skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some info behind the app:

- Tech stack is Laravel + Vue.js + Bulma.

- Manual entry is purposely the only way to add in data, aiming to build better habits by making you confront what you spend money on.

- Everything rolls over in a monthly period, and you can go back and see transactions and stats from previous months.

It's in private beta right now, as there's still a few bugs and kinks getting worked out. If you'd like an invite code, just drop a comment here (no need to sign up on that landing screen if you'd prefer not to).
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Can you expand on your experience with indictments like this?

It rings true to me that, in general, the average person would have much more compassion for 'bad' people in 'bad' situations if they could live a day in their shoes.
If only there were a way to avoid such an uncomfortable experience.
> Show me where I said that

Most Chinese people lack the freedom to live and work where they choose. Most Americans have that freedom.

So if it is handled here in the US then not only will there be less pollution but far fewer kids would be impacted.
Wouldn't be enough. So many women choose not to come back to work full-time. It's a huge waste to train them, and very dangerous to move them up the corporate ladder.
Will this be a fine or jail time. I can't find it in the article, but I think you have put jail time behind this.
I like the awk better here but I'm sure there's loads more stuff perl could let me do that I can't here.

Want to throw a few examples my way?

Disclaimer: never learned perl
Holmes and Balwani had some experience with microfluidics (IIRC), which is certainly sufficient chemical background to give them a credible belief that they could do what they wanted to do (run blood tests on smaller sample sizes). The ultimate problem with their goal is that when you do a finger prick, a large fraction of the sample is not blood but interstitial fluid and skin layers, which makes the results noisy at best and irrelevant at worst.

So the original genesis of Theranos probably wasn't fraudulent, but when things didn't work out and they started faking it instead, that was outright fraud.
This is ordinarily when hard-core criminals are taken into custody.

It's basically like being free, but you have to stay out of trouble and report all contacts with law enforcement.

There's a small chance they'll have to go this route anyway, since the government can snatch the money

They're not going to have to serve consecutive 20-year terms for what they're accused of

Holmes will be offered, I'm guessing, about 6-9 months and a joint-and-several "money judgment" (restitution + forfeiture). Balwani, about 5 years and a joint-and-several "money judgment".

Take it from me: I wouldn't put my worst enemy through even just the trial.

Quite an interesting contrast between what privileged rich people have to worry about vs poor. Nearly every one of those points are solely because you have money, not merit-based. I guess this is when the world proves what really matters.
I’m kind of at this point right now.
Let's not get carried away. Canada and many if not all of the nations of the EU have a similar capability.

The US justice system sucks, let's not endow it with special "uniqueness". However, I am happy that corporate criminals are facing some penalties for their activities that could harm the public.

EDIT: Also, just because after waiting years and years, we see one or two criminal executives go through the Justice system we shouldn't get too excited. Companies lie and cheat the public all day, that's how they get so rich. The system has to produce one or two examples of something approximating justice every now and again basically to forestall revolution. The poor go to jail, the rich play games. A handful of prosecutions at the top doesn't change that dynamic.
Any citations on that? In all the hullabaloo about Theranos I haven't heard that there were serious theoretical difficulties with what they were trying to do.

It would make me feel somewhat better about the whole mess to know this was the case. A successful Theranos would have been the best thing to come out of SV since the Apple II. It was sad to see it fail because of executives' delusions.
you do the crime, you pay the time.

look, this society will fall apart if its only the poor who will pay the price for flouting the law.
Adapted by CGP Grey for people who don't read:

The Rules for Rulers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
None of what you cited has anything to do with sustained practice.

IQ tests are generally accurate across a large population because very few people are practicing them, not because practice doesn't improve scores.

If you provided widespread incentive for people to practice IQ tests like colleges do for the SAT, they would cease to be an accurate measure of intelligence.
Well, hopefully you wouldn't want to put your worst enemy through those things, either.

Doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world for you to not wish it on someone.
> from being unable to get hired anywhere and so needed to make money independently for themselves?

Lots of immigrants. There are tons of folks with Ph.D.s or who were doctors or lawyers in your own country, but in the U.S. the best job they could get was bagging groceries.
Can NextCloud handle duplicate bookmarks yet? Last I tried, if Firefox has the same URL bookmarked into two folders, then the Nextcloud server will not accept the second bookmark.
Harvard Rated Asian Applicants Lower on Personality Traits, Lawsuit Says
Ask HN: Your favorite syntactic sugar from any language?
Most programming languages I've encountered, no matter how otherwise unappealing, have at least one syntactic feature that makes them really pleasurable for at least some type of task.

