skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If "we" want to provide support to any group, it can be done through charity.

Charity implies voluntarily providing support, leaving it to the benevolence (or lack thereof) of each individual. In the end, it teaches people that being uncharitable is OK and an acceptable trait, just like being charitable.

I want a society that mandates that support -- and even more so, one where everybody is OK with that.

In other words, instead of pushing out the disabled, in my society I'd rather push out (as useless scum) those that don't wont want society to help the disabled.

>I'd argue this way is more moral: it's more of a good deed to be generous with one's own money than with other peoples'

Then, since everybody will be using their own money to pay the "help the disabled" tax, it's a good deed to mandate by law that everybody has to fork out.

>it's not much of a good deed to give money if one's only doing so due to threat of imprisonment for failing to comply.

That would be irrelevant if the desired outcome is to effectively help the disabled, rather than to test honesty of people's charity.
Every state in the USA has its own constitution as well.
Sorry, didn't mean to be a grammar-nazi. I think their job means much more than meets the eye. The guy is directly lobby-ing the US president, and highly ranked officials around the world. Mistakes at that level cost quite a lot. It might be the case that some professors can be up for the job, but would anyone take a chance?

> Point being, there's got to be a better explanation for CEO pay than ROI on their services.
I'm not sure there is a better explanation for it for now.
From what I gather, liberals in general tend to say that sex isn't special (anyone can freely have sex with whomever they want and slut shaming is wrong), but, at the same time, that sex for compensation is literally rape (because it's a form of coercion). How this makes any sense, I can't comprehend.
That's really interesting material, thanks!

I'm conflicted about GNOME. I like it and it is my favorite desktop environment for Linux. They really did some novel things with the window management and the application launcher in GNOME Shell. I'm looking forward to trying all the work that went into containers, Nautilus, GNOME Builder, and so on. GNOME was always the "simpler" desktop. Some may say it is "dumbed down", but in general the choices made were pretty good and you could fall back to the command line if you needed to do something more involved. So this was never a big problem for me.

However, I really don't like that there is so much "churn" in the GNOME/Gtk world. To me, the height of the Linux Desktop was around ~2009 (I think), with the final years of Gtk2. Everything was crisp, polished, stable. Only recently has Gnome3 caught up in polishedness, IMO.

Also, they lost a lot of features over time. Just a few random ones:

- Theming (in the core UI). This shouldn't be a second class citizen in gnome-tweak-tool, it should be in the main UI and the theming interface should be stable. Customization was always a major draw for Linux Desktops.

- Little things like menu icons.

- As a low-level example: Bonobo! I only learned of this when it was already deprecated. This was a component model very close to Windows' COM. You could create components in-process and in separate processes, or use it for IPC. It was used for the old GNOME panel applets for example. I perfectly understand why it was removed, it was quite complicated and badly documented, and had little concrete value for apps. But it was also misunderstood and parts were quite elegant.

If I had two wishes for GNOME, they would be:

- A new, "crisper" and more compact theme. It's hard to define, but crisp UIs were the Windows Classic theme, the Shiki Gtk theme, macOS. Non-crisp ones are many Qt themes, Motif, most web apps. Its about looking consistent, professional, having depth, clear affordances, looking physical, and not wasting space.

- Stable versions receiving feature updates. This was awesome in the Gtk2 era, you develop something with Gtk 2.14, and years later in 2.28 it still works, but with new themes and UI features. You have to keep a bit of ballast for a few releases, but it makes it a lot easier for both developers and users.
> does that then run into customs problems

Quite likely. The traveler is evading duty and subverting the rules.
Genuinely interested in following this up - may I ask why you don't drive it anymore?

(I hear circumstantially about a lot of people going back to combustion cars but never why. Is it a range thing?)
Secrets of the Scammers in the UK – A Channel 4 Documentary (~ 40 Mins)
Want to start a marketplace startup? Buckle up as it's going to be really tough!
> Every time I hear how someone had to threaten to leave to get recognition/raise he deserves, the believe in meritocracy dies a little in me :).

Well, there is this problem with all support and maintenance tasks: if you do everything perfectly, no one notices. It takes you leaving (or a threat of you leaving) for people to realize that your contributions are important to the operation.

I don't think I've heard of an industry that managed to solve this problem.
Actually the "everything is (virtually) a string" approach has some beneficial effects. Keeping the underlying data structures compatible with this leads to using immutable values with copy-on-write, giving a very clean predictable semantics. I remember being shocked to discover that this did not apply in Python, where a value (not a variable) being used in one place can be modified by code elsewhere.
The "NO" side, IMO, is mostly for religious /morality reasons or the ultra-feminists that think women will be abused by men. The first part I understand, it's at least consistent. But I don't see how a bunch of women in DC or ivory towers can claim that a 16 yo girl can decide /has the right to abort but 40 yo woman can't decide to have sex for $150 a shot.
Working in a poisoned corporate environment has some effect on psychological well being.
In the very rare use cases where QoS for a specific service is needed it should be per subscriber, thus something that the subscribers router deals with. Not something the ISP needs to concern itself with at all.
> "Have sex or starve" can be seen as a breach of consent.

