skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there's a couple things related to employment:

- "At-will" employment isn't a thing. Unless you get fired for gross negligence or criminal reasons, you're going to get severence pay, which will help bridge the gap while you look for a new job. Anecdotally, I've seen people get fired for going on swearing rants at the owner, and the Labour Board required the owner to pay severence.

- Continuing with that, employers also understand the labour board's interpretation of what it takes to let someone go for being bad at their job. If you're past your probation period (nominally 3 months), you're probably going to have a good idea that you're going to get fired. There's going to be written documentation, Performance Improvement Plans, etc. You get a hint that the writing's on the wall and you should start looking elsewhere.

- Maternity/Paternity leave is federally mandated, and for a long time (35 weeks? 50 weeks? I'm not entirely sure, haven't gone through it). Having a kid isn't going to result in you losing your job, unless your employer really likes to live dangerously. The pay while on leave comes from the gov't, not the employer.

- If you're legitimately laid off (e.g. didn't quit), Employment Insurance benefits are apparently reasonably straightforward to get (I've never used this myself). They're capped and probably won't cover extravagant housing, but you'll be able to get by, especially if you've saved a bit of money.

- No real concern about healthcare costs bankrupting you.

Going back to the parent comment and projecting my current city (Regina, SK) onto it... if you go ahead and get an IT/Software job in the provincial gov't or one of the large employers here, there's a pretty good chance that you could carry on there for 20-30 years. There's occasionally layoffs and things, but as a whole there's a decent amount of stable ok-paying employment around if you want it. Projecting my own take on it: it'll probably be uninspiring and mind-numbing, but if you're looking for a 9-5 salary that can pay the bills and contribute to an RRSP... go for it.
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. A database as a service offering is on our roadmap and in discovery, and we hope to have more information about this in the near future.
Report: Chinese government is behind a decade of hacks on software companies
Yeah, that's the point. If you're wealthy, highly employable, and culturally compatible it's easy. Everyone else gets a big fat "no". Trump's gotten flack for suggesting the USA do the same.
Twitter serves content,

Yeah, 140 bytes of content the user wants and 140k of JS that is entirely superfluous if not outright user hostile.
as long as they keep publishing nominally critical articles, they can also pick and choose among the available news stories and over time start burying the worst and even becoming a propaganda arm. "look even the SCMP says things are getting better, and they're the critical ones"
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Currently we'll deploy our DigitalOcean Load Balancer on your behalf, which is $20 a month, but we are also investigating other options. If you have any thoughts on how this should work, or what specifically you'd be looking for, I'd love to hear them.
I agree that it’s not entirely strictly specified - in particular, there’s no random (uniform) distribution over integers. I guess you could get around this by specifying in in a way you did, or “parametrized” over some parameter, or say “for any distribution” (and mandate a single turn of the game)...

Anyways, this is also highly unintuitive for me, so I’m far from certain that the solution below is correct; having said that, I’m unable to find a flaw in it. If you can, I’d be interested in hearing it.

SPOILER / SOLUTION:

Pick a number - say 0 for the sake of it. After Alice reveals the first number, assume that the other number is on the opposite side of 0 (i.e. if Alice reveals a negative number, assume the other number is positive and say “higher”, and vice versa). If your number is within the interval of Alice’s numbers, you win; otherwise, you still have a 50% chance of winning.
There's also "x"/"cs" -> "xen"/"csen" (a la "ox" -> "oxen"). See: Emacs -> Emacsen
I posted a solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17002492
Can You Die from a Broken Heart? (2014)
Take Ownership Meaning and How It Can Improve Your Life
Below is a sample "1.asm" source file which in one expt yields a 2.2K static binary.

"main" has been renamed to "xyz".

format ELF
section '.text' executable
public xyz

extrn _exit
extrn write

xyz:
mov eax,len00
push eax
push char00
mov eax,1
push eax
call write
call _exit

section '.data' writeable

char00 db "21 symbols", 0xA
len00 = $ - char00
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Kubernetes on DigitalOcean is the first step for us to enable more managed services like Lambda. You will be able to deploy projects like OpenFaaS or Fn very simply, but currently you would still need to determine your node pool for capacity.
The author's basic premise stands: Japan has undergone a post-industrial transition where the sudden prosperity of post-WWII generations was quickly followed by stagnation of those coming of age later; the shrunken opportunities afforded to the younger cohort leads them towards idle leisure, or anxiety-filled corporate drone work. The nature of consumerism has changed: there's still outward signalling but the goals have coalesced around personal experiences and fulfillment within an intimate group, as opposed to nebulous segments of the society at large. This makes for an interesting comparison with South Korea, where the nature of consumerism has become markedly more extroverted instead.

