skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have had misconceptions about the blockchain, but you seem to have come to the correct conclusion. It is awful for storing information, and it's generally not meant for storing information. Obviously you can combine traditional servers and blockchain in a such way that the system is completely decentralized, such as Sia https://sia.tech/.
The US compared to the UK is insane salary wise. A good developer in the UK might make £40-£45k a year ($56k)

According to glass door at Amazon in the UK you can make anywhere from £30k to £50k.

Microsoft goes a bit higher (in London, but everything is higher in London) to around £65k for SE2.

I only know one friend who is a developer on £100k+, most of us are on around £30k to £40k.

I know one Senior Developer doing Web Development on around £25k ($35k)

The fraction of people in the UK pulling in £100k+ in any job is tiny, nevermind tech workers.
Are you guys hiring at Segment? I've been keeping an eye out on the company, and things like this are really encouraging to read.
This is so wrong it’s hard to figure out where to start. Excel doesn’t make proper CSVs and it’s not a reference for anything. I can change the extension of an html file to CSV and open it in excel, it’s still an html file.
Lol, I know.
Can't pay the rent with private equity!
There is obviously a massive jump from COBOL to Python, and small but annoyingly incompatible step from Python 2 to Python 3. I hope you understand the difference. It's not like Python 3 was the best language ever, it's just a variation (and IMO not that great one to justify breaking backwards compatibility) of the same theme. Ask Perl guys how they liked a similar situation.

If I didn't need to use Python, I wouldn't. Now why I have to rewrite my old code to v3 if it works? Why do I have to waste time with such a stupid thing? All my new code is v3, but why is somebody nagging me about v3 all the time when v3 is full of warts and mindblowing conceptual holes as well, and doesn't really address multi-threading (GIL love forever) etc.? Coming from C++/Java to Python world it was like throwing away a lot of powerful stuff in exchange for faster time to write. Didn't expect that would be dragged down by additional time to rewrite because of some half-baked API-breaking changes.
$ rm file
$ echo $?
$ 0

Silent, unless you go looking. The return value of the last executed command is available as $?.

I picked this up at http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html for running commands over ssh and not seeing the console output.
Why DC’s Low Graduation Rates?
Interesting. I started using it in 2000 and was working directly with members of R-core at the time. My experience was that the only time I ever saw = used was by DTL.

It really wasn’t until Google published their style guide and then later when Hadley published his that I started seeing = in heavy usage.

To your point about = being shorter I wonder if the difference was that a lot of the folks I interacted with were using Emacs with ESS which would interpolate _ to <- so they wouldn’t have noticed? Just a theory.

Either way I was taught from some of the R creators that <- was evil and to be avoided. It wasn’t until I stopped using R regularly that I switched, it became too mentally taxing to change assignment operators when I bounced between languages
There's a fine line between ignorance and racism and presenting a fact as a question isn't particularly clever.

If you don't know, ask (or better yet, research and educate the rest of us), but don't ask and imply (with no source).

The idea that laws affecting 770 million of the most affluent consumers won't have an impact is laughable. The view of "why should we do things if they aren't", is sad.
Rent + bills cost around $3700 for me for a 1 bedroom apartment a 15 minute walk from work but I also get paid $147k salary. I make the maximum contribution to my 401k every month, so after rent, payroll, retirement, health insurance, and taxes I take home around $3500 a month.

This doesn't include my stock bonus, free breakfast lunch an dinner which I do take advantage of, and other small perks that add up to thousands a year.
Part of it is that Python 3 does not offer any really strong reasons to switch to it, in an existing code base. It is definitely better and rounds out a bunch of small problems and inconsistencies that exist in Python 2. It also does have some cool new features. However, since Python 3 is not compatible with Python 2 (there is very good tooling for automatic converting and supporting both in one code base) many developers have not taken the time to port their code.
Python 3 broke backwards compatibility with Python 2. Most of the usefulness of Python comes from the fact that you can import modules. Since all of the existing modules had been written in Python 2 and would not work with Python 3, most people ignored the release of Python 3 and continued using Python 2.
It's frustrating right.

Stating the obvious: the world isn't fair. If you're in software, the US is the place to be. Haven't said that it's not always easy.

I almost got an investment job in the UAE with a SWF. They had a change of strategy which I didn't fit into. This was after 7 stages and me flying out there for two and a half days of back to back interviews. Comp included accommodation and a tax-free salary in the $200k range....
Yes, there are significant female characters, I think primarily academics which in context are the most important kind of people.

I didn't notice anything off when I first read it, but that was in the 1970s and I was a young studious male. I remembered it as a fun space story and one which glorified researchers and academics as important over generals and politicians… which probably is a lot of the appeal to a certain audience.

