skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People already listed some of the perks, but: in general you choose a card based on things you already are doing (flights, hotels, etc.) so that the perks of the card are worth as much or usually more than the annual fee you pay to keep the card.

For people who travel a lot, for example, an annual travel credit + Global Entry fee covered + lounge access + redeemable points from spending on the card provides much, much more than $450 in value. Back when I flew more than I do now, several of the available cards had returns for me well above the cost of their annual fees.
Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Business Insider etc are all heavily invested in clickbait, if you're interested in the production side of fake news.
I'm surprised the elected officials are so involved in deciding what desktop software is in use. I'm not sure whether to be impressed that they are this deep into details, or skeptical that politicians rather than professionals are making these decisions. Both I guess. I just can't imagine the council in any US jurisdiction meddling in what desktop OS is chosen throughout the jurisdiction.
Original title: "The Outdoor Industry Loves Utah; Does Utah Love the Outdoor Industry?"
Thanks but that's the page I was talking about. I can only choose to re-enable email notifications that I've turned off there. I can't disable notifications from that page, I have to wait to get an email that I don't want to unsubscribe from that type of notification. I can see why they'd do it, but it's still really sleazy.
A once every 90 minutes bus is complete garbage. Almost every city (including small ones) in the US has that.

If that's your bar for good public transportation, then the US has amazing public transportation.
> it seemed like Microsoft, the IBM PC, and Apple have kept us back 10 or 20 years with their dominance.

I used to think so, too. However, the Amiga might've just been a fluke. The very architecture that made it unique and so far ahead of its time also was its limitation in terms of technology. There wasn't really a way forward beyond the AAA chipset, which never even made it into production. Hombre, the proposed next generation of the Amiga, was supposed to be very different from and mostly incompatible with previous Amiga computers.

The software had serious limitations from today's point of view, too. There was no memory protection and no multi-user capability. Adapting Amiga OS accordingly would have taken serious effort, perhaps to the point it wouldn't have been recognisable anymore.

So maybe, while a truly awesome machine the Amiga sadly enough was just an outlier of computing technology that was the right thing at the right time but wasn't viable in the long run.
Just as I thought this is over, Oracle just threw another curveball. I feel this will be upheld but never know with these courts.
I have been doing VLSI design as a student and quantum mechanics, quirks speaks to me. It feels like having real time chronogram with a board on which you plug your gates except that it is not on 1/0 bit but on amplitude and phase in parallel.

It really looks like an fun thing. I cannot see how to make from my old knowledge anything interesting though :)

I was at best thinking of using something sensitive to the initial condition and unstable to generate a PRNG, but is it possible?
Bad link, goes right to some Android virus or scareware page.
Noted below, but I'd also highly recommend Redis for clean code.
Hi lost traveler fellow! I am living in Croatia, Rijeka. It is a nice climate here, and much cheeper then where you live, with an abundance of beautifull women.
Croatias internet bussines is not yet fully developed like in the US-a. There are plenty of opporunities for start-ups and making it big (in termes of a 4 milion population of Croatia, plus 3 BiH, 7 Serbia).
I got a small flat here. My brother has a small web dev firm of 4-5 people. We need people like you.
We would love you to stay at our home and together we could make something relevant. At least in Croatia.
It is much easier to get know and noticed over here. Somebody with your capabilities can make it eazy.
Contact me if interested: uberklipan@g.com
I'd suggest the FT as among the highest quality papers. Or a good monthly.

One axis of quality measures here, using the Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
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Is LaTeX actually impressive to the average business client (i.e. someone without technical knowledge)?
I completely agree and would add that your name, telephone number and email address should be a large enough font that people don't have to take out their reading glasses or squint to read it.
My understanding is that he's getting the normal-for-the-sciences stipend, but is able to do it while not also eating rice and beans. So he's supplementing his nominal pay with his (really very significant indeed) savings.

In non-science PhD programs, sometimes you literally self-fund because those programs have no financial support for their students. This is a problem, since it effectively means that there's a huge selection bias for rich people to be the educated arbiters of, e.g., english literature.
If they really want to distance themselves from slavery, I'd recommend "Douglass University". It's much more mellifluous than "Yale", anyway.
Personally, I find Nielsen and Chuang (Mike and Ike as it's affectionately referred to in the field) to be a good reference, but not great for learning the topic the first time. It's also expensive. I think that Rieffel and Polak [0] is a little easier to follow, and surprisingly thorough for an introductory book. Note, there is no reason to buy a book though, as John Preskill has his notes online [1], which I often see cited in published manuscripts.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-Introduction-Engine... (Here is a much shorter document by the same authors written explicitly for non experts: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9809016)

[1] http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/ph219/
> Then it's a good thing a UBI isn't built on that, since its purpose is to provide a safety net without creating the poverty trap that existing means-tested programs do by withdrawing benefits at rates approaching or sometimes even exceeding 100% of marginal income for low and middle income people.

