skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one example. If I live in city A and all rental properties are owned by a select few wealthy companies and individuals, they are able to set the rental market. If they raise prices and I am a wage earner, I have no other option but to pay what they want, reducing my net income and increasing theirs. The vast majority of people are not able to spin a startup into being in their garages, they simply live and pay their bills the best that they can. I am not suggesting we vilify the wealthy but to suggest that one set of people earning greater portions of the total wealth does not negatively affect the less wealthy is disingenuous.

The same concepts can be applied to the wealthy having access to lobbyists and consequently the ability to reduce regulations leading to long term health care costs for those forced to live in now less regulated environments. Gentrification is another venue for this. People live in a neighborhood, wealthier people move in and property taxes go up. Poor people are forced out. The actions of the wealthy have ramifications on the lives and incomes of the less wealthy.
Dyson moves vacuum giant's HQ to Singapore
I built a server a few years ago, and I determined it was more cost effective for a drive to fail than to use HGST. It would be more inconvenient, but having a drive fail on a home server with only 6 drives didn't seem very likely anyway.
> It's really not a fun way to live.

this is exactly why I find UBI appealing. For those who are unable to work, it will provide minimum means not to fall into abject poverty, but it will still carry enough incentive to improve oneself, find meaningful work and be a net contributor.
I use Discord for communicating with some friends and coworkers and specifically set it up so it's only aware of one very old text adventure and will only tell people if I'm playing that.
How dare you use the machine Wrong. Doff your turtleneck, peasant.

Apple does, and everyone else listens. Even after making fun of apple... Headphone jack and the stupid fucking notch are the best example of companies falling over themselves to be like Apple.
How deep does the London Tube go?
I suppose, but there’s no such thing as a single HDD that stores 100TB. The biggest you can get currently are (I believe) 14TB helium-filled drives.
In what sense did Facebook ‘happen’? People chose to join; they weren’t forced to. Facebook qua social network is a valuable tool for many people.

Now you can perhaps make the case that their effort to monetize was an unethical bait-and-switch. Get people on the service, then keep them engaged via promotion of provocative and unhealthy behaviors, which ultimately fuels an advertising money-printing machine the likes of which we’ve never seen before, save Google.
Record cocaine levels in Thames probably not making fish high, experts say
I think this is a question of priorities rather than rushing things. Swift is a post Moore's Law language after all.
Well find, cal, and ls don't take input at all. And vi (well vim) in fact does. If you invoke it with a - for the file name argument, it will read standard input into the buffer. I can't comment on emacs as I don't use it much.
Wait, how do five years of University at a price of $80 - $10000 a year add up to 750'000. Because that is a huge number.
Adult fan fiction, though.

It’s... It’s just...

Honestly, it makes a lot of sense to eschew the genre, no matter your stance on legality, free speech or whatever.
I laughed out loud when I saw (twitter.com) at the end of the title
Standard power outlets, in the US at least, are only equipped to deliver 1-2kW, so fully charging a EV would take days (though if you only used 5-10kWh of charge a day, it might not be a problem). It's putting in the higher voltage, higher current outlets that's expensive.
If the developer looked at the trade offs between using the Mac App Store and decided to use it anyway, why should the customer care?

I would think just the opposite, I would be more inclined to use the App Store that already has my payment information on file than pay an unknown developer directly.
I don't think that an argument that using HTTPS actively decreases the security of a connection really holds all that well.

If you don't think OpenSSL is a high enough quality implementation, there are many others to choose from.

Even with a range of mirrors, it would still raise the bar for attackers, to require HTTPS.
Could LinkedIn be mined for a more reliable stat, say turnover by job title?
Google promoting videos hosted on a Google owned site that can earn them more money in ad sales over other relevant sites? Say it ain’t so!

After removing my tounge from cheek, this is an extremely annoying daily thing I have to deal with as well. I do searches expecting to quickly scan for the answer I need, but get results where the same text information has been converted to a video format. I can’t copy/paste text from a video.
Auxon Corporation (https://www.auxon.io/ a placeholder site, obviously. Low priority). Founded late last year. We're working on tools and technology for enabling people to build, automatically validate, and verify life-critical automation (e.g. highly-automated driving systems, industrial automation, etc.). But the ultimate goal is broad application.

Currently we work primarily with AV companies, automotive OEMs, and partners in their respective supply-chains. Our ambition is to create for Software & AI Engineers the kinds of sophisticated, accessible CAE tools & capabilities that have been enjoyed by Mechanical & Electrical Engineers for years. Software Engineers have done a phenomenal job enabling other disciplines, but
we've done a less compelling job enabling ourselves in similar ways.
OpenSSL is not the only available implementation of SSL.
Yes.

