skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite clear if you understand the distinction between journalism and infotainment. Journalism outlets spend millions of dollars to staff professional reporters and fact checkers; when they report a story, they've often got a whole team of trained professionals on multiple locations collecting details and interviewing primary sources. When the outlet we're talking about is the NYT or WSJ, those teams are in dozens of countries around the world operating out of large full-time bureaus.

Infotainment outlets hire a couple dozen people to make shit up and put it on a web page and a Youtube video.

Sometimes reality gets tabloidy. Sometimes editors make decisions that optimize engagement and viewership over clarity. CNN and Fox both run pundit shows along with hard news and blur the lines by hosting their hard-news pro's on the pundit shows. But no matter what happens to make CNN seem like infotainment, it simply isn't, because the process that generates it is journalism.
I was curious as to why all 'SoundCloud' rappers in the mumblecore genre had face tattoos.

One interesting explanation I saw was it was a way to get exposure - few people are willing to do it, so for those who do, it's basically a right a passage and a way to show that you're the real deal. I saw an interview with Lil Xan talking about his face tattoos where he basically said as much, and on purpose made his first tattoo his mom's name so she wouldn't kill him for taking the plunge. His next tattoo was just 'zzz', which he stated was an act of branding due to his association with xanax.

It seems to me this is a pretty big difference between say an indy rock band and an indie rapper. The rock bands act like the business side of things is something they'd rather not deal with - they just want to make music and do shows. The rappers first and foremost are focused on themselves being the core of a business in which their image needs to be carefully cultivated, the support group around them needs to be taken care of, etc.
Why? What does a virtual keyboard give you that a real one doesn't? What does avatar chat give you that a Slack channel doesn't? I don't see any reason why these are compelling enough to change how you currently do work.
I just love how the graphs look. We need some better open source graph tools
The political party I don't like got elected and remained in power.
While in Michigan, over a period of years, I saw snow come out of the sky in literally every month except July. Granted, sometimes it did not stick, but that's saying something. I've seen those giant piles of snow in huge parking lots still melting well into summer.
Django / Zappa

Which is basically AWS lambda / gateway with minimal setup and extremely cheap.
Exodus – The Climate Migration Crisis
> the 83b election applies to grants of stock, not options

Unless you exercise early, in which case it does.

Disclaimer: I am neither a lawyer nor a CPA. This is not tax advice.
Online tools for distributed Agile teams
Hi, apologies for not replying to this last week when you originally posted this!

I think this is really good feedback, and I agree it would be very cool to build a community of hackers on BountyGraph. I'd really like to build a "write-ups" feature into the site where users can post about interesting bugs they've found. We haven't built a reputation system yet either, which is definitely going to be important down the road.

Thanks for the feedback :)
I see. I have some sympathy for the view that this sort of intimidating interaction with the police and possible arrest is disproportionate when the offense is the theft of a mere $3. Then again:

1. It's not my $3. For some, the theft of $3 would be significant. How should law enforcement handle this?

2. I wonder if it really is true that if you steal $3, you're likely to face the "full force of the law." I would think that many people would just look the other way rather than involving the police. A lot would depend, I suspect, on their prior disposition towards you (which, of course, can be problematic insofar as it provides a vector for racism, etc. to influence policing).
There's my userscript that I posted in another comment, but it's not as featureful. It just makes certain usernames specified in a static array bold. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717736
83b is on grant, not vest. It can be used for options, but may not be a very good idea if the strike is appreciably greater than 0.
Yes I know. It was not reliable enough for us and sometimes it failed generating the docs. Paying for it (don't know if this would improve the situation) was out of question for us.
Even factoring in an approximation of federal tax would have made the comparison much better. Adding in an approximation of state tax would give a pretty decent boost to cities in states with no income tax (although you have to watch out for sales taxes in that case).
If your rent doesn't cover the property taxes, maintenance and repairs, and home insurance, the owner is going broke.
> I wrote an Android app [1] that intercepted those SMS messages and parsed out the relevant bits.

Sounds like a nice hack, but at a meta level, I find the idea that a mobile platform even allows an app to ‘intercept’ SMS messages to be a little troubling.
Investing that large of a percentage of one's portfolio in any single company is extremely risky; even if it is a large, publicly traded giant like Microsoft or Amazon. In order for the investment to be successful, not only does the company have to do well, but their sector has to do well, their country's economy has to do well, and stocks as an asset class have to do well.

