skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to come right out and say it and fully expect to be downvoted to death - these people are the problem. Not Facebook (who they don't actually work for) and not their actual employer. They make a combined 75-80k a year. The median household income in CA is 61k. The median for the Silicon Valley area is 94k. They need to get up and move to give their children and themselves a better lifestyle. They have the means to do it based on the state's median household income. They're just being assholes.

They need to make the commute to work and live in a place that's much more affordable. It's that simple. I work in NYC and make substantially more than their combined incomes and yet I don't live in Manhattan or any NYC borough. Why? Because it's hideously expensive in Manhattan and the nearby areas. I drag my ass all the way from central NJ and it takes around 2 hours each way. I'm not an outlier either. They have multiple bus lines to service all the other central NJ commuters. These people need to come to grips that they can't afford to live in that ridiculously overpriced area that happens to be located within a convenient proximity to their jobs.

Also, their entirely mentality is completely fucked. They seemed surprised that they weren't allowed to bring their kids to work when other, actual Facebook employees did. It's like they don't realize they don't actually work for Facebook, but rather just work in a Facebook building. Also, there's this entitlement-driven, handout-seeking garbage:
“Our motivation is not to bash either company. It’s for our families. Why do we have to live like this, when the company we work for has the resources to make it better?”
So...just because your company has enough money to give you a raise, it should do so? Their employer should just ignore market forces and the fair price for this work? Speaking of which, they receive above the fair market rate already which makes this comment even more astounding. They want their employer to also ignore shareholders/owners interests and just give them more money? And this money wouldn't even be done to retain talent, reward extraordinary performance, or any of the other standard reasons for which this is usually justifiable? Wow. The company I work for makes a lot of money and has fantastic margins. But if I ever was in a performance review and said something like, "hey, the company makes a lot of money and I feel like I should get a larger piece" - and didn't follow it up with a damn good reason to justify that comment and prove my increased claimed value to the company, they'd laugh in my face, and rightfully so.

These people need to get a clue.
Most email clients allow the user to configure a separate outbound email server.
So their big shift of making Windows an OS more focused on creation than consumption starts by... nixing Paint.

Why? It's a dickish enough move on it's own, but I can't understand the reason behind it. This will surely generate a huge PR backlash wgen actually implemented, with even more people trying to block the update... for what exactly? The article doesn't even talk about a planned replacement.

What is their plan?
...at which point you reinvented the wheel and it's very likely that the GraphQL library for your language works better and maybe faster.

<winks>
>As someone new to the Mac ecosystem, is it standard practice to run an antivirus as it is on Windows?

No, almost nobody does it (plus, a few "antivirus" products for Mac are malware themselves, e.g. Mac Defender etc.).

Most so-called "viruses" for Mac are in fact merely trojans (programs you need to download and run yourself to infect you).
No. It's unusual. The most common case is Macs in corporate environments where "local anti-virus" is required across all desktop systems (with such policies typically originating in Windows-centric companies).
> It's a disaster. But it's a disaster that points the way fairly straightforwardly.

A disaster that could have been avoided if they had done a little more research on security and smart contract languages:

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5003

Solidity is still clearly focused on programming productivity instead of contract soundness. The built in dynamism is proof of this.
This App Wants to Relieve Americans’ Medical Debt
>Perhaps topics being hotly debated indicates that there is generally no easy answer one way or the other.

Questions that are difficult to answer are debated by many, but not all questions that are debated by many are difficult to answer. For example- Earth is not flat.
Rather than trying to argue capitalism vs communism I would like to point out that neither specifically calls for mass murder. Both to happen to be associated with plenty of it though.

For people thinking capitalism is completely clean please look up the Indonesian genocides. For people thinking communism is great, consider how mao and stalin could have been stopped by communism.
The poynter.org link makes it clear that things aren't clear.

Who, for example, is "the Snopes team" - like actual team people who can be traced and held to account for the money being asked for?

Who are the lawyers, what money do they need, what's the nature of the legal claim, who is the claim against.

Why can't they follow procedure with the registry to (re)gain control of the domain. How can they have, as claimed in the OP, editorial control of the site but not any other control; that makes no sense to me.

The whole thing stinks: It sounds from Poynter.org as if Mikkelson has a partial stake in the company he's seeking to sue.

What sort of money does it take to run Snopes, what are the alleged withheld funds?

Overall to me it doesn't sound, somewhat ironically, as if a completely truthful and reasonably full disclosure of the situation is begin made.
Yes I agree, but installing tortoise GIT and then looking at what commands are available on the menus is a great way to focus learning when you don't know whats to learn yet.
> Single payer is the only viable solution.

