skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to defend VW but "the severity of the problem"? Let's put this problem in context: VW cars may have more emissions that we used to think but at the same time a large part of the population insists on driving ridiculously oversized trucks which guzzle breathtaking amounts of gas for no good reason. I think the outrage is completely out of proportion.
It's not a few. It's somewhere between a quarter and a third of the corpus. "few" is merely the level of outright extreme cases, like "/etc/rc.d/msgs stop" not doing what one might think at all.
yeah its far more valuable for me if someone does it for me too hahaha.

id think google has enough money to assign people to it if they want them to switch from aws. community can always build on that.
Where does that leave us? With humility hopefully. You don't deserve any credit for being born with a high IQ, aptitude for acquiring sellable skills, and into a life station where any of that mattered. You work hard, sure, but so does the farmer in Bangladesh. The only difference between him and you is the cosmic lottery. So get off your high horse about "contributing to society." All you should feel is grateful that $Diety gave you the gift of being able to do that.
The concept reminds me of Infobitt and also S+C's Snippets. I think the concept is a great idea. Your implementation is too verbose still and has too many bullet points - it should be maybe a maximum of 4 bullet points per item, and if you want to read more you have a link to an article somewhere.
Sweet robot shirt when you trial this app
I read the other day that the new LG watch will have a built-in LTE modem. There really is no excuse for them not having one in the laptop.
An hour per day of cycling is a lot. I know it seems like good fun exercise to us decadent westerners but as Tom Sawyer would point out it quits being fun when you have to do it.
Don't use a self-post to obfuscate the fact that you have been spamming this domain.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=resumereviewers.com
Not making an argument - I'm trying to get real examples of everyone's argument of what they're losing, in terms of actual effect against them.

I get that most people have uninteresting data but don't want it collected anyway, but what happens if it is? (Because it is right now). What is it doing to them today? More targeted ads? More spam? More...? That's what I'd like to know.
I will probably get downvoted for stating an opinion contrary to the HN groupthink but I would not work from home for a few reasons:

1. Facetime/Relationship building - If you're seen more and have better relationships, on average, you will get tapped for better jobs/projects more often than people who are in another state/country. If you are the only remote worker on your team then you are at a serious disadvantage relative to your non-remote team members who see your boss every day.

2. Ease of communication - Working from home, for me, is frustrating because when I want to walk over to someone and ask them a question or set up a physical meeting ASAP I can't. Phone calls and e-mails are great but there really is nothing like a physical meeting when it comes to hashing out problems on a white board or building a working relationship. This is also a negative because it can be very distracting to have people able to contact you any time you're at the office, but for me it is a net gain.

3. I love people. I love working with them and getting to know them and having conversations with my coworkers. This is very easy to do when you are collocated. For me, working at home is lonely.

4. Knowledge synergies - This almost falls under number 2. It is really nice to bounce ideas off people without having to stare at a chat screen waiting for a response. I really enjoy when my coworkers ask me a question and a discussion ensues between all of us about the best way to do things. This is easier than waiting for someone to type a response or getting everyone on the phone.

Many of these things are possible to do over slack or meeting up once a week but it really does not beat being in the office every day. Perhaps I am very career oriented but just #1 is enough for me to not want to work from home.
> What is the impact on people when their energy costs are raised?

Less than the impact on people when the land they own doesn't stay land.
Since 2007, I've worked at home most of the time... only commuting across the country to go into the office about 8 days/year. I've gone through a lot of personal changes through that time as it relates to working remotely. The company and my colleagues have too.

At first, we felt disconnected. But now, I think we actually talk more. The hallway chat has shifted to skype calls, usually talking about random things before or after discussions about something else.

In fact, I think the hallway chat is even more honest and productive now because we don't have to worry about who else is listening.

Almost everybody is more productive, happier and less stressed.
Funny anecdote: where I work, one of our departments had a model we used to predict the working characteristics of our most popular product. Over time, we noticed that real-world data deviated from our calculations, so the model was regularly adjusted to bring the predictions in line.

Recently we had to model a new system, and none of our numbers looked remotely right. Looking at the code, the whole program had essentially been turned into a lookup table that was completely useless at actually 'predicting' anything we hadn't seen before. Since then, the system's been completely overhauled, and now it much more accurately predicts general characteristics even if it appears less precise than before.

My point's kind of gotten away from me, but I guess it's just easy to see how people can fall into the trap of leaning on perceived reliability and using it to avoid making radical changes.
No matter how much our institutions, laws, and social customs try to hide it, when we interact with each other we absolutely depend on mutual trust and cooperation. It's easy to take it for granted because in the vast majority of our interactions we are nice to each other, or the stakes are too low to be mean. The power we hold over each other is always there, though, in every interaction.
In a way they go up because they can. If you look at it from their point of view. It is an event which they can point to and justify and say "sorry, this is our policy" and just raise the rates.

