skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! I am young compared to you (43) and I work for a company just about to go public and on my team I am the only remote employee. It is worth it to them. My knowledge of the open source CMS used (having written significant portions of it over more than a decade) made it possible. Also, there's my favorite expression of describing what experience I am bringing to the table: "I have already made the mistake you are about to make."
Still worth it for me, especially with the Amazon Prime Rewards credit card. Amazon is still usually the best price online, and 5% for Amazon purchases is hard to beat.
Squirtman dancing at work
As long as they get rid of “marked as not a real question”. Completely meaningless and the first instance of “hostility” that comes to my mind.
Are you not really aware of how you have convinced yourself into appraising the act of staying on topic as "echo chamber response," and then proceeded to rebel against that perception by pushing a motive. Not to mention the parade of frenzied up-voters with the selfsame motive - which is what, ironically, should have evoked that image of an echo chamber response.
What about negotiating a lower rate at that volume or do they only want to target small businesses?
Competition is a farce in this space. I lived in rental accommodation in the 80s (a time of high inflation) and I recall well the price excess a local shop charged to keep open. Facilities like cheque cashing, breaking cigarette packets and selling single smokes, they all leverage huge profit for a service you can't really go and find competition for, in any real sense.

you might as well ask why loan sharking exists.

Rentiers do not normally want to rent to people on state benefits. When they do, they maximise the rent to the amount the state will pay, plus a small increment. Competition keeps that increment small? sure. But if you increase the benefit, suddenly, rents go up "everywhere" as a non-collusive event (non-collusive? hah)

We see this in Australia in the cost of childcare, and the cost of any service where the government gives a your-choice voucher to the client: the service fees go up beyond the voucher.

Price/Cost disjoin is a thing. Rental is not a "goods" in that sense, its a location-dependent (non) monopoly. So, rent, which was one of my primary concerns, is one of the things which absent rent controls does this. And, if you don't have a car, then if you live in a housing estate a long way from supermarkets you are caught behind the effort to shop cheaper, rather than pay the premium to the small number of local stores who will sell you goods you can carry home.

its not a monopoly, until it is.
Is there a good "zero config" application server for Flask that is considered standard now? I absolutely loved building an app with Flask but I rememeber deployment being a pain.
That's exactly how it works. When there is a universal hostility that precisely hits those who are the most marginalized, least secure, least powerful, etc.

Fundamentally we live in a world that is rife with systemic bias and oppression. Which means that things which hurt people without any intentional bias nevertheless serve as agents of increasing the underlying systemic bias.

If you steal ten thousand dollars from everyone in America completely "fairly" you will end up causing only a minor inconvenience to the rich while causing grievous harm to the poor, possibly forcing many of them into homelessness. If you inject everyone in America with the flu virus then you will kill some of the elderly and many immunocompromised or immunosupressed individuals. You cannot simply pretend that a system built by humans for use by humans is some force of nature where an implicit lack of overt bias is an excuse to ignore these issues.
Will Robots Take Ubers to Work?
Valid points. However, I do save on shipping based on just the ease of use.

Most items on amazon I can get next day for free. Sometimes it saved my bacon (forgetting a gift or some household item) and sometimes I just get what I want faster. That aspect is very appealing to me.

If they remove the next day shipping or start charging I will reconsider because it won’t make sense to wait for stuff that I can easily go to a store and buy.

So yeah, they have free shipping but not on next day delivery.
I'm sorry for your loss! :-) Now that you're on 10, though, I suggest at least taking advantage of the new features to make yourself a little happier.

One of the most underrated (yet killer) features is the transparent LZX file system compression. It's awesome. Use it on read-only stuff like huge .exe and .lib files; it'll lower your space usage dramatically. (You can read these files with Windows 8.1 too, but you'll need to manually find, install, and attach the WoF driver to make that happen.)
In the middle of a city, a pile of scooters is considered by most people to be a less pressing problem than a pile of human shit, both in risk and aesthetic. If either pile gets big enough it will solve itself economically, however the difference in inconvenience while waiting for that to occur is not close.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16930080.
You do realize that much of wikipedia's success came at a time when the moderation standards were much lower than they are today, right? Indeed, I would suggest that the current high moderation standards at both Wikipedia and SO are not causes of success, but simply a manifestation of the iron law of bureaucracy [1].

People seem to think that duplicate questions are bad and something to be avoided. I think they're a terrific asset. It helps search-ability to have the same question phrased several different ways; especially when the ultimate goal is to funnel the searchers into the discussion page with the highest quality version of the question and answer. In my mind, the issue ISN'T that the mods are holding the gates against the barbarians, it is that the culture and SO itself has not given the mods the tools to convert what the "barbarians" are contributing into a valuable resource.

