skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a craven, capitalist dogma response.

> A worker takes on little to no risk when offering his/her labour in return for a steady salary.

They are devoting an irreplaceable fraction of their life to the company. A large fraction of that time is spent learning the company's unique culture, social networks, processes, technology, history, etc. All of that value is lost when they change jobs.

When you work for a company, you have a very material investment in your long-term employment because the value of much of your previous time investment evaporates if you change jobs.

Also, many workers move to work for a specific company. The area may have few other similar opportunities. Switching jobs means moving away from friends and family, selling a house (and taking a significant financial hit from the transaction), uprooting your children from their school, etc.

The idea that jobs are somehow a commodity in a perfect market that workers can freely choose from is in no way connected to reality. Therefore, the idea that workers don't take real risk when choosing a job doesn't make sense.

> An entrepreneur taking on massive amounts of leverage can be completely ruined when that venture fails.

Do you really believe that? How many entrepreneurs actually risk their own well-being? If you have $100 million dollars and end up losing $90m on a venture, you're comfortably still set for life. Maybe you have to sell one of your boats.

> There is nothing to stop a worker from quitting their job and taking on the risk of starting their own business.

In the US, you risk dying from lack of insurance coverage.
Look, it sounds like you had a longer commute than I have now -- I traded a 10 minute commute for a 45 minute commute. It also sounds like you also work near somewhere you can go fishing, whereas I work in the middle of a major city.

If you want to talk about "convincing ourselves", I look at some of my co-workers who live in tiny apartments that don't even have fully functioning kitchens, for the sake of being a few blocks from work. They talk about how great it is to have a short commute and seem oblivious to the fact that they've chosen lives slightly better than those of Chinese factory workers, only the company doesn't pay for the exorbitant rent on the tiny pods they're living in or all the meals they have to order from delivery services because they only have a mini-fridge and a microwave.
Strange to use 0x0 instead of NULL in XOpenDisplay().
"Fast enough design" does not equal "faster design".
> A bit off topic, but would be great to use SQLite in the browser instead of IndexedDB

That almost happened. There was a thing called WebSQL [1] that was W3C was working on to add SQL to the browser. Everyone who implemented it used SQLite.

Apparently, that disqualified it from standardization. To move ahead, they wanted to see independent implementations of the standard.

No browser makers stepped up to reduce the quality of their implementation by replacing some of the best designed, best written, best tested code on the planet with some other SQL back end to satisfy the committee, and so Mozilla was able to push IndexedDB as the standard browser DB interface.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database
JavaZone made a programming themed stranger things parody named Stranger Strings :)
Fossil hunting for money could be a good thing or a bad thing. On the one hand, there will be a lot more fossil-hunting, meaning more fossils will be found. But on the other, commercial hunters are likely to be much less careful with fossils than scientists would be.

Anyone know how the tradeoffs work out?
More than that.

Companies spend the the majority of their costs on office space, then employees spend the majority of their salaries on a home.
There's no easy way to increment the counter, so one would have to invent some automation for sending authentication challenges to the token and pressing the physical button every time. The time it'd take should be enough for me to get another pair or tokens, enroll it to my accounts and revoke the old one.

Also let's make it not 1 000 000 but, say, 4 000 000 000, which still leaves plenty of values of a 32-bit value.
Times Square during NYE is a very special case; when you go into the cattle pen, you know that you're not getting out for the next 16 hours.
> So somehow the US system is generating significantly more disposable income for its people.

Disposable income doesn't factor in the higher cost of healthcare (huge) or other "taxes" that aren't taken into account.

Purchasing power is a metric that needs to be adjusted by actual cost of living and quality of such living.
Portland did that and some locals threw a fit. It’s a great idea though, there are legitimate reasons someone would need to dispose of a needle anyways.
I wish my government cared about its citizens this much...
It is absolutely not "fallacious" - if you are going to moralize, then you need back it up with action.

The OP was not "complaining about the system" - he was making a claim that by doing business with China you are "importing repression". It is completely fair that someone who claims I am willfully "importing repression" should be held to the same standard.

OR, you can just go on believing that the rest of us are immoral thugs while you are the lone enlightened paragon of virtue who would gladly rebel against the odious powers that be...if only they would stop making such pretty toys!

I know, its all my fault
To me bread in America typically has too much sugar in it.
I used pre-installed image, but I converted one for VMWare simply since it's easier and I don't care of security implications for this particular VM.

> Can you install a fresh OS from an install disk?

Yes of course you can. It's explained on GitHub.
Thailand also has a third gender for MTF and Iran has support for MTF operations. What's interesting to me is that FTM doesn't seem to get the same support. Why is that?

