skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's kind of the point. Credit cards are mostly supplied by a couple huge companies that aren't interested in improving their rates. It's very rent-seeking, even though there are very feasible alternatives that cost an order of magnitude or two less.
> Where do you draw the line on ethical usage?

One can put me in a box. The other one can’t.
I've never heard of this - can you provide more information?
RIP Koko.
Sad coincidence "World's oldest Sumatran orangutan, Puan, dies in captivity at Perth Zoo at the age of 62"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-19/oldest-orangutan-in-th...
Well, Atom now belongs to Microsoft, too, as they bought GitHub, so that competition is at best going to exist for PR reasons...
Also, do visit the project home: http://marsathome.org
It's not too far off. See the following infographic:

http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/att-merger-histo...

The only baby-Bells missing from that merger chart are NYNEX and Bell Atlantic which combined and became Verizon.
I am not commenting on the well-being of people working in fast food. Just on the availability of work. Whether such individuals can afford housing is totally beside the point of my comment.
The Atlantic has really dropped in quality over the last few years - while also showing up more often in the social media echo-chambers. I ignore it now
LOL. Get your head out of the tech world ass. You have no idea how big telecoms are. AT&T is right up there with the FAAMG stocks you fangirl over.
7 years of fucking up your credit?
Yeah, SIMD is on the wasm roadmap; we’ll see what form that takes for exact details, but that’s what I’d expect.
How an algorithm may decide your career – To get a job get past the computer
Why don’t you like to use autocomplete? Just curious.
Welp...

'Scuse me while I go drink away that sorrow... Truly, modernity is a hell I can't seem to wake up from.

Funny how everything we praise about the old ways has a habit of getting thrown out with the bathwater in the name of economic "profitability". I liked humanity better when we built stuff to honor things other than our checkbooks.
>Why would it? Why in particular wouldn't the fact that you are required to pay for their services allow the entire industry to jack up prices substantially?

Basic economic principles. You compete by lowering your price. So more competing providers would make it highly likely that price moves closer to cost, because there is a higher chance that one will defect from the current price structure.

To put it plainly. You run a gas station but the guy across the street gets all the customers. You both charge $3 but your cost is only $2. What do you do to get more customers? Lower the price.
"It's already complicated" is a very poor argument to justify increasing the complication a hundredfold.
That's the goal. Having earlier access to your own earnings is a much better source of funds than taking an expensive loan. We're collecting data from early customers and will update more in the future on the progress we're seeing.
Interesting! I haven't seen this, but it looks really exciting. I may have to bring this up at work!
This makes sense. Creators have been including patreon plugs and ad copy in their videos to circumvent demonization and ad blockers for a while. This was obviously cutting YouTube out and they clearly wanted a piece of that pie back.

It's not a bad idea to move these things into their platform, assuming they don't move to ban creators from having their own ads and 3rd party stores.

Personally I enjoy some of the silly and unique ads some youtubers make. I also enjoy that they are -broadcast- to all the viewers, not based on my cookies and history like official ads on the platform.
Well I have now, and at school in Fiji there were stories of other kids blowing themselves up with homemade kerosene & bamboo fireworks. My personal opinion is that responsibility and risk are related, and if you don't have a gradual increase of both in a relatively safe environment while growing up you are more likely to wrap your sports car around a traffic light (for example) once you finally experience 100% of both at once.

Of course everyone has different opinions of what an acceptable level of risk is.
That is a very privileged point of view. You want to think the grass is at least more interesting on the other side, but I've done a stint in fast food. It is hard, smelly, nasty, poorly compensated labor. It is not at all like home cooking, which I love. I've never worked harder than the summer I did at Wendy's in high school, and I've never been paid less.

As for blacksmithing, yeah, the artisanship side of that would be cool. However, considering you have no skill, you'd probably spend six months making horse shoes. If that seems like fun to you, well, you still probably couldn't get that work, because there's just not very much demand for blacksmiths these days. :)
Haha, your comment actually made me laugh out loud.

I would be careful with choosing your words especially when in a marketplace, there are buyers or sellers whose entire goal is to speculate .

