skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait long enough and the violent solution will emerge on its own, like riots or the guillotine. Waiting and doing nothing while hoping for something ideal is a surefire way to live through the worst case scenario.
Ah sorry. No, I am in US.
I’m amazed that your personal experience was so representative that you don’t even have to consider that other people’s circumstances might be different.
Nearly every site I visit on a regular basis, HN, Reddit, YouTube, has RSS feeds. Granted, they're link only feeds, but that's far better than having to create an account just to get an inferior "subscription" experience or having to re-scan over things I've already read and ignored.
Why it is sad?
Quote them using your hourly rate.
What exactly is the use case for a 100% secured loan?
I’m skeptical that this happens much. It reeks of urban legend.

Now, I’m sure some seniors do this, but I suspect it’s due mental issues rather than fiscal concerns. Is cat food even cheaper than really cheap canned food?
Ask HN:Using Dropbox as a database
Good day everyone,

I have my data stored in dropbox, but would love to access it via cloud IDE such as rstudio.cloud or cloud9. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks,
Wyden just generally seems to be a reasonable guy that wants to do the right thing and spends time to understand issues. His tech initiatives usually make sense and years ago he also introduced something about health care which also made sense. He is the kind of legislator we should want in Congress.
So, you've reinvented fractional reserve banking, minus all the protections we've built into the modern version of it we all use today through decades of hard lessons? Should be fun.
I like your train of thought, but the logic that follows is one can not enjoy or recommend self-improvement books to one another lest they be lumped in with some group of undesirables .. which is silly, as there are many beneficial books in the genre.

After all, not everyone is born with a perfect understanding of social science and behavior, especially many programmers.
I'm not in line with jadedhacker, but its hard to ignore how often regulatory legislation is written by the industry being regulated.
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Assuming you're now reasonably confident in your own financial literacy:

Talk to them. Give them chances to practice. Show them examples. Don't shelter them from the fact that you spend/save/invest money or from how you spend/save/invest.

Give them an allowance and a class of purchases that can be bought only with the allowance (Toys? Sweets?) Expand the allowance and the class of purchases as they get older and take responsibility for things like choosing their own clothing. Help them develop a budget for saving and spending.

Reward them for saving. Pay interest on their savings. When they're old enough, demonstrate the power of compound interest. Both working in their favor and working against them. (My parents once demonstrated this using cheerios instead of money.)

Have them sit with you as you pay your bills. Explain how they work, why you pay them on time, etc.

Invest a few hundred or a few thousand dollars into some savings bonds and index funds in their name. Let them monitor but not manage the money until they reach adulthood. Explain the investments to them and why you chose those particular ones.

If they're reasonably mature and reliable, get them a co-signed credit card at some point in high school, to be used for emergencies and pre-approved classes of purchases only. If you're concerned, ask the bank to put a low credit limit on it.

Have the kid pay off (with money you provide, if you're not comfortable giving them that much in allowance) or sit with you as you pay off the full bill every month. Show them how much more they would have to pay if they paid it late or paid only the minimum balance. This teaches them good habits; and having their name on the card helps them establish a credit score so they can get credit immediately upon reaching adulthood.

Show them the tax forms you send in for them every year. Explain what taxes are for and the basics of things like deductions, pre-tax expenses, tax free accounts, pre-tax and post-tax income, withholding, estimated taxes, and the like. If you file their taxes yourself instead of getting third party help, have them sit with you as you do it; later, have them do it themselves under your supervision.

Talk to them about the financial decisions you have to make (Car loans? Mortgages? Large purchases? Retirement savings?) and how you make them. Talk to them about the good and bad decisions other people make - show them news articles for examples.

Once the kid's savings reach a couple hundred dollars, get them a co-signed bank account. Have them do the math to balance the checkbook, old fashioned as that may be. When they reach adulthood, turn it over to them fully. Also help them choose and sign up for a credit card of their very own.

Show them examples of why they should never use a financial instrument they don't fully understand. Encourage them even as adults to turn to you if they have trouble understanding a financial instrument or making a financial decision.
I'd love GNUdora, but probably not doable due to license clashes.
> Capitalism is the primary reason we're out of medieval times

Opponents of capitalism (on the Left, at any rate) see it, yes, as progress over feudalism, but just not the end of such progress.
I think this was a survey about households though, so not clear if teenagers living at home would count.
HN, Reddit, The Guardian, SI, Longreads.

