skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More recent articles:
http://fortune.com/2018/10/17/google-eu-android-antitrust-ma...

See also: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-andro....

The latter fumbles breaking down what parts "Android" has, neglecting the Java Virtual Machine, and thus most of the OS.
1. I don't think you understand how how student loans or taxes in the US work.
2. Your misplaced anger should be pointed at the rotten system that forced you to live on ramen noodles for 3 years even after getting a degree and presumably a good job.
I've been denied entry in the past because I was insufficiently precise when writing down a date in my paperwork.

They can deny for any arbitrary reason, or no reason at all!
Par for the course for business insider.
Covariance and contravariance in subtyping
Dog-whistle racism has no place on HN.

Poor communities of all races have been underserved since long before whenever you imagine "identity politics" started to "rise" in the USA. Was "identity politics" not enshrined in the US Constitution, which protected racial slavery while giving more-slaveowning states extra voting power over less-slaveowning states

https://blackpast.org/aah/three-fifths-clause-united-states-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
What's your view on ORM's like Ecto (for Elixir) and possibly Sequel that, from my impression so far, stick closer to the underlying SQL? I find myself generally agreeing with your view on things, but my impression of ActiveRecord has somehow become relatively negative. I don't know enough to know what to think, so I'm curious how you see ActiveRecord in relation to the alternatives.
Cars might hold some value, houses might hold more value over time, but TVs? Don't expect much.

What we need is to make college debt discharable through bankruptcy, same as any other debt. Then the only people who can borrow are those likely to be able to pay it of, which nicely solves the problem of unplayable college debt (while reducing the interest students of medical, science, law etc have to pay, since more money will be chasing fewer students), for profit colleges and useless degrees.

Does it mean some people won't be able to study their favourite subject? In general no[0], in college? Yes.

[0]: Remember the " you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!"? Today it is probably 15 USD on Beeminder, and you won't have a degree, but that degree is worthless in the first place, so overall huge win.
College became a checkbox item long ago because rich, successful people went to college. Turns out, many of them were rich and successful for other reasons (class, inheritance, old boy's network).

So, now folks are asking "Why isn't college worth the money?" I would respond, it was never "worth the money", as it isn't technical school.

Conflate that with, medicine and engineering are still attainable only through college and its a very confused situation.
Caroll Spinney Leaves ‘Sesame Street’ After Nearly 50 Years
So how to request Apple not collect this data?
Over the years I’ve heard some good advice on this sport of thing attributed to Bertrand Meyer. I keep meaning to track down citations.

There are conversational styles you can apply to code that make it simple to test (or in his case, make coherent assertions about) that still keep the methods small but cleave it in a way that you can still track in your working memory.

It’s a style I aspire to, and put a great deal of time and energy into. But reading my old code I can say it’s harder than it sounds and it doesn't sound that easy to begin with.
"Plug it into the TV" as a requirement would restrict the choice. Why not something that can be programmed through a PC, fun enough to attract the kids attention, with great instructional value, powerful enough to be used for serious tasks (LCD+wifi+bluetooth+buttons+battery=IoT terminal) and cheap?

Take a look at this:

https://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_cod...
I think it will help once they release the new firmware that lets you more easily access disks stored on a USB stick. Doing LOAD "$",8,1 etc. is rather tedious with the virtual keyboard.

Also, they have promised a bigger version with a fully functional keyboard. That will be awesome once it's out. I'm waiting for it since it was actually the thing that made me join their crowdfunding campaign.
Option one: build solar panels. Option two: poor people no longer drive, and their standard of living falls. Capitalism, if given a pricing signal to "reduce emissions," will pick a completely merciless combination of the two.
>Second, despite all the doom and gloom over student loan debt and grads not finding good jobs and , a college degree still has a good ROI in terms of higher wages, lower unemployment, and higher lifetimes wealth, versus having no degree.

Does it change the framing of this fact if we assume a degree's main value to students is in its signaling power rather than what they learned? In which case ballooning debt is still a really problematic thing because it shows we're dumping money in an arms race which everyone would be better off if we could tone down.
It's unclear to me that student loans present meaningful systemic risk.

Mortgage defaults rather obviously have a knock on effect in prices for homes, which huge numbers of people rely on (across the globe) for security, retirement, etc.

By contrast, half of the country defaulting on student loans doesn't affect anyone other than the issuers of said loans. Are people indirectly investing in these issuers?
But the money to bail them out comes from tax payers.
I'm actually surprised by the amount of people that have an iPhone. I'm guessing it's because of the payment plans that the providers have setup these days but who knows.
Why Using Reduce() to Sequentially Resolve Promises Works
WeRecover aims to disrupt predatory patient brokering system
I love this algorithm. Had a lot of fun implementing this in Java and Javascript. It gets a bit tricky though if colors have an alpha channel.
Who doesn't plan to pay off their mortgage? What does that even mean? It's a 10-30 year debt, not a car lease. You don't really have the option of not paying it off unless you want to get foreclosed on and have a really hard time finding a place to rent.
> Legit question, though - are cattle actually carbon-neutral?

