skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's quite a common phenomenon where when people stop working, say through forced retirement, they die pretty soon afterwards. It's the same reason why having time on your hands leads to depression. People want to do things and feel useful.

She's building free apps to help the elderly, it would be a reasonable assumption to assume that she's not making a living off it.
Lets consider the top three paid journals I review for. This is certainly not all of them of course, but the volume of review work is the highest with them:

* The American Journal of Epidemiology
* Epidemiology
* Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Those are the journals of the Society for Epidemiological Research, the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America's journals. I am a member of all of those societies. I would, to be frank, rather like to be on the editorial board of those societies - and certainly wish to be on good terms with their editorial staff. And revenue from those journals does help support the mission of the society.

That's the benefit. "Going on Strike" would harm all that, and in my field, the vast majority of papers will be open access within a year anyway (due to NIH/CDC funding).
If more people had basic knowledge of unbiased history, I think there'd be much less vitriol and silly uninformed opinion based (mistaken as fact-based) disagreements on forums.
Re: "but you would have to think about what pieces of data you will need." -- But with procedural you don't have to think much; the parts are right there to selectively examine.

Re: "in Prolog you cannot nest loops...It's hard to write a big non-dissected piece of code if you cannot nest loops." -- But nesting is good for modularity. It's sometimes called "step-wise refinement", which is a brilliant abstraction that is usually easy and natural to comprehend. Nesting is how we have been splitting up society since the dawn of civilization: countries, states, counties, cities, etc. (or equiv.) Similar for big militaries. (Maybe this is a meta form of Conway's law? Either way Conway was on to something.)
I've come to like Host Sailor. Some consider their reputation to be iffy. But their prices are reasonable, and their reliability is good. And their customer support is fast and capable. Bithost is also OK. They're a Digital Ocean reseller. But their prices are too high for anything but testing.

Back in the day, I sent cash to Nanaimo Gold for Bitcoin. But I can't vouch for them now. In mailing cash, use printed labels, because handwriting attracts attention. It's best to use a B&W laser printer. Most inkjet printers use watermarking. And use a valid return address, because they're typically scanned. But not yours, obviously. I would often use an address for some charity, so they might get the money if something went wrong. And mail from a public box, not a post office, at some distance from your area.

If LocalBitcoins works in your area, that's a good option. But there's always risk of surveillance. Or theft.

These days, I mostly just use mixing services. Any one service could be incompetent or compromised. So it's best to mix at least twice, using different mixers.

Let's say that your Bitcoin are in some hosted wallet, and aren't anonymous. You need at least two ~anonymous wallets. One gets Bitcoin from the first mix. The other gets Bitcoin from the second mix, and spends.

I use Whonix instances in VirtualBox, each with a local Electrum wallet. The Whonix instances (VM pairs) reach Tor through a VPN service, running in the host machine. DeepDotWeb runs CoinMixer, which seems OK. I've used Bitcoin Fog for years, at http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion/ but it requires creating an account.

Edit: re Host Sailor and Bithost, I've typically gotten 800-900 Mbps (iperf3) for their gigabit uplinks, measured between VPS on each. And ~700 Mbps using such public test servers as iperf.volia.net and bouygues.testdebit.info
Their software isn't terrible.
On the plus side, one of my few interactions with it left me with a bug story that's a solid intro at meetups and interviews: a frontend dev friend was stuck with a problem in Magento back when it was still pretty new and he could not get Amazon Fulfillment working with it. I dug in, did what the docs said, but could not get it working in sandbox mode. Finally, under a time crunch for him and due to schedule tightness on my end, I turned on production mode and everything just worked. End of story.

Two days later UPS knocked and I was the accidental owner of some 500 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheets I needed to mail back to my friend's client. The only time I've ever had a bug show up in real life at my house.
If you just want to know what language was used to write this, I can spare you the visit to github: it is go.
Perhaps different people's experiences are different?
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This will likely be part of https://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud.html .
I disagree with almost everything you said in that post; what's more, you're objectively wrong. Let's look at your claims.

>Every new C++ article about the latest "improvements" to the language tends to confirm my belief that C++ developers are masochists. They don't seem to be interested in actually improving the language and making in better and easier at creating useful software. [...] The entire ecosystem feels like a infinite pile of new features fixing old ones, bringing new flaws in the process.

Can you give a concrete example? C++ evolution can be divided in roughly two eras: C++98, and Modern C++ (C++11 and above). This latter introduces a new philosophy, an expansion of features that make it look like a completely new language indeed. From ubiquitous type deduction, to lambdas, to compile-time computation without TMP, the language has introduced powerful new abstractions, always with the trademark "zero cost" that gives C++ its power.

