skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that smarter people are more likely to victim-blame because it's harder to imagine themselves falling victim to whatever situation.

For most problems, they seem like they could have been easily prevented by either being more knowledgeable about the situation or thinking things through beforehand.

After reading a lot of the discussions here, and considering that most of us are here for the pursuit of knowledge, my guess is that the community here represents more of the right side of the bell curve.
well it's obviously not in rush hour due to the few people standing, so I'd bet it's the weekend or middle of the day
This video explains well the job problem for people who are unable to learn fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjs2gPa5sD0&t=8s
I will go little bit off-topic here, but regarding your question, I would, carpentry sounds very interesting and engaging. What I would miss would be the nice salary that comes with working in SW.
Their web application isn't the canonical source of whether they owe you money or not, a court decides that. I don't know in which jurisdiction Freelancer are based, but if there is a low cost small claims procedure, sounds like that would be worth you time.

In the UK in a variety of circumstances you can petition a court to issue a wind up ("liquidation") order for a company if it refuses to service its debt to you.
That was a great article: https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...

I don't know how true it is about China, but I certainly recognized that attitude.
You can use the Star Wars API: http://swapi.graph.cool/
The diversity of occupations is refreshing. I imagine New York City is particularly unique in this respect. Are there cities that are similarly diverse in occupations ?
Would Renaming Perl Save It from Terminal Unpopularity?
As the internet population increased the mean intelligence went down. Such an obvious and expected trend, I have to wonder if you're ok. Maybe you're so well-trained that you stop thinking when you jump to a conclusion.
Not so sure about that - at least in Europe legislators are taking a pretty good look at the concentration of power in the tech giants. I think it's easy to be relaxed about this when the corporations are apparently aligned with your political interests, but would you still be arguing for a light touch if the opposite were true?
If all a contractor focuses on is her day job how is that different from traditional employment? Being able to focus on your day job while leaving everything else to another party is what employment is for.

I'm all in favour of outsourcing the work that you're not good at or that's not part of your core business. However, in my opinion as a software development freelancer marketing and sales is a key part of your business. Nobody understands better what your services are or how exactly you can help your clients. It's ok to outsource some of that work like cold-calling (if that works for your business), newsletter management etc. but defining and communicating the core value you bring to the table should never be outsourced.

You specifically mentioned legal work and tax accounting. Those roles traditionally aren't marketed through middlemen simply because lawyers and tax accountants generally are considered to be independent professionals.
Any comment that doesn't add to the discussion needs to be downvoted (Yes, I know the irony of me posting this comment).
We've been building an large, complex application on Meteor for the past year and most definitely agree with this assessment. We've also found Galaxy to be incredibly easy.
They basically fired their whole US engineering team from what I understand:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Crunchyroll/comments/5oug4a/apparen...
They are barely profitable.

Massive revenue, tiny profit.

So, this makes their P/E ration quite massive and crazy as well.

Usually companies are based on the present value of all future earnings, kind of implying a P/E multiple of like 8 or 25 or whatever. Amazons is crazy high.

This is because it's assumed that Amazon could, at any time, start declaring massive profits, but they chose to re-invest instead.
As I read through the comments I was composing in my head almost the identical response as yours. Thanks for saving me the time. My spidey sense started to tingle around "I'll spare you the details", then I was curious as to the other side of the story when I read "I must have stepped on a few toes". But once I got to the father dying and the bad car accident that caused all savings to be depleted by medical bills I suddenly felt like I was reading some phishing email scam, so I pretty much stopped there. I didn't get to anything regarding depression and I'm happy I didn't.

I agree, it's good to have experiences out there so that people can evaluate - it's just that this really poor execution.
Ask HN: How to evaluate our acquisition proposal?
We recently have got an acquisition proposal, and have been asked to give our valuation. Though we are profitable, the revenues are sub $1m, the proposers are clear that they are looking for a tech acquisition and agree that a revenue multiple bid would not apply.

The space has seen good amount of acquisitions with deal sizes ranging from $30M to $200M.

How should we handle this in a professional and logical way? Any idea would be appreciated.
Already done.

perl5 was forked to cperl.

And perl6 will be renamed to rakudo, officially. Very soon.
Collision detection at haptic speeds: an open-source bachelor thesis
Assuming you already have a software product, read https://kalzumeus.com article on how to sell more software/ run a software business.
How to Build Your Own Blockchain Part 3 – Writing Nodes That Mine and Talk
Most of these problems happened to me when I switched signal apps between phones. It all started working again within the same hour.
Even if that were true, the guidelines would ask you to state something substantive about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Found on the masthead:

> IMPORTANT NOTE: We do NOT accept paid advertising

Yeah, it's like alien territory over there.
This can essentially be accomplished with ZFS and an SSD as a L2ARC device.