- We have a smart son who is neuratypical. The combination of him being bored and sensorially overstimulated resulted in some really bad behavior. School wanted to treated him like a problem rather than a kid with some special needs. Once we started hearing suggestions to have him put on medication, we decided to homeschool. He's currently thriving, reading at several grade-levels higher than his current grade and doing mental math for fun.

- Our kids are well socialized. The "socialization" argument against homeschooling is mostly a joke. Kids don't learn how to behave in society from other kids, they learn how to behave from watching adults. Regardless, our kids have many friends and play sports and attend many activities. The fact that we as parents know exactly who they're spending time with every day is a huge positive factor of homeschooling. This is important to me. I was exposed to hardcore pornography and drugs before I was 10 years old, I want a better childhood than that for my children.

- We don't waste time. We have a class of 3 rather than 30. That means we can pack maximum education in and still have time for other things. When we were in regular school, we'd all get home at 5:30 - 6:00 and rush through dinner so that we could get through homework before bedtime. We weren't spending much time together as a family, and much of the homework was low-value, IMO. It was exhausting. Life is so much better for us now.
I'd recommend downloading and starting it. It opens into an interactive "notebook-like" tutorial. The system is very discoverable. Has a markdown-like syntax where you can embed Smalltalk objects and code examples and interact with them directly in the page.
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Which features are you thinking of? Blocks, GC, and new syntax for literals and boxing all seem very Smalltalk-y to me.
Particularly if it fails within the warranty period.
Going along with the other two helpful comments, take for example math that C. F. Gauss deemed to be the "Queen of Sciences", i.e the basis of it all. Math as we know it comes to us through counting with numbers. What are numbers? We find that mathematicans rely on set theory as a foundation of numbers. What are sets? They use set theory to study numbers either through Zermolo-Farenkel set theory or the Neumann-Bernays-Godel set theory. You see what we are getting into -- we cannot depend on just one set theory foundation to explain numbers conclusively. We see two strands of set theory that stay separate. Philosophy poses questions beyond what mathemticians get into: Will there be numbers if the whole universe is just empty space with no "things" in it including human minds? Are numbers so fundamental that they have to exist?
What community college is charging $900 for a single class? That really is highway robbery. I just looked up costs at the community college classes I took, and its $76 per credit hour for in-state tuition.

Also your characterization of community colleges only being for those too poor to attend a 4 year school is totally out of touch and frankly a little stigmatizing towards an important pieces of public education.

I know many people who graduated with 4 year degrees after getting an AS at community college, which requires the exact same core liberal arts + math and science course requirements that state schools require. These people didn't do it because they were poor, they went because their high school GPA didn't let them get admitted to the schools they wanted right away. The fact that they got to save a ton of money, pick schedules conducive to part time work, amd get a real credential after 2 years (I know many employers who prefer an AS degree holder to someone who dropped out of a 4 year degree 2 or 3 years in) is just icing on the cake. And it didn't hurt long term prospects for career or education either, one of them even has a graduate degree from a school that is extremely respected in the field he studied.

Community colleges are awesome things, both for people studying specific trades and careers and for eventual 4 year school attendees. The more we can destigmatize them, invest in them, and keep them affordable and accessible to working people - the more we'll all share in the benefits.
I go into it thinking the opposite. Reviews clearly written by management or someone trying to paint a better picture of the company than there really is. Cons can still be misleading but I’d be more weary of a fake positive review than a negative one. Maybe I’m being gamed too.
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Squeak is directly descended from ST-80. Ten years ago Pharo forked from Squeak due to conflict around adding features outside the ANSI standard. Pharo wanted to distinguish itself from Smalltalk to avoid constraint by the standard so minimises mention of it. But Essentially Pharo is Smalltalk plus...
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Their policy on negative reviews seems pretty decent.

https://help.glassdoor.com/article/I-m-an-employer-What-can-...
Just wanted to say thank you for all your work on this, Andrey!

I've been using for developing native projects with ReasonML / OCaml (on Windows!) - a framework called Revery [1] (a fast, native alternative to Electron) and a re-write for our Oni [2] text editor using this platform. It really wouldn't have been possible to pursue these paths without esy.

We're also starting to see other cross-platform Reason-native projects pop-up that I'm very excited about, like Brisk (native OSX UI w/ Reason/OCaml) [3] and Fastpack (native JS bundler - a faster webpack) [4].

Some of my favorite features are the following:

- Esy gives the convenience of NPM / Yarn, but for native development. Importantly, it works great cross-platform - OSX/Linux/Windows. IMO The ease of cross-platform development is one of the JS+Node+NPM workflows greatest strengths, and esy provides this for native development.

- Esy gets faster as you use it. It has smart caching for compiled artifacts - taking into account the full set of transitive dependencies.