Now of course if they charge too high, then you could go to a competitor. But there is this CLUE database (I just learned about in a sibling comment here) which apparently is shared among insurers and depending on what is there (or what is not there! -- such as, it was really just an accident) you get labeled and dropped. So even a competitor might decide it is safe to stay away from you.
This is based off of a study of one company. I don't see how that was even published initially as a viable study, never mind making it to an article in The Atlantic. Does anyone have real research on this?
How Rivalry Propels Creativity
This sort of comment is naive at best and rubbish at worst. Try raising 5 kids in a city like Houston Texas and having a 5 minute commute. Let's see how that plays out.

In no particular order you need to:
get a job 5 minutes away.
have your spouse do the same.
hope that your company never moves or you never lose your job.
purchase/rent a house large enough for 7 in a nice part of town in the part of town that meets the above parameters.
Hope that the school zoned to said house is of good quality or find a private school that is also close by.
Turn down offers for advancement in the name of organizing your life better.
Uproot the kids and spouse when any of the above conditions cannot be met.
This is all I'd do. Shit inside walls is likely never going to be disturbed, so a face mask + gloves + dustpan and brush would get me through cleaning up the spill.

But then again, I have a generally lax regard for life and limb. The way I figure it, my drinking, obesity and other vices probably erode my life expectancy more than a single controlled exposure to mercury.
I tried, but they started playing hardball, saying that if I didn't take the car from them (which they wouldn't allow me to do without signing a contract saying that I accept it "as is" and promise not to follow up) they would start accruing charges for storing it. I had just moved into the area for a job starting simultaneously, so unfortunately I didn't have the free time or resources to maneuver against them (The closest thing I got to legal advice amounted to, verbatim, "They have you over a barrel"). The whole situation seemed really sketchy.
It is always possible, but when you are making big claims you need big evidence. The much more likely answer is the claimant has made a mistake himself.
What does informed mean? If it's articles and news stories, haven't there been countless of those?

Just last week there was a local primetime news story about internet history collection. But it hasn't at all stopped the usage of Google, Facebook or the hundreds of services that collect data. The issue with surveys is people will always say one thing but will do something else. Thoughts/words != actions.

At what point and how do we measure education vs apathy and decide which is true?
FAA Proposes $1.9m Civil Fine Against SkyPan Intl for Unauthorized UAS Ops
AWS CLI is also written in Python. I really don't get why everything should be rewritten in Go especially CLI tools that don't need to be ultra fast!
I wonder if any state legislature has ever received the votes of more than a tiny minority.

Thanks for your insights, and for taking the time to answer!
I feel the same way. I'd go crazy if I worked from home. The distractions are much worse at home (wife, baby, dog), and I'd basically have to force myself to go out and get non-family human contact. Plus, most of my job involves meeting with people, and that tends to be more effective and efficient face-to-face. My productivity would probably be close to zero at home.

And my commute is 2+ hours each way. I would not trade it for working from home.
Show HN: Vault a Password Manager for Hackers
Actually most life is found below the surface of the earth - you can find bacteria (and archea) a few km down in the earth.
I'm not sure emissions controls are considered "critical firmware" in the same sense as systems that could actually kill the occupants of the vehicle if they fail. Or rather, I hope they aren't.
Indeed. And I'm sure you'd work up a sweat doing it. If you want a hot shower afterwards any energy gains would be totally lost in heating the water.
Any theories why? Maybe because these big systems are outsourced to multiple low-ball vendors and their stitched together?
if you life in a high priced market that arrangement could be difficult to make.
Still in Python. That's why I've always wondered why they acquired Fig [0] and not Crane [1].

[0] http://www.fig.sh/

[1] https://github.com/michaelsauter/crane
Yes, self insurance is always better if possible, since that means your cost is exactly equal to your risk. When you buy third party insurance, your cost is going to equal your risk + profit + overhead for the insurance company.

You self insure when you can afford the max cost you could incur (e.g. You could buy a new car if you had to.) You buy insurance when you can't afford the rare but very costly catastrophic loss - life insurance, health insurance, car injury insurance.
I work from home most of the time now or travel for client work.

What I miss the most is the efficiency to be gained from having everyone focused on a certain set of problems while in the same room. I find that even a day or two of such time makes a huge difference compared to the meet once a week which greatly extends the turnaround time of issue resolution.

