skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy vintage from Craigslist, AptDeco, estate sales, etc. The stuff that's lasted is usually of good quality, and even high-end/designer vintage that will last a lifetime can cost less than buying new cheaply made furniture from chain stores.

The only exceptions for me are couches (nobody figured out how to make a comfortable couch until c.1980) and mattresses.
Wait, why do we send people to space in the first place?
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This case is pretty clearly a conflict. The person in question already released a bunch of information about her situation, but it was released in a dishonest manner designed to make the people on whom she was dependent look bad.

Perhaps that conflict doesn't rise to the level that should be necessary to protect privacy, but I think that's at least worth discussing. Is it really productive to prevent government organizations from refuting lies told about them?

That snide comment is really uncalled for. I hope you will never be in a situation where you require assistance, government or other.

I notice that you don't characterize my comment as wrong, you merely criticize the tone.

You should read this great article which explains how tone policing is actually just a silencing tactic used by privileged people to avoid confronting the actual content of a message.

http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privil...
You literally said "The more subtle problem is that in some circles, it isn't even that....it's a blanket pass." It's right up there!
Learn how the business works.
When I read that, I laughed, then realized that is literally all it takes and is exactly how I made the transition.
A great way to do this: join a small startup. I did, and I learned more in the first week than I could have ever hoped to at my old job.

Also related: https://schloss.quora.com/Design-doesnt-deserve-a-seat-at-th...
To master a lot of the most "hard core" programming concepts, dive into parsers and compilers. It will give you a perspective and generality that will permeate the rest of your career. It gives you arguably the most high-level perspective on all things related to programming and the paradigms therein.
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> some people have a radically different idea of "freedom" and "smaller government" than I do

Or they are not acting in good faith.
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>To avoid misunderstanding, are you saying that it's acceptable to physically assault people because of their opinion

Of course it depends on the opinion, but I see nothing wrong with it in principle.
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anonymous messages are sometimes very powerful, measurements that are easy to make are not necessarily the right ones to make

sometimes you get snowed in, often you get snowed under
Increasingly, observations like the ones you mention, along with galaxy rotation curves and more, have really narrowed down the space that DM can occupy. MOND in particular has only very narrow ranges with which it can remain sound, and increasingly it requires modifying the modification to keep that.
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> ...and move to a hot tech hub.

The requirement that I move away from my home eats up an awful lot of my not-specifically-work-related efforts. Gain salary. Lose contact with existing friends and family. Pay extra salary in inflated housing costs, food prices, and taxes. Maybe also commute longer.

I have had annual performance reviews that say I kick ass, some that say I am just "meets expectations" in all categories. Either way, I only get a 2% salary increase. The jobs around here don't pay extra for superior competence.

The limiting factor on my nookie is spousal libido. My exercise and fitness levels have no observable effect on it. Nothing I have ever done seems to have an observable effect on it, actually.

I feel like a mime. No matter what direction I go, my nose smushes up against that invisible wall, and I can't find where it ends, so I can get past it.

It's probably not the world. It could be just me. The walls might be of my own creation, and now I just live in the invisible box I have built for myself.

But it could also be that I am surrounded by Homo economicus, and I am already standing at the local profit maximum. Nobody cares about who I am or what I do, so long as they can make the maximum amount of money from me. Nobody really wants the sprockets in their machine to grow extra teeth.
Get a mentor. This takes a bit of luck to find a mentor (or great boss) but the rewards are massive. They'll teach you what's relevant to study/learn, they'll teach you what to focus on to get the most return, they'll be a back stop to technical questions, they'll be endless knowledge, they'll be a role model.
Can we retag this "Scientist who denies that dark matter exists exists"
Hard Work and Discipline
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Yosamino's comment, which is what I was replying to, was about the collection of information.
There are still a lot of us embedded developers that can't or won't implement a browser/JS engine on our target systems.

We're becoming more rare these days (especially in the eyes of the Qt developers), but we still exist.
Depends on what you account for as feedback. If we are narrowly talking about plot twists when writing an entertaining thriller, than yeah, by all means, make sure the audience gets it. Also, there is much to be said about a sharp, crisply edited book that doesn't meander or ramble pointlessly.

On the other hand, in general I almost exclusively read books and blogs because I'm interested in what the author has to say, rather than what I'd like to hear. Cal Newport discusses the idea of craftsmanship in a way I really like. When you're building a table or a bass guitar, there are better and worse woods for the application at hand that have little to do with how the craftsman feels about them. They are, to an extent, impersonal and external to him. A song or a poem, by contrast, have everything to do with the author and little in the way of objectivity about them.

