skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defending lynching(done for whatever reason) is sickening.

However, I don't see how that is a reason for someone "not coming back to India". Not all people from the majority religion have ganged up and decided to lynch Muslims.

India has a population of more than 1.3 billion and it is severely under-policed. This leads to several miscreants doing all sorts of bad stuff.

> Democracy doesn't mean anything without rights of the minority. Not because you like Muslims. You can totally hate Muslims and still support basic decency of life for people of that faith.

What is the rationale behind this argument? The Indian state doesn't discriminate against people based on their religion or color. I am not denying criminal acts against Muslims. Investigations are on in these cases and people are being punished as per the law.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43496017
You need to be cut out for remote work. It's not for everyone and it's good to realize that.
Its not "EU bureaucrats" though. You can read any HN thread on GDPR and general consensus here is that it is good for consumer rights and if you are having hard time with it then you were doing something malicious and you should give up your unethical 'business model'.

Also, GDPR is not restricted to ' EU users'.
How would one know such a thing?

The absence of tipping was one of the big advantages uber and lyft offered over conventional cabs when they first came along, and I've stuck with it; I'm not going to tip.

If that eventually gets me blackballed so I have to go back to old-fashioned cabs, well... perhaps I'm not missing out on much.
Amazon, and Walmart before it, is far from alone. Entire industries are subsidized by the tax payer, with larger externalities (e.g., fossil fuels or sugar).
Just a couple of precisions here, to clarify (even for myself) and maybe bring some more fuel to the discussion.

>make up for a slower brain, less stamina and decreasing memory

It's a fact, physiologically, that our cognitive skills decrease after the late 20s, there's abundance of literature on the subject. Now, getting older, and with experience, I believe we process information more efficiently (less cycle spent on bs), which can bring a net gain and make us more productive in our daily jobs, it's what I tried to explain in the first 2 sentences.

Concerning the "made it big", here's what I mean:

First, a computer + a brain capable of programming it is probably one of the most powerful combination that ever existed in nature. The potential for creation/disruption is immense, and we can see examples every day. Second, as software devs, one of the driving forces, probably the most important one, is creativity, imagining new things or new ways of doing them. So, when you combine those 2 things, the power and imagination, and then you spend most of your life working on some boring business app, from paycheck to paycheck, one can feel a little bit unaccomplished. The "make it big" here means feeling accomplished, having been able to move your art to its full potential. I know it's highly subjective of course, but I also know a lot of us are feeling that way, so it may not be as subjective as it seems.

I hope it clears up a bit.
And does AMD allow it? If yes, than we have one more reason to......
Which taxes?

https://itep.org/amazon-inc-paid-zero-in-federal-taxes-in-20...
So... massive IT failure and everything carried on working because staff was really competent? Damn the Brits are hung up on complaining
FIDO2 is planned but prior to this we are going to release a FIDO U2F first.
OK, we've replaced the title with the article's subtitle, which is more specific.
Completely agree - it's a classic prisoners dilemma, and the solution is to regulate cooperation.
POWER9 is looking more and more attractive by the day.
In my experience it comes close actually. I do remote work with 1 day a week from a coworking space, 1 video call every morning, and some pairing every week. The coworking space with mostly "random" people (but a mostly consistent group) really helps me fill that some kind of communication need.
Please elaborate and provide a source. Searching for "benchmark" on that link did not give any results. (EDIT: Thanks for the downstream comments)
This kind of highlights a huge issue with being poor: lack of mobility.

If people with modest budgets could afford to pack up and move to Columbia, Missouri, then the cost burden of housing could be mitigated somewhat. We'd probably see housing prices stabilize across the country. As it stands, only wealthy people can afford to migrate across the country, usually in pursuit of even more wealth. This just adds to the problem because it results in more dollars chasing a supply of existing houses that isn't expanding rapidly enough.

Probably, the only way to reverse this trend now is to raise property taxes on single family homes in desirable locations such that it becomes uneconomical to maintain them as such. Then these massive tracts of suburbia can be bought up by developers who are incentivized to build high-density housing. Of course, a serious proposal of this sort is likely to get you killed.
As much as any citizen or much less ?
state taxes?
Wow, for me it looks like the tops of many of the characters has been rubbed off. These 'fat-bottomed' fonts seem to be a common theme.

I do find it strange that a font designed for readability (such as Consolas -my fav for any text editor), isn't mentioned as a readable font for dyslexics (or why it isn't). Monospacing improves the readability of certain characters (i,l,t) words with this combination of characters (ill, lit, readability) often end up getting very compressed.
I feel like this is nothing new. Every few years, some major sportsball team threatens to leave their city unless the taxpayers fork over mega-billions for a new stadium. Despite any measurable economic benefits to having a stadium, the cities fall for it every time. It's the same thing, right? Amazon says "give us free electricity and we'll make jobs", and the politicians buy it even though it's very unlikely to be true.

