skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should really ask yourself if you need to. If you're middle class, have a highly skilled job that pays enough money and live in a major city (and you have settled there) in a peaceful western country then it genuinely is a waste of time to listen to the news as it has zero effect on you.

But to answer your direct question I listen to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 (6-9am). The reporting is as terrible as any other major news network but has just enough info to keep you in touch with what is happening so you don't feel lost in conversations at the pub.
Er… you know Haskell's syntax is defined as braces-and-semicolons right? And the braceless-and-semicolons-free syntax is the addition of a few layout rules[0] for human convenience.

[0] https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/syntax-iso.html#sect9.3
I'm not at work and so can't try it out, but I'm pretty sure those are the settings I used. Maybe I clicked "retest". Have to try again tomorrow. Anyway, thanks.
If he isn't, btc is doomed in its current form. Wouldn't a better solution be on where his rightness or wrongness isn't an issue?
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Nonsense - this is a classic example of a strawman. Your post directly implies that the only two ways to do college admissions is 1) take race into account (as it does today), or 2) look at only test scores. Holistic admissions can be race-blind, you know?
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> I'm glad that functional programming is on the rise: it divides code units more naturally with modules of functionality

I'm not sure this will change anything. For instance, OCaml's modules are usually a bunch of functions surrounding a single abstract type. This is very similar to classes in other languages.
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Damn. This is cool.
Curated Google News, Quartz daily emails, BBC, LiveMint, The Economist. Gave up on Reddit as a news source quite a while ago. It's a cesspool.

For Tech News, HN has been my main source so far, but I'm adding Techmeme to the mix as well.

Edit: Yahoo's News Digest app is fantastic as well. Twice a day, it sends me a few top articles that are making the news. And it's beautifully designed. I highly recommend it.
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This reminds me of reading a typical zoning ordinance: more an historical sack of bandaid reactions to specific but unrelated past problems than a positive program generating a bounded creative domain. Addressing gripes is not evaluating tradeoffs.

Successful languages start with a clear idea of what problem they want to solve, creating coherency at a high level. Values are ranked and might be nice is distinguished from what is held dear. The starting point is identifiable and the passion positive. Saying "the ending point is not here," isn't enough.
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> Your text search skills or tools are lacking

Ad Hominem should have to place at HN. Please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
User-generated subtitles? Like Nico Nico Douga?
No, they haven't. That this site is increasingly veering into Reddit land (with the same sort of absurd dogpile moderation -- countless of my completely benign comments have been downvoted by imbeciles who need to "punish" me), and this is on you, dear Dang.

Yuk, within minutes on some long forgotten post -- downvoted. Either you have some pathetic, psychotic users who literally follow me around, or you yourself put some comical downvote bot on me. Sad stuff. HN continues its descent to complete irrelevance.

Oh no, it's the clever slowban. So tricky.
Crushing the business plan
Quite pretty but I can't figure out why anyone would invent their own non-ISO date format and then have to write a parser for it. Is it really so hard to start with the year?
> asian students that come from poverty

In Fanshen, its is noted in pre-PRC China, poor peasants in the countryside could not afford livestock, so peasants used their own shit as fertilizer. Sometimes peasants would even steal one another's shit.

That is poverty. Taiwanese families who are getting press because they want their kid to get into Harvard by taking the place of the poor black kid whose family was in the US before 1808 are not poor.
I mean old in the time-line of GUI, not human history.

The modern design trend is minimal widgets and minimal chrome, where as older design trend are heavier on buttons and chrome.
Most sex workers have had jobs in health, education or charities
I didn't know Murakami's short were published in the New Yorker. Thanks for sharing. :)
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You still tell that to the company. Then they think that you are scrupulous and honest.

If they tell you the clause is not enforceable, you can still say, "That's interesting, but I'm still not comfortable. Perhaps you'd pay for me to consult with an employment lawyer of my choosing to have a third-party verify your claim."

