skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet there seems to be a fair amount of support here for guaranteed basic income / guaranteed employment.
that is not the same thing.
The line numbers don't start at zero. The guy on the left has 9 days (spot on), the rightmost 21.

By the way this post is from May 2016! I wonder how they are doing by now.
We won't I promise.
It's not iOS that has the sandbox it's the iPhone hardware.

The encryption key management is performed in a hardware sandbox. iOS and apps running on the phone cannot access it.

I think that's the gist of it anyway. I'm too frugal for an iPhone so I haven't read up on it in detail.
>The World's First Legitimate Ponzi Scheme

I'm pretty sure this was done before. As a dapp even.
Stock trading robots: I have been running them for a long time with great success turning my full time job into a side project of sorts...

It is based on fear and greed, so I project to run for a long time still... maybe until the real AI take over the stock market... or maybe the AI will also be afraid and greedy like its human parents... so it might run some more :-)
I encountered this problem on iOS where you have no control. On Firefox I managed to solve it with a lot of effort of scrolling to get the images to load and carefully selecting how to clip the page. It kind of works.

It did more to make me re-assess why I’m paying for Evernote than make me avoid Medium.
I agree. As long as thousands of hospitals and clinics agree on, and use, a standard.

Edit: Which is a pretty big caveat.
A good chunk of this is actually about pragmatic approaches to dealing with STDs prior to germ theory. People could put 2 and 2 together and conclude that a prostitute could transmit disease from one client to another, but their concepts of what was happening were half baked.
I seriously believe that is pure corruption. HighSpeed2 should cost a fraction of the price being quoted as well. It shouldn't take a country decades to pay back the cost of laying down rails in such a small country as ours. I estimate 10% goes to the project, 90% goes into peoples pockets without doing a days work.
I went from a big company to a small (<30 person) company and back to a big company, and I'd put my personal productivity drain for working at a big company at close to 20%.

The biggest contributors to that 20% are (1) extra admin overhead like time consuming performance appraisals and more red tape for purchases, reimbursements, time off, etc., (2) getting blocked sitting around waiting for some person/team whose priorities are not my priorities to respond to requests for info/support, and (3) additional reporting requirements in the form of meetings and extra emails/paperwork to keep other groups/managers updated on what I/my team am/is doing.

There is also a subtle productivity drain caused by the feeling of "why should I put in an extra hour today to finish this feature when release is probably going to be blocked by [some thing I cannot control]". So, I leave the work til tomorrow, but I lose all the mental context I have for the work and need to recapture that to get back to where I was, so what would have taken an hour yesterday takes 90 minutes today.

When I was on a 4 person team in a 25 person company, it absolutely felt like every extra effort I made had an impact and was noticed and appreciated, which inspired me to make extra efforts.

Now I feel like any extra energy I have should go into making sure I don't forget to get some form to HR by some important (but arbitrary) deadline or attending the latest mandatory training session my manager or IT has required me to go to or getting legal to approve use of that open source library we need.
You're right that health insurance isn't insurance at all. But to clarify:

> What we have is an aging payment plan. We're all gonna get old, and it's gonna suck, and be expensive, might as well start paying now: oh guess what, you are, it's called Medicare payroll tax

That would be the case if the following were true:

* If Medicare's operations were purely funded by tax money, and

* If the taxes people paid were proportional to their expected lifetime costs-of-care

However, neither of these are true. Medicare's reimbursement rates are indirectly subsidized by private insurers (who then pass those costs on to privately-insured patients in the form of higher monthly premiums and copays). And of course, the taxes are based on income, not risk profiles.
as a writer i would mostly suggest the opposite of what this article suggests, though the author makes good points too, especially the one about reading being essential for writing.

my (opposite) suggestions:

1. worry about what the world needs obsessively, and give it what it wants, not what you want to make. become a machine that takes in needs as raw materials and spits out explicit and actionable solutions that are written down. this tip is by far the most important.

2. if you want success, it means holding back on the full story if your audience doesn't need/want/can't handle the full story. painful, i know. fluff pieces are what works.

3. write at a 7th grade level only if you think the 7th grade students have enough money to make it worth your while. NB: this is about the simplicity of your writing style AND the simplicity of your content. here is a big tip: simple content is the route to success (as the OP author notes indirectly), which should keep most of your mechanics simple.

4. "good writing" is overrated. "good enough" writing is underrated. "bad writing" can very easily be profitable. hasn't someone said this before?

5. often what you write is not something that would be worth your time to read. don't mistake that idea for your writing being worthless. if you yourself wouldn't read it, you already have all of the knowledge and ideas that went into writing it!

6. finding your own voice is not as important as blending in-- this is assuming that you are really chasing "success" and not self-actualization via writing. if you have a radically different perspective, expose it to your reader only in part lest they become confused or reactionary.