Some things I miss when I don't have them are:

* "=~" for regex matching (as in Perl and Ruby)

* "{foo:['bar','baz']}" for quick data structures (as in JavaScript)

* "for f in *; do echo $f; done" for looping over a 'glob' of files (as in Bash)

What's your favorite bit of sugar?
Being refused a job or two is different than not being able to get no job, like a million times different.
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At the very least the cop could have called an interpreter, put them on speakerphone, and conducted the conversation that way. I'm surprised law enforcement doesn't have these services, especially for Spanish.

Does raise the question: if a law enforcement office pulls over someone with whom they are unable to communicate, what is the protocol?
Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age (2017)
I feel like you are playing the victim in this situation. Tone is hard to read through text so please forgive me if I misread your factual statements based on your own experience.

Both of these people fully deserve what’s coming to them. They lied to investors, they lied again to investors to keep the company afoalt, and above all they seriously jepordized medical results. It’s one thing to challenge status quo or even current regulations, a la Uber.

To mess with people’s health or their perception of it is completely wrong. We should not minimize the situation. Again, I cannot tell your tone. I’ve been following this for a while and it was obvious what would happen from the moment the whistle was blown.
Did Elon get rejected or did he just say "Fuck it, I don't want a job"?
School's name and professor's name please, just so your comment has evidence. ;)
And that's also much of what the article is about, though it's arguable if it's trying to get people more deeply interested in the language in general.

Still, I'm not certain if the original comment is complaining about the tendency toward one-liners by actually writing less code (something the article alludes to, "only the inner part of the for loop") or merely cramming what would otherwise be readable as a multi-line, well-indented program into a single line.
Note that's the same Kernighan of "Kernighan & Ritchie" fame. Very influential feller.
There's a book of his paintings available. It's fascinating, a peep into a uncommonly seen side of one of the giants of the 20th C.
Right, I don't think anyone would recommend using Cloud9 as in c9.io, but AWS Cloud9 (https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/) is still a perfectly valid option and does get updates.

For my usage, AWS Cloud9 has turned out far cheaper since the EC2 instance shuts down when I'm not using it. I can actually keep it within the free tier, which is a long way from $20/mo I was paying before.
> Why the discrepancy? The 28th amendment hasn't been ratified yet.

What do you mean with that?

As far as I can tell, a 28th amendment hasn't even been proposed, although there is an urban legend about it that circulates in chain mails.

However...even that fantasy amendment is about equal treatment of citizens and members of congress...not sure how that would apply. The closest I can see is that Holmes's mother was a congressional staffer, but that's (a) not her, but her mother and (b) not an actual member of congress and (c) the laws aren't actually different here(?)

Puzzled.
Thanks -- Keygen looks cool too!

Yeah you can embed. It's under the share dialog. More in the docs.
The second push has nothing to do with atmosphere. It's because orbits repeat. As soon as the push is done, you are in the initial orbit heading away from the surface. In other words, your initial orbit intersects the ground and it would be unwise to complete a full orbit.

The second push converts the narrow ellipse of the initial orbit into a wider orbit which avoids the ground-penetrating aspect of the first orbit.

The notion of sending volatile fuel sufficient to make the correction and yet somehow not kablooeying at launch seems like a hard problem to me.
Yes he did.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/99508858422183936...
> US consumers can live without another 42in tv, Chinese can't live without food and they are entirely dependent on importing that food.

But they aren't dependent on importing that food from the US. Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Canada and Argentina are all happy to step up and take over for US producers who are now going to see demand fall through the floor and these producers have been preparing for the inevitable shoe to drop in retaliation for US tariffs for months now. Luckily most of the damage is going to be felt in those central plains red states, so we can all ruefully shake our heads and remind them that this is what happens when morons elect one of their peers.

But I am sure people are just going to be overjoyed when their Christmas electronics are significantly more expensive, and we will see how long they believe delusional statements like ones claiming that this action will "bring manufacturing back to the US" -- I am betting that line will get you a beat-down in the Midwest by next spring.
The technical and legal sides to this discussion are interesting, but I think they're really secondary to the moral side.

I think we can both pretty easily agree that paywalls suck. They're a short-term solution to a problem whose long-term solution isn't clear, and they're probably only marginally useful at that. I also think we can agree that the web is a interesting mix of a kind of quasi-public space and privately-owned space, and that means that discussions about what's 'fair' to access and what isn't are a bit nuanced.

Ultimately, though, regardless of the nature of the content — whether it's text, or images, or code — if a publisher pays to produce content and pays to host that content, does that publisher not have some right to control access to that content? The protocols we use to access it are open, and we pay to access at least some of the interconnects responsible for ultimately delivering it to our browsers, but that alone doesn't confer any access rights. HN, for example, could ban any IP address with which your account's been associated, at the server/proxy level, at any time, and without subverting that you'd have no real recourse.

