skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The major point that the author misses is that by being obsessed with upcoming catastrophe, you lower your quality of life now [...]

I think that's because the author isn't talking specifically about the obsessed. There are plenty of levels between doing nothing and being obsessed, and that's where most people exist.
there's a reason photoshop won't work with scans of currency.
Just this gal, you know?
In my experience this is a sign that you've picked a wildly unsuitable framework, rather than that the very concept of a framework is wrong.
Nobody is claiming you will be free of all shackles. Everyone has only a slim margin of subjectivity they can use to control the course of their life. An incomplete list of things to which we are subjected, largely outside of our control (which we might call shackles):

* Severe medical problems, some resulting in instant death (like an aneurysm rupturing)

* Accidents resulting in damage to your person, especially car accidents

* Disability, ethnic makeup, sexual preference, parental social class, etc. which restrict opportunities available to you in our current society

We aren't talking about any of that. We are talking about things which fall within our margin of subjectivity, which for some fortunate people (especially highly-paid software engineers) includes work. To deny this reality and the terms of your participation is to live inauthentically.
These are all good reasons. Add onto it that most people are paycheck to paycheck. Its cheaper to shop online then drive tour car across town even if you enjoy the store experience.
reminds me of some bay area job postings
> The LPs are super diversified, so that's irrelevant

Losing a dollar is losing a dollar, diversified or not. The investors in these PE funds lost money. Where they net out against other investments is irrelevant.

> GPs make their base salary from management fees and their bonus from carry on the return of the fund

Salary, yes. But good luck earning any carry on this fund. (They'll be lucky if DPI crosses 1x with a hole this big.) Agree that PE accounting is complicated.
I'd say that assumption would be correct. Otherwise they have access to some serious non-facebook metadata repository! But then again how would they assume it was you without a trace of the former data.
Getting whatever is the cheapest one Amazon has listed at any given time has worked for me.

The only differentiation I can see is the really expensive ones can scan the tiny 2d codes that are silkscreened on some ICs, and the cheap ones are limited to about the same resolution that a standard consumer printer can print a barcode at. Unless you have some very specialized requirements, you should be good with just about any cheap barcode scanner.
"You should be challenged when you go to college."

Challenged is an entirely different beast than being told that you don't deserve to be there, that you don't deserve the same basic human rights of others, or being told that you shouldn't exist. THOSE are the things that "safe spaces" are meant to provide respite from.
Hey, this is excellent work! Feel free to email me at iland at uber.com if you are interested in working on GNSS Shadowing at Uber.
Is this better than round-robin somehow?
I worked as a system administrator around when they were EOLing Windows XP and I think you are really underestimating the benefits of Web apps here.
I put together a framework for Golang (Go) GUIs, with Qml, and a hotloader
I've been through the relational algebra, I found this to be a nice, quick re-cover. More like a checklist than a full inspection.
Experience has shown that common sense can augment or even replace statistics. Statistics are great for confirming or rejecting what you knew using common sense.
Pensions end up tied to the health of the company too. Though they have some protection in law, in practice there is still significant risk with company pensions. There are cases when pensions promised healthcare but cut back later:

"GE revised its GE Medicare Benefit Plans handbook in 2012, underscoring the right to 'terminate, amend or replace the programs or plans, in whole or in part (subject to applicable contractual requirements), at any time and for any reason,' according to records in a 2014 lawsuit by two former GE employees, alleging that GE violated an implied obligation to provide continued health-care coverage. The clause existed in all previous versions of the handbook as well, GE said."

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/08/04/GE-Saved-Billions-C...

All the more reason to diversify retirement funds which one has that option.
The images posted in that article look pretty bad. Why are they adding so much wasted space above the tabs?

The current chrome UI is quite good at exposing necessary functionality without wasting space.
The linked article is about rationales for possessing rifles such as the AR-15.
i'll have one iphone, please
Being Kantian doesn't mean being correct. It's not that hard to disagree with Kant's extreme hypothetical.
"for the sake of profit" [citation needed]

Maybe it was for the sake of actually being a going concern? I see no proof that this was ever sustainable (nor do I see proof that it absolutely wasn't, I'm just saying, what are the numbers involved?)

Was the model ever solvent? Or did your grandfathers benefit from the money being pumped into the system during their successors' years, successors who would never have that same benefit?

That said, the idea that you "don't have a choice" in saving for retirement (that is to say, perhaps a pension program that's less generous) has something going for it. There's a reason NFL players go bankrupt. None of us are particularly good at intuitively understanding future needs and planning for the future.
I've heard people describe Facebook as basically just filling out a bunch of forms. I take him to mean that we are reducing the rich contours of human experience and interaction to just filling out forms and tapping buttons on a screen.
Considering something like 70% of rich families already spend away their inherited wealth by the second generation (and I think ~90% by third generation) this seems like a small issue to be concerned about...
Have to say, I'm pleased they created an algorithm to choose the right thumbnail picture here. So many other inplementations of the same idea just pick the first one on the page, and end up with someone's avatar being the featured image.