I think having some of each with the flexibility to choose would most likely be ideal.
Yup, we did that. Also, they gave us some freon in a baggie to play with phase change, and we used carbon tetrachloride and benzine in our o-chem class like it was nothing. That stuff's all off limits these days I guess, along with "real" chemistry sets for kids.
> PuTTY

Nope.
This has started happening in Austin. Many of my friends still live there and are constantly posting on social media about how people need to stop moving to Austin. These comments are especially made towards those from California.
Steve Jobs, the Movie, Gets One Crucial Thing Wrong About Steve Jobs
Because they stay out of the limelight, and quite literally, no one sees how incompetent they are. I know its possible to do the same at colocated organizations, but I've only seen it at very, very large companies where no one gives a shit anyway.
Thanks for the compliment! I think you would be in a position to write an even more compelling argument. I think the best argument is stories about what actually happens. The promise of drugs is "more, now, for free." That might be more happiness, more productivity, whatever. The promise seems compelling, but it's important to know what the cost is. "More, now" is not as compelling when the price is "misery and destruction, later."

I encourage you to share your stories, if it isn't too painful. I think if you distill your observations, like your third paragraph, and illustrate them with some of your stories, it would be a compelling article.
Sorry to say, but you're part off-topic and part naive. If your work explicitly involves meeting with people, then of course you can't easily remote that. That's the off-topic bit.

On the other hand, it is quite naive to claim that establishing an office in your living space, where you may only be disturbed for important things (hey how does not getting disturbed actually work out in your office?), is somehow a worse deal than throwing away an 8th of your week on commute. ( (2.125) / (24*7) )
Ask HN: Do you want to be employed only 3 days a week while starting a startup?
Hello HN. The fastest way to fund a startup may always be to fund it yourself. To be employed during the day, and work on the startup on nights and weekends.

One of the early bottlenecks with this is lack of time. You don't have as much time as you'd need to work on the startup. Which means if there was a way to quickly exchange money for time that would be something founders want.

Does anyone on HN want this?

Do you want to be employed only 3 days a week at a day job while starting your startup on the remaining 4 days?

Or are there enough signs that starting a startup takes over your life, and that the only conclusion from these signs is that you need to jump in fully every week, which means being employed only 3 days a week wouldn't be enough anyway?

If there is something here I'm missing I'd like to know it sooner than later. Thanks.
Natural Language Processing (almost) from Scratch
I am pretty sure that insurance companies know this. I bet that they have data showing that, even in cases where it seems like the cause of a claim was outside a person's control, that person is still more likely to make a second claim than someone who has never made a claim.
> I strive to avoid bias

do you? Doesn't really sound like it.
> Working from home, for me, is frustrating because when I want to walk over to someone and ask them a question or set up a physical meeting ASAP I can't.

As someone who gets interrupted several times a day by this at the office, I don't miss it one bit when I work remotely. Being able to defer responding to a question by a minute or two so that I can finish my train of thought is one of my favorite things about working remotely. At the office, the cost of me trying to recover my thoughts afterwards is much greater than those two minutes my colleague would have waited for a response.

> If you are the only remote worker on your team then you are at a serious disadvantage relative to your non-remote team members who see your boss every day.

That seems like a problem with company culture much more than with working remotely.
Estimating and minimizing consumer worry –  the Index of Worry
There are also alternative storage solutions, like flywheel and pumped water storage. I don't know where those stand at the moment, but I imagine that a they are at least competitive with batteries, seeing as current batteries have fairly low storage capacity and need to be replaced regularly.
It's funny to see the no California stickers and sentiments plastered in Seattle and Portland.

It's funny and also strange in that the people with such attitudes are the same kinds of people who used to post other no [immigrant group] but people don't get as outraged, somehow this sentiment is deserved. Like me, most people think it's funny.

Yet, this is just the same phobia and fear of newcomers -new comers who are going to ruin the neighborhood, but instead of driving the prices down causing wealth flight they drive housing upwards.
A command that you can run almost every day and still get new updates because of the ridiculously fast release cycle.
California Now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law
Change Milestone of Project Timeline in Visio Diagram and VDX to PNG Conversion
> Did I cover everything? Anything missing?

There's interesting issues to consider with respect to scale + locality in generation/storage.

My father-in-law's partner has a property in a rural area. Their property runs on 100% solar. The surrounding area has no local (large scale) power generation. During a recent storm the whole town was knocked off the grid. The property with solar kept working (after the storm, not during) while town was without power for days.

It's pretty rare to invest in small scale, local fossil fuel power generation. Small communities have to rely on the grid. But small scale renewable is feasible. There are cost benefits to larger systems, but those benefits need to be weighed up against the risk mitigation of having local systems.

