skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the right answer would be to google stackoverflow for how to kill vim after saving your work (pressing ctrl+s) :)
Related to this, I'm sick of the moderators deleting comments and moving discussions to chats on a whim just because they're seeing too many comment. They don't seem to realize they're not helping anybody; they keep doing this as if it's Truth ordered by God.

Like, StackExchange admins: If you're getting flags, there's offensive material, the comments are blatantly off-topic, etc., then OK, I get that; you can step in and moderate. But that's a tiny fraction of the time. When people are having a normal discussion that turns out to be long, maybe don't be a jerk who deletes all the comments from that post and tells people to go somewhere else? It kills the entire discussion, mood, and everyone's enthusiasm, along with lots of gems that were in the comments but that wouldn't fit inside any answers. You really expect the community to turn out happy and welcoming when you keep punching all the breaths out of the users and kicking them to some other corner just because more than 5 of them decided to commit the sin of commenting and sharing thoughts on a topic?
If some people are more prone to sunburn than others then you shouldn't have a developers' technical conference outdoors in the summer on a tropical area.

It may not be your problem or your responsibility to prevent other people's sunburns (they can buy their own sunscreen, right?) but I hope you realize that ignoring their preferences is shitty behaviour that will give you(r website) a bad reputation.

And it's not like protecting your conference from sunlight will benefit only the albinos. Sunburn resistance is not the same as immunity, so everyone benefits at least a little. Same with SO, even people with thick skin will benefit at least a little from a less toxic environment.
To reduce the signal-to-noise ratio.

Disclaimer: apparently I'm an asshole

Edit: not moderator
Google’s BigQuery Gaining Steam as Cloud Warehouse Wars Heat Up
AWS $20B run rate growing 50%
Almost no US mortgage products are assumable.
> there’s no mechanism by which “people of color”, “women”, or “minorities” can even be identified

That's a legit question: If people don't even know what gender you are/what color your skin is, can they actually be intentionally racist/sexist towards you?

Which makes me wonder if the actual wrong turn we took was making social media as prevalent as it is today. 20 years ago people on the www were really careful about sharing personal details. People liked their anonymity, there was equality in anonymity! Personal details were only exchanged with those deemed trustworthy enough after enough positive interaction.

But these days anonymity is nearly criminalized, while in some circles open self-display on social media is borderline worshipped as it has become the modern equivalent of "making it big on TV".

Somewhere in there is a relation between crappy TV casting shows, which most people only watch to see jurors be mean to the applicants, and social media. Nowadays social media are our modern TV casting shows and everybody can participate in being the nasty juror putting applicants down.

Note: I know that Stack Overflow ain't considered social media, but these days it feels like these dynamics are pretty much prevalent everywhere.
Somebody has to pay and the people who would pay the most would be the working class citizens who add value to the economy.
Wow, your brother is an inspiration. Such hard work! I'm glad to hear he's in a solid place now.
A lot of misinformation and propaganda about the cause of it. See the 1970's in America.

(Usually, greedy businessmen, greedy unions, and speculators are blamed.)
Those businesses are not very valuable. Their clientele is highly unstable (small businesses go out of business a lot), not very profitable and the space for revenue expansion is very small. On top of that there's a healthy amount of competition.
The article addresses this nicely. Users not having significant knowledge of the community rules— including but not limited to how close another question must be to your question to be considered a duplicate, how specific the question must be, or how to effectively search for prior questions (“didn’t come up in a google search is probably most people’s standards”)— is not laziness. Even being inexperienced enough to not know how to properly ask a question isn’t laziness, it’s inexperience. Assuming people’s inexperience or unfamiliarity with community norms is laziness is a huge part of the problem.
My last eight items, over two months:

Cloth napkins (more convenient than trying to find them at crowded Walmart).

Replacement aquarium lights (cheaper than Petco).

Good no-spill sippy cups (could only find this kind on Amazon).

Art paper (nothing special).

Instant pot (used; only available in that condition on Amazon/Ebay).

Cloth diaper covers (hard to find these nowadays).

New ballast matching my aquarium lights (hard to find), when I found out that's why the earlier lights went out.

1" yoga mat because of my post-ACL-repair knee (hard to find).
I've seen questions closed as duplicates just because the answers are the same. That's insane.
Not really atm. There is a small community around server-side-swift which did some impressive work so far, most interesting project is IMO the Vapor Framework [1], but at least outside the Apple Dev community they didn’t get much attention so far.
For general system programming, which would be also possible with swift, Rust seems currently a lot more popular.

[1]: https://vapor.codes
> 1. Disable firmware digital signature verification (not sure if this is at the hardware level or not)

That's supposed to be very difficult to do.
> When single I remember the intense look of an interested girl, that switched off at hearing what my job was.