Maybe someday we'll get an itemized tax bill, so you can see that you paid $4.12 for Amazon's electricity and $1.23 for a new sports arena, and can vote for someone else if that upsets you. Now that I think about it, that will never happen. And so, the cycle continues.
Not reading is certainly a yellow alert in my book (pun semi-intended). If not books, at least trade magazines & publications.
I would love to see a wasm repl online. Something that's focused on teaching the language, not for people who are going to write compilers that target it, but for people who are confused about what it is and how it works, as a way of demystifying wasm so that they have more confidence in choosing to adopt it. Maybe something that really visualizes the ins and outs of a wasm program, and maybe some kind of dynamic visualization of how the s-expressions transform into stack-based code. Just an idea, but I think it could be useful and fun for someone to make for those of us who want to play around with wasm without installing anything :)
If you think the article is clearly wrong to use a certain word, consider the possibility that they're using a different definition than you are.

I, for one, would never identify "requiring less commutes" as a key facet of mobility. To me, it means that it is easier to get around – and on a large scale, that's absolutely the (successful) goal of the interstate system.
Face-PALM: US Patent and Trademark Office database down for 5 days and counting
My point was more he had his time, and it's gone. He hasn't lived on past that. Carlin and the likes were relevant until their death.
Submitted title was "Americans' Concern with Privacy and Security Are Declining". Please don't editorialize in submission titles. This is in the site guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's such an obvious ploy that it is actually offensive, and makes me feel like I want to tip less just to punish the system designer for their presumption.
It's “Data is” not “Data are”
When Bezos said "Your margin is my opportunity." he was talking to consumers and not completion. Amazon is killing off small business and forcing tax payers to take up the brunt of Amazons expansion.
Yeah, there's a really interesting alternative history of computing where SGI's management was anywhere near the same caliber as their engineering.
> Or you know developers could package their own software.

As a developer I can tell you right now that I'm not gone package everything for for 100s of linux distros that I don't even know the name of.

> It's some upfront effort but usually set and forget. Things like FPM[1] make this even easier. Personally I don't know why developers find packaging so hard, I've had to package hundreds of bit of software for different distros (and versions of said distro) over my career and it's usually set and forget with some changes when there are big underlying changes to the OS like sysv > systemd. Granted my experience is with non GUI apps so I can imagine there is likely some pain points between different distros/version when it comes to the hot mess that is DEs.

Have you ever thought about maybe that doing something a lot makes you good at it.

Many developers are not linux expert, and don't know the many difference between the distros and the package managers, or even the different distros using the same manager.

Saying its 'fire and ferget' when there are so many distors who are all moving targets with different targets, release cycles and so on, its just basically lying.

But that's not all, you also have to get bug reports from many different people that you can not reproduce.

> Because I have to go from trusting 1 vendor to install 1 package (and dependencies) to 1 3rd party repo that anyone can push to. That is a huge change in the trust model.

So the fact that some poor debian maintainer had to wrap the venders app with some debian specific glue makes it safer?

If you don't trust the vender of your software, you can trust that they maintain a repo where you can download it. That might be Flathub for some smaller once, but others will have their own.

There is not more trust involved at all, maybe you move trust from Debian to Flathub, but that's it.

> We already have those.

Not with the advantages of the maintainer only having to publish one software package.

> This isn't about trusting the software in the package it's about trusting the package maintainer, who could now be absolutely anyone with no verification or validation. See malware in other user run repos like NPM, pip, AUR etc...

It is already absolutely anybody. Do you know all the people who package for Debian?

Also, if don't want to use apps directly from Flathub, you don't have to. You can only use software that has been validated by the Flathub community, or when somebody like Fedora uses the app.

Forcing 1000s of man hours of voluntary work just so you can claim "Some guy lightly related to the X distro project has taken a couple hours to see if it doesn't crash" so that's what I'm gone base my security on is a insane approach.

That's a terrible, terrible security architecture and the only reason anybody is defending it is because that's who it used to be and that somehow makes it good.
Props in Network Theory
How does a strong dollar affect home prices in the US? The exchange rate only matter when importing something, and you aren't importing anything when you buy a house in the US denominated in USD.

Besides, the RMB hasn't been devalued (as in the standard definition, which is creating a new currency and dropping a few zeros). It has risen from 6.29 RMB to 1 USD in April to 6.86 today, but that is +10% and the tariffs are +25%. But a year ago the RMB was 6.68, so the year-over-year increase is +2.6%.

