skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey there, another venezuelan here.

if you want to help this person PLEASE dont send any money without asking for verification first, I have seen so many people lately using this "please help me im venezuelan and i am in need" to scam money, there has been at least 5 sucessfull scams on r/btc, r/bitcoin and other online forums.

Also Please note that:

1- it's harder to change BTC for VEF than change USD for VEF

2- this domain it's registered at godaddys servers, meaning that what the OP claims here: "Venezuelans cannot accept USD without a bank account. You can use paypal but its hard to exchange from paypal USD to the venezuelan currency (Bolivares)" is half incorrect and does not really applies to him, he had to use either paypal or an international debit/credit card to pay for this domain.
As for #2, I think the tax incentives make it prohibitive to offer nonconforming plans to those who want to resist. In a weird way, that’s some of what the Hobby Lobby litigation was about — you faced crazy high fines if you wanted to opt out of these “protections.”

What many folks don’t realize is that your premium is, effectively, the amount necessary to subsidize others in your pool who exceed the deductible. The premium will always, necessarily look like a waste to most people, not a “fair expense.” But it is fair, given the level and cost of heath care the market demands.
Love the idea.

But I'm curious...

Is ~$12/page actually the going rate for translating english to/from spanish?

As $6,300 USD/BTC * 0.002 BTC = $12.6 USD
Build a profile on Peertal & happy to send you LTC payments on the platform for translating our website. https://youtu.be/tkyH3JRxndc
I think kernel modules will go away at some point. Having no third party Kexts would increase the security of the OS for in use systems. That's a nice way of saying not all third-party Kexts are created equal.

I could see an argument where moving existing hardware Kexts to user space is easier because IOKit uses the libkern C++ Runtime. The OO design of IOKit may lend itself very nicely to the driver approach BarrelFish takes (http://www.barrelfish.org). The real hard one to move to user space would be third-party filesystems. That's mainly because of dated VFS architecture used in *NIX systems. I could see Apple completely moving away from that at a future point too.
> Seems weird to run a React app for a static content blog.

> (I think this is React?) and also to run it in development mode in production.

They are using PHP — https://i.imgur.com/vy5Q2bq.png
Through hcs's reply below, I was able to come across a better link to the original blog post:

Thinkfun & Mark Engelberg, "The Inside Story of How We Created 2500 Great Rush Hour Challenges"

https://web.archive.org/web/20130703141244/http://www.thinkf...
Posted a week ago: http://kcsrk.info/slides/mcocaml_gallium.pdf

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17416797

In short, expect it merged in mid-to-late 2019, maybe.
op is not the Venezuelan behind the service, explained here[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512031
Good to see Loon graduating into its own company. Project Loon was very instrumental in connecting Puerto Rico after the hurricane [1].

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/20/project-loon-att-puerto-...
The issue is that it is rare and difficult to be able to synthesize all the changes happening in computing and to go deep. So a certain “Pop culture” of computing develops that is superficial and cliche’d. We see this in many serious subjects: pop psychology, pop history, pop science, pop economics, pop nutrition. Some of these are better quality than others if they have a strong academic backing, but even in areas such as economics we can’t get to basic consensus on fundamentals due to the politicization, difficulty of reproducible experiment, and widespread “popular” concepts out there that may be wrong.

Concepts like microservices synthesize a bunch of tradeoffs and patterns that have been worked on for decades. They’re boiled down to an architecture fad, but have applicability in many contexts if you understand them.

Similarly with Agile, it synthesizes a lot of what we know about planning under uncertainty, continuous learning, feedback, flow, etc. But it’s often repackaged into cliche tepid forms by charlatans to sell consulting deals or Scrum black belts.

Alan Kay called this one out in an old interview:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

“computing spread out much, much faster than educating unsophisticated people can happen. In the last 25 years or so, we actually got something like a pop culture, similar to what happened when television came on the scene and some of its inventors thought it would be a way of getting Shakespeare to the masses. But they forgot that you have to be more sophisticated and have more perspective to understand Shakespeare. What television was able to do was to capture people as they were.

