skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stephen Pyne, an environmental historian who studies fire, emphasized that logging would not keep wildfires at bay. “Logging takes the big trunks and leaves the small stuff because there’s no market for it,” he said. “Fire burns the little and leaves the big.”
Microsoft Building New Chrome-Based Browser to Replace Edge on Windows 10
This is proof - forensic evidence - that he is a good white man.
What a gut-wrenching story. Perpetual control over your child seems so suffocating and counter intuitive. So much so that the kid had to plan an operation to escape.

More background to the story:

1. India returned the princess to protect strategic interests - https://thewire.in/diplomacy/india-returned-runaway-dubai-pr...

2. http://www.asianage.com/india/all-india/300318/kidnapped-dub...

3. Indian Prime Minister authorized the operation to seize her and return back to UAE - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/28...
Inverted yield curve has predicted 10 of the last 3 recessions
people arguing, that temporal reality is absolute.
what do you think about daylight savings?
This might sound like piling on a specific class of people but from my observation (I lived in the valley for 5 years all the way from San Francisco to San Jose), young white people crave for a lifestyle that is completely urban and do not want to make a commute sacrifice. Several of my ex coworkers would see it beneath themselves to get on public transportation. The demographics of people in an office changes significantly as you travel south from San Francisco to San Jose. The healthy balance in terms of demographics seems to exist at places like Mountain View/Palo Alto. During my five years, I set my rent cost goal to be 2500$ per month (and I didn't want roommates). I moved to keep the rent a constant while my salary was increasing marginally year over year. I ended up at Milpitas after 5 years but it wasn't bad at all :). I did miss drinking with coworkers and socializing but instead I could focus on health (both physical and mental). Now I moved to east coast and could afford a nice home etc and my mortgage is still close to 2500$ mark in DC suburbs. My large point is - Nashville will become San Francisco because it will be filled with young people congregating in some spots whereas some neighborhood 20 mins from Nashville downtown will have no takers. In several ways, the problem is self inflicted.
"[..] The balance sheet of the BOJ as recently passed its annual GDP."

Yes, and where are the promised terrible consequences?

The true is the markets have to dance whatever the Central Bank sings [1].

[1] - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=40937
Fonts and Typography in Newspapers has always been incredibly important, when it comes to the audience they're trying to reach.
Uff, :(
It varies by company and department but, yeah, that's been pretty much the norm everywhere I've worked. There do tend to be specific policies related to class of airfare as it's a major part of travel expense and the difference between economy and business can easily be 5x.

ADDED: Class of airfare is a tough one because the delta $$ are so much most of the time. Business class travel does become something of a perk for people above a certain level. It's true those people do tend to travel more and are more tightly scheduled but it's a loose correlation.

But for hotels and meals, it's always been pretty much common sense for me. No one expects me to stay in Fleabag Motel but eyebrows would doubtless be raised if I made a habit of staying at a $1,000 per night high-end hotel unless there were special circumstances such as an event at an isolated location. (Or it was in Silicon Valley--saw a Marriott Courtyard going for $1100/night the other week :-))
I hope he didn't place any bets on the future of NoSQL then.
> I am yet to hear any story of any candidate that was interested in the position but walked away due to the way that the process is conducted.

Thank you for making my point. Why would you ever hear about it?

This is the "British Rails" fallacy in action. (A long time ago, the British Rail organization had heard complaints that residents of a local community weren't satisfied with the once-daily train service it received. Its response was there was no need for a second train, because at the times considered, no one was standing on the platform waiting to board it).

Nice coconut earmuffs.
That's true to a point. Still doesn't explain Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino etc.
When interested in the whole east bloc bootleg culture topic, don't miss out on the 2105 documentary film
Chuck Norris vs. Communism
who covers the organized structures of 80s Communist Romania.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/18/5422606/communist-romania...
Hardcore vimmer here, but I don't think you're right. I know at least VSCode has this functionality and probably other editors as well. I don't use vim because of it's features but more because modal editing and the keybindings are cemented into my muscle memory. There's also the extremely lightweight nature that let's me have several projects open in vim at once with little resource impact. Were I to start over today, I might pick VSCode and be just as happy.
A friend of mine from Mumbai once turned their car off in the middle of the road, got out, and left out of sheer frustration.

Apparently, nobody seemed to regard this as particularly unusual.
Although an official policy of being permissive with what expenses are covered seems like it'd be better than "we look away when you lie on your expenses claim". Legal safety for the employee, more fairness among employees. E.g. the first example in the article of someone having the company pay for dog care during business travel seems something that'd be fairly easy to justify as a policy.
I’ve been beating this drum for a while. It doesn’t make any logical sense why knowledge/tech workers have to live close to these expensive cities or find affordability by becoming a super commuter from an hour or more away. Sure younger people want to live in those cities but I would think it’d be a good retention policy to allow people to transition to a remote work option.

