skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, I get many, many emails from people who have taken my React courses on Udemy (https://www.udemy.com/user/sgslo/) and go on to get jobs. They generally have some previous programming experience, but I assume if they are taking the time to write me an email then they figure the course helped them.
Yeah, I really like Michael Hudson. His work does a lot to illuminate what makes neoliberalism different from earlier kinds of capitalism (such as the Industrial Revolutions and the social-democratic period).
Federal judge puts nationwide block on President Trump’s travel ban
I think making sense of the scale of weather would be aided by an accurate world map like the peters projection or something of that nature that doesn't do Eurocentric seafaring things like put Greenland as being the same size as Africa when Africa is like 11 times larger in reality. For example, with a proper map, the fact that much of the northern Atlantic landmass is heated by the sea would make more sense -- it's a much smaller area in reality than is represented.
This makes no sense. Being in the top 1%, by most people's measures, should always come down to working to be there. It is accepted that some things are easier to learn at the top, so that they do have an advantage of education. However, they should still be working hard to be there.

Consider it in sports. Is it surprising that there are some families that have "figured it out" and are better overall than others? No. Not at all. Some will be genetics and some will be learning successful training regimes from a young age. However, even in there, the top performers are just that. The top performers.

This is showing that the top is not made up of people that are capable of getting to the top. That is concerning. Not life stoppingly so. But it is against what a lot of the world teaches each other for how working hard can help you get ahead in life.
most of them are coming in as contractors via 1099. The Customer (Amazon, Microsft et al) see it as an invoice and may be paying a market rate, but the H1-B sees very little on the W2.

I have witnessed two companies simply cut an entire IT Department (The Run, or Support Org) and insource/outsource it.
> A shortage is a situation where demand exceeds supply.

Demand is characterized by price. Simply saying you want something does not mean you demand something.

I'd love to find programmers for $1/hr, but I haven't increased the demand for programmers by saying that. I have to offer something a programmer is actually willing to take to be considered demand. And so, again, as long as price is rising, you cannot have a shortage. Every time the price goes up, there will be buyers dropping out of the market not willing to pay the new high.

The result is that only those who can afford programmers will be able to hire programmers, and the supply will exactly equal the demand.
My understanding is that it was because US travelers with an Israel stamp would have trouble if later trying to visit a country not friendly toward Israel.

I was just there last summer. They gave me a bar-coded receipt in lieu of the passport stamp.

There's still an issue that if you visit Jordan from Israel you get a stamp from Jordan that states the entry point.
Elon Musk is, in fact, digging a tunnel
I was raised in similar circumstances and I wouldn't even consider it poor, let alone ''too poor''. $38k in 1985 is around $80k today. Sufficient to cover 4 kids in most rural and inland suburban parts of the US. This is Dave Ramsey's middle class, middle America audience. For these families it's not what they make, it's what they spend that determines the outcome.
I don't mind ads. I do mind malware. Sadly, the line between the two is blurred when former's networks are used as the attack vectors for the latter.
When does traditional classification algorithm fail?
Interesting. I'll have to pay attention to where my hands go next time I'm at a keyboard.
I got down voted for this. However, I was right that it was a sugar high and not based on the numbers. It was some blanket assumption that Trump would automatically be "good for the market" because "deregulation". Deregulation isn't always good.

"Customers" will be a lot less likely to spend money if they aren't adequately protected when they do. Regulations also exist to protect the health and safety of the US citizens. It protects business from getting sued when they didn't follow the regulations.

So businesses and consumers benefit from regulation and that there is no gain to be had here. We are just trading the small gains in stock price for lots of additional risk legally and otherwise.

I didn't even bring up the fact that Trump may unwittingly get us into a trade wars with some of our biggest trading partners by threatening to go to war with them or threatening them with tariffs when they don't do what we say.
> On the other hand, advertisers need to make money to survive.

My job is to keep my systems secure. Other peoples' jobs are their business. Unless I signed a contract or gave them my word, I have no obligation towards them.

> This means there's a shift to native advertising in response, which means they're not just shitting in the water. They're shitting in everything else too, and trying to cover up the taste.

Easy solution: if they shit on everything, I avoid the entire plague-ridden, smelly, nuclear waste dump they created.

(Please understand I'm not saying this to stoke conflict. I'm just sharing how I think through the question of how advertisers survive.)
Okay, I just want to get clarity. Is there anyone on here that thinks that universal high speed broadband that's affordable to every American isn't going to be good for everyone long term? Increased opportunity, access to online resources, jobs, training, education, etc.

