skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone is going after the 'go home at 5 pm' part, but missing the point.

The moment HN hears about people staying past 5, everyone is up in arms, but... what if I'm staying past 5 so I can leave earlier the next day? Or past 5 for a week to get something done on time, and then taking off early for the next week when there's less to do? Personally, I'd prefer to do that in a nice office. It works for me, and for the company!

Even just in general. The effects of an office are far more than just 'do people stay past 5'. Even within a strict 9-5 work period, there is a huge amount of variance. If the office is depressing and soulless, it will have knock on effects on productivity and employee happiness. Again, good for the employees and the company.

But no, according to these comments an office people stay at longer is always evil.
I'm guessing the negative churn rate on their churn rate graph is due to using inappropriate smoothing, rather than anything real?
Bystanders may be interested in Kohlberg's stages of moral development, which provides a descriptive (not prescriptive) framework for classifying moral arguments like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg's_stages_of_...

The parent comment is a textbook example of stage 4, "law and order". The moral framework behind civil disobedience is stage 5, "social contract".
Very useful! I ran into the issue Early Decision might solve when I was interviewing for the YC Fellowship program. Our interviews were 2-3 days before my fall semester was to start. I had, at best, a 24 hour turn-around time between getting accepted and going on school-leave. Very little time to weigh the decision to join or not, and logistically stressful getting all the documents in order to make sure I didn't incur tuition costs for a partial semester.
Sad but true... May receive a tiny bit of media attention but I don't expect anything to come out of it.
The UK does have land taxation, but it only happens at the point of sale - we have very high 'stamp duty' (sales tax on houses), but no yearly land tax. The net difference in my opinion is that it reduces liquidity on houses and the burden falls more heavily on people who move around more.
So then who should be responsible when a Doctor messes up a surgery?
Inspired by the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960832, and the author of that article's complaint that there wasn't any source code online, I went ahead and ported the algorithm to TypeScript/JavaScript. As it happens, Vitter's sequential random sampling actually solves a rather annoying problem I had at work recently, so this was a practical as well as theoretical / for-fun exercise.

Numerical code like this is also a prime candidate for implementation via WebAssembly, but while I've been able to produce a working transformed version of the code which acts like a restartable co-routine (i.e., manually, without relying on language-supported generators), getting the compiled WASM to actually run correctly in a JS environment has not worked out so far. I expect that will be version 2.0.0.
While the comment was about the 1980's maybe this Los Angeles times article from 2008 can shed some light, though I'll dig up some more sources if you like: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein...

>By Joel Stein

>I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against stereotyping. Actually, it just shows how dumb America has gotten. Jews totally run Hollywood.

>How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah.

>The person they were yelling at in that ad was SAG President Alan Rosenberg (take a guess). The scathing rebuttal to the ad was written by entertainment super-agent Ari Emanuel (Jew with Israeli parents) on the Huffington Post, which is owned by Arianna Huffington (not Jewish and has never worked in Hollywood.)

>The Jews are so dominant, I had to scour the trades to come up with six Gentiles in high positions at entertainment companies. When I called them to talk about their incredible advancement, five of them refused to talk to me, apparently out of fear of insulting Jews. The sixth, AMC President Charlie Collier, turned out to be Jewish.

>As a proud Jew, I want America to know about our accomplishment. Yes, we control Hollywood. Without us, you’d be flipping between “The 700 Club” and “Davey and Goliath” on TV all day.
1 child policy. The population pyramid is inverted, so the average age is increasing.
It looks like a pretty and minimalist theme for various shells, that also provides hints when you are in a source code directory for the git status and the language version.

I use powerlevel10k, which is only for zsh. It looks quite similar, aesthetically, but it advertises having the best performance, using a special git status tool. But I know there are other APIs inside of git libraries, and also some rust-based libraries, that could be even faster.

Would be interested in a performance comparison.

https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
This is just adjoint functors. Pls work out automatic integration. Dual numbers is where the path starts.
1) That's a blatant violation of the Constitution of these United States.

2) Any bolt-action rifle is capable of firing 10 rounds in 20 seconds. Any revolver is capable of firing 10 rounds in 20 seconds. A single-shot long gun is capable of firing 10 rounds in 20 seconds.
For some reason I thought the prices for transfer were much better than S3, but that doesn't look like it's the case. It's lightly better, at large volumes.
It's worth a try, anyway. You might get a different mod with a different response, or you might be okay with making a non-specific promise to behave better.

