skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some do, but the smaller ones definitely don't. I had bizarrely thorough background checks happen and none at all even for just contracting. Nothing to find and they disclosed that they would do them in the first place, but they did happen. You would be hiding the fact though then or anyway not disclosing it which could be a red flag later if you tell them / they find out... I would hope if you have a click with the manager/person you would work for/with, you can honestly explain your case. I do not live or ever lived in the US so I do not know how it works there, but in almost every employment seeking or contracting case in the past I was speaking directly to the person I would be working with and s/he would also be the decision maker for the role. In my country and with your credentials, I cannot see you having too much issues getting E70-100/hr longterm contracting jobs. Again, not sure about the US.
If you're so close to lying you have to change the subject to avoid doing it, how is that any better?
> I'm not a statistics expert, so could someone tell my why using two decimal points of precision suggests survey data fabrication.

If you use too many decimal in a report in the physics lab the T.A. will yell at you and ask you to redo it.

I'm not sure that the two decimals is a sign of fabrication, but it's a sign of sloppy work, like someone that just copy all the decimals that Excel shows in the screen, probably because they don't know enough statistic or they don't care, and I'd take all the conclusions with suspicion, and even take a look at the methodology to collect the data (and try to ensure the data is not fabricated).

To get a result with two decimal points, let's say something like 26.21%, and be sure that the 1 has some meaning and it is not a just a blob of ink you need a lot of subjects in your sample. A naïve analysis is to have at least 10000. If you have only 103 you get the last 1 in the division but it's meaningless, you can't expect that if you make a bigger and better pool you will get a result that has a 1 there. But it is worse, because the confidence interval decrease like the square root, so you need something like 10000^2. (There are some constants here and there, so perhaps you can get away with a smaller sample, like 10000000 instead of 100000000, but I'm never remember the details, but 100 is not enough.)
IB and sportsbooks are completely different

IB charges you a fee and then matches your trade with someone else. After this trade happens, IB no longer carries any risk

Sportsbooks charge you a fee and then take the other side of your bet themselves
1) An auto going 30kmh is a great deal more dangerous to a pedestrian or cyclist than a cycle doing the same.

2) Cars pose a risk to cyclists, even if cars are going the same speed, which is a fictional scenario, as many motorists don't go the same speed as cyclists and instead overtake them dangerously ASAP.

3) The risk posed by cycles to pedestrians is far less than the danger posed by autos to cycles.
I went from a Thinkpad to the 2017 13 inch MBP w/touch bar. I'm a light typist, and I actually like the keyboard. No issues for 6 months, good actuation force. Of course, sometimes I plug in the Das just to be loud. :-)
Apple Maps was really bad, but that doesn't necessarily make it a mistake. IIRC, Google was demanding that Apple share a lot more user data for further use of their data in Maps, which would probably have been worse for Apple long-term (particularly given how well their privacy angle is serving them now in 2018). If they picked the better of two bad options, that's not a screwup, it's just unfortunate. The quality was understandable for the amount of time they had to produce it. There are limits on how fast you can effectively scale up to compete with Google's thousands of Maps staff.

The antenna problem may have been worse than I remember. I'd still say that at least that has cheap and easy user fixes once you become aware of the issue.
Are they the new modern moloch?

If you don’t know about the terror of cars being introduced this 99pi episode is pretty good.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...
No, it's not. It doesn't explain how it works, which makes it come across as an empty marketing promise.
And remember when rebuilding the laptop, 1 or 2 left-over screws from the rebuild is ok .... More than that, not ok.
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Why would we blacklist one of the most important American newspapers?
Tesla’s VP of Autopilot and chip guru Jim Keller is leaving
Come on mate at least read the article - it's about a manufacturing/QA issue; not ergonomics.
Awesome JavaScript Calendar Has Been Released. MIT License, Easy to Use and IE9+
Oh dear lord I love HSPs. Nothing like shovelling 2000 calories of meat and potatoes down your gullet after a boozy night.
The risk of a fatality or life changing accident is much much higher for a cyclist colliding with a car, than it is for a pedestrian being hit by a bike
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Exactly. Same with Waze telling me to get off of 101 at Trimble, just to take Central, stoplights and all, to Lawrence instead of just driving all the way to Lawrence...

I don't have big problem with tolls, as long s they are not on taxpayer-funded roads, and actually get you something. Not just the privilege of crossing the bay instead of driving around the Bay.
All of the articles are paywalled.
End-to-end encryption works only because WhatsApp (or iMessage or whichever other service) servers store everyone's public keys: https://stratechery.com/2018/open-closed-and-privacy/

Open, secure, usable by ordinary people: choose two.