Being able to live in a LCOL area means your tech salary actually counts for something. Not just paying rent on a overpriced apartment.
How You're Actually Supposed to Use a Can Opener
> * super powerful, easy to use, integrated command and fuzzy file search, also with a good UX.

Sounds like you should try ivy and its companions. Ivy offers fuzzy matching for all operations in Emacs (e.g., switching buffers, opening files, looking up documentation) and the counsel packages (e.g., counsel-rg) use that same interface to interact with external tools such as ripgrep or git grep.

Ivy has completely taken over my Emacs experience, and it did not require a lot of configuration, just a few keybindings.

As for a terminal, I don't have a Windows machine to test, but `M-x ansi-term` is pretty much exactly like a regular terminal: you can run any program in it, including htop or even vim.
> Microsoft is getting the heat that Windows 10 is unstable

Sorry for going off-topic on rant here, but yesterday I had a 3 months old win10 workstation refuse to start the built-in calculator app. It worked fine the evening before, and no updates were installed in between...

This is apparantly a common problem for many users. I found lots of possible solutions, but of course, none of them worked for me. I took ownership of install dirs, redeployed the appx, every hack I could find...

Eventually I gave up and copied calc.exe from a win7 computer -- of course it doesn't run on win10, that would be too easy. So I installed a third-party calculator and apologized to the user on behalf of Microsoft...

> Very urgently, I imagine, Microsoft is trying to change the perception of Windows 10

Nothing will change my perception of win10.
I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix and Firebird in a zip file as a faster alternative to Netscape.

I am loving Quantum, and I don't understand why Firefox continues to slide.

With this Edge announcement (a new Microsoft Chromium browser), I'm nervous we're getting into not a duopoly, but potentially a monopoly.
These people seem to have a strange definition of "fraud". In the first two paragraphs, they list three apparent "frauds" and then note that they were detected by analysing the receipts that the employees submitted. In other words, the employees freely disclosed what they were expensing, by the article's own admission. There's no explanation given of why the three expenses listed were illegitimate in any way; it seems reasonable to charge for the cost of having a kennel take care of your dog while you travel, and I assume the yoga and strip club were client entertainment for sales or marketing purposes. You can very reasonably disapprove of taking clients to strip clubs, of course, but doing so and then openly disclosing it isn't dishonest.

The only example of employees committing fraud - that is, gaining a personal economic benefit through dishonesty - is in the final three paragraphs. In that case, somebody billed steak as food for the office python when really they were taking it home to barbecue for their family. The rest of this article is deranged; these auditors, at least as they are portrayed by Bloomberg, seem to think that submitting an expense claim that they don't approve of, entirely honestly, is somehow magically "fraud". What the hell?
I think the most important step for me was acknowledging what I'm capable of and what I really need.

I don't want to work 12 months a year just to have mad bucks, I also want free-time when I'm still young.

I could meal prep every Sunday for the week so I wouldn't eat crap later, but I also want to eat crap.

I want to get fit and healthy and muscular, but I also want to slack away.

I want to be successful and do many prestige projects so I get fame, but I also want to chill.

It's an individual choice to check what you want and what you are able to put in for it, you only have so much time/motivation etc.
I'm thinking of moving to NYC from San Francisco, while I bootstrap a new venture. It seems it should be cheaper but still have access to peer networks/potential hires and investors for when the time comes. Do you think that's right?

What's the threshold you think you need to earn for it not to be brutal?
Nashville has a long ways to go before it becomes SF. Maybe in 5 decades?
I’m using Night Reader for Safari right now, it allows using hotkeys for toggling between dark and light. Didn’t notice any hit on the performance.
Can the money you earn as an employee make the streets quieter or the pavements less packed or the air less polluted?
Blue cards and HSM pretty much always get the ruling, it's definitely not any foreign person. I believe the 30% ruling lasts 5 years now, which also means that you would typically be eligible to be a permanent dutch resident. At that point, you'd have largely the same access to social services (disability etc.) that dutch people do and it seems fair to have equal taxes.

What would be the lower tax/high salary comparable in Europe? London has remarkably similar salaries and super high cost of living. (I hear Berlin has a cost of living that's exploding and generally lower salaries.)
Austin isn't exactly pulling a SF with it's housing and the cost of living is rising rapidly.

