skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks exciting, but as morsch said, the homepage is not very informative/clear - the kickastarter is better in this respect.

The concept kinda reminds me of Ubuntu for Android [0], except for running a custom OS on quasi-artisinal custom hardware.

The fact that "developers get monthly revenue based on app usage" sound like an exciting twist, but how will Solu avoid the pitfalls of this model (exemplified by artists on Spotify and alternatives)?

The project environments sounds really intriguing to me,
as task focused design and interfaces is something I'm currently working on in different forms (terminal, web browsers, OSes) myself. If anyone knows of any other good examples of this (applications, papers, whatever), please let me know!

Nitpick: the quote "Solu’s UI [...] mimick[s] the functionality of your brain" sounds pretty dubious.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android
I've been burned out in the past and I'm going to to with what might sound like a cop out answer: It really varies. I think it depends on:

- Your personality
- What you did with your off time
- What kind of job situation you're going back to

I do think the last point is probably the most relevant. Are you going back to the same situation as you were before? Then you're probably not going to feel like a month is a long enough time. To be honest there might not be a long enough time. You might need to find a new job. Especially with having run at burnout levels for a year or more. It was probably longer then you think.

I've had burnout twice in my career. Once I negotiated getting laid off, took the summer off (went to the beach a lot) and then started a much more low-key job after about 4 months of just relaxing and recharging.

More recently I was starting to burnout. I thankfully said something to my boss during my review and we had work taken off my plate. I'm lucky enough to have a great boss that understood that and was willing to do it. It's definitely helped curtail any sense of burnout.
Solid site, added it to my Feedly.
I really like the use of login links and not passwords on their website. Is this becoming a trend?
Eh. If you can't negotiate yourself then you're still going to end up in trouble down the road when Shithead isn't there to negotiate for you in your job.
> What happens in the US or in Europe is that if you need stuff done or if you need to win in court, you hire expensive lobbyists or lawyers.

Lobbyists and Lawyers are private individuals, corrupt officials are government agents. I thought you were against "big government"?
I own several kindle devices, have never purchased an ebook through Amazon, and do not connect any of them to the internet for any reason. It's a battery hog, and I have no desire to buy books directly from the device, and if i need to access the web, i have a plethora of other devices capable and at hand.

Furthermore, I don't allow myself to restricted to DRM'd books. In the event I was unable to acquire a book in a non-DRM'd format, I'd purchase the book (using a prepaid credit card, as i do with all my internet transactions) and strip the DRM. If it was unavailable in that manner, then I would purchase a physical copy of the book. But that is not a deterrent for me. I own a few ebooks that don't exist in physical form (at least not for mass market to my knowledge) and I own a few physical books that do not exist in digital format (once again, to my knowledge). Neither will kill the other, they can both co-exist happily, and in my case, they do. I carry my kindle keyboard everywhere and often time have at least 2-3 paperback books on me as well. As a matter of fact, I am currently reading a book on my kindle, another in paperback form and a third is being read to me on Audible. Not all at the same time mind you, but concurrently.
i think some people read only the title and voted it up assuming it's about aggressive recruiting spam on services like linkedin.
Vs maintaining it on a USB stick? I think it's a hollow argument
Great comment :) so true.
Well, I just have to shamefully plug the meCoffee PID ( https://mecoffee.nl ). The product is just picking up a bit of steam.

Disclosure: mine.
Better to place 2 people at 90% than 1 person at 100%, especially if you have a quota that will get you fired if you place less than 2 people.
This sounds like a medical issue not a career one. I would focus on finding medical help from a competent professional.
I tried to subscribe using the top form. It opened a new window, redirecting me back to the homepage, and I never got a confirmation email. I just tried again using the form at the bottom, and it seemed to work. Looking forward to the newsletter!
Reflections on Meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton
The recruiter's percentage of what you get is small enough that an extra couple thousand or whatever is much smaller to him than to you and, anyway, closing three deals a little lower than he'd like is better than closing one on the high end.
> You can start recording by running: `script -t timingfile typescript`. Your screen contents are recorded into the file `typescript` and the timing into `timingfile`.

Beware `-t` it's a non-standard (as much as script is considered a standard) extension:

* on OpenBSD there is no `-t` (or any other option aside from `-a` "append to existing typescript file")

* on FreeBSD and OSX `-t` specifies the flush time interval (in seconds, defaulting to 30) (on FreeBSD > 9.2 `-r` will save IO and timing data)

* on older linux distros it's a flag to output timing data to stderr

And scriptreplay is linux-only, NetBSD 2 and FreeBSD can replay sessions with `script -p`
Thoughts on Code Reviews, Software Development and Static Analysis – Codacy.com
Codacy Raises Raises $1.1M to Kill Off Unnecessary Code Reviews
Agreed. You need to be careful with exactly how much the bounty is. Too low and people won't bother. Too high and people will recommend anyone they know.

