skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is this guy and why is this website spreading his opinions. Nothing he says is based in facts or data. All of his conclusions begin with "I feel" not "The data indicate."

He says, "I’m sure the British Empire in the 1700s and 1800s always thought they would have a toehold in different parts of the world." How is he sure? Is there data to support this claim? He doesn't even cite a primary source. What is "the British Empire" even? The common citizens? The intellectual class? The monarchy? He's just saying things.

"The U.S. has always been, I would say, on the right side of the bell curve when it comes to jingoism — a little bit more patriotic than most countries." Is there data to substantiate this claim?

"I feel like the U.S. peaked in the ’90s." How is this defined? The US economy is bigger; the military is stronger; its foreign interests are more secure. It just happens to be this guy's childhood when America peaked. This is just some guy inventing some narrative rooted in his own nostalgia.

This is just some guy blathering. He should rightfully be afraid to share these beliefs, because they are completely unsubstantiated and not based in reality. It's just what he "feels," which should be uninteresting to anyone else. It is journalistically irresponsible to spread such misinformation without at least some fact-checking.
Their journalists are clearly not rich though ?
I'm thinking of incorporating gnoosic (or something similar--haven't looked yet to see if they have an API) into Lagukan for recommending new artists. Mainly my work has focused on re-recommending songs you already know.
Investopedia, the fastest site profiled at webperf.xyz, still places at least image 4 banner ads. So it's possible to support yourself with web advertising and still be fast.
OP said "full stop". You don't make a categorical claim like that with a large asterisk when talking about things like this.

"Nobody can open this lock, full stop." "...well, except for nation states, and people who can touch it."
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The oil fund is Exxon, which is in the S&P 500, which is in your 401k.
Yes, I know. That is what disability insurance is for.
There's "Make:Electronics". It's a book but it's good.
> I don't understand this risk; it's not setting cookies, there's no passwords, or any personal information.

I agree with you technically, but in practical terms imagine if you changed the web page to look like a Google-style search engine window.

You can expect all the less-sophisticated users to try typing site names and even URLs into that text widget.

And if you give them back what looks like a link to the place they wanted, they absolutely will click it, and most of them will happily trust that having typed "My Bank" and clicked a link labelled "My Bank: A secure bank" in the resulting "search results" the site they've reached, fake.mybank.neverssl.com must obviously be their bank, and they will cheerfully give you their bank credentials.

I'm not suggesting this as a criticism, it's purely an observation, that in practice NeverSSL getting pwned would be a real problem, the same exact way it's a problem when some Hollywood actress (who doesn't know the first thing about medicine) tells women not to vaccinate their kids. People are dumb, and we have to allow for that.
Trying to eliminate false positives at the expense of letting criminals go free is a staple of western criminal law dating back to 1760s. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio
We also have much more shit to spend our money on. Phones, computers, streaming services, ride sharing, food delivery, shit delivered right to your door in 2 hours by Bezos & co, &c.

Young people live like there is no tomorrow and then complain they can't save money, yeah dude if you take an uber every 2 days, get food delivered every day, get your daily $12 frappudingus from starbucks, spend 250 a months on various subscription services and want to follow your favorite instagram influencer during his vacation you'll have a hard time saving money.

If you're healthy and working in a first world country (US excluded) you should be able to live comfortably. Don't have kids before 25, don't have kids without having a plan, don't buy a fucking iphone on credit, no, you don't _need_ that 65" TV.
The first level of Super Mario Bros is a great example of learning by exploration.
https://github.com/prakhar1989/docker-curriculum
I think iPhone sales are slowing because the devices have become more durable and last longer. People aren't abandoning their iPhones, they're just using them for 3 and 4 years instead of replacing hem every 18-24 months under carrier contracts. The iPhone 6 is still a very capable smartphone five years on, provided you've replaced the battery in the meantime. The same couldn't be said of the 3GS in 2013.

And this is where services and wearables come in to pick up the slack, which is arguably more consumer friendly than building devices that barely last two years.
Good point, I somehow skipped right over that one. Granted, I was thinking more along the lines of the SEs, which were a CPU generation behind, and would be supported for a while. The 7 is only a couple of generations from obsolescence.