Maybe try telling her you’re a plumber and seeing what the reaction is as a comparison.
One may assume, but that doesn't mean it is the truth. We are also "writers".
That might be true but it's pretty easy to stay "open" in tech as opposed to being open in general. The longer you do it the more you realise it's all the same and that a good portion of it is actually a regression.

That last sentence sounded a bit cynical - So anyway, the main trick with being older in tech is not being open but remaining enthusiastic (most days)
This is pretty huge. I'm wondering if it is from something like YSearch [1] where you can just put in any-old Haplotype and see results or if it is from one of the larger, well known firms like 23AndMe or Ancestry.com.

[1] http://www.ysearch.org/search_search.asp?uid=&freeentry=true
I agree with you that video games can be unhealthy. But why should these crates be legislated, just because their outcome is random? Does it really present any more harm than video games and in-game purchases in general?

I spent a good amount of money on pay-to-win games when I was younger (buying weapon upgrades, more materials, gold, etc), the only difference was that the exact item was listed-- no surprises. Why should anyone besides my guardian decide whether or not that counts as "unhealthy, addictive behavior"? I could have bought a nearly endless supply of these in-game items that really served no purpose just as much as people do with loot crates.

Should we in-game purchases for those in-game items too, under the premise that purchasing them is unbounded, unhealthy and addictive?
I wouldn't consider Netflix and Amazon Prime Video comparable. Netflix has around 10x the content whenever I look whereas amazon has The Grand Tour, The Man in the High Castle and not much else.
I can't see many people having Prime and skipping a Netflix subscription so it doesn't really work as a saving it's more of a nice to have bonus.
While I don't really 'care' about the logo of a programming language per se, this makes 'GO' look like a courier / delivery company to me, it also seems a little odd that both letters are the same case.
I like your writing! A job in a bank can wait, write some more! :)
Not everyone gets it, even with proper UBI.

Anyone with a job making more than X amount will be losing more money due to additional taxes than gained from their UBI cheque.

But if UBI was self funded (endowment system) we could fix that problem.
Yeah, with all the fuss people are making it almost seems like feigned ignorance. Hacking the original Xbox via software exploits depended entirely on rolling back the system to exploitable system software versions, and using old unpatched game discs. It seems blindingly clear the efuses are exactly for blocking piracy.
Wait, the price is still $99 per year if you don't pay by the month. The price raise is only for those who were paying $10.99/month and will be paying $12.99/month.
> I only started playing with Go a few months ago and remember how amateurish the website and the mascot made it look.

If good, clean text which displays in any browser is amateurish … then I prefer amateurism to professionalism.

I really appreciate that the Go website (appears to be) good, clean HTML.
I believe it was supposed to run for two years. They ended it a year early. (First source that pops up: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/03/finland-experiments-universa...)
Everyone's a hall monitor on SO, reveling in their power to mark stuff as off topic. It's maddening.
Ohhh. I wasn't aware of this feature as I stopped using f.lux when Microsoft added Night light to Windows 10 a while back. Might have to check it out again.
Netflix costs $130 a year. Would you pay that upfront ever and/or does prime give you a better value?
The support department for the software company I work for basically gave up having a dedicated team to answer SO questions because the endless bad attitudes we encountered made it not worth it anymore. Support means encouragement and we didn't want to encourage people to interact with us on SO if it meant bringing potential customers into a hostile environment.
My point was that the trades don't automatically mean "hauling/removing through a tiny opening in the ceiling and installing heavy stuff for several hours" although they can. She does have to spend a fair bit of time onsite.
Ageism is real if you accept grumbling about limitations in certain markets. All these millennials want to hang together; let them on certain models! They can assume high risk without evaluation and see what happens. Older force already knows this and knows to stick to what is real and matters.
> It only makes sense to go fixed rate if you're very sure that the interest will climb over the next term.

That's not true. I chose to pay an extra £30 a month on my mortgage because I'm not sure rates won't rise over 5 years, and I want to be confident of budgeting for the the next 5 years. I'm confident rates won't go down, but rates going up could affect me. Think of it as insurance. I don't take home insurance because I'm confident my house will burn down, I take it incase my house does burn down
Clicky on the challenges with GDPR
If Python's considered playful, what does that make Perl?
And, Netflix's prices have gone up with little cost to their user base. So I'm not sure the parent is correct.
Totally agree. It attracts a-holes as moderators.
no because the actual damage is just your lost income at that job. The reason you will never work again is no one wants to hire someone who sues their employer which is not caused by them firing you. It is the same with renting, if you sue your landlord no other landlord will touch you, many places maintain blacklists of tenants who have sued their landlords
I've always considered Bell Labs to be the ultimate brain team. They're like the Dream Team of math, science and engineering.
> but its clear the demand isn't there.

