skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, @bede @v3gas I would love to hear your thoughts on my plots -- http://abhirag.in/articles/price_data_present.html

Too fancy? Too plain? Kinda ok?
Kinda new to matplotlib, so your feedback would help :)
Also, find your state financial regulator. Mine is the New York Department of Financial Services and they have teeth.
>There are more, but that's what $40 / month.

Help me understand, US$ 40 in rewards agains a monthly spending of?
I can safely publish my SSN without giving one single fuck.

You should do so right here.
While the carriers are responsible for a lot of shit, the people most responsible for making the job of piloting suck is pilots. The contracts negotiated by pilot unions are the ultimate expression of "fuck you, I got mine".

Not only is pay determined seniority, so is getting first pick of flights and a bunch of other quality of life factors that make junior piloting a living hell.

Airlines would love to pay their junior pilots more as they correctly realize the economic damage of a shriveling pipeline but they can't do it without senior pilots demanding their vig.
I find it interesting how many people say they should just move, or take care of themselves. It's hard to escape poverty, especially so if you have no marketable skills and no money to move. You can't just afford to move to a proper apartment for thousands of dollars if you're living paycheck to paycheck.
On the flip side, I've always found it useful when debugging at a REPL to be able to read various kinds of metadata about objects, including documentation. Clojure is one example of this, but I wouldn't mind seeing it elsewhere as well.

https://clojure.org/reference/metadata
We've also moved to an RFC process in our group of 80 (~50 developers.)
I'm not sure that is correct. Assume that you have only 101 people in the voting pool. The one person who is wealthy pays $1,000 for 100 votes. To match that voting power, you'll only need a handful of the other hundred to pay $4 for more votes. What I think you are overlooking the fact the wealthy person's $1,000 is going to get distributed to everyone which gives them more voting power. Everyone gets at least $10 at the end of the vote. If a few people are willing to invest the $10 back into their vote, they can easily overcome the rich persons' vote even though a vote was purchased for each person in the system.

How balanced this is, I'm not sure. Why use the square of the number of votes rather than the cube? But it isn't immediately clear that this gives a few rich people significantly more voting power in a situation where a larger number of poor people feel strongly about an issue.
> "they're in the business because they see what they’re doing as something more than just making meat products. They see themselves as feeding people, feeding the world, feeding their community"

Ahhh, except there are multiple states in the US where it's illegal to film inside an industrial meat-farm.
Even if the video shows illegal acts, the person taking the video will be charged, not the doers of the crime.

When it's come to that, I think it's pretty obvious the people involved know they are not "feeding their community" like it gives them warm fuzzies or something.
The link to the whistleblower tool served over HTTP, what a great idea.
Is this new information?

John Ralston-Saul wrote in The Doubter's Companion in 1994:

"Ants do nothing 71.5 per cent of the time. They are trying to think of what can usefully be done next. And this in spite of their reputation—shared with beavers and BEES — as hard-working role models for the human race.

"Most humans in positions of responsibility work more than 28.5 per cent of the time. It could be argued that, being brighter than ants, we need less time to think. This is a technically correct and reassuring argument. Yet a comparison of the incidence of error among ants versus that among human beings would not come out in our favour. We could counter that, by risking error, human society — or at least human knowledge — has progressed, while that of the ants remains stable. But if we are so bright, then why are we so eager to spend as long as possible on the non-intellectual tasks which hard work represents, while desperately economizing on the time spent thinking? An outside observer, an ant for example, might wonder whether we are afraid of our ability to think and more precisely of the self-doubt which it involves."

Unfortunately no citations relevant to this bit are forthcoming.

Searching backwards - for ants and 71% - finds a reference in sciencemag[1] from 2015. This in turn leads to a paper[2] citing this same number. Mind, both are some two decades after Saul's work was published.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/most-worker-ants-are-...

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-015-1958-...
No, the scam is that all other shoppers are subsidizing your reward points in the form of slightly higher prices.

There are some apartments around here that let you pay rent by credit card. You'd be foolish not to take advantage of that and save at least 1% on your rent.
I suppose the information is hidden to prevent gaming the system. As someone mentioned in another thread, they took out a loan for $1000, sat on it and just paid it off. Credit score goes up with zero risk for just the cost of interest. If the algorithm were exposed, it would be easier to game.
A Glossary of Betting Terms for First-Timers
In Sweden the interest rates are around 1% (I don't know where the OP is from, just giving some context). I think the average is around 1.5% for all home owners and it's not unheard of for people with good jobs and not too big mortgages to have interest rates at the 0.5-0.75% mark.
>Any chance they'll release the data that backs up this statistical claim?