[1] https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Consumer spending would also increase, thereby increasing tax revenue, raising money for said payments.

Edit for the down voters: See velocity of money and savings rates of the poor.
OK, we'll merge that thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16924617) hither.
I recall reading that you are correct. DNA was originally used as confirming evidence for a case that already had a suspect. They'd identify a suspect the traditional way and then do a DNA test to confirm it. In that scenario it's pretty good evidence. To take a crime scene sample and compare it against the entire population is bound to turn up several near matches. At that point you're up against a common tendency to see things as corroborating the case. Add in the recent discovery that people leave their DNA all over the place and others can leave it in their fingerprints and the value of this approach is very low. One would hope even though they identified him via DNA that they can make a solid case without it now that they know where to look. But I fear the cornerstone of the evidence is going to be the DNA.
Or Russia supporting Assad.
Yeah, that's true. But, my foresight was pretty spot on about Weebly, too. I think the first time I said basically the same thing here on HN was in 2007 while we were still in YC together (and, multiple times since then). Certainly by 2008, I'd said it a few times in public places.

Edit: Here's a few...

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=352445

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216633

2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37589
>Fire someone for showing up to work drunk, sure. But would you fire them for a bottle of wine on a Saturday night?

If alcohol was like THC (that is, it's impossible to determine whether you drank in the last hour or the last week), I sure as hell don't want people who test positive driving.
Roofing (and drywall as well) are not really what I would call "trades." They are basically grunt work jobs that require a minimum of skill and training. Most of the guys I've met who do that work are either very young, illegal, or so screwed up on alcohol or drugs that they can't do much else.
I was making 25$ per day trading manually during a specific 20-min time slot for about a year. That wasn't simply by chance -- nearly monotonic increase in total earned sum with 2-week averaging during the year. Though I didn't hedge against black swan events, and I'm not sure it would be profitable if I've tried to. That said my understanding was that nobody else cared to take those money. I've eventually lost all intrest too since it was impossible to scale.

That was not algorithmic trading, but maybe-could-be-possible to automate.
Yeah. I'm more wondering about the general case, though.

If I were an insurance company, what's to stop me from hiring investigators to go through customers' garbage to find their DNA, analyze it, and then take "appropriate" action?
There's not really a good 1-1 comparison. Jet is closest, but has much higher prices.
offer less, charge more. Rinse/repeat every quarter.
You are forgetting one of the biggest benefits: The Amazon Prime VISA card with 5% cash back on all Amazon and Whole Foods purchases.

If you are not using this card, you are leaving money on the table. This benefit is easily worth an increase of 20 bucks a year. You will still come out ahead.
I don't have Prime and most packages still take only like 2 days to arrive, even though Amazon estimates that free shipping time at 7-10 days. Maybe it helps that I live in New York? Either way... lol, no way that I'd even pay for the student version of Prime.
Nemesis – A Command-Line Network Packet Crafting and Injection Utility
I think the author knows and is assuming a lot of what you're pointing out. The technology for the Primer as such isn't there and won't be until we have general AI. However, we could build something today with current tech, like a Kindle that teaches you to read, or teaches you calculus, and it wouldn't be hard to make a compelling product. There are many possible starting points and the technology isn't really the problem if the goal is just to make a start. The real problem is much deeper and the key point is that the Primer was subversive. How do you organize a consumer product company around a subversive product? You don't. So how do you fund such a project? These are much bigger than the technical problems.

There's a reason why Stephenson had the Primer commissioned by an infinitely rich eccentric and built by a rebel engineer. What I suspect the author is hinting at by talking about data isn't that the data is hard to get, it is that for any company in our society with access to that level of resources to start making machines to mold young minds would be a pretty short road to a pretty boring dystopia.
I attempted to use Stack Overflow about a week ago. In regards to a Javascript problem I was having. I do not know this language very well (at all) When it comes to JS I am deinately a newbie.

I kept on getting "undefined object" when I was trying use return value from an (external) library function. I could see in web browser debugger there was data but it wouldn't let me return. All the top results in google involving the libraries name + undefined object were from Stack Overflow and they did a decent job of explaining why I was experiencing the issue (in my case I was trying to mix synchronous and Asynchronous code). However pretty much all the suggested solutions were misleading - they all talked about using something called a callback.

I found a blog post buried among the other google results that had better solution - to use something called a "Promise". After doing some more googling I found out the Promise syntax is very recent (added in 2017) and the answers I was looking at from Stack Overflow were all from 2011-ish so rather frustratingly Stack Overflow was full of outdated information. The old topics were locked and I could not edit them so no way of helping other new users like myself who might be running into same issue - especially given these answers appear so high in google it was a frustrating experience.
>anyone can find a piece of hair on the sidewalk, send it to a genealogy website, and identify who it might belong to and/or any relatives.

