skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you just take the average? People with multiple 2 year stints will be over represented compared to the ones with 13 years since you're only sampling people looking for work (opposed to sampling all employees in the market).
Stanford Research Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Research_Park
I’ve heard some Europeans call it the “sandpaper practice”.
It could also be encrypted at the cable endpoints, denying a snooper even the stuff that's normally unencrypted.

Might be worth the cost, too, since then there's no reason for people to cut your cables.
Defined benefit plans, i.e. pensions, are a total disaster. They are premised on a fantasy: that the pension fund will make enough money on the market to to pay its liabilities, or that the backing entity will bail it out if not. Those are bad assumptions. The result is pension funds going broke across the country, and it's just getting started.

Defined contribution plans, 401k's and such, are much more sensible. You set aside a percentage of your income, your employer throws some in for you as well, and you decide how to invest it. You decide what level of risk you want to take with your future wealth, and you reap the gains and losses.
Tried a Japanese toilet, I like the combination of spray + paper. Spraying alone would be gross, I'll take the paper alone over the spray alone (Japan seems to agree at least with public toilets that don't have sprays). It's just like your hands not being clean until you dry them. But really any method that doesn't use soap is leaving you dirty until you can shower.

What I don't get is why anyone wants to take cleanliness advice from cultures that still follow a "one hand for eating, one for wiping" custom.
Is retirement planning (Live "below your means" and put in 20-30% or more of your salary towards long term investments), and family support (you fund your kids education and parents post retirement needs, and your kids fund your post retirement needs and your grandkids education) such an alien concept for Americans? When you manage it internally, instead of paying interest to a bank, you just have lost opportunity costs of investment within the family.

AFAIK, most Asian countries do work this way. Given American salaries, this should be very easy to manage in US
Would you please not post generic ideological comments to HN? That's not what this site is for, and this comment has nothing specifically to do with this article.
You're just backing up his point about Russia.
genuinely curious, why would making website not be development? you mean using wix/squarespace ? or something else?
It’s just a search for ‘pages liked by my friends’.
Terrible spot to be in, hoping I will avoid it with a traveling retirement plan (401k). How do other 1st world countries manage elderly workers/people that should no longer work? SS is an option and I don't believe it will go bankrupt, wages of about 125K contribute to SS, anything larger does not. Just have to adjust that limit to keep it where it needs to be. So that helps a little bit.
The Story of Reality Winner, America's Most Unlikely Leaker
I don't think you need one if you already do iOS app development. You're already in good shape to just jump in. You know Objective-C. I don't see the concern here unless you're the world's worst iOS developer. What do you want to learn, exactly? Try Pluralsight.com. That's where I got started with C#.
> federal judge agreed that McDonnell-Douglas had illegally considered the pensions in its decision to close the plant. The employees case, presented by attorneys Joe Farris and Mike Mulder, showed that the company had tracked pension savings in its plant closure decisions

WTF! So a company is not allowed to consider costs in a cost cutting decision? Was this not a conscious risk an employee took by accepting a job on the chance of pension received if they were not fired before retirement? How is it different from buying a ton of stocks of failing companies and then suing if the price crashes further?
Good in theory but difficult in practice. I only know what I know because I read about it, was lucky to be exposed to retirement planning, everyone else? Not so lucky.
Thanks,

Here is the blog post to go with it: Simple RSS Reader in 85 Lines of PHP - https://www.alexkras.com/simple-rss-reader-in-85-lines-of-ph...
> It’s a stupid problem to have–just use a binary format

Not really. A safe, efficient and future-proof binary format is not a simple problem to solve. At the very least, you'll need something like base-127 encoded digits.

At this point you might as well go with base 10 and have human readability as a side bonus.

P.S. "Just use protobuf" is not a solution either. It's only an option because you're using a pre-built library solution, and there's no apriori reason to pick protobuf over some other pre-built solution.
Why was this insightful comment downvoted?
A few k for a five year visa is actually a really fucking good deal. I assume that means no need for border runs?
iirc Libya had the highest per-capita GDP / quality of living/(?) in Africa before, now there are people being sold as slaves
I've just spent some time browsing this article and some of the sites it links to, and I have to say that they all are doing a _terrible_ job of communicating to both the general audience that might be supportive _users_ of a local mesh, and to the moderately technical audience that might be interested in actually helping create one.

As a knowledgeable internet consumer, I come to it with the general question, "What would such a mesh network do for me?" to which the only answer seems to be, "It gives me the fascinating task of buying a router and flashing its firmware and writing its config file, all based on sketchy jargon-filled docs."

Supposing I do that, and in the highly unlikely outcome that I don't screw it up, I will then have -- what, exactly? Besides a nonstandard router?

Supposing there existed a libremesh network in my city. Not impossible. How would I know? Could I use it to access internet content?