There is an undeniable correlation between more people with more money to spend and increased cost. Go look at tourism economies for an example.
With Safari on macOS, the OS reports a negligible energy impact for the extension.
Personality types. Over the past 25 years since you started, more people with higher social needs have entered the tech workforce and they desire highly dense places to live.
Mostly making forests friendlier to humans. In their natural state the forests were perpetually burning and a lot of plants depended on those burns. But when you build million dollar houses in the middle of the pretty forest that likes to burn every 5 years...
Indian Coast Guard raided the vessel and deported her back ASAP.
I frequently say that the only thing I hate more than doing my expenses is not having my money. :-) (I travel a lot so the amounts add up quickly.)
Quandl Acquired by Nasdaq to Advance Use of Alternative Data
That looks awesome.

Emacs's default behavior in this respect is theoretically customizable, but the mechanism for doing so (display-buffer-alist) is (to me) incomprehensible. It seems like what Shackle does is provide a clean interface for specifying rules that get translated into display-buffer-alist rules.
I think that's a pedantic detail that actually ignores the point being made. I've seen the "cheaper the the cost of a coffee per month!" type of phrasing used to commonly refer to Starbucks/etc

I almost never buy coffee out anywhere like Starbucks, but it was easy for me to understand in the context of his post
It's not the same thing. First of all lawful companies don't do anything that isn't in the terms of service, that being the legal contract that describes your relationship with the company. Otherwise you can sue them. I'm in the EU and in my country there are state agencies that protect the consumer and handle the suing. Filling a complaint for me is easy and I've had great results in the past.

This is why even an upgrade to GSuite is better, being governed by a different ToC.

Google's standard ToC says that their service:

1. may use tracking pixels, web beacons, browser fingerprinting, and/or device fingerprinting on users

2. may collect your device fingerprint

3. can use your content for all their existing and future services

4. can share your personal information with other parties

5. may stop providing services to you at any time, for any reason

6. keeps the rights on your content when you stop using it

And as we've seen, Google indeed does all of the above.

The second problem is one of lock-in. If you're using an email address that's not on your own domain, you're locked into Gmail and the cost of switching is higher, as can be seen by the people complaining about it. But that's a situation of making your bed and then sleeping in it.

And in the case of Chrome, we are already in a situation in which Google can crush its competition and impose whatever standard they want. It's the new IExplorer and the fact that it has an open source core doesn't matter that much when speaking of Google's lock-in on the market, because the Google-free forks are completely irrelevant.
I think companies are generally. If you're in the > 65k euros salary bracket a blue card can be had for not too much trouble. We're open to doing it for exceptional people and we did it for 3 existing employees when we consolidated to Amsterdam.
People with extremely large ears who can hold their breath underwater for a long time? CRISPR-cas9.
>You can very reasonably disapprove of taking clients to strip clubs, of course, but doing so and then openly disclosing it isn't dishonest.

Doing so and then submitting the expense as a steakhouse is dishonest at the _minimum_.
Xavier Niel Unveils New Freebox with Alexa, Devialet, Sigfox, Netflix
Highly recommended! Watched it on Netflix a few years ago and teared up several times.
Did you mean OsmAnd? I couldn't find anything named "OpenAnd".
People go to where they want to be.
> "Princess" is pretty disingenuous in that it lessens the Emirates' treatment of women as possessions.

In being the daughter of one of the royal family, she is actually a princess in the titular sense. Having lived in the emirates for a few years, princess is a pretty accurate term for how many Emirati women from the several royal families live: lavish material circumstances with close to zero autonomy and very explicit expectations around marriage.
I want money to be able to live in a nice city where I can walk to things, parks and arts are well funded, where the food is great, and where there are nearby cafes and bars. I could own a large McMansion in the burbs instead of my small brownstone in the city, but I prefer the urban living. I just don’t care about having any more bedrooms, and from my perspective the less yard I have to maintain, the less room I have to clean, the better.

On the face-to-face comment: until my local cafe and bar operate a constant zoom meeting and my cycling club sets up rides inside of my home office, I don’t see internet connectivity as a replacement for real contact.

I will say this though — there is a big part of me that wants to live in a mountain town in Colorado or Vermont. Convenient nature and having places to walk to — Problem is from my experience the residents are almost entirely people twice my age with a lot of old money.

On the topic of Nashville, my buddy moved there from Boston. I honestly thought the city was quite fun (minus the humidity and the neighbors of the Airbnb blasting hellfire evangelical sermons on the radio for their morning lawn-mowing routine), but they’ve come to regret the decision because the running isn’t as good and socially right-wing politics still forces itself upon every space. Political compatibility, even for people who prefer to leave those conversations alone, is important.
My thought process:

Apple is the only place I have to pay to develop.
Apple is a luxury product.
Apple users can pay luxury prices for my time.
One of the goals stated in the article of proper forest management is returning of nutrients from the burned trees to the ground. That wouldn't be accomplished by harvesting the timber.