>It is controversial whether the presence of speculators increases or decreases short-term volatility in a market. Their provision of capital and information may help stabilize prices closer to their true values. On the other hand, crowd behavior and positive feedback loops in market participants may also increase volatility.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculation]
I love the sentiment, but seriously... who did you think you were building this for? It's absurd to believe you were helping anything other than the big brother character from 1984. Who else would this help? Foreign secret services? Maybe you believed it would help stream line the automation process? Thereby making humans irrelevant? I'd love to hear a legitimate - non-big brother implementation of this. And please don't be so coy as to say this helps automate person to person sales. I can already review all purchases made through big box hardware stores thanks to them identifying me through my credit card number and the email address I associated with it.
Clang isn't using LLVM's inline asm directly, it translates from the (stable) GCC format into the internal LLVM one. rustc could theoretically do the same translation, but implementing that is significantly more work than just stabilizing the current implementation of asm!().
Thank you for posting here :)
They can only be repeated with a competent DOJ/administration. Else, they will be able to stick around much longer and dig in deeper. And if the system allows them to influence the administration, then the solution (or option) is permanently destroyed.
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and they are willfully ignoring the OTC market which has 10k+
Sorry, I should have been more careful with my choice of wording. We don't outright ban sharp knives.

In Australia most states have laws restricting knife sales to young people, in my state it's 18.

I don't think many people would be against a law preventing sale of these magnets to children,.
> It is a skilled ability (price discovery), just not when many other people are also doing it.

Not true. This has been studied and disproven[1] many many times. The only people who keep saying that are either just too stubborn, disinformed or just lying because they have a vested interest.

[1]: just one article (there's a lot of research out there) https://www.barrons.com/articles/monkeys-are-better-stockpic...
Just pay in Bitcoin (Cash) and call it a day?

Transacrion costs are less than 1c USD for any amount and near instant.

For my gigs, I only accept BCH as it's safer than holding paper or digital entries that can be taken from you at will.

Just convert what you need to be stable in DAI and you will also avoid the volatility.
Well, since zip codes don't map to taxing districts it's pretty much screen doors in submarines. Not possible to compute taxes via zip code for the 50 US states plus territories.
two routes from what i've seen to use data effectively (i work with quite a few data scientists):

1. Go very technical, try to win kaggle competitions, try to create the very best solutions possible. This probably means learning all the cutting edge techniques, being very up-to-date with what's going on in the algo space, and lots of practice/experience, and you probably have to have a knack/passion for this kind of competition as well.

2. Go very domain/business driven - force yourself to optimize thinking about high impact business questions that you'll be answering with data. If you can craft a strong answer that leads to high level business strategy, it doesn't matter what techniques you used, people value that. This kind of person is not ML centered, they are more of a stats person with some tensorflow mixed in.

Generally speaking, Google and AI/tech companies prefer #1, non tech companies prefers #2.

Most people who want to get into data science do it for the exact same reasons you do - it's math-y and new. Other types of programming are old, not so math-y, boring. However, data science at a business level is completely different from data science at a hobby level because doing data science is very expensive. It requires much more capital and infrastructure than regular programming. Definitely more expensive than developing hardware in my opinion, especially if you look at data collection costs, data scientist salaries, and how much work is needed to extract meaningful business value out of data.

A hobby level data scientist is probably similar to a hardware or robotics hobbyist in my opinion - they both play with fun tools and spend money/time but have difficulty translating it into real businesses/profession due to the high capital cost needed to even access the really good tooling, let alone do something at a competitive level with those tools.
Programmers should be paid if they are asked to implement someone else's requirements.

There need be no structure for paying programmers who invent their own requirements and thereby just implement whatever they want.

The mass market proprietary software model is indeed based on the process of inventing and implementing requirements and then convincing paying users to value and adopt those requirements and then pay for a copy of the implementation.

That doesn't work for free software, because it is given away; those who like the requirements and their implementation just help themselves to a copy.

The way to get paid, then, is either via donations/crowdfunding, or else to be employed working on customizing open source stuff to specific requirements.

That latter kind of work cannot be the only OSS there is. Someone first has to develop the stuff that is then adopted, and a business forms around it. Those somebodies usually just put in the uncompensated time.
We may find ourselves wondering where experienced people are going to come from in future when the jobs that previously gave them the ability to independently support themselves while studying disappear.
Ting also happens to have some of the best customer service of any consumer facing company today. When you call them, you immediately get a human being that is intelligent and (every time I have dealt with them) able to solve your problem.
<3 thanks

fwiw the latest release moved the compiler back to the server. the ghcjs stuff proved too difficult to deliver a good experience to everyone. a naughty cdn was just one of many woes.
Not for backup and long term storage. Spinning rust is far more dependable than flash when sitting on a shelf, and much less sensitive to temperature.

I know where I'm archiving my data.
I doubt a burger robot is replacing very many jobs that pay much above minimum wage.
Would be curious to see a word frequency count of both in the WSJ.
Having high blood pressure only when visiting the doctor is common enough it has a name and a Wikipedia page and has been the subject of clinical studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension
What exactly are you wanting to do with it? There's a few different things might want, and for many of them, there may be alternatives that work just as well, if not better (e.g. instrinsics for the operations like SIMD: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/embedded-wg/issues/63).
What a coincidence, facebook seems to be doing something similar: https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-tests-monthly-subscriptio...