In reality, it's all smoke and mirrors. You just have to have a reasonable sounding excuse for not disclosing; they can't push without looking like a jerk.
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The end result is a daily (or weekly) email that gets sent out. It's digestible in thirty seconds, contains only important news, and has been fact checked by thousands of people to ensure accuracy. No agenda, no celebrity gossip, just facts and sources.

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Now you are being snarky.
I would have to say/agree with BBC and NPR radio.
Tulane's got the most geographic diversity in the country. It's 45% Jewish. Someone ought to mass email their admissions material to these institutional equity offices with a smiley face.
Don't know what to say other than feeling upset. The losers are more on the middle-class of poor Asians and the Whites obviously. Due to the increasingly large number of the black and the Hispanic voters, these situation will not change, if not getting worse.

Then I read somewhere that for diversity reasons after those students(the black and the Hispanic) are admitted to the top universities, they actually don't have a nice experience at all, most of them simply can't catch up and some of them drop out.

I'm fine with helping the economically disadvantaged students, but manipulating the admission by skin color or race?

Top universities just like NBA, only the best players shall attend, skin color shall not be the reason you can stay there. Not to mention there are so many other public/private universities to choose for everyone.
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They also have a tendency to put capitalism up on a pedestal even though it requires the charging of economic rent. Apparently extracting taxes is a crime but extracting economic rent is to be lauded.
Google might be in talk with Huawei for a 2015 Nexus phone
Not just that, but 10+ different ad and analytics providers, and no fewer than five backend languages (PHP, Node, Java, Ruby, Scala). I'm being sort of unfair, as the BBC is a large, diverse organization that has been around for a long time, and I would be surprised if any one person has to deal with all of the listed technologies. It just happened to be the first of several large and redundant "full stacks" listed on an obnoxious-to-navigate site.
5.5m students in Australia can get Office 365 ProPlus free
Isn't this on Github. Can't you fork and write a better version?
Savings wrecks an economy.
You're right, they're not lost. Instead, they're hidden and obfuscated behind multiple layers of menus instead of just being there.
A Free, Self-Hosted Back End for Stripe Checkout
IKEA will start selling wireless charging lamps and tables
can't find the link to source code :-|
So basically, only thing wrong with Jim Crow is that it is now unpopular? And if it becomes popular again, we should bring it back?

Democracy is a pretty scary moral philosophy.
Do you remember any significant news one year ago today?

That's why I ignore the general news. Long-form journalism on the other hand is what I read.
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I am a plain-old technical writer who transforms vague ideas in to working business plans, white papers, technical manuals, user guides and clearly written step-by-step procedures that can be followed and iterated.
So one could go for P46 and pay emergency tax rate, which is presumably higher. This would not be a problem if one had bumped up the previous salary by £10K or so to a credible 'market rate'.
I like shopping alone, but I prefer shopping with friends. Because I can get genuine opinions from them rather than a hypocritical sales person who just wants my money. Also, with my friends my bargaining power is strengthened; they may know other places with lower prices or better quality products. Its a win-win when you shop with friends!
I doubt this is of any help for anyone, without having access to the actual source code (and having that licensed as FOSS).

Nevertheless, thanks for trying.
Pretty cool - there's a similar library at http://timeline.knightlab.com/ that approaches the problem in a slightly different way. Rather than having an axis per event they try to present multiple events on the same axis.
I'm not saying you should disclose current salary, but one reason to do so is to prevent prospective employers from accidentally lowballing you.

If you're making 100k now, you can set the negotiation floor above 100k by telling them that. Otherwise, they might start at 90k.

Another reason, less important than the previous, is that (if they ask early in the process), it can keep you from spending 2 weeks interviewing with a company that can't afford you.

This happened to me a lot when I was hiring. I didn't have an HR department to mechanically set incoming salaries; that was my job. I didn't mind candidates who wouldn't disclose; in fact, early on, I yelled at my partners for asking candidates the question. But I came to learn that the number is very useful for speeding negotiation up and avoiding offense.

