skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting half are b2b, but thats also a super wide net to cast.
Getting Flow to agree with your types
There could be one factor, or several. What matters is if the species can or cannot survive at the end to spread out or at least to make their presence detectable.

This aggregate of 'filters' is what's important.
I noticed a great tipping system in the oberoi grand of Kolkata city in India. When I was about to tip the bell boy for bringing my luggage to the room, he graciously declined. He continued to explain that there is no personal tipping in the entire hotel. If I enjoy the stay and like the service, At the check out time you can leave the tip in an envelope near the front desk. This was great because for the next 3 days I enjoyed the great service without thinking about whom to tip how much during every interaction.
I'm not sure it's constructive to accuse such a large category of people of not "feeling" the right way. It's not as if they're ignorant of the situation.
Kids like you had it way too easy. When I was young you had to solder your own components together to make a calculator.

Kids like me had it way too easy. When they were young they had to look things up in log tables and use slide rules.

Etc. back to hunting wild beasts and digging vegetables out of the frozen ground
Think cities. Firefighter and police pensions.
Yes, that's a good point. I should probably be more flexible. I agree with many other that a very small student loan burden to close the gap between scholarships, grants, work, and going to affordable state schools is also totally reasonable in my mind.
I love it. No awkwardness of a zero tip after being served. Anyway there are very few places I've seen with that where there isn't also a tip jar. If you indeed felt the service was tip-worthy you can drop a tip in the jar on the way out.

I don't understand why people (buyers) are so thin-skinned about this. Leave a tip or don't. Whatever.
There's an issue that nobody seems to discuss here: where you go is at least as important as that you go for higher education.

The numbers for for-profit colleges are rather dismal: higher costs, higher student loan rates, lower graduation rates, lower salaries[1]. And in my personal experience, I've never met anyone with a degree from a for-profit college that was particularly exceptional.

An anecdote: I know someone who recently graduated from a for-profit college on a GI bill. Someone miscalculated how much money he had in benefits there, and when they realized he was out of money, Bam! He graduated. They did have a requirement for an internship deal, apparently supposed to lead to permanent employment, but they placed him with a local company repairing industrial electronics for $10/hr; for someone in his mid-30s with 8 years in the Navy and several years of experience as an insurance claims adjuster.

I am personally a big fan of higher education. It's the one opportunity in anyone's life to learn and experience things you cannot get anywhere else, to meet people who can expand your horizons beyond your specific, small bubble. I'm also not a big fan of "everyone should get a STEM degree, 'cause that's where the money is"; I've met too many people in my career who didn't have the aptitude or interest and it's never led to a particularly pretty result. So, a purely financial viewpoint does not impress me much.

But even from a financial viewpoint, for-profit institutions are spectacularly bad.

[1] https://capseecenter.org/research/by-the-numbers/for-profit-...
>June 25, 2018, https://github.com/donnelldebnam/CodeU-Spring-2018-29/pull/5... “Thanks!!”

A strange fix to equally strange code. In the old code `tags` wasn't used in the first place, and in the new code it's put inside a scope ensuring it definitely can't be used. Why not just delete it?

If it's being used just for side-effects in the `getAllHashtags()` call, why still bind it to a variable?

Edit: Also, it isn't consistent with the original code in that it prefixes the member access with `this.` whereas the old code didn't do that. If I were the bot's author I wouldn't consider this commit a particularly good example of the bot's capability...
No, those two things are orthogonal.

The convention in the US is to compute the tip on the pre-tax amount. If the pre-tax price is $10, a 20% tip is $2 and 8% tax is $0.80, for a total of $12.80.

Now, some of this software has come along and tried to sneak in a change to the formula where the tip is computed on the post-tax amount. They take $10, add 8% tax to get $10.80, and then compute 20% of that for the tip, for a total of $12.96.

They have deceptively changed the tip rate from 20% to 21.6%.

Whether prices are listed tax inclusive or tax exclusive isn't the issue. Even with tax-inclusive pricing like Europe has, it still would have been possible to sneak in a change to the formula for computing the tip.
But low sleep is going to impact your perception during waking life. You’re not going to get the maximum cognitive productivity or the maximum emotional enjoyment out of life.

It’s like working smarter vs. working harder.
> It would be a quite standard PR stunt to present visible environmentally friendly options (that potentially largely go unused), while not doing anything at all to the less visible parts of the company.

Sure, but it's good to start somewhere. If we get companies competing on a level of environmental friendliness, then it quickly goes beyond being superficial, as those gains are quickly achieved and further ones are sought.

