skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the retraining is a neoliberal dog whistle for 'these people deserve their current lives'.

I have to agree with you here. You see this implied in comment threads like this one too, that they're making choices that are ultimately causing their own situation.

Contrast this with similar articles involving impoverished people in urban environments, especially those with other skin colors, and the difference is stark.

I think Democrats have largely written these people off, and they've lost a lot of political power because of it, and they're still running around and looking for fault everywhere else but in their own politics.

From an impoverished rural perspective, "the government will bring you jobs" and "the government will provide retraining programs" are exactly the wrong messages and goes to show how out of touch Democrats are with these voters. From these peoples' perspective, the government is the source of many of their troubles. The government gives them a disability check that isn't enough to live on, and then threatens to take it away for any of a vast number of reasons; the government shut down the companies that gave them jobs; the government provides all kinds of programs for other people, but not for them (e.g. affirmative action). The moment a politician says, "the government can fix your problems, and I represent the government", they lose this audience.
The logo and odd capitalization of "nEXT" might get some attention from Apple laywers, if they care about the NeXT trademarks at all anymore.
Women in Demand
Tucker Carlson: Actually, Bump Stocks on Guns Save Lives
Is there a non-paywalled link available? I'm not finding anything via the web link.
Show HN: GitHub Version Tags – Shows the latest repo version next to its name
I read a previous article years ago that argued certain traits (mental illness, risk-taking, etc.) could be the result of viruses that successfully joined the human genome via the reproductive organs.

This area of study could end up pretty interesting.
(disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team)

We're working on accessibility right now, it's incredibly important to us and our users. A big driver here is Google's usage of Flutter. There are business-critical teams at Google right now using Flutter, and they can't launch until a11y is finished. So we're working to finish and ship it. Stay tuned!
Yes, it's a strawman. Coal's present predicament has exactly nothing to do with political disfavor. Coal remains heavily subsidized [1], under-regulated [2], and enjoys entrenched support at all levels of government. And yet it still can't compete with newer more efficient alternatives.

Note that the Trump administration is now pushing to give coal massive new subsidies in the form of forced extra payments to coal-fired power plants. Also note that the money will be taken directly from us, the ratepayers; they will be charges added to our electric bills.

1. For example, the federal government has long arranged the bidding and royalty system in a way that ensures the lowest possible lease rates for coal mining, and coal companies are allowed to self-bond, so that when they go bankrupt, the public has to pick up the bills for cleanup and remediation.

2. See the TVA's recent coal ash disasters for a prime example of an under-regulated industry. Other examples abound.
I have an Earthlink email account from c. 1996. Before that I was on The World, but when I moved to NYC, it was impractical to keep using that with no local dialup.
You're right that the city can sue the coder, though the odds of success are greatly reduced relative to suing a company that runs a ridesharing service on its own servers, given the coder is not running a server, but they can't sue to have the Dapp taken down. And if the municipalities get too aggressive, the coders can go anonymous.

>>The point where actual money is converted is similarly exposed, and attempts at obfuscation run into existing money laundering laws.

This is vastly more difficult than a court order to freeze a bank account. Maybe in the future it will get easier, but maybe not. As it is, a Dapp has far betters odds of both surviving censorship and profiting its maker in the face of municipal opposition than a centrally managed server.

>>Finally, a blockchain protocol which cannot comply with legal requirements can be banned entirely

Censoring a blockchain is much harder to do than sue a company in Silicon Valley to stop operating their service in a city.

It's something not even within the legal powers of municipalities, so right there the blockchain is far harder to stop than a traditional company.

I doubt the US wants to become a country that prosecutes people for running software, or imposes a national internet firewall. Countries will have to choose between having an open internet and having the power to restrict commerce. Hopefully most will choose the former.

>>since they require public access, non-trivial data volumes, and regular updates blockchains are less resistant to filtering attempts.

No, it requires much more than what you imply to ban a blockchain. Users can use lightweight verification, which needs very little data, and rely on full nodes outside of the country. A government would have to ban TOR and VPS, and really any encrypted communication into/out-of the country to have any hope of stopping the blockchain.
Pecunia non olet
- It's better to avoid making misleading comments in the first place rather than retroactively correcting them.

- There's already been extensive discussion on this shared source license on Twitter in the last 24 hours.

- The author keeps saying 'OSD compliant' rather than 'Open Source' as if there's another definition of Open Source other than the OSD. There isn't.
The first two started the trend of the search button. The last one did not have the option and other chrome books that share this search key are hit and miss. Just another reason to stay away from Chrome OS features disappear/appear on a whim or never exist at all.
Hour limits imposed because of benefits do no beneficial good. In fact all they really accomplish is keeping people down.
The problem is that without knowing the type in question you don't know the values you're testing with cover all of the possible cases. When interfacing with an external dynamically-typed function this requires attempting to reverse-engineer the types from the definition (and recursively for all the functions it calls).
When I was in Germany in '99, the calling party paid for phone calls. Incoming was free. I don't know what an SMS cost but it was reliable across carriers and borders.