I find recommendations for peers are almost always high quality simply because people want to work with good people.
I honestly just use my Kobo for tech books like Manning and classics from Project Gutenberg. Otherwise dead tree.
https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/ORGANIZATION.md has a REALLY high-level overview.
I think when ansible started it wasn't obvious that logic (loops, conditional etc...) would be needed eventually. By the time it became obvious it was going to be required, it was too late to change.

Using jinja2 for markup compounded the issue in my opinion, as it has no loops and logic is less than obvious (compared to mako for example).

Still I find its agentless model, the idempotent model, being able to use it on machines where you don't have root access etc... gives it a place that nobody had fulfilled.
May I add yet another story to this thread?

I was a member of municipal polling board during last Putin's election. Honestly I did my best to prevent fraud, and yet the voting protocol (a paper where all ballots are summed up, it goes to an higher-level board) was rewritten right under my nose (+25% to a leading candidate, guess which one), with police covering it up. I tried to warn a friendly member of higher-level board, just to learn that all independent members of the board were escorted out of building by our SWAT analogue.

Voting and vote counting were all recorded on much-hyped state-wise CCTV system, so I thought "right, I'll go to a public prosecutor, they will retrieve the record and the fraud would be obvious". Guess what — there were no interest at all, my complaint was routed into the same higher-level board.

It wasn't an isolated event. In fact, the huge part of polling boards in Saint-Petersburg had their protocols rewritten. It was widely publicized in a local independent press, but all court cases were ultimately lost and no one were held accountable. Similar stories took place in other Russian cities.

This was a huge, centrally orchestrated fraud, with those in power getting away with it (as always). Voting is an institute of critical importance to any liberal democracy out there, and it is completely and systematically destroyed by Putin and his team. I can't see how on Earth the country where it's normal can be even compared to US; it's like comparing North Korea and US with a straight face.

And yes, given that it's HN, let me also mention that all cellular and Internet operators in Russia are legally and openly obliged to pay for wiretapping equipment and install it with no regulatory oversight on how it's used. It's so amusing when people somehow combine any degree of support for Snowden AND for Russian government.
Central Places and Sophistication
Well, how many joules does it take to maintain a paper library for a century and how many joules to maintain an ebook library?
>> Crying like a baby about too much interest in your person is a loser attitude.

I wonder why you thought this would be appropriate to post.
I agree that OLPC crushed itself, but I think that had more to do with CIA associations (in the minds of possible client nations, even if not in reality) and with the kind of paternalistic "we know what is good for your children" attitude, combined with the "sign up the whole country or we won't sell you a single machine" avoidable problem with adoptability, and plenty of promising what they could never deliver (promises which, unfortunately, were repeated mouth to mouth throughout the FLOSS community). By the time they sold their users down the river to Microsoft, they were already years late and an enormous disappointment.

So, the $100 laptop is real. It just isn't very FLOSS-friendly or made by OLPC. Instead, the mainstream $100 laptop is an Android tablet or cellphone, or maybe an iPad or iPhone. It's Apple and Google's fault that those machines are so user-hostile and dangerous, but it's not their fault that OLPC failed to provide a user-friendly, safe alternative.
Would it? If all books were available in DRM-free formats, you could replace an entire building with a single computer and some offsite backups. The energy use for lighting, air conditioning, elevators, and everything else that goes into running a library is non-negligible. Not to mention the embodied energy of all the materials for building and maintaining a large structure for 100 years.

That's not to say I'd support replacing libraries with an ebook lending system; they serve important functions beyond book lending, and I like paper books anyway. But I wouldn't claim that they're low energy.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. SanFran is a hotbed of a particularly harsh branch of anti-essentialist feminism, and YC is a SF company.

On the whole, though, I feel like these ideas can be discussed, provided you mince your words and ignore the trolls.
>I don't think the makeup of the board is that weird.

There's not a single person on the board who is an expert in anything close to their core technology. I can understand wanting some politically influential people, but only politically influential people. How is that not weird?

> You don't know what her coursework was a Stanford. She may well have skipped the intro classes.