I think now it's sort of like watching space movies from the 1950s. Model spaceships swinging along on wires in front of a painting and zippers up the back of the alien monster's skin were the norm then and just ignored, now they are moment ruining features.
That picture really is counterproductive.

All it will do is support the people who say the problem is exaggerated.
TBF $2k minimum rent and $500,000+ minimum housing prices are also only normal in small pockets of the US. I have no idea how teachers survive in expensive coastal cities.
I cannot stand his delivery. He seems awkward beyond belief, has the same exact inflection of voice at the end of every sentence, and speaks so quickly that he is almost tripping over his words and slurring his enunciation.
Is that an entirely fair comparison? Personally I don't have the same expectations for a product where I have an ongoing subscription vs a one time purchase (i.e. ignoring the scale of $ I'd expect differences in support/ongoing development/community platforms/etc). Perhaps that's a minority view however.
I'm a bit of a mutterer but it depends on my mood I think.
They are measuring total compensation. In European countries, you have five weeks of paid vacation and money that is put into your retirement fund in addition to your salary. Plus sick days. That is worth 10-24 % more than your base monthly salary.

The spread of US developer salaries appear to be insanely high though. Median is "only" 70k according to this site: https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/...
I must have logically assumed that rate of charge and discharge include time (hours) in the unit: Wh/kg.

My understanding is that there's usually a curve over time t that represents the charging rate from empty through full.

[edit]

"C rate"

Battery_(electricity)#C_rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)#C_rate

Battery_charger#C-rates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_charger#C-rates

> Charge and discharge rates are often denoted as C or C-rate, which is a measure of the rate at which a battery is charged or discharged relative to its capacity. As such the C-rate is defined as the charge or discharge current divided by the battery's capacity to store an electrical charge. While rarely stated explicitly, the unit of the C-rate is [h^−1], equivalent to stating the battery's capacity to store an electrical charge in unit hour times current in the same unit as the charge or discharge current.
There's a bunch of senior roles in London going for 70+ at the moment. The market is changing (slowly)
As somebody who has hated spam for years, I can only wish that I were in the EU.

There is a whole swathe of companies that is somewhere between casual and negligent with email addresses, and it would be my distinct pleasure to have a stick like GDPR to beat them with.
I used the word "sustainably" intentionally. R. Giskard didn't just use the Zeroth Law, he created it (and passed it on to R. Daneel).
Mostly from Asia generally. India, Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines especially.

There was a study mentioned here on HN a few months ago. If someone wants it I can look it up for them.

There is still a case to be made that we (the more developed world) should practice what we preach and set a good example.

Personally I re-use all my plastic bags and they all end up in land-fill.
Ask HN: After earning how much money are you planning to retire?
Excel is certainly a reference for what your end-users expect your software to be able to do.
These threads are mostly comedy and hot air. Don’t let them fan anything. Everyone here says they’re making $300k. It’s a trope that won’t die. They are either statistical outliers or exaggerating. Median for the Bay Area (which tends to be the highest in the country if not the world) is around $115k plus equity. I’m not going to trot out the links again, but these numbers are Googlable unlike all the anecdotes.
Make them take a quiz! That will help opt-in rates.
I am one of these Atlanta-based machine learning specialists, here to confirm that we do exist. But I think it is very rare, and I am not sure many at all are doing $300k+. Since the cost of living is comparatively low, though, I am doing way better than I ever could dream of doing in the bay.
I would love to see gopher make a modest comeback. Its simplicity keeps it from getting monetized to death. It would be great if it could once again become the default protocol for academic and scholarly information.

I tried to run gopher on a server I once rented at Pair Networks in Pittsburgh, and they wouldn't permit it, saying it was a security risk. Same response when I asked about opening up the finger port.
Wat? My highest overall tax percentage was 32% when I made 300k as a single person.
Per (the book) Dragnet Nation, there is plenty of data being sold. And yes, not all buyers are the private sector.

If you think of what we do know, the unknowns are likely 10x as freightening.
I moved off of swarm and back to regular docker after taking a hard look at our needs and infrastructure. Turns out we don't need all the clustering and scaling magic of swarm or kubernetes.

In fact, this has greatly simplified our development, testing, deployments, monitoring, and recovery.

If I need to scale then I add more cores to a machine with minimal downtime. No need for all this rolling upgrade stuff (at least for my applications)
I am a content creator that sometimes uses CC as a license. I am also American.

I know this is a bit of a nuclear option, but would (re-?)licensing my works as CC+"EU ban" actually help the use of my works in the EU? Essentially, I would ban the use of my works in any country that makes such laws (which would violate my rights as a copyright holder to license my work however I see fit), thus preventing the foreign nation from applying additional restrictions to my license because it is already banned in their country.