It was probably a pretty half baked, self-reported Google form so the data may not be worth much.
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I made Synonymful to improve the vocabulary of my essays. The basic idea is to first write the essay with your own words and then replace your words with more professional synonyms that you can find with Synonymful. Feedback is warmly appreciated.
> I really wish the industry settled on terms for this stuff

I've pretty consistently heard "strong typing" to mean that the language avoids coercing between types, and "static typing" to mean that types are known at compile time. So JS and Python are both dynamic typed, but Python is (more) strongly typed and JS is (more) weakly typed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690544/what-is-the-diff...
I like them. :)
>It's also possible that more men than women are willing to work longer hours

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/atus.pdf
NB: This is part of a new series on trade publications that the author is ramping up:

"The conversation that follows is the first installment of “Tricks of the Trade,” a series of interviews with the editors of trade publications, and it has been edited for length and clarity."

It could be a good series to follow depending upon the publications.
The actual form / complaint are served over https, as you can see in the link.
The fact that the pii existed is more systemic. We use social security numbers to verify identity and have a unique way of identify people across systems. If our current system of doing this (i.e. SSNs) are no longer reliable we will have to come up with something to replace it. If what we use to replace it is as brittle of a solution we will run into a similar problem down the road.
>Obviously you didn't even read the damn article.

I did. What is obvious is that you know nothing out of what is written selectively in an article in a vague way. If you think the sand illegally exported out of Africa is anywhere significant to the amount being consumed in Africa, you need to reconsider your sources of information.
If we have a system that allows you to buy votes from other people, how is that any more of a flaw than simply using our current method of voting and allowing the same type of vote buying?

It sounds like you are saying that a system that allows you to buy other people's votes skews toward rich people. We don't outright allow that today unless you count advertising. With the quadratic system proposed, rich would have to choose between advertising or putting more money into the voter pool (is distributed to everyone and thus increases the voting power of the poorer majority).
If you enter Test and 12345 into their "checking site" it says account has been breached:

https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/906247688768905216
Some people will really really care but that's a good sign to not have anything to do with that person.

For the most part, people will react to it like not being able to ride a bike or never having seen the ocean; aka: A noteworthy piece of trivia but nothing to get excited about.
You're right. I rephrased it.
The study I cite, and the link you clearly didn't click, is simply a table of countries sorted by alcohol consumption per capita, showing the massive differences in consumption and types of alcohol consumed between countries as of 2010. That's just the largest factor of many that affect cancer rates due to alcohol consumption.

Also you seem to have the impression I'm trying to disprove the study. As I stated in my original comment I'm not, I simply think they were being hyperbolic in the introduction and that annoyed me. And assuming the UK study is the sole source of that 4% number, then it's wrong and alarmist as presented and should be qualified.

I have no trouble believing their results, which are wholly unrelated to this minor point. And I hope your defensive pedantry about the definition of an allergy makes you feel better, because it doesn't disprove my argument.
can and should are orthogonal.
Since 1970 the number of  extreme weather events worldwide has quadrupled
This article really bothered me. "An important decision had been made on behalf of the team."

Their solution to that was to make everything in the company revolve around the manager. After feeling personally hurt that they weren't included on every decision ever, now there's paperwork which can HOLD PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE if they break "the documented rules".

Those darn workers better check those rules every time they're about to do something just in case, and if it's a new thing, ho boy, they better think twice because now they have to be prepared to wade through all that argumentation and red tape first.

This is awful and borderline mentally ill. It instills a fear culture into employees and ignores that developers want to write code. Instead it's trying to force them into the manager box of talking big and shouting each other down until an idea wins. Sick.

You know what the solution was? "Yeah, well they built it and it's pretty cool. If you want to do it in something else then make a better one." End of problem.

If this person was my manager I would be looking for a new job.
Yes, it would be nice to see the raw data, but note that they've bucketed Level 1 through Level 6 employees, and have still found gender discrepancies.

Are you suggesting that different jobs might occupy the same level but have widely differing compensation? That might be true - I don't know Google well enough - but that's not how salary bands usually work.
If it's something you do thousand of times a second, like say a php app parsing a config it makes a HUGE difference. A number of PHP framework that use YAML config files actually cache the results in memcache because a network request is faster than parsing YAML from local disk.
> Find an equivalently surprising example in... Let's use the other poster's choice, python.

> I'll wait.

I don't write Python, but even so it took about 30 seconds, using the same area of the linked article as a starting point:

>>> 0 > None
True

At this point, I fully expect some attempt at a post-hoc rationalization for why Python's choice here is unimpeachable.
I didn't mention the app name or the domain names, only the service provider I use, and I pay them, so what do you think I'm marketing here?
Looking forward to your views from the new vantage point. I always appreciate your perspective.
So, because of the first amendment, we do have a "right" to express our views however we want. Because of the freedom of association, people and companies have the right to refuse to associate with us.

