skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good friend and I both started out as software engineers. Dunning Kruger or not, I am a very good software engineer and so is/was he. He also has an insatiable craving for status and cares immensely about how successful he's perceived as being by others. I don't, at all. So for the past 20 years, I stayed a mere developer and strongly resist any attempts to promote me into management. I will actually start looking for another job if I am promoted over my ardent objections. I cannot stand being a manager or tech lead of any kind. I just want to be a programmer despite the popular advice here not to do so.

My friend has gone from engineer to product manager, marketing manager and in "business development" now. He has tried to explain to me what the latter two jobs entail (I understand product manager), but I just do not get what it is he does all day. He hates his job, but really really gets off on how successful society says he is (between management title and salary) such that it seems to compensate for the daily misery.

I am, however, waiting for the day he becomes a CEO and I can be his admin assistant or some other low-key, lower-stress helper (we are still good friends). Beyond a good salary, I really don't care about status or title. I think I would be happier as a janitor if it paid 120K+.

TLDR: Different strokes for different folks.
deployment != hosting.
I didn't realize zcbenz was involved. He was also a big contributor to node-webkit.
Is there encryption at rest?
That will be solved with IPL, which has been invented decades ago. No need of blades.

Here is some more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intense_pulsed_light

Does this answer your question/concern?
I upvoted to bookmark the comment. I was not aware of these services and might want to come back to them at some point. Though, you know, maybe upvoting won't actually help me find it. But I seem to lose lots of things online, no matter how I try to mark it. Que sera sera.
Progressive web apps (which work offline, btw) can already be installed on Windows (demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUma1l3BKOI) via Chrome — all the app needs is a manifest and a service worker — so it might be worth experimenting with supporting it (for people who’ve “grown out of” installers).
CyPhy LVL 1 Drone: all Kickstarter backers will be refunded
Do you or any cofounders have experience working in the hair-cutting industry? What research have you done into what it takes to make a good haircut?
This is terrifying. Did you get registered mail at least? Did the old web site tell you where to go?

If you don't believe the notice you are given, you fail to pay. If you do believe whatever notice you get, you are vulnerable to fraud.
This might be a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAdam_ellipse
Why won't the big guys don't attack that market today ? and why won't they attack you and win when you start show hints as a credible threat ? Is that because you use discrete search, hence have lower compute costs ?
I'm glad that Mozilla has finally given up on Firefox OS for phones. Maybe it's time for Canonical to do the same, and focus on improving Ubuntu.
He's not talking about someone automating voting, rather imagine if founder A is a very popular guy in Twitter and YouTube.

He makes a post saying 'Hey support my awesome startup '. Founder B might have a better idea, but not the followers.

However, Founders A existing popularity may provide a nice userbase for startup, which would be a key element of success.

Theirs no real way to make this 'fair'
IMO, "grit" is about working the problem and not giving up but potentially changing tactics, while "stubbornness" is about keeping the same tactics even if the problem changes.
Spread the love, get some back
Is that based on actually using it, or just on hearing about it? I thought the same thing until I started playing with it. Now I think it's great. For my friends who are on it, it's a MUCH more effective and fun way to stay in touch with them than facebook is.
Hi, seems interesting, but I was thinking what separates you from the default Facebook events or when a user needs to post an update about the time he is coming?
The "Simple English" version of Wikipedia uses the Basic English 2000 and Voice of America's Special English 1500 word list:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_English_Wikipedia
IPL is one way (which we'll be using) to eliminate potential dangers with blades/scissors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intense_pulsed_light
Isn't the idea of the college admissions process (ideally) to determine whether "they can even complete the course of study"?

Also, couldn't we set the number of (free) admissions to certain areas of study based on the national need for those professions?
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It is a few days before valentine's day in 2025. Mark Miller has just turned 16 and wants to earn some money so he can take his valentine to the movies. What are his options, at 16 with no prior work experience ? Maybe, one of the many unicornish "Uber-for-X" startups are offering him the ability to do some task, in return keeping a percentage of his earnings as they normally do today (normally 20-30%). Maybe he gets to deliver groceries, or maybe he runs an errand for his neighbor. It is good that he is able to earn, but his valentine is now getting a gift 20% cheaper. He is not able to buy her popcorn at the movie because the "Uber-for-X" startup has mooched off his 20% earnings, as a result Mark is not getting any smooches from his valentine!

Wait a minute - that is not fair! He needs to be able to keep 100% of his earnings, plain and simple. Every human on this planet should be able to say, "I am available for work today, this is what I can do and these are my terms and there is my hard work involved -- if you like, then ask for my service, and I will pay the platform how I see fit". For the simple act of connecting me with a customer who is willing to pay me for my hard work, a 20% commission paid to an app is not ok with me and there need to be better, more worker-focused alternatives available which still connect me with a global marketplace but let me dictate the terms for my hard work.

