skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a grinding, dehumanizing bureaucracy to prove that you need access to assistance of various kinds, plus various disincentives to work as assistance drops off faster than your income grows.

USDA estimates that 12% of households qualify as "food insecure": https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

Adult Medicaid recipients often have only "emergency services", aka having your teeth pulled, as part of their benefits: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/dental/index.html

All-in-all it's not pretty being poor in America, even if you have cable TV and heat to distract you from the mountain of paperwork where you have to repeatedly state how much help you need and the gaps in your teeth and the "joy" of paying with food stamps at the store.
I find it somewhat amusing this is even something we discuss--that there are "right" and "wrong" ad blockers is such a twisted re-framing of our right to personal privacy as default.

(I'm not indemnifying you at all, just find the concept itself fascinating).
Google's software is "free". If it was too good, it would kill competition. Google has one fear: to be cut in pieces because of monopolistic behaviour. Google, Gmail, Google map and google translate have almost killed concurrency. Google doc is improving.
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> If we assume that there are two million of us, each earning on average $200,000 and saving $80,000

At least the last two of those numbers seem very high to me. $200k might be the average if you're just looking at major metro tech markets like SF and NYC, but that's not going to get you anywhere near 2m people is it? I suspect the true average compensation for technology professionals is less than half that.
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`What tools and libraries would I use today?`

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
https://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/
Peter Woit's critique of this article: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8068.
Yea I played pop warner for 3 seasons from 10-12, started getting anxiety at 19, dealt with depression ever since. Thinking about CTE gives me much anxiety haha, it was hard to even read the comment section here. Very scary.
Interesting. I have to admit I'm not sure how to actually use it. Like how is it tutoring you?

Regardless, if you are doing sound analysis to try to pull out "pianorolls" a.k.a. MIDI data, I'd be interested in talking. It's a very interesting problem and could be very useful.
Furthermore the "definition" they provide is something they came up with; a Google search for portions of the definition only returns results for the article itself.
Microsoft may be part of that sooner than later. They are actively discouraging folks from using the Office suite of products and instead using their cloud solutions, similar to Google docs.

Then there is the gaming side of the fence. With time, less people will have games installed locally. As is, you may find it difficult to play any M$ games without internet connectivity. Combine this with cortana staring into your soul, and they might start to slip into the name.

What can you spell if you add the letter M?
There are plenty of people who would then politely point out that if the poorest Americans aren't poor enough for you, we can look at the problems of the poorest people on the planet and say that it's pretty fucked conditions they're living in considering how the top 20% of Americans are spending their money.

Or, tl;dr- "Better" still isn't good enough.
> Is that a reasonable metric to use?

Yes, it is. There is hyperbole on both sides of this debate. Being able to show we've made historic progress makes future potential progress look more realistic. It shows our institutions are capable of solving this problem.
The top 1% control 40% of the US's wealth, while the next 9% after that control... 36%. But most of that 9% still have to work at something resembling a real job.

So I see nothing wrong with focusing on the top 1%.
I read the thread. You hand-waved away a non-trivial problem by "explaining" properties are a thing. Thanks, bud. I'm sorry I didn't cite your favorite source to your satisfaction, but I quoted the relevant parts of the post I replied to.

> Futher, Redux doesn't solve synchronization issues in situations where you can't represent the data the same way.

It's kind of the whole Redux philosophy that you won't do that. It's in the FAQ. There's no "can't". You're never forced to keep duplicate data in your store.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/07/apple-q3-results-charts-c...

The Mac had 5.3 Billion in revenue last quarter.

The Mac by itself had higher revenue than McDonalds. If the Mac were a standalone business it would by itself have higher revenue than all but 110 companies in the Fortune 500.

And you seem to think there is actually profit by chasing after pennies in none first world countries.

Why the Mac is still around doesn't matter...
Is there something like "test-driven versioning"?

It would be rather simple: "Here is the testsuite for our (public) api. We support the use cases tested, but no more.

If you want your use case covered, please submit a testcase.

If we change an existing test, we increase the major version.

If we add tests, we increase the minor level.

If the test suite remains the same and we only change the code, it's a patch-level increase."

