skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question troubles me much more than the answer.

Whether for a job position or college application acceptance,why is it ok to practice anything short of pure meritocracy?

When a person attends a school or works at a company,why is that person seen as an ambassador and representative of a larger group as opposed to an individual representing himself or herself?

If a person can demonstrate their ability to meet or exceed the demands of a job or their ability to succeed academically at the school of choice,why consider anything else? In case of multiple good candidates,pick the one that is most compatible with the company or school or whichever candidate scores best on additional testing.

I don't care what $somegroup tend to be good at or bad at. I am not hiring a group,I am hiring an individual.

If a person,irrespective of gender, can test better than other candidates,they should get a job.

I assure you fully,I do not speak as a member of some "priviledged group", quite the contrary. However, I despise artificial equality.

The argument of the emancipation and civil rights movement both were founded on the fact that all people are created equal. It means people should not be artificially stopped from participating in public activities and opportunities because they are somehow thought of as "naturally inferior".

Test everyone equally (their merit for the opportunity and character as individuals) and do not artificially add or deduct points based on their membership to some group.

If you treat,(for example) a woman in a special way - only because of her gender, you are being a sexist. The end does not justify the means,it does not matter if in the end that woman is better off(in your opinion). You are still being a sexist.

The focus shouldn't be on measuring a certain group's representation at a company or school. The focus should be in enforcing strict meritocracy and auditing for any controls that might inhibit any individual from succeeding or progressing because of their membership to a group.

Lastly,for downvotes' sake - a person's political affiliation or social views are frequently used to artificially " keep out" individuals out of silicon valley companies. In my opinion that is unjust and should be corrected. For example, a software engineer's political views,national origin,ethnicity,gender,what sports team he likes or if he voted for $politician is irrelevant to being a good software engineer. If he or she demonstrates their superior technical ability and ability to get along with your team,hire them.

Look back at history and see how much evil could have been avoided if people did what was right-but-inconvenient. Nothing good ever comes out of injustice.
why does android app have to access user location at time of installation.
I think what the GP is getting at is that an estimate in absence of a context is meaningless. The organization may just be trying to get a handle on the rough scope of a job to make strategic decisions. They may also be in the middle of a discussion with a customer about delivering a feature.

The best thing for both the company and yourself is to try to be as high bandwidth as possible and discuss all the potential risks and tradeoffs. Find out what the real goals are so you can optimize a solution to provide for them. Many managers and customers get stuck early on with a particular approach, but if you apply some creative engineering you can come up with a solution which is easier, or folds in with some other goal you were already working on, leverages existing functionality etc.

its on you to express it in terms they can understand from their own position: risk, cost, headcount, schedule, dropping existing features.

if your organization doesn't want to engage in that kind of semantically meaningful discussion, or comes back and says 'I know you said 3 months, but get in don't in 2 weeks' then you need to start managing upward and looking for a new job. or you can just overestimate, and enjoy your free 2 hour lunches for as long as the money lasts.
I thought it was about this animated movie of Vincent Van Gogh: http://lovingvincent.com/
You are probably right, but I couldn't find a better example of a benevolent dictator - like Linus - more or less _sourcing_ the building of the cathedral from the bazaar with a strong grip on the process. But I know that analogies shouldn't be stretched too far :)
You are holding them wrong.
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Yes debt like cheaper homeownership via mortgage and cheaper better cars through lower cost car loans

Credit cards are an efficient gateway to a higher credit score which achieves these goals

It is pretty easy to wrap your head around, read a book before you finish concluding debt is irresponsible in all scenarios.
I remember that, made me laugh and wonder; was Scotty really giving it all she's got.
That's funny. No, for most developers who are asked to provide an estimate, the analogy is more like this:

PM: I want a bridge. When can we start using it?

Eng: Uh, ok, where is the bridge? What's is going over? What kind of traffic will it carry?

PM: I want a bridge. Why are you being difficult? Tell me right now when we can start using it! I've got to go promise my boss that you committed to getting it done by then! Oh, btw, it needs to be done next week.
Amazon may have patented the next big thing in online shopping
Shedding light on Godot's development process
Hippies work? Now that's something new.
My favorite is the episode about the Channel Tunnel, in which the French security services plant a bomb to test the British security and gain a diplomatic gain. I thought that was completely ridiculous, just good idea for finishing up a good plot.

Thirty years after, when the official papers of the time were released, what do we discover..?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/03/french-bomb-...
I agree. This was also my guess since volume all of a sudden spikes up without warning and I keep wondering where it was coming from [0]

[0]: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/historical-data
"That’s something Margaret Mary Downey, an elected representative for Berkeley’s graduate student union and a fifth-year PhD student studying social welfare, wants to change."