Obviously, I could not enforce such ban (nor would I; the entire point is to hamstring the government's actions, not the actions of the consumers of my content), but they couldn't modify my license without legitimizing my license.

In essence, it's like how in the US, it is illegal to pay taxes on illegally gotten gains, because it puts the IRS in a weird spot and forces you to violate your own rights of self-incrimination while making the IRS implicit partners in your crime.
In the UK we are taxed at 40% for incomes above, I think, £45k.

Then above £150k, I believe it's taxed at 45%
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Openbridge Releases New Instagram Graph API Integration for Business Accounts
Often you want to push changes to a remote, but not yet merge or PR them to upstream.

Keeping "local feature branches" just on your dev machine is bad for many many reasons:

- you want to encourage low barrier cooperation in your team -> sharing changes

- you want changes to the CI pipeline early so the potentially slow testing machinery works in parallel with the developer

- you want to keep the team up to date on what changes you make

- you don't want to lose work if the machine/OS dies, or the developer leaves/becomes sick/goes on a 4 week vacation during which they forget their disk crypto password

So, in practice you can try to use rebase opportunistically, when out of chance your WIP work is still unpushed because the change was only made very recently. This is error prone. Or you can rebase published branches explicitly, by destroying the original branches in the PR merge phase. But all this is big bother if the purpouse is to just beautify history and at the same time hide the real trial and error that went into making the changes.
And the correct lotto numbers tomorrow are free once you know them once, but that's not how prices work.

And what I'm saying is that you're simply declaring by fiat that there's no loss to the studio when you copy a file they own the rights to, and from there, building up to a conclusion that there's no loss to the studio when you copy a file they own the rights to.

It's a circular argument that falls apart because I reject the premise that I suffer no loss if you infringe on my right to profit from my own creation. You're not going to be able to argue me away from that by just saying the opposite is true with no further evidence.

Again, theft isn't depriving someone of property. If I go to your house and say, "ooh, cool guitar" and you give it to me, no theft has occurred. You've been deprived of that guitar, but I had the right to take it because you gave me permission.

Theft is committing an act of taking something that you don't have the right to take. The value of that thing doesn't determine whether or not it's theft, it determines damages. Regular competition or loaning a DVD to a friend don't consititute theft because you took no action you aren't allowed to take. The law allows you to make a competing product or to loan your books and movies to a friend for personal use. That's the whole reason why we don't refer to that as stealing something.

You can't steal something if you didn't steal something, regardless of the impact your action has on someone else. But in copyright infringement, you took something. You took the exclusive right to distribute a piece of content. That is an actual thing that is recognized by law and by common everyday economics as a real thing that has value. Depriving its rightful owner of that thing can be reasonably described as theft.

I haven't mentioned morality at all. I haven't even mentioned my personal stance on what I'd like to see IP law become. The only think I'm doing is arguing against this notion that it can't possibly be considered "theft" unless there's physical piece of plastic involved.
Are you sure you aren't better off searching for hashed data? The only thing it doesn't really support is non-exact matches.
It could potentially work if it's a series rather than a single 2hr movie. Too much to cram into a movie, but a series could develop the story and characters over multiple episodes/seasons.
The rise of the conversational interface
Make all of your company's internal technical discussions archived and searchable forever, no matter where they happen (mailing lists, bug tracker, code review, chat, etc). That's more helpful to me than any amount of deliberately written "documentation" that instantly goes stale.
Don't bother. Reading through the third link reveals that it's more alike thoughts during an opiate induced dream dressed in flowery language than actual science. Disappointing, really.
:/ wow, I was about to sell my 2015 mbp and get a xps. If not an XPS I don't know what to get. I've tried out a few of the newwer thinkpads and I'm just not impressed. Maybe I'll check out the carbon though.
There is no hard evidence. This is the nature of the game. First of all how do you even suppose evidence could be procured? What form would this "evidence" have? Claims by partisan authority figures, like the media or politicians? Is that evidence? No. There is no evidence.

You have to make judgments based on your own perception and what you think is plausible, all the while being aware that your own perception is biased, by your preconceived understanding of the world, and also your perception is also actively manipulated by those who you are trying to assess.

With regards to the topic at hand I think what the GP claimed is plausible, Russian propaganda does exist, but also our politicians are now going to use this excuse every time there is legitimate discontent.

For example: a story broke out some weeks ago about Russian shills, shilling against the controversial Keystone Pipeline. This is usually not a right-wing political position. Those who stand to make a lot of money from the pipeline immediately tried to discredit all the opposition to the pipeline as Russian trolling.
Are there any good software history books that describe how the languages influenced each other like this?
So, if a EU based news organization publishes an RSS feed, and I have a web page that consumes that RSS feed and displays a link to the original page and the blurb/headline from the RSS feed (as RSS aggregators do), I would now have to pay them?
Google to launch new Gmail design in the coming weeks – The Verge
Please don't link to jwz.org. He's kind of a jerk and has redirected all traffic from HN to NSFW graphics for years.

