skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know the difference, then why did you claim it requires you to license your code under GPL? You can use Qt and other LGPL libraries from a proprietary, closed-source code base if you wish, no license fee required. LGPL is a lot less onerous than GPL.

LGPL is mostly a problem on iOS, since as far as I know it collides with App Store licensing rules, but not that big a deal on desktop platforms.
My recommendations:

* Git From the Bottom Up: https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/ (PDF: http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf) (See also: "Linus Torvalds' greatest invention": http://perl.plover.com/yak/git/) Once your mental model matches the program, you'll be able to understand everything, hack your own solutions if necessary, etc.

* Learn Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org -- in fact I think this should be the UI for Git; wish someone would make that happen (i.e., so that you can point it to any Git repo and get that sort of visualization for it).
I've used Airbnbs in the past and some were great but now I'd only use one if no hotel is available. Recently I traveled to Thailand in the peak season and no hotel had the full block of dates available that I was looking at. Stayed at an Airbnb served by some Russian dude. We reach there and he wants a 3000 Baht "deposit", says it is standard. Couldn't argue with it, he agreed to take a USD100 bill instead. Instead of a receipt he took a photo of me standing with the USD100 bill and sent it to me :). Returned it back without a fuss but it was an odd experience.
Binary search is cache and branch-predictor inefficient, although certainly not as bad as linear scan (over large datasets).
They should at least inspect the places before accepting them in the network. They should inspect after a complaint.

That requires people. Airbnb and its SV brethren aren't interested in using people to solve problems. They believe all problems can be solved with an algorithm.

Except when it comes to faking AI.
Speed matters. It makes a big difference if a glacier field providing a large chunk of water for your city disappears over the course of 50 years or 500 years.
Actually tried to use it in production these last few months. The core of the experience is awesome, didn't run into any issues at all. The problem is that all the tooling like errcheck doesn't support go modules yet. So we ended up going back to the dep package manager. Will try again in a couple of months. Here's a ticket about the issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661
Zillow CEO: startups trying to disrupt real estate commissions will fail (2012)
I think GP's view is this: science is about expanding the space of possible choices. Business is about making the choices. "Safe" and "dangerous" are adjectives referring to concrete choices in context of their application, therefore a business question.

I believe this view is correct, and I share it, but with a caveat that labels are flexible and context-dependent. People believing GM is itself dangerous and bad are just victims of ideology. But other people saying GM is dangerous actually mean concrete instances of applying GM methods - i.e. they're really criticizing a bunch of business decisions, but doing it in an ambiguous way. Therefore, for the cases where you actually care about other person's opinions, it's worth to dig deeper into what they actually mean and why.
I don't know what it's trying to prove about angle trisection, but the device depicted isn't intended to be stood upright. That wouldn't work at all. It's intended to be laid down with the main hinge at the intersection of the lines.

So the device does work, but it's certainly not doing compass and straight-edge anything.
It was amusing to me that this sorry of thing is seen as potentially quite a big issue in tech yet is totally common in the real estate industry. I was made aware of this by today's Matt Levine piece https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-16/even-c...
I once got the serious runs in a hotel in India. The hotel staff brought in a doctor.
> takes such a clear and unambiguous vision, with total dedication to that vision

This is very true. For most startups building a product is not just an ongoing engineering/business development task as much as it is an ongoing product development task. Your vision of the product (if you have one) is something that is most difficult to share with others. I think a great entrepreneur is closer to being an artist than to anything else: imagine two painters trying to create one painting at the same time. At times it can get as absurd.

That is not to say you don't need co-founders but maybe, just maybe, sometimes one of the founders needs a slightly dominating position in defining (and refining) the product in the process.
Its not about the blood but rather what is disolved in the blood and what it is carring. Those hormones and aminoglobes really revitalize the older body.

Not much in a single injection but a lot in a continues one - read a paper about it but i cant find it now. The idea tho is to know what causes that and produce only that and deliver via injections.
How about this instead?

* teach critical thinking and how to compare sources

* promote news organizations that are funded by individual donations or subscriptions (for instance, The Guardian).
The Parlay
Path compression just means less pointer dereferences — fewer cache misses and branch mispredictions.
Private citizens cannot initiate a criminal proceeding.

They can SUE, but that's civil, not criminal.
Glaciers supply summer water. Regardless how you feel about how things "should" be, in practical terms, we have a strong vested interest in their ability to supply water year round, both for our own use and to support local ecosystems that provide us with services.