Wow, 5 years into a welfare PhD. Not exactly quantum chromodynamics, but she is an expert at living off the state. Seems more to me like a bunch of whiny socialist wanting everything free. I'm taxed, as income, for any grad classes my employer pays for. I'd say they are just closing a loophole. It goes both ways.
>You get paid to do a job, why do you need thanks as well?

Esteem is one of Maslow's deficiency needs.
Nice piece of content. I think remote work will be more common as time goes on.
> RFCs would still get rejected as "postponed" if it wasn't possible to implement them (i.e dependent on MIR)

Indeed, but postponed emphatically does not mean "rejected". :) It means "we think we still might want this, but we don't yet have enough information to ensure that it will work nicely with the rest of the language". Sometimes this is because of prerequisite implementation work, indeed, but other times it's simply because designing a feature takes time and energy (gated on the language/library teams, in which sense Rust isn't really a pure bazaar at all) and not all features are equally prioritized.

> Pre-MIR, I'm fairly sure the people who would touch the type/lifetime checker could be counted on one hand, and it was borderline obfuscated due to all the pointless type theory thrown around.

Firstly, one of the places where type theory definitely isn't pointless is when implementing a type checker* (of which borrowck counts as well). :P Secondly, the difficulty of contributing to type checkers in general has little to do with implementation and lots to do with the aforementioned type theory. Thirdly, even pre-MIR, the librustc_typeck directory had 105 contributors, and the librustc_borrowck dir had 60 (and that's only counting back to Nov 2014).
I'd probably be very wary at that point of going into the hospital any more than I have to, especially for experimental treatments. I'm surprised everyone is so sanguine about things like that; you're enduring invasive surgery, and experimental methods that could easily fail and cause serious side effects. I'd only take it if the situation was dire and there was no other option.

Using it for non life-threatening issues would be putting a lot of stress and risk on myself and my body for little reason.
I’m very curious to know what the various reasons are against the web browser. I’ve tried many clients over the years, and nothing has ever beaten the browser. HN is super fast to load, I get all of the functionality, the layout works well, it’s dense enough to allow me to quickly skim but light/structured enough to not make it a chore, and I get all of the advantages of bookmarking, tabs, browser syncing, etc that Safari provides.
Mozart composed somewhere less than 700 works (according to wikipedia), and for your point about misappropriation to amount of a disproof, this production should account for at least of 70 % of all works during the period (else the assertion of "plenty other" still stands).

The conclusion is that for your remark to be a proof, during the latter half of the 18th century no more than 30 new works of music was made. Importantly, by the structure of the original claim, this number necessarily includes all popular music played in taverns and the like, of which there was certainly at least 3000 across the whole of Europe.
Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to track your cloud expenses?
What open source software or paid services do you use to track your multi-cloud expenses? It would be nice to know how much money I spend on different services in details.
Our current rate of resource usage is not sustainable. Africa may have a high population growth rate, but its carbon footprint is minuscule.

The problem isn't Africa. The problem is billions of people living a middle-class lifestyle - even with growth rates at or slightly below replacement.
Dangit, someone stole my business plan for Five Finger Eddie's Used ID Shack (a division of Abagnale Identity Services).
Workers that don't own their own means of some kind of production are working for someone else. So its reasonable to be afraid when your livelihood, people have families to support.

So solo entrepreneurs are not afraid to speak up because there is no livelihood threatened or family to support ?

As an entrepreneur I know I shouldn't be talking politics with my client, it's not professional.
When it comes to Alexa, Amazon is treating its rivals in a surprising way
You're not trying to convince current ISIS soldiers, but instead the potential future members of their ranks that are being inundated with propaganda about how hypocritical American policy is.

Winning ultimately will be more about drying up their sources for new recruits so that a war of attrition has some effect.
I forgot about that too. My dad had that issue on his MBP. Took it in and they did the repair for free.

That was my point though. People make a big scuttlebutt over these things, but they're quickly forgotten and don't doom a company forever.
Browsers like Dillo and Netsurf are also excellent for browsing Facebook, who maintain a remarkably functional HTML-only version at mbasic.Facebook.com

The big advantage of such browsers being the zero-risk of JavaScript doing sneaky things ( like keylogging )
I found the pricing for Guard Duty reasonable compared to most IDS systems.

They let you turn on GuardDuty for free for 30 days and give you an estimate your bill so that helps.
SFO is an outlyer. I said there's no demand for $500 apartments (implying a median market). Bay Area micro-apartments aren't $500/mo!
Initial Cat Offering?
It’s it about bitcoin as Monero wouldn’t be a terrible idea though, another digital currency

But attempting financial sanctions as a way to deter use? That will be a waste of everyone’s time and money

One idea is if digital currencies get big enough then it will accelerate the insolvency of the state from its obligatory attempts to curb use. Far fetched now, less far fetched than a year ago
This idea is very cool!

