skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
25 and a half now:

Working on my CPA certification - 1 more test to go!

Proposing to my girlfriend of 7 years next month.

Quit my public accounting job in March to do a bootcamp - finish up in a month or so.

Complacency is what I felt in my job. I just got promoted in December and was on a pretty easy path to senior, when I realized that I was unfulfilled professionally and that was leading me to waste my personal time trying to find fulfillment. I probably played about 15 hours+ of PvP videogames to try to scratch the competitive itch I have each week. I was a pretty mediocre friend, and a rather uncommitted partner. I quit PvP videogames, started working out 5+ times a week, and committed to being a better partner to my hopeful fiancé.

My only advice as a peer would be to stop optimizing for what is impressive and optimize for what makes you fulfilled. Fulfillment will lead to satisfaction and purpose, which I think will lead to happiness. I've been trying to live by the same advice for the past 4 months - and I've never been happier.
This is not a prediction but I wonder if their proliferation could stretch the subconscious Overton Window. I think that’s where the Overton Window seems to operate.
Dubai to get 'world's largest vertical farm'
Cigarettes contain a whole host of dangerous chemicals that are absent in typical vape products, which are all about nicotine (and flavor) delivery. Nicotine itself, while not healthful, is not responsible for the bulk of smoking's adverse effects.

E-cigarettes also give the user a lot more control over what they ingest. It's anecdata, but I know several people who have weaned themselves mostly or entirely off nicotine after switching to vaping thanks to the ability to mix or purchase vape liquid with variable nicotine content (this requires some level of knowing what you're doing and doesn't apply to mass-market products like Juul).

Vape products are also the largest existential threat to the status quo of the tobacco industry right now. Drawing an equivalence between e-cigarettes and conventional smokes vilifies the former and is exactly what big tobacco wants.

I'm not anti-regulation in general - designing e-cig products to give a more intense nicotine hit than smokes seems insane and if that's what Juul is doing then they can all get bent. But telling people that vaping is smoking is deceptive, and until conventional cigarettes no longer exist I believe that the suggestion is actively harmful.
Not true. Their main business is auctioning off ads on their search result pages. That auction is mostly keyword-based and not interest-based.
At 25 I was setting unrealistic goals for myself and then struggling to live up to them.

8 years on, I've realized it's wiser to set long-term goals and sticking to them. Saving money, losing weight, learning new skills ... it all happens gradually, so keep at it!

I used to work till late and reply to clients no matter what time they emailed or called. My thinking was, "if i work hard today, I'll have less to do tomorrow". But the truth is work never ends.

Now, I check my email only thrice a day. Never reply to clients after 6pm or on weekends, and never eat lunch at my desk.
This is pretty similar to the Brave browser model, except that Brave sells your browser history instead of asking you about your information.
Marginally sure, but what "other attacks" are you looking to protect against?

Most MITM scenarios are going to result in giving up at least one TOTP code -- and that TOTP code will be used to obtain a long-lived HTTP session (I can't remember when Google last had me auth).

I think it's common for folks to think that TOTP means it's safe to lose a code because it is short-lived and invalidated when a subsequent code is used (usually), but it just takes one code for a long-lived session cookie to be obtained.

If an attacker is in the position to intercept your password via MITM, Phising, whatver, they're in position to intercept your TOTP code. They're not going to sit on that code -- they're going to immediately use it to obtain their long-lived session while reporting an error back to you.
I know Linux since Slackware 2.0, so I am quite used to these issues regarding graphics cards, including the fun days of manually writing my own xorg.conf file.

Eventually one gets fed up and wants the laptop just to work.
Point being?
Not even close.

Lead does irreversible brain and organ damage to developing children. Carbon, at worst, may increase your chances for respiratory disease or lung cancer.
As a user of GCP, they are moving with new useful products every few weeks. And it's a lot clearer as an offering than the top competitor. Perhaps fewer settings, but much easier to get your head around it. A lot of developers use it as a go-to, let's see how companies react over the next years.

And Google Cloud Next '18 from tomorrow, so surely few announcements to come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking:

”In the paper, Van Eck reports that in February 1985 a successful test of this concept was carried out with the cooperation of the BBC. Using a van filled with electronic equipment and equipped with a VHF antenna array, they were able to eavesdrop from a "large distance". There is no evidence that the BBC's TV detector vans actually used this technology, although the BBC will not reveal whether or not they are a hoax.

Van Eck phreaking and protecting a CRT display from it was demonstrated on an episode of Tech TV's The Screen Savers on December 18, 2003.”
“In my case, police officers would make jokes while Smith was stalking me and making my life a misery,” she tells Broadly. “They’d say things like, ‘Why don’t you find yourself a nice boyfriend?'”