(The error I get is "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.", if that sounds familiar.)
I'm glad that your knowledge of my life knowing absolutely nothing at all about me should be the end all be all deciding factor of my medical treatment options.

Nobody 'needs' opiates ever. I didn't need them when I've had surgeries. I wanted them because I prefer it to terrible pain. In that case the only difference was someone was willing to give it to me because they subjectively agreed.

The idea that any other criteria besides my own judgement of the trade-offs between the pain and my perception of the risk of the treatement would matter is an absolute outrage.

I literally put you on the moral equivalent level of a Nazi or any other violent human rights violator if you think your opinions about addiction supercede my right to receive medical treatments that benefit me. Regardless of your intent you are still doing real damage to the lives of others because you think some opinion you hold justifies it.
ETAs and individual bounties, I think, are different in a subtle way. ETAs require a strong organziation that can deliver such things. Piecemeal support to fix one bug does not.

Also, I've seen companies cut larger checks for sillier things with minimal conditions, so...
It's hard to buy the party line these days. The intelligence services come across as gigantic incompetent bureaucracies. They didn't prevent 9/11, concocted fake WMDs, thousand drone strikes later they are handing Afghanistan back to the Taliban, were fast asleep to the dangers of Fake news/Social Media issues and had no clue where Trump or Brexit came from. After all that why do you believe them?
Do you mind avoiding paraphrasing? It seems a lot of the confusion is stemming from the editorializing / paraphrasing done by the media outlets and throughout the ensuing discussions so it may be best to litigate the direct quotations to keep the discussion as fact based as possible
6% growth for an industrializing nation isn't that high. China is still growing...
rsync was co-developed for his PhD dissertation - Google "rsync phd thesis" real quick to get an overview.
There are fundamental rules in the bill of rights the govt has passed laws to circumvent.

Those laws are fundamentally illegal
When a person loses access to a gun because they abuse it, do we concern ourselves with how their diminished ability to protect themself?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

McCarthyism was a direct violation of the first amendment. This does not compare.
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Just switch to ESR if you don't want constant updates?
A good presentation on the history of programming and how we got to where we are is

Bob Martin - The Future of Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc
so, if any wonder why people are ready to risk their life to migrate...
There are two questions you should ask: will this change the odds of a new feature I don't like being developed, and will an extra few weeks mean that they'll do anything other than complain? History suggests the answer to both is no, which means there's not much value discussing it.
If you expect to not reply immediately (or "soon"), what's the point of using any chat program instead of email?

Either you're fine with short, possibly intense (maybe even urgent) conversations, and chat works well.

Or, people want to communicate more async and you can take a day or two to answer. People generally use forums/emails for this.
> But no, according to these comments an office people stay at longer is always evil.

You're projecting here. No-one is suggesting that being in the office at 5:01pm is a capital offence, but that workplaces with a consistent expectancy that you stay late (something many of us have an experience of) are a bad thing.
Your comment is the #5 Google suggestion for "CTCP FINGER"
Yup, you can already get a terrifying amount of data about people for a small fee to a shady data broker, it's only going to get worse as smart stuff comes more into the real world.
I respect your opinion completely. And as long you don't try to forcefully it impose it on me then there's nothing wrong with it.

When arbitrary opinions like this start having real effects on my ability to get treatments or get medications which provide real world benefits to me, then I take serious issue with it.
>Python is a massive reason any students know how to program at all

At other points in our history that language would be BASIC or Pascal. Their initial implementations may not have been open source
Thanks, this is really informative and appealing to me as an aging non-white anarcho-synd. I've been interested in owning some firearms but the conservative gun culture is a serious turnoff.
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While I don't dispute that South Korea had amazing growth, was it really faster than "every" other country? How does it compare to Japan? Or Australia?
I appreciate a gif when it's related to something we've talked about, but a random gif from pop culture seems kinda crass in professional conversation
Because no criminal charge that rests solely upon openly publishing facts would ever stand up against the 1st Amendment.

Before any cleared individual ever touches or sees classified materials, they sign an NDA that establishes personal responsibility for protecting classified material. This is separate and distinct from the criminal espionage and treason consequences, but they do their best to make you think they are closely tied with the training materials.