Because we can debate HOW to do that effectively, if subsidies are effective or just increase costs overall, if we agree on the what. But if we don't agree that universal high speed broadband internet is a good thing, then talking about the How to do that is farcical at best.
I don't know there's any laws, but if there were I'd think Oregon and New Jersey would require it since they already do that for pumping gasoline.
> I think it's important to be respectfully tolerant of genetic defects, i.e. mistreating a deaf person would really upset me, because we know a deaf person cannot 'get over it

There have been attempts, though, to make deaf people "get over it" by trying to teach them lip reading, and speaking word even though they cannot hear themselves what they are saying. They have not been very successful.

"In 1980, a vocational school for deaf adolescents was opened in the area of Managua called Villa Libertad. By 1983 there were over 400 deaf students enrolled in the two schools. Initially, the language program emphasized spoken Spanish and lipreading, and the use of signs by teachers was limited to fingerspelling (using simple signs to sign the alphabet)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language
there's also a genetic link to misophonia: https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/something-to-chew-...
Snapchat Went from Frat Boy Dream to Tech World Darling (2013)
That service is pretty close.

It's also where I feel my otherness. My father was a professional photographer, I grew up playing around in the darkroom, so I do recognize that I have a bias toward high quality photo prints. One of those 'ignorance is bliss' things maybe.

The photos wouldn't need to be large, but the quality would need to be there or else I won't value them long term as distinct from digital files (which still command many advantages over physical media).
Impact on NAFTA TN Visa for Canadians and Mexicans
That means that any advertising supported sites shut down.
Only 1/3 of people in the top 1% in 2005 would remain in the top 5 by 2009.

See table 3: https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2013/retrieve.php?pdfid=46...

Among people with income > $1M, 50% had this income for only 1 year.

https://taxfoundation.org/millionaire-status-fleeting/

One great way to have a lot of income is to sell a house that appreciated in value over many years. But it's hard to do that repeatedly.
It is a type error to speak of utility functions as being rational or irrational.
What people lack these days is community. Building an excellent community will allow people with problems like depression to find support.

The researchers polled 1,018 depressed patients in 90 randomized community- and clinic-based programs. The community-based approaches--in such places as churches, senior centers, and barber shops--worked best at improving mental-health quality of life, increasing physical activity, reducing homelessness risk factors, and getting more people to seek hospital and primary physician care. [1]

[1] http://www.rand.org/news/press/2013/06/25.html
Please don't use code blocks to quote. Use `>` meme arrows instead.
How much are you paying sites that aren't advertising supported right now?

How many more sites are you willing to pay at that same level?

Right now, as far as I can tell, advertising supported sites are out-competing sites that directly charge users, meaning that users prefer not to pay. That makes leaves advertising as the most sustainable model.
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They pay a 30% federal corporate income tax rate. Their federal income tax alone covers all the estimated ($6 billion) public subsidies.

Walmart has 0.03% net income margins. If you raise the hourly pay for the average Walmart employee, by $3 to $4 per hour, Walmart is bankrupt. Meanwhile Amazon is going to begin substantially digging in to Walmart's sales with their growth. As Walmart's sales begin to contract in the coming years, that will pressure their non-existent margins further. If Walmart raises prices to afford the pay hikes, Amazon will damage Walmart's business that much faster. In the near future, Amazon is likely to rupture Walmart's business in such a fashion as to cause financial losses that cause hundreds of thousands of low skill workers to lose their jobs (with no replacement jobs). Walmart's likely future is to tip over, bleed epic amounts of red ink (they don't even have a large enough cash balance to afford one year in that condition), close hundreds of stores, and fire a million workers.

You can either have Walmart employ far too many people as it does now, at low wages (which has the advantage of absorbing vast amounts of low value, low skilled labor). Or you can have Walmart employ far fewer people per dollar of sales, in the model of Costco, and have higher pay. You can't - and will never - have both.
I would also strongly recommend "Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach": https://www.amazon.com/Small-Unit-Leadership-Commonsense-App...
Tech has probably increased 20-25% YoY, as it has for a while. Alexa and AWS especially are basically hiring as fast as they can get people to move to Seattle. More remote offices are opening/expanding to make up the difference.
3 months in into a SE Asia digital nomad adventure here.
Please provide:

Predictably priced universal 4G plan that bills to my bank account.

