skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm saying as a lay-person that the law is very frustrating.

This was my experience as well. I've been wondering if there is an audience for tools to help people going through a divorce, especially for those in the tech industry, since there are often complicated concerns over stock options, RSUs, 401k, bonus plans, etc. that are included in most tech worker's total compensation (btw - this is what you use to calculate support, not salary) that can. I had a very hard time finding help during my divorce for complicated topics such as these, and had to turn to many costly specialists to apply their formulas to determine community property.
You use the name "gardai" as if it is different from "police". This was mass-kidnapping of babies by the police, it's that simple. It was not a few catholic nuns in hospitals, as you yourself point out. They participated, but the police were the enforcers, which means hospitals, police, justice system were all involved.

Needless to say, nobody is asking the obvious question. How can a police force that did this be trusted ? The justice system that directed them ?

I mean sure you can blame catholicism, but what about the many state agencies organizing these mass-kidnappings, which included the police force, the state controlling them and the justice system itself ?

But no worries. All will be checked. By whom you ask ?

> The review of samples of records from other adoption societies will be conducted by Marion Reynolds, a former deputy director of social services in Northern Ireland, and will be completed within four months.

By ... the person that used to be in charge of the adoption agencies ... Yeah. No problem here at all. I'm sure the guilty parties are about to be punished, no doubt.

So we can pretty reliably say that the current state and justice system is still actively working to hide this (and then of course the question comes: why ? Are they still doing it ?)
But paying people in other forms of payment is allowed? Just not cryptocurrency?
From what I've seen by glancing through, it's mostly JS -- Node.js (express-graphql), React, and packages from the Apollo GraphQL team (react-apollo). I've been using these over the last year and can recommend checking them out.
Vision Works well for mark 1 eyeballs
Yeah, not so sure I agree with this. I go to FSU, and trust me, at least 105% of the student population that I've met does some sort of drug. Not sure which students were surveyed here, haha.
The things listed are all nice and all, but here's what I've seen result in dramatically better programming:
Know your problem domain.
There are, in basically every field of programming, some very domain-specific problems which you need to know about, that will be much more important in whether or not you do good programming than any of the things listed here. If you're handling money with your software, you need to know about different things than if you're not. If you're making front ends in government or legal domains, there are huge implications that will impact very low level technological choices. For example, are you allowed to do a DELETE? Or do accounting or legal requirements mean that you have to make a new row, which is the correction to the original row? If you don't know that about your problem domain, it doesn't matter how good you know your language, debugger, etc. Just one example, and every problem domain has them.

Know about your problem domain. It has a dramatically bigger impact on your programming than any of the things listed in this article.
It's OK, freelance contracts can be really hard, I've had one go south very quickly. While it (maybe?) doesn't matter now, you might have been better served by setting them up with wordpress + a real-estate specific plugin (there are lots, some even free). Basically what they were asking you for seems like a real estate specific CRM system, and the CRM world is very very deep and flush with pre-built/other options. Those kind of ideas are often best farmed out, a lot of places will think they need custom software but really don't (or at least you shouldn't write it though it would seem fun).

If it wasn't too long ago, maybe you can make it up to them by hosting a Wordpress instance (or some other low-cost-to-you CRM tech you didn't have to write) and offering a solution to them for free for a year or something as an apology? An apology would probably feel better for you if you had something to offer them in addition to just the words.

Either way, definitely hang out in the Slack! I don't know where in Japan you are, but there's a lot happening in the Fukuoka area, and I think there's a HN Kansai that just started as well. Not sure of anything to the north but maybe there is!

Also, being able to even find freelance contracts locally is pretty difficult, so that's a great accomplishment, keep your chin up! It seems likely that you have the skills necessary to make it work just need to find the right way to apply them.
Keep in mind that there is probably a significant selection effect going on there. In other words, if you don't plan on having children, expensive cities are still an option for you. Whereas if you plan on having children, they are not.
Kindly do yourself a favor and re-read Zeller's last words in its entirety. While yes, his attacker's actions are utterly despicable, and the experience in no doubt has been more traumatizing to him than we could imagine. At the same time, Zeller also goes into great details about how nobody has really been able to support and help him recover from that trauma.

On his relationships, he discusses how he was never really able to open up to his significant others about what he was going through: "So I watched as things fell apart between us. I had put an explicit time limit on our relationship, since I knew it couldn't last because of the darkness and didn't want to hold her back, and this caused a variety of problems. She was put in an unnatural situation that she never should have been a part of. It must have been very hard for her, not knowing what was actually going on with me, but this is not something I've ever been able to talk about with anyone."

