skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be interested in hearing more about similar experiences too!
"Well perhaps they should consider what literally anybody would have considered long before some HN rando suggested it."

It's not the jobs that make people not want to work there. It's everything around the jobs. Money has diminishing marginal value. For many, many people, not living in a heavily drugged-up rural area where nobody else has any prospects is going to outweigh any wage increases that aren't going to drown the company. People aren't spherical cows.

The company exists there because it's the closest thing to the Third World that exists in America, with the commensurate low worker compensation and the weak worker rights that that implies. Because it probably couldn't exist anywhere else.

(Whether that company's continued existence is valuable to the society that grants it its imprimatur is a different question entirely, and one where reasonable people can differ.)
I've been transitioning from male to female, starting 4 years ago. It was shocking to me when I started making friends with girls and listening to their stories. At first I didn't empathize and presented arguments such as, "they had best intentions" or "it was just a misunderstanding". After having friends and my mind/body being transformed by estrogen I began to understand and empathize with my female friends; I began to see similarities in the stories they told me and how others interacted with me. My point being that its quite surprising how different experience can be and how important it is to listen to how others experience the world.

Everyone experiences the world differently and it's important to take the time to understand how different or similar their experiences are.
Hi Neville :P
Jew here. I wouldn't be offended. I'd thank the person, then find someone who could use it.

And if the person knew I kept kosher but still offered the bacon, I would laugh it off and then donate it.

Being easily-offendable is not a virtue. Being gracious is.
What Can Coders Contribute to Curing Cancer?
"Raise interrupt priority" is not a way to synchronize threads, let alone the simplest. I know what I'm talking about; I worked on multithreading for Linux before the rewrite to NPTL and I invented the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ADAPTIVE_NP type that you still find in Glibc. On a project several years ago, I did use interrupt priority in conjunction with threads as a complete hack. The issue was this: the interrupt service routines for an IDE-based compact flash were running CPU intensive polling loops, taking away app CPU time. I created a priority scheme where certain interrupt priority levels overlapped with thread priority levels. That is, it was possible to suppress the interrupts for this IDE device while certain important threads were dispatched. As in, automatically: when the kernel dispatched a thread in that priority range, interrupts below that value would be blocked (not by disabling CPU interrupts, but the actual interrupt controller's detailed mask of interrupts, where we pick the specific ones that get masked). When the thread lost the CPU, they would be unblocked. This solution/workaround worked well enough to deal with the issue it was intended for.
Nonsense, tipping happens all the time in Germany.
Google has lately stressed the importance of communication apps doing only one single thing (Allo, Duo, and Messenger for SMS).

But Google's competitors seem to be going in the opposite direction. Facebook messenger does SMS as well since a while back.
Where do you think the better wages come from?
Perhaps ironically, this would be against their API terms.

> You cannot use "insta", "gram" or "Instagram" in your company or product name.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/developer/
And then the calculus changes and it's overall cheaper for people to buy from overseas factories. There's nothing inherently wrong with that either, but it doesn't solve the "we need jobs" problem that politicians claim to be trying to solve.
> I told them I was also interviewing at other companies, to see what was available. They told me this was not "the people they where looking for". And it wouldn't be "OK" to say something like that in America.

In case you're not aware, it's totally normal to say that in America, particularly if you're a recent graduate. Your recruiter will need to know if you're expecting another offer or something like that, as competing offers can affect your schedule and compensation.
Governments would pay for this via taxes. At least that's one way. So in the end all of us would be paying for internet, and I guess if there were a way to get internet at 1gig up/1 gig down with no data caps that was very reliable for under 100 bucks a month I would do it. But the build-out costs a lot as you've stated so the capital would have to come from somewhere and perhaps that'd come from infrastructure spending.
Most Patagonia products. The last 5-6 years they've greatly increased their range of offerings with no noticeable diminution of quality (from my perspective).
How do you know they can afford to do either? Many businesses are barely scraping by. I think many folks used to startups flush with VC cash are very disconnected from this reality.
I've been occasionally fasting, sometimes for several weeks. I do long fasts about once every 2 years.

1. I drink only water during the fast. Don't even use toothpaste for brushing teeth (use baking soda).

2. I usually go about 10 to 12 days. The longest I have fasted is 27 days. It really is not that diffucult physically, once you have the mental aspect sorted out.

3. I'm almost 28 now, started fasting when I was 23, I think.

4. I do a little light exercise to loosen my joints and some Yoga. During a long fast, I find I have enough energy to run 10 miles on some days, but on most days, although I feel alert, can't do intense exercise. Anyways, it is better during this time to let the body use its resources for detox.

