skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your intuition is borne out by the research into repeat undetected rapists, fwiw: https://yesmeansyesblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/meet-the-pr...

TL;DR, of the men asked a series of questions about sexual misbehavior that met legal definitions of attempted / completed rape but did not use the “r” word, 6-13% admitted to at least one offense, and 50% of those across both studies were repeat perpetrators with an average of 6 offenses each (and a median of 3, so there were some who were super-offenders).

The studies cited only looked at male perpetrators, an obvious limitation, but I think the work is really relevant nonetheless.
A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells
I believe the Supreme Court has found a right to renounce citizenship, but they haven't yet found a right to do so for free. Maybe someone can plead for a poverty exception on constitutional grounds, but that wouldn't waive the fee for people who can afford it but find it offensive.
Airbnb bill may limit short-term rentals in U.S. capital
You run into PFIC problems with a number of foreign tax wrappers.

Understanding PFICs enough to report them properly is bloody difficult. Once you know how to report those you have, you can do it yourself, but you most likely will not be reporting them to your best tax benefit, but instead in the way that is easiest to understand.

When I had to research them, after 6 or so years of not understanding I had to report them before realising a gain, it took me at least 2 weeks of research and that was with prior knowledge of some of the acronyms you come across. At that point I think I understand enough to report mine but who knows.

Iirc in my research I read a number of times that the IRS has been formally asked to clarify some parts but they haven't responded. And that PFICs are the purview of only a small handful of specialised IRS agents.
they are selling a dream that appeals to many gamers. they are doing it very well and it is beautiful at times.

I suspect a good number grew up in the days of Wing Commander and Privateer and rose colored glasses remember those days. Now with money to spend it isn't much to fork out a little to relive that experience.

* note, I have not bought into the game
Ask HN: How do companies actually make money with fractional reserve banking?
I hear a lot of people talking about how Robinhood and Venmo make money on the cash that's sitting around in their accounts. I know they make money in other ways, but several articles point to this being a large portion of their profit.

I'm curious if anyone is aware of numbers of how much it's worth to a platform to have this type of cash sitting around.

For example, if I have $10,000 in balances sitting on accounts (assuming they are not withdrawing any of it), how much are you able to make per month/year? It seems that treasury bonds yield low single digit percentages per year. Is this the maximum I am able to make? Or are there other ways to leverage these assets?
I don’t know you tell me

Isn’t that why people write articles? To share information? Instead of posing questions?
He should create a a shell company in a one of the tax havens then sell his likeness to the shell company and then license his likeness back from the shell company. While, leaving all the profits in the shell company.
There's nothing that limits the hypothetical supply of people with relevant skills (innate or with potential to learn). However, there is a limit on the number of people with experience in those roles - and work experience is used as a proxy for determining skills.
Maybe somebody more familiar with TLS can set me straight here, but I find it surprising that SNI still exists and there isn't much effort to replace it. To me it seems like an odd hole to punch into the encryption layer. Back when I was doing security research I wrote a TLS MITM and I distinctly remember thinking "wow thanks SNI this makes it so much easier".
The “Mike Pence rule” applies only to women, limiting their opportunities for advancement (and leaving men vulnerable). You have to apply it to everyone.
Huh? That’s absolutely not been my experience with my hundred or so steam games.
Sure, but in the context of workplace harassment catcalling and rape would be in the same category, fireable offenses, no?
There’s a typo in the second sentence on the landing page, a redundant “the”:

> where the an accurate modeling
Snapchat adds selfie filters for cats
> You have to renounce

Or relinquish. There is a difference and people would be wise to know it.

Also, I'm sure that US would argue that those living outside of its official/continental borders are still well "represented" by its military and consular forces, and as such should pay up. In a sense, the taxes as fees are "insurance premiums."
Personally, I wish the issue had been addressed better than it was during the recent tax "reform" debate, but I knew better. There is no interest in giving up revenues and access to data.
I noticed the old date too. However I don't think it's a given that PMs make more than engineers in 2018.
I believe you that it does happen, and while it’s an interesting phenomenon it lacks the power dynamic that the other way around involves.
This seems to be the most common outcome amongst product people looking for an out.