Insecure, open, usable: Google Chat

Secure, centralised, usable: WhatsApp

Secure, open, poor UX: PGP.

If you're building a consumer-grade service, rather than a niche service usable only by security geeks, and you're arguing for end-to-end encryption, then you're knowingly or unknowingly arguing for centralisation and against interoperability.
consider a mathematician, who already knows python, is he forced to first complete the python, math etc tracks, or can he simply follow the course without needing to prove he meets the requirements?
Do you work for free?
Thanks. Will check it out
STI has close to (or more than) 300hp. Crosstrek has, what, 80?
Von Braun certainly knew that human beings were enslaved and were being worked to death to build his rockets.
The final episode of the Netflix series Ugly Delicious [1] holds a 'face-off' between Asian dumplings and Italian stuffed pasta. Although quite tongue-in-cheek, they mention that similar foods exist in many cultures.

I recommend the series as they tackle themes regarding the prejudice against certain cuisines, as mentioned by OP. Warning, you'll be hungry after and during each episode.

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/80170368
Does kicad really suffer though? Even with an altium license, I spent just as much time on footprints, there are too many variations for anything else. For instance, the last board of designed had a msp430 that was almost, bit not quite a standard SOIC-16 (wider pads needed). Personally, I wouldn't trust any library footprints at all. My major gripe is how slow the footprint editor is to pull up on stock formats, considering it has to check the repos each and every time.
Actually we really don't get that much snow. In Boulder January and February are cold and snow can stick around for a week or two. But no joke, it can be sunny and 60 a day after a snowstorm.

Now go up into the mountains instead of the foothills, yea, you're gonna get that winter you're talking about.
It depends on the SUV in question. Old school body on frame SUVs are most definitely trucks. The jacked up cars with extra head room (Ford Kuga/Escape) are not. The only reason why those things are considered trucks at all is to game the CAFE emissions requirements.
As a counter argument , forcing people to factor in the cost of a toll as a factor in making an a given trio could just as easily lead to sub-optimal underutilization of what has historically (in the US anyway) a public good.

People are no more rational about making small purchases than they are about providing the necessary funds through taxation.

I suspect most people intuitively grasp that having freely accessible public roadways is well worth the cost.
The FSF claims to care about EDA, but contributes to the problem by pushing strong copyleft at any cost. Like the time Stallman refused to relicense LibreDWG (GPLv3) so that LibreCAD (GPLv2) could add support for Autodesk DWG files. (http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/whats-up-with-dwg-a..., http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/libredwg-drama-the-...)

He cares about his copyleft philosophy and GPL dogma more than the ability of free software to use free software.
Well that depends, how long have you had it for? Most keyboard issues surface after about a year.
> All user fees are regressive --- yet we don't seem to have a problem with the rich and the poor paying the same for a beer or a gallon of milk.

It's almost like some purchases function differently than others, and reasonable people might choose situationally varying models/incentives when considering social policy decisions.
Sure, a lot of functional programmers probably do end up doing javascript work. But that's still a large subset of a very small fraction of programmers in general, and they're definitely still vastly outnumbered by the folks who are barely more than script kiddies.
Some honest feedback: I want to be clear that it's not a comment on you personally at all; it's perception of a website and, sadly, perception is what matters in this case: I've encountered many hustlers and this website looks like a hustle to me. When you add that the author has been in prison, the situation becomes very dubious. Not everyone will see it that way, obviously, but I'm confident that people with my experience will share my perception. Here's what I see:

(I know I might sound heartless, but that's how the hustles work - make a pitch that you can't deny without looking or feeling like a jerk, and about which you can't be certain so that it's socially awkward to doubt them.)

* The story: Lots of kids, need money for (something urgent and highly sympathetic), not a hustler just an honest person down on their luck ... I've heard it many, many times. One guy told me he had 7 young kids he needed to feed; when I pointed out he appeared to be in his 60s, he said they were someone else's kids; later the number changed to 5.

* The focus on the story rather than the business. It feels like a con, an attempt to jerk my heartstrings, rather than a business proposition.

* The extremely low rate - 'lucky for you that you caught me at a bad time!' Another one I've heard many times. To be taken seriously as a professional, charge a professional rate.

* The incredible list of projects and of promises ("I can pretty much write any software solution you need, in a reasonably short time"), both almost too good to believe.

I could go on for awhile. Given your background, IMHO you need to be very careful to appear to be professional and not a hustler at all. Otherwise, at best it doesn't look like you understand the professional world. At worst, it's a hustle by an ex-con.

Again, I'm not saying you are hustling anyone, I'm saying you risk that perception.
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The parent was making an ideologically based argument but masking it as an actual critique of legal opinion writing, so I am pointing out that if the parent actually cares abou quality legal opinion, he should lament Sotomayor’s work. But he doesn’t because his critique isn’t valid— it’s due entirely to a knee-jerk reaction to Trump.
Subaru answers a question.