5. My BMI fluctuates between 24 and 26, so I could be borderline overweight, but only for a few months at a time, usually during the holidays.

6. When I fasted the first time, I wanted a quick way to lose weight. But really, there's other ways to lose weight than water fasting. I find that I easily lost 1.5lbs per week with calorie restriction and upping proportion of protein in my diet. ( I usually keep it between 1500 to 1700 cals, I'm 5'5").

I tend to feel very good after a fast. The real challenge is you are doing if for weight loss is developing discipline after the water fast. If you really are going to fast, I would advise you to avoid the exercises you mentioned. You will lose strength, but will be able to quickly get back to your previous body weight and strength within a few weeks after the fast.
Hope that helped.
> Fast about once a week for 24 hours (supper to supper).

One question: does that mean you take the supper before fasting, or the one after fasting, or none, or both?
How two Romanian developers turned their side project to a $17k/m business
>just a theory

I think the way you're using the word "theory" here dilutes its technical meaning. More accurate to call it speculation or philosophizing.
Scientists SMASH five of the biggest mysteries of modern physics
Quote from that speech: "And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security--and we [the Kennedy administration] intend to do it"

It's amazing how prescient he is of the mounting conflict between full transparency and full privacy and the battle over who should conform to one or the other.

I've also been reminded of Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex: "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
> People aren't spherical cows.

And more importantly, people aren't in a vacuum.
> The reboot cycles the power

Er, does it? Some of the components might go offline, but there's usually still a trickle-charge running to the components even when the computer is "off"—and especially the ethernet card, for Wake-on-LAN support (even if it's disabled.)
Is this a change in the usage of the term “coding”?
Originally as a comment elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask more generally ...

I've been involved with the internet, and its predecessor, for a long time. Before the web existed, "coding" meant writing computer programs.

When the web was invented, and for some considerable time after, writing HTML was not called "coding". It was called "writing HTML". This, of course, preceded the time when pages contained PHP or Javascript.

Now pages do contain programs, or fragments of programs, intended to be executed at serve-time or render-time, and writing those parts of the page are clearly "coding" in the original sense.

Now I'm starting to see people referring to writing plain HTML+CSS as "coding" as a matter of course, even if it has no PHP, Javascript, or similar, and it feels, thereby, that usage has changed. Just as "hacker" used to mean something different and now is used by people at large to mean "breaking into or otherwise doing nefarious things to computers and computer systems", is this a usage that has changed?

Does "everyone" now think of writing HTML+CSS as "coding"?

Please note that I have no skin in the game, and to some extent I don't really care, I just want to know what the current general feeling and usage is.

Thanks.
I'm afraid that you might need to validate this idea before jumping in and spending a lot of time and money on it.

The problem is people who fall for and spread fake news don't want to be told it's fake news, they just want to have their world views validated.
Well, they have a paid tier. I feel like there's room for a little optimism when superusers are funding the existence of free plans.
is 'the American critters' better?
Personally, I think the big appeal of trivia nights is very much the same reason for the resurgence of board games, it's an in person social thing to do. I can go out with some friends, have fun, and I have met some other people and made new friends that way too.

I have tried to do a lot of the online video games (even with friends), but to me, it doesn't have nearly the appeal of having friends over and we all play a game together For me, the Nintendo 64 was one of the best consoles to do this.
It took me a second to connect "GNU social" with what I would assume would be spelled "GNU Social," or something similar. I realize why it might be left uncapitalized, but it scans badly unless you're already reading for it that way.

https://www.gnu.org/software/social/
Shorter comments are more prone to misunderstanding—e.g. perhaps someone thought it was being snarky. In such cases someone else usually comes a long and gives a corrective upvote.

The HN guidelines ask you not to post about getting downvoted though: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13686949 and marked it off-topic.
And now we know where. 1000s of microservices?
And conversely, the people who say they can't find work should accept lower wages and move to where the work is.

Meanwhile, all of these people should keep their hands out of the pockets of the rest of us. (To be fair, the non-workers are far more likely to take my money than the non-employers.)
Remember -- these are the same "SEO experts" that will happily tell you that you need to host every web site on its own IP address, even though a Google employee has said unequivocally (over 10 years ago!) that this has no impact on ranking.
America is a democratic republic. Or simply, more republic than it is democratic.
most : the majority of, nearly all of.

"most browsers" would become "the majority of browsers". If there were 5 browsers, "the majority of 5 browsers" would be "3 browsers or more".
It doesn't make any difference which ones are most used, the sentence (apparently now changed or removed) wasn't "most of the requests will be protected", or even "most users will be protected"
> If only your comments were skeptical.

