skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it's available, yes. It's especially helpful when living in the UK to be able to pay with my US bank account.

Also, from the perspective of someone who ran a successful SaaS for a couple years, I highly recommend PayPal. About 50% of my payments were via PayPal, especially for international customers.
>>Look at modern pop music today? They are pretty terrible at best.

That's a whole lot of opinion there affecting your theory.

Pop music makes money because, as the name implies, it's popular. That doesn't mean it has to be lyrically or musically devoid of complexity. There's high quality pop music.

Pop music makes money because 1-it tends to be formulaic in it's musical composition to hit sounds that people "like". 2- the stars are young and attractive and people respond to that for a myriad of reasons. 3- the people producing the music and marketing the industry have found that it's a stable and reliable market in a time when the industry as a whole collapsed.

As someone married to a professional artist, I would also like to point out that the starving artist who just LOVES producing their Art so much is a problematic ideal that people romanticize. The bottom line is, if you produce something of value, and someone wants to procure this thing, they should respect your time. The problem is that so many artists don't value their work or time in an economic framework, and thus they drive the market rates lower for the community as a whole.
Thanks, I fixed up the title
>You need explosives in contact with the snow.

Then how do they happen naturally?
It's useful feedback, thanks!

There is actually a lot more detail right under each of those sections (see the "learn more" link).

For some reason it's not underlined, so I guess I have to fix this!

Example link:

https://www.wisecashhq.com/help/setting-up-a-recurring-trans...

This is, by the way, and git-backed knowledge based & source is available here:

https://github.com/wisecash/wisecash-support
Let's talk and I can accompany you to a respectful solution.

Sudhir@bestbookbuddies.com
"Blunder"? Sure.
> This means that you're catering to the tail end of a distribution and are way more likely to progress at a significantly slower rate because you're looking for the 10% of the population that is "the best".

It seems like he'd exactly agree. He goes on to say he doesn't want to add all those features, he'd rather go slower and his biggest job is to say "no" to new features.
Great points, this list is ridonkulous.

Tech companies quit, rename, reorganize and merge products all the time. Is Google particularly worse than other tech firms?

I can think of some pretty big Microsoft pivots, and I don't begrudge them their choices at all.

Media Center

Kinect

Zune

PlaysForSure DRM

Microsoft Money

Windows Home Server

Microsoft Kin Phone

Microsoft Mobile, previously known as Nokia

Windows 10 Mobile

The Band

TechNet

Hotmail

Live Messenger

Live Mesh

Groove Music Pass

Android and iOS versions of Groove Music

Encarta

Windows Small Business Server

Flight Simulator

Microsoft Works

Microsoft FrontPage

Windows Embedded Automotive, formerly Microsoft Auto, Windows CE for Automotive, Windows Automotive, and Windows Mobile for Automotive
We corrected the problem see: https://www.ticketlens.com/en/g6248 the parent page: https://www.ticketlens.com/en/p680490/new-york/empire-state-... will update soon.
Unfortunately this specific site is a bit complicated with the fees. Which underscores how in transparent this market is.
Absolutely! Chris even says in the book that while he perfected his art in hostage negotiations[1], they work just as well in business and in your personal life (and he even gave "negotiating your childs bedtime" as an example).

I'm really enjoying the book, both in terms of what I'm learning and entertainment. I highly recommend it!

[1] The unique thing about hostage negotiations is that you have to get what you want, or people may die, and you can't give anything meaningful in return. Most situations aren't quite that drastic, of course.
PHP 7: didn't use it too much yet but things definitely have been improving on the syntax side! But doing PHP is 80% awful jobs and 20% cool companies so it's not something I would put too high up on my resumé.
So you would rather just wait for it to randomly unleash as the big one?
Interesting. The difference in homelessness between EU and US may just be perception and not reality?
‘I made $3.75 an hour’: Lyft and Uber drivers push to unionize for better pay
Lots of borders that are asymmetrically populated. (Feels weird to be thinking this way)

The entirety of Himalayas is earthquake Zone-4|5 and with many such borders.
>The military just works for the government.

The military is part of the government (executive branch).
Similar to the Feynman method:

1. Write down the problem
2. Think really hard
3. Write down the solution
Why not house these criminals in a cheaper cost of living area? Lower cost, provide jobs & services to other states, win-win?