7. force yourself to write for 5 minutes per day and live by the maxim that if you write less than 1000 words on the same topic per day you aren't serious about writing. more importantly: force yourself to edit 1000 words per day.

8. your friends and family are not good at telling you where you need to improve. professional editors are, however.

9. you know that little voice in the back of your head that says "well, this sentence that i just wrote is shit, how can i make it better?" find and kill that voice until it's time for editing.

10. writing and editing are two different things. as a writer you need to write first, stop, wait, then return to what you wrote and edit it. potentially a lot.
HL7 operates under a very open standards development process. If you have ideas for improvement then get involved and submit formal change proposals.
Both is possible. You set up separate mailboxes (either team-wide or private) for specific email addresses, and by default you reply from the address they wrote to.
We created an API at edX that is much more robust than our RSS feed. People still use the RSS feed because it is much easier than (a) registering for API credentials, (b) figuring out how OAuth works, and (c) learning what JSON is and how to parse it. The simpler solution was good enough for many clients.
I agree that “unlimited” vacation is often a trap so I appreciate the concept of a minimum vacation policy, but isn’t it a security/privacy issue to publicly disclose the exact dates that employees are on vacation? Is everyone on the team OK with this information being public?
you can decide. both work
I was thinking of the Lathe of Heaven, sorry!
Governments and people like the Clintons who, if you believe the rumors, have people killed all the time. I personally do believe that powerful people can and do have opponents killed, same as if it were organized crime (because basically it is).

The disparity of force is huge and lethal. It is why the US has a 2nd Amendment. And while people call that antiquated, and they're correct, it is not for the right reason. Rather, we need to close the gap somehow, not offer ourselves up as easy marks.
I wonder if there's liability for the author when people get damaged by this
Could you clarify your second point? Would they manipulate the market in a way that is detrimental to you? Would it help that you were not their customer, but someone else's?
or a cartwheel
Those words are so beautiful!
> It seems the bigger a company gets the more they favor predictability over excellence.

That's also what their customers tend to prefer -- they are often large companies themselves, and they can't drop everything to deal with a breaking change introduced by a vendor. They expect stuff that works to continue to work, and they expect breaking changes to be communicated far in advance so they can make plans to deal with them. That's part of what they are paying for.

What you see as mediocrity is a feature of big companies, not a bug. You can't make all the decisions in a project yourself and expect all of the affected stakeholders and customers to go along with it. Their concerns are often valid and need to be addressed because the project has an impact on the business that other teams don't know about.

Star developers at large companies are the ones who build and manage relationships effectively, so they can deliver on projects that have a big impact on the bottom line, and also do high-quality programming work. If you can do this, you can achieve a lot more with the resources of a large company than you could at a small one.
I was the author. I could have reworded. I still think computational thinking is an important skill irrespective of your job role & is actually a pretty powerful tool that helps you solve problems and make decisions. Coding is one of the fastest ways to get there.
True, but not hierarchies of control over people's lives.
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This guy sounds like he took an Adderall and wrote this.
Unfortunately, there is only so much trust we can put in hardware that is "known" to be secure. What other exploits are possible that we don't know about?

While I wouldn't want to compel people to run only verified binaries, I think it's important that we make it an option. Right now, it really isn't, especially with proprietary software.
What is this crap article?

Does anyone really need a website calculator to multiply or divide by 100M?

Why are the first two paragraphs repeated twice?
Agree. agree. we really need to work on that.
PeaZip is pretty good and is FOSS
Neither – we grew our customers by 10x and didn’t hire any more support people.
Followed by rapid disassembly
I think this is why microservices "work" (when they work) despite being a suboptimal approach technically. It's a fairly straightforward way to loosely couple team deliverables.
It's a common pattern — e.g. a lot of C++ libraries have some sort of string piece type.
It’s not even for sale yet and already he’s not buying it!

For regular teardowns of drivel like this clickbait article check out the Macalope:

https://www.macworld.com/column/macalope/
I hate Medium and I wouldn't let them be my primary distribution method for content but I would dual post. Is there a reason why you wouldn't just xpost from your blog to Medium?
Economic agglomeration is not bad, but if the city is unable to keep up with said agglomerating, then accelerating it is a bad idea. Austin is already behind the curve and can't keep up with the current influx of people and companies, adding Amazon to the mix will simply exacerbate the problem.
> Q: Is this site secure?

> A: We use Equifax-grade security.

haha
Actually you're right. He killed the simulation process now that I'm wracking my brain to remember how that actually worked. That then led to us joking about what it'd be like to force-reboot via the killing.