I would say single payer, or a single regulatory arbiter of procedure and drug prices (within a multi payer context).

When you look at the healthcare costs GDP, the single payer systems still tend to come out ahead multi-payer + regulatory oversight (its one more level of abstraction you pay a complexity cost for...).
I'd be more sympathetic to poor google's plight if they didn't plaster banners telling me to switch to chrome all over the place.
What are the specific benefits to having an immensely expensive administrative bureaucracy lodged between the actual patient and actual health care provider?

This should be easy to answer and explain.
Same. Bulma is my favorite CSS library to work with.
This is funny, because Bloomberg is a big monopoly itself..
Ghost Candidates Are Not Acceptable
Windows XP at Defcon: Preparation
Unfortunate name if you happen to know Dutch.
Amazon Prime vs. Government: The Private Sector Does It Better
Why "never really took off"? It's quite widespread in MS-related enterprise world. And it provides a lot of value there. It's just it wasn't adopted widely by the others because of different reasons
As many have pointed out, the main issue here is the Bay Area's cost of living - especially housing. What they're earning is higher than a lot of people in the food service industry, but still isn't enough to afford a decent house or apartment here in the bay area. It's not like Facebook can start paying them 30$ per hour or issue them stock.. some types of jobs just don't scale in terms of salary and it's just unfortunate that homes in the bay area are overpriced.

Something just needs to be done regarding affordable housing here. Otherwise people not doing tech will just slowly get priced out from neighborhoods and will have to deal with living 2 hours away in cheaper areas
Why are you just assuming that the company was his alone and she had no ownership at the time of the divorce?
Sure does, and that is one project I have been watching for a while :) Thanks for sharing it!
this is the 'cocacola' problem. No strong name system can work in the real world if cocacola has no legal right to their name. Sue a smart contract, lol!

Considering cryptocurrencies supposedly 'square' zooko's triangle, a fraud namespace like this eth registration can not survive the real world.
>I think what people actually think is that the chances are much lower of encountering malware in the wild on a Mac.

Yes -- and what people believe is also true. It's indeed much lower, to the point of being a non-issue almost.

(And it's not due to "lower market share" either. Mac OS 7/8 etc had even lower market share than today's Macs have, and it had tons of viruses).
> Wow. Just wow. For some people, marriage is more than a financial arrangement.

In the eyes of the government the only thing in marriage that's more than a financial arrangement is hospital visitation privileges and the right to not testify against your spouse.

I didn't say to annul their wedding vows or diminish whatever non-financial meaning their marriage has.

> They'd also save a bundle by not having kids. Maybe they should sell one of them, it would help pay for the others?

That's disgusting.
My ISP keeps on trying to get me to upgrade to "up to" 100 Mbps service. What in the world do I need that kind of bandwidth for except to stream videos? Shouldn't they disclose that if I upgrade I can't actually use the bandwidth unless the video provider pays them too?
I think Google Webmaster tools report some XSS vulnerabilities. I'm not suggesting their detection is in any way as sophisticated as your solution - but do you see internet search giants offering and improving this sort of service as threat to you in the long term?

Congratulations on the launch though, don't think this product is targeted towards us though so probably wont get a chance to try it but love the objective.
Someone else was downvoted for saying so, but Zuckerberg is running for president, which is exactly why he need not look at his own employees. Votes in California are almost a sure bet for D nominee, if he becomes one. It is voters in the swing states that politicians actually have to care about. It is them who have to be understood and pandered to because they have political power.
That's the point, dude.
Wikipedia doesn't have an ownership dispute, right? You're right, and I agree that keeping the lights on is a legitimate aim, in general for organizations not in the middle of a legal battle. My question is whether funds are the primary threat/solution to keeping the lights on, or whether the legal battle is the real problem and whether funds can even solve that problem. I like the service that Snopes provides, and I'm open to donating for a good cause, but I don't know the whole story here, I don't want to declare sides in someone else's battle, I don't want to prolong the inevitable, I don't want to contribute to someone else's pain, I don't want to waste my money on a lost cause, etc. etc.
It was presently, and it's easy much happening now either. All these "viruses", or 99% of them, are just trojans.
It's 2017. Stop letting users pick their own identifiers.
I live in and grew up in Oklahoma and every time I hear a horror story about housing in these high-population areas I balk. I have a good, challenging job making what would be poverty-level income in SF but I have a house, a nice car, and can travel a few times a year. I guess the night life isn't as good or there is "not that much to do" but I hang out with my friends, eat good food, and drink good beer so I'm not so sure what else I could really want.

