skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Annecdotal evidence but I know two people who started in their 50s. It’s a good second career for people who are getting too slow for manual labor.
You can already do that to a normal truck. It's not really a problem. It'll be rare enough to fall under the umbrella of "that's what insurance is for"
You could also use something like Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm to include a piece of your password in your will, another with your old friend, maybe a third in a safety box with a key in escrow with your solicitor, and make it so that it takes two of the three pieces (or n of the k) to recover your password.
The dirty industry of fast fashion is causing an environmental “emergency”
I agree with you on every point. My guess is that the idea was to link to more complete information by having direct links to the "mass shootings" article, the Australian legislature, and the shootings involving AR-15 clones, but the cultural relevance isn't mentioned and it all seems underdeveloped, especially with the dismissive handgun paragraph and bizarrely specific/niche Religion mention under it.
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That's a shame that you think that. Our digital footprints are the maps of our lives. I will happily give every password I own to a website that scrapes all the services and constructs a timeline of my life. You think its mundane, but our identity lives in the work we do, half finished or not. I love re-reading notebooks from elementary school not for the content, but for the little scribblings I did in the margins.

TimeHop kind of does this for social media, but it would be cool to open up my email accounts and iMessage. I think my loved ones would value opening up an app and saying "What was jbob doing on this day 2 years ago..."
There are some better options than Elance/ODesk.

Have you checked out https://codefor.cash there are some other sites besides this that focus exclusively on remote work.
I can't say I went full "wash out" but I did need a break from coding. From software development generally. So I switched to a role where I don't code but instead setup tech, install software on site at warehouses (Amazon).

My knowledge of how software works, and my ability to dive into the codebase to understand why something isn't working gives me a huge edge in this role. The fact that I like the space I'm in keeps me interested. Management like that I have the knowledge and skills I have and so I'm paid well enough for it. But all the while, I'm not doing the 9-to-5 code monkey stuff anymore. I don't know that I'll do this forever- some parts of coding draw me back- but it's a nice vacation from my career for a few years.

So my advice: find something you're interested in that has tech involved somehow. Go to the business or application side and find a role there where your background and knowledge is a major asset. Maybe even reach out to some companies you think might have or need such roles and explain yourself.
Yeah, I need to actually get my domain name doing something. Looks like that's what I am doing today.
How to Build a Realtime Trade Platform with JavaScript and Pusher
What if you print it to microfiche?
That adds some complexity though. Not just the problem of the key getting lost, but of the "friend" deciding to break into your account while you're alive. Or they key getting compromised some other way.
Apply the decorator pattern in .NET using Autofac
Anything public - it's open sourced.

Anything paid - it's in escrow

Anything private - it dies with me.
Had a power supply open to replace the fan, turned it on while open to test if it was wired up correctly. I flicked the switch with my thumb, with two fingers inside the case to stabilise it as the fan was loose. Those fingers briefly touched across the back of the switch and I got 240v mains straight to my hand. Luckily it caused my whole arm to contract so my hand couldn't seize up around the terminals!
> How to stop feeling depressed about whether you will be successful?

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

You may find Frankl an excellent read for perspective > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Me...
Uber may be planning to work with Waymo
My point is that you can lead a horse to a stream but if its a drought and the stream's dried up, they couldn't drink from it if they tried. doesn't matter if the horse is genetically more of a pony, stallion, mule, zebra or unicorn. nope, if there's no water, the horse can't drink.

These tomatoes were not only spongy (which I'd expect from shipped tomatoes), they just had no taste.

http://njfarmfresh.rutgers.edu/documents/tomatosalt2009.pdf

I did a little research and found that there are a few more possibilities. Maybe the tomatoes were grown hydroponically. Maybe it was very rainy or they over-watered before harvesting. (https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/01/154072388/ho...)

I assumed "depleted soil" because that's a rampant problem, but it could be other stuff too.
Flippy the burger-making robot has started its shift
Monero Hard Fork: New MoneroV Will Enter the Cryptocurrency Market
This is an image of my news reader's Twitter view, sorry if that wasn't clear. I use a separate table to store tweets so I can create a custom view just for them. I tried making them into more of 'feed' with specific time periods (aka tweets per calendar date) and thread them into my normal news feed, but I didn't like the results. Most people tweet in bursts, and I follow people all over the world, so I'd inevitably cut someone's thoughts in half. Also, tweets are generally links, so I treat their content more like I would when browsing Hacker News or Reddit (skimming), which is different from how I view my feeds (reading).
This Hitchens quote is so relevant right now:

“Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.”
yeah, 9% and 12% do seem a bit high.

