skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was on this a few years back. Contracting in oil and gas but far fewer well paid gigs in that sector these days I believe. Job was demanding - pressure to keep services running, massively complex environment, everything constantly changing, tricky problems ranging across technical, organisational, political. I didn't last long but even so still managed to pay off a decent chunk of the mortgage! Permie for the moment but always keeping my eye open for that next juicy contract, and building up my skills in the meantime in preparation.

I discovered after being there a few months that I was on one of the lower contractor rates!
There is also a power differential between journalists - even for rags like Pando - and the people they cover. They have the ability to put their attacks in front of a huge audience, and in general the rest of the press will side with them. Furthermore, that power differential has a very strong racial element to it too, given how incredibly white the staff of most publications are.
Except the parts where Kotlin actually beats Java.
Presumably they want a legal defense against scrapers.
I think of it as a pie that can be sliced up in different ways. All humans have a full pie. But how we choose to categorize our emotions and thoughts into words absolutely has a huge impact on our cultural and internal priorities, mores etc.
Don't contracts get a bit iffy beyond 2 years? i.e. HMRC sniffing around querying your expenses and IR35? Or perhaps that's just contractor forum paranoia.
OpenERP/odoo? :P
hehe hi :^) isn't this the slide show kayvon showed us at the research symposium?
Yes, It runs on the JVM. I did a simple implementation with it and I am impressed. JVM is not a concern to me.
Senior/Lead UX designer at a big corp in London: making ~£115k/yr (~€130 at mythical exchange rates), salaried, before tax.

Actually took a pay cut, used to be a contractor with a day rate ranging from £600-750 which had me averaging approx £150k/yr and paying much less tax. Considering going back to that soon, although a bit worried about Brexit uncertainty, but right now I'm seeing plenty of contractor roles offering that much, a few up to £1k/day.
You know those isolated tribes throwing spears at helicopters? You're them.
> I am asking sincerely. Certainly "the knowledge" doesn't include local traffic conditions a la Waze.

Experience provides that, I guess. Waze is perhaps better in US grid style systems with lots of large, laid out roads but In London the streets are tiny and the traffic patterns very different. I think the traffic follows in a predictable ebb and flow pattern based on the week day and time, which you can pick up easily enough if you spend all day in it.

I've seen the Google maps traffic display in London and it's not terribly useful: all red everywhere at peak times, yellow/green off-peak.

It's anecdotal, but in London every taxi experience has been superior from a directions point of view. Uber sometimes gives drivers crazy directions that make no sense and the drivers just go along with it. That being said, Uber is a fair bit cheaper so it's all a trade off I guess.

Fankly, if I've got money I don't mind spending it on a black cab, I see it similar to supporting local businesses over buying off Amazon - a good idea for smaller purchases, but the discounts on larger items are often too good to turn down.
I know there's a few, but I don't tend to pay much attention to them since they're kind of part of the background.

The one I can definitely place is the Manners/Willis/Boulcott intersection, which as far as I know has been there for decades, but I know there's more, mostly in the CBD end of town. It feels like they may be becoming gradually less common though?
check the latest https://github.com/ballerinalang/ballerina/releases
> If we had four digits on each hand, as some cartoon characters have, would we think in octal

Almost certainly. Of course, 8 would still be represented as 1-0.
Anybody who down votes you is probably infected.
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Does anyone quote their income after (income) taxes?
Used to !
> If the progenitor of an idea didn't believe that idea, does that change anything?

Truth is independent of belief.

> If we find that ...

Many ideas transcend their times. It's what makes them great ideas.

An idea like "all men are created equal" occurred in a time when there were deeply embedded notions of class, nobility, slavery, etc. That it failed to instantly transform the world is not a flaw in the idea. It takes some time.

I often fail to live up to my own ideals. It's a failing of me, not a failing of the ideals.

