skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, and interviews are now a circus of multi-hour sudden death trivia sessions. I honestly don’t know how folks get hired quickly these days unless they have a big network that will let them bypass the bullshit.
I think the correct term you are looking for is "zero rated".

I mean to help others with their Googling, I'm not trying to be overly pedantic :)
You can certainly change the meaning of well understood words in English by capitalizing them: polish != Polish, windows != Windows, etc. Furthermore, adding a hyphen to convert a noun phrase to an adjective seems to me to be a common and non-controversial practice in English.

(Yes, I believe I understand your position, but I think you're going to have to rephrase your objection.)
Another good one (paid) https://daisydiskapp.com/

Slightly prefer it over the other visualizers as you can easily stage files to be deleted.
Why do we need a union in a seller's market?

I think this is going to change soon (~10 years).

I have seen people with computer science masters degrees working in support positions. I’m not talking about maintenance development, I’m talking about tech support.

When I graduated there were maybe 5 people in my class, but now the market is starting to get flooded with CS people.

Everyone is hopping on the CS train like there is no tomorrow.
Please, don't pile on the mentally ill. The symptoms of Parkinsons include: amnesia, confusion in the evening hours, dementia, or difficulty thinking and understanding, which may explain his absolutely ludicrous article in FT
> back when the Internet was designed most "pro" machines were big-endian: Sparc, old MIPS, old PPC, DEC Alpha, etc

You kids sure know how to make someone feel really old... Much of the internet design predates the 68000, which in turn predates the RISC architectures you cite by half a decade and more.
Strong agree - my favorite is when the horse turns into a zebra.
It is a poor comparison. If I'm being intentionally obtuse then the parent is being willfully disingenuous.

Lower detection of crime doesn't mean less crime and higher detection of crime doesn't mean more crime.

The point is the crime rate as a tool to understand the effectiveness of law enforcement is useless.

This is a common problem I see all the time in "fact based" circles. People care more about the fact that the needle is moving rather than questioning if they're even measuring what they think they're measuring.
There's no centralized replenishment system yet at Whole Foods, OTS is just a collection of guidelines enforced by inspections. 99% of ordering is done manually at the store level for now.
If scammers do use those announcements, then you would have gotten their fake bills for the subsequent children, because those scammers wouldn't know about the HMO coverage.

(One of the hospital staff could be in on the scam, and target based on insurance coverage, but then they wouldn't need the birth announcements in the paper.)
I'm sure there was an assembly line in '70s Detroit with this same conversation.
IkmoIkmo, that's an exceptionally insightful and informative reply. I've never heard of that effect before, but the gist of the idea has bothered me for a long time. I was about to reply to tinfins "And now realize that most news stories are probably just as misinformed."

I hate to be so skeptical of the mainstream media, but it's hard not to whenever they report on something I know about they seem to get it all wrong.
Train your customers to shop elsewhere, and it becomes bad in the long term too.
Aside from dues: electricians, plumbers, carpenters... all sorts of highly skilled laborers both have unions and are basically freelancers, every bit as mobile as you could want.
CSS Paint API: New possibilities in Chrome 65
So, ask the users (who are obviously already victimized by fake news) to choose which fake news outlets aren't fake.

That should go well.

The problem is that there is an objective, measurable truth, so the most accurate outlets can be objectively quantified. If honesty/accuracy is really what they're after, then the only option is to measure and favor the best outlets.

But, it seems that they are more interested in not upsetting their users than in dealing in truth, which is really reinforcing the very problem: that non-facts are given truth-status as long as they make enough people feel good.
Absolutely not but some people do shop around. Everyone has a store they go to more often then not. If the usual store was out of things had sub par quality I won’t go back. There are a couple on my black list around me.

My regular grocery store will be out a handful of times of years when I winter storm is coming. It will only take a day to recover stock in this case.
Regarding sweden

We had premature twins and it cost us zero. The taxes are sky high but I feel ok that others get ot free also since I got it
Why are they resetting a section during shopping hours?

Even 30 years ago when I was a student worker in a food store that sort of task only happened after 22:00 when the last customers had left.
Accompanying hypothesis: Burqas and similar attire were dresses desert-dwellers wore to prevent themselves from not-totally-unexpected sandstorms. Later as Islam spread, this continued for following two reasons - i) out of reverence to early practitioners of Islam, and ii) instigated on and supported with latter literature by certain males.
I don't know about the Jacobian and Hessian or Katy Perry, in both cases because i'm only interested in derivative-free methods!
Baaad idea. Quassel standardized years ago on Qt’s data serialization everywhere, and it’s become a major issue now.
Is verifying a candidate's identity on Twitter the same thing as elevating them?
My reply was about whether residency mattered. You're taking about something different.
Wow, that's way faster than WinDirStat. Thanks for the link! This is awesome.
Pray tell?
Well, keep in mind that Go also predates Docker by a bit. Docker really did solve the whole dependency issue of dynamic languages/runtimes, but Go still has a possible advantage here - it can be built in a much smaller container..even SCRATCH. A minor convenience at best, but something.
https://i.imgur.com/lziE8QA.jpg

It's open, but we got it because we loved the building, and we have two conference rooms with doors for calls.

