skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is considered a short job stint depends on the industry and how long an average project takes. For example embedded programming and hardware can have projects taking 1-2 years to develop so ideally you want people who stuck through a complete project. In other industries, projects might be much shorter.
> I don't think it is, though. If someone has 1000x my assets but cannot use them to make his lifestyle notably better than mine, that in no way makes me "relatively impoverished." His additional zeroes in his bank account can only make me feel bad if I choose to feel bad about them (and many do).

Adam Smith disagreed[1]:

> By necessaries I understand, not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably, though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-laborer would be ashamed to appear in publick without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty, which, it is presumed, no body can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England.

> The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in publick without them. In Scotland, custom has rendered them a necessary of life to the lowest order of men; but not to the same order of women, who may, without any discredit, walk about bare-footed. In France, they are necessaries neither necessaries neither to men nor to women; the lowest rank of both sexes appear there publickly, without any discredit, sometimes in wooden shoes, and sometimes bare-footed. Under necessaries, I comprehend, not only those things which nature, but those things which the established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people. All other things I shall call luxuries; without meaning by this appellation, to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Beer and ale, for example, in Great Britain, and wine, even in the wine countries, I call luxuries. A man of any rank may, without any reproach, abstain totally from tasting such liquors. Nature does not render them necessary for the support of life; and custom no where renders it indecent to live without them.

[1] The Wealth of Nations
This is by far the most insightful and knowledgable viewpoint regarding this news I've seen online. And I am Chinese-American.
How are you going to stop it from becoming inundated with spam and scams?
I suspect most people on HN are their own service providers, to at least some extent.
The term here, if anyone wants to look into it, is "orbital eccentricity". Here's a table listing the eccentricities of the various planets: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/glossary...
The answer is obvious, but not easy or likely. If Google stood to lose their workforce as a result, this would not be happening. Of course people like comfort and money too much to do that, and they’ll tell themselves it’s not their responsibility and hey, someone else will happily take their job. This is after all, a workforce that has concluded that privacy is something to be monetized and subverted at every turn for similar reasons.
I don't think competition is the answer here, I think it's more similar to the healthcare debate.

Do you make people hard to deliver to have to pay more, or do you "average" out the cost and make everyone pay roughly the same amount?

With a combination of taxes, flat-rate fees, and delivery-distance based costs, I think it's more than possible to make a system where it's not "free" or extremely cheap to send somewhere hard-to-get, but it's also not prohibitively expensive.

And IMO the postal service is riding that line in a way that i'm happy with. I appreciate that I can send a small box across the country for $5, and I can do that whether I live in NYC or in middle-of-nowhere pennsylvania. And I'm more than happy to pay a bit more in taxes to make up for the difference that the flat-rate doesn't cover if it means that lower-income individuals won't need to pay as much to send mail at all.

I know that there are problems with not having competition, but I think mail delivery is along the same lines as other "naturally monopolistic" things like power, water, sewer, etc...
Few people pay wages, many people collect them.

But I don't think history will be useful, because depopulation also causes on increase in agricultural productivity (per person) that is a huge confounding variable.
I'd strongly suggest NOT putting it in your will - more people than you may think end up taking a look at the will.

Off the top of my head, based on acting as (co)executor for my father:

-All executors

-Lawyer

-Bank teller (x2) who took photocopies so they know who the exeuctors are

-Car insurance person, same as above

-All potential beneficiaries, so they can challenge it if needed (this is a part of probate)

-Once it's in probate, pretty much anyone

I'd say it's safer to have in a "in case I die" envelope next to the will, but explicitly not part of the will.
> I can't justify spending $3K for hardware that if it weighed 1lb more costs $650.
> [...]
> I tried a number of Linux variants. [...] I spent a lot of time trying to make other distributions work, but to no avail.

Just curious: What kind of value are you putting on your time ?

Admittedly, I can perfectly understand if you consider tinkering with distros an intellectually gratifying pursuit and therefore time well spent; I just wanted to point out that it would NOT be all that hard to justify spending an extra $2K.
Data Center Operating System
United Airlines Pauses Lottery for Bonuses After Employees Rebel Online
Here's the authentication report: http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/defaul...
This sort of rhetoric is borderline insane, though. Yes, bad things happen even with tech. But they are typically far less dramatic than what happened before the tech. Homicides/lynchings were common before modern tech, as an easy example.

Similarly, suicides are not only not a new phenomenon, but they are actually not as high as they have ever been historically. This is precisely what i meant by us having a higher bar. And we should continue to raise the bar. But don't talk about how tech could possibly make our lives better. Instead, lets continue the progress we have made.
Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks with Cortana Voice Commands
You seem to not understand how the freedoms of Free Software licensing work.

