skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your assumptions are not valid. Subways usually go much more often than once per 10 minutes.
Is it the same issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409?
Mainly I got into it because I hated debugging code for missing semicolons and curly braces. I'm a neat freak, and Python is, too.
So frustrating.

The Vancouver acquarium was one of the top cetacean health, care, and research institutes in the world. It was one of the models of how good a captive and public educational environment can be. Thanks to campaigns like this one, they had to close down and transfer their rescue orcas to the only organizations that could take them... Which turned out to be SeaWorld, where they died shortly after. Of course, SeaWorld is notorious for terrible conditions for the animals.

It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don't understand these magnificent creatures, don't feel any special connection to them. For many in my generation, it feels like a betrayal on the part of our local environmentalist movement. They killed our orcas and disconnected our children from one of the most amazing parts of their environment. They destroyed the model that powered legislative attempts to protect cetaceans around the world.

We had a similar story with the beavers in Stanley park - our environmenal lobby campaigned to have the city stop dredging "Beaver lake", because it disturbed the beavers. They stopped dredging, the lake filled with silt and most of the beavers (and other wildlife) died. Now they're debating starting dredging again, to save the one surviving beaver.

For people like me that care about our environment and the animals we share it with, it's rage inducing. The naturalist fallacy at work. :/
No people fear updates from M$ because M$ has a bad history of bricking devices and pushing hidden privacy-harming updates without consorting their users.

Or maybe it's the fact that Windows has to restart after every single software update.

Really it's astounding that Microsoft provides this kind of awful updating experience and then inseminates propoganda into people's minds that those who don't auto update their W10 boxes are stupid and endangering themselves.

If you use Windows 10 in general, you are stupid and endangering yourself.
Well, Microsoft did try really hard, it was called "continuum", but the fall of windows mobile brought that dream to an end.

The other company that tried was Ubuntu, their effort was called Unity if I'm correct. That was axed recently as they needed to focus on profit-making parts of the company. Also, I don't think any mainstream ubuntu phone with unity was ever released.

Finally, Apple's strategy is clearly different, they see iOS and macOS as clearly different beasts, and will probably never try to directly merge the two. Data-sharing is the way to go for them.
And Oregon is in between along with Northern California and a lot of Washington state. Every local politician is going to want a stop to develop its own startup hub.
Maybe, maybe not. It's not just $65k plus fees and expenses, its also the opportunity cost of having sunk a year into this.

How long would it take to recuperate those losses on a product manager salary?

Perhaps just landing an entry level product manager job would teach you the practical skills you need, and you get paid for doing it instead of the other way around.
Works just as well until one of the types leaks accidentally by confusion. This is why you should have your exception types derive from common ones so that they can be reasonably caught by general handlers.
> through regular journalists

Regular journalists who had to flee the country and eventually start their own publication in order to continue to be able to publish the investigative stories spawned by the information.

Greenwald did not return to the US for quite some time out of legitimate fear that he'd be arrested and jailed immediately upon entry.
Walk, ask to be removed from any day to day duties in the operating agreement. Not a bad idea to have a business attorney handle it for you.
Can someone give me some insight which sort of 'IT job' or 'programming' jobs are being replaced by automation? With a background in engineering, makes sense in manufacturing industry but in software development?
> you just ask them to drive into a tunnel

Presumably whether this system is privately or publicly operated, there would be a major toll associated with its use. So the ask isn't just "drive into a tunnel", it's "drive into a tunnel and pay $$$", compared with a new subway line integrated with the existing mass transit system (trains and buses) and under the same fare.
Looks to have infected Windows 7 machines based on some of the screenshots : https://4.bp.blogspot.com/--Tzl_0ABu-Y/WRs-KUrQWzI/AAAAAAAAB...

Thought it was only an XP thing?
Lots of printers and printer controllers run embedded Windows. I was just experimenting with a Ricoh 8100s controller last week.

People tend to forget that Microsoft was founded as a systems software company. For a long time, that's all they did. Then, later came office apps, Internet Explorer, Hotmail, etc.
Yes, of course, but not exactly.

I mean, I know RoR likes magic very much, but it's not totally surprising to separate the backend from the frontend.

And then use a SPA framework and use Ajax to communicate with the backend via a "REST API", because that simplifies the backend. A lot. You don't have to have views, templates, and so on implemented.

So either the REST API is not a REST API, but a lot of interesting endpoints for the frontend dynamic JS magic, or the frontend is not a frontend, just a lot of glitter thrown up on a REST API.

