skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The easier you learn the wastefull it is.
I mean, brainfuck language can be more usefull than another c style programming language. stick to meanings not syntaxes.
I admit one of the extensions from the list is mine. But is not as malicious or spammy as some like to picture it. Most of them are complements, addons to help the user with their CRM. I don´t know of any intended to steal data ( i believe they will use scrapers or other ways instead of asking users to pay for an extension) There are well know CRMs like Hubspot or SOHO that aim to sync data. Yes, some others are used to send messages to connections.. just as unsolicited as Inmails, the linkedin paid version( but at least is to connections).
They also block extensions that block their ads and extensions like help users to filter out "sponsored " content ( we did that)
Regarding GDPR , even LInkedin says Is not actually their data but the users are data controllers ( owners) https://legal.linkedin.com/dpa . Obviously, this is not Ok with LinkedIn because they are a walled garden and not an open platform. The points is they do not let the user decide, customize or adapt their experience to suit their needs. Any feature that is not in their revenues agenda, gets killed even if thousands of users cry for it ( happens regularly ) and they do not let anyone else offer it.
Nobody likes spam , but is up the user no to do it - is like if your gmail will not let you send an email to more than one person at a time or be conneted to any other app ( yes, I know there are limits in gmail ). Notice that is not the legal way that Linkedin takes to stop these services because in reality, they are a monopoly ( and as pointed earlier Courts has ruled against Linkedin). Neither they use a educational or marketing path telling the users why is better FOR THEM not to use those extensions. No, they use FUD ( fear, uncertainty & doubt) to scare users and cancel the Linkedin of the people who create this "competition" ..it happened to me, to the people of hunter.io, findthatlead and many others. Mafia style.
This is not a moral justification from me, it is a business decision to offer extensions to give capabilities that people want.
There's still huge demand for these roles - two questions to ask yourself are 1) how do I stand out? and 2) do I enjoy it?

This is a great related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18862790#18865742

If you're interested in combining your coding skills with customer-facing/problem-solving responsibilities, Sales Engineers are in huge demand. Companies are desperate to recruit for this combo of talent because it's so rare.

I'm the founder of Flockjay (YC W19 - tech sales bootcamp that helps people break into tech, without code). We have students with coding experience who are doing incredible things - companies can't wait to hire them. Happy to chat more.
And the more they pay, the more respect they show. Payment is the reflection of how much value they think they get.
Man, believe whatever you like, but it's pretty obvious that there are a lot of people who were in Chan's miserable situation--indentured servitude, endless hours, extreme poverty--and worked hard and weren't able to become, you know, Jackie Chan.

It sort of stands to reason that it has to be that way, too, for the whole system to work. Chan is able to be the celebrity that he is, specifically because there's only one of him; if there were dozens or hundreds of people like him, he wouldn't have the same kind of fame. Celebrity depends on singularity.

It's absolute nonsense to say that "If he could do it...anyone can"; it's demeaning and cruel to the many people who were, like him, stuck in a terrible situation, but didn't have his good luck in getting out.
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> instead chooses to focus on the end result, his success as an adult.

Most people have been through various levels of shit[0] through their lives. I believe one should acknowledge your problems but certainly not dwell on them and should put your energy and drive into the good times.

[0]Trying to think of a better word, but that covers it quite well I think.
Yeah, might as well never listen to anyone then.
How Climate Change Caused the World’s First Ever Empire to Collapse
Indeed. What value does Compass bring to the market that Redfin (standardized deal flow) and Zillow ("coming soon") haven't already?
No it doesnt. You can define multiple build targets in a si gle cmake file.
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Restaurants are responsible for reporting the formal wages paid by the restaurant to the staff, which can be counted, tracked and reported to the IRS.

Cash tips paid to the server are essentially invisible to the employer. This is an accepted trade-off in a system where restaurants can pay below minimum wage.

