skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I would love to pay 15% of a contract to someone who could source and close contracts for me.

Couldn't agree more. The product design space is crowded with low end parties on both sides, and I've fruitlessly offered a percentage a few times for people to source mature, ready-to-pay clients.

There are solutions like upwork, and solutions like hired, but there doesn't seem to be an intermediate solution. Would be interested in what keeps more people from pursuing deals like this. 10% of a 50k contract is nothing to shake a stick at.
> Prop 13 is outright generational theft from younger people by older generations.

It's actually theft by corporate (or family chain) long-term property owners from everybody else; it doesn't favor individuals of particular ages (especially since the parent-child residence exception was adopted.)
I'm confident that you have no clue what you are talking about.
It seems as though they have a very sustainable advantage. Getting all the hotels connected is expensive. Because they have such a large number of hotels in place with a good revenue share they probably have some of the highest conversion rates in the industry. The higher conversion rate and deep pockets allow them to buy demand and brand awareness. Very hard to see how someone would enter this market and try to compete with them. I imagine they also have exclusive deals in place with some hotels making it even harder.

It's not impossible though:

1. One of the other big tech players could decide to enter this market.
2. Alternatively a site with huge demand could start to feature hotels (airbnb for instance).
3. A technology shift or a shift in the right advertising strategies to create demand could leave room for startups to enter this market.
The main problem here is one of trust. If you're going to share your code with a third party like Kite, even without getting into the possible legal issues involved, you have to be damn sure you trust the company. Kite's culture has already shown to be deceptive, and these actions are really not drastic enough to imply they're committed to change.
...which begs the question, who are the giants of today? Why are we not hearing about them? Why are they not as "well-known" today as these men and women were?

One reason, as it appears to me, is that we are more in the age of the tech entrepreneur (primarily due to the Internet) as opposed to the late 19th/early 20th century which was the age of the inventor, the scientist.

Research and inventions are a much higher barrier to entry and a much longer cycle of work. Starting a startup is the easier route to name, fame, and riches today.

Sadly, I'm not sure it's for the better either.
Shit, I didn't know they bought Kayak.
It's easy to make money if you are already rich. The parent post is an excellent example of that. If all of those poor plebes who bought homes in the 70s had instead inherited their home and invested millions of their own dollars in the stock market just like those smart rich people they would be way better off today.
Same for PayPal accounts, this isn't limited to e-coins.
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I would guess that the intention of the feature was not just to give users results quicker, but to also make them feel as if Google search is very fast. So it may have been effective even if you didn't click any links.
To expand upon diet-based -- how about food preservatives from processed foods. For example: Propyl parahydroxybenzoate[0][1]

[0] https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Propyl_4-hydroxybe...

[1] The dirt: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12419695
I get that people hate Flash now, but for a long time, Flash was the cutting edge of interactive design. Honestly, I don't see that level of experimentation or creativity in interactive stuff these days..
Working as a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow, with Julia Silge
Perl 6 is designed to be a large, feature rich language that can be learned and used incrementally. The intent is that, like users of natural languages, Perl 6 practitioners gain fluency and nuance in their expression over time.

So, if you want to learn Perl6, don't worry about writing "baby talk" Perl 6. Write something that works and solves your problem. Later on you may learn that there are multiple other ways to express the same ideas you wrote already. Maybe one of them better expresses the heart of your algorithm, then you update your code.

Now, you may think, how the heck am I going to maintain code written by a bunch of people at different phases of learning Perl6?

The Perl community has responded to this challenge by putting a huge amount of work into writing excellent documentation. Perl6 docs are readily searchable and carefully indexed. It's a big, new language with lots to write about, so the docs are not yet complete, but they are already fantastic and keep getting better.

So, please, just pick a problem to solve and jump on in. The water's fine.
Please drop support for google AMP or make it optional. Half of the Indian mainstream media is not available on it.
Google's the only site where I prefer navigating with arrow keys, mostly because it's a list, as opposed to something like prose (where I want to take my own sweet time to read the page).
How to be a better Computer/Software Engineer?
I have been working as a software engineer for 3+ years. I've constantly improved myself in every possible way. But I've recently hit a road block I've been getting calls from top companies such a Microsoft and Google to attend interview but I hesitate to attend these interviews.Its because although I'm a good programmer I'm not good at designing software architecture nor at learning advanced algorithms,I've never run an entire team. I've always been assigned task and told what to do.Recently I've started contributing to open source projects at GitHub. Any suggestions to be better myself will be appreciated.
They were one of the only survivors of the dot com bubble though. Were they really valued at $70B+ back then?
As a kid, I used to make tons of little things that a lot of kids do. But I had special interest in arts and crafts which got me to build a few cool things. I remember crafting a peacock on a canvas using wood ice cream spoons and toothpicks.