The opposite side to that is that often the best places to run renewable generation is in remote areas and cities may be dependent on larger scale grids. (not that too many people want a fossil fuel plant operating in their city)

I expect that storage system (utility scale batteries) will shift the proposition again. Maybe your rural community doesn't its own generation, just the ability to store enough power to survive a grid failure for a few days.
The True Cost of Commuting (2011)
Just one hint on what you may not know: Any useful and good remote-work-included companies set up company-wide group chat networks of some sort. I've seen multiple companies use IRC networks for this purpose, as well as Slack, in combination with occasional phone calls or Hangouts/Skype when necessary. All of these companies had much more effective and close communication styles than any office company i ever worked with, since it was super easy to communicate to everyone at once (at their convenience) while at the same time being engaged in an honest and direct 1:1 conversation with someone else.

> I am very career oriented

Also yes, holy shit. Your post is so "career-oriented" that i needed to consciously force myself to write the first part of my post in a way that acknowledges that you may be a real human.
Marc Andreesen wrote much the same in his career planning guide, 8 years ago:

http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_career_planning_part1.html

Anyway, if you would like any more than baseline success (where baseline success = working really hard to get into a profession with barriers to entry, like lawyer or doctor), you will have to deal with risk and uncertainty. You can't account for life without accounting for luck.

But life is long, and over the long-term, luck has a way of averaging out. And then the big question is how well did you capitalize on the luck you were given? A lot of people put themselves in positions where they have no chance of getting lucky, because they don't like the vulnerability and uncertainty that comes with realizing just how much of their life comes down to luck. That pretty much guarantees that they'll only be exposed to the unlucky events.
The difference is that the software or the elevator will work but the statistical model is wrong and doesn't work. It is like the elevator only lift people above 120 and below 90 and for the others it just don't work or take you to the wrong floor.
> yuppies

What makes you think that yuppies and engineers are disjoint sets?
I hated Windows 9x-anything. Win 7 was OK. Win 10 is great.
I agree for all the reasons you mentioned, and another one: Clear separation between home life and work life.

I differentiate between my work persona and my home persona. It is pleasing to have a clear line between them. My long commute gives me time to get into "work mode". I dress up (more formally than my work requires) in order to further get me into the "I'm working now" mindset. A sterile, gray cubicle with no "homey" distractions lets me focus on my work. My reptilian brain needs this clear line separating my two worlds.

If I worked from home, I'd be blurring the line and both my work performance and my "familytime performance" would suffer.
Here's the write up. Let me know if there's anything unclear!

http://nextrevision.github.io/2015/sempl-templating-with-bas...
I excluded flywheels and pumped storage as they're rarely cost effective except in a few edge cases. Cargo containers full of batteries can be trucked or sent by ship anywhere necessary, and I expect them to get cheap very fast.
The current edition of POSIX is from 2013: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
I always did think it a bit odd that I can't just create an "Open Cell Tower" the way I might make an open wifi access point. This is true even if I have the resources and property rights to build such a thing - say, to make sure cell service works for everyone on my private island venue. Instead I have to contract with each cell service provider visitors might use.

That seems wrong. Independent organizations should be able to contribute the the cell infrastructure, be they companies that need service or local governments just wanting to make cell phones work without giving a handout to one particular carrier.
That seems like a problem with management more than with remote work. If expectations are set and managed correctly, of course people will notice if you're not actually doing your part. I don't see how that has anything to do with where someone works.
> At the office, the cost of me trying to recover my thoughts afterwards is much greater than those two minutes my colleague would have waited for a response.

To you. Your colleagues train of thought will be disrupted. I guess you deserve to keep your train of thought because you're smart enough to not have to ask questions.
... which makes the network less secure and thus less interesting?
>That seems like a problem with company culture much more than with working remotely.

I agree with you. And from talking with others in my profession I've concluded that it exists at corporations more often than not. But is also a lot harder to work on special projects with people in different locations so it is somewhat understandable in that regard.
I once had a ceiling leak of water from my upstairs neighbor. I called a contractor, and he broke open a segment of the ceiling where my vent was - and the entire gap between my unit and upstairs looked like something from Venus - terrifying colors/growths taking place. The contractor said that there was a massive mold infusion, and that we would need a hazardous material team to come clean it up, and we were looking at a bill of around $20,000 - $30,000 for the team to come do the full cleanup of the riser.

I freaked out a little, and thankfully had a calm property management company that just said, "Look the area above bathrooms always looks like this, and we just need to have the people upstairs caulk a bit better around their bathtub, and we'll be fine.

I'm not going to claim I have any idea whether calling the HazMat/FireDepartment team makes sense here (Hell, Mercury is dangerous) - but it's always a good idea to see if there are safe alternatives that might save you several tens of thousands of dollars.