Would you be interested in splitting out the predefined graphs into another repo / into an npm package? I'd love to use+extend as part of PyGraphistry!
> Though above all, I find it odd that we give our only life (?) to living for rent, food, and necessities.

I think they did it for you, not for them, and you should be very grateful.
I was blown away until I realized that they did not mean that all the face-values of the dice become aligned.
You would have to modify bitcoin itself, probably through a hard fork, to implement such a blacklist. You don't need payment processors to transfer bitcoin, that's actually the point of it!
Because exec is the thing you want to do 99% of the time.
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I up voted you. Might as well have pulled those protesters from a Bernie rally. They just want more "free shit".
also, they don't want a bridge, they want something like a bridge, but maybe mobile or cloud based.
The question I’m asking is right there at the top, and it’s about apps. I like making sure people have read what I have written before firing off an unconsidered reply. Apparently it’s turning out to be a useful filter to screen out those that are willing to give their opinion without investing the effort in understanding the question.
Because the "honest" modifier is being used ironically. The whole point of this exercise is that Honest Achmed is in fact not honest, and so you should not install his root cert.
Getting Pregnant with PCOS Using Metformin and Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid)
You are right.

The article context I was referring to was project feedback, which I guess falls under office politics not american or government politics.
Just go into Private Browsing in Android Firefox and you have essentially the same thing as Firefox Focus, except with Gecko underneath it and all the usual amenities of a full-featured browser.

Focus is meant for average users, who don't necessarily understand what Private Browsing does.

Having it as an Android Webview wrapper is nice, because it makes the APK really small. This way, users don't have to have two full browser APKs installed.

And well, it's not like it sways webpage owners one way or the other much, to have users use Firefox when they have all trackers and as a result essentially also all ads blocked. They don't make revenue off of those users, so why should they worry about making their webpage work for those users?
Maaaybe... you might want to daemonize, or you might want to start a "thread" like in the Apache pre-forking mode...
What do they mean by ‘the structure of the network’ is this the network topology?
Can I ask that people quote things like this:

> So that it wraps when you have a long line, so that it wraps when you have a long line, so that it wraps when you have a long line, so that it wraps when you have a long line

Instead of like this

so I have to scroll horizontally to read beyond about 120 characters
"The task of estimating how long a feature would take to implement is NP-C. Give me a quantum computer and come back in 4B years for an answer."
Fair enough… but still, there’s clearly a big population, and tracking changes in login systems is nothing new, is it?
Dictionary makers used to do something similar. They would make up words to detect if a competitor was copying them. Map makers before the internet also did this- make up places to detect copying.

I don't know if they still do this. I haven't seen a physical dictionary in a while. Now with online maps and navigation I don't think map data providers can afford the risk of a navigation system misdirecting someone due to an imaginary place.

But it's possible some of these things took a life of their own. Say someone saw a made up word and started using it because they thought it was real. Or a made up park name for an open area led someone to start using it and others to start calling it that. I don't know if that actually happened but it's possible.
Outsourcing firms will do strict contracts as you said, to cover their asses. The history has proven that they are not enforceable and can usually backfire for the client.

A client wants something. In software, the something is usually complex and not well understood, a contract is done to do a something like that. During the project, they will invariably find new information and issues, the scope will change, sometimes dramatically.

For the comparison, consider a building. You want to construct a new building, it's easy, you say what land you have, the engineers will tell you how large and tall they can build on that, you get to pick the interiors among a few office/industrial layouts. You can all understand what is being discussed.

In software project, there is no physical limitations and no regulations. The limits are not clearly defined, noone will see or believe them. Worse, you have to integrate with clients/new/legacy systems that are not well defined and unknown ahead of time, nothing you can plan about that.
To be honest, I kinda like Apple's "walled garden" approach on some level. No perfect, not ideal for power-users, but for the general non-techy person, I think it's great. I don't have to worry about my kids installing some app that pretend to be WhatsApp while it's clearly not.

But yeah, I would like to be able to change default apps in iOS. That would be great.
In the Netherlands, at least, it will not be allowed for researchers to publish articles in journals that erect paywalls.
I’ve similarly tried about eight apps, on both iOS and Android, and have never found an app good enough to keep.

Instead, I use https://hckrnews.com/

The main feature is to order front-page stories by time, rather than by score.

This lets you easily find the latest content, instead of needing to review all 20+ titles on the front page to see if anything is new.

The about page has a great feature list. It solves almost every pain point I have with HN’s interface in a thoughtful way. Any further description would be a poorly worded rehash.

