skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people did not vote down the library tax because they were unaware of the library. They voted it down because they did not value the library.

I think it's great that the townspeople who do value libraries are telling the outsiders to fuck right off. People in American cities and towns have been subsidizing their exurban and rural neighbors for many decades, while those people have systematically and intentionally undermined the very cities and towns that benefit them. At some point the proponents of civilization have to draw a line.
`git bisect` is an indispensible git trick. You give it commit where you know the bug exists, and one where you know it doesn't and it'll use binary search to help you find where the bug came from. It's absolutely wonderful.
"Always Be Coding" -- people who spend their time on work/passion project/open source projects are somehow valued more than those who spend their time on work/non-technical pursuits.
No it's a huge Wordpress application. Started in 2016 and released in 2017. It's not ideal but it ended up being great. A huge part of the website is actually blog posts so it was a good match. I did not start the project and choose the tech but I ended up doing a large part of the project and led it when the lead dev quit (for unrelated reasons). I had lots of problems with the government hoster (CSPQ) but it all worked out in the end. It's the CALQ's website by the way.
Option three: improve mass transit, to move more people per fuel unit.

Option four: reduce need to drive around by bringing services closer to people and promoting remote working etc.

Option five: remove need to drive for shopping and such by creating "bus for stuff", you order things and get them delivered (near) home.

Option six: convert existing vehicles to electric (probably needs some form of battery innovation and might not be cheap even if price is offset by the raw metals salvaged from the engine).

Just a few examples of the obvious options. The truly clever smart options take more analysis (and a smarter mind than mine) to figure out.

The point: the search space for "reduce emissions (driving) because price of gas is insane" is very large, going full solar or poor don't drive are not really the only options.
I said, "Given two candidates with all things equal except ..."

I mean if there are two candidates who are equally motivated and are more or less equal in all things except that one is strong at CS fundamentals and another isn't, is there a good reason to reject the candidate who is good at CS fundamentals.

In many hiring decisions, I am faced with a similar choice, and I go for the person who is good at CS fundamentals. If two candidates are good in all other ways, then the understanding of CS fundamentals becomes a tie breaker. I see no rationale for selecting the guy who does not demonstrate his strength in CS fundamentals.
Kids simply like Kid-sized things.

They are accommodating. They fit. They are easy to master.
Usability and security are usually at opposite ends of the spectrum - and keep in mind that even a pin code + face/touch ID is infinitely better than the zero security most people had prior.
LOL what? BASIC has been around since before Microsoft was even a glint in Gates & Allen’s eyes. Since 1964 to be exact.

While many 8-bit versions of BASIC were derived from MS BASIC (1975) it was hardly Microsoft’s baby. Atari BASIC for example has zero to do with MS. Neither does TinyBASIC

BASIC itself is absolutely free. Certain implementations are not.
> "where's my cheap shipping?"

The answer to your question lies with the repeal of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. You may recall, the Post Office’s financial problems all came to light in about 2007. There is a cause/effect relationship between this particular law, the USPS’ problems, and higher postal rates.
I don't how I can disagree with you more.
If you owe $75k for a bachelors that isn't a STEM degree from a top tier school, you're Doing It Wrong™.
Embed all your links in Social media's Bio and track visits
On Monday Someone Moved 12,220 BTC ($82M) in block 545,877
Talk about having faith in the technology!
Studying the stars with machine learning
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_information

See especially the section on entropy.
I just tried it. Someone would need my apple id, my password, access to one of my apple devices (I had to enter a code that appeared on one of my devices), and access to my email. If someone already has all of that, I'm hosed no matter what.
Yeah, we get excited when we see great flight deals, but then realize they require a US stop over, so no longer valid for us to consider!
Since cannabis is legal through out the country maybe the banking system will touch it. Illegal dispensaries wouldn't stand a chance compared to a legal one that could accept bank and credit cards.
Machine Learning in Disease Identification
It's great idea, though i'm not sure who the target customer is.

Most people who care enough about security understand what this device does, along with actually buying one of these, will most likely already have the technical skills to setup something similar themselves.

That being said, once it supports multiple domains/domain aliases and webmail, I'll probably be picking one up, if not for anything else then for fun.

Is it open to users to be able to run their own docker images on it ?
I know that my suggestion sounds like a knee-jerk reaction, but I wish that each and every public service had one or more prominently-displayed large signs on their premises saying how much their expenses were and where the money came from to pay for it. My reasoning? It's easy to tunnel-vision on your own financial situation when you are sufficiently ignorant of what services your taxes are paying for.
Well, the thing is it's not really legal in WA, Federal law applies to WA. It's just not illegal at the state level any more.
SV Angel and FundersClub have deployed an “index fund” strategy on yc batches for a long time. So makes sense that they are high up on the list.
Most governments and municipalities do a horrible job of articulating what their constituents taxes go towards. People see giant buckets and have a very hard time converting that into what they see and use day to day.
- any interesting/impactful work is immediately crowded by tons of other people willing to sacrifice more than you to own it. They usually win.

