skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The money problem" is a human problem, and unfortunately, one that has been with us since our beginning.

We always think that if someone just gave us enough to pay our bills, our mortgages, and a little extra, we'd be happier. Even if we won the lottery and earned that $30 million after taxes, we'd be happy, but really, it does bring about more problems. We always want more and are never satisfied. We want and want and want!

When we have more money, we are likely to spend more money. When we don't have a lot, we make due with what we have, yet we still spend it, usually paying our bills and our rent, and just trying to figure out how to come up with a little bit more.

The true fact is: elementary school, middle school, and high school teach people nothing about finances, and unfortunately, the majority of people get into debt and make their mistakes and figure it out, and some never actually do figure it out, and remain there for life.

I'm from the generation where I made $5.05 an hour at my first job. Can you imagine telling someone they are going to make that an hour? That is crazy. Unfortunately since then, greed has skyrockets, with very little change in minimum wage. I know it is now $7 in most places and $8-$9 in many more.. $8-$9 was a lot of money when I was 18! Luckily now I'm a developer.. making no where what I want to be making, but I'm making more than I'd thought I'd ever be making in my life.

There is no way to solve the money problem until people are actually educated. The fact is... housing prices are insane. Why is that a house in 1975 was $35k yet in 2017 it is $200k. Inflation? Sure, lets call it that... who controls that? The more money printed, the less value it has? Who makes up these rules? Economists? Because as far as I can see.. economists would have solved the issue by now.. but there is far more to it than that.

The problem of the world is two factors: Greed and instant gratification.

Credit Card company and banks: "Hey you want this now? We'll lend you money. You want to go to school but can't afford it because the price is too much? You want that house? We got you! Here's money you don't have! We'll give you all the money you want as long as you pay it back with interest!"

Most people (Americans): Hell yeah, lets do this!

I'm in my 30s... I can't help but realize: After I turned 18 and decided to go to college, I've owed some company somewhere money. After I paid off my student loans... I was lucky enough to understand credit card debt and never had any... but then I took on a mortgage.. now I'll be paying that back for who knows how long.. the 30 years they give me in which they make over $100k in interest if I don't make more than just the minimum payments?

If you think about it... the majority of our lives... is just spent paying someone back. Why is life designed like this? Because someone somewhere continues to make money and is happy about it.. "someone" is usually not just one person, but a great many people.
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Hakeema is brand spanking new. Our mission is to bring massive amounts of joy and efficiency to impact work. We're funded by a large client contract with a top intl agency.

You'd be the 4th hire into a team of 3 (family-sized). You'll have the time of your life growing this thing. We've started multi-million dollar companies before. Our team rocks, and we're low-ego, and mission-focused. Plus, people really want our product. Very really.

We need a Sales Animal. We haven't solidified titles, but you could morph into the future VP of Sales, a Senior Account Exec, Sales Ops Mgr, Partnership Mgr. At first, you and I are doing it all: cold calling, proposal handing, scheduling, deal closing, etc. This is my focus as well; you won't be alone.

Experience with $10k+ deals a big plus, but first and foremost, we need (a) smart, (b) animal-ness, (c) and a "James/Jill Bond"-like emotional resilience. Be ready for startup life. We're early enough to make you rich; but late enough to have validated the biggest risks w/ a big client and pipeline.

Equity, commission, base, and impact.

Email me at kyle at (our company) com
It gets worse in French: un livre (book), une livre (pound, in France equal to 0.5 kg). They're even pronounced the same.
Singapore's Instarem raises $13m to take the remittance business away from banks
I started reading your response, got about halfway through, then realized: you can't have your cake and eat it too.

If you want a reasonable discussion, downvote and comment.

If you flag, you are ending the discussion. You are indicating a comment is egregious, as per HN guidelines, and categorizing it as not worthy of debate.

I'm fine with being told I'm wrong. I also think I might have a useful point hidden somewhere in my poorly worded comment, that could have been teased out through conversation. Or perhaps others could have learned from a discussion explaining why I was wrong.

None of that occurred, because you flagged my comments.

So discussion, over.

It is what it is.
> and supports a wider range of character encodings

Since this is an uncommon feature, I'd like to emphasize this. :-) In particular, ripgrep will automatically search UTF-16 encoded files via BOM sniffing. That means you can run ripgrep over a directory on Windows and be confident that it will correctly search both UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded files automatically without having to think about it.

More generally, it supports all encodings found in the Encoding Standard[1]. However, only UTF-16 is automatically detected (where UTF-8 is the presumed default), so you'll need to explicitly specify `-E sjis` (for example) if you want to search Shift_JIS encoded files.

Also, I didn't really need to do much of anything to get this working. This is all thanks to @hsivonen's encoding_rs[2] crate, which is now (I think) in Firefox.