Indeed, as much as it took a fair bit of time, it seems the reasons behind it are all fairly logical; they actually thought carefully about the functionality and how it should work in various cases rather than just going with something that was 'good enough' to get it out quickly.

Not going to complain about that.
I agree, consistency is worth a lot more than using a slightly better convention. It would also create surprises in the sense of "principle of least surprise" which is in general a good guideline while designing APIs schemas and so on.
Where on the spectrum are you? :-) I was overstating the problem for comedic effect.
Would love to see a guide on using bucklescript with VueJS.
After getting into some comp sci textbooks these last few months I definitely think these books are underrated for the information they provide and how they provide it.
WSJ allows archiving sites to read full articles.

Google requires anything reachable via their search engine isn't behind a paywall. Paste the full URL into a google.com search and click the link. You'll bypass the paywall, because google is the referrer.

WSJ and other news sites go along with this because it's not worth it for them to be excluded from search indexes.
What was written vs what was implemented... in the context of that time, who else would have been a non-free person besides non-whites?
Matt Taibbi should not be writing about finance at all.

You want someone who actually know's what they're talking about? Read Matt Levine's writings on Bloomberg.
A good way to realise you’re dreaming is to look for “dream tells”, which vary from person to person but often include: text being hard to read, clocks showing the wrong time, mirrors not working quite right, not being able to remember how you got where you are, things changing appearance when you look away and look back, that sort of thing.

Unless you’re well practiced with lucid dreaming, you probably won’t be able to exert direct control—either your efforts simply won’t work, or you’ll wake yourself up. A useful technique I use is to think something along the lines of “Oh, of course this is what will happen next” and it often does—the structure of the dream is often driven by your expectations and beliefs of how things ought to operate. Poke around and try stuff to see what works for you! :)
Hyperledger and Hyperledger Fabric
Stopping all cars is absolutely a different thing. Of course, if it only happens in certain neighbourhoods, one might pause, but here in Toronto, for example, we have drinking-and-driving sweeps where the police set up checkpoints and stop all cars regardless of occupant or car.

That seems reasonable.

Of course, here in Toronto they also like to "card" people in certain neighbourhoods of certain colours, and there is an ongoing set of protests against how they choose to implement this practice.

But I am personally ok with a certain amount of checkpointing.
Fixed percent of company income put into a shared fund.
Your list sounds a bit corporate-y, but certainly not objectionable. As a guess, if there's a problem with you specifically, it's not anything you're mentioning here. Maybe send your cover letter and resume to a trusted confidante or two and ask for some very frank feedback.

Aside from that, keep trying. It only takes one satisfactory offer.
They'll probably get jobs again.
Most pieces I've read by urban authors are basically koans. The don't seek definitive answers or promise deep insights. They act more as a lens, to highlight something that's been overlooked or underappreciated. They offer the reader an opportunity to reflect and maybe think fresh thoughts.
I don't see how their views conflict. Parker is claiming that facebook is intentionally manipulating its users while Palipapitiya is claiming that the users are largely unaware of the manipulation. Their claims are orthogonal and can coexist quite easily.
V10R you mean.
"in exchange for surviving a low-probability disaster in the future, where even surviving would be a pretty miserable existence."

You're assuming the very worst case there; there's a wide range of outcomes between "everything's great!" and "there's a supermutant banging on my door". Consider France, mentioned as place where many violent events have occurred, but which most people would still consider a nice place to live.

Prepping for 2-4 weeks of independent survival can also assist in the event of a power outage, major snow event, or any number of other mundane events.

It also has social benefits. It's nice if a small burp in food shipments doesn't produce rioting in the streets because there was no slack in the system. Prepping is putting slack in the system. Even if done for what may seem like a dumb reason, it really should still be encouraged to some degree.
I'm sure this SO answer will satisfy you: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4703155/34549
I've never understood why people care so much about dividends. The stock price drops by the amount of the dividend on the ex-date, so a stock with dividends that are always reinvested is equivalent to a stock that never pays any dividends. (Unless you're holding it in a taxable account, in which case you have to pay taxes on the dividend and actually come out behind).
Something doesn't seem right here. Devops is certainly in demand at least here in London. Where are you based
> I think these people will find life tremendously boring post work.

Why? Some people have hobbies and friends. And if they don't have to spend most of the daylight time at work, they have more time for doing what they enjoy most and spending their time with people whose company they enjoy most.

> If your work is drudgery... But if you enjoy it...

