skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know people that make a very good living at it. But, like anything, you have to find the 'nice' positions, and that comes from knowing something critical to a business that almost no one else knows. You can name your price then. But that usually means you spend 20 years grinding, industry and everyone moved along, and you stuck it out.

I don't think there is an advantage in general - the mean salary is probably going to be lower compared to enterprise Java, just the tails on the COBOL jobs can be lucrative. I don't think it is particularly satisfying intellectually, but that might be my bias (I don't enjoy digging through reams of code to try to figure out how to glue things together - it is a challenge).

I did my time on big iron and JCL - Do. Not. Want. Of course, these days a human is probably not walking your stack of tapes to the tape readers so you can find out you have something misconfigured .... Sometimes I'd get 2, maybe three runs a a day if the operator was really spritely!
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>they aren't working as well as they should

That's putting it very lightly. In many ways, they're doing the opposite of what they're supposed to.

Sometimes software is so broken that it's impossible to repair and throwing it out and starting new is the best way to go. It's the same with organizations and governments.
Down with Kickstarter - Where art is concerned the crowd is an idiot
But you cost your employer almost twice that. Benefits, health care, insurance, supplies, furniture, equipment etc.
Indeed, it's hard to be excited about the upcoming features, if you count in the actual availability of it because of the update model, which is usually release_date+couple months and where release_date is still 5-6 months from now. If we compare to a service: if x free, then I could live with that, but devices aren't free (and my time certainly ain't).
Show HN: The Pigeonhole: A Book Club in Your Pocket
Yeah thanks to the ACA this is really not a problem any more... shop around and buy a plan...
10 Startups managing images in the cloud – Part 6
The demo form does seem to handle backspacing and pasting correctly.

I do know a LOT of places where this gets missed, and a typo goes to the next field, but reflexive backspace correction also fails.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. When we started out it only cost about $500/month. Jumped to $890 and deductible went to $23K with the affordable healthcare act. Basically, now we pay all of our health care out of pocket.
live in canada.
> Over the last several years, the "improvements" such as adding TVs to the cab seem completely unnecessary and not based on actual customer demands or preferences.

Ah, but in fact you're mistaken. Actual customers did demand that they be added to the taxi fleets. Only the customers in this case are tangentially associated marketers who wanted to serve their products to a captive audience. :P
funny that your response was exactly what i cautioned against.

Japan actually invaded half the world, they have nuclear technology and capability to produce weapons. Same as Germany, Russia, and of course the US. You have countries like Pakistan that is a known host to "terrorists", and India that have them. Why is there a special club?

Iran have violent "rhetoric". What violence against israel has Iran actually perpetrated? The israel situation is a controversial one, and there have been threats, and wars. But Israel has generally been the more aggressive one, and always because they are facing "total annihilation" (for fifty+ years, in which their borders have increased rather than decreased)...
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Ask HN: How does incognito/private browsing work?
In incognito/private browsing mode:

If I log into my gmail and then do a search is that search still saved on Google's servers?
Can a service like Google search tell if the browser I'm using is in incognito/private browsing mode?
What does the browser do? Does it remove all cookies/cache information when I go into private browsing mode? Or does it keep all the cookies and cache data from regular browsing but just doesn't save any new ones?

Thanks.
for now it sounds like it requires some "grinding", and for me that sounds like wasted time

I haven't seen enough info, either, but I got the same feeling. When I first read about Starfighter I thought "neat, maybe this is a way to avoid the obnoxious typical interview process by demonstrating what I can do with some kind of ranking system." The Starfighter site implies this "Starfighter is not here to fix the job interview. We're here to destroy it, and replace it with something better" http://starfighters.io/

From reading the OP, now it sounds like a way to filter out a few diamonds-in-the-rough in a very specialized area. The system may teach you something, but the people who will shine and rise to the top will (I think) have some natural talent that makes them stand out. What will the vast majority of players get from participating? And how many hours of time do you have to devote to this simulation before you get introduced to a company (if that even happens)?

Well, maybe I'm not the target market because I'd rather spend my free time building my own business than playing a game. I'm currently doing that. But if my business doesn't work out, and I need to go back to work at some point, I don't see this system helping me. I have no idea how much time it would take, and what the possible reward would be. I hope these questions will be answered eventually.
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As a little side node I'd personally rename main.go to core.go. Plus, I think there's room for splitting main.go into more little pieces to ease maintainability.
The Freelancers Union now offers health insurance (https://www.freelancersunion.org/benefits/). NY was their pilot state.
Agreed. A few years back I spent many hours with a telescope trying to find nebula in the sky.

Turns out nebula look like grey clouds, not like psychedelic posters.

