skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Almost any reasonable paying job other than programmer require actual training and education.

Interesting; this contrasts with the claim of liberal arts graduates who maintain that simply being competent critical thinkers is all that's required for almost any job.
What do you think of Bitmex?
Uber's former self-driving lead is creating an AI religion
We have fulls in the cloud - and the initial seed took forever but we have a big pipe that made it feasible. And then do file system diffs, checksumed with an index file. An object store would probably be a better solution for those without a giant pipe. With an aggressive HSM policy of moving data to it. But there are so many factors in terms of what sort of data you have and what you're doing with it, change rate etc. Our data is very WORSE (write once and read seldom if ever). So use tends to die off pretty quickly after 6 months or so which allows us to keep most data on near-line indefinitely.
I think the programmer is much better equipped to make a informed choice about this than the customer.
IKEA needs to solve the problem with distance to store or shipping. More than just the "Collection Points" they are building.

They need to partner with a physical brick and mortar store to ship and store product. Similar to what Amazon is going to do with Whole Foods. IKEA needs a partner like Whole Foods where users can pick up their product.

Currently buying anything on IKEA and having it shipped is super costly, and even the collection points don't service small towns/cities.
Here's a policy: Regardless of what's in your underpants -- don't sneeze in the air, don't cough on people and keep thy cooties to thyself. Pretty simple really.

Not everything is about sexual identity. This SJW nonsense has gone over the top. Please don't try to convince me we need a non-binary-trans-sneeze policy because of white cis privilege because you'd be wasting your time. If so, we have reached cultural peak absurdity.
> The good things in life are unpaid

At the risk of being somewhat obtuse: poetry, English composition and history can be exceptionally well paid. Ask Taylor Swift, JK Rowling and Hilary Mantel resp.

Now, if you mean poetry, English composition and history that no-one is particularly interested in reading, well. I would have to agree with you.
Thanks for all the detail! Here you go:

- Email confirmation is required for the username/password, which is how free and trial licenses are controlled, and ultimately how paid licenses are doled out. So we need it for the licensing.

- No special characters at all! Excepts periods. Sorry!

- Agreed, we need to improve the settings switcher.

- Crawl Maps is not linked - you mean on the website right? I'll fix that.

- Running audits show on the main Dashboard, seemed kinda overkill to put it on Recent Audits as well. No?

- You can switch of 'Check external' in the Advanced Settings. Kinda 'hidden away' to keep the main settings UI cleaner (otherwise where does it end?!)

- "Filtered URL Lists" - they are there because people want them ('a big list of all the URLs') and kept missing them in our usability tests!

- Why no endless scrolling in tables? It's not easy to do because the data is written to disk, rather than stored in RAM (which is the reason it can typically crawl more pages), so it needs to go and fetch/filter/etc... every time.
Meh, if you're passionate about technology as a kid and end up building lots of useful things I don't see why you can't get internships which will inevitably lead you to higher paying jobs.

My company offered an internship to someone who was 17. At Digital Ocean one of the interns was 16.

Tech moves quick and the less outside responsibilities you have the more time you can commit to building and learning.
It is a symptom of much deeper irrational thinking patterns. The whole point of the article is the woman complaining that her husband misunderstood how she wanted him to handle the cleaning of the bathroom. She did not tell him specifically what she wanted, instead she expected that he reads her mind and figure it out. This is not how human communication works or should work.

