skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody on this thread should spend the next five minutes reading about Henry George, his historic work "Progress and Poverty" and the Single Tax:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty

An except from his book:

"Take now... some hard-headed business man, who has no theories, but knows how to make money. Say to him: "Here is a little village; in ten years it will be a great city—in ten years the railroad will have taken the place of the stage coach, the electric light of the candle; it will abound with all the machinery and improvements that so enormously multiply the effective power of labor. Will in ten years, interest be any higher?" He will tell you, "No!" "Will the wages of the common labor be any higher...?" He will tell you, "No the wages of common labor will not be any higher..." "What, then, will be higher?" "Rent, the value of land. Go, get yourself a piece of ground, and hold possession." And if, under such circumstances, you take his advice, you need do nothing more. You may sit down and smoke your pipe; you may lie around like the lazzaroni of Naples or the leperos of Mexico; you may go up in a balloon or down a hole in the ground; and without doing one stroke of work, without adding one iota of wealth to the community, in ten years you will be rich! In the new city you may have a luxurious mansion, but among its public buildings will be an almshouse."
That is the reason rabbits will eat their fecal pellets.
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Fully agree. Also, a good time for Jack to step fully into Twitter boat. Square is doing quite well, he can easily find somebody to run it. If he takes the fulltime role at twitter, expect the stock to go up another 20-30 %
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one shouldn't run up debt in a STEM graduate program. Sure, there is a big opportunity cost with regard to wages, but that's not crushing debt
You're right. I have been following this story closely and I sometimes assume that those who call me a crazy conspiracy theorist have read the same stuff published in the mainstream media as I have.

According to this article in Mother Jones from October 31, 2016 (this is the first mainstream media article I have seen that directly references/quotes the dossier):
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave...

Steele denied in October 2016 that his "US company" client (the DNC) instructed him to go to the FBI. But then again, Mark Elias has been denying that the DNC funded this dossier for a year:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/25/fusion-gps-fallou...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/10/fbi-chief-gi...

In June 2016, a request to the Fisa court for surveillance of the Trump campaign was turned down. In July, the dossier was delivered to the FBI. In October, the Fisa surveillance request was granted. However, this Fisa court request was NOT about Carter Page - Page had been under FBI surveillance since a FISA court ruling in 2014: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-governm...
Yes I agree, but this is not about working for 3 months unpaid, this is about a coding interview:
https://github.com/surya-soft/Interview/issues/2

This is a completely different company than the original post mentioned.
That's so the pods can float right? ;)
I see, thank you for the reply. I guess someone might want to make similar claims about an engineering team, but eng teams probably don't have hard numbers to judge with.
I did a Twilio side-hack this weekend with a full multi-user phone tree and password layer.

Spent more time trying to navigate the developer portal than programming but wrapped up in about three hours.

It’s a testament to both how capable the API is and how terrible the UX is.

The graphics look nice but the layout is inscrutable.
So what totally unfiltered source do you get your information from?
Are Ponys classes akin to Erlang modules or does it take a more enterprise-y perspective on OOP?
Box fans don't work especially well with the backpressure. You'll get vastly less air flow. I think the dust-catching products I've seen like http://www.leevalley.com/us/Wood/page.aspx?p=65482&cat=1,424... are a lot less restrictive than a couple furnace filters across the front of the fan.
It's funny, but the 'Trump effect' is why myself and many I know use Twitter less, or at least only use it to interact on a micro level with friends/followers. Every trending topic is infested with so many Trump bots its just pointless to even engage.
No, this is not why you heard such stories. If you use the commonly accepted definition of 'underwater' as applied to financial dealings which is that you owe more for something than it is worth, then....

... you will never go underwater from holding onto a vested stock grant. (This is the situation the OP was asking about.)

... you will never go underwater from holding onto a vested & exercised stock option if you paid taxes out of pocket.

... you may go underwater if you take on debt to finance the tax liability incurred when exercising stock options and the value of the retained stock subsequently drops below the unpaid portion of the debt you undertook to exercise it. (This is the scenario that led to the stories you refer to.)
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hahahahha. There will surely never be jobs like that in the furture right ? right ? ...............
Renting is a service, of course they don't produce anything. If they weren't providing a service people found valuable (i.e. improving their general welfare) much fewer people would be renting.
The answer is: I don't know.

