skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nice! I'm using cloudflare for https://presskithero.com, where I offer custom domain names for my customers, and upgrading them to ssl would be great!

But from the article:

>> I’m interested in learning more. How can I get started using SSL for SaaS?

>> If you’re not already a Cloudflare customer, give us your name and contact info and someone on our team will reach out to you; be sure to mention SSL for SaaS in the request. If you’re an existing Cloudflare customer, ask your Customer Success Manager.

I'm on the free plan, and have no idea who my Customer Success Manager is, or if I have one. So, maybe it's a reserved feature for paying customers?
For a true view of Chinese economy, look from the sky: N.Y. Fed
>Frankly, millennials were completely robbed by the generation before them in the United States.

Do you seriously think its "generations of people" that do stuff to other generations?

The ones making the calls for all those things were the 0.1% then and are 0.1% now, regardless of whether they are 30 year olds or baby boomers.
I think he's just referring to the high amount of tax he'd pay on the additional 30% pay
I've been meaning to read this essay which I believe argues that with index funds so big, prices are determined by the remaining investors who think they know better than the market -- which in theory should mean that the market gets even better information than it has now and determines prices even more accurately: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passive/

I'm not 100% sure I understand the argument or have presented it correctly. It's reassuring.

The other takeaway here is that if you have a theory that ETFs are going to become increasingly popular, you could "test" that theory by investing directly in companies with run ETFs.

For example you could buy some NYSE:STT or NYST:BLK and that might help you invest in "people pay a premium for the liquidity and other benefits of ETFs". Of course, you'd want to believe that that theory will outperform the S&P 500 :)
I have; good stuff
Looks pretty cool, I'd love to have something like that. Preferably something which you could tweak to output C++ code matching company code style guidelines.
I'm there too, except Drunk Swift. I tried Drunk React/Redux a few times but almost died.
What do you mean by "actual gender"?
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel_(wargame) is a pretty old one.
Yep, I do exactly the same thing. Works really well. Another thing that helps use stuff in the fridge is following recipes as suggestions instead of strict ingredient lists. Swapping out different root vegetables for example.
> Also, ban H1B outsourcing.

No need to ban it. Just adjust the salary to REAL IT salaries.

From the article:

> The Economist found that between 2012 and 2015 the three biggest Indian outsourcing firms—TCS, Wipro and Infosys—submitted over 150,000 visa applications for positions that paid a median salary of $69,500

Essentially, these Indian firms are wage dumping by paying lower than US market.

If they had to pay 90K+ USD for these H1Bs, the number of applications would drastically reduce.
I try to think of the "market" as a pond. The customers are the fish. If you manage to catch a few fish, but can't hold on to them because your product isn't ready yet, it's not the end of the world. At that point, you know that some of the fish like your bait, and there are probably more out there who will want it when the product is ready.
Microsoft and Facebook are also using Haskell in production.
Well I am primarily a NetBackup guy, so those emergencies happen a lot more frequently than you'd think :) And yes, I'm fine with working late when needed.
It seems like you should propose your project to Sony, not to HN, or maybe I am completely missing the scope of it.

Anyway, I would add a "in my opinion" to the sentence:

>More than ever, Sony has become irrelevant as a provider of our everyday devices. Sony needs to rebrand itself as well as simplify and streamline its offerings.
are you anticipating that female engineers use different languages than male engineers?
Unfortunately I believe SolidWorks is only available for certain engineering majors, not CS students. But I just found out yesterday that apparently I have access to the entire Autodesk suite.
The Bose Connect App is not a special feature.

It's promoted as the only way to update the headphones and to control what they connect to over Bluetooth.
What I think would be interesting is: what if a company like this made an app like this, but then clearly stated to users that it'd be collecting data on them and sending it to marketers? They could even pitch it as helping to keep prices "low". How much would this hurt sales? Would it even hurt sales at all? Given the proliferation of "smart TVs" and various IoT devices, I'm extremely skeptical that a company would experience any decrease in sales by simply being honest about their collection of data. The only reason these companies are getting in trouble is because they're sneaky and dishonest and try to hide their data-collection activities. Google has a gigantic business involving collecting user data, without hiding this fact, and they're extremely successful.
Blockchains are public databases. So wouldn't really be a solution for privacy in this case.
1) Python, Bash, and Go in a mix of Vim, Sublime text, and PyCharm.

2) Look at the docs (of which I always keep a local copy), and the source code (of which I try and keep a local copy).

I want to understand not only how to solve the problem at hand, but what caused the problem. Not understanding the cause of the problem will lead to a solution which will only sometimes work, because it misses some other leak in the abstraction.