What if it's something in between? My job is nice in many ways. But give me enough money that I can spend the rest of my life doing my hobbies instead, and I will quit without thinking twice. It's not that the work sucks; I just enjoy my hobbies much more.

> ...to live a life of poverty?

Poverty is relative. I don't desire a new expensive car, exotic vacations, and other stuff some people spend a lot of money for. All I need is a roof above my head, food, computer, and internet connection. Plus some extra money for random unplanned situations. Then I can read books, watch videos, play computer games, write a blog, develop my own software, and take a walk in nature with my friends afterwards. That seems like quite happy life.

Everyone has their own preferences. To me, the idea that someone needs a job to bring meaning to their life, sounds utterly horrifying. Maybe I am just misunderstanding something, but do such people have no friends? No things they want to learn? No non-profit causes they want to help? Spending most of your days doing one thing over and over again, means neglecting the rest of your life... or of what your life could have been otherwise.
Agreed. For me, "id" means the PK (or at least just some surrogate key), and "*_id" is an FK.
You can own an AR-15 without being compelled to enthuse about it to everyone (as the grandparent mentioned their poor-hunter friends do).
Am I the only person who sees the perhaps inherent conflict between the liberal impulse for multiculturalism and its vision of racial and gender equality, in the sense that a liberal, Western perspective on gender and race is not a culturally neutral perspective?

As a Chinese-American, I feel whipsawed when on the one hand, well-meaning generally liberal people make lofty paeans about how we should respect other cultures, but then turn right around and judge those same cultures and find them unworthy for not adhering to liberal Western cultural norms.

In this case, the position is even more tenuous, because a substantial portion of Western society does not fully agree with liberal norms for gender equality. This is basically exporting the West's own culture wars, fought since the 60s, to other societies.

There are of course tensions between the genders and sexes in China, like in any other society, but it's interesting to read the entire op-ed and not find an attempt to actually ask Chinese people what they think about the issue (the author notwithstanding), just a string of accusations with the unspoken presumption that 'if it feels wrong to us right-minded people, then it must be wrong'.

To be completely blunt, paternalism is very deeply embedded in Chinese society, and its roots go back a couple thousand years to Confucianism. I don't see anyone seriously acknowledging or discussing that fact, nor the major changes that have happened since the 50s (often under an explicitly Communist ideology, where the only allowable conflict is between the classes).

TL;DR - We respect all cultures and viewpoints, except all those which we judge wrong and sexist.
Not quite sure. Just found this, this afternoon. I'd love to see how it works.

What has your experience been? What's your basis for saying these types of things lose money?

Would love to hear thoughts from others who have used these types of apps.
If only Makefiles were usable. tabs vs space...
Floating platforms do, in fact, feature prominently in their point-to-point travel concept video. No clue what they'd do for travel to, say, Denver or Paris.
The point is that you can get paid more by calling yourself a data scientist than a DBA, at the moment.
Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut all have pretty good schools. They are all in the top 15 for Pre-K through 12th grade. I'm not sure I would argue that your property tax dollars are going farther in Texas (ranked #33 in public schools) versus New Jersey (ranked #3).[1]

Oddly, almost all of the bottom 10 ranked states for public schools are "low tax" havens. It's almost like the two things are connected. Funny enough, the outlier is California, which has the 44th ranked Pre-K through 12th grade public education, but has nice weather.

[1]https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
You remind me of the old article about "Soft Coding": https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Soft_Coding

> The reason we find ourselves Soft Coding is because we fear change. Not the normal Fear of Change, but the fear that the code we write will have to be changed as a result of a business rule change.

> It’s a pretty silly fear to have. The whole point of software (hence, the “soft”) is that it can change that it will change. The only way to insulate your software from business rule changes is to build a completely generic program that’s devoid of all business rules yet can implement any rule. Oh, and they’ve already built that tool. It’s called C++. And Java. And C#. And Basic. And, dare I say, COBOL.
> For example, I have preferred FirstName or even “[First Name]” instead of first_name in sql because lot of tooling uses these names to generate UX.

those tools are wrong (and I know roughly which ones those are).

> Similarly using Person.PersonID instead of Person.ID gives consistency in diagrams and foreign key naming.

it would be: person.id and the foreign key column that refers to it person_thing.person_id. This is much preferable to person.person_id and person_thing.person_person_id.
My criticism is actually about lack of mobile support. I think it's not a good practice to invest years of effort solving a problem in a way that's fundamentally incompatible with mobile. Already nearly most traffic to wikipedia is mobile, and the share is growing.[1]

Browser vendors seem better positioned to solve this problem. Indeed, my reaction to this was I've been doing this with Safari for years already (3 finger tap on macOS, light or long press on iOS). On wikipedia and all over the web. But I can see why Chrome/Firefox users would love this feature, if this is their first encounter with it.