I'm not a bad actor, who spends all their time figuring out how to make profit off of someone else's private info. I'm pretty sure there're very creative ways private information (salary and not) can be misused, but I don't want to find out by volunteering this information.
It was even easier than that at one point. The handlers and Trump had different mobile OSes

http://www.businessinsider.com/realdonaldtrump-data-suggests...
Is your application CPU bound? Because that's generally where Erlang's performance is lacking. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't run into performance issues in Erlang if you're doing an IO bound task
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I am of the opinion that the Venn diagram of shitty companies and all companies is a perfect circle so I might be biased, but there is literally no reason a company wouldn't take that into consideration. They may not be aware of it, but if they find out they will view it poorly. The only employees who that doesn't apply to are executives and guys like levandowksi. For the average employee it's something to consider.

Otherwise it would be no problem to start a software union cause that's just making sure the company doesn't treat you poorly right? Yet I have not met a manager who hasn't stated that they wouldn't look on someone being involved with a union as a red flsg
I found that it is excellent for finding out who is comfortable with which parts of the code base.

That information can inform choices that would eventually lead to more productivity overall.

This was perhaps 4 hours per week though. I'm sceptical about this being a good way to do things all the time.
Because this truism is based on a long period of history, whereas real estate blowing most every other investment out of the water especially when you consider you're usually working on 90% leverage, is a relatively recent phenomenon. I continue to be of the opinion that a major driver of this is the rise of China.
Channel 4 is an independent for-profit company unaffiliated with the BBC.
This seems unusual. Other nations discussing the politics of yet other nations is par for the course, including with a nationalist spin from the originating country. What precisely made RT's ads notably grievous? I think examples of what they showed that was completely unacceptable would be valuable in helping people come to an informed conclusion. It would also help other advertisers ensure they don't cross whatever invisible boundaries have been set.

Things look particularly peculiar when we look at them in reverse. @GolosAmeriki is the Twitter for the Russian language Voice of America, which is our own state run news come propaganda organization. This [1] is their webpage providing content primarily to Russian speaking viewers on topics related to Russia. And the material as could be expected tends to be incredibly critical of Russia, Putin, and other interests which do not necessarily align with US interests. And we're quite expansive. You can find regional Voice of America 'implementations' for a whole plethora of nations here. [2] The coverage could easy be labeled as attempting to "sew discord". But that's because presenting information that does not present a nation in a positive light can always be considered "sewing discord" even if it's a critical and productive part of progress.

The primary benefit of foreign coverage is that it does not need to play by the same rules as domestic coverage. Even private interests are subject to problems. For instance the press has no legal right to access to politicians. There's certainly a sort of symbiosis between politicians and the reporters, but it creates artificial boundaries. On top of this the day in, day out interactions between reporters and the people they report on results in relationships forming. These can be positive or negative relationships but that adds yet another layer of bias to coverage. All those problems without even getting into the dirtier aspects of society...

But these sort of issues are mitigated to a large degree when viewing things through a foreign nation's eyes. So long as their material is not overtly lying, I think these news come propaganda channels have substantial informative value for citizens. It's important to understand that it will be biased, but it's equally important to understand that of domestic news as well. It seems a shame that Twitter are going this route. Hopefully this is not the beginning of an effort to restrict foreign inflows of information.

[1] - https://www.golos-ameriki.ru/

[2] - https://www.voanews.com/navigation/allsites
I really hope the economy shifts toward remote work as the standard (at least in the career tracks where it is possible). The ever increasing share of higher jobs moving to metropolitan regions will continue to make the places on this list worse off. More remote work might also even out the salaries across the US a little bit. One can dream...
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>Yesterday's groundbreaking news of a new lawsuit regarding Monsanto's collusion, cover ups, and corruption inside the EPA is a part of a long string of unraveling safety claims.

Decades of faulty chemical review procedures are beginning to be overturned. Last week, after years of asking, I received an email from the EPA confirming that the National Toxicology Program is currently reviewing glyphosate and glyphosate formulations.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/324...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-simon/top-10-lies-tol...
Jake from TileDB, Inc. here: Depending on the structure of the JSON files you are querying you maybe able to take advantage of columnar compression and massively reduce the dataset size (especially if the json files contain numeric data). Also, repeat queries will not have to re-parse the JSON files. This may speed up queries quite a lot, but it depends on the specifics of your problem.
> there's no evidence that DVORAK is better than QWERTY

Here's my go-to reference: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?keyboard_layouts
I've seen this too many times before. They want the developer to show up with a laptop, all tools, documentation, licenses, etc. and work for peanuts. All for the "opportunity" to learn under a "seasoned professional" and/or "build your portfolio" or some other nonsense. There was even a website that used to list these absurd offers. It was "fthatjob.com" or something similar. (sadly, it's gone).

Unfortunately a steady stream of newbies will fall for this sort of trap. The rest of us should follow the wisdom of Mike Monteiro: https://theamericangenius.com/entrepreneur/the-entrepreneurs...