That's because the cost of solar and wind are dropping fast creating the following cost hierarchy

Wind -> Solar -> Nat Gas -> Coal -> Nuclear
Universal Basic Income Is Not Feasible
Anything you purchase off Amazon Video is yours to watch whenever, with or without a membership.
About your last comment: I respectfully disagree.
I dabble in a handful of other stack sites, but the only one I have some real experience with (apart from SO itself) is the one devoted to tabletop roleplay gaming.

(I have a score of ~3500 on SO and ~2800 on RPG - i.e. respectively top 7% and top 13% just to give you an idea).

On the RPG site, especially in the last couple of years at least, there seems to be a certain fanatism among moderators in sticking to the most literal interpretation of the "rules" (e.g.: if a question is about "what system you would use simulate movie X?" it is strictly verboten to answer unless you describe having extensive experience with the system you suggest).

Rules and "quality" are fine, except that while I can understand that SO is used almost exclusively for job-related questions, so the quality of a question can potentially cost you much... I doubt that anyone will have their career ruined if they pick the wrong edition of D&D to replay Game of Thrones or - perish the though - miss some important errata on elvish footgear when creating their next character.

(I also dabble in a few more, like japanese language and martial arts but they are either less strict in general, better mannered or maybe there is so little traffic that moderators have no reason to obsess about "quality").
Most prime subscribers would have these subscriptions as well as Prime so it's not really a saving, just some bonus content.
AppFog will go offline in June
> happy with their interest returns being so high.

The "returns" were rarely above the inflation rate, plus you got to pay income tax on those illusory "returns".

Savvier people would shift their money into assets that kept or increased their value independent of inflation, such as equities and real estate.
Explain how it could be self funded? Sounds too good to be true.
I dunno. Every tradesman I know in their 40s or 50s has health problems related to their work. And, since most of that work is contract work, they often do not have good coverage for disability, retirement, etc. The process of getting compensated for work-related injuries is often complicated and involves lawyers, because companies obviously don't want to pay those kinds of claims because they can be very expensive.

So...yes, you can make decent money, and beginning sooner than you would if you get a degree. It's economically a viable thing, especially if you enjoy the work (I occasionally think I would like to be outside more for my work, and there are a lot of trade skills I enjoy learning and doing for fun...I plan to build my own house with my own two hands someday not too far in the future). But, if you do, you should start investing in being able to leave the field by the time you're in your 50s (or even earlier), because you're probably going to find yourself in a situation where working is painful or not possible. Or, join a union. That can help, and the most successful guys I know who've done that kind of work for decades are union members, and they know they're protected in the event of a variety of mishaps.
What a loaded headline. Get it together, NYT.
“Less eggs” isn’t actually correct. Eggs are countable, so it would be “fewer eggs”.

You can have “less bread”, or “fewer loaves of bread”.

This is getting very pedantic though.
One (maybe interesting) approach would be to reset points and power every so often. Once or twice a year? For past achievements have them as a badge inside a profile of a user, not visible on the comments/answers section. That way, users would have to keep working at maintaining their power status. Not like it's now, grind to the status and act like a roman senator.
They should also measure their health and happiness. Employment isn’t the full
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It's also debatable whether we are living in a simulation or we are actually brains in a jar, or maybe only you are real and I'm a conversational AI.

But it's pointless to debate things that don't and can't change what we choose to do. Notice that all three of your proposed hypothesis can't change the fact that SO isn't very welcoming and they want to change that.
625K subscribers @ $10 per month = $80m run rate.

$365m exit = 4.5x revenue
compared to 12x for Shopify and 8x for Wix. Quite a discount.

Late stage investors from 2014 who put in money at $455m valuation just getting their cash back. 0 return for 4 years of capital being tied up (vs. 80%+ for even an SP500 Index fund)
Yea that's really true for me. I didn't even think about Prime Video when I signed up but now I look at it as more important for me than the prime shipping. I feel duped. :)
For starters, the present value of all long-lived assets will come down -- stocks, bonds, real estate, you name it.

As Warren Buffett explains:

"[Interest rates] act on financial valuations the way gravity acts on matter: The higher the rate, the greater the downward pull. That's because the rates of return that investors need from any kind of investment are directly tied to the risk-free rate that they can earn from government securities. So if the government rate rises, the prices of all other investments must adjust downward, to a level that brings their expected rates of return into line. Conversely, if government interest rates fall, the move pushes the prices of all other investments upward. The basic proposition is this: What an investor should pay today for a dollar to be received tomorrow can only be determined by first looking at the risk-free interest rate.

Consequently, every time the risk-free rate moves by one basis point--by 0.01%--the value of every investment in the country changes. People can see this easily in the case of bonds, whose value is normally affected only by interest rates. In the case of equities or real estate or farms or whatever, other very important variables are almost always at work, and that means the effect of interest rate changes is usually obscured. Nonetheless, the effect--like the invisible pull of gravity--is constantly there."

