skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Young people don't vote; they're busy working, and too cynical.

Retirees vote en masse. Thus the host of government programs taking money from the youth and unborn and giving it to the elderly.
Me being completely inept at appreciating borrowing. The compiler was brilliant. It said 'no' a lot, but was certainly helpful. I gave myself four hours to play with it one afternoon.

It wet my appetite enough to try it again in the future. I actually have an idea that needs a C++ wrapper. I'd like to try to use Rust instead of C++.
Have you tried nearlyfreespeech?
http://nearlyfreespeech.net
Yet another fact: altering the composition of calories, more protein and fewer carbs, seems to help overweight people eat less and/or burn more calories.
I kinda like hotel and taxi regulations. I feel they keep things safe, clean and above-board. Despite what Republicans would have you believe, regulations don't come about because some lawmakers got bored, they come about in answer to a problem. Don't tear down that fence before you understand why it was constructed...
> Why is getting the latest security updates giving a false sense of security exactly?

Because in quite a few distributions you don't get security updates reliably. For example Debian Stable excludes most WebKit-based libraries from their update policy.

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/c...

So users of browsers like Midori and Epiphany or E-Mail-Clients like Evolution on Debian Stable, currently end up using a WebKit library that hasn't been updated in more than a year.

The same issue applies to Ubuntu and most of its derivatives as well. E.g. Ubuntu 14.04 users get a WebKitGTK+ library which hasn't been updated in almost a year.

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/w/webkitgt...

Of course, the user doesn't get a warning dialog when he installs applications which rely on those outdated and insecure libraries.

Ubuntu users also shouldn't rely on packages from the Universe repository (which are by far the most packages), if they care about security. Those packages are community maintained and often don't get a single update in years. In the past they didn't even update Chromium reliably.
True Story: Moving Past Bind (iso C++ Std::bind)
The service can have a better insurance than the individual worker, etc. Ultimately it's up to the service to add enough value that you want to keep using it.

What if your favorite worker is busy? Either you have to find a replacement yourself (a failure), or the worker knows someone else who's available (and then the worker is basically running their own small time service).
I'm not sure we'll ever see a "normal" Republican or Democrat again win a presidential election. Trump has paved a path forward for modern campaigns to run off extreme rhetoric and FUD as a means to mobilize their voting base.
Sounds like he's using tweetboss
> First, there is no way to get a reference to a field inside a struct in Go

what?

https://play.golang.org/p/1OJ5U5ZwFJ

> if you could get such a reference the compiler would be forced to reference count the member via the GC to satisfy the Go memory model

no reference counting in go.
I've used locate ever since I used Linux, my first distro was Slackware downloaded to oh so many stiffies (the hard plastic successor to floppies) circa 1994, I certainly won't die in a ditch insisting it was in there but I would be very surprised if it wasn't.

I'll put in somewhere in the middle of my "mildly interesting to maybe know" research list.
To someone who is primarily working with database driven applications this looks really bad compared to what spring-data offers: https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-examples/blob/master/jdbc-e...

What is the appeal to you?
That was quite an interesting read. I am a bit concerned about the name-blind CVs, though: wouldn't that prevent "googling" the name before, or additional information gathering on the candidate?
I am not saying that this would necessarily be a bad thing (there are a number of problems to the current approach), but I would be curious to see how employers/interviewers would react.
Question to the crowd.

What if you are not staying more than 3 months in a country, per year?

Where are you tax resident?

Are you even legally resident somewhere?

Should you even pay taxes? Who is going to catch you?

Honest question. I'm not American, part time nomad, paying taxes but thinking about the uselessness of doing so quite often.
Isn't his algorithm pretty bluntly designed to do this?

So I did my own analysis: I calculated the travel time from every address to every other address in Helsinki around 7:30-8:00am (about 30 billion searches total!). Then I calculated the (weighted) average travel time to anywhere in the city, using amount of jobs in the target area as weight.

That would seemingly bias towards centrally-located addresses (travel time & number of jobs), and his heat maps seem to show this. I believe you could pretty easily duplicate what he's doing with a few dozen randomly sampled routes. Or is there more to it?
Good exercise. Thank you!

Also, there are alternatives. What do you think about them?
I feel we are not getting paid enough!

FYI if you think devs are overpaid, it's generally in SV (and even there, they make average considering the cost of living - a good idea is to look at the end of month savings instead of earnings).

With that said, we are getting paid a lot less than the value we add - seriously - the entire world around you works on software and if it were to stop for even an hour, we'd have a lot of issues - so with that in mind - we should be getting paid more.