It's a bit rude, but there is a LOT of sage advice therein.
I don't disagree; the parent asked where I got my estimates from and I answered.
BrianB from Backblaze here.

Yes, we collect temperature data. If you download the dataset, you'll find a daily sample of the SMART data (including temperature) for every drive.
A 4 hour coding assignment is half a day of work. I don't care if it is a toy project and if there is no business value in the work. But a 4 hour coding assignment is still half a day.

I may have to take a leave from my current work, take half a day off off my current contract or spend a significant part of my weekend on this problem, instead of with my family. I certainly expect to be paid for it.
How does that explain the strange behavior of submitting a document in such a state though? Couldn't they have achieved any of those goals by submitting the document without the annotations?
Mastodon looks promising. It definitely has traction.
In California at least , the property tax bill is already split into two components:

1.) Tax on land value

2.) Tax on improvements (building, landscaping)

http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-primer-1...

Here's a brief description of how the increase in land value is calculated: "Under this system, when real property is purchased, the county assessor assigns it an assessed value that is equal to its purchase price, or “acquisition value.” Each year thereafter, the property’s assessed value increases by 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower."

I think what the 2% appreciation cap is attempting to mitigate is if all your tech millionaire IPO neighbors decide to remodel their houses at once, you won't be stuck with a huge tax bill and have to move.
I would totally use this. 8 years ago I bought a pair of Nike shoes in Paris. I loved those shoes. I tried millions of things to buy a similar pair but I was unsuccessful at finding them.

Maybe the service should be like FlightFox, but for people who are really good at finding stuff. You pay a commission to the individual who helps you find the item.
Just proving that Churchill wasn't right about everything.
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> And how do the bacteria get there?

Pre-seeded during breast feeding, as happens across all mammals. How many billions of years do you want to go back on this question?

> And are the bacteria killed off by the antibiotics they're given?

Evidently not, as in developed country sick animals don't get turned into meat foods on principle and by law --- so they don't show up deficient. If they lived for 9 decades like we do, they might (or not). But they don't.
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you're right - SSD makes a big difference too.
In UK, certain hospitals charge 500£ applications fees for Clinical Internships (these are taken on by Migrant Medicine Graduates) so they can get at least 3 month UK NHS experience, so they can get their foot on the ladder... They only shadow to be fair, don't do any work... But, some countries will charge 5 times for visa applications, before they actually grant you a visa... UK, Canada, etc... It's an old age practice... In the old times of the geisha's, parents would pay the brothel to take up the daughters... So why wonder?
Being a desktop application is a pretty serious barrier to usability for the average person. So is using Bitcoin, to be honest.
There were a lot of analyses that came out about this recently. I don't remember specific articles, but they floated around this and other fora. I think StackOverflow may have had one.
FWIW, the justification is interesting. From https://thecuriousdeveloper.com/2013/09/15/get-a-good-start-...

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Why we tried it

When asked to implement a rather big task, like an epic, you’re often in a state where you have a pretty good picture of what needs to be done on high level, but on a lower level it can be very fluffy and unclear. Fluffy enough to stand in the way of being able to ”slice the cake” in nice, independent, deliverable user stories. Fluffy enough to give us problems if our aim is to have a structured, ordinary sprint backlog prepared, and to burn that backlog down continuously by developing small software increments for a couple of weeks. You know you’re in that fluffy state when:

- Someone asks where a good place to start this epic is and all possible ways you can think of are either intertwined and far from independent steps or just one big mega user story

- You get a urge to just start coding, hack away for a while and see where you end up

- You may even wish that you, for a while at least, could forget everything related to user stories, epics, backlogs and burn downs and just do some Programming, Motherfucker http://programming-motherfucker.com/

---

Now, if this technique can supposedly solve that critical problem -- and it is critical; I spend >N% of my time in that sate -- we should give it the benefit of the doubt and just try it.

It sounds like the point is to spend a couple hours in an environment where forward progress is always being made every minute, yet freedom has been completely removed.

I think I'd volunteer for that, to be honest. It's so nice working from a designer's mockup rather than trying to design + build the whole app simultaneously. That same feeling might apply here.

It's kind of compelling. But only if everyone actually wants to do it.

Think of how much time we've all wasted fiddling around with design, moving property lists around, exploring new approaches, or throwing in an hour of metaprogramming only to find out it reduced our line count from 150 to 100 and made it quite a lot harder to read.

If you tried to pull any of that during one of these sessions, you'd get called out immediately.

Oh yeah: http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli...