- The linking / resolution workflow is incredibly useful for native development. For Revery, we'd often need to try fixes across our GLFW/Fontkit stack, and the link feature made this simple.

I'm biased as I've contributed a little bit to the esy, but I've found the approach to development really interesting architecturally - esy is like a 'React' for dependency management - treating the dependency tree as a "pure function" of (dependency tree -> lock -> build environment) with "memoization" to re-use compiled artifacts.

These are tough problems to solve in native... and I'm really impressed with your work Andrey! Thank you!

- [1] https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

- [2] https://github.com/onivim/oni

- [3] https://github.com/briskml/brisk

- [4] https://github.com/fastpack/fastpack
Unfortunately, with trackers such as the Like button embedded in every web page and shadow profiles, social media is definitely not opt-in.
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I’d also argue it has to do with such availability of previously undesirable areas in coastal regions which are also close enough to large commerce centers. Everyone wants to live on coastline. It’s the reason why amazon can’t just relocate to North Dakota and start a second Silicon Valley there
I saw that at my old company. All of the people who left our office gave scathing reviews but all of the people who remained mostly from the main office, gave great reviews.

Of course the company ignored the bad reviews but thanked everyone who gave great reviews.
Hah thanks, ya I don't even know what's real and what's not anymore. Someday we'll live in a society where grandma married a guy she met on the internet and the grandkids have to fill in their pre-learning questionnaire with all the stuff they've already learned on the internet so that the teacher can move on to the really important stuff that prepares them for getting their degree from Silicon Valley online university, where they'll major in pre-K robot childhood education. The year is 2029.
I agree with you on the max-width. I can't see whatever benefit it's supposed to provide outweigh the annoyance of having to scroll horizontally when there is a lot of empty space to the right that could be used to display more text.

I'm not too convinced on the wrapping of code, though.
Our brains becoming more sophisticated at decision-making is a bad thing
Anything interesting in this one? I've stopped reading them because they all seem to be "Seagates fail kind of a lot but we use them because reasons. HGST doesn't fail a lot, but we also have statistically insignificant numbers of them, so <shrug>."
Unless the complany can delete or edit previously posted reviews, I feel like I can still use the site to find valuable information.

If they can do that - game over, Glassdoor is useless. But I am capable of filtering through some fluff to get the honesty.
await oriented pedagogy
Programming is a specialized, incredibly dynamic, role. Do you think it's fair to assume that all positions in a company act like that?
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The best thing about credit cards in the U.S. is the amount of transactional data credit card companies are able to sell to anyone with a dollar.

Your credit reward system comes at the cost of half of the world's businesses and the government knowing every single thing on your shopping list last week.
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They didn't get rid of the headphone jack on laptops. Even the latest models still have one.
Yeah, but the EU has been trying to drag the same Apple kicking and screaming into using a common connector for phone chargers since at least 2011. The iPhone XS and XR still use the Lightning connector.
Hear hear. I found the “Draw Mohammed Contest” particularly amusing.

Edit: I see we have some touchy SJW-types in the house this evening :)
Realistically, it's the one that's gonna be used in apt though. (E.g. the existing HTTPS transport uses curl, which uses OpenSSL)
Sometimes that is actually the business charging slightly less for cash transactions rather than charging slightly more for credit card transactions.

What's the difference? If the business advertises both a cash price and a credit card price, then there is effectively no difference I believe whether you characterize it is a discount for cash or a surcharge for credit cards.

However, if you only advertise one price, then its a surcharge if that is the cash price and you add extra for credit cards at the register. If the one price is the credit card price, and you take off some for cash at the register, then it is a cash discount.

Doing a cash discount was a common trick at gas stations to work around terms in their contracts that said they would not have credit card surcharges. There was a lawsuit against such contract terms by merchants who wanted to do a surcharge, and in a settlement in 2013 Visa and Mastercard agreed to allow them (with some restrictions, like no more than 4%, must be a sign disclosing them at the point of sale, had to be included on the receipt, and had to apply to all cards), reducing the need for such tricks in many areas.

