skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't this apply to most any job? People are by nature grumblers, and they grumble about work. Why should software development be special?
This is similar to giving police bonuses as a percentage of tickets value handed out.

It's a perverse incentive that encourages the law enforcement to act corrupt.
I would suggest trying a simple game framework such as Löve or pyGame (or pyglet). The former use the lua language and the latter python. I guess Scratch could also be interesting, but I think some 13 year olds may not be attracted by it's "childish" appearance.
The Clean Coder is a good guide for individual engineers, but I don't know one for managers.
Completely disagree.

I want to be able to pay more for quality content and pay less for buzzfeed articles. I want content creators to be able to charge based on the the content they are producing.

I prefer a world where I can stop in a fine dining restaurant or a fast-food place, get the experience I want and be charged appropriately. I don't want a top of the line steak-house to have to find a way to serve my meal, while only receiving McDonald's priced payments. That's the problem with the current web.
I tried explaining blockchain to my wife and here's what happened
Why can't every payment being sent to someone, simply be digitally taxed?

Why do I get paid and automatically get taxed during this process, but a footballer doesn't?

It is bullshit
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That's a problem specific to the Node.js NPM ecosystem.

However Javascript (in its current ES7 version) is a pretty good language.
I find SnakeViz much more simple and user-friendly.
Representative democracies exist so that a people can choose representatives who will inform themselves better than the people who elected them can or has the resources to and then make informed decisions that will that will be the most beneficial to the people represented, even if those decisions may not be immediately popular among the represented.

This is why we don't make popular consultations for every policy decision.
Previous thread (5 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14432854
He's withdrawing from the PCA and looking to renegotiate under different terms. To sum it up, the PCA is basically trying to get tax payer money from western countries to fund solar and wind for the third world. The costs will be astronomical compared to free-enterprise and the rest is going to be split among the African warlords. If the aim would really be to save the earth, they should have no problem with the renegotiation and also - the green energy would be built in western countries, also providing jobs.
Ok but anyway, either they were ignorant or they simply lied in the press release. Choose freely what shows the project members in a better light! (Neither? ;)

My initial quotation was this from the press release:

The architects said the aluminium design is derived from John Conway's Game of Life 'cellular automaton',

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/could-ca...

You can't protect this with some kind of "we all come from gogol's overcoat", mentality. If it is true then they should have put a Gogol image there! ;)
Mindfulness is something that should be practiced.
It's perspective that helps me. After all nothing really matters that much at all....
We are all just passing through.
Maybe I got a little too Zen there... But hey keep busy being happy, move away from negative influences
The 9/11 attackers lived in the US on student visas. Some did pilot training in the US. I believe most of the recent European terrorists have been legally in those countries (and for that matter, the domestic right wing terrorists in the US, and the historical left wing terrorists in Europe)

I'm not sure how many terrorist attacks are done by fugitives. Some stuff is easier to arrange when you have legal status.

Also, cross which border illegally? The Canadian? People who need a visa to enter the US probably need one to enter Canada too.
As far as they are concerned, this is normal hours.
Yes, I am aware how a progressive tax system works. In most countries the threshold for the top rate is ridiculously low however, e.g. between €50-100k.

So to correct my statement: make a million, pay 35% (averaged out over different tax rates) on the first €XX.000, and then lose half of the remaining €XXX,000.

Is that supposed to make it better?
Whether it comes from Google, or someone else I believe this is the only way the web survives.

Content creators need to be able to charge different amounts for different quality content.

In depth, well researched reporting needs to be able to earn more than a buzzfeed article. That's not possible with a flat "per-eyeball" cost, where the revenue to the content creator is uncorrelated with the cost to create or the value/quality of the content.

I wish it weren't google (who also already owns advertising), but someone large is the only one who can make it happen.

A model like this is necessary to support quality content online.
> If you use Debian stable your system will in fact be stable and that means: updates contain no new software but only fixes.

