skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knives and other tools have fully replaced teeth for those who like it that way. Full meal drinks like Soylent, and other teeth advancements like high tech dentures, etc, render normal human teeth obsolete in the modern world if you so choose.
> making more money than highly qualified technical position...

The labour market has many inefficiencies and as a result can see huge variances by location. Highly qualified technical talent, where the supply of labour is lacking, can make a lot of money and highly qualified technical talent where labour is abundant, or where demand for that type of labour is virtually non-existant, might be lucky to make anything at all.

Without more information, this means little. Highly qualified technical talent doesn't come with a pre-defined price. With respect to how much one might earn, "highly qualified technical talent" means absolutely nothing.
So... anyone knows a good VideoStream replacement?
https://flex.amazon.com/faqs/

> As an independent contractor, you are responsible for your own expenses.

https://logistics.amazon.com/

> Delivery providers are local companies that Amazon uses to deliver packages from a central location to our customer's door.
Exactly. If you support 10 creators they get to keep 90% of the 10x$0.35. The argument that it's for payment processors is utter bollocks.
2D Materials Push Paper Electronics Towards the Internet of Things
Like the way Walmart works?
> I would also dispute the 6% number. Yes, the scheme of the German banks is really popular, but 6% is too low and doesn't match the numbers I know. Which study would that be?

I don’t have it on hand, but it was a study comparing the costs of cash, and prevalence of different payment methods, from Steinbeis I think, for either the Bundesdruckerei, or another federal agency.

> but 6% is too low and doesn't match the numbers I know

Remember that until 2015, REWE was the only retailer in most of DE to even accept CCs, and even today, most CCs still have fees above 40€/year.

A card that no retailer accepts, which is useless in German online stores, and which costs you money, is only interesting to those who travel internationally.
So, what?...
> the fact remains that only half of college students who majored in science, technology, engineering or math-related subjects get jobs in their field after graduation.

Most of (~70%?) my colleagues from engineering university indeed went to banks or management consulting firms. The thing is that none of them can or ever wanted to code. I see no sense in using this fact to argue that there is no skills gap.

More broadly, I am part of this "code craze" and decided to learn to code. I think it is a great thing and I advise all my friends with children to include some basic programming skills in their education. I am not even in the US. I am not directly affected by this huge corps influence (I think). I used freeCodeCamp.org to learn. And actually, the transition to becoming a software developer made me move from Windows to Linux in both my professional and personal computers.

I have no doubt that companies are using this trend as an opportunity to grow. But companies do that with Christmas, seasons of the year, wind, sunlight, demographic transition...

Personally, I have two certainties: learning basic coding skills is a good thing for students and companies are pursuing their own interests. One thing doesn't exclude the other.
> For a typical party, scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8, Cre8 Agency LLC is sending 25 women and 5 men, all good-looking, to hang out with “pretty much all men” who work for a large gaming company in San Francisco

Who is it?
Both ways too. When I see this sort of thing at a conference party or vendor thing, I think 'what do the organisers think we are, just rabid animals?' Its demeaning for all concerned
I've used Coinbase on and off for a while. The service always felt exactly as you describe it: startup busting their collective ass to keep up with demand.

Given the recent increase in news about cryptocurrency I've expected "technical difficulties" with Coinbase. Heck, most mining pools are sweating bullets right now.

Hypergrowth = hyperpains.
KDE is mostly developed by Europeans (Qt as well), Gnome (and GTK) mostly by Americans, though this has somewhat diminished over the years. The Gnome Foundation is registered in California, while KDE e.V. is a German non-profit.

KDE, in a sense, was the original free desktop.

> K Desktop Environment (KDE) was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was then a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. At the time, he was troubled by certain aspects of the Unix desktop. Among his concerns was that none of the applications looked, felt, or worked alike. He proposed the creation of not merely a set of applications but a desktop environment in which users could expect things to look, feel, and work consistently. He also wanted to make this desktop easy to use; one of his complaints about desktop applications of the time was that it is too complicated for end user.