Generally I feel that the existence of piracy suggests that there are merely under-served customers, and I think that applies here also. Publishers should be coming up with better ways to let users pay for content and try to add real value to that. However, being denied access to the Times and so on does not make your life impossible, or even particularly difficult.
The Elusive Foolproof Theory of the Origin of Language
Ah thank you for this. I'm not a web guy, so I just assumed the xmp was a made-up tag just for this script to use.
Perhaps not a solution to complex applications, but for trivial apps what's wrong with hiding a little complexity?

Say, by reducing the complexity of a tool that encourages a programmatic mindset you make it easier for new learners to get started who otherwise may have been scared away.

I'm not quite sure why you have a bias towards business targeted platforms... most things are these days I suppose!
That's why the goal in so many large public companies becomes "Make the stock price go up." If the stock price goes up, the executives and everyone else in the company with stock can unload it, take the cash, and let the new shareholders deal with any long-term consequences of their actions.

This works great up until it doesn't.
Yeah, you're 100% right, which is why I hesitated posting this, but it's too juicy not to mention.
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I've heard of several small businesses run by people who couldn't get a meaningful job because of prior convictions; typically drugs.
> You want a new small tractor, it'll come from India or China and it'll break down fast with electrical issues. [...] These are things we need to make here, make them right, and of high quality.

I'm definitely in agreement with this perspective and goal, but I don't know if I agree about the right way to accomplish it. In the end the problem is customers systematically choosing cheap junk over quality built to last. Trying to raise prices on junk seems like a very roundabout, heavy-handed, paternal government approach...not that I have a better solution.
If you really cared about Chinese people you'd let them in when they asked to immigrate here. That's enough conflating the protection of toxic industry with humanitarian concern.

Stop pretending. Learn your history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Once upon a time I started doing consulting because I was tired of being laid off. Had work in like 2 days because I was already part time on upwork . Nice the former employer paid me like 2 months severance :D
Jack Ma.
I’ve never seen any evidence the underlying tech ever actually worked.
I don't know anything about this space; all I know comes from Carreyrou's book. Somewhere towards the middle, one of his sources observes that it's particularly hard to get a good sample from a finger stick --- something about damaged blood cells --- and you can find recent journal articles online suggesting that finger stick samples are inherently a lot less reliable than venous draws.

So, I sort of doubt it.
Except it didn't seem like there was much more detail as I kept reading. That was my impression, anyway — I'm not inclined to reread it to see if I overlooked something.
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Eerily similar experience, down to the charges and the 11 counts.

I don't disagree, but the average person on a jury just does what the lady in the skirtsuit tells them to do so they can get out of there. Most people you want on a jury throw away their summons with zero risk to the practice.
Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
Not exactly what you are asking but, here's my story:

I graduated in 2009 from a masters with a focus on financial engineering. At the time it was very hard to get a job doing what I want (let me emphasize this point - I could get a job but just not in what I wanted).

Eventually, I took a job to afford living in a major US city. Due to my frustration I began coding much more at home.

Fast forward to now, I have a few projects under my belt that are generating more cash than my day job. Additionally, the skills I acquired working on my personal projects absolutely helped me land my current job.

I have had my share of disappointments, successes and career frustrations along the way, but I get the most satisfaction out of the work I do on my own.
Sales engineer here. I tried to start a variety of businesses when I was laid off from my last job, where I lasted for 4 years.

I tried to get clients for my life coaching biz (budget, brain, and brawns as I called it). Got some traction at just 7 bux a month (I was living in Chile), but not enough once I moved back to NY.

I also tried to test product market fit for a site i was developing (a curated list of multi-month foreign apartment leases), but that was too expensive for me to scale.

Ultimately, making a prototype and getting some users wasnt even the hardest part. It was trying to grow past that base and make the unit economics work that was impossible, maybe even with outside funding.

After one year of job hunting, I found another sales engineering position that Im happy with :)
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A lot of those aren't made in US, even if they are made by US companies.
So you would have had a problem with the EU retaliating if they’d felt they had enough proof for a case?
What? Not a ounce of sympathy. What about the people they defraud and harassed on a daily basis to keep up the fraud?
Cloud9 is better than other AWS products in that you can click through one wizard that sets up your EC2 instance and provisions the Cloud9 software on it at the same time. The AWS interface is still a byzantine nightmare of a labyrinth, but just getting into Cloud9 can be saved with a bookmark once it's set up, and setting it up is just one wizard.

Agreed that it's a higher barrier of entry compared to how simple and slick the c9.io interface was.
It's also use awk in that manner 99% of the time.