The economic and demographic points are fair, but the author tries too hard to tie elements of Japanese culture in with American trends. Yes, Japanese animation has mainstream appeal, but not universally. Video games can be pointed to as the most successful cultural export, but enduring appeal of Mario, Pokemon, and Link isn't functionally more different than Lego or Barbie in their respective times. If the world of video games were devoid of the above, they would be more realistic, more violent, with bleak storytelling and morally ambiguous characters, as we've seen from typical Western AAA games, so perhaps ironically, Japan's most influential cultural export is optimist escapism.
Bare servers. You should divide that by 10. Don't waste your time with another custom platform to learn.
Good stuff. You might want to take a look at this too: https://www.mindful.org/the-mindful-way-through-depression-v... .

"Studies in recent years have shown MBCT to be 43 per cent effective in reducing relapse in sufferers of depression—as effective as antidepressants."
If best=largest, I would guess Tesco’s, Walmart’s, Carrefour’s, Woolworth'ses, and Edeka’s (the largest food retailers in those countries), but chances are that’s not your sole criterion. What are your criteria for ‘best’?
Now that timers are baked into systemd[1], the days of cron and its cousins seem to be numbered. The systemd timer specification is pretty rich, and since it can control any arbitrary systemd unit, I can't imagine using a legacy solution anymore.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.tim...
IMHO, while everyone whines about Canada’s lackluster funding environment or culture of risk avoidance, the real problem is SR&ED.

American investors and founders are always stunned to learn that a Canadian small business can get about 60% of each engineer’s salary back in the form of a refundable tax credit. This amounts to a silent partner in every Canadian tech startup - a partner who is non dilutive and (crucially) who doesn’t care at all whether the venture makes money.

Sounds great, but here's the catch: SRED allows companies that should have died long ago to keep on living, draining the talent pool for projects that are commercially “meh” at best.

And it doesn’t take an economist to figure out that if a country rewards non performing companies through government incentives, investment will be crowded out. And that’s exactly what we see in Canada. In essence, we don’t have great venture capital because we “don’t need it”. SRED is the big game in town, and it doesn’t reward companies that succeed commercially. It rewards far too many losers.

We should get rid of SRED, let the bad companies perish, and then allow private investment to fund risk.
It says exactly that. It's written in Guile (which is inconsequential until it reaches the second part) and can take Scheme code as configuration file (which is very interesting).
>The Overton window is defined by the audience not the media.

Corbyn's enduring popularity in spite of initial hostility from every single media establishment would appear to contradict this narrative.

The agenda of each media outlet is clearly set by the owners albeit with market forces sometimes pushing them one way or the other.
Now that could work. White-collar offenders in the US could be placed on the "no-fly list", and denied landing rights for private jets. They could still drive, take trains, or go by ship.
SCMP has hired a few former Straits Times journalists with an ax to grind with Singapore, and the articles they churn out have a decidedly anti-Singapore, pro-China bias. The messaging became more strident ever since it got bought by Alibaba.
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I'd estimate that planning out a 3-hour task would take no more than 10 minutes-- why would you need a whole hour to plan something that's only going to take 3 hours? And in my experience, most of the time, those 10 minutes spent mapping out the plan will end up saving you more time in the long run, as you realize some critical assumption about the work was wrong ("oh I don't actually have to do X", or "oh I'm missing this key dependency and need to loop in team Y").
and allows configuration files to be written in scheme (as well as Vixie's original format) for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should be run.

It looks like Greenspun's Tenth Rule has been taken to the next level. Software that's so configurable its configuration files itself are written in a Turing-complete language is the bane of enterprise development. IMHO if you need such complex requirements, that should be done by something other than the configuration file of what should be a simple task scheduler.
Going by this example, blog writers reports should also be added the list. Their sole existence is to get clicks to articles talking about stuff that we all know about but there is nothing we can act on in an effective way.
I may be overstating the "API change overnight" issue, but your comment does not address the 'Lose API keys', or 'Banned from being a customer', or other types of events that would cause an org to lose service.

I remember something very similar happening to a FireBase customer, in which surprise billing and something occurred that caused them to go from $10/mo to $1600/mo. That's the class of "oh shit" I'm talking about.
Plus, the detector is multi-layered around the point of collision. Each layer measuring something slightly differently with different accuracies. Some springs are even completely invisible and you can only find them by looking at what is missing (neutrally charged particles).
OTOH last time I was in St.Pancras there was a guy collecting the fees to use the washroom

The toilets at St Pancras are free and always have been. He was just some random guy you gave money to!
This is a fair comment.
I live in a rural area and depend on ATT's unlimited hotspot plan (that's now defunct) for my internet. It uses CG NAT and provides no IPv6 addresses.

However, you throw a SIM card from your phone in the hotspot and you'll magically have an IPv6 address, even without changing the APN. It's ridiculous that I have to resort to using a VPN to bypass all the troubles being behind a CG NAT entails.
Crypto-currency is different in the sense that it is decentralized. Paypal and other payment systems can and do freeze people's balances at will. Many countries have features disabled. Some countries are flat out discluded.

