skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, they literally mean "savings account", which is an anachronism. Most people I know leave their money in a checking account instead, since the interest rates are comparable for all practical purposes (most people do not expend effort to chase twenty extra dollars in interest per year).

Given that the median American household has $1000/month in discretionary income -- money they can spend on beer or savings -- it wouldn't make sense that 60% of Americans don't have $500 to cover an emergency. Unless it was defined as cash in a "savings account", which most people (myself included) don't use.
The clustering story for etcd is pretty lacking in general. The discovery mechanisms are not built for cattle type infrastructure or public clouds. ie it is difficult to bootstrap a cluster on a public cloud without first knowing the network interfaces your nodes will have or it requires you to already have an etcd cluster OR use SRV records. From my experience etcd makes it hard to use auto scaling groups for healing and rolling updates.

From my experience consul seems to have a better clustering story but I'd be curious why etcd won out over other technologies as the k8s datastore of choice.
I'd recommend almost anything by Andy Field. He has a clear cut approach with a bit of comic wit to make the reading more enjoyable for hobby reading. His book on SPSS was fantastic, but may be a bit too specialized for what you're looking for. Check out discovering statistics:

https://www.discoveringstatistics.com/
Less is more. Your third paragraph makes a strong argument and cuts right to the heart of the disagreement. The rest is a distraction.
I think the transferring of the low tax basis is bogus but Prop 13 does protect blue collar families. I personally know someone who works for a low hourly wage and now owns his home he bought in the 1970s. If he did not have those tax protections he would lose the home he raised his family in and have to move immediately.

I understand it's frustrating to outsiders who are new to the city and are trying to "make it" but forcing families out of their homes isn't right.
On a $2 mil FMV? Give me a break.
I think that there's a good chance unfortunately. The options will depend on her educational background and experience and country of citizenship but at a minimum she should go into the H-1B lottery.
Are the busts worse by % or just by $ amount?
A + at the beginning of an international telephone number is different... that's the E.123 "international prefix symbol", which is shorthand for "insert your countries international dialing code here" (e.g. 011 if you're calling out from the US).

Cell phones will let you insert a + directly in the beginning of the number (by long-pressing the 0 key), which will let the phone dial the correct number if you're roaming internationally.

In this case, the + is at the end of the number, which is not really a standardized thing. Landline phones won't have a + printed anywhere on them, for example. And you definitely don't want to long-press 0 to actually insert a + at the end of the number, because that's invalid.
The trouble with TLTG is it simply extrapolates existing trends. This makes for great headlines, but as any economist knows, any businessman knows, any investor knows, any educated person knows, that doesn't work.

For example, an amoeba dividing at its maximum rate will form a ball larger than the earth in 24 hours.
Can anyone from McSema comment on why it's moved from paid solutions for CFG recovery? It's amazing that an open source project depending on other open source projects for its main function has to rely on either IDA Pro or Binary Ninja to function. The support for radare is abysmal and not even merged.
Sure, native front-end tech.
You cannot escape the vicissitudes of the market - you can only externalize the costs onto other people. In Prop 13's case, it was largely a one-time benefit to property owners at the time of passage, at the expense of both future residents and the economy in general.
As a professional network engineer this is utterly preposterous. Ignorant government officials who know nothing about how the Internet actually works, trying to fuck with it because it's something beyond their petty attempts at control. When will people realize that blocking VoIP and blocking a ton of other stuff (Ethiopia and the UAE are great examples), in the long term and in aggregate, results in more economic damage and a poorer telecom/Internet ecosystem than allowing all traffic freely? They're short sightedly trying to raise revenue by taxing the mobile phone carriers, who are 95% of the data connections in the country, when they should be focused on allowing telecoms to build better pipes for domestic and international traffic.

Quick edit: People who run major international ASNs and medium sized regional ASNs have a responsibility to not aid and abet this bullshit. Don't contract for government entities that want to implement filtering/blocking of stuff. Refuse to participate with network engineering and architecture decisions and implementation that hurt net neutrality. There is a finite pool of people with the real talent, clue and 15+ years of experience who can build carrier-grade ISP infrastructure. If people want to fuck up their domestic Internet in $COUNTRY, do not help them. No matter how lucrative it might appear at first glance.

There is such a thing as ethics in network engineering, just as there is in software engineering. Think long and hard about what you think defines an ethical ISP. If you're asked to do something contrary to that, refuse to participate.
Just to add to this as I have done the same - the SIM I got game with 100gig of data, 25 if I used it outside of Europe (which included Britain!).

As far as I could tell, you’re a caveman in France if you use SMS or cell calls as they use WhatsApp. That surprised me.
I agree. I know clients of mine have made decisions to set up shop and invest elsewhere because of the difficult in getting visas for themselves and employees.
Yep, there are plenty of people who could be sucked up back into employment. I’m excited to see if after decades of atrophy, the blue collar worker of yesteryear can have another go at it.