Biometric border control (leave passport at home)

Clean, high quality scooter helmets rental (I'd pay premium for this)

Bitcoin ATM to avoid local banks high fees (i.e. Thailand and Philippines ATMs charge foreign cards a lot)

Plane-UberPool for small charter flights
Trump's ban blocked nationwide temporarily
Thank you. As one of the minority of people in this country who pays Federal Income Tax, I applaud our Government's action.
It doesn't necessarily need to work this way. The people who are traveling could use the app to indicate that they're on the way to the U.S. from one of the affected countries and may require assistance when they arrive. They can provide their own flight information (flight number, destination, ETA, etc.), nationality, etc.
Developers like to think they are above blue collar concerns but I've witnessed or heard first-person accounts of workplace abuses for otherwise "privileged" developers. Although we have marketable skills and relative "career security", that doesn't make switching jobs any less disruptive for our career path, our families, health plans, stress levels, etc.

So, I like your idea of a developer's union with emphasis on professional standards, EFF principles, etc. It would also be a powerful ally for responding to workplace abuses I've seen such as: 1) excessive, mandatory work hours. I know game developers that are required to work 60-80 hour work weeks and sleep at their desks. 2) outsourcing abuse: Having to manage and train offshore "resources" who become your replacement. 3) Keep-a-good-engineer down syndrome. Organizationally suppressing engineers from advancing so they stay in essential, non-executive roles.

And, if you think that your cushy job is immune to these problems, consider that I've seen nearly every one of these conditions arise (usually after a management change) in otherwise humane companies with positive corporate cultures.

While a union might not prevent every individual abuse, it might provide a check on companies who essentially hold your "cushy job" for ransom while they take advantage of the fact that you are salaried (not paid hourly) and can work from home any day or night.
Oculus’ John Carmack vents about $500M ZeniMax jury verdict
An early build of Windows 10 Cloud has leaked, proving the new OS is no myth
In the present society, the advertisers managed to completely ruin the way cities look with their endless flashing neon signs (and in the past few years I've noticed a vast increase in audio-based advertisements outside), they have ruined the best observation spots, skylines, and in many cases, even parks with their billboards; the public TV which is funded by tax money is a complete ad-cancer. The same with radio, or sports games. It got me to the point where I consciously block every advertisement, but it sometimes gets really mentally taxing. I've stopped listening to radio, watching TV or basically going to any larger-scale public outing.

I am not giving them the internet too!

They can take their unwritten pact and starve.

The worst offenders however, are the ones that require a payment to use, and still completely overwhelm you with the ads (Public transport in my case). I do subscribe to some services where the subscription removes ads, and I gladly pay for mobile applications that offer a reasonable (<10$) cost to ad-free experience. However, I have observed the overwhelming majority of content to be completely worthless, and I do not lose anything by not coming back.
I call this RSLDD: Red Squiggly Line Driven Development.
It's only objective if the selection process for top conferences is objective. But I do appreciate a metrics-driven system vs the surveys that US News uses.
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Tubemate for iOS 8
That's interesting, however it sounds as though you're intending this as some kind of disagreement with what I said?
Subsidized internet presumes that poor people would want to spend the money on internet rather than something else.

A better way is the NIT (negative income tax) which simply gives money to the poor and lets them decide how to spend it.
Well as long as it ships with an installer, the above method still works - just omit the build step altogether (do a chroot if the installer doesn't offer a choice of where to install). If it doesn't have an installer, but comes self-contained, then just `cp $srcdir $pkgdir/opt` & call that good.

And if you're dealing with a non-source package that doesn't have an installer and isn't self-contained, then installing/packaging it is difficult on any OS - not just Arch!

For reference, here's a PKGBUILD for a non-source, proprietary application. It's pretty much as above, but includes some fancy .desktop files & such, too. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=disco...
Ad blockers don't generally discriminate. Adblock plus is a partial exception, in that it charges advertisers to allow their ads to be shown.
Not sure what livelock you're talking about. If you have a bunch of people pushing to Git master, sure, you'll get conflicts and have to rebase (if we're talking about TBD). But the conflicts are always caused by someone successfully pushing to master, so some progress will always be made.

But I was always just using Git as an interface to something else, usually Perforce or something similar. When pushing with these tools, you'd only get conflicts if other people changed the same files. Git was just used to create a bunch of intermediate commits and failed experiments on your workstation, which is something that it really excels at.

The only real problem is when the file you're changing is modified by many people on different teams, which often means that it's used for operations, and when that becomes a bottleneck it'll get refactored into multiple files or the data will be moved out of source control.
1) They do make money (profit) and they also re-invest
2) About 20% of the S&P 500 companies do not pay a dividend, are they failures?

For example, Apple did not pay a dividend until a few years ago and continues to have $200B stockpiled. Is it a failure?

Like it or not, in the last 30-ish years stocks have become just as much for trading as they were for profit sharing/dividend income.