So are the British police underfunded, or just unwilling, to investigate abuse?
A second is huge when you're used to it being instantaneous.
Liquidation preferences are not unfavorable terms. A 1x non-participating liquidation preference is standard and protects investors against cheap acquihires founders would otherwise be inclined to take.
The US stock market is very highly priced when compared to historical prices from all other periods. There's a lot of room for US stock prices to go down and little room for stock prices to go to up.

It might be fine to put money into the US stock market if one is prepared to leave it there for a very long time in the event that market prices crash, but it sounds like the OP was talking about time horizons of months not decades.

http://alephblog.com/2018/03/14/estimating-future-stock-retu...

http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2018/01/future-u-s-equ...
How the Humvee Failed on the Battlefield and Sparked a Culture War Back Home
Big 6 wouldn't be a bad name for this group, most people would probably know who you're talking about. Unless people are going for some sort of double-entendre with the name FANG.
I don’t mean for this to sound callous, but 49 people over 3 years seems like a fairly small number, and I can’t think of any realistic solution to this that wouldn’t involve stripping someone of their rights based solely on the fact that they were ‘reported to the police’.
It's funny that this suggestion seems so radical considering that a somewhat related discipline, debate, requires participants to argue both pro and con throughout the course of a competition. I remember realizing that by arguing both sides of an argument, it was forcing me to concentrate on the mechanics of argument rather than the actual topic. It didn't matter which side of the argument was better, only which side was argued better.

Similarly, I'd expect lawyers who were forced to alternate between prosecuting and defending to concentrate more on the mechanics of the process and less on the result.
> "Humility is the opposite of confidence."

Humility is not the opposite of confidence; uncertainty is.

Humility is thoughtlessness of self.
Do you really want your criminal defense to be handled by someone for whom up to 2/3 of their job may require close cooperation and good working relationships with the police?
It hurt, but they still made 3 bil. If they have to pay 5 billion once a year to ensure they have a monopoly I don't that that is a bad trade for them.
Stop putting the responsibility of defense on the state, and defend yoursel- oh wait, IN THE UK LOL.

Enjoy your bans on firearms pussies
Ha! Reminds me of the late, great, Bill Hick’s seminal piece on marketers and advertisers: https://youtu.be/tHEOGrkhDp0

I oft wonder how much disdain Bill Hicks would have for the tech bros and the Orwellian apparatus many large tech companies have created.
Not OP, but guessing it's things like having Python 2 instead of Python 3 installed out of the box. It took them forever to update to Git version > 2.0.0 too.
Your field of endeavor has nothing to do with a free software license. A piece of free software cannot say nobody using proprietary software cannot use it, however proprietary software is against the wishes of the original developers of what is best described as GNU/Linux.
This is something that's almost always glossed over and I'm glad they included it. It's easy to apply ML algorithms to perfect data that doesn't need cleaning and get great results. Finding a productive model when presented with a nuanced, messy problem is a much more difficult task, however, and something most ML crash courses don't focus enough time on.

I think there's a tendency on Hacker News and other tech websites to diminish the importance of having a PhD in ML fields. The problem solving and communication skills you learn during the course of a PhD program are precisely the skills companies value when they're trying to solve hard problems. It's important to know not just how to apply ML algorithms, but when they're appropriate.
It sounds like your problem isn't getting the wrong products, your problem is tinkering with things. Buying Apple stuff isn't the answer here, the answer is to just not tinker if you don't need to.
The numbers would have seen significant improvement if they merely took seriously, "reported to police and has a prior conviction on the books".

Would that be too tall an order for you?
Potentially a search engine could provide results without knowing the actual query, although that would make it difficult to identify new trends or determine which results are/aren't being clicked, so it probably wouldn't be competitive as a general purpose search engine.
You should stop your crippling thinking habits, like all-or-nothing thinking that becoming a programmer is only worth it if you can get into "Top 4" companies (if I read that post correctly). Or, while your family situation kinda sucks, you feeling guilty doesn't help here at all. If you had a friend in a similar situation like yours, you would suggest that as long as they are actually trying to improve their skills and get a job, there is no point in feeling guilty about not succeeding, it's counterproductive.

Even if you do the puzzles 3x slower than "average programmer", but you still can do simple ones, you're much better than most of people who just can't solve them at all and won't bother to learn. I don't know what's the job market in US now, but you can probably get a job somewhere in IT to pay your bills (maybe try QA if you get no luck in dev). I mean, you got a CS degree, this already puts you in better position than many other IT job seekers.
I just don't buy it. I'd pay you if you opened your komono and had a github. I just can't trust a tiny startup like you with my email.
Isn't that what happened to pseudoephedrine? Went from being OTC to very hard to get because of recreational use.
In particular OTP codes are intended to be single use they're a ratchet. If a site does this properly then any OTP code you steal from me is not only worthless when it naturally expires, it's also worthless once I use that code or a subsequent code to authenticate. If you used a passive keylogger that may mean by the time you get the key events that OTP is already useless. Likewise for shoulder surfing attacks.
​Microsoft PowerShell now available on Linux as an Ubuntu snap
You can move between headings and files with a few keystrokes in emacs/org-mode.
This doc shows a fairly advanced way of doing gtd w/ org-mode. I use a stripped down workflow based on this.
https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd....
A bit of both.