This could be verified automatically, increasing trust.
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At least partly because when the 20% try to show the 80% that they need these things, the 20% get accused of cultural imperialism for daring to suggest that their values and culture are better than others'.
The implicit assumption here is that a news organization has the duty to provide only favorable coverage to its subjects. Presumably for fear of alienating them with bad coverage.
And even if it was, football is still very popular outside of the NFL.
I don't like them because they're against the nature of the web.

They override routing, they override SEO, they make it hard to use build in browser tools, etc, etc.
The point is that even with the highest possible numbers us techie scum are still a rounding error to the national economy. Which makes us an incredibly useful punching bag for the economist who wants to try his hand at populism without jeopardizing his tenure.
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SemVer talks a lot about compatibility, but doesn't define it. Each project is supposed to on its own. You can just say this for any given project, and it would be compatible.
60% of US wealth are inherited. But I guess laws and taxes around that vaguely fall under „cultural systems“, so you’re technically right.
As usual it depends. But pypy3.5-6.0.0 is fast enough for me that I now prefer it over pypy2.7-6.0.0.
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Reminds me of Avicii, who wanted to stop touring but his peers reminded him how much we would lose, and how irresponsible he was to turn down ”unique opportunities”. So much for his mental health
I think the gross OVER estimation helps his point. Even if those things are true (they feel extremely high to me) the other group he's pointing out is substantially worse in the grand scheme of things.
Well then based upon this (1), touch football won't help the concussion problem anyways.
1) https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2018/01/26/nfl-con...
> "... the NFL is the world's sketchiest non-profit"

Ehh, broaden your perspective.

At its absolute worst, the NFL can't begin to touch the corruption of FIFA at its absolute best.
That's fair! Assuming you are making the argument that we are making progress.

I should amend my statement to say, "Is that a reasonable metric to use to declare success?" I regularly bump into folks who say, "Well, what more should we do? We're already better than we were 100 years ago."
Basic decision making and investment ROI should be covered in HS, or at least by peoples parents. 50k for a 1 year degree when you are already in debt isn't insurmountable but it is significant.
> I don't see players willingly getting concussions just to get other players out.

The current state of the NFL is proof that if you give someone enough money (and/or don't educate them enough), they'll risk serious brain injury to keep that money coming.
There is. Only Google can answer the second question with certainty, but I'm 99% sure its upstreams are http://root-servers.org
Yes there is, but if there wasn't it's easy enough for a government controlled provider to advertise it (and 1.1.1.1 etc).

China (and others) can also simply intercept all udp traffic to port 53.
So why don't they send a person to follow me around, noting down specifics like what clothing I look at and how many seconds I take to poop?
Because this would be creepy

But since they're doing it with invisible technology that most people don't know about, it's okay, right?

Wrong.

Furthermore, just as when the government does it, there is a qualitative, not merely quantitative difference between individualized data collection and total aggregation. It's legal for the cops to tail a suspect. IT's not legal for the cops to put a tracking device on everybody's car just in case.

And finally, a business may legally be able to track me in their own store, but where is my assurance that those data are not shared with other businesses, ones that I may not have entered?
That's the point the OP was making. He is fine with paying 100$ for sushi (or not eating sushi) if it means there are fish left in the oceans.
In that sense, you could show many more than two cards on the screen at once, since each card is one row of characters. One 80-character line, one card. (There were no more than two holes per column on the card in order to avoid fold/tear lines as much as possible, so punch cards couldn't encode as much data as one might naïvely assume.)
The article doesn't really claim that synthetic life was created here. Just that we now have a better understanding of the minimum set of genes necessary for life, which is an important step toward creating synthetic life.
More so than any random Babel preset someone might hand a new developer, though, Typescript has been pretty strict at this point towards staying strictly to ES Stage 3+ proposals. (And the few exceptions [enums, namespaces] are all common JS patterns that just about anyone should recognize the generated code, and are easy enough to avoid if you want to be more strictly ES Twenty Xteen+Types.)

(Also, the current Babel wisdom of "last two browser versions" suggests that ES2015 or ES2016 is the compatible downlevel of choice in 2019, rather than ES5.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908 people are using the term 3 months ago
Some years ago, 3 of us picked React for a startup. I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career, but we picked it not for the reason you mention. We didn't think that far (I was perhaps a junior, but the others weren't). It was just a matter of picking the frontend framework that we liked the best (I think the options were between Backbone, Ember, AngularJS, React). In our minds we did pick the simple option.