You're responding to an entire subthread revolving around the idea that the great benefit of UBI is that it allows adults (except foreign ones) to "find their own amusements and purpose" and avoid "bullshit jobs" and the social acceptability of it as a permanent and exclusive income source...

There are many ways of designing welfare systems to avoid the "welfare trap" of excessive effective marginal rates of income taxation, of which UBI is probably the least efficient.

The only argument which favours UBI over more modest alternate welfare reforms more specifically targeted at reducing benefit withdrawal rates at the margin is the frequently-made philosophical argument that it's fundamentally unreasonable if not immoral to make handouts contingent on willingness to work and pressure them to take jobs. I'm simply pointing out that few, if any of the people making that argument are opposed to subjecting foreigners to similar indignities if they seek to enter the country, and moreover the sustainability of a UBI is entirely dependent on people not lucky enough to be citizens needing to work for a living for the foreseeable future.

Needless to say, advocates of systems of social assistance not built on the principle that it's entirely unreasonable to ask people to work and/or assess their fitness to do so are not guilty of the same level of staggering hypocrisy when accepting the status quo of work requirements and thresholds imposed on foreigners seeking to enter a country.
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They suggest that virtual desktops make the client OS irrelevant. My employer (US government agency) went to completely virtual desktops and I was surprised they stuck with Windows 7 for the client laptops. Seemed a perfect place to put Red Hat or some other Linux. I wondered if Windows is priced so there is no advantage to using anything else, or if even dumb clients still need enough management that they would rather use a familiar OS.
> comes to visit ... gets a parking ticket

Many neighborhoods that enforce parking permits have a card you can give your guests. Alternately, there may be paid parking nearby.

> business shouldn't be able to destroy a residential neighborhood like that.

Indeed, but I'd rather our laws and enforcement target the harm (non-residents taking your parking spot) and allow the nearby business to decide whether to offer parking or not. I've lived in and visited many large cities. All my favorite neighborhoods have solved this problem and for the most part the businesses chose to have very little parking, if any.
I use TeX. LaTeX also works, but the books are longer and less well written than Knuth's original TeXBook! :-)!

I love TeX -- it's one of my favorite and most important tools.

I have a Ph.D. in applied math, and IMHO TeX (or LaTeX) is just essential, call that more than ESSENTIAL for my work.

E.g., now I'm a "solo founder" of a startup, a Web site. The crucial core of the work is some original applied math I derived. So, yup, i typed it into TeX. So, as I wrote the corresponding software, I referred back to the TeX output of my core math -- worked great!

Without the math, the software would be impossible; one would just look at the screen and wonder what the heck to type. With the math, the software was just routine, essentially just trivial.

For typing material with a lot of math, I see no reasonable alternative to TeX or LaTeX.

I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation with word processing (thankfully!) but without TeX. What a pain. I could have included more math in the dissertation if I'd had TeX to do the word whacking. More generally, at one point in my career, I could easily have written and published a lot of original and tutorial applied math but didn't because of the difficulty of the math word whacking before TeX.

The last paper I published, some a bit wild mathematical statistics, was a good test for TeX -- some of my mathematical expressions in subscripts were a bit much, but TeX worked flawlessly!

If anyone is typing a lot of mathematical material and objects to TeX, then just encourage them to do the typing without TeX and see if they like that world better!

Computing is changing the world in major ways, some just astounding and/or astoundingly good; math is helping, a lot now and will more in the future; and TeX is just crucial for getting the math word whacking done. But Knuth knew that and did a great job.

So far, for the near and distant future of computing, TeX is one of the stronger pillars of civilization.
Microsoft Office is better, for not very much more $ per desktop.
When the virtue signaling is cheap they're all over it. Giving up a recognized valuable brand like Yale? Way too expensive.
I have been to Europe, many times. Any houses actually near good public transportation (good = frequent and wide reaching enough to not need a car), are either small or very expensive.

>Almost everywhere in Europe has really good transport

No, it doesn't. If your bar for good public transportation is a bus route and a drive to a nearby train station, then the US has good public transportation as well because every city has buses.

Good transportation is within the cities like Paris, Vienna, Rome, London. Trains run at least every 10 minutes and can get you nearly anywhere in the city within a half hour. It has to be good enough that it's actually faster and more convenient than driving. All of the houses on these train stops are very expensive or very small (or both if you're in London).
As I posted on last week's original submissions of this story:

This is bogus. The new, higher readings are from areas never measured before[0]; levels are falling consistently.

