skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a dad to a young family (2 kids under 3.5 and another due in two months) working remote (in our case all four of us that started our current company live in different cities) has been awesome. I just hit a year last week, I did it for two year about seven years ago as well (but I travelled 50%).

The key for me has been that I actually have a Regus office I go to, not just a space in the house- mostly because my kids are too young to get that dad's working.

My office is a 10 minute bike ride or 3 by car so I come home for lunch, take the kids to mid-day mid-week swim lessons, and basically have no problems with making appointments anymore. I run home frequently if the wife has an appointment, or sometimes just to clear my head and hang out.

I never bring my laptop home and I'm home before its dark now. Usually by 16:30, if I need to have a long day I'm in the office by 04:30 or 05:00. I go to bed a little early the night before and I add the hours to the beginning of my day and make sure I get home before dinner.

Most mornings I get to see the boys, help get them ready, make breakfast and hang out for a bit before I'm in the office. I also get to the gym at least 4 days a week and have lost 30 pounds in the last year while probably ACTUALLY working more hours per week.

I don't think I could ever go back to working like how I used to. I would leave the house at 05:30 to commute downtown. Get to the office by 6:15ish, and no matter what I did I couldn't seem to get out of the office before 17:00- meaning I got home between 18:00 and 19:00 depending on awful Seattle traffic.

I loved the people I worked with at my last company and I do miss seeing them every day, we still get lunches occasionally (I have to go to them, naturally) but I could never go back to a 'normal' office routine.
How to set up cron job for EasySocial? What cron job setting shall I use?
He knows the importance of image and says all the right things to tug at your heart strings... they're fighting global warming, they're helping single moms, and they're running a startup-like environment unlike the other big evil corporations.
Outperforming the market in bear years is the main reason in keep some of my money in managed funds.
Come on, that headline is pushing the bounds of credulity.
Perhaps a link like this is appropriate in this case:

http://nullrefer.com/?https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-wou...
How about we simply change 'show' to 'tell'. That should make it ok.
I cancelled it because Amazon's abusing their position. Refusing to sell Chromecast and Apple TV, then lying, repeatedly, about the reason when asked?

I've been an Amazon customer for 13 years. I was rather annoyed to see them go with the anti-Wikileaks and try to be "sensitive" by banning certain cultural items. But this shows they've zero commitment to selling products customers want.

Edit: And it really hurts. Some times I buy stuff from Amazon every day of the week. I've tried Jet.com, which is just a poor experience. I hate to cry antitrust but Amazon really dominates in any usable online sales env, it seems.
I agree. I think these lines are directly related to the NYT controversy:

"""
If it’s a distinctive culture, it will fit certain people like a custom-made glove. The reason cultures are so stable in time is because people self-select. Someone energized by competitive zeal may select and be happy in one culture, while someone who loves to pioneer and invent may choose another.
"""
Same! I kept reading and re-reading trying to find who did something offensive.
For what it's worth, Germany also has Prime Video.
This is just how Jeff Bezos writes those letters, and those letters need to be written regardless of if the public is currently discussing of how poorly Amazon treats its employees or not.

The last part about "pioneering new programs" though, that's very likely related to the public's new awareness of how frustrating it is to work there.
There's 13 domains want to run JavaScript in that page.

And 16 cookies, which include 10 different advertisers.
Bad example. New factory is an asset, not an expense. Therefore it will have little impact on profitability.
It's really not about establishment, except for a particular few people. Informative opinions that are "out of the norm" will get upvotes, almost always, as long as they're written in a kind manner. They'll be downvoted first, and get a massive corrective upvote stream.

I feel like you're looking at commenting wrong here. You're not doing battle with people. Yes, sometimes you get downvoted "incorrectly", there are always stray votes in either direction. But I've found that politeness and care have always received upvotes, no matter what position stood behind them.

Maybe it's... a personal issue? I don't want to insult you, but being overly combative definitely garners downvotes.

PS: take note that you can't downvote a comment that is in reply to you. :)
The fee is getting paid somehow - either by you up front, as a subscription, or for "free" built into the cost of the item.
How would that kill us all?
The rise of two-earner households caused more concentration of employers in urban areas. If there is only one earner, you move close to that earner's job. If there are two earners, both need to be able to get to work reasonably. Thus, there is a network effect for employment.
That's essentially what people are doing already with script tags, except they're not declaring their dependencies anywhere.
If you read around the threshold is 12-15M, though that doesn't affect the validity of your point.
Titles can be hand-wavy things at best even in large companies. Currently working for a large multinational company, and looking at the org chart makes my head spin.

