skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love this explanation and I think it does a very good job of "stereo-tying" characteristics of people and especially some people I know, work with and even myself.

Especially the half-hearted portion, even at work I'll get a passionate idea, begin implementing it and get some good progress on it. Then one day I'll just not feel as passionate about it or begin doubting the quality of it. Usually through trying to validate it with my peers and not receiving the feedback I had hoped for because they may not be as passionate about it, don't care about whatever it is I'm working on or, In some cases I've gotten the horse in front of the carriage and shown them something that only gives a small picture of the overall end product in my head with them ultimately not being able to see what the final product could be. Not receiving a "job well done" or feeling like someone isn't impressed or doesn't like something I had been so passionate about working on makes it difficult to continue the passion for that project.

All I can do is keep working towards being satisfied and passionate about my own work, try to push myself to keep being passionate and maybe that's all the validation I really need.
How on earth can you make such a statement about a fundamental data structure? Please, take CS101 before you you start throwing these kind of assertions around.
My bet is that it matched the show "Orange is the new Black", seems just like its searching by tags.
Already is! https://office.live.com/start/Word.aspx
What's new here is putting a specific upper bound on the complexity of the problem. A Turing machine using only binary symbols and at most 7,918 states is enough to prove or disprove ZFC.
Why would you send your resume in Word? Also, if you think trusting someone else to negotiate for you will = higher compensation, it probably means you're scared to negotiate for yourself.
+1 to this, I LOVE Outlook on iOS. It's got issues for sure but overall it's the best one I've used, and I've used a lot of them.
Is it not an advantage for average users to be able to do both the front end and back end knowing only a single language?
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>Yet, not having a degree is a detriment to me somehow still. Why? I can't think of a single good reason why so many employers would think that way.

Since employers can't give IQ tests any more, they have come to rely on your college alma mater as a proxy for an IQ test. If you don't go to college, they don't know how you fit in with other candidates.

Yes, college has become a $100k+ IQ test.
If you convert to CSV, emailing the non-payers is a one-liner in Powershell. Even converting the XLSX to CSV is pretty easy with the Excel .NET libraries, and well-documented in blog posts and StackOverflow.

Sometimes, the bigger challenge with automation is getting users to see a service, function, or utility as the underlying algorithms and calls, and not as this immutable black box interface. Once viewed this way, it's easier to separate automation into more easily defined goals.

---

Foreach ($nonpayer in (Import-CSV ("C:\billing\" + (get-date -F MM) + ".CSV") | where {$_.pmt -eq 0})) { Send-MailMessage -from Billing@example.com -to $nonpayer.email -SMTPserver relay.example.com -title " Payment Overdue" -body "Hello $($nonpayer.first-name), your payment for $(get-date -f MMMM) was not received. Please send payment today."};

(I wrote this on the bus on my phone)
Thank you so much! I heard good reviews about Pomodoro Technique, I'll try it absolutely.
OpenSSH client private keys can be stored encrypted - that's what ssh-agent is for: it allows you to enter the key passphrase only once and then remember it for the rest of your desktop session.

OpenSSH server private keys, on the other hand - I don't think that makes a whole lot of sense. Unless you have a threat model that forces you to encrypt the entire server disk, but then adding private key encryption on top of that doesn't make much sense either.
Great work Chris! Looks awesome.
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If you have the time, go to local meetups. They can help you build a solid network and often have information about employers looking to hire. My last two jobs came from networking in this way.
That’s a pretty reasonable argument. Building better train networks between economically linked cities, getting people to choose other forms of transportation for their commutes, giving buses/light rail their own lanes, designing infrastructure to better segregate drivers from pedestrians/cyclists, encouraging car-pooling and use of smaller lighter cars wherever practical, and in general trying to slow down the speed of automobile traffic (ideally all urban driving would be <30 mph if not slower) would save a lot of lives.

Automobiles, while often convenient, are one of the leading causes of death, and we should try to organize public policy around reducing their use and the deaths they cause to the extent possible without overly compromising their convenience.