Check it out: https://hckrnews.com/about.html
Generative Adverserial Networks for Photo Editing
I was under the impression the cathedral was eg describing GNU projects and the bazaar was describing eg the Linux kernel. ie it was about comparing different styles of running free/open source projects.
They're leaving California for Las Vegas to find the middle-class life
What do you mean they mask all DNS info? You mean whois info? Can you provide an example?
Will this be retroactive through 2017?

For me it might be a wash. My state and local taxes (state and city tax) are almost 10% combined, and that's no longer deductible. My > 500k mortgage had a big interest deduction yearly, which won't exist.

But I'm paid through a pass-through LLC, which will have a big savings. And it's no longer incentivizing to be an owner-occupier due to the mortgage interest deduction disappearance plus the cap gains exclusion (first 250,000 / 500,000 if married exclusion on sales profit of a property if you've lived in it 2 years, moving up to I believe 5).

It's crazy. It's like the financial incentives are geared towards rentier classes (since I might as well rent my place out and perhaps even put it in its own LLC), self-employed temps, and away from people with student debt, medical expenses, mortgage debt, etc. etc.
Tesla's biggest threat is now GM
Startups pivoting is because their original idea didn't go anywhere. Plenty of startups pivot and never get anywhere.

Again this obsessions witch claiming execution as somehow being in opposition to idea is what's wrong here.

Both are important.
Trump, Xi, Putin, and the axis of disorder
Samsung makes their own browser on Android.
Useful! It was becoming concerning how few people there are on the planet, good to see another means of making more.

/s
I bought this book - but boy are paper versions of it expensive, I'll read it and see how it compares to dealers.
I understand and agree with the sentiment, but not the conclusion. What happens when they can no longer deduct it, won't employees' health plans become even worse?
I once read someone give similar advice about estimation. What stuck with me most is that if someone pressures you to change an estimate, it's no longer an estimate. Most managers don't actually want estimates.
Do you think Mueller indictments and guilty pleas contradict you?

These are powerful people who had to go to court just like an average person.
I heard multiply by pi instead of increment, so 1 hour becomes 3.14... days
I am currently upgrading a code base from 1.4 to 1.5.12 as a weekend project.

On the plus side the original authors managed to avoid using Django features so that makes it a bit easier. Someone actually wrote their own ORM in the process
No, I asked you what we were discussing because it sounded like you were talking about right or wrong.

If you want it to concern society perhaps first you need to make clear what it is you are trying to avoid.

I don't see any evidence which proves some larger societal problem.
There‘s a single reason software doesn‘t work like that:

Bits don‘t fall apart.

If you can have a perfect copy of something you can easily keep it in existence forever.

If not, your artifact will sooner or later decay. It will only prevail through conscious action, being subject to incremental evolution of thought. Which copies are not.
I'm using Namecheap at the moment, and it seems to work pretty well overall. Seems to have an API too:

https://www.namecheap.com/support/api/intro.aspx
How to Use Extraverted Thinking
More like they ask for a car ferry to cross the river but really want a bridge.

If you are lucky, you will recognize from their "requirements" (often just a verbal description) that they are describing the characteristics of a bridge (e.g. continuous bidirectional flow), not a ferry.

More typically, after you have built the car ferry, they ask why it doesn't implement continuous bidirectional flow despite never specifying that as a requirement.
Yeah, there should be a separate daemonize() call too.

Pseudo-threading is really the only reason you should ever have to make a direct call to fork().
Amazon, in hunt for lower prices, recruits Indian merchants
Or "Underpromise, overdeliver."

Sometimes there are legitimate reasons to come up with schedules that are as accurate as you can make them, understanding that stuff almost always happens. Sometimes a project or some dependencies don't make sense if they can't be done by a particular date.

But, yeah, it's good advice in general. For most of the work I do (not programming), I have a pretty good sense of the minimum time I need and I almost always significantly pad that to accommodate priority interrupts or just so I can take a bit of extra time if I feel the task warrants it.
> Some people can do all the blow they want and not get addicted at all

Many users think they are such a person.
Map out all the requirements and tasks. Put an estimation to each. Sum up the hours. Multiply the estimate by 2.5.

Even then 2.5 isn't enough of a hours multiplier.

A lot of these enterprise systems have traps and tricks other developers and analysts have put in. :( :/
It's baffling until you consider the effect of culture wars, or 'wedge issues.'

Economics is complex, I mean look at this thread alone on HN (and we're well above the average in education and intelligence). Abortion, religion, and other controversial topics, however, are far simpler to understand. The Republicans know how to get votes through that mechanism of holding tight to certain ideological components of their traditional voter base.

Another large part of the base are 'small government' types, less interested in economic problems and more interested in individual freedom.

I think that's a rough answer to your bafflement.
So here is a question. If one was to undertake the challenge of building a new browser how would you go about doing it conceptually? What would at least convince a small group of technically advanced users to adopt it?