Some may be aware, but certainly not everyone.
Yes, precisely. You could have big flashy releases with "2" branding that as far as automatic updates are concerned are non-breaking and non-conceptual (new logo! we got acquired! better docs! whatever). You can also have important bug fixes that will break existing clients and thus should not auto-update, but under the "idea" of 1.0.
The majority of the 20% were born in the top. If the culture they're trying to show us is "be born rich and hoard your wealth with an iron fist" that's not extremely helpful.
Privileged containers in docker have a different meaning [1]. A lot of work has gone into trying to harden the default docker container options against container escape, even when the process is running as root. This includes dropping some capabilities, blocking syscalls with seccomp, shadowing sensitive procfs and sysfs paths, hiding most devices, and some LSM hardening [2]. Even with all that it is far more effective to just run as non-root, but hopefully that gives some context for why vulnerabilities like this are treated as high severity.

[1] https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/#fu...
[2] https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/non-events/
Because they are cheated by them. :)
Thanks for the calfw recommendation! I just installed it and it's really nice.
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There's a lot of effort put into Jen's anecdote but not once is what degree she received even mentioned. That is suspect and dishonest reporting.

As a tax payer, I do not want to subsidize people's poor educational decision making. If you get a STEM degree, you can get a job. This article describes what's long been referred to as:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_basket_weaving

Look at what fields are in demand and get an appropriate degree. Someone's failure to do that should not fall on the tax payers shoulders anymore than it already does.
"Back of the Book" can be achieved by increasing your order quantity. It isn't illegal. To this day the CME's api states that if you increase your quantity you "lose priority" a.k.a. you move to the back of the book. Not illegal, and is actually very fair. If one tried to add 20 friends to your spot in line while waiting for concert tickets you would be asked to move to the back of the queue. Reference [CME Specs for cancel replace quantity increase.](https://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Orde...)

Trader A is identified. He (Sarao) made millions off his trading and spoofing. Jitesh and Edge Financial were only paid $24,000 for their programming work.

According to the motion to dismiss (which the judge ruled was arguments for trial):

> The indictment against Jitesh contains no allegations

> that Sarao ever told Jitesh that he planned to spoof,

> move the market, or engage in any other illegal activity,

> which is consistent with Sarao’s FBI interview reports

> in which he told the government that he did not tell

> Jitesh what he planned to do. This is also consistent

> with Sarao’s indictment, which recounts Sarao’s

> conversations about his intent to spoof with the other

> three programmers over five pages of the indictment,

> but only contains one reference to Jitesh: “In

> approximately late 2011, SARAO began working with

> [Jitesh], to further develop the automated trading

> programs and functions he had been working to design

> and implement since early 2009.”
I run a privileged container, of which I am not the author. I also know many other people run this container in privileged mode. No one is paying that person for it, and if they want to or they get compromised at some point we all might get rooted when we update the image.

I think my OS is on a read only filesystem though, and maybe I've got it namespaced correctly as well, but still it's pretty dangerous.
And open source tools like Free Pascal: https://www.freepascal.org/

And Lazarus: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
At the risk of being demeaning, this could only be a reply from someone with money who knows no one without it. Go travel around the poorest areas in the US and spend time talking to people, you'll learn really quickly how little access to cell phones or public libraries with WiFi are improving their life.

Sure almost everyone in this country has a computer in their pocket, they also very often have no access to fresh groceries at the same time. The town I grew up in is 60% below the poverty line and the nearest grocery store with fresh produce is a 30 minute drive away. That's over 800 people in one city who eat frozen gas station food on a daily basis. Do you think their wifi access and cable television is a good measure of their quality of life? They've also had to shutdown the local hospital recently. Meaning their already-terrible access to healthcare just got that much worse. Most people there only visit a doctor once every 5 years.

And I can already imagine the replies to this "well, times are changing, they're living in a dying region". Which... while true... doesn't come close to forgiving the systemic problems that put them in this situation. Systemic problems that by no measure had to come to fruition, if we had only had a stronger system of wealth distribution and thus physical and educational support for the people at the bottom of the pile.

