skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hotmail addresses still get modern email software - it is essentially the same online client that office 365 uses, and it works well.

I dare say it is more powerful than gmail and just as modern. In fact, much more modern; gmail hasn’t changed much in the last 5 years (or longer).

I have an outlook.com address primarily, but it’s tied to the same hotmail address that I used back in 2006. Yes, Hotmail gives you multiple email addresses for free, and gives you all sorts of options for managing them (and yes, they work for sign in).
I've run a few large vBulletin forums for years. The biggest problem with internet commenting isn't the software, it's the spam. I wish I had a system that I could train with 10 years of user registration and comment moderation history and have it do the tedious, daily pointy-clicky grind for me.
Other chains are cheaper because they have fewer users or higher trust/censorability.
Exactly the demographic that will be more likely to exhibit impaired driving.

This makes perfect sense.
Completely agreed. But it makes it easy to spot from the highway for the looky-loos that way ;-)
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Yes but high end (financial industry and top MNCs) and contract jobs can pay 3-4x more than that. So when you are a good developer and are either from Europe or looking to relocate to Europe, London and Zurich are two top places you should concentrate your job hunt on.
I was going to add this as well. I have visited the Mojave airfield and "space port" a number of times, both when Rotary Rocket and Scaled Composites were active there and later as part of a group that was looking into wind turbine efficiency (there are big turbines up on the ridge to Tehachapi) A bunch of planes there have come off lease and are being held pending new leasing arrangements, those are basically ready to fly. Some have used up their cycle count (landings/takeoffs/pressurization/depressurization cycles) and act as spare parts for similar models still flying. One clue is the ones that have had their winglets removed are generally 'donor dollies' where the owner has started parting them out to recover what remaining value they have.

I would also love to crawl around the military depot in Arizona but so far have come up short on a good enough reason :-).
I was just looking to replace a specific function call, because the company weren't using VC, and no longer had a working codebase.

So I was hunting a particular pattern to replace, that I knew probably existed. A simple combination of demovfuscator, regex on the "original" asm and eyeballing it succeeded in the end.
How does an engineer protect themselves against this sort of outcome? Just never work for startups?

I currently find myself in a similar situation, where the books look dire but the executives keep saying that we're so close to profitability. I'm 85% certain that my stocks will be worth nothing, but I stick around because I still see an ounce of promise. Am I just a sucker?
Is this where Mythbusters did their "explosive decompression" episode?
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Wow.

So sad.

I hoped that she would revisit Earthsea again.
Arguably one of the reasons why craft beer has exploded in Colorado (and probably other states as well) is because small breweries can circumvent the three-tiered system.
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Read again. I said most of it subconscius. Whenever I have evaluated applications, I certainly have made the effort to be explicit about every criteria I've used.

It's not a farfetched idea that the person sending a job application from the web client of a Gmail account is probably a different type than the one with a personal domain and running Thunderbird/Linux.
Silly.

Doctors could just use OpenEMR, free and meets most of the regulatory standards.

http://www.open-emr.org
Which company, if you don't me asking?
In which case we are talking work mail. My evaluation won't really concern someone personally, then, but the organisation they work for.
Thats a super edge case tbh.
that's sort of how insurance pricing works though. An actuarial process groups you with others based on similar attributes, and works out an overall risk value for you based on the combined risk profiles of the "groups" to which you belong.

Historically, insurance companies only had things like postcode, gender, age, accident history to go off... but they're always interested in other data sets that could be used to modify pricing (or select less risky customers).

Clearly someone or something has identified email domain as a factor (presumably based on data).
These days that would be more of a dinner table :-). But clearly someone is thinking about it : https://aeroartshop.com/catalog/furniture/item/2-titanium-hi...
Yes, there is price differentiation between the low end and high end now, but it’s not even close to the magnitude that wine has. And, besides, what exactly is wrong with that?
You add/edit landmarks already. Just click on the map.
I've been victim of violent crime. Somebody hit me in the face for no reason at all and ran away. While that sucks pretty bad, dying in a fire, or even just losing all my stuff in the fire, is incomparably worse. Being a victim of violent crime doesn't mean that you land in the hospital. Violent crime has a pretty broad definition.
Car insurers are allowed to discriminate by age...? As I’ve aged out of college, my rates have gone down quite a bit.

I guess one worry is that you have multicollinearity, you might get a “double counting” effect on the same signal. But, you should be able to see that in a proper model.
> How is this a loss? They paid taxes on gains? Not sure what the badness is here. They cashed out and paid taxes.