The tech giants could put satellite offices in OK, or people could just move and shoot for one of the good jobs that are already here. I really don't get why anyone puts up with SF.
It isn't nihilistic. It is honest. We do owe it to ourselves to acknowledge that reality continues to exist. So in keeping with that, it makes sense to acknowledge that in reality these fact checking websites can be compromised. They aren't a bastion of truth, even though they claim to be.

In my personal experience, when fact checking political fact checking, three out of the four claims I investigated turned out to be highly misleading. Usually it was by the person doing the fact checking leveraging the fact that people wouldn't have full context.

I'll give an example. Unemployment. Someone will say un-employment is higher then the statistic suggests, because the way the statistic is tracked has people who are unemployed for a long period removed from the listing. They will then give an estimate of the real statistic. The fact checking will say that this is a pants on fire lie, then cite the unemployment statistic. They will not address the central claim about how that statistic is recorded.

In my estimation, these sites are largely propaganda. Or maybe I'm being too bold in saying that. I know there is research that suggests that people are literally less able to read statistics and think factually in the presence of their political opposition. If given charts to read, charts that disagree with political positions are more likely to be misread then those that don't. There might be more at play then an attempt at influence leverage on the part of the fact checkers.

Either way, I'm inclined not to set the prior the current iteration of fact checking websites are an example of striving for truth and so deserve special value when updating what I believe.

However, I tend to find that non-political and not hotly debated topics don't seem to have this problem of being frequently wrong. So when things aren't highly political, I probably will allow the use of fact checking, because if I'm striving for truth that is expedient.
Danish too.
They could move to Texas. The price for that garage is probably more than the total cost of a 3000sqft house in north Fort Worth. The Toyota headquarters just moved from CA to TX and those guys are buying large houses in expensive areas of town in cash.

I have known many people who have left CA for exactly this reason. I am sure CA is great when you are young and single, but once reality kicks in CA becomes very expensive.
Do you think every company is aware of this service?
That's how human morality works unfortunately.

capitalism: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state."

meritocracy: "government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability."

morality: "principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior."

Here's how I think about "us looking down on them":

Assume both capitalism and meritocracy. Then the question becomes: How should superiors (in profit and ability) treat inferiors? That's the morality question. Try putting yourself in the cafeteria worker's shoes (i.e., you do not have ability and profit). How should you be treated? Surely things other than ability and profit should matter. We think "good" people deserve "good" things. What makes a person "good"? Is someone good if they were born with and then cultivated ability? Doesn't the low wage worker also work hard? Then the differences for ability are determined at birth. Does something determined at birth concern one's morality in the present? How about profit? Does someone's wealth factor into their morality?

I do not think morality is concentrated in the powerful. I think there are immoral powerful people and moral powerless people. I think it is fair to treat a moral person with respect regardless of their power position. I cannot tell whether a person is moral by their ability and profit so, a priori any other evidence, I believe in being respectful to everyone.

tldr: I judge people based on their morality and power isn't a signal. Therefore, I believe it is wrong to look down upon a person based on their power position.
Meritocratic enough for unequal income between skilled and unskilled labour?
Unpkg – global content delivery network for everything on npm
Do you actually use windows? That's not my experience at all. The difference between even just the stuff windows ships with is staggering. Just compare control panel to settings app, they look like they belong to different OS's, and you have to use both to access all configuration.
> It's possible you're right. Without knowing the details of the relationship, you never know.

This is true, and being a mere software developer I'm in the dark on the contents of any of the contracts my parent company has with facilities either.

> The reason I say that is the article points out another glaring issue - the shortage of ER docs that we are currently facing. I know this first-hand, as I have a family member who is one and is working harder than ever.

Insert my standard rant about restricted med-school/residency admissions and cost of tuition here.
Offtopic - wow, so the links in submission text are clickable now, or is it a special kind of submission?
It's fairly common practice to keep a domain name with one company and the hosting with a different company. Then if something goes wrong, at least you have something.
3rd takeaway - don't do this in turkey unless you want to end up in a literal Turkish prison.
What happens to digital money if the ICOs never stop?
> I tend to be wary of hard and fast rules regarding most anything, so I'm hoping you can round out your comment and, by proxy, possibly my opinion.

As you should be. I tend to be wary of absolutes as well. The "right" has been very efficient with dog-whistling and the window of discourse (Overton window) by taking things to the extreme and tugging on people's heart strings using fear and hatred as driving forces.

I am sure means-testing is good in a lot of scenarios. It is definitely more efficient than my crude "proposal"[1]. It makes "sense", right? Nobody has infinite resources so we should try to focus where we need it most. If humans were rational, this would be a good answer. Unfortunately, we are not rational, level-headed beings. We are emotional, irrational, overgrown infants living in our own bubbles.

What do you think?