Besides which, sustainable fires (i.e. ones which don't, in the long run, substantially change forest coverage or makeup) are by definition carbon neutral.
Most 40-hr/wk full time employees don't make overtime.
And bonuses are usually/always taxed.
And with the recent change in things, the threshold at which itemization becomes worth while has become significant.

Most. Not all. None of your exceptions changes things.
The IRS should assume a net-0 based on tax records, and if the person wants to do something else, they're free to file a return.
I have run a Zimbra server for several years now, it's a full size enterprise grade email server.

I can run it on a $10 droplet from Digital Ocean. $10 is kinda high just for my email, but the bonus is I host _all_ my family's mail. Wife, kids even mom and dad!

It's been nice not being concerned about email privacy. Zimbra is a great piece of software. I think more people should look into it.
We don’t test with Edge because it’s less than 2% of our traffic. Same reason we don’t test Opera or the browser on the old Blackberry phones.
I read it in my early twenties and found it unconvincing. To my young and admittedly probably overly stubborn mind, both the "trilemma" and the argument from morality appeared to be based on either: a lack of imagination; discomfort in the idea of a world without Christianity; or both.

Re. the trilemma: I wouldn't go so far as others here in saying that Jesus was "obviously a lunatic". I would say that there isn't enough in the bible or following writings to dismiss the idea as readily as Lewis seems to.

Re. the moral argument: maybe I'm unfairly advantaged by reading about evolutionary psychology but it's fairly natural/straightforward for me to conceive of a world in which humans share something like an innate core of moral values without any need for a supernatural explanation. In fact Lewis' apparent conviction about this reminds me of someone like Samuel Harris at the other extreme, who thinks we can do away with the is-ought problem by stipulating that there's a "worst possible world" which obviously all moral people would jointly want to move away from.
If I go to a steakhouse and then a strip club, submitting all the receipts for the night under the heading of "steakhouse business dinner" seems basically honest. I'm assuming that's what happened, just because in my imagination a typical night out at a strip club starts somewhere else first. Maybe the version of events in my mind doesn't match reality, but the article doesn't explain either way.

If you disagree, would you also consider it dishonest to submit receipts for the client's transport to and from the steakhouse under the same heading? Or drinks in a bar afterwards? If not, why not?
The initial examples clearly list that the employees pretended the charge was for something else. One can reasonably argue the employer should consider covering those things, but the process should be honest on both sides. (Clearly tell employees what's covered, how to submit it and how to ask for clarification/extra consideration, in exchange for accurate claims)
Political makeup, racial diversity, gun laws/beliefs, views on immigration are vastly different between the two areas. Donald Trump won the election in Tennessee with 60.7% of the vote, the largest margin of victory for a presidential candidate for either party since 1972. At least Nashville is in one of the blue counties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
The Common Man (an essay by G.K. Chesteron)
Ask HN: What does your ideal job interview process look like?
I'm curious how other Engineers feel their ideal job interview process should look like. Mainly since I'm not a fan of tools like Hackerrank and am wondering what experiences other had that are positive.
just an endless pursuit of materialism. you want something so you gravitate towards it. hence a lot of regular people are destroying their financial futures by staying in these super expensive areas.
The blame here seems to be squarely on the system that allows expensive houses to be built in places that naturally need to burn every now and again.
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"Let's take myself for example. I have a good salary and used to spend maybe 40k/year on heroin. That's a big cost for sure, that's why I quit. But because I could afford to do it, there weren't any other downsides. In fact, there were a lot of upsides."

I knew a guy like that. He took heroin and cocaine and was highly functioning in his professional life. His private life was a mess though. From time to time he disappeared for a week or two but professionally he did ok. But over a few years he got more erratic and things started to fall apart.

Based on that experience I think there are a lot of drug addicts around but nobody notices. Especially in upper management I suspect a lot of people are on something to keep up with pace.
Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data
5G Is Weeks Away – And Today Marks Its First Real Test
I've tried to describe it as a city that happens when you:

- Have an expectation that government is efficient and good at it's job and a strong push on cities to meet those goals
- A focus on maximizing happiness/human instead of gdp/human.

The Dutch could definitely increase GDP 25% next year by requiring a 50 hour work week, but why would they when everyone's pretty happy at 38 hours/week? They're at #6 on the world happiness report (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2018_Wo...) and it makes sense.
How selling bonds soaks dollars from investors?

If you go to a bank and ask for a credit for starting a business, if the bank approve of your project, they will credit your bank account with new money. That money is new created money.

How is that related to more or less bonds sales?
Building an overflow buffer using Kafka's compacted topics
This question implies the assumption that the reader would be using an IDE. If they do, sure, using the integrated debugger is probably easier. Otherwise, GDB is probably easier to install than Visual Studio.
“Looses its terror” here means the opposite of “loses its terror”.