The key detail I'll never forget is his "Oh fuck!" face when it happened.
> correlation it doesn't imply anything at all. is not causation, that's worth repeating 1000 times.

You might want to understand correlation, causation and dependence, and implication before repeating that 1000 times. I specifically used the term "statistically imply", which is correct, and means "has predictive power", which is true in this case of correlation whether or not causation is involved.

Correlation actually implies a lot of things. At the very least, it implies statistical dependence (to the confidence attainable with the data). The converse is NOT true -- lack of correlation does not imply independence. But as independence implies LACK of correlation, correlation necessarily implies dependence. This is very basic probability, and is relevant to estimation of which insurance is an application. Causation is a completely different subject.

> lol

Care to elaborate? What exactly do you disagree with? Is any of the listed things not a choice?
Your narrative is rather nakedly anti-Apple, and I'm having trouble understanding how it even makes sense. You say there was "no evidence" Qualcomm breached FRAND. If that's the case, then why would Apple induce Qualcomm to offer them an exclusivity licence with partial rebate that still winds up being higher than FRAND? Why not just get a cheaper straight FRAND licence with no rebate? Conversely, if the rebate nets Apple sub FRAND rates, then why would they challenge it "every time"? A successful challenge would then result in higher net costs to them.
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I'm an active RSS consumer. I use NewsBlur after Google Reader closed down. I highly recommend it.

I found that RSS became an assumed protocol. It's so rare that RSS is missing that it's absence makes me startlingly grumpy. Beyond content RSS is embedded in many machine announcement services. I use Github's release feed for Ethereum[1] to monitor updates, for example. One stellar feature of NewsBlur is it's ability to find the feed address from a given URL, which makes discovering feeds far easier.

For what it's worth, RSS and feeds have graduated from the Hype Curve into widespread unobserved use.

EDIT: I forgot to mention my favorite Meta-Feed[2] for Clojure! It's all RSS all the way down.

[1]: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases.atom

[2]: http://planet.clojure.in/
See CMU's Time-Series Database Lectures from last year:

http://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2017/
Yup. For example here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/3g6ccj/these_are_...
It's "passionate intensity", actually.
> I became disillusioned with the direction HTML/CSS/JavaScript was taking. I lost confidence that my content would continue to be readable in future browsers.

Can you tell us why you feel this way? Any current browser can display websites that are 20 years old just fine.

You really don't need anything fancy to display static content.
GPU prices have doubled in the last year because of cryptocurrency mining, and most high-end GPUs simply cannot be found in stores.

I think production volume will be more important than hardware performance in terms of how successful AMD is in 2018. If they can supply enough mid-tier cards to meet unsatisfied demand, they could see huge growth.
I am not a lawyer, but my gut says that a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek financial crime is still a financial crime.

Any lawyers want to weigh in on whether you have some sort of first-amendment right to parody crimes?
I generally only look for the 'bigger' projects, and only really bother if it is explicitly mentioned as a thing to look at (e.g. used this open source project/language). Even then my criteria is the same I would approach to a source code review:

1. Is the code well formatted? If you haven't been someplace where it is bad, you might not understand how bad can be. I'm not going to give someone on a pass on something even the worst editor can do great.

2. Does it look awful to build? I have seen projects presented to me that have no Makefile or appropriate mechanism to build the code successfully but 50+ source files. The exception here is obviously templates or ~1-2 file projects to solve a real problem. I don't want to hire someone who can't build software, or make their software nice to build.

If those first two criteria aren't covered I'll skip to my last criteria:

3. Lack of input validation/error handling/logging errors.

4. Knowing common language constructs. Even in learner projects I want to see that you know how code should feel in that language. Python is one of the ones where this is most obvious, Java is one of the ones where it is least obvious so this is a subjective piece.

5. Does it feel like original work or tutorial spam? Where's the artistic flair or the completely engineered and mechanical thing that made this more than a 2 hour project, and worth your time?

The main thing is that your resume should strongly reflect that you want to change careers as a dev and you want to demonstrate your skills via GitHub. I would not go fishing unless you ask. I'm going to look at your technical experience and general work history and ask you just as many questions about those kinds of things.
About the same experience with my current job.

It was a contract to perm position. I asked my now manager, why was this a contract to perm position? Was it because they wanted to see if the person was a good fit or were they under a budget constraint that might stop me from coming on permanently? He said the former.

I had to create the department from scratch with basically nothing but "database developers" who were just learning C# and no infrastructure. I laid out a 6 month plan. Six months in, i was able to negotiate a higher pay than I could have originally since it was my first official lead role and make extra money by being able to bill hourly. It was a major win.