As it happens, openly publishing as a protected right is hugely different from the criminal act of selling or gifting secrets to a foreign adversary, so a civil suit is all they can do.

And given that it is a civil suit, Snowden would have a reasonable shot at an "unclean hands" defense, if the judges were truly impartial and objective.
Hi, we do believe in the single application offering the best long term user experience and outcomes, but do understand that all of our features may not work for everyone. This is happens for a variety of reasons (completeness, migrations, specific project requirements, etc.)

Because of this, we do offer our API and the ability for our community to contribute integrations directly to the codebase. We have a pretty rich set today, you can see at: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/project...

We're also working to further improve our integration options, with a dedicated team: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ecosystem/. This team will be responsible for our broader API, an upcoming SDK, as well as continuing to improve our existing integrations like JIRA and Jenkins. This team is just getting under way, but I wanted note our investments here.

> Github API integration is stellar, API token permissions can be configured granularly, Github apps marketplace is awesome way to start using third party services.

PAT granularity has indeed been a pain point, and we should be solving this soon by offering the ability to restrict them by groups/projects: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/182
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Amazon does contribute to open source, though- https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/

It may be argued that they don't contribute enough, or that they aren't contributing to what you think they should be, but they certainly do contribute.
Interpretation might vary;

~2013 I responded on twitter about "a dev who has 15 years of experience with PHP" with, a response about why I would be concerned that that could mean the developer never learned the PHP 3 (much less 4) object model.

And if you tell me you have 15 years working with "any" Graph database, that seems like it would have some irrelevancy to the Graph Databases of today.

Of course, it's also possible to "forget" experience, at least on paper and an interview; and changing your resume to do so, may be advantageous as you get older.
>but high enough that the masses of 1-movie-a-month ordinary users support the 30-movies-a-month power users

How would this work for WeWork though? If someone rents the space, WeWork can't rent it out to someone else. And this is work. People are going to show up on most days - unlike gym memberships.
I got about half way down the first page and closed it. I wonder if anyone has ever made it to the bottom...
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>Why is Hacker news so obsessed with sending people to jail? Literally every time any sort of corporation get's fined (for nearly anything), there is a loud call to send people to prison.

Because that is the default response to poor people, yet corporations don't have the same threat. They effectively become immune to the law as long as they are willing to pay the extra tax.
Thanks! I'm guessing it must have been in the talk given at Google (that the essay is based on) that appears to no longer live on the internet.
Hello! GitLab employee, could you elaborate? You should be able to purchase additional minutes without upgrading what tier you're on: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/issues/37081#note_...
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They probably signed triple-net leases with WeWork, meaning that WeWork pays rent, property taxes, utilities, and upgrades/maintenance.

If WeWork walks away, they leave behind nice offices that the landlord can rent out to another tenant with minimal investment beyond a few months lost rent (that could theoretically be recouped from WeWork).
Except that Netflix and Spotify don't have to pay the per-performance costs, Netflix isn't paying $29.99[1] to CBS every time someone watches Star Trek TNG - and spotify isn't paying 70$ every time I listen to a song even though concert tickets might run that high.

MoviePass _may_ have been a sane venture if they rented out the theatres for MoviePass specific screenings at a flat rate then tried to make a margin on filling those seats up enough. As it is they resold a thing from one company to consumers at a price below the consumer's standard price while trying to convince theatres to honor the passes by rebating the theatres well below standard fare price.

Would you like to buy a coke from a merchant for 2$? What if I could sell you a subscription to buy as many cokes as you'd like for free for a 29$ monthly fee, while offering the merchant 1.50$ per sold item - oh and the transaction would still take place in the store... and be run by the shop owner... they'd just make less money - but hey maybe my subscription will end up selling more coke than the merchant would normally sell - but wait if that happens I lose money, so I only end up making money here if both of you are screwed because I'm essentially trying to make money shaving it off of a transaction that was already taking place.

MoviePass was so ridiculously stupid[2].

1. The price off of Amazon to purchase the season in CAD

2. Props to college humor on a great mock of their business and CEO, worth a watch if you want a laugh.
Hi @alipang - Back in April we released the ability to purchase additional minutes for CI runners without upgrading to a more expensive tier.

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/22/gitlab-11-10-released/#p...

You can purchase directly from the customers portal at https://customers.gitlab.com and apply them to your group.