They have high albedo as well; their retreat is decreasing the albedo of the terrain. This isn't their most important feature, but they are a piece in the puzzle of keeping temperatures stable, and stability is good for us.
Yes, but the _effective_ tax rate was only about half that, 49%-ish, because there were so many exemptions.
You're right. If you look around in the logs for the deployment output, you'll see that both Cloud Functions and App Engine go through a container build step via Cloud Build.
I'm sure he has his reasons but the thread doesn't seem to illuminate anything.

They were creating a new service to archive the persistent storage in the kernel which was modeled similarly to crash dumps and then prototyped as a shell script. There was a suggestion to turn the script into something written in C so that it wouldn't depend on the existence of a shell and have better reporting. And then just out of the blue "I'm done" with very little context. There's really nothing particularly juicy I can find leading up to the announcement. Like I wonder what the final straw was.

I mean there are the recent CVEs, but those are bugs that were caught and fixed -- very little software would stand up to that level of scrutiny. Where is the crazyness?
SpaceX is moving its Mars spaceship and booster work to Texas
Interesting. As I've grown older and observed more of the world around me, the fundamental truth that I've learned is that the vast majority of the population has something that they would like to work on, but can't make a living wage on it.

One of the best arguments for universal health care falls into this same category: tying health care to employment greatly increases the risks of being self-employed. I know more than one person who's stayed with a job they don't like -- even a job that doesn't pay particularly well -- because of this concern. The concept of a UBI expands this freedom past just health care. The point isn't to pay someone a handsome wage so they can sit around and do nothing; the point is to cover an absolute bare minimum so choices that might not otherwise be available become open.
An alternate shift could be to focus on decreasing expenses. There is A LOT of bloat in the US budget, but it's rarely ever even referenced because so much of it is political poison to some subset of constituents.
This isn't going to do much but hurt professionals like doctors, lawyers, software developers, traders, small business, etc who work for income.

The truly wealthy people do not gain their wealth through income. They get it through capital gains ( stocks, homes, asset value increases ). Capital gains ( long term ) are taxed at 20%.
> Another understated problem is the intellectual property issue. Saving seeds is usually prohibited (and those seeds might not be viable anyway), farmers have been successfully sued.

Those lawsuits are heavily misunderstood.

Monsanto was not suing farmers for saving seeds from their own crops and planting. They were suing for farmers selling the seeds from their crops grown from Monsanto seeds. It's like agricultural version of software piracy.
Is this good advice or satire?
Police do kill many many more people in the US than in Germany though, which makes your statement feel less than believable.
> Is there anything that could have been different

I certainly changed the questions I asked. And it never happened again. But I also think wilful deceit isn't that common (massaging the truth is, but this was a different league to that). So who knows if my changes were effective, or if it just felt good doing something.

> if they know that they are going to flunk the on-site interview

I really don't think he did. I think he thought he could charm his way to the job.
Lol, I guess this company is actually becoming a thing.

I remember a few years ago when a bunch of companies such as gawker[1] and vanity fair [2] were writing about this because it was rumored that Peter Thiel was a vampire for "WANTING TO INJECT HIMSELF WITH YOUNG PEOPLE’S BLOOD".

It was just a rumor and is quite hilarious because the company in question CEO stated this when questioned about Thiel:

>'"But the story that took shape, that Thiel was looking to harvest the blood of the young, simply isn’t true according to Karmazin, who told us when asked that he was never contacted by Thiel or anyone associated with Thiel Capital. “I wish I did know Peter Thiel,” he said. “He’s not even a patient. If he were, I would have to say ‘We can’t disclose that information.’ But he’s not even a patient so I can tell you, he’s not a patient’.” [3]

[1](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to...)
[2](https://gawker.com/peter-thiel-is-interested-in-harvesting-t...)
[3](https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/14/no-peter-thiel-is-not-harv...)
You need capital to do that... Co-founders are free.
So you've just written off internship, apprenticeship, or the possibility of any on-the-job training, because? Everyone must somehow become a master craftsman without any in-market work experience before they start working? That's absurd.

> Customers PAY that company for their services.

If the impact of poor programming is material, customers will send their money elsewhere. Customers evaluate products in a marketplace; unless the sale explicitly mentioned the developers' qualifications, it's not like they are defrauding customers.
Dude, just had to tell you that Blind Guardian and Kamelot are some of my favs too :-D

But to add something substantive, I also do this with many artists. I also really like Tool, which are notoriously absent from all the platforms. I ripped my old CDs and uploaded them to Google Play Music and now I can listen whenever, wherever I want.
One of the best commandline tools I've ever used was `pirateflix`. You typed pirateflix, typed the name of any movie, then a few seconds later VLC would open and the movie started right away.