To some degree I think that's part of what's going on with Starbucks. They've positioned themselves as an environmentally aware company, and one that cares about world issues (carrying specific types of beans, etc). Part of this is obviously playing to their audience (and part is it starting in a locale and with a CEO that cater to these attitudes), but that's about all we can expect from most companies. Thankfully, it's something that can be worked with. If consumers express interest, companies will respond.

There's no reason for you to apologize, I just wanted to point out that we should be careful to not draw that line at those companies who are "good" or "great". We're at the level were we should be very welcoming of those that are only acceptable in their behavior with regard to this, but that's still worlds ahead of most, and that's how we move the average.
And none of those happen if you have a chemical imbalance resulting in low endocannabinoid levels, because THC/CBD would just bring those levels back up to a baseline reference value, rather than pushing them into excess.

(I.e., the same reason that people who have ADHD don't become manic when taking stimulant-class ADHD meds; while people who don't have ADHD, do.)
Here in Europe, the Dark Sky based forecasts are really bad, whereas the weather underground ones are in line with other local forecasts.

Now in case of carrot, I guess having unreliable forecasts is totally in line with the other tangential functionality of the app anyways :-)
> happy employees are more productive and more compliant with company policy

And also less likely to leave but why is that a problem?

In the end all employees are only there to make the company money. I really don't see why HR is any better or worse than the engineering department. Everyone is just trying to make a living so I don't see any point in looking down on them for it.
The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Is a Kind of Crazy No One Will Sell You Anymore
One is reminded of the opening scene of Reservoir Dogs...
Is it made clear anywhere how memory for the Titan enclave works, and whether they've done something similar to Apple with encrypted memory busses?
idk whether this is the case at BYU specifically, but in-state tuition at most state universities is going to be about that much per semester, and there are going to be many different grants available to a person who has no assets and a minimum wage job. any loans you end up taking in this position will have highly favorable terms subsidized by the us government.
Computers always had an aura of infallibility to me as a kid. But learning to program taught me that they're only as infallible as their creators, programmers, and operators. So to me, the dark side of our field is that you "see how the sausage is made", as they say.

Which could be good or bad, depending on whether you agree with the statement that ignorance is bliss. For instance, if you had asked me 5 years ago whether owning a self-driving car would be awesome, I would have answered with an enthusiastic yes. Now, as a novice-to-journeyman software engineer, if I had to own a car at all, I'd buy one made before computers became a fundamental component inside most vehicles (got my eye on a 1976 Chevy Silverado, but I digress).

Call me paranoid, but I can't help but feel it's only a matter of time before some hacker gains control of a highway full of cars and demands X # of bitcoin from their occupants or he'll drive them all off a bridge.(1) I can't un-see that image in my head, and it terrifies me. Security professionals need to be right every single time in order to be successful at their jobs. Hackers need to be right only once to be successful at theirs. It's a Sisyphean task trying to keep people physically safe in a digital age, let alone keep their privacy intact.

Which brings me to my other point- technology being used by those in power to maintain and expand that power by weakening our expectations of privacy:

-Social media platforms are being co-opted to derive insights about everyday people that even they don't know about themselves, and these insights are being used to manipulate their behavior at the voting booth, at the shopping mall, etc.(2)

-Governments are creating "social credit scores" based on how well a citizen tows the official party line, who they associate with, or the opinions they express. And these scores can affect everything from their job prospects to their ability to get a loan to their very geographic mobility.(3)

-Facial recognition technology is being deployed in traffic cameras and even in wearable technology to make it easier to pick "undesirables" out of a crowd.(4)

I don't mean to single out one single country. If this technology exists, there's a greater-than-zero chance in any country that sooner or later a leader will come along who will seek to use that technology for their own gain.

Sorry to get so dark, I don't mean to sound overly dramatic. I never thought of myself as a tinfoil-hat type of person, and I hate that I'm essentially slowly turning into one. Technology does a lot of good too, I'm just genuinely scared for the future.

Sources:

(1)
-https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

(2)
-https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...
-http://business.time.com/2012/07/31/big-data-knows-what-your...
-https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr...

(3)
-https://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit
-https://observer.com/2018/02/america-isnt-far-off-from-china...