By extension, "flip the burgers or starve" is a breach of consent as well, so forced labour/slavery.
The problem with Germany is that Germany is now servicing not just Germany, but also its neighbours because it's an island of legalisation. As a result demand is higher than what the local workforce can provide, making human trafficking profitable. Also regulation is lax and mostly unenforced
I second what @mtmail said. You can use Algolia [1] to access older questions/answers. But, if you want to make it more accessible I would recommend to upvote or favorite the question/answer. This way will save your up-voted or favorite questions/answers into your HN account. You can use bookmarking tools for tagging questions/answers. It will help you to organize.

As mentioned on FAQ [2], HN limits the number of showed threads because its ranking algorithm. It depends on thread points and submitted time.

I remember, there is a website which provided weekly top Ask HN threads [3]. This website is useful if you miss threads on previous week.

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

[3]: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/
You can see the depth of the various exchange’s order books on bitcoincharts.com. For example, if you sold 4000 BTC on Bitstamp right now, the price would fall from ~$3250 to $2300, and you would earn ~$11m: https://bitcoincharts.com/markets/bitstampUSD_depth.html

Selling ten times that (40.000 BTC) would only net you ~$26.5m so, to answer your question: selling just $10m worth of BTC on a single exchange will move the price significantly. For $1m worth of BTC you’d move the price very little.
Risks of AI
Elemental Haiku
They didn't say what the vulnerability was, just that there was one.
The number of hours you can practically work is an important factor, as are the risks (illness of various forms, exposure to dangerous customers, ...) that at best further reduce your earning potential for a while or at worse lead to complete curtailment and/or much pain (or even early death).

Simply comparing the hourly pay rate is pretty meaningless when comparing job options like these that differ so massively in other factors.

I'll keep my tech job if it is all the same to you.

(not that I imagine many being willing to pay a good rate for an hour with my physical form, so the choice might not really be mine!)
We also wrote an article about this about a year ago: https://code.berlin/en/blog/computer-science-software-engine...
That. And if someone objects about paying me for browsing HN, I'll reply that they are not paying me for me solving their problems during evening shower.
How to choose the right smart button
Yeah, I was kind of afraid to say this, but software is getting really efficient at so many things, so free markets just decided to reward software.

Just like everything, once there is an evolution, if you're out of it, you're obsolete and you matter less.

Just made me think about this article where those few indispensable engineers that get a high pay.

In a capitalist environment, technological improvement goes fast (although technology was also developed under soviet russia), and the reward gets very concentrated. Property means that innovation is not really shared, only sold.

One could endlessly talk about how IT seeds from the internet technologies being developed from DARPA and made public. Hard to say if markets really improved what DARPA developed, IMHO I'd say no.
You treat people as some sort of adversary. How much productivity and innovation can be unleashed by a well educated healthy population not reduced to fighting for basic survival.

This is a future that capitalism with its self congratulatory 'winners' and survival of the fittest race to the bottom cannot envision or enable.

On the contrary it actively thwarts these possibilities by empowering and creating incentives for a self absorbed minority to sustain a system that benefits the top layer.

Human beings are not a cost, they are an asset.
Sharing the gotchas would help me a lot!
Tell that to a parent who has to make a decision if their 8 year old should cycle to school by taking the lane.

This is the fundamental problem with this thinking. "I can do it, why can't you?"

The evidence is that is you want people cycling it must be visibly safe and segregated from cars no matter how easily you find it is taking the lane.
You need a new envelope. One server does not pull $20k worth of electricity a year.
> So if you rest and vest but spend 8hrs a day at work doing nothing... then what's the point? How long would you do it?

Forever. There are 7 billion people in this world. If it's not you or me, there will always be someone else.
There is no reason that can't be done with a traditional database.
Then the regulations need to have a mechanism to be updated in the case of new knowledge. If the regulations have no process to be updated then that is a more fundamental problem to solve.

After all, Debian is set to give the process of change 2 years. That is plenty of time for updating the regulation and processes.
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Elixir and Doctest – Help Writing Better Programs, One Method at a Time
Chromes decision to hide data about secure connections from users is ridiculous. 4 clicks to view a certificate - and that's if you know the magic combination on how to get there.
The latter are merely a very vocal minority though. Very very vocal, but in the grand scheme of things in what is a massive debate that has been going on for centuries in various forms with strongly defended positions on all sides, a drop in the ocean.
This guy doesn't reply to emails.
Desription says google's email service. Is takenottie@gmail.com the email address?
How did you enjoy Vue vs React?
UX brutalism
Obligatory plug when discussing early/primitive human tech:

https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/
There is a lesson here. In comparison, Notch appears very dissatisfied despite his accumulation of wealth.
Maybe I'm not the mainstream, but the more money I have, the less obligated I feel to use any of it.