How would you characterize them?

Most of the people who believe that Russia was involved in the hacking or election meddling seem happy to believe it without evidence.

As McCain spouted, cyber attack could reasonably be viewed as an act of war. This is generally the view of the most passionate anti-Russia fearmongers involved in this debate.

I'm simply demanding actual evidence, the way I should have when I stupidly believed George W. Bush and Colin Powell that there was a direct trail leading to Iraq having WMDs.

Consider that during the buildup to the Iraq war, the UN weapons inspector, Hans Blix, was tarred and feathered by those who wanted to go to war in Iraq. This was a career bureaucrat who saw that the inspection regime was being twisted to make the case for a war that he felt was unwarranted based on the years he'd spent on the ground in Iraq, actually inspecting Iraq's facilities.

Not only was he harassed and mocked, his career was ruined because he dared state what turned out to be very obvious once Saddam was unseated -- that Iraq had absolutely no WMD capability.

We are seeing the same thing with Russia. Simply by expressing skepticism people are being called names like "useful idiot" and all sorts of other politically motivated slurs.

War is just politics that turns violent. What we're seeing in the US is a pretty significant propaganda campaign to foment hatred toward Russia. It's quite obvious that if there were any evidence AT ALL this would be a big deal, but after months of repetition and hand waving by those wishing to foment hatred, after leaks by the intel community, etc., there is still zero evidence.

This doesn't mean that those who claim all that stuff are wrong, it just means that they are making a faith-based decision, which is a kind of decision that I do not think the American people should make when wars and lives are on the line.

The comment I linked before presents what I believe to be the strategic background between US and Russia that is relevant to this conflict.
Careful with that analogy. Hitler is distinguished from other authoritarian leaders in 3 ways that echo Trump:

-- He led a particularly rich and powerful country.

-- He and his followers were particularly good at mass-media PR.

-- He is particularly famous.

But he's also distinguished in other ways that do NOT echo Trump, most notably in his mass murders.
Small cities and rural areas don't grow or wither by accident. They grow when the government enforces competition laws at every level, preventing markets from being captured. They wither when markets are captured and the network effects of oligopolized megacities become more valuable than genuine market experimentation.

http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and-...
An engineer’s take on dominant design
Quality. Quality excites me. I'm happy doing almost anything as long as I am free to do a great job.
I parse those as ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes:

AU AT BE CL CZ EE FI FR DE HK HU IE IL LT NL NO PL SE CH GB

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Turns out they're in alpha order by country name, too.
Confusion. Even if it succeeded this would have been a problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualys
Social programs aren't self-sustaining. You can't count on them to exist for longer than an election cycle. Setting up some businesses would make a medium-to-long term difference, and people wouldn't have to constantly worry about their benefits being cut.

Edit: I don't mean that concentrating capital and picking winners is good either. Helping individuals start their own small businesses would be better, and it would probably lead to less inequality than dumping cash into a single big "job-creating"... thing.
From your reference

> Then why did recursion work so well with divide-and-conquer? The key point is that in
divide-and-conquer, a problem is expressed in terms of subproblems that are substantially
smaller, say half the size. For instance, mergesort sorts an array of size n by recursively
sorting two subarrays of size n/2. Because of this sharp drop in problem size, the full
recursion tree has only logarithmic depth and a polynomial number of nodes.

> In contrast, in a typical dynamic programming formulation, a problem is reduced to
subproblems that are only slightly smaller—for instance, L(j) relies on L(j − 1).

I think I got it. The distinction isn't that clear cut anyway. For example, I could implement a mergesort with caching and say that I'm technically doing dynamic programming, even though the cache would get hit exactly zero times. It would sort of be "trivially" dynamic programming. On the other hand, the first time I calculated fibonacci numbers recursively, I've added a cache. This would be "memoization". Or in other words, wikipedia article is correct, but some problems don't benefit from the caching.

Thanks for the references.
For those interested, you can build a system like this that tracks sub-second GPS information, and easily scale to 100M+ writes for $10/day with 1KB payload (compare to the 62bytes in the article).

Here is a demo we threw together of it working in real life: https://youtu.be/7ALHtbC9aOM

Here is a prototype of saving 100M+ writes for $10/day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_WqBuEA7s8

Our sync system: https://github.com/amark/gun

And since we are on the topic, I highly recommend this engineering blog post by Discord on how they scaled up append-only writes in a way similar to how our system does: https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m... .
You're being disingenuous. Please stop.

