skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The strong welfare state in these countries essentially subsidises employers in this way. Not necessarily a bad thing, mind you.
I don't know if it's fat or sugar that's killing us. I lost 50 pounds just eating balanced, healthy, nutritious meals. I reduce my sugar intake but didn't eliminate it. In fact I stuck to my twice weekly energy drinks and occasional candy bars and milkshakes. However my meals were regimented to include protein, vegetables, very rarely bread, rarely cheese, stopped drinking milk, and cooked everything at home from scratch. Less eating out. The only thing I truly eliminated from my diet was packaged foods, and highly processed meals in a box. So no more Cheeseburger Macaroni. So really, maybe, it's not sugar and fat, it may just be the highly processed cheap foods, microwaved stuff, etc.
Construction is a solid category to replace manufacturing.

Have open borders. Market the shit out of America. This causes millions of people to immigrate into the US.

Each of these people are going to need housing. 15 million houses at 200k each = $3 trillion growth. BOOM. just like that. And that's just housing.

The 90's was characterized by open borders in the US. Immigration was completely wide open. It causes a HUGE boom in our economy, and we need to return to those halcyon days of open borders. (and, no, it wasn't the dot-coms that grew the economy - there are far too few computer programmers to do that)
In some sense, sure.

But in practice, people always make mistakes. Some guns/programming languages limit the damage of those mistakes more than others. All other things being equal, those guns/programming languages are better.
Respect. https://frontendmasters.com/ should give you a good start. There's a fee but well worth it. I would recommend Douglas Crockford and Kyle Simpson for a start.
This is pretty terrifying. So many "arbitrary code execution with root privileges" exploits! They may be fixed, but how many more are still only known to malicious third parties?

And without even needing to install anything! "Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution."
I would be interested in seeing if streamers are going to see any type of affiliate profits from this since this is where all of the traffic is coming from.
I often wind up needing kind of the opposite of this: a spreadsheet as a view on a complex SQL query I've written, so that folks can manipulate the results themselves.

A quick way I've set this up with Google Sheets is via IMPORTDATA(), combined with a url that dumps a csv of my query results. That way people can do all sorts of analysis and manipulation in a different tab while being able to refresh the underlying data. https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093335?hl=en
> They have more in common with software developers than with welfare or disability recipients.

That was the point of the argument: Will people be the winners and robots the "slaves", or will there be only a few capital owners owning (the fruits of the labors of) not a handful of slaves each, but millions of those modern "slaves" and most people none?
That's a shame. It's not just narrative that's important, and well-off African-Americans can still be impacted by the effects of systemic bias.
While I guess it is probably not fully ready for being made into a product yet, there is actually a lot of research currently going on using deep learning in e.g. mammography that show a lot of promise.

Probably a doctor will still have to check the results and sign off on them.
Why Lebanon has not passed a budget for 12 years
No it's not an artefact of that monetisation model at all.

The fact is that tabloid, clickbait style of journalism has been going on for decades and was popularised by Rupert Murdoch first in the Australia then UK then the US. What we see on many online websites are merely digital versions of The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph etc which were all very popular news publications.
If I knew anything about VHDL, I would create a cloud Amiga!
Was going to ask the same thing...until I remembered I had ad-blocker enabled.
Not quite accurate but I started with a low 5 figures. Wiped through about 1/3 of it in the first few months, then recovered. It took me about 1.5 years to start making a return on my trades. That doesn't count, certainly, my medical cost, occasional spending spree, and potential future health damage.
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I think ppl are downvoting you because referring to Theranos' situation using a product/market fit model presupposes you have a product for the market to accept or reject. The product that they promised to the market certainly had high demand/fit, that's why got so much investment. Theranos simply didn't have anything close to what they were promising, hence the fraud.
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I sell productivity tools - Chrome Extensions and a SaaS - that solve my own problems in a niche. All of them run subscriptions with varying kinds of free/trial access, depending on the audience and the cost to me.

If you're curious on the details, I wrote a post recently about getting to $100/month with them: https://www.simonmweber.com/2017/01/09/side-project-income-2....
Germany has been mentioned a lot here. Education is another place where the country is "ahead". Occupational schools and apprenticeships are a common higher education route. My understanding is that only people slotted for college get an abstract curriculum similar to what Americans would call "high school".
> Fuel efficiency hasn't changed that much, safety standards either.

CAFE essentially puts a ceiling on fuel economy, so instead of getting a more efficient car of the same size, fuel economy is held constant and the size of the car (or its performance) increases.