I have three 8 TB Seagate SMR drives in RAID-Z (aka RAID-5) with a 500 GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2 as a L2ARC cache drive on the pool and it works beautifully for my workload.

In my experience, once the scratch area of the SMR drive is full, I get about 4-5 MB/s sustained write speed, which in my pool translates to 10 MB/s for the pool. Since the scratch area is about 25 GB, that means I can do 500 GB + 40-50GB of random writes before things slow to a crawl, and I have to wait (550 GB / 10 MB/s) = 55,000 s ~ 16 hours for the writes to flush.

I paid $179.99 each for these. Not Too Shabby.
What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
Even if it does why use American coal? That's why coal mines closed in Europe: cheap imports from South America and Australia.
It's probably simply to boost one's ego, every time one of these posts brings up how you should've been more 'responsible', it occurs to me that they're trying to shake their own failing of a similar nature from their past.
So what? People can't feel emotions towards abstract statistics. I'm sure if I could see every animal being abused world wide I would probably have a mental breakdown.
The Go specification is not the same sort of document as the C++ or Java specifications. Go is doubtlessly less extensive than C++ or Java, but it would be dishonest to attempt to leverage their respective specification documents as yardsticks for complexity. If Go were submitted to a standards body such as ISO, the drafting committee would produce a more detailed and more verbose document than currently exists.
7 Reasons Why Your Staging Environment Sucks
Getting screwed occasionally is a cost of doing business. You price that in. If the business isn't worth it after pricing that in, then you look for another business. There are lots of businesses which have gone down from fraud and there are lots of businesses which eat those expenses and continue doing well. It's a fact of life as an entrepreneur and you deal with it.

That's not being a victim and certainly, you shouldn't play one on the internet in this type of case. If you are pitching a project or a service, you don't include as a footnote "I have been screwed over in the following cases". That's exactly what you are doing when your review comes up with the inevitable Google search (assuming he posted this under his real name).

We also don't know he really got shafted. If we were sitting in a court, there would be two sides presented. We are taking the reviewer's word and there are many details admittedly left out. The review would have been more effective if he were to zero in on one point and analyzed that point. We could then argue both sides of that point. Freelancer.com could potentially make changes on that one point. Then we could steer the conversation to one other point.

Instead, we have a blow-up with the passing of parents, a car wreck, stacked-up bills, depression, potential homelessness and all the times which customer service was "angry" with this person. If we're talking about potential issues, we could probably speculate about all the things which might happen to this person while living on the streets. Gosh, maybe he'll even get assaulted.

I feel for all the people in the world getting screwed over. But these sorts of blow-ups don't help. We should focus on ONE issue.
A fancy word he made up to justify his position and pay? The post reeks of management-speak.

It’s Michael Lopp without the cool/Jerkcity factor.
It isn’t easy to travel by road but flights are cheap. On the other hand if you go by minivan you will see so much more Sumatra...

Sumatra is suprising - mountains, pine forests, mild climate suprisingly for equator it could often get chilly. Lots of agriculture. Vivid nature. But real jungle and primary forrest is mostly gone.

People are friendly, smiling, easygoing and welcomming to foreigners. Lots of people speak a little English and bahasa is quite easy to pick up. No grammar, super simple.

Indonesia has almost worst education system in the world [1] and forward thinking isn’t part of the culture. Neither is working hard. That can put you through lots of hardship - if you care.

People are incredibly social - this is what their life is about. There is a lot of childish fun everywhere - when minivan is passing through the village local people pour buckets of water through open windows. Lots of people sing and play guitar - most badly in my opinion but it is still sweet.

People are honest, you can trust strangers, not much of small crime, petty theft is uncommon etc.

Everyone smokes cigarettes everywhere also on the bus. Even 4 year old could be already hooked on fags. [2]

There is a lot of people, it is quite overpopulated island (not like Bali but close). It means tons of trash everywhere, everywhere, terrible impact on environment. Indonesia is world largest producer of marine pollution (3.2 milion metric tones of plastic per year). [3]

If there is trash it is mostly burned on site (including plastic et all) so you get a haze. Cities are polutted, there is too many cars, people and not enough infrastructure. Medan - largest city in Sumatra and 2nd largest in Indonesia is the worst place in SE Asia in my opinion. It is just hudge, poor, dirty and without anything there to compensate.

Clean water, sewage’s treatment forget about it. Everything goes into rivers and ocean. There is now wild gold rush which is destroying riverbeds in Sumatra.[5]

The food is good but monotonous.[4] The hotels, homestays, peningapans are usually quite dirty. Regarding cleanliness Thailand it is not. Don’t expect clean sheets. Bedbugs are common. There are exceptions.