Every car I've owned has been cheaper than the previous and honestly these days I'm mostly public transit. But at the same time, I've become many times richer between each car purchase.

I love the non connection and unpreciousness of my possessions - how profoundly and easily replaceable they are and how detached I am from them.

At the end what is wealth other than excess of liberty and freedom. An ability to purchase luxury without much concern for the cost is at its highest form when someone can also dismiss most of the luxury as frivolous and not purchase it at all.
To be fair, I was saying this from the very beginning, but Troy should have never even started to disclose user emails and in which data breaches they have been affected publicly via HIBP.

There is no good reason why every random Joe should be able to type in my mum's, daughter's or son's email address in HIBP and see whether one of them has been signed up on a Cannabis website, gambles online, or trades with bitcoin or is signed up with an organisation that tries to help people with a certain condition. Troy decides based on his own personal world view which web sites are unethical to disclose publicly (e.g. porn sites or Ashley Madison) and which not, which is often very problematic in my view. Even though Troy tries to act as ethical as possible, in the end his world view is only the one of an old(er) white male Aussie who loves old petrol fuelled sports cars, which is quite antique itself. Clearly there's issues then when services such as Cannabis.com, crackcommunity.com, Foxy Bingo or Acne.org are publicly disclosed by him, but Ashley Maddison not.

HIBP is a good service, but there should be two major changes made:

- Don't let anonymous people type in email addresses and disclose information to them. Just don't show people any information about an email which is not theirs. Period.

- Allow people to remove themselves from HIBP. Not everyone is comfortable to think that some dude in Australia is collecting a huge database of all data breaches in which they have been affected, ultimately building a user profile about someone's interests, sexual preferences, political views and more without their consent.
Public Highways England released IAN 195 www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/ha/standards/ians/pdfs/ian195.pdf

This gives a speed profile/volume of traffic recommended infrastructure matrix from sharing (20mph < 2500 cars per day) through to hard segregation with a verge (60mph).

National standards are key. The US NACTO also released a phenomenal free design guide https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-...
So here, Steve Losh, one of the best Vimmers out there, is also an excellent Lisper! It would be interesting to hear his views on Emacs since he transitioned to Clojure. I am curious to know whether he uses Vim for Clojure/Lisp development.
My Fav is Neon :

There's no shame in it.
Advertising pays the bills.
Stop looking so red.
Nations have done far worse than trade protections to help their prosperity, so it's very understandable.

What's less understandable are the calls of "We live in a globalized world, that's just how things work now!" when Western nations try the same.
Guns don't kill people. People kill people.
Google and Diversity
Cool, one suggestion is to make the button stay in the same place even when the text takes up two rows. That way I don't have to move my mouse between the jarringly accurate quotes of me :D
On one dimension, health, there is a body of research suggesting that increasing income inequality is associated with poorer health outcomes at a population level. Here is a recent-ish review by two researchers who have spent a lot of time on this topic:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953614...
An artificial eclipse for imaging extrasolar planets
That's why you have project managers. They (or at least good ones) handle the process and the politics and clearing the runway for the devs to do what they are good at.
Volkswagen Car Entertainment System Forensics
Is that https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/opinion/sunday/motherhood... by any chance?
I think that it would increase it, because contrary to what people seem to think here, prostitution is very low on people's ideal career choices. Increasing demand is going to increase the need labor, and I don't think anyone here is advising their sons or daughters to have sex with strangers for money. SO trafficking would increase.
Caves of Clojure
JAAS and Juju Update: Juju GUI 2.8.0
I'm pretty certain you're being sarcastic, but on Debian, most of the users stick to the "stock", packaged ones, instead of building their own. Indeed you can build nginx with custom ssl, but most of the Debian users won't fiddle with this.
Groub B was part of the reason for Nokia's fall in mobile phones.

Nokia decided to develop incentive system package for key employees and it totally screwed up work atmosphere at the senior level.

Once Nokia stock skyrocketed, Nokia workforce was divided into two with system that was not all clear. Sudden multimillionaires and those who didn't get anything extra often working side by side. One group started to take it easy, or leaving the company. Others were bitter because they had to work with millionaire coasters who were suddenly more opinionated because getting fired was not an issue.