Note that uk crime statistics come in two forms: the crime survey (which are statistically sound) and police recorded crime (which are seen as unreliable). We've made some effort to get police to correctly record crime, but there's still a number of things where police will say "this is domestic, and not a police matter", or "this is civil, and not a police matter".
Something that makes me uncomfortable which is not directly touched upon on this article: in America, being a prosecutor is often a stepping stone to being a politician. Which (among other career imperatives) is an incentive to be a 'showboat' and win notable convictions.

The desire to convict also leads to some decisions that seem very wrong-headed from a common-sense perspective, like prosecuting young people for child porn for taking pictures of themselves, or imprisoning victims of domestic violence for not giving testimony...
I think the whole Medium discoverability thing used to be a lot better in the olden days than now. Then, Medium had some sort of standards for who could join and what they could post about, and it tended to bring up decent content for people visiting. Nowadays?

Medium literally does feel like YouTube, in that unless you've got an established audience already finding readers is kind of tricky. Read the Daily Digest they have and note down how many people there are 'average joes' without a large following compared to internet 'influencers' and 'social media celebrities'.

And now they've got the paid content thing, it's only gotten even worse from there. Now it feels like the site's trying to force paid content down everyone's throat, and completely ignores the free stuff when deciding what to feature or promote. Hell, sometimes I've had them said emails almost entirely consisting of links to paid articles from publications I don't read.

It's definitely like YouTube, but it's less like the YouTube of yore and more like the YouTube of today, a wannabe broadcast TV esque network that pushes celebrities front and centre and does very little to promote lesser known creators.
What are people supposed to do about fake evidence when the main problem is the technological ability to detect? This isn't exactly a legal or social awareness problem.

If a video is circulating the web and people don't know if it's real, but it looks real, and experts can't affirm its fakeness, then what are people supposed to do?
So back in the dark ages ... 20 years ago, company I worked for had what they called 'SoftWare Intensive Inspections'. Code we were writting delt with Telecomm and if a system failed then the telephone company lost money and when it failed real bad, 911 would not work and people could get hurt.

Part of the proces was that when you reviewed stuff, you could comment on:
1) does not work
2) not understandable
3) not maintainable
4) failed to meet standard - but these were usually related to #2 or #3
5) excessively slow or large - like could be written to be 10 times faster, just double the speed was a STFU

During the inspection the author was the note taker. Another would read the code and explain it as best they could. If they could not explain the code, then it failed #2 & #3. One person, usually team lead would arbitrate if the problem was really an issue.

This process seemed to work real well, and found a lot of bugs before the code was fielded. Of course someone would always argue the tabs verses spaces, and where do the curly braces go. This was usually met with STFU. The most common standard fail was the use of magic numbers. I had one jerk who actually did a #define TEN 10. Needless to say that failed.

In all of this STYLE was never a valid complaint.
Brainwashing your wife to vote for a republican president? Old News!
The 1 Skill Business School Doesn't Teach You
MS authenticator does that
even Google employees fall for these phishing attacks?
New York on ICE
Show HN: Personalised tool/advice to help you find a great cofounder
The main story here is the decrease in EBIT margin (i.e., operating margin) and the development of the monetization metrics.
The linked article is behind a paywall, but you can read an excellent account of this research on the NHS website:

Minimal evidence to show omega-3 prevents heart disease:

https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/minimal-evidence-sho...
what a tool bag
Not speaking for my employer, and only an highly amateur accountant.

I believe this is done because the appeals process is not yet final. As to whether they "found it necessary," it may be a requirement, or to frame expectations into future quarters when inevitably these numbers finally persist or reverse.
Now that's making me nostalgic
Actually, the privacy is vastly improved compared to all the tracking required at a half-ass attempt at reaching that same info.

Also it is information the user voluntarily gives up which is also a big difference.
That is statistically the most usual ending of your story in 2018, if that comforts you. Be strong.

Be aware that there are thousands of people who empathize with your situation, whether or not you succeeded to find life after separation from the mother, we actually gather together to discuss problems and potential solutions, because — most importantly — we (and I assure you there are many women among us) admire what divorced fathers do for society and we think you are very important to the betterment of this world.
This is about 180 degrees from what I advise anyone asking advice regarding PhDs in the US. Specifically, I tell them that it is best if they know before they even apply who they want to work with and in what capacity. This accomplishes a few things:

- Removes several potential surprises about what they end up researching. It is very sad to see someone expecting to do research on topic A (which they love) but end up doing research on topic B (one they care about much less) because that’s where the money is or that’s where the open advisor is.