They didn't take real gains, they took illiquid paper gains and paid AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax).

Example: Strike price was $1 / share, "on-paper" price was $20 / share. Employee had 20,000 shares, with a "paper" gain of $380,000. They had to pay the taxes on those gains even though the stocks were not publicly traded and therefore illiquid.
I was disappointed to find out the screenshot is not a GIF.
From the abstract: Given any audio waveform, we can produce another that is over 99.9% similar, but transcribes as any phrase we choose (at a rate of up to 50 characters per second).
Yes, I know all that. But I also know the kind of impression a Hotmail-address is likely to give. So will conclude that a hotmailer either doesn't know or doesn't care about the impression aspect. All part of the picture.
I think for early stage companies you should see the startup as a 1) learning opportunity first and chance to work with a great team driven by a passion outside of pure money, and 2) an out-of-the-money call option / favorable lottery ticket. Also, the new tax bill got rid of AMT for incomes under $500,000 for individuals ($1m for couples). It's difficult to go over that amount with ISO's as the FMV of your shares is valued at around 10-30% of preferred. You could exercise your options once every year for example to stay under that limit.

If you've already exercised and paid AMT, try to invest your other savings and if you need to take a loss you can offset it against those capital gains.

While it might not be something you're passionate about, I would also add that reading about startup law, discussing with your peers, and knowing your rights, and even asking (getting in writing) the terms of the investment rounds, is invaluable and certainly something you should do if you want to understand your full package.
Transferring large amounts of money overseas for large purchases is cheaper, faster and safer than using the current banking system. So that's at least one legal use case Bitcoin has improved for me. Even after exchange fees and miners fees, I paid less in fees then I would have using a bank and the transaction confirmed in under an hour vs several days or more through banks.
I think you can see a similar trend in estoric languages.

Malboge is so complicated that nobody can really write a working program.

Brainfuck is so simple that nearly anybody can write it, but reverse-engineering it is a massive time-sink.
You're probably right, I'm the sole full-time vim user at my place of work (primarily a python shop). I was vindicated in my choice yesterday when somebody forgot to pay off the credit card and the jetbrains license payment bounced, so nobody could work because their pycharm locked them out. I get why people love pycharm though, it does a good job, but I always felt like it was such a pig. Plus you can write some hairy code because the IDE will just let you prance through it without a care in the world.
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It isn't like $20M is killing the balance sheets at Google. It seems silly that they wouldn't just leave it out there "indefinitely" until it was claimed.
Honest question - do many modern checkouts work with JS turned off? Purely assuming here, but I would have thought that most checkouts are baked into web apps anyway these days, with the exception of some small vendors?
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I won't give the game away, but pretty easy to figure out...
interestingly the ear has recently been found to oscillate its follicles at frequencies which enhance what the brain wants to hear ... Hudspeth AJ http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/DAED_a_00316 ... science has barely scratched the surface of even the feeblest understanding of biophysics, what a great time to be alive
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Alternatively, I for one dislike having an insert mode. Pressing CTRL (remaped to caps lock) is easy.
Tough question.

You have two choices when it comes to the weakest employee. Either you reach out and spend time to UNDERSTAND how to help this employee, or you can just ask the employee to leave.

A good manager would do the first unless there is absolutely no sign of any improvements. What is the definition of winners anyway? The one that gets the most code done and go home at 3PM? Or the one who is capable of delivering good work AND willing to help others to succeed? For some, bring a down company back on its feet is the most challenging and rewarding project.

Dorsey has to choose. Perhaps he just isn't the right person to lead Twitter. Or maybe he has to give up one child over the other. This isn't the simple "let me sell the bad assets" question. Twitter is still living, and is making money, just down the slipping route for far too long. Snap is in the same boat.

It's hard to let go of the control when you co-founded both and you have visions you really want to make them happen. On the other hand, why overwork? If I were him, I pick one so i can have some breathing room (but I rather quit and spend my day time on non-business stuff like earn another degree or hike around). Just my thought.
I'd say there's a one really important difference between being Black and using Hotmail, and that difference is the same reason why one is a protected class and one isn't.

The real concern here isn't discriminating against people with Hotmail accounts. On the surface level, there's nothing wrong with that. This does become an issue if the property of having a Hotmail account is used as an avenue to discriminate against people based on their membership in a protected class -- a sort of actuarial parallel construction, if you will. At that point, we do have a bit of a problem.

> We need regulation in place to stop any punitive decision making, public and private, which can be found in court to be based on correlation instead of causation.