I believe that a big reason why I work this way is that I started programming when the internet was still in its infancy, and the official documentation and my coworkers was pretty much all I had to work from.

Now then, this isn't always possible, but when I can't figure it out (and my own coworkers can't figure it out - they're my second resource), I find that the SO answers are some combination of wrong, under-documented, out of date, or just have questions with no answers.

As much as I prefer to continue with 2, I do appreciate Google and its ilk when I come upon some really sticky problems - but it only really occurs a few times a quarter.

EDIT:

> are there optional parameters in .len()?

Official docs will answer this very quickly, no IDE required. Of course, having an IDE can be quite useful.

For Python - Standard Library - Built In - length()

For Javascript - MDN -> Standard Objects - Array - Array.length

And so forth.
Yeah this has definitely been nice.
>Yes in the sense that the prior generation enjoyed tremendous social/government benefits, that they then systematically dismantled when they came into power.

The people that came into power dismantled them, no the generation.

The people in power before them, and after them equally were for dismantling things.
I think your last link for Traction is incorrect.
Perhaps I misunderstand, but you are speaking of going from C++ to Nim, while I have to be able to go from Nim to C++ as co-workers are not going to want to look at Nim code. Nim would have to be a personal tool for me to write C++ faster.
> A systematic mis-pricing of 0.1% is worth $18 billion dollars.

Can you expand on what exactly that means?
Anyone knows what they used to render the plots?
Hello, now Redis (4.0, still in release candidate) supports LFU (Least Frequently Used) which should work better in most cases since LRU also is also just a way to approximate LFU, since the most frequently used items are often the last recently used ones.
We some of the tools we have for working with human intelligence like persuasions based on empathy and negotiations based on aligned interests and convincings based on ordinary facts about the world. A human intelligence can recognize the error of its ways.
SHIP IT. Even when you are embarrassed about it. Ship it and try to sell your ugly baby. If you can't sell it, ask why and iterate on that.

I've seen what happens when you keep the product secret, trying to perfect it before you show it to the world. You'll run out of money making a pretty baby that no one wants.
From the Privacy Policy in the app:

http://i.imgur.com/rQZYTvT.png

http://i.imgur.com/0YD1D9l.png
Looks like they just combined LRU + LFU + a victim cache. Or is there something more insightful about its design?
> Perhaps buying a similar asset, holding that instead of the other, wait for the original to go down

If you're presupposing the assets are similar, this is unlikely to happen to any significant degree.

The standard way to increase your odds of being able to tax loss harvest is to own as many different uncorrelated securities as possible. You can take this to mean a fund per industry (as Betterment and Wealthfront do) or even to the extreme of only owning individual companies. That way, some are up and some are down, and you can TLH. The more slices you divide your portfolio up into, the longer you'll be able to do it. But I think realistically (especially factoring in inflation), this strategy will stop giving results before 15 years.
Warning: anecdotes and small sample sizes ahead.

True, but most people I've bumped into who write C# do it professionally, and have built up a body of knowledge. By contrast, most people I know (including me) who have messed around with Haskell, have...messed around with Haskell.

I could be way off here, but I'd guess that there is a smaller percentage of mature Haskell programmers within the Haskell community than mature C# programmers in the C# community.
I'd hate to be your coworker. You ought to Google your issues before interrupting someone else's flow.
First of all, not all "hitting" is equal. There is a significant difference between punishment (spanking) and abuse (beating). I got the belt as a child from my father when my mother's time-outs or light spanks weren't enough. I certainly deserved and needed it to correct my behavior.

Second, the difference is your spouse is your equal while your children are dependents. You cannot reasonably punish your equal. You can only reason with her. As a parent however, it is your duty to teach, guide, and discipline your children on how to behave. Depending on the child, harsher punishment may be required to ensure the right values are instilled (I certainly needed it).
I wish all my competitors would take this advice.
> homegrown garbage collection

You could say the same about shadow dom rendering: "Your own homegrown DOM renderer?". But in practice, it has a good reason to exist (performance vs. real DOM) and nearly zero usability issues (it is completely invisible to the developer, "it just works").

If they hadn't considered "garbage collection" (cache eviction, really) then it would have been seriously difficult to manage from outside Relay (and would partly defeat the point of using it).
Yup, cppreference is a great resource, and fast to find answers in (I've found).
Vanguard is not as passive as you think. they don't trade often, but they do trade. Their S&P500 fund doesn't just hold stocks in the S&P500, it also holds other stocks that could have been but S&P500 had S&P not limited the index to 500 stocks. Vanguard fund managers regularly make active decisions on what stocks to buy/sell.