This is the manifesto for this enterprise - empowering humans to be their own absolute boss and re-setting the terms in their favor. The app is the servant, and the worker is the master.

An initial version of this vision, "Runnr", is available on both iOS and Android, built with a lot of love. It does almost everything which a typical on-demand app can do and more. The focus is very narrow right now - on students only for jobs in their own neighborhood in a limited geographical area. Check out http://www.runnr.ca
How much work is it to integrate an new API into brightwork?

Will all of my API calls have to be proxied by brightwork? If so, is the only benefit to lock-in the cost projection?
The Capitol Hill and U District extension of the light rail is a much-appreciated addition, as ridership shows since they opened. Based on my personal conversations with residents, more corridors like this are badly wanted. For instance, I'm not sure why the Ballard-U District line is ignored as much as it is in official plans.
Cygwin's version of PulseAudio exists, I've used it for minimodem in windows. I hope that in addition with XMing or Cygwin/X we could have working GUI Ubuntu apps in Windows!
I feel this is a moot point.

I'm pretty sure the install base of WebRTC data channels is far higher than BitTorrent (Chrome, Firefox, Opera and soon Edge and Safari), so existing Torrent clients providing support only helps out the existing torrents out there.

Down the line I'm willing to bet that WebTorrent grows to be more widely used than BitTorrent, just off of the lack of friction to get started for both users and developers.
This is utterly terrifying. What are some common steps to prevent this kind of "invisible" injection of images. If you're on private WiFi are you good to go? Any common tips to stay secure?
Source: email from CyPhy Works / Kickstarter
Granted, in a decade, if you'll still be in this profession, you'll remember J2EE and XML and Node and npm and pip and git and Golang and JavaScript and code polish and functions-vs-methods debate as tiny specks on what actually constitutes you career. The author of the linked article tries analyzing his entire life from a standpoint of being a programmer, and your comment analyzes last few years of your life staring at /r/programming.

Can't believe this comment made it to the top.
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Lch and Lab colour and gradient picker
Is there actual proof of an EEG recording being useful for diagnosing and tracking treatment of a mental health problem?
That doesn't work for me - it hasn't in a long long time.
Things like LDAP are often in the enterprise version of open apps. I sometimes wonder if self-contained implementation if those features simple to integrate and deploy would disrupt that. Disrupt the companies disrupting everything else! Haha.

Not sure, though. It might still be a pain on a per-app basis to get enterprise features working.
APPLY HN: organize and make accessible the world's data on medical devices
Hey guys, our vision is to be Google for all medical device data.

Why: starting with the FDA, the regulatory process for evaluating and approving medical devices is lax especially when compared to pharmaceuticals. The majority of devices are fast tracked through a process called 510k which requires minimal data/clinical trials from manufacturers. This culminates in over 8k increasingly expensive devices flooding the US market with limited clinical data. Currently, a proliferation of organizations are attempting to fill the data gap by conducting their own trials, collecting post-market data, or sharing data across health systems. But they all remain in silos and often are hard to access.

Looking at post-market monitoring of devices, our national system is a joke. There's no efficient framework by which the FDA monitor and manage the performance of devices after use with patients. So instead, we have hospitals and manufacturers manually submitting recalls and failures way after the fact.

How: aggregate from datasets including Medical journals, the FDA, vendors, research organizations, deidentified patient data crossed identified device in use. Layer on top tools to automate creation of data reports based on a few key search words.

Initial application: repository of evidence-based data for hospitals to evaluate medical devices before purchase--we realize this is a lot to tackle so we initially want to focus on hospitals who are looking for robust clinical data before buying devices, hence our current website on managing this process and giving access to all available data.

Stage: we're about four weeks from a prototype and have interest from hospitals but no signed pilots. It's a lot but it's just the beginning. We welcome all questions and would love to hear more applications for the data!! Thanks.

Our website: amplehealth.us
> I don't see an explicit governmental condonement of the contents of that link.

> You still haven't made a case for why possessing such information should be a bona fide crime (as opposed to being evidence of a real crime). You've merely asserted it should be illegal, with only scary innuendo to back it up.

SILEX makes it possible to enrich uranium in secret for mere millions of dollars. It was privately discovered, but the process was classified by the government. If the exact details spread, it could be a global catastrophe. I'm totally fine with this information being restricted, as the harm of censorship is outweighed by the risk of nuclear proliferation. The US government seems to agree.

> So where are these trolls now, given they can act with impunity through TOR?

They don't post links to child porn because such things aren't hosted on the open web. Right now, the worst things trolls can link to are disgusting or gory images. If the law was different, they could link to worse things.