Gnome could be considered an American "but-its-not-all-under-my-gpl" response.

Personally I always found glib and friends always quite ugly from a technical standpoint, and the poor documentation and support for platforms other than Linux made me move to Qt quite early on when I started.
They studied based on 2 weeks of tanning which is very minimal.

You clearly get more than SPF 3 with a deep tan as you can spend 8 hours in direct sun without obvious problems. Without any tan you get a burn in under an hour suggesting ~SPF 10+.
In the early 90s, we were still using some variety of Apple II. I was too young for programming, at the time. It was basically 45 minutes of Oregon Trail or Math Blasters per week.

I found the QBASIC interpreter on the family computer around 1994 and begged a 70s-era BASIC book of code listings. I didn't get far without instruction, but when I had a chance at programming classes in my sophomore year of high school, I jumped on it.

I knew that I wanted to do something with computers when I was 8 or 10 years old. The programming classes certainly helped to start demystifying computers for me, and gave me a boost of confidence, though.
Currently invite-only:

Drip is currently in an invite-only period for creators. We plan to open up more early next year, and you can drop your email in at the bottom of the homepage to be notified when we do.
Huh. Seems like a better way to do it would be to just invite / hire a BUNCH of artists. No need to pretend; support an important part of why the Bay is the Bay, and expose your peeps to people they might not otherwise meet.
It is a massive organization that includes employees, contractors, and contractors hired by contractors. I've had Amazon deliveries dropped off by UPS, FedEx, USPS, white vans with the logo of local independent delivery services (contractors hired by contractors... that's Amazon Logistics), and random people in their own cars using an app on their phone (contractors... that's Amazon Flex).
I was not expecting Cliven Bundy to be a part of this story. Too bad he wasn't content to just be a famed ancient melon farmer.
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."

It sounds like the author is conflating sophistication with complexity. In my experience, "simplistic" programming leads to greater complexity. It is the very sophistication and use of more advanced programming and structural patterns he rails against that in fact enables concise, maintainable code.
Maybe 2017 is a future generation’s episode of Mad Men.
Could be due to the coming EU regulations (PSD2) which places much stricter regulations around accepting money on behalf of someone else. See more in https://stripe.com/connect/eu-guide
If you took all their wealth and gave it to the poorest 1%, by the end of the decade, they'd probably have it all back.
so it got hacked
The Tao of Netflix Culture
Because the honest truth of the matter is that the nerds that got bullied and discriminated against when they were young, only ever wanting to just be like others and fit it, got exactly what they wanted. They are just as bullying and obnoxious and discriminating as the people that bullied them.
It'll do you a lot of Gouda.
I've seen two successful approaches:

1) make it super interesting but excuse the family-types who instead take time off.

2) remove the party bit and make it an extra-curricular commitment perhaps giving-oriented like community service.

Mandatory Happiness belongs in one of the circles of hell.
Patreon is a startup which is a conduit for and yet a leech upon the incomes of struggling people[0]. An service of its kind should not be a for-profit operation, the incentives are perverse.

Kickstarter is a Public Benefit Corporation, so I'm slightly more enthusiastic about the potential of their offering (Drip).

[0] https://theoutline.com/post/2571/no-one-makes-a-living-on-pa...
So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…
Right, "only 8%" is rather a lot.
Well if that's the case it'd be better for them to say "we do such and such because law requires us to do so", no?
> If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.

Well hold on now, this may be the solution to that. Include some male models on rollerskates and the female hiring rate should climb in response.
And that’s an excuse how?

Many of their cloud APIs are also acquisitions. The entire Firebase product line, and the Fabric.io product line are acquisitions.

Should we expect those to also disappear suddenly?
> Of course the one time I attempted to write something with Gtk+, it very much felt like a "We hate C++, so we're going to implement everything C++ does as conventions and macros on top of C" project.