Although would love to find a better source for sports. SI keep screwing with their website and has a lot of opinion noise...
What about it is disrespectful, and why should anyone care? It’s true that if you look hard enough, you’ll always find an offended party, but so what?
I believe I've been hearing stories like this (about the lack of liquid savings for Americans) for something like 30 years now. Anyone able to dig up the historical data on this? I kind of think Milton Friedman wrote about this in one of his books.
It means there's nothing about being woke, backpack kid, or Nirvana. The games do feature songs from Barbra Streisand, mornings walks, and coffee from McDonalds.
Tbh I think we should take the people who run scam schools and just ban them for the country. Or have stricter regulation and accreditation I guess
Ask HN: Google SWE vs. SRE-SWE position?
I've applied to Google looking for a general SWE position, but in the initial talks Google's recruiter talked me into trying for an SRE-SWE role. All sounded good, I passed the interviews (pending hiring committee decision in the next few days), but now after Googling around looks like general SWE position might be a better option than SRE-SWE. My gripe with what I see on-line on the topic is that it sounds like SRE-SWEs don't get much time to code, even though they are SWEs.

Anyone from within Google can comment on this?

Thanks in advance!
Are you sure that's right? I don't get how that adds up to 40%.
Awesome! Thanks for building this. I have been using grayscale on my phone and I love it.
More often than not AwesomeSauce will end up SpectacularFailure, thus making the exercise in divining the future use case of 30 lines of code pointless
You completely missed the point. OP is impugning the validity of one conclusion of the study - the claim "three times as likely to go to college". Such an outsized effect is only possible if we moved from an extremely minuscule likelihood to an only moderately minuscule. The claim is dubious when it comes from a sample of 105, a control of 65 and doubly so when the priors aren't mentioned. IE, would we expect .3 people out of 100 in this demographic to go to college?
I replied to another similar comment but the TL;DR is that both are solving different things. Preact is a React 15 clone.

Hyperapp is basically Elm in JavaScript.
> Nobody here tried to extrapolate the 3x into a general rule, except you.

The top-level poster replied to here clearly did.
Now only if there was a Haskell shell (Hashell?) with monads as UNIX pipes...
I find this true, and depressing at the same time. The amount of curation needed for a constantly evolving code base is vastly underestimated by most, even to achieve the modest design goals (IMO) that you are espousing.
Yes and when they demand change and start "taxing the rich". You're going to find that a lot of doctors, lawyers, and people in IT who are making low six figures are going to be classified as "the rich".
Yes. People can feed themselves and afford housing if they're educated.
> How do you regulate it?

Use vague words in the statutes like "reasonable" and have jurisprudence define how it can be used in practice. At least that's how the law already works.

Even though private surveillance is pervasive in the US, law enforcement is still sometimes rejected from using some of it when it flies in the face of the privacy standards to which we are accustomed[1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/judge-blasts-fbi...
Medium has them too [0]: medium.com/feed/@Medium

Plus Blogger [1]: blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

[0]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-RSS-feed...

[1]: https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/97933?hl=en
Hyperapp will be a lot more Elm-like in a future release, see this too: https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp/issues/672
>"Let us say we had ten guaranteed launches per year in Europe and we had a rocket which we can use ten times—we would build exactly one rocket per year," he said. "That makes no sense. I cannot tell my teams: 'Goodbye, see you next year!'"

But reusability makes perfect sense if your long-term goal is to set up a gigantic Mars colony.
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You simply have no understanding of what it’s like to be poor in this country. In a lot of ways it’s more expensive to be poor than to be middle class— you get hit with higher interest rates, more fees, more things like inspection tickets for your car that you can barely keep on the road. A single emergency room visit is enough to bankrupt some people.

I’m making well into six figures now, but in my early 20s, I was living pay check to pay check and barely had enough to eat some weeks. If I managed to scrape up an extra $400, I had a hundred things to spend it on that weren’t a rainy day fund.
> Agafia made it to 70 and is still alive

But left no descendants.
Why adversarial examples are more prevalent in higher dimensional data
U.S. transit systems are shedding riders
The biggest concern that engineering teams seem have with stored procs is maintainability. The consistency guarantees are indeed very attractive, but perhaps not at the expense of keeping business logic in separate places, weak version control/deploy solutions, and a new programming language to the stack.

If there were a compiler that could take business logic in the project's programming language and manage mappings to stored procs (reminiscent of LINQ's mapping to queries), maybe we could have the best of both worlds.
How is it spin? Just means there are a lot of people who believe doing OK encompasses having less than $400 ready cash.

I might call it blind optimism seeing as pg 21 of the same PDF shows the sources they would consider to fund an emergency expense, but not spin.
Do I understand correctly that an Uber driver with a 30k capital investment in a car is part of the petite bourgeoise, and a surgeon working for a hospital who has put 400k toward education is part of the proletariat? Or do you count education as capital?
Yes, your edit got it exactly right.
Always wondered why tab vs. Space was a thing.