I know this stuff makes for some really sexy press, but it doesn't do much help for the general public who has an interest in science but not much time to figure out what's real and what's not real.
>Then they have taken the moral view that less unemployment, is better than better pay for the workers that stay in work. Most people would agree.

How do both those alternatives play out when considered in terms of total take-home wages and the split of revenues between labor and capital?
Did this 3 years ago when I broke out on my own. I'm in Boston. MA has a decent portal through their MA Health Connector site. For my family (Wife, son and myself) I pay $760 on a high deductible plan for health and $99 for dental for my wife and me. Once my son needs dental it'll most likely go up by about $40 for the dental. My only advice is to really sit down and determine what you're going to need for coverage and depending on that choose a high or low deductible. We started out on a low and realized we really would be better off on a high one so switched at the next enrollment. Good luck.
You want to pay for something that is FREE in every library? Dont you have hobby electronics magazines in your country? or electronic kits?
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How does it differ from other countries? I've heard Germany's installation costs per watt are about 60% of the US rate, even though they access mostly the same market to procure panels, and that their customer aquisition, marketing costs etc are much lower. I guess some of it has to do with a national feed in tariff that generates a ton of easy inbound leads, but I'd love to hear the subtleties. (what is your startup btw)
He identifies with the character, but the movie is an exaggeration or taking the mindset to an extreme.

Many people identify with the main character from Fight Club, and quote it often, but none of us are developing split personality disorders or fighting with ourselves in a bar parking lot or starting an underground fighting club.

What should frighten you is that being an Uber driver is the best employment option for a war veteran with PTSD. This guy has his writing, and I'd hire him on the spot just reading that article, but not all vets have that even.
I always wanted to learn to fly, but it's really expensive & fairly time consuming so I never got around to it. Then I had a kid, and that was the end of that idea. Maybe I'll have the time/energy/money again when I'm closer to 60+ :/
While that's sometimes an element at Google (we tend to be better at building things that engineers love to build and it's harder to do things that engineers don't care for), people are somewhat more enlightened than you fear and can see that the big picture of doing valuable work doesn't mean only doing the fun parts (and one element of managerial leadership is articulating this). Plus, a number of engineers really like fixing bugs, usability fixes, etc.

As to how decisions get made: it varies. Sometimes there's some consensus, and sometimes management / executives make decisions without seeking feedback or even going against the input of the team. But it's then incumbent upon them to persuade and lead the org; if they do this poorly, they don't tend to be as successful in the medium or long term.

Again, Google isn't remarkable in this fashion, even if it's possibly something of an outlier: in any field of endeavor, you'll be more successful if you can persuade people to want to contribute to your mission rather than forcing them to do it. [Cue up the Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote re: longing for the endless immensity of the sea.]
I actually had to sit down and think about the implications of these things when I saw the photos - how far we've come, what we've accomplished, the sophistication of our tech... it really is staggering.
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If you are using Perl code golf jokes as your basis for imagining what Perl code looks like, then this is incorrect. Yes there are a few annoyances with special variables and yes this makes it very easy to write things that will be hard for other people to read, but I really think people that write things like that are doing it on purpose.

The documentation for the various intricacies of Perl 6 has gotten much better, at least IMO from Perl 5, and most of the more interesting aspects of the language are just slightly augmented existing ones.
The naivety of your comment is striking and reveals an exceptionally ignorant view of the world.
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He wasn't even saying the design is horrible, merely giving actionable feedback on one design element. I'm sure the site author was grateful, most of us who have released web products would be, I think.
A better rule is that hard-to-rememeber precedence rules should require brackets.

a = b & 0xFF << 8; // Compilation error

a = (b & 0xFF) << 8; // Compiles
"You’ve gone incognito

Pages you view in incognito tabs won’t stick around in your browser’s history, cookie store, or search history after you’ve closed all of your incognito tabs. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be kept. Learn more about incognito browsing

Going incognito doesn’t hide your browsing from your employer, your internet service provider, or the websites you visit."

I think this is pretty straightforward.
Why a 762-year-old Japanese temple was the perfect setting for a hackathon
I've had that regulated dependable service drive me around the block, take longer distances that were necessary; practically stealing money from me. I have never had that happen with Uber. Not once. More expensive doesn't make it better. That's a nonsensical statement especially when government regulation actually makes markets less efficient and more subject to market distortions.

The taxi business as we know it ought to die. Let these thieving, exploitive 'mogels' go bankrupt.
The entire idea of the Bitcoin blockchain is to provide anonymous consensus. This is a tremendous achievement, but it comes at a great cost, in terms of energy consumption, confirmation time, and risk of reversibility.

