and bigger disconnect that has formed between the middle classes (who have seen their real wages stagnating for the last 10-15 years in the Western world) and the holders of capital, presumably because the latter have accumulated more and more wealth also because of those stagnating wages for the middle classes.

We both know that without VC money (which in the end comes from holders of big capital) companies like AirBnb and Uber wouldn't be where they are right now.
Author of code2flow here (https://code2flow.com) - I think you could use my tool to easily create many types of trees. It's not generic, as in, it is focused on charting programs/algorithms and workflows but I've seen people (ab)use it for many different use cases, like so: https://code2flow.com/fRRlCK
I watched this guy developing a productivity app in Swift (https://www.liveedu.tv/zzzel/videos/8OX1z-building-productiv...) and it made me want to go back to Ionic.
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Robert Lustig[0] and Gary Taubes[1] are excellent places to start to understand that obesity is not simply about 'calories in/calories out'. Lustig has a now-infamous talk that surveys the research.[2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lustig
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Taubes
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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This doesn't appear to be at all responsive to the concern expressed in the comment you're responding to.
FYI also Stripe has generously agreed to match up to $25,000 in donations: https://rethinkdb.com/contribute
Ubuntu and debian does not. Well, they are installed and debian is enabled too (but defaults to allow all traffic).
Citus (https://github.com/citusdata/citus) is pretty easy to use for distributed postgres.
Hey everyone, thanks to the rest of the RethinkDB leadership team and the CNCF for their hard work! This wouldn't have been possible without a lot of effort from our dedicated community.

You can read the announcement on RethinkDB's blog to find out about the project's next steps: https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-joins-linux-foundation/

We've had a lot of folks ask if they can donate to support the project. Stripe has generously offered to match up to $25k in donations (which will help fund server costs and future development.) You can learn how to contribute to the project with OSS contributions or donations here: https://rethinkdb.com/contribute
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OK I don't want to fall for the bait or anything but how in insurance a pyramid scheme?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579544
openSUSE uses a password protected root account (shared secret), doesn't use ASLR and doesn't even run apparmor...
I oversee the epub production for an academic publisher, and the epub conversions are created by our typesetter at the end of production. They do indeed do a bit of custom programming (and sometimes manual labor) to make the files come out decent. They're supposed to run epubcheck on every file before delivery. I'm the guy who ends up fixing all those little random errors, so I have to insist that the code be reasonably clean and orderly (they work to a spec document that I prepared). Plus, accessibility is a concern. Poorly coded and disorganized files don't play well for people who need assistive reading systems.
US immigration law gives the president explicit right to do exactly what he did (and that has been upheld by the supreme court in the past). See section f

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1182
I don't think they do -- it's pretty basic economics that price fixing and/or supply shocks can result in smaller net economic output.

For a thought experiment: imagine if the price of a haircut was fixed by law at $500 (or that 99% of barbers suddenly died and the price naturally surged to $500). Enough people would start cutting their own hair at home that the entire haircut GDP and employment of the nation would go down. Even though the lucky few who still have jobs have excellent wages and there is still a steady supply of haircuts to rich people willing to pay $500 a pop.
>Most people I know would happily pay less to live outside of the city so long as they were still well-connected to the city center by the transit network.

Nailed it. If I could drive 10-20 minutes and catch a high speed rail of < 1 hr to get to work, I would certainly do so.

Instead I rent a room from a person much wealthier than I a mile or 2 from the city center.
Casinos HATE him!
Jack Ma: 'If trade stops, war starts'
I know I have read stories about this technique being used before. Doesn't it require special hardware and impeccable timing on your person to take advantage of it?
I made this mainly because I wanted a service to use for my own projects - but the existing solutions were either prohibitively expensive or didn't have uptime guarantees.

The backend for the processing service is nodejs and sharp[1], processed images are cached on CloudFlare. The processing servers are a custom instance type in an autoscaling group on Google Cloud.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!

[1] https://github.com/lovell/sharp
I don't believe that cooking oysters imparts more copper.
Throwaway, prototype, proof of concept, spike, playing around, whatever you want to call it. In many (most?) businesses, they never get thrown away. They form the basis of the product.

In other words, the thing that makes software so unique and valuable, is the very thing that most organizations don't take advantage of. They think that if you throw it away, you are scrapping something akin to physical materials.