The original reason for that was ABI compatibility, and being able to provide bindings for various languages which was considered a primary goal. As I recall at the time, there was no C++ ABI standard (or GCC didn't implement it), and it was considered hard to provide bindings of the library to various other languages.

GTK was written in C mainly for that reason.

This also explains why common object-oriented concepts are reimplemented in C in GTK, because them rejecting C++ for ABI reasons didn't mean they rejected the concepts.

This also explains Vala, Gnome's OO language that pre-processes to C, in order to get the best of both worlds. (anyone getting CFront flashbacks?)

History puts everything in context...
The only one I don't see alreadly listed:

LORE
I mean, I don't work in Silicon Valley, but it was my impression that this sort of thing _used_ to be common, but had largely gone away now. I'm very surprised that it is (apparently) more common than ever, especially in the current climate.
This reminds me of something Slavoj Žižek often likes to bring up.

> In the Stalinist ideological imaginary, universal reason is objectivised in the guise of the inexorable laws of historical progress, and we are all its servants, the leader included. A Nazi leader, having delivered a speech, stood and silently accepted the applause, but under Stalinism, when the obligatory applause exploded at the end of the leader’s speech, he stood up and joined in.
yes, just like gold, right ?
Submarine for Cre8? I can’t imagine how an article like this crosses a writer’s desk without a tip-off, most likely from the guy quoted in the article, who runs the agency. For all we know he could be totally fabricating the whole claim.

This is “journalism” ladies and gentlemen...
If they're just doing so by essentially flipping between bid and ask prices they may also be called scalpers.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/scalpers.asp
I feel that Vermeer and Tim are pretty much the same, although after watching that film Tim seems more romantic and poetic about picture making than Vermeer would have been given the time he was living in...
it's not misinformation.
one anecdote in one direction does not counter thousands in the other direction.

Talk to some people in the southern hemisphere (australia and nz). There is a LOT of awareness of sun damage in these countries.
I'd feel incredibly akward turning up to a works party and there's models there who were basically being paid to pretend they want to talk to me.

It's just awful and sad.
May I recommend http://taxplancalculator.com/ ? It takes in to account state taxes, which potentially can make a difference between a tax cut and a tax hike. It also shows you an estimate of your federal taxes under the current laws, so that you can ascertain its precision against last years returns.

Its author, Maxim Lott, is a journalist and has been tweaking the calculations over the past couple of weeks reflecting the latest changes in the bills. You may have seen his predictive markets analysis site [1] in the run up to 2016 US Presidential Election.

As a matter of disclosure, the author is a friend and I helped him debug a couple of small issues.

[1] https://www.electionbettingodds.com/
Chess hasn't been solved; that would mean knowing the perfect strategy, and whether the first or second player can always force a win or a draw.

Examples of games that have been solved include reversi, gomoku, connect four and draughts.
I have this already.
Bitcoin doesn't scale with "The Cloud". If anyone can get the private key, they have the money... sending it off to any other provider is going to end badly.
Sure any other company doesn't care if "The Cloud" leaks.. it's just the customers problem, cause it's their data... However Bitcoin leaks, it's the companies money, so it's now again their problem.
But if I already consume enough dietary iron, then the iron has no value.

How can this be if it is supposed to have intrinsic value?

Either I literally always need to consume more iron or the iron has no intrinsic value.
By that logic, almost every single rule in this world is 'unfair' towards the poor, because of course things cost disproportionately more for the poor.
I might have just been confused due to the naming, but, as far as I can see, they’re using the exact same underlying technology, based on AMD’s and Intel’s virtualization extensions, to replace the sandboxing that is currently handled by kernel namespaces, jails, or HyperV containers (and, in some of these implementations, already uses this technology)
My friend thinks the exchanges also go down when assets "flash-crash", because it means normal users can get in to sell their assets. And when they can't get in, they also can't cancel their stop-loss orders, so it means a TON of assets are available to buy cheaply (by the exchange and/or certain VIP users/collaborators) as the value goes down. Then these are bought up, and the price quickly increases again, before the exchanges slowly come online again.