Also breaking out in tears over such an innocuous thing is textbook emotional manipulation.
I'm all for lab-grown meat but I do question if you'll ever fully satisfy the meat lovers

I dunno, how much worse could it be if it is substituting the meat in, say, a McDonalds hamburger? By the time the cheese and special sauce are added, does anyone notice the difference? Sure, one might have special occasions when you go spend $200 for a real, dead cow dinner. But I’ll bet most meat consumption isn’t in the form of “slab of ribeye” but ground up to be unrecognizable Taco Bell meat and chicken nuggets. I’m also willing to bet the person placing the order at Taco Bell is not in meat conisseur mode, but in “fill the hole so the grumbling sounds stop” mode.
Yeah, that'd be fine - if they worked for all people.
Whereabouts do you live, that has such a low crime rate? I'm curious, because that's unusual.
If I understand the article correctly, are all of the issues listed addressed by TLS 1.3?
A couple of main differences:

1) Fanout can proxy WebSocket client events as as series of HTTP requests to the origin server. This means you can use a normal web backend or FaaS to manage the connections, which is even simpler than having to write a custom stateful server process.

2) Connections are delegated to Fanout, and we handle 1-to-many propagation, for high scalability.
Lile – Easily Create GRPC Services in Go
(author here: i’m waiting for someone to tell me how installing qt5.9 on ubports is actually a oneliner if you know what you’re doing... :D)
Goldmoney Inc. Adds Bitcoin and Ethereum to the Goldmoney Holding
> I thought in The Netherlands that higher education was effectively free.

But life is not.
Higher education in NL is about 1800 euros/year for citizens (limiations apply in age, etc.). Living costs, study materials etc. are not included. You can loan ~1100/month max from the government, which currently is at 0% interest, but starting 2 years after finishing your studies you'll be required to pay it off in the next 30 years. (? unsure about this timespan)

I hadn't heard about said hot topic, but one of the reasons might be that recently the government stopped remitting part of the student loan as a gift after graduation.
> What they actually want is to win, and emerge "victorious" in the face of US "oppression".

You don't think seeing what happened to Gaddafi has anything to do with it? Libya got rid of their nuke development plans in 2003. If Libya had nukes, would the Libyan revolution have played out as it did? Do you think Kim Jong Un wants to get dragged around, anally raped and murdered by an angry mob? Probably not.

> Perhaps China wants to annex NK.

Not even close. China would rather NK sank into the sea than try to take 25M malnourished, undereducated more people.
At the Univ. of California system, the number of 'student-facing' employees (from grad-students to professors to janitors and groundskeepers, basically anyone that could maybe have their face shown to a student) is 1:2 versus the rest of the staff. Guess who screams louder about HR, benefits, and other stuff? (Sorry, I can't find the source for this though, quick googling came up with nothing)

EDIT: Another unrelated anecdote: I was recently talking to a PI at Rice's Engineering program who had just finished up his spring class. He got rave reviews of the class, all the undergrads really liked it. About a week after the class reports came out, his director came to him and told him that he was teaching too well and that he should be spending more time on writing grants. If his classes liked him that much again, he would be disciplined (I've no idea how, but he was nontenured, so it sacred him enough). He then taught a 'worse' class in the fall. Whatever those students are paying for, it sure is not the education.
well if crowdfunding can get OK'd ..... why not crypto?

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html
Is this true? I couldn't fathom my relatives being upset at my wife for that sort of thing. (Her relatives might be upset at her, since they're the related ones.)

And no one cares what kids wear.

Maybe this article is necessary for some upper crust WASP readers who would feel the way you indicate (since I agree that is sexist and unreasonable), but it's totally foreign to me and my social circle.

Now, I suppose if the wife isn't working, then maybe those sorts of things are her "job", so I can see where it comes from. But among the younger generation I think it's more common for women to work and so people more intuitively understand household things can't just be the women's responsibility anymore.
‘Dark’ coins like Monero. They provide the highest utility for their most obvious use case: money laundering and illicit, untraceable transactions.
Puerto Ricans Could Be Newest U.S. Climate Refugees
White House Cuts Aerial Refueling from New Air Force One
And yet, Page had Levandowski working on his self-funded flying car startup.

While Levandowski repeatedly bit the hand that fed him, they continued to feed him.
> That's not always true. Most people seem to think they "need" a car, yet the price of cars isn't astronomical.