If you don't have hedges to insure against those risks, you are still essentially gambling with your principal. Even a Series A/B Ycombinator company probably has a double-digit percentage failure rate.
Uber Hit with Cap as New York City Takes Lead in Crackdown
It's not completely public, but it's open to all companies and people. Your application needs to meet certain requirements and needs to be approved etc.
pts-starter-kit comes with an example demo (in index.html). Does that work for you?
Please file an issue and we will figure out from there. Thanks for trying it out!
Macbook Pro 2018 crackling speakers
A high school diploma used to be a signal that you were a reasonably educated person who could read and add things and manage to get by in most low or medium skill jobs. Today it doesn’t even signal that you are a barely functional adult. That’s sadly what college has become: the semi reliable signal that a person has even a remote chance of contributing to society. I wish there were signals that didn’t cost thousands of dollars but I don’t see any.
There's a saying that aviation regulations are written in blood: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/13081/why-do-pe...

After every airplane crash, there's a major post-mortem. The root causes are ferreted out, as deeply as possible, in a blame-free way - and the regulations are updated and followed by the entire industry, enforced by laws.

What happens when your system has a 30 minute downtime? There's a meeting, someone suggests running your code through a linter or bumping log levels or adding another unit test, everyone high-fives and you wait until the next downtime - and that institutional knowledge doesn't leave the company, sometimes not even the team. Sometimes, it barely registers with the team members, who then quit the company and go and write voting software.

Part of it is that our industry is still relatively young - although, not that much younger than the aviation industry. But a bigger part is that for the most part, it's very strongly segmented, and most of those segments aren't responsible for people's lives.
For popularity on Twitter, partisanship pays
What user facing aspects bug you the most?
The american banking industry, maybe.

One of the ills of VC-mania is the ongoing assumption that a) problems that exist in the US exist everywhere and b) that there are no other problems.

(see also: Uber busting the "taxi monopoly")
The argument against amp is based on moats and monopoly but millions of people who make money from Google are unlikely to care about these things. They will do anything to get better revenue or rankings.

This is where consumer choice and free markets break down, and regulations become important. That's why dumping is a illegal, because consumers are not going to turn away from cheap products because of bad actors.

In the real world you need regulations.
>virtual keyboard

The most awful thing ever.
EDIT: See the other thread -- in practice, with typical vesting agreements, I think you have to early exercise, thus forfeiting your optionality. Hopefully someone will weigh in with definitive advice.
Temptations in visual view are distracting. Out of sight, out of mind.
With Stylish or similar, you can do the username highlight like so:

a.hnuser[href*="id=dewey"] {
background-color: orange !important;
color: white !important;
}
Indeed, an SF salary and an East Bay apartment is what allows me to afford my 2BR.
Make sure you already live in San Francisco and use the government to cap out your rent to the detriment of literally everyone else.
“The consumer has virtually the world's entire musical output at their fingertips and far more free content than they even have time to listen to.”

This is true, but the flip side is that people will take more risks because there is no financial consequence to sampling previously unknown music.

Additionally there are still a lot of gatekeepers. When I talk about music distribution and consumption I always make a point of emphasising the difference between active consumers of music - those people who will actively search out new music, or even those who know what they want to listen to and will (for example) make their own playlists, and those people who just want a “make music happen” experience. The latter are more common and will typically fire up their stramaing platform of choice and select a playlist that matches their taste. For these people music is often somewhere between background noise and accompaniment to other activities, but inclusion on “premier” playlists (those with high visibility on platforms) is lucrative but quite rigidly controlled. You are probably less likely to be included on one of these if you don’t have a track record, or if you don’t have industry contacts. If you are included it can be a powerful way to gain new fans and get your music out to a much broader audience.
Designs such as GLB can (I haven't looked deeply enough in GLB specifically to see if they can do it or not, but I would assume so) handle director level failures mid-flow, i.e. connection won't be interrupted even if one them dies (packet losses are still likely, but TCP will take care of them). That allows a lot faster recovery than solutions that depend on client's DNS settings.

Additionally DNS will leave your load balancing at the mercy of ISPs DNS server settings. At least in the past it wasn't exactly unheard of that ISPs only cached single A entry so all of their clients would be directed to single server.

That said, DNS based load balancing is generally good enough solution for most of people.
DECENT – DEcryption Contract ENforcement Tool [pdf] (2016)
This is just a correlation study, showing that states where incarceration went up did not simultaneously have decreasing crime rates.

The study can't tell you what would have happened if that state had reduced incarceration rates.