>[Code snippet]

>I don't want a language with magic.

What about that snippet is magic that leaves you so appalled? You got a great (new) feature: guaranteed compile-time conditionals with the same syntax as regular if statements. Depending on whether the object has serialize or not, the code will instantiate to each of the branches, guaranteeing elision of a potentially expensive runtime check and branch.

>Show me simplicity and elegance. [...] Show me how I don't have to choose between value, reference, raw pointer, unique_ptr, shared_ptr, etc, to pass a damn parameter to your function.

Show me a language that simpler and more elegant than C++, where you don't have to worry about choosing how to pass parameters, or manage memory, and that still is as fast as C++. You simply can't, because there's no such thing. C++ delivers ZERO-COST ABSTRACTIONS, that's its power, that's its raison d'être. No other language I'm aware of that delivers this, apart from maybe Rust or D.

--

I realize it's hip to hate on C++, but please keep it rational.
Interesting. I admittedly don't have much experience learning foreign languages; I did K-12 in the US and was only required to take 2 years of Spanish. I'd assumed from discussions with other students taking, for example German, that it'd be more difficult. Versus programming languages, I've learned, C, C++, C#, Java, Python and Perl (and I supposed a modicum of JS) as well as x86, x64, 68k, MIPS, z80 and Atmel AVR assembly. I've always had an easier time learning a new programming language/assembler than a foreign natural language. Maybe that's just me.
Janus is about a case in which a person is being forced to pay money out of his paycheck to a group who directly lobbies for policies that he does not support.

> Why shouldn’t a union be political?

By that argument, why shouldn't the government force you to donate money to political advocacy groups that it chooses, whether or not you support the group's agenda?

Heck, what if your employer decided that a portion of your paycheck would be deducted as a mandatory donation to either the Democratic or Republican party, as part of the terms of your employment?
Which, effectively, means that state goverments cannot pass any kind of meaningful consumer protection law or worker protection law, because of how fundamentally structurally biased towards the bigger side forced arbitration is. It's doubtful that Congress ever intended to preempt state laws in this way or that the FAA would've made it through Congress if it attempted to do so; this was entirely the creation of the Supreme Court, with none of that pesky horsetrading and strong consensus that would be required to pass an actual law.
Swedish military doctrine was (and I expect remains) that: a) it is impossible to prevent the enemy from attempting an attack; b) we can make it as painful as possible to them, and our goal is to repel the invader from Swedish soil within days; and c) we will immediately mobilize all resources in the country to fight back, bringing hundreds of thousands of soldiers into their pre-assigned positions within 24 hours, abandoning all economic activity for the sake of total defense, so that whatever the enemy thought was a benefit in attacking Sweden, it will have been completely nullified.

Switzerland had a similar doctrine, and communicated it explicitly to potential invaders in the 20th century: try to invade the country and we will destroy all means of transportation in the plains, withdraw the army into mountain fortresses (e.g. air bases literally built inside mountains with tunnels serving as landing/take-off strips), and keep attacking you until the ends of time. Also, Swiss men keep their military rifles at home, with sufficient munition to fight their way to their assigned base in case of war.

It is interesting that neither country has been attacked over the last several hundred years, even while surrounded by fighting parties during WW II. I think armed neutrality is a beautiful thing.
Parent probably meant e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth
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Downvote, move on, smile because you know deep inside you're right and they're wrong.

Please show me where it is written that anything I have said in this thread is factually inaccurate.
Your Console.log will not help you in a recursive function
That's the question though: is it the worker's money? If so, shouldn't they be able to do whatever they want with it, instead of giving it to the union?

It is a little disturbing when there is a chain of force exerted by government all the way from the original funds back to some kind of political activism.

The individual workers never have a chance to intervene in that chain. They have a collective right through their union vote, but free speech is an individual right. It would clearly be a free speech problem if you were forced to pay dues to the Republican or Democratic parties even though you have a vote within it.
I have such mixed feelings about The Intercept. They break extremely important news but mix in too many opinionated blog posts.

Read some of their articles about animal cruelty. The topics and information are great but the writing is littered with opinion and assumption instead of objective journalism.

I couldn't even take two podcast episodes before I stopped listening. They had skits mocking Trump. That's not journalism. That just makes people who like Trump shut down and call your site fake news. Stick to the facts and leave the BS to the bloggers.
I agree that it's a collusion between politicians and foreign investors. I wouldn't go so far as saying that one party has more responsibility than the other. But I would add a third party that also carries responsibility: The electorate - if the country in question has a democracy.
Its so nice to hear Prolog is alive and well. While at university I spent quite some time wrangling with it and grew to love it. So much problem solving smarts built into the runtime.