On the doctors he has seen: "I've seen a number of doctors since I was a teenager to talk about other issues and I'm positive that another doctor would not have helped. I was never given one piece of actionable advice, ever. More than a few spent a large part of the session reading their notes to remember who I was."

On his family: "I'd also like to address my family, if you can call them that. I despise everything they stand for and I truly hate them, in a non-emotional, dispassionate and what I believe is a healthy way. The world will be a better place when they're dead—one with less hatred and intolerance.

If you're unfamiliar with the situation, my parents are fundamentalist Christians who kicked me out of their house and cut me off financially when I was 19 because I refused to attend seven hours of church a week."

"I grew up in a house where love was proxied through a God I could never believe in. A house where the love of music with any sort of a beat was literally beaten out of me."

And there's plenty more. The vast struggles that Zeller faced and described are not inconsistent with the points that @DoreenMichele is discussing.
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Yes there is a difference in that one implies current ownership and the other implies inability to own.

Also, actual sales mean actual prices, not asking prices.
I disagree, at least to some extent.

CopperheadOS is open source. The scripts to build a ROM are open and it's possible to audit them. In fact, if you don't want to pay for COS you are free to build your own image using said scripts. I've done it. It's easy.

I think the whole mistake CopperheadOS did was switching to a Creative Commons license that prevented commercial use by third parties. This has effectively made it tricky for Daniel Micay to continue his great work on CopperheadOS elsewhere once the company imploded.

It's sad, because it's IMHO the very best ROM out there. I don't want to use anything else. I think they should have gone for a more sustainable business model. In his shoes, I'd restart COS by doing a crowdfunding round and aiming at a few other devices (which may not be hard now with device-agnostic ROMs made possible by Treble).

COS has had a reduced target market since Google decided to price Pixel terminals much higher than Nexus. There are rumours that they might release a cheap Pixel to compete with iPhone SE. That might be good for COS.
I believe the book is all in NodeJS. As for the most mature lib, I’d say Apollo.
What's information on now, an SEO to play basis? A buy targeted ads to play basis?

Not arguing against net neutrality by any means, but if an informed populace is really the goal then the ISPs are a side show.
Yeah, so? The point still stands. In any case, the most widely played version was the NES version which was released in 1989. That's close enough to the 90's to not make a marked difference in the point.
And Malthusian theory is a joke of economics from beginning to end.
Only Verify State-Changing Method Calls (2017)
They are expensive because we want them to be. We have never had so much disposable income and so few children in History.
So in effect you're arguing it works due to Net Neutrality?
Correlation is not causation.

Low birth rates and high home values are both also highly correlated to education and women in the workforce and high income and economic growth and trendy hipster bars and many other nice things.

Picking just two items and claiming that "people don't have children because homes are expensive" is not very enlightening at all.
There are a lot of startups popping up these days that are designing IC's for low powered, high speed, neural net processing. Lots of different approaches they are taking. However, many of them are still in stealth, but try scouring chip designers on linkedIn, especially in the bay area and see where they are working.

Most of them have some kind of partnership with a large company that has a fab, that will allow them to produce prototypes and get some validation going.
The race only existed for path strings. systrace was no worse than seccomp in this respect (which doesn't even permit filtering on paths precisely because of the systrace exploit), yet still much easier to use.

systrace was removed because it went largely unused. Theoretically powerful, in practice it made the wrong compromises. seccomp recapitulated the same compromises, and it's not surprising seccomp uptake has been similarly weak.
> "Milgram's have been backed up by many replications"

From Behind the Shock Machine by Gina Perry:

>On the recording, a much younger Hannah sounded perky and confident as she talked to Williams at the beginning of the experiment. But you could hear her confidence getting shakier once the learner started to give incorrect answers, and it became clear that his memory was not reliable. By the third shock, 45 volts, she was stumbling over the words. At the fifth shock, 75 volts, when the learner made his first sound of discomfort, there was a pause. Then I heard the following exchange.

>Hannah: [to Williams] Is he all right? [into the microphone] The correct one was "hair". [to Williams] Is he all right?

>Williams: Yes, please continue.

>Hannah: All right.