Now i know you'll say a CRUD developer adds no value, but I could argue that neither do most lawyers or traders - but they get paid a lot more no?
The cost of renting a home is about the same as the interest on a mortgage _when you purchase_.

If you purchased around my house two years ago, your mortgage would be less than $800. But current rates have it at about $1,300. As a rental, you can start renting that at $1,300/month even though you bought in when market rate was $800.

Plus, there's a huge number of tax benefits to investment property ownership, far more than for owner-occupied [1]. If you're going to remove the tax advantages of owner-occupied, you should also reduce the benefits of investment properties. But then you'll likely see rent rates hike as a result and the bar will tip in favor of ownership again.

[1] http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/top-ten-tax-deduction...
I second this. In 3rd world countries, data usage is a very sensitive issue. It hurts that a person has to go through hoops of ad overlays and high res images (on a really small screen) just to get to the text that they are looking for. A person who is limited to 20MB of data has to consume their 1 MB of data in order to read 10KB of text. Facebook has realized this and is already providing free facebook access through local phone service providers.
Discover the world from another perspective
I was cleaning my house and my 500 and 2000 were just dust collectors in the basement and I got rid of them. :(
The Rockefeller Family Fund Takes on ExxonMobil
Possibly the Best Growth Hacking Video Ever – Read Text to See If It's for You
I have no connections with this guys but they have a great Digital Marketing Growth Hacks video here!

I'll copy below what it's all about and at the end you'll find a link to their video.

Hope you get as much value from this as I did. Peace :D

"how you can leverage online tools and social media platforms to grow your business and build awareness.
During our session, we had some unbelievable contributions from audience members so here is a recap of the event.
WE went on to discuss a facebook tool and Google Chrome Extension called Intelligence Search, which allows you to search facebook in a very effective way. This tool can help you identify your target audience and then you can easily use facebook to engage these people and have them join your groups or fan pages.
It wasn't long before we got into Instagram hacks and several tools that you can leverage to grow your Instagram account.
We even talked about tools that help you identify people on your website and record their actions. Be careful with this one!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGDLAghS9q8
Its tragic when every niche web facility gets axed because it isn't mainstream enough. This is what gives us watered-down media and bland food. Aim for the middle is ok, you gotta survive in the market - but to actively axe the ends of the bell-curve is irresponsible. Even though only a percent of the visitors used the boards, isn't that still hundreds of thousands of people? Aren't they a special demographic? How do they know its nobody they want to support?
You find such people in software development circles? I haven't met a single one so far.

Sure, there are plenty of people who are unaccomplished otherwise so they treat raising a child (something the majority of the population succeeds in doing) as the pinnacle of human achievement. But I have never worked with someone like that. In my experience these people usually don't work at all...
I translated that to "the family of Linux Distro that aim to provide a desktop experience out of the box, e.g. ubuntu, mint, elementaryOS, pclinuxos, centos, zorin, manjaro, slackware, ...

Probably this list: http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Desktop
Just would like to point out that I'm working on this with the company I started: https://terra.farm.
I can see the desire for a country to control who works for companies in the country, as that takes money out of their economy. But if someone is living there and bringing in money from off shore, and spending it there, that seems like it should be encouraged as there is no local resource drain, and a local economic benefit. Anyone know why this is frowned upon?
Physical space for lounging, socializing, and working. I live in NYC and there's still a striking lack of space that facilitates people getting out of their apartments and doing "whatever." Starbucks popularized the concept of the "third space" (the first two being housing + workplace) and I think there's so much room to improve upon this.
AWS is 90% of the way there already
Architects and the like already work with a really great tree editor called Grasshopper. Easy to see cross sections through your tree as you are arranging components and relationships L->R or T->B, so there is potential to have very clear hierarchies depending on the style of the user.

Also, I've been impressed with a lot of the invention that has happened around Grasshopper's UX + UI. I've been really surprised to see the design community emerge with the best graph programming editor, as opposed to something much more developer focused.

It is of course not general purpose because you have to have Rhino to use it, but it can be used for general purpose programming since you can create custom components with .NET, ignoring most of the pre-built ones that are focused on parameterized geometry.
Using the eBPF virtual machine in go
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I do not do this and am not an expert by any means, but I would look into establishing residency in whichever non income tax state is easiest to do so. Then you just have to worry about federal taxes.
I recently learned on Duck Go Bang: http://duckgobang.com/ that with the !oldapps bang you can find all sorts of old and archived software.