HN mods: really oughtta just auto-blackhole any links to this domain, same as you would for any other pornographic site.
I don't understand how the proposed language leads to the conclusion. How does an "inalienable right" to compensation turn into compulsory compensation? Don't you have the ability to choose not to enforce the right?
That might be the state of the law for you, but most of us don't live in the US.
Then don't make it stick out.

Some people think they're too smart for putting a random string as their mother's maiden name. I'd rather just put something that looks like a name there.
Agreed - it actually crashes my browser!
Nearly identical experience.

Met a girl at a Rocky Horror, we were maybe 17 at the time. I didn't even show her how to break her parental controls, only found out that her parents were monitoring everything she did when they called my cell phone and threatened to call the police on me if I ever talked to her again.

I was still close with some other friends of hers, so over the next few years I could say with conviction "this didn't turn out well/the way her parents want."

My own parents were oddly contradictory as well. Huge amounts of parental controls at home, despite being very supportive in getting me into novel social experiences. I got into computers largely to find ways around the "AOL for Kids", and got my first tastes of "social engineering" by working around the passwords they'd set on anything from the TV to the PC to cell phone apps.

Given TFA (and all research I've seen about porn blocking outcomes in the past) aligning with my own experiences, the most surprising thing about this thread is the amount of "yes, BUT <I still severely monitor and limit my kids>" responses. I'd go so far as to say that from among my (very large public highschool) peergroup, over the last 20~ years, the correlation has been _stark_ between those who grew up more sheltered vs those with less, that the former group often gained some very strange pathologies with respect to social interactions or "adult" content (even as an adult later in life).

I honestly wonder if my experiences were unique, and others saw large numbers of kids "heavily impacted" by lack-of-oversight? (To try and explain how many parents support more restrictive parenting) Or if parents "forget" or "Reassess" the rebellion they may have felt as a kid when it becomes their turn to parent? Obviously I can't judge, since I haven't had a child yet, but having had long conversations about the hypothetical with the wife, both of us still have our stances well-crystallized from our own upbringings, after a good handful of decades.

Restriction made porn fascinating to me. Restriction made video games so much more valuable(So much that I'd sell contraband at school and bike to an inner-city target to re-buy the ones my parents confiscated). Restriction only meant that I binged harder when I was finally could, or went through more risky channels to circumvent it.
Essential design checklist for website prototypes
This is a nice article and is a great example of a few technological advances that are making now an incredible time to start a biotech company: massive increase in genomic data and advances in biology (in this case stem cells) to enable better modeling of whether things will work in humans

It costs up to $2.6B to develop a drug. The majority of this is not out of pocket spend on developing the drug, but the cost of risk -- all the money spent on drugs that end up failing. The biggest driver of the cost of failure is failing in Phase 2. Phase 2 trials are the first test of whether a drug is effective in humans. Prior studies look at animal or cellular models of effectiveness, or safety in humans. It can cost $50-100M+ to get to phase 2

Genomic data is one of the most cost efficient ways to predict whether a drug will work in humans. certain mutations, like apoe4, are strongly correlated with disease risk and prognosis. Of course this does not imply causality, but researchers can tease this out with established models. Clinical trials of drugs based on genetic markers have greatly increased odds of success

Genetic biomarkers also enable smaller studies -- rather than study big heterogenous population to find a signal, you can do so with a smaller homogenous population.

This is all very important for Alzheimer's, a field where trials are big and expensive and failure is the norm

The other advance is the ability to easily create neural cells from skin cells. As the paper says, mice are very different than humans, especially neurologically. But it's hard to study human neurons in the lab. The ability to turn skin cells into stem cells and then into other cells enables this (previously only embryonic stem cells were available). So researchers can perform experiments to determine causation in a model that is much better predictor than typical mouse models

There has been a lot of work in cancer developing genetically targeted drugs, but it is not as common in other fields. Part of the challenge is getting enough data, and part of it is that data alone isn't enough, you really need the biological hypothesis to come first
I don't disagree with you but, generally, we have a very hard time with "us versus them" even within our own species to have little/no hope that we could remember such a thing when we look at other species.
Netflix says VP9 is 20% worse than 265... so what are you referring to?
> Once copyright holder fails to pay the tax, the copyrighted work becomes automatically public domain

...or it gets bought by some more powerful entity - capable of paying the tax - shortly before this happens. Leading to concentration of copyrights in the hands of big corporations, to an extent even larger than under current system.
That makes it useless for copyleft.

My suggestion is that if the copyright holder fails to pay the tax, it is automatically considered to be licensed under the latest version of the GPL.