When I moved back to the US in '01, SMS was free. If your phone and carrier supported it. If you sent an SMS to someone on a different carrier, in another country, or on a phone from last year, they probably wouldn't get it. When all these issues were solved and SMS usage started to explode, then the carriers decided to go for the money-grab... which was dumb and probably the direct impetus for iMessage.
I've heard this before. I think it's definitely possible that Spotify's revshare works out in favor of big artists, but I haven't heard an argument for that that didn't involve making broad, unsupported assumptions about users' listening habits.
I think that is a characterization that you have likely often heard repeated in the media and thus I can't fault you for but statistically speaking white native born Americans make up the majority of food stamp (and most other similar programs are the same) recipients. I take issue with these programs personally because I believe they do more to suppress wages then they do to increase quality of life for people. Perhaps some misguided racists would make claims like you have asserted but frankly those claims don't even make any sense and thus in my opinion can be dismissed.
The problem is that a supreme court justice, Samuel Alito, with a conservative agenda, is cherry-picking older papers that relied on research from 1970-1990, before partisan gerrymandering really picked up steam, and using that to try and muddle the waters.

Supreme court justices are supposed to be impartial - this is why the statue of justice has a blindfold on. It's frankly abhorrent that we have such partisan hacks in this role.
> Not drinking soda/eating junk food every day and walking are quite free if I recall...

Even if we ignore for a moment that healthy food can be more expensive than soda and junk food, you have to take into account the necessary time investment. Those things take more time and time is money.

One might reasonably argue that someone on disability payments should have more time than money, but habits like smoking and eating junk food were probably acquired when they were not on disability and needed to work as hard and as long as possible to make ends meet. No time for healthy cooking and exercise.
Cool project.

After a cursory look through several of the top lines in different industries, it looks like your system strongly favors highly specified descriptions combined with positive numerical growth. For example:

Decreased uninstallation rate by 40% by introducing an interactive tutorial at app launch (Product Management)

Analyzed industry trends in the automobile sector and presented long and short equity investment ideas for 12 large-cap stocks that outperformed the Bloomberg sector benchmark by 7% in 2014. (Trading)

In other less common cases, it looks like your system selects underspecified lines, like the following:

Created a DCF valuation model to analyze a potential IPO of a major technology startup in New York (Quantitative Analysis)

...which is interesting to me, because that suggests this is happening manually right now. So your database is strongly predisposed to be an aid in candidate searches optimized for specific metrics (like trading, management and data science). On the other hand, your system is probably not all that helpful for things like technical information security, where metrics are much more difficult to judge and specify.

I'm interested in how you're doing this, because companies like LinkedIn are obviously very defensive against people crawling their resumes. But to do this more efficiently (and I'd say accurately too), you'd probably want to have a crawler manually weighted towards the top n companies in each target industry, with an NLP system recognizing the salient points of employees' resumes who work at those companies. Is that something you're working on or plan to work on, or are you going to do the resume and line curation manually?

As another point, I'd challenge your priors a bit. I don't know that you have a strong value proposition with just lines and no other specific context. What might be more helpful is the following:

1. Find a way to add the structural context of the resume instead of just salient lines: did this line appear under a job description? Was it under an accomplishments heading?

2. What if, instead of the most impressive lines, you develop this out to analyze the entire resume as a product? For example, collect as many resumes as you can, break these out into a universe of features, then produce statistics and visualizations on how close a resume is to optimal for a particular company. "88% of engineers at Google have this length, with these headings, etc".

Optimize the long tail of metrics that can be quickly changed for applicants, not the high impact permanent ones (like how long they've been at each job, which university they attended, etc).

3. Are you sure you want to target this product directly to applicants? If you develop this out into an effective data analytics product for how optimal a resume is for a specific company or likely it is to receive an interview, you could produce something targeted for recruiters that is worth a lot more.

In my opinion, this is a great first step, but you could be building a novel approach to recruiting here, targeted towards recruiters and companies instead of candidates.
you want to do good in a restaurant. take the 10% franchises use for marketing and franchise fees and put it into loading your food up with more food or lower your prices. will you have a 5 star restaurant no. will you have one of those places with lines out the door probably.
(disclaimer: I work on Flutter)

Thanks for the feedback. We're currently exploring how to do inline video, which we think will teach us about techniques for inline maps. These are very top requested features. Stay tuned! :)
Cashless Future: Sweden Aims to Ditch Paper Money, Blockchain Potential Option
This is true. Whenever I see people on TV or the internet or wherever raising money for clean water and basic sanitation or basic electricity in other parts of the world, I think about the THOUSANDS of homes I've seen in West Virginia, Tennessee, and especially Texas that lack water, toilets, and electricity.