Cars are not subsidized in the same way that healthcare or education are subsidized, though. There are fancy, expensive cars for people who want/can afford them, and there are more modest cars for the rest of us. There are lots of manufacturers of cars from around the world (and those cars from foreign manufacturers are available locally).

Of course, there are fancy expensive schools, and cheaper schools, but the subsidies (or maybe some other force I'm unaware of) seem to make the 'cheaper' schools still get more expensive every year.
Seconded. Just finding good roommates saves more money than I'd have saved anywhere else. Unfortunately, mild misanthropy costs money.
I think I agree for permanent homes, but given recent disaster events, shipping containers would definitely seem much more interesting as inputs to rapidly build disaster shelters... they're already built to ship, and transport on the road, you can fill them with disaster supplies, so as long as you can offload and place them it would seem like a nice modular unit for disaster logistics (extending it's original intent for cargo).
I believe that was what he did
uggh.. "This site can’t be reached"
Let me describe a typical mid-career Silicon Valley salaried tech worker scenario. YMMV of course.

Base comp 200K

Bonus, stock, 401k match 50K

Total gross comp 250K

Expenses:

Taxes 40% (30% fed, 10% state) 100K

Rental housing 40K ($3300/month)

Food 15K

Transportation 15K

Discretionary spending 20K

Total expenses 190K

As a result, you can comfortably save $60K per year. Of course, kids and housing options will add greatly to your spend.
It's possible to switch to not being a contractor.

I'm also not all that certain that down markets don't hit all categories with similar force. Contractors may be cut slightly earlier (discretionary spending), but that depends on contracting terms and duration (there are set-length contracts), and as a bonus might be hired back earlier.

Much depends on whether or not you have a specific skillset that's in demand, and know how to market it effectively. And that's regardless of your employment terms.
This is impressive! Are they using WebAssembly here?
What's New in Swift 4
Generic inflammatory tangents are more than just slightly off topic. Please don't post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just for comparison, I lived in SF for about 4 years. I saved a huge amount of money.

I lived with 3 roommates to save money, I sold my car, you won't get stabbed anywhere in SF (so live in the sketchy area it'll get nicer each year). My rent was $1,200 a month, a lucky find.

Now don't get me wrong I hated living there, no girls, homelessness everywhere smelled like garbage, and a self-obsession that pretended to be health-minded but was really wealth-minded ($9 juice OMG).

But the earning power change by having lived there is night and day. To have companies people have heard of on your resume goes such a long way.
I hadn't thought of this before but, while I am dubious about the whole cashless society idea, it must be granted that this is an advantage: if it comes to it, makes it harder for an oppressive government to shut down the Internet.
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Unfortunately, this is where we are in 2017. For many companies and people, contributing to open source has nothing to do with the Stallman concept of "freedom" - it has everything to do with PR.
Sorry you feel that way - if you take a second to look me up I think you will realize that I hold diversity as one of the most important issues in tech. This is advice that I consistently give people from all backgrounds.
Related: http://blog.reverberate.org/2013/07/ll-and-lr-parsing-demyst... is an interesting write-up that tries to give an intuitive feel of LL and LR parsers.
Huge blow to bitcoin. It's down a whopping 3%.

I think it'd be great to be able to trade BTC on a regular stock exchange, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that to happen. Also, I think the big players who have an interest in speculating are already holding and not sitting around thinking "aww rats, it went up another 50% this week, if only we could buy it on the stock market!" Or maybe they are and once it hits the market it'll shoot to 20k. Who knows.
Yes, around 1996-97 there was a lot of hype around desktop applications delivered as applets. E.g. Corel Office for Java:

http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Corel_Office_for_Java
it’s a good rule of thumb that punching up your argument with ridiculous emotionally resonant hyperbole makes your logic seem really, really strong.
BTW, I donated to the project, and I invite everybody with any remote interest in compiled Python to do so.