Of course, all of this is a case of finding an optimum balance.
Lost in the noise of producing milk. There is an astronomical amount of environmental resources to get to the point of filling the jug. Just wasting less milk (buy only what you can use to avoid dumping what has gone bad) would blow 'lighter milk jug' out of the water by many orders of magnitude. And using 30% fewer jugs saves 30% right out of the gate.
I work for the gov, and accidently moved up faster than I thought I would. Not very satisfying work, but the benefits and pay (vs an entry level dev job in my area) are unbeatable. I'm 28.
Brexit is solely related to UK membership within the European Union. It is wrong to conflate being a part of Europe with being a part of the European Union.

Throughout history the ties between what is now the UK and what is now continental Europe are deep and inseparably intertwined (both culturally and geographically); it is absurd to to claim that the UK is "always whimsical" (whatever that means) and does not reflect "true" European values, whatever those may be. Look even closer within the UK and the Republic of Ireland...how is one European and the other not?!

The UK is and will foverver be part of Europe, period. This has no bearing on your opinion of who is or is not a "true European."
Why is it mistaken?
A minor delay and a confiscated piece of fruit, most likely.
>And some languages are allowed to use FFI to make their impl faster. There's some rule about this that I don't understand, but oh well. It's all for fun, not serious.

Actually it's pretty easy: if you can write a faster version in any language, given whatever is there in the language, even if it's c implemented standard library stuff, do it.

The implementations are not meant to be final -- people can contribute faster ones.
Fact is that you will get 30 different answers from 100 different people, and even with same answers from different people, you'll get different reasons for why they chose that answer.

No, you won't get some silver bullet that's going to propel you to the top in 5 years. I don't (possibly mistakenly) think that's the point. You're going to get a list of criteria specified on a person-by-person basis that speaks to their personal experience as a junior dev turned senior, a junior rising through the ranks, a senior mentoring lots of juniors, etc. Most of the information given will probably be valid. It is then up to OP to parse through the information, and they'll have to figure out what's most applicable to their situation.
I wonder what the balance of increased e-commerce (packaging materials) to reduced shopping gas consumption is like for resource use.
> Nobody can keep up with the flood of research taking place.

That's very different.

No one can keep up with the flood of JS frameworks, either.

Information fire hoses are very different from extreme differences in ability.
Yes but even in the upper register you still need to lshift by one or two bits depending on the constant IIRC. Five had me shifting by (1 or 2), and seven by (2 or 1) I seem to recall. I can't remember what property of the number determines the size of the shift though.
> The default hash table has better security against malicious input by using a slower hashing algorithm.

I think an adaptive hash that switches from fast to secure when collisions are detected would make a better default choice (at the cost of some implementation complexity).

Or possibly even an implementation with log(n) worst case complexity.
Well, if you do need to distribute a desktop app, the frameworks that wrap web renderers like Electron can be quite heavy. Your distribution size would almost certainly be smaller with QT.

With that said, I got into a debate a while back on HN that web technology is more expressive and miles ahead of desktop frameworks and I got buried for it. What would be nice is if someone ported ReactNative to compile to QT.
> Incompetent CBP officer incorrectly concluded that its a work without a proper work visa.

It's more subtle than that. If it hadn't been for the very specific exception for scholars it would indeed have been work without a proper work visa.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27721383

Good question! The answer is that we know so little about surviving there for any appreciable length of time (compared to a human lifespan), that most don't understand the challenges. Meanwhile they're relative experts with the problems faced by a terrestrial existence.

TL;DR The hydrogen is always redder in the other man's H-Alpha band.
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The Immigrant’s Dilemma in Trump’s America
No apologies! Thanks for taking the time to flesh out a first action that could easily spare a future author some heartache.
Cosmic radiation exposure and persistent cognitive dysfunction
Think and talk about the functional problem instead of thinking and talking about a specific technical solution.

And the next level above that: think and talk about the business problem the proposed functionality is intended to address.

Making the distinction between requirements, functional design and technical design is very helpful, but in many places this has been obscured and rendered difficult by bureaucracy and process.
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> Also have a look at her other articles in her blog. Poems about "blowjobs" and "Pussy" mixed in with the usual radical feminist nonsense. I thinkwe know exactly where she's coming from.