(4)
-https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-police-go-robocop-with-...
How do the returns on those "index funds" compare with returns on an S&P500 index fund over the same time period?
Different Titan.
Conversely, a particle on the surface of an object compressed to near its Schwarzschild radius should experience an extreme blue shift and time contraction. Imagine absorbing in one instant a billion years of microwave background radiation blue shifted to gamma and beyond. How could the near-black-hole hang onto it?
Tesla inks deal for Gigafactory 3 in China
I love the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Even if it's not the most optimal, I find it a very clever and beautiful way to find prime numbers up to a given point.
I've always liked this image from UserOnboard

https://www.useronboard.com/imgs/posts/mario-water.png

Source: https://www.useronboard.com/features-vs-benefits/

One of the most important part about sales IMO is to remember that you're dealing with humans on the other side who have their own personal and professional incentives. Think about how you can make your customer look like a genius, get promoted, help make some process better/cheaper or get to a business goal quicker. Do you have a solution to help achieve one of those outcomes? This requires listening far more than speaking and will always result in selling solutions to problems...product feature/functionality is just the way to get there. You may be very proud of everything you've built, and rightly so, but the customer only cares about their own outcomes and whether you can help them achieve it.
The Heinlein quoter is suggesting that taxation is theft, and it's immoral to force someone to pay for a public service if they personally don't want to.
Are they? Why do you expect they do?
> If people want to vote to refuse to fund having a police service, how is that wrong? If they want to go without, that's their choice.

You can't really let people have a say with regards to everything they pay for, because a lot of people have an "I got mine" attitude, so as long as no house has burned down in their neighborhood lately, they might be tempted to vote against funding the fire department as well.

If the whole town goes up in a blaze, then will you expect the federal government to step in and help them? If yes, that means everyone foots the bill for their stupidity; If not, can we still call ourselves humans?

Some basic services should be funded, and if you don't want that, you should be able to go live in the woods, or at least that's how I see it.
Visit Japan next time and you'd conclude that tips are not necessary for good service after all.
If the warehouse has been foreclosed on, there may well be a demand of back-due rent before he can get his property. This is not an uncommon situation. It depends on the contract signed, but the owner of the warehouse may very well now have possession of the complete contents until back-due rent is paid. This is very common in rental storage units in the US, as well.
Julian Assange given feline ultimatum by Ecuador
Open market operations is one way that the Fed injects money into the economy; the government creates bonds/debt out of thin air and sells them to the Fed on the open market:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/openmarketoperations.as...

National debt over time chart (from Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...

^ That's more than $10 trillion of new money 'borrowed' from the Fed by the government and then injected into the system in just 10 years. $1 trillion per year equates to 10% of the US GDP.

Quantitative easing is different because the Fed went beyond the regular open market operations of just buying government bonds; they also started buying other kinds of assets. After the 2008 crisis, the Fed purchased toxic assets from troubled banks; the same toxic assets which caused the financial crisis. See https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Circle-Bastiat/2010/0...
>>Isn't it selfish of the library to misuse the money that could be better spent on the less fortunate?

Gosh, I hope you don't have any vices or leisure pursuits.
When I shopped for my piano, in Vienna, it was tuned to 443 which was the custom there. It was crated up at the factory and shipped to California where it's been holding its tune.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch#Current_concert_...

A lot of continental Europe uses A=443 today
I shouldn't give my parents too hard of a time. I had a half-tuition scholarship to the other school. It was also a religious, private school and so there's that aspect as well. They would not have disowned me or been too upset had I made the choice to go to my first choice, but as a kid it's hard to not want to do everything you can to please your family. Ultimately, it was still painful to matriculate.
These laws should also force any business using them to visibly post the wage they're paying the employees in question. If the argument is we need to pay charity to these employees then people should see it as such. Guilting customers should cause some shame for the business.
to me, action matters more than intent.

i understand sometimes people make mistakes, but sometimes those mistakes could've been avoided if they spent any time learning about current issues. in not spending time learning about these things they are putting themselves up to say some dumb shit.

obviously its hard to say what should happen in these cases, and i do think we should try and educate people when they want, but its also not the job of marginalized people to educate others on how what they said was offensive.
There's enough blame to go around. But a few people that somehow frequently escape blame seem to be parents, teachers, and advisors. This problem demonstrates they have a heavy influence on kids because I'm sure it ain't Hollywood action flicks and oscar bait, procedural crime dramas, or popstars telling kids they need to go to college. To some degree it is media but when it comes to home and school they're so sanctified that it's hard to criticize them other than to point out parents need more government aid or teachers need more funding. Seems to me like parents and teachers need to reevaluate what they're cramming into kids brains. I'd also say theres a culture problem with the suburban middle class that looks down on blue collar work. I think a lot of people here know what I'm talking about, the disgust bordering on contempt for the dirty, overweight fellows who get on their knees and backs and get their hands beat up. Understandably blue collar isn't for everyone but colleges are so saturated higher education is starting to become cost prohibitive in the long run.
I don't quite get it - why do you think I need the maximum possible cognitive productivity out of my life? If I'm delivering enough to get the job done, that's enough for me, I don't need to invest every minute of my day in maximizing my cognitive productivity over my enjoyment of life. If I'm giving up spending time with my family and friends, working on personal projects or even just catching up on a TV show I enjoy, I'd say that's a better use of my time than sleeping.

