skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My government, in theory, derives every last bit if its power from my consent and the consent of my peers; and in so far practice diverges from that, that can be corrected or at least discussed. Even foreign governments at least have that relation with someone, even if they don't have it with me. With private enterprises, there isn't even anything to correct or discuss from their perspective. They're "pure tyrannies", as Chomsky put it, while governments are theoretically democratic. The magic free market turning selfish bastards fighting each other instead of entropy into some useful force doesn't seem to be enough just by itself.

Though now that I think of it, if people got their shit together in the ways required to kick their own governments in the dick where required, that would also translate to paying attention with how we vote with our wallets (it also would translate to any corp trying just one line of cutesy marketing-speak of sinking to the bottom before you can say iceberg, which would improve the world by orders of magnitude within one week), so in the end maybe "capitalism or communism", or anything of that nature, matters much less than the individuals do... after all you can't polish turds, and you don't need to array gold nicely for it to shine.
Thanks for noting that, you're right. I'm not familiar with how much an electronic locking part would cost, I assumed it would be nontrivial. But certainly the labor costs aren't going to be very high if these are already custom.
What makes something infotainment vs information?
Free checking account helps too; they sent me two boxes of checks and a checkpad with a $0 initial balance, for no fees.

And they offer you commission-free trades too if you offer to transfer in enough funds.

Great, great, place to keep your finances.
He should be as successful as he was in his campaign against children's cereals... meaning, not at all.

But, it keeps him in the media during the recess.
Invest in the things you love and use most! What could go wrong?!
I'd suggest BBC's In our Time. Science, philosophy, poetry, history, etc. Good stuff and easy listening enough.
The .io Error: A Problem with Bad Optics, but Little Substance
Where I live in California public high school students are graduating with up to 3 years of programming course work and with Solidworks certifications. Not to mention reading, writing, math, fundamental science, history, and economics. I understand many students underachieve and some schools let students down, but it's important to pay attention to the successes and make efforts to replicate them.

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about employer cutbacks to employee training programs? It seems to me they're shifting those costs to tax payers...
Python hidden jokes and easter eggs
Many people are making suggestions, I'll make a meta-suggestion:

Try and rank your options, and remember that it'll probably look like a power law distribution.

See the two graphs under this section: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/world-problems/#how-to-w...

Many of the companies suggested sound good, though if you're really optimizing for impact, the best one will probably have more impact than all the other suggestions combined. No pressure!
Here's my list:

Side Hustle School

Art of Charm

NPR Marketplace

Parent Savers

Radical Personal Finance

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared US Debates

HBR Ideacast

Happier

Serial

Slate Money

Common Sense

NPR Politics

Hardcore History

Freakonomics

Stuff You Should Know

99% Invisible

Planet Money
> "Bikes can be parked anywhere, but with an umbrella you need railings or a fence to hang it on."

When did bikes stop needing racks?
Don't deal with Ally if you are Asian or Mexican (or anyone else).

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/ally-settlemen...
If you take their word (and accounting) at face value. In all likelihood they have fleeced both the investors and users.
Eh. Cognitive exercises don't hurt, even if the knowledge gained isn't particularly useful. Just because something is entertaining doesn't mean it won't stretch your critical thinking muscles.

I guess define "smart".
So this is pretty lazy anti-intellectualism.

Can you provide some evidence that the investment banks are colluding on IPO pricing?
One Click to Help Save Net Neutrality
Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14529759 (last month)
U.S. Will Exceed Its Paris Accord Goals Despite Trump’s Official Withdrawal
> More to the point, this "killer feature" is easily cloned by a competitor

This doesn't really agree with

> The problem is that this killer feature is easily subverted

Let's let one company implement the feature before we decide it will be easy for competitors to implement it too.
How to work out which problems you should focus on
Hey, I have been in your place like last year, and as a result of researching the field of Compilers and Interpreters construction I wrote a curated list of awesome resources on Compilers, Interpreters and Runtimes, feel free to check it out at: https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers.

The list is huge, so I recommend you start with the Compilers course by Stanford and go through one of the two following books as a parallel reading:
1. Engineering a Compiler, K. Cooper, L. Torczon.
2. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, by A. Appel.

If you want a smaller book, the I recommend the Basics of Compiler Design by T. Mogensen, it is a nice and short one.

All of these resources are linked to in the list.