Searching for relatives in such sites, CAN be a privacy issue, but I don't see how your particular example works exactly.

What motivation exactly would have anyone that found a piece of hair, on the sidewalk or elsewhere, to know people with DNA from/similar to that hair's?
Startup equity is like a shitty lottery ticket that you most likely won't be able to cash out even if you get lucky.

I passed up on google to be one of the first employees at a promising startup that ended up raising high 8 figures and is now at nearly 100 employees. I took a pay cut for that equity and worked 12 hour days alongside the founders. With liquidation preferences and dilution I won't even be able to take a vacation with that equity if there's ever an exit.

My college friends who picked Google are now making >$300K and have enough money in the bank to have a diversified portfolio and acquire the right type of equity.

So unless you're a founder or an investor ignore the equity. You can still go for a startup but do it for the experience and potential to have a real impact on an organization.
So you assume that in the west, seduced by free market economics, rent control is coming back? I ask this in Australia frequently. I'm laughed out of court: nobody wants to re-introduce any constraints on market rent.

"travel far enough" is the whole point: if you live in a marginalized situation, UBI is unlikely to pay the cost of transport to save money on shopping, and mechanistically, since you don't have a car and cannot pay delivery, you are stuck behind higher unit pricing exploitation.

Unbelievably high numbers of people in the UK now depend on food handouts organised informally. Food stamps and Gated cards for welfare have their own problems. France recently passed laws requiring supermarkets to supply charity food from unsellable ugly fruit and vegetables, and near-dated produce.

Why do you think this is? Why do you think the state is trying to force independent, semi regulated economic entities to perform a social welfare outcome? Now put UBI into the equation. You think this is axiomatically going to fix the systemic underlying problem?

UBI in greece would demand the entire last 15 years historic debt be wiped out. Otherwise, its going to be grabbed by the asset-rich who have been avoiding the consequences of forcing defaults on the non-working poor.
25-30 years. 80% efficiency after 20 years.
Not to mention they made it so Whole Foods is 5% back as well but the thing is Whole Foods is more expensive in general (probably more than 5% compared to other grocery stores).

Hard to say if I'll stay but it feels like a lot of companies are doing this. Netflix has done it as well... I feel companies are running out of ideas to scale their business and so they just say, "Wait a fucking second... our product is awesome! It's worth more!" I kind of wonder how long this will last.
Yes, of course, absolutely, every place I've ever worked. Even when working for home.

I've had five software jobs.
You're literally replying to a trend by stating your one exception. Back pain from sitting is nowhere near the level of debilitation one can get from having a workplace injury. Moreover, a workplace injury can threaten your very ability to do your work, while a hurting back won't ruin your ability to code or do paper shuffling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936192

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You're probably not paying for a non-skateboard-related service that comes with free skateboards.
This Old House had a portion of every episode in the last season devoted to this issue by including apprentices in their team as well as publicizing programs for (young) people who might be inspired by that. I thought they did this well.
>This is weird af. I don't think anyone truly consents to the use of his dna this way, and its a strange case of privacy violation.

If anyone (a) submits their DNA to such a site, and (b) looks at profiles of people with similar DNA to his found by the site (that is, what the police did in this case according to the comment above) then doesn't matter if they "consent" or not, they should expect that others can do the exact same thing, and be shown matches to their DNA.
Or 15 year terms
Blood loss: the decline of the serial killer (2011)
80% of power at 20 years is fairly standard for solar panels. It's a slow taper too, you just lose around 1% of output each year you sweat them.

There'll be other losses due to failures, damage etc. but it's not a situation where you should factor in a strict capital replacement cycle.
Do you mean, will you incur any legal penalty for doing so, or just be violating their ToS? I don't believe so but haven't researched it in depth. It'd be tricky to sue because the right of publicity is generally treated as a property interest and you wouldn't necessarily be able to show any economic loss. I'm not an attorney though.

In practical terms, I'm sure it's against the ToS but really the service providers have no way of knowing unless the person has already submitted their DNA and your submission raises a red flag, thus cutting you off from the information you desire. This is interesting from a game-theoretic standpoint in that it might be more secure to give your information to every website and then be the designated owner, but it probably wouldn't shield you from law enforcement getting the same information via subpoena. It's an uphill argument to say that a general right of privacy weighs heavier than the unsolved cases of 10 murders and 50 rapes, a record which will probably be broken again in future.

I don't think DNA testing companies have much incentive to screen potential customers since each person can only submit DNA once without raising another red flag.
> a community that assumes the vast majority of their fellow engineers can't code.

