skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually downvote cliches but in this case it's an absolutely appropriate thing to cite.
Not really, because slots and other casino games are much more deceiving. The whole thing is engineered so that you believe that you will win lots of money. But the reality is very different, this is how they must be built:

- There is a state sanctioned minimum payout rate. This differs by state, but its between 80-90%. This means that on average you lose 80-90% of the $$$ you put in.
- Slot machines cannot use conditional probability, in other words spins are independent. This means that the machine has no "memory" each spin is like rolling a dice. You dont have higher chance of payout just because you didnt won anything during the last hour.

I've worked for a big slots company and we analyzed our customers a LOT. The big players (AKA whales) who drop thousands per month are not bored rich people in 99% of the cases, they are average people like you and me with a bad gambling addiction. And the state or the casino companies are doing nothing to help these people (why would casino companies care? This is where they are most of their revenue from). This is totally different from other fields - imagine if cigarettes would be advertised as something that makes you healthy and the state would be OK with it.
Hmm, while knife crime maybe more common in Glasgow than anywhere else in western europe it's still rare and mostly restricted to rough areas (i.e. not "took a wrong turn at George Square" but "went deep into a troubled neighbourhood and kept going") and even then you'd probably have to be really looking for trouble or damn unlucky
You're probably right.

The last time I hunted for a new TV was about 3-4 years ago; I'm guessing nowadays, most (if not all) TVs are now "smart."
You'll find a lot of clothing is made in Indonesia and other SEA countries these days--for instance, my jeans.

As for electronics, I think most of them were made in Best China, aka Taiwan.

Anyway, addressing your implied point, the fact that mainland China (Worst China) can pump out garbage cheaper than most other countries doesn't imply they can build an airplane I'd willingly board.
They come in answer to a percieved problem. Lots of people like to make noise about "that one bad thing they heard happened that one time"
What about Tumeric extract and also intravenous vitamin-C?
The rethinkDB team are truly the best. I wouldn't hesitate to work with them in the future.
I get that, but we're not going to run a double-blind randomized study on whether car exhaust gives kids asthma. So our next best option is to take all of the relevant research, aggregate it as best possible, and make recommendations based on those results. There will be shortcomings, we might never get to a 99.9% significance, but in the mean time -- Kids will stop getting asthma from car exhaust.
Well, sort of. Libertarianism is often (incorrectly) described as "socially liberal, fiscally conservative".

But libertarianism isn't easily defined on the Left/Right spectrum. Two people can hold completely different views on virtually any issue and both could hypothetically fall under the libertarian umbrella.
C++ type inference and first class lambdas and flexible typed tuples have made it possible to create a real useful type system into C++ programs now. It's quite pleasant.

But it robs a lot of much slower languages of their best value proposition. You can now do it all in C++ with correctness guarantees and still run 10x faster than most strong typed systems.
I use it because it's the only browser that supports my old computer.
Trees are graphs with out cycles but you always end up adding cycles. Code is no exception. There have been endless attempts to create coding systems based on graphs. These systems promise extraordinary modularity and reusability and an ease of programming which will allow anyone to construct complex software with a few clicks and drags. So far everyone of these systems that I have seen in the last 25 years has fallen short of its promises.

If you pay attention to these characteristics you will begin to notice the regularity with which such systems crop up and die. In my experience there's no use trying to talk enthusiasts out of this idea. I even attempted such a system myself many years ago. It's almost a rite of passage.

The reason tree editors (aka graph editors with out cycles, yet) don't work is similar to why we use relational DBs, instead of more the natural interpretation of data as graphs, boils down to, graph algorithms are slow and complex. In practice the added complexity outweighs the perceived benefits. The way people currently edit code, although not perfect, actually works really well. You have to weigh the costs of moving away from a simple system that works against the benefits and complexity of the new system.
This is something that I would love to see happen with open source projects:

1. company is created around the project
2. other companies started using the project and find it handy
3. companies need maintenance and support: consulting companies start opening up shop and serving them
4. parent company gets more customers because they're the first/official supporting company

This similiar to the Wordpress model I think and they're fairly successful, they've got a whole ecosystem.

We have added the Sandstorm Technology Roadmap to the Sandstorm repo, where you can learn about everything Sandstorm has built and plans to build.

Perfect, now another company can take a chance on raising VC funds for this or bankrolling it themselves.
If you are using nautilus, I don't think it's the thumbnailing.

Try opening /usr/bin and it takes longer than you would expect.