[1] - https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-encoding-get

[2] - https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs
It would be great if people could just follow a maxim like "don't be a creep", but clearly that's impossible in today's culture and so some official guidelines do need to be adopted by some organizations.

However, Level A and Level B outlined near the bottom of the article takes it too far. Treating people like children is not going to solve anything, it's just going to promote further awkwardness, fear and resentment.

Suggestions like Level A and Level B are sucking the life out of life. When implemented, they punish everyone just because a small minority don't know how to set their own boundaries and respect the boundaries of others.
the benefit of languages with cases is that you can switch the order of the sentence without changing the meaning. In those languages I can say "the dog bit the person" and "the (accusative) person bit the (nominative) dog" and it would not change the meaning of the sentence but it would allow me to emphasize one object more.
Yeah, that was one of the most painful acquisitions for me personally. I went from practically no issues with Fios for years, and at least reasonably responsive service if there was an issue, to literally the worst customer service i've ever dealt with in Frontier. The billing issues... oh the billing issues were terrible. They were charging me more than double for three months, each month i'd call and tell them to fix it and fix the prior months, and I wasn't paying until I saw a fixed statement with the correct amount owed. It didn't get fixed until 4 months in I filed a complaint with the BBB.
A Wearable Vibrator for Couples
Sure. Language changes and that is good.

It's not good when an unelected body decides on language changes, without that change already extant and in use by a significant part of the speakers.
>Where/how is location stored?

Is this even a meaningful question? My understanding of "where" is that it's referring to a location within space.
Parsley, full-time, onsite in Oakland or Santa Monica (see below for details) with a strong preference for Oakland.

Parsley is an intuitive, simple web app to handle the unintuitive, complex realities of restaurant back-of-house operations. We are currently being used at culinary schools in LA and the Bay, and have strong interest (including some angel funding) from several big players in the LA restaurant scene - both owners and chefs.

The product itself is a web app. The browser side uses all the tools that I believe the Cool Kids are into These Days (React, Redux, a slow transition to Flow type-checking, etc.), and the server side is built with Scala and Play.

The technical team is one co-founder and engineer (that's me) and one half-time (by her preference) freelance engineer working, both in Oakland. We are based in a co-working space on top of 19th Street BART station. Spatially on top of, and 50 feet from an exit - SF-based programmers, that may be closer for you than some workplaces in the city.

My business-oriented co-founder (her technical experience is mostly in hardware) lives and works in Santa Monica. Every week either she's in Oakland or I'm in Santa Monica for two days, so an engineer in either location would have facetime with both of us; it's more important to work closely with me, so Oakland is preferable, but a programmer in Santa Monica would still feel partly on-site.

Check us out at parsleycooks.com! Don't look at me like that, we just bought parsleysoftware.com.

Ping me at asa@parsleycooks.com
We can count all the ways of ordering 52 cards.

It's 52!, or 80658175170943878571660636856403766975289505440883277824000000000000.

Enumerating them is where it starts to get tricky.
Right but things like google maps doesn't really use tiles anymore as far as I can tell, they do it using vectors. Tiles suck for lots of things, for instance scrolling can move the street name off the visible map, while doing it as vectors the name can be adjusted.
Dude, I'm American.
Whatsapp and FB Messenger are popular in Europe. Viber used to be but it is the number one messenger only in a few eastern countries now https://www.similarweb.com/blog/popular-messaging-apps-by-co...

I personally don't know anybody using it past early 2016. It's all Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram (but many people don't know what it is) and Skype on the desktop. Snapchat among the kids.
Speculuation:

Backbone data prices have continued to sink, year after year. "Last mile" connectivity prices continue to rise and far outpace the underlying data transmission costs (and particularly, the backbone portion of those costs).

If you have spare backbone capacity, but are also in the very lucrative business of providing end-point / last mile connectivity, why would you lease your excess capacity and open yourself up to competition in the lucrative last mile segment?

P.S. Take "last mile" figuratively, in the above. I don't know where the line exactly between "local"/lucrative and "long haul"/ever-cheaper.
Things are not changing. This is exactly what Christopher Hitchens described in "The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice." The purpose of this hospital is to promote Vatican and Catholicism. Treating children is secondary.
Believe me, very few grad students are writing code to "look smart".

First of all, coding isn't exactly a high class activity in most of academia. Any implementation that's not an uncommented mathematica notebook or matlab mess is in the top 1% of academic code.

Second of all, no one reads the code. So while there are incentives to intelli-obfuscate papers to trick naive reviewers, those incentives don't exist with code. (Oh, and it doesn't really work out well in papers either most of the time.)
But the idea is that you put a buy option at the low price.

Ie, you say "I would like to buy 1 million microsoft stock, at the price of 1 cent".