Somehow America's dirt poor aren't as exciting or trendy as the exotic overseas dirt poor.
iirc the united nations ratified american drug laws in the 60s/70s
Thank you! I love hearing “lower GPA” as if it’s a reflection of the people who join frats being less smart. It seems we can’t quite comprehend that innate “smartness” is more important than test scores.

Isn’t it obvious why GPA goes down? Social activity sky rockets.
> But if every district is 75-25, neither party is gaining a net advantage.

Partisan advantage is far from the only reason for gerrymandering; protecting incumbents and dividing particular communities of interest (whether ethnic or otherwise) that don't necessarily align more with either party to effectively silence them are among two of the more common uses.

A recent wave of extreme partisan gerrymandering by Republicans is what has made it a national discussion right now, but it's not the only (or even historically the main) problem with gerrymandering.

Which is simple to solve: stop having single-member, first-past-the-post districts for legislative bodies.
Coal was viable as a fuel until a few years ago. Then the environmental regulations hit full force, and forced many of these companies under. I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but worth repeating. Decisions have consequences. Deciding that you will enforce a particular tax/regulation policy based upon perceived (real or otherwise) environmental harm means that the people who depend upon those industries for their livelihood, are going to suffer.

Coal is still cheaper (pre-regulations to kill the industry). Fracking is a response to a) offshore drilling restriction regs and b) OPEC raising its cost per barrel to the point where it becomes economically viable. Coal is even better, albeit a dirtier fuel, from a cost perspective. But it has been regulated into economic impracticality, by the previous administration.

OPEC tried to kill fracking, after their proxies in the US failed to get it turned off, by driving the price per barrel down to levels where it was economically infeasible to use fracking. However, they didn't count on technological development and newer field discoveries. Which actually enabled fracking to reduce the crossover to profitability point below where OPEC was aiming. While this was happening, we all enjoyed the benefit of competition and lower prices for fuel.

OPEC has since cried UNCLE and has given up this direction.

The point for coal being, that, had the regulations not been enacted, much of what is discussed in this story would not be the case. But they were enacted, because some people felt that their connection to the environment was far more important than other peoples livelihood. Yes, it really is that simple.

While I'd love to see us transition to cleaner tech over time, I recognize that there is economic momentum in existing energy tech. Losing this economic momentum means that we consign a non-negligible fraction of our neighbors to effectively an economic dustbin.

The rust belt was a prototype for this from an economic view ... it became less expensive to manufacture out of country, so we did. Manufacturing naturally flows to the lowest cost areas, to maximize profits and margins. Manufacturing employs large swaths of people who learn niche jobs, and aren't mobile to find new jobs, when old ones go away.

Generally speaking, you can't fight economics. You can distort it with regulations and taxes. But it will eventually settle on an equilibrium.

And karma is, as it were ... painful ...
To mail.ru, not "the Russians". They open sourced the client last year.
I thought it was virtually common knowledge that higher GPA was generally correlated with higher income. Is there a recent study that shows the reverse?
All it takes is an amendment to a state constitution to change how one of the houses of its legislature is elected. Sounds lovely. Can even do this by direct democracy ballot initiative in a handful of states, let's do it!
> Rust solves this for buffer overflows, but nothing else. It's a one trick pony.

Completely false. Rust's design prevents all memory safety problems (that's what "memory safe" means). Buffer overflows aren't even the most pernicious kinds of memory safety problems anymore. Use after free is worse, and Rust spends most of its complexity budget on preventing that.
@pmontra already provided you with one good link, let me know if you'd like more info. Happy to share peer reviewed articles as well as what I can from the work I did.
China doesn't seem too keen on drugs either.
You won't even get in the door at a fraternity if you don't have decent people (or social) skills to start with. It's another selector that keeps the membership fairly nondiverse.
> My money's on Go.

Based on submission history, I'd guess Haskell.
I would bet there would be less bugs overall if everyone was always using the latest version since it would reduce the test matrix.
It would let you sign contracts that look like the sort of contracts that big companies are willing to pay 5+-figure amounts for.

I don't even know how I would get my employer (either my current one or any past one) to sign up for a Patreon. Do I ... use someone's corporate credit card? How does that even get audited? I can totally tell procurement to sign a contract with someone, though.