but, other than that, it's a good calculator and I like the idea and the interface is nice too.
What about those that don't really have a completed side project. I've got a _ton_ of half completed things, and then something with libspotify, which gets DMCA'd in an instant.
"At this point in time" is another one, can be replaced with just "right now" or even "now". Had to tell a team member of mine that once.
It doesn't:

commit 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (tag: refs/tags/v2.6.12-rc2)
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date: Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
"Wuba duba lub lub!"
Off topic, but what makes you say LastPass is insecure, provided of course that you follow common sense rules like strong master password + 2FA?
Does this support FreeBSD? The docs say it's supports anything that can run Firefox so I would think yes. I can't check cause I'm in a car for the next 6 hours. But if this supports FreeBSD I would definitely use it over puppeteer because puppeteer does not support FreeBSD and it doesn't really look like they care to add support [1].

[1]: https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/1049
Can you update/reply with the proper format - your tweet link doesn't seem to lead to meaningful info....
To all the people saying that this just keeps administrators busy. Sure, that's one way to read it, especially from an engineers perspective. But this administrative stuff is what gets open projects like these more adoption and more funding. Yes it's mostly BS, but it's the BS you have to do to get business clients.
Oh? really!
I've never heard of Goodkind before but this particular issue doesn't seem worth any ire. Apparently they didn't like the cover for their book, they made a joke and then apologized. They clarified that the art direction was the problem and not the composition itself.
Almost. The preview page is here - https://mooon.club - and should be live before the end of the week.

Tech-wise it's Vue.js and Highcharts on the front-end, Firestore on the back, and Zeit now/Firebase functions doing the grunt work on the APIs.

Once it's ready to go I'll pop it on show HN and go into more detail on how it works.
Muslim Cleric, Two Others Arrested as Police Foil Kidnap Attempt
While I was working there, the Googlers I knew would unanimously agree to not work on projects for defense. It's hard to believe this has been going on there.
Japan is still bound by article 9 of it's constitution but let us not pretend that they haven't been trying to get rid of that article or sent their defense force to play war in the middle east "strictly for defensive purposes".

That being said; between the two, China today is more like Japan during WWII than Japan today is.
Yeah, I believe the rationale was to know better where entrances and exits are to certain buildings. The idea is a good one, but many people were up in arms about tracking that wasn't expressly during the interaction with Uber the company.
Ask HN: Migrate from being an employee to start a subsidiary business?
I've been with this small business for over 3 years now, and I'm on the verge of leaving to do something on my own. My employer has offered an interesting deal: start a subsidiary company in which I'll own considerable equity and will be given software (which I was primarily responsible for building), working capital and user data.

I have an excellent relationship with my current employers and I'm seriously considering this. I'm curious to know if HNers have done something similar and what I should watch out for.

My biggest reason for NOT taking this up is simply to use my time to explore things I'm more interested in. Thanks!
386s had a push button power switch where if you were really fast you could let it out and immediately push it back in and the power wouldn't be interrupted. Found this out in class - we would walk over to each other, lean over pretending to talk to a friend and sneakily push the power button in. Before we worked out that trick, you would have to get your finger on the button before the other guy took his off, then hold it down while you saved your work.
Nice! I am partial to this retirement calculator:
https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

But then I'm biased because I created it.
I work in a major city where there are many companies looking for short term contractors to work on specific projects. I've had contracts as short as a month, which have been for agencies that have a client project which is too much work for their in-house staff, or for startups working on a prototype. Some larger firms like banks tend to offer one year contracts as an alternative to hiring full-time employees which might have to be laid off in the event of future budget cuts.

I wouldn't say that they are ever looking for true experts, but having at least some experience relevant to the project is necessary. Any one of the following on your resume should be enough: front end web development with React or Angular, back end with Node.js or Java, devops, AWS, iOS, Android, etc.

I have no self-marketing skills at all, and a few of my first contract jobs came through a recruiting agency. Since then, I've gotten work through referrals from people I worked with before. The best thing about moving around between jobs is that you eventually get to know a lot of people who have seen your capabilities and are eager to bring you into their new team.
It is a pity, because from the raw numbers trains are much less expensive then tracks.

Often, the flexibility and reduced latency of freight by truck is worth the increased per-mile cost.
> and commit messages

I noticed a while ago a trend for commit messages to be in the active voice and present tense. Seems to make them more concise and read better / clearer. Started doing that myself on my projects.
It's an interesting question. Obviously the money has to come from somewhere. Mail trucks cost money, and no one is going to go out and deliver letters for free. It's easy to say we should just make up the difference with tax reciepts like we are now.