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...
Hmm, that could be it, since it's showing up as enabled for me. I have "Automatically enable all new beta features" on, so I guess I was just betaing this feature for a long time.
They would be breaking the law if they did. Unlike China, sex discrimination is illegal in the USA and would be resolved very quickly in court if they decided to put out a job posting like that (likely with a huge civil settlement).
some thot
The point about individuals needing to guard against the "worst case" of long life, vs an pension de-risking it via large numbers is very interesting, and it's not something I've thought about before.

But pensions seems so ripe for abuse. It's too easy to make optimistic and unkeepable promises about future compensation.
http://sgmljs.net/docs/html5.html

HTML5 is almost a subset of SGML, barring some ambiguities in itz table spec, HTML comments in script tags and the spellcheck and contenteditable attributes.
It also becomes an issue once you’re building a web application, as you’ll have to present it in the UI.
Most people didn’t read Jon Postel’s papers but they enjoy the internet. Same with pharmacology, semiconductors, radio comms, etc. Science is mostly reporting to other scientists and to engineers that turn it into usable stuff.

Popular science writing is very important, but it’s just a small part of the practice. Doing more of it would mean less actual research unless funds and bodies are added for it. I'd like to think that as a
community we servo around the sweet spot given the resources.
My parents live in a well-to-do suburb of Chicago. After the frequent, repeated power outages in recent years, a battery pack would be considered as an alternative to a generator.

They don't have a generator -- their property does not make one convenient, and they don't currently have medical needs that require constant power.

But when the power goes out in their neighborhood, just walk outside after a few minutes and listen to all the generators.

A lot of U.S. infrastructure is no longer really being adequately maintained. I expect quite a few battery packs will be sold to scenarios like theirs. As long as the power failures don't come to exceed the batteries' power delivery capabilities.
I like how you are totally convinced that everyone has tons of free time and no real world duties and responsibilities. And how you see socializing primary as social status thing or that self-imposed-geek-isolation is your only reference for someone who is lonely.

And like how there could not be no reason in for girls to change behavior when their life situation changes then that they were "faking". Makes me really not want to be in real-world group of geeks with you. That sort of bullshit is why I am avoiding local tech meetups.
This is the teaching material I collected over ten years and more of lecturing programming courses and examining students. Unfortunately (given the international audience of HN), the texts are in Italian only — it's impossibile to teach freshmen courses in english in Italy. I hope that some Italian (speaking) user of HN can find this useful.
Sounds like an industry ready for disruption. If only these damn regulations weren't holding us back.

/s (sort of).
Welch was responsible for the culture change at GE, so yes. Immelt just continued what his master started
... it is happening again ... it is happening again ...
Neat, good to see more `asyncio` frameworks coming along.

Python's going to have a bit of an awkward time with two completely different sets of ecosystem for threaded vs. asyncio approaches, but it's necessary progress.

One thing I'd be really keen to see is asyncio frameworks starting to consider adopting ASGI as a common interface. Each of quart, sanic, aiohttp currently all have their own gunicorn worker classes, http parsing, and none share the same common interface for handling the request/response interface between server and application.

It's a really high barrier to new asyncio frameworks, and it means we're not able to get shared middleware, such as WSGI's whitenoise or Werkzeug debugger, or the increased robustness that shared server implementations would tend to result in.

Would be interested to know what OP's position on this is?
Given all the public job postings, how does it become a secret?
How long would it take to write Bubble in Bubble?
Alphabet Q1 2018 Earnings [pdf]
Show HN: Gimmeproxy – Rotating proxy api
> Much of what they used to set up in Excel spreadsheets or checklists on clipboards they can now do in cloud-based mobile applications.

> "A big part of the benefit to no-code or low-code platforms is that they let you access elements of a development environment visually rather than actually writing the code yourself. That accelerates development and improves quality at the same time," Marshall Worster, a senior director of solution architecture at Mendix, told me.

So this is today's equivalent to an Access DB or spreadsheet designed by a non-technical user which grows completely out of control, and then a programmer is eventually brought in to clean it all up with much more difficulty than if he had designed it in the first place.

These tools have their place but there are serious drawbacks to them.
> It’s a trust machine: it creates trust where there is none.

Can you describe to me a situation where blockchain actually does this. Please be as detailed and specific as possible.

I keep hearing this claim, but everytime I look into cryptocurrencies, I see a wild west full of scams and snake oil, so I'm not sure I understand what is meant by 'trustless' in this case.
> prime age labor force participation rate has been on the upswing for about 3 years.

...which is still lower than it's been since 1986 [1], and is significantly lower than Australia, Japan, Britain, Canada, Germany, France, and Sweden [2].

[1]: https://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet (set from to 1948 and click "Go")

[2]: https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/raw-data-the-...