An Uber customer cannot pay cash. They pay Uber first (fare + optional tip) and Uber in turn pays the drivers. So they know with 100% certainty how much money is changing hands. For a company that is worth literally billions, having a basic financial reporting system that calculates the government's cut is not some kind of overbearing regulatory hassle.
Ireland grew 4.1% in 2018. 26 out of 54 African countries had higher growth in 2017. Africa had an average growth of 4.34%, but Libia had 55% growth. Without Libia, average growth was 3,38%.

This says little about the overall state, one should examine more years, also I am comparing 2018 to 2017 but I am too lazy.

Bearish on Africa
It would be nice if there were a way to deliver something resembling a quality audio to wireless headphones first. And a way to connect quality headphones to that magical wireless delivery system. Then you can get rid of a jack.
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They could just buy a carrier, along with their frequencies. You may be right re: anti-monopoly laws.
But not Linuxbrew, Chromebrew[1]!

1: https://skycocker.github.io/chromebrew/
Yet Classical Chinese is still a large part of Chinese literary canon, partially because the writing system allows for written Classical Chinese to comprehended by modern readers. There are no examples to "Lion-Eating Poet" in Italian and English precisely because phonetic writing systems cause most writing to be incomprehensible as pronounciations change.

Your example is also egregious also because the entire point of "Lion-Eating Poet" isn't that "it means different things in classical and modern Chinese" but that semantical meaning can still be transmitted by the writing system completely independent of pronounciation.
> Except those had been going on for years, and now all of a sudden, after Facebook changes their algorithm, journalists notice that Facebook has a problem.

I think the 2016 presidential election has a lot more to do with the increased scrutiny. It brought both the media's direct attention and motivated many insiders to make public criticisms of Facebook, which fuels coverage.
Facebook’s Cult Like Working Atmosphere
By "round Europe" they mean "Paris to Mannheim and back again". For this journey it would be much simpler and quicker to take the train: https://www.thetrainline.com/en/train-times/paris-to-mannhei...

(In general if you want to see a lot of Europe don't do it on the road, get an Inter-Rail pass! Much cheaper than a Tesla)
Editing ports to add options is pretty easy and they are willing to help.
Yes, this possibility is mentioned in the article.
You keep repeating that (probably because you've heard it repeated a lot), but it isn't true. Sanctions at most times and in most places have been pretexts for future wars. Sanctions are certainly not what have kept Russia from invading Ukraine: Ukrainians with guns and tanks have done that. Sanctions certainly have not caused Russia to give back the Crimea to Ukraine. It's like any disputed territory inhabited by mostly-sane people. The residents who wanted Russian rule are happy, many of those who didn't have moved back to Ukraine, and it's not as though any of the civic institutions really work differently anyway.

I am not "against any sort of killing". If I have a good enough reason to kill I will do it. I have killed lots of animals while hunting and dealing with livestock. I am not "benevolent". However, I am also not evil. It is for that reason that I don't want my tax dollars used to kill innocent children in foreign lands. The killing done by Assad, Qaddafi, Saddam, and the Taliban is on their own heads. (The killing done by ISIS is on ours, because we created and sustained ISIS.) In my parents' lifetimes, we have never improved a situation overseas by invading. By that measure I suppose sanctions are a little better, because it's arguable that e.g. South Africa was improved by sanctions...
I mean, sure, it would be way better if Hong Kong weren't the colonial hell-hole it was.

In what sense is Hong Kong a colonial hell-hole? (Take this not as a challenge, but as a question from someone who is unfamiliar with the idea.) Is there an underclass trapped there? Do the people in it feel trapped?
Ask HN: Developer Support Engineer@FB VS SDE@Oracle
So I am a new grad with a CS background and here are the two offers that I am considering.

DSE@Facebook: 50% coding and 50% support, mainly for the developer platform of Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram, based at Silicon Valley, the package is lower than common SE@Facebook but still OK.