[1] It is not actually a proposal, more of a thought experiment.
>I work for Fortune #75 (hint; it's probably hanging on your wall).

Honeywell; thermostats?
Yeah, it won't work. It works in every other developed nation in the world, and they all pay less money for better healthcare outcomes, but hey, the US is Totally Special.
I've often heard that parenting requires a great deal of responsibility.
Both Google and OpenDNS use anycast addresses for their DNS servers that are very likely to route though a 'local' server. I think ISP games are far more likely to be the root cause here...
To be fair that's usually how it works in England too, with maybe a bit longer to wait for physiotherapy, and the addition of weight loss programmes.
Soft U2F: A software-based U2F authenticator for macOS
How Cheap Does Geothermal Need to Be Before It Becomes the Next Solar?
rocks are hard, water's wet... no one denies those facts.

But if someone suggests that Seth Rich shot himself twice in the back of his head..... and Snopes calls it false, does that make Snopes left or right leaning?

How is that quest for "value free facts" going for you?
Wouldn't the mandate against dropping coverage for people with pre-existing conditions result in price increases across the board? (Because now insurers can't take your money, and then tell you to fuck off once you get sick.)

You're probably now paying the 'true' cost of healthcare. (Of course, inflated by the peculiarities of the American system.)
Yes, it is from google but it is not supported by google.
Calculator app that represents multi-step calculations as diagrams
Because wages are not tied to family size but the means test for state provided benefits are. They should also apply even if they are married and talk to a social worker.
Snopes has become a propaganda machine, it's been obvious for months now.
Great match for Flickr!
Plus the physical space cost of storing discs. Even if you remove them from their cases, which is definitely sub-optimal, they take up a decent amount of storage space.
> They're pretty good at dealing with pregnancies, cancers, and emergencies

I agree with everything you say, except the part about cancer.

Even by European standards, the NHS is actually quite terrible at dealing with cancers - even "routine" cancers (like breast cancer and prostate cancer), let alone rare cancers. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer in the UK is 55%, whereas in the US it's upwards of 90%. (Prostate cancer is an incredibly treatable form of cancer; for most people, as long as it's detected early and managed appropriately, they will die with prostate cancer as opposed to from it).

Of developed countries, only Japan, Portugal, and Denmark have worse five-year survival rates for prostate cancer.
Many attorneys will provide a free or very low cost initial consultation; you may have an unrealistic picture of what the actual cost of legal services for this particular scenario would be, and may benefit from actually finding out before assuming they are too expensive.
Thanks for your comment!

It basically wraps some functionalities of quantlib library into an API. Main reason of it is that I think part of the target of the library is people that not need to know about programming, and an API opens it to future user friendly interfaces (such as the google sheets addon).

Examples, the add-on uses it and you can find the source code in the repository. Close source, yes now, it's been just a side project. Not thinking about monetize it now.
I guess we won't see massive migration from DNS usage to ENS usage in a matter of days. I foresee we'll have mixed usage decentralized and centralized naming systems for a long time until people start seeing the advantages of the former. By that time, CocaCola will just have to buy the domain from the squatter instead of registering themselves (too big to fail, on this matter).
They throttled users to 10Mbps to Netflix. The article states this shouldn't be an issue streaming a show at x resolution. I have 5 people and four TV's in my family. It is common to have 4 different shows going on Netflix. We all have different schedules and can't always watch the new OITNB on the same day.

If I'm paying Netflix and paying Verizon for 40+ Mbps wouldn't this impact us? Shouldn't I be able to watch four shows at once if I pay my bill on time?
Using Opentracing and uber's Jaeger client is awesome. It's easy to implement, and Jaeger provides multiple different mechanisms for sampling traces (always on, guaranteed throughput etc.).

It's awesome to be able to see a UI giving you diagrams like this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b2uhx77urpnuk9g/Screenshot%202017-... for your API.

Definitely would recommend - it beats old-school log tracing.
Because Webp was such a success?
Get a Flying Start in Your Tech Career
25 days ago someone brought 600 domains that does not exist. That is not a news.
I don't understand why domain squatting in general isn't considered more of a problem. I tried a couple different times to get a .link domain for my blog and just about anything short/meaningful on the obscure tlds are taken, but none of them are actually used for anything. They wanted $5k for sym.link...WTF?!? I actually sort of appreciate the logic behind the .sucks tld managers if not the intent. You can't squat everything if the registration actually costs something semi significant.
>The lawsuit did a lot of damage in both directions. It's not clear who benefitted other than the attorneys.

That lawsuit single-handedly created an additional layer of intermediaries (whole industry, really), which eats up ~30% of consulting revenue and provides close to zero value.
pik refer to the male sex organ.