Another common usage for awk in my case is to do floating operations (*, +, eq, gt, etc) in a shell script. It avoids installing bc, which is not always present by default.

I used it for other things, like for example comparing software versions in shell scripts.

The most advanced usage of awk in my case was to do some statistic analysis (average, confidence interval, standard deviation) of network simulations.
> Quite an interesting contrast between what privileged rich people have to worry about vs poor

This is speculation. Let’s wait to see what is handed down. It was common thought on these forums just weeks ago that money and connections would buy Holmes out of an indictment.
Karabinder (Macos) and AutoHotKey (Windows) can help unify whichever you prefer on the other. Linux has Autokey.
I don't see any fanboyism; I see interest, and surprise at the composition of the board. A bit down, I see strong criticism by medman77, who hasn't been downvoted.
Wow, amazing!

Well, a couple of breaking changes, but...

still amazing!
Just to add on to this, Huntsville, AL is the fastest growing market in the United States for technology jobs.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/facebook/facebook-build-7...

Average rent for a 2br is somewhere around $800, and about 3 hours from Nashville and Atlanta.
Before the VW diesel cheating scandal, it was alleged that US manufacturers were taking advantage of the EPA's test cycle procedure to "tune" ECM values when the dome light was active.

More than that, CAFE standards have become the ceiling for fuel economy rather than the envisioned floor. Manufacturers game the system by classifying certain cars as SUVs, claiming extra credit for the ability to run E85, or practically giving away efficient but undesirable vehicle configurations in order to just meet the target and avoid the gas guzzler tax.
> and most of the economic opinions I read

Have you read the economic opinion on income taxes?

Hint: They also make markets less efficient. But nevertheless we think the trade off is worth it.
> this kind of thing is certainly what makes the US unique among nations.

Here are a few other countries where powerful people have been arrested in recent history:

- Saudi Arabia (https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/05/middleeast/saudi-arabia-anti-...)

- Philippines (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-20/philippines-corruption...)

- Argentina (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/world/americas/argentina-...)

- China (http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2144627/secret...)

- Brazil (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/world/americas/brazil-lul...)

- Italy (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/world/americas/brazil-lul...)

- Australia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_politicians...)

- Japan (https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/05/21/national/media-...)
Any chance you can share what those projects are, either in public or in private?
Attacking accounts with reused credentials seems to be pretty common.

> We have some ability at ArenaNet to watch hacking attempts live, and it tells a fascinating story. We watch as hackers use tens of thousands of different IP addresses to scan through millions of attempted account names and passwords, almost all of which are for accounts that don’t even exist in our database, looking for matches. They’re not guessing or brute-forcing passwords; they’re trying a very specific account name and password for each attempt. For example, account name “joe.user@example.com”, password “alligator101”. If they don’t get a match immediately, they may try a variant like “alligator100” or “alligator102”, then they quickly move on to the next entry on their list. And it’s interesting to see that the passwords on these lists are mostly quite good passwords. For every one account on the hackers’ lists with a password like “twilight” (real example, ಠ_ಠ), there are dozens of accounts with good strong passwords. So the world at large clearly knows how to pick good passwords; the reason people are still getting hacked is because they use the same passwords on multiple sites.

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/mike-obrien-on-account-se...
Hidden classes and inline caching are very clever ideas. The massive amount of research and work put into making a language such as JavaScript execute faster is impressive.

The problem in my opinion is that not all JavaScript code will be efficiently optimized by these techniques. Some JavaScript code still gets frequently deoptimized, or optimized to a lesser extent.

The way to prevent that is to learn about these optimizations, which change often and in undocumented ways, making your code perform very differently across versions.

Because of this, I found the topic of JavaScript performance to be full of leaky abstractions (for the JavaScript user). Optimizing JavaScript in practice can be very, very hard.
As a first-order approximation, transoceanic shipping is essentially free. A quick google gives me $5,000 to ship a container from China to a US port. Considering the volume that a 40' container can hold, yeah, that's pretty much free.

Compare that to even cheap US labor rates and it's a no-brainer.
Lawyer here. Opened my own practice after the 2008 collapse because no firms were hiring. Best decision I was ever forced to make.
Joe may be as dumb as you assume, but if he sees a truss bridge with one set of struts he might well wonder how safe that is compared to all the other truss bridges he has seen. If he sees another truss bridge with only one set of struts, but with cable stays as well, he might well think that is a safer bridge than the first. He believed the bridge's implicit claim about cable stays, which was false.
The most recent true crime documentary series on Netflix, 'The Staircase,' talks about this. The defendant, a wealthy individual, ends up paying around $750,000 out of pocket for his defense. He asks the question what this would have looked like if he was poor.