You are absolutely able to go clone their git repo right now (https://github.com/python/cpython) and work on it as your own. You can create updates, backport fixes, etc. You can maintain that well after they cease supporting python 2.7.

You may not call it Python though, because of trademarks.
Economic role model? Are you even serious?

US debt on 6th of March 2000 was 5.7 trillions. [0]
Today it is 20.8 trillions.

And what USA has to show for the mere 15 trillions of debt?

Affordable healthcare? Free education? Absence of homeless population? Shiny new infrastructure? Thousands of kilometers of speed-rails connecting major cities?

Role model. You guys are delusional. Let me tell you something like non-american. The whole world looks at you with sheer amusement.

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current

PS: The only economic achievement I can list is that US elites have managed to alienate with their policies half of the country, so that half decided to give country a try with some real estate tycoon who enjoys to bang pornstars in his free time. Quite an achievement indeed. 15 trillions well spent.
Good or bad citizenship seems orthogonal to the situation described...though political rhetoric over the last forty years has encouraged people to identify as tax payers and consumers rather than citizens and to conflate shopping with civic participation. On the other hand, survival is rarely genteel.
This sort of rhetoric is borderline insane, though. Yes, bad things happen even with tech. But they are typically far less dramatic than what happened before the tech.

Oh totally, war was much less dramatic before atomic bombs. /s

Edit for substance: Tech is a massively double-edged sword, and looking only at the benefits is dishonest. You have nuclear power, which is truly amazing, and nuclear weapons, which may yet end us all. You have vaccines, but also biological weapons, medicines and poisons, better plows, better swords. You can argue that tech is a net positive, but if it’s anything, it is dramatic.
How does this compare to most builtin page builders in themes on e.g. Themeforest? „Compare“ as in: why does Shogun seem to have SO MUCH MORE potential in YC's POV?

For comparison: a top-selling theme on TF with a top notch built-in page builder is usually around $50 to $70 one-time fee. Shogun with similiar features in the most expensive version is $60 per month.
That is an interesting punt by the legislators.
Actually preparing and filing my annual tax return is indeed the single most annoying part of paying taxes, doubly so since I have an LLC I use when doing odd jobs.

Business filings will never go away, but if I could just have the IRS automatically process my tax bill after getting my Schedule K-1 and W2 it would eliminate the extra work I shouldn't have to do (it'd also make life much easier because I wouldn't have two other members of my family asking for help filing their returns).
Do you like programming?

If the answer is yes, then don't give up. Move. Go to NYC or Chicago. Talk to few recruiters and have them help you "polish" your resume so that things you might consider harmful would not be prominent.

I'm always fascinated by people who start in the field and then change their minds. Obviously if you've never liked it then do something else, open a surf shop or taco stand. But as far as programming, for the foreseeable future it will be in high demand.

Seriously, don't give up!
As they say on ESPN, "C'mon Man!". This has been an accident happening in FMV. Conservatives by definition are resistent to change. Progressives by definition are innovative change agents. The heart of tech innovation is in one of the most progressive areas of one of the most progressive US states.
> You really only pay the sin/cos costs when translating out to a Mat3x3 at the end.

You don’t need sin/cos for that either.

Here’s a code that does that:

https://github.com/Microsoft/DirectXMath/blob/master/Inc/Dir...
OpenTable Says Employee Used Rival Service to Book Hundreds of Fake Reservations
It’s a bit less clear if you’re a kid mining cobalt in the DRC

Worldwide incomes have risen more in the last 30 years, especially for the poor, than at any other time in history.

Tech might not have improved the lives of people who lost their jobs to “gig” workers who are paid a fraction of minimum wage.

This is mostly a myth. Gig workers tend to make a bit more than minimum wage. Which, sure, isn't great but these are unskilled jobs where you make your own hours. It's not surprising that the wages tend to be on the low side.

Tech has downright hurt the environment, even if you only look at sheer waste.

GDP per unit of energy consumed has risen dramatically due to better technology.

You probably don’t appreciate the future of drones I’d your experience with them is being bombed by them.

Deaths due to warfare are at all time historic lows. I can't say that this is due to new technology but it is worth noting.
North Korea Signals Willingness to ‘Denuclearize,’ South Says
This will go over well on Memegen for sure.
> Releasing it is purely positive.

If you are releasing a free Python class under the Google brand, but the content is almost a decade old[1] and a lot of it will be phased out shortly or unsupported in 2 short years, you are doing the community a dis-service.

Stop assuming freebie is always good stuff or Google always release high quality content.

Disclaimer: I am a long time python developer and I love Google's service in general.

[1] https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
They get stuff done.