Is it because patriarchy doesn't want to allow more into the club but is fine with kicking people out? Is there a biological force which makes MTF more common?

Not trying to offend anyone, I am genuinely curious.
I was going to suggest the new Learning How to Learn book, but I am not sure how different it is from the online course.

One other book I would suggest is The Evelyn Wood Seven-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program.
Jeff Bezos and Zuck might disagree.
We actually need something like this internally for non mobile app reasons. We build telepresence.io at Datawire and macOS dev and testing is a huge pain. Interested in a job :) ?
Interesting. The homepage exclaims:

”We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. ”

Sounds pretty similar to the thinking behind the German setup.
hah no
No shit. Because it's not the machine making them, its whoever programmed the machine, and THAT person (or people) I don't know or trust.
As a suburbanite I was confused by the Starbucks bathroom kerfuffle because I didn't know city locations had keypads/locks on their bathroom doors.

At every Starbucks I've ever been to out here there's never been a question that you could just walk in and use the bathroom. Same with McDonalds. Frequently these places have a back door you can enter and the bathrooms are right there, and nobody even sees you go in.
Google has 88k employees today, almost 20 years of existence, and an average tenure of about two years. I would estimate that people who have worked at Google and learned valuable lessons, and able to secure director-level roles in start-ups to be in the thousands; many have gone to Facebook (25k employees, 14 years, similar retention). There are hundreds of people who similarly left Facebook for Uber, Lyft, AirBnB, Booking, Coinbase, etc. I personally know at least a dozen who made that move before their new employer raised more money, and can name three friends who went from Google to Facebook and to a third now-10B$ company, moving to pre-IPO company each time. And I don’t even live in the US.

If you include probably several dozen people from PayPal (not just the six founders but the people who reported to them); hundreds of YCombinator alumni, who learned from their own failed company but leveraged the success of the friends they made in YC, and probably ended up working with; if you include people who have done their four years at DropBox, Zynga, SurveyMonkey, Twilio, etc. overall, yes, I expect to find several people with relevant experience at key positions in hundreds of companies. Some might have gone to investing full time, but they are if anything more likely to trust and advise appropriately their former colleagues.

A lot of them are “anonymous” in the sense that TechCrunch wouldn’t name-drop them, but they would be familiar with, say, SQLite, AirFlow, or know from experience whether RedShift is the right solution at scale; they would know how to setup a Salesforce cluster; who to ask about address format in South-East Asia; they know about bugs in Samsung’s Android video codecs; they would have coordinated a launch in Arab-speaking countries before, know that React works well with Big5, or know that VAT is processed differently in Islamic finance.

I expect those people to be asking for, and justifying convincingly compensations several times higher than what people could justify in 2000.

You are certainly right about marketing: I should have mentioned far better targeting and control tools. CPA probably went up overall, but more importantly: the ability to measure it, to optimise campaign, interrupt ridiculous PR stunts before they cost too much, leverage them, etc. all that has become better. Analysts measure LTV with less ridiculous estimations now. That justifies trusting people with more money because when you hit the product-market fit, you know that this money will make more.
It isn’t a bad assumption. Many Chinese have no idea where France is let alone about what France thinks of them. Even in the cities where people are more educated, they are dumbfounded when Vietnam riots against them, completely unaware of the reasons why they might do that. At any rate, China has always been self centered throughout their 5000 years of history, it’s even in the name 中国 that literally means center of the world.

Chinese papers are very weird. They attempt to rebut foreign criticism without even repeating what that criticism is. GlobalTimes does this all the time in their editorials, it is totally surreal. I’ve had cases where I’m reading chinadaily and I have to go to a foreign news source to understand what they are actually railing against; eg the article would be like “the Dalai Lama did something, it was wrong!” without ever elaborating about what “it” was.
California exports to the the rest of us mostly. Lots of food, high end manufacturing, services, and they have a huge slice of the asia-us trade logistics.
Not that I'm aware of. I wrote to Yubico and surepassid, both said it's not possible.
Medical bills are covered in many countries outside of the US. The inflation goes into home instead.
Have they removed the "Trust" loophole?

This is where you setup a local trust, and purchase the property through that trust (and not a non-resident).

People can also still purchase properties through local proxies.
I thought those particular examples were caused by federal subsidies and regulations juicing the demand side of the price curve via Medicare/Medicaid, Fannie/Freddie/FHA/USDA, and guaranteed student loans.

As I understand it, QE (and monetary policy more broadly) juices the supply side of the price curve, leading to a general rise in prices due to the increased supply of the metric we use to measure prices (i.e. dollars).

So it's likely QE has led to a general devaluing of the dollar that would lead upward pressure on all prices. The reason the three industries you mentioned have outpaced every other seems to be federal policies like subsidies and regulation juicing the demand side of the curve.