I didn't use it much, but it was an amazing example of "Do one thing well."
can't you run these feature tests in parallel? I'm runnning a system where it full on downloads and mounts containers, and executes them (in a loopback, they get hosted by transient webservers on the test host aka my laptop, but possibly also travis), about 50 of them in parallel with tons of database calls, and it usually takes around 10-20s to complete.
They make successful trades 77% of the time they had insider information and 45% when they didnt. That clearly is an advantage.

I would never expect a 90% success rate because of how random Wall Street is, but 77% over a period of time definitely is an advantage.
I don't think that you just have to be passionate and the money will follow. Making money depends on many other personality characteristics than just passion.
The point is that moving from one place because of corruption won't necessarily save you from corruption.
Oh, if I had a nickel for everytime somebody dropped by my cubicle and said, "Can you sit in on this interview?" while throwing a resume at me.

"When is it?"

"Now."
For some reason, it seems a widespread habit to drift from astronomical or quantum discussions into religion. So widespread that we see Apollo astronauts reading Genesis and Youtube search results on those topics return a jumble real science with mysticism.

Yet this seems to happen much less for, say, chemistry, geology, materials science etc. (nor software questions mercifully)

It's not quite clear why (western?) minds are wired this way. Particularly since chemistry was tied up with mysticism for centuries yet subatomic science is brand new.

But it would be nice if at least professional interviewers would avoid straying into non-sequiturs.
2019 Stock Market Strategies
People keep saying that UBI will replace wages at the low end so those people won't have more money to spend. But for the middle class there will be inflation.
Not true. Those companies are focusing more on developer productivity than they are on the end user.

Picking Electron is ALL about developers. Nothing more or less.
70% is still very very high. They didnt make billions because they probably started with little capital.
Close the loopholes, not hike the taxes.
If you're unemployed with no intention of working again, is that not retired?
The paper they're reporting on is pretty clever in its sourcing of observations.

Abstract:

>Modeling crowd motion is central to situations as diverse as risk prevention in mass events and visual effects rendering in the motion picture industry. The difficulty of performing quantitative measurements in model experiments has limited our ability to model pedestrian flows. We use tens of thousands of road-race participants in starting corrals to elucidate the flowing behavior of polarized crowds by probing its response to boundary motion. We establish that speed information propagates over system-spanning scales through polarized crowds, whereas orientational fluctuations are locally suppressed. Building on these observations, we lay out a hydrodynamic theory of polarized crowds and demonstrate its predictive power. We expect this description of human groups as active continua to provide quantitative guidelines for crowd management.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6422/46
Not sure what you're getting at here, Theranos was "targeted" because they were completely fraudulent.
Yeah- mods, the Cloud Functions context was useful. Can you change it back.
First green leaf on moon dies as temperatures plummet
Wait, software developers make $10 millions a year?
I'm pretty sure it's number 2, as the prefix search requirement is probably the reason why they went with the linear search in the first place, and didn't just use a hash map.
Good point. A quick google gives 537 km/s as the Milky Way's escape velocity, or 1,201,000 mph. Not going fast enough for that.

Moot point for Andromeda since that's coming here, but it'll never ever get to any other galaxies.
This doctor, Dr. Mirkin, is an MD, a sports physiologist and an active athlete. He has long been an advocate of intermittent fasting but recommends against long fasting. He documents all of his articles with the relevant references and sources:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=intermittent+fasting+site%3Adrmirk...
>Two founders have proved they can convince at least one other idiot to join them.

It stops being relevant once you find your 1st customer.
I'll plug a shout out to your C https://github.com/armon/libart as well. :-)
I consider Airbnb to be a menace to society. The hotel industry exists for a reason.

I've been lucky and never had a truly bad experience with Airbnb, but I've had some lousy ones and never a top notch or even good one. Conversely hotels usually provide at least decent service and usually are great in my experience.

What I really dislike about Airbnb is the feeling of being an invader in a neighborhood. Doing something I shouldn't be doing, because, well I am. No one wants the house next door to them to become an Airbnb, so why do we support its practice by using them?

(I no longer use Airbnb btw)
Sounds interesting, it's like an oil change.
I'm not worried about software developers at all: taxation was already one of the main reason I didn't move to US from Switzerland (Swiss pension system is also amazing). I guess this would just mean even more innovators moving to Switzerland.
Ok. Springsteen. Congratulations?

