skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dynamic pricing developer here.

The bigger problem than collusion is the arms race between higher margins and higher ad costs. In the end Facebook and Google will take almost all the margin as consumers see prices rise until they receive zero net value from their purchases.
But did you attend Oxford?

this school in particular has a peculiar habit of changing speech as a byproduct of attendance...
The first step to working less is being in a comfortable enough financial position that you can push your boundaries without worrying that if it backfires you'll be out of work and behind on your bills.

Once you have the money to cushion the blow, you can start pushing back on demands for your time with a lot more confidence. A thing I've personally found is that my employer just wants results and things done on time and when needed. They don't particularly care how much time I'm physically in the office working.
I wonder whether this exact thing is why we have dark matter...
You may not like what he said around WW2 but anyone who recently moved to the Bay Area will love his take on landlords, from 1909:

> Roads are made, streets are made, services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off in the mountains -- and all the while the landlord sits still. Every one of those improvements is effected by the labor and cost of other people and the taxpayers. To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist, as a land monopolist, contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is enhanced. He renders no service to the community, he contributes nothing to the general welfare, he contributes nothing to the process from which his own enrichment is derived.

The whole thing is worth a read.
http://www.landvaluetax.org/current-affairs-comment/winston-...
I hate to be that guy, but I honestly hope you don't make decisions based on anecdotes, and instead rely on data.

You are dependent on your vendors, period. Choose them wisely. This is not a mystery.
Don't these private equity firms earn piles of money in the process in exchange for wiping out creditors and investors? (not to mention staff)
Well that’s the argument for Universal Basic Income in a nutshell.
I think the primary problem is glossed over a bit in the article. Even though most people are unaware of the kinds of information gathered about them, 36% are "Somewhat comfortable" or "Very comfortable" with the kinds of profiles being built. This seems (to me) a depressingly high number, one that indicates that there will be no grassroots rebellion against the surveillance economy.
The article says:

"Thanks to Churchill’s personal decisions, more than 3 million Bengalis died of hunger in a 1943 famine. Churchill deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles, meant for yet-to-be-liberated Greeks and Yugoslavs. “The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious” than that of “sturdy Greeks,” he argued. When reminded of the suffering of Bengalis, his response was typically Churchillian: The famine was the Indians’ own fault, he said, for “breeding like rabbits.” If the suffering was so dire, he wrote on the file, “Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?"

People argue it wasn't Churchill's fault. Specifically [1], which says that the fall of Burma to the Japanese cut off Indian import sources and the wartime element meant "tough decisions" were made. It argues that in peacetime things would be different.

That really doesn't make sense. If you look at the history of famine's in India under British rule [2], over 35MM people died due to famines, and the majority of those are due to imperial mismanagement. In democratic governments, you can vote out people who aren't solving the problem. Not so in colonial societies.

This source [3] puts it clearly:

"Throughout the autumn of 1943, the United Kingdom's food and raw materials stockpile for its 47 million people - 14 million fewer than that of Bengal - swelled to 18.5m tonnes.

In the end, Mukherjee writes eloquently, it was "not so much racism as the imbalance of power inherent in the social Darwinian pyramid that explains why famine could be tolerated in India while bread rationing was regarded as an intolerable deprivation in wartime Britain".

To us Indians, Winston Churchill is Hitler and what happened in Bengal is an Indian Holocaust. It is appropriate to call it "revisionist history" because the Indian and more generally Eastern perspective is not present in modern history. That is slowly changing thanks to modern scholarship and I think we will view Winston Churchill very differently in 50 years.

All men are flawed. Churchill did some very good things for England, and some very very bad things for India, Kenya, etc. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, etc. very all very charismatic and had strong leadership characteristics, but you cannot praise them publicly for "their good parts." It is crazy to me that we still do that with Churchill.

I was glad when Obama sent the bust back to England.

[1] https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/churchil...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_I...

[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2010/10...
Postmark has the most interesting credit IMO, even if it's not a particularly huge one:

> Postmark - If you’ve launched your product, are charging for it, and haven’t taken outside investment, contact the Postmark support team and they'll give you $75 account credit to help with your email costs.

A lot of these discounts are based on the assumption that you're a VC-backed, or about-to-be-VC-backed startup, that will have enough runway and growth to stick around for a couple years, and will smoothly transition from a steep discount to a 4-digit monthly bill around the time you land your Series A or whatever. I like Postmark's because it's much more reasonable - "you _don't_ have VC money, but you have an obvious path to making money (and thus being able to pay us), so we'll give you some credit for free as you get up and running."