Another crucial question not answered is, how is a local mesh supposed in any way to be a circumvention of the traffic-shaping that we all fear the telecoms will do, now they aren't common carriers? Yeah, to the extent that a whole neighborhood is meshed up, you could have free and unfettered exchange of email and FTP among all your neighbors.

Yippee.

The content that an internet consumer really wants, and which occupies 99.9% of the bits she consumes, comes from the major sites that are out there on the backbone of the net. Ninety-nine percent of what the edge users of a mesh want to pull from their mesh connections originates far outside the neighborhood. And it has to enter the local mesh from an internet access point that is sourced by one of those big bad telecoms.

A neighborhood mesh looks like a fine way for a neighborhood to organize block parties and garage sales, but it really is just a way to share access to some ports to the same un-neutral internet everyone else uses. Except you've added a random number of local wireless hops to every ping.
Welcome to the internet! Good guess - that style of extended family reliance is quite alien to many Americans, often discussed under the topic "collectivism v individualism" or a similar name. That aside, there are many other differences in financial expectations and abilities in the two cultures, so a simple comparison of salary amounts isn't a good way to tell if Americans "should be able" to do something that happens in other countries.
There is lots of Americans who barely get by. I recommend taking a look at "Nickeled and Dimed" by Barbara Ehrenreich. So many people simply cannot afford to put that much money aside. To the point of family support: Many Americans move across state lines a few times during their lifetime. That very much weakens family bonds. On top of that it's much harder to take care of your parents alone while your siblings live in different states. It in fact also makes having children harder.
Good job getting this published on techcrunch. Saw you had posted it just on your own blog. Definitely got to spread that word, man!
Ask HN: How you manage multiple learning projects?
Hello,

I am learning multiple skills. I need to manage and keep going. How do you manage?
I, too, am pro-nuclear-energy, but that's quite a bit different from being in favor of testing bombs. The kind of nuclear power that does not blow up is much safer.
It's more like the risk assumed by taking a job and expecting a salary - the company has to pay you for your work, even if they would rather not.
> Better to have the public believe that you're super territorial and will react violently to the slightest provocation.

That's how you end up fighting wars nobody wanted. If you threaten Armageddon over every little thing and then don't deliver, nobody is going to take you seriously when you're, well, serious.

I'm convinced that's how the US ended up bombing Serbia - the Clinton administration tried to buy a little cheap grace by threatening the Serbs, thinking Milosevic would knuckle under and that would be that. But they were ignored. More threats followed and were also ignored. At some point Clinton had to do something or nobody on the planet was ever going to believe he had the backbone to carry out a threat.
If air is free, how worthwhile is it?

Typically, value is entirely the realm of the receiver. Many things are free and incalculably valuable. Start reading the book and see if you value it.

Did not downvote. You asked a valid question that furthered the discussion
I think most European countries have more generous/realistic state provided, financial retirement support.
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> It works no differently for poop or spilled gravy.

Let's assume you have poop on your hands, would you clean yourself with paper?
You can feed the output of a shader back into a shader, even itself, to have it feed into itself over time, but yes.
Your hands do not get dirty because you just wet half the toilet paper. Only half of it really touches you, the other half is what you're holding. Either way, your bum is clean because of the water vs. using dry toilet paper.

But in the end, it doesn't beat a washlet or bidet.
Defined benefit plans are unaffordable, whether for a company or a government. But while defined contribution actually generate great returns, they have the problem that urgent expenses always crowd out saving, particularly for lower income groups (same as it would if income taxes were collected annually, or less frequently).
Seems like the optimal solution is to combine the compulsory contribution part of the current social security system with a defined contribution system that can actually generate the income that will be needed.
As far as I can tell, the pension system in Chile in the 80’s and 90’s was like this, and had the additional benefit of generating large amounts of investment capital during its operation which helped economic growth.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Chile
Thanks for asking these important and under-asked questions!
Mind to share these 4 domains with me at webmaster@domains-index.com ?
I guess I had higher expectation for the term "internet buddy" than what is used here. I generally figured it's a term implying some familiarity, and that getting emails from randoms is unwelcome. But perhaps the other commenter makes a good point regarding cold-introing. I always read various people say "I get thousands of emails..." and assume there's no reason for them to read mine.

I don't think I ever called you an NSA shill, although I did commit the grave offense of suggesting that Firefox is a secure browser, which I imagine is even worse. :P

Sadly, I'm pretty far away from Chicago and likely will be in the foreseeable future.
Try the archived copy:

https://archive.is/YtQ4b
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(First off, let me just say how hilarious it is that no less than two people are actually downvoting me over a bidet comment. I eagerly await more.)

If I had to, sure. You realize people did this successfully for like... always, right? Sure, detergent and water and abrasion works better, but bidets don't provide two of those three elements.