Also, for the record, they're actually closing the library in my hometown.
SemVer itself as a spec expects projects to define exactly what compatibility means, it's true. We went through all of these kinds of cases with Rust, for example, and defined what kinds of changes increase what kinds of version numbers. Given that it's based on language features, it gives a good basis for the ecosystem, but when you don't have that basis, yeah it's much much tougher.
People buy the Apple hardware but stay for the software. Scott Forstall might have been considered but he didn’t play well with a few other key design and hardware people at the time. In an alternative world where SF is CEO, you’d end up with an iPhone X that looks like iPhone 4/5 and might have had weaker hardware but largely compensated by better software (as demonstrated by iOS 12, early iPods and macs, etc.). Then with time, the skeumorphism would dial down and meet iOS 7’s extreme minimalism in the middle, like current iOSes are doing anyway. SF knew machine learning, so Siri would definitely have been his focus too.

There’s a niche of folks who are waiting for SF to make a come back the same way SJ did =)
Give it ten years, you'll change your tune.
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SemVer is great, I think people try to read too much into it. It's there so that your automatic dependency system wont pull a breaking change without you first checking if it actually did break anything. I think waiting for semver major releases is an anti-pattern. I rather have a very small breaking change, rather then a bunch of breaking changes at once. So if you use SemVer, don't be afraid to do a Semver Major, avoid it if possible, but don't make it such a big deal. Ohh and don't use it for marketing, use a cool name instead, like NameOfProduct "ninja tiger" (instead of v9.2.2)
I have no student loans. ROTC paid for all of my college.

Yet 15 minutes ago I got a call from “Robbie”, clearly a domestic call as he had 100% American accent, to talk about restructuring my federal student loans.

Why is our country so incredibly deceptive and scammy? We’ll never have European-style socialism here and that’s somewhat liveable / something I’ve come to accept, but why must we be cheated at every turn and in every interaction? This is not capitalism as much as it is a predatorial monetary jungle. Reminds me of the quote: “behind every fortune, a crime”.
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> Basic decision making and investment ROI should be covered in HS

The "a member of my family once said I deserved student loan debt because I chose the unrealistic field of history" comment reminds me of friends. They're smart. But they came from families that didn't teach ROI. (Their high schools didn't offer , they pursued majors that they found interesting. Nobody offer economics in a remotely-useful form, either.) Nobody told them to consider job-placement frequencies and mean exit salaries. (Let alone where to find these data.) So they didn't.

It's difficult to fault them. Their adolescent brains were given insufficient information (or, in some cases wrong information) for a series of huge decisions. They are now left with the consequences of those decisions for life.

The only way to fix this is to let loans be wiped out in bankruptcy (i.e. give lenders skin in the game). We probably also need to let lenders vary interest rates by institution and major. (The latter to give borrowers an early price signal around their choices.)
> Announcement: February 11, 2019

> The deadline to apply to meet us in NYC is Friday, February 15 at 8pm PST.

Damn. I'm applying for YC Summer 2019 (with a new company based on feedback from my previous in-person interview) for March 25.

I'd much rather interview in NY, but having the deadline pushed forward to 4 days from now is faster than I'd expect.
Feedbin [1] (a RSS service like Google Reader) lets you subscribe to newsletters and have the emails show up in your reader like regular posts.

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Then your Google isn't my Google. If the definition is used on sr.ht[0], then it's pretty much galvanized. Not to mention that I've heard it used that very way over the decades that I've been in software development.

[0] https://meta.sr.ht
Which parts are completely new that you couldn't do before? Haven't they had APIs for years that let you pull data out of documents and edit them as well? Or Google Docs specifically was lacking here?
Same here. I really wish I could go back to school and relearn some stuff I ignored back then. Back then I had to learn a lot of stuff just because but now I understand how they can be useful.

same with history. In school it was boring but now I listen to historical audiobooks all the time and love it.
This puts the burden on the individual. We’ve had 30 years of this. What is government or business going to do about it? They’ve been exempt / free from responsibility for far too long. They are as lazy as the “welfare queens” they once tailed against.
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The old wisdom that "College is Worth It, No Matter What." is no longer true (assuming it ever was).

Trades, IT jobs and the inability to bankruptcy out of bad decisions... paired with colleges that are more focused on head count than quality...
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To add to this, they can't even properly display screen saver photos on Chromecast from Google photos. My 4:3 photos get the top and bottom cut off instead of being letterboxed.
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