Even the people in my own team have wildly different titles.
US military christens self-driving Sea Hunter warship
Make it 8. The Government is obligated to find something to do for all of it citizens (that require it) for 1 day per week and no one starves.
Where should I start if I want to contribute ?
BAFTA is British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
some thoughts:

1) it seems that the accuracy of an estimate is inversely proportional the length of time for which it applies. In my experience engineers aren't too bad at estimating if a task can plausibly fit into a two week sprint

2) I think the boss should be taking an active part in the estimation process, not just asking "how many hours/days".

When I estimate with my teams I try to say "given x,y,z and the current state and that A,B,C blocks are not quite understood can this item reasonably be completed within our sprint"

..then we play poker / vote / comment etc. If the item isn't plausible for a sprint I'm (likeaboss) going back to the drawing board on that item to define it better and get it into more manageable pieces (consulting the team as needed)

We're striving to make sure work items are defined well enough to be fairly confident they can be done in a short amount of time.
It's always something unexpected. You can only prepare for things you can imagine.

In hindsight, you realize you care deeply about some particular aspect you carelessly glossed over in the beginning.
Seconding all of this except for the end, where you have to be careful:

>Then dig into the search and SEO blogs as you need to dig deeper.

I'd recommend this for a marketer who works with other smart marketers.

If you're starting out all alone, it's very hard to tell what advice is reasonable. Search blogs can be the biggest piles of festering crap.

You pretty much can't go wrong with Moz though. You can find all the basics and plenty of the advanced info on the Moz blog.

Also, just don't do anything that seems spammy, ever. Tell people why your products are good, and use words that are similar to what someone would type in to find those products.
"Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws." --Rothschild since 1744
Actually that is pretty sane and toothless. It does nothing about strong codes, strong pass-phrases, oob exchanged keys and so on.

The design limitation clause is pretty strong.

If just enables removal of artificial security enhancements.
Amazon OSS – Coral and ION
As an ex-amazonian I was always baffled why Amazon never open sourced Coral and Ion.

Considering the popularity of AWS if would seem like the last tick on the list to get people locked in (imagine easy interopt with IAM etc..)

Seems like a market that Twitter was able to capitalize with the release of Finagle.
Hulu “Favorites” has been broken for days [link requires login]
The problem is if you don’t get the corporate and personal income taxes approximately equal is you end up with people basically running everything through a company. The nice thing about franking credits is they work like a LLC in making corporate income tax a pass-through structure to the shareholders.

At the moment US companies don’t seem to be constrained by lack of capital, more a lack of profitable investment opportunities due to weak consumer demand. I ams sure making the 0.01% richer will help solve this.
I've always felt that a company should either do one of two things... pay out dividends, or re-invest and grow... Amazon is a model company in that regard. Companies that sit on funds, shift them to other countries, and the like are bad actors, they don't serve the public or their investors.

A growing/spending company improves society and investors are rewarded with more valuable stock. A divident paying company rewards investment directly, and allows for that capital to be re-invested or otherwise spent. Corporations sitting on funds serves nobody. As it is, Amazon does the former... which grows the company and increases stock value over time. It's a strategic methodology for the long term health of the company.

I always get a little irked when I see suggestions that they should be doing XYZ to maximize shareholder profits in the near term... that's stupid for any large company that wants to stick around.
Am I the only one who read "Type I and II decisions" and thought "System I and II decisions" (from Thinking, Fast and Slow?). I like the idea of distinguishing reversible from irreversible decisions, I just wish he'd come up with better names...
Having worked with some physicians on AF diagnostic instrumentation, I took away that an outsized difficulty in this diagnosis is patient compliance. One doc called it a "one shower" problem; very many patients would wear holters as prescribed until they needed to take it off, and then fail to don it again. Clearly this is an issue when hunting for an infrequent arrhythmia, and it seems that the comfort and ease of use of the device are inherent to the problem.

From what you're gathering, do you imagine an eventuality in which a medical device can take a form factor similar to these popular consumer choices and provide a signal of diagnostic quality? Or do you think PPG-style sensing is limited to a fundamental degree of uncertainty with respect to arrhythmias?
Ask HN: What's your preferred toolset for developing desktop GUI applications?
I'm an C++ embedded firmware developer day to day, also competent with Python/Javascript. I've been working on a nodejs website for the past year or so, so I've got a feel for designing basic web gui's with HTML/CSS/JS.

For my next project I was thinking about trying to build a touch friendly code editor/browser. I've never built a desktop GUI application before, so I thought it might interesting to see what most people in the community prefer to use. I'm working on Windows, but cross platform capability would be ideal.

From my preliminary investigation, QT seems to be the standard choice. I'm not sure how suitable it is for a touch friendly application. Electron also seems like a possibility, though I've read it can be slow and resource hungry.

