skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original post was not intended at teaching the reader how to make a passive aggressive conversation effectively. It was actually about making honest and direct communication without biases and preconceptions. The whole post, to me, was about how to not jump into conclusions about the other person.
If you’re a deadbeat dad and your wages are garnished, you’re blocked from travel because you don’t have any money. And if you spend the money on travel instead of your kids, the Court would know instantly in states where the Court systems plug into your bank accounts. We already do this. The Chinese system just seems more efficient. Obviously this is a horror show in a country without due process, but I have no problem with debtors being denied niceties.
He also had zero compunction hacking the email accounts of Harvard student newspaper journalists back in the day [0]. Is it any surprise Facebook is what it is today?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...

Interestingly, he did it by recording failed sign-in attempts, seeing if any of the journalists appeared in the logs, then trying the passwords out on their email accounts.

Maybe Facebook's recently-announced log of 600m+ passwords was a feature not a bug...
Ask HN: Is there a source for machine learning data-sets?
We are trying to find training data for concrete surfaces for one project and a data source for audio sentiment for another. Where does one find such data?
Working is a hard-to-break habit. It gives you identity, a social circle a bond with most of your fellow humans and if you're really lucky fulfilment. Reality is, after a few months at the beach, you'd likely be pulled back to some sort of work by yourself.

What I've found to be productive is to a) Work part-time and b) choose what I work on based on ROI and personal interest. Still plenty of time left for the beach if you work 15 hours per week on rewarding projects.
I'm sorry but this sounds too much like conspiratorial thinking -- all bloomberg reporting on the lawsuit and other controversies surrounding the company (which are not that controversial by the way). And what you are saying in response is that it's a hit piece.
A job-scarce town struggles with Arkansas’s first-in-nation Medicaid work rules
The issue of sex work seems only tangentially related to human trafficking. Prostitution should be legal (and regulated), but human trafficking really shouldn’t be.
Wow, this is pretty informative. Thanks for sharing.
Dutch BDS Supporter Triggers Israeli Wine Shopping Craze. – Israel National News
> Austin

+1
What makes me really angry about Facebook and other companies that aggressively track (almost to the point where it's weaponized) is that it hurts companies that just want to track to improve their products.

I NEED the tracking data to improve my product.

If users aren't clicking on a button I need to know why. I need to see what % of users never come back and why so I can improve the product and make my customers happy.

Without this data I'm flying blind and my product will literally die.

I'm not interested in private information like your shopping habits so I can sell you ads.

Now the problem is most users are so cynical they want everything turned off.

I wish there was a way to have some sort of 'profile' to specify what I'm tracking.

I want to be the white hat but I'm in a room with some BIG black hats so it's obvious that users are going to be cynical and pessimistic.
For that you would like to have an explicit "local time zone" option. I had recently similar in application I am developing, with datetime of which we are not sure in which time zone they are. That information might arrive later.
> > Having a database enforce these relationships can offload a lot of work from your application, and therefore from your engineers.
> I've never seen anyone use MongoDB without also using something like Mongoose where you get all this for free. Zero work for your engineers.

For me, Mongoose is actually another argument against MongoDB. It's basically trying to add basic functionality on top of MongoDB, that most RDMS already have.

And no, it does actually not "all of that", just some of it. Just an example: Mongoose would still let you delete a user, while all of the related posts are remain with broken references to that user.

> Can you give an example of something that you realistically would want to do in SQL that you can't with a JSON query?

Sure everything can be done, it's just clunky and hard to get right. This graphic perfectly summarises the horror of writing simple queries in MongoDB: http://twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/TWikiPresentation2016x07x14Mong...

I've been using Mongoose in production for several years, 2011-2014 and again for the last 12 months, within teams of 4-8 developers. The amount of engineering, bug fixing and testing was definitely higher in MongoDB than with MySQL or Postgres.

Once I got to work with MySQL and Postgres after 2014, I found it so much easier to query for the data I'm looking for and to ensure data strong consistency, mind you, even without any use of a library!
Very much this. Redis is pretty much the swiss army knife of persistence around our shop.
What does the context switching overhead look like in this implementation, vs kernel space? Are there any throughput graphs comparing the two?
As a programmer I have coded a lot together with Physicists who changed careers. My wife is a Physicists and she, as all of her friends from study times, work as teachers. One fried of mine after working a few years at SLAC went beyond and studied theology, he is now a bible teacher.
No amount of money can fix humidity, lack of sunshine, or lack of mountains/ocean and the corresponding activities possible with them (or whatever other natural feature one prefers). Saudi Arabia and UAE can spend all of their natural resource wealth building shiny buildings, but it's still a desert. Also, no one has the amount of wealth needed to stabilize a whole country to make it politically stable and secure.
I appreciate your honesty.

