skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That 2% may seem little compared to your yearly income-tax. However, it's a tax on all your capital that you own, and it gets applied every year. So it's a tax on all amassed wealth, not earnings. It implies that you can't just keep what you've earned, and that if you were to put it away for your children/grandchildren, it'll magically get eaten away slowly until it is practically nothing.

In addition to that, it makes it painfully obvious that someone out there, is through some means, conjuring money out of thin air. The thing each of us sweats and toils every day to earn? Someone gets the privilege of printing it and injecting it into the economy. I simplify it a bit, but that's essentially the gist of the criticism.
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I'm 30, work in tech, and most of my friends and family (in my generation) use Venmo. Weirdly enough, I don't really use Venmo with my friends in tech (different circles).

Our use case tends to be for fantasy football, splitting vacation homes, hotels, bigger gifts for the parents, and other more expensive things. Replaces checks more than cash I'd say.
"Software is kinda mathy, I guess."

Food for thought: Software has a bizarre curve if you look at it from a math/verbal skills perspective. For what could very well be the first 10-15 years of a software career, software is very math-y. Then, if you want to continue to grow, it takes a very verbal turn. If you want to continue to grow in software leadership and capabilities, you need to be able to express yourself, convince others, navigate politics, and figure out how to translate these issues into the code you structure and write. It isn't a sudden transition and some may transition earlier than 10 years, but it's an interesting way of looking at things.

(Note I'm not talking "management", but continuing up an engineering path.)

A lot of engineering looks like that. If software has any unique characteristics it is how far a single math-oriented programmer can get due to our unique abilities to pull down huge libraries with incredible functionality without having to work with anyone to do it.

Again, just food for thought with no particular argument in sight here.
Debug information often is choc-full of environment specific goodies that can easily cause builds not to be reproducible.

For example, debug information for several languages I've worked with embed the full path to where the source code file was originally compiled. This can easily vary across two machines in a way that when debug information is turned on, the builds are different, but when turned off they are the same.
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Why would that last be a good idea? You're throwing away a good business with 70% gross margins - for what? Okay, to concentrate on something that might be a good business with 99% gross margins, but is the difference between 70% and 99% all that important compared to other factors, like the difference between is and might be? Not a rhetorical question; maybe there is some logic to it that I'm missing.
I got my P4317Q in Aug 2016, it was that early faulty A00 revision with PWM (flicker) issue. I took a flickering video on the phone camera with lowered exposure and filed a warranty ticket. Local (EU) Dell service center picked up the display, confirmed an issue and one week later I got a new screen of A01 rev. from Germany with no issues. Superb monitor, just make sure to get A01 rev.
The rocket gets to 'fly' in, taking advantage of the atmosphere for control and braking. Not that it's not a bonkers achievement but the speeds are much higher and the tolerances much lower to slot an orbiting payload back into a linear rail.
> What safety does Go's version buy you?

A statically typed version guarantees you haven't made some fundamental mistakes and enables automatic refactoring.

Say we wanted to change an ID field from being a string to an int later in development for example. You've now got to hunt around all your files making sure the right type is being used. It feels incredibly primitive when you need to do this manually or have to rely on an exhaustive and annoying to maintain test suite for this.
> That does not make the argument erroneous, only un-PC.

It makes it heinous, because heinous things are said and done with that argument. "We shouldn't hire women, because they will affect the culture we have", etc.
I was in Beijing a few weeks ago for the Linux Foundation conference <https://www.lfasiallc.com/linuxcon-containercon-cloudopen-ch... and was amazed that:

1) Verizon had added China to TravelPass in the last year, so it now costs $10 a day for up to half a gig of data, plus unlimited voice and text.
2) There was complete access to Google and Twitter because my iPhone was using an international SIM.
The ever-timely: 'Fearing a rise of killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars.'
Would strategies used by AI's that play imperfect information games like Poker be useful for winning a contest like this?
OpenSSH and OpenVPN have nearly identical attack vectors with regard to MITM.

Perhaps in theory, but in practice I would argue otherwise. Why?

Most SSH configurations require key verification and are rarely modified otherwise.

By contrast many OpenVPN configurations, statistically, have MITMable keys, and as they tend to be written from scratch the likelihood of these configurations in the wild is much higher.

With regards to SSH tunnel longevity, try specifying the ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax options.
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The wild world of online trackers
Blogspam of

http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/03/23/kochs-bankroll-moveme...

Moyers is not its author.
I often refer to most computer programming as "digital carpentry." Of course, there are definitely jobs that require someone be more of an architect or a scientist, but the vast majority of jobs just need someone who can build common things that work and work well.