Even at the highest level of company management, where surplus dollars stood a good chance of going directly into my bank account, my incentive was never really intrinsically to minimize the cost of an employee. The bigger pull was maintaining parity with the rest of the team.

One thing this article suggests, but you should be careful about: you can disqualify yourself by giving numbers that are too high. If you say you want 180k and the role goes for 110k-120k, there are hiring managers that will pass on you even though you could be negotiated to the realistic range. They'll assume that to hire you, you have to be squeezed, and they don't want team members they have to squeeze, because good managers track retention too.
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All I see is a dark gray page. It appears that this requires JavaScript in order to display tables, text and links, which makes sense, since pure HTML doesn't support tables, text and links. Wait a second…
I recently lost a hawk I feel deep affection for. I was witness to her earliest trial five years back(nest blowing out of tree during fledging, trapped for several days under interlocked palm leaves). Her BFF happened to be my neighbor's peacock who also enjoyed my company and I can say without a doubt 'Marc Antony'(RIP) helped bring me into the fold of the resident hawk family(Harris's hawks, the only raptors I am aware of that exhibit social behavior). When I returned from an 8 month leave in 2013, immediately upon hearing my whistle she has known since she was in the egg, she flew down to roost on a power line above my head and sat with me in silence for an extended period. I've been gifted by frequent, non-aggressive fly overs and twice she/they dropped 'gifts' of a half eaten rat and a hare quarter at my feet. When I work in the yard or on my autos, they choose to idle the hot parts of the day in lower perches in my yard rather than in their preferred higher, more shaded spots. I witnessed her multiple failed attempts to rear her own broods last two years until the first successful fledge this last spring, a male & a HUGE female. Sadly, three of the seven have died from predation recently(including her) and the remaining family have moved on. I feel as if I've lost my best friends.

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Maybe, but you certainly aren't allowed to abstain from declaring your name.
>> Sigh. I don't think any of this matters much anyway.

This is exactly how I feel. I've reached the point where I assume the majority of my online communication is "public" - and use alternatives only when necessary to achieve (as close as possible) to true privacy.
Be prepared to walk away. If you want $Y find a job that pays $Y. If they don't offer you $Y, go find the next offer.

As long as you know what $Y is, it's that plain and simple.

The hiring manager or recruiter can't help you find $Y. You've got to be prepared ahead of time by using sites like salary.com and glassdoor.com where you can find the national and local averages for your skills and experience. These estimates help you sort out your market value. You also need to know what your personal budget is, what standard of living you seek, and what you truly value.

Do you only value money? Do you value time off? A great manager? Awesome co-workers? The stability of an enterprise? The excitement of a start-up? Does the CEO impress you? What is the estimate cash value of the benefits? Know what you value before you you start looking.

When you evaluate an offer it's real important to compare it. In other words, don't jump at the first offer! Having an offer letter or two in hand is powerful for you and the hiring manager too. And it makes walking away obviously easier.

Above all be truthful with yourself and with your potential employer - and expect the same from them. Do you honestly think that you're going to enjoy working for a company that is deceiving you from day one?

We are fortunate to work in a time where our skills are in incredibly high demand. You, as a job hunter, have more opportunity, advantage, and resources than the vast majority of the work force. You can use this privilege to achieve a happy life and successful career.
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Most Americans Are Slaves and They Don't Even Know It
Max of 3 can be of the same party as the president.
This is what you said: "I'd like between $x and $y."
This is what they heard: "He'll take $x."

And, I think it's obvious, but $x includes the whole package you're asking for, converted to $. If you're describing the tactic of trading off various components of x, then that begs the question.
This should also have a [1998] in the title, like it was when first posted here a couple of months ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8827887 .

Also, why is this 17 year apparently unpublished paper interesting? The reason it came up two months ago is as a research response around https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8826689 .
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