It also seems like those three industries are fairly insulated from globalization and, to an extent, automation, which accounts for a lot of the downwards pressure on prices, offsetting some of the devaluing effects of QE.
It's quite common. When I first struggled with my gender indentity, I looked at the world's history. Our Western societies puts such shame on individuals not on the edges of the gender spectrum that it's easy to think you are outright crazy. I found many example of it thoughout history. I never made a complete list but here are some that comes to mind:

- Samoan fa'afafine,

- Native American Two-Spirits (umbralla term, each tribe has their own word),
- South Asian Hijras,

- Ethiopian Ashtime,

- Hawaiin Māhū,

- Philippines's multiple gender identities (baklâ, bayot,etc.),

Etc.
The argument is that CEO salaries aren't actually determined by supply and demand, and that the uncertainties are so prevalent that any attempt at valuation is certainly made up. It comes down to more interpersonal networks, relationships, and power then it does analytical rigor.

At least, that's the argument.
Agree 100%. I have a PhD in Biophysics, can evaluate the literate, and the amount of animus targeted towards Monsanto on this is unreasonable.

Of course, trials like this aren't about proving the substance causes harm in a scientific way.
Economic Theory versus Big Data
This is the way Termux works so far, External storage: Storage on external SD cards. Each app has a private folder on the external SD card, and interchange between them needs to use a special API not yet available in Termux.

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Internal_and_external_storage
>It appears you're conflating two things.

I probably am :)

I'm definitely guilty of playing loose with my words. I was thinking of all of the various pensions. But as far as unfunded liabilities go, I was thinking of public employee pensions, where the amount they get out is not at all what they've paid in, and many (most?) of the various public pension programs are paying into the pensions to cover shortfalls from their investment portfolios. Many of them are looking at large amounts of financial liability in the future they don't currently have a budget for paying as I understand it.

>Either way, a shareholder owning a comparatively tiny amount of stock has neither a duty nor the impetus to align their interests with that of the corporation in which they hold stock.

I make no argument about what anyone should or shouldn't do. My point is that I think a lot of people picture four or five guys leering at each other around a table when they talk about shareholders, but in reality there are a lot of small fish with a vested interest in companies getting them the best return they can on their investment because they're relying on those returns to pay their expenses during the fixed income period of their life.
I have had similar experiences, though I rarely drive in London. However, I would hope that you would accept that, if you were caught speeding, it would be a fair cop, given the clarity of the signage, the rules, etc.?

The acceptance of the rule of law really seems to be central to this whole speed camera issue. If you accept that your actions are subject to the law then you will also accept the consequences of any transgressions you make, intentional or otherwise; the mechanism of enforcement is simply irrelevant. An individual may want to be excused from consequence for a particular law, on the basis that they disagree with them (e.g. speeding), but that isn't how the law works, and necessarily so.
> The point being that the file input button doesn’t look like any other button on their website. But hey, why solve a problem when you can force the entire world to accommodate it?

Why don't the buttons on your website look like HIG-compliant buttons on whatever platform the user is using? That's what web chrome looked like back in the aughts and it was fantastic. Apparently you can still do it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms/Th....
timescale.com isn't https enabled by default. influxdata.com is. Just my first impression as a 2018 web developer.
Inflation period! A few percent a year compounded over almost 25 years adds up. My $8 lunches are now more like $14.
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Don’t turn legacy into technical debt
So we should have two numbers, actual kernel, whole tree.

I am quite convinced that if they kept it that way it was because some unplanned property caused worse driver status with an API; too many delays, improper usage I don't know.

If there's no solid reason, then I'd be happy to have split codebases.
Of the companies I've worked at, my favorite setup was:

* people manager dealt with people issues

* technical reviews performed by senior technical people (under the same people manager, or cross teams if noone else is at the same / higher level)

* technical review is a part of the people manager's management responsibility: is it done on time, is the reviewee satisfied with the content and criticism of the review, etc.

This prevented a lot of personal opinion blight from influencing technical reviews- aka avoided subjective criticism from being part of the review score, focused instead on more objective metrics.

The time and place for subjective criticism and discussion is in planning and in-situ reviews (aka pull / merge requests), not formal reviews.

That's my experience at least; the particular managers I had at that company (3 over 7 years) also happened to be excellent people on the whole. A bad people manager is, of course, just as bad as a bad technical manager.
I've never seen a setup where a css preprocessor didn't just generate the output once at build-time.
Collective awareness, or the models that we use to understand the world
California health code takes it a step further. If accessing the restroom involves traversing a food prep area, it cannot be made public.
It depends on your clientele. If you're in an area where everyone is well behaved, then you might be right.