Men can come up with ideas that are better than themselves. It seems you believe that this is not possible.
The way the article is written makes it clear that it's talking about market capitalization (since the first sentence mentions the Hong Kong stock exchange).

When talking about public companies it is accepted practice to shorthand market cap movement as "gains" or "losses" and the way this is generally disambiguated from earnings is through a reference to the exchange or a particular earnings report.
Apparently only if you buy an elephant for one of their regulators.
Weren't there 7 adult males living in Monticello who were Jefferson's relatives during the same time period, who would show up on DNA testing as being equivalent to him? I thought that the proof of it being TJ was later admitted to be not accurate enough to exactly pinpoint him?
I've watched self-driving cars trying to make a right turn get "stuck" behind a continual stream of pedestrians. Human drivers will eventually aggressively poke through, but self-driving cars are a little too timid for that.
You really believe a phone is truly switched off? Unless the main processor kills the baseband power by GPIO, it is not - and baseband processors are a fairly easy exploit target, much more so for a state-level threat.
"Ballerina, TCL with a quazi-Golang syntax"
Not sure anyone can answer this for you, but something to keep in mind: talent is always replaceable and you don't lose ownership in the company if you stay.
Couldn't get it to work under VS 2017. Tried both the 0.2.0 release from the GH repo and also cloning and opening the master branch... I really want to see this working, anyone managed to try it out? Can share how?
> Secondly, a virtual machine may have more jitter in scheduling the transmission and the response.

I have very recently been over exactly that with a customer that had considerably increased network latency on some VMs on his VMWare cluster when the CPU was under load. From the very beginning I was pointing to the hypervisors scheduler, and ended up measuring the time when the interrupt handler for the network card was active to receive the packet (which no linux or program setting could really influence). It took some convincing and arguing, but they found the magic setting on the hypervisor that made the problem go away (aptly named Latency Sensitivity).

I'm sure both AWS and GCP teams have that under very tight control, but especially the cheapest instances with the smallest and burstable CPU budgets that you would run for such a project are probably running with the noisiest neighbors on the most oversubscribed hardware.
What a reasoned and discussion provoking comment
I think hexadecimal would be more natural.

Or base 15, since the (mathematical) concept of zero seems to evade primitive cultures.
We like to talk about those "European values", but really the ones we mean are from a very specific part of Europe. We don't so much value the Catholic church's hold on public policy the way it exists in Ireland, or Italy and Spain's record on human rights and freedoms throughout the 20th century.

To me, that suggests that the values you want your daughter to adopt have in reality very little to do with shared European heritage and culture, and more with civic norms from American culture. Which is fine: plenty of Latinos value those too!
Yep! Right where Pike runs into 1st Ave.
Hi, does Deepgram do internships during Fall/Winter/Spring semester? I'd have classes during the day generally, but would be available mornings/nights on weekdays and basically be completely free during the weekends. I go to Berkeley so BARTing to work wouldn't be a hassle at all, 30-40 minutes max to arrive in person if needed.
This makes sense. The financial future of Microsoft is dependent upon the continued success of Office 365, Azure, and Xbox. Everything else, probably including Windows OS itself, should be viewed as a distraction.
You think "cum granulo salis" is evidence for G being an original part of the Latin alphabet, while not being evidence that U was an original part of the Latin alphabet?
Summary: a scummy company like Yelp pays to influence regulators in order to force one of their competitors to change their product to be less consumer friendly and to better feature Yelp.
Both men's lives are pretty amazing. Jefferson had some really unfortunate parts (views and actions on race), but I struggle to find too many people who were as enlightened as him but also held power.

That book, anyway, is really sympathetic towards Jefferson. I started reading the Hamilton book but haven't gotten through it, Hamilton seems a little more power-hungry and less moral.

Though not sure if that's bias. It seems like modern media and scholarship has thought more highly of Jefferson than Hamilton. In John Adams, Stannis (just kidding, Jefferson) is the equal, Hamilton isn't very sympathetic. The Chernow book has turned Hamilton's perception a bit.