> The problem isn't being framed, it's the ridiculousness of strict-liability non-mens-rea possession, especially of something that can be so easily obtained.

There are plenty of physical goods that meet the same criteria and are just as illegal. I think only a borderline anarchist would disagree with many of those laws. For example: Thanks to 3D printing, it is very easy to obtain a full-auto sear for an AR-15. Such a piece of metal is –by itself– completely harmless. It can't do anything dangerous unless it's installed into a compatible rifle. Yet mere possession of an unlicensed full-auto sear will get you up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

That's right: Possession of a tiny piece of metal is the difference between a completely legal existence and a decade in prison. And that has been the case in the US since 1934. When put that way, it may seem unfair. But that tiny piece of metal could easily be used to cause immense harm, and it has no other use. Just like some data.

Now, if you're willing to bite the bullet and say that possession of full-auto sears should be legal, I'm fine with that. I'll disagree, but I'll admire your consistency. On the other hand: If you don't think such devices should be legal to possess, then I think your support for possession of arbitrary digital goods is rather hypocritical.
I'll tell you why: Congress would be too big. I know this movie was absolutely horrible in several ways, but remember the Galactic Senate in The Phantom Menace? That's basically what you're proposing: it'll be so ridiculously huge that nothing would get done. You can't have a legislature with thousands and thousands of members.

What's needed is first to redraw the state borders. I have a post a little above this point outlining my plan for redrawing the borders in the northeast, which would effectively deal with the NYS-vs-NYC problem. Other state borders should also be redrawn. Metro areas should not span multiple states, ever.

For a good thought experiment on this idea, go read about "The 38 States" (google it). Some college kids in the 70s came up with this idea to redraw the borders more sensibly so that state borders reflected the local cultures better, and also to reduce the number of overall states for better administrative efficiency. It's only gotten worse since then, with metro areas getting so large and more urbanization of the population.

However, one big problem that would still remain is the urban vs. rural conflict. If we redraw borders so more city-dwellers are concentrated in their own city-states, this will give them less power in the Senate (their power in the House should stay the same as the number of Reps is assigned by population). Honestly, I don't know if that's good or bad. Sometimes I really wonder if we shouldn't just scrap our tricameral Presidential Republic form of government and switch to a Westminster parliament like every other advanced nation has. Those don't have the problem where the executive branch is at odds with the legislative branch resulting in a long government shutdown.
feels pretty and nice. really easy to share files with this too (no more waiting to upload to a host, etc etc)

Once this gets the standard set of features (file selection being the main one for me, since datacaps exist here, and spending 14 GB to watch the first ep and then decide I don't like whatever I'm watching is a bit of a pain) (also compact mode), I think this might very-well become my go-to client
Why are the internet’s worst people so obsessed with the word “cuck?”
Whoops, you're right, I was way off. Thanks for the correction.
That's a terrible system, IMO. Why should we be rewarding B-Ark people while at the same time punishing people who get degrees in Engineering and Medicine? I can understand the logic for tax-supported universities (not necessarily agree, but understand), but this just seems... intellectually dysgenic.
How big is this market? How much could you actually make from this?
There's a simple solution, the Feds should cutoff loans for schools that don't get their students jobs. The government are the only ones that are able to accurately calculate which schools are completely worthless. In fact they should take it one step further and advertise to the whole world what percentage of students get jobs in their studied field and the average starting salary. That would finally put some market pressure on schools to do their damn job and teach useful skills.
You know that you can't connect to normal bittorrent clients from webtorrent in browser right? Which means that you do not have almost any sources of seeders, which means that webrtc adoption dosen't matter.
Hey guys, co-founder of Rendezvoux here. I'll answer questions if you have them.
A big takeaway from this article (for me) is that people are surprised that 17 year old kids don't understand what they're doing when they take out that college loan. Shock and astonishment despite there being little to no preparation for this kind of financial understanding previously in their education. That surprise and shock shocks and surprises me.

Honestly it kind of reminds me of the whole Yelp minimum wage thing. Person knowingly takes a minimum wage job in the most expensive city in the world and is surprised a year later when that wasn't very much money and they're struggling. The simplest cost of living calculations would have said "moving to that city and taking that job is a really bad idea."

This isn't to say that there aren't things that need to change. Education reform is necessary as well as a living wage, but I'd also argue that basic financial literacy is also a requirement for being an adult and should be treated as such.
The article title is misleading. The ST3 package is being put to voters in November, Seattle isn't simply ponying up $50bn. Seattle doesn't have $50bn to put into transit.