Q: Can people be happy with a car that requires a $2500 repair at 100,000 miles.

A: Yes

As on I know multiple people that bought a Subaru, had to replace the head gaskets. And then later bought another Subaru. And they're happy.
Manhattan is building $1B wall and park to guard against the next superstorm
>thanks to its policies on gun regulation

Citation needed.
Actually makes me feel worse. Tried it a few times but never end up finishing the half gallon.
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That's exactly the situation in China. When you are on the sidewalk you must walk in a straight line. If you make any sudden moves to the left or right then you are liable to get run over. You can't even hear the electric scooters and drivers here go way too fast. I don't wish them on Americans.
Hi Adham, I'm a reporter with TNW, and I'd like to learn more about your progress with Blloc. Please could we chat? I'm available on Twitter (@aghoshal) and via email - abhimanyu@thenextweb.com.

Thanks for your time!
It's not a hoax at all. The ability to digest lactose is due to a mutation in humans that began in Europe thousands of years ago. It's about as far from a hoax as you can get: You either produce the lactase enzyme (required to break down lactose) or you don't.

1. https://www.nature.com/news/archaeology-the-milk-revolution-...
2. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance#source...
I feel the same, the arguments about blockchain is one of the more fruitless one about technology(scams and over-hype makes it worse). Meanwhile the doers is trying to figure out how to make it useful. Once some infrastructure and successful examples are done(For example block chain collection done right or oracles that publish user or sensor data for other smart contract to use at a cost). We will have much more stuff to start arguments from.
Developer tools startup Hasura raises $1.6M to bring Kubernetes to developers
NYTimes: How Fake Mark Zuckerbergs Scam Facebook Users Out of Their Cash
> If a developer doesn't know how long something will take they will grill him for estimates until he gives the politically correct number.

You’re not kidding. I either get straight up told what the point estimate will be or if I’m lucky I get a couple of numbers to choose from.
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Did Braun really intend to quickly lose the war? I seriously doubt it.

Did you know that in 1944 von Braun was arrested by the Gestapo for sabotage for saying that his intention was never to create a war weapon, but to obtain money for experiments and confirmation of their theories? The Gestapo was going to shoot him, until Dornberger rescued him.

"V-2" by Dornberger, pg 216
People used to travel with more luggage than a Prius can easily hold. The airlines nickel and dimed that into the past.
Or why are they still unprofitable if they have 10s of thousands of paying business customers. Are they planning on becoming profitable when they have 100s of thousands of paying business customers? Is it possible that its very hard to keep scaling after a certain threshold to meet the needs of all these business customers that require different kind of features.
That’s not really how the word “alternative” is typically used. “Mangoes” are not a good “ground beef alternative.”
I lived in Portland for about 4 years (this was 4 years ago). Recently moved back there for a period of 6 months and then moved away again. The entire area changed traffic wise to what I would call insanity. If you use Google Maps or whatever it routes everyone off the main freeways now, and dumps everyone into the farm communities. It's really sad because people don't change their asshole driving behavior. The people in these farms now have to listen to BOOM BOOM BOOM of radios all the time because of the rest of the infrastructure being totally blasted.

I personally don't believe Waze is to blame, I'm pretty sure it's google maps (same company) but only Alphabet has the numbers on both.
I understand your concern, but in my experience this has not been the case. Many times I have been asked, “Allergy or Preference” and the level of care changes depending on the answer.

In my case my daughter has diagnosed celiac and we eat out quite a bit. The number of dietary options both out at restaurants as well as at the supermarket, the general level of education around what even is gluten, I believe has greatly benefited from non-celiac positive people preferring gluten-free food (for whatever cockamamie reason they may have).

If it was not a dietary trend I don’t think we would have nearly the number of options, and certainly not entire gluten free menus at restaurants available to choose from.
'milkshake' is a compound noun, or at least Firefox's spell checker doesn't insist on hyphenation.

To 'shake up' is perfectly idiomatic. Using 'up' as a standalone verb is less common and should be your cue.
I've had two repairs on my MacBook Pro done in an Apple store within the last year. They had to order the part, i dropped it off when it came in, and usually got it back within a day or two.
The keyboard/trackpad combination of the last decade of Macbooks (Air/Pro) were basically perfect. I like the OS, and I've never found a PC laptop to come remotely close to the sweet ergonomics of those Macbooks.