Definitely go to Sumatra.

Disclosure: I have spent mist part of last four years here.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/pisa/PISA-2015-Indonesia.pdf

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/30/health/chain-smoking-child...

[3] https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/123/4/ehp.123-a...

[4] There are miracles like organic yogurt, mozarella and mascarpone from Medan or italian restaurant Bixio in Pulau Weh.

[5] https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/making-indonesian-rivers-gre...
Which...is the same as “not switch between goroutines” no?
Your theory doesn't explain why they don't retrain in welding, plumbing, electrical work, construction, vehicle maintenance, etc which are all more similar to mining (particularly within certain parts of each field) than they are office work.

At least in my state, many of the (re)training programs are for those and consist of a couple weeks of lecture followed by a few months of apprenticeship -- I suspect that they're simply sticking with the familiar while there's hope. People do that.

The empty classrooms is probably referring to the fact that every program begins with a little domain specific knowledge, so the people observing the intake look at that part of the funnel that every program goes through -- and then make comments about it from their perspective.

The article is a little deaf in saying "100 programs from coding to nursing". I'm guessing the fields are actually widely broader than that in the kind of work, since he found a program in coal mining among those 100, and I don't consider that between coding and nursing in any sense. (I think that left you with the impression they only train office or service work, for instance.)
lol, I did not see that... does that mean the author would potentially get a cut of that? just thinking he sounds pretty desperate for cash.
I don’t see the assumption of the cause in the PDF (difficult to read on this tiny mobile device).

Could it be iron ore or something else affecting the magnetic fields? Does this happen elsewhere on earth?
You are expected to deploy these in very large RAIDs or similar protection schemes.

They are terrible as single disks, or even in small arrays. Think of them as an alternative to tapes.
I've used upwork too and had no problems there (it used to be called something else- elance maybe?). I use the sites for more than coding. I also get copywriters there.
Meteor developer for a long time here.

Meteor, today, is still a good match for small to medium applications that provide real-time features in more than 50% components/pages. For most applications Meteor becomes a real pain in the ass. I wrote several applications for multiple clients, in 4 years I haven't wrote a single one that used the real-time features properly. A tradicional stack is simply much more flexible when compared to Meteor.

The problem today is that Meteor is not a component that you can't easily plug and play like Angular, React, Express, etc. Example: You would like provided a real-time widget on another website? Open an iframe and load the entire application and waste more than 300 megabytes on the browser. Or use a non-official package and hack the shit out of it.

MDG (Company who developed and maintains Meteor) went too greedy. In order to use Meteor you have to be fully committed to the stack. Although the project is open source, you will waste several hours trying to modify Meteor to be make it more modular. Event today if you want to use the DDP protocol outside of Meteor, you've to use 3rd party non official packages. Meteor was great in the beginning but failed to play nicely with the rest of the JS ecosystem even although some work was done in that direction. Arunoda played a HUGE role by building and writing a lot.

As a prototype tool Meteor is excellent, it's very hard to find a framework/tool that provides what Meteor provides. Building a real-time application with modular components isn't trivial, Meteor just offers a lot for free: LiveQuery, Authentication, Server-Client shared code, Consistent API, client side implementation of MongoDB (minimongo), painless build system, easy deployment, etc. You can build a prototype in record time.

Play with Meteor, you won't regret it. Scaling applications is always hard, requires in depth knowledge and time. Meteor is websocket based, there is not need to compare with an HTTP based API since it is unfair. Scaling a real-time application is hard on any language/framework. For most projects FireBase will do the trick if you've a small number of real-time components.

My advice: Pick the right tool for the right job. Most of the complains typically come from project that are not a decent match for real-time applications. I worked on many project because someone decided to use Meteor regardless of their technical knowledge to decide so.
I'm curious why helium would be used instead of a vacuum. I can imagine a vacuum would be difficult to maintain but would it be any worse than preventing helium from leaking out?

Helium is rare and critical for research and MRI machines it seems wasteful to use it in hard drives.
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Basically every U.S. city has people in each of those occupations. In fact, most of those occupations are more or less essential in every city. There might be a few more people in creative occupations than is typical in the U.S., but that sort of thing varies withing NYC, even. Riding a different train in a different neighborhood at a different time of day will have more mechanics, doctors, or engineers.
They probably would have a very difficult time adjusting, not only to the office environment but also to the social rules in place in such environments

Some would, some wouldn’t (I have exp. here too). It’s a problem but it’s not THE problem. The problem is politicians in coal states (including POTUS) keep peddling this bullshit story that coal will come back. The effects of this are terrible. It’s hurting communities.
Tried this for 2 small gigs. Terrible experience.