What is meant by "fixes" here. My understanding was that stable only got security fixes but not bug fixes.
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If the goal is to increase productivity by reducing unhappiness, then I think the so called 'causes' would be more correctly described as 'situations'. For example 'Bad code quality and coding', which is explained as a situation where a developer essentially has to clean up another's poor code, is described as a cause of unhappiness. But I like cleaning up other's shit code. The activity helps me feel good about myself in lots of ways. So I believe the way people handle these situations is the 'cause' of unhappiness. However people who do become unhappy in these situations tend to interpret them as causes, because they don't yet understand what the actual cause/solution to their process problem truly is.
Hide Yo Feed script to turn Facebook feed into a blank page. You wouldn't have to worry about timesucking anymore. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/29032-hide-yo-feed
What does a climate treaty that benefits the US economy in the short term, and is politically feasible, look like?
My (pre-Yahoo) account also seems to no longer be working; was there a mandatory action that one had to take to transition to Yahoo?
Fantastic post. Opened me up to some mathematics I didn't know about. But please Wolf, these pictures are tiny.
Perhaps in the limit, ads and content will become completely indistinguishable.

I don't know whether this is a deliberate reference, but there is South Park episode playing with this idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponsored_Content_%28South_Par...
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There's an argument, sure, but you're basically arguing against the entire concepts of politics and perspective.
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I have not studied this in great detail so take my point as speculation.

My memory is that the US withdrew from Kyoto as well. They withdrew but were still one of the few countries that actually reached the goal outlined there.

The reason was not political action but rather market adoption.

I don't know much beyond that but it is possible that much the same could happen, if coal is continualy replaced with gas or solar. Cars will be replaced with EV soon enough, even outside of any government action or gloabl agreement.

Again if have not studied the magnitude of all these changes and compared them to what exactly the parameters of Paris are so I am not arguing that trump did the right thing. In fact, if you expact the outcome anyway signing might be "free".

I just think some people mistake the signing of a international agreement with results. Kyoto did show that that was not really always the case. Not signing some agreement will not automatically mean we are heading for Mad Max.

The actual outcome and compliance will be mostly detrmained by internal politics of each country.
I feel like I'm going to remember visiting this website for years to come. Either because this is will be future, or this is one of the biggest bets Google has made and failed.
Ah~ the beauty of killing a social site. Myspace went downhill little by little (;

Blockchain will also help kill FB :D
well education is supposed to be an answer to people having unprotected sex without consequence, but here we are, millions of STDs and unwanted pregnancies later

if people want to throw in everything they have into speculative currency, then they will. someone's gotta put down the law to at least try and protect damage to the economy when everyone loses their shirts
I am unfortunately not bullish that this will pick up but there are strong arguments for this way to authenticate.

- you would typically store the private key on a disk-encrypted app-whitelisted iphone, so that the computer you are browsing with, whether yours or a public machine, is never involved in the authentication. Effectively this achieves 2FA. And you don't care if the machine you browse with is compromised.

- this does not rely on a third party, it is purely an authentication mechanism. So it removes the risk of that third party tracking you, selling or leaking your data.

- it should be fairly practical and easy to use, does not rely on installing anything on the machine you browse with

- the website you authenticate to can be hacked, it stores no useful information that can be used by another domain

I am not sure Gibson has the audience in the sillicon valley required for this to become mainstream. But the principle makes a lot of sense to me. Of course your are still exposed to the password protecting your private key being stolen, which gives the attacker access to everything, but this is no different from a password manager. Except that unlike a password manager, you do not need to enter that master password on the machine you are browsing with, which considerably reduces the risk.
So it is likely to be infiltrated with marketing disguised as news & comments. Lots of agendas. Not sure it is as relevant as you think.
And it has to come from the ad networks, because the infrastructure to make this work is already there - hopefully the ultimate form of this wouldn't require site admins to really do anything special, other than twiddling a few settings in their Google advertising accounts.

The real trouble being the more people who use that kind of thing, the more the value of adverts goes down...
This is laughable. I've spent the last eight months working with Azure and while they may have some breadth most of their services and tooling is half baked. That said, if you're account is big enough they are super responsive to hearing feedback. Acting on that feedback in a timely manner outside of the open source tools is another matter.
Yes, that is a good objection. The state is mafia and large companies are predatory and monopolistic. It's a bad situation all around.
It's not that simple. It needs an app to store/manage your identity. It is however a protocol so it's possible to have many different clients for it.
The repo is here https://github.com/munificent/craftinginterpreters so you could have looked without the need for 'comedic' guessing.

It contains exactly zero getX/setX methods.
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Does not even need to be abusive. If you are working that much and your spouse is all the time at home (e.g. completely different lifestyle, habits and everything), the relationship is bound to be hard.
"It only makes sense to cut the budget of the tax enforcement agency if it costs more than one unit to collect an additional one unit of taxes, which is currently not the case for the IRS."