What is an objective view on the two?
Dart gets a type system
I currently do a very similar regime (sunrise is at 4:30ish, sunset 7ish at the moment):
wake 4:30 ish, skip breakfast, eat a light meal 300ish kcal at 11, and then have dinner of some meat and veggies at ~4pm. 8 -- 8:30 bedtime.

It's really incredible since I have also shifted my work hours to 6 am -- 2-3 pm. It feels pretty good. I was doing a single-meal version of this regime for several months, but at one point my body started craving for a slight influx of calories at noon.
They do, yes. Many public sector companies (inc HMRC) are now forcing contractors to be paid by PAYE even.

Generally though, you're safe as long as you work at the same company for less than 24 months. Then you need to find a new contract or relocate (working at a different physical office or taking on multiple clients can get around IR35 (if you fall within IR35 you're considered to be a disguised employee, not an independent contractor, and must pay higher income tax).
Related: Humans Naturally Think In Logarithms https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-natural-log/

I'm not sure if this is the article I originally saw - I seem to remember reading a longer one.
Eastlink publishes an SPF record, so such emails would be classified as spam by any decent mail system. This guy, sending through Eastlink's hardware, would get tagged as legitimate (because it was).
It's the freedom to, not necessarily the goodness of doing it. He's just on the conservative/libertarian side of things.
I think fits the US military's definition of Fraternization: A senior-subordinate relationship that is unduly familiar and does not respect differences in grade or rank. They are strictly forbidden, and while they do happen anyway, they are also regularly punished when discovered. A personal relationship between a direct supervisor and their subordinate would be considered inappropriate fraternization regardless of how close together the parties are in rank.

Fraternization is different from harassment. Among other things, consent is irrelevant. It also covers a broader scope than romantic relationships. The inappropriateness of the relationship comes from the disruption in the chains of command and responsibility, and the conflicts of interest that are inherent in the relationship.

I think that the military is correct in forbidding this kind of relationship, because of the effects you mentioned. It doesn't have to be confusing. It just needs to also be considered inappropriate by the organization.
And she was 14 when he was 44?
In 2012 I was able to get example@ from a major US cable company. A few months later I tried logging in and the account no longer existed.
I'm kinda tired now.
It seems political. The EU is taking on a lot of US companies with antitrust complaints but few EU companies.
> Once was IRC

Seriously?
I wrote a book (free minimum price) to teach my son programming, starting in Terminal, and using Ruby.

https://leanpub.com/programmingforkids

It's currently Mac-only, because of the `say` command, and so that I could write instructions for just one platform. I have ideas about how I'm going to fix that, but that won't be in the near future.

My son was about the same age when I started writing it, but the book scales nicely for any 9-14 year old, I think. Please feel free to give your son a copy, and let me know if it's helpful.
Oh yes of course, I totally forgot about our rich Swiss friends. Salaries close to SF are possible there I heard.
I know more than a few quants at banks in the City of London making well north of 100k. Finance is where the payscales jump well above the average.
> How is induced demand for the tunnel going to cause delays inside it then?

There's no free lunch in dynamic systems. As I noted:

> Better traffic flow in one area creates incentives to drive in that area, creates incentives to live outside the range of public transport and so on.

If the tunnel gets faster, more people will pile up behind the clever traffic lights you propose. Net travel time between home and work will come out the same, or worse, depending on the exact paths in play.

Reducing driving by making it more attractive to drive hasn't proved out as a strategy. The only way to reduce traffic and keep it reduced is to make it less attractive to drive.
Unfortunately video players that are developed for specific acceleration platforms (ie. some ARM board) suck. They're slow. They're buggy. They don't play half the formats you want it to play. Their interfaces are some buggy vendor-branded monstrosity.