In that sense, most of the programming work I did in the first decade of my career had more in common with the blue collar tradecraft that my father did than it did with anything anyone would consider to be a STEM career.
Think of regular internet as postcards, secure web traffic as those window envelopes that are easy to recognize, and most vpn traffic as bubblewrap envelopes.

You read the postcards, and build a list of sender/receivers that communicate stuff you don't approve of.

You can use that list to block window envelopes of encrypted web traffic - you don't know what's in the envelope, but you have a pretty good idea who's talking to whom.

Now, the bubblewrap envelopes - they don't sort quite like other envelopes, they're a bit heavier. Maybe they're going to an unknown recipient, and you think that's odd. They look a bit different. Put those recipients on a list. One gets too high, maybe block them and see if anyone you care about complain.

Now, clearly, people will figure out a way to make their bubblewrap envelopes look like the regular business envelopes with windows. Look like secure web traffic.

But traffic patterns are likely to look different for streaming and peer-to-peer. You might have an idea of who you'd like to enable streaming media from.

In short - you can use pure traffic analysis to make an educated guess about the nature of a data stream. Packet size, frequency, bandwidth, participants (ip addresses).

Some packages says "VPN" clearly on the side. Some pretend to be HTTPS traffic. The latter might get through, some of the time.

(Not an attempt at summarizing the video, just an attempt at an analogy for packet inspection)
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This is not a good idea. I don't want some company like venmo/paypal/brantree/visa looking datamining every last cent and transaction that I spend. Who knows who they could sell the data to or if they get hacked. Just use cash and tell the server what you ordered. They will give you an individual check, with totals on it. If theres >10 people yes you might need to pay 10% extra fee but that's better than subsidizing someone's 3 $15 cocktails, $30 steak, $10 dessert.
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Economists these days are basically trying to find a way to avoid hard work and thrift. Unfortunately the only way we get better computers is by very smart people working very hard to develop better machines. The only way we get houses is by people building them. And the only way to obtain a net worth is to save more than one spends. However, economists seem to think that with enough money printing, borrowing, and other shenanigans they can somehow get more houses built in the places they are most needed. Of course, it is a joke and wrecks out everybody's wealth in the process.

As Hazlitt taught:

'The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.'

Anyone interested in clearing through the crud should read Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.
My thinking is that the population of people who are applying for loans in any given month is going to be drastically different than the population who are not applying for loans in exactly the metric, personal finances, that Pricenomics wants to look at. Kudos on Pricenomics for being so upfront about their data, but I wouldn't have titled it "How Much Are People Making from the Sharing Economy?", because it's not. It's more like "How Much Are Loan Applicants Making from the Sharing Economy?"
it's kindof irrelevant to andrew ng's comments. It's about something like Cyberattacks. Something can be done very soon like tricking spam filters
Take the following code, which I had occasion to write this morning:

foreach (var item in items) {
if (items.Where(item2 => item.Upc == item2.Upc).Count() != 1) {
item.Duplicate = true;
}
}

This is the most readable and straightforward code I could come up with for the task; it's also not particularly efficient, since it does at least twice as many comparisons as necessary (more if there are actually duplicate items). To make it more efficient would require extra loops and manually indexing them to skip over comparisons that had already made; in this context I decided against this because the performance impact was minimal since there are other far less efficient portions of the code which would best be addressed first if the program turns out to be too slow.
A Golddigger App from a Golddigger
Hi there,

A (female) golddigger-turn-entrepreneur from United Kingdom (formerly Ukrainian) has made an app for other golddiggers around the world!

Well her story starts just like any other Disney movie; no father, no mother, struggling for financial support in a third-world country to live or even go to a collage. Although it's a nice "job" with benefits there is no real future in it so she created a mobile dating app called "Classy Girls" for up-and-coming golddiggers to find rich guys secure & fast.

App is new but current users base is awesome.

You can find the press kit here. http://www.dateclassygirls.com/asset/file/press.zip

"Classy Girls" is an app where Rich Men & Richloving Girls meeting each other and travel!

http://www.dateclassygirls.com/
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id1244437943
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobileart.classygirls

Thank you,
That's...never been a thing?
And why would that be a useful viewpoint today?
As an abugida versus an alphabet, Thai and English are not that different in structural conception, though Thai has almost double the number of consonants.
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More money on average, but not necessarily at the top levels.
"better than steroids" by Dr Warren Wiley. Although it might be more focused for athletes than what you are after. And yes, the title is sensationalized, in the first few pages the author admits it.
you can if the server is configured to list directories O_o
No sure why you are being downvoted, as this is a main point of the article. "But the essential insight is still important: much that delivers human welfare benefits is not reflected in GDP." GDP is not that useful of a measure for the wide variety of things that used to be expensive but are now free. It also includes a lot of things that are not exactly products, depending on which calculation is being used.