(I quickly tried to get something in JSON from a GitLab URL, but I just get a HTTP 406. :( )
Sort of. She's on unpaid active duty with the Army still while her appeals wind through the legal system, and thus subject to the UCMJ.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/05/14/chel...
Logging company sues Greenpeace
There's no great solution here. Some thoughts...

- The more you try to hang onto, the less the other founders will have an incentive to keep going on this startup

- If you are a jerk, they may decide to start another company that does the same darn thing, and it'll be expensive to sue them

- If you quit before the money is raised, you might tank the raise

- If you quit before the money is raised, you might find yourself without an ability to defend your piece of the pie

I like the "is it reasonable for me to keep 10% of it"? I say yes, but you're not me, and I don't have all of the details. Again, there's no great solution here. However it goes down, if you want to win, you'll have to maintain the trust of your cofounders to avoid getting screwed.
How much of that is due to taxes?
Is it the same problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14358275?
Show HN: Create time-limited links with self-closing tabs to distracting sites
>Indian companies can't charge my debit or credit card just because they have the card number, expiry and CVV. I have to approve each transaction with my bank.

True for Indian companies but what if you get charged via Forex abroad? For me - Google or Steam - don't required 2FA. All I have to do is to enter my number, confirm CVV then zap. It gets debited. I do get a call from my bank (HDFC) asking if this transaction has been initiated by me, if I say yes, they let go.
PC are now a commodity in most countries (sadly not in all), so unless there is a very compelling reason to upgrade, no one among non technical users will do it, even less when the new OS isn't compatible with their existing software.
Another couple of big ones I remember:

Sobig, 2003. In particular I recall that media was talking about Sobig.F - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobig

Mydoom, 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mydoom
Maybe you can use a credit card that allows you to generate virtual card numbers with dollar limits. I use one all the time.
I just realized there is more than one address, entering them all in
where is your money going? According to wikipedia, the average net annual income in Lithuania is around 7,400EUR (or 8,000USD) so you are in a very high income bracket for your country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...

The fact that you say your kid is going to the best private school and yet you can't afford other luxuries (while clearly holidaying regularly) makes me think you may be disconnected from the average person's idea of what a luxury is.
The most common method of valuation for splits I've heard is the shotgun clause into "offer what you're willing to accept" methodology.

As in, offer a price to buy me out - but you have to be willing to accept the same price for your share (which is the incentive to make a fair offer). Ofc i've only seen it in 2 person partnerships but imagine can be generalised.
Try https://twitter.com/actual_ransom
Please offer more details on the harm caused by the foreign activities stuff.
I was surprised to see that the article hardly mentions the logical fear of huge medical bills that are quite frequent in the US.
I think your "counterpoint" is a more of a "hey maybe our president needs said sticker" argument.
Either inserts a conditional and union dereference. Unions are pretty terrible on their own to optimize, even with strict aliasing.

The pointer dereference and call overhead is not big and error handling code is supposed to be cold anyway.
As someone who attended CMU for an MBA and took product management courses in the SCS, it's likely worth it. The classes I took from SCS around use-case driven design, project management of software projects, and platform strategy were some of the most directly-applicable classes in the entire MBA program.

By way of comparison, I think an MBA from CMU runs somewhere > $110k these days. It is one of the most expensive schools in the country (largely due to its until-recently-non-existent endowment; a rarity among top private schools). Hopefully once the settlement with Maxtor shakes out the school will end up with a healthy endowment (I know they're not getting all $10B but $2B would be a nice start for an endowment).

Also, I reject the statement that as a product manager you have no control over the resources. In a product-focused matrix organization, the product manager is ideally responsible for P&L over the product, which means they absolutely do get control over budget. Product management has changed a lot over the last 10 years, and what used to be a powerless position that was a glorified business analyst is now getting budget and control as tech companies reorganize themselves to look like CPGs.
I'm only a shade tree mechanic, but our 2014 Civic has been very reliable and easy to work on (mostly just brake pads at this point).
It doesn't affect XP at all.

Edit: At least, the versions currently in circulation don't.

https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/864193677060706306
You could've googled exactly what you quoted and included the first result in your post: http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com/
Westworld: the first film with CGI (and its source code)
The area around Chernobyl is a haven for animals for the same reasons.
Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

Clapper: "No, sir.

Wyden: "It does /not/?"

Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps but not wittingly."

https://youtu.be/AGYn7ER5U_0
“There is no question in my mind that as she navigates the future, she will remain and emerge as an even stronger advocate for trans justice, government transparency and the core principles of democracy.”

So out of prison with some pretty big expectations on her back. She'll be a figurehead forever, willingly or not; not an easy life ahead of her.
This resonates with me (though is terse on proposed solutions). As an example of a very effective UI, I use vim with multiple buffers, ctrl-p and ctags in a largish c/c++ project. It lets me fly around the code effortlessly. My colleagues are pointing and clicking through tabs in sublime text. Sure sublime is probably faster to learn, but it certainly has a lower upper bound on performance.