Of the four assertions, only #1 is correct.
And yet you seem to be the only one complaining...
As a new grad from CMU undergrad, every offer I had came with a sign on bonus (n=5). Size ranged from 5k at a smaller public company to 75-100k at a couple of FAANG companies, one of which I was a returning intern at.
How older aged devs outpace their peers and should get respect
Yeah, and the only real crazy stuff that happened was people put up "death" or "assassination" contracts. Famous person X will die in 2018.... The problem with decentralized betting like this is who is the authority that determines who the winner is. External and honest oracles are hard.
Economically-questionable conclusions: although individual secretive utilities might on occasion make dumb deals,
they'll charge households whatever the market & regulators will allow,
and then charge Amazon whatever the market & regulators allow.

Because most utilities are monopolies that are allowed by regulators I'm not sure that the market's invisible hand has that much of an impact is this particular situation. The consumers who need electricity for their homes don't have much choice here.

Edit: formatting
You still want each individual power plant to provide as smooth a power output as possible because each dip puts some strain on the other plants in the network as they have to increase their output to accommodate.
DirecTV beats $4B lawsuit that alleged it tricked customers into paying more
Glad they finished that. Now if they could just complete I-70 in Breezewood PA...
PixelBlock – Gmail extension that blocks email open tracking
> Can someone here actually say that they have received, or more importantly, are on a consistent basis getting 6-figure payouts for their exploits?

I am not going to make any claim on whether people are or are not receiving payments, but anyone who actually is would clearly not disclose it directly, because that would most likely break the terms of the payment.

The fact that no one is saying are getting paid directly for exploits is not evidence that it is not happening.
The intersection of art and science – Wellcome Image Awards (2017)
Simplest solution to the problem, love it
That "violence" has allowed to fund video research.
IMO ray[1] is the greatest thing to happen in python parallelism since the invention of sliced bread.

Also includes best currently available hyperparameter tuning framework!

[1] https://github.com/ray-project/ray
Stadiums are a huge peeve of mine, because the people who paid for them can't even use them without paying for tickets! Pretty much every other public building my taxes fund I can make use of.
True, but their story at the beginning, despite not following the general pattern, would count as passing off costs, because everyone had to pay a rate hike that was only necessary for one user.
> All existing currency, savings, pensions, many contracts, etc., have just been ripped up.

wasn't that already done by the hyperinflation?
Amazon doesn't even collect the correct amount of sales tax. So yet again it is ripping off the states in which is does business.

"According to an analysis from the ITEP, the gap between the tax rate that some local tax jurisdictions impose and what Amazon collects can be as much as 7.5 percentage points in Homer, AK., for example."

http://fortune.com/2018/03/29/amazon-tax-rate-president-dona...
To be fair they don't pay for it every time... The chargers are now in LA, not SD
So, I actually thought about including "enough of a cash buffer to survive a few bad hires", but the more I thought about it the more I remembered how much time was wasted on folks who made it through the interview process but didn't work out. Lots of companies are wasting money hiring folks with no plan for how to retain them or get them to work effectively. If you've solved this problem then good for you.
Morningstar Farms have such good buffalo wings that I prefer them over the real thing. Their burger patties aren't all great, but the black bean ones were impressively tasty.
Couldn't agree more. Don't like tipping an extra dollar for a coffee once in a while? Make it at home. If you can't spare $15 a week to tip service employees when you're sporting a six-figure salary, shame on you.

If you're a regular at a coffeeshop/fast casual place, another perk of tipping is that you quickly become known as a tipper and employees will come to like you. If you need a selfish reason to tip beyond having the employees like you, sometimes they'll even hook you up with free/discounted stuff.

It's easy to just eat out one fewer time a week and redistribute the would-have-been-spent-anyway money as tips to service employees, regardless of how much you think they actually 'did' for you.
Or different parts of the world. Drones are extremist and suicide bombings are noble in parts of pakistan while opposite is true in usa.
We've changed the title to part of the subtitle.
Also the proliferation of the internet has been heavily tax subsidized to give access to the masses. Even more benefit is gained from being based in states without sales tax. Something brick and mortar stores can’t do to compete.
If you're oriented towards academic writing, "How to Take Smart Notes" from Sönke Ahrens describes the Zettelkasten method which is akin to the GTD method but focused towards writing. Besides, the book contains interesting insights on how we learn and get motivated to work. Recommended reading.
Scholastic performance and functional connectivity of brain networks in children
What can you ask for in a job negotiation, beyond salary?  what's common
> tremendous exposure to legal risk

In practice that's very rarely an issue. One recent case had Target using a cleaning service that way paying illegal immigrants below minimum wage. The government did not care and the only impact was being forced to pay actual wages. And remember that's the worst case, which means sticking with minimum wage is safe.

Now, IBM/Apple/whatever may take steps to avoid illegal immigrants. But, the market clearing price does not have a simple illegal vs. non separation for jobs. So, companies bidding on work are faced with some hard choices.