You are assuming that the only function of enforcing taxes is to get money (1).

We can presume that honest taxpayers would feel like fools if taxes were not enforced in a assertive way. That would be a thread to social cohesion.

(1)- In fact, I dispute that the function of taxes is to get money, but I will leave that polemic discussion for other day.
Cleaning up code requires a lot of testing (which you cannot always automate, e.g. in case of a UI, except if you are willing to invest a lot of time). Not everybody likes testing.
For QFT, I liked this one a lot: Folland, QFT - A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Theory-Mathematical-Surveys-M...
Zürich is in Switzerland. If I became Swiss, I would have to do military service, and kill foreigners.

Germany seems nice (I've only visited, not worked). But Germany doesn't allow dual nationality. I'd have to give up my current half-British second-class citizenship in order to get the privilege to live there for the rest of my life. Now the UK is leaving the EU, I can't rely on being allowed to live there permanently.

The Dutch government is good. I spent 1 month in Amsterdam in 2013, trying to find jobs. I failed. I also felt excluded because of being a foreigner (I heard actual racist comments twice during that month). I was welcomed by the foreign and squatter community, but they were mostly drunk and/or high (I don't do drugs or drink). In the end, I got a job in China, so I flew there to work for 5 months before starting that ill-fated Ph.D. programme in Korea.
I have to say this is the least appealing post I've seen here recently. It's totally impersonal, explains nothing of the company's needs or direction, and basically the sort of thing you might see on a recruitment site, which I think really defeats the purpose of Who's Hiring

Put a bit of spark into it next month, and write in the first person!
The real question is why does the top 3 problems on the list appear?

1. Being stuck in problem solving
2. Time pressure
3. Bad code quality and coding practice

You won`t be stuck (often) in problem solving if you have good management and "no question is dumb" atmosphere in the team.
You won`t have (often) time pressure if the project is managed correctly.
You won`t have bad code quality if the management choose to pay for several very good devs/architects and did not impose constant time pressure.
Etc, etc.

My number one reason to losing motivation on work (and subsequently quitting if that does not improve) is a lack of good leadership. I can sustain anything else (if it is not constant) if managers are true leaders. Sadly, they are in a very small minority from my experience so far :(
If you are looking for the table of companies, like I was, then download the report via https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2955455 and skip to page 48.
Check out the book Lean Thinking.
Developers like you are why apps are slow when they don't need to be.

EDIT: Also, if you think 10%-20% smaller downloads aren't worth it, you're clearly not working at a CDN.
I mean it's literally a pattern from Wolfram's cellular automaton, even Conway himself wouldn't think it represents Game of Life.
> The lack of searchable history, ...

Use https://m.me - It's the web app just for Messenger; on my desktop I launch it via Chrome with the --app= param so it runs in it's own window.

Click on the ⓘ that's located in the top right of a conversation, and you'll see the search option (among other things).
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Have a look at https://authme.io - we have both app and SDK for a push notification based authentication.

Do have a look at
https://medium.com/@shardul.citrus/passwords-bad-ux-security...

P.s. I work for AuthMe.
In my experience here, the lack of intelligent and sensible planning/scheduling is what, in many cases, causes the workload that drives the long hour problem all year round. If there's really nothing to do, broadly speaking, Japanese people are no more driven to stay at work than Americans.

If there's work to do, then they feel obligated to put in the APPEARANCE of working hard, regardless of how much actual work is being done.
> Or are you suggesting that pro-Trump people are some kind of a silent majority?

Maybe not here on this forum, but throughout the country, then absolutely yes.
Apple invited me to present at WWDC97 as a young independent developer with a startup making software for "webmasters" on the Apple internet platform; "What cool sites use" according to Apple's marketing back then. Little did I know what a turning point it would be for Apple, although I had already placed my eggs firmly placed in their basket.

I got to demo my Common Lisp based social web application server and showcase how to extend it with dynamic, hot-loaded components. Apple said I could talk about pretty much whatever I wanted within the scope of the conference, so I included an introduction to how it used what I labeled Light Weight SGML, soon better known as XML.

It was a blast from the past seeing my presentation again 20 years later. I had prepared the slides to be displayed in a web browser, generated from extensible markup using my WebSlides tool, but my handler at Apple insisted on converting them to PowerPoint. They weren't all sold on the web eating the world yet.