Shame, really.
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seriously ?

>Most H1-B holders are from pretty desperate circumstances and put up with just about anything

so because they have already endured a lot in order to get their H1B, it is ok to force them out of the country ?
Millennial here.

I actively don't want to own. I don't want to have to worry about paying for my own maintenance or landscaping. I rent a townhouse in the suburbs, and I'm perfectly happy with it. I guess I kinda split the difference between the "stereotypical Millennial" and the reality the article points out: I prefer living in the burbs, but I don't want to own.

Here's something that happened to me last month: something in my downstairs toilet broke, and it caused the toilet to repeatedly fill up its tank and dump it on the floor. Imagine my shock when I came downstairs to find that the carpet on a third of my first floor was soaked through, with the bathroom having a few inches of standing water. What did I do? I pulled out my phone and called the leasing office, telling them I had a plumbing emergency. Within an hour, the maintenance guy was here, and he fixed my toilet at ho cost to me. He also told me he was sending for a guy with a wetvac. An hour later, the carpet cleaner showed up to wetvac the carpet and replace the padding, again at no cost to me.

Also, in the past I've had several problems with my air conditioner. I've had the fan die, I've had the AC unit die, I've had the internal AC unit start dripping water on the carpet. All of those times, I just called the leasing office, and they sent someone out to fix it at no cost to me. Meanwhile, one of my friends who owns his own house has ranted on Facebook several times about how his AC problems are bankrupting him, and he's already sunk five figures into replacing stuff.

Why would I ever want to own when I get free maintenance and don't have to worry about a down payment?
Uber Hires Veteran NASA Engineer to Develop Flying Cars
In San Francisco, softare developers earn at the median $117,700 a year. Keep in mind, that qualifies for subsidized housing for a a family of 4 in San Francisco.

This salary is a bit higher than the median for dental hygienists, and considerably lower than for registered nurses. I'm not complaining about that, those are important jobs that should be well compensated, but we should acknowledge that software developers aren't paid outrageously compared to other knowledge based fields. The median for lawyers and physicians is, of course much higher.

There's a higher potential upside to software development, but it is a lottery, and most don't end up making a huge amount of money. Senior dev positions at top tech companies do pay very well, over twice the median salary, but these salaries aren't remarkable compared to top professionals in other fields. The field comes with considerable age related issues, and the work environment (open offices, scrum) leave much to be desired. Honestly, I think the reason for the "shortage" is that people who have the choice (i.e., aren't bound by their visa to work in software) are rationally choosing to work in other fields.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...

You can look around the site, it provides a roundup of BLS data by region.
Lowell Heddings Is Very Bad at Coding. Your Job Is to Replace Him
We don't decide what we collectively want to do with a simple popular vote.
True, but monetizing the data might be a job for specialists in satellite imagery.
I read a paper on such a technique a while back. The CMOS sensors in smartphones are very sensitive to a certain band of infrared. I think it would be possible to set up a system that automatically detects smartphone location and splashes its general area with infrared. With a good controller and motor setup, you could probably have a single jammer that can alternate between multiple phones.
Well minimum wage is gross pay, so why would we pay gig employees net what a regular employee makes gross?
These are all common arguments brought up to argue against those who oppose the EO, but not a single point made seems to be related to the comment you have replied to. Could you clarify what you are trying to say?
If you're really concerned, do something about changing the behavior of the antagonist

Once you suggest a mitigation strategy that doesn't have laughably bad cost/benefit in comparison to teaching coping mechanisms, I'm all ears.

Until then: stop telling me to "do something." I can't figure out how to fix the world for you, rise to the occasion yourself. If you do find it, it'll be easy to convince me to join.
The law is so mindbogglingly large and complex, that ignorance of the law is a fact of life.

Very troubling indeed are the regulatory bodies that create new felony-level violations of regulations without any sort of legislative action.
Dark web marketplace bug bounty $10,000
Machines were sold in Russia, and at the day the gambling codex contained only one chapter:

1. Gambling is banned

So, these casinos dumped machines as fast and as cheap as they can
Line by line, pixel by pixel over more than an hour, I'd watch a Julia set appear on mi Amiga screen...and here my first thought was 'And?'
by all accounts

Oh really? Please share one such account. Because this is a statement from Stephenson himself:

There’s nothing currently in the works. A lot depends on what happens in the next few months, how people respond to the book, if there’s any interest in doing media adaptations

That's pretty clear it depends on how well it sells, whether film rights get bought and how that goes, etc.
Imagine we study you for a year. We put you in a box, we control your food intake; we strictly monitor the amount of exercise you get.