I would love to see the keyboard used more in modern interfaces, the discrete nature of keys can make for a crisp experience compared with the finely quantized continuous space that is the domain of the mouse. Think of problems like hunting for the right place to grab and divide a window border, key combinations could get you the same result without the hunt.
> I sincerely hope China doesn't follow Japan's trajectory. It has a large military and strong authoritarian, nationalist tendencies

You know that describes the US too?
> The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce

It clearly isn't when so many think otherwise. Otherwise, you wouldn't need to call it "virtual reality", you could just simply call it "reality"
On the other hand, I am working with tensorflow now, and they reply on stackoverflow within a day, which is really great.
3 growth marketing principles to be used in relationships
I think the way Snowden went about things was extremely professional and honorable. While we can certainly debate Manning's approach, what issue is there with snowdens leaks? He didn't just dump a ton of stuff on WikiLeaks but instead did his best to involve a well respected journalist and have them work with the authorities to ensure no one was harmed in the process. Of course the government weren't exactly cooperative at every step and the journalists certainly had their part to play as well. That said, I find it hard to fault Snowden for anything. He saw a lot of concerning things going on, did his best to provide those details to an unbiased party accustom to dealing with such matters, and he generally did his best to stay out of things.
Looking at those ammounts, some people seem to be donating BTC just for fun. 0.0001337 BTC won't decrypt anything :D
Dyson aims to build on sales with R&D centre in China
Yikes ! Do these(Google Cloud) guys not know that they are competing with AWS and Azure ? Do they not realize support and billing practices and trust are competitive advantages ?
I put this article together after reading and commenting in this earlier HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279870

I think there's a real attitude when starting as a side project to go with rock bottom pricing, feeling like it's the only way to compete with the more established players. Unfortunately, I think this hinders the progress of many exciting projects and slows down their early growth. In short, you almost definitely can and probably should charge more.
I hope you also don't complain about lack of quality of free content.
> Tunnels would be too expensive

> Houston is too big

Sounds like a job for Musk, to be quite honest. He's pretty good at driving down costs.

> corruption

Now there's a statement I can, sadly, agree with. :(
This is absolutely the best strategy in my opinion. If they would sell the company 1 month after you leave, you'd still have almost the same percentage as they would, which is fair. If they'd stick around for another 16 month and then exit, your share would be diluted, which is also fair.
I applied for a new credit card with a low credit limit and I am using this card for all my SAAS payments
"Ideally they vote with their wallets and just leave Google, but again that's just easier said than done in many cases."

That's the ONLY thing that will ever make this change, but it rarely happens because "sunk cost" rationalizations (and "maybe it'll get better next year!").

Shouting from the rooftops for years has not worked. This is not anywhere near a 'new' problem.

Yes, possibly some people don't know it, and yeah, I totally get that "you'll just have to live with poor decisions made on your behalf.".

I live with poor decisions all the time (mine and others'). But the notion that we can bitch about it on forums, or make 'formal' requests for better support - none of that makes a lick of difference to them (or, demonstrably hasn't for several years). It's "google", so some people will flock to it because of the brand, or because it's not azure, or aws, or whatever. Or to tick the 'cloud' box on their spreadsheet. Or because google gave them thousands in free credits to switch.

"Some semblance of professionalism shouldn't be too much to ask from one of the world's biggest corporations, an ask coming from paying customers no less."

But... it demonstrably is, and has been.

And... you'll get a client who will say "I can't believe this, email someone, get this fixed". At some point you have to push back and say "no, this is simply not fixable, you have to live with XYZ, or pay the cost of moving somewhere else".

An extremely large customer, maybe, possibly, might have a bit of say, perhaps. But even if you're dropping millions with them... for a company that measures revenue in hundreds of millions of dollars per day, you probably won't hold much sway. If you had that sort of budget to spend, and it was that critical, you'd likely be doing enough due diligence that research in to actual support/service levels (vs what the sales contact tells you) would be on the agenda.

Vote with the wallet is the only viable/impactful approach, and people have to be willing to forgo the sunk costs.

And for people that don't know up front - they always had the opportunity to search (google) beforehand. If they choose not to - caveat emptor.

10 years ago, we could possibly be forgiven for choosing google's services (GAE, etc) because there wasn't as much of a track record to look at re: support, etc. There's no good excuse for starting a project today on google compute and claiming ignorance of their support levels.
Definitely scorched Earth style. There is precedent -- https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.seroundtable.com/amp/archiv...