SDE@Oracle: enterprise SaaS product, based at Atlanta, really really very high pay and can have a really nice living considering the living expenses at Atlanta. The job responsibility is within my comfort zone.

What should I go for? Should I choose location/company reputation other than the job? I am thinking maybe I should take this chance to get some experiences about what it is like to work at Facebook, one of the FANNG? But it looks like this is a step down for someone who has a CS background and my career path may change because of that.

Thanks for any comments.
You have to remember, the % increase in housing inventory was already extroadinarily low. So if that tiny number doubles, it's not as big of a change as you might imagine.
GURPS works better in some eras trying to do modern you have dozens of skill's to keep track of.
From my perspective, his wife was there to help enable the creation of Amazon. Jeff Bezos entered a contract when he got married where he believed an equal division of assets made sense. He apparently believed that contract made sense for 25 years. Who are we to say now that she shouldn't be entitled to half?

> why would anyone stay married if they could gain $x billion from a divorce?

Why not? Two people share a pool of $50b (obviously it's not _that_ simple). Seems like plenty to me. Divorce means you are 1 person with your own $25b pool. Unless she was somehow prevented from using the shared pool of money I'm not seeing a huge benefit here. If her goals with money were so drastically different than that of her husband's then I think that's as valid a reason for divorce as any: diverging goals and interests.
Because of cost?

1. Cost per charge << per tank, and

2. cost credit car reader >> rfid reader.
Just a warning, but with Who Am I, my love of the movie largely comes from the rooftop fight sequence. It has been long enough that I only vaguely remember a few parts of the movie outside of that sequence. Thanks for the tip on The Foreigner, I will definitely check it out.

Not the same kind of movie (and not Jackie Chan), but Kung Fu Hustle is definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it. I also always thought that Bjarne Stroustrup kind of looks like The Beast in Kung Fu Hustle (it's the hair and glasses).

http://www.stroustrup.com/xBjarne2018.jpg.pagespeed.ic.hePTB...

https://cinema1544.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/the-beast.jpg
You can delete the big apps tho. The biggest mandatory app is iTunes and it's only 213Mb. Kind of bugs me that I can't delete 8Mbs of Chess anyway.
Aren't termcap and terminfo linux (or maybe unix) only?
If getting from point A to B is the only goal, then I agree with you.

Some road trips are more about the journey than the destination though. If a sign tells me the worlds longest paperclip chain is just off the next exit, I'm probably going to take it.
Indeed! Also, everyone has a different utility function.

People often evaluate personal risk in terms of money when they really should be evaluating it in terms of utility, which can lead to very different results.
That page seems to be down. Google cache version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Src7CXm...
Reductio ad absurdum. Could just as easily say any of the following:

I do not consider learning how to smear grease on a canvas could be as fulfilling as <whatever>.

I do not consider memorizing dates and people's names as fulfilling as <whatever>.

I do not consider ruminating on some made up dilemmas to be as fulfilling as <whatever>.

Second language learning is a hell of a lot more than learning a foreign vocabulary.

People like different things (to say absolutely nothing of the other half of how you justify investing in learning -- the economic value of having mastered a second language). Even if it were possible that your individual tastes were some kind of universal truth and we're all just unenlightened -- what have you done to enlighten us here -- the value of the things you like must be self evident? Is everyone just an NPC?
As the authors say in their paper, "[a] closer look reveals that the source of the problem is in defining learnability as the existence of a learning function rather than the existence of a learning algorithm". Algorithmic decision making under uncertainty is NOT the same thing as finding learning functions over infinite domains. Sometimes such a function does not exist. Why should it? Although the authors seem pretty much aware of this fundamental shortcoming in their analysis, they nevertheless go ahead and publish a whole paper about learning functions! This has a name, intellectual fraud.
Vinod has won more than once (see Daisy Systems and his very large number of billion dollar investments).
> Quality of care is simply unmatched.