Vanguard is not nearly as active is most mutual funds, but they are not entirely passive either.
The time charts are labeled "local time", so I'd assume they're using ip geolocation or profile info to normalize everyone's times.
You can't stay for more than 6 years on an H1B unless your employer files a PERM application, has that approved, and then you/your employer files an I-140, and that is also approved. In other words, if your employer never filed a PERM, or never had one approved, you have to leave after a maximum of 6 years.

Green card applications for Indians (and to a lesser extent Chinese and Mexicans) are backed up for decades. So you're looking at people who filed PERMs in the last decade and are still waiting for green cards. They're allowed to stay on the H1B, which is why we have 800k people on H1Bs today. But these people are not working for Infosys, they're working for Google and Microsoft.

The 86,000 number contains 20,000 visas allocated to people who have graduate degrees from US universities. I don't think any of these folks are working for Indian consulting firms. So that leaves about 66,000 visas and 40,000 of those, at most, go the consulting firms. I did make an error in my math, which is not accounting for the fact you can stay for 6 years on this visa. Anecdotally, I know that most people of these people leave after about 2-3 years, when their "project" ends. But anyway, let's assume the worst case. You may have 240,000 people in the US on an H1B and working for an Indian tech consulting firm. That is still a small fraction of 3.6 million.
It's funny that his name is "Caseiro" — means someone who likes staying at home in Portuguese.
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i think the main contribution from this is just finding a way to get the frames from the game into opencv. Would be interesting to see a more "real" self driving ai method with this. I.E. a CNN
Millennials are the largest generation in US history.

And the problem isn't keeping GDP growing, it is growing it enough to pay for spending obligations.

And we sort of obviously don't have resource problems, we have a problem with matching supply and demand.

The likely fix is rampant inflation. Erases debt, erases the value of property relative to wages, etc.
Yes! 1,000 times this.

Everyone thinks that when they announce their product is released that they'll have hundreds of signups the minute you launch.

What really happens is no one notices or cares.

You have to put on your sales hat before you launch.
Redis does a much better thing in recent versions: it uses a few samples per iteration, but instead of discarding the accumulated data, it takes a pool of good candidates to re-check in the next iteration, so the approximation to LRU is very close compared to vanilla "among 3" algorithms. Moreover since the performance was improved, now the default is to look at 5 items making the algorithm better. More than the precision of LRU itself, I'm more intrigued with the potential improvements that LFU (Redis >= 4.0) can provide, but being 4.0 just in RC state, most users are currently just using LRU.
One of the biggest(.) Google projects with Haskell is probably Ganeti ( https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti ), which is a mix of python and Haskell and has been around since 2008ish (although Haskell was introduced later, iirc).

We recently moved our main development to github so the repo seems a bit empty, we're certainly happy to get more contributors if you are interested, as the community is fairly small and specialized. Everyone is welcome.

Source: I'm one of the current main developers of the project.

(.) Note: I actually have no idea if it's the 'biggest'.
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And so something that falls entirely within both the letter and spirit of those regulations wouldn't be something a person would have protections for 'whistleblowing', right? Since it's not really whistleblowing in those cases.
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This article can be read the other way around. The article talks about 'interruptions' but what they describe are NECESSARY stuffs like having the plumber over, or going to the post office, or taking care of your child.

When you start working from home you realize that while you were in the office, none of the stuffs that actually matters to you (besides your career) get priority:

- send that mail to ask for a refund: it's been on the dining table for months.

- fix that sink: meh... the plumber would not come on Saturdays

- buy a new bbq to have friends over: I'll go next week.

- doing your taxes: I'll hire some accountant to do it.

- wanna buy an apt: I'll do the visits after 7pm please.

Yeah, doing all these stuffs is annoying, but going to the office just to get away from chores seem like a terrible advice to me.
I agree with you a bit. But I also think there's a danger in assuming every anecdote is a data point, which is best expressed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWr39Q9vBgo

(Short video with Richard Feynman)... tl;dv - it's very hard to know something and you have to be really careful that you've done the work and aren't just deluding yourself.

Or, to put it differently - every anecdote is really only a data point if you understand what exactly it's measuring and what has been excluded. If you haven't taken the care necessary, then it's very easy to draw false conclusions. People are really bad witnesses and really bad at seeing what is and isn't given in the information they think they have - particularly if the anecdote is time-shifted from the point it was taken.
Suing companies for improving your products is not a great idea.
This kind of thinking works out if you personally value your time at an hourly rate, and consider the whole commute time as lost and unpaid.