I've been totally freeloading for a side project of mine that I _don't_ expect to make any money, but in researching cheap plans I came across a lot of these sorts of discounts (usually while looking to see if they had an open source discount, since my side project is open source). It's an interesting gamble, but I respect Postmark's the most, I think.
Note sure whether there's a (more or less evident) causal linkage and in retrospect that juxtaposition is somewhat artificial. I just thought that these two things seem inconsistent given the central importance of tertiary education in this day and age.

My thinking was more along the lines of: shouldn't the haves fund/enable the future success of the have nots instead of having them turn into (hopefully temporary) "have even less's"? In my mind it doesn't seem very sustainable to fuel education with debt even with government as creditor, especially in case should economic downturn occur...

I'm a university student myself and thanks to publicly funded universities I pay ~300 EUR per semester here (including an IMO quite generous public transit ticket). Obviously someone else is paying all the rest (plus the cost explosion is probably not nearly as bad here). The thought of having to personally indebt myself however, not knowing how things'll play out in this increasingly crazy world, seems quite scary. Looking at the situation of US students makes me all the more grateful to not be in their shoes.

I admit my original comment wasn't very well thought out, just something I wanted to vent (reading certain subreddits may have had something to do with this). There's obviously more forces at play concerning US higher education (and the welfare state in general), many of which I'm sure I can't see.
1cm objects are currently essentially impossible to track.
Performance optimization contest
> Where is the cut off for not being able to complain or is it like a spectrum?

Wherever the cut-off happens to be, software developers are far past it.
Global 1% is about $34k.
$100k gets you to the 14th percentile in the US.
$150k gets you to the 94th percentile.

If you're a developer in the first world, you're incredibly rich and privileged not just by historical standards, but by real world modern standards.
LMAO the author complains about all the chores that come with high maintenance life.
well, go minimalist.
I think there is a balance to emphasize the psychological and physical impact that debt can have to individuals and incentives individuals need to make smarter decision (debt is an incentive, not forced on ppl 99% of the time). If folks know that they will be indebted after university, they have more reason to study something that will allow them to pay it off or that it is at least partially paid by grants/etc.

Long-term thinking may mean less burden in society by making the incentives based on debt

I also think people forget that the US is a superpower in part because of the brain power it has, that brain power in part comes from the folks coming out of university. When you look at Uni's top 100 rank, 58% is American & 22% is European. Although this might be a simple correlation vs. causation scenario, I think it is worth accounting for in conjunction with a variety of variables.

I still agree that the tuition $ in the US is exorbitant and that governments need to teach people the values, risks, etc of going to university just like I think everyone should have at least 1 personal finance class in high school, it would help a lot of people.

P.S. I am not American
Half a billion foreigners should be worth less than 1 Briton to a British leader.
How much of the Steam cataöog is owned by big publishers? 10%? These generate most of the revenue. Bit there is this incredibly long tail of smaller games ownes by small publishers and indies who self-publish. These are virtually exclusively Unity engine titles. And there is no way any of thesw could afford the 6 or 7 digits for a source license. And unless thungs changed, you won't even considered eligible without an exceptional track record.
California Scraps Plan for High-Speed Railroad Between LA and San Francisco
I lived at the corner of Kent Avenue and N. 5th from 2002-2003, and have lived in Brooklyn for about 20 years.
What is it like to own a yacht?
Robots Scan Shelves in Jacksonville Walmart
There are 2 complex numbers, one of them the coefficient of |0> and |1>. The sum of the square of the magnitudes of these numbers is 1.
Alternatively/equivalently , the magnitude of the vector taken as a whole, is 1.

So if you have (a+bi)|0> + (c+di)|1>, the magnitude of this vector is a^2 + b^2 + c^2 + d^2 = 1

Edit: however, the vector only has to have magnitude 1 if it is describing the entire system, I think?
Agreed, for reasons I don’t know exactly, they even donated duck.com to DuckDuckGo
Louis CK (before his troubles!) did a great job at this.

He reached out a couple of times a year, put time into the email to make it entertaining, and only tried to pitch items that were of high quality.

Now compare that to the shit you get from Amazon, Ebay, and your phone company.
If we reach a point where, to paraphrase the Situationist International, "the last Koch brother is strangled with the guts of the last Sackler", I'll feel a lot better about people like you attacking members of the professional upper middle class for having the termerity to complain that working life isn't all that fun ("hey, at least you're not picking through a garbage heap on Manilla"). Until then, it seems a bit misplaced.
Fun fact: you only need $32,400 to be part of the 1%.

Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/05061...
Eh. Been in more manual labor oriented jobs before. It's mindless. I'm far more exhausted after thinking all day than I am from physical labor.