This post by 'patio11 on selling software is relevant: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...

(I'm imagining that the amount of money needed to make a self-funded OSS developer viable is on the large side, and that a lot of companies contributing a relatively small amount to each Patreon isn't reliable enough for the developer to count on. But maybe it is, in which case maybe the corporate-credit-card approach would work.)
Are the heated cans sold in the Japanese vending machines self-heating cans?

EDIT:

According to this, the Japanese ones keep the cans heated:

http://www.vendingmarketwatch.com/article/10273776/hot-can-v...

>>Proprietary heating technology

>>Unlike hot can drink machines in Japan, the Starbucks machine does not keep the steel cans heated. Instead, the container heats after the customer makes a selection.
Dang - As most people I spent a lot of time on AIM. The first person (bot I suppose) I always added was SmarterChild[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmarterChild
Elon Musk offers to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid using solar
I don’t think it makes a difference though if the genetic changes happen via happenstance (cosmic radiation, etc) or via infiltration due to viruses, etc, does it? Isn’t it all one and the same to evolution?
Hey, thanks for the kind words, really appreciate hearing that!
Netflix also does this. I unsubscribed and many months later subscribed again only to find that all my everything was exactly the same. They never deleted my account.

With regard to Facebook, not exactly the same thing, but in August, I tweeted that I haven't logged in to Facebook in over a month. The next day, I got an email from Facebook asking if I'm having trouble logging in to Facebook. I never gave Facebook my Twitter account.
https://twitter.com/AmrEldib/status/899423898139148289
Amazon Alexa Data Services | Boston or Seattle | Full time

Alexa is always getting smarter. Join the team that trains her.
Love working with data? We have the team for you! The Alexa Data Services (ADS) organization provides data creation, curation, and analytics services to help develop, test, and train the Alexa AI. We work closely with internal customers like Machine Learning Science modeling teams, providing the critical data they need to improve Alexa’s Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding models and domain features.

Interested in improving the AI logic for Alexa? Please send me a note! I'd love to hear from you as we build this new, small team in Boston and Seattle. Cheers, Emma ebbounty@amazon.com
You're confusing the public-facing values authoritarians claim to have vs what they actually believe.

They use things like religion, scapegoats, and wars (on drugs, terrorism, communism, etc) to whip up support. But it's just a tool. Absolute power for themselves is all they believe in. Many of them are drug users, I'm sure.
China Will Likely Resume Cryptocurrency Trading by Licensing Bitcoin Exchanges
What Side Is Your Appendix On
I wonder if the real end of open source is energy research. To be able to create without worrying too much you need physical security. Food, heat, water. Which is indirect result of energy access.
I agree that "impactful" sounds clunky.
> Some argue that unions would help (they wouldn't), or anti-globalism would stop factories/industries from moving (maybe temporarily). The sad fact remains that industries are, to a degree, tied to regions, and people grow up depending upon those industries in those regions. Once the industry finds a lower cost mechanism to come to market, those dependent people are cut free.

I want to clarify that China is doing a great job being very protectionist about areas like social networks (WeChat) and search (Baidu) - making it impossible for the giants to compete.

If protectionism works, then maybe it's not that the US can't do it, but it simply doesn't work with our political model.

It is highly possible that in 50 years, people will talk about the failed model of democratic republics, whereas capitalist communism dominates.

For example, if we had universal health care I think many smaller companies would exist lessening the rust belt phenomenon.
After reading the post by Hillel Wayne I decided to read Uncle Bob's article that is mentioned in the post (http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/10/04/CodeIsNotThe...). After reading both posts, and after reading most of the comments on this thread, I have to admit that my inclination is in favor of Uncle Bob. I agree with most of the points Uncle Bob made in his blog post.

Tools are not the answer. TDD is not the answer. Agile is not the answer. More programming languages are not the answer. There is no silver bullet. For me the answer is to do the best I can, with the tools I have.

Never stop learning, always strive to improve my skills. And yes, it takes discipline.
How Long Do Laxatives Last
That could be, but it seems like he's being well compensated for his effort either way.
Does anyone actually want to program in "C++ with instance methods banned"?

Why not just use a language designed for memory safety (which is most of them)? It's a whole lot easier, plus you get an ecosystem of actually safe code.
Credit H.G. Wells:

> By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
This looks great. I look forward to following this and reading the updates. Thanks for sharing!
Multiprocess already shipped. One of the reasons extension developers are frustrated is that Mozilla told them to make their XUL extensions multiprocess-compatible and then told them they'd have to throw that work away.
I actually think Visual Studio does refactoring pretty well. It is not a new innovation from Apple. Xcode, in this case, is just catching up with a much needed feature and I still think it's not quite there.