Hope that helps!
it doesn't look promising with the latest beef in the community and the last release notes that I saw in this project - to be real, they're laughable in comparison with flutter 1.9 changelog.
fuzz4lyfe > When you send a letter it does not belong to the post office while in transit

txcwpalpha > Inspectors can and do inspect the contents... of mail

txcwpalpha > ...for packages

There's a scarecrow argument if I've ever seen one. Someone says A is 1. You say A isn't 1 because AB is 2. Sneaky.

There certainly is an expectation of privacy in my mail CORRESPONDENCE (which is what this whole thing is about... communication, not package sending). Why shouldn't there be for my e mail correspondence?
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The problem is more than money. I would love to be a teacher, but the pay is not great and your time isn't respected.
You need calculus to understand probability and statistics, since probability is fundamentally a question about measures and statistics about integrals of variables on measure spaces. Even if you don't know the details of measure theory, certainly you need some notion of limits. Calculus is not much more than a systematic application of limits to algebra and geometry.

Even for discrete math you need to understand ideas like convergence, otherwise probability is filled with paradoxes.

"Pick a number!"

"Any number?"

"Well, numbers that are big are less likely to be picked."

"How much less likely do they need to be in order for your question to have a sensible answer?"

"Let's talk about convergence"

You also need algebra and trig. How else would you know what an inner product is without trig? Or that correlation is just an inner product? You need some linear algebra as well to understand cross products and inner products, otherwise they will be these magical things.

Many ideas in discrete math should be understood as the discrete versions of ideas in continuous math, with the continuous math ideas often being more natural and easy to understand. Sometimes one of the best ways to estimate an infinite sum is via an integral that is much easier to solve. A lot of complicated sums seem magical until you see that they are just the discrete versions of integrals -- sometimes path integrals -- with various weights that come from measures on the spaces of interest. So if your interest is blind computation, you don't need a lot of discrete math at all, you just need to learn what the symbols mean and how to look recipes up in books. But if your focus is on understanding what you are doing, then there is not a magic barrier between discrete and continuous math, most discrete math can be viewed as a discretization of continuous ideas, and in some cases ideas in continuous math can be better understood as limiting cases of a discrete result.

The sad thing is that this is all stuff you will get in a good gymnasium in Europe but you may need to wait until college to get it in the U.S. Absolutely no reason why a teenager can't learn calculus, limits, trig, probability and statistics, as well as basic ideas in group theory. Really algebra, geometry and trig you should get in elementary school so that you can get calculus, probability and statistics, basics of differential equations and some topology in high school. Then you can take specialized courses in algorithms if you are into CS or say PDEs if you are into engineering -- this is all stuff that should be taught in high school.

College tracked teenagers in Europe often learn that and more, and not just in math centered gymnasiums, but the price of that is tracking, otherwise you have to go as the slowest learner who has no interest in a specific major in college.
Game wardens routinely interact with (write tickets, arrest) heavily-armed males in the middle of the woods with no witnesses and no backup, and they do it day in and day out without shooting an innocent.
I wish I could upvote this comment more.
I don’t really like these quick release cycles. When things get released every year or half year I have the time to read about the changes but if I work with several packages that release all the time I don’t even have the time to read about the changes.

I also think that quality tends to suffer. Over the last two years windows 10 has released several buggy updates that caused our in house apps to stop working.
Charging money to fix something because of who they are seems unethical to me... Maybe it's just capitalism, which is usually antithetical to open source free software...

If they want it fixed, let them add resources to the project like submit a pull request, donations or charge people support fees for urgent bugs, which many OSS projects do...
Do the worlds proceeds have to go through the US publisher (Metropolitan Books) or can the proceeds of books sold here in Europe go to Snowden? For example letting a European publisher sell the book in Europe.
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If you believe the hype and mythology of the SV startup, it's both acceptable and expected.

But I'm with you — GIFs at work are for birthday greetings. Maybe.
It's best you ask some women you know in person (female colleagues at work, female friends of your friends, your sister(s), your mom), and listen to them in earnest.

You may make some female friends this way. Men who listen to women, who truly listen, are rare.
Supercool offices are a negative signal when I'm interviewing. I need fewer distractions when I'm trying to get work done.
1) States today require a written proficiency exam. (At least, California does). I don’t see the argument for why any reasonable level of making sure people know how to use their guns properly is unconstitutional.