If you're in a place with tons of mentally disabled folk or other type of people that don't respect public areas, then it's going to cost you more than it helps you.

Also, it could be more headache than its worth if you're at a big tourist spot where the probability of someone buying something is not high enough compared to the enormous amount of people who will want to use a bathroom.
We’re the Core Developers of the Julia Programming Language. AuA. [Reddit AMA]
Xkcd: Repair or Replace
New Zealand bans sales of homes to foreigners
And i have a russian roomate, too.

I hear the scene's better in LA...
An important point: I looked up the deals mentioned the article and they were all late stage, where such numbers are unsurprising. One company was a bit over 2 years old (and then did a Softbank deal); the others were 6-9 years old.

The article makes it sound like enormous A round deals are being done in commerce and tech.
It hasn't done so in countries where it has been implemented, so your fears seem groundless.
>Likewise, until China embraces immigration rather than emigration, talent is unlikely to flock to China in any significant numbers.

Isn't it the case already? In our company, the preference to host an overseas talent always goes to China's office for simplicity of immigration process. Secondary to that, I have to admit, is the significantly reduced chance of hostile talent poaching.

What was the reason you left China?

BTW. Ever crosses paths with Shanghai Bill of Slashdot fame?
Yep. Clearing obstacles and managing externals -- although once you give somebody the title there seems to be a lot more involved.

The good managers I've seen don't talk a lot. The best managers are developers who have a natural skill for the work and got voted into the job, They do that obstacle-clearing and coordination on an as-needed basis, working alongside everyone else the rest of the time.

The core of the problem is that tech development involves way more skills than there are people, no matter how you want to slice them. When you go for training or start putting folks in roles, the assumption is that your role is at the center of the org. Not the value creation stream. There's an oversimplification and false focus that occurs that's antithetical to getting things done. So yes, that's the manager's job. But it rarely stays like that.
This almost happened. Ten years ago "WebSQL" was being considered as a standard - it would have introduced SQLite-backed databases as a built-in browser feature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database

The W3C dropped it in November 2010 because they were uncomfortable supporting a web standard which was entirely tied to a single implementation of SQL (SQLite). I adore SQLite but I think the W3C made the right call there - web standards need more than one compatible implementation.
One thing that CS needs to do more to battle climate change: pay attention to the energy foot print of the stuff you develop.
People buy ad space above urinals all the time.
We have a lot of history. :-)

To be fair, I have also seen reports from France and Denmark as well.
Quitting a company that pays for your insurance, and likely deeply embedded itself in your social life, isn't "easy".

Acting like the corporate-employee relationship is the same as between, say, a uber-driver and an uber-passenger is ridiculous but it seems to me your model of employment.
I recall reading a story about someone who had implemented some sort of table using links for actions. At some point the app data mysteriously got wiped out. Turned out a user had Alexa toolbar installed and it crawled the "delete" links on each row (as well as all the pagination links)...
In some class of products, once you have a product market fit, you can start scaling marketing and such, which are easy to scale but require capital to operate. Funding round is one way to acquire capital.
Reimagining the Jira project configuration experience
It seems the curvature is positive or negative in relation to the overall body of the material. With positive surface curvature we get bubble or shell shaped objects which in bulk amount to a very fine powder. If those shells/balls are fused with each other into a regular lattice - most of the structure can be identical (except the fused parts) but the balls become connected holes in a larger rigidly connected body, which is formed by their union.

Im guessing that in normal space negative curvature has to imply surfaces which do not bound a space, but which rather extend through a space - a kind of solid.
TSPN1: Oppo F9 Specifications, Features and Price
That's because the city has no solutions.

So far they've only tried telling the universities to build more dorms and give up some of the housing they have.

I mean, there's plenty of new apartment buildings going up around Boston, but they're all luxury.
Expensify is powered entirely using sqlite (inside bedrockdb.com) and it is freaking amazing.
This is a phenomenal example of how to teach math. You can go through theory, formulas and proofs all day long (yes, sometimes rigor is needed), but this type of teaching is sticky. It takes a lot more time to display information in the way the author has done, but it reaps massive benefits for those trying to learn. In my mind, math is about concepts and there is no reason why we can't start teaching math like this.

Amazing work. The collective intelligence of the world has just gone up.

Another amazing example of visual math lectures, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw.
It could be worse....

I get both the “I’m not like most computer people” and

“You don’t sound Black”. That’s usually from old White southern people. At that point I usually just do the southern retort “Bless ya heart”

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bless%20your...
The way Pinterest presents images with very little context can also discourage users from connecting images to their source websites (which they may never visit). It's like a social Google Image search with recommendations.