Happy tinkering!
I've noticed that a lot of new companies start business with the idea that people are fundamentally good and will do the right thing. Unfortunately, there's a subset of people that will always take advantage if there are no consequences. Here's one more proof. Booie for human nature.
It depends on the job. Graphic Design / UI / UX / Product Design is undergoing a lot of terminology changes and uncertainty brought about by a lack of typical degree out of academia and a shortage of people working in the field. Many companies previously had graphic designers who de facto did the UI/UX/Product Design, while other companies are starting to break up/specify the roles.
I have a friend who is homeless and in community college.

If your GPA drops below a certain point, they withdraw aid and you become homeless. Simple as that.
Guccifer 2.0 NGP-van metadata analysis shows 23mb/s transfer speed
If you're into history/philosophy, can't recommend enough:

- The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps [1]

Manages to truly live up to its name while remaining very approachable to someone not very familiar with philosophy.

- In Our Time [2]

Technically a long running BBC radio program with a massive back catalog, but many episodes would certainly interest HN users with very insightful discussions.

These aren't the sorts podcasts I can follow along easily while doing other things though.

[1] https://historyofphilosophy.net/

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl/episodes/player
Unrelated but when I opened this article the react developer tools popped up: seems Motherboard isn't using the minified version of react in production. Someone over there might want to look in to that.
Do you use many (and mostly) open source projects? I am starting to wonder if I am not exploring enough of this type of projects to find one I could add something to.
Markets aren't made by how much something costs. They are made by the perceived value of things.

In the same vein, people aren't paid based on the content of the work -- they are paid based on market rates. Doing mundane work like fulfilling unit test contracts doesn't sound that valuable until there is no one in your geographic area that can or will take that job {in that place, at that time, with the legal ability to work, etc}.
I'm aware, but I'd like to keep the as few accounts as possible. Should simplify transfers and customer service.
Shoot me an email (address is in my profile), if you want help with getting a Haskell or OCaml job. I've managed to do 3 out of 4 jobs so far in either language. (And the odd one out was for Google.)

I don't have a degree even.
I don't think most companies are. I will say I tried applying several years ago and during the initial phone interview I was told I would get exactly my salary at my current company and no raise if I came aboard, before any technical interview. After that I was sent an email telling me exactly how to dress for my second interview... I declined.

I was later in their office on Hurontario near the 401 for a HackerNest meetup. I was speaking with a manager of theirs and mentioned someone who I knew that worked there, to find out he no longer did and he laughed about this person with a colleague.

I love hearing about a Canadian success story but their culture seems a bit off.
The (Not So) Plain Meaning Rule
Exerting your willpower and self control is where the enjoyment comes from for many people. Proving to yourself that you can do something you never thought you could.
except all the new punycode IDN ccTLDs which now exist, for chinese, bulgarian, russian, etc.
That's great to hear; thanks for the feedback!
And the government is getting away with providing less welfare because the company is paying. The company probably can pay more, the large ones always can, but then they would hire someone else. At a higher price point, a better employee will take their place.
I've often thought this could be solved by requiring a doctor to carry "estimate" insurance. The patient's bill would be the quoted price and the doctor's insurance would cover any complications leading to additional costs. This would have the additional benefit of increasing the costs of doctors with frequent complications. This would only work for immediate complications from surgery (i.e., less likely to be impacted by patient compliance).
Thanks! Do you usually try to solve it yourself first or do you look around for existing solutions before trying to implement your fix?
This. All of my old hardcore MMO buddies were pumped up during the Kickstarter days and during the following development phase.

Once Oculus took FB's "dirty money" though, every single one of them saw the writing on the wall, lost interest, and those with dev kits sold them off.

Gamers don't want social garbage getting in their way and pimping their activity/habits/preferences out to advertisers. Oculus may not have had much of a choice with their burn rate, but taking FB's money certainly didn't win them any friends among the userbase they were targeting from day one.
I just looked at the wikipedia page for the .ai ccTLD and registering something in Anguilla requires.... a fax machine?

It's like time traveling to 1987.
Indeed. 400 ppm of CO2 compared to 300 is likely negligible for human respiration, compared to the 201,000 ppm O2 and 780,000 ppm N2 in the atmosphere.