(My "desk" is a big couch with a monitor arm mounted to the wall.)
They were doing alright, they just had the highest paid stewardesses in the industry (by a large amount actually) for a solid mid-range airline when it comes to KPIs. If they'd have agreed to be paid more in line with what the industry was paying stewardesses there is a great chance the airline would still be open.

Also, no matter how you look at it. The result of the failed negotiations was them selling 90 planes to pay for the stewardesses. This resulted in the furloughing of 90 planes worth of employees, and ultimately in the company not being competitive enough to survive.

I saw this front and center as someone with no real view for or against unions sans the union dues were forcibly deducted from my salary whether I wanted to be in one or not. I came out seeing the teamsters for what they truly are. The teamsters unions are the thugs they were formed to prevent. They need to be broken up.
I had this same stupid attitude... 6 months later and after 30 phone & or in person interviews I am still unemployed.

I left my last job due to harassment thinking screw this I dont need it and can get a job wherever. Ooops there goes my $110k job/lifestyle!
> The hard challenge in embedded is porting to every mcu. Can this be done without convincing mcu companies to do it themselves ?

Agreed, but I think long-term its certainly going to be easier doing that on the rust platform with a tool like cargo than the current state of affairs.

Maybe if rust just concentrated on the hobbyist/prototypers at first i.e. arduino / rasberry pi, to make that experience as great and pain free as possible and really showcase what can be done with rust and cargo. That would at least make it a viable tool for professors teaching the next gen of engineers and all the startups/prototypers/hobbiests.
I used to get a lot of sinus infections, to remedy this, I drank for an extended period of my life cooled "onion juice" (onion + water + honey, cooked for ~1h). My whole family was disgusted by it, but I somehow enjoyed it.
> Pattern matching is much, much cleaner than a switch with the branches extracted in separate functions

I don't think that's what is being suggested. I think the suggestion is to move the entire switch statement to a separate function, use 'return' in the switch cases, and have the caller assign the variable once, from the return value of the function.
I haven't heard any sentiments like this from even the most die-hard Apple fans. Care to elaborate on how the X is so revolutionary? What phone did you have before it?
Why you shouldn't hate Data Structures and Algorithms if you're a Developer
First kid was no cost to us. My wife was on insurance with her employer. Long day, but no complications. I kept waiting for a bill that never came. Couldn't believe we didn't pay anything!

By the time the second kid came around, we were self-insured on the healthcare.gov marketplace. We ended up paying $5000 out of pocket - $2k for the prenatal care and doctors' services, $3k for the delivery and stay at the hospital.

We made a $1500 mistake. My wife had a really fast and normal delivery, but it was so fast that they didn't have time to administer an antibiotic that they otherwise would have. They wanted to monitor her for a day to look for an infection. We said okay, but if I had more closely read my policy I'd have learned that the policy had a $1500/day copay for labor and delivery. We'd have taken our chances and gone home had we known.

Kid three is coming! And this year's marketplace plan says that we're on our own up to the individual deductible of $6950. That's a bronze plan that carries a $950/month premium for 4 people; financial assistance from the government drops that down to $700/month. So we pay $8400/year for the privilege of not paying more than $7000 for an individual ($14,000 for the family) on our plan.

I don't think state-run healthcare is the only solution here (nor is it an inherently bad solution; I'm no libertarian), but I have to think that I'm living in the worst of all worlds here. I'm forced to buy an expensive product that I'm afraid to use, a product that costs more than the roof over my head per month but delivers a fraction of the value. It's expensive because it's violating basic principles of insurance, because the people who made the law are trying to implement universal healthcare in a system that's not built for that idea (at least not in the way it currently exists).

If I lived in a more market-based system there'd be price transparency, presumably a better way to monitor outcomes, and a lot more say in what kind of policy I could get to better accommodate the needs of my family.

