skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ultimately, what we have that China doesn't have is a system in place to address these concerns. Technology companies freely and openly made it more difficult for the NSA to spy. The prison system is on the minds of every politician and newspaper, and change is happening (slowly, sure). The Iraq war was debated to death.

Every country is going to have problems. It can never make decisions that satisfy everyone. What matters is the ability to talk about it, like what we're doing here. Politics is always going to be slow, though; that's the tradeoff versus having a dictator.
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The crash of Western Civilisation may suffice.

Unless we've created self-replicating, web-enabled, grey goo first.
Homer Simpson's brain would like to have a word with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA&t=8s
That's the whole point of an ethics course: you don't just do what your boss tells you to do. This is how engineering works: if you're told to build a bridge you know will collapse, it's your fault if you go along with it.
I can only speak for myself, my answer is no. I've read up on the numerous atrocities committed by the U.S. Government (highly recommend Wikileak Files: World according to U.S. Empire) I think citizens of every country shouldn't ignore their past, they should look directly towards it, grapple with the consequences, and critique it.
Thor Heyerdahl's Ra II made it from Morocco to Barbados in a replica of an Egyptian boat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Boats_Ra_and_Ra...
Come on, you guys are talking about the same thing. Parent was probably (obviously?) saying that trying them will probably (or should?) result in their visa being revoked.
You can get decent ocr from using thinner books to level the pages by supporting one side of a book as you flip and holding open with your hands. Source: I have ocred approx 200,000 pages this way for one of my websites. It is not the best, but it works surprisingly well as a poor man's just get it done method. Aim for at least 300 ppi and ABBYY can figure it out. 200 ppi still works well.
There's a big difference between being a developer and a programmer. Wrote about it here:

http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/871
Agreed. I remember when this was frowned upon. No need to go into student loan debt for a stem job.
I believe the intended impact is to prevent pictures of oneself from becoming famous, by making sure that they are censored.

The censorship trick won't work globally, and won't block authorities from seeing the picture, but I think the real goal is to avoid becoming individually well known within China as a dissident.
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When I see a response like 'kick them out of the country' I view it as emotional shorthand for 'arrest them under due process, try them with appropriate counsel provided, then deport them as proscribed by law'. One is just shorter to type. It's people letting off steam, not suggesting dismantling the judicial system.
This could allow us to build a universal distributed network of compute resources and a real-time auction system that allows agents to bid for time on. No need to worry that the hardware owners are snooping on your computation. Of course, economics rarely favor distributed networks, and and the "no need to worry" is really just "diminished need to worry", but it's an interesting thought nevertheless.
It's cool, we already do.

Just because you have problems doesn't mean you can't point out that someone else does too, as long as you have acknowledged yours.
Evil can come from above.

Scratch that.

Evil usually comes from above.
On a 64 bit platform, sure, that's inside of PTRDIFF_MAX, so it's legal and supported.
Get fucked Digiday.
In your example, the point of the article would be to "establish facts", which was an example I gave.
I’m in Portugal and everyone who’s moved their tech hubs here in the past 2 years is only hiring juniors. And we’re talking about a mix of big companies (who ought to know better) and relatively fresh (<5y) startups.
Buffett puts this well when he says:

> “Every decade or so, dark clouds will fill the economic skies, and they will briefly rain gold. When downpours of that sort occur, it's imperative that we rush outdoors carrying washtubs, not teaspoons. And that we will do.”

The thing here is you have to be confident in your ability to deploy capital during those downturns. Your average expected return over multiple cycles (cash returns mid/late cycle + opportunistic investments beginning of cycle) needs to be higher than broad equity returns.
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> I'm not sure I'm buying that. The JVM? Still rocking it 20 years after.

Java may not be my favorite language, but I respect how the language has both progressed and maintained its heritage. It allows the developer to build upon their skills rather than relearning nearly identical skills every time a new technology comes out.

The problem is that this 70 year old industry still behaves in very immature ways. While this may be acceptable when it comes down to attitudes towards technology, the unfortunate side-effect seems to be the adoption of similar attitudes towards people.

Every time someone says something like, "young people are more in tune with the current state of technology," or, "old people are more capable because they have more experience," they are legitimizing prejudice. That's true even when the statement is being made in an attempt to combat prejudice since it is applying generalizations to individuals.

Granted, it is very difficult to shed generalizations. Just look at my comment about the immaturity of the industry. That isn't universally true. Some companies are going to have a younger workforce, some older, some heterogeneous. Some companies are going to have old people working with old technologies, some are going to have young people working with young technologies, but some are going to have the young with old technologies and vice versa. Yet the generalization comes about because of how we frame the industry, which is one where the new replaces the old.