I'm fairly certain Stanford some curriculum requirements. Even if they didn't, no matter how smart you are, you can't just hop in and start taking upper level Chemical Engineering classes because you took AP Chem in high school. There's too much prerequisite knowledge that you just won't have.
The title should maybe have specified (London, UK), rather than just (UK), my mistake.
Sounds like a place I wouldn't want to be working at anyway.
A bit over the top. Yes, utilizing Amazons devices gives them full power over the content on your device but why do we need to suggest that E-books have to deliver on the same business model as print books?. There are benefits to e-books that regular books don't offer so just ask yourself if the tradeoff is worth it. I'm certain Amazon, in general, does not want to be in the business of removing books from peoples devices.
Agreed. Much as I love shiny kit, and RIMS/HERMS seems fun, I've never had my big cooler mash tun drop by even one degree C over 90 minutes, even without bath towels.
I think it depends on where you are. I've seen this sort of behavior a lot. Less so now that I'm in DC, but it was really bad back in Philly.
While I agree with most of this article, its a bit extreme. I've never liked spam, but is it really that hard to ignore them?
I've had a recruiting firm call me 4-5 times and send emails and I started getting a bit upset...but far from that extreme
I never said they didn't work hard.
Actually the solution he suggested might not be helpful at all as this recruitment methodology may lead gradually over time to favoritism, cliquism, cronyism, tribalism you name it in the workplace as everyone is vouching their friends and acquaintances to key and select positions inside the organization to help them cement and consolidate their power and hinders the progress of the organization as a whole in the process.
The major difference between the ebooks and paper books is that if you share a paper book with someone, you lose it from the moment you lend it out, until you get it back. But sharing an e-book is much painless and convenient, thus can easily abused.
Some valid points which could be made with a clear head too. I believe in market dynamics, the reason the recruiters aren't gone by now is that market still needs them.

The author's moral high ground is also funny. At the end of the day these guys are here to make a living, and making a living is indeed really hard. Somehow suggesting these guys are just born evil isn't right, given the same circumstances most of us would behave the same way. Lucky we are engineers in demand. So far.
No matter how you dress it up, betting on an outcome is not an investment, it is playing a game. You can invest in applying sophisticated tactics to a game to swing the odds in your favor (look at a formula 1 or NFL team for an example of this taken to extreme), but you are still playing.
I am. Lobbyists and lawyers only exist because there is a government monopoly on law.
If it passes in a 2016 lame duck session, Obama will sign it. He is in office until noon, January 20th, 2017.
Just pirate your ebooks online or buy hard copy if you're uncomfortable with Amazon's tomfoolery. Or, "borrow" them via Amazon, then rip the DRM out with some pirate jag.

Technologically, DRM is a solved problem, and has been for years-- just check out the Pirate Bay.

Notice how I've mentioned the word "pirate" so many times? This is the result of finding a practical solution to the problems that Amazon has created. This costs them money, directly, as I could just as easily be buying books from them rather than using them to scout books then finding the pirated version.
Advertisements aren't completely devoid of value... You just don't need to be subjected to them continuously and without reservation.

Personally, I find a far greater percentage of useful products through word-of-mouth. If I hear about something new, it has to be good enough to survive the 'telephone game' of getting the information to me, which means I'll have a preference for very good or very local products.
Are you in the UK and have you dealt with a large number of recruiters? I would be super surprised to meet someone who has a good sample size of working with UK recruiters who doesn't have similar thoughts on the subject.
Do you have a therapist or someone to talk to who will give you the ability to just voice your thoughts without judgement? If not, I highly recommend that you seek one out. If you have one and are unsatisfied, you should find a new one.

In the meantime, I am not sure you have hit rock bottom. Rock bottom is where you realize that there is a way up from here. You are still looking down into an abyss. Still, this might be the point at which you change your life. Start by changing your perspective. Every day, you have taken a step towards where you are now. Were all of those steps fumbles or mistakes or failures? You wouldn't be where you are if that is the case. There is evidence of success. What are those successes? How did you deal with adversity to claim those successes? There is evidence that you have overcome challenges.

From another angle: right now you have a good job and a career and you are depressed. If you take a menial job, you will probably be unsatisfied, broke, and depressed. If there is anything I've learned in this life: No matter where you go, there _you_ are. Still you.

Lastly, start building upon and celebrating little successes starting today. Any little thing will suffice. Every little thing. Do the same tomorrow. Make your way up the chain until you are celebrating success at the scale you want.

Hang in there. You are not alone.
What problem are you looking to solve? I may be able to help.
I think this blog post is pointless. Of course every abstraction adds some overhead at first. If your problem is simple enough to fit in a few lines of code you don't have to think a lot how you structure it.
How can he get that irate at being ignored? Isn't that the standard response to cold emails? I ignore a lot more than I respond to.
DH-1024 in Bitcoin terms
Conversations between Irish government and Web Summit [pdf]
I'm in the same boat, it's just too convenient to read from a Kindle compared to having to hold a paperback while laying in bed. These rules that Amazon imposes on ebooks doesn't really affect me, I purchase the books and I get to read them, that's it.
From Python to Go, and back again (slides)
Kinda linkbaity. As commenters in the article pointed out, the jQuery code omits the HTML and the React port has some functionality that is not present in the jQuery version, so the LOC comparison in the title is pretty meaningless.