I see no reason to think it has significant impact on emotional enjoyment though as you're suggesting - these studies impact learning primarily which wouldn't seem to be deeply involved there. In fact, studies exist showing positive impacts for depression patients.
Yep, I use this all the time to figure out which SVN commit introduced a bug (run the last deployed version and verify it didn't have the bug, then binary search the commits in-between that and HEAD until I figure out which one caused it).
In my neck of the woods, servers make $12/hour. Before tips, because LA no longer lets restaurants rely on tips for wages. (And that's increasing to $15/hour by 2020). So unless service is really good, I default to 10%.

And quite frankly, it's disgusting that the person who spends may 30 seconds providing service gets X% of the bill when 99% of the work is done in the kitchen by guys who don't get paid anything extra.
Why would I think about it that way? That is the exact attitude that I do not want prevalent. I actually LIKE the tipping system for the traditional service-heavy jobs like the ones I mentioned, because it separates the product and service. I think that makes sense and I generally tip at least 20%. Generally the servers I know agree with this, although there might be some survivorship bias.

With other jobs (e.g., a cashier), the position is more of an operational necessity for the employer than it is a differentiator for the customer, and in that case, I'd like to see the employer responsible for higher wages even if that means higher prices. I do not see that happening if they are let off the hook by guilt-ridden customers deciding to tip every single employee at every single transaction.
According to this it is a non-profit corporation open to the public. A corporation is just a legal structure around ownership interest. The corporate shareholder structure allowed the shareholders to collectively share their books in the library which they provided to the public. Nothing about being exclusive to the rich.

Income is a continuum. Schooling (not to be confused with education) at its essence is just a room with a teacher, pupils and study materials. It can be realistically attained by nearly all income levels but the extreme lowest.
yes please.

I really want to use vim in the sun
That was the first thing I asked the barista once I became a regular and tipped Them: do you actually get these tips? She reassured me they did.

What bothers me is the ACH networks still get their cut of the tip (assuming they get a percentage of sale and not a flat rate). No visa, you don't need 5% of the waitress hard work.
You can also get Python onto it directly with uflash.

https://pypi.org/project/uflash/
BASIC is more readable than forth, but forth is good for things too. What about an hp48 or http://amforth.sourceforge.net/ on some atmega device?
Twilio Releases Flex – Contact Center Solution
Not the parent but:
I would imply exactly such a thing. Just like how, in some/most states you are supposed to pay a tipped employee minimum wage if they don't make the equivalent in tips.
As far as I can tell from having worked in food service: that payout never happens.
That Go pi-digits program is 50% faster than a Java program that also uses the GMP library, just like the Go program!

That Go pi-digits program is only 4% faster than a PHP program that uses the GMP library.

It's not enough to "point out that most languages have C FFIs" when for this arbitrary precision arithmetic task GMP is allowed and others step-up and contribute those programs.
...but during that one iteration of the loop, the paths will diverge wildly.

In a typical message handling loop, the big-switch will immediately jump off to separate message-handling code, immediately wiping out the possibility of parallelisation.
College degree or Udemy courses? Which is Better?
Just don't tip and don't worry about it.
Theranos CEO Accused of Billion Dollar Medical Fraud Appears in Court
Before Square and credit card display readers, shops would have a jar in the front asking for tips. Rarely people gave tips. But some would.

I can understand tips at restaurants for waiters. I cannot understand tips at coffee shops and pizza places without waiters. What is the tip for? Pray tell.
I haven't used it personally but I'm pretty sure the library with the garden that's near me actually uses the garden for classes to teach children about things like how insects pollinate plants and how to grow stuff. I think it's mostly an educational tool as opposed to a way to feed the neighborhood on the tax payers' dime.

Maybe community garden is the wrong term for it. I would also be a bit unhappy if my taxes were paying for a library to feed the neighborhood. There's other/better ways for the government to give food to people from collected taxes.
Ask HN: Developers turned Product Managers – what helped you the most?
I will be taking on the role of a Technical Product Manager and I am looking for the fastest way to be most helpful to the rest of the team. What were the things you wish you knew before embarking on this journey? What were the gotchas? Also, do you have any books, blog posts or talks you recommend?
I had a choir teacher who told us a story about cheating that assignment by learning the pitch of the hum of the fluorescent lights in their classroom.
Don't learn sales, learn people. Reading recs:
* the social triggers podcasts by Derek Halpern
* Start with No by Jim Camp
* Demonstrating to Win (super cheesy title but amazing content)
What's your understanding about what happened at Bletchley Park?