The vast majority of beef produced is not carbon neutral. From the Beef Cattle Research Council [1] of Canada (not exactly an anti-beef organization):

"Presently, the economic conditions are favorable for the production of beef from grain in many regions of the world, largely because of the availability of inexpensive fossil fuels"

The plants you are referring to are produced with massive amounts of fossil fuel. By one estimate, each steer "consumes" 284 gallons of oil via feed during its lifetime [2]

On top of this, cows are one of the most inefficient ways to turn energy inputs into protein (10x less efficient than other types of meat, 100x less efficient than grain protein), primarily due to large size of the animals must be grown to before slaughter, which uses wastes a lot of energy. [3]

There is a large variance between the ratio of input energy to protein output of various types of meat, with lamb (57:1) and beef (40:1) being the least efficient, and broiler chickens (4:1) being the most efficient [4]

1. http://www.beefresearch.ca/research-topic.cfm/environmental-...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/magazine/power-steer.html

3. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/beef-uses-ten-...

4. https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/660S/4690010
Or they could say "if you eliminate your cancer genes your insurance is going to decrease by X". See the problem?
I'd add race and culture as another possible boundaries.
Try contracts instead. Agism seems to affect that less.
The money raised should go to you, right?
Sorry about that. I had a few drinks in me.

Thanks for trying to keep this place civil.
Are you putting most recent projects/employers/accomplishments/awards front-and-center? With dates?

Maybe the education section reveals your age and pre-biases hiring managers. Put it nearer to the end so they see most recent work first.

Do you have many short stints or other classic red flags?

Also not a hiring manager.
When this species becomes capable of observing our feelings objectively and not simply saying "I feel it, it's mine so it must be truth" people like you are going to feel something very different.
I don't know what the internal situation is with WU, but I have to wonder if they're not really a going concern within TWC anymore.

You would be correct, they're owned by IBM:
https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underg...
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It seems self evident that Facebook (and to a much lesser degree, Twitter) are major competitors to Google in the ad market.

It's not like TV where the money is spent and you have no way to measure the results. Many people are seeing results with Facebook and Instagram ads. So they are spending.

Google AdWords is the king of selling you something you are looking for. But Facebook and Instagram are highly effective at selling you stuff you didn't know you wanted. Not to mention political and spend.
They have many critics also who refuse to buy into the Pevear-Volokhknsky hype, even considering their translations as 'disastrous':

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-...
I am wary of all this talk about breakthroughs. It diverts attention from the hard choices we have to make. Namely change diet, drastically reduce consumption, emphasise circular economy etc. Those breakthroughs may never come.
Microsoft is the toughest one. Fortunately, I don't have friends that use outlook.com or w/e
> does the simulation include these factors?

Yes, that's what the "put through a virtual Kepler’s detection scheme" part refers to. So she:

1. Generated a bunch of random planet sizes.

2. Simulated what the detector would have reported for each.

3. Compared those virtual detections against the real detection data.

If the two results had matched, it would imply real solar systems have random planet sizes and the bias they see is from the detector. Since the two results are different, it implies the actual solar systems are not randomly sized with the apparent uniformity coming from detector bias.

(There could, of course, be a third factor where planets are randomly sized but the measured bias comes from something else.)
Or they might be thinking that you will retire soon or not fluid enough in thinking.

Or demand too much pay.
There was a previous sell-off 2015, the buyer was almost exclusively Belgium.

I had assumed (without evidence) it was the US. A plunge protection team of sorts.

ZH suggest the buyer was China.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-18/revealing-identity...
Agreed and thank you for the correction. Diploma mill industry is indeed the predator. But I think the way to stop it is to force disclosure of total costs, average salaries, etc. Once people see what they actually get from those (a piece of paper) they may be more inclined to shop elsewhere.
Justin Kan and Kyle Vogt are both on that list twice. That's impressive!
ah, i meant heavyweight (middle-weight, maybe) in terms of programmer-effort / ergonomics. i know rust is all about zero-runtime-cost abstractions :-)
Canadian Human Rights Tribunals often produce concerning rulings regarding free speech [1]. I found this case to be particularly concerning even if the "jokes" in question were distasteful. Reminds me of the "Nazi Pug" in the UK [2] which was equally alarming.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-comedian-h...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/04...
This has happened.