You know, this really should be a thing. I wonder if devs would pay for this? I'd give someone $20/hr to keep me on track. But they'd need to know enough about programming not to be annoying or blatantly mistaken.
I agree with all of this, and I think megacities would be fine if the US had adequate public transit that actually goes to places where people live and work.
Not so sure about this. It would be OK for my surgeon to just be a badass surgeon and not a politician. Public confirmation doesn't add much because the skill of navigating that is (mostly) unrelated to the skill of achieving a great surgery outcome.
JVM GC is an interesting topic since recently there was a proposal for the ZGC project in the OpenJDK mailing list.
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2017-October...

"ZGC has been designed with the following goals in mind:

- Handle multi-terabyte heaps

- GC pause times not exceeding 10ms

- No more than 15% application throughput reduction compared to using G1"
I mostly use real devices.

I didn't know you could install Android on Virtualbox, thanks for the tip!
That is a string that does not occur in the story we're commenting on, but rather an op-ed that you've brought in.
The JVM concurrent GC has failure conditions. It does as much as possible concurrently but still occasionally has to stop the world.
> The legislature passed the federal arbitration act almost 100 years ago. It was signed into law by the president. And it has been consistently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in the face of many and varied court challenges.

The Federal Arbitration Act was enacted to validate B2B arbitration agreements: before then, and also for a considerable time thereafter, many courts were hostile to arbitration agreements — because, it's thought, judges didn't want private arbitrators encroaching on the judges' turf [0]. Also, when the FAA was enacted, consumers and employees generally didn't enter into contracts. The "scope creep" of the FAA has been due largely to the Supreme Court's literal interpretation of the Act, giving it priority over all contrary state statutes and practically any other federal statute that doesn't expressly state otherwise.

[0] See, e.g., http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... (a somewhat-passionate review of the history that generally comports with my own understanding from roughly 25 years of occasional practice in this area).
Does anyone know any other apps that have done similar things? Gamification really pays off for me - but I have no interest in Twilio hehe. I'm familiar with habitica, not what I'm looking for
I prefer getting a really powerful workstation and doing virtualization from there. Example: http://natex.us/enthoo-128kit

(No affiliation with Natex, but I've bought that kit and I enjoy the overkill of 16 cores and 128gb of RAM)
Can someone explain to me why eBay is trading only at 5.5x P/E? I fully understand that it isn't growing tremendously but with all its classified assets, I can't help but feel that it should be trading at a much higher market cap.
Not sure. One part of me wishes I hadn't.
Once you get used to emacs, working in other environments will get rather annoying. Don't think it makes me that much more productive either. Not to mention the days and weeks wasted customizing it.

I won't be quitting anytime soon, but wouldn't recommend it either.
This is fantastic! Would anyone happen to know if there is one for AWS as well?
Lollipuff (YC W'13: https://www.lollipuff.com/) does exactly this for higher-end women's fashion -- to directly address the issues you had with your Tiffany necklace (though I don't think they support Tiffany today). All the items get authenticated before listing by professional authenticators, without needing to take items in hand. This provides more-than-ample evidence in the event of a dispute (the authenticators are well known in the field!). Then Lollipuff walks buyers & sellers through the process to ensure a safe transaction -- including instructions on shipping, which can also be a frequent gotcha for high-end items.
I don't think that's the argument. Reddit has every right NOT to host any subreddit it doesn't want to.

The question is, why ban far-right subreddits, but leave far-left subreddits intact? That's the issue.
The business person is not getting paid to lobby. They are getting paid because they are a salaried employee with paid time off, so they get paid regardless of what they do.

Meanwhile the entire purpose of advocacy organizations like the Sierra Club is to lobby. So if they can't pay people to lobby, they have no reason to raise money, and no way to spend money if they do raise any. Under a rule that prohibits getting paid to lobby, orgs like the Sierra Club simply cannot exist at all. There's no business model.

Anyway, the law is crystal clear that such a rule would be unconstitutional. People don't give up their rights just because they pool resources or get paid. Paul Krugman and David Brooks still have free speech rights even when they're getting paid to write columns.
Agreed - documentation lacks in frustrating ways at times. For example the docs [1] for migrating to their new python client are still lacking despite cornering developers into upgrading (don't offer support unless you've upgraded).

[1]:https://www.twilio.com/docs/libraries/python/migration-guide
> The value landlords provide is the assumption of risk. The premium you pay to rent is in exchange for vastly limiting your exposure to said risk.

Are there any risks that affect only the landlord, and not the renter, other than the possibility of losing ownership?

For example, if you rent a plot of land for farming, what risks does the owner of that land face that you do not?