As an adult: A web based Basketball scorecard in plain HTML/CSS/JS. Was in college at the time and it came as a side project through a contact. Was really fun in the beginning but it was my first taste of how real world works when the client started calling me day and night to make tweaks and fixes :). No regrets though.
Sure.

A craft is something you get better at by improving the constituent skills that are required in that craft. For instance, in woodworking, it takes some level of skill to work with hammer and nails, or to sand a board, etc. etc.

So programming is not a craft.

Programming, at its core, is problem solving, and getting better at programming requires improving one's problem solving ability. Physics is also about problem solving, and is likewise improved by improving one's PS ability.

However, having heavily experienced both, I would say that they are very different types of problem solving. Modern programming is a lot of trial and error, ala any other type of "invention". "I did not fail, I now know 1000 ways to not make a lightbulb" - Edison.

Modern physics is not really trial and error. Physics is applied math. You take some fundamental principles, combine them together in a logical way, and get something new. At a high level, that sounds like programming. But for me personally, and I think for many people, the fundamental thought process and approach to problem solving in the two fields is very different.
He sold his shares at a very low price a long time ago
After the experience in BC, I think electoral reform is a non-starter in Canada.
An in exchange, I suspect a much larger percentage of the population in these areas will see their cost of living gradually (like a frog in a pot of slowly heated water) increase to the point that they'll never be able to save money for retirement. I have a very strong feeling that this is what's happening in places like Vancouver, people spend so much (and relentlessly increasing) of their income on rent, but the same thing is happening to almost everyone, so it seems "normal" to them. Or they think just work my ass off for another year or two and "some day" I'll land a good job so I can afford to live here....next thing you know 5, 10 years have passed, and you eventually realize that "some day" is never going to come, and you're middle aged with no savings and no career.

I don't know what Canada is going to do with the 30% of its population who hasn't gotten rich in the real estate boom as they get older, have no savings, no pension, and when they can no longer physically work are priced out of rent due to the ever increasing levels of immigration from wealthier nations. Maybe we can just hook them up to machines that feed them basic nutrition and pain killers with a VR headset on.
Also, the total hotel revenue is roughly $500 billion a year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/247264/total-revenue-of-... (revenue not market cap)

So there's a big difference still.
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Yep, see my reply to vacri.
They do exist in the UK, they're a competitor to LateRooms. They regularly have adverts on the TV. They never seem to have cheaper inventory than LateRooms though.
The non-profit platform https://www.crowdAI.org currently hosts a NIPS 2017 challenge as well as a genetic challenge, and constantly adds new challenges. Btw, it's completely open source, and keen on having contributors to help build the open challenge platform the community wants the most.
Scientists build DNA from scratch to alter life's blueprint
I wasn't alive long enough ago to buy affordable housing in san francisco. How does that not favor older people than me?
Maybe not quite there yet?

https://lwn.net/Articles/724198/ (May 30, 2017)

In truth, an AIO operation can block in the kernel for a number of reasons, making AIO difficult to use in situations where the calling thread truly cannot afford to block. A longstanding patch set aiming to improve this situation would appear to be nearing completion, but it is more of a step in the right direction than a true solution to the problem.

In other words, AIO seems likely to remain useful only for the handful of applications that perform direct I/O to files.
I've been using a standing desk for about five years now. I generally use it for 8 hours per day. The only time I don't is when I'm doing a video conference and that's just because I don't have an external camera at the moment.

I will say that I preferred my treadmill desk. Standing can be a little tiring. I use a mat and good shoes, but I still feel it in my hips at the end of the day. (I'm about to turn 50).

With the treadmill desk, I could feel it in my calves and thighs, but it felt good and was much less tiring. The treadmill was just too heavy to move when we came to Texas, but I hope to have one again.

I never had any trouble concentrating on the treadmill. I do find myself sitting to think sometimes from the standing desk, but I think that is the soreness issue in another form.
True, but combining them can be a pain. My current codebase in C++ has both posix threads (std::thread) and libuv event-driven code. They're both fine, but it's a nuisance whenever they intersect. I can't drop libuv, because there's a nodejs VM inside. I can't drop std::thread, because some other libraries that do IO run synchronously.