It goes a long way, and it's easier than contributing if you have no C++ background.
> filtering out "weak" students before they arrive

This has a huge effect on pushing schools to the top. You can take a public institution (eg University of Washington, since they're notorious for this), put an artificially high bar on entering a program (eg UW CSE since, again, notoriety), and take in all the public money you want while only admitting the top 10% of students. The school is happy for the brain blast, the state is happy to fund a "prestigious" university, and the people are happy to fund so many smart students attending their university instead of another. Everyone wins, right?

Wrong. One of the many problems with this technique is how a university quantifies what is considered a "weak student". Is it low test scores? Bad entrance essay? No planning on the part of the student? Whatever Pearson Hall or McGraw Hill will set on their outsourcing offerings? It's a giant can of worms in terms of what individual strengths and weaknesses are, and how they can either enhance or limit academic performance.
Books held in the library, and computer/library labs with the paid software available, I'd imagine
This attitude is part of the college problem. How is having a job not training and education? Some jobs you can learn in a week but others, like programming, have plenty to learn for a lifetime. College should not be "actual training" for a job. More like a way to learn to have a better life, if you make the most of it.
Presumably for sanity & security & sleep. Fuck you; this attitude to rent is the worst part about the bay area. If you want to save money, please avoid the bay at all costs.
I've been wary about the Chinese gov's honesty after the economic reparations after THAAD deployment in Korea. (NK made nukes, so US deployed THAAD to defend against NK nukes, and PRC gov. got angry for some defense-only 'weapon')

Moreover, the Chinese gov. has been sending NK refugees back to NK, even though it knows those people won't end well.

But anyway, +1 for Chinese gov. on this stance - I guess this might be a start for a morally better China, a real Big Man country.
I've worked at start-ups, failing tech companies, moderately successful tech companies and well-known names. I'm convinced that, unless you lucked into the 1 in 1000 unicorn, it doesn't matter what kind of company you work for--the area you live in's cost of living largely dominates the question of how much you can save.
The primary advantage that tape still holds over disk is shock resistance. You can drop a tape cartridge and still expect to get all of the data off it, but that is not the case for a really high density disk drive.

An interesting thing that might change this would be one time programmable multi-level flash (OTP MLC flash). It has the shock resistance of tape, the random access of disk. The $/TB is slowly converging when you consider total cost of ownership and reliability of the equipment to read/write these.

At some point someone is going to do the needed mechanical engineering and that just might be the end of tape.
Anywhere really (I particularly go to the west end), its the big difference you should note.

AirTrain = Linktrain [1]. Take it to the alt-hotel (for free) right at the airport and grab an Uber Pool to save 50-60% of the cab fare and get dropped off right at your door step with all your luggage.

[1]: https://www.torontopearson.com/en/link/#
Just to clarify, a studio apartment is the smallest and cheapest type of apartment. It usually consists of a single room combining kitchen/living area/bedroom and a bathroom. The only cheaper way to live would be with roommates or family.
No it won't, because the reason they ask for a degree has little to do with actual coursework.
Although we have not actually tested this, it should be possible for applications to make Fanout speak the MQTT over WebSockets protocol (and if this is not possible then I'd consider it a bug).

So it's not that the two are incompatible options necessarily, but that you could use Fanout to scale out such an implementation.
Clearly most things are easier if you are wealthy but I know I lot of people from non-wealthy backgrounds who are successful founders, executives, and employees.
This is rather true in practice, but I find it tremendously depressing.

I have found that the executive path is actually the one that most of the scumbags take, it is the one that attracts the most people, and those people are usually not likable, they're salespeople that sell themselves all day.

The third group, the one that actually creates value, is accurately represented as not as successful both in terms of money and prestige. I think this is a damn shame, and we should be striving to stop that.
This is a good painting of how bad things are today, but instead of "tricks to game the system" i wish it layed out a path of how to build an industry that doesn't attract all those ambitious selfish (executives) people.
To be fair, I graduated from a good uni with honors, so not to say this out of spite, but in my experience this evidence you speak of--in non-technical courses--says more about whether the prof liked you and you stuck to affirming or regurgitating their ideas.