Irrespective of the first amendment, any given individual or company is free to respect the principle of free speech as much or as little as they like. I choose to respect the principle more than you. Thanks to free speech, we both have the express our disagreement. Because YCombinator respects free speech to some extent, they have furnish us a platform that allows us to publish these opinions.

Treating speech as a boolean is naive. There are a range of protections ranging from popular opinion, free speech devotees, all the way up to the first amendment.
I didn't mean to reduce as a goal, but to not hurt yourself emotionally if you ever skip a beat as long as its tiny.

If you finally drink once after a month of being sober, you're at 1 per month vs 30 per month, that's not zero but it's good. So next month you try to beat that, or stay at one drink per month. And in three monthes try to get a zero.
>Even if it's written as fiction it has value.

If declared as fiction, not if stated as a fact.
Right now that piece is as fake news as any other fake news.

BTW Mr. Muse also omits how once he was identified by the NSA, Mr. Satoshi Nakamoto was forced to leave the Illuminati ...
Can you share your sources then?
I was not aware of feed43. Thanks. But do I have to create my own? Can I not use feeds people have already created?
I would expect someone who is less predisposed to negotiate for a higher salary to also switch jobs less frequently, even if they could get higher pay elsewhere.

If you like your colleagues and the work you do, leaving the company for a raise seems more aggressive than first telling your manager that you are unhappy with your pay.
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I did exactly that actually. The only link to the study I could find in 5 minutes of searching is paywalled. I'm not going to pay $31.50 just to make a point on HN.
The joy of veg (2011)
Except we have plenty of historical examples of entire industries studiously ignoring equally as large opportunities for decades out of prejudice.

For example, many large companies refused to advertise in magazines targeted at black people despite the obvious increase in sales it would bring.
I wonder how common even that much help is. That would be completely unthinkable to anyone in my circle. I personally send about $400 per month on average to help my mother make ends meet. I'm certainly not going to be getting a several thousand dollar loan from anyone in my family.

For reference, this is in southern New Jersey and I'm on the older end of the millennials.
> bar: 22:22

I know zero toml (don't even know what toml stands for) but I'm pretty sure you meant the value of bar is the string 22:22 based on foo.
I thought that the article did a good job of explaining that the goal was to allow people to weight their votes based on how important it was to them. In other words it would give people the ability to decide how much they wanted to invest in the outcome. With that money distributed to the voting pool, not investing in a particular decision because they don't have strong preference results in acquiring resources that can be used to invest in other decisions where they do have a strong preference.

I'm not saying it is a good idea overall. Just that while it looks unfair when just consider how the votes are purchased, things look much fairer when you consider that the money used to purchase votes is distributed evenly back into the system.

I'm not sure it would work well for the US government, but it seems like it might work very well for other organizations--for example stockholders in corporations.
Yes. For X and Y being of the same type, defining the < operator should be enough to derive all other operators:

Define X < Y, and then derive the rest:

X > Y : X < Y

X == Y: !(X < Y) && !(Y > X)

X != Y: !(X == Y)

X >= Y: !(X < Y)

X <= Y: !(Y < X)

That's why it's the only operator that needs to be defined for std::map/set (which are rb-trees) in C++

Now, if X and Y aren't the same type, the only thing you can expect to get out of the system is a cronenberg.
Let's Not Lose Our Minds
Paging Howard Roark :-)
Since you are so informed, could you please relate to us the numbers here? What are the numbers being exported vs. used domestically?
> So sure, a mortgage in SF is $6k/mo. But rent might be $6k/mo as well -- and you don't earn any equity or tax write-offs while renting.

When you rent, your money is gone. When you buy, you normally get most or all of it back later. There's barely any economic comparison between renting and ownership. The tax write offs is the one of the least of your concerns.

People go completely and absolutely nuts when they end up "underwater" with mortgages, which means the sale price of the house at some point becomes less than what you bought it for, or worse, less than the remainder of what you owe. It's an utter and total disaster if you can only get back 80% of what you paid. And yet nobody blinks an eye about sending 100% of their money down the rental drain.

With ownership, you add to the value/legacy that you can pass to your family when you die. As a renter, you add nothing.

When renting, people often get priced out of their apartments, or evicted for circumstances beyond their control. With ownership, the sale price is once, and generally only rare major disasters can push you out. The risks to renting are greater than the risks for home ownership.

These things are why it's so incredibly important that home ownership is affordable across the country. If it goes out of reach, we will have a huge economic problem with large consequences.
Is this python 2 or python 3, afaik that was fixed in python 3.
Every year when we did promotions we'd start out with a
zero-sum raise pool.