Despite having a complementary ticket for the conference, I had no time to stick around, flying straight back home the day after to prepare the next product release. The following years were quite a ride, like having a tiger by the tail. Then came 2001.
Does this have the facility to choose an identity when logging in since you may have more than 1 account on a site?
There's also https://touch.facebook.com for the not-quite-as-light-as-mbasic version.
I'll be blunt. It reads like you love your misery.

You have an easy solution: get some work in the UK. If your girlfriend loves you she'll manage to follow you. If not I guess she's not really marriage material.
No more username, passwords and your are in control. Seems like a perfect protocol for login and authentication.

How will it work on mobile only world? Can this also work on iOS and Chrome OS?
To be fair at least towards #1, that's a really difficult one to get right. Perl has had that kind of threading for a long time and it's almost always considered a bad decision to try to use them. I'm sure it could be done better, but perl did it via a complete copy on write setup in order to create the mostly non-shared data. But you end up with a lot of locking and other contention for the shared data because there's no good way to expose the fact that it's shared and changing it requires such restrictions. Instead the method usually used is to take advantage of most OS's built in COW when forking a new process and communicating via sockets, or some other method instead that forces you to deal with the limitations (copying data, or if you used shared memory you have to do explicit sharing and locking/serialization yourself).
So he basically wanted to get into niche payday loans without considering the fact that the interest rates are really high for a really good reason...
Well, because a footballer is most likely getting paid under contract, but not as a salary - so it's their responsibility to pay tax on the money received.

You can do the exact same thing extremely easily - just set up a company in your name(10 minutes of work here in UK) and work as a contractor - then it's your responsibility to pay income tax, it is not(and I would argue it cannot be) taken from your payments, because as a contractor you can always subtract your expenses from your income so the actual tax to pay would be difficult to calculate without knowing all details.
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You don't say?
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I highly doubt iOS will die out, but I can see the market getting over-saturated with mobile developers for the number of jobs available.
The problem is that it only takes one period of bad management to put a company on the back foot from which it takes a monumental effort to recover.
The assumption of stupidity, is itself stupid.

What if they decided to go with Rule30 instead of GoL, precisely because they knew there'd be geeks out here that would be arguing about these things, infinitely, while a majority of people will just think its a great example of the kind of mathematical complexity that exists in the universe, either way you look at it?
There's a significant gap between the bottom end of people with other sources of income and those who will "accumulate it with no intent to spend it". Further, even if you give it to everyone across the board, most of the people who don't need it for basic expenditures and have no intention of saving for a big purchase at some point in the future (e.g. a down-payment on a car or house) would likely be making enough money that the UBI is less than their taxes.
> And it has to come from the ad networks

That is a truth. You need to already have the infra to make this change. I think it'd be too much to both successfully grow a business and try to change browsing behavior at once.

> ...The more people who use that kind of thing, the more the value of adverts goes down...

Not necessarily a bad thing. If the value of adverts drops, and this is a well known alternative it provides even more incentive to move to model where there is still money to be made. Not to mention there probably is a bit of "recapture". Of people who ran ad-blockers for the experience (ie zero-revenue providers) who are willing to pay for content. Similar to people who torrented, but instead became Netflix/Hulu subscribers when it became an option.
It's about time we all went back to USENET really.
Ask HN: How to choose which login flow to build?
How do you decide which flow to implement: email-n-password vs facebook/google vs passwordless?
Further, if you are no longer forced to sell your work, a liberalized labour market might produce fairer results.
That is how all nuclear submarines work. Part of their role as deterrent is to be capable of delivering a response even if a sneak attack takes out the national leadership.
I love the idea, but go to some lengths to try and stop Google sucking in my web history, and I don't think this will help.
And that's exactly why the foreigners get away with it. Can't follow unwritten rules you don't know.
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Maybe I was more focused on the, "so how would it help?" part.
You would typically store the private key on a single device to reduce the risk of leaking it. Authentication on another device is done through the QR code. Authentication on the same device is done through the SQRL app registering a protocol. So you tap on the QR code, it opens a SQRL:// url which opens in the SQRL app, the app authenticates, the websites redirects you to the desired authenticated page.
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Okay now you're just being contrary. Everyone knows that subatomic particles are all, like, "YOU! YOU! YOU!" ..
Calling it, bigger flop than SNAP. Food startups almost never (never?) succeed.