Sales Engineering has that "talk about the business," "talk about the tech," "talk about the people" flavor but with directly measurable outcomes, high transferability across jobs, and depending on commission structure and company - 2x-3x pay.
Unfortunately, more often than not physical metaphors in UI design only serve to confuse. There's a reason nobody wanted to use the home metaphor of Microsoft Bob.
The critical fact often overlooked by techno-utopia folks is what you've put very well.. 'AI will be used to maximize profits rather than free us from labor.'.

this is my main concern given our current political & economic setup today. as I see it, UBI can only be implemented before AI is realized. Its because once it is there no 'winner' is gonna share the fruit of their hard work with unwashed masses. essentially then there would be no difference between poor people in your own country and rest of the world. So we can use our leader's attitude toward rest of world as a guide for what they are going to do here.
Linters save so much formatting time, I don't really see what it has to do with ego.

I certainly could go through and make sure all the spacing is exactly right, the functions/properties are in the right place, and rest of the rules of the styleguide are followed. But it's much easier to do when you get a warning, squiggly, or can use an autoformatter to match the rules.

I would never intentionally violate a rule, but I might forget a rule or miss a violation. With linters this is not an issue, the machine will let you know.

Everyone can focus on the correctness and quality of code and let the machine worry about making sure everything is formatted correctly.

Clearly the project you describe, where linting is disabled every other line is bad. But I wouldn't blame the linter for that. I don't know what can be done if a team has such a commitment to their own style that they put in the extra work to disable the linter.

A linter is not a tool for punishing people who violate a style guide, it's an assistant for people who are trying to follow a style guide.
Yes, that is a great quote - a lot of insight packed into a short sentence. I cannot seem to remember where I saw this said (it was a video, probably Sam Harris's podcast), but it was effectively the same idea: we're simply going to adapt in a way that allows everything to keep moving forward.

I must say that, as a developer, this answer was completely unsatisfying. It doesn't sound like a "flip a switch" kind of solution... ;-)
All arbitrage opportunities are easy if your assumption that you're going to make money hold true.
Mars Virtual Reality Software Wins NASA Award
Maybe? I think the paths between such things are more maze-like and full of grues than a simple sliding scale. Though arguably even if it is "just" a sliding scale, the fact that there are more options on the scale between Modders and Custom C++ engine devs is still an interesting change over time. I remember when there was almost nothing but a impassable wall between Modders and Custom C++ engine devs.
I really don't get this piece. Improving machine connectivity and improving human communication are interrelated but mostly exclusive concepts. Of course there are major issues with the "improvements" to human communication (Facebook) notwithstanding actual improvements like Wikipedia. But that has little to do improvements made to machine connectivity.

The power of APIs to automate away the tedium of actually applying human-decided policy is barely realized. Too many services do not expose APIs; too much necessary tooling (monetization, security, documentation, publication, monitoring) is either proprietary, non-standard, poorly publicized, or too complex to easily apply. Too few regulators and legislators appreciate the potential to kickstart adoption by mandating adoption and standards publication in government services. Too few citizens are adequately educated in ways to take advantage of the relatively few APIs which are available.

The hardware race may be on its last legs, but claiming that we've exhausted what is possible with APIs is flat-out laughable and ridiculous.
By "more like the real world" I don't mean that I'd limit the social mechanisms to that, just that it's not necessarily a goal of mine to make it so you meet a straight zero assholes online. I think that the things you'd have to do to make that possible would be worse than meeting the occasional asshole. It isn't even really possible, either, since there isn't even remotely a universal agreement on what the exact "asshole" line is. (There's lots of agreement about some things, but as you get away from the obvious stuff and start having to draw a line it gets very, very hard, as Facebook et al are really discovering right now.)
Why Bill Gates is worried
JSON-LD 1.1
https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/

"Changes since 1.0 Recommendation of 16 January 2014"
https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/#changes-from-10
This. And if she declines, you respect that and treat her professionally, without retaliating.
To add to your anxiety: right now might be the best time to negotiate for life-changing salary in your lifetime.

All the market drivers are in place to make companies compete for senior/principle talent. Your salary is always a symptom of these economic drivers, not your tenure in the field.

Your financial well-being will be defined by negotiating during these goldrushes. Taking a “good” salary during these times could be the biggest mistake of your career.

Sleep on that!
The train stuck in the rails is like a train
AFAIK, the Soviet tax only applied to people who obtained higher education in the USSR. Essentially the Soviet government didn't want to pay tuition for people who were simply going to leave for higher pay abroad.