So I think the lack of a real computer science today, and the lack of real software engineering today, is partly due to this pop culture.”
If your product is hazardous, it should at the very least include warnings on the package. We require this of medication, why not other products like tobacco. It's unrealistic to expect consumers to be able to thoroughly research everything they buy. Warning labels are not paternalism, they're a way of correcting information asymmetries.
There's really only one solution to Twitter's problem, and anything short of it is just nonsense placating. They have to open up profile verificatio

There’s another solution: the platform is free if you have less than n followers or follow less than n users. Say n is 15 for example. Above that you pay for every tweet. On a sliding scale, say the first tweet/day is 5c, the 10th is $1. They could even ditch scammy advertising - brands who wanted to “engage” would simply pay directly to tweet.
I remember skimming their quarterly report a year or two ago and being shocked that they focused so much on user acquisition as a core KPI given it was clear how goosed those numbers were. I was expecting slightly more complex CLV type numbers but instead they were fawning over a glorified "select count(*) from users".
This is true for even very, very simple technology. My favorite example is gunpowder (the smokey kind we don't even use anymore), which requires potassium nitrate, which without modern (c. 19th century) processes you have to a) get lucky and find a cave you can mine/scrape from; or 2) collect manure, pour urine on it for a year, and then scrape off the top and process. It's actually freaking amazing anyone figured out how to do this, even though with hindsight we understand each reaction.
The EU has sanctions on Venezuela and the US keeps piling on sanctions and newspaper reports say Trump is contemplating an invasion. Obviously these external pressures will have a negative effect on the Venezuelan economy.

One reason for so much pressure is oil prices are rising and external forces want things changed before that happens. Thus the talk of US invasion.

This is in contrast to the US-backed military overthrow of the Honduran government, which has been slaughtering its political opposition. In fact, these are many of the immigrants on the US border being discussed. The western governments back the military and post-coup governments on that case, which has been much more bloody.
I Went to Skyrim, Once
Right on — thanks!
Coin Metrics says the transaction fee stands at $7.67 which is astronomical. ETH is a bit lower at $1.39 but that is still far far higher than most payment instruments.
Most of the people who approve these laws are not necessarily internet literate to understand what the future holds for Internet. An analogy of this sort helps them understand what this means why some traffic can/should be given preferential treatment despite the law saying not to.

With the context of it, it makes sense for the future. Laws are made to be followed for years to come. Considering for “critical IoT services” or “specialized services,” which could take precedence in near future this is okay to be added in the rules for now until we face it. And this analogy is quite okay if you consider speed limits as internet speed and every car as the content packet.
> and still using Perl for everything, you code is probably so decrepit, old and lacking meaningful testing you should just burn your entire company to the ground

What makes you think that? The perl community pioneered a lot of the current best practices around testing.

A lot of the old perl code bases are still around because there is no compelling reason to move away from perl.
I was involved in a rewrite where it would have been much easier to refactor the old system.

A year into the process one of the c-level leaders pulled me into a room and asked why I couldn't fix the legacy code, and I basically told him that he should have pushed back on it. I couldn't fix the legacy code because that would be months of refactoring that should have been done instead of the rewrite.

Context: the legacy code had some design flaws that required major refactoring, but the legacy code "worked" except for very large deployments. The only problem was that the legacy system wasn't modular, so it didn't have unit tests and wasn't cross platform. All of those problems are easier to tackle via refactoring instead of a full rewrite.
Awesome find, thanks! Wonder if I can find this Mark Engelberg fellow...
Quote from TFA:

(yes, I don’t use Facebook either)

The thing is, I don't find the same seething contempt that Facebook manages to evoke, when I use Google products. Google's stuff is legit, when push comes to shove.

Really it's that they are such a potent organization, capturing so much raw situational awareness that by way of monoculture alone, this represents an existential hazard of sorts. Even if they can dodge the monopoly bullet on paper, a rose by any other name...

By turns, comparing Google's products to what Facebook simply is, isn't even a contest. Facebook is this deformed abomination afflicting the internet in the worst ways possible.

Facebook is like thalidomide for ideas and cognitive capacity. When I browse content on Facebook, not only is there some sort of stifling claustrophobia to it all, but it's like the compromises made to present it within that awful, awful user interface seem to dim the wattage on even the most amazing things. The way people succumb to such a manipulative reality distortion field is truly disappointing.

The reason to fight Google is much more subtle than the reason to fight Facebook. At least with Google, they're producing things that work, things that don't deceptively hobble practical utility in confounding ways. Facebook is this underwhelming quicksand of unredeeming zombification.
Our baby was born SGA (small for gestational age) at 2kg. We tried using similac formula as a supplement and baby got sick, she lost more weight and for diaorrhea. We instant moved back to just breast milk and she is doing amazing. Weight looking good.