There definitely is something strangely odd about this site. They act as a currency exchange, pilfering huge amounts of money by converting slightly lesser than actual forex value. They apparently converted currency 9 times for 2 small gigs. And I just stopped using this site.
They deserve this backlash.
From what I can gather the developer is aghast with difficulties and is emotionally distraught to provide a compelling narrative. But the fact remains that sites like these, though they call themselves for freelancers, is purely hogwash about its business and is more than happy to shoot itself in the foot. The ideology of acting like a half-decent marketplace (at least what they purport to be) is somehow lost out on these guys. Shame.
We already force companies and people to take actions that may not be compatible with their beliefs - for example here in the UK it's illegal to refuse to rent to a homosexual couple on the basis of their sexuality a room in a bed and breakfast, despite the fact that some proprietors feel this infringes on their religious beliefs.
Apparently he does.

I'm neither the OP nor do I know about his particular situation, but assuming a fairly generous stipend of $30,000

- Standard deduction is $6,350

- Personal exemption $4,050 x 3 (self + 2 kids) = $12,150

- Taxable income is $11,500

- Of that, it's 10% on the first $9,325 + 15% on the rest (up to $37,950), for a total of $1259. That's about 5%, not including state taxes.

Now, add in $40,000 of "benefits", most of which are not actually beneficial. Taxable income is now $51,500 and the total federal tax is about $8,614, which is a pretty substantial chunk of the 30,000 actual dollars he gets.

(Numbers from here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2016/10/25/irs...)

To make matters worse, a taxable income of $51,500 would make OP ineligible for some credits/deductions. For example, it's well past the EITC phase-out.
This article misses or understates a few important points.

1. The left has a growing (in power or quantity, I can't tell which) anti-science/anti-objectivity fringe and it includes university faculty. We have university professors condemning math, reason, and objectivity as inherently racist/sexist. Social scientist professors describe their field as one of activism, not truth seeking. These are among the more egregious absurdities that come out of some university departments, but there is a long tail of lesser absurdities.

2. Journalists haven't been "committed to objectivity, but sometimes erring" for the last twenty years or more. They consistently report the news through their political lens (consciously or unconsciously). We assume that tech is susceptible to horrible gender/racial biases for lacking even distribution of races/genders, but somehow newsrooms and sociology departments are immune to this while being somewhere north of 90:10 liberal:conservative (especially when we know that political bias is much stronger than racial or gender bias). Granted, the New York Times is far better than Breitbart, but it's hardly a paragon of objectivity.

3. These biases are certainly responsible for creating or fostering distrust for these institutions. Why should anyone believe anything about social justice when it is distorted once by a 90:10 sociology department and then again by a 90:10 newsroom? How can we hope to fix our epistemic rift without making these institutions trustworthy to the objective person?
There is a lot of details missing in the write up like what exactly lead to the ordeal with freelancer.com customer service agent and subsequent account limitation.
The usual process is quite seamless - you bid, get the contract, you get paid few days after you deliver the job .
I also had a bad experience with the cs executive of a similar freelance site before. Most of them are quite insensitive and do exactly what they are said to do without even trying to understand the context of the issue.
I believe this is such a case. It would have made much sense if the author could have explained the issue in detail so that readers can decide for themselves who is wrong here.
That facial-emotional recognition was a famous case of stereotype bias:

http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/gender_bias_in_the_...
I started a subreddit a week ago on a similar premise. I like how simple these interviews are and how they paint a human picture. We hardly know each other, and I feel like that causes a lot of issues. I also liked playing the game of trying to read their backstory by the picture, then seeing if I was affirmed by the blurb. I got the methadone guy because his gruff look, nails, and torn bag. I was disappointed by the ebony Cleopatra blurb, I thought I was going to be in for a ride there.

I was on the subway a few months ago when this mother left her kid at a different stop accidentally ( I'm sure he was safe ), maybe not the nicest thing to do, but I was in NYC for taking pics and got the moment here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUlPWUMguSmtfh86RQymrzWcPC4L9YH8...
Is there something new going on with Cocotron? Seems like it was all but abandoned years ago.
You might not believe it - me being an asshole after all - but I do feel sorry for the author.

The best he probably can (and from his writing likely does) expect from this on a personal level is to have learned a valuable lesson and to serve as cautionary tale for others to not fall in the same trap.

He likely has little in the way of legal recourse but he'd have to consult with a lawyer for that anyway.
The Randomness of Language Evolution
We ban users for posting such vacuous flamebait as this, so would you please say something civil and substantive or not at all?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html