- the prevalent engineering management culture is a form of psychological manipulation to turn engineers into cogs and make you feel like you are always behind and stressed. It emphasizes weekly bandaid fixes to long running problems.

- you have to work hard to be promoted, progress your career and make more money; but higher positions generally have much greater stress, workload and painful non-technical work (sales, politics)

- the bay area becomes a nightmare in middle age. the local governments love capitalizing tech income in the form of taxes or housing prices, but won't change a thing to improve the your life. leading a normal middle class life with kids in a safe area with good schools (e.g. peninsula, or Marin) will completely exhaust a 2x200k dual income. Commutes are awful. Unless you win the startup lottery, you'll be working your brains out and hardly find time to enjoy life.
What do we actually know about the risks of screen time and digital media?
> The level of victimization they felt was immense, like they had no choice but to sign on the dotted line

We give children close to zero financial autonomy, no idea of work, of making money and losing it, then ask them to make one of the largest financial decisions of their lives at the age of 18. The background to this is a massive amount of messaging that your education is worth it.

It's not surprising they feel this way.

For the record, I didn't go the traditional college route, and I never had a penny of student debt, so if anyone has a right to feel smugly superior, it'd be me. However, I only avoided student debt by the dumb luck of making poorly thought out decisions that happened to work out in the end.
>I don't understand why they didn't just focus on the hardware, make it very hackable for the community to develop the GNOME (or any other) OS for it.

This. Why do they insist on a mobile GNOME interface from scratch instead of building on more mature mobile UI frameworks like Qt5/Plasma mobile? Are there some deep philosophical differences? Qt already has a lot of experience with touch interfaces.
Don't. I mean it: if you are good on the technical part, focus on it and do it as good as possible and let someone else to do something that you don't know enough. You cannot become the master of everything, but it is fairly easy to become the master of nothing: don't go that way.
It would probably be cheaper to just have the kid stay at home and pay the (relatively) nominal tuition for the local state university.
Indeed, the dynamic IP setting is not documented. But there was a blog post about it at https://cloudron.io/blog/2018-04-13-home-server.html
Any particular reasons you think this? Does it apply to or exclude specific industries?
The sedentary lifestyle.
A lot of people just plain don’t carry cash to spend any more. To say that five years ago (with typical CC PoS systems) that would have been fine but today thanks to these startups we’ve regressed to having to pay with cash or else need to pay 15-30% more is ridiculous.
That's why you start with crypto. Don't even touch fiat, so that there isn't anything to freeze.

It doesn't prevent them from asking you to hand over the funds, but it does mean you get a chance to react instead of suddenly finding out your bank account is frozen.

I'll also point out that there are so many tools to your advantage if you do it this way -- locking up crypto mathematically until a date in the future, shamir's sharing, monero, etc. I'm not saying any of it is a perfect solution, but sure as hell it will make them work a lot harder and give you more time to figure things out.
The state university I go to costs a full 700% more than the CC I work at ($600/credit hour vs $81/credit hour in-state). That is a big gap to bridge.
I don't feel guilt when they swivel that ipad around, more like annoyance. When I'm asked to tip for someone handing me a cup of coffee, I say no tip. We should really be pushing to get away from this relic of slavery, and don't tip unless it's absolutely clear we need to; i.e. at a sit down restaurant.
You want the Lego set with a bunch of custom blocks to make the perfect model. Other people want the generic set of blocks.
I know a lot of ISPs in europe who block SMTP ports to prevent SPAM.
I completely agree, as a long term WU user I am continually frustrated by their newer site design. The 10-day view is my favorite one but their site reliability and speed are atrocious. Like others in this thread I've been wondering what's going on over there and if they are just going to shut down some day. I used to even have my weather station send data to WU but I stopped doing that because I don't see any value in doing it anymore because their site sucks. Wundermap is slow as well and I've had issues with their iOS app lately too.

I would love to hear what people are using as alternatives. I already use Dark Sky on iOS as well, so that's one. I just want a good 10 day view :(
How about brew your own coffee and save $2.95 on that transaction.
Practice refactoring legacy code with hangman
It's really time for us to start saying "fuck you" to companies pushing this open plan bullshit. And if you can't find a company that offers private offices, start your own. This is beyond being absurd at this point.
Trump withdraws from postal treaty in new front against China
I dislike the tip-at-purchase-time paradigm. I haven't even seen my order yet, how am I supposed to evaluate how much of a tip it warranted? But that gets to the heart of it really: tipping is more about subsidizing payroll than rewarding good service.
Bugs always get triaged. Nobody can afford zero tolerance, as much as I would like to work that way.
Making Multi-Cloud Management Invisible
Anti-tax fervor seems like a scapegoat. The library wasn't producing enough value for the residents to care about continuing it and I don't blame them. This is how a democratic government is supposed to work - eventually things will converge to the median view.