0.04% vs 20% and 78%
For AI, a real-world reality check
Usually Id run a process in screen and then ssh to check up on it. Does this have any advantages?
They also commit to purchase large amounts before the final demand is known. Their price is a combination of a bulk discount and risk discount.
Thanks for the feedback. Maybe next time we talk about it, we'll be more clear about the features.
Meta to the Certigrad project, for those mystified by the 'lean' programming language, here is a good start: https://leanprover.github.io/programming_in_lean/programming...
The problem happens when someone claims the 20% discount, but doesn't understand that they need to keep the card.
If your applications run on FreeBSD I would make the switch, but most originations need better reasons for switching. Have you ever had downtime associated with Systemd or Missed deadlines? Thats the only way I could think of that might justify the switch.
Hi guys, I made a video about the cool ways of implementing Seashells.
If you're interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QokyXiltoCk
I think it's just a consequence of a popular idea at the right time. And 2 killer features, self deleting shares(no percieved history) and it being super easy to select who you do/don't want to share with. Sort of an anti Facebook/public history/complicated privacy settings backlash spurred by a younger generation who grew up with Facebook always existing.

Quicken Loans came out with a service called "Rocket Mortgage" several years ago and I thought, "who wants to enter the likely largest financial commitment of their lives at the click of a button?" Turns out, lots of people... simplicity sells.

Anyways I think eventially once one of these big data hording companies goes under to the point of simply selling all their user data to the public in form of a paid search engine, and public/private key encryption is super simple and mainstream, things will change. I'd bet it might just be when Snapchat goes under;-)
> Kind of disappointed the article made no mention of the Vive.

I'm always disappointed that no mention is ever made of Razer's OSVR HMD (HDK):

http://www.osvr.org/

Open-Source. Virtual Reality.

Instead we get closed source, walled garden, proprietary APIs - and of course, virtually zero Linux support.
The share bikes in China have stands and the lock is self contained (goes through the back wheel).
i don't think any technology should be put on hold because society isn't perfect especially when said technology has the potential to improve society immensely.
Thanks for the VC 101 lecture, but OP might not be looking for VC money and it's hardly an expensive service to run with the current limit of 5 users per IP.

If you actually look through the site, OP mentions plans to add an accounts system soon for power users.

We don't know what kind of plans OP has for seashells. With a healthy base of power users, and no board of VC investors trying to milk it for all it's worth, a concurrent service that doesn't need registration is entirely plausible. That's reality.
making a single person personally liable for content that's hosted on a domain is problematic, to say the least. Go down that path and you eventually end up where the chinese government is now. Where you need a "license" from some ministry to operate an http daemon and you need to hire censors to police all user generated content that disagrees with an authoritarian regime's politics.

https://www.google.com/search?q=china+lgbt+web&ie=utf-8&oe=u...
First, thank you for acknowledging that your previous point was moot, and that you do have a double standard. Now I will show why calling the police any time any small assault has occurred is the wrong choice.

If you think that you need to call the cops over somebody grabbing your arm, you are far worse than the guy who grabbed your arm. Instead of turning the other cheek and forgiving, as the guy who scratched you should have done, you do the same thing: revenge. How are you any different? Simply outsourcing your revenge to the cops makes you a better person? No, you are the same - you feel wronged and that you have the right to retaliate, only your retaliation is far more severe.

If somebody is truly posing a threat to life or limb, then calling cops may be appropriate. But in most small cases, calling the police is both foolish and wrong.

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. Especially in families, forgiveness and love and overcoming evil with good are much better choices.
You'd need, like, electronic locks to randomize the unlock code or something. Seems like a reasonable way to keep people from stealing. As-is they just gave everyone an umbrella that only they could unlock!
If you need to move more than 3 kids, you need to get a minivan. But most suburban people don't, they get the more gas-guzzling SUVs instead. Minivans can also haul a lot more cargo; SUVs are generally rather poor at that.

For most people who rarely move cargo, and don't have so many kids, a much more sensible solution is to get a small/midsize car, and use a utility trailer when you need to move things. My economy car can easily move a washing machine and dryer, or a large riding mower, something that pretty much no SUV can do, thanks to a trailer. While I'm pulling a trailer I get fuel economy similar to a midsize SUV, but it's not often I'm pulling the trailer so the rest of the time I'm getting 40mpg.

Electric SUVs will still consumer significantly more energy than electric cars. You can't change basic physics.
> They're always trying to replace you with either external solutions, or outsourcing. Peers at other banks have all the same impressions.

This sounds like cutthroat capitalism to me. It's what happens to every industry when the margins are thin.

I suspect it will come to the wider tech sector sooner or later when innovation slows and VC capital dries up.

Then again, maybe some large corps will figure out that company culture, mental health, incentives, innovation, and creativity can be boosted by giving people some additional sense of job security.
> smartphone producers can’t support any untrained idiot without a cleanroom opening devices and getting dust inside the screen assemblies and ruining the waterproofing.

