skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was exhibit panels at a museum, so there's no online link, but looking up some historical prices:

Wages in the Lowell Mills in 1845 were about $25/month. [1] As of 1825 farmland went for roughly $5/acre. [2] So for every month you worked in the mills, you could buy a 5 acre farm. Save up for 10 years and you could get a roughly 600 acre farm, which is pretty substantial. Mill girls had very low expenses because their room & board was often paid for by the company and they didn't have time to go out and have fun, so they banked a lot of their earnings.

A house in Brooklyn went for $2500 [3], so if you wanted to be a city girl, save up for 8 years and you could own it free and clear.

It's hard to talk about "$300K in inflation-adjusted terms" because life was qualitatively so different back then. You couldn't buy an iPhone at any price, nor electricity, nor running water, nor basic sanitation and medical care. The poorest American today lives a much better life than the richest industrialist back then, except for having to look around him and see how everyone else is living even better ones. But by the standards of the day, someone who saved for 10 years in the mills could become quite wealthy, at least relative to the peers they left behind.

Conditions were horrible - quality of life for mill girls was usually a lot worse than the farms they left behind. That goes for middle-class kids who become programmers in Silicon Valley as well. ;-) But economic gain is different from quality of life: part of the reason wages were high was because they needed to be to attract people from their old lives and put up with the new one, and one way to do that is to say "Well, when you're done here, you're gonna be the big man/woman in your old village."

Also, we tend to judge the past by the standards of today, which isn't really fair. The choice these workers had wasn't "Work in the mills or live in the post-WW2 era of 40 hour work weeks", it was "Work in the mills or work on the farm."

[1] http://courses.wcupa.edu/johnson/lowell1845.html

[2] http://www.afrigeneas.com/forumdarchive/index.cgi/md/read/id...

[3] https://247wallst.com/investing/2010/09/16/the-history-of-wh...
This will clearly have a negative, long-term effect on the environment by causing up to 400000 more human beings to reach sexual maturity in a part of the world where expanding human population is the major environmental threat. And, in the long run, a collapsing natural environment is also going to cause tremendous human suffering and death. But never mind it's just a drop in the ocean anyway, so go ahead.
Anyone wants to try a new static analysis platform?
> Hacker News seems to think

Solid data driven analysis is what I'm here for...
> My dad graduated in 1976 in the middle of stagflation and had a 12% apr on his first house in the mid 80s.

But inflation over the next few years meant that in real terms (the most important terms), that rate was between 6% and -2%(!). Inflation hit 14% in 1980. The ability to refinance also means that he wouldn't have to keep that high interest rate once inflation settled down. So he probably did quite well with that mortgage.

edit: I misread the dates in that sentence, so your Dad probably didn't benefit from the inflation in the early 80s. That said, it is important to consider high mortgage rates in real terms.
As an example, look at the Comcast arbitration agreement [1]. They do not want to choose. They want it to be either the AAA or a judge making the choice. You might also notice that they are totally fine with you suing them in your local small claims court.

[1] https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/Subscri...
https://www.businessinsider.com/words-china-banned-from-sear...

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https://status.github.com/messages states:

September 25, 2018
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We are investigating reports of elevated error rates.
Why not? It seems to be a boilerplate remover for simple parallel processing tasks.
Had a very similar experience a few years back migrating from PySide to PyQt when PySide wasn't able to keep up with Qt. Fixing the imports took minutes and we were off to the races.
Go wasn't created until 2009 and Dropbox already had tons of Python code by then as well as extremely accomplished Python programmers (they hired the creator of Python only a few years later). I also don't think Go would have allowed the tight integration with, for example, OS X where Dropbox actually superimposes their icons onto your Finder icons. As far as I understand, it was only because of smart programming and use of OS X's Python / Ruby bridge functionality that they were able to do it.
It was more like some guy on Twitch talking with his friend while they played some game. Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: The stream was https://www.twitch.tv/thatguytagg. I can't find the VOD though.
You always have at least two options, and this case is not extreme -

1. You can blow up any amount if you like to.
2. Or, you can figure out what you are trying to do. Then, learn how to do it better. There is a cheaper way to run in the cloud too - https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/968407559102058496
If you mean literally a shaker, I'd highly recommend getting a grinder even if it's one of those disposable ones built into the bottle. One of my pet peeves (#FirstWorldProblems I know) is restaurants, especially those at the mid- to high-end, with pepper shakers.
Sweden - https://slf.se/om-oss/
Denmark - https://www.laeger.dk/english
Norway - http://legeforeningen.no/english/
That may be but the comparison is obviously a shock and awe type exaggeration. By virtue of Nazis being people that also did normal things you could bring it up in any discussion. But would you? Would you tell someone encouraging "the troops" that they're no different from Nazi supporters? It's the exaggeration that's the problem here. The same kind of exaggeration you hear when certain politicians scream "you are protecting terrorists and pedophiles!" to argue against encryption.
>I dont think google should be regulated, they are free to censor.