Maybe you're a collaborative person so you get put on teams where that's more highly weighted. I'm more of a "don't talk to me / I hate meetings" developer; I get excellent evaluations, but I almost always work independently and the groups I work with quickly pick up on my temperament.

I will say that I'm certain I'd be shown the door if I didn't have a track record of going off into the Batcave for a few months and coming back with cool products.
The first Moto G (2013) does not have a replaceable battery.
I have one right here.
Yeah I get this, but still is very hard cliff. "String" is so fundamental and when you see how operate with ints, floats and sudenly strings is a hard climb. In the mind of many, strings are at the same "level" than other primitives.

I wish it have a "easy mode" and a "advanced" one for when is necessary.
I'm still a bit nervous about leaving an USB-C MacBook plugged in near any kind of foot traffic.

On the plus side, with USB C you can charge from either side of the laptop, and dealing with broken cables is quite a bit cheaper than with Magsafe, where cables seemed to disintegrate with depressing regularity.
Introducing timeboard, a python business calendar package
For Mac users trying this at home, I made the following changes to build and run the tinypi tests on Sierra:

1. Comment out the malloc.h include in tinypi.c.

2. Add -Wno-unused-function to CFLAGS.

3. Use shasum, rather than sha1sum, in the test target.
Who the fuck thought this was a good idea?
> I think these companies (autonomous car/truck) understand that they need to transition these processes slowly over time.

They understand pretty well that they need to transition faster than their competition. Given that, they'll do it as slow as their competitors allow, because it's investment and they don't like doing that quickly.

How fast that means is anybody's guess. But they can't just stop and wait.
I feel like GNU Social/Mastodon and the like is going to be the most successful in the space these days than Diaspora-based sites.

I spend some time on Diaspora back in the day, and it felt like it's community was solely people who had likely been banned or pushed out of more mainstream sites. It lacked a lot of the appeal of a modern social network.

I feel like the ActivityPub/OStatus crowd has done a better job reaching wide appeal, federated communities are small enough without multiple standards.

It does look like Socialhome wants to include ActivityPub in the future, and that sounds like a big win.
For privacy and control? Definitely not. A huge chunk of my family uses Facebook as the means of communication which means private correspondence is being mediated and read by Facebook's platform. At any whim they can ban a user, delete a message, etc. The same applies to Gmail but at least there is an escape hatch to a different email provider if you are using a custom domain.

The centralization of stuff into Amazon, Google, and Facebook's offerings has been extremely destructive to the status quo for control and privacy.
Not what they’re signaling... https://www.38north.org/2018/03/yongbyon030518/

...just what they’re selling. This is the usual cycle of trying to look good internally by squeezing concessions out of the rest of the world. This time they’re asking for a “security guarantee” from the US, which means no US troops on the peninsula. Last time it was just trying to get money, food, and fuel.

They’re not crazy, they’re criminal, and they are damned good at exploiting others with a combination of threats and promises, all while never diverting from their real goals.
Now let’s just apply some regional filters there, so that skyrocketing benefits for a minority don’t play statistical games with the majority.
No family photos? Digital books and music?
Tell me about it. It used to be a home hosted plan 9 server. Then have been on a Vue kick recently.

Slapping something together quick and dirty.
Spacecraft use radiators to radiate excess heat into space. Depending on how close they are to the sun they can have both heating and cooling problems simultaneously. The side facing the sun can get too hot and the side away from the sun can get too cold. Thermal management of spacecraft is an engineering discipline unto itself. (I used to work for NASA.)

Radiating heat to the tube won't work because the tube is either above ground, in which case it's likely to be much hotter than ambient if the sun is up, or underground, in which case you've effectively wrapped the tube in a nice insulating blanket of dirt, and again there is no place for the heat to go.
The Social Contract is an idea originating in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbs. Leviathan in particular. Leviathan is in the public domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_(Hobbes_book)#Extern...
I like that they are continuing to share resources and education. Google has also collaborated on a myriad of courses on Udacity. If you check the course catalog and search for "Google", there are 62 results for "IN COLLABORATION WITH: Google". They run the gamut from Android development to web development to Google APIs to Design to Business Development to ....

> https://www.udacity.com/courses/all

It's an interesting mix of empowering the learner and getting the learner to use Google products (e.g. you finally make that Android app, you learn how to iterate development, gain traction with users, grow). I wonder to what extent learning from the resources can bring up to parity with a Google developer.
Hmm. The problem is that most companies suck no matter what your profession is. The trick is to grow up and grow thicker skin.