What you're really wanting to compare is getting shit (just call it shit, OK?) off your hands with only toilet paper or only water, I guess. And if I was really forced to make that choice... honestly, I'd want to see numbers. Toilet paper will 100% absolutely get things visually cleaner than mere washing at household faucet flow rates. Go try it sometime.
Speaking of TMI, one solution (ahem) to spreading feces around is to spit on one side of the toilet paper and then wipe. After several repetitions with fresh paper/saliva, the paper will come back relatively clean and you can then use plain paper to dry.

(I learned to do this from my Asian mom. When I finally did travel to Japan, I greatly preferred their washlets to US-style toilets.)

EDIT: adjective/quantifier, punctuation, adverb
The water that comes out of my tap is about 43*F right now so no thanks....
The bum hose is a wonderful thing. Especially for us hairy bastards.
Successful apps launch before they're ready
"When I started Reynholm Industries, I had just two things in my possession: a dream and six million pounds."
Ah, so that 0.5% was just a wild guess. Others have chimed in that they've sold a bunch in one day and been fine, but ... there's always folks that want to pump the price, so I'm not sure what to believe.
Jews escaping from Nazi Germany, Syrian refugees, Venezuela, Argentina, or every other Latin American country...
The kind of nuclear power that does not blow up has not yet been invented, sorry.
What is your intake schedule for Magnesium?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817895.
You can use more than one piece at a time though?
For me. It is just habit. You go to bed at a certain time. And you reward yourself for doing it. Basically any habit is formed by the set of trigger, action, reward. The trigger is something that happens, an alarm, seeing a time on the clock etc. The action, get ready and go to bed. The reward needs to release dopamine. That can be as easy as just congratulating yourself.

Other methods including enrolling other people into it. Your significant other either going to bed with you or keeping you accountable. Friends who will give real consequences for failure. A system that auto donates money to a charity that you hate or a personal enemy if you don't go to bed in time. Etc.
Victoria BC dumps right in the ocean too, and there's no one who saves their tp for the dump.
It’s easy to consider putting 20 to 30% of your salary towards savings and investments when you are making Silicon Valley money. It’s not so easy when you are making minimum wage while paying school loans, or even if you are one of the families earning the median household income of ~$60k and you have a couple kids.
I also use node-red for my automation needs very successfully. I found IFTTT to be unreliable and limited for my purposes, and node-red has also filled the void left by the closure of Yahoo Pipes.
I keep a lotion bottle next to my toilet. Not only is lotion cheap, it's lubricating as it cleans, so it helps make the next wipe cleaner than just using a wet wipe! Lotion ftw.

I visited Japan, they had so many awesome toilets, I had to take videos and photos of all the crazy versions and options in restaurants, public, at home etc... they are awesome.

Also, the standard toilet conserves water by adding a small hand washing sink to the top of the tank, brilliant! Google this, as it's so common sense, I can't understand why it hasn't spread wider. This kind of toilet allows for a tiny extra bathroom, without the need of a sink, and it's still sanitary.
Yeah, socialism is why Europe is struggling so hard and Bavarian slums look like a hell hole especially compared to the American South.
'I'll take no position on the bidet vs. paper debate.'

In the UK bidets are not that common but in Spain, where I live atm, they are.

Now I'll reveal my ignorance by stating I thought one was meant to compliment the other.
This is horrible. A few years ago I realized my parents were way behind on savings and just incessantly nagged them until they got on a good plan. They kicked and screamed the whole time ("You're our son. You can't tell us what to do."), but it's turned out to be one of the best decision I ever made. Next year they are actually going to retire. I dunno what I'd do if they had to work at Wal-Mart just to make ends meet.

Recently, I made this visualization of how US social security benefits are calculated:

https://lewis500.github.io/socialsecurity

Before I made it I actually had no idea. I think I might have worked a little harder to earn money when I was younger if I'd understood.
Change the values there a bit and see how you still feel.

Walmart won't report you to the police if you agree to

- pay them $5000?

- undertake a voluntary 'community service program' at a Walmart designated location (store cleaner on the shift nobody wants at Walmart) for 20 hours per week for 12 months

Remember, that one conviction for minor shoplifting could permanently impact your life. Eg: limiting job opportunities, places you can live, whether you get to see your children in a custody dispute, whether you are entitled to vote or stand for election.

If Walmart knew someone had virtually no other option, they could press their unfair advantage.
I'm not sure 401ks are so great. Many charge ridiculous management fees for funds that track mundane things like the S&P 500, but if you want that employer match, no way around it.