No mate, can you please be explicit? It almost reads like you're saying it's OK for someone to have their financial records released by a Government welfare agency if they publish the word 'blowjob' on a blog.
Why do people always say 'nation-state' specifically in these cases, as well? Some of the richest states in the world aren't nation-states, like the UK.
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Oh if you are American and/or white it is a different case.
...because its not new
"drive to NI and catch a ferry."

Of course, the implicit assumption there is that anyone going to NI is doing so to get to Britain. What about the mythical Romanian who just moves to Belfast and sets up a life there? Is that a failure of UK immigration policy? (Maybe it's not - I'm genuinely curious what people think). I'm not from NI, but it doesn't seem terribly polite of British politicians to suggest that people would go to NI just to get to the "real" UK (aka Britain), as though NI isn't a worthwhile destination on its own.

The options I've seen floated range from deputizing ROI immigration officers to enforce UK immigration policy, to imposing a hard land border between ROI and NI (I really, really, really hope we don't end up with that), to imposing document checks for travelers between Britain and NI, which seems to be suggesting that nobody from the EU would want to go to NI just to live in NI.

In my view, at least, all of these options are a bit shit.

(I use the term "Britain" here to refer to the island occupied by England, Wales, and Scotland, distinct from the UK, which is England, Wales, Scotland, and NI)
Sex offenders as in... people who've been convicted of crimes against children? Or... sex offenders as in college students who were caught pissing in public?

Because both can land you in the same hole in this country.
But is it right that benefits were set up in the first place so as to promote the morality of one type of relationship but not another?
I feel like you misread his comment if you're asking that. His next sentence explains why it's mistaken...
I'd like to have a tested use case that mostly and simply works. Something to put in readme.md that shows how it works and that it works. Almost there...
I've always heard the definition of data scientist as "Somebody who knows less about programming that programmers and less about statistics than statisticians"
Instant coding and wiring for your Arduino projects
For us insurance/financial services folks, I would like to simply clarify that this is not the Sungard/FIS risk management platform that is also called Prophet! :D

I got really excited for a second. Actually, I'm still pretty excited about this even if it was something else entirely.
Actually dark matter and dark energy are "fudge factors" that are being inserted in order to explain observations.

There are multiple "contenders" for dark matter, none of them actually explain observations and measurements.

Dark Energy is also in that same category especially in it's purest form as a "universal constant" that was added then removed then added back again to GR when we were sure if the universe is static, expanding at a constant pace or expanding under acceleration.

As far as MOND goes the biggest "curiosity" people have with it is that it works at all, because it shouldn't, you shouldn't be able to just fudge so many factors and have a theory that works, is stable, and predictive (even tho it has various issues especially with regards to cosmology like star and cluster formations).

Which might hint that there is actually something there. That gravity might not work in the same manner over distances, that maybe there is more than one gravity (there are hints that quantum gravity and what we call gravity might be different things already).
Those legal benefits would not be lost. You would obtain/retain those benefits once you sign the paperwork declaring yourself married. That document would be held in force with all legal consequences (benefits and ramifications) until it has been rescinded by those married or through some divorce proceeding.
It's also possible that she had qualifications in the industry she was hired for besides web design. It's not suggestive of bias at all - it simply tells us that there's something about the candidates that we don't know.
It looks like you're looking for workers to excute your plan. For that reason, you need money to hire someone in order do execute the job. To get money, you need people to invest in your company and they only invest in a team of at least 2 people.

So you're only looking for a cofounder in order to unlock some VC money and get the job done. I don't think your setup is a receipe for success. I've seen that configuration so many times and it usually doesn't lead to any good outcome.

Plus, you're competing with all the other startups or wannabe startups in order to hire a developer (for free).

You will have to lower your bar and go back to square one. Since I'm assuming you're not generating any money, all you have is 4 pending contracts, no funds and no product? Is that accurate? If so, forget about the contracts and look for a friend(developer) that'll partner with you on this idea. Make it sound like a solid 50/50 split. You better do it at the very beginning to build a solid team.
Nice and simple. Now it just needs users.
How is your effective tax rate 50%? Even if you are in the highest tax bracket, only the income in that bracket is taxed at the highest rate. Even people earning $475000 in California still only have an effective tax rate of ~40%, which is what you'd need to be making to be in the top US+California tax bracket. And if that's the case you are still taking home nearly $300,000 per year.

I'm all for effective use of taxes, but your effective tax rate calculation seems way off.
So what we should be asking the government is if it's a fundamental right, why do we require a license to get married?

What you're asking for isn't permission to get married. You're asking for government recognition of your marriage.