Your mileage may vary. I would describe my few serious interactions with American healthcare as "nightmarish".
> I decide to do a full charge as my hotel is still 145 miles away. It takes a tedious 85 minutes, and I dine on a Whopper and fries.

It blows my mind that people think recharging their cars on the go can be the future of transportation. I understand that with good driver education and planning, the hassles of charging can be circumvented. I have a tremendous amount of respect for those that put in the effort: you are doing the pioneering work and boot starting a green revolution, I might join you soon.

That being said, for the average consumer electrics cannot represent a compelling alternative for an internal combustion car until battery swap technology is ubiquitous. The majority of people will simply not give up the convenience of fast refills, unless the cost of driving a petrol car rises significantly while the affordability and electrics increases dramatically. Even then, it will be seen by many as the low cost, inferior product.

A rechargeable car a significantly more inconvenient product for most consumers, so it has a lower value that has to be compensated somehow.
I think maybe this is a valid link: http://quarry.stanford.edu/xapm1111126lse/docs/02_LSE_Cognit...
Warning, controversial opinion: Chinese is too hard to be cost-effective to learn.

I took 3 years' worth of Mandarin in college.

But when I traveled to Brazil, I was able to communicate more easily in Portuguese in just a month, than I was in China after 2 full years of courses plus two and a half months of intensive courses in Beijing.

Chinese is hard because it has virtually zero cognates with English, you have to learn every word new. (Contrast with Portuguese, where I "knew" half the words already because I could easily guess that "television" is just "televisão". Same with French, Italian, etc.)

And Chinese is hard because you have to learn how to "spell" every word separately -- if you thought zero cognates was hard, this is 10x harder.

Quite frankly it's an insane time commitment, and unless you plan to live most of your life in China or Taiwan, it's just not worth it if your goal is communication. Chinese people are learning English so they can communicate with the world. It might seem unfair, but there's just zero practical reason for most English speakers to learn Chinese beyond some basic greetings, except as a fun hobby or some minimum vocabulary for travel.

For more info, read the very famous article "Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard". [1] Anybody who wants to learn Chinese should read it first so they know what they're getting into.

[1] http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
GPS didn't work? Was this one of those crippled AT&T or Verizon version (which I only hazily remembers)?

I had the international Galaxy S for 2 years (2012-2014) and it was really great...
Then again, I was into flashing ROMs every week or so, so perhaps the original TouchWiz performance was that bad?
The difference with Word versus LaTeX fiddling is that I can see the markup and know exactly what I'm doing with LaTeX. Oddly, WordPerfect, back in the day, had a view that would show you the markup. It was actually quite nice. I could try to view things in a WYSIWYG view, but I could also drop into the markup, since that is ultimately capable of expressing where things are happening.

Contrast this with the current Word system. I have had a non-trivial number of times where it will start doing things and I have no idea why. Probably logical, but I can't see the inputs to the logic. Only the output, with some idea that I should be able to drag things. Doesn't always work, and sometimes "undoing" the drag of an items is a non-trivial task.
I'm not the author but the main gist is that Jackie doesn't want to acknowledge his past hardships, and is unwilling to analyze whether they were justified or not. The author calls it his "blindspot". I'm not sure it's healthy.
I believe the idea is that the meta-uber app would programmatically control the actual uber app, hence the CFAA and DRM concerns.
Think OP meant lots of signal, ie, not much fluff.
Isn’t that what makes Google more dangerous?
> I would actually say it is easier than LaTeX, in the sense that it is more discoverable.

Agreed. I think what I was trying to say is that LaTeX will have more answers on Stack Overflow. However, once you've found the command (and you can get an awful long way with the ten listed at the beginning of the reference manual) then the options are well documented.

> What is different about ConTeXt is the prevailing attitude towards using plain TeX from it. LaTeX really seems to consider plain TeX quite unsafe.