Which brings me back to why I respect Java: it looks both towards the future and back at the past. It is language of growth, rather than a language of revolution. Perhaps this inanimate technology has something to teach us about how we regard people: we should be encouraging growth and advancement rather than treating people as disposable.
I agree with your premise but not your reasons. personally I'm a programmer - I know enough about business to know I don't have good insight.

everyone I talk to doesn't want* a programmer in the older sense. they want people to integrate external large packages. they don't want to to test, they want to prop something up and see if it makes money. they don't want to talk about architecture and features and make plans - they just want to respond on a dime to what the market is saying.

without any value judgement - I personally don't have a lot to offer in that environment. and to varying degrees I think the hiring managers understand that (sadly, quite a number don't)
The point is not whether its possible to transfer ownership of the code it's whether its possible to transfer it in a way that causes a user who agreed to trust Bob or Bobco inc to automatically end up trusting Crook or Crookco inc.

A buyer company or individual ought to have to create a different name and convince users to install/trust their extension if ownership is transferred instead of merely taking control of the existing name and having the next automatic update install malware.

Extension systems and language specific package managers on the overall have garbage security and are going to be a way bigger problem in the future. They are low hanging fruit.
History, the term "fasting" is often used to mean the reduction of food, omitting or only eating specific foods, or eating at only specific meals.

If you're interested, the wikipedia page has several examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
Don't use public schools? What do you propose instead? What should teenagers do instead of learn how to read, write and do math?
What are they using to develop it?
The guest framing applies equally to the people supporting the Hong Kong protests.

Students shouldn't behave like guests in countries which value freedom of speech. However, students who engage in violence and intimidation should certainly be removed from the University based on the rules almost every University has regarding what constitutes acceptable behavior, and in this case it seems they would also have broken laws by attacking the original protestors.
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Definitely. Police are doing real harm (and good) every day. And are dying to get their hands on technology to make their jobs easier with no thought to negative consequences to others.

The most effective way to fix abuses is to prevent them in the first place. We restrict govts and police by design, a need recognized for centuries. If a capability can be abused, it will be abused. Not if, when. That's the last reply such a shortsighted argument will get.

(Also, am not restricted to other's problematic examples upthread.)
When I read „a 5 day fast“, does that mean avoiding food for 5 days? No food at all?

I started with IF a few weeks ago and skipped meal for 20 hours max. And I am wondering how people manage to skip good for five days or longer.
In the US, I looked at them with a high degree of skepticism. How do I know that I'm getting the same product, at the best price?

In the US, quite frequently the same product is sold in different packaging, and the best price often varies between the packaging. Sometimes the 20-pack of toilet paper is cheapest. Sometimes the 30-pack is cheapest.

Besides, on the mobile app, it doesn't take that long to figure out the best deal.
Impressed that they respond in a timely manner, as per the article. The part you excluded from the quote is sort of the crux of my statement. I made no comment to the how they respond.
So what? I’m talking about why anybody would expect a Chinese student to change their attitude because of 6/4.

Your response and the others here have nothing to do with that.
I find it interesting that for this site the "we" is web developers. It isn't web consumers or, for lack of a better term, typical users.
doesn't quic use bbr, a cc scheme developed by and supported in tcp?
This sounds dramatic and dire but I feel like the reason for the statistic is that by the 20 year mark in someone's career, if they're working for a big corporation, they've likely been promoted to management if they have any social skills at all.

Not because they can't program anymore, but because corporations try to promote people to management if they've been around a while and haven't screwed up, and they tend to pay them more if they accept.
Sitting in front of a computer for years, trying to fix mundane problems, bugs, implement very important and urgent features that are very useless and not really urgent.

You know, being the brick mason of yet another cathedral of delusions and failure as most business are. Which is life and I don't really have a problem with that.

But we are all human and after a decade of this shit, it gets hollow and meaningless.
Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire! Unless you have a guaranteed biglaw job lined up, and you enjoy 80 hours weeks necessary to survive as an associate in biglaw, becoming an attorney has far worse income and prospects than being a developer.
No, iphone does not have a 55% markey share. Its wrong.

https://www.counterpointresearch.com/combined-global-market-...

https://www.androidauthority.com/smartphone-market-share-201...
Spending money doesn't make you a professional. Not being able to afford liceases, saas costs, etc is common.