I get the visiting hours being harder on families. But look at mississipi which costs 49.79/day or 18k/year [1]. With a 57k/year savings you could buy air travel for up to 50 visits per year.

https://www.peer.ms.gov/Reports/reports/rpt608.pdf
I think America used to be very mobile, but if the economic plight of the interior is any indication, it would seem that the country is not as mobile as it once was.
South Korea accidentally discovered a bunch of tunnels that the North had been prepping. They'd gone unnoticed until performing some sort of water investigation iirc. You used to be able to go into them (near the DMZ) on tours. The walls are black and the guide I had noted that upon discovery, the fleeing workers painted the wall with coal to "make it seem like it was a mining operation all along".

So, the "drink your milkshake" level access isn't crazy.
Thanks for the feedback! This is a first version of the product. Far from perfect and the area search definitely needs some more work.
Hopefully it doesn't become one of those annoying tropes, though. Like Photoshop lens flares— every game has to have a bunch of arbitrarily reflective materials and light shafts just because the hardware now makes it possible.
It's disputed that it's due to race, there's a good argument that it's due to culture and culture can change.
makes sense to just give them free houses
Given that it appears you personally don't know the people op is talking about, what reasonable evidence are you basing this conclusion on? And given that it's generally an insulting thing to say about the op's workplace, what was your intention in saying it? How did you want the op to feel about your thoughts?
I'm generally not a debugger user, not really out of principle but out of generally just not using one much, but I have two major exceptions: 1. Highly recursive code 2. Understanding a new codebase.

It is true you ought to build up a model of what code is doing to work on it properly, but I find trying to just read the code that I'm not familiar with to build that model is often both slower and worse than using a debugger to walk through it. Slower, because I'm sitting on the outside trying to stare in at a dynamic process based on my radically incomplete understanding of its static description and the stored state in my rather meager head (I think my raw ability to hold state in my head is probably a bit below average in the programming domain, as evidenced to me by the behaviors I've developed to compensate and other people's lack of need for them). Worse, because when simply reading code it's easy to miss the "validate_input(input)" call that in fact turns out to invoke a multi-thousand line subsystem that doesn't just validate the input, but also statefully mutates it based on all kinds of things and is actually 60% of the system despite its seemingly innocuous name. Stepping through can fix both problems much more quickly, and I'm not being paid to "not use a debugger".

I don't disagree that pervasive, continuous use of a debugger can afford bad habits, but the best answer is to simply not develop those bad habits, and then still use it when it is helpful... because there are days when it is very very helpful.

(Highly recursive code is an exception because Ye Olde Printe Statementse really break down at that point, and even if you make them work it can still be a lot easier to understand it from the inside than the outside, after the fact. I don't just mean "recursively folding on a list", I mean code that does things like walk heterogeneous trees for a DOM tree or a compiler AST and does a whole bunch of inter-related recursive stuff. Sometime you just have to admit your brainstack has overflowed and call in the tools. Best to avoid writing that code at all if you can, of course, but there's times when it is not avoidable.... because that's where the superpowers come from: https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-foo...)
Yeah, I personally fail to understand this. I have definitely been guilty of it myself as well.

Every once in a while, I will come across a video on Youtube where some vlogger is at some beach in Thailand or popular touristy night market, or other backpacker haunt and I think, "why do we do this to ourselves?...might as well go to your local nightlife district/beach rather then flying to the other side of the world and going to their nightlife district/beach...". Seems boring.
Yes, let's just leave them on the street and give them lousy port-a-potties and shower access. That's the humane approach.

(Do I need a sarcasm tag here?)

That still leaves them wearing the same filthy clothes. It doesn't remotely solve the problem. Furthermore, homeless showers tend to be as horrible as most homeless services.

Either you have no privacy -- because why the hell should your dignity matter when you are homeless? -- or it has mold issues, etc.

All services specifically designed to service the homeless population tend to be really, truly terrible in a "you would get sued if this were aimed at middle class people" kind of way. The general attitude is "beggars can't be choosers" and "don't be so uppity -- show a little gratitude for the shitty service you are getting for free, you ungrateful whiner."

So, no, that's not the solution. Missing Middle Housing is The Solution here. Or one part of it.

There is no single cause of homelessness. There is no single solution.
Anybody try mobixterm? It's my go to Windows terminal. It has cygwin and an x server all wrapped together. If you haven't tried it, you should.
This seems to contradict your earlier point. You say that since I wouldn’t want to use a port-a-potty myself, I shouldn’t consider it as a solution for homeless people.

On the other hand, I also wouldn’t want to live in an SRO, so why should I accept that for homeless people?
Thanks for the feedback on pricing, this is useful :-)

I initially handled both USD & EUR for payment, and it turned out to be a pain to handle from the seller perspective, at least at the stage where I am.