Historically marriage has always been a religious ceremony.

No. Historically, weddings have been religious ceremony.

Marriage is bigger than the wedding. Marriage means legal changes. Being married means that someone can hold you accountable for your spouse's debts. Being married means the joint ownership of property. Being married means next of kin status. Being married means legal presumption of paternity. Being married means survivor's benefits when one spouse dies.

These are all things what are enforced by the government and THAT is why marriage licenses exist.

Want to declare your undying love for your partner and become religiously, spiritually or culturally married? Go ahead. Want the legal protections of the secular institution of marriage? You need a license.
IIRC wasn't there just a debate here on HN about the wisdom of shorting Tesla stock?
I honestly think that government organizations don't have any business policing what people say about them. They aren't people; their reputation is not terribly pertinent to getting their job done.

Oh, and criticizing tone alongside substantive comments isn't the same as 'a silencing tactic'. Its an effort to keep our forum civil. An actual silencing tactic might look like, calling names like 'privileged people' to shame someone, and redirecting the topic with an irrelevant web link to attempt to look like an authority on discussions like this.
Original claim:

> Ms Fox complained that her problem arose from the fact that she was chased by Centrelink for a debt actually owed by her former de facto partner.

Centrelink rebuttal:

> The agency says Ms Fox's debt [...] arose after she received more FTB than she was entitled to because she under-estimated her family income for that year.

Counter-rebuttal:

> As I outlined in my article, when your ex does not lodge his tax return for a year in which you received the Family Tax Benefit it seems your family income will be classified ‘under-estimated’.

This is easily one of many possible scenarios that is not covered by standard procedures, of which I am sure there exist many every year, but which large bureaucracy are regularly unequipped to deal with, to the point that this behavior is a common trope in popular culture[0].

It's funny when it happens in a movie, but if you're actually on the receiving end of this sort of behavior where no-one listens to your most reasonable requests, takes the time to figure out that some sort of mistake has occurred and generally treats you with disrespect in addition to threaten the financial stability of you and your children, I'd put it to you that it's very human to get extremely frustrated and express that frustration.

You provide an excellent example of this:

> Secondly the only additional information released seems to be the actual date of when she seperated from her ex and failed to lodge the change of circumstance which lead to the overpayment. She already stated her break up in the original article.

You're right in a way, the second article by her doesn't add any significant information and reads a little helpless, because if Centrelink had actually taken her initial complaint, when she went to their offices and the article she wrote, seriously, there would have been no further issue.

Instead they chose to personally attack her. Which is quite different from attacking an organization.

> I thinkwe know exactly where she's coming from.

I don't actually. Would you mind explaining ? Does this play into the Guardian receiving funds somehow ?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5kwSap9Ug
Exactly. It's a bitmask, not a shift.

But he doesn't know about ctz (counting trailing zeros) for fast load/fillrate detection. With 50% it's trivial (just a shift), but for 70% or 90% you'd need to use _builtin_ctz.
That was just SHA1. Linus mentioned the other day that there was another layer and that they weren't worried. It would take considerably more resources to crack that again. But it is rather jolly to speculate about such things and other users of SHA1 (Windows?) might not nearly be so immune?
Unless she got hired in an industry where she already had experience, and the bootcamp qualification was only tangential to that.
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When I saw studies like this, i guess a student of statistics is died somewhere.
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Very good, how did you do the infinite grid ?

I am also working on an infinite grid pixel art tool :)
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Both. Ideas for the story accumulated in a Moleskin for a few months before I started writing. I also carry around a little field notes booklet in my backpack/pocket a good bit of the time. Makes me feel like a creative :)

The major edit was done via 3x5 cards. Each card had a scene, the values it turned on, and the actors in the scene, so I sort of treated it like a screenplay. 3x5 cards are really nice for juggling things around (though Scrivener does has a corkboard view, I liked the paper approach for this step).
It doesn't matter if it's only for complementing. Census data is supposed to be the source data, if you start to mingle and add some model in order to "enhance" your source data, you're tainting it with wrong samples. Then from there everything is biased.

My point is that there is a hype around AI that makes it look that it can do things that it can't. What they do in this paper is equivalent to using a correlation matrix, and a bunch of observations to generate a completely random population that matches what we input in there (ok, the neural net may find some non-linear relationships, but you get the idea). Yes, there is a significant correlation between car ownership and demographics, so the results do look good from far away, but the reality is that they will only map the car ownership factors on to other traits, and in terms of information, it is way poorer than actually doing a census.