Participants in regulated financial markets are all known, which makes the entire design of the Bitcoin blockchain moot. There are much better fits in the design space for financial institutions.

The only reason you see NASDAQ playing with such "colored coin" solutions is that there is currently very little expertise in this space in financial institutions, and there is a monumental hype machine behind Bitcoin.

I love Bitcoin for its counter-economics potential, but "colored coin" solutions for established institutions are a horrendously bad idea.
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I, in all seriousness, completely support that statement. Not the rest of it, but that part I do.
PPO through HAP in Michigan. $798/mo, $1500/$3000 deductible for my wife and I, no kids. I dug around on the exchange and then ultimately bought directly instead of through the exchange because we're not eligible for subsidies.

ACA has basically made this a non-issue. Figure out how big of a deductible you can absorb, walk through your state's exchange and find something reasonable. Then (this is the most important part), raise your rate to compensate for your newly legitimate business expense.
Is that per month?
I'm struggling to find a reason why I should care. Stuff like this makes me think it's a good thing:

* > [C]redit unions with a combined $2.5 billion in medallion loans are suing the city for failing to stop Uber from stealing customers.*

Um, what? It's not the government's job to stop competitors from stealing customers, it's up to businesses to stop their competitors from stealing customers.
Show HN: Attentiv-Team chat with anonymity
> traitor to the hacker culture

I don't understand the weird disconnect between HN and the intelligence community. It's almost the perfect job for a 'hacker' type: work with cutting edge technology and thousands of other incredibly intelligent people to try and out-think adversaries to gain access to their resources. You get to build defensive and offensive software to attack computer systems, and actually use it, something that would get you arrested if you did it personally. This was why I loved penetration testing, and an obvious extension of financial security would be working in national security. Yet somehow, these guys are 'evil' now, notwithstanding the IRA and otehrs in the UK, the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks, and so on - those were all perpetrated by _actual_ evil people, who deserved to be investigated and followed and found. And, looking at the leaked documents, there is a huge amount of auditing and checking - don't do this, because it's illegal, don't search for that because it's against the law - not the wild west free-for-all that people seem to imagine.

Anyway, if I could get a clearance, I'm sure I'd love working for GCHQ or SIS in the infosec arena, as would most hackers. The cognitive diasonance is strong in many people!
How do the most successful people spend their weekends?
The only way you'll get enforced formatting to work across the board, is if the editor can safely roundtrip between the "official" format and the developers preferred format.
Availability is important as well as cost. Is it easy to get a taxi where you are?
No this is Google simply replacing Eclipse with a superior product and was slowly transitioning people to it.
Did you really expect Google to drop Android development support for Eclipse overnight?
Yes per month.
Or at least CobolScript.
https://github.com/ajlopez/CobolScript
There is an attempt to fix the problem going on at the moment using ONSITE but I don't know if it's working:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9639001
Do you remember that backdoor that was found in SELinux a few years ago?
Given that you are asking a site populated with computer programming types, I would assume you may be interested in computer programming.

Programming on touch enabled or tablet sized devices is going to be difficult. If you want to leverage open source software to learn things like web programming and server side stuff then you will want to run those things typically under a Unix variant, Linux being the most used. You can do this on Windows with virtual machines and software like Vagrant.

If you are getting the device to take notes, do research, email, twitter, facebook, whatever-cool-kids-use, etc. for high school work then sure it will probably do the trick. Most anything these days would work for that so it would be hard to justify the cost.
Shopped at the healthcare.gov federal exchange, now paying $223/month for a PPO plan with Aetna. Large network, no PCP election required, no problems with it the past 2 years. Don't forget that you can deduct insurance premiums on your taxes when you're self-employed.
Have you looked at other plans since the ACA exchange went live? I've never seen an ACA plan with a deductible that high...
Oscar is great in the NYC / NJ area (https://www.hioscar.com/). They do a good job of lveraging technology and are less confusing than other insurance companies. They even have a program with Misfit where you get $1 per day for reaching your steps goal. Lowest premiums I've found. I'm paying less than $1,000 per month total for myself, my wife, and my kid.
> The only advantage of obamacare is that if you cannot buy insurance yourself that easily with things like pre-existing conditions etc.

Medical underwriting is no longer a thing industry-wide and hasn't been since the beginning of 2014. No matter where you buy your plan, they will not ask about pre-existing conditions.

It's true that the only reason why you'd actually buy through an exchange is to get the subsidies, even if you don't it's worthwhile to check. They offer a pretty comprehensive survey of the companies that offer insurance in your state and roughly how much you'll pay, and you can go to those companies separately and check into their plans they don't offer on the exchange.