Source: "Mr. Buffett on the Stock Market," November 22, 1999 -- http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
There are actual Endpoint security products that pretty much do this across all platforms in much more integrated way.
I've been thinking similar thoughts and landed on:

I need something to motivate to me to get out of bed every day.

Also: becoming a reclusive is bad for your mental/social health.
It is possible to register error handlers for exceptions in Flask. See http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/patterns/apierrors/.
I've often wondered, why are these considered mutually exclusive career paths? Someone with an undergraduate degree in some quantitative field with exposure to a 'blue collar' line of work is suddenly in a very interesting position IMO.
For people not familiar, Vapor is close to releasing version 3.0, using https://github.com/apple/swift-nio. I've heard rumors that the performance is really good, but I haven't ran anything personally.
Your ending hints at my problem with inflation discussion and I suppose economic projections and asset price projections in general based on some macroeconomic fact.

One would assume based on the casual and confident nature in which people talk about them, that rising inflation should result in X. But if being honest they will also include "ignoring second order effects", which can mitigate or completely reverse the expected outcome. The complexity is monumental.

I believe one could say rising interest rates should reduce the value of existing fixed rate bonds denominated in the same currency. Im not sure a lot else can be said, with confidence. Much else is paradox.
Awareness of this phenomenon can change what we choose to do.

Rather than ignoring or mocking complaints from white men, we could choose to listen.
That sounds like a helleva large codebase, especially for Python.

What did the application do?
How large was the dev team?
> if you don't believe that my constraints are real then you can feel free to not answer my question

But XY-problems exist and are not uncommon. Overconstrained questions also exist. How are people supposed to know that yours is not one of those without additional information?
That's interesting since Joel himself made the point about how software design influences community in 2003:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/03/building-communiti...
It does seem low. I think all the stock compensation was included in the published amount. According to reports, Weebly raised a Series C in 2014 at $455m/$490m valuation. Competitor Wix which is public is currently valued at $3.9b on I would guess about 5x the revenues.
I wouldn't say "They don't know any better."

For them, the top priority is to get actual work experience to go on a resume. That first job is partly a continuation of their education. I know a person who failed at this. He graduated, didn't find a job immediately, and thus ended up with a period of unemployment that probably made employers even less interested.

Those 12 hours are probably spent implementing unneeded buggy implementations of standard library functions. :-) There can be a struggle to keep up with the more experienced people and even a struggle to adapt to a professional workplace environment.

I sure know what you mean about other priorities though. My open source project (procps) got taken over by other people due to my lack of free time. I have 11 kids. I did OK up to 3 kids, and even with 5 when unemployed, but now there is no way I could properly maintain an open source project.
Also 58 and working as an SRE at a company I love. Greybeards unite!
> Square to buy Weebly for $365M

Asd
I hope you didn't list String expertise as one of your technical skills.
That guy is rude, but my question still stands.
Show HN: Building a Library Management App with Vue, Firebase and Scaffoldhub
It’s COBOL all the way down
Hollywood is full of negative stereotypes of all sorts, especially of women (an entire gender); and well actually men too. it’s not a good barometer of this.
I'm very sure I could find all of these on eBay with minimal effort. eBays experience maybe slightly worse than Amazon but I'm not paying $120 a year for it...
There seems to be a clear solution: sandbox all questions. Allow 'dumb' users to ask 'redundant' questions and be answered by helpful people who 'encourage such behavior'. Then let the zealous content curators search for sufficiently original or 'valuable' content to add to the archive.
Also, if they're going to blame bad questions on bad searches then perhaps they should rework their search algorithm.
Hopefully wages rise with the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Arguably for the back-half of income earners this has not happened for decades.

If we experience the same consumer price increases as was experienced through 1980-1990, rents and goods will go up an average of 5.4% each year over a 10-year period.

If it gets as bad as the 1970-1980 CPI then rents, goods and services will rise almost 7.1% a year and will practically double after a 10-year period.

Here are the historical CPI numbers from 1913 to 2017 —(1970 to 1980 was not pretty.)

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/community/financial-and-econo...
Data Notebook Exploration
Gonna send in the nanotechnology ;)
In the company where I work I know many people doing personal stuff on corporate laptops and I do my stuff on corporate laptop also.

In my case though the company has a nice privacy policy in place and they even gone above a beyoing configuring VPN that only corporate network requests are routed through their VPN servers. Also they don’t monitor the activity, they only scan files locally for certain known hashes for obvious reasons.

In my previous company we had Linux on laptops and our network were highly monitored. People used their work machines like their own. Company had several checks for network in place so if you’d forgot to turn off VPN, you’d got a notification saying that you probably shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on corporate network.
oblig: "It says here you know COBOL..."