Therefore he thinks the people exchanges are either part of the "flash-crashes" (and buy up assets themselves, because they know exactly where most of the stop-loss orders are placed), or they get kickbacks from the whales manipulating the market, by giving them access to the database with all the limit and stop-loss orders.
Do you realize that they are tech companies and need engineers, and only 16% of CS graduates are female? Where will they find the balanced ratio if the supply is so bad?

You can't just wave a magical wand and suddenly make more women engineers.

Most tech companies genuinely want to have balanced gender ratio in their workforce, but they can't as there are just not enough women that graduate on CS.

"By dividing the school's number of female graduates by this overall average, we discovered the average percentage of women in computer science programs; 16%."
I just use the Amazon Locker service. There's a set of Amazon Lockers at a convenience store I pass by on my way home from work. Super easy to use and I never have to worry about packages being stolen.

The only downside is that large packages or items from 3rd party sellers can't be shipped to a locker.
If there's a very large value swing, either up or down or both, services such as this are guaranteed to have to drink from the godzilla-scale firehose and learn to like it.

If there's a run on the bank, the little people are gonna get screwed, no doubt about it, no matter what store of value we're talking about (seashells, gold, paper currency, cryptocurrency, gold-pressed latinum, etc).
Debian was initially released before either Linux desktop.
Apple: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Google: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status

AWS: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
How much traffic should I expect from hitting the Reddit front page?
Hey everyone,

An article I wrote ended up on the front page of reddit (got like 30k upvotes), peaking at spot number 13.

I'll get an analytics report tomorrow (not my website, so can't track stats in real time), but I'm impatient AF. What do you think, how many visitors has my url received? Cca?
Pepsi denies claim that it hacked Russian government watchdog
Couldn't you determine my state income taxes from a state dropdown? Local could still be an addition for more nuanced municipalities.
With the anti-regulatory view Ayn Randians have it most certainly would lead to a heads I win tails you lose style of capitalism. A wild west approach to capitalism would be disastrous. A society without proper regulation of corporations (especially ones as rich and powerful as currently exist in the world) would be a horrible one to live in.

Virtually all regulations are based on nonobjective standards, meaning that businessmen must constantly defer to the judgment of bureaucrats.

The above is the from the Ayn Rand institute.

https://ari.aynrand.org/issues/government-and-business/regul...
Money laundering rules
Binding arbitration, when both parties readily agree it's the best way forward, has it's place to settle disputes and shouldn't be outright illegal. It's a lot cheaper and quicker than the legal system and many times court is overkill for minor contact disputes.

Take the "court room" TV shows like Judge Judy, they are an example of binding arbitration that both parties benefit from. The producers look for cases pending in small claims court and offer them to drop their case and settle their dispute in arbitration instead, that arbitration is what's shown on TV. The show pays all parties an appearance fee plus travel expenses and the show pays any judgement that is awarded instead of the defendant. Since it's not a judgement it doesn't show up on public records so it wouldn't affect the defendant's credit report or public records.

Being forced into binding consumer arbitration is certainly terrible and ought to be illegal. Arbitration should not be forced when one party has significant less power than the other. Especially when only one party gets to pick the arbitrator.
dataclass, a stdlib alternative to attrs, coming in Python 3.7
> 1. Humans have always been "merged" with technology.

This can be also generalized to other animals see "Extended Phenotype" by Richard Dawkins ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype ).
Nothing in the world is binary/yesno/truefalse!

More exposure to UV (eg sun exposure) leads to a greater chance of developing skin cancer.
http://geocalc.clas.asu.edu/pdf/MathViruses.pdf
Wow thanks, the directory was absent in my profile, and I was thinking maybe my version doesn't do this. It's all nice and (slightly more) spacious now!
Just subtract water: how a dry spell allowed winds to lash California with fire
This is most likely due to EU's new PSD2 regulations (see https://stripe.com/connect/eu-guide)
By "total trading volume" I meant to total across buyers and sellers, not to total across history.