The most ironic thing was that MIT economist Bengt Holmström was a member of Nokia's board of directors when it happened. He received Nobel memorial price for economics last year for developing contract theory and researching incentive systems within companies. He knew it was overly complex and inefficient system, but nobody was interested to know what the number 1 guy in the field was thinking. http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/in-nobel-prize-lec...
Indeed! And I'm not trying to argue that you should have learned programming earlier. Just that you weren't "nudged" away from technical topics as many times as a woman might have been. You would not, for example, have run into serious people who somehow believe (or seem to) that your whole sex is less capable of working in that area. On the scale of large populations, ideas like that would have an impact on enough career choices to move the needle. I don't think everything has to be 50/50 in order to be "right". But each person should feel like their choices in where and how to work are limited by their preferences, and actual success at carrying out the work, not by some BS assignment of "suitable jobs" made at birth.
That's the one! Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14944904
60 Hours of Hell: The Story of the Barkley Marathons
Because we view marriage as special and the sex act as affirming love? Your mother cares for you as a child because she loves you..if you found out instead your mother solely cared for you to receive a paycheck, wouldn't that cheapen it?Can you imagine a nation of mothers like that?
Witt: Do you ever feel lonely?

Welsh: Only around people
OVH Cloud Storage is inaccessible for 2+ hours
In other news the "VIP support" is enjoying a public holiday.
Paul Graham, John Maeda, Jonathan Rees, Guy Steele in a Panel on Language Design
The first reports talked about "sea lice", which are quite different.

The sea louse (or one type of it) is a parasite that famously eats the tongues of fish and "replace" the tongue by lodging themselves in the mouth of the fish. [1]

They also had an "expert" speculating about jellyfish larvae, which are colloquially (but incorrectly) also called sea lice, but they are not capable of biting, only stinging.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua
Probably has more to do with age. 20 years ago retirement was 40 years away; now it's only 20, and have kids college to save for. Though I'm making 3x what I did 20 years ago, I'm a lot more frugal. Nothing impresses me anymore either. A used car is just fine. I don't need any more guns. I buy my clothes at Costco. Really nothing to spend money on, despite being in upper 5% income bracket.
Thanks.

I run a consultancy business and she can intern/learn with me. That isn't the problem. Is actually finding resources for her to start from zero. Where we live there aren't really any bootcamps. Was looking more for information on books or online courses that really do assume zero knowledge from the student.

I can try and do it myself (and of course, I'll help when I can) but it is hard to even think of where to start. Should she learn Javascript on an online editor? Install node and try typescript locally? Just install a full version of Visual studio and let her click the buttons until she can understand what is going on?

I remember learning how to program by reading the QBasic manual that came with my computer at the time and try to modify some source code (probably Gorila.BAS) but not sure if that is the most efficient way to do it nowadays (and I was young, had all the time in the world, so if it took me 2 months to get a square moving onscreen wasn't a problem).
Same here, I'm completely self taught, I know when the appropriate data structure for the problem at hand might be a binary tree, yet I never learned how to implement a tree data structure.

I've read plenty of implementations, but I never "studied" it thoroughly. And that's one of the reason I never went through an interview with a Big 5 company, where you're normally expected to implement i.e. a tree insertion algo on a whiteboard.
honestly, I didn't work a lot with react (actually, I did only todo list =)) but, in my opinion, Vue is easier and more beautiful than React
Yeah, compensation matches the number of people you reach in the moment, rather than the impact of that reach. Those who reach millions of people (rockstars, football players, the person who designed the curve on a button at a hot tech company, vacuous reality TV stars etc...) will earn relative to the audience size at the moment of earning rather than the value-add-per-person.

Teachers and firefighters have immense value on a very small number of (often unappreciative) people directly. The outcomes from that value might be immeasurable, but at the point of delivery, society doesn't value it highly enough for heft compensation at present.
I think it is more about getting the client's testimony confirming the deed. And you're right, prostitution is a business based on discretion, so most of the time prostitute would not know the name of her client. Bottom line is: they stopped taking a word for it and started demanding proofs.
too bad sometimes it doesn't resolve pointers correctly
Not interesting, not funny, just shitty.
>devote it to enriching experiences, like attending the opera

Most rich patrons of the opera wouldn't know an "enriching experience" if it bit them in the ass.

It's about going out and showing off in wealthy circles.
Not to be that guy but: This loads as a blank page on Windows Phone 8.1, just FYI :)
It's not just about hosts. In developing countries, old generation mobile phones running Android 4.x are extremely common. Google's own metrics show 26% of Android phones are pre-5.0, and that's without the unknown number that don't have Google Services installed.

EDIT: Seems the last version of Android 4 does support TLS 1.2, but there's still a non-zero amount of users on older versions.
Yes, but computer scientists are required to take engineering physics also, as well as creative writing sometime. We are talking about the practice of medicine, and if you know any doctors, they aren't exactly very interested in math (they have a lot of other stuff to do!).
They're also enabled by IT.
It would honestly not surprise me that it would be A-OK here. We've already had someone defending Charles Murray.