I haven't necessarily seen a difference in sign-ups after removing USD, btw!

I will definitely revisit this for the next version, though (will move to Stripe Billing, which doesn't impose an extra price when you add more currencies).

WRT multi currency support, it's not the case: this is only supporting a single currency at the moment (the largest use case by far for current customers).

But again this is typically something that will be covered in a future version.
> With a bunch of print statements you can see the state of the system in multiple spots at once.

With a debugger you can see the state of the system in multiple the spots at once, except that you don't need to guess in advance which spots you will care about, and you don't need to recompile / re-run every time you guess wrong
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4472929/

Let's fact-check some of their numbers.

Spoiler Alert: Their cited sources have completely different numbers.

EDIT: I removed some examples that are probably correct according to their definition of recidivism (they only looked at prisoners -> offenders).

Table 2.

Germany 35% (them) vs 23% (source)

They may have linked the wrong source here, since the source they provided is specific to people with psychotic disorders.

So let's assume this is their source (the one they linked for Germany in Table 1): https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Publikationen/DE/Legalbewaehr...

According to them the re-imprisonment rate is 35%, though the source says it's 23% (page 9, first paragraph).

The re-imprisonment rate for juvenile offenders is 35% though and mentioned in the same paragraph. It's likely they just confused that.
Oh I'm not sure I personally completely agree with any of those statements I quoted, including that one "needs to think at a different level" whatever that might mean. They were written by people who had an entirely different path into programming than me, and I think it's important to keep that in mind when consider what makes sense for you. I think practically each one of us can only think at the level at which we are currently capable of thinking, while understanding that we are capable of more.

Single stepping through code for me has also been a great entry point into large code bases. I think what happens over time, especially if you look into the internals of open source project and libraries, is you lean to identify what kind of thing you're looking at: like, Is this a thing that's driven by an event loop? Is this an event driven system that calls some pipeline of functions through the stack? You begin to see that people generally make things in only a handful of different ways, and so it's easier figure out how things are connected. But for me it took a lot of stepping through code to figure out a lot of these things, so I'm not sure either how else you can go about it.
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I didn’t mention vindictiveness. I mentioned that dealers are allowed to break the law in the open without consequence. Vindictiveness is how you’ve chosen to interpret that.
Um... I think you just kind of fell down a set of logic stairs there amigo.

While your and GP posts were valid, this is a case of valid reasoning being applied to unsound premises in that a corporation is not granted these property rights through personhood, but via it's being a corporation.

This is one of the things that makes me spit every time I think of conceptual train wreck that was Citizens United.

Corporations were not meant to be people. They were logical constructs with just enough personhood to distinguish the economic institution from the people making it up in the eyes of the law, such that higher risk ventures could be more easily undertaken through pooling of resources, and distribution of risk.

That means, it is a false assumption to think of a corporation as Person+. It's more a case of being a !Person.

Frankly, the entire idea of property rights sort of breaks down in light of possession being 9/10's of the law w.r.t your own body. As a free agent, you can do what you want. Just... Understand the additional risk brought on by the legal system rapidly backpedaling away if you do something outside the few clearly established guidelines, and other people with no interest in testing potential legal waters that may destroy them will have very little in the way of external incentive to help you do it.

One of the things most uncomfortable about a common law system is how precedent in unrelated areas can composite together to create a law where no intent to have such a thing was ever established.
Same, but I always feel like using a debugger has to be a better way to handle that stuff and that I just haven't invested enough time to get the workflow right. Maybe prints and log statements are better.
Microsoft resurrects Clippy and then brutally kills him off again
Step 1 - Have money
What makes you think a man-made stress release will be any different from a natural one?
I had a different reaction. All the things mentioned in the parent comment are subfields of applied mathematics and scientific computing. Hopping between those different subfields quickly is actually more an indication of deep vertical specialization, and is nearly the opposite of being a generalist.

In software, I’d consider a generalist to be someone whose career goals are only focused on the business problems, rather than career goals focused on developing a specific skill, mastering a specific technology, or becoming known as a famous expert within a specific field or job function.

For example, I once worked with a colleague who was an amazing polyglot programmer. Our boss tasked him with fixing an asynchronous web service, including a ton of work in the frontend.

It had high business value, but my teammate wanted to focus on machine learning in order to create job experience on his resume that would let him get machine learning jobs.

While the bosses were busy fussing over essentially the desire for every engineer to be an arbitrarily fungible generalist, this guy quit and moved on to a place that would let him specialize in machine learning.
>let the homeless die

This is immoral and thus not a potential solution, full stop. Others must be considered instead.
You can exhibit leadership and all those things at a much lower job tile.