I don't have an issue with the Soviet tax, or with the progressive portion of the US exit tax, but a requiring a head-tax on would-be emigres is unacceptable IMHO.
Can't you play the game right now? I thought it was playable in beta to people, which would put it out of the realm of vaporware to me
1.

They may be accustomed to the UI but from using the IG App you don't have the full capability to be aggressively persistent on the phone as you would on the desktop. Yes, mean things do get said, but I would hardly believe that it's as easy as they claim.

2.

This was my experience. I'm a private individual whom doesn't use it to build an audience, sell anything, or any of the like.

3.

Celebritihood has it's upsides and downsides. Am, I saying it's a good thing that it happens no.
What is Google Marxism?
Well, the first question I'd ask you is ARE YOU BEING PAID IN ACTUAL LIQUID CASH? If no, jump ship now.

Other things include contractor or W2, the nature of your work environment, who's tools you're using to do the work, who decides salary and the method of payment, company culture, etc. In startups like this, you have a much higher risk of being scammed somehow (late paychecks, being given a 1099 when you are legally entitled to a W2, having your pay docked if your boss isn't satisfied with your work, etc) when the business starts losing any amount of money.

Bottom line is that you should treat this as a 3-6 month W2 gig and jump ship during that time.

Also, this has been said all over HN but it needs repeating, equity is essentially Monopoly money. Forget the equity and focus on finding a new job. Remember that these people shoving all this work on you are also the ones who control your ability to get paid (and, by proxy, house and feed yourself), and have the ability to "forget" to file your paycheck when times get tough.
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people":

First, there will be those who are devoted to the goals of the organization. Examples are dedicated classroom teachers in an educational bureaucracy, many of the engineers and launch technicians and scientists at NASA, even some agricultural scientists and advisors in the former Soviet Union collective farming administration.

Secondly, there will be those dedicated to the organization itself. Examples are many of the administrators in the education system, many professors of education, many teachers union officials, much of the NASA headquarters staff, etc.

The Iron Law states that in every case the second group will gain and keep control of the organization. It will write the rules, and control promotions within the organization.

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Interview with Eddie, an engineering director managing a remote team
There are efforts to encrypt it: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-esni-01
That's because it's the product manager's job to tell the data scientist what kind of customer behavior they want pulled out of the data.
Because it's closer than any other game in the genre to the genre ideal. I have not put any money in, but I have played in their free alpha weekends, and that game is right on the edge of being incredible. (Where "on the edge" is defined as, "Has a crap ton more work to go".)

Honestly, that game in its current alpha state has given me experiences totally unlike anything I've seen in another game.
Beyond proving it a lot of money was needed for servers, cables, 4G masts and the like.
I don't have a problem with anything that discourages imports with side effects. You can always ignore[0] any cases where this happens.

[0] https://prettier.io/docs/en/ignore.html
> The last 50 years of aviation have produced fewer innovations than any single decade in the previous 50 years.

Between 1968 and 2014 the average fuel burn of new aircraft fell approximately 45% [1]. We also move more people more reliably [2]. That's innovation in my book.

I guess we're just past the "wild designs" phase, and there's an (inherent ?) bias to only think of these as innovation.

[1] https://www.theicct.org/publications/fuel-efficiency-trends-...

[2] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-aviation-safety/2017-safes...
> I'm sorry - I don't approve of sexual harassment, but with all the hysteria, I am still not sure how often women simply consider sexual interest to be harassment.

Here's the thing, business interactions are not the appropriate venue for expressing sexual interest. If someone is giving a pitch to VC's to secure funding for their company, it should be about business, not about someone trying to satisfy their sexual desires.

> It seems to me sexual interest is a normal aspect of human life.

Lots of things are a normal part of the human experience, but are not appropriate in a professional setting.

> And being attractive also has advantages, that the #metoo crowd never mentions. We don't really know how many women actually benefited from being attractive.

No, no, no, this is wildly misguided. Full stop, #metoo is about sexual misconduct and the culture that allows it. Even if some women are given preferential treatment due to their looks, it in no way justifies sexual abuse/misconduct. It does not justify abusing power to suit sexual whims, even if some women acquiesce to it.
It’s a cumulative thing.