The first six months you stay the weight you are now. We then introduce a single change: we put you on antipsychotic medication. Nothing else changes: you're eating the same type of food and in the same quantities.

You will gain weight.

Is that because thermodynamics is broken? No.

Is it because you're "undisciplined"? No.

Is it because the antipsychotic medication is full of delicious calories? No.

It's because your carbohydrate pathwathway has been altered, and you now process carbs differently to how you used to.
Well, you basically got it.

Your knowledge and know-how is not enough. You've been selected frmo tests, because you've demonstrated eagerness to learn, and probably some sound basic capabilities.

Build on them, by keeping learning.

Yes, software industry is quite different from what you learned from the university. Normally, what the university taught you should help you learn and adapt to each circumstances you will encounter in the industry.

You will have to learn specific tools and environment used in your current job. And basically it's an impossible task: there area more than 3,000 classes and 350,000 methods in Android, and you've got similar numbers in every other framework (iOS, MacOSX, MS-Windows, etc). What's more, every year there's a new version of those framework, with new features, deprecated features, sometimes whole new languages (eg. on iOS you switch from Objective-C to Swift), etc.
So you need to learn two things: the fundamentals of a give framework, the general flow, on one hand, and how and where to find more information when you need it. This means the internet and google, (you've got it easy compared to your predecessors!).

Then you need to keep learning also more general and abstract topic, and for this you have MOOCs (cf. http://coursera.org http://udacity.com https://ocw.mit.edu and others). I would advise you to subscribe and study at the very least one course all the time (3 courses a year). Don't overdo it, it takes more time to study them and learn than to just pass the quizzes, so aim for at most one course at a time).

And plan to do that your whole profesionnal life! You're in to be studing for 50 years!

You also need to set time apart for real life, find a wife, build a family. The earlier the better!

Good luck!
I'd like to point out that the OP of this comment is Mike the RethinkDB co-founder. While the company may have perished, his spirit for the project only got larger. Everyone buy Mike a beer.
RethinkDB is a fantastic piece of software, I'm glad to see this happen.
Oh! Thanks!
> Essentially, your statement singlehandedly destroys minimum wage arguments. "If I could pay less, then I could be profitable, otherwise I am not profitable and thus won't hire anyone."

Yes, it does. Minimum wage laws are not good economics. We would be better served scrapping them and instituting a basic income to ensure a quality-of-life floor instead.
I'm thinking exit plans all the time. Just registered my first company, although I'm not entirely sure what my focus will be yet.
How about you address the second part of my previous post?
To be a little bit clearer, it's a big-ish exemption (~$100k) OR credit for foreign taxes. You choose.
Yeah the change feed feature is beautiful too. It's not what sold us but once we had it it made making everything real-time almost trivial.

I think the big thing for us is that everything about RethinkDB screams quality from a technical POV. It's powerful but not over-engineered. The code is pretty clean looking. It "just works" without hiding wads of chewing gum and duct tape in Docker containers or requiring 10-step setup processes. When you do bang on it ChaosMonkey-style it holds up very well.
> When you look inside a PDF, it is formatted as "put characters ABC at page location X,Y", you then have to try to extract the text from that by manually tracing the flow / columns / etc.

And as you want to do more and more complex things with letter spacing you end up with ever shorter flows of characters; there are certainly some tools that end up creating every character individually so even extracting a single word in Latin script is hard.
> There’s nothing currently in the works.

That seems clear enough.
Rust seems to be a good language for game development.
I watched this guy (https://www.liveedu.tv/gexon/videos/evAbX-dotakiller-gamedev...) and it made me want to try it.
Slot machines and blackjack are very different.

> I know you are allowed to use those blackjack cheat cards at the tables in Las Vegas but what if I started using a calculator and my own crazy algorithm? Is that fraud?

They're not really "cheat" cards: even with a perfect strategy, blackjack still has a (very small) house edge. That's why casinos have no problem with you using them. And if you brought your own, hand-written, crazy algorithm the casino would probably let you play with it - because chances are it's much worse than the perfect strategy the printed card uses (a lot of blackjack players operate under the principle that the previous player's actions influence the game and adopt some pretty stupid strategies as a result).