Just a few years ago smart TVs, one example of such platforms, had overscan, some without the ability to disable it. (Make the screen look bigger by only showing the middle part of the video)
Ethdirect.io – The simplest way to waste your Ether
Recommendations on a good Windows client?
Toshiba's 768GB 3D QLC NAND flash memory: matching TLC at 1000 P/E cycles?
What do you think about Reddit? Topics are enforced and have an API.
I like Elm and see advantages for it being separated from Haskell for a couple of reasons:

1) The Elm language is tightly curated. It features the most important parts of Haskell/OCaml for frontend web apps and decreases the surface area of knowledge needed to use it.

Obviously, this point is debatable and has been heavily debated in the Elm community.

2) In Elm, there is only way one to create a frontend web app. When new developers come on to a project, they need to mainly learn only the business logic of your app. When you want help from the online Elm community, they already know the workflow of the app.

3) It's a gateway drug for Haskell/OCaml. I think any rise in Elm's popularity can only help languages like Haskell & OCaml.
From Idea to MVP 101
Oh don't get me wrong, I'd hire the good ones in a heartbeat. I was just saying I can see why managers like the strategy of going with something like Django then hiring a bunch of cheap "Django" programmers to whip up a CRUD app.
I believe Zappos treats its CSRs fairly well, considering they are considered the backbone of the company.

However, this is secondhand, gleaned from several books and articles I've read.
> The author is often asked for her thoughts on certain forms of exercise, such as yoga or pilates, which she also covers on her website. What she tells people, repeatedly, is that “movement is essential.”

The exercise economy is the real back pain industry.
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We used to have one of these in Guelph, Ontario. I loved it and lamented the day the took it away.
I can leave it at home or buy a phone that has hardware validation processes to ascertain its correctness when turned off (or the transmitter system is disabled). I could put the phone in a Farraday cage or selectively raise the noise level of certain broadcast ranges within a limited range. I could kill the radio-IC and use a wifi mesh network. All of these measures are not prevented by federal law.

Federally mandating trackers in a car is a completely different story. It will be illegal to remove these trackers, so a basic liberty will be taken away.
It's funny really, we are supposed to have a Conservative government but you wouldn't know it what with crackdown on buy to let and contracting. Not that I'm looking to start an argument.
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Two thoughts come to mind: first, choosing an email address is a lot like naming your child, or getting a tattoo -- this is something that you're potentially going to have to live with for the rest of your life. Picking a joke address and using it for your primary online ID might be a bad choice.

Second, this is why I have been a customer of pobox.com for over a decade. They don't host mail, they just provide forwarding and spam filtering, directing my mail at whatever endpoint I pick (and with most clients, including gmail, I can use them as my outgoing mail agent too). Changing mail services is as simple as a couple of clicks in their UI. Since their overhead is low and they get paid for their services, I expect them to be around for a long, long time.
Thanks for adding redeuceur to your list! I didn't realize there were so many reducer utilities but I'm not surprised. I like the way Redux leaves room for the user to play with the implementation.

In the blog post you linked to ([2]), you say:

>Ah, the dreaded switch statement. For some reason, this is one of the most disliked aspects of typical Redux code, and I have yet to figure out why.

The Redux docs take the position that switch statements are an implementation detail. The documentation author(s) provide an alternative approach, the action type to handler map, in the Reducing Boilerplate section. I think Redux advocates get a little bit impatient with the criticisms of Redux that amount to "I don't like switch statements". I share that point of view. Switch statements are an implementation detail and aren't worth arguing about when the Redux architecture does not depend on them. When I came up with redeuceur, I wanted to isolate independent operations. For me, breaking a larger function into smaller functions means less cognitive overhead. I would have used the createReducer idea from the docs but I needed support for arbitrary computed conditions rather than a simple action type map. So, it's not about getting rid of switch statements but more about making it easier for my average mind to keep track of things.