I mean,whether you use tabs or spaces,a text editor aware of the source code file format should render it according to your preference.
I just googled this https://www.buzzfeed.com/danvergano/nasa-is-a-jobs-program?u...

Again, I have to say I really hate how my previous comment sounded. There's just a lot to this and I didn't want to try and defend the very idea while arguing about government reform because it would have been an uphill battle. Sorry for how rude that sounded.

The basic idea, though, is that NASA (while awesome) has been building a heavy lift but also disposable and expensive new rocket. There are a lot of traditional contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, ATK) across the country helping to build the rocket. This means jobs. So congress supports the program, despite its cost, because it means jobs. This stifles innovation as evidenced by what SpaceX has been able to do on a fraction of the budget. This branches and goes deeper with organizations like the ULA which charges several times that of SpaceX but has failed, completely, to innovate. Anyways by the time NASA's new rocket will be ready SpaceX will be have been launching Falcon Heavy for years and possibly even launching the BFR. This means SpaceX will have more powerful, more reliable, reusable, cheaper rockets. All this time NASA has been unable to innovate because ??? and now the entire SLS is nothing more than a jobs program.
Bosch jet propulsion to avoid a motorcycle accident
Interesting...

I can imagine uttering some four letter words while trying to figure out what was going on if I was to take over maintaining a system that used this (principal of least surprise)
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> However, automation generally results in higher quality items with fewer defects. So, hand crafted is more likely a selling point without any actual benefit for the product.

Ummm.... no.

Every piece of wood is different. CNC gets you a "violin shaped object", not a violin. It is the plate tuning and set-up that finalizes the instrument, not the mold shape that you start with.

There are decent factory fiddles, but they tend to be heavy in the wood and dull sounding. A nice workshop instrument is much more of a joy to play.

("bench built" == master luthier, "workshop" == one of the aprentices got his fiddle approved by the master, "factory fiddle" == mostly automated, "VSO" == violin shaped object)

There are a lot of good luthiers working today. My daughter has now (and her previous fiddle was) a Ming Zhang Zhou workshop instrument. Very nice, under $3k budget. Huge difference between that and a CNC special.

Don't get me started on bows.... once I was waiting for an adjustment to my instrument, and was just going through the bow showroom trying stuff. I picked up one that amazed me! I felt like it played itself! Made the instrument come alive with power! I glanced at the price tag and realized I had gotten into the $5K and up drawer by accident....
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Triggers in postgres are amazing - I've got a full automated phrase-extraction system built in postgres triggers, such that salient phrases are automatically detected in marked text fields.
Bitcoin should jump up in price.
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The FAQ[1] says:

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

Is there a workaround in this case?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
they're not useful for the discussion we are trying to have in this thread, but it seems a bit presumptuous to say that the entire study is complete nonsense because they use certain terms of art in the way they are normally understood within their field. a paper talking about the "power" of turing machines is not hogwash simply because other people mean something different when they talk about compute power.
... who is HN user csoghoian:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=csoghoian

and very disciplined about not using social media while working in the Senate!
Yes. Not IE8, though.
Interesting, I think that a good CI/CD story is probably the biggest thing holding broader use of stored procedures back.
According to the comments it's a D compiler, not C++, but your point still stands.
You're right, there are a lot of factors at play here, its not a simple issue, and both myself and OP were somewhat oversimplifying things on opposing ends of the spectrum. My point though is that simply looking at the increase in the cost of medical services across the board is different than looking at how much the average American family is actually spending on medical costs year over year, and that is a key differentiation.
> For your RSS issue, you can safely truncate your RSS feed to the latest N articles, where N is a random reasonable number you choose (10 is good, because it's so decimal). RSS reader software will know how to deal with it.

But people who don't use the right aggregators will not be able to read past 10 posts. And if everyone was using aggregators, I wouldn't have such a high bandwidth bill.

> WRT scraping, it is getting harder because funny websites w/ no static content.

But sites that can have an RSS feed necessarily need to deliver their content in a static form. What surprises me is that we don't have a tool for even those cases.
Ask HN: Software for viewing security cam footage (AVIs)?
There's the standalone media stuff like VLC, DivX Player and so forth..

But is there anything either specifically designed or powerful enough to be able to quickly flick through numerous files, backwards and forwards, instead of creating a 'playlist' and playing at >1X speed as per the examples above?
TIL it was originally hosted at WashU, my alma mater.

I guess it was probably in the same server room as wuarchive, which at its peak in the 90s was rumored to represent 10% of the traffic on the internet. Was cool to look through the glass into the server room in the engineering school, and see the lights blinking like crazy on the RAID array attached to wuarchive's server.
Re: "Keep the mixing contained": Are they required to stay within a certain boundary, or at least "register" if they leave the boundary?
I usually recommend juggling over a bed, because that limits the amount of exertion that happens during a drop. It also reduces the negative reinforcement that a drop is a failure. Because a drop is not a failure, it's just a drop.