The flash crash was cause by stop-loss orders. IE, if the price gets low, then sell. Instead of price gets low, then buy.
[video] Parasitic Programming Languages
I suspect "curing time" is probably part of the issue.

As a mental exercise, how many projects would get funding if their concrete took 10 years to cure? So, how far down do you have to dial that before people are willing to pay the money and how much impact does that have on "durability"?
Hi, not even sure if I should reply to this, but I just thought maybe some advice anonymously would be the right thing to ask for. Codex, sounds like exactly the kind of company I'd like to work for. A small team working on important possibly life changing technology using new technology and in biology no less Which is probably the thing the that fascinates me most after CS even if I'm not as knowledgeable there. The fact you're using a lot of Python and ES6 React definitely helps too.

My problem is I don't feel like I have the skills you'd be looking for now. I graduated this spring with a CS degree from a no name state school. I came out near the top of my class (honestly I might be the top of CS), but I lack experience. I'm just now taking my first internship and while valuable I don't feel like I'm really learning much, I'm the one trying to teach my coworkers what GIT and why it has advantages over RCS, or more worrying how to use prepared statements to avoid SQL injection.

My plan right now, tentative as it is, is to get an additional undergraduate in biotechnology from my university. As I mentioned Biology has always fascinated and I'm at a time in my life where I have both the time and the opportunity to do this without incurring debt, but I'm devoured by doubt. The kind of job I want is almost all in the startup world and they tend not to take a ton of interns. At the same time by specializing I make myself less attractive to other companies that might otherwise take me on as an intern.

I'm open to any opinion, commentary, or advice, but specifically is this a viable path. What would I need to be good candidate for Codex (or frankly it's like) upon graduation?
Software ALREADY drives your car.

You press the gas pedal, and a computer reads that signal and puts gas into the engine.
Has anyone fed the Real Book into a Markov Model (or I guess RNN these days) and seen what gets spit out?

All the music examples I've seen have been people feeding tracks because...people tend to have lots of MP3s lying around. I'm curious as to what you get when you work directly with the notation which conveys a lot more structure than a waveform.
I don't think the OP was trying to say it applies here, just that IF there had been some kind of hack or security problem, then the SEC has some tools for dealing with it.

In this case, if it was only the data going to out to third party stock tickers, then it probably doesn't apply. Services like Google and Yahoo finance make it really clear on their sites that the data isn't necessarily accurate, can be delayed, and isn't for trading purposes, so nobody should have been making trading decisions based solely on this data anyway.
Why the choice to not pull from other boards? Seems like it just forces me to use your competitors, as there are only 4 "programming" jobs listed
Whatever their ads or user statstics pitched to VCs brings in.
He wouldn't have had to name names. His "apology" went along these lines:

> I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate [...] I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

Dave made it sound like he'd hit on women in the context of offering them a job or investment. His one example re: Sarah Kunst specifically mentions he hit on her in a group.

All of the above -- while clearly unethical -- are a world away from getting drunk with an investee / business partner in her apartment, waiting until everyone else had left, and making aggressive physical advances towards her, including having to be told no multiple times.

Dave's message underplayed his behavior and, I think, really reinforces that he doesn't understand that what he did was wrong. He could have apologized for all of the above and only Dave, Cheryl, and the handful of people Cheryl told would have any idea he was referring to Cheryl.

I frankly think Dave was still hoping to underplay his behavior to keep his job. Also, the fact that 500 let Dave represent them in Australia with no warning to their Australian partners makes Christine Tsai seem complicit [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/02/500-startups-admits-it-kep...

edit: fixed Christine's name
Anecdotal but my switch from Verizon to Frontier was smooth and I've had no major issues with my Frontier FiOS since.
Do you ever use a taxi?

Because if you do, you are putting your life into the hands of someone who could be a much worse driver than you.

Instead of putting your life in the hands of a terrible taxi driver, would you put it in the hands of software that is on average better than a taxi driver? You are in a taxi, so you don't get to choose to drive it yourself.
Respectfully, I don't think that's the right question to be asking. Yes, you're correct that since I haven't paid them they currently have no legal obligation to treat my data with respect (usually because I've agreed to non-binding EULA that is vague enough to allow for most abuses).

But look at it from a user's perspective. A small company shows up and says "hey, look at this great 'experience' you can get if you just give us some of your data". So the user gives them some of their data, and that overall builds the community around whatever the company is selling. Then one day the company decides to delete the user's data without warning (or without their acknowledgement or consent). The data itself had worth to the users, but more importantly it is the reason why the company has a community. The fact they didn't treat it with respect is an ethics problem. Just because users didn't pay you to act as a decent person doesn't mean you should treat their data as though it was worthless.