I've been voting against my libraries for as long as I've been able to vote. They're just not super valuable to me - they're not keeping kids out of trouble, in fact, it seems like kids go to the library to get into trouble - junkies routinely overdose in them.

In the past 3 years, I've purchased at least 70 books. Each time I purchased a book, I checked to see whether I could get it from the library and they didn't have it. My county library system has 2,038 books of and about feminism and ~300 books of and about LGBT issues, but it has scarcely anything about conservative / right wing political philosophy or Abrahamic theology. It doesn't have a single book by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Evola, or Carl Schmitt. The library doesn't seem like a service that's open to everyone, it seems like a subsidiary for a specific viewpoint and agenda.
Destruction of Property?
> Pay cash for a $3.00 item?

Do HNers still use cash? It's been years since I carried a wallet that has a slot for cash.
Many (I'd guess most, but I have nothing but anecdotal experience to base it on) people have a non-Apple-hosted email account tied to their Apple ID. Sure, in some cases if someone's iCloud account is compromised, their non-Apple email account is compromised, too, but in plenty they aren't.
I like this. Would every highway, road, and street need to have a sign every so many miles/blocks?
Well if it does VPN first, then initiates the SMTP connection with TLS on the local smtp server all the way to the RX mail server, then this works out fine.

A lot of mail servers don't support this though, so it would be on the client to also be able to ensure it will not relay mail except to TLS endpoints verified by a well known CA.

In my experience this is rarely the case, but if it is and Helm is willing to tell end users "sorry I can't safely send mail to this endpoint" then I could see some value to this approach.
I think people from past generations underestimate how difficult it is to get a good job.

Everyone from my millennial cohort fully understands how long and difficult the job hunt can be. Also how completely dehumanized and demoralizing the process sometimes is. Even the smarter of my cohort fully plan to spend at least several weeks tailoring their resume and at least 6 months for the actual job hunt.

And it's very common for it to take longer.

This leads to some other nasty 2-nd order effects, like, for example, people being too afraid to negotiate with their employer for better conditions - for fear of having to endure the job hunt again.
I think the comments on HN are missing the point his tweets are making, noticeably that Huawei phones are:

(a) Sending info over plain HTTP to non-secure sites based in China

(b) Sending all your browser and other online activity to a site called track.uc.cn
Considering that every aspect of my banking is now online (including depositing checks), yeah, it is actually kind a hassle to have to keep making trips to one of my bank's ATMs just to refill my supply of small bills so that I can buy coffee.
You can request to delete your account. Not all of your data can be destroyed, due to legal reasons. For example, anything related to financial transactions (e.g. app purchases, subscriptions, etc) can't be deleted.
This is changing, but the lack of focus on physical health is a major problem that is literally shortening the lifespans of young developers. Getting up, moving around, stretching, and taking physical breaks throughout the day will prevent all kinds of physical problems down the road, but unfortunately, because young people can sit and grind for 8+ hours, we don't do this.
For me, that would be Eller's algorithm: http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/eller.html

It generates perfect mazes of arbitrary size M*N, using only O(max(M, N)) memory.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/open-offices-have-driven-p...
How is this any different than not tipping with cash? Everyone behind you in line can see whether you put anything into the tip jar. Or is it that there's some plausible deniability that you can claim with not having cash which isn't present for card tips?
The central rural parts of Oregon are killing their communities out of ignorance.

In 2014 Josephine county voted down a tax to keep their jail open.

Another counties entire sheriff's department resigned recently, due to lack of funding to properly staff the office; they were all burning the candle at both ends.

There are other examples of this behavior over the last decade that are easily Googled, so I'll avoid posting it all.

If you talk to these people, or see their commentaries online, many of them are thinking they'll just make taxes low, and of course someone will build a factory, in the middle of nowhere, with a poorly informed workforce, and no social services.

The locals don't want to shoulder the cost of education and security, but of course some private business owner will.
https://www.utrgv.edu/cstem/_files/documents/snake-wrangling...
This renders really weird on FF on windows. Lots of long images. (Yes, some people still use FF and Windows.)