Each time you load the page, it’s a separate publication about a different 50 million /s.
I think your sentiment is pretty realistic overall. Unless we as a society start trending towards some kind of dystopian hellscape where every single person has a "worthiness" score and all the assholes who fall below a certain threshold are purged from society, then the sad truth is we are stuck living in world with assholes. Given the unlikelihood this kind of "asshole holocaust" will ever come to fruition, the most we can do is strive to lead exemplary lives and continue to reject the behavior of assholes and instead seek to correct it.
What “First Man” Gets Right About NASA: Interview with Apollo 15 Astronaut
A list of all companies giving extra swag on Hacktoberfest
This particular blog post and plan is regarding removing support of old TLS versions and options on the client. Which means that all server administrators need to do is enable TLS 1.2 and modern options.

Old clients (such as Android) will still be fine, if the servers don't also turn off older versions/options.
Nearly all of Rich Hickey's talks are worth giving a watch. He's an incredibly gifted speaker. The Value of Values and The Language of the System are also among his best.
Real names don't stop harassment, whether on the WELL in the 90s or YouTube in the 2010s.

They do however harm the most vulnerable in society, either excluding them from platforms or making it easy for their harassers to find and target them.

Anonymity is at worst neutral for harassment. Removing it doesn't do what people hope.
I might take a snippy tone myself if ignorant people kept sending me the same stupid suggestions and questions. Most of his articles are somewhat "inside baseball" and assume that the reader has a certain baseline knowledge of policy and technology rather than explaining every little thing.
Indeed it is. And yet I wouldn't describe it as remotely feminized, only slightly less hostile to women than, say, Slashdot.

IMO, that says more about tech forums and the tech community than it does about HN.
I don't know if it supports JavaScript but Resharper does this for .Net
Alan Kay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVw42wWZWrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs

Ted Nelson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcqIlDhkSdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVU62CQTXFI

Doug Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2zJLiYMoXk

Steve Jobs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmuP8gsgWb8

Jacob Appelbaum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTnLO-4p1o
Under "SAFe Agile" POs quasi report into PMs. PMs own products that different scrum teams are developing. POs own the scrum teams and work with the PM to translate the PM's requirements into the scrum team.
I was astounded when I learned that a bunch of my colleagues, fellow game developers with many years of experience and who have helped ship several AAA games, are big supporters of Star Citizen and have donated money to it on several occasions.

Personally, I think it looks really cool but so very optimistic that I wouldn't put any money towards it.
And https://blog.cloudflare.com/encrypted-sni/
I guess you have never visited Copenhagen or Amsterdam? Those two are pretty strong counterpoints to what you are saying.
Depends on the type of software, but for anything enterprise you should start in consulting/implementation. Best bet is the service orgs within product companies.

Learn the industry, learn the customers, learn the product. Get vocal about enhancement, inch closer to the PM team. Get hired, done.

Worked for me and a large chunk of the PM team I hired since then.
I agree with you and disagree with you.

I am not a hardcore supporter of Star Citizen, and I have not put any money towards the game. But I have played the Alpha during their free weekends, and they are slowly making me a believer.

I played a game with three of my friends where we loaded into a space station, jumped into a multicrew ship, and headed out to find our way among the stars. We were able to do things like jump out of the ship on EVAs into open space, jam speeder bikes into the back of other ships and drop them out over the surface of a moon, and generally do awesome (read: silly/idiotic) space adventure stuff.

It's not really a 'game' yet, but they are pretty clearly putting together some sort of experience that is very much playable. It's not enough to make me spend money, but it's closer than anything else I've seen in the genre for sure.
Also you can easily get both kernel- and user-level stack trace with dtrace.
There you go again.
Every HN salary thread, you come out of the woodwork with the same rhetoric. See: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/986693536534982659?lang=en

For the lazy: "Median comp package at FB is $240k/yr (this number is skewed low since it's over all employees, not just engineers). Google, Amazon, etc. pay similarly. Combined, these companies employ > 100k programmers in the U.S out of maybe 3M-ish programmers." Directly followed by a screenshot of one of ryandrake's older comments.

FWIW, I don't make $300k, or even $240k (yet) nor work at FAANGM. I also don't live anywhere near the bay area, but that matters less these days (at least if you're in the US). Neither of the numbers are unreasonable targets.
>> the true lower-bound in percentage terms would be 19 (that we know were harassed) of 384 (total population), around 5%.

You're mixing a population about which you can make an inference (survey participants) with a population about which you cannot (people who were not even contacted about the survey). The resulting percentage is essentially meaningless.