In a broader sense, these national level calculations ignore the global economy except to add exports and subtract imports. Countries that import a lot thus have worse looking GDP, while still consuming large amounts of others' production.

We used to use GNP (until 1991 or so) as the official measure, but it made the increasing amount of the budget spent on government debt obligations look bad so they switched. No doubt we'll find another gross measure to use.
I loved watching startup of a Diesel engine that probably occupies more volume than my house, thanks.

But for sheer amazing operation at the very edge of what we know how to do, I like [1]. There's just something about running !% short of destruction as normal. That's engineering!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEQI4lpdJGI
In Australia it's not uncommon to see restaurants with "Sorry - No Split Bills" signs up at the cash register.

It's also not that uncommon to see the staff let you split the bill anyway on a case-by-case basis...
I _always_ ask for this if its what I want and the server doesn't offer it. They offer up front because its 10x easier to do knowing thats the plan going into it than having to split things up afterwards.
Without earnings per hour metric, it's hard to make much of this post.
8:28 ain't bad, either.

If you get a chance, go see an air show like the one at Paine Field where they fly P-51s, etc. The engine starts are the best part. No video can ever do it justice. Hanging out at Top Fuel drag racing events is also major fun.
"Hi Anthony, we are committed to the CCleaner brand and Piriform’s product portfolio, and will continue to offer the CCleaner as a standalone product and brand."

I think this answers the immediate question everyone is going to have. Glad to see that they are keeping CCleaner around, but also interested to see if anything comes of the acquisition.
> Google’s director of education echoed this sentiment: “Our experience has found that most graduates from these programs are not quite prepared for software engineering roles at Google without additional training or previous programming roles in the industry.”

No shit? Of course 12 week programs won't help anyone get into Google. None of them advertise that. They're all web development or app development curriculums. Google is an aspirational position that requires a brilliant graduate with some great internship experience.
Ask HN: How do you find reliable info about a virus or malware?
Sorry in advance for the noobish question. How do you find reliable, detailed info about viruses or malware?

I run antivirus (BitDefender) and antimalware (Malwarebytes), and they occasionally come up with results for files I've downloaded, both new and old. Usually they are of the type Generic.Trojan.34567 or the like, and I tend to assume they are false positives but delete the files anyway. That said, a Google search for any virus name usually leads to thousands of shady links promising REMOVE GENERIC.TROJAN.34567 FAST DOWNLOAD HERE etc. etc.

There has got to be some sort of informational database about these threats, what they can do, maybe how to remove them... isn't there? What resources are out there to learn about known threats?
Must be a regional thing, I've never heard of that. It sort of makes sense when you consider there is a flat rate for each tranasction.
I agree with this. They did mention that they don't know how much time workers spent earning this income, but I can see how this piece would convince a casual reader to conclude that these sharing economy platforms are a terrible way to earn money.
Missed this but in case you read this, well that depends on the purpose of the system, but in most cases modular schemas and allowing for loose coupling via data/message bus does the job.
Watching the nozzles quiver under the load gives me goose bumps!
Just study resources on MVC and some of the patterns that get lumped together with it (Adapter, Facade, etc). There are books available, but they all tend to lack in certain areas (since software design is a super broad topic). Best just to read up on some of the patterns and work on some projects. (Yes, I know that's the usual comeback for this sort of post. But practice really does make perfect for this sort of thing.)

And, if someone recommends a book called Code Complete, quietly begin to question some of their life choices.
You're right of course. I'm the main author of Apache Curator. While it does have a mirror on Github it's mostly consumed via its Maven Central repo. The Maven Central repo is most likely a better source of open source project usage.
I'm in tech. Never heard of it. I mentioned it to my wife, "Hey honey, have you heard of this neat app Venmo?" Her: "yeah, I use it all the time."

She viewed it like a newer paypal. She has paid friends with it, and they have paid her with it.
Censorship in America is not through retroactive erasure, it's through the Overton window.
The theory of comparative advantage ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage ) tells us that optimal production requires exchange. If you prohibited the exchange of existing assets, it would not be possible to achieve the same total production regardless of who you assigned to produce what. (You could of course have everyone keep producing what they were producing for the trade-is-possible world, but if you did that, nearly 100% of all production would be thrown away as waste. Coal is valuable in small quantities as a heat source, but it's valuable to power plants only because they can sell electricity, and it's valuable to mine owners only because they can sell it to power plants.)

That is value directly created by exchange.
Honestly though, I don't think that's far off in that even those you mentioned are leveraged as a library (Firefox maybe not, not sure. Chrome can be used headless so guessing there's a possibility for Firefox. Some of the open source internals are used in other projects though). But OpenSSH for sure is used within other software. Okay, maybe libreoffice isn't a case (at least I don't think it is).