Liked the references section, and appreciated some of the finder details (the origin check, for example).
Corporations will do "good" things when it aligns with their product goals. You can be sure that if Tim Cook or anyone at a publicly traded company started steering a company away from profitability they would be replaced. The company will always be susceptible to market forces, and the needs of its shareholders and employees before users or the world, unless regulation steps in or public opinion would hurt their profitability.
Relevance to tech: The Postal Treaty is used by AliBabi manufacturers to ship to the US from China for substantially less than it costs for US manufacturers to ship domestically. This will affect the vast majority of goods sold on Amazon today.
These things are never so cut and dry. Politicians know to cut funding from the most visible places first -- parks, police, roads, fire, schools, etc. It allows them to justify raising taxes. Then they turn and put the new revenue towards something else entirely. Finally the whole cycle repeats decade after decade, until [sales tax + property tax + fed income tax + social security (12% counting employer contribution) + state income tax + vehicle registration] is over 50%. Without trust earned through good action over time, good citizens are trapped with nothing left but to pull the plug.
“But my A/B tests proved that a 20% rather than a 15% default led to an increase in total tipping, and vindicating my claim of a downside-free benefit to ‘nudging’ customers to tip more!”
I'm curious why the 8-bit machines themselves aren't an option here; I'd recommend the Commodore 128, as it was the newest of the Commodore machines and had their most advanced BASIC (so you can actually do graphics stuff without directly manipulating memory) Finding a working one might be a bit more pricy these days than a Raspberry Pi, though.

Otherwise, I'd say the web is probably the closest thing; once you help them over the initial hurdles of setting up a basic site with a simple JS program that they can mess with, it's possible to do quite a lot, in an environment most kids are going to be familiar with; configure a simple Linux environment to open a web browser and a text editor on boot and there you go.
TIL Heroku only has 30 employees. That's crazy for the kind of service they provide.
These days CS50 lectures are online. The TCP/IP and Linux books I can't recall. That was some 20+ years ago. I think the TCP/IP/Protocols book was from Sams and the Linux book(s) were from O'Reilly. Algorithms/Data was The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena. Cracking the Coding Interview is great too. Crypto was just a bunch of reading online, I haven't found a good book on that I would recommend, same for data transfer protocols. I didn't just read three books, I'm saying, 20/20 hindsight I could have read about 3 books to garner most of the stuff I didn't learn by skipping college.

Maybe some of us self taught developers should get together and curate a clear path for CS knowledge and ancillary helpful things.
I will be contrarian on HN. Hire a sales guy. It's worth every $.

"If you build it, they will not come"
Inside the plan to provide work for India’s 437M unorganized labor force
Or just use a language that doesn’t have that problem, then you don’t need a magic editor.
> relic of slavery

... what?

Tipping was something that the patricians/bourgie upper class did to help uplift the waiters/service staff in Europe. It caught on in the USA in the late 1800s and fell out of favor from that upper class in Europe by then.

Largely, USA coopted a "noble gesture" from wealthy Europeans and it has persisted ever since for like a century.

Anyways, I hate tipping as well.
Then fund room and board to some degree too?

For example Germany:

https://handbookgermany.de/en/learn/student-finance.html

tution, batchelors degree: free

food, semester fee: 250 EUR avg

basic student residence hall: 218 EUR/month (this looks like it goes higher as some students elect more than basic accommodations elsewhere..)

In the equivalent public US university costs probably almost an order of magnitude higher. ~25-30k.
How is tipping at a sit down restaurant not a relic of slavery? The idea that restaurant personnel earn so little that they need to live on tips is barbarous.
The growing divide between the haves and have-nots. I have found that people in tech are generally completely oblivious to the massive amounts of impoverished people around them and have no idea how to help them. Also the technical advancements that we are seeing nowadays mostly seem to help people who are already well off. It is difficult to find good tech companies that have a high social good output.
The introduction of iPad-tip-for-everything ridiculousness has made me reevaluate tipping in general. I've found myself tipping less even for the more normal things, all because the iPads forced me to start thinking about it.

I often tap "no tip" on Square terminals.
* It is a numbers game. You will fail more than you succeed. But the few successes will be material.

* Train yourself to equate the dopamine hit you get with running a new piece of code you made with the act (not necessarily success) of performing a sales activity. For example, by the end of today, do 10 cold emails and 10 cold calls. Then, feel good about it. Don't worry about the outcomes just yet; get into the groove of performing the act.

* Get out of the room. Always be getting coffee, going to meetups, connecting with groups you part of, etc. The more people know who you are, the more people can help you.
There are free and open BASIC interpreters and even compilers.
Haha. Glad to see this. I’m new to the US and thought the tip was expected...
No guilt. No tip. Never. If they want more than the listed price they should raise the listed price. Social customs/expectations/guilt/whatever be damned. I never tip. Never have, never will.