There are some states that have laws prohibiting credit card surcharges, so the cash discount trick may still be in use there. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas. These have been challenged on Free Speech grounds. The Supreme Court has said that they are (well, New York's version, but others are similar) is a regulation of speech, but did not rule whether it was an unconstitutional regulation (the lower courts had not reached that issue) [1]. I don't happen to know what happened to that case after that.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1391_g31i.pdf
It’s much more than $400. If you optimize redemptions it is more like $25k+ back a year e.g. a single first class redemption (took Japan Airlines first class last month to Tokyo) was ~$12k one way.
But when the people left they changed their review to something awful no? I mean, in the long run such behavior should not work.
I think it's because politics aren't supposed to be discussed here and Brexit is such a radioactive topic like Trump that any mention of it will make everyone uneasy.
There is a real real risk in this costly strategy of differentiating for the sake of differentiation without major value add. After a while there will be companies not imitating Apple's latest products but the Apple's earlier products at a lower price.
Unless the value of the points you're getting are worth at least 2.5% cash back (which I doubt is the case), this is a pretty bad deal.
I think the "have everyone learn how to use something like IRC" solution would have been a lot more feasible if the technology behind it (servers and clients) didn't stagnate and cater only to technophiles. Most of the concepts of Facebook were around already in UNIX, such as having your own mailbox in your own user account and being able to check it for new mail, wherever it was sent from. Imagine something like AOL in 1995 except instead of real-time chat and single-person email, it also had the few features of Facebook. They weren't missing the technology, they were just missing the imagination and the realization that connecting groups over longer term (followable status updates) was higher priority than connecting individuals over a longer term (email) or connecting groups in the immediate term (chat).
Yeah, sure, it's called Fanboy-ism.
It is rampant on iMore and Reddit.
Apple is probably even more likely to lock their users down to using their app store only and taking a 30% cut is than Microsoft is. That's an "out of the frying pan into the fire" solution.

With Linux, Valve has the control. If they were getting really serious with this, I'd expect them to take full control over the hardware they're selling too, but for the moment, this is still a pretty solid BATNA-threat for them.
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There are services specifically for this. They charge a fee, from 2-4% (sometimes there are promos for lower fees).

If you are spending to earn a bonus, e.g. 50,000 points for spending $3,000 you are earning 16+ points per dollar (1 point is generally around 1%, sometimes better).
NO SHIT .
The whole online referral "industry" piggy backs on people's old instinct: if another person says it's good, I'll probably like it too. This might have worked in the village.

Before you had online reviews, people were stuck with either newspaper product reviews, in which case there would be a paper name and a writer's name attached, or celebrity endorsements, where at least you knew they were being paid.

With online reviews, even with real names, the person is as good as anonymous to you. There's no knowing their motivations, and you have to shake your old instinct to trust social proof. This is not as easy as it sounds because it's probably deeply ingrained in people.

Nowadays I rarely believe any kind of online review, and it's a bit tragic. I'm sure there's a lot of honest ones there, but a few bad apples...
Facebook was NOT the first platform that actually worked for people.
No, the opportunity to do a better analysis hasn't gone away.
My vote would be for Javascript, but that's only because I'm optimistic and think Facebook might still be torn apart.
The top result for "how do I disable web searching in Windows 10 search," in Google is a snippet with step-by-step instructions on how to do that.

Duckduckgo, too.

https://i.imgur.com/0fv9ZuD.png

If you are seeing video links in Google it may be because you have favored those results in the past and big-G is showing you more of those because it thinks that you prefer them.
I really wouldn't compare learning a very specific technology with college. The idea with college level education is that you get the foundations of what you study and a learning method, so that you can adapt to changes (eg new technologies) faster and better.

Of course you can learn the foundations without college and not learn them with college, but on average it's much easier to do so with that.
The Windows 95 era Windows logo is a great example of your counterpoint. I couldn't draw it by hand, but most people would recognize it instantly. It was colorful, but it degraded on faxed/noisy/low-resolution media well.
Who pays for these "consumer benefits"? Something tells me the consumer.
The weight for me was offset by the inconvenience of needing to carry dongles
Providing useless data incorrectly asserts the data is useful in any way.
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Would be nice with some more explanation. But I guess that is part of what is lacking on social media.
And in Germany it's Girocard[1]. You couldn't even buy a metro ticket with a Visa / MasterCard in Berlin a few years ago. And maybe you still can't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girocard
> I have this firm belief that demo writers are literal gods amongst programmers.

If they were considered gods there would likely be no scene.

> Nothing comes close to their knowledge and craftsmanship and the resulting art they create.

Subjective, but sure.

> To me it is the purest form of programming bar none.

Definitely wouldn't say it is a pure form of programming. The demoscene is on the one hand about community and on the other about producing something. Pureness doesn't really fit into that too well. I would probably even say that the scene has a bias towards the unpure. Just like a lot of other scenes, like in music.
I've had negative reviews flat out removed by a company that was paying glass door for some sort of premium service. I extensively reviewed the rules and reworded my comments and they were removed yet again. My points were fully factually true and were not anything too untoward (pay raises were promised to members of a new team, they never materialized, most team members left). For what it's worth, Path Forward IT is not a great place to work. advancement rarely comes with rewards and abuse of salary agreements abound(work all night to get a system up and running, they still require 8 hours behind a desk even if it would be unproductive. Flexibility works one way there).