What do/would you use?
Stallmans letter to Amazon customers:

https://stallman.org/amazon.html
Doubtlessly many GIMP haters, myself included, are frustrated because GIMP made many UI decisions that are incompatible with Photoshop without offering any compelling improvement. For example, zoom in PS is ctrl-minus and ctrl-equals, whereas in GIMP it is minus (no ctrl) and plus (aka shift-equals). This change is very annoying because zooming is one of the most common actions in photo editing and becomes part of your muscle memory. This design choice, and many others in keyboard shortcuts, menu layouts, etc. contribute to a feeling that GIMP tried to break compatibility with Photoshop on purpose for no reason. It feels like GIMP is actively hostile to Photoshop users. It also feels like the GIMP developers were very arrogant to think that following their design whims was more worthwhile than being compatible with a well-loved industry standard program.

For serious photo editing, GIMP is completely useless because it lacks the Adjustment Layers feature that is critical for non-destructive editing, and it did not even support 16-bit color until a few months ago.

GIMP is one of the huge failures in open-source software IMO. They should have just made a Photoshop clone.
Frankly, I think the rapid ride buses in seattle are a huge win, and I think you really have to try them to see it. The couple of lines I'm familiar with (D and E) form a very nice (and fast) north-south backbone that meets up with east-west lines in some really strategic spots. They bypass a ton of traffic due to judicious use of bus-only lanes. I used to ride an "express" bus that practically dropped me off door-to-door with only three stops in between, and recently when I missed the last one, I used the rapid ride as a workaround, expecting it to totally suck because it involved using a regular bus and a transfer. Well, due to the speed of the rapid ride, my two-bus trip actually beats my one-bus "express" route by nine minutes. I've since tried the other rapid ride backbone combined with a short regular bus jaunt and it also compares favorably to the express route. No, they're not trains. But they're here right now, and very little infrastructure actually needed to be added to support them.
Even the text of some are pretty much as expected. It seems that they have a patent on single page applications (SPAs) to-a-T [1], elaborating that an application may use mechanisms like XHR and append an identifier to the fragment portion of the URL to keep history.

Even if I subscribed to the idea that this was without prior art on the web in 2009, equivalent functionality already existed in desktop applications. To claim that it is a novel invention because it now works on a web page is disheartening. It's exactly this kind of behavior--claiming new ownership based on each abstraction--that leads to restrictions in some countries on patents which can only exist in software.

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US20110055314
You're mostly right, but there are enough differences between strains of cannabis that while not quite the same, it's more like a doctor talking over whether Lorazepam or Xanax would be better for you. Dispensaries do probably take it too far, but I haven't been to any.

Even for those who use "recreationally", there are different goals. Some people use it to sit on the couch and watch netflix. Some use it to clean their bathrooms. Some use it while snowboarding or rock climbing. A lot of people use it to self-medicate anxiety and other issues. And different strains can be better for each of those.

As much as there may be a difference in flavour for wines, they all get you drunk the same way. Not so with cannabis.
That's not what I've heard. A quick search found me this:

> The company loses an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion on Prime shipping annually

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-free-shipping-killing-am...

Amazon wants market share enough to absorb a loss on shipping costs. It's part of why Amazon is still not profitable.
Can't we fix/configure it in /etc/sysctl.conf
There is a tag on some Github issues "good first bug" that should be a good start.

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Ao...

I think a lot of the core folks also hang out on IRC at #reactjs on freenode.
I tust turned a year working remotely and have a 3.5 year old and an 18 month old. I knew from the get go it would be impossible to work from home and rented an office space as close as possible to home. Less than a 5 minute drive, or a beautiful 10-15 minute bike ride along a river.

I get to be home throughout the day as much as I want to be, I can be home in a moment's notice. But more importantly I can concentrate or take a phone call without the crashes, cries, and screams. I couldn't get ANYTHING done from home if I tried. Maybe when they're older/in school. Until then it's $800/mo well spent.

I wouldn't trade my current situation for an office job, it's the best setup I've ever had and the whole family is a lot happier since I switched to this- but it would be a different ballgame if I was home like you. I couldn't do it, I'd go crazy.
It would mean no rain was falling anywhere in the Amazon basin, which would imply some really messed up weather :)
Ask HN: Is GitHub down right now?
The website is returning 500 errors, and I can't push to my repository.
NSA sends drone strikes on people and villages based on metadata. How do I use Signal without exposing metadata to Google? It's metadata what counts, not content. So why hide context and purposely expose all metadata to Google and NSA?
Show HN: MAME wrapper which downloads from archive.org
Mossack Fonseca -- simple explanation
What we know is that they have had websites unpatched for years on the same network as their email server. What's more likely:

- Mossack Fonseca while being completely incompetent in patching their websites have actually built and maintained an internal network where the servers trusted each other more than external traffic

- They simply didn't patch their email server as well and someone just broke into that directly.
irregardless of the coverage this has gotten.. author's request should honored

how can it be deb stable if the author is getting spammed about issues.

kind of seems to be at odds with the best things about Debian.
Still very relevant: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...
Morpheus on the multiplayer demo sold it to me. Loved instagib games.
I've been using it for years now and it's great. Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters, up to and including TV stations such as the German ZDF or the French Arte.