[0] http://blog.safecast.org/2017/02/no-radiation-levels-at-fuku...
A famous quote from this article:

The Remote Agent software, running on a custom port of Harlequin Common Lisp, flew aboard Deep Space 1 (DS1), the first mission of NASA's New Millennium program. Remote Agent controlled DS1 for two days in May of 1999. During that time we were able to debug and fix a race condition that had not shown up during ground testing. (Debugging a program running on a $100M piece of hardware that is 100 million miles away is an interesting experience. Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem. The story of the Remote Agent bug is an interesting one in and of itself.)
Huh! So, there were multiple rounds of lawsuits, and I will admit I missed this (very important) detail of the part that Microsoft actually lost. I think it is still important to note, however, that the main reason any of these companies actually ended up in contracts with Sun was due to Sun's claims to ownership over the language standard itself, and there is some really great phrasing about Sun's feelings on this in this contemporary article from the Wall Street Journal. But again: you are absolutely right about what is different, and I am sorry for not noticing this before :(.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876241941809073500
Wish that was the case, but it was a poor southern country and he didn't show up to court so they dropped the charges :(
Well, that had significantly less information than I was hoping for.
Good point. I hadn't considered the importance, not just in recognizing your part of the problem (humility), but accepting that it is you who can and should fix the problem (confidence, determination).
Probably the sexist nonsense about pink appealing to girls and scaring off "the boys"?
I do think in that case that fake is not the right adjective to use. Every definition of fake implies intent to deceive. If you're trying to encompass the meanings you describe above, fake doesn't appear to cover it.
Advertising-free journalism has a far higher price. Always has. Independence isn't cheap.

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/1...
I remember michaelochurch.
"these days"? When was there a time that the unskilled and uneducated masses were treated better?
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Don't be surprised if Microsoft made the windows licenses free or nearly so so that they could sell them office 365 licenses.
I usually put a vcard on them rather than a link (especially on business cards) then you don't have type things into your phone.
With the Guardian I think more about the individual writer rather than paper as a whole, as it is run rather differently from most news outlets [0].

And of course a journo is going to try and use current events to shoehorn in a half written story they have had for a while. A bit like how almost every piece of software now has a cloud version.

But the Guardian is critical to the landscape of UK news. It is one of very few newspapers not controlled by a press baron like Murdoch or the 'Weird Twins'. The UK press as a whole is much much more right wing (notably on immigration and the EU) than properly fits the UK IMHO and the Guardian is an important antidote. As well as Snowden, it also broke the important 'phone hacking' scandal, where some tabloids were getting their stories with very questionable ethics. It was also the only newspaper to cover the 'Snoopers Charter' legislation, that allows random parts of the UK government to look at users browsing history (and share it with the US gov).

It shows up so much on HN for its other important trait, no paywall.

[0] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian
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All of these things are fair though.

* Paypal charges the merchant more (in terms of fees in some cases, holding funds, and time wasted dealing with PayPal's nonsense), so why wouldn't they inform customers of this? If you have a loyal user base they would want more of the money to go to the merchant with less friction, not PayPal.

* Paypal is slower/riskier/less customized, etc. Have you done a checkout on PayPal recently where you didn't have a PayPal account? It sucks.

* Disallowing certain items is absolutely necessary. PayPal can (for no reason at all) allow customers to hose the merchant, and often it can be much more annoying to get a refund even when the merchant seems to want to provide one.

So yeah, when the service offered is equal, maybe we can discuss equal treatment, but until then people should be recommending their customer's don't use PayPal if they don't have to. The alternatives are lower cost, easier to use, more customer/merchant friendly, and generally more enjoyable to use.

I've gone my entire life without creating a PayPal account (even when I have to use it as part of the checkout process) and I see no reason to change that now or ever.
Times New Roman often means that you created the document with an old version of Microsoft Word (before Calibri became the default) and never bothered to customize anything.
> Chicken and egg.

Luckily, there are some developers with deep enough pockets that they can plan an entire district. It's been wonderful for revitalizing many blighted neighborhoods.
For prototypes I'm either using Node + Express or Flask, depending on what I feel like that day or what database I need. I don't really like using MySQL with Node, I think it's easier with Python so if I need SQL, I'm in Python/Flask.
I had a few paragraphs written out but I decided not to post so much information. I am in Ireland right now. I found some old HN threads and found http://omscs.gatech.edu/. I am researching into that at the moment.

I am big into self improvement now and I am constantly learning. My thoughts are if I am learning, why not earn that piece of paper while doing it?