What I meant was this: Driving is expensive, so one might argue that removing one's ability to drive would help them save money, but that doesn't work when a drivers' license is needed to generate income in the first place.
It's not. The lede is "store intended time w/ TZ, and also compute and recompute UTC timestamps as needed".
The article we are commenting on...

>“Salesforce knew the scourge of sex trafficking because it sought publicity for trying to stop it," according to the complaint.

Allegedly salesforce had a PR campaign against human trafficking and prostitution and knew backpage was in the business of facilitating the same when it elected to do business with backpage and that their software would specifically be used to facilitate this part of the business.
A bunch of Salesforce devs are hired to work on a human trafficking site. Do they all shrug and keep working? Or does Salesforce perhaps keep a special team of devs who are happy to participate in illegal actions?

I doubt the conspiracy angle here and think someone would have talked. Either the site as coded didn't have any apparent links to trafficking or Salesforce didn't participate beyond some unknowing consultation that they would give to anyone who asked.
Yet, YouTube does not have an incentive to promote ignorance over cat videos. Facebooks’s model is so broken they are paying for “please come back” advertising. They could have focused on connecting people, but spreading ignorance and rage was simply more profitable.

Cars may do more evil by killing people than most things, but they are not nessisarily more evil becase they also provide a lot of utility. FB unlike YT has no such excuse.
Tell me as specifically as possible what this company will look like when you will have considered it a success. I don't want to follow a leader that doesn't have a clear vision of what they're working towards.
This is on the nose. Even a 5 minute article is too much work, people would rather read a viral twitter screenshot or watch a talking head on youtube read that screenshot back to them.
I see artificial intelligence advancing website design – CEO Bookmark
Yeah, both main parties are stuck in the past. The BJP is horrible for obvious reasons, and there is no good opposition party. The upcoming election is going to be a shitshow.
The Manager’s Guide to Payroll and Taxes for Remote Workers
It was recommended by our vendor. I asked why, he was just paranoid. But, most of the data was entered on a semi connected mobile device, stored on the handheld and synced when they had service. If it wasn’t immediately writable to the server, it wasn’t a show stopper.
I never leave any amount in my PayPal account that I'm not willing to lose. I've been flagged before which I why I do it. I was flagged for having a surge in sales, which was legitimate but meant I couldn't access my funds to service the customers who were paying me.
I agree with your EV vs WV comparison. I just like the highlight the WV because it's such a rich person enclave with a community board that way way overdesignates buildings as "historic" as a way to stifle development.
When I leave here in 2-3 years, will it be because of the people, or because I haven't gotten a raise and/or promotion?
Would it be accurate to say that running Miri against your code might catch some issues in unsafe code that the standard compiler will not?
sjl at alephnull in ~/Desktop
><((°> sbcl

[SBCL] CL-USER> (defparameter *name* "World")
*NAME*

[SBCL] CL-USER> (defun foo () (format t "Hello, ~A~%" *name*))
FOO

[SBCL] CL-USER> (sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die "session.core")

sjl at alephnull in ~/Desktop
><((°> sbcl --core session.core

[SBCL] CL-USER> (foo)
Hello, World
NIL
From Swift to Kotlin and Back Again
> Other way to say it is that ORM is a workaround to the fact most languages are VERY poor at manipulate data.

This is why I love Clojure (and a particular style of Javascript). Destructuring and a good library of object/array manipulation functions make an environment well-suited to transforming data structures (which is precisely what I want to do in most programs I write), and I find I do not need an ORM where this type of data-focused programming is supported.
It's a modern IBM punchcard case.
They are legally allowed to fire some one at any time.

Firing someone specifically so they can't get the stock options without any notice is a dick move and I'm perfectly within my rights to criticize them for it.
I’m not sure what the nominal tax rates are in Greece, but the level of tax dodging in that country is famously high, I wouldn’t be surprised if effective property taxes are very low.
Absolutely, that is in fact the point :)
> You could defray those negative effects by building lots of public housing and/or heavily subsidizing new construction.

To the extent that you actually do that, you will naturally lower the market rent to the level that you wanted, making rent control pointless (except that it removes the signal that would warn you when you need to build more housing).
If people have an "inherent right to place" that extends to the actual address, what's the incentive to private residency land ownership?
It's not unlikely that at least some of them claim it was a mistake to avoid taking responsibility for their vote because they're aware of how unpopular it was. After being in parliament for at least ~5 years, it's hard to believe so many of them still haven't figured out how the voting works.
Senator Warren, I really need my high fructose corn syrup for cheap!