To fully use its features you should install ffmpeg though. Youtube-dl will automatically use it if it's in the PATH, and then can download Youtube videos with higher frame rates and resolutions (they store video and audio in separate files, and ffmpeg is used to mux both together). ffmpeg is also required to download from some streaming video hosters.

For me it's essentially:

youtube-dl -F '<url>'

to get the list of available video and audio formats, followed by

youtube-dl -f <video format>+<audio format> '<url>'

and then wait for the download to complete. And

youtube-dl -U

to self-update youtube-dl (because it gets updated just about every day).
Nice, good to know about that.

It would be pretty amusing if HN put in a special case to use this for links to jwz.org.

BTW if you use https, i.e. https://nullrefer.com/?http://www.xhaus.com/headers there won't be any Referer at all, while http://nullrefer.com/?http://www.xhaus.com/headers will show nullrefer.com as the referrer.
We venerate leaders like Churchill and Roosevelt because they inspired millions of individuals to act directly against their self-interest and in favor of the organizations that those leaders own and manage. "We will fight on the beaches" sure sounds inspiring, but if it was my intestines bleeding out onto the sands of Normandy, at that exact moment, it wouldn't have quite the same ring. Yet these inspiring words still convince millions to follow them, and so we have warehouse workers dropping from heat stroke and programmers sacrificing their personal life to fix that bug into the late hours, all so people like Bezos can live the high life, rake in millions, and write some pithy emails. Works for them I suppose, and it seems to be human nature for such type of organizations to arise and dominate. Amazon is a great company that makes a lot of money, no doubt about its success. Me? I'll try to keep my intestines _inside_ my stomach.
> found himself trapped between his commitment to software freedom and his commitment to keeping his users secure.

It's more about the spam for already-fixed features than the love of keeping users secure.

jwz also isn't exactly fair in his characterisations in the article. Things like "taking advantage of a creator's work, ignoring their wishes, and giving nothing back in return." when the explicit problem is that they're giving back, just not in the right manner. That's just the way jwz rolls, though...

It would be wrong for debian to remove the warning, though, since it's there specifically for debian users; they're not 'collateral damage' from an unrelated change or similar.
I know a lot of people who have left Amazon, and are very bitter about how it was to work there. I know some who are waiting out their signing bonus. I also know a lot who've left Microsoft, but they definitely have a lower average bitterness about the company.
Climate Change = Fear-mongering. Remember 15 years ago the way people were predicting foot to meter per year seawater rise? It's a miracle the Empire State Building isn't underwater already as some predicted. There's been no global warming for over a decade. All of those models used to predict disasters that never happened turned out inaccurate and wrong. But that doesn't stop corrupt organizations who have perverted "science" from continuing to use these "theories" for their political ends.

Ocean levels have been rising for thousands of years and will continue to do so until the next ice age (barring human intervention to prevent it from occurring - might be a good thing?), so NASA would be wise to use technologies such as levies to prevent flooding of their facilities. They might've been even smarter to build them at higher elevation to begin with.
https://status.github.com
I haven't tried anything outside of Qt, but I thought I'd mention that it is touch-screen friendly. You can get a CSS/JS-like way of creating and describing GUIs using QML, and Qt supports multi touch events.
Not sure what you mean by hard-coded penalty but there are two classes of sites (called lightweight and midweight) whose submissions get penalized by default because of too many lightweight stories in the past. Not necessarily bad content, just content that doesn't fit the HN guidelines. Reddit's great of course—it's just that sometimes (well, usually maybe) HN isn't the best vessel for its greatness.

Most major media websites are in one of these categories. Moderators take the penalties off when we see a solid submission, and there are other ways that the software interprets community input to mean that an article might be better than usual and lifts the penalty.

We were nervous about making heavier use of this technique, but there were so many complaints about fluff articles making the front page that we had to do something, and banning major sites that sometimes produce excellent-for-HN articles wasn't an option. By now the current approach has been in place for a couple of years and it has worked out pretty well. Those complaints will never go away but they're at a more manageable level.
The issue is Amazon stock is very expensive when compared with other companies.

Walmart's market cap is ~250B, whereas Amazon is $350B.

Amazon had $100B sales last year, Walmart had $500B.

If Amazon can generate profit at the same rate as Walmart then Amazon needs to get to $700B in sales for that valuation to make sense...

If Amazon double's in value again it would have to have sales representing 10% of US GDP at the same profitability level as Walmart.

Smells like a speculative bubble to me.
Chromium still phones home to Google...
SQL complete does this nicely, although I gather it is a little expensive