I've also found that once you fulfill the basics in Maslow's, you can be less happy or satisfied. Before you were too focused on just surviving so the idea of contentment and satisfaction wasnt much of a thing.

I envy the mindless jobs. Those people always seem so much more high energy when I meet them. It's the mind workers who look like zombies so frequently.
> "Plus; how would you stop it?"

Well the primary targets, the carriers, weren't present. That was fortunate for America, to put it lightly. With the carriers missing, the attacking Japanese pilots focused their attacks on Battleship Row, against which they did severe damage.

It should be noted however that after the first attack wave, the USN managed to put up very dense anti-aircraft fire that impeded the Japanese attackers and probably saved thousands of American lives. If the Americans at Pearl Harbor had been given even just an hour of warning before the first attack wave, they would have been in a much better position (the anti-aircraft fire they could have organized before the first wave would have been even more effective than what they managed to muster after the first wave.)

If you're interested in the details of the battle, this youtube video is exceptional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cz9gtMTeI
Although in those times when Churchill did take direct control in WW2, he tended to screw things up. The disastrous campaigns in Norway and Greece, for instance, both had his fingerprints all over them.
Need to support Windows 7, for example.
crooked land sales by insiders, crooked constuction quotes, crooked construction unions and in a state run by unions, all of whose pensions are in arrears, so they can not build this, they need to pay wages and pensions for retired workers and those soon to be retired. California is totally broke
Not only that, they have a big annual parade with their names all over the place. Maybe they mean "secret" in the sense of "not in the press every single week, because the press have the memory of a goldfish"?

The use of charitable foundations to concentrate money and pay generous salaries while being exempt from tax is definitely a problem, but it's shared by quite a few charities in the UK, including some of the private schools.
Supporting Windows <10
Also what is happening with wages. Companies relying sharing their wage data with each other through in organizations like Options Impact, and effectively colluding to match each others’ comp.
Wow, major release.

I should rebase Cygnal to Cygwin 3.0.

http://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/
Many software developers are 9 to 5-ers meaning when they get home they don't do any more programming and don't do programming on the weekend either. They do most of their learning while on the job. These programmers are of course mediocre at best and typically work at slow paced large companies with lower pay but they're satisfied with their work/life balance and there is nothing wrong with that.

If the author is complaining that work leaks into the weekends then perhaps he should communicate with his colleagues and managers to figure out which processes in their workflow can be fixed to avoid that. He also has the ability to jump to another company if he feels his current company is too demanding.

Everyone has 24 hours in a day; use it wisely, especially doing something you're good at that makes you money but also enjoy.
It's explicitly prohibited. See the "Conditions of Use" link at the bottom of their page. It says:

"This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any Amazon Service, or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any Amazon Service or its contents; any downloading, copying, or other use of account information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=foo...
You may consider that WSL is to Cygwin as Wine is to Winelib.
Doing more than 40 push-ups shows you’re 96% less likely to get a heart attack
I started my career in the trades and I’m now a software engineer. You’re totally right. Software engineering is a pretty great job. The biggest difference I find is with the ability to turn off. When I worked in trades when the day was done it was done. The work was physically harder, but not as mentally tasking. With my work now I find that it can take me as much as 10 days[1] to truly stop thinking about the problems I work on. So, sure, we have it okay in software, but let’s not pretend it’s not difficult.

1) this is my own experience when I went on paternity leave for a month. Despite having a lot going on in my home life it took me over a week to let go of work and focus on my family.
That's absurd. I've worked in call centers, as a mover, and as a software engineer. There are perfectly valid reasons to complain across the spectrum. Worker rights are not some limited good that only need to go to the most vulnerable, and even white collar workers should be aware and proactive about fighting for better treatment in the workplace. Being well paid has not prevented me from seeing egregious workplace interactions across many of my past jobs, or observing that workers could likely get a more generous slice of the tradeoffs we give our employers without in any way being inequitable.
/s? I dearly hope?
Ask HN: How would you go about doing a cluster analysis on Tweets?
I'm trying to do some analysis on which Tweets with which features.

For example, I'd like to know if a Tweet gets more engagement if it has hashtags or gifs or movies or mentions, etc. There's been things like this before: https://www.quicksprout.com/2014/03/05/what-type-of-content-gets-shared-the-most-on-twitter/ But their methodology isn't shared and might not be an accurate analysis. I'm also not sure if its results are valid 4-5 years later.

I'm curious how others would go about this. Would you just take the top 10% of a bunch of tweets and just do some basic counts on a single variable: has media, does not have media. And just visualize which variable makes the impact?