At this point, I just love seeing GUI software I leverage also coming with a CLI. I learn what it can do for me with the GUI and then can use the CLI to manage the heavy lifting for me.
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For a strict enough definition of "the same", your statement is meaninglessly apodictic.
That's awesome, well done. Can I ask how much it made out of curiosity?
Next you're going to say "natural," "functor," and "category" come from category theory, too! :-)
Thanks for this, it helped me understand the matter being discussed.
I don't think someone able to teach the basics of programming would want to settle for $6,666.67 a month(assuming a class size of ten). That's also assuming they had no gaps or dropouts between classes. Sure, in your example it's no longer immersive but:

1. Immersion is what gets even the weaker programmers through. Non-immersion will drop the placement rate greatly.

2. There's still a lot of prep work so the teacher will still basically be a full time teacher. And that's assuming a one person operation. They'll need someone for advertising, outreach to local companies, and their own technical needs.
> it naturally rewards meritocracy and progress

That's a funny way of saying "in-group beliefs and identity."

At some point we will discard this nonsense notion of meritocracy. If one exists, it's certainly not in tech.
Joia do Vasco, atacante Paulinho, de 17 anos, vem sendo observado pela Juventus
My reaction when I got my souped up engine to run the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xos2MnVxe-c
"On Writing Well" by William Zinsser. Considered by many to be the best guide to non-fiction writing.
Which again, favors not a hypothesis of skills or abilities, but literally what options you have (or choose from) in college...ie, hysteresis.
The PostgreSQL parser is available as a C library.

C - https://github.com/lfittl/libpg_query

Ruby - https://github.com/lfittl/pg_query

Go - https://github.com/lfittl/pg_query_go

Node - https://github.com/zhm/pg-query-parser

Python - https://github.com/alculquicondor/psqlparse
Funny, I was watching a video of a guy with a prosthetic hand. He loved it. He said he went from almost committing suicide to being ok with life again. When he talked about his bionic hand, he said "I'm not left handed, I'm other-handed", as he turned his hand a full 360... It was pretty funny.
Really? I've been meaning to try them (I live near their North York location). I guess I'll make sure to only go there with my wife.
Another thing to touch on even if you agree with the article, this is mostly talking about choices in career, not how well we pay such people in those careers.
The Oracle.

She possesses the power of foresight, which she uses to advise and guide the humans attempting to fight the Matrix
I don't think that's likely to be an effective strategy. The #1 priority for the CCP is to ensure that it is the sole and uncontested source of power and authority in the entire country. There's nothing anyone could offer that would outweigh that.
All the WiFi routers I've bought in recent memory do that for the network connection password, but not for the admin page.

My NEC router had no default password and required you to make one up yourself on initial setup.
> they need the customer to attribute value

Yeah, and it's my duty to eat?
Me too. When I see that, I wonder what how it would felt to be an SSME design engineer viewing that behavior. I sure wouldn't have expected my design to shake like a leaf in the wind.
Japan defeated Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

They definitely weren't a major manufacturing economy in the 18th century.
Independent merchants are hard to measure because they are captives of Amazon and eBay, and only the platforms really know what is up.

They rarely amount to much more than jobbers.
Neither gestures nor voice input will ever eliminate keyboards for the simple reason that keyboards are vastly more efficient. No technological innovation can ever change that because the limitation is on the human side of things.
Look at page viii on your link. "Hardware costs constitute about half the total price of our small-battery systems. The largest
single hardware cost for these systems is the 6-kW battery-based inverter ($3,596), followed by
the PV array ($3,584) and the lithium-ion battery ($3,000)."

PV only is the orange box at the bottom. The cheapest option is 3,584 for the panels and total cost of 15,581. The most expensive option is still just 3,584$ for panels and a total installed cost of 47,171$. Trying to drop that 3,584$ portion is not going to make much difference a this point. But, needing to install more panels would significantly increase other costs.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Are there any studies showing men have a higher predisposition to taking risks? I cant quote one but I think there are.

There is an evolutionary reason for men to take more risks and have a desire to engage in hunting behaviours. We just have to be conscious of that and as per one of the top commenter's remarks not "fall" for something irrational or be driven by societal pressures.
> like give it gas on turns(wears cv joints in fwd vehicles)

I'd rather replace my CV joints every 10 years than be that jerk who slows down to a crawl on every turn on a mountain road.
Remove the words "open source" and the title makes more sense to me.

Most software is libraries and frameworks -- you just don't get to see most/all of the proprietary stuff, since it's not on github or anywhere else.
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