A universal M:N threading system with coroutines underlying everything means that both styles of code can happily coexist.
What do you mean he bought one? They're not for sale, there's no way Magic Leap would let one of those things out of their grasp. I think you're confusing Magic Leap with possibly the Hololens or something else
Why you should work remotely
If you have an American Express card Newegg participates in ShopRunner and ShopRunner is free if you have an American Express card. ShopRunner provides free two day shipping both ways on eligible items (all items I've ever bought have been eligible).
Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm
Instagram is down for some users
Containerization arose out of Linux namespaces. What you get is process segregation under the same kernel, like jails or chroots but more granual. So security, that's the answer.
Kind of how upvoted posts on Hacker News or wherever get more clicks just because more people get exposed to them. I guess you just have to be aware of it and take it into account. Is there any other way?
Founder kicks in.

The vision is to merge PaaS into IaaS, e.g. a microservice-native cloud. I want to ask more details of the upper-layer features you imagine. Thanks!
I think the difference between Perl 5.10 (2007) and 5.26 (2017) is bigger than difference between the Python 2 of 2007, and Python 3 of 2017

The difference between Perl 5 and Perl 6 is probably about 10x the difference between Perl 5.10 and 5.26

I like to explain it this way:

Perl 4 is to C

as Perl 5 is to C++

as Perl 6 is to Haskell/Smalltalk/C#/Swift/Julia…
If you're talking about the puzzles that can be almost mechanically solved (sudoku, cross numbers or whatever it's called, battleship, etc.), for me they're verging on meditative. It's not that they're easy, but I've done them enough I know what to do. It's the same for when I run (especially over the same route I've run many times before). There's nothing new in the activity, but it occupies enough of my mind that I get into a "zone". In that headspace, a great deal of other creative and free-associative thought seems to occur.
A $550m acquisition announced 2 days ago is not news?
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After three zero-value share options schemes in a row (two ran out of money, the third is still going but doesn't look like it'll ever be publicly traded), I now regard share options as worth less than the time it takes to sign the paperwork.
Ah yes. Even used it a fair bit. It's pretty good. Didn't know that was the same company.
Why? My understanding was that the only reason Apple and Google did stock splits was that they wanted to get onto the Dow Jones Industrial Average which is (stupidly) price weighted and not market cap weighted so without the split, they would have been a much larger portion of the Dow.
There's no need for snarkasm. You don't have to be a Chinese investor to buy an apartment. I simply have no sympathy for people who rent long term:

1) They can take off any time. A new job? A market crash? No problem, just pack your stuff and leave.
2) Someone else is doing all the maintenance and dealing with building codes and paying all the taxes, etc.

Because of the inherent risk in owning a home and the effort required to maintain it, it will always be cheaper to buy than rent. If someone likes their neighborhood, but isn't willing to commit and put in the work, they deserve what's coming for them.
> It was always a pain to set up my search engine to have instant off - and of course instant turns back on if you performed a second search on the results page of the no-instant page.

Hmm, is it not just a matter of turning it off? Or are you doing something more advanced than using the standard Google search page?
they didn't. they just had them add _support_ for Kite. It was up to the user to enable it. I'm failing to see the issue here. I mean, yes, their UIs needed work, but they admitted to that mistake and have since fixed it (according to the article).

Your comment makes me think this is more of an open-source lynch mob rather than someone looking at this objectively.

Company needs users. Plugin has users. Plugin does things company's flagship product _could_ do (and it is _free_). Company reaches out to Plugin developer and they come to an agreement to add support for the flagship product into the Plugin, but the new support is _not_ enabled by default.

Wherein lies the problem?
Even though this could more properly be called, "Why having language support for M:N thread multiplexing is important", I thought it was a refreshing article on why I might actually use a bit of perl6.

Last year I attended a conference and saw Larry Wall speak. It was an overview of Perl 6 and I was completely underwhelmed. Larry spent about half the time talking about unicode support. It wasn't a boring talk, but I never felt a moment when I said, "Awesome! This is a pain point in some other languages and I would pick up perl6 if this ever happened again."