I'd still put Telecasters behind Strats and Les Pauls in terms of popularity and fame.
Its interesting that if you spend a few dozen nights a year in a hotel chain they treat you like gold. Airbnb doesn't give anything.
> It sounds like you think already have all the answers.

Not all, but the ones I have, I'm fairly confident in.

> I didn't feel upset or frustrated

> it makes me want to not engage a moment longer with you

I guess it's pointless to ask about the "?!?", then.
I'd also put it where labor prices are not the highest in the world.
Huawei CEO: I’ll ‘definitely’ refuse if Beijing wants our customers’ data
Why would you expect to sympathize with him? Is it usual (i.e more likely than not) that cases of cyberharassment are overblown, or based on faulty knowledge, or outright false? It's strange to me that someone would immediately be so skeptical, unless the rate of false accusations is higher than the rate of true accusations (at least insofar as determined by the imperfect legal system). Is that the case? I'd like to be corrected if it is.
Why I ignore the design industry on purpose
The Featured Article seems to address something more general than that. In the Netherlands, we have a nearly perfectly proportional system and somewhere around 13 parties in parliament at the moment, but the beige dictatorship and the general failure mode of representational democracy is similar, with the moderate parties (the old left and right parties) becoming more similar every election cycle, and voters fleeing to the extreme left and right. I mean, disrupting the duopoly is very necessary, but after that you're not there yet.
The climate change that contributed to the fall of the Roman empire was relatively quick [1].

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...
I'd consider someone with $10M annual income to be fairly solidly in "truly wealthy" category, assuming they're not being stupid with it.
And what, do a chargeback? That's a very easy way to get banned for life from the platform.
For most families (who earn under $200k/year or so), the extra return and/or reduction in taxes actually spur spending, which drives growth. The top earners spend less, meaning less whole-economy growth.

Personally, I don't think it's right to have more than 50% tax rate at any level, and beyond say $50k/year would say that a 20-30% tax all the way up without deductions would be better. Eliminate corporate taxes, limit corporate capital holdings requiring either reinvestment or divestment to shareholders (who are then taxed).

Simplifying and automating the system better would work better for everyone involved. But confusion keeps Intuit/H&R Block and others in business.
No. The current top bracket is a few hundred thousand.

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx

Edit: To the people downvoting, I'm well aware that the current bracket won't be taxed at 70%. But there is a lot of room between $500K and $10 million. And I have feeling that there will be many brackets between the current top bracket and the new one.
It means that all criminal prosecution is political, or at least, politically-influenced.
On more than mice? I'm pretty sure such research has already been done a lot on mice, I've been hearing about positive intermittent fasting / caloric restriction studies for years (but it's always in mouse models).
There's a quote I particularly like in this area.

SENATOR PASTORE. Is there anything connected in the hopes of this accelerator that in any way involves the security of the country?

DR. WILSON. No, sir; I do not believe so.

SENATOR PASTORE. Nothing at all?

DR. WILSON. Nothing at all.

SENATOR PASTORE. It has no value in that respect?

DR. WILSON. It only has to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with those things.

It has nothing to do with the military. I am sorry.

SENATOR PASTORE. Don't be sorry for it.

DR. WILSON. I am not, but I cannot in honesty say it has any such application.

SENATOR PASTORE. Is there anything here that projects us in a position of being competitive with the Russians, with regard to this race?

DR. WILSON. Only from a long-range point of view, of a developing technology. Otherwise, it has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things that we really venerate and honor in our country and are patriotic about.

In that sense, this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending.

https://history.fnal.gov/testimony.html
From a networking perspective, Elsevier is like people running SS7/PSTN phone networks who are suddenly surprised that people are making voice calls between each other using whatsapp, facebook messenger, skype, etc. Anything they can try to do at this point won't help them, it's a fundamental business plan/architecture problem akin to polishing the brass doorknobs on the Titanic.
There are different sets of motivations for different people.

Saying this differently and with purposefully fake numbers, if (at your current pre-tax income) increasing your income by 50% would only give you 5% of that in cash you can use, would you really do that? Or do you have alternative use of your time (like leisure) that would give you more happiness?

You may say you would, but the reverse calculation then applies: if you would lose 5% extra cash by cutting your pre-tax income by 50%, wouldn't you do it? Many people would. Just look at the number of people who want to work 4 days or less.

Of course this assume income is a function of time spent working but it is very often the case.

The resulting elasticity will be different for everyone, but there will be a non null elasticity at the population level.