One thing software development allows you to do is work remotely from a beach (if that's your cup of tea). That way you don't have to deal with all that office nonsense ;-)
Just in case anyone isn't aware of the feature, clicking onto the source image, then holding down control and scrolling up with the middle mouse button in Firefox will magnify the image (making it closer to readable, but still suffers from a lack of pixels).
> Words like "unconditional", "universal", "everyone", "all", etc. absolutely imply that personal responsibility is not a factor.

If you think so, I think you're somewhat missing the point. Or arguing against one that isn't there.

To take your assertion to its logical end:

- system provides "universal" healthcare

- the above system therefore excuses personal responsibility for... healthcare access existing? I'm not really sure where this leads?

What you seem to be assuming is that an "irresponsible" actor impinges on service provision by virtue of their irresponsibility. Believe it or not, this is not an assumption rooted in reality. If it were, the US per capita healthcare budget would be much lower than that of France.
There's also a looming huge problem right now with recycling. Traditionally old, worn-out clothes could have their fibres reused. But the cost of new textiles has been pushed so low that it is destroying the market for recycled textiles. And so we're producing ever-the-more of this stuff and recycling ever-the-less of it. An environmental catastrophe in the making.
You can get guaranteed 11% returns at https://www.twino.eu/

I used it for a while; it did work and their published financials are solid, but being happy with some risk I decided stocks where a better play.

Still, it's a useful baseline.
I think if you look in the advanced fields you can change to how much you need in retirement to set a separate number. We auto calculate and extrapolate based on current savings rate, but a lot of people will spend much less in retirement.

Just fill out the field income in retirement under advanced fields and I think that should (hopefully) be what you're looking for.
Technical sales (or Sales Engineer) work can vary a lot. If you're working for a regional VAR much of your interaction may be on the phone, but working for an Enterprise Software vendor you'll often find yourself on a plane heading to and from the customer's location to gather requirements and make presentations in person. YMMV.

BTW, you might also consider working for one of the big consulting outfits, especially if travel is appealing to you, as an alternative to temporary contract work.
The Tyranny of Agile Velocity
also $1.25MM x 3% = $37.5k

Not $45k

It is difficult to trust the calculator when arithmetic errors exist in the prose.
That's why I made it a wiki. Cause I definitely can't get all the info myself. I figured a minimum text would suffice to get other contributions rolling...
Apply whatever regional filters you want. Most of what I said will still hold most of the time. I'm not playing any statistical games.
An email address being syntactically valid is no guarantee that the mailbox even exists or is correctly mapped to the person at the keyboard!
For a baby’s brain to benefit, read the right books at the right time
Hey Dimitry,
Cant wait to see what new project you come up with? Really loved your projects and most importantly detailed write ups. Esp, the one where you booted Linux on a AVR. That was Nuts.
Cheers
Despite the incredible destructive weaponry we can deploy today, the last half-century has been the least bloody in history. Technology has drastically improved both our ability to create and destroy, but fortunately we're doing more of the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
Audi and Airbus team up for a flying taxi and city car combo
"Bad things happened before" isn't really a rebuttal. The point of the original article was that tech can improve the outcomes of those things, but it's not, because we're not demanding it.
It's built with the same software running Wikipedia, with adequate spam controls. However, the community is what I will rely on as the information affects all our pockets atm
This is just how the state operates. It will never be transparent about just how threatening the Chinese are and vise versa. Ignorance is bliss within the world of global power dynamics. If you ever meet someone who works/has worked for intelligence agencies, ask them about China. Whether they will share anything verbal or not, their true feelings have already flushed across their face.
Ok, let’s look at the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Edit: Or better yet, stick with my original example of the DRC, which is not a happy tale.
I thought it was no password, but only available via localhost?
In life it's easy to be uninterested in your Dad's thousand-hour audio archive of him presiding over the Civic Plumbing Council of Akron, Ohio.

Listening to that while he's alive would be a waste of your irreplaceable shared time on Earth, right? It's just his job. While your Dad is alive you should go talk to him on subjects he cares about.

After he dies, though, if there happens to be an archive of your father joking around with, remonstrating, and otherwise being himself with the people who made up half of the social context for his waking life, year after year, that might be valuable to you.

It only has value in the right emotional context, of course, perhaps when you reach the age he was when the recordings were made. You can measure your daily self against the daily self your father created and inhabited.

An existential crisis might create a desire for that comparison, or perhaps you'll find yourself missing him and realize that family records don't show who he was in the world at large.

If your father is careless with that information you don't have that opportunity. If you are careless with your equivalent of that information your heirs won't have that opportunity.
US senator grills CEO over the myth of the hacker-proof voting machine
To add to your comment, many if not most municipalities tax industrial buildings at a higher rate than they do commercial buildings. This could indeed be a nice tax saving strategy for the business.