However, the casino almost certainly wouldn't let you use a calculator, because they'll think you might be using it to count cards. That's why you can't use a phone at the table. Ditto for this:

> What if I had an ear piece and hidden camera glasses to stream video to some blackjack guru outside in a van?

...but the casino would certainly let someone next to you give you advice or help, because unless that person is counting cards they're still going to have a house edge (and it's pretty easy to tell when someone is counting, because you'll start making plays that would otherwise be in the house's favor).

Note that counting cards in blackjack isn't fraudulent in most cases - it's just one the casino cottons on that you're doing it they'll ask you to leave or stop playing. Outright fraud in blackjack would involve something like having the dealer in on the scheme, or using a marked deck of cards.
> We said no. Then he did it anyways. ... Bombing these people for 8 years, totes cool.

That's some quite revisionist history there... The Syrian conflict isnt even that old.

It started in 2011.

In 2013, US starting supplying arms to syrian rebels. This was our first intervention in the conflict.

In Sept 2014, Obama gave his syria speech and Congress authorized action in Syria. Bombing started shortly after w/ other countries participation.

How does 2 years suddenly turn into 8? And doesn't Congressional approval for the action, conflict with this idea that Obama was acting in Syria alone?
I've tried finding other work.
when gambling just got banned nationally, you have very little incentive to maintain good relations with the manufacturer, and would rather just get whatever you can moneywise for such a large investment.
Article indicates that an iphone is the special hardware. It also handles the timing, even preemptively signals the player when to go based on his/her reaction time.

Timing doesn't have to be perfect - only enough to offset the house edge.
> ...at that salary.

Wouldn't this rule out exploring all the ideas that are only viable at a particular price point.

Wouldn't low cost countries out innovate us at that price point.
Ask HN: Perl 6: Do you use it, how do you like it, what do you do with it?
I'm sort-of intrigued by Perl 6, but a curiosity of mine, which I believe that I share with some other people, is how it's used in the real world, be it in little scripts or commercial software. What are your feelings and comments on Perl 6, and if you use it, how and where you use it (I'd be glad it people shared links to published projects and actual code out in the internet). Thanks in advance!
Or the bio-availability of it. Since "raw oysters" is listed, but not cooked, it implies that the copper in oysters becomes non-bio-available as a result of cooking?
It's only a small subset of what you describe, and I wouldn't call it a union as such, but the WICG (https://wicg.io/) was created as a means to help developers organise and produce the Web standards they need, to somewhat counterbalance some of the influence of browser vendors.
Well, if MS claims the patch is coming in one week, one approach might be to wait one week and then release the exploit. Works out regardless of the accuracy of the claim.
To make it fraud requires two things. First they need to be breaking some kind of legal agreement, secondly they need to use deception to make it seem like they didn't.

In this case it's debatable to what extent they're deceiving anyone, but more importantly all they're doing is pressing the slot button at the optimal time, which is kind of the point of the game. Now most people wouldn't consider this 'fair', but for a legal argument that is a bit vague, even if it might be enough to say, disqualify someone from a tournament.
> would writing down results from a roulette wheel in a notebook be cheating?

If you've been to Vegas, casinos tacitly encourage this by showing the last 100 spins of the roulette wheel and displaying "statistics" about the numbers that have or haven't frequently come up. Of course, this is all garbage because at 100 spins that's nowhere near enough to formulate any kind of statistical theory.
> Essentially, your statement singlehandedly destroys minimum wage arguments. "If I could pay less, then I could be profitable, otherwise I am not profitable and thus won't hire anyone."

Yes. That statement shows exactly why minimum wage is economically unsound in the long-term. e.g. why else would McDonald's feel the need to automate their cashiers?
Except why do those licensed providers have to adhere to those laws, maybe they don't want to also?

As well, maybe it takes a while before the true societal risks are understood, AitBNB regulations may be too weak for some reason, but until we discover that, perhaps we've "unfairly" put some marginal hotels out of business that would have survived under the impending new legislation. (Hope that makes sense?)
I'd even be happy to have just a simple general-purpose text-ui tree viewer. There's tree(1) and ncdu(2) but they doesn't really work for anything except directory trees.