Why do we willingly allow private governments, especially those with an enormous amount of power over people? Who would ever want these companies with hundreds of millions to a billion+ users to be allowed to censor other than complying with local laws?

In my opinion, Google, Facebook, and other large corporations are a threat to our democracy & elections in a much larger way than any Russia claim that could be made. Censorship on the level that Google could and probably does pull off is a major concern and could swing elections that directly effect Americans negatively at the benefit of Google.
even more mystic in its infancy when it was an abbreviated phone number you would call, hold up the phone mic near the source, get hung up on and then recieve a txt with your song title and artist.. in 2002

(o) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_%28application%29#Early...
Any idea if projectM supports Milkdrop2 at all.
This might have been a single Apple developer trying to get shit done. They might have had a problem with Intel software and just said "do it like Qualcomm did it" and provided them with a snippet of code.
> There's no end in sight and I don't know how we turn around from this trend

Various european cities have bans on certain car categories and expand the bans further on smog days. If widespread enough it might drive people to choose cars that would still allow them to drive on such days, e.g. electrics.
> I certainly don't expect the poor engineer that had to implement the cookie changes to refuse and quit his job over it.

I frankly can't disagree more with this statement. That's how you get VW's defeat devices etc. Engineering ethics matter. And engineers are not "poor". Maybe not everyone realises it but we, engineers, have substantial powers. We need to exercise them.
GitHub – We are investigating reports of elevated error rates
Google Chrome’s latest feature? A nasty dark pattern
Counterpoint: IntelliJ is beautiful
Just noticed that the thread was about OpenJDK, for which there is no cask at the moment. The java cask is the Oracle JDK.
The UK CEO presented some of their different data capabilities at the agency where I used to work: they were encouraging advertisers to use this data to soundtrack ads.

The different 'shazam'd songs were also connected to locations and user demographics so if you wanted a track that was going to be big in a specific community you could get a good guess.
The USGS has historical high resolution aerial photographs for large portions of the country, some places going back to the 1930s:

https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/

The interface is really clunky but some of the data is amazing.

On the first tab on the right, select "Search Criteria", select "Coordinates" which allows you to put the points of a polygon on the map.

Next, select the "Data Sets" tab. Select "Aerial Photography | "Aerial Photo Single Frames"

The "Results". If there are any, thumbnails show up. You can then download the actual images which can be huge.

Once you get used to the interface, you can narrow the results down by date, etc.
Yes, they do. proposal =/= legally married; I know several people who held off a little while... either until they were out of school, or made a major purchase (such as a house, that sort of thing).
The always-on nature of this is the really killer aspect of it, especially when combined with the always-on OLED screen. If something is playing nearby I don't even have to touch my phone to know what it is - just a glance will tell me what's playing.
Of course people think this way. It's foolish not to, especially when couples can commit to each other in so many ways other than legal marriage. I'm shocked there's someone on hacker news who doesn't.
Could it not come crashing down upon you?

"I wanted to sit on my couch, but it fell and nearly killed me... damn robot furniture."
It's certainly better than nothing; for both riders/guests/users and the drivers/hosts/providers.
I was raised in a very poor environment, and I still have connections to and experiences from that sort of life. Credit affects a ton of your life in ways that people who aren't poor can't appreciate. If you want cable, they are going to run a credit check on you and if the results aren't great, you need to pony up a large deposit. If you want to open a bank account, your options are greatly diminished if you have bad credit. You are automatically disadvantaged if you're trying to rent a desirable apartment. It's probably obvious, but you also don't have credit cards without pre-paying, and that complicates life in a number of ways (and most people with bad credit also don't have the resources to pre-pay a credit card).

Not so surprisingly, this all factors into whether or not to get married to someone!
Well, you sometimes have the “option” to opt out within 30 days or so of signing the contract
> My idea is to just buy a domain, publish the link somewhere it makes sense and wait.

It's not so easy building a SaaS business. It was barely true 10yrs ago.

What is your tool about? What problem does it solve? What is the ideal person that would like (love) to use it?

> Do you have any recommendations on how to maintain, scale and market a service like this?

If it's a simple API w/ or without a DB, use Amazon Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Firebase.
Amazon/Google will do the Ops work for you and you won't have any fixed infrastructure cost.

PS: The hard work is not scaling/maintaining the service, but acquiring customers ;)
I gave up caffeine and sugar. Being outside of the craze it is pretty amazing how people talk about caffeine. People seem to believe that humans were completely unproductive blobs until caffeine came along. You hear things like "you don't want to talk to me before I get my coffee in the morning" and "developers are machines that turn caffeine into code".

I was the same way. I cut it out and for about a month it was the least productive I had ever been. Since then it has been great though, no more slump when I don't drink it, no more withdrawal headaches, no more cravings for it. I would go so far to say it is liberating to not rely on these foods.
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I think you're picking out examples of poor performing Java applications. IntelliJ's IDEs are also written in Java and they are widely acclaimed.

I do know what you mean though. Even "fast" Java applications have this vaguely clunky feel to them. I think this is the overhead of starting the JVM, or possibly GC. You see something similar with CPython desktop applications.
It is. The traffic issues GP mentions play out very differently in Boston/Brookline, Cambridge/Somerville, and further-out suburbs. There are even "microclimates" within each of those. Out near 128 where I am, the drivers are no worse than other places I've been. (I lived several years in southeast Michigan, now spend significant time in both Silicon Valley and Seattle.) It's the cyclists who are terrors, but that's a whole different topic.
So even if the business wants to fire unionized labor and find new and better labor, they can’t.

Those terms exist precisely to target the abuse you are describing: firing experienced, knowledgeable workers for "better" employees that are inexperienced and know jack-shit about what they're supposed to be doing and whose only qualifications are being cheaper.

Let's face it: in most unionized gigs, the contribution of each individual worker isn't significant, so the marginal gains of hiring a "better" worker is generally immaterial to the bottom line. In the cases where that's not true, the union contracts generally have reduced job protections that make it easier for underperforming workers to be let go (on the basis of objective criteria).
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> The social benefits feel largely like gimmicks

Get back to us the first time you have a medical emergency putting you on the hook for 5 or 6 figures (after insurance); at least you're lucky enough to be able to flee the jurisdiction back to a home country.
Defense lawyers tried to keep the 81-year-old out of prison while he appeals his conviction, saying he's frail and legally blind. Judge Steven O'Neill refused their plea for Cosby to remain on house arrest, ruling Tuesday that Cosby will be locked up immediately.

O'Neill says Cosby could "quite possibly be a danger to the community."

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Anyone knows on what basis he is considered a danger to the community at 81?
This is so true. Looking at recent developments in calendar software - it is almost all about generating more meetings easier, and not much about protecting from the distraction. Meeting software companies - pricing models tiered based on duration and size of the meetings. So it will require 180 degree u-turn for them to catch up.
i think your final point is the most crucial. If you know someone it is just easier.
I recently sent a few job applications, but for one company I went through a contact. Within a week, i got an interview with the CTO, without even having a role specified.
The other applications? No response or not even prompted for an interview.
> Does the first amendment prevent the government from using economic regulations to punish political speech by companies?

I doubt it. The politicians criticizing Google's political actions aren't going to be the ones prosecuting it or adjudicating its violations. It'll be referred to regulatory bodies that will determine if it's in violation or not in a much more neutral manner.

The case you cited was about improper bias exhibited by an adjudicator in the course of deciding a case.
If our last hope depends on any kind of unity of intent among members of our profession then we're doomed.

It's at this point I am tempted to unpack what precipice we're about to go over when our last hope disappoints. Instead i'll stop on an optimistic note: everything is terrible and nothing matters, but humans will keep doing human stuff for as long as we can. By some measures things will continuously improve and by some others we'll regress and retry old tyrannies under new epochs. The ebb and flow can't be arrested by unity while we all hate each other like we do.

Fortunately, we'll only keep on hating each other until we get something else we hate even more. Make no mistake, some day we'll all come together to hate something else again. The unity of action that'll afford will allow us to do some pretty remarkable things. Hopefully the thing we all hate together actually deserves it this time. It doesn't always work that way ;(
Because that seems overly reductive.

There are things you can do in cloud (especially as an SMB) that weren't possible on-prem.

To look at those new opportunities and say "No, how can we do things exactly the way we were?" seems like the real mistake.
The iOS Twitter app does this all the time for me. I'll be listening to an audiobook and scrolling my Twitter feed, and the audiobook will pause as soon as a (muted!) video appears in my timeline. It's infuriating.
Holy cow, what have you done to me?! And I thought Civ5 was "one more click" syndrome...

The page is pretty sparse; do you know if there are any winning conditions, or it just goes on until `Number` in JS oveflows?
Part of the Lisp tradition was the 'knowledge engineer'. Identify the knowledge and processes necessary for problem solving and implement a machine for that: logic, rules, semantic networks, ... Bring the programming language near to the problem domain.
ICANN does a pretty good job of vetting domain registrar's, it isn't that easy to become one, and there are lot of hoops to jump through. If Zoho's claims are true, then they could file a complaint with ICANN. ICANN has the power to revoke TierraNet as a registrar if they see fit.
Java 9 was a major release. Project jigsaw (introducing modules) was a major change and blocker. Once they got that out of the way they changed the release cycle, which is why java 10 was released soon after java 9.

So they actually just went from 9 to 11, going by your logic.
Yes, this is a very real problem. I’m close to someone who has to actively turn down freelance work past a certain point because they will no longer qualify for Medicaid and still be far short of affording an ACA plan. Obviously the “solution” is to get a lot more work all at once to get out of that financial gap, but it’s hard to do.
This is a very narrow view that assumes the man's partner is not contributing.
I'm guessing this thing is going to run all the time and send Apple a continuous stream of what music is actually playing around people, so they can use the data to better market music.

Having song identification built into your iDevice is a nice value add for the consumer though
First time I've ever seen the Github 500 error page. It looks cool!
Wooohooo parent really ate a big cock there
GTK+3: Moving Beyond Themes
Appears to be online now.

12:59 Pacific Daylight Time
Everything operating normally.
I really enjoyed working at Shazam. One of my favourite parts were the hackdays, got to learn a lot. Here's a write up of visualising music recognitions: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/data-visualisation-with-1-bi...

I've been planning to do more write-ups from past hackdays, such as building a functional Shazam experience in client side JavaScript and other visualisations. For example one time, I repurposed a WebGL globe to plot music recognitions over it. I don't have access to the Shazam tag stream anymore, but you can get a feel for how this looked as I've applied near real-time Wikipedia edits on the globe instead: https://umaar.com/globe/
It looks more like a difference in sharpening or focus, not necessarily a “filter” or skin smoothening effect. Either way, hardly a conclusive test.
Yup. I too completely lost interest in music when I hit 30

/s
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Caffeine, and coffee directly, has been popular in America since the revolutionary war. The title is clickbait because all the article talks about is a weird lawsuit relating to Coca-Cola.
One of my pet peeves is that there's no mandatory "History of ideas in software development" course in most CS curriculums.
Not if they've already been diagnosed with a mental illness, which is the situation at hand.
Eclipse is just really dated.
Just go North of the border and pick up a Nissan Micra. A manual with no ac and windup windows goes for under $10k Canadian.

Here's some Ontarians test driving it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1EIrJOXMo
What things are you specifically talking about that 'even rich Americans barely have access to'?
Same here. It's always shocking to see sites that never go down, fall to their knees.
The unemployment at historic lows, the stock market booming, and all signs point to a vibrant labor market? Better find an article that claims the unemployment rate doesn't matter and the economy is actually bad, because mainstream statistics disagree! I think you should stop believing conspiracy theories.
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That's one definition I guess. I don't think there's anything inherently negative about the definition of addiction though.

People can be addicted to lots of good things.
Former NSA employee sentenced to 66 months for taking home classified info
This has been happening for a while: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15899065. We've updated the title to reflect that.

This thread is a good one, though, so we won't bury it as a dupe.
Well, I didn't get married until I was 30, which according to statistics is the average age of divorce in the US. Getting married later seems to be key here.
Another comment in this thread said that it's due to the license on Nvidia's drivers. So technically you can use the hardware in a datacenter, just not with the official drivers. Unfortunately it seems that the open-source drivers aren't usable for most datacenter purposes, so this effectively limits how you can use the hardware (at least in North America, where they can enforce it).
Google will acknowledge prior 'mistakes' on privacy
I use keybase almost exclusively as an encrypted git tool. My personal notebooks live there.
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> If I have to endure constant harassment for being genderqueer in public

No one gives a shit.

Can you write good code? Yes, cool awesome welcome to the project. Do you write bad code? Then piss off.

We don't need a useless CoC because of non-relevant issues you face in your personal life.
>> Well, freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences

> When the government is the agent of "consequences", that's exactly what freedom of speech is.

You're talking about the First Amendment, not freedom of speech.
Low salaries also mean it is hard for normal people(ie people not from rich or well connected families) to save up enough money to self-fund a startup.
I mean, it's never worked for me even once that I can recall. I've mostly tried to identify music playing in commercial spaces (retail, cafes, etc) via Siri and I don't think it's ever given me an answer.
> spearhead a transit project in your hometown

> build 100 libraries with your name on them

> fund the cure for the rare disease that killed your mother

Tax them at 90% and the government can and should do that all for them.
awesome and well done documentation! but I would use it at work only if gets more stars on github. :P
If this story was true, the attorney should have told you that you could report it to your state's attorney general, which would have resulted in civil and criminal lawsuits filed against the company by the state (which is not a party to the contract and not bound by the arbitration clause). And the settlements for these kinds of cases always involves refunding the customers.

Again, if the story was true, there were ways to hold the company to the rules, get your money back, and avoid any legal costs of your own.