For example: !oldapps windows 7 winamp
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Don't know of any (could you name them?), so I don't have any opinion.
Front end widgets can steal your data
Yeah, the headline isn't supported by the article.

Another way of looking at these numbers is that the unsustainable explosive growth the "gig economy" saw early on was just that, unsustainable and explosive initial growth. The "mere" ~100% YoY growth for labor platforms is still incredible, and time will tell if that continues to drop.

The article avoids talking about what the "gig economy" would need to sustain itself, but it's entirely possible it doesn't need to grow nearly this fast to still be completely viable.
Gapless playback was on by default when I had the app, after an update that happened sometime last summer or fall.
And the number for employment based immigration visas is 140,000.
I must admit i have no clue what the author is actually asking for.

If he is asking for away to organize various bits of text etc, is that not basically a directory tree stuffed with files?
It's not "sneaking in," Pai has been explicitly against net neutrality and consumer protections for his entire tenure. This was one of the things Americans decided last November: a free and open Internet is bad thing, and access to it should be controlled by the big multimedia companies.

Turns out, you get what you vote for.
Not sure about other distros but opensuse comes with a pretty strict firewall out of the box. My logic says that this is probably common practice for many general-use distros.
Speaking as a kid-raiser (past now; they're 30 and successful) I have this observation: folks who never buckle down to something as demanding as raising kids seem, well, immature to the rest of us. Still kids themselves. Still complaining over their ruined weekend because they had a flat tire on the way to the movie on Friday night. Still upset that a late Amazon package may impact their fishing trip on Saturday. Their responses to life at an entire different setpoint, much lower and amplified.

Its like soldiers - the rest of life isn't as vivid for them, as emotionally gripping as being responsible for a life yada yada. Dis it all you like; the effect is still there.
20x has to be pretty rare, right?
why are you so obsessed with "being productive"?
The Secure Flight program isn't a secret, and already shows that every flight that originates, terminates, or flies over the US has its data sent to the US Government.

This is a bit short of what's being shown in the article, as it doesn't send the whole PNR. However, it does make it clear that data connections exist, and already share flight and passenger data...the bulk of what's interesting in the PNR.

See this doc[1] for examples of what is sent.

[1]https://www.trams.com/home/support/notice/tsa_secure_flight_...

Edit: Worth noting that if you already have the PNR record locator, and the information already sent via SecureFlight, it's fairly easy to get the rest of the PNR data.
I have vivid memories of what 2003 was like for me, a computer science grad who entered the workforce just as management's solution to control a new, major cost center (IT) was taking hold. Many of the DevOps functions that you celebrate today were considered commoditized and consequently eligible for offshore tech consultancy. I watched middle-aged, highly skilled professionals train their low-cost, unskilled replacements after being explicitly told by HR/management that their severance packages required their complete cooperation during their "employment transition".

This was at Merrill Lynch during its heyday.
What is a reasonable price to pay for this kind of service, including the coffee if the place requires you to consume it?
The tech gains are mostly in areas which don't benefit consumers beyond fancier phones and bigger TV screens. Where it counts such as lower cost of living, better healthcare, and the like it's hasn't materialized for those in the lower economic segments. They're still coasting by on the Great Society programs despite their repeated gutting. If the current POTUS can't replace it with livable wages and jobs I suspect we'll see something akin to a Jacobin uprising (blood, heads, and all).
> Why didn't she campaign in the Rust Belt states but went to California instead. It is really baffling...

Because, ironically, her campaign was convinced she had the election in the bag, and they didn't want to risk her losing the popular vote while winning the electoral college, because that could undermine her perceived "mandate".
I've been reading up about this - why do companies setup provincial corps when they could be setting up federal corps (as in, it costs $100 more and there seem to be no downsides last I checked)?

Also, how do you manage taxes? (especially for revenue earned from other countries for example).
Related: physical space that welcomes the elderly. Loneliness/depression is a huge problem for older people. I think it would really boost wellbeing for these people to participate in something and to see other faces.
The job of the gatekeepers we've been so eager to dismantle was to keep prices, and to some extent wages, up. We should not be surprised to find that in more open markets, prices, and to a more extreme extent wages, are dropping.
Just in case anyone missed it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2016/December/...
This feels kind of important, I'm feeling less and less comfortable trusting large companies from the USA.
The H-1B program is terrible for all employees and only benefits employers

This is patently untrue when it comes to companies like Google or Microsoft.