To put it lightly, the Milgram experiments were trash. It was measuring trust in scientists not compliance to authorities. What undergrads are taught about Milgram is that the experimenter would ask the teacher to "Please continue" but what actually happened here is the experimenter assured the teacher (Hannah) that the learner was all right. The experimenters played fast and loose with the procedure, saying whatever they thought was necessary to get the teacher to continue. And sometimes it wasn't even measuring trust in scientists; there is at least one learner who recalls the experimenter, in response to their protests, asking if they'd like to swap places with the learner (essentially threatening the teacher to get them to comply.) The experimenters and particularly Milgram knew what results they wanted before the experimentation even began, and made sure they got those results.
I'm going to assume you mean well, but this is unambiguously the wrong way to talk to a survivor about their experience.
1000% this. For a consulting shop, Angular 1.x specialty was, is, and will be hot for many years to come. From a developer stand point, there is really no need to look elsewhere other than hype.
And here I was, thinking that you were talking about the stock. I was hoping I could buy some :)
Alternately, you could make a website that has a good user experience by default for people using some of the most popular platforms instead of sticking with arbitrary standards from decades ago
It didn't encourage REST either. It provided $.post but not $.del (since delete is a keyword in JavaScript) so one could even say it went against REST. I think it was orthogonal to REST, though.

Here's the docs for jQuery 1.3 from when REST was starting to take off, with jQuery.post but no delete method: https://api.jquery.com/category/ajax/shorthand-methods/
What if you were giving up $100-150k a year? Would that move your needle?

Or what if you were actually giving up $200k a year?

Yes, money isn't everything, but that's no reason to let someone take advantage of your excitement.

I am seeing a lot of people doing the devils work here, depressing engineering wages with arguments against higher pay. The VCs dont need your help, why are you helping them?
except you missed the monopolies part. in most cases consumers have only 1 ISP to chose from so small companies won’t help here.
> There's no evidence they've done everything in their power to eliminate grey market transactions. It's in their power, for example, to remove transferability of items (or maybe just items from loot boxes, though I'm insufficiently familiar with them to know if that could be gamed).

Why do they have to remove legitimate features?

> his questions seems immaterial, since Steam is both the game developer and the operator.

Steam is not the operator of the sites converting steam items into money, so it is very relevant.

> Steam is operating every single part of the casino, except the very last little bit of cashing out the chips.

So if you can transfer items in a video game between users it is now a casino? That is ridiculous and covers every MMO and a lot of other online games.
Are you chunking them?

I don't really have a good sense of what that speed implies mind you.
Take from this what you will:

If you don't have a serious mental illness, you can't even imagine the excruciating agony.
MAGA has nothing to do with race. Ask Larry Elder, Candace Owens, Kanye, Thomas Sowell, or Walter Winchell.
That's an interesting solution to the problem. I'm curious as to how valid those "captures" are, though. It's clearly giving enough of a lead in time for action to be taken but I wonder if the majority of its effectiveness comes from the ignorance of it. Is this something that will be easily defeated once people know it exists?
I defined what I was arguing for: more checks written to startups that are already printing money and raising their first round.

In 2018 more than 1,800 startups are fantastic equity investments at a time when they're printing money, and VC's are idiots for writing 1,800 first funding round checks to startups total, nationwide. I couldn't believe how low that number is. You said, "well yeah they're printing money but it's the wrong kind of money". You would have called Airbnb the wrong kind of startup and you would have stood there and told me VC's are totally right not to invest in them. 9 years later here we are, $31B+ valuation.

It couldn't raise its seed round and it's obviously because VC's are idiots who are paid to lose money. It sold cereal on national TV instead. That's a fact.
One thing to consider is the runaway stock market. It has a huge effect on total comp. Yes, Amazon has lower base salaries than FB/GOOG, but they've always been pretty generous with RSUs and their stock is damn high right now. There are no doubt many engineers there making those $400k figures by virtue of having been granted RSUs when they were half as valuable as they are today. It may take a true outlier to get hired today and immediately be making that kind of salary, but it doesn't take much of an outlier for someone with a few years of grants to get that high.
I would seriously hope that modern therapists would do their utmost to push back on any idea of virginity as an indicator of human value - an idea that comes from the idea of women as property and successor machines.
My personal solution to defuse an argument with the wife is to stick out my tongue and say something stupid. Gets a laugh unless I'm REALLY in trouble, and then it's on to plan B.
This article assumes you're just going to follow the advice it gives. If you can in fact do that, you're half-way there.

But some people have strong resistance to doing anything that will get them closer to the dread task, and will instead distract themselves (say with video games or any number of other distractions), or by doing some other less-dreaded task, etc.

There could be some underlying cause for such resistance which no amount of visualization, coaching, coffee, or workouts could touch.