The conclusion is that for a tiny one-off tool that can be banged out in 20 minutes, a big framework like React/Flux is completely overkill. But for large codebases where maintainability is a big issue, then React/Flux can be extremely useful (considering that's exactly the problem React/Flux try to address).

Am I the only one who thinks this stuff ought to be obvious?
https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter
My reply was ambiguous. The point was that you seem to be suggesting the US is always right because it's a nicer place to live, or that Russia is wrong because it is not such a nice place to live.

I lived in the West for a long time and returned with my children to eastern Europe. Sure it's poorer and less developed and plagued with problems. There are many frustrating things, but to categorically suggest it is impossible to live there (or Russia I guess) would be an insult to everyone who does.

You've found your happiness in Europe and that's great.
I really don't understand why an organization would want to use Docker (besides buzzword compliance) if they were planning on mutating running containers. What's the advantage?
It's almost like he believes it will actually be good for the country.
Is e-book DRM even remotely effective? It seems like with something like the Kindle web reader, it would be trivial to write a script that took screenshots of every page of the book, and optionally applied OCR.

Of course, this could also be done with the physical devices and an appropriate machine to press the buttons. The "Analog Hole" is quite present in books, which can be reproduced with no loss of quality.

I actually wonder if the Kindle DRM is more a way of appeasing publishers than something that was actually intended to be effective.
why wouldn't it be right? Not everyone uses semver, and apache project version #'s precedes semver by a long while.
As someone who is constantly baffled at many UX choices made by the makers of nearly every piece of software I use, I like the idea a lot. I'm looking forward to using the service.

And I do have a small couple critique of an aspect of your website. ;)

If you could get rid of the two input boxes after I've submitted my invitation request, that would make it more clear that the submission was successful. After I hit Submit, I did not immediately see the message below. If the two boxes were gone, I would have immediately seen that message.
It actually seemed like the rare example where a professor and a student could actually debate a point.
Honestly it seems like the author has some serious problems. I know hundreds of recruiters having been at Google and Facebook and not a single one of them thinks like this at all.

To say "now grovel and be exploited" about a process where the person will almost certainly end up with a fantastic offer for an engineering job in a comfortable office with great pay and great working conditions may actually be the least self aware thing I've ever seen a human being write.

The author is a bad writer, is unable to support their points and shows the self awareness of a 5 year old. Why did this post get a single upvote? Is the whole "lets work ourselves in a furor over things we made up about strangers" not getting old to you people...?
And if you add a new machine to the cluster, which hasn't gotten all tags run against it? Or of a machine was temporarily offline when a tag was run, or...

There are many potential situations where not running a full inventory against a running machine results in a machine not being properly configured.
Chinese Company Unveils $48,000 ‘Tesla Model S’ Knockoff
How does this compare with similar products on the market, like Usabilla and Qualaroo?
Alright, here's another of my tech recruiter exchanges. This one got him to stop responding immediately.

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Hello,

My name is Seth and I am a recruiter here at [redacted]. I came across your profile in our database and wanted to touch base. Are you still in the market for potential opportunities? If so, I would enjoy speaking with you soon.

Please let me know if you or anyone else you know is interested.

Thanks,
Seth

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Hi Seth. I am definitely available for "potential opportunities" to "touch base" with discreet clients. I am very interested. Please give me more information about these "opportunities."
amazon cares and enforces what they want, like when they deleted 1984:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
Nice landing page. One copyedit: "Why my visitors go away?" sounds like sad Hulk. "Why do my visitors go away?" is better, or maybe adopt the funnel-speak of the growth hackers you're trying to attract and go with "Why do visitors abandon my site?"
time to finally implement my non profit side-project

bad-recruiters.com
The Stallman "cube root" thing is adorable and quotable but wasn't the right curve then, and certainly isn't the right curve now.

Love the guy, disagree with many his methods, but love the results he seeks to achieve. But like licensing, he seems willfully ignorant of outliers and is increasingly guilty of oversimplification. And more so as he ages.

He's also obsessing on Amazon, and not entirely for reasons that immediately make sense. Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9355978
Too much emphasis on "secrecy." Sometimes things just aren't worth discussing...If "companies buy services from agencies they're supposed to make their appointments based on the value that agency will be able to provide," then not enough emphasis is placed on the value of certainty, peace of mind and the ability to shift focus to other priorities.
To pull another quote out of the article:

“Lots of ordinary financial things are gambling,” says Robin Hanson, an economist at George Mason University. “But they are carved out in the public mind.”

Life is playing. Everything you do is an investment of some type - time, energy, emotion, money. Every decision you make is "betting" of a kind, it just depends how you decide to dress it up.
Recruiters would call the office switchboard and ask to be transferred to my extension while I sat on a trading desk next to a managing director (read: dude who brings in major $$$ for the firm).

Seriously awkward conversations afterwards.
It's lighter-weight than virtualization but provides many of the benefits, even if you mutate running containers.