Anyways, there are alternatives and means for assistance out there, and we're exploring them. But we like our doctors and our hospital; it's a shame that we have to look elsewhere. Not looking for sympathy, just adding a data point! My takeaway from that article was that maybe we should price out a trip to Spain sometime late in the third trimester :)
Cool project, really like the DnD flavor of it.
CRITEO POSSIBLE FRAUD?
Hello everyone I am writing to ask about Criteo the retargeting and advertising platform, we have recently read on the new that they employ some really shady tactics and go as far as providing bot traffic from certain South American countries to drive costs up for customers. Unsurprisingly we started watching and monitoring our incoming traffic and lo an behold we have seen a huge number of south and Central American countries been sent to us by Criteo. Our company sells luxury handbags to clients in the USA and none of our marketing efforts target other countries, so it was pretty surprising to see Criteo sending us traffic from those countries not as retargeted traffic but as first visits with the Criteo name attached as a UTM Source. In addition to this there were instances of single users been driven to a 404 page and showing no activity on the 404 page only to return again in a few hours to the same 404 page with no activity and this is usually a sign of bot traffic. Also, 100% of those users is not active on the website and keep leaving the page and coming back again. Few were directed to a 404 error page and kept

There are numerous reports online indicating and showing that this company might be doing some very questionable things.

MMG
I’ve been asked by more than one recruiter to take a pre-test online before the company even interviewed me.
"All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things." Bob Knight
As there are good and bad companies, there are good and bad unions.
Considering a candidate from a 3rd party as a member of a 'major party' is indeed elevating them.

For the record, I wish we had a true multi-party system.
Its amazing that none of the replies (so far) have pointed out something in the very article that spawned this thread, the status of women and minorities. Literally in the title its noted that the publisher is being put on leave, if you read the article it goes on to note that was because of sexual harrassment and his attitude toward gay men. These are bread and butter union issues.
> It kind of makes sense, because actual productivity isn’t necessarily the easiest to measure

Not really: this is just the streetlight bias in action. A high-precision estimate of a useless metric isn't better than a lower-precision estimate of a relevant metric.

I've only worked at places well-run enough (at least in that regard) that people are competent enough at their jobs to measure overall productivity: it doesn't generalize to an automatic rubric like "# of commits" or "lines of code", but it is doable.
> I thought union shops were illegal in the USA. As I understand it, they can force you to pay dues, but that's about it.

No, closed shops are illegal, but union shops aren't. An employer can no longer agree only to hire people who are already members of a union (that's a closed shop, which used to be legal), but they can force you to join a union after you are hired. If that's the case, if the union terminates your membership, the employer is forced to terminate your employment as well.

(Ironically, the union can force you to pay dues even if you're not a member, but that's a separate matter.)
No one knows how much healthcare costs in the United States. Not the insurance companies. Not the hospitals. Not the doctors. No one. The prices vary widely across providers, and insurance companies. I was reading a few years ago (alas, I can't find the link, but I think it was in the LA Times. KQED was also working on this recently.[1]) where the author tried shopping around and found where same provider would come up with different itemized breakdowns depending on the insurer. It came down to the provider and the insurer negotiated prices. Say the insurer provider agrees that a procedure costs $1000, but says an x-rays can only cost $500, so the doctor fee is $500. Another insurer says treatments can cost $800, and x-rays can only cost $!00, so suddenly the doctor fee is $700. What's the true price of anything?

Under America's about the only thing you can tell is that total costs are much higher than the rest of the world, and outcomes are actually slightly worse than the rest of the OECD countries.[0]

[0] http://beta.latimes.com/nation/la-na-healthcare-comparison-2...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/17/3647197...
So programmers across the country should unionize because one guy has an opinion?
Any other linux based options? Perhaps for gnome?
> And yet, these games are being released today, are being funded by major and minor publishers and developers alike for tomorrow

And most developers making these kinds of games today fail to make their money back and go out of business.

I was in charge of one of the games you listed, so I know something about this topic.
Did you opensourced it? I'd love to use that too :)
In most countries where there is paid maternity leave, there is also government pension for retirement that is founded by the active population.

So everyone benefits from people having kids, even if it's not your kid, because in the end you need them to pay for your pension.
A bit of an orthogonal argument: the problem isn't Nazis per se, it's what Nazis believed. Treating the idea of Nazis as too serious to make fun of and treating the idea of making fun of Nazis as a noble goal both have the fallacy that the thing we're saying "Never again" to is people with swastikas and straight-arm salutes. Now, yes, there were a few of those people at Charlottesville. But there are a lot more people who have the same ideology as Nazis - that ethnic minorities are the cause of the ethnic majority's economic anxiety, that a special police force to put ethnic minorities in concentration camps is totally fine as long as there are valid laws supporting that, that local opposition to this police force is illegitimate and treasonous, that the sexually "deviant" are ruining the integrity of our culture, that we have more of a duty to the well-being of our own race than to the survival of other races, etc. - without having any of the visible trappings of Nazis. The more that we say that the thing we object to (either by avoidance or reappropriation) is "Nazis," the more we make room for people with the same beliefs to prosper under different names.