PS: Now, if you can find examples of penalties for the big company side of things outside of the most blatant violations I would be curious.
I'm amused by the "Lift" naming trend for code generators. Mozilla's next gen code generator for wasm will be called "Cranelift" [1]. Probably coincidence.

[1]: https://github.com/CraneStation/cranelift
>wages go up by UP TO the same amount
> Most startups are not worth working at.

I agree completely, which is why I stopped working at startups myself. The question was about how startups are in general, so we must acknowledge that wildly optimistic equity value expectations are the norm.

"Just don't work at these places" isn't viable advice when the vast majority of startups are like this. Like it or not, most people open to working for a startup will end up working for a startup like this, where the founder tells all candidates their 0.0001% is going to be worth millions because the startup is taking over a $300bn industry.

> Right, that's exactly what I said...in the case that it's not successful it's not like anyone is getting rich, so in that case it's not like employees have been "screwed out" of options.

Sure, but modelling liquidity events and such is totally worthless if the most important number isn't known. Especially when that most important number dominates the others. How many funding rounds is the startup going to have? Totally depends on its revenue. Same for dilution, and how likely they are to look for ways to screw regular shareholders over.

> In reference to Skype: they did absolutely poison the talent pool look at you remembering and posting this article.

So one person in a huge thread is evidence Skype paid dearly for that massive shit show?

Let's get real. The typical fresh graduate hasn't even heard of the Skype IPO. Skype is now part of MS. Even hearing of this awful story, would anyone refrain from joining MS because of it?

I doubt.

> You're right that most startup options are worthless, but not all are, and that doesn't mean you can't reason about which are worthless and which are not.

This reply was for someone who is the average financially-non-savvy startup employee. It's not for me, maybe also not for you.

If I was looking to work for a startup again, I'd know what to look for, and what to avoid.
I agree and London is far from alone is this behavior.
Oracle does the same thing. As a community, we need to punish companies that engage in these types of behaviors.
It's interesting how this sort of means that the cost of Amazon is in a way socialized (including all the tax breaks for building a new office somewhere), while it's impossible to socialize healthcare in the US.
The interstate system was responsible for decimating entire down towns, completely reducing any sense of mobility for all parties involved. Uprooting trolly systems that spanned across large parts of the country. It's not a specific issue with the word, it's a issue with what the overall view of highways portrayed by the article, and the reason it was done to begin with.
This was a massive hit when I was in high school, and I was in my "fuck pop music" phase. The main thing that turned me off to it was that she was trying to get pregnant, so TIL. It is amusing that the intended meaning is closer to "all that she wants is another fuckboy"

It was slightly different with Brittney Spears and "Hit Me Baby One More Time". It was pretty apparent that she didn't mean she wanted to be physically abused, but it wasn't clear what she actually meant, and I wasn't going to waste my time trying to figure out the real meaning of a song I didn't want to listen to in the first place.
Mozilla's complaint is that a developer's privacy policy is the only place where it is mentioned that an add-on performs extensive data collection. The developer's response implies that there might be legal consequences if they disclosed it elsewhere without using proper language.

What legal issues could the developer worried be about?
Does anyone have the current Black market value of a 1 USD in Bolivares? Or a link to where I can find out?
I've lived in houses built in the 40s and 90s. I would take the former any day of the week. I'm not generally a "they don't build them like they used to kind of person", but my experience with houses is that older homes were built to last while newer ones are just built to sell.

Of course, there's probably some survivorship bias there. All the shitty homes from the 40s are gone now.
Tips for a Successful Kickstarter Campaign [$19K Raised]
See this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Augur/comments/97di7x/is_there_a_wa...
I like the kinds of articles coming out of the New York Times recently. I was getting tired of the corporate PR material that we've been fed over the past decade.

It's nice to read news that reflects regular people's everyday experience.

Not so long ago, a journalist would probably have been fired for writing like that. I'm seriously considering buying a subscription for the nytimes.com - Our comrades need support.
Shorting Bolivar?
IMO proprietary lags way more because you do not know if your chosen framework (unless it is Qt, heh) will function 5-10 years down the line with minimal investment in updates.

The Linux kernel is everywhere thanks to Torvalds (overly late in the opinions of some BSD devs) declaring the API/ABI sacrosanct, and holding the other kernel developers to that (much to the chagrin of some that want to do hail mary changes for sake of security or ego).

But the userspace above had been reimplemented again and again because the various libs and such are fundamentally unstable. In far too many cases you can even do a x.y.z+1 update without getting some kind of breakage.

Often because someone decided that spec adherence was more important than real life stability, and thus pushed a patch through that altered the API behavior to be more in line with a spec that nobody had complained about for a decade or more.
You've been able to boot a Pi from USB for quite some time now, avoiding the issues with using a MicroSD card. While it isn't SATA, booting from USB still allows use of an external drive.