For example, say you value your time at ~$50/hr, and the train costs $8/day, and there are 20 work days in a month. If your daily commute takes 2.5 hrs, that's $2660/month in value to you. If your marginal income tax rate is 28%, then to actually get that amount of additional spending money you'd need to make $2660/.72 = $3695/month. This would be a 30% raise if you currently make about 12k/month (144k/yr).
Facebook's model of popularity and personal relevance to the top will never be the right platform for news. It alarms me that it's the #1 news source for like 70% of adults in the US.

More alarming is how this trend is matched with the move away from hard news towards 'pundit celebrity' commentary by almost all networks.

I think there's something in the human psyche where the best feelings come from confirmation of your own biases. This hack wasn't useful when only a few network news programs had to appeal to mass audiences, but it's provided really useful as media has splintered and become personalized.

I have this weird personal exercise where I pull up 5 different news tabs all at once. It's AMAZING how different the world looks from different websites, all coving the same events from drastically different perspectives. There has always been slant, but it's become 10x worse in the last decade.
Yes. So far Learn You a Haskell for Great Good has translated to "learn a little Haskell to kill some free time".
Even the first one doesn't really count in my books because the partner had died. Find me an example of a Japanese nuclear family where both parents are still alive and the kid lives at home.
Gender at birth
I find it interesting how during the daytime hours, most languages are in the Microsoft camp...
I'll go!

Day job is C#, and C++ mostly, with a good bit of Java, bash, perl tossed in. Personally, I find MSDN sufficient for most of my questions re: C#. For the rest, mostly blog posts, TBH.

Side projects I use Python. Again blog posts and docs are all I need.

I wouldn't say I never use SO, but I can't remember the last time I posted a question and I rarely use it as a resource for looking up information.
No. Which people and pages's posts I get to see because I follow them is up to me no matter how many times I click on their content. I am old enough to unsubscribe or ignore them by myself.

Facebook filter should be an opt-in.
I mean, this is probably laissez faire capitalism at its best (worst?). But we, as a community, as a culture and as a Nation, have to decide on what kind of things to prioritize. Do we really want markets to have a free hand in everything? Historically this has not turned out well.

Let me say that I don't necessarily disagree...many people here seem to forget the tremendous migration of people that took place in the US when the economy moved from agrarian to industrial, so its not unprecedented, neither is it undesirable. But we do need to think the consequences through rather than simply "Let the markets operate".
why is that? and what sort of differences in choice do you anticipate?
Part of capitalism is the freedom to do stupid stuff that ultimately hurts the company. It's part of how smarter companies are supposed to get ahead.
http://stuff.imeos.org/dropzone/jargnars_business-advice-for...
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I completely agree (and said in my post) that any single anecdote can come with all sorts of problems.

I just believe there are too many people repeating such criticism thinking it'll make them sound smart, when in reality, they wouldn't be able to function if they didn't trust single data points almost all of the time.

Most of these occasions don't appear to be "trials" to us, but they actually are. Examples:

- "I really enjoyed that restaurant and will go back there soon"

- "Don't take a taxi from the airport! The train is much cheaper and the taxi driver just ripped me off"

- "The Hitchhikers' Guide is a great book–I should read another one by Douglas Adams".

-...

All these are essentially statistical trials with n=1. What makes single experiences in these cases possibly relevant is (among other things) our believe in the low variability of what we're measuring: A restaurant's quality doesn't usually change dramatically from one day to the next etc...

Then, there are more complex examples, where learning from n=1 is slightly more dubious, but without alternatives: "Don't start a land war in Eurasia", or the other German saying: "It happened, therefore it can happen again". On a more personal level, we all have to learn an awful lot about human relationships from a very limited set of experiences.
Correction? Working from home with kids and no control over distractions considered harmful?

I've done the best work of my life working the better part of the last decade and a half from a junior fortress of solitude.

But since TANSTAAFL holds, it did nothing good for my social life so I try to blend office time with solitude now.

And your experience will vary. I'm just another data point after all.
"There are maybe a handful of books and blog posts that are really worthwhile."

Can you recommend one or two favorites?
What I'd really like is the correlation between different kinds of tools, languages etc. and forced overtime...
>English "Official Secrets Act" maximum sentence (currently 2 years)

> This is the same maximum sentence available for an unauthorised disclosure that, to take one example, damages the capability of the armed forces to carry out their tasks.

I had to look that up - that's incredible. For all the fuss made about it 2 years seems very short. I was under the impression these kind of things carried passive penalties. Though I guess there's extra charges if you reveal secrets to an enemy or something.