The UK had an escalating fuel tax in the late 90s, early 00s. At some point when petrol was around 99p a litre there were demonstrations and rolling go-slows on motorways. I think the demos may have also blockaded refineries. Stupidly, government caved and the escalator tax was neutered. Now fuel is around £1.30 a litre.

It was subtle at first, but by the time of the demos there was a noticeable effect on the roads. For the first time in living memory (mine anyway) they were getting quieter. Most people in my circle didn't seem that fussed by it, they just drove a bit less.

No idea if there was "someone" like an oil company was behind the initial idea of or organising of the demos.
You can send email using EC2 instances, including mass commercial campaigns (aka "legal spam"...).

However, there are a few things to do, more specifically, you must contact AWS to get "clean" IP ranges (fresh IPs, never allocated to instances), sign some agreements and pay additional fees.

It's not exactly as simple as an API call to create an ec2 instance, but it's doable.

With random IPs, there is a good chance indeed that it is already burnt by a previous allocation.
Heck I'm only over 40.

I did a handful of interviews at places where folks who I went to school with also interviewed.

I got a lot of "culture" questions. My younger classmates, did not hear the world "culture" in their interviews, ever.

It's hard not to be pessimistic and assume "culture" was about age...
agree. when you break-down the math, it's not that big of a big deal.
I was admitted to a relatively competitive university's (<10% acceptance rate) computer science program, but it would mean I would have to take on just over 100k of debt. After the first year I chose to transfer to a local community college to earn an associates, and then trasnfer to a state school. I was hired after my associates, got my bachelors paid for and completed it online, and graduated with no debt. I'm extremely happy I made the change, rather than paying 100k for a bachelor. Sure, I could've afforded it, but instead I was able to purchase a car in cash and buy a house pretty much straight out of school. I wouldn't recommend anyone go into debt for a bachelor; in my opinion the money could be better spent elsewhere, and it is unlikely to make a significant difference in position/pay having a name brand degree rather than something from a state school
I think it's more that they abandoned the API, didn't tell anyone that they were doing that, and still took people's money.
I recently discussed this with a person who was continuing to get student loans after already being under a mountain of debt and recognizing that their job prospects were not as lucrative as they hoped. I asked them why they were doubling down when it was obvious they were in a bad situation and making it worse. They said they had invested too much to choose another path.

This person has a bachelor's in economics and is about to finish a master's in finance. We conflate "an education" with "being educated" far too much.

I graduated 6 years ago with zero debt and no help from parents, because I actually looked into costs / benefits before starting school, picked a cheap school, and worked the whole time. I really don't know how we think it's acceptable for people to be 18 and not capable of making these decisions. You can vote and join the military, but you can't recognize financial servitude like this. They're being failed long before they get to college.
Bill Gates lives in a house that is SIXTY SIX THOUSAND SQUARE FEET.

Bill Gates flies in a private jet.

Bill Gates has a lot of work to do just to get his carbon footprint in line with the average multimillionaire let alone the national average.

Bill Gates should realize that the fundamental challenge is getting people to consume less than they can.

Maybe his net blog post should detail his personal impact relative to the average citizen and what he is doing to make his impact below average.

We don't need more blog posts. We already know everything we need to know to plot a course of action.
If people would make rational choices based on knowledge there would be no obesity (you have amount of calories on product labels).

People are aware that catastrophe is coming but they are in denial. It's just better to not think about it, like with death, you know it will come but you don't think about it, just carry with your life. And I can see the same exact thing with global warming when I talk to different people. It's better to think that I can't do nothing than think I can do something but I will need to change my style of life.

There are things one can do to live longer but they require sacrifices, do not eat bad stuff, exercise etc. For a lot of people price is too high. The problem is that in case of global warming those people are making choices for other people also.

There is no political will to change things, as every politician knows that the costs for that would be too high today. So that's why they think it's better to postpone this decisions, automatically making the cost a lot higher. There is also believe that someone will figure out a way to stop global warming in his basement and will save the humanity from itself. The problem is a lot more complex than just CO2, it's about the current economic model of the modern society in which we live. Constant growth and resource exploitation are not sustainable for long term.
I'm in Atlanta, and I work for a SF-based tech company. Most of my coworkers are in their 40's and 50's, and a few are 60. In Atlanta nobody cares about age or background. We also have way more diversity by almost every measure - when I fly out to SF, people look and act the same way.

I don't bat an eye when I interview someone older than me. I expect that I'll probably learn a thing or two.

Message me. If you've got that kind of experience, I can get you an interview.
Yep, my daughter plays minecraft with it about 98% of the time. Not what I had in mind, haha.
One way of implementing it in the US is what Paypal does, which is assume that your bank has authenticated you, then deposit a couple small random amounts that you have to report back.