- Helps admissions considerably, especially in competitive schools. If an admissions committee denies an applicant that the professor wants, there will be a lot of explaining to do. I assume that you are not talking about “professional” doctoral degrees like JDs or MDs — those are very different than academic-oriented degrees.

- Helps clarify funding. Will you be a research assistant (the answer should be yes if you want to be an academic), a TA, or what?

- Helps clarify what knowledge needs to be known or learned before entering so they can hit the ground running. This helps with course selection (when there are options), project selection, team selection, etc.

- Know the pluses and minuses of their advisor. The best grad students I have seen have read at least some of the research of all of the tenured professors in the department, and they know who is strong and who is weak. They will also have a feel for the politics. These folks are rare, but they are usually the future big time academics.

As someone alluded to elsewhere in this thread, the biggest winners in the academic game hit the ground running for their phd. The folks who come in with an open mind and are looking to learn often will have extremely dim career prospects.

> I'm not making an indictment of the American PhD system, I'm just pointing out that direct advisor admission and unilateral research focus are very uncommon (non-existant?) in the US.

This might be true in schools or departments with very weak research programs. Even then, an advisor advocating for a specific applicant, even if it is a rare occurrence, would most likely be accommodated.

Note that highly talented (relatively speaking) doctoral students are rare. If a professor can get one that’s a great fit, s/he would not be wise to cross their fingers and hope that person gets in and gets assigned as their advisee. Just thinking of a professor leaving that much up to luck makes me laugh — it would never happen.
>headline more like "Here's how to get yourself into this privileged class of people who VC's are eager to fund".

Not to mention become paper millionaires because some VC think you have a 1% chance of being the next Instagram.

I mean, that $1.7 million is more than I expect to bring home after tax for the next 10 years. And my income is probably top 95-99% for the area I live in so it's not like I have a hard life. I can't imagine what someone who is actually struggling thinks of their "terrible experience"
On a systemic level, however, if no one does these non -promotion worthy tasks, everyone suffers (not an optimization). So, perhaps not changing the rules for promotion, but the system seems to need a change unless we want either everyone refusing these tasks or to require a social group to get them dumped on them.
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Ask HN: How to get higher paying contracts?
I have been working as a software developer for 6+ years and have a considerable amount of experience with many different technologies.

Like
- Mobile Development (React Native, Ionic and actual native on both Android and iOS),
- Backend with PHP, Python, Ruby, Java
- Frontend with Angular, Vue and React.

I currently get between $40 and $50 an hour as a contractor and I usually do whatever work comes my way and these are mostly low paying contracts and I end up making way less because I have to pay for my insurance and all that stuff.

I was just wondering how I could get higher paying gigs? How did you start charging higher? Lets say $100 or $125 an hour? Its impossible to find people who would pay that much.

I just need someone to point me in the right direction and I'm happy to work my way through.
Also, plenty of symptoms need treatment even if you can't fix the condition. Nobody [sane] is telling T1 diabetics to stop managing their blood sugar and get their pancreas fixed.
No-one is asking for people to be stripped of their rights based on a single report to police.

They're asking for better enforcement of non-contact orders (which are granted by judges, in court), especially in cases where the person already has a conviction for violence.

49 is a small number, but these are all preventable deaths and they're all a result of a system that fails to protect victims of domestic violence.
Exactly! The history of CEOs at Apple shows very clearly the value that a CEO can bring.
The quote is semi ironical because Jaron Lanier is featured in this article and actually supports these machinations.
Interesting solution, but the number of sites using fixed menus (or ones that fix once you've scrolled a certain amount) may make it risky to use for your average user. And quite a few sites with fixed menus are also probably the ones the user will most likely want to use this script on due to the annoying fixed ads and nagbars...
Had to chuckle at their breaking out earnings into "including fines" and "excluding fines" categories.
Are you seriously telling me that there are people out there who think fundraising is easy? (And are these people trusted with complex machinery?) You're trying to persuade a bunch of people you don't know to give you a really, really large amount of money - and, worse, those people you're pitching get pitched by people just like you every hour of every day. How could anyone think it was easy?
It can always get worse. It can always, always get worse.
Ad delivery still has some optimising opportunities, so still grow to be had there. Better ad placement means more valuable ads.
Particularly with a 20%+ growth rate and their pile of cash. An annual $5 billion EU envy tax is already meaningless. The EU can't stop the US tech machine from continuing to expand, it's already too late. While they focus on fines and hold a defensive posture, the US companies are consuming the planet ex China.