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/213176
>My daughter brought home a record of "LOUIE LOUIE", and, I, after reading that the record had been banned from being played on the air because it was obscene, proceeded to try to decipher the jumble of words,

>The lyrics are so filthy that I can-not enclose them in this letter.

When I read things like this it makes me sad, because my imagination is nowhere near as active as this.

The lyrics on the following page don't even make sense. How does "Away we go"/"We gotta go" become "crab her way down low"? What does that even mean?

>This land of ours is headed for an extreme state of moral degradation what with this record, the biggest hit movies and the sex and violence exploited on T.V.

I'm surprised this letter didn't outright say the record was trying to make his daughter sleep with people of different races. What a tool.
I've always been fascinated by this idea; the possibility that a few of the highly popular or charismatic people you come across are actually psychopaths with a well constructed 'mask'. Indeed, one of the phrases that is used to describe this concept in general is 'the mask of sanity'.
Does that matter if every Google service is run like the one in the article? That sounds a bit like saying you'll ruin any potential friendship you could have if you fought back against a bully
Advice for working with recruiters?
I am currently working for a startup but am about to leave. As I'm sure many of you are familiar with, I get lots of recruiters reaching out to me even when I already have a job.

Is it worth working with recruiters?
Should I let all of them know I'm looking for a job?
Should I only work with one of them?
They all want to have phone calls. Is there a faster way to fill them all in without a phone call with each one?
Any other advice?
For those unfamiliar, this is the song: https://youtu.be/1RZJ4ESU52U
My sensitivity to the difference between these terms comes from reading Ray Kurzweil's (and many others') bullshit arguments about how humans will eventually become immortal through technology. He intentionally conflates trends in life expectancy with longevity, as do other charlatans who will sell you a cryogenic chamber or life extending elixir. Having life expectancy increase does not mean that large numbers of humans are going to start living to be older than 100 years. The longevity of humans has been around 80 years and barely changing for thousands of years. The life expectancy of different regions has varied wildly depending on how many people die young.

I'm fairly stunned if you work in this field that you wouldn't have heard of the concept of longevity, or at least maximum lifespan, as something distinct and opposed to life expectancy. It's quite important to rule out accidental causes of death if you want to have any chance of understanding how long humans can possibly live. Being able to make statements about diet and exercise requires being able to factor out all car and sports accidents from the average.

Here's what Wikipedia says: "Longevity, maximum lifespan, and life expectancy are not synonyms. Life expectancy is defined statistically as the mean number of years remaining for an individual or a group of people at a given age. Longevity refers to the characteristics of the relatively long life span of some members of a population. Maximum lifespan is the age at death for the longest-lived individual of a species. Moreover, because life expectancy is an average, a particular person may die many years before or many years after the "expected" survival. The term "maximum life span" has a quite different meaning and is more related to longevity."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy

To be fair, the Longevity entry echoes what you said, that some people use it as a synonym.

My hope was that the NIH would be more careful, because they're scientists working in the field, and they know better than to use vague terms that have easily misunderstood meanings.

> No one dies of old age.

True, but you know exactly what I mean, right? Whatever you want to call it, natural causes? Ideal conditions? What is the correct term for people who grow old and don't die of an accident?
The reason we're all here, support. One of the reasons GoDaddy is a company I still use and have used for years is that they have 24/7 telephone support that's reasonably decent. I have called and gotten domain issues sorted by GoDaddy at 2 AM on a Sunday by a dude who didn't have a foreign accent.

I'm not a big account with them, surely trivial compared to those mass domain parkers you mention, but they've never made me feel like I was less valued as a customer. I have received calls from humans just to ask me if I am currently satisfied with my service with them.

Especially if you have a business-critical service, this should simply be a baseline requirement for support, but it's becoming shockingly rare these days.
How do these compare to other alternatives for minimising blue light exposure?
I think my customers would be quite annoyed if they were served junk data. The only result they care about is getting the correct output.

And I'm not saying it will necessarily lead to fewer bugs. What I'm really saying is that allows one to debug identify and fix the bugs easily, or easier than some other alternatives such as printing some error message to some log and then (possibly) continuing in UB land while silently corrupting state and then finally causing some new weird error (or crash if you're lucky).

So what I'm really advocating that dumping the core gives you two benefits:

- simplifies your code when you don't try to write logic to deal with broken logic itself.

- simplifies bug detection, analysis and fixing.

Together these two translate to more correct programs assuming that you actually go and fix the problems

Also you didn't answer my question. I'd like to see what kind of kludges you'd recommend.
The sudden emotion is "hey, that was neato" but that feeling doesn't last and often doesn't serve the content at all.