From what I remember nautilus does excessive stat calls, looking for thumbnails - it could definitely be much faster.
Node.js and Express? Although neither seemed failed, maybe troubled at one point.
So the paid offering of Oasis still exists and you are advertising it in the end of the blog post.

It is not directly said in the post, but it sounds like you are trying to still make it work in the long run by minimizing the team and going with the slow organic growth that you have?

No criticism intended there, I personally think that would be great and in the long run probably the most healthy way to make something so idealistically grounded like Sandstorm work.
Except that's on an individual object -- existing KVO functionality re-invented. I want it on an entire collection... basically their existing API except give me more than an index.
Don't get me wrong, the cost of living is much lower than SV, but there are several major industries here that pay 2-3x that rate for less skilled work. Even many service-type jobs pay better. A buddy of mine that dropped out of college was making more money than I did right out of school managing McDonald's.

I personally left software engineering (regretfully, I love it, and still do what personal projects I can) to do a government job that is at least somewhat technical that constituted a massive raise over my old salary - and as I worked there for a few years and was a high performer, I did get several big raises before leaving.
If there is a loud party, call the cops.
I suspect a partial cause from right-to-work laws. It's much harder to fire an employee in Europe, so companies are less willing to bid on employees, and so compensation is lower. Plus the employees themselves value the job security, which substitutes for wages when evaluating offers.

For specific predictions from this model:

1. Public-sector programmers in general should get paid less than private-sector programmers, due to employees valuing the job security

2. The public/private gap should be larger in the US than in Europe, since there's a smaller job security gap

3. Public-sector programmers in the US should have higher wages than public-sector programmers in Europe, due to having to compete with more vigorous private-sector activity in the US
You should look at JetBrains MPS, as should everyone posting on this thread. Because MPS has been in development for over 10 years as far as I know, and has attacked and solved a huge number of the issues you raise here and many more too (e.g. how to integrate non-text based programming with version control).
I think Sandstorm missed out on a potential business opportunity that I will call, for lack of a better term, SaaS as a service.

Here's what I mean. Suppose I develop an application that fits nicely into Sandstorm's grain-based model. But I don't want to give it away. And just as important, I don't want my users to have to deal with this weird Sandstorm thing. I want to sell the app as a SaaS subscription, like so many other web applications that people are used to. Yet, I don't want to deal with recurring billing, hosting my users' data, 24/7 availability, etc.

So I develop my product as a Sandstorm app, then pay Sandstorm to host it under my own domain, with Sandstorm being invisible to the user. As far as the user is concerned, it's a SaaS product that I'm providing, like any other SaaS product. But I don't have to implement recurring billing, back up users' data, worry about availability or security, etc.

Does this make sense to anyone else?
How are these compounds prevented from sunlight induced breakdown if they occur in the leaf of a plant?
What are the differences with firebase? There must be something.
Generally speaking, I use Firefox because I've always used Firefox. At no point have they ever done something that's made me upset enough with my browsing experience to jump platforms entirely.

It's familiar, it has the extensions I need and it hasn't buggered up in any significant way that I uninstalled it from frustration.
Top US Tech Companies Already Pay Some Immigrants Over $100,000
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We screwed up by not making this a campaign issue.

Now we are going to pay the price.

This is a freaking disaster.

When I was at the Women's March talking with friends, I said the smart thing to do was not react to every issue, but to pick one and focus. This is the issue I care the most about.

I feel like we are way behind on fighting this. Million Techie March? If only.

Going to have to figure out what the right actions are regarding this issue.
Nothing, as long as the participants aren't violating the law. Much in the same way that you don't get any input on how long my grass is, unless it happens to be a fire hazard.
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2,200,000 / 11,000,000 = 0.2

Stealing entire viewing privacy is only worth 20 cents - painfully low for my tastes, but I guess it's about right given what people currently expose to get "free".
Yes, I would also remove investment property tax benefits, were I emperor, but it would not cause rental rates to rise.

That's not how the rental rate is decided. The rental rate is based on vacancy and income, ie supply and demand. If rental is harder to make money on, the only effect will be to drive down the cost of the property as the actual number of houses is fixed.
I use Linux containers extensively. They can be rolled over by the container orchestration service at any time so I do not use them for databases except in a dev cluster where we trash and reload test decks constantly.
I've been thinking about this for a while but I might have to actually do it now. Start a business, and get a server hosted in colo under the business name. Then get a permanent openvpn connection between your home router and the colo'd server.

Now your "ISP" is the colo provider, not your home ISP, who only gets to see an encrypted pipe, and everything you do is under a business name.