Going back to the analogy, suppose I incorporate with 1,000,000,000 shares of stock and sell 20 shares to my friend for $50. He forgets about them, because after all the whole thing was just a joke.

My company has a market capitalization of $2.5 billion, of which I own $2,499,999,950. That paper wealth is worthless, because the daily (or whatever) trading volume of stock in the company is $0, suggesting that if I tried to realize my immense wealth, I wouldn't be able to.

Suppose instead that I sold 500,000 shares to my friends for $50 (total - 10,000 shares to the dollar), and that they sold the shares on to the public, and that now 10,000 shares trade per day at $2.50 per share.

My company has the same market capitalization of $2.5 billion. I own $2,498,750,000 of that (plus $50 of cash!) -- not as much as I had in the first example, but still pretty good. Just as in the first example, the daily trading volume suggests that this wealth is mostly illusory -- the tiny $25k / day market will be quickly overwhelmed if I try to sell $1 million worth of stock, and the trading price will plummet. However, unlike in the first example, my wealth is not entirely illusory. If I try to pick up an extra $5,000, I'll probably have to sell more than 2,000 shares of stock, but the trading volume can support that amount.

As long as there is active trading at a price, that price is real. There is no such concept as trading enough of a bitcoin for the price of "a bitcoin" to be "real"; what matters is whether you're trading enough of the market to move the price single-handedly. If the amount that you want to trade is much less than trading volume, you can more or less rely on the market price. If you want to trade an amount which is noticeable relative to trading volume, you're going to change the market price.

Put another way, if bitcoin trade volume is 100,000 bitcoins per day, you can sell one bitcoin at the market price even if nobody ever buys or sells more than .00001 bitcoin in a single transaction.
Lots of points can be reduced to the ability to simulate a physical environment very fast, and much faster than the actual occuring of events. But it doesn't look like it's easy to simulate physics at high speeds, let alone faster than what happens in our environment. Therefore we are bound by our environment and our limited ability to simulate it.
Show HN: Get refund for bad restaurant service
The Kitty Cafe concept, where you can pay to have tea and play with cats in person, is sort of an AWS equivalent for the cat ownership experience. It's fascinating that tea is an expected cofactor in this relationship.
As a straight male, this sounds like a really fun idea.
> some would say that it's a bad sign such a page is needed

Not me. Detailed status pages are awesome. Visibility into the service is awesome.
>* To be fair it's also good for buying drugs, credit card numbers, and child porn.

Is it even good for that anymore? I've heard the black markets are moving to other crypto because bitcoin transaction fees are getting stupidly large. But that could be fake news.
As a PA resident I always thought of it as spending more if you want the lottery ticket. Obviously if you never get into an accident you'll be much richer with lower-priced limited tort, but you can pay extra if you want to bet that you'll be in an accident and will be in that group that might get some money. I know all insurance is gambling, and it's definitely a personal decision.
Perhaps they could buy a sharp chisel from Amazon.
Discord is awesome! Very easy to use, easy to connect with other player in the clan and organize events and raids. Also easy to sneak in other clan rooms and negotiate switch and maybe even snoop a little.

I really like it a lot and I was always wondering why it is not used more in business setting or for coordination in teams, because it could totally do that and it is ligher solution then slack or god forbid hipchat.
I always heard no one ever gets promoted at the holiday party, but plenty of people get fired. So I show up early, have two drinks, say hi, and leave before doing anything regrettable.
and I would do it.
The whole point is to take them to the hotel.
Gene therapy makes a big advance treating hemophilia B blood disorder
Why should these women be denied the opportunity to do this job, supposing they want to do it?
If your goal is to minimise suffering, that's the only humane choice, barring friendly AI coming online.