If a stock does not pay a dividend, who cares if it makes a profit?
Can I assume you have a trust-fund buffering your insolence?
Logistic curve, maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function
Over 200,000 people deleted Uber
Maybe I'm having a memory loss, because I seem to remember that every news article that contained the words "Obama" and "Iran" had at least one comment saying "Haha what would spineless Obama concede to Iran this time? Such a disgrace." or some variation.
I wonder how do you know what parts you CAN disclose?
Interesting. What if you listen to a recording of yourself eating? While you're at if see how much you can distort it before it stops or starts to bother you. E.g. Played backwards, at double speed, half speed, etc.
No I don't care to.

First, its an ad hominem attack on credibility which while sometimes useful does not refute the central points that Pai made. "If there's something wrong with the senator's argument, you should say what it is; and if there isn't, what difference does it make that he's a senator?"[1]

Second, I have no clue who funds them or why.

Third, they really do have a great podcast about the intersection of technology and policy (Uber, AirBnb, self driving cars). Specifically the one on bringing back supersonic airplanes is really cool. [2]

[1]http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
[2]http://podcast.techfreedom.org/e/139-make-america-boom-again...
He's continually bashing Google with misleading comments. It deserves to be called out.
EC is kind of hard to search for for someone with no knowledge of the electronics scene. What are you referring to?
A nice word which sums it up is 'rentier'.
Why do you think an operator of a computer is called a user?

I use Qubes and do not use Whonix, and most users don't either. Qubes is security-focused, offering increased privacy in the process, but Whonix is for the privacy-focused and has separate use-cases. I'm not a journalist in some 3rd world dictatorship so using Whonix would just degrade my user experience.

But that's the thing. As users, we can use a piece of software, but our operating system is not using anything. And it is erroneous and misguiding to say that Qubes OS "uses" Whonix, because again, that implies special meaning, such as using it as a backend for main internet access. This isn't some trivial distinction. It is a very basic, important distinction when you are talking about software.
I suspect even Amazon doesn't quite know how it's investments will perform at the time they make them. There seems to be a lot trial and error in the process, but they seem to have figured out how to be efficient at doing it.
Since 2/1/13 (Slate), AMZN's up 205%. 205% in 4 years to almost this day!!!!!

His thesis that AMZN's an investor funded charity has been blown up via the gains accrued by investors. Despite being wrong, I admire his analysis as insightful and true to value investing principles.

In the '15 article, he changed his thesis to account for AWS' unexpected rise and earnings contributions and said his thesis fails if AMZN doesn't run out of profitable investment ops. I submit that's the key change. Despite being overall bearish, that's walking it back quite a bit.

FWIW, since 12/9/15 (Vox), AMZN's up 26%.
> I don't understand the argument that they don't profit.

It's more specific than that. The argument is that investors in Amazon don't profit, because practically all of the money Amazon makes gets used either to pay employees and meet operating costs or to invest in growing the business. So what's left over for shareholders is almost nothing--yet people are falling all over themselves to become shareholders. That is the odd situation that the paper is trying to understand.
If you're interested in quickly inserting emojis on Mac, try `Cmd+Shift+Space`[1]. You'll get a searchable input, no need to hunt and peck through the touch bar nor remember how to do them in various apps.

[1] http://osxdaily.com/2015/05/27/quick-type-emoji-mac-keyboard...
This comment is probably on the rude side, but I've wanted to get this off my chest for years.

I had some exposure to several of the top listed faculty at one of the higher ranked schools. It seemed like at least a couple of them genuinely cared more about how many papers their name was on in DBLP than what the papers were about.

I mainly have a hard time believing someone who is a co-author on over 40 submissions per year has time to comprehend and fully understand them all. I was also unconvinced that many of the papers were even moderately significant. It seemed like they knew exactly what to do to get a paper accepted and optimized for that.

The end result was I decided to steer away from the academic track because it did not seem like an environment I would be comfortable in.
But once you've got your i140 (which is fairly quick after your PERM application), you're going to hold onto your priority date.

You can switch at low cost at that point. I know so many people who've switched jobs like this and retained their place.
Dunno how it is now, but years ago it'd take them a _few weeks_ to just propagate commits into the stable branch through a series of elaborate branch integrations, so yeah, you couldn't change something and test it on a whim. Plus build of just windows alone would take overnight, and rebuilding everything to test a Windows change was not logistically, politically, or technically possible.
The real advantage to being rich is that failure carries little to no consequence. You get many do-overs, and aren't stuck eating ramen in the bootstrap stage.
"I'm sorry, but you must be out of touch with reality."

You obviously don't know any bankers, and probably don't have exposure to the industry.

There are tons of middle-class folks who earn $500K/year in banking, most of whom did not attend Ivy League - even if they did - it's not a big deal as most who do attend Ivy League are in fact 'middle class'.