If you're talking about FizzBuzz, that's about candidates, not stably employed folks. Candidates are by definition a pool that favors people that haven't been hired already, except for people new to the industry. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/01/27/news-58/

(Also, there's no rigorous evidence supporting the hypothesis that most people in the industry or even most applicants can't write FizzBuzz, as far as I know. But that's not quite relevant to your question about perception; I do admit there is a perception that the hypothesis is true.)
Sprint and T-Mobile Aiming to Reach Merger Deal Next Week
What are the mobile targets besides an iOS device?
If the interest rate goes down, you can just refinance. The fixed rate protects you from upward movement, and being able to refinance protects you from downward movement. What am I missing?
> But keep in mind the public isn't yet privy to all the physical evidence that were collected at the crime scenes.

Agreed. They almost certainly have more evidence than they ever released to the public.

And, hopefully, they'll find concrete evidence at the house of the man they arrested. Apparently the Golden State Killer took some "souvenirs" from some of the victims and finding those would be very significant.
Does 23andMe's Privacy Policy address this at all?
The CEO of Yahoo at the time of the fine is a male.
CS was built on the Unity Engine, which is popular in part because you can get quite far with poorly optimized code.
> "It really seems like the lack of a warrant was a technicality here and could have easily gone the other way and still got to the same result."

It still might. He's yet to be tried. He's yet to be convicted. It's going to be interesting / crazy to see how the ACLU reacts to this.

Also, in a way, this situation reminds me of the recent FB snafu. That is, access to your friends was granted by you (or me), not them.

The point being, personal privacy isn't so personal anymore.
The problem with stackoverflow is that answering questions sucks in the long term, for most people. It's basically an user support job, and if you are not suited for that sort of job eventually you start to lose patience with fools, of which there is no shortage on the internet.
No, what's wrong with more alternatives?
Amazon Prime Music removed a substantial amount of their included library. Amazon Music Unlimited adds them back in for $8/mo, or $96/year on top of your Prime subscription.

What is Prime offering again? Prime Music is a poor, unlimited trial. It was a great benefit.
I agree. My understand was that both parties have to agree for the website to connect them. I'm not sure what specific site this is, but I wouldn't trust a site that just connects me to other people without my consent.
To add to this list: Stripe, Nextdoor, Robinhood, Flexport, Thumbtack, Opendoor, etc
What's odd about it?

He either was dumb a BS excuse to see if they will let him (perhaps to run for it), or was legitimately worried to have his house burned down.

As for the officers, they either sincerely meant it, or find it a cool phrase to say, conveying "you have other things to worry about now".

I've seen remarkably similar exchanges on tons of arrests in series like Law And Order.
Again, my claim is the interviewer did not say exactly that and this man with an inflated sense of his own qualifications is retelling the story in a way that's favorable to him.

All available evidence points to him either mishearing or mis-transcribing the question, which was actually "What is the signal sent by the kill command."
Given the fact that the vast majority of people is still on Windows, using Swift (with zero official support for Windows) will artificially limit the use of the project outside the circle of the original developers.

That being said, you can use Swift through WSL, but not directly on Windows.
The difference is your name isn't plastered on every object you come in contact with. Your name isn't transferred to other people who come in contact with the same objects as you. Your name doesn't end up in other locations that have nothing to do with you.

The idea I could get arrested because my cousin coughed on a doorknob is terrifying. Everyone has that black sheep in their family. Why should I get harassed by the police every time they or someone they know commits a crime?
Yes, absolutely! I was just saying this on another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934196 There is so much space needed to accommodate the everyone-in-a-car model. The space for active use is only one part of it; where to put them when they're idle is a problem unto itself.
When Dropbox deliberately circumvented Apple's security features to make itself difficult to remove [1], was the company's #1 core value of "Be worthy of trust" in mind, or was that only added in retrospect?

[1] http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbo...
Actually, the mentioned GitList exploit hinges on yet another vulnerability: lack of distinction of command-line flags and arguments. Where user expected to put "normal" name (say a-zA-Z0-9), attacker actually supplied --flag=exploit.
House fires tend to negatively impact the whole community. Not only could such fire spread to other properties, but it would expend fire department resources and quite possibly lower property values in the rest of the neighborhood.

Officers turning off the oven weren't just doing a favor to the killer, but to the whole community.
In as much I'm not starving it's amazingly better than being a starving artist. In as much as I wake up everyday feeling like I am in exactly the same place as I was yesterday regardless of objective achievements... I'm still counting down the days until I die (17562 days according to wolfram alpha).

I'll wake up tomorrow and take a step. The upside to knowing there is no destination is that while no step takes you forward, no step takes you back either?