This is where working with the right therapist might help. "Right therapist" being the key phrase there. There are so many different therapists out there, and so many different approaches to therapy too. What might work for one person might not for another.
For one, ObjC can't treat objects as values or initialize them on the stack. Also, the everything-is-an-object paradigm is terrible for arrays of values, since every NSNumber or NSValue has to be individually malloced and released. (Though maybe not the case anymore? It was certainly a chokepoint several years ago.)

Both of these factors have forced me into using lower-level Objective-C++ code on numerous occasions.
It's almost as if you could afford more of something, like housing, if you spent less on another thing, like children.
> CopperheadOS is open source.

Technically, it is. But, as you pointed out, the license they chose guarantees that it will essentially die out, specifically the bit prohibiting the non-commercial use of it.

It's also mildly interesting that Daniel aggressively defended the creative commons license they chose, when challenged.
Please don’t take your life.

There was a thread recently about someone having lost the passion for programming and the top comment was about how they went on a journey of self discovery with a counselor and realized their personal identity was personally defined by their job instead of all the other things they do.
Just want to point out that it doesn't necessarily cost this much ($10k) just for an accountant.

My accountant is ~$200/month + ~$1k for special end-of-year reporting/filing and ~$1k for beginning of year (~April in japan) reporting/filing. I spend none of my time thinking about anything other than the bank balance and we meet whenever to discuss what the business can/should be doing.

Unfortunately, I can't 100% verify that what my accountant does is the highest quality accounting there is, since I'm not an accountant, but I haven't gotten even a whiff of impropriety. No angry letters from the city office or anything either.
I'm sorry you had a bad therapy experience. I hope that the therapy strategy your therapist used is not universal, and that other therapists are open to trying other strategies (for other survivors, if your need for therapy has passed) -- "Getting A Life" and "Living Well Is The Best Revenge" are good strategies that a therapist ought to be able to help with.

I honestly can't understand what value a therapist expects to find in rehashing past experience that's already been discussed. (If the patient is in denial about something, investigating it could lead to a breakthrough. But "something happened, I feel awful about it" doesn't seem to lend itself to a solution that involves dwelling on what happened)
So a lot of offset printers will be like that, however if you can find a company that operates a flatbed such as a SwissQ, you can actually print 3d effects with layers of resin. While it's still a roll-to-roll process, because it's dragged across a large flat table while printing they can do some interesting things.
"They seem to be willing to break compatibility as illustrated by them ditching their massive library of legacy extensions."

My guess is that Theo's talking less about the XUL → WebExtensions transition and more about breaking compatibility with actual websites (and specifically the Javascript running on / loaded by said websites).

"then describes a security feature they have implemented for JIT that Chrome has yet to provide."

And immediately afterward describes how that security feature is actually implemented in a way that's relatively easy to circumvent (Firefox's JIT uses two "views" around the relevant chunk of memory - one writable, one executable - in order to technically implement W^X for each of those views without actually enforcing it for the underlying memory itself).

That doesn't sound much like self-contradiction to me; that sounds more like preemptively addressing the inevitable argument of "well Firefox does W^X on OpenBSD so it's gotta be more secure than Chrome, right?".
Apollo is client-side though, no? I mean for integrating with server code.
I think the problem with the GOF book is that too many people used its respectability for too long to justify terrible designs, in opposition to both common sense and the guidance in the book itself. This has tarnished the reputation of what otherwise might be a pretty useful book.
Yep, meds are terrible. My comment is for that small fraction of the population for whom "Just knock it off" is a dangerously wrong but appealing idea -- like curing cancer with coffee enemas. These folks have a high mortality rate. (If you're reading this you know who you are. Stay away from the article :)
'legacy' banknotes are mostly made from cotton, not wood pulp which gives them the strength to stay cohesive even when wet, much like your clothes in the washing machine.
I've found it to only be slower in Debug, not Release builds. Release is often significantly faster than the equivalent ObjC, and only a tiny bit slower than native C.
The usual way is that all the investors, who hold preferred stock, get paid before all the employees, who hold common stock. If there's not any money left over after the preferred holders get paid, the value of employee equity is 0.
Facebook submits 454 pages of written follow-up answers to Congress
This is from 2013 (I checked because I thought I was having deja vu)

https://www.alternet.org/personal-health/14-habits-highly-mi...
At least in that regard, mormons are not so different from regular christians.
The issue with your suggestion that it being open source and auditable makes it secure is that you probably have not read or audited all of the source. Security still relies inherently on trust. And therefore the structure of the entity that controls that software must be trustworthy.