Formula works for some babies. For some, it’s close to poison. I learnt it the hard way.
I went one step further and made myself an FF extension to blank out any links to Medium (and other useless sites) from any page. I forget they exist until I come across one of the countless posts complaining about the suck. Or I realise the reason images and other content arent showing is because it's a custom domain hosted by medium, then they get added to the list.
I've read CJ Cherryh's Cyteen maybe 20 times.
Introduction to Spark Datasource V2 API: Meetup Talk
that makes it even more suspicious.

The venezuelan in question, could just use any other freelancing site or a service like fiverr just like any other venezuelan or person from another country.

There is countless way to get paid even if you are Venezuelan living in venezuela, you can normally have a paypal account and use tons of others services like neteller, paxum, payoneer, etc, etc.

I am just warning everyone to be carefull if they feel the need to help the person behind this site in a different way, the site looks like a really smart idea but please be sure that its legit :)
Year-old router bug exploited to steal sensitive DOD drone, tank documents
MECO ; Unwillingness of western physicists to deny existence of black holes
When a mission is $250m, I wonder how much additional a second identical copy would cost. For example, if $200m of that is R&D, it would only cost $300m for two missions.
Love Logistics?  iCracked (YC W12) Is Looking for a Director of Service Delivery
Exactly. OS X 10.0 shipped with GCC 2.95, it wasn’t uncommon at all to avoid templates and exceptions back then.
Hominins lived in China 2.1M years ago
Victim of its own success. Money and power corrupt both parties. Inability to rein in corruption produced just more corruption.
Apparently it's something like $0.21/word https://slator.com/deal-wins/usd-0-21-per-word-americas-tran...

Another website said $0.11.

250 / $12.6 = $0.5/word which is roughly 1/2 to 1/4 the going rate.
>>I spent 2.5 hours in total trying to get them all to pass without realizing the central issue of the question is what to do when you hit a * character. The necessity to try all the combinations of the string after a * doesn't not occur to me in 2.5 hours;

The fact you kept trying for 2.5 hours shows you are persistent -- an awesome ingredient to be a great programmer. In my opinion, you shouldn't blame yourself for not being able to solve that particular wildcard-matching problem. I think it's a typical "interview problem". I personally don't think "interview problem" is a good measure of a programmer because: 1. some people are more gifted in the thinking required to solve such problem. 2. if you practice a lot, basically you get better at it. It's like there's a certain pattern to such problems that you can learn. (think of it as similar to SAT)

>>Sure, some problems turn out to have an algorithm that I didn't know about it.

I'm not suggesting you need to know a lot of algos to be a great programmer. You just need to be familiar with the important ones such as linked list, hash map, binary tree, etc. Cos even at places like Google, they wouldn't really ask interview questions where you need to know anything unconventional. What I'm suggesting is that you learn to solve problem by reading solutions to existing algo problems, make sure you understand it, and try to re-implement it.

>>I just don't have a high enough IQ to get passed a certain point.

From your comments, it seems you think you have to be good at "interview problems" or what I like to call "algorithmic-thinking" to be a good programmer. I totally understand that perspective as most US tech companies' screening process involve such problems. I'm telling you from experience though, that computer science is much more than just "algorithmic thinking". There is the field of system where the main challenge is to envision how all the large number of components collaborate and work together (i.e. OS, distributed system). There is also the field of frontend web programming. Frontend involves the skill of implementing something that is visually aesthetic or implementing a web according to the design document. There's also product management role, where you have to understand the how the thing works but you don't have to go too technical. And many more.

In short, there are so much more in the CS than just "algorithmic thinking". Don't be discouraged. Try to figure out where your interest and talent intersect, work hard on it, and don't easily give up :)
30 Day Challenge – Cut Screen Time
> True, though the article was talking about PV.

Yet confusingly the article chose images of solar thermal. It's a bit of a worry when the journalists aren't conscious of the most basic aspects of the industry they are covering.
The problem nowadays is complicated significantly by the presence of large amounts of pharma money. As far as I'm aware, there was no money involved in the 19th century.
Did you not read the other comments? You can still file an informal complaint. Only if you are not happy with the result do you have to sue.
I doubt they will run on gasoline. I assume Apple will only be making electric cars.
It's heartbreaking seeing what happened to Venezuela.

It is also really scary as Venezuela was doing relatively quite well compared to other nearby nations. Democracy, functional institutions (relatively) and then .... people chose to vote in some strong men who trashed it.

Granted oil prices would have resulted in real problems anyway, but nothing to the extent we're seeing now. While nobody would want that situation, people in a democracy chose people who set them on that path (since then it hasn't been a democracy) ... and that is scary.
Firefox Reader Mode is the thing that I find makes Medium an enjoyable experience. It's so much nicer than Medium ever was.