So, young men could not be charged more for insurance than young women? In fact, young people in general would have to get the same price as everyone else? People in New York would have to pay the same as someone in rural Alaska? Someone who's been driving a year gets charged the same as someone who has been driving fifteen, etc.? Even being in an accident doesn't cause you to get in another accident. It's just correlated with that outcome. Throw out the entire actuarial aspect of insurance? These "punitive" charges are all based on correlation. I don't see this happening.

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That said, as a non-statistician, I'm interested in what kinds of tests can be run on signals to verify that they're not proxies for selecting and discriminating against protected classes. Is there a way to modify a signal using its correlation with membership in these classes such that you can marginalize the attributes you're not allowed to discriminate based on?

For example, it seems reasonable to believe that hotmail use is correlated with age, race, gender, etc. As an insurance company, I would have information on hand to inform me as to the extent of this correlation, at least among my customer base, and I would in turn know the correlations of those factors with risk. Could I somehow remove the racial, gender, and age components of the Hotmail risk signal to obtain a signal that only conveys the portion of the risk correlation that is not based on those classes? If so, what is that statistical technique called?
I wouldn't join any start-up involving Peter Thiel at this point. Palantir is another prime example. Biggest grifters in the valley, the paypal mafia
I agree. I think we will see an explosion of techniques that exploit prior knowledge about the set of problem instances typically encountered in real life. The prior may come from analysis by hand or be learned from data.

We will need to move away from worst-case analyses. Randomized analyses will use more expectations over nontrivial probability distributions instead of uniform distributions over the entire problem space.
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For those who want to gain some context on how such a thing could happen, I recommend the book Venture Deals by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson [1]. There's a good section in the book that talk about share preferences and the order in which the pile of money is cashed out.

[1] - http://a.co/aeI2gqq
Will look at it and get back to you. Thanks for letting me know!
I am proudly one of those dozens.
Yes, Latin America had dark times, but before, and after, it's been rather OK -- certainly fantastic by comparison to the USSR. There are no gulags in Chile or Argentina, or Brazil, or... And Chile is doing very well -- they're the tiger of LatAm. Colombia has finally beaten back the guerillas and is doing rather well considering. And Venezuela? Yeah, not well, not Venezuela -- wonder why /s
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Have you tried using reCAPTCHA? It even has an "invisible" mode: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/invisible
The default modal keybindings are fantastic for editing text, once you start learning them it becomes addictive. Once you've learned most of them everything else feels annoyingly clunky.

I sometimes use IntelliJ and sublime but if I'm sshing around our network or editing random configs vim is the one that jumps to hand, and it's pretty much my default for everything now. Vim modes in those two IDEs are also pretty good.

EDIT: vimscript kind of sucks though, Emacs is way better on that front
That could easily be rational behavior on their part if the primary thing they're worried about is investor confidence.
I suffer from depression pretty frequently. It gives me insomnia and unfortunately the lack of sleep never really helps me feel better.
I don't think it will.

* Bitcoin Cash and others have grabbed its market share through impersonation
* Other coins have faster transactions with lower fees
* Other algorithms have opaque blockchain for better anonymity.

Bitcoin was first through the door. They got shot.
In most instances, you get what you pay for. I handle IP reputation by colocating with good, if somewhat conservative, colo providers. The most recent colo provider contacted me after placing my order to ask what services I intended to run, to match my provided address with WHOIS on the main domain I planned to use, and to ask me to explain the discrepancy between the IP from which I filled out their web form and my given address. Some people would be indignant about this. I certainly was not. I'd rather ALL people have to jump through many stupid hoops, myself included, than have a network where money is the only prerequisite to joining. That provider, if anyone is looking, is Turnkey Internet. They're definitely worth considering if you want to deal with real people.

Once you have an address (or a new-to-you address), you have to break it in, so to speak. I did this by setting up reverse DNS (of course) which unambiguously matches the hostname, the primary IP, and the HELO / EHLO name given by the server. I then set up SMTP-auth so I could use it for little bits of email here and there. I did this for several weeks before I started increasing the volume. At the same time, I configured a long running server elsewhere to allow relaying from this machine and started sending email list traffic through the new server, which relayed through the long running server so that services like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and others would get more exposure to the new server, albeit indirectly.

I also took the time to proactively register the new server and IPs with anti-spam sites and blocklists. This usually involves providing proof that the contact information is real and works, but it helps lots.

Barracuda gave problems - they listed my new IPs even after requesting delisting TWICE, but an email that got to a human fixed this more permanently. While frustrating at first, the fact that you can correspond with a human is always a good thing.