I think it's less a philosophical question -- is mail like roads or police? -- vs a matter of efficiency. It's obviously possible to NOT lose money delivering much more difficult things than paper. FedEx and UPS do it all the time. But they're private businesses who compete with each other (and Amazon and whoever else), so they have to figure it out or they won't be around.

The USPS, meanwhile, doesn't have to compete with anyone (in fact, it's illegal for anyone else to deliver mail) and has no incentive or need to be efficient because they can draw on the US Treasury whenever they need to. It's not that they're bad people, it's just the nature of the incentives and system involved (and also it's run by congress). These same dynamic would be there in banking though, which is why this seems like such a bad idea.
More like 2010, the date when it was still controversial to use python3.
Google helps Pentagon analyze military drone footage
Not trampling, just holding at arms length. Recognising the reality of the economics of most projects. Unless you live in a completely deterministic world, devoid of human fallibility, or perhaps omnipotent, or simply have unlimited time or resource, at some point you are going to have to admit you just don't know, and you are managing the percentages. Delusional overconfidence is more close to magical thinking than recognising the reality that complex systems will fail in surprising ways, and that it costs ever increasing resource to reduce the risks with ever diminishing returns, until you are forced to stop. The ruleset the computer abides by probably represents a fraction of the factors affecting success. If you feel you have never got to a point where there is an element of faith involved in your choice, then Im envious.
Would you please stop using HN for political and national battle? You've been doing it a lot, and it's not what this site is for. As such discussions get more predictable (such as when people dump boilerplate political links into comment threads), they get both less interesting and more flame-prone, a double whammy of destruction for what we care about here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There's a saying I like: "The harder I work, the luckier I get."

If we're playing a statistics game, the best way to pull ahead is to create the most opportunities you can have to be lucky. By working hard, you are providing yourself with more opportunities to be lucky. You can still fail and get unlucky, but that's an unfortunate part of life. Though it is pretty unlikely that you'll flip 50 tails in a row.

Disclaimer: I don't suggest using this strategy at the slots, your odds are just not good enough.
That was my point, but rereading my comment it really did not come across.

Basically, a different thing had been discredited in the past also involving testing hair. Which IMO is why people though testing hair was junk science vs. the lab not doing their job properly.

That said, I also think testing hair for drugs is so inaccurate to basically be worthless.
Yeah, it's a poor formulation although the intent can be figured out if you focus hard enough but let me make it easier.

> We can use tax allowances instead of actual car expenses because you can be sure the taxman won't allow you to deduct more than what you are spending so the earnings we calculate here will not be more than the actual.

As a formula:

#1: (actual car expenses) <= (tax allowances)

Adding (total uber fees)

#2: (total uber fees) - (actual expenses) <= (total uber fees) - (tax allowances)

and then we go on to prove

#3: (total uber fees) - (tax allowances) < minimal wage

And so:

#4: (total uber fees) - (actual expenses) < minimal wage

Changing <= to = (as you suggest) in #1 and #3 doesn't change the logic of our proof.
I suspect the common political crisis of most small towns over the next decade is going to be raising property taxes. Years, decades of everyone elected fools who refuse to raise taxes has lead to infrastructure that is falling apart, no money for local services, no money for parks and libraries.

Now as small businesses all fall to e-commerce (often in part because their taxes were raised to compensate lowering residential property taxes) residents of small towns are finally coming to realize that all these services they've been provided actually cost money.
> 386s had a push button power switch where if you were really fast you could let it out and immediately push it back in and the power wouldn't be interrupted

It would be more accurate to say “some computers in the late 1980s and 1990s”; not all of them were 386s, and not all 386s had this style of switch.
I've half-convinced myself it's because we're talking about GBM's and not Random Forests (where my mind goes first). One of the smart things about XGBoost is parallelizing training by multithreading the variable selection at each node, but that doesn't apply to inference; I imagine you gotta predict trees sequentially since each takes the previous output as an input? Now I wonder what those extra threads were even doing...
I think joining the CNCF definitely gets attention/adoption/funding, but graduating from incubation is a pretty small step that comes after a project is already successful. And k8s can't really get any more hyped than it is already.
I hope someday to have created an app where the mere existence of a reproducible 500 lands you on the front page of hacker news. That’s an app that’s demonstrably reliable and useful.
It optimized for O(1) indexing to Unicode scalar values instead of optimizing for more useful things. Also, even though the API semantics are UTF-32, the storage may be USC-2 or Latin-1, so there's a surprise performance effect when a string gets it first non-Latin-1 character or its first non-BMP character. So much for O(1) behavior.