(Side argument: putting the focus on "Nazis" also seems to invent distance between the man on the street in 1930s Germany, who just wanted a good life for his family, a prosperous economy for his country, and success for his nation's troops, and us in our own countries today, because that man lived in Nazi Germany and voted for the Nazi Party. It explains away the fact that an entire country like any other Western country suddenly went along with the Nazi agenda because that country was, somehow, full of Nazis, who are, somehow, different from us.)

I have seen lots of people make the argument that "Nazi" is a bad descriptor for anti-Muslim beliefs/policies that closely resemble historic Nazi anti-Jewish policies, because they're anti-Muslim and not anti-Jewish. (Usually this comes with some sort of argument about "Judeo-Christian values," or about how Islam is different, or something - and when I point out that the same sorts of attitudes were prevalent at the time against Jews and Judaism, they seem to think it's an answer that those people were wrong and they're right.) I think that's a sign that we've failed badly to teach "Never again" in a meaningful way, in a way that realizes that the problem is not to make sure it's never 1930s Germany again - of course it never will be. It will be somewhere else, someplace else, and some other people.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16186461
Reputation and competition I understand. How does time help?
This has been BBC radio 4's book of the week and as such has been serialised in 5 15 minute parts which will be available on iplayer to UK residents for the next month. I've certainly enjoyed it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09ms55g
The Windows client is buggy as hell. It makes me wonder how many security flaws there are in there...
I would love to agree, because I always cared for details deeply. How can it be a bad personality trait? But later I started to reconsider that. The most effective high-level managers I know outrageously little care for details, as it seemed to me. When I was their subordinate it caused me a great deal of a problem.

But then it dawned on me. Things somehow play out well in the end. Why? Well, because there I was, to care for details, to find solutions for what it seemed like an impossible problem to solve. If they cared for details as much as I did — we wouldn't even begin anything, because the amount of detail was so overwhelming. The general plan wouldn't be born in the first place.

Now I sometimes wish I could care less for details and try to be... well, easier, I guess.
https://www.chargebee.com/pricing/

Free tier for new businesses, $99/mo and up (up up) nonlinearly.
Indeed, one of the reasons for why tech unionization became a discussed topic was the Susan Fowler revelations about Uber.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-chinese-corner-cutting-reveals-a...
After re-reading the history of the Transputer, I wonder if instead of going all in on the T9000, maybe Inmos should have been simply trying to cram multiple T800 cores onto a single chip. I guess it likely wouldn't have made much difference.
The original communist claim was, essentially, that we could build paradise if only the workers/people owned the tools. That... didn't work out.

Now the claim seems to be that it will work if only the people own the automated factories. That's close enough to the same claim for "this time it's different" to be a valid description of the claim.

> Are you really saying things stay the same despite the HUGE, game-changing advances of technology?

Agriculture was a huge, game-changing advance of technology. So was industrialization. We've seen them before. So claiming that this huge advance will make work obsolete requires a bit more than "but look, there's a huge advance!"

> It's like you just dismiss all the information and discussion...

I've seen lots of discussion, but not much information. Rhetoric, but not information.

I mean, yes, factories are becoming more automated. That's true. It's not leading to a world where nobody needs to work, though. (Current US unemployment is below 4%. That's not looking like evidence for a world where nobody needs to work.)
That's because the commission that puts together the debates is own by the Rs & Ds and purposely have worked since Perot to exclude 3rd parties.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presiden...
For a more accessible example, what about Fermat's Last Theorem? An apparently simple statement about integer arithmetic, whose proof needs to go into wild excursions about arcane functions of continuous curves. Counterintuitive!
If you want lots of natural light, why the heck would you live in North Dakota? Why not Arizona or New Mexico??
Unions don't really increase salaries at countries where unions are popular with software engineers (e.g. Finland).
Used to be true; not this year. Harder to find gigs, hiring takes longer. Used to turn down contracts regularly; haven't for a while now.
Goodness, the only time I've personally seen shelves looking bare like these was when the employees of some supermarket chains banded together for a multiweek strike. The local Trader Joes wound up being flooded with all the customers who wouldn't cross the picket line. It lead me and my roommate to actually discover Trader Joes, which was a great find. However the shelves in Trader Joes were ravaged by a mob of hungry customers taking everything in sight just about. The strike went on so long we kept shopping Trader Joes and then were transformed into loyal customers sampling all their exotic and quirky goods.