People who get cancer treatment are far more likely to have cancer than the general population. This does not mean that reducing cancer treatment rates will reduce cancer rates!
I've only tried the default one and made sure it's from the same release
Well, it doesn't. You have to do a lot of things in order to allow it that it's impossible to not know exactly what you're doing. I think it's positive that I am in control of my device when I want to.
Can you provide a source?

https://www.chicagofed.org/~/media/publications/profitwise-n... quotes average default rates in the 30+% range on subprime mortgages.
Anyone use Firefly III? It uses the Spectre API to allow you to have a self-hosted Mint.

https://firefly-iii.org/
MongoDb. Capped collections
This seems correct. Apologies for the unintentionally pedantic comment.
Do you have suggestions on whether to deploy simple (functional - no state or external resources used, except perhaps usage tracking) APIs as cloud functions or on the App Engine? What would be the "turning point" when it's best to start considering App Engine?
The benefits are nebulous in other instances. Here they are much more concrete, and thus will undoubtedly (in my mind) be abused to a much higher degree.
Anyone know why Amazon didn't adopt existing standards like SCP / SFTP / WebDAV? I've always found the S3 APIs to be difficult to work with, especially for authorization and large uploads.
This only does what you want if you mush everything together into a single translation unit. Otherwise, you will get duplicate definitions for everything in onefilelib.c.
I was looking for a chart of that actually, what is your source? My point was also, a big chunk of alts do not have a super liquid market, makes it hard to count them seriously in all aggregate market cap.
Happy to talk in more detail directly (email address is my HN username at gmail) but in terms of the analysis done for software projects, the timing is generally a combination of 2-3 meetings over a period of a week or two. Each meeting can be an hour or three, but the goal is to get a sense of a) how mission critical the app is b) what are the primary challenges the client is trying to solve w the app in question c) who are the users of the app d) what does the client know about the users and their needs / pain points e) what are we going to prioritize when building f) who are stakeholders involved to get buy in g) what does the codebase look like and can we build atop it or is this gonna be a net new effort.

When I'm trying to closing six, seven, or eight figure software dev deals, this process definitely involves a "sales" type of person as well as two - three devs and architects.

The outcome is a proposal that sometimes is just a powerpoint deck with a summary of our understanding of the problem and the process / cost / timeline we'll take to solve it.

Once I deliver the proposal, then it's all about getting to agreement on cost, timeline, and then getting signed contracts. Rule number 1 is that a deal is never ever a deal until the contract is signed and executed.
Key aspects of human cell aging reversed by new compounds
And AR creatures for that matter if you download the Pokemon app.
This is directly related to the article. The NYT is literally doing a 180 of what they were saying two days ago.

Also, you're not a mod so I don't see why you're trolling through a day old post to finger wag at people who don't agree with your politics.
I know this is mostly over how important it is not to have anything voting/democracy related fail horribly, but going after the comment in the fourth panel what exactly happened to our field that we can't generally be trusted to make something that works? Is it just "Move fast and break things" in action?
It is so easy to get an FHA loan, if you don't qualify for one -- you really don't deserve it.

This is coming from someone who was able to get a less than 4% FHA $340K mortgage three years after having two foreclosures a short sale, and three additional loans that were settled for less than full value.

Unless you live in an high priced area where rent is going up more than inflation a mortgage isn't really worth it. It ties you to a location and makes it harder to move to where the jobs are.
Cost is a big one. Compared to Digital Ocean Spaces, OVH's Object Store, or Blackblaze, AWS pricing is an order of magnitude more expensive.
This list makes me very surprised that Amazon dropped Detroit, MI from the finalists on their HQ2 search. Rent there is half of what it is in Seattle. A few AMZN shares would go a lot further to keeping people happy in Detroit than in many other cities.

Detroit has a bad reputation because their economy failed. But put 50,000 high paying tech jobs there, that problem would look very different.
Stay 5+ years in your rent controlled apartment.
California rent control is what New York would call "rent stabilized."
How the.. I just tried this, and it works, but I don't understand why.

I mean YAML is just another data serialization format and so can be trivially converted anyways, but I thought that YAML had completely different formatting rules than JSON.
I didn't realize you could do this on Android until I read this. I've been using DDG on desktop for a year or so. The trick is to visit DDG before you try to change your search engine. Otherwise, it's not listed as an option.
Whomever is a CTO and making $140k a year...really needs to rethink their path in life. That is ridiculous. The amount of responsibility a CTO has at a company of almost any size, is a lot. I don't even know why a company would bother having a CTO if that's all they think it's worth.
That's ludicrous. French accents don't sound fancy to Americans purely because we think of France as fancy.
Thanks! Unfortunately, there's a link to Cloud Tasks API on that page that 404s and there's not much else info on it. As far as I can tell, it's alpha. Maybe I can find the Google Next presentation on it.
PHP 7 is very close to HHVM in performance (and often faster) when looking at common frameworks. Does this situation change significantly when you use hack for static types?
I've always had the opinion that Bitcoin's price was supported in part, by the Chinese using it to get around China's capital controls.