Mostly a case of perfectly intelligent people throwing wads of money into the market on autopilot because that's all the 401k lets you do. Lambs to the slaughter!

edit: Example: Back when I was on 401k, was into a S&P500 fund that had an expense ratio over 1.5%. It may not sound like much, but that's compounded year-after-year. All of the other funds the 401k allowed had equally scandalous expense ratios.

After starting a business, I rolled over into an IRA. Switched to a different S&P500 fund with expense ratio of 0.09%. Same curve, but I keep more of my money.

It would be nice if people had more latitude in what they could put their retirement into--especially when it comes to tangible things, like buildings or equipment--that you can get some value out of even if the market happens to be down when you retire.
The only guess I have is that Victoria uses sewage pumps somewhere in their system that shoot it into the sewer. The maritime systems are literally just a pipe so maybe more prone to clogging?
That's not an area of your body that you should be washing with soap very often. It's a mucous membrane, and if you soap those up they get dry and irritated.

My doctor told me this when I complained of itching and irritation, and following his advice finally got me some much-needed relief.
The number of claims was likely mitigated by the narrow eligibility crtieria. My father grew up in Ely, NV during this period. He wound up dying of kidney cancer, which first showed up when he was quite young (resulting in removal of a kidney) and then later returned to kill him. Kidney cancer (renal cell) was included in the fund, but only for people that worked as uranium miners. As a result, our family was denied compensation, even though his presence there was the likely cause of the cancer.
You are doing it wrong asking the question instead of starting doing stuff either with your mentor or in your own. It's never too late while you are alive.
History is interesting and historical material has always been welcome here.
The article is about weapons rather than power. Weapons dont attempt to contain anything. Power plants do so pretty well.

I wanna see what effect Nuclear Power has on the health of the average French citizen.

If we're going to examine power, the US is hardly the place. Only around 20% is from nuclear.

France, on the otherhand - home country to Areva, (Westinghouse's main competition for fuel supplier here in the US) gets ~75% OF Their power from nuclear reactors.

There's a couple upstarts each from Britian and East Asia, but they're not working with our 1950s-70s standards within boiling water reactors. I dont know about much with them and their fuels.

So, here in the States, we have the same companies (Westinghouse and Areva,) operating in a similar regulatory environments with similar technologies...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267445/
Here's a link where our NIH disputes previous findings about French Lukemia. Confounding factors were later discovered in the initial study which caused the panic; this study also used a terribly small sample size.

Spain is in a similar Nuclear "envelope" of the industry. Both Westinghouse and Areva operate there. http://www.foronuclear.org/es/ask-the-expert/121594-epidemio...
no risk found in the Spanish study.
I too find it frustrating that you can have 20 or more options of plain grey trousers yet none of them available in the size you want.

I should add that my size is the most common, hence often sold out first.
A civil suit could easily be $5000, so what's the big difference?

And minor shoplifting is not a felony.

I'm not sure you understand my point. I'm not saying the extortion is a good idea, I'm saying it's not all that different from civil not-extortion tactics.
Japanese washlets heat it up, as well as your seat. Including temperature and pressure control. Pretty awesome, I wonder why everyone else thought around 1970 that toilets are good enough now.
Would be nice if the birth year were adjustable.
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This is a great idea! I'll try it out.
His comment doesn't mention poor people "someone in a third-world country to keep money away from a hyperinflating currency". Not that many people living in third world countries are considered poor anymore. It is not a middle-class (European style) but they certainly are able to save some money. Banks are not interested in that low-middle-class which make up most of the population in cities like Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Kolkata or Beijing, so the only store of value they have access to are state-sponsored/controlled pension funds (which they may never get back) or real estate in areas where property rights are not that well defined. So crypto is a very real answer to these people that are connected to the internet 24/7 through their smartphones.

Your comment mostly applies to rural areas in 3rd countries.
Java itself is worth learning, but one thing to consider as a bonus: if you can learn java and some of the associated tooling, it also gets you access to an onramp for learning scala, clojure, kotlin, other JVM languages.

You might not use the tools immediately but the fact you can debug java stack traces using one of the more "fun" languges certainly doesn't hurt.

Another perspective: if you ever get in to data engineering it's usually a big requirement to know something java related.
Yet these old folks all voted for trump/GOP. Good luck trying to make a living when they cut social security next year.
Isn't every soap antibacterial?
Ideally, if you have a pro-nuclear-energy bias, you don't think nuclear energy production has anything to do with tests of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere.

Almost everyone agrees that radioactive material in the atmosphere is extremely dangerous, and almost everyone agrees that a properly functioning nuclear power plant releases very little radioactive material into the atmosphere.

The mainstream arguments about nuclear energy production involve the probabilities of malfunctions, and whether there is an under-siege mentality among designers that leads them to understate risks to the public, and also to be less skeptical of their own work compared to say civil engineers.
Go will eventually take over the space Java currently occupies, so I would go that route. Java's days are numbered.