I don't want to write perl6 completely off, but I have found that perl6 advocates have not done a great job on why you would actually want to use it. It's hard to justify learning "different" syntax just because someone says, "hey, it's fun!".
https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/pull/50 was linked from the post, but it's not merged
I'm young and don't know much about Fortran. Care to elaborate?
It is implausible for this to happen at scale. Presumably all properties in competition for the same clients will have comparable tax and each landlord will implicitly factor taxes into their prices. This should have an effect, similar to collusion (by with no malice), of effectively raising the cost.
If you look at a reply to the comment you're replying to you'll see it previously in the title. It might have been posted between the change and your comment
Researchers Develop Sampling Scheme Unconstrained by Bandwidth
Reverse osmosis can be also problematic cause it removes chemicals from water that are also useful. Maybe a less aggressive filtering method will do.
One of major blockers of UTF-8 transition is Windows world - the operating system itself, who stubbornly stuck with not even complete UTF-16 support, and also a big amount of software for this OS family without the proper UTF-8 compatibility.
Probably not what you are looking for, but I hacked this together a while ago just for fun: http://tunetab.us :)
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This is also what helped C win mindshare in the early days of UNIX's adoption across companies.

After UNIX vendors started selling their SDKs, the C SDK was a must have anyway, given the relationship of UNIX and C.

However, getting the Lisp, Fortran, Pascal, Modula-2, Ada compilers, meant buying them as additional modules, each worth several thousands of whatever currency.

The majority of them sold by third parties.
On a similar note, Keepass can be used without admin rights with the portable version, so you can keep the portable executable along with the encrypted db file in some secure and accessible email account/web service that your network doesn't block.
Tangentially related, my number one feature request for GitHub would be support for cross-referencing (a la Opengrok) in the code browser. Browsing through project code without a local checkout is one of the main things I do on GitHub, but it's not very ergonomic without cross-referencing. (I also realize that this is much to ask for, considering how much time Opengrok takes to index large codebases.)
The biggest stumbling blocks for IPv6 are the fact that many prominent cloud services don't fully support IPv6.

Or have outright broken IPv6, e.g. Digital Ocean's /124
Booking.com is very popular in Europe. In fact for years it was pretty much only in Europe. It was founded in the Netherlands and stuck to the continental European market initially. Now it's global, but Europe is still one of its bigger markets, and it's still headquartered in Amsterdam, though now as a subsidiary of an American company.
I think at the big tech companies, it's comparable to cash but favored even more so because (if you hold them for a year) you can take capital gains (15-20%) on them instead of paying 40%+ tax. I don't think s73ver wasn't talking about startups that are pre-IPO.

I think this only applies at companies not using RSUs. Since I think you get taxed immediately (no capital gains) with RSUs.
The updated dialog still feels kinda slimy (https://github.com/kiteco/kite-installer/pull/50). It makes no mention that search and usages are paid add ons (https://kite.com/pro).
Go to your whiteboard and draw supply-and-demand curves for a couple derpy markets of widgets and other goods. Then, draw one for labor. Note how the curves are reversed; if you draw it "backwards", then it goes back to behaving like a normal market. Now, try adding employment policies, like minimum wages, to the market; what happens to the curves?
Why is this not a great national issue of enormous debate? Why is there so little visibility? everytime i see a list of voter related issues, housing is never mentioned.

Good question, but I think the answer is that it's simply not a national issue. In New York City, you can bet that it's a campaign issue across local politicians, and it's in the news weekly. Also, it's not true that one 'can't build' in NYC due to regulations. While there are regulations (as one would expect of a highly densely populated city), there's plenty of building. The price of land, however, is obscene.

Meanwhile, that $1M condo that's one bedroom apartment you purchased in Manhattan (in Manhattan it's probably small) or even the $800K 2 bedroom you purchased in Brooklyn (in a cheaper part of Brooklyn, like Bed Stuy or Bushwick), you could live like a Sheikh in a place like Omaha, NE or (perhaps) Dallas, TX.

Hotpots like SF, NYC, Boston and so on - the smaller, dense cities with jobs and no land left - no so much.

It's not a national issue. Everyone wants to live in California because you get nice weather, high salaries and cannabis edibles rain from the sky. You're a victim of your own success.
What about this rule:

https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2008/34-58465.pdf
Priceline doesn't have pricing power, they are just reaping the rewards of their branding and whatnot. There may also be some value for the consumer in that Priceline can consolidate their travel plans for flights/hotel/rental car in one place. However, I find I get better service when I transact directly with the vendor, whether it be hotels, airlines, or rental car agencies.

If you want the lowest prices on all the big hotel chains (Marriott, Hilton, IHG, Choice, Wyndham, Best Western, etc), then use www.roomkey.com I have no idea why they don't advertise it, but their loyalty pricing (you have to be a free member of their rewards system), and in exchange for the discount you get, the hotel doesn't have to pay commissions to Priceline/Expedia/other travel agents.
You have to admit you are pushing it to the limit there. Most people just want one IPv6 address per VM and that is working.
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