With enough demand, we may begin to see employers willing to retrain these workers and bring them back into the fold.
> Windows is closing the gap

Seriously? While Apple has totally slowed down to a crawl in terms of invention, Windows 10 is totally unbearable.

Poor flat design that looks like Linux's KDE from 15 years ago, control panel is all but a mess split in 2 locations and every option having "Advanced" button which in turn has more tabs and checkboxes and leads to another config which itself can have another "advanced" config, things are just a joke. And what's worse, third party apps inherit that attitude that I feel I'm in a maze using Windows. macOS apps, not so.

And I don't know how people can live with its crappy default font rendering. Touching Windows makes me feel I'm rewound back 15 years.
FWIW, I sit around idle all day long as a 6g certified welder. By "idle" I mean sitting at a desk writing python and trading commodities. Welding is for the birds, and humans that want to lose their sense of smell and eventually degrade their vision. Welding is not fun over any stretch of time.
> They saw the Democrats' shoddy treatment of Sanders

This is one part of the protest voting that's consistently left out, but I think is more important than people realize.

Trump and Sanders had one thing in common: They didn't pander to corporations, though for different reasons. Sanders wanted to get that money out of politics, and Trump had no use for their donations. After Sanders was out of the running, the mixture of how he was treated and the DNC having chosen the corporate candidate led quite a few in my circles to vote Trump specifically in protest.
Funny you mention easy access to MNO servers. This happened last night - https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/companies/telecoms-and-tec...
Apologies, you’re correct.
Avoiding worker revolt is the point. If the inflation is bad enough, workers feel pain, demand wage increases. So far inflation has been low, wage increases low and thus cancel each other out (June wage increase 2.7%, May inflation 2.7%).

But from a business standpoint, no point in increasing wages above inflation until workers revolt. So what's needed is a healthy dose of inflation to get workers to revolt, and make business compete for workers by taking the risk, instead of hoarding, and paying more. Businesses and their shareholders have had it really good compared to workers, because workers have been docile and shareholders have been there to scoop of the profits that workers refuse to fight for.
> deflation is the theme going forward

I sure haven't seen it. The price of gas, rent, food, etc. have gone nowhere but up for me. Is there any sector of the economy where deflation is actually happening right now?
Hi Peter,

I'm a currently on the H-1B work visa. Is there any way for me to either:

1. start a company with another co-founder, who is an American citizen?

or

2. Get accepted to an incubator program such as YC (with an american co-founder) and be a part of the program under legal work status?
There's a distinction between changing someone else's political views and inflaming their existing views via outrage, fake news, etc.

If one is easier than the other, then this article does indeed explain things. Cambridge Analytica may be unable to change political views, but it may have been capable of mobilizing a select group of disenfranchised voters that it carefully selected.

Given low voter turnouts, you can increase chances of your candidate winning by merely improving turnout for a select group.
> They're just summarizing a book that someone else wrote …. There's very little supporting evidence given, and even worse there is no discussion of why the book's ideas might be wrong.

The piece (titled "Liberalism is loneliness") seems to agree with the thesis of the book (titled "Why liberalism failed"). The place for supporting evidence is thus surely in the book itself, rather than the article, no?

(I can't tell if it agrees with the ideas of the book, because, as you say, they aren't clearly indicated—but I don't see any reason to think that it doesn't agree with them. In fact, it's hard for me to see how the piece could be both a mere summary of a book and in disagreement with that book. Or are you saying that it should have offered a balancing perspective by discussing possible issues anyway?—that is a reasonable, but, I think, not obligatory, approach.)

Anyway, I didn't find the piece life changing, but it was an effective way to get me interested in the book referenced (perhaps just because I am currently listening to an audiobook of Nicholas Shorto's "Amsterdam: A history of the world's most liberal city", which similarly explores the subtle shades of meaning in the words 'liberal' and 'liberalism' and their derivatives); so maybe it's not all bad!
I created it. I’m happy to get feedback on its use or implementation and further features that should be in there
If you're looking for just mathematical statistics, I liked Hogg McKean and Craig's "Introduction to Mathematical Statistics" (4th edition was much better than the ones after it, imo).

But if you're looking to learn prob/stats for applications to ML, most ML textbooks have a chapter or two reviewing the relevant stuff. I liked the first two chapters of Bishop's PRML for that.
Hi Peter, what do you recommend for entrepreneurs that work full time and hold a H1B currently with another company but want to work full time with their Startup. Just transfer the H1B to the Startup or apply for a different type of Visa?
You are only doing yourself as a disservice by holding this against them if they are otherwise acceptable. They probably will just stay in their current position if they don’t get hired. A year later they probably are worse for having failed their other jump attempts, but a year later you won’t hold a quick jump against them, and hire a dud. Ignore their jump history, hire if they are good, retain them by paying market rate in the future.
Well, I have a degree in economics. IMO housing is expensive because of an explosion of land use restrictions in recent decades, which as far as I can tell is a cultural development. Housing had always been market based prior to that.
> Prepared queries?