I think I am most interested in the following areas: text analysis, data retrieval and analysis, AI and machine learning, analytics, and security.
Though, congregationalists are one of the most pro LGTB churches and have been for a long time
Wasn't talking specifically about tech workers. I was talking about academically gifted "smart" people I've known in various walks of life who are, generally speaking, not happy.

If their lives aren't a mess, they're not the ones I'm talking about.
The average home price in 1950 was ~8,450$ or $84,151 today. Suggesting even 200k as a reasonable median seems excessive.

PS: Medain income was $4,237 in 1950 which works out to $42,195 today. So, it's not like the average american is all that much better off.
Anything that doesn't end up destroying his health and life. I reject the notion that cruise ship work is the only job available to him.
Thank you so much :) It's like old Facebook... and quite the reminder of how quickly our world changes.
this "news" keeps being reposted every few years, and it hasn't been correct yet.
UAV Drone Market Size to Reach $6B in 2017
Disabling Verified Boot and not having Google Play Services would dramatically reduce the security posture of an Android device.

Disclaimer: I work at Google.
I'm just going to take a moment here to vent about the nuisance it has become for me to deal with smartphone app notifications.

It isn't just facebook, although facebook is probably the worst. I live in a city and I pretty much need a smartphone to do anything, but it has become so annoying dealing with the myriad of notifications and advertisements from random apps, and trying to find settings to disable everything.

90% of the time when my phone buzzes it's because sprig is telling me I need to eat dinner. Messenger is telling me it's someone's birthday. Yelp is trying to tell me there's popular a new spot nearby. Hell, even youtube was sending me recommended videos and touching the notification caused this random video to immediately play, using mobile data.

It is getting out of hand. You have to figure out how to disable this stuff in each app independently, sometimes digging through confusing options menus looking for buried settings. Sometimes I haven't even found a way.

This has taught me to usually ignore my phone, but it's especially annoying if I'm waiting for an important e-mail or text. My smartphone has just become an advertisement line sending bullshit that I don't care about, that I have to wade through to get to important stuff.

Am I the only one? Is there a solution to this?
Facebook Presto, a MPP SQL Engine written in Java.

https://github.com/prestodb/presto

I have learned a lot from reading the source code and watching it develop. It is written in modern Java 8. The authors are obviously experts of the language, JVM and ecosystem. Since it is an MPP SQL engine performance is very important. The authors have been able to strike a good balance between performance and clean abstractions. I have also learned a lot about how to evolve a product. Large features are added iteratively. In my own code I often found myself going from Feature 1.0 -> Feature 2.0. Following Presto PRs, I have seen how for large features they go from Feature 1.0 -> Feature 1.1 -> Feature 1.2 -> ... Feature 2.0 very quickly. This is much more difficult than it sounds. How can I implement 10% of a feature, still have it provide benefits and still be able to ship it? I have seen how this technique allows for code to make it into production quickly where it is validated and hardened. In some ways it reminds me of this: https://storify.com/jrauser/on-the-big-rewrite-and-bezos-as-.... You shouldn't be asking for a rewrite. Know where you want to go and carefully plan small steps from here to there.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that before. I still value a lot of the work they did last year, but it's a great reminder to keep a critical eye on what I consume. Now, please don't tell me the WSJ and FT are guilty of the same offenses? I'm not sure I can handle that much disappointment in one day.
> identity politics

I don't know what you mean by that.

> cannot frame disparity in mass as "taking away rights"

I'm guessing you're referring to the difference in the mass of an automobile and a person. Right-of-way laws are only one of the policies that I'm referring to, but that in particular was/is in fact taking away rights. Pedestrians had the right to cross the street at any place or time until automobile manufacturers ran marketing campaigns (such as inventing the term "Jay walking") and lobbied to change laws.

Of course there should be some compromise, to promote safety and convenience, but perhaps we erred too much on the side of the automobile.
Yes, it's possible to use this from with a smartphone. The README did say something specific, like, how to do it. In the app go to Settings -> Linked Devices -> add a new one. Decode the URL in the QR code, then add it to signal-cli like this:

signal-cli -u USERNAME addDevice --uri "tsdevice:/…"

As outlined in the README under the "Linking other devices" section
>but the difference is that here dang or somebody will show up to calm down incivility and point to the guidelines

Commonly, guidelines will be referenced, but the guidelines are very numerous and sometimes there are 'unspoken' rules backed up with 'a decision had to be made'. For example, blocking an article from being editing, and then marking for deletion, so you can't add content to it. Badmins will argue 'its not in the guidelines', so obviously they can do what they deem right.

We really need better wiki software so people can make their own.
Self-destructing phones are now a reality