As for safety, MY2008+ vehicles are required to have TPMS. Next year backup cameras will be required by the NHTSA. It's not a legal requirement, but electronic stability control is available on many more current models than 10 years ago.
Inarguably the best reply: https://medium.com/@mr.ed.dunn/please-dont-use-supposition-o...
> This articulates a lot of what I've felt in recent years.

> Certainly Python sticks out in this regard. I also think Python has evolved beyond its initial premise.

So with recent years you meant 1991. Got it, I got confused for a moment.

That aside, I agree with you, but your own words give ample evidence that this trend is, by no imaginable means, "recent". It's inherent to software.

BTW, my favorite language is Python.
Creating an Angular application with a tiny footprint
That says a lot about Steve Mnuchin. He should know better. He used to be a hedge fund manager. There are now hedge funds run by AI programs. They're doing better than the average hedge fund.[1] By the time his term at Treasury is over, his job may be obsolete.

[1] http://www.valuewalk.com/2017/01/ai-hedge-fund-returns/
Compared to other Javascript libraries, it's not that bad, I was just hoping for a second that "extracted the render engine" meant something really lightweight, i.e. something you could just include as a script tag for lightweight use (like "sizzle", back in the days).

It's still going to be worth a look, as I don't mind opinionated stuff for some mid-sized SPAs and tools, I'm just missing a tool for the lower end in my belt these days.
What exactly do you need glimmer for on that page?
> Employers and employees can both get caught up in saying things they think the other side wants to hear.. I think it's appropriate to be very explicit. Call out the issue. Tell them you aren't signalling. Tell them you really mean what you say, and that if they're going to get burned out from that, then your shop isn't the place for them.

You nailed it. The problem is that even when being explicit in expectations, candidates will still try to get that offer, even if it's not the right fit at that time. It's really hard to tell if someone means it when they say "oh, that's fine." I think startups have a certain glamour that masks the reality and people see interviews as tests, not conversations.

Further, I'd love to keep that person in the pipeline -- employee happiness and feeling valued is huge for me, so if that person needs to come in at 10 because they need to drop a kid off at school, I can respect that, and hope he/she is available when we can accommodate it.

> I think based on your responses you have the right attitude.

I really appreciate you saying this.
> So how honest are you being here?

Dead honest. I mean a quick async-okay-if-from-phone "hey, here's what I have lined up for this week, can you tell me if this is unreasonable from your perspective" exchange.
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I didn't see any data on improved survival/toxicity in those papers. The closest was Fig S4B/C of the last one (Rauch et al 2017), which shows some of the inhibitors are toxic too. So evidence for that may exist somewhere, but not there.

Also, I think if they were serious about addressing this toxicity issue they would be include simple charts of the number of cells over time and number of "modified" cells over time. Then they (and the reader) can easily compare the toxicity and efficacy of different techniques.
Also, you mis-spelled "guarantee" under "99% uptime"...
I would think that robots are stealing Mexican/Chinese/Vietnamese jobs provided by American companies or contractors. This is not good: these jobs help raise the standard of living in these countries.
Other posters have mentioned Microsoft's Excel 20-year-old ODBC support [0]: you can connect any database as a source of data, then create pivot tables for live ad-hoc transforms and summarizations of a database. This is a separate feature to connecting to an Excel spreadsheet using ODBC.

I showed this to my manager and he immediately demanded I explain to the rest of the team how this black magic worked…

[0]: https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Overview-of-connect...
> I've been working professionally in IT for about 6 years now and the concept of 'working too little' has never come up from any of my managers

It wouldn't come back to you that directly. Sure, people don't get fired for doing the bare minimum. It takes the form of other people seeming more engaged with their jobs than you do, and the consequences you'd expect. There's a middle ground where you don't sacrifice quality of life but don't do the bare minimum.
To clarify, on Windows the uninstaller is just one step: double click Kite from the Programs & Features section of Control panel.

Unfortunately on Mac you have to quit Kite before it can be dragged to the trash. You can do that from the menubar icon or by killing "Kite Engine". (You don't need to quit Kite Helper to drag to the Trash.) See instructions here http://help.kite.com/article/6-how-do-i-uninstall-kite. We'll be improving this on Mac shortly.
This is good. Porn is one of the most powerful weapons in the psychological warfare armory. It interrupts the risk-reward cycle of the human brain, thus disrupting the functioning of society generally. For example, Israel broadcast porn on major television networks when occupying Palestine in 2002 [1].

[1] http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Porn-the-new-weapon-o...
It makes me sad when I think of the sacrifices made by previous generations for the greater good, to consider that in our time we're happy to gamble with the future just to make things more comfortable for us in the present.