Seems like the best way forward to me.
green cards are equally distributed to all countries. 7%?
hence the amount of time you will wait is dependent on where you are from. for india/china, i believe its close to 8-9 years.
but if you come from a country where no one applies for green card, chances are this process will be done in 6 months.
You can get early access to it via various places, e.g. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920040385.do
>[USA] has the highest GDP per capita in the world

Not quite, it has the 18th highest. Below Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Ireland all who pay less for engineering.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
It's a little of both. If your employer doesn't cover 100% of the premium then your share is deducted from your pre-tax salary. Healthcare is often one of the factors up for negotiation in salary discussions. It's not a 1-to-1 ratio, but generally if you opt out of an employer's coverage you can try to use that to ask for a higher salary. I've found it's been far more successful the older I get! The reason is employers want young healthy people in their insurance census (young people are cheap to insure and lower the cost for everyone), not middle-aged people with kids.
> The average person does not get NEARLY enough water per day.

this is false. The old "8 glasses of water a day" advice has no scientific backing. And, while there is evidence that mild dehydration can have bad health effects, this can be completely avoided by simply drinking when you feel thirsty. There is absolutely no need to make yourself consume enough water, your body will tell you when you need to drink.
> I am very surprised to hear that you had 0 paying customers though.

Not exactly true. We had a handful of paying customers for Sandstorm for Work, and we have enough paying customers of Oasis to pay for all of Sandstorm's services. But not enough to pay for employees -- people are expensive. :/

We have experimented with ways to push people towards paid plans on Oasis, but it's a tricky balance between revenue and user growth. I agree we should experiment further.
I think the reality of your example would follow the way cable companies offer their typical packages. This 'innovation' usually includes some base of certain channels that you don't even want. Then you can pay up for more premium channels.

Along the way, they will offer some 'discount' for a month or two and then raise your rate. Trying to request a downgrade usually takes a lot of your time to convince someone to actually put the order in.

There are plenty of abuses available if you just search for cable company abuses.

There is NO REASON for any of these companies to offer any true innovation or competition. While they're not strictly monopolists, they can pretty much guarantee little to no competition in their respective markets.

And where they might receive competition from cities who want to build out their own broadband services, they lobby to have the laws changed making it illegal to do so.

The only way around this is to offer some revolutionary new wireless network that sidestepped all of the fiber, cable, and telco providers. It would have to have massive bandwidth, buy-in from all kinds of hardware provides (mobile especially) and magically get approval for spectrum by the govt.

....Provided that said companies don't lobby against your effort.

The FCC wasn't going to fix all this overnight (or possibly ever), but it was a step in the right direction for the citizenry of the country it was created to protect.

Disrupting any of the cable/telco industry is a fantasy at this point.
How much does that cost per month?
Man, if developing programming languages was this easy, we should have done it years ago!
Le Courbusier did say,
Une maison est une machine-à-habiter.
A house is a machine for living in.

Too bad people, perhaps those in charge of those housing estates, seem not to read further in the same work:

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful." That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Speaking only and solely for just myself, I do not care whose site I read the material on. I just want it presented in a reasonable, readable manner. A number of publishers seem to struggle with this.
I don't see is as a reality, merely a common perception. Having worked with several French software devs... I can say that the US devs are far more innovative. The impression that I have formed is that there is a major cultural difference in how the term expert is used. In the US, we tend to be willing to buck authority and expert opinion when we have facts to the contrary. Many of my French counterparts are not willing to even contradict their non-technical bosses over blatantly stupid things. It has lead to such a huge technical debt that it is drastically cutting into production.

Now part of my experience is with a multinational manufacturing company not an IT company. That likely makes a major difference.
The global economy as of 2008 was and continues to be absurdly leveraged, often combined with a wonderful smorgasbord of complex financial instruments that obfuscate risk.

If the banks holding these complex instruments were allowed to fail, if Lehman Brothers collapsed along with AIG, then it's very likely that the financial system would have been dragged down with it. The resulting recession would be likely on the same magnitude as the great depression.

The bank bailout inserted a huge amount of liquidity into the market, which absorbed much of the shock of reduced consumer spending. Combined with the auto bailout and Obama propping up state budgets, the economy was able to hold together.

Truthfully, I believe that the banks should have never been able to be too big to fail. Let it be said, however, that main street and wall street are intimately linked, and failure of one deeply imperils the other.
How Was Ancient Red Planet Warm Enough for Liquid Water?
Freedom.
Mount a volume on the host and make sure only one database container runs on that host. Done.