Another way is to charge a fee for last-resort password resets. Charge $10.00 to the user's credit card, if the account info matches, and refund $5.00 in two random small amounts for them to retrieve off their online account statement and report those numbers back to you.
Interested in moving to St. Louis? I'd like to talk to you.
No offense, but given that you are making a product that has a much higher potential to enable bad actors than usual, isn't it kind of you/your company's job to try to solve it?

EDIT: Just realized I responded to the wrong person :(
Are you tailoring your resume specifically to the jobs you're applying for? This can be a big issue for people who have a long broad history of experience. The more experience you have, the smaller percentage of it will appear 'immediately relevant' to the job at hand. This isn't actually true of course, but it's a recruiter bias.
Re: Unless you want to see ads in Docs / Sheets

The more you use a product, the more you visit related sites and materials on the web; so yes, ads.
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I live in the midwest, home of the most sophisticated factory farming operations in the world. Chicken and hog factories are way more FUBAR than large cattle operations. Cattle are range animals; they need to move around, so they're usually in pasture for at least part of their diet. In Wisconsin dairy farm country, you see pastures full of cows all the time. And I recently drove through the giant beef farm areas of western Nebraska, which was enlightening. It's dry, arid, sandy land, generally unsuitable for farming. Nothing but scrub grass. Cattle are fine with that. So while the herds are large, the areas they live in are large as well.

Chickens and hogs, on the other hand, those are gross. They're kept in confinement, and fed mostly grain. They can't really graze the way cattle do, not at scale.
No. I’ve isolated the problem to the email account. You only need to set it up once with a provider who hopefully has the resources to do it properly (like gmail). Rather than having to do it for every website who all decide to do it different ways so it’s never a standard process. And many doing it badly, forgetting to disable account recovery if 2 factor is enabled.
I thought people don't really use resumes any more
That's weird, I honestly wouldn't have expected that. They gave me a little resistance with one terminating at a home but ultimately they did it. They probably start to weigh the pros/cons (ie the money) of business level service to large residential buildings and decide it isn't worth it. Maybe too many variables once the line enters the building?
Because Silly Valley.
Nothing wrong with it. However, I think an 8 year old seeing a 30 year old computer turn on instantly to the same thing a supposed "better computer" takes 10 minutes to boot to might surprise and teach them something.

I think your question, although sincere, is a variation of "why not give a child a 4 wheel drive suv instead of a silly old go cart?"
What do they use instead?
I was only able to afford a few college classed, and instead taught myself various skillsets and backgrounds. It helps that I have a mind for learning things on my own. I consider myself fairly successful, and have a respectable career. However, I do love learning and hope to surround myself with brilliant minds in the near future. I’m not interested in a degree on a single focus, but I do see value in working towards a ph.d or a doctorate.
In this article (https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/17/how-to-download-your-apple...) they say:

>If the “obtain your data” option isn’t immediately available, it may still take time to roll out to all customers.

Time to sit and wait!
It is excellent, but glacially slow in loading compared to the previous version of the site.

For example I waited 82 seconds for your link to load and another 55 seconds after clicking 10-Day, on a 40mbps connection.
Thinking back to group projects, I can honestly say that most of the college graduates whose educations I am most acquainted with cannot complete moderately sized semester-long projects that they don't like without substantial outside help and constant prodding.
I’m a fan of KISS and I spend an inordinate amount of time getting people to reframe problems in a manner that meets the needs more directly (straightforward is on the road to real simplicity, and is a good place to stop if you can’t reach the destination).

But I can’t agree with this observation. There are a lot of smart people who are bored and solve a problem we never had to keep from going nuts, but the solution is so complicated it drags everybody else down.

But there are also a lot of people out there who think that if you pretend hard enough that our problems are simple, then a simple solution can be used.

If you oversimplify the problem enough, everything looks easy.
well how are they supposed to know better? they're kids. it's on us (their parent's generation) to educate them about "how the world works career wise"
Legal matters aside, interaction is a basic human process that often comes very awkward in over excited, under pressure, small environments if someone too different from the resident crop is around. Other than that, people just won't try. You might act as a consultant and sell your time, instead? Good luck and keep going!
There's always 'web browser and Javascript'. Start with document.write, ease into more complicated input/output methods.
That's the bailout or not bailout question. We can also just let people discharge the loans without bailing out the people making the loans.

Currently, if someone dies broke after graduation the outstanding loans are paid back by the government. So, basically people are making risk free loans right now, changing that so they take some risk is an option.

IMO, loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy 20 years after graduation. That would slightly increase the loan interest rate, but not cost taxpayers a dime. We might also see things like higher interest rates for getting an art degree which IMO is a useful feature.