Here is my crowning achievement from back then in 1993 - a genetic programming simulator that evolved ants to follow pheromone trails in pure prolog.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/areas/genetic/gp/systems/gp_...

Enjoy.
It's not Magento.

Shopify is a more modern implementation - easier to configure and done so in a manner that is not new-user unfriendly. Which is not to say it's friendly, just not totally unfriendly.

Note: I got turned down by Magento over a year ago. Not sure if I'm still biased or not.
I don't know if people like it or not, but there certainly are a bunch of high-traffic websites that use it... which is how you end up getting purchased by Adobe. Not quite like getting purchased by Oracle, but still.
Dependencies' exclusions are not honored, but what if an exclusion produces a warning or notice if MVS happens to select that exclusion?

That would help solve the problem of you not knowing that a later version inadvertently breaks a dependency without taking away your (as the top-level module maintainer) choice.
Again, please be specific. You trade places with someone else. Now you're on your preferred school and so is the person you traded with. I wasn't able to trade, therefore I'm in the school I was assigned by the lottery.

My situation is exactly the same whether you traded your place or not. How can it possibly be worse?

And the global consequences, which seem to be the main concern here, has clearly improved, as more people are happier in their preferred schools.
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Any other examples, or other support that it is "commmon"? More common than in other countries? I would be happy to learn more.
I don't give C++ a free-pass for its warts, I just think it's important to realize where those warts actually live so that I can direct frustration appropriately :)

> C++ feels like a language developed without a road map.

Many of the warts are there due to the committee's very strong stance on requiring backward-compatibility. This does detract from the language sure, but the tradeoff is code that will continue to compile for many years which is important for huge codebases that want to continue to adopt the latest features.

Other languages tend to solve this with breaking-changes (python3, perl6, even java8 or ES* to some extent which arguably changed the whole paradigms of their languages).

Ultimately the roadmap is dictated by time-tested experience with existing features and what the community deems the most necessary and practical (see boost which is in many ways an incubator for language ideas).

Recent releases are explicitly around new roadmap items like better RAII-pointers and (finally) a standard threading API.

There are also new language-features that make the language easier (lambdas, more auto, etc) and faster (rvals/move operations). These are "optional" and can be ignored if you prefer.

> Just because ... C++ stops regularly blindsiding you does not mean it is a well designed language.

I'm still blind-sided when the compiler does crazy things I hadn't expected, but almost always I end up cursing the tooling not the language.

IMHO this is the fault of (1) the documentation being terse and separated from stdlib headers etc, (2) compilers/linkers being rather nasty and slow to work with, and (3) terrible error messages in general.

These are problems with the ecosystem and not so much with the language-proper. It's fair to say they sour the whole experience (and they really really do sour it), but the language itself is actually not that surprising once you get past the tooling.
Vim user here. One thing I rarely see discussed is the idea that vim is not about speed. It's about comfort.

Maybe hjkl is a little faster than arrow keys. I don't care. I just like doing my editing with less hand movement.

I'm sure that I could perform many operations faster with a mouse. Select text, drag it a little below. Probably faster than d}}p even. The point is, mouse is finicky and annoying. The context switch between typing and moving the mouse breaks flow. Aiming the pointer is hell, and even worse if the target is small or the mouse of low quality. Anyone who plays click-heavy video games (RTS, many MMOs, 4X) can probably understand the pain of dragging the cursor between two points and clicking repeatedly.

Vim is terrible. It takes a while to learn and when you've learned it well enough you're spoiled and everything else feels painful. Vim is the closest I can get with current technology to a neurally linked brain-controlled editor. It feels like the cursor obeys my thoughts, not the limits of my manual dexterity. The next step would be an editor actually wired to my brain where I just think what the text should look like.
Fast Programmers don't think
I really wanted to. But Magento is a fucking mess. V2 took a fairly comprehensible API and made it labyrinthine.

And don't look to closely at its chosen database schema...
Motorcycles are called "donorcycles" in ERs for good reason.
thanks for replying, the schools here are awful so I am looking at other places as options
Those are distributed databases and have completely different characteristics. That's an interesting nice feature to have but no traditional RDBMS supports anything close I presume.
Some people who have been considered great leaders have manipulated people into something that is perhaps against their interests, but in the long-term interest of society at large. It's hard to say that the soldiers who died in the Civil War had their "interests" served, but it's a lot easier to make the claim that fighting that war was better than the alternative.
Adobe wants to be more like Salesforce.
Adobe Marketing Cloud. AEM is their enterprise CMS product and it's super lucrative. They usually partner with elasticpath on e-commerce. This is probably replacing that relationship.