And then I got a 2017 Macbook Pro at my new job. Never mind that the keys are reported to stick (mine haven't yet), it just feels terrible. Virtually zero throw in the switch. And a personal pet peeve, they made the same mistake Microsoft did with their ergo keyboard for 1 sad iteration (before they fixed it in later models) - they changed the arrow keys from the standard upside-down T layout to a diamond layout. Those designers at Apple wanted symmetry so they made it happen. Too bad it kills the ergonomics.

But the trackpad is where it really goes downhill. It's physically huge for no good reason. Worse (and the reason I'm seriously looking to see if I can swap it for an older model), it routinely (like 20% of the time) mistakes 1- and 2-finger clicks for each other. I never know which it's going to do. I never experienced this at all with any of my older Macbook Pros and Macbook Airs. Good luck giving a presentation - you're awkwardly fumbling with context menus when you don't want them, etc... audience will think you've never used a computer before. And yes, I've disabled all the stupid gesture stuff because it was even worse before I did so.

The "only 2 USB C ports and a headphone jack" is the icing on the cake. I could live with it if it were the only issue, but it just annoys me that I need to bring a docking station with me to stay plugged in while presenting and using any usb peripheral. What's the benefit here - maybe 1/2 mm thinner?
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Hey, shoot me a message. I'm working in the crypto space though, so not sure it's perfect - but we can have a chat. Email's in my profile.
What's your goals & plans with `comment.sh`? Right now the website says "Free Signup" — I'm thinking either the plan is to start charging money later, or, if it stays free, then there is some altruistic / ideological reason you're doing this project & will continue long term ?

(There's no About page so I couldn't find out :- ))
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This is a completely irrational way to look at it.

The risk of a pedestrian fatality posed by a collision with a car travelling 30kmh is closer to the risk from a car going 5kmh than that of a car going 50kmh.

Look at the chart here:

http://www.victoriawalks.org.au/safe_speed/

The risk from speed is non-linear.

Risk the pedestrians in speed zone greater than 30kmh, because risk of fatal injury is far lower.
I don't think it's obvious that 3 of 7 letters in "mangent" are silent (as in "ils mangent").
Decades? Because decades ago, people like Robert Byrd, one of Hillary Clinton’s mentors was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Democrats took up civil rights because it was politically expedient to do so. But they have been far from leaders when it comes to civil rights. Martin Luther King, Jr was a Republican. The Democrat party has used black people. Look at the recent history. How many black congressmen were given committee chairmanships when Democrats controlled Congress? How many black people have ever had significant party leadership positions other than Obama?

And what economic policies are racist in the US? If you admit that there are racist economic policies, then you are admitting that black people are somehow a homogenous group — which is itself racist. Black people aren’t different from white people, suggesting that they need special economic consideration is insulting.

Poor people isn’t analogous with black people, despite what Democrats would have you think.
Offtopic a bit (too late for this to be relevant to OP, but I am curious nonetheless) and not very popular probably, but why 6 kids? I am aware that some people are just really bad at planning (never learned how to?), but OP is a programmer so he can lookup facts and knows how to do statistics. A quick Google search shows that raising 1 child to 18 y/o costs $233k now in the US, let's say you can bundle resources a bit, so assume raising 6 children to 18 y/o costs a little over $1m without doing crazy stuff (long, lavish vacations etc). That is going to exclude the more extreme health issues I really hope OP will never have to deal with, but, statistically, based on number of children and genetic properties / lifestyle choices of the parents should be considered. I am really curious how it seems a good idea or plan to have 6 kids instead of, say, 2 (or 0 if you are financially not sure if things will ever be ok) when you are not considered rich (enough to catch hick-ups like the one for very long periods) in this day and age? Again, I'm asking this not in general, but of someone who clearly has an analytical brain.
Just so we’re clear, I did email YOU, right? I don’t mind if you don’t answer but I’m wondering if you got it at all.
Depending on where you live there are better options for milk. In the Seattle area, local to me, it's possible to find vat pasteurized milk from grass fed cows in many of the slightly upscale organic stores.
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Where does one even start with really massive, change the fabric of society projects?

No matter how I try I cannot explain it in a 2 minute pitch without a massive loss of clarity.
It usually takes longer than this just to establish some basic context so people understand the problem.

If I try to explain the impact it is so huge it sounds unbelievable or unachievable.
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It has to do with (mostly, directly) with GDP per capita. American consumers earn & spend much more than europeans. NA also consumes much more than the rest of the world.
You might be right.

A surefire way to get the chart is specifiying exchange and ticker, for example: nyse:crm
Let’s Encrypt Effect: Huge Slash of Price of SSL/TLS DV and EV Certificates
> Prius is a much better taxi than the Crown Victoria. .

Prius has one of the lowest operating costs of any car out there. Not just because of the good gas mileage but also the service and maintenance costs are really low.
GDP per capita. US/North America consumers earn & spend more.