All of that being said, are you sure you're not being disingenuous when you say "I have yet to figure out why?" The strength of the animus against switch statements in Redux reducers might be a product of received wisdom or unreasonable bias. But the additional cognitive overhead of things like `break` vs. cascading `case`'s, and `default` is a reasonable basis for preferring `if` statements or something more declarative. As near as I can tell, the original Redux examples used switch statements because they were aesthetically pleasing to the author. There's nothing wrong with this. But it shouldn't be a surprise that people prefer a construct with less complex behavior, even if the complexity of a switch statement is manageable to someone with solid JavaScript experience.
The movie Tokyo Drift showed an example of pedestrian scramble. To see so many pedestrians flood the intersection was awesome.
I'd be very surprised if defenders of slavery didn't routinely use Jefferson, Washington, and company to justify slavery. I don't know offhand how to find primary sources, but a quick web search turns up an interview[0] with a slavery and Jefferson scholar who says:

"So that Americans come to believe in racism by reading Jefferson. And in the 1840's and 50's, these Southern racists who are defending slavery are reading Jefferson and quoting him on these issues.

...

This is very damaging, horrible ideas and they are used over and over again in the 1840's and 50's by the defenders of slavery to argue in favor of continuing slavery. Jefferson justifies slavery, in fact, by arguing that blacks are inferior to whites on almost all levels."

[0] https://www.pbs.org/jefferson/archives/interviews/Finkelman....
..why didn't they go to yelp then?
With all due respect, what changed since the 56k days (which I remember fondly as well) is that people showed up. Before that, the only users on the internet were early adopters. It's unreasonable to expect 'those people' to go away.
Hacking capitalism: A nomadic hackbase is trying to usher in techno-utopia
Great point about Twitter and FB not having the "I've seen this" flag (although they probably have this info for their "engagement metrics"), it keeps people addicted and returning. I remember being glued to Twitter during the Mumbai terror attack, but the way it was designed, it was an endless stream of the same info, repeated. And spam, since bots add trending hashtags to their junk messages. I guess it's like cable news' rolling coverage, but instead of the same info repeated every hour, we can now read the same thing every second...
I've read her article. (https://medium.com/@taliajane/an-open-letter-to-my-ceo-fb73d...)

It really has nothing substantive to say except "I'm struggling, pay me more."

She even points to several facts in her article.

"She ended up leaving the company and moving east, somewhere the minimum wage could double as a living wage."

"But boy did I not anticipate a decade and a half ago that a car and a credit card and an apartment would all be symbols of stress, not success."

If you hate the job that badly or feel like you're not being renumerated properly, you have options open. I'm assuming she doesn't have a house, because of the mention of her apartment.

Yelp is not holding a gun to your head. Neither are they responsible for paying you what you think is necessary for a comfortable life.
I use Thunderbird for both email and usenet.
Python is not part of the base system (at least it is not installed nor required in minbase debootstrap profile and apt recommends is disabled).

I wholeheartedly agree with removing Perl. Also a lot of other questionable packages in the essential set.
Contrast with FPC's compiler mode pragmas for different dialects. [0] FPC shows the effects of this story in the long term: there are several major divergences in behavior supported by the modes, and some individual features can be toggled per-unit or sometimes with a finer grain. [1] Since you're allowed to mix and match different units, the fragmentation poses little threat to any individual programmer, and it's possible to dial in assertions, optimizations, and calling conventions in a targeted fashion.

[0] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userse33.html

[1] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progch1.html#progs...
The Internet is decentralized. It doesn't matter that all the 13 year olds are congregating on Club Penguin or whatever; we can set up our own communities. That's why HN is great (and other small communities). It's intrinsically hostile to the wider internet simply by virtue of the subject and the format of its content.
NSFW unless you work there, then its SFW?
The living costs are also extremely high there (Also in a SF spirit) - For an impression of this see the big mac index.
I think the reasonable guesses are no purpose and the universe will keep expanding.
Bit of an odd number, how come he didn't just go for 100,000?