Combined with a diet of 23-47 hours of fasting followed by 1 hour of eating as my refined snacks as I can, I am confident that I will avoid the effects of non-alcoholic fatty liver syndrome!
Missiles are easily tracked. Your opposition will know who, how, when and where someone was taking action against them. Light pressure could just subtly push a satellite off course as it passes overhead. They have finite propellant on board to correct for it.

That said, I don't think a big mirror reflecting the sun is all that practical when a big ass laser would do the same job and be easier to manufacture and operate.
This will sound counterintuitive but you absolutely have to mandate housing. Compare this to parking requirements, if we want an abundant housing supply we need to distort the market price of housing the same way we did for parking.

Require that new offices build an equal square footage of housing on top of themselves, and you've immediately build enough housing for at least the initial stage of population growth that comes with that new office.
> I’ve listened to that episode but I don’t recall vaccinations being part of it

You are correct! I was attempting to add additional context and history to the Orthodox communities that are in Upstate NY. It's a long and complicated relationship that these tight-knit communities have had with their neighbors. Not unlike the complex relationships that the Amish have with their neighbors.

> The point of my comment is that Judaism itself is not the reason these orthodox communities are rejecting vaccines

I would also agree with this. From my very outsider perspective, it seems as if this is particular to just those Orthodox communities in Upstate NY, not to Orthodox Judaism in general. A very cursory google search turns up no issues with vaccinations in the Orthodox communities in New York City itself, not too far away.
In UI cases like this, I usually wish tech would err on the side of being transparent and predictable rather than trying to be smart. For example, if my alarm has been set to 10:00 (with no attached time zone), it should go off when the clock face reaches 10:00.

I think python3's datetime has something like what you're pointing at -- objects are either timezone-aware or not. My complaint probably has to do with trying to hide this distinction from the user, when it would be more helpful to make it clear.
Seems like the real problem is cost/corner-cutting by mass developers, not the design features in houses. If a house is poorly sealed insulated, it doesn't really matter what shape or volume it is.
May as well go to Taiwan if that's your concern.
COL is a little better, but far closer than people think.

Real Estate prices in the best areas of Beijing can easily top $1,000 a sq. foot to buy an apartment (though there may be an inversion in rent). Comparable cars are more expensive. Consumer goods are about par. Education for kids can be expensive.

Food can be cheaper in China. But a western quality life in a first tier city will not be all that cheap.
...and lived in a society with far more racism and sexism. The world had high odds of being more violent, health was probably worse. (even recent downturns for some groups are small compared to the improvements over generations). We complain about anti-vaxxers today, but we're talking about the struggle to eradicate diseases that were just a fact of life in the past - and a BAD fact.

Wealth inequality and climate change are definitely growing issues, but have not yet overwhelmed the rest.

It's easy to glorify the past if you only look at the healthy and successful people.
> This cripples the economy overall.

It prevents San Fran from growing even faster than it already is, but it's not going backwards or anything. NIMBY is a separate problem.

> but you can't buy goods and services with nice streets, better coffee, and shorter commutes

That's turning it backwards. That's like saying you can't buy clothes with food or vice-versa. The streets, coffee and commutes already are the goods and services which people, on the whole, desire (even if some individuals don't).

Complaining that money is in the hands of landlords is no different from complaining it's in the hands of Starbucks shareholders. Money doesn't disappear... when landlords receive higher rent, that money is either being re-invested or spent on "real, useful products" in the end.
Yeah, planning restrictions are their own problem and the Bay Area is a special breed of even that. And NYC is certainly much better than that but not without fault: we build too much ultra-luxury housing here and that's really because of all the money-parking that goes on here.
It is definitely possible that the exercise was carried out independent of the election schedule, but Modi announcing it (instead of some lower official) is because of the elections, part of making every bit of possible patriotism count.

Don't be too quick to overstate others' positions!
Anecdata; I live in berlin and get about the same salary as my uni friends who stayed in Paris.

I live in the city center 5 min away from my office and can eat every single meal in a restaurant + go out every other night for a couple of drinks without even having to look at my bank account.