People tend to have mental blocks around things, and I've found that when you break a mental block (this happened with me and Mill's Mess) the result is fantastic. It opens up levels of creativity you never believed you had.

It also teaches you patience with yourself. Good things are possible if you're patient with yourself. If you can't get something one day, give it a rest. Try it again the next day.
The scrolling is a bit distracting after you enter a few items on the list. Can you make it optional? A delete button for items would be nice as well.
and I already told that this example has no meaning, it's just a bullshit - nobody will use it in real app. You want to fetch from db info about the only one user, who's name is a constant? Yeah, all apps do it every day.
That's because rendering JS/CSS/whatever has become the norm. It has become the norm for two reasons: tooling for building "static" sites with this technology has gotten very popular and well-done, and sites with a vested (advertising/lockin) interest in showing their content "their way" have jumped on board.
It doesn't need code. Just a static text file with a list of publication dates and URLs, each of which points to static HTML file for each publicly available posts. Then each user could check the list and download only what's new, without needing an aggregator. Users would never need to download the same content twice.
I guess I was thinking more about pressure than gravity (though the two are related). At extremely high or extremely low pressure, I would imagine things to play out differently
The University of Sydney Physics Society (physoc) used to have some great rooftop parties (in the late 80s). Invariably someone would raid the dry ice freezer and put it in the empty bottles and screw the lids on to make "depth charges". These would get dropped over the edge and go off with a resounding boom sometime later, scaring the wits out of anyone at ground level. University Security would invariably arrive to find everything peaceful at ground level and so sign of the party above.
It seems that RSS just caught on as the name everyone remembers. Atom is indeed better [0].

[0]: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
This makes me wonder: what if instead of converting everything to grayscale, you swap color channels. I'm sure that would make images less appealing (e.g. human skin color would become something completely different), but still you'd be able to distinguish colors, so functionality isn't lost. Also, black and white, and grayscale stays the same, so text remains readable.
They're interchangeable; any significant RSS reader is also an Atom reader.
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Having a solar panel that flares seems like an easy way to get an inefficient solar panel…
"Sure I can do that, and here's how much it'll cost"
Email is dangerous
The email standard allows links in emails.
Yes of course?

If you're trying to suggest that higher income socialists won't like it if they're the ones being taxed, then I don't think you understand socialists.
Techbros.

People who have had a golden spoon in their mouth since birth and can't imagine a life where they didn't have their hands held to success the whole time.

They think that because they are not billionaires they aren't privileged and anyone can pull themselves up by their bootstraps, just like their great-great-grand pappy who came from Ireland and was treated pretty badly by the English in 1864.
> "According to statistical data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the top 1% had an adjusted gross income of $465,626 or higher for the 2014 tax year."

"Doctors, lawyers, and IT people making low six figures" have absolutely nothing to fear. And for the extremely few fortunate people who actually make more than half a million dollars each year, they will easily be able to afford the new taxes.
That's just a specific case of "kissing up", which WFAIO more or less promotes. It encourages one to gain a "genuine interest" in the person you want influence over, but that's tricky to force. WFAIO lacks a "meta" side that helps one motivate oneself to do the difficult/tedious steps. It's kind of like a diet book that tells you to exercise more and eat more vegetables and whole grains. Good advice, but the motivation for that is the hard part, which it may not cover.
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easier to get rid of lotteries; no constitutional amendment required. some of the beer spending also comes from people more able to tolerate the wasted funds; those with the least are the most likely to play lotteries.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/personal-f...
How do I get over the hump with development?
I've been messing around with coding and web development for years, and I'm finally getting serious about it as a career. I feel like I'm close to actually landing a gig, but I'm not sure how to cross over from being a hobbyist to a professional. What am I missing?
I'll be damned. Joshua Stephens for real? I know your name from the Eudora Extended Message Services API docs -- though that was long ago. There were like four names there. How much of that was your work :) ?
> Still, exceptionally low cost compared to running pretty much any website's massive CSS and JS files.

My blog has both RSS and browser readers, but the bandwidth is dominated by the RSS feed. Since the RSS file has no images (just HTML pointing to the images), I think it's more likely that for my Wordpress blog the CSS/JS overhead is just not that much (as opposed to the alternative hypothesis that I have many many times more RSS readers who never end up downloading the images).
You can't setup your company outside the boundary and access to services is limited to that location. So while my understanding is you can drive where you want - your ability to stay there for long periods of time is limited. In addition you are required to register with the local police wherever you stay (hotels do this for you).