Or would you explore how maybe multiple variables interact? Would you do some kind of k-means cluster analysis? All pointers to education, methodologies, helpful tools/software and previous attempts at this are very welcome.
I would not be surprised if that was the case since the US was quite isolationist at the time. It would take quite a bit to get the population's buy-in for a war. A direct attack seems to be like a needed pretext.
There are a number of efforts to secure DNS (and SSL/TLS which generally depends upon DNS; and upon which DNS-over-HTTPS depends) and the identity proof systems which are used for record-change authentication and authorization.

Domain registrars can and SHOULD implement multi-factor authentication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication

Are there domain registrars that support FIDO/U2F or the new W3C WebAuthn spec?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAuthn

Credentials and blockchains (and biometrics): https://gist.github.com/westurner/4345987bb29fca700f52163c33...

DNSSEC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ex...

ACME / LetsEncrypt certs expire after 3 months (*) and require various proofs of domain ownership:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Certificate_Manageme...

Certificate Transparency:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_Transparency

Certs on the Blockchain:
"Can we merge Certificate Transparency with blockchain?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18961724

Namecoin (decentralized blockchain DNS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin

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

DNS over HTTPS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS

DNS over TLS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_TLS

DNS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
Do you mind sharing your before and after job role?
"Average pension pot at 55. On average those aged 55-65 currently have £105,496 saved in pensions, according to research released by Aegon in June last year": hmm.
The T-Mobile social media support, as a counterexample, has full access to all account systems, never has to transfer you, and is way easier than the regular support.
I watched a special about Roosevelt and in it we see many clips of Churchill. First thing I noticed was that he was always drinking heavily, and next, that this was during the war. Basically he spent most of the war partying with the Roosevelts in Ametica.
Global 1% is a daft standard for, well, anything. Most of those $34k in a first world country are going to be spend chasing goods that are incredibly expensive by both historical and real world modern standards (positional goods and goods subject to Baumol's cost disease).

This leads to a bizarre narrative (especially roping in 'historical standards') - "hey, your health care may be dire, your education is haphazard, your food is non-nutritious and repetitive, and your living situation is precarious, but you have TV and better plumbing than a king from 100 years ago".
Probably none, going by the track record.
A Facebook group? Really? Those are not the kinds of sources that increase credibility in my book
The US broke the Japanese crypto and naval signals well before the war. I’m curious how they missed the boat (no pun intended) on the massive attack.

I vaguely remember the radio operators mistaking it as nothing which delayed the defences - as the hundreds of aircrafts came into view on radar. But beyond that how could they not have intercepted the planning beforehand?

I’m not suggesting a conspiracy just curious.
Google backtracks on Chrome modifications that would have crippled ad blockers
Cygwin programs are (almost) native Windows programs. You can compile a POSIX-y program under Cygwin and it becomes a Windows program; you can ship it to a user if you just include a few DLL's that it needs.

I forked Cygwin's main DLL (cygwin1.dll) to create "Cygnal": an drop-in alternative that provides more Windows-like behaviors in various areas. Programs built under Cygwin can be bundled with Cygnal. Then (for instance) they have path handling that is familiar to Windows users.
Don't consider a brand creepy for trying to engage with their customers and trying to get feedback to improve their product. It'd be more concerning if the brands completely ignored a complaint on public social media because it demonstrates that they don't really care about their own product.
Yes, you have it better than almost anyone who has ever existed in the history of the planet, but there's no need for an ounce of gratitude for that as long as someone else might be even better off.
Honestly I hate these self-absorbed, life-is-tough posts by farmers doing work in a nice spacious barn.

Try having your entire village razed by US-backed troops, your family killed before your eyes, your daughter raped and dismembered and then yourself sold to slavery and working in a mine 18 hours a day.

See where that goes? Nobody gets to complain about anything unless they're the absolute worst-off person in the world?
Maybe You Shouldn't Listen to Elon/Zucks/Jobs That Much – Survivorship Bias
This is a weird question. Model rockets aren't practical. Hobby's aren't practical. Hobby's are fun, and educational. A software controlled model rocket would be fun and educational and challenging. You should do it.
As it often happens to truly extreme moral bankrupcy (as opposed to just regular moral bankrupcy), this is position is self defeating. A victorious nazi Germany, leveraging its new resources after consolidating the gains in continental Europe, could have successfully invaded the UK.
Yes. This was essentially what armadillo aerospace and Masten Space Systems did back in the day.
It happened, but in the transition from preview to product, so not at all the same thing as a deprecation.

https://www.informationweek.com/cloud/platform-as-a-service/...