Well, there's your problem.

If I'm an employee and I do some great work that brings the company an extra $X per annum, and I ask for a raise of $0.1X the company is welcome to take that out of the $X I made them.

If the company decides to instead take the $0.1X from someplace else, that's their decision not mine - claiming raises are zero-sum is just bullshit to make people feel guilty about asking for a raise.
I'm at home right now and showed my dad the equifax one year free thing. He happily signed up to that. But was very suspicious of paulgb. Looking through his resume and GitHub, no indication or shadiness. My dad ended up being fine with it.

Also in fact congrats on having multiple popular Github repos! I'm jealous. This entire thing is a great idea. Good job.
"Sandbanks has, by area, the fourth highest land value in the world" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbanks
After the Equifax breach, how to freeze your credit to protect your identity
Every Single Insane Thing I've Done to Score a Reservation in Tokyo
windy, ventusky and some of the others do NOT get wind speeds correctly. At no time during the last three days did they even have winds for Hurricane Irma over 80mph.

Discussion on their forums[0], most upset that these 'visualizers' are more fiction than fact. Also worth noting... getting wind speeds wrong can cost lives.

[0] https://community.windy.com/topic/4415/why-is-wind-speed-in-...
Robert A. Heinlein, who gave the authors extensive advice on the novel,[2] described the story as "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye
How does this keep people from using your ssn and other stolen information to get a credit card or loan in your name?
I mean, you're rich. The normal rules don't really apply. Your poor credit sounds like my poor credit, but it has a pretty big impact on my life.

You once mentioned you paid out of pocket to get your family member some kind of medical procedure. I think it was a CT scan? Anyone who can do that isn't really in the same class.

Here's one way it matters: every year, your entire well-being is determined solely by your landlord. You can be an excellent tenant and they'll decide not to renew your lease because reasons. Now you need to move your whole apartment in like three months, which means finding a new place. In some cases this requires a credit check. Not all, but that still limits your options in a tricky situation. Imagine if the place you lived was determined solely by that number you didn't pay attention to.

Want a nice car? Better have cash. Laptop? Cash. $3k to drop on a new laptop isn't feasible for the vast majority of people who aren't affluent.

I know you mean well, and I share your "fuck this broken system" feeling, but it can get you into trouble. Rebellion only works if you have the means.

Here's a concrete question: you need a laptop to do your job. How do you get one without credit? A second hand MacBook still costs >$1k. And yeah, we're talking sums of money that are tiny in comparison to what you're used to. It might be hard to believe that not everybody has $1k laying around. But paying $100/mo is far more pleasant, to say the least.

Here's another anecdote: new apartment in a new city. I was about 21 and had no credit history (bad or otherwise). I'm settling into my new apartment and call around to find out who the ISP is. It's AT&T. Call them up, ask for Internet. "No." "What do you mean 'no?'" "The system says 'unknown risk'. Our policy is to not do business in this situation."

I'm not exaggerating or making it up. There was no alternative, and I was completely screwed. There was no other ISP! We ended up using a family member to establish the account. But most people don't have anybody to fall back on. I don't know if AT&T still has that ridiculous policy, but there are other situations just like that.
>"I estimate my CH tax averages to 20 percent my gross income, which is pathetically low by European standards, and before any of my fellow U.S. countrymen balk at this ..."

Why would a fellow US countrymen balk at this? Aren't taxes there much higher? You have a federal tax, a state tax and sometimes a local city tax, closer to the 30% you mentioned.

Its interesting to me that tax rates are a function of the canton, is there no federal tax then?

Do you wind up paying net 20% in taxes then after the partial credit or is the 20% just the Swiss part of your total tax obligations?
Interesting idea. The difference I see is that with the payments, the money goes back to the voting pool. So a rich person buying lots of votes for something they care about, gives money to everyone else which increases everyone's ability to vote with more weight on things they care about.
The problem is you're not thinking of externalities of homelessness, much like a functioning health system w/ insurance.

Ultimately, saying neither of these is worth spending communal government revenues on collapses down to "I'm okay with people dying on the street."

Which is not offered as a straw man, but because that's a very possible outcome. And given that, if we're not okay with that, then we're going to spend significant resources to keep that from happening (ER care, homeless programs).

Social security attempts to invest that earlier in a person's life, so that the money treating more dire circumstances can be saved.

... And also allows for some measure of human dignity for those who might not have been taught about compound interest at age 6.
I have loved football for years, but this NFL season is making me queasy
The FBI's Tor exploit works on visitors to a Tor hidden service, but doesn't work to identify operators of a Tor hidden service. However it is very easy to misconfigure a Tor hidden service and have it leak identifying information.