In the 1940s, millions of people made the ultimate sacrifice to defeat tyranny, then in the 60s huge amounts were invested into technology, transforming society, but we can't even agree on a carbon tax to start to pay for the mess we're making, never mind trying to come up with ways to reverse the damage.

A green economy should be our generation's Moon landing. Massive investment in basic research and into renewables, energy storage and transport, and improved materials could again transform the world, and benefit all of us, but I guess if you can't physically see your enemy then there's just not enough urgency.
Sorry, I'm simply going to disagree with you. The assumption that you've made, which is that I'm extroverted, is not true. Introverts can exercise extreme willpower and actively build acquaintanceships.

I stand by my recommendations for everyone: if you get a job offer, do not accept it until you are acquainted with someone working at that company. Period. Regardless of the level of challenge that this is for you. Even if that means (on your way out of an on-site interview) barging into someone's workspace, interrupting them apologetically, and kindly requesting they spend five minutes talking to you.

What's going to happen if you barge in (during your interview) and apologetically interrupt someone you have no business talking with? Are they going to sue you? For what?

Doing this, very simply, will give you a very good outcome over the short, medium, and long term. It's the best advice in existence. No other advice is remotely as good.

Besides telling you how I evaluate offers, I've given you the best advice that exists. Period. I am claiming no advice in existence is nearly as good.

That is an extreme claim and the benefits I've cited justify it. If you disagree, you are wrong.

The argument I am using is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion but I am actively choosing to make this argument, on the strength of its validity. It is, simply speaking, correct. (A glance at my karma and posting history will show that I am serious.)

Do this. Don't do anything else suggested by anyone in this thread. (Or at least, not until you do this.) This is the advice that will actually make you happy.

It does not require an existing network. You can do it ad-hoc and at the last minute. You are NOT done until you have at least an email acquaintanceship with someone working for that company. Drill that into your life and live it.

This determines your happiness over the next 1, 2, 4, 10 and 40 years. Regardless of the level of challenge this poses for you: do it. As you can see, I feel very strongly about this!
I am partial to the business model of asking people to pay me for my services or for things that I've made.

My latest side project is https://www.smsinbox.net, which provides a drop-in chat interface for Twilio apps. It's targeted at developers who use Twilio in their apps, and want to easily expose a two-way messaging interface to their users. It doesn't make a ton of money right now, but definitely covers costs.
Well I was managing about £1500k/month into my ISA last year central London.
My mistake I was only counting funds that can be spent in a discretionary manner. If you wish to abolish social security and other programs like it you can certainly get more.

The study is here[0], even accounting for Sanders proposed major tax increases on the wealthy and middle class he still fails to fund it by over 50 percent, and private expenditures would continue to climb. Then you have to consider the costs of "free" education and the multitude of other increased social programs. Sorry it's a fairy tale, him and people like him are lying to get your vote.

[0]http://www.urban.org/research/publication/sanders-single-pay...
This is such a juvenile view of how things work.

Remember, the media are not in the business of keeping the public informed, they're first and foremost interested in putting bread on their own tables, like any other business out there

Short circuit logic, here you conflate things to make it disregard the first statement and push your own agenda.

1. A media business is not necessarily the same as a news business.

2. Either way both a media business and a news business are in the business of creating and selling stories.

3. Both a media business and a news business can have objectives of both selling stories that inform the public and sell junk to the public.

4. Stating like any other business doesn't serve any credibility to your argument, rather you're trying to slant a profit motive as evil. Would non-profits providing news services be the only good people in your head?

They like having a job, and these days, given how high our tolerance for absurdity has become, their job requires they come up with the most dramatic and outrageous content they can in order to keep people hooked.

Because they like jobs therefore they must be willing to take the low road to whatever they can to earn the duckets those jobs? So they create sensationalized and dramatized results, to use generalities to gloss over nuanced matters?

Kind of like this post here?

Good job.

Everyone's in the business of selling stories. You tried to sell yours but I'm not buying it.
You just described pivot tables, which are well-supported by Excel and Google Sheets.
I think that stands to reason, unless the OP wants to argue it's an innate defect of the Chinese as a race - which, to be clear, I don't think anyone is arguing.

In outsourcing situations where you replace a highly-skilled and highly-paid worker with a low paid one in another country, you often get predictably bad results. Is it a cultural difference? Is it because of the compensation? Or just the attitudes of the companies involved on both sides and the kind of people they hire? I think like any complex issue, there's no one answer, but that last point sounds particularly convincing.
> I think you have this a little backwards. It's Trump who portrayed black communities like that.

lol no. But as you are pointing to a CNN article it makes sense you would think that, if thats where you were getting your news. They were trying to influence the election just as much anyone (aka the Russians), but apparently that doesn't bother anyone.
Serious question. What is the average black person? You can't just pick a single statistic and use that to define what average is. You certainly can't pick something as benign as coming from a dual family home. The average AA male is 5'10. Is he not an average black person if he is shorter or taller?