When Yahoo deleted GeoCities they managed to set the world record for the fastest destruction of the largest amount of user-created content. The entireity of GeoCities was several terabytes (in 2009 that was small enough to fit a few hundred dollars worth of hard-drives). Was Yahoo legally obligated to not delete 22 years worth of user content in a single afternoon? No. Were they complete and utter assholes for doing it? Absolutely. Was completely un-necessary? Yes.
This seems like a basic explanation of some of the stuff on the Let's Encrypt rate limit page (with some funny stuff mixed in to make it sounds like the rate limits for IPv6 are somehow higher), followed by a link to a product.
Does this work with Neovim or vim only?
Serious question: what would be a better way to do this?
Time to sell your litecoins
if you are ready to cash out
Yes, many. See the company's career page.
The mass flagging / censoring of comments people disagree with below seems a little petty, I'm curious what the original posts are. I'd rather hear a dumb opinion and make my own choice.
A man who went on a hike and never stopped
Banks Eager for Artificial Intelligence, but Slow to Adopt
Your first link, (http://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/research/technical_reports/1983/TR%...) seems broken. It redirects me here: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cstech/
New startup (offshoot of Advameg) | Non-tech CEO | New York City | Full-time | On-site

Base salary $150,000 - $180,000/year and bonus schedule/vested shares.

I'm seeking a non-tech CEO for a startup. The product is pre-launch, initially B2C in a proven market, one year in development, in the NLP field using machine learning. Seed funding is provided and the product is novel, exciting, and targeting a validated market.

I want to focus on the tech side as a founder/CTO and the non-tech CEO would handle all of the business side pre-launch and post-launch. Here is a good description of what's needed pre-launch http://quora.com/As-CEO-and-non-tech-co-founder-what-should-...

advameg@gmail.com
You say that as if it's an inherently bad thing. Different people have different passions, and assuming one's own interests are "more important" seems kind of ridiculous to me. Most people simply use their language to communicate, and nothing more.
My point was that "you should make backups" is useful advice.
"You should've made backups" is not, because it places blame on the user for placing trust in someone else.

Sure, you and I know that effectively all "cloud" companies will resort to this sort of scummy bullshit, but let's not blame users who have lost data because a company decided to delete their data with reckless abandon.
> Sorry but this is just absurd. Courtship doesn't (and will never) work that way.

Im a woman and it works well for me. Do you have a specific technical reason for thinking it wont work?

> Proposing that standard for human contact implies a lot of negative things about how all of us have conducted our relationships

Saying explicit communication is useful and best-practice is not saying that everyone who doesn't do it is evil or every time it wasn't used someone was hurt. It's just a useful method for avoiding hurting people.
500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin quit over McClure situation
Yeah, fair cop. My point was meant to be a library that shreds books without first attempting to sell them, give them away or otherwise archive them (which is what most libraries do before they resort to shredding books).
Oh goodness, why take that risk? Why would a single guy aching for sex start their hunt in the workplace? Your concept of what the workplace is for is really screwed up. Unwise. Foolish danger.

I have been told stories of companies with no-dating rules where inevitable attraction and secret love affair between coworkers led them to both quit in order to go public with their romance.

That's not what I'm talking about. Obviously, nature is powerful, and attraction between coworkers can just simply happen. I'm not talking about accidents, which are hopefully few and far between. I'm talking about conscious choices that men make.

It's not like there aren't equally convenient ways to meet women to those at work. If you want a (chaotic) hookup, get on Tinder or Craig's List or the local club. If you want the thrill of the meat market, try Match. If you'd like to get married, goto eharmony.
so many questions:

1. Wha did you work on, and how valuable was it to your company? In other words, to whom was this product "groundbreaking?" if what you worked on wasn't perceived as valuable, then you could've spent 100 hours a week on it; the result you experienced would have been the same. Which leads me to:

2. How often did you catch up with your lead and "skip level" (his or her lead)? Tou want to move up in your career; did you have this conversation with them? have you worked on goals with them? If you haven't, then you were effectively flying blind, hence the result.

3. Did anyone else know about the time you were spending on this platform that you built? If not, why?

4. Did your manager tell you why you were rejected for promotion? Did s/he build a performance plan (the good kind) to ensure that you got the promo next time?

Switching companies is a solution, and you'll probably get paid more and perhaps receive a title upgrade, but not keeping these things in mind will limit or handicap your progress eventually. you want to vertically progress, not horizontally unless you REALLY like the space within which you're working (this post tells me that you're not).
>Languages with priesthoods make me chuckle.

You'll likely be downvoted by the way you made your point, but there is a point to be made here. Native English-speakers, for instance, probably couldn't fathom there being an official body that makes decisions like this about the language. It just so happens that some of these official bodies make a point to stave off the influence of English on their respective languages (for better or worse - I won't argue either here).