What can be read into this coincidence? Are these independent developments? Is it a similar strategy, are the big guys actively copying each other? Are they exploring alternatives revenue streams to advertising based on big data, and why should they be doing this?

Or maybe they don't like it that paetreon is becoming an important part of the ecosystem?

Many questions.
Useful tools that attracting clients to my store/shop
Great point. Healthy people (or any other life form) do not suddenly get sick and die. I think this is a major issue with the entire system of Western medicine. Instead of focussing on healthy diet, lifestyle, exercise, managing stress, the system just wants to identify certain 'germs' and give pills that are supposed to kill those 'germs'...

As I understand it, licensed physicians in the US, even after like 12 years of higher education, never even study nutrition...what could possibly be more fundamental to human health than the food you eat??

Refreshing to see a comment like jacquesm made here.
One should note that its not the businesses that are dodging taxes, but rather citizens of the state that are dodging taxes (and not reporting them). From The Tax You Probably Forgot To Report ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2013/04/15/the-ta... )

> Think you got a great deal not paying sales tax on your online purchases last year? In most states, there’s a pesky tax called “use tax” that you are supposed to pay in lieu of sales tax if you buy stuff out of state or online--and bring it in state. Theoretically, you’re supposed to root through all your receipts and credit card statements, calculate what you owe and report it on your state income tax return.

Or http://www.pmbusinessadvisors.com/use-tax-reporting-requirem...

> Use tax is a tax imposed on the use of taxable items and services in a state when the sales tax has not been paid. For example, use tax would be due if taxable property is purchased from a seller located outside of New York, the property is used in New York, and sales tax was not paid on the purchase. With online platforms and sales being increasingly popular currently, this concept is significant. Remote retailers that make sales into a state but do not have any presence there (i.e. an office, store, storage, employees) may not be registered to collect sales tax in that state because of the lack of presence there. However, the use tax reporting requirement that has been recently implemented by a number of states requires remote retailers to notify their customers that they may owe use tax on their purchases.
Say the government doesn't have it. They can just ask/force/coerce/pressure the tech company that does for your data. Or steal it from them.
How do you handle knowing what items are taxable vs non-taxable for each item and taxing district? How do you handle customers who are tax-exempt? How do you handle tax holidays and reduced tax on school items in August?
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And that is why psycologists are winning Nobel's for economics these days. Tomorrow they will hopefully play a bigger role in engineering and tech.
It's not my area, but this seems like a pretty good article about issues facing the restaurant industry:

"Some operators even say Uber is taking its toll. 'We have seen a number of our line cooks leave and say that they can make more money driving for Uber,' says Stacy Jed, co-owner of San Francisco’s Bluestem Brasserie. 'And if you think about it, the barrier to entry for Uber is much lower. All you have to do is know how to drive a car. And they can make more money and work less.'"

https://medium.com/@foodrepublic/how-can-restaurants-fix-the...
Is it? That looks like shareholders. Unless these employees are the same shareholders?
So why don't they try to isolate the virus itself instead of looking for RNA/DNA? Too expensive? Or impossible perhaps?
Many people with autism don't have enough communication skills to do that.
Maybe, but by then it will be 2023 and we'll be on PCIE 6.
Your comment made me scratch my head trying to figure out what you mean.

Anyways, it seems you are actually confirming the statement above about speculation in the stock market.

>> It is controversial...

Which means, it is not proven and maybe it can't be proven, hence any assertion about the point is just speculation about which side is right or wrong
Amazon bought a multimillion dollar tax reduction from the city of Seattle for $25k of propaganda. The market for influence is very inefficient.
People still eat meat?
They are not similar, I don’t see them being similar at all.
Transactions in cryptocurrency can be zero-fee with NANO. Bitcoin transactions can be also free or almost free when using Lightning network. On-chain Bitcoin transactions are priced by markets and can be high when the network is congested, but are currently very low (about $0.2).

Exchanging to and from local currency depends on how you do it. Most of the cost comes from the volatility, which in general might turn into profit as well. Exchanging at ATMs or 'quick buy/sell' services can be pricey (5% or so). Transferring fiat currency to/from a bank account is generally free.
Govern.js – component based state management
> Self discipline definitely has a momentum effect

This sounds like an assumption. Isn't it equally likely that the condition that suppresses procrastination was responsible for all those things happening, starting with your run?