Then it's exactly like a traditional setup except better because if the process crashes or config gets corrupted it can be replaced automatically in a few seconds, good as new.

There's nothing brave about that.
While I long upgrade from Firefox, I imagine most don't change because people hate change. I remember back when I switched I noticed all the little tiny differences, and while there were different and in most cases better ways of doing that in Chrome, I was use to my current way and any change slowed my productivity down. In the long run, I knew Chrome would be a better solution when I finally dove two feet in. But for many they are happy with what they have and while Chrome would offer a superior experience, the change wouldn't be worth it for many. And the rest I imagine fall into the category of I hate company x, so don't want to use it and then end up sticking with company that they believe on the surface is more inline with their values.
If I can't get from the search engine to the source page, that's a degraded experience. If I can't copy-paste the url but there's some ridiculous browser-defined JS method for inserting whatever the site host says the link is into my clipboard, that's a degraded experience. And we'll see further degraded experiences as Google turns "We screwed up web linking!" from a despised practice into a first-class, browser-supported practice.
In what sense does it not work that way? And what do taxes have to do with it? I'm not talking about progressive tax rates, but about wider dispersion in incomes (which is what income inequality measures). If you have wider dispersion of incomes, generally you have more people making quite high salaries as well as more people making quite low salaries. I.e.: The 95th percentile American worker makes considerably more than the 95th percentile German worker, while the 5th percentile American worker makes considerably less than the 5th percentile German worker. And yes, the U.S. median is also higher, which is an additional effect, but not enough alone to explain the (larger) difference in tech salaries (they aren't identical income distribution curves just shifted by a +$X constant in the U.S.'s favor).
This article conveniently omits the "up and to the right" graph of increased Uber Drivers and Riders.

And the "down and to the right" graph depicting 500% growth falling to 100% is, well... judge for yourself.
Hi josinalvo, can you try the page again? As a student, the eBook should be pay what you want. You are the first person who reports the issue unfortunately. Sorry for the inconveniences.
Could you clarify a little? What do you mean you're interested? You're founding a business and need a technical co-founder? You're a dev founding a business and need a technical partner? You're a dev looking for work in that area?

Might be my English (not a native speaker) but your message isn't clear.
> A finger that lingers too long above a spin button may be a guard’s only clue that hackers in St. Petersburg are about to make another score.

Seems like this is easy for the scammers to work around. They could calculate the average time it takes for the scammer to lift his hand from his lap and press the button, and then use that time instead of .25 seconds. Would be less successful, but would seem to be almost impossible to detect.
This is the way that server's wages are supposed to work everywhere.

Yes, your new pizza gig, is supposed to make up the difference between $2.35 and $7.25 if you make no tips.
Lets no overpower the gossip and wait for the actual order. The media today runs on gossip instead of intelligent news
tl;dr: it took a little more than two decades to give us the incredible power of HTML5, CSS3 and modern JavaScript; it took countless hours for the W3C to define the standards, and years of browser wars to get this far with compliance. But Google wants us to abandon them in favor of its thing (because, you know, some websites actually suck). Now, fixed...
Ordinary people don't have much qualms about using a commercial service despite all the privacy warnings in the world: just look at the 1B+ users on Facebook.

That's changing, more people are keep their mouths shut more often on social media because they know their data is being scooped up.

I think it's a matter of educating more customers; they have no idea that it's even possible to host their own Google or Facebook in some instances.

Maybe it isn't a big market but the market does exist and it does require more customer education and awareness raising. It's a harder sell than enterprise sales.
Amazing, but also a bit scary. This will surely be used for retroactive identification from existing photographs, and will be a free gift for authoritarian law enforcement. Of course such extrapolative technologies are subject to challenge, but criminal juries have a tendency to accept forensic claims at face value notwithstanding their actual scientific reliability. It's partly because of this that if I ever found myself on trial for a crime I didn't commit I'd probably waive my right to a jury trial - laypeople are far too easily fooled.
Wish I could. The hours I've spent reading the formal committee proposals and specs would have been better spent on video games and junk food.

But there will be books, and good ones. Next year probably. The compilers aren't even ready yet.
> vast majority of users could switch to Chrome and get all the same extensions with almost identical functionality [4]

On desktop, maybe. On mobile, definitely not. Chrome for Android does not support extensions at all.

Firefox, on the other hand, does. If you want uBlock, Ghostery, whatever on your mobile browser, you don't have other choice than Firefox. And if you like your bookmarks synced between mobile and desktop, that makes Chrome on desktop no-go option too.
this week*
unless trump does something to this process ;)
just kidding. congrats!