They sell AEM as a product tightly integrated with their assets acquired from Omniture (analytics and Target). Suffice it to say, it sucks. But it actually sucks less than most other enterprise CMS products.
And the Outer Planets Alliance, lol.
> Objects like "mtof" and "stripnote" produce control-rate signals.

A theoretical "control-rate" "mtof" object would take its input value and compute a frequency value once every block when DSP is turned on.

But that's not what "mtof" does. Instead, it computes the frequency for an inputted MIDI value at the time it receives that value. That time could be once every block, once a minute, a single time when I load the program, at random intervals on Tuesday, or even never.

The thin line boxes constitute a kind of visual procedural scripting language. Kind of like shell scripting if pipes could have multiple prongs fanning out into multiple destinations.
I'm mandaean as well if anyone is interested in asking anything
as i get older and if (potentially) gets harder to land clients i figure i'll just do more remote work. i think ageism is more related to visual bias than anything else

edit: meaning cognitive bias kicks in after the visuals more than anything else -- although i highly doubt anyone would be jumping to hire an 82 year old (or even 70 year old) regardless of visuals. i'd prefer not to be coding for money at that age though.
That's true, but it gets the job done. It's like Wordpress (and Wordpress/WooCommerce), nobody loves it but it powers a surprising number of businesses.
TataSky (satellite TV Service) in India Provides YouTube, Netflix Etc.
A specific definition of what is psychological warfare is required only if you're trying to enforce it by law.
Yep, that is exactly the reason vaccination is delayed. They originally tried giving them at younger ages but stopped because it wasn't working (I've never seen any report of a health danger).
Magento 2 has been an absolute unmitigated disaster from day 1. We won't touch it now and I know many Magento shops who feel the same way.
Please cease trading in Europe.
Before someone mis-understands this, it means their setup top box will support these apps without need to buy Chromecast to firetv which most Indians currently do.

(Note Dish in USA does not support this)
> Regulators will target the worst excesses

Your confidence scares me. What about this, I have the same amount of evidence you have: Some regulators will target the weakest. It's really easy to slap a few tens of thousand of euros fine on a small business. Sure, fining a big company for many tens, hundreds of millions makes news but a few ten thousands is a good income.
Not excluded indeed, figured that out late but not too late.

The lists are not public, but only visible within the organization. I think part of my concern is not knowing how easy it would be to rip a given set of messages out of the archive in Mailman. I don't expect it is likely Right to be Forgotten will be exercised, but it sounds to be a bear if it does get exercised.
Have you considered taking up the hobby of falconry?
Shareholder/liquidity preference is very important... for example if you are VC backed and there are multiple classes of stock, eg. common vs preferred, you will probably find that preferred stock holders have payout preference. Even if you own a large chunk of common stock the purchase price might not be high enough to take care of preferred stock holders with any significant amount of money left for common shareholders. Generally, at a certain acquisition price preferred stock is converted to common and all shareholders treated equally.

Best thing is to have someone review all your stock agreements and such.

Anecdotally, the last company I worked for was eventually acquired (long after I left) for low 9 figures. Turned out the price was just enough to pay back investors and other shareholders got nothing... I imagine that felt pretty shity for folks who spent years building "equity."
> People are not forced to join unions.

This is completely false. People absolutely are forced to join unions.

Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of union members - over 90% - never voted in a certification or authorization election. That means that, even if they're members of the union, their membership cannot in se be considered an endorsement of the union by the bargaining unit. Because it's all-but-impossible to successfully decertify a union in practice[0], it's not uncommon to have the majority of employees oppose union membership, but still be compelled into membership.

> They are, for the time being, in some states required to pay for fair share dues to cover the costs of collective bargaining, grievances, and other administrative costs

People within the bargaining unit are usually forced to pay dues whether or not they are members.

[0] The NLRB has the power to overturn the results of decertification, and a very strong incentive to do so. In addition, unions have learned that they can change the definition of the bargaining unit after an election is held in order to invalidate the election retroactively.
No, I meant that the GP doesn't have a problem with blue light, because they do get enough light from the sunrise.
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He does use public transportation, but only makes a one word mention of it:

"My rides increased a lot in June 2016, when I sold both my cars. I’m solely reliant on Uber (and buses) to get around town in San Francisco."
Many interesting Wikipedia pages have been posted over the years.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wikipedia.org%20points%3E10&so...
Never thought about that. Poor treatment means repeat customers. It's the same thing that drives pharma to seek treatments for symptoms over cures.
Thanks for info - I was thinking strictly of radio interference as the only FCC concern. It is useful information to know about (and to further research).
Like many others, we are no longer accepting EU traffic and have banned users that we know to be from the EU from the handful of forums that we operate (with an apology and an invitation to come back should they move). I suspect that most businesses outside the EU will eventually block EU traffic, just to avoid the potential liability.