Another idea is to find a local insurance broker in your area. They're free to you (the insurance companies pay them) and they'll find you a good plan that fits your needs.
I'm in the Boston area, YMMV. I left my job in 2011. I did a few months of COBRA, which I found unreasonably expensive. I'm currently paying about $380/month on a BCBS individual plan with a $6K deductible (costs have risen about $5-$10/mo per year since I joined). I don't think my experience will help you much (single), but I'm putting this out there for others who might be interested. BTW I have never met the deductible and usually spend less than $1K/year on medical expenses. Knock on wood.

PS I haven't noticed much effect due to ACA, except that some services that used to require a co-pay became free. It will be nice not having to worry about pre-existing conditions, too.
This brief writeup from Puppet Labs seems to answer most of the questions I had about the nature and usefulness of the technology released.

https://puppetlabs.com/blog/nsa-release-system-integrity-man...
One Step Spark/Hadoop Installer for OS X v0.1.0
github : https://github.com/stkim1/pocketcluster/blob/master/README.md

blog : https://pocketcluster.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/one-step-sparkhadoop-installer-for-osx-v0-1-0/
I just had to purchase health insurance two week ago in the state of MI(Just turned 26).

I had 3 options:

1. Obama Care - I qualified for a $16 subsidy...

2. Individual plan from a health care provider in state

3. Health Share plan (think Credit union for health care)

Obama care cost 2x as much as an individual plan, and almost 3x as much as a health share plan, so even after the subsidy, this was not an option.

Health share plan was very affordable, however it only worked with the health care providers on the east side of the state(I live on the west), it had a low yearly deductible, much lower then the individual High deductible HMO, however it had a 20% copay for all health services, including routine physicals and checkups.

Individual Plan from an instate health care plan costs slightly more each month, but all routine check ups, generic brand pharmaceuticals proscribe from my doctor, and any specialist (Chiropractor, Knee Doctor, etc) visits are 100% covered IF I am referred by my primary care physician.

I went with an individual plan for about $140/m and $28/m for dental coverage.

A political side note: this same exact coverage would have only cost me $84/m before 2014 when Obama care went into play. (edit: Health Care cost, not Heath + Dental)
there will be no progress without an overthrow of the politic-financial complex and the various institutions that have built up around this mess, creating perpetual wars that will never be won, bumbling around the middle east causing far more harm than good and breaking the god damn internet.

once you understand the extent of the meddling, i dont think you would be saying this stuff. maybe you just havent researched what these people get up to as much as me. any hacker knows that the extent of illegal breakage caused by these two organisations is colossal and outrageous. its amazing they then have the gall to prosecute kids for hacking and give them ridiculous sentences for tapping on a keyboard with morally upstanding motives (thinking of these anonymous kids here)

what i mean about sustainable communities is that we need to focus on human well being, not external conflict. its not some simplistic stereotypical hippy ideal about coffee, its a direct result of coming to an enlightened awakening that capitalism has FAILED. if you cant see it by now in the corrupt casinos (financial markets) and destructive globalist corporations which dominate our world and politics then it is you that are naive my friend.

i do believe there is a certain element to hacker culture that is intrinsically opposed to what these organisations are doing, because of the curiosity of the mindset, they are not ready to just accept a piece of information on face value. they are critical thinkers. a lot of hackers dont just swallow the brainwashing, 911 repeating, terrorist bullshit mindset, what you dont seem to ask yourself at any point is 'what caused these people to be annoyed at your country in the first place' - and i think you will find its to do with your foreign policy on israel and the fact you / we go around the world bombing the crap out of people. see when you stop killing people then their family wont come back to try to kill you, its a really simple concept, which im amazed you didnt consider :)
I haven't used them myself, but I've always been curious about the group plans available to IEEE members:

http://www.ieeeinsurance.com/us/home.aspx
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/03/01/the-deflationis...
Only on OS X have those bugs involved deleting my data and wasting my money.
Berklee Institute Report on Transparency and Fairness in the Music Industry
perhaps, I was thinking stuff like provigil/modafinil.
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> If I log into my gmail and then do a search is that search still saved on Google's servers?

Depends what you mean by "saved" but generally data will be processed on the server-side in the same way as from a non-incognito browser.

> Can a service like Google search tell if the browser I'm using is in incognito/private browsing mode?

Not in a reliable fashion.

> What does the browser do? Does it remove all cookies/cache information when I go into private browsing mode? Or does it keep all the cookies and cache data from regular browsing but just doesn't save any new ones?

Neither, even though it may vary from browser to browser the general approach is to create a second temporary clean browser instance, which is separate from any other non-incognito instance.
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SafeStack coordinates electronic attacks with a purpose