OTOOH, having given a bit of thought, is it just more economical to eat the expensive of the flagship up front and then hang on to it for four or five years (which is what we currently do).
No, I didn't know about it, thank you!
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Same here, also Clojure.

I don't know if I could ever going back to an imperative language full-time, I think I'd feel very hampered.
Yeah, I think the less directional presentation is probably better. While we can certainly fit things to various hierarchies (approximately or exactly), enough of programming extends beyond pure expressivity (especially into tooling, social, workflows) that it's easy to not get how useful something can be without the relevant context. (This is something that I'm trying to remember, working in JS now after a few years of professional Haskell.)

From a psychological perspective, the non-directional presentation is also more likely to leave people less defensive and more receptive to the thesis.
Yes, the headline is not just misleading, it is false.

Not only does the iPhone drive other revenue streams, "It also still makes up the largest chunk of Apple's revenue."

It is no longer the only important product, but it is still the most important.
They don't get credit for innovating unless the product is innovative, no. Innovation is not synonymous with success, despite what appears in this thread as an overwhelming urge to conflate the two ideas. I'm observing that they haven't really innovated in 11 years. My original question, still unanswered, is if they stop really innovating but continue to be financially successful, will they still be the Apple we love? Can we love them just for releasing solid, evolutionary products (and now software services), or is the anticipation of some big new innovation an intrinsic part of the real Apple's identity?
Known packings of equal circles in a circle
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We are building an API-first "platform" bank in the UK to be the partner bank of choice for fintechs. We want to make it easy for startups to launch prepaid cards, run brokerages, start insurance firms, and more - all over API.

We just closed £2.3M in seed financing and are looking for our first three engineering hires.

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Discord | Security Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | Fulltime | ~$150k - $250k base + equity + hoodies (equity/hoodie split subject to negotiation)

Hello friends! We're hiring engineers for our brand new security engineering team. Check out the description here: https://discordapp.com/jobs/4362278002

Historically, Discord hasn't had a dedicated security team -- we just happen to have a small handful of engineers with a strong enough security background to pick up this kind of work in their spare time. We've since grown to the point where we finally have enough work to justify a full time security engineering team. Note that this team isn't just infrastructure security (although it certainly includes that) -- we'll also be building product features, new backend services, internal tooling, and more. If you have a solid grasp on software development, an extensive security background, and are excited about helping build a security team from the ground up, please get in touch!

Of course, if you're interested in working at Discord but not in this particular role, we have plenty of other openings at https://discordapp.com/jobs (but I'm not the hiring manager for those).

If you have any questions (about the role, Discord, resume advice, or whatever you feel like), feel free to add me on Discord at cmFtc2V5IzAwMDE=. Do note that I probably won't respond if it's a weekend (and your DM might get buried under the avalanche of work-related DMs by Monday). Last time I did this someone messaged me three Saturdays in a row and then angrily blocked me because I wasn't responding. If you're reading this: I'm sorry! Just message me on a weekday! :)
I've mostly come to the conclusion that basing music recommendations on bands/albums/songs just doesn't work for whatever my taste is. It seems like the priors are so swamped by popular stuff that I rarely hear anything even approaching the songs I like. Apple Music's For You is particularly bad. Pretty sure in a moment of weakness I must have liked a Mumford and Sons song years ago because it thinks I love folk music. It wants me to listen to country. Data quality is clearly an issue because it thinks I like the rappers Frank Black and Gene because I like Pixies front-man Frank Black and 90s UK indie posers Gene.

I am sure other services exist based on key, chords, dynamics etc - any recommendations?
Bezos would have an army of finance folks doing this, it's zero work for him.
Aside from timezones which has been mentioned. I think handling taxes with foreign employees is more complicated.
Do you have evidence, or is this just a conspiracy theory?
> You can’t even afford a 2k sqft home in a nice (accessible, safe, decent schools) area

I think a lot of people conflate "nice" with "one of the richest/best" in the Bay Area, conflating middle class with upper class.