Here's more information on ST3:

http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/24/st3-draft-plan-over...

http://seattletransitblog.com/2016/03/31/how-to-fix-st3-so-s...
The companies are probably small, it'd be rare for a large company to be able to pull it off. They probably have most people telecommuting (telecommuting tends to level out executive vs front-line). They necessarily have a higher mix of "senior" people (people who can manage themselves without much management).

The executives do things that directly make money (e.g CTO still codes, CEO still closes deals), even as the company grows (and tend to outsource/offload things that would normally give them more power, but don't contribute to the bottom line). Coders probably work directly with Support and Sales staff and sometimes customers to understand customer problems. On the higher end of revenue/employee and productivity/employee ratio. Company is probably frugal, spending money on things that actually make the company successful, not just look/feel successful.

The company will behave like its small even as it gets bigger. More focused on getting to profitability without raising more money, than on "higher" rounds of funding. Will probably live by "something decent that works now is better than perfect in the future". They will probably be using a boring technology stack because they can't afforce to waste time proving out newfangled stuff (that customers usually don't care about anyways, and certainly won't pay for).

If you think you've found such a company, compare them to the characteristics in "Getting Real" by 37Signals[1], it captures a lot of things that I've seen in these companies. If they even get close to hitting 1/2 of those, good chance it's such a company.

[1] https://gettingreal.37signals.com/
But IPL is used for Hair Removal treatment not a haircut + you need a special gel over your skin to make sure that the beam doesn't burn your skin. You sure about the technology?
I wonder if there is investment vehicle I can short to make some profit if these loans do actually go bad?
First, heat is energy. Second, you can use heat as heat. Third, you can use heat to boil water to turn a turbine to create electricity, which you can use to do very many things, including create heat.
Bare metal is cheaper than cloud (not just AWS), sure. But you also have to know how to do bare metal right - you need the knowledge base, and that is a critical point. You don't want to be training up new developers in how to properly install and monitor raid cards, for example.

But if you only see AWS as "virtualised servers", you're probably not using them to the best you can.
This is more of a pitching tip than a question/feedback, but you talk a lot about what the problem is without really going into what your app does/solution entails. Getting friends together is a pretty obvious problem, and I'd like to know how you're addressing it.
> MySQL is no fun. Choose Postgres or any other decent system, but just steer clear of the damn dolphin.

Ahahahahahahaha. Thank you. That was amusing and also helpful.
This Raspberry Pi-enabled Game Boy is a retro gamer’s dream
I have a computer with hardware that is a couple of years old. The new and improved drivers for Windows 10, which should be compatible with my hardware, work horribly, so I manually installed some older drivers, which work perfectly. However, every once in a while, Windows 10 decides to update my drivers to the new crap drivers, so I have to waste my precious time uninstalling new crap drivers and manually reinstalling good old drivers.

As of yet, I have found no good solution to this problem, if I still want to be able to receive updates for other drivers.
My mortgage has been sold at least 4 times since I got it about 3 years ago. Each time, I get a letter from the old company and the new company. Hopefully, that's what happened here.
That is because they have other debt they are prioritizing over their student loans
> This does not include demanding others support your flight of fancy

100% this. I presume you're talking about the entities who took a bet on foolishly giving out so much money, now expect to be reimbursed for their bad loans, and wish to invoke criminal enforcement for what should remain a civil dispute.
As a non-american, I am stunned - if ridership is only 20%, how on earth are all these people parking their cars in downtown Seattle? Carpark skyscrapers?
Could you please unbreak /ask by moving apply posts elsewhere? /ask is much less useful now.
You instantly lose points for not supporting HTTPs. Not requesting an invite :(
My wife is one of these borrowers. She has a master's degree in teaching. It cost her over $100k to get and she can't find job that would pay her enough that she'd be required to pay anything back. I've seen her loan repayment docs and her minimum payment due is $0 every month. While I think her decision to get a masters in education was a bad one (before we were married) I laugh at an institution that would loan her money for a field that doesn't pay, ask her to pay at least $0 a month and then complain that the loans are not being paid back. I just paid Navient the outstanding $18 they've been bounding her for and plan on paying them nothing again until my houses are paid off.
That doesn't make the problem any less worrisome. Factoring assumes that the company paying for an invoice will have the means to pay off the service rendered eventually (on a net 30/60/90 basis usually). Factoring helps to free up cashflow for the receiver, not necessarily guarantee that a remittance be satisfied. If the core value were the latter, the premiums go up so high that it's not really financially viable for most businesses to use factoring against their receivables. The problem with student debt is default, not cash flow.

Further, the problem isn't the educational institution getting paid, it's the lender (in this case the government, and thus the taxpayers) who lent out money to people without any historical context of their ability to pay off a loan. Hence the quote:

“On what planet does a financing vehicle with those kinds of terms and those kinds of performance metrics make sense,” he said.