At the end of the day, there is no button that can be pressed to remove your access to the system.
No moving parts is the key advantage.
Can you give some examples of how Australia is culturally 10 years behind the US?
I'm not surprised. systemd reinventing and horribly overcomplicating things is nothing new.
Sean was just Ok.
You press a button. I’m not joking either, they have a way to program them quickly for exactly this reason. Set them on a cycle, or turn them to manual.
Or that native apps are better.

Their problems with javascript aren't the technologies, its the ways they're abused. That's not a web problem or a javascript problem. I just kicked Facebook Messenger off my phone because every time I opened it, it would demand access to my address book.
The economics of artificial intelligence
Out-of-wallet challenge questions or knowledge based authentication for developing countries. There is a lot of money to be made there. LOTS OF MONEY.
Ask HN: No 3D printers on Kickstarter?
I was just browsing and noticed an almost complete lack of 3D printers on Kickstarter.

There was a time when you were treated to multiple interesting 3D printers on the platform, I have supported many of them.

Having recently met someone who had their 3D printer design cloned and put into the market by the Chinese before the KS campaign was over I've been wondering if there are certain categories of products leaving the platform due to the chilling effect this sort of thing can have.

Just a lull or something greater going on?

Is it signaling the end of a good run in consumer 3D printers?
But they clearly show multiple holes.
Avro Arrow cough
This happens to your wife commonly?
Do you have substantive feedback about the systemd timer implementation, or are you just here to shitpost?
Have you ever considered brain maxxing?
TSPN1: Samsung Galaxy A6 Plus (2018) Specifications, Features, and Price
Transhumanism’s faithful follow it blindly into a future for the elite
I wonder why the author set up a dedicated SSH python server which mimics some unix userspace as a honeypot. Why not a VM with a real standard widespread linux distribution to see what attackers actually do? Obviously their codes are not very sophisticated that they stop when "uname" fails with certain arguments.
And abundance of vitamin D through sun exposure is a reason why it's great to live in Mediterranean Basin, Australia or California instead of Norway, Sweden or Canada. Sun is a huge factor in both health and happiness although the northern societies seem to underplay it.
Railway Oriented Programming
But circular != self-referential. Self-referential is a deeper property.

If I have 2 mutually recursive functions, that's circular. For example, most parsers have mutually recursive functions.

There's nothing self-referential about them though. On the other hand, a C compiler written in C is self-referential. It confuses subject and object, which leads to some interesting paradoxes like the number for the "tab" character never appearing in the source code, as Ken Thompson points out.

The Godel sentence is self-referential. It makes a claim about itself.

The movie Synecdoche NY and some of Lewis Carroll's works (which figure heavily in GEB as I recall) are self-referential. The person writing the work appears in the work. Charlie Kaufman does this a lot -- the movie Adaption also has these properties.

But I don't see that Bach's music is self-referential. The music doesn't write more music, or have any awareness of itself.

Escher's two hands is self-referential, because it's confusing subject and object. But the staircases aren't self-referential.
>SCMP website is blocked

scmp.com is no longer blocked in China. This is likely due to content changes as a result of their purchase by Alibaba.

>mostly independent

SCMP is known to water-down and remove stories critical of China and its leadership. Jack Ma acquired SCMP to promote positive news of China abroad. See this Nytimes article [0].

>In effect, Alibaba has taken Hong Kong’s English-language paper of record since the days of British rule and put it on the leading edge of China’s efforts to project soft power abroad. Every day, The Post churns out dozens of articles about China, many of which seek to present a more positive view of the country. As it does, critics say it is moving away from independent journalism and pioneering a new form of propaganda.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/world/asia/south-china-mo...
Except that "architect" is synonymous with "bullshitter" for insiders.
I'm not sure. The thing with the musician is that they're not really being interrupted. Sure, there's lights and movement and such, but that's more similar to the background noise we get in an open space environment, which many of us manage to filter out. When they are really interrupted, they are often pissed off too.
That wasn't government sponsored, while this one is.
It's for the safety of the cabin crew. If they had to help put people's heavy bags in the overheads on every flight, they would quickly get back injuries. It's fine for the passengers because they are not doing it often.
They are definitely counter to Apple's interest, but Apple is slowly pushing Webkit along anyway. See caniuse.com. You'd think the same about Google, but as I say in the article (I'm the author) PWAs are happening because Google has put a lot of effort into promoting them, pushing the standards forward and implementing those standards in Chrome.
Why? My guess is (once again, as I say in TFA) that once all the code is back up on the web, the advertising shifts back to the traditional ad networks, i.e. Google.
Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I serve ads for these types for a living, so I do have a lot of expertise here.

https://inn.org/members/
http://www.lionpublishers.com/members/list/

There are thousands more that are not members - simply professional and entrepreneurial journalists trying to make a living doing what they care about.
If youre a net eng at one of the largest isp/telcos how could you possibly call 1.1.1.1 “obscure”?
So what are the practical applications of a "time crystal"? The name certainly allows the mind to run wild...