I came to the US on an H1-B. As I'm sure you can imagine, people talk about their salaries. I compared mine to my colleagues who were US citizens. We were all paid about the same.

I'm pretty sure these companies would get busted if managers were informed by HR that "this person is going to get a smaller raise since they are on an H1-B".
The last time I worked on complex XML I even used XML Marker with WINE... it works there. If you want the Mercedes of XML editors you should take a look at Oxygen XML editor (this is not free but runs on more platforms than Windows).
Don't do this. You will fail. Restaurant managers don't have enough time to get involved in this, many restaurants are in competition with each other, and the existing relationships they have with distributors are very strong. Also, read Peter Thiel's book "Zero to One" -- don't enter highly competitive markets that have low margins.
7 Security Hygiene Essentials for Software Professionals
Sugar is not the enemy, sugars are just a highly efficient mechanism for providing easily assimilated biochemical energy.

The problem is over-consumption of refined sugars. This is a problem because the results of sugar metabolism (particularly fructose) are highly reactive (which is why they are so easy to metabolize), and can mess up your biochemistry by reacting with proteins and other macromolecules. The phytochemicals in plant sugar sources seem to reduce the biochemical side reactions of sugar metabolism which is probably why the plants synthesize many of them in the first place.

Refined sugars tend to spike the concentration of sugar in your body, leading to more possibility for reactions. Secondly, without the phytochemical stabilizers, the incidence of side-reactions is greater.

The body is a complex system, we need to stop trying to analyze it as if it were linear and reducible.
Only India have China have significant employment based immigrant queues. Some of the other countries you mentioned are severely backlogged in the family based categories.
But those very games and demos (the latter in particular) is what is being lamented in the quote.
Amiga shipped with planar graphic modes, this card supplies chunky modes. Planar was great for ~10MHz CPU when moving 1-2 color images on the screen, but totally failed when technology moved on to 8-16bit color depth.

You could even argue Doom killed Amiga as a gaming machine.
Weave Net Release v1.9.0
The Turing Machine: let’s rethink how software works
Here's how I did this in .Net: http://patient0.github.io/FirstClassLisp/

As other's have mentioned, TCO and first class continuations tend to go together
New web browser that is legacy tech compatible (i.e. HTML, JS, CSS) but also natively supports new options for scripting and styling. I feel like JS/CSS in particular are just not what we should settle for. We've grown accustom to working with them but I think there is a lot of possibility for better front-end technology in the future.
Everyone plants seeds What will you grow?
New Study Supports Theory of Holographic Universe: Do We Live in a Simulation?
The Machine That Changed The World

Good Prose

Titan
The minimum salary is based on the Labor Department's "prevailing wage" which is informed by a survey of current salaries. It's based on a given role and geographic location.

Yes, you may find some prevailing wages are lower than what Google pays, but that shouldn't be surprising since high paying tech jobs don't represent the average wage.
And when Microsoft do cut QA short people complain that Microsoft doesn't care about quality/is using retail as a beta test. It is really a no-win situation to be honest.
Ask HN: Why don't saas companies incorporate in countries with no corp. tax?
For small/one person internet based business which do not plan to take vc money it looks like a no brainer to incorporate a company where no corp. taxes are levied. What is the reason people prefer US for incorporation?
Does it support a web-interface? It's not clear from the website.
> Essentially you want to have your citizenship somewhere where your foreign income is not taxed. Have a legal residence somewhere with low tax/tax haven. Earn your money/host your business somewhere with low corporate rates, have your assets somewhere where they aren't taxed massively and spend your money somewhere with low levels of consumption tax/VAT.

How to be a societal leech and contribute the absolute least you can 101. Sickening.
Interesting that no-one here mentions fake news.
> or the people have to be lucky to get a scholarship

Scholarships (and financial aid) aren't based on luck. They are based on two things: merit and demonstrated need. (The relative weighting of the two varies by school).

It's hard to argue that financial assistance should ignore individual merit or actual financial need, especially since admissions already have a natural cap (not everyone can go to the top school) and that sorting function is largely based on merit.
I recently learned about Jetro which is essentially a Costco for small restaurants and a massive business in this space.
> IMO the researcher didn't want that particular vulnerability to dwell on somebody's todo list for several years.

Except the researcher themselves knew it was one more week, and not "several years." You cannot claim they were ignorant if their own statements shows that they were not.
Hmmm... the only countries that have a major backlog in employment-based green cards are China and India.

Philippines has a backlog for family-based green cards.
Funny you should say that:

https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp