skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heheh.

I don't mind that so much. But I think I've done a good job of convincing myself that there's a certain baseline condition I'd like to be in to start seriously considering it.

We've sadly even waffled enough on getting a dog for,

a) Financial reasons. If we can't take the dog to the office, then we would end up paying the few hundred dollars a month or whatever people charge around here to walk them. (one of my colleagues pays ~$400/month! He must be paid substantially more than I am...)

b) Time. Again, if we can't take it with us then we get a little time after work and some weekends.

c) Space. Living in an apartment feels kind of unfair to the dog. I don't know how some people live in these buildings with a couple of mastiffs or whatever.

Just outlining that felt kind of sad. And if we can't settle on figuring that out yet, then children are further off than I'd like.
They forgot step 1 - hire the creator of Python... But seriously, that's an interesting post.
My theory is large expense is a sign of lack of family and social network involvement. Without a strong support network, marriages will run into problems.
Gross pay is almost totally irrelevant, as are RSUs prior to IPO, but to use those numbers:

Your top number, 150k, at 30% taxes (roughly expected in this area) gives you 105k. That's 8.75k/month, which is pretty darn close to half of your listed Mountain View price... and Mountain View isn't even the most expensive.
Goodbye Chrome.
You think browser teams should develop UI frameworks?
SD-WAN vs. MPLS: David and Goliath?
> If you’re good, it’s not uncommon to see software engineers with 5-6 years of experience make $300k-$400k per year in total compensation (which includes your base salary, yearly bonus and stocks)

Can you please point me to one of these companies that pay $400k per year in total compensation?
>That's probably happened to at least 50% of people

This and every other word in your reply is in complete bad faith. Have fun posting here.
Probably because it helps people? If it is useful in helping people to not harm themselves and others then I don't see anything wrong with that.
for reference, the app I'm working on (https://ossia.io), a
multiple-hundred-LOC Qt-based DAW with support for many network protocols and which uses most Qt libraries as well as boost uses itself 41 megabytes of RAM (private working set) and 70 megabytes total (working set) with a small document loaded, according to the windows task manager.
I don’t follow Java too closely these days as I haven’t worked in it in years. Pretty wild that Applets are now removed. I still remember the wonder of being able to build a compiled application that could run from command line or in the browser. RIP Applets, long live Java :)
A Keybase key could be used to signal you are a 'real hacker'. A bit like using Vim, Emacs or butterflies could be used to that end.
Coffee and Coffee Houses were part of the US Revolution. Americans switched from tea to coffee as the tension grew with England.

http://ushistoryscene.com/article/american-drinking/
> Peak demand will always saturate whatever capacity you have but the amount of stuff you move at peak capacity is greater so you spend less time fully saturated

That doesn't follow.
If caffeine were invented in the 60s or 70s, it almost certainly would have been banned along with amphetamines and everything else. Same with alcohol and nicotine.
How does that differ from Signal?
However LTS seems not be free but restricted to premium Oracle customers, see: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.ht...
> freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences

And that's where you're wrong. The federal government at least in principle guarantees no consequences from itself for merely communicating or publishing ideas.
> I'd wake up at 5am to make an 8am start time

Oh man! A friend in HS had swim practice before school and woke up at ~4:30 for it 3 days a week. On each of those days, she was just a zombo. I can't even imagine doing that every year. Do you think it was worth it for you?
What.

A junior level making >200k?

Please elaborate.
If we want to do something meaningful we would make it so nobody gets insurance from their employer. I don't like my insurance, in a competitive market the insurance I want would only be slightly cheaper - but I don't actually have that option because I would be throwing $1000/month (nobody will tell me the real numbers, but it is in that range) that my employer contributes away.

Those who can only work fast food will never have it easy, but as you point out making them work less hours isn't going to help them.
Punishment runs counter to all forms of sustainable learning, according to the science of learning how to learn.

Let's lovingly apply science to criminalization of people being human, rather than criminalizing human behavior. Let's not seek to punish. Let's start exploring other solutions spaces.
Does the new licensing mean someone at Atlassian will try running their apps on OpenJDK for once instead of keeping it blacklisted?

/methinks probably not. The money is in hosted licenses.
If it's about using only Google's services, then yes I agree, but the point is if lots of random sites all decide to use Google for captchas.

This has already happened with tor and Cloudflare, but at least that changed for the better recently (see https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-ends-captcha-challe...). In that case it was just one CDN using captchas to discriminate against a group of users, so that one change by the CDN could fix the issue. If too many random sites are independently blocking or slowing down anyone not logged into Google, then that'll turn the web into Google's web.
I don't find Eclipse that bad - but the first thing I do is install the most popular dark theme from the marketplace. The default look isn't good.
In 2018, "move somewhere to do a tech job" should not even be thinkable. Maybe one needs to make a virtual city where VCs find entrepreneurs who hire remote workers to work in a virtual office. Make it a VR space. But you don't need to deal with moving to do all that.
So it’s somewhere between double and triple the award considering costs. That’s huge and if your point isn't purely pedantic then I’m missing it.
Total waste of money. I've had luxury cars a bit above 50k, more like $75k. Leasing is your best option for 36 months because you'd be paying the depreciation of the car. Loan or lease it's pretty much equals after 3 years. But with a lease, you're not in debts forever and stuck with a huge depreciating asset. Buying is insane because you're looking at a huge down payment (like putting a pile of cash in a trash), very big monthly payment, expensive insurance and since you're in beautiful California, a big yearly registration fee. I call it the CA car tax. In 3 years from now people will literally lowball the hell out of your car to help you get rid of it because you're a private party not a dealer. On the other hand, dealers will lowball even more! They need to make a margin re-selling your car so you're not in for a 30% loss, more like 50%. If you think private parties buy used cars for 30-40k :) you'd be foolish. Again, it's California, what's the point? They would just get a brand new car since anything is financially possible when it comes to debts in CA.

so yeah, lease.

Add up gas (CA prices are laughable), then you're in for a LOT of money. Not just 30%... If I were to do it again, unlike most of the people, I'd actually buy an OK used car (2-3 years) which already took a hit in terms of depreciation, then I'd keep it for 3-4 years. You could get something descent for $25-30k. The loss between 3 to 6 years is usually smaller than a loss from 0 to 3 years. Audi's keep their value high, don't buy infinity or Lexus, with $50k and above, go for a car that has a whole community around it like an 'R' or 'GTR' or 'M', things like that because again, people want those car badly and would do anything to get one cheaper than brand new. Don't buy a standard BMW's because you can't bit BMW dealership in terms of rates, etc. They will always come up with a much better car/deal than you when you're ready to sell. Again, people would rather buy new and at a dealership and get a quick and easy loan going with a low rate.
You can typically take the full depreciation in the year you purchased the equipment under IRS Section 179, up to a limit which varies depending on which way the wind is blowing in Congress. For 2018 the limit is $1MM. Whether or not its more beneficial to you to take the depreciation over time is a question for your accountant—technically if you later sell the equipment you're supposed to recapture the revenue from the sale for tax purposes.
> 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?

It's because people confuse the law with the principles it was meant to implement, so they stop their analysis after they've determined legality/illegality.

Hypothetically, you could engineer away freedom of speech and freedom of assembly without changing the Constitution at all, if one corporation owned all the land and all the communication facilities in the US. It could enact a draconian, ideological censorship regime just by exercising its property rights, and that would be Constitutionally kosher because it's not an organization classified as "government." Antitrust law, etc. is not part of the Constitution and could Constitutionally be repealed or gutted. The Constitution was written to prevent many particular forms of tyranny and violations of rights, but it doesn't protect from all of them. That's why you can't stop with it; oftentimes you have to look deeper.
Yeah, they do. That's exactly how it works with real (certified, legally-enforced labeling of) engineering. That is, civil engineers push back against (excessive) safety-cutting to save money while drawing a salary from the same companies that want to implement such design changes. They only differ in how effectively they have organized to prevent being overruled.
Is today Chicken Little Day or something? Why have so many privacy-related articles been posted today? Who makes money by making us feel paranoid?
Show HN: Chelodina – A Logo-to-Python Transpiler
> “And you can start testing [that] by sending them different kinds of advertising to see some kind of behaviour in the [listening] patterns.”

There will be a day where you can get a "discounted" automobile that forces you to listen to an advert before you can start the car, and where removing that advert violates the DMCA.

A few years after that, the feature will be present on all cars, and there won't be a discount at all.
Pffttt....still on 5 here. Working to change that.
Who is paying for the LTE connection to the car?
Google is less likely to be allowed to operate in China if they let on that they are operating on American liberal values.
Totally agree, living in Yellville, AR and working in Springdale, AR (+2 hours commute each way, every day)

A few years ago, I tried to teach a free game programming class in Harrison College under the continued education umbrella - no one signed up.

Tried to start a Raspberry Pi meetup group - no one wanted to meet 'in person' ..
I'm with you, I've yet to see actual evidence of political bias in a Google product. I.e. search, etc.

I've heard conservatives say they're uncomfortable working there because "everyone" is liberal, but they also live in San Francisco California, where "everyone" is liberal, so that's hardly Google's fault.
Dropbox doesn't feel that small or "single purpose" to me anymore.
Central to Kendall is a tiny slice even of Cambridge. I was talking about a place twenty miles away. So yes, it's a different topic. I'm sorry that you feel you're a victim where you are, but generalizing to the entire Boston area is utterly ridiculous.
The key phrase in the article is "opt-in". If the drivers opt in to such a program, I think you could see some interesting insights w.r.t. advertising and demographics that's been missing from radio (or not as accurate).
What is the name of the tech used to do this. Also, what is the name of the tech (or open source implementations) that makes data like this explorable with drill-down? I'm looking into projects like this.
It's also available via the “DAT Installer”.

The DAT link is dat://520a00daf0a309bef7722b3f3338854e9da667d01e48dc7b83b118d86354d6d3

The DAT Installer is here: https://github.com/staltz/dat-installer
Machine names, example from a Keybase founder: https://keybase.io/chris/devices
It's pretty relevant if married people are more likely to be living together and splitting bills, which is probably the case.
And that's what we are talking about. We're talking about lawmakers and regulations. If you want to attack liberal values from that direction, please do it when it is actually relevant.
I can't reply to you below, so I'll do it here.

Firstly, apology accepted. Easy mistake to make.

Secondly, I just can't see us letting things go that far. We'll have to agree to disagree with that.

I do agree that binding arbitration clauses are terrible, and I accidentally put myself in a position where I had to sign one at my last job. We had worked out terms, and a start date and I quit my old job before I saw the employment contract. I went through and made edits, and the CEO was open to negotiating on it. There was a problem with their IP ownership clause he happily fixed, and if I wanted to, he was willing to get his lawyer involved in the removal of the arbitration clause. I let it go though because I would have been jobless if he decided I wasn't worth it.

The problem though is, how do you strike a balance between leaving people free to make economic decisions they deem in their interest vs being taken advantage of by predatory contract agreements? Arbitration and non-competes are bad, but I'm happy to agree to them...for a price.
It's similar in percentage terms, perhaps even a bit more concentrated. Lowell, Massachusetts had a population of 20K in 1840, with maybe 6000 working in the factories. Total U.S. population was 17M at the time. Compare with Google alone having 60K employees spread out across dozens of offices.

Lowell was the only such center of manufacturing in the country at the time, much like how Silicon Valley is considered synonymous with the tech industry. There are other tech hubs, though, and other companies, and tech is already starting to bifurcate into sub-industries. I'd actually equivalent 1840s Lowell to the Massachusetts Miracle of the 1970s, when the MA economy was rescued by the arrival of info-tech firms like DEC, Stratus, Wang, etc. (ironically, DEC was started in a former textile mill, and Wang Labs had its headquarters in Lowell). The current point in history seems more like the 1880s or 1890s, when the center of industry had moved to the Great Lakes region and the basic technologies had bifurcated into the steel/oil/shipbuilding/railroad industries.

We think of factory work as employing the whole population because the oldest folks alive today only have memories of the 1920s and onwards. What are these big industries that lifted people up the chain? Automotive, aerospace, airlines, oil, manufacturing, plastics, chemicals, retail, consumer goods, media. In 1880 the car hadn't been invented. The plane hadn't been invented. Plastic hadn't been invented. Radio hadn't been invented. TV hadn't been invented. The department store hadn't been invented. Consumer goods required all of these.

Similarly, I suspect that the great industries of the information age have yet to be invented. Or they're in vary nascent, experimental forms today, like drones and cryptocurrencies and hyperloops and robots and self-driving cars (which'll probably end up being pods, eventually).
From a marketers perspective... that's not as easy as it looks.

To get 1,000 True Fans to commit we probably need to expose the product to 50,000 "True Fans". Hoping for a 2% conversion rate.

To reach 50,000 True Fans we will probably have to create awareness with a larger group of potential True Fans that have a strong connection to your Fandom, maybe 500,000.

To reach 1/2 a million people you are going to have to get well beyond a few posts to your niche subeditors or making the front page on Hacker News.

If you come up with some great advertisements and eventually starting landing your $100 per year True Fans, it might end up costing you $20 each to find them. Not a huge problem... assuming you can do it. It's tough because in addition to coding your own app you now had to learn how to be a pretty decent user of AdSense or Facebook Ads. That is very possible, but it does eat into the time you have to work on your core business.

And now you need another 200 fans to pay for the ads you have been buying.
There's nothing technical that prevents beautiful, fast Java apps. I thought that Java FX looked pretty in the screenshots[0]. It just so happens that Java is mostly targeted towards people that value functionality over GUI design or performance.

Swing[1] (especially in it's default Metal look and feel) isn't the prettiest, but it is skinnable. It's used because it's platform independent (because its predecessor wasn't), and supports more than Windows, Mac, and Linux (think things like Solaris, HPUX, IRIX, etc).

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=javafx&t=ffab&iar=images&iax=image...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_(Java)
I am really worried that people are getting way too used to being watched all the time. Maybe privacy will be a quaint memory of days gone by soon.
Bingo! Ginormous amount of technical debt that nobody is dealing with and probably not even seeing ... Plus a culture of "if it works don't touch it" ... I am dying inside ...
If you're going to be pointlessly pedantic, at least be correct.
>So a pretty narrow demographic for the feature though...

If you're only going to take one person's usage then, yeah, I guess it's pretty narrow. How about another example for from the same person. As a video editor I'm constantly having to find "hip/trendy/cool" music for video edits. These clients typically like music that I do not normally listen to, but I know it's something they would like when I hear it. I'll let it live in My Shazams until one day I need to find something. I've impressed more than one client with the ability to pull out a "fresh" song for them. Clients appreciate that sort of thing.
I think I'd simplify even further, and say this this way:

If you assume a startup has the technology, as it's nothing without it, then by definition the differentiated recognition of business potential will be achieved through business performance, not technology.

IOW, you've got nothing without the tech, but you don't have a successful business if all you have is the tech.
Would this be solvable by integrating support for Keybase or something similar? Come to think of it, someone else complained about the amount of local storage this uses, and Keybase includes some gigs of free cloud storage as well...
Transmitting that small amount of data is probably not worth tracking. Or is zero rated.
>Java 7 and 8

and Java 10 has much better type inference too.
But shouldn’t a biopic in particular try to really get inside its subject?