Well, there are lots of ways to prevent code injection that aren't "scrambling the AST". But to "polyscript" your SQL, you have to modify your SQL engine.
And in which country is that not so? the landlord just in creases the rent to cover his expenses.
>OpenVPN running over port 443 is generally going to be using a CA that is not a public CA, and issues certificates directly rather than through an intermediate.

nothing preventing you from using letsencrypt.

>Even if you tunnel something over normal TLS, the type of traffic can potentially be determined by analyzing how much data flows in which direction and when.

true, but only if you're doing packets-over-TCP. if you think beyond a VPN, like a https proxy (http proxy, but over TLS), it's indistinguishable from regular https traffic.
I suspect that this is an industry that will become more profitable though, not less, over time. Some materials will become harder to naturally mine over time, as we use it faster than it's created, and hence, the value of those materials will rise.

I would guess that some day, mining materials in a garbage dump would be more profitable than mining them from the ground.
That's a good question. But we have to remember what happened with Google Glass.

Glassholes were inconsiderate google glass users that refused to take google glass off when interacting with people. Duplex will end up like Google Glass for a similar reason -- people will force other people to interact with robots.

I think if I'm a human on the phone more than a few minutes a day, I might take exception to that. Especially if more than a few calls come in that way and there are enough bugs in the system to make it annoying.

One particular countermeasure will be to require a credit card number (or some other personal information) for cancellation... which I'm not sure Google Duplex would be willing to hand out over the phone.
It also has connotations of 'built by the lowest bidder for thrice the promised price and with half the promised functionality'
"Its the market rate for those things. "

I don't think you can say that when they're the ones who set those rates. Especially when they constantly complain about not being able to find qualified workers.

"I would say there are much better second order effects from focusing on bringing prices down than the second order effects of focusing on forcing employers to pay more."

Maybe, maybe not. But that's not an argument for not increasing wages.
"asleep at the wheel" is extremely generous.
>tool to increase friendship

Media company with built-in social proof.
Yet, we're in an economy where employers are constantly complaining they can't find workers.
Ending Prop 13 would eventually result in 20% of the state's homeowners being forced to sell and become renters.

The US is full of affordable housing in places that are not (despite what you might think) utter cultural wastelands.

Do not wait for Prop 13 to be repealed, you will be in your grave before that happens.
>> its developers want it to be a first class desktop/laptop OS above all else with no server/mobile/other kitchen-sink-isms muddying the water

In today's terms, that sounds a lot like an iPad (with an attached keyboard) or a Chromebook.
The only time I noticed this is on the McDonald’s machine where the default is now Coke Zero (yuck) and “classic coke” costs 12p more. I still buy the classic coke. I hope the government puts the tax to good use!
As an Australian E-3 holder, what kind of requirements/restrictions?
No.

I would be refactoring in any language - the idea behind the service, the requirements, etc, are changing a lot as I'm building these services out. These are external factors that would exist regardless of the language, as I continue to explore the problem space.
"shouldn't everyone from the upper to lower class be up in arms if there is such a favoritism toward executives and shareholders?"

Most people are just too tired, too busy with their own lives, too disillusioned with idealistic promises of change, and too fearful of repercussions to try to rock the boat unless they're starving and have nothing to lose.

As long as they've got their bread and circuses, nothing will substantively change.

Even if/when it does change, history shows that we'll probably just wind up with a new boss who's the same as the old boss.
Funny under Windows that rebooting is a "responsibility". It's a liability as a tool.

MS should've just dropped Windows altogether just like they dropped IE and started out as Edge afresh as they're fighting a battle that can't be won.
H-1B RFEs are commonplace these days unfortunately. Does the petitioning employer have an immigration attorney because it's really tough for me to opine on this in the abstract?
you get knobheads whatever the admission policy. And the number of expulsions from schools is pretty much zero
Having programmed in the BeOS API long ago, and now a BEAM language developer, I noticed that basically they were implementing a crude and unsafe actor model. There must be modern libraries that provide that at a lower level than say the erlang VM, but with better safety guarantees than C++.
The only data stores I currently use are redis and dgraph. I write raw dgraph queries, though I have a small, highly focused library that I use to generate some of them.