After more than a month of this, I started sending directly from this new server. As anyone who has done it can tell you, running a mailman list these days is hardly trivial considering how quick most services are to consider mail lists spam. But regardless of how much time it takes, it's worth it to take the time, to be careful and deliberate. I've only had to do this four times in the last decade, but not rushing is always worth the extra energy.

Of course, VPS IPs are often much more "beat up" and are usually considered undesirable neighborhoods, more so than colo networks. That's partly due to the more transient nature of VPSes. When you colocate, you're more invested, generally speaking, so you're more apt to keep the IP for many years.
I thought "Tertiary education" includes undergrad : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education
I tried to use it in Windows and looked like this:

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Jesus, this first guy's presentational style is just unbearable to me. The other guy is fine.
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That's exactly what started this conversation. /u/rectang made the following statement:

>It's also expensive, inconvenient, time-consuming, and risky to be poor. None of the suggestions you make are "easy" for poor people.

>Consider how much time, energy, and expertise it takes even to research disability insurance and buy the appropriate product.

This whole thing is about me calling out rectang for suggesting that poor people are too stupid to buy disability insurance.
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Populations trend towards the reduced expression of phenotypes which are maladaptive. I don't think it is then unreasonable to presuppose (as a starting point for further investigation) that commonly expressed phenotypes might represent beneficial adaptation, especially when to our intuition the opposite would be true.
Seriously WTF kind of test is biting an electric device aside from an aspiring Darwin Award nomination?
It matters because one is a physical object with static properties and the other is a digital abstraction with characteristics that can change arbitrarily based on network consensus. One is fundamentally a thing that can be looked at and held, the other isn't even a thing you can know you have without consulting a quorum of nodes about the status of the ledger (for all you know, you don't actually own any tokens because an attacker has stolen them)
I liked her anthology World's of exile and illusion.
The featured C-133 propeller driven planes were death-traps when they were new, the chance of any of the ones in museums needing spare parts from the boneyard to make them air-worthy so we can see-off those pesky Russians is just not a good enough reason to hold on to these old air-frames. Yet they have kept them rather than put them through the recycling. Why hold onto these things for fifty years, do they have a procrastination problem?

Compared to the air force boneyard in Arizona - Davis Monthan AFB - this boneyard is miniscule so maybe they are doing a really good job of recycling all those 747s nobody needs and have their own reasons for keeping the junk. Fascinating the place may be, it could be tidier.
Not in the industry, but I'd guess in the short term there are two options:

- scientific orgs (NASA, universities, etc); I get they'd love to pay for access to lunar surface. Maybe even some imaging from the dark side of the Moon?

- prospecting companies like Deep Space Industries or Planetary Resources.
Yeah, as an "investor" and an employee of several startups, I generally wound up on the losing side of the equation, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

Stuff that amounted to, "Oh, we extinguished those shares, sorry about that," when the corporation was worth several billion.

This stuff is broken. You are far better off working for a mature company with decent management; if you are any good, you won't necessarily have "fuck you" money at the end of ten years, but you'll probably be ahead by several million dollars, and the value of "several" might be pleasantly surprising.
I'm using their official helm chart, it's just idling. Sidekiq is doing nothing, the server is serving no requests - I have no idea how it manages to spend so much time on nothing.
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you can walk into a bar and get a draft old domestic for around $2.00

Not in San Francisco.
If this is an honest question... an employee who left the firm after 2013 and wanted to exercise their stock options needed to pay taxes up front on shares they received, based on the company's then $700mm+ valuation. But now the price of those shares is significantly less, based on the $100mm sale price. So they ended up paying more in taxes on their stock than they can receive now from the sale of their stock.

This article explains the dynamics well: https://www.recode.net/2016/1/19/11588918/gilt-groupe-is-a-c...

In this case, one of the controversies is that company leadership may not have taken such a low sale price (given that they initially had offers of more than twice that) had they not been compensated with personal payoffs outside of the equity structure.
Is the instant autocomplete in the address box ("whereInput") part of the Mapbox API or offered directly by google? What is that called because I can't find it by searching? It's very nice.
> The US did not go through a long period of active direct and proxy conflict with the most advanced contemporary nations at it's founding

Yes it did : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
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What would you rather have? Insurers using broad classes and heuristics about you to put you in a bucket that may not always be fair, or a company like Google who knows about your life to an extreme amount of detail calculating exactly how much risk you pose and providing that to the insurers as a service?

If you don't want to be put by insurers into buckets, well, all I can say is, be careful what you wish for.