They should try that design.
FF also has a "Reader Mode" (F9), though it gets rid of all images.
Aluminum as a metal has an interesting history as well[1]. It was flirted with during Pliny the Elder's time, apparently and aluminum salt was known, but an industrial process was not achieved till Napoleon's time --at which time, due to the difficulty in manufacture, was a precious metal.

[1]https://aluminiumleader.com/history/industry_history/
https://bitbucket.org/casl/shakti_public
It seems like you know your away around getting paid in the country, any chance you can get in touch and explain it to them? I wish I could, I'm also Venezuelan but I left in 2010 so I have no idea.
For most of human history, China was the most advanced civilization in the world.
What are your thoughts on Instagram TV (IGTV)?
Yep. Everyone writing drivers for Windows/Classic MacOS/UNIX was doing it in C. And Apple wasn’t particularly confident that ObjC would appeal to even application programmers (hence the Cocoa-Java push, and the never-finished ObjC “modern” syntax)
A "reasonably well" insulated house by Australian standards is still laughably poor compared to modern European standards. We build rubbish houses here, and we can't insulate worth a damn.
i deny flat across the board. i don't allow location anything unless there's a damn good reason for it. an RSS reader that wants to send me feeds based on my location, nope. an app that needs to accurately show my location on a map, okay, but only while i'm using it. find the location to something closest to me, nope, i'll do that manually. i don't trust anybody is only doing the one thing you think they are when permission is granted. i may be painting with a very broad brush, but too many bad actors have already made me a grouchy old guy
Ish, solar thermal has its own set of problems and limitations; they don't work during cloudy weather and the storing the thermal energy is tricky because you need a lot of high quality thermal mass
Tesla CEO Elon Musk vows to 'fix' tainted water in Flint, Michigan
Cryptonomicon. Couldn’t even say, more than 10 times.
I'd like to use this for my commits.
I hear ya, now hold on while I TFTP to update some networking equipment...
https://www.strakertranslations.com/translation-pricing/ - $0.13 - $0.16 per word which comes to $32.50 - $40 per 250-word page.

https://gengo.com/pricing-languages/ - $0.06 - $0.12 per word or $15-30 per page.

https://www.gts-translation.com/translation-prices-per-word/ - $0.10 per word or $25 per page.

https://www.onehourtranslation.com/translation/benefits/tran... - $0.087 or $21.75.

It's certainly seems cheaper and Bitcoin fees seem relatively low right now (at least compared to the end of last year). However, I'm not sure it seems so significantly cheaper, especially weighing the 250-word one-size pricing.

Agreed that it's really cool, though.
For those searching this page for this word:

socialism
Oh man, I had a Ghost bike with a Continental drive belt that was a constant pain in my ass until the belt snapped at 1500 miles and practically chucked me in front of traffic.

REI really stepped up and Ghost warrantied the entire drive system as the Continental system was NLA; they replaced the whole thing with a Gates Drive system which is amazing.
To add to this to this point:

1. USD is the de facto world currency, and many (most?) banks in the world let you open an account in the local currency, plus another account denominated in USD which is absolutely necessary for doing any sort of international business

2. Venezuela's currency collapse is a problem mainly because it needs to import goods (medicine, machine tools, etc.) from the international market, which must be paid in USD, and which Venezuela now can barely source because their oil industry (main source of foreign earnings) is falling apart [1]

3. In most cases, USD is superior (more liquid, more easy to transact in, a more stable store of value) to any cryptocurrency. View 'I'm Venezuela ergo crypto' claims with skepticism, especially when they could be paid in USD to a foreign account instead. Not sure what the exact situation on the ground is in Venezuela, maybe it's very hard to receive USD because the government will seize it, but that's the a situation a foreign bank account can solve.

OTOH, if the goal is to use BTC to pay for living expenses by converting to bolivars, it's probably even easier to use USD.

[1] https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/13803
You must not have read "Always Running" in high school. Interesting look at modern day glue huffing in East LA.
http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Always-Running/Luis-J-...
Check western union.
I generally do this as a rule of thumb. Every engagement is a partnership between equals. I have the skills they want. They have the capital I want. We exchange on terms that suit us both or we don't at all. It also sets out the stall as to how the relationship will play out. I've been in enough contracts I need to get out of to save my sanity to know that it's not worth compromising on certain points. Everything on equal footing. The clause will always read something like "either party". There is no way they can legitimately argue against that.