The best in-memory representation of Unicode is UTF-8. No alignment issues, ingest "decode" is mere validation and output "encode" step is a no-op. Space requirements are favorable to common computer language syntaxes. Byte-wise lexical sort matches code point-wise lexical sort.

However, since "narrow builds" of Python 2 already used UTF-16 which allowed for things like bridging strings with Cocoa, Python would have done well to stick to UTF-16 and get rid of the "wide builds".

Not having both "narrow" (UTF-16, Python 2 on Mac) and "wide" (UTF-32, Python 2 on Debian) is an improvement, though.
I covered capturing LINQ expressions in my last sentence.
Personally, the big thing I find scary about him is that he abolished term limits for himself. Oh, yeah, and he enshrined his thinking in the constitution.

Why should length of rule be such a large part of my opinion of him? Well, let's pick a different leader. Suppose Trump wanted to change the US Constitution so that he could remain president for an unlimited time. Would that set off alarm bells for you? It would for me.

Why would it set off alarm bells? Because that leader thinks that he needs more time in office than the rules allow, and is willing to alter the rules to do what he wants.

Also, why does he want it? One option is that he thinks that the country needs his leadership, his in particular - nobody else can do it, it has to be him. Such people have an inflated view of their own importance and competence, and a diminished sense of others' importance and competence. That often doesn't end well - the leader thinks they have no need to listed to anyone else.

The other option for "why do they think they need it" is worse - they just want the power, and are willing to remove all obstacles to get and keep it. The point of their power is to keep their power, not what is good for the country. That usually works out badly for the country.
What do these acronyms mean?

SNA
LPAR
VTAM
I must’ve missed the part when China became a democracy. While I hold the same fear as China continues to aggressively pursue the Orwellian path, I seldom to see model governments that makes China second think its authoritarian decision. After all, I can’t envision other governments wanting to become US—-when excluding its resources. I hope we become better so we can emerge as the role model that we once were.
The latter. What would slow down inserts is excessive indexing
https://github.com/jaywink/socialhome is a link to the Github while the site seems to be struggling under load.
I guess that once it's archived, it tends to stay that way.
Yes. And I am saying that it's preposterous because they did what any organization (and I mean any, this applies to companies, nonprofits, governments, etc) should be doing -- listening to their users.

Their beliefs are great and all, but at the end of the day they are providing a product for the end user, so if their users are "bitching" that they want Netflix and other EME services available on Firefox, then the right choice is to make the user happy if possible.
What's your alternate theory here? That a ship from the 1800s sailing through tropical oceans is going to fill its bottles with zero humidity air before throwing them overboard? Of course there will be water inside the bottles, the air in the bottles will be humid, and temperature cycling through the seasons and from local weather will lead to formation of dew inside the bottle from time to time.
Very cool. This reminds me of the retirement tool I've seen in Betterment. The things you can do to earn more money or cut out of your daily spendings is super nice way to visualize some common ways to make or spend money.
A controversy over the suitability of the AR-15's design to the role of "modern sporting rifle" exists. This controversy has grown to become a significant element in contemporary American politics.

Noting the existence of this controversy doesn't seem like an inappropriate thing for the Wikipedia page on the AR-15 to do. If anything, keeping it out feels like an attempt to bias the discussion by deliberately omitting a significant fact. It's like the Wikipedia page about Bill Cosby not mentioning the sexual assault charges against him. It shouldn't take a position on that subject, but pretending it doesn't exist is a deliberate step away from a neutral point of view.
Conversely I found Line messenger works well. :-)
You could put it in your will, right? That way only your lawyer has access, and if you die then it is released based on the instructions.
So all Russia needs to do have all their spending deliver at 100% efficiency. That's not going to happen. Russia is a bureaucracy too...
Well, you might now want to give up yet. I remember, in the beginning of my career, i never lasted more than 1 or 2 years at a given company. Then one day, I found the right company and worked there for 6 years!

LinkedIn Resumes are filled with software engineers who don't last longer than 12 months, just look at all your coworker's linkedIn profiles. It's not that uncommon.
> 1/x, sin(x), cos(x), log2(x), exp2(x), 1/sqrt(x) - 0 or close to 0, as long as they are limited to 1/9 of all total ops (can go up to 1/5 for Maxwell).

This is what surprised me to learn recently, that some transcendentals are free, as long as you don't use too many of them.
That would almost make me upgrade my note 3 to another Samsung. If it wasn't for their Geo locking.
Just yesterday I was researching WxMaxima for this type of application. Today I find this article describing how to implement a solver from scratch. These are exciting times to be alive.