I'd be bankrupt in two weeks if I had the same lifestyle in Paris. Sure iphones and vacations cost the same, but restraining your day to day life (aka 95% of your life) to get the next apple gadget or plan your next vacation seems like a pretty bleak life plan.
I wouldn't expect it. I've been laid off by a start-up before and they didn't offer this help to any of us, but did give us a month of severance as opposed to the necessary 2 weeks (did have to be there for two years for this though)
Very well, I'm happy to hear it's 8 now if we include UK and the original five (Germany, Austria, Scandinavia). Can we find more? Still way too low to justify a change that affects almost a whole continent (population wise) IMHO.
> It failed spectacularly, but they're already talking about building a bigger one

Awww it isn't that bad. They found the Higgs and at least verified we need to look at higher energy levels to find anything new.
Bitcoin is unequivocally worse for this, as you say, you face two currency conversions, one from buyer currency to BTC and one from BTC to seller currency. Each time you pay 1-2% (or more depending on jurisdiction) and it takes days, which given its huge volatility exposes both sides to massive FOREX risk on top of that. PLUS a BTC transaction fee (currently $0.26). Not to mention the non-trivial chance your exchange will shut down or run away with your money during the process. [Hello, Quadriga]

1-2% + $0.26 + 1-2% + FOREX risk + 1 week + forefeiture risk is strictly worse than even PayPal.
Living in a particular place is always a choice. You shouldn't be entitled to get the same house at half the price just because of the accident of where you happened to be born.
To a degree sure. But at some point, if NPM continues to do this, they will get known as a less than great place to work. And if you get that type of name, it will be harder and harder to get quality talent to work there.

If NPM/managers can help out, it gives them some goodwill.
The best way to annoy a journalist is to be successful and rich.
Thanks, that helped me find another reason why PayPal and Stripe can't send money to a TransferWise account: the sender account must include the account name and it must match [https://transferwise.com/help/article/2200390/creating-a-tra...].

The account name will be required in future UK banking regulations, at last, so this issue may get resolved by Stripe, PayPal, etc., just not soon.

Looks like TransferWise are interested in fixing the debitable account issue.
"As I understand it, until maybe 2000 or 2005, there was a lack of people with specific experience in many many areas. So the median foreigner coming to China had better experience (and ability) than did Chinese people with a similar educational background and age."

I've heard this argument often, but as a someone actually living and working here, I have to say that this hasn't changed at all or at least not in the tech sector.

Local senior developers here in Shanghai and Beijing are usually equivalent to a western mid- or junior+ developers. Often you see senior devs that couldn't even be hired for junior position in the US or Europe.

Managers are often selected through relationships and connections and only in few rare cases have any kind of ability or competence for their role.
i've been in Hong Kong for 6.5 years already. Worked in small consultancies, large logistics company, and local startup.

PROS:
a) Salary is high, especially if you get to work in finance/insurance/luxury retail fields
b) disposable income (aka savings) is extremely high as income tax is low, no more than 17%, also, no capital gains tax!
c) great hub to work and explore Asia

CONS:
a) IT jobs (development mainly) aren't that exciting as they are mostly outsourced to cheaper countries so you ended up being a lonely team member in HK or in management type of jobs. There's always exceptions to this (Credit Suisse, Lalamove, Chengbao to name a few)
b) tech is lagging behind in all aspects, from testing to devops. For example; Continuous Integration I'm yet to see a team in mid to large companies effectively having and respecting the build. This can be seen as an opportunity if you are willing to try.
c) You work longer hours, more stress and generally fewer vacation days

However, if you come here to work as a founder to be closer to Shenzhen (factories), you also reap the benefits of an established legal system in Hong Kong. Plenty of highly motivated fresh graduates as well.
Well that’s part of the discovery process of litigation, find out who knew what and when they knew it.

I think it’s hard to bury your head in the sand if you are salesforce and say you had no idea of backpage’s business activities and/or how your products/services would help those specific business activities...especially where the companies public facing side engages in an anti-human trafficking/prostitution PR campaign.
New study shows IPCC is underselling climate change
I do have an email trail in one case, but the other case was only over the phone.
So far it's not clear how clan selection would work to begin with. Since the character is a "thinblood", they technically can't belong to a clan and the only option to "advance" is considered abominable in VtM settings (and resulting in the loss of humanity). So it would be interesting to see, how writers will present it.

In this sense, question how to become a Malkavian isn't very different from how to become any other clan.
You are right it is a bit sad...but with a few easy moments you could have Mumble lookin' like this
https://puu.sh/CG0tv/add34e27ef.png
which I think is sleep & clean. Download the Mumble Beta can you choose the window color...also able to mute / change volume of each individual person now. Mumble also only uses 16,000K of resources where discord is about 170,000K
Dazzling managers by multiplying matrices together and calling it AI.
one could make a similar argument that no one should have tried making a car that could drive better than a human
Uh... Postgres?
Why not wear backpack full of rocks the whole time then, it's an extra activity, makes you stronger etc. I think the reason why people don't do that, is that, while often the extra activity/burden is really beneficial, the fact that you can't turn it off can really be a problem sometimes. Say - you have a bad flu and can barely walk around the house, or are in a hurry to get out of the door, but need to run to the fourth floor to fetch someting (it takes a while - I know, I live on a fourth floor in a building with no elevator). The non-optionality is the problem.