This is very interesting. I've found the same difference but in the opposite way. I've had to resort to using plain TeX in LaTeX quite a bit, usually buried in an environment or a command, to achieve what I want. And yes, it can be fragile, but sometimes it is the only way without using KOMA-Script.

I've found that ConTeXt has usually already considered what I want to do as a use case, because its scope is quite a bit more broad than LaTeX.
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Then it's a good thing Hemingway didn't write it.

English changes: the rest of that John Donne sentence is "the bell tolls for thee"? Should we bring back "thee" and "thou" as pronouns? I'm guessing yes, but then we have to decide if "thee" has informal/personal connotations as per originally, or if "thee" is now formal, as we've come to view it in these latter days.

Ditch "whom". Using it makes you sound like an Ent,
> aggressive to anyone with unorthodox thoughts

do you have some specific examples? (not a rails user, so if there are obvious things, i'm unware)

a bit ot, but i've noticed an uptick in what seems like a reductive/straw-man characterization of disagreeing with particular ideas as summarily dismissing "different ideas" in general.
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It's not demeaning and cruel to his fellow countrymen. They are what sustain him. Chan is somewhat popular in the West, but he's a veritable god in the East, like Manny Pacquiao is to Filipinos.

You are the one demeaning the people there. Chan is the one inspiring them.

It's silly to think that everybody in Hong Kong is going to compare themselves to Jackie Chan and lament that they won't be able to do what he does. He's inspirational because he shows that you don't have to define yourself by your station in life and can change it. Chan is just the most visible symbol of it, but you can see similar stories all across the country.

Your daughter getting inspired by princesses isn't cruel because she'll never be able to be a princess. She can become more like a particular princess she likes, adopting personality traits and learning to think like her.
I don't think the EU would agree with that, but IANAL.
I think he does cherry picking there because among many reasons why people recommend latex this is just one.
i think the language was ambiguous but he was referring to hte past of Hong Kong, not currently.
Reading as a replacement to everyday stimuli that we are all too used to like video games and youtube is what I found to help my imagination flourish like I remember it did when I was younger.
This headline is kind of preaching to the choir since people who care a lot about private property are mostly conservative/libertarian.

The headline doesn't quite match the contents of the article. Really, centralized social media itself is the attack on private property since you don't own anything you create, or even your identity, on major social services. De-platforming is just waking some people up to the fact that they never owned anything.
Its the classic freedom / responsibility tradeoff.
Chinese outsourcing of labor to many African countries.
Road tripping is less fun than you and think. Use public transit nerd.
That isn't really accurate, you're just defining "crapware" is such a way so that Google's apps don't qualify. That's a double standard.

Google Drive, Gmail, Google Photos, Play Music, Play Movies, Play Games, Play Books, Duo, Google+, and YouTube could all be called as crapware since they aren't required for core phone functions (and upsell for-profit services).

I guess it is somewhat a discussion what we mean by "crapware." But I'd argue most reasonable definitions include at least some of Google's pre-installed apps.
Why solve for merit ? why optimize everything ?

What's wrong in a simple world where most people can be just mediocre and hold a stable job ?

Unless we're talking about "high risk" jobs, why make life harder than it already is ? for what ?

Why not aim there, collectively ?
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It was described in the article. A lot of economic activity there is only a few steps removed from human trafficking. And I'm sure a lot of that goes on there as well, but it's hard to track for obvious reasons.
I thought I covered that in the kinetic section but if you have specific questions I might be able to help? Basically "shooting" something down requires a projectile so you need something that can damage a drone but won't present a risk to aircraft or nearby communities when it falls back to earth and it also can't present a FOD (get thrown by tires/sucked into an engine) risk if it were to land on a runway.
Facebook is only company that operates social networks that deeply penetrate the US population. Google doesn't have any successful social networks. Twitter isn't used heavily by typical people, and neither is Snapchat or Reddit.
I still remember them automatically downloading a U2 album to everyone's phone. They are definitely not without fualt in this area.