If I open my phone and break something it's obviously my fault. If I root my phone, that should never void warranty when e.g. internal storage wears out way before time without excessive writes (this happened to me). There are still millions of people averted to the idea of "rooting" because it supposedly voids warranty (it never did under Dutch law) and because phone shops make it sound scary. Meanwhile making backups without sending it all to a foreign nation (Google) is impossible and installing another ROM (which made my Note 2's battery life go from 5 hours to 2 days after three years of use -- I'm currently at 5 years of use and it's finally starting to wear out for real) can't be done without doing effectively the same thing. What a bloody mess.
Five Seconds
My thoughts exactly!

The amount of things you need to know in order to use react and redux is ridiculously low.

You're basically just composing functions of two types "(state, action) => state" , and "state" => html.

The boilerplate consists of a few functions (really mostly createStore and connect) that are incredibly well documented.

There's almost nothing to understand and redux itself is almost not a lib (only 318 LOC). The whole thing is a pattern and redux is just a small, very well written key component of the pattern.

When people debate redux they debate about programming, not about a tool. That's why it's interesting and why it will never end.
How is that anti-intellectualism? Not saying they are right, but criticizing wallstreet/giant tech companies for price fixing is not that.
IIRC most require a complimentary loan application from parents for PLUS loans... or something like that, at least it used to be so.
There is significant difference in the price different places charge for services. It's not necessarily deciding whether or not to do the treatment, but can also encompass consumers being cognizant of cost and choosing providers who are cheaper.

Here is a planet money podcast which goes through some examples of significant expenses being saved.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/02/445371930/episo...
I think the parent also makes a very good point about creating a better market for reselling older products. The impact of new products being more expensive should be a relatively short-lived one given that consumers who do want the new, shiny gizmo will have much greater incentive to resell what they have, and those who want/need to pay less will just need to seek those used products out. Instead of buying something brand new that will only last a year or two, you're getting something with the same durability to you, but without the environmental impact of making an entirely new Widget.
My utility trailer is far better than your SUV for hauling furniture, appliances, mulch, etc. And for the 363 days of the year that I'm not hauling anything needing that much capacity, my economy car gets far better fuel economy than your SUV while also being safer to drive because it's smaller, faster, and more agile, and doesn't roll over so easily so I can avoid accidents better.
I.e. benchmarking is hard.
Kudos! I thought of buying one but five year old hardware at the price point of a modern high-end was not something I could afford. Maybe once I'm out of university with a job for more than a year, but not now. Kudos for anyone who spends the money on one of those!
So far I have read:

- Left of Bang.

- The Obstacle is the way.

- The Daily Stoic.

- High-Output Management.

- The Effective Engineer.

- Managing Humans.

- Introducing Go.

Currently going through "Designing Data Intensive Applications" and some other data-related free ebooks from O'Reilly.

Up next on my list for the rest of the year:

- Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.

- The Manager's Path.

- Anti-Fragile.

- A Guide to the Good Life.

- The Denial of Death.

- Man's Search for Meaning.

EDIT: list formatting.
Related: garbage collectors making $100k+:

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/economy/trash-workers-h...
Have most employees sold their RSUs yet?
Show HN: Pueue: A daemonized Unix command line queue utility
This is potentially misleading.

The US has a "payroll tax", which is paid by companies and is usually a percentage of the salary paid to the employee. You may not consider it a "business tax", but others might.

Also, some cities have business taxes on a per-employee basis.

Additionally, there is potentially a lot of variance in business taxes between one state/province/municipality and another.
I'd very much like my next employer to be one that is actively working toward climate solutions, and has a large leverage. Any suggestions?

Obvious choices would be Tesla (any large automaker with a serious electric program), or a political organization with sane and pragmatic environmental goals.
More to the point, this "killer feature" is easily cloned by a competitor

... which is why I was skeptical of Groupon's value from the outset.
Hmm. Wonder if some of them use it as somewhere to take a shower, etc. If they have a way to document their low income for grants, it could be a free, albeit high effort home base of sorts.
I switched from Wells Fargo to Schwab last year. I've been very happy and the customer service is great. The web interface is a bit cluttered, but i've seen worse at banks :)

Refunds on all ATM fees make it worth it for that alone.
Ugh. This is forcing me to find a new password manager (not just the current position of 1Password, but their product direction).

I can't put all of my secrets in a file, encrypt it with software a site provides, let that site push updates to me for that software, and then give that site the resultant encrypted file to sync. It's not quite as bad as a pure web based password manager with JS crypto, and better still than a web based SSL transport-sec-only password manager, but still unacceptable.