:)
Government represents the interests of capital, not of ordinary people.
This is phenomenal. Not only do I find some of the concepts mentioned in each README to be useful in my own work, but I also want to work for all of these managers!
Stupid title, good title 'Please stop using adblock PLUS'. I just gave $10 for the creators of adblock (not plus) and ublock origin
Monads for functional programming (1995) [pdf]
I have a do-nothing job as a junior level dev at a bank. I got put on a poorly managed team that is supporting an outdated and undocumented application that is super complex. So the amount of value I can add without a little bit of hand holding (never get it) is very low. So I just do the minimum to get by and seem like I'm on the team.

I hate it. Best way out? Maybe I just need to apply to a new job and take a jump. I hate the banking domain, everything seems pointless to me and adds zero value to society. Feel stuck.

The good thing is I work 9-5 (if that) and can spend my time doing other things. But of course it is difficult to pull yourself up and make something of that free time. I mostly just work out, study human languages, go to concerts.
How online algorithms reshape people's personalities
I think its still correct. Sorry, I don't find your examples to be a reason to teach children that truth is optional.
> it automatically clicks all ads your browser encounters hundreds of times

I think it would be hard to deny that clicking every ad hundreds of times is straying into uncoordinated DDoS territory, considering the installed userbase. I don't see that as enlightened or forward thinking.

I agree with gorhill on this and would rather decrease connections to 3rd parties. After all, part of the reason the web is so slow is that browsers make so many 3rd party connections! With that in mind, my approach to ad blocking is to combine DNS blocks, MVPS /etc/hosts + my own entries, JS blocking, and uBlock Origin. This setup catches more junk and is more likely to work while transitioning or temporarily changing my setup.
>If not, would be interested on how you expect publishers to make money?

Why is it our responsibility to find a way for all publishers to make money?
I’ve had mine since it was released and haven’t had any issues, but what happened when you brought it into the Apple Store? Would assume they would be able too fix that right away versus other repair issues that can be quite involved.
>We don’t buy into Kondo’s life-changing magic just because we think Japan is cool; we also buy because our country is, in many ways, increasingly like Japan.

On point.
I guess that means no citations.
Is the Crunchbase data accurate? It's not like it's an official SEC report.

I always figured it would be missing lots and lots of data, seeing how it's self reported, and founders are likely to be something left out due to falling out and what not..
I am using high ports >30000 but you can chose what you want.
Wait a second, are we both talking about Delaunay triangulation?
Ask HN: How long does it take you to learn a new language?
Assuming you write software full-time and know at least two languages fluently, how long do you find it takes you to learn a complete different language to a level where you can start contributing to a project with it?
Have you considered sharding the data to multiple independent ES instances? Each of them could handle amount of data that does not cause problems?
Except that cron is simpler and more widely deployed (e.g. traditional unixes and *bad). I can't imagine cron ever going away.
I am going to go extremely hard and say literally everything non porn related is a scam. TLDR fuck ICO
Native desktop applications using React syntax
Same here, though I’m very happy with the latest version with the exception of the touchbase as well. Never use it but can’t ignore it since that’s where the volume, brightness and esc are. And freezes sometimes and TouchID seems slow. Wish I could get the same model without it since my computer unlocks via my Apple Watch anyway.
I have no further interest in taking this conversation forward. I immigrated to Canada on Express Entry in which I got points based on my skills and that too within 3 months.

I feel for my colleagues in Quebec whose applications are on hold in Quebec with no explanation from MIDI for the past one year. If you start asking cites for all these from official source which is MIDI, I can't give you because MIDI don't have it either.

If MIDI publishes those numbers, it will reveal their discriminatory practices. Don't bother about replying. Have a great weekend.
I can't recommend based on my preferences? What?

> in case it starts showing ads anyway.

This hasn't happened with ABP, and could conceivably happen with any ad blocker, even one whose developers are saints (due to a bug).

Basically "might happen" is just FUD.

Reminds me of 1990's anti-Linux FUD. Don't use that, it might not support some sound card or video card you might want to buy later, even though it works now! You might run into a problem that needs support and then you're screwed. Etc.
I've seen "indexes" and "indices", but never "indixes". I assume that's a typo. Or is "indix" a noun I don't know?
I don't think a job posting is ever not an ad. Whether pasting a link to one's blog is or isn't for me depends on the motivation.

If the motivation is "I might forget my blog address; better record it here", it's not an ad. If the motivation is, "I want people to be able to find out more about me/drive awareness of me or the blog," it's an ad.