With 200k, you can afford around a million dollar home. There is a lot of places in the bay area where you can afford a house in that range.
BPA mimics estrogen, so does that mean that plastics are causing autism?

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/publichealth/...
I read an article somewhere claiming that estrogen via Hormone Replacement Therapy actually reduces the symptoms of autism. It wasn't a scientific study, but it was written by someone who claimed to personally know several people who had observed this effect.
Lol. No.

Usually where there are significant amounts of minerals, there are separate mineral rights. Mineral rights trump surface ownership, and usually the rights were sold off decades or centuries ago. If you find something under your property, it probably doesn't belong to you.

Also, state laws vary in weird ways. Should you find gold in New York, it's the property of the state.
There's a well established link between obese mothers and autism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4006442/

and obesity leads to higher than normal estrogen levels:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7083189/

So this may be the connection.
I am not surprised to see Ohio is well represented here! We have a particularly egregious gerrymandered map with 75% Republican representatives in a state that leans slightly Republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_congressional_distric...
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Based in Yangon, ZigWay is one of Myanmar’s leading social enterprise start-ups.
Our mission is to help low income families break free of poverty traps. We have designed and built software to help people access cheap and flexible loans when they need it.

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We can help with visas.
and you don't come to the attention of the police by being innocent so it's safe to assume you're guilty and watch the evidence appear. And this is why the advice is to say nothing whatsoever to police. Don't help them get the falsehoods out of their case anywhere but in front of a judge in a court. And the police may not be bad people or involved in organised crime.

All this tech makes a turnkey police state right there waiting. Who is going to turn that key before we dismantle it? Think of the children.
Same as the UK. This was an opportunity squandered, and we can only look to Norway and think of what might have been
Rails is modern? Seriously I thought it has a lot of baggage like django does towards the old way of rendering web pages on the backend. If it's not true please correct me and elucidate.
This video gobsmacked me.
But do you endorse a company's right to meet their legal obligations to protect their brand?

Nintendo had a similar campaign decades ago: https://i.redd.it/20vipleteraz.jpg
>Considering fingerprint analysis is pseudoscience and almost entirely made up

Quite the stretch to go from "non-zero-error rates" to "made up pseudoscience" isn't it?

It's a problem if people are being convicted on fingerprint analysis alone. But as a piece of the puzzle, when combined with other evidence, what is the issue?
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Our tech stack is very much in the Laravel universe: Laravel, VueJS, TailwindCSS, MySQL, Laravel Horizon, Forge, Envoyer, etc.

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Looking for either a full time hire or a 30-40 hour a week contractor.

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Society6 (Leaf Group) | Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer | Santa Monica, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://society6.com

Society6 is a marketplace where artists can sell their artwork, printed onto a variety of different product types (wall art, furniture, throw pillows, iPhone cases, etc). All orders are printed on demand from our network of vendors located in US, Europe, and Australia, and drop shipped to the buyer.

In 2018, as part of the Leaf Group marketplaces division, over 1.4M transactions were placed and over $116M in revenue. A major portion of that was generated by Society6. We have over 6M pieces of artwork from over 350K artists. Many of our artists make a living just from royalties earned from selling on Society6. Our website primarily focuses on consumers, but we also have a wholesale business that grew 27% YoY last quarter.

Some exciting projects to work on include vast improvements to search and discovery for artwork, artist studio and sales dashboard, merchandising tools, CRM for wholesale, improvements to our vendor integrations, performance improvements, and much more.

I have joined the organization recently as VP of Engineering, and what I have found is a platform that has served Society6 well, facilitating impressive growth, but needs a great deal of refactoring.

I'm looking for backend engineers with senior level or greater experience that work on existing legacy code, and strategize with a team of other experienced engineers to maintain, refactor or wholly replace existing code.

Full Job Description (Backend): https://www.leafgroup.com/job-openings/1680537/?gh_jid=16805...
Full Job Description (Frontend): https://www.leafgroup.com/job-openings/1768859/?gh_jid=17688...