This is far from the first time we've had people complaining about Uber's toxic engineering culture. Using stack ranking, managers building fiefdoms and undermining each other's projects... these are hardly secrets.

At this point there is so much smoke that yes: it is entirely appropriate to believe there is a fire.

The only thing unique about this case is it is a woman and her first negative experience was a manager sexually harassing her. The rest of her post perfectly matches Uber's reputation as an engineering organization.
Our initial try was that by building a Chrome plugin called 'fakeornot' which will just tell you if its a fake site or not. But this was not working accurately as we saw sites like Mashable and others write articles which are not even verified and they quote to a source.
If this is talking about a prostate vs breath cancer dichotomy. The reason is prostate cancer kills much older men than breast cancer kills women. Women in their 40s routinely die of breast cancer but that's pretty rare for a man in his 40s to die of prostate cancer.

So saving a man's live fron prostate cancer means he dies at 75 instead of 70 and but saving a women's from breast cancer means she dies at 65 instead of 45.
Your criticism of p-value usage is legitimate. However, this is not core to frequentist statistics.

When I first encountered p-values, even with a frequentist mindset, I saw the huge problem that one could have with them. Many frequentists do not like p-values. I wouldn't be surprised if most actual frequentist statisticians (not those in fields like medicine, psychology, etc) do not like p-value usage.

Attacking p-values is not a valid argument against frequentist statistics.

I'll also add that it seems that many Bayesians are really dying for a number, and because frequentist stats doesn't give it to them, they reach for another tool that will - but with little thought about the validity of the tool. I'm not here to defend frequentist statistics, but just because it doesn't give all the answers, that does not mean that some other tool that does give some answers is correct.

It is equally abusable as p-values. I suppose if a Bayesian says he used Bayesian approaches because it made sense given his problem, that's fine (and in my mind, he is just being a statistician, not a Bayesian). The self-identified Bayesians I always encounter don't fall into that mold. They fall into the category of "Look what I can compute that I could not with frequentist statistics" - but any attempts I have to understand what that number means fails - they cannot explain it either, beyond "this is how I feel".
The house I grew up in had a laundry chute from one bathroom down to the other half-bath//full-laundry room. It was viciously convenient and if I ever build//buy a home I want one.
Great one pager on this new theory.
>> And then the calculus changes and it's overall cheaper for people to buy from overseas factories.

Import taxes can fix that. Our poorest citizens can't compete on price with the middle class in some of the poorest countries.
What's wrong with the actual Notes app on your phone which can probably do checklists, bullet points, etc?
Slowing down that long-past change a bit with a small tax (Gates is talking of slowing, not stopping this change with taxes) might have been useful: the Scottish clearances might not have happened so suddenly (which affected my family), cities might have had more time to cope with the population influx that caused widespread cholera and typhoid epidemics, just for starters. Surely there's some room for maneuver between a medieval rejection of change on the one hand, and absolute pitilessness on the other.
Has anyone advocated, in states where the war on drugs is receding, retroactively sealing (and banning discrimination based) nonviolent drug offenders' records?
In my state, almost everyone takes EBT. Even farmers markets. A proper grocery in my mind sells produce, dairy, a locally appropriate fresh meat selection and dry goods.

In an urban market, these type of stores are 15,000-30,000 sqft. We have a few markets like this in my city, but they are in nicer areas.

Poor folk have corner stores that are <3000 sqft. We don't have the Asian produce markets or Mexican markets that you are thinking of. They generally don't sell produce, and if they do they low quality and 2x expensive.

We had a crisis about a decade ago because 80% of these stores were temporarily shut down after the owners were arrested for accepting food stamps for heroin. They aren't nice places that anyone chooses to do business with.
Mild sexism is endemic to a portion of our industry. But I honestly have not previously encountered allegations on the level of "my boss propositioned me on my first day and HR said they wouldn't do anything".

I would like to pay attention: we can't improve this problem unless we pay attention. If you would be willing to point me to a few examples of people making similar claims, I will commit to reading through them and trying to raise awareness of the issue within my own company.
They really should update the article
Hiking boots: Meindl http://www.meindl.de/produktwelten/berg-wandern/modelle-berg...
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And don't carry another phone while you're doing this. Or, if you do, turn the power off.

(If turning the power off isn't enough to protect you, then you're probably in that group of people for whom none of these measures will wholly suffice.)
If the crime was committed when they were 13-17, it would usually be erased when the person turns 18. And then it wouldn't show up in any studies.
Breast cancer was not an order of magnitude more common than prostate cancer:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21332/full#c...
What do you suggest are other options than check-cashing stores?