So possibly this crash, in addition to the SEC refusal to let a Bitcoin ETF trade, is also affected by the recent tariffs and the Yuan devaluation...?
Interactive Designer's Toolbox
What would also be nice is a comparison of rentals vs. purchasing a home including property tax considerations with our new deduction limits.
When I see CFO/CTO with salaries of 171k, I do not know what to think. Is the term CFO/CTO overused? For me a CTO/CFO is someone in a publicly traded company, and in those scenario they usually make in the millions.
What do you do when a company won't give you all the info required to really evaluate an offer like the 409A or some such?
I suppose context matters. If I'm browsing a local newspaper the need for SSL isn't nearly as strong as for banking.

Also they're moving away from the icon and going to a full "Not Secure" status. Image: https://i.imgtc.com/9DwDQ6r.png
Thanks for the reply. Yeah I'm bummed about that because id rather use GRPC client libraries for my apps than the endpoints discovery doc generated ones.

Also according to this they are not supported directly anymore except logging might still work but the wording is unclear. https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/standard/python3/pyt... .
I'm not sure I follow how Google helped create a trend of increasingly bloated sites that don't load quickly? The only sites I see loading remotely as quickly as AMP sites are AMP sites. Nothing comes close, nor is it apparent online publishers are even trying to optimize their pages to load quickly. AMP strikes me as a project of desperation by Google, as publishers seem intent to kill their own sites by loading them with as many XML HTTP requests and trackers as possible.
It sounds like you're drawing arbitrary lines about what is and isn't a genre. House and metal have evolved various subgenres, to the point where some the subgenres have their own festivals.

Deadmau5 uses polymeters pretty extensively and rap/trap uses polyrhythms all the time.

Yes there is a ton of electronic music and yes a lot of it sounds similar but there are new things coming out if you can dig through all the volume.

A lot of the innovation is also in sound design and not necessarily composition.
I always open Google Maps in this case; not the browser. Just my habit, I suppose.
How do you view the alt text on mobile with the desktop view, though?
Ted Petry, last witness to pioneering nuclear reaction at UChicago, 1924-2018
Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct
> Yes... stealing money is a crime in the US.

Theft in the US generally involves intent, not merely taking. There was certainly probable cause to arrest for petty theft, but a taking under an honest mistake of ownership is not theft, so, if one accepts Aaronson’s account, he did not, in fact, commit theft.

OTOH, whether a jury would believe it plausible that not only did he initially forget that he had paid by card and mistake the tip jar for change but, when told that the container from which he had just taken money was for tips, still did not realize that the money he had taken was tips and not his change is another question, so I wouldn't have been surprised if, if this had gone further, he had been convicted of theft even if his narrative of th facts external to his mental state were accepted as true.
They mention "billions" as if it's a huge number - the CBO charts are all denoted in billions. It's the smallest number worth mentioning from the perspective of the federal government. The federal government decides the budget of NASA. Ted Cruz is saying that none of the money, not even the new billions they're getting from tariffs, or the old 34 billion from customs duties or the 84 billion from excise taxes, or even the income tax, is worth diverting to go to Mars, so we should rely on private industry.

I get he's proclaiming the benefits of a public-private partnership, but it still feels suspiciously like he's declaring it can't happen because he says it won't.
> Windows 8.1 to crash regularly

When windows 8.1 came out, we stayed on Windows 7. When Windows 10 came out, we stayed on Windows 7. We downgraded each new machine to Windows 7. Last year we gave a power user Windows 10 to find out how it operated with our collection of third party software. Two more were added over the year. A year later we are rolling out Windows 10 across the estate. I think this is the answer, we run a conservative strategy with regards to OS versions. We went from XP, to 7 and then to 10 and skipped all of the experimental versions. don't get me wrong, I tried them all, I installed Windows 10 on my laptop the day it was available, but not on my domain...no way.

We let WSUS install critical updates when it wants to. I don't install much else without a good reason. AV updates have caused a few freezes that have meant a couple of reboots are in order, but not much else.

I use Kubuntu and Ubuntu server and I have had some really annoying update issues with them too. I used to have an Apple laptop that after updates would disable it's own wifi and need a reboot.

> Have you ever had to deal with, say, per-CPU vs. per-user licensing for SQL Server?

No, but if I did it would be licensed once and then stay the same for years. I do have Oracle, like you mentioned before. That has a very quirky license, but that hasn't left me anything to do for 3 years since it moved server. It did 7 years on the old server!

I think one of the secrets of enterprise IT is conservative versioning, "n-1 is the version you want", I was told some years ago. A normal PC at our place would be running Windows 7, ERP client, browsers, and Office 2010. A number run Adobe cc and other things I can't avoid. We are looking at moving to Office 365, but if we instead re-buy Office 2016 we will stick with it for years. Perhaps that is the secret? It seems like you are unable to run this conservatively in your environment?