Why pay $ amount per year when there are great open source products available?
Depression is a negative thought loop that in the moment feels impossible to escape. Irrational thoughts seem rational. In a clinical sense depression (as a disorder) may be the cause. It persists even when your quality of life is good. That said, depression can also be an effect (triggered by a traumatic experience).

Distancing yourself from your feelings may help temporarily, drugs do that.

Occupying your mind with activities that provide a positive reward loop and positive feeling (hobbies, exercise, social activities) likely makes the most difference.
> I only wish their Javascript tools were anywhere near as good as their Php tools.

I guess this is partially because JavaScript is a much harder language to write good tooling for, but I'm open for other explanations.
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That's literally the entire thought process behind https://yac.chat. This message is so validating for what we are trying to accomplish. Would love further feedback if you're up for it.
Nice try at spinning blame here, if publisher's didn't use such scamy Ad platforms and tracking we would be here.
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Ya, that's finance 101. But here's Finance 5400:

Smart, wealthy shareholders love cash hoarding. Especially if the cash is held tax free in overseas accounts.

The share price is boosted allowing them to get returns in the form of pure capital gains.

If the company were to pay dividends, sure, most of those dividends would be taxed at capital gains rates as well. But that money has to be taxed at the highest US corporate income tax rate first. Thus, significantly reducing overall value.

To go a step further, the wealthy don't even have to cash out their shares as the price climbs and climbs. They can get low interest loans using the shares as collateral. This deferring taxes indefinitely and leaving all their capital in these huge companies that are outperforming the SP500 anyway.
Go to a doctor or clinic that focuses on the LGBT community. It's very easy to get, and they'll take care of setting you up on the Gilead copay assistance program, so the medication should be completely free. Their program will cover up to $7,200/year in copays.
maybe, if you hear about it
Is Sephie (cat rolling on the floor) obese?...
Urban Dictionary is useful for looking up suggested meanings of colloquialisms. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mirin
Yeah, but what if you collected interest on your minerals and your game performance was based on return on investment in terms of minerals?
I imagine that if you're cramming for a test on how to do differential equations, and you're able to pass that test, you actually know how to solve differential equations.

"IT People" cramming for tests and memorizing the test for those certifications is a testament to the failure of those certifications, not for certifications in general.
I planted one of these trees a few years ago and I think it's absolutely gorgeous. I can't get over how absolutely huge the leaves get. A lot of people hate them though, for the same reason outlined in the article: you can't kill them. Many consider them weeds.
How does cash raise market cap aside from maybe causing uninformed investors to drive the price up? Isn't market cap share price * shares outstanding? Hence, capitalization in the market, rather than capital available internally.
> hope it can continue growing

:/

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312789

"Unfortunately Sandstorm is basically dead at this point. I kept actively working on it for a while in my spare time after the company failed in early 2017, but I haven't found any time to do serious work on it in probably a year now. I do push monthly updates to keep dependencies fresh but that's about it.

Oasis takes in about $1800 per month, which is just about enough to cover serving costs and business expenses (e.g. annual tax preparation). For a while it was making only $800, with me making up the difference out-of-pocket. Then, last October I stopped offering a free plan. Remarkably, revenue more than doubled and has even gradually continued to increase over time -- I had expected a smaller spike followed by a drop-off.

But now it's getting to the point where it feeling really awkward to let people pay for a service that hosts a library of apps that mostly hasn't been updated in 2.5 years or more. In theory developers could still be updating their apps and submitting new ones, but basically the only app actually getting updates is Wekan. So, not sure how long long this can really continue... :("
This is all just speculation, but this attempted hit-piece on EasyList appears to be slowly pushing AutoTrader in front of the approaching bus.
My point was that I moved from China back to here to avoid stuff like that for my kid, and am disappointed that things have changed for the worse since I was a kid growing up in the same area.

It is a “small thing” of course compared to comprehensive political education, but it is a thing and signals the start of a trend that could turn out to be dangerous (doubly so in this age of Trump-style ultra nationalism).
Probably the guns.

Americans are going to look at the broader issue here and think "Last time this happened for us we just shot at them until they left" and disregarding the practicality of such notions, it's nevertheless baked into the collective consciousness and constitution.

Tl;dr this is the one major situation where guns, as they exist in the US constitution, can be justified unequivocally.
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I've heard radio announcements asking people to water their lawn to lower fire risk. Ottawa, Canada; no risk of running out of water here.
> the change would have involved fixing hundreds of thousands of pages

Even if these pages are static files (although any site opetating at that scale should have some kind of page-generation system), this still sounds like it could be resolved with a simple find-replace using <insert your favorite text editor>.