Contact: Alex Khadiwala (alex [at] society6.com)
I came for the speed, and I left because of the speed. It's impressive how the interpreter is slow to start..
Magic | Full Remote Job | Full-time | Full-stack | Software Engineering

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Magic (http://getmagic.com) is a Y-Combinator and Sequoia-backed software company that is building a hyper-intelligent, ubiquitous assistant available over SMS, email, chat apps, and other digital channels. Magic is a simple idea with endless potential - one phone number that you can send a text message to 24/7 and get anything you want, whenever you want it. Food, flowers, plane tickets, reservations, electronics, you name it. We fulfill these requests magically for our users by being a common interface to a growing network of national and international service providers. Most of our users use us on a regular basis to make their lives easier and to be more productive, but of course, we fulfill our share of crazy requests: meeting celebrities, skywriting, 1,000 gallons of seawater, helicopters, motorcycles...

But all of this is just the beginning. Magic is a command line interface to the world; it is an API for everything. You can’t "sudo cancel my Comcast subscription" but you can "magic cancel my Comcast subscription." It’s a unified plaintext interface that sits as a layer of abstraction over the set of all possible products, services, and actions. It’s the Star Trek computer. It’s your companion and your friend.

Magic was founded in 2015 by a team of software engineers with one simple premise: create a natural language interface to the complexity of the world, delivered by a combination of artificial intelligence and human expertise. We are hardcore developers at heart, we are highly iterative, and we are relentless. We are minimal and focused on writing code that really matters.

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This position is full remote and you can live wherever you want, or travel while you work with us. As our team is distributed across several time zones, compatibility with both UTC-7/8 and UTC+8 is helpful and willingness to participate in team meetings at non-standard times for 5-10 hours per week is ideal.

Come build the future of human-computer interaction with us.

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How can anybody trust anyone to do anything?

They have a good track record of respecting user privacy.
More likely obesity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7083189/
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We're a small team of Engineers and Data Scientist that love working together. We're building a marketing optimization platform with Machine Learning at its core. We're striving to bring a human touch to our AI engine with the help of advanced visualizations. We're looking for our first Front-End hire to help us create a highly usable and functional application. Interested in taking charge of a greenfield project in the Machine Learning space?

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Just happed in June in the Bay Area, CA. Alameda County, which includes Berkeley and Oakland. The law is for naturally derived psychedelics so it includes things like DMT and Ibogaine as well
The sites that aggregate these data and sell them for marketing think I'm all of the following:

- An unmarried male in my 20s with three dogs

- A married male in my 50s with two mortgages and high credit card utilization

- A high-school dropout and smoker with bad credit and a spotty work history

- An affluent divorced male with two children and a boat among my assets

Their incompetence and lack of care has been more effective at anonymizing me than I ever could be.
That's an article from several months ago. The Supreme Court already ruled, and said that federal courts couldn't do anything about it, so state governments that are controlled by one party can continue to entrench their power.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/gerrymandering-symposium-...
Yes and it remained that way
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How can I create a Database of Subscription Box companies?
Everyone,

There are roughly 15000 subscription box companies. How can I curate data of them at a single place?

Please check the URL for better understanding- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GiuUt1HqQLhLe1fT2jbtkA6ih3807Nfnp78zDGjG-x0/edit?usp=sharing
I don't think anybody says "Norway pumping all that oil is good, US pumping all that oil is bad".

What people are saying "Norway use of limited resource exploitation proceeds is good, every other government sucks at it even when not outright corrupt".

What is admired here is prudent fiscal management, a government that is apparently not corrupt and not sold out to corporate interests, and just a rare example of whole country looking further than their own nose.

You can object to the source of the money but you can't object to the way they use it.
My favorite way to show the base rate fallacy is to take the most extreme example.

Suppose I have an invisible dragon detector that is accurate 99.9% of the time... if it tells me there is an invisible dragon in the room, it doesn't mean there is only a 0.1% chance there is not a dragon... there is a 100% chance there is not an invisible dragon in the room, because they don't exist.
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