Additionally hearsay is one of the worst kinds of evidence, scientifically speaking.

I wish there was more development into standardized testing... People pretend profs are altruistic and stop acting like people when they become profs.
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I think this is too complicated of an answer to the question of why cereal grains lead to the creation of city states. IMO, the reason is much simpler: grains are more economical than roots and tubers. By a lot. Based on data from my local super market, here are the amount of calories that some of these foods provide for $1:

- Flour: 4,252

- Russet Potatoes: 1,437

- Yams: 540

I don't know why this is exactly, but my hunch is that it has mostly to do with spoilage. Specifically, that grains essentially do not spoil.

The cited expert is also wrong, if I'm not mistaken, about the lack of civilizations born of on a staple other than cereal grains. The New World civilizations (Aztec, Inca, Mayas) did not have access to cereal grains. Their primary staples were potatoes (South America) and corn (Central America).

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FYI, I've done some work quantifying food costs, which are, IMO, a fascinating lens through with to view the world. If you want to dig in deeper, here's the Google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSo8XQrIKZ8G.... I think the tabs labeled Food Chart and Category Range Chart are the most interesting (everything else is supporting calculations).
But there's a problem with how that stuff is bundled. I went to a school that lavished money on its sports programs (at least relative to the team's performance) and many of the sports programs were supported (in part) by mandatory student fees.

If I had the option to go to the school without paying for the team, I would have certainly done so. Though the school was still 'worth it' but dang it, I could have had more consumer surplus.

Another issue (probably not the first piece of fat I'd cut) is title 9 sports - schools have to make sports programs accessible to women and men and they most commonly do this by creating women's and men's teams. I don't have a good understanding of the law but there might be a better allocation of resources if they simply opened teams to both sexes rather than creating sexually differentiated teams.
A classic example of the judeo-christian appeal to misunderstood high school science: you just said if you ever are infertile you're not "male".

That's almost certainly not what you meant, which is: "My worldview is that no one is allowed to opt out of my gender foreverwar because of how much I benefit from the status quo."

Fertility and reproduction have very little to do with 'gender' except where people attempting societal manipulation try and force it to. From a scientific perspective the correlations are minimal and difficult to measure.
Isn't optical media a lot less stable than Tape? This seems like a bad idea if you're running an archival service.

I use to have a case of CDRs between 1997 and 2004, sometime in 2004 I noticed that many CDRs were becoming unreadable and switched to external HDDs. I kept the case for a while and I think it was 2005 or 2006 that all the disks were empty and I tossed it in the garbage.

Around that same time they were starting to phase out LPT ports on PCs and I decided to backup everything I had on reused tapes for an Irwin 40mb Tape drive from 1988 that I acquired sometime in the mid 90s from a salvage shop. I was able to pull everything off the tapes.
magit is absolutely awesome. The single most productive interface to git I've ever seen. It's like vim but for git and it's in Emacs.
Thanks for the note - I’m going to think about this.
This article never specified you, or your relationship. It used their relationship to discuss a topic that can often happen. You are feeling attacked, and I'm sure you have good reasons in your personal life to be upset, but your reaction is unreasonable here.
But even 24/7 does not guarantee success. Just a leading indicator. I did that for 9 years, and then economy tanked along with my chances at success for that company.
well then. Who's gonna make the AI God?
I don't think it's nonsense - I don't entirely agree, but I would agree with a milder version of the statement. I do know an English majors who is a director at at a top tech company, so I would agree that many companies will hire English majors.

However, that's different than saying you can get hired as an English major vs saying these companies hire for English majors.

Engineering and CS are majors that companies specifically target, in large numbers for hiring. "Related" majors like Math, Physics, other sciences, may also get recruited in the same batch.

Although English is sometimes specified as a specifically targeted major for a job, this is considerably less common.
How to Have Your Software Engineering Job and Eat It Too