EasyList is definitely in the right here. Adding an exception results in an unnecessary performance penalty and creates more complexity for the project. Both of these impacts are small, but they can't afford to accommodate for every website like that.

If they want their users to use their site, they should make it work on their user's environments. I doubt they would demand Google or Mozilla accommodate for them like that.
They are being censored by proxy groups that have been indoctrinated to do and follow what their sovereign tells them to. Assuming 16-20 years of propaganda and being told what to do is not enough, different tools such as:
1. Financial reward
2. Threats to life and family
3. Cuts to loan & grants
4. Harrassment
5. Social exclusion

Are used to put you in line. It will only get worse from here onwards, if you think you are safe where you live, ask yourself "If they mistreat their own population and use the media to misguide the truth, what will they do to 'these damn foreigner'?"
> I’m talking about why anybody would expect a Chinese student to change their attitude because of 6/4

I wouldn’t, but that’s because of something deeper than anything we experience in America or Australia.

Consider pre-Snowden public opinions on mass surveillance. The public didn’t know and didn’t believe. Once the information came out, however, people believed. Some actions were taken, and on many fronts activism got aggressive. (A large minority accepted the new facts while deeming it acceptable. A smaller minority thinks the disclosures themselves were a conspiracy.)

It would be surprising if a majority of Chinese students, after learning about the massacre at Tiananmen Square [1], rejected it as a global propaganda campaign. Some will. More than in America, given the energy given to brainwashing by Beijing.

The difference will be in the number who believe it happened but defend it as having been necessary. Teaching the worth of democratic values is tough. The violence exhibited towards the Hong Kong protesters, and Beijing’s emissary’s support of it as patriotism, exemplifies that.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of...
It's hard to deny that one's memory deteriorates before age 40. But does it really matter that much to job performance? I'm not sure, but then I'm not a professional software developer, so that might explain our differing views.

I do have to disagree about the number of hours worked being a sign of mental degradation. I'd call that physical degradation, and to be honest, I'm able to work longer days now than when I was 30. Everyone's mileage will vary on that, though.

For me, what dominates everything else wrt mental performance is that I'm much more efficient at learning things now than I was in grad school 20 years ago. Whether it's a new technology, a mathematical proof, or reading someone else's source code, I'm massively more productive than I was at 25. If anything causes me problems, it's that I enjoy learning new things too much, and I spend less time than I should doing the work that pays the bills.
I really wish we would curb this kind of behavior. Even if this speed is related to the brokerage business and not HFT, it is unfair to retail investors that large businesses have better market access. My solution: exchanges are required by law to process contracts in pulses with strict execution ordering rules. E.g., every 15 seconds process all buy and sells, processing from highest bid and lowest ask first for each security. Basically a turn-based stock market.
Students saying the pledge is pointless and inane, but I'm pretty sure most just say the words without really thinking about them.
Legally, companies are individuals and the same sort of personal responsibility and accountability sanctions can be applied to both.
But I mean all contractors are off different skill. That’s why I want to elicit the contractor who

1 knows exactly how difficult it will be.

2 charge that cost for how difficult it will be.

3. Maybe avoid having anyone get the winners curse.

So I was wondering if this reverse auction would do that?
I got the impression he was referring to the counter "protestors", (if you're "protesting" in a violent way.. that's a riot, not a protest).

My understanding of the counter-protesters were not citizens of Australia. Despite being a student, it doesn't change that they're guests. This is frequently warned on the State department's travel guides. NEVER join in on foreign protests, not all countries have the same rights in those reguards.
It depends on your insurance, but on some it will.
Funnily enough, there's a good chance I know more about it than you.

I just don't use other people's tremendous shitty jobs to glorify mine.
Maturity?
The post isn‘t saying that Big-O isn't math, it is saying Big-O is "not-boring"(->interesting/exciting/whatever) math.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dead_dont_die_2019

38% audience score.
Boars have LOTS of natural predators in fact.
Yes. But as the article said, there is a diminishing amount of value after every year of true experience after a number of years. I would say around 10.

I definitely don’t believe in the “10x Engineer” (individual contributor) - yes they do exist but are so rare they aren’t worth talking about. I do believe in being a force multiplier as a team lead/mentor.
Are you a StarCraft economist?
And sometimes when people aren't that good at their jobs, they blame external causes instead of accepting responsibility for their own performance. (Note: I do realize that discrimination and bad managers are real things, but then again so is the Dunning–Kruger effect.)
>the actual work of being a developer/programmer in a professional setting is a really shitty job and sad life

Compared to what? Have you ever worked manual labor, retail, food service industry, etc?