Turing wasn’t even depicted as gay in the movie (apart from a couple of random comments).

And incredibly, they didn’t cover any of the details of his death. Apparently he was obsessed with Snow White, hence the apparent suicide (or experimental mix-up) with a poisoned apple. How could you make a Hollywood movie about his life and not even touch on his connection with one of the key Hollywood milestones? It’s very strange.

Apart from that, it persistently gave the impression that Turing was a lone genius and minimized the contributions of everybody else. That’s a mis-service to everyone, including Turing, who comes across as a very poor team player.

And apart from all that, I simply didn’t think it was a very good movie, taken as pure entertainment. I know people who loved it, though, so I realize opinions vary. It’s hard to separate my opinion from my biases around the treatment of the subject matter.
I'm curious, why do you keep advertising by talking mostly about your competitors instead of a positive framing about your products?
I like parrots, but some just make that beer-tab-scraped-on-the-floor constantly, and then I'm glad they're not mine.
I think you're missing the point of the comic. Yes, it's absolutely possible that you could measure this effect but worrying about it won't help and attempting to "fix" it will almost certainly backfire in hilarious and/or terrifying ways. See China.
It's not undemocratic merely because they are scared that two or three companies arguably control the majority of political discussion in America. It certainly doesn't follow the norms of American laws relating to public spaces and free speech, of which all important laws and decisions were made before the invention of the internet or its widespread adoption.

Edit: If you downvote, tell me why you disagree.
Do you mean 750 fans?
It's important to note that the regulatory bodies of UK, France and Germany lobbied to keep the loopholes in emissions testing: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc... . Probably because the governments want to keep their car industry booming and the jobs secured...
I wrote a user friendly version of the release notes. Maybe this is useful to someone:

https://winterbe.com/posts/2018/09/24/java-11-tutorial/
I'm sure they learned more than what they got into in the article. Or I'd hope so since those are some pretty weak "learnings". Of far more interest is examining the driver's actions and behaviours to determine which family member is in the seat and pick up preferences based on that.

EDIT yes hey opted in to be tracked. Missed that on the first read. Really, surprised but quite pleased that they did. Good to see.
It's more like indentured servitude.
Ask HN: Can you link me to benchmarks comparing GO and Crystal Languages?
For things like

- building server side jobs

- building api or microservice

- building whole server

- transforming images

- running algorithms say graph search?
The Rand Corporation did a study on AA years ago.

AA didn't work in their study.

Then again, it's basically all we have? I think my problem is when the AA beliefs are yelled at other members like they were laws.

As a former alcoholic, I was able to taper off alcohol myself. The doctor said I was being stupid. I wasen't going to spend my last 20 grand on a Rehab. I was a mess back then, but tapering off is what worked for myself.

(I personally feel many alcoholics have an underlying psychological problem that should be addressed.)
Essentially everyone thought this way up until maybe 100 years ago. Marriage was just as much an economic union as for love and companionship.

In many ways it still is whether people acknowledge it or not.
US communications act 230[1].

Tech companies aren't liable for user content on their sites as long as they act as the equivalent of a digital public square. The minute they start selectively editing content they become a "publisher" and can be sued into oblivion for any illegal content they host.

Google search is probably safe but Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter could be argued to be in violation with their policing of conservative content in the past year or so. Social media companies would basically cease to exist without the protections from US communications act 230

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicati...
All in the Name of DRY
"Health effect estimates"

"This new study estimates that ..."
In case this is down for everyone and not just me: https://web.archive.org/web/20180925154624/https://www.hpe.c...
Social Media Is a Denial-Of-Service Attack on Your Mind (2017)
For one thing, it talks to Firefox Sync.

For another thing, the "Firefox" name is more widely-recognized than the "Mozilla" name.