On a semi-related note: I really dislike job titles. They make people think in labels. The most powerful feature of a team of creators is their idiosyncrasies. The best way I found to build something as a team is to adapt the work to the strengths of the individuals. Job titles squash the peculiar strengths and differences into a label and make organizations treat people as fungible units of work. Too many organizations define the work first and then assign it to the individuals, rather than define the work based on the individuals.
How homelessness is measured varies massively between countries. So Britain has an estimated 4751 people sleeping rough, but 307,000 people who are homeless, i.e. living in temporary accomodation, sofa surfing etc. The USA has an estimated 190,000 people sleeping rough (in cars, tents, on the streets) but only counts a total of 540,000 people as homeless. I don't know how the American figures are counted but the German ones are probably estimated in a similar way to the British ones because we live standardised statistics in the EU.
Can't be, Hans Rosling and Steven Pinker had all the good stats for how it's all ever more perfect in this best of all worlds...
Facebook: We stored hundreds of millions of your passwords in plain text
Thanks for your input! Indeed the global aspect if this makes this challenging...

In some places, too low a price will send the wrong signal too.

It's probably easier to target a single large country, for many reasons!
Yeah I put these down to my last sentence: "he's done some things that haven't helped his cause, but its hard to say that its entirely his doing"
Statistics for increase in rate of earthquakes in US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cumulative_induced_seis...

The keyword is induced seismicity. I hadn't heard of that before.
And bathrooms. And laundry. And a place to eat. And a clean bed. In other words: home. The only answer to the problems associated with homelessness is, as always, moving people from homeless to not homeless.
Why would that be a prop? It's an endorsement. Wordpress is an application built in PHP. It qualifies and is as valid as if Wordpress switched to Ruby on Rails and then Rails claimed that market share instead. Given the various improvements in PHP 7.x, including the dramatic speed improvements, it's a top-notch option for the types of applications it should be used for (Wordpress and CMS is a great use case).
This is a solid template for personal growth as an engineer. Should be handed to every engineer as they start to climb the senior engineering ranks.
That's a nice quote, but why does it have to be an either or? Sometimes you think about problems and sometimes you use debuggers. And sometimes you do both. I mean for something like C/C++ I just view a debugger as an interpreter. Also using print statements is just a less interactive version of a debugging process.

Personally I _love_ debuggers when coming to new codebases. I view code in the process of execution as the natural state of a codebase. Instead of hoping around through source code by hand, why not step into functions, continue execution, and let the program flow do it for you? Most code only has small parts that are important and with debuggers I can usually find those parts right away.

I don't blame Torvalds for not wanting to use a debugger. He doesn't like them and doesn't want to support them. That's his choice. But I find it odd to just categorically dismiss them.
Russia knows where he is, but I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. They aren't interested in him. And that theory wasn't "leading".
This ignores the very real problem that chronic homeless people tend to suffer from mental illness problems and you'd need to ensure they are clean 24/7. There would also be the issue of people using them for drugs and what not.

This also ignores that the solution you propose has already been tried in other cities and hasn't worked out. Which could be part of the reason why you received such a harsh response.

The solution wouldn't be portable toilets, it would be fully fledged bathroom units available to the homeless with options to shower, shave, fresh clothing etc. Of course a better and longer lasting solution would be actual housing for the homeless but that seems to be a harder sell for some people.
> There really aren’t any redeeming qualities in those videos.

There are. I do solve rubiks cubes as a hobby, so when I look for a new puzzle, I watch unboxing videos of those on youtube. Its basically just a short review with some cardboard discarding at the beginning
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Of the nine sinkings, two were caused by fires, two by explosions of their weapons systems, two by flooding, one by bad weather, and one by scuttling due to a damaged nuclear reactor.

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Oh yeah, there are flat fee per month options, then a number of per person plans
O365 however does not, in contrast with Google Docs.
I am always shocked at the amount of travel that companies assume needs to happen. (Hell, I'm still shocked that the majority of job posts of HN are for local employees only, often in the most expensive city in the United States).

Async communication has its problems, and it's nice to be in the same room now and then, but good video conferencing software/hardware is a hell of a lot cheaper than flying people all over the world for one or two day meetings all the time.
Can I ask you some questions about how you manage invoices in org-mode? I'm in the process of turning my bunch of elisp hacks into a proper org-mode based invoice generator, and would love to learn more about your workflow.

(My e-mail is in my profile.)
To the enumeration add "Insulates engineering team from unwarranted managerial meddling". The protective function is really critical.