When I was single without the skill set, network, or health benefits from my spouse, I would have never left a full time position for a contract to perm.
> ...when geography is no longer the key dividing line in tribal affiliation. You will see a rise in low level violence, and that will be associated with a decline in the primacy of the nation state. But it will reduce the risk of globally devastating conflict.

Not necessarily. A civil war between new global tribes* would still be a globally devastating conflict.

* not necessarily the same ones everywhere
That is exactly how I feel and I don't know how I FEEL about THAT. Welp...
Over the years I've done a fair amount of good work as a programmer. These days, I get as much joy as I ever got programming by cooking some vegetable soup and sharing it with friends. (And it's cheap: $10 makes about 2 gallons [~7 liters]).
Much confusion ensued when my pregnant wife and I arrived in the US. I translated the medical records and gave them to the obstetrician. She was quite worried and sure that I had left something out -- there were all these tests that are routine in France but in the US are only done when something goes wrong. Needless to say nothing was wrong.
That fair. However, Austin is already behind the curve and can't keep up with the current influx of people and companies, adding Amazon to the mix will simply exacerbate the problem. Thus my concern. Maybe it'll be a good thing 10 years down the road, but that'll be a tough 10 years and I'm not confident that Austin will even be able to get to that point.
That’s a great suggestion for commenting on blogs!
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> Things that insurance doesn't work well for: common events (e.g. routine medical care); non-randomly distributed events (that's why e.g. earthquake insurance in San Francisco is extremely expensive and has very high deductibles - if the Big One™ happens, it's going to affect everyone at the same time); inexpensive events (e.g. why insure a phone?)

I agree with this, but I want to clarify your language: insurance works very well for common events - what it doesn't work well for are predictable events (which is why insurance is a terrible model to apply to routine medical care).

The entire value proposition of insurance is to reduce (but not eliminate) uncertainty. If an event is perfectly predictable on a regular cadence, there's no value to insuring it.

Events that are common but have high variance are potentially worth insuring, for the same reason that a person whose earnings are highly variable (contractor, or tip-based work) might choose to use a service that evens outs those payments, even though it lowers their total take-home earnings (by charging a fee).
And, frankly speaking, we don't want them to refuse lawful orders to hand over data.

We might not have a well-functioning justice system, but the alternative--when corporations could feel empowered to ignore it because they themselves are big and powerful--is much, much, much worse.
making something stay on the ground is far less challenging than making something go to space

i think they've got this
Her profile pics are basically NSFW...
A better title for your article might be “How to solve most text-processing problems”, because you’re really not talking about NLP.
Sanderson is complete garbage based on "Stormlight". He is much like Roger Zelazny (except "Call me Conrad") in the sense that he writes very long books full of promise, which end up being cheap trash without a single worthwhile idea or thought.

"Lightning stores magic in marbles and these marbles power shit" is not a premise to build a whole series on. Everything in between is weak and pointless.

He is the classic example of a decent writer who doesn't understand life or people in any real sense.
this seems to be the way to write if only to make a dollar. what about people that want to actually write quality? you mention chasing success, but success is obviously subjective. for me-- if i wrote some mumbo jumbo for 13 year olds about high school gossip and made $10,000 off of it, i wouldn't call it success. kind of like how i wouldn't take a $100+/hr job to do wordpress templates
Ask HN: A while back I lost a couple of BC when Mt. Gox went down, am I SOL?
Yes I'm an idiot, I kept a couple of coin with MtGox rather than moving it to a wallet. When the site was hacked a few years ago it seemed it was lost, then I got some email instructions through the bankruptcy proceedings and submitted my claim, but they came back and said they could find no record.

I have evidence of my original cash transfer (a confirmation email from MtGox) and my username. Does anyone with experience of this know how I should proceed or am I out of options to follow up on this at this point?
That thought experiment was why I joined Google after 4 years of working in startups. The communication cost overhead the grandparent mentioned is why I left Google after 5 years.

While there, I observed a lot of projects where I was literally working with a room full of world-class people - folks who had given TED talks, folks who had started major open-source projects, folks who had written the "Bible" of their particular subfield of computing - and the final design we came up with was worse than what any one person in the room, working on their own, could've come up with. Good designs tend to be both controversial and coherent: they take a position, not everyone agrees with the position, but they do it anyway because self-consistency has its own benefits that are often intangible but highly valued by users. When you design by compromise, you end up sanding off all the most innovative (= hard to communicate) parts of the design, and end up with only the bare minimum that everyone can agree on.

It's interesting that when you put a bunch of average people in a group, have them independently make a prediction, and then average the predictions, you end up with a result more accurate than any one participant's prediction. When you put a bunch of really smart people in a group, have them cooperate to make a design, and look at the design, you end up with a design that's worse than any one expert's original design.
How so? What organization demanding immunization records is going to accept a screenshot from your phone?