As for redis, I use it as a dumb KV store, no need for an abstraction layer.
Mayan EDMS 3.0 released
I find I enjoy watching documentaries and reading technical/history/biography books often more than fiction. Because fiction is, ultimately, fake and manipulative.
How would your friend feel about property taxes that scale with market value, but can be deferred until the moment the home is sold, at which point the deferred taxes are paid from the home's appreciation? We could even add a provision capping the maximum tax bill to the actual amount of appreciation since the home was bought. That way nobody is priced out of their home, but the taxes to pay for services that everybody uses are still distributed equitably among all residents.
on average prop 13 overwhelmingly benefits wealthy homeowners. So why not add an income level qualification to prop 13 so that it only benefits people that actually need it?
Incompetence at that level is malice. Short sightedness is nothing new in politics. As is fucking with the middle class. (I mean with those who understand the problem of blocking certain kinds of Internet traffic.)
That's not actually the case. If you look at the money supply for the US it has a pretty constant growth rate over the last 8 decades - while the Federal Reserve claims to be messing around with the interest rate to control the economy, the actual evidence that this is the case is quite lacking. (Illusion of Control problem)

So yes, it's not about the President, but the nature of control over the financial system is not through the interest rate channel either.
True story: 2 mid-level engineers both working at a FANG, and we can barely afford a 3bdr/2.5bath in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara without burning thru 30-40% of our monthly income (including RSUs).

Having bid on a few houses, I'm amazed by how opaque the market is here. Houses will be listed 30% less than expected selling price and when you do make an offer, the seller will come back with a higher price to all those who made an offer... I suspect some collusion on the part of the real estate agents.
>Further, the OECD finds that only Turkey, Lithuania, and South Korea have lower unionization rates than the United States, a fact that can be attributed to the myriad ways American policymakers have undermined organized labor since the Second World War. And a government that discourages unionization — and alternative forms of collective bargaining — is one that has decided to cultivate an exceptionally large population of “low income” workers, and an exceptionally low labor-share of national income.

I continue to wonder why technology workers (some of whom write article after article about how poorly they're treated) approach unionization with such a sour attitude and instead magically expect things to improve.
I've always just read this as people on Hacker News feel more compelled than I do to be productive all the time. I have a corporate gig, and need to be my most productive self during work hours (he said, while commenting on HN during work hours), so I'm not as hard on myself outside of work. Maybe if I had a different mentality I could create the next Facebook or Uber or who knows what, but honestly I'm pretty happy as is. Don't have shame, friend. You are who you are. Better yourself by being a well rounded, nice person, not by spending all your free time reading books or watching TED talks.
i think it's referring to things like "diversity and inclusion" trainings.
Either transfer to the startup in H-1B or O-1 status or file a part-time concurrent H-1B through the startup and continue to work for your current employer until the part-time concurrent H-1B is approved and then make the complete switch. (This is a more conservative approach.)
Understanding FIRE: financial independence and retiring early
"How would your friend feel about property taxes that scale with market value, but can be deferred until the moment the home is sold"

I can't speak for him but this makes sense to me.
As prominent tech CEOs have discovered, ‘You’re doing it wrong’ doesn’t go down all that well as a defence.
The BOJ will eventually run out of domestic bonds to buy (at around 50% now)
They also hold almost 80% of japanese ETFs.

What happens when they buy all 100% of ETFs and bonds? Venezuela?

https://www.japanmacroadvisors.com/page/category/economic-in...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-11/wtf-chart-day-boj-...
There's also the totally inspired spoof, Hardcore Game of Thrones: http://howl.fm/audio/playlists/4156/hardcore-game-of-thrones
What time bomb? California tax receipts showed a $9 billion surplus this past tax year. The state is collecting more revenue than ever.
There may be a misunderstanding here about sharding vs replication. Having the same data distributed across a few data centers for data locality is done using replication. Sharding means that data is partitioned horizontally to achieve higher throughput, or other goals. See here for a good discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11571273/in-mongo-what-i...

MongoDB's multi-document transactions work with replication today, and will work with sharding in 4.2.
Watching videos can only help you develop a superficial understanding, anyway. A superficial understanding is a good place to start, but videos have usually been a form of procrastination for me, even when the content's been ostensibly serious.
scrambling those names is equivalent to scrambling variable names. The actual use of this tool would be the equivalent of scrambling `CREATE VIEW` to `kdjal fjdskalf`
The Future of Ethereum Looks Bright
It is quite well documented (I think at least a couple of studies have been made) that tomato juice is one of the few things that actually taste better on airplanes. The low pressure and high noise level affects how we perceive flavors.

https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-investigates-the-science-of-...

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/airlines-airpor...

I would never buy tomato juice at home, but I drink a lot of it on planes. If you have never tried it on a plane maybe you should!
Anyone have any insight into why goog/fb haven't acquired reddit at this point? If they could get it for anything near the 1.8billion previous valuation surely they would just snap it up?