In other words, you started the day with operable self-discipline. Not related to behavior.
Anything goes, so long as they don't put you in a box? That's very permissive of you.
> Writing this email instead of the original email doesn't require any extra work

Really? I’m not going to defend Linus’s original message; Gary’s version eschews the unnecessary ranting in favor of more concise language. But the claim above strikes me as disingenuous at best.

There’s a reason we have quotes like, “I’d have written a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” Clear and concise language often requires multiple revisions. I personally think it’s worth the extra effort, but it does require an effort.

I’d be astonished if Gary didn’t spend a lot more time on his version than Linus did.
> Who else would this help?

FaceID users. Just because something has downsides doesn’t mean it has no upsides.
But it’s more difficult.
It's a massive prisoner's delema - first to offer enough tax cuts gets the jobs. The only way to truly win is for no one to cut taxes for business.
What problem are you having with Rails currently? A lot depends on that.

Personally, I’ve found that API/SPA apps end up being more development work per new feature than a single Rails monolith.

Also, anything you switch to is going to feel a lot more productive at first. This is somewhat deceptive, because what your really seeing is that your new software codebase is solving a much smaller problem at first, and of course that's much easier to work with.
Indeed, and there are a number of tech companies who have fought back against those things (I can think of notable examples where Apple and Google have pushed back against LE/government pressure/attack), and the ubiquity of suing the government to not disclose information compelled by an NSL suggests they aren't the only ones.

That's not to say that that's a perfect situation, but (if your threat model is the government) a government which has to take data from unwilling companies is weaker than one that need not do so, because they have the capability to collect the data themselves.
It's a common problem. I know of a lot of situations where businesses are fucked when boomer millwrights and mechanics retire, because they never bothered to keep an apprentice around. So much institutional knowledge going out the door, with no replacement
To have an educated opinion on whether it's the right choice for us, one must know:

1. How much existing code is there to integrate with, and what language is it in?

2. What is the experience level of the existing team, and in what platforms?

3. Who is the target market? How will they use the product?

4. What capabilities will the app need? Will it be graphics intensive?

5. What will the maintenance story need to look like?

6. How much time/money can be thrown at this? (ties into how long we can spend working on it)

7. When must it ship? (Also speaks to iteration speed)

8. How hard will shipping updates be?

And probably more that I couldn't think of just now. In order to have a productive discussion about whether electron is the right choice, I would need to detail all of that. Unless of course you just want to use the "electron is never the right choice" argument without knowing anything about our situation, which is what I see on HN a lot every time electron comes up, and what I was pre-emptively hoping to avoid. I might also say that I am not a fan of electron apps, and only use them when I have to (mostly due to huge size and memory requirements, which I don't fault electron for, but rather I fault the developers that are not conservative with resources and memory allocations). That said, I'm glad it's around because there are apps I don't think would exist without it.

I would actually really enjoy having the discussion about whether it's a good choice or not, but it would be good to have that separate from my original question. It likely would have be drowned out in the noise.
As far as I have been able to tell the Chrome team considers native sockets something they don't ever need to even pretend to provide in the browser anymore (after removing Chrome Apps support) in no small part because of the existence of Electron, so the powers that be seem to be going in the opposite direction :(.
If you don't like what Amazon is building, just wait until all those contracts start going to Raytheon and Northrop! I appreciate the moral quandary these engineers are faced with, but there is something to be said for being a responsible steward of technology. I've met quite a few MIT Ph.D.s who nonchalantly mention their roles as, what sounds like to me like "Program manager for raining fire and destruction on third-world countries systems." Someone is going to write the code, I kind of hope it's done at companies like Amazon where there is some ability to publicly pressure management vs. defense contractors who are largely unaccountable to the masses.
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The Linux subsystem for windows makes my workflow nearly identical, and is absolutely better than something like putty.
It's a bunch of commentary on the subject mostly. I spoke my piece in that thread. So I won't go into it again here.

Long story short, basically what a previous poster said. People spent so much time trying to find out if they could, no one seemed to stop and think about whether they should.
Techdirt, Wired, and others reported that the sponsor withdrew the bill in response to the committee dismantling it. So it seems like this iteration of the bill is dead.
Others have asked, and despite some surface similarity the answer seems to be "no": https://www.reddit.com/r/LaTeX/comments/1galio/does_the_gove...

It doesn't address the LaTeX question, but this page had some interesting details on the style guide for Supreme Court opinions: https://lawyerist.com/style-guide-supreme-court/
Judging by publication name means you're missing out on some great authors. Ed Yong for science writing, for example.

The best way to do it is to subscribe to authors you think are good via RSS.