I think overall you missed his entire point, which is basically that it is at best disingenuous to categorize every black person in America as having lived a life of struggle and hardship and at worst racist. His being an entrepreneur is certainly exceptional but his upbringing really isn't. Yet the publication in question basically made the decision that his "blackness" wasn't good material because it didn't contain that element of struggle. That's fine from a narrative perspective I guess but I think he is certainly within his rights to be offended by it.
This is a marker quote.
Ahh damn shame, I hadn't seen this.
What's that game called, "Don't Stop Moving?" That integrated Twitch streaming so awesomely? If this news means more of that, I'm all for it, I had a blast participating in that game.
I think the point is that there is no king. Or rather, kings are manufactured at will based on outrage, and outrage is dependent on delivery. Land the joke, and no one calls treason on you. Whiff and there's an angry mob with pitchforks.

I think that's why you see a lot of people saying that none of this was surprising for people who knew his material before hand. And I think the comparison elsewhere to shock-jocks is very apt. Such material is often suddenly found lacking when it gains an audience wider than it was targeted for.

And this also plays into the wider idea of, how responsible should a speaker be for "triggering" [0] a listener? That's a very heavy burden when your audience suddenly -- and not necessarily intentionally -- becomes "everyone".

[0] Yes, this is a somewhat lax usage of that term. However, it is also a common usage, so I use it as such.
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Probably we fucked up and would get crucified if it came out
Yes, still thats a lot of money we got for destructing the world...quiet nice if u ask me.

That money is worth a lot more nowadays.
When and where has race not been a defining characteristic?
Hell no. Unix philosophy is an empty naive dream.

It was good for its time but right now it can only seduce a young inexperienced student with basic examples that fall apart quickly.

Oh look we can read a file with "cat" then we pipe it into "wc -l" to count the lines just like this "cat file.txt | wc -l" WOW!

Isn't that a genius simple philosophy of "do one thing and do it well?".

It is, but only on a very shallow level.

It is a practice that actively encourages throwing away information. Mangling it up in ad-hoc data structures then relying on more ad-hoc arbitrary text parsing to extract the information.

Then you end up with "cat | awk | sed | tr | perl | kill-me-now --force | bullshit --verbose | xargs crap 2>&1".

It creates problems then wants you to applaud it for solving them with crufty tools?

No thank you.

It was nice for hobbyists sitting behind slow terminals saving keystrokes in the 80s.

It's no longer appropriate today.

A huge percentage of the problems that we deal with today are "artificial" because we have decided not to embrace sane universal methods of data transport/transform at a core level.

So you just have to shovel things back and forth from one subsystem to another.

Today I'd be impressed by a software system/philosophy where each component is in perfect harmony with the others.

An operating system whose state, packages and configuration is stored and managed via a proper database.

Programs that communicate with each other in structured form so every piece of input and output that you need is right there for you to consume.

I could go on but that's enough for now. Phew.
https://jsonip.com serves something north of 10 million requests a day last time I checked. It's a free service I've run for years. I'm open to suggestions.
Yes, that's a good point. He just expresses it in a rather unusual way.
"The fact that Glimmer templates are "just HTML" makes them accessible to people like designers who may not understand all of the fancy destructuring or array mapping happening in your JSX."

isn't this like, at least a little backwards? JSX is HTML and JS. templating languages are HTML with some custom DSL.

destructuring and especially mapping are pretty simple concepts. creating a new syntax to cater to people who couldn't learn one in the first place seems counterintuitive?

is teaching someone a for loop really at all (let alone significantly) easier than teaching them to map an array?

edit: "creating a new syntax to cater to people who couldn't learn one in the first place seems counterintuitive?" on second read this seems thoughtless. isn't that almost the whole point of a DSL? i think you and i have convinced myself to stop hating on templates.
cool idea. how has the response been? i've had ideas for similar micro projects for personal workflow and task management but haven't pulled the trigger.
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It seems to me that people viewed Tencent's purchase as signifying confidence in Tesla from a legitimate, cash-stacked player.

As a result, it was all aboard the hype-train for retail investors to secure their seat in yet another speculative rocket ship.

Tesla's ability to deliver has been in question for a bit. This cash will be used as fuel to prevent the rocket ship from experiencing a sudden, gravity-induced trajectory into the earth's crust
Amusing trivia from the article: Geoffrey Hinton is the great-great-grandson of George Boole.