Reducing the number of automobiles would also have a big positive environmental impact, and reducing the number and widths of roads and parking lots would free up a lot of space which could be used for other purposes. Other forms of transportation also scale a lot better with population density, and denser cities use a lot less other infrastructure per capita.

Once self-driving cars become effective, I have high hopes that they will replace a large proportion of current human drivers, something else which should save many lives.
Goes well with your name :)
Too bad there is nothing on the cams right now.

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As someone who has never heard of Elixir/Phoenix, why do you think it's the future. What does it do better than Rails? I'm looking to start a new web application, and I'm open to new technologies.
The fact that Walmart generates much more burden than similar competitors, but the same amount of tax revenue, is kind of alarming.

This feels like a fairly successful attempt to push private costs onto the public. Of course Walmart doesn't deserve to be robbed, but when they create the kind of environment where theft is easy and common, it also doesn't feel right for the taxpayer to be on the hook. If they had more employees patrolling aisles or more security, there'd be less cause for police to get involved. But that would cost Walmart money instead of the city.
People use github over bitbucket if they like the features that github provides, the diffs, issues etc. Not sure which features are unique to github alone, but each provider (including gitlab) has their own flavor. Many are just used to github flavor.
It's small enough to get a rough feel for how complicated a module would be. It's small enough that it's like "hello world" - test your toolchain (etc) install. It's simple enough to start understanding the process without having to read a bunch of docs. It's straight-forward, so there's no need to both puzzle out the module interface AND someone's module logic.

There are probably plenty more reasons I'm not thinking of ATM.
I was the CTO of a web-scale search engine, and now I work on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I'm not referring to things I noticed as a web end-user.
This is just a recipe for massive confusion though.

You're saying if I click on a link with an IRI in a non-UTF8 html page, it means one thing.

But if I copy and paste that link into a text file, and later paste it into a browser, it'll mean something else entirely? Or if I save it to a bookmark using some service?
Well, I will say that this is a good thing, because when we had paid for ~20 repos at a last company, and eng made a new repo - number 21, that was then made public by default as we were out of private repos. FUCK THAT.

He made a mistake and checked in (yes this is on him) an AWS access and secret.

Within hours we have 1,500 machines launched in every region doing bitcoin mining....

Making a repo "public by default" is pure BS.
You have a point there, but I do wonder if this is inevitable, or if (1) the language does make a difference in that regard and (2) the community can help steer newcomers in the right direction and establish best practices, standards of quality, etc. etc. (cf. Clojure?)

As a side note, I feel like this has happened to some degree to the React ecosystem. I can no longer count on packages to be of decent quality.
This disclaimer needs to be included in any conversation about this study. In the same week that John Oliver ranted on the dangers of misleading scientific studies[1] we see headlines like "Medical error in hospitals is the third leading cause of death in the U.S." with no mention of the fact that this study qualifies an "error" as anytime a doctor isn't a perfect healing machine.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
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Sunrise, sunset?
Would a dynamically linked, system-wide Electron installation help with the extensive resource usage of Electron apps? It would decrease the installation size but what about the runtime performance?
I wish there was something like it just for Calendaring though. Especially on the desktop. For email I'm already using Polymail full time and it's a hassle to have two email clients just for calendar.
Businesses like bars are regulated more stringently because they are particularly burdensome to the community in terms of crime, law enforcement. So, there are precedents.
In the case of the $0.98 cent drink, CLEARLY, the $1230.00 cost in working the case and holding the accused/guilty is NOT cost effective.

Only Walmart and private prisons benefit from this; everyone else is worse off.

There must be a more effective solution.

Not just a 'better quality of "neighborhood"' at Walmart, but for our society as a whole.
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Sorry for the rough edges - we care very deeply about our UI and spend a lot of our time trying to make this stuff better.

If you ever want to send me an email about UI weirdness in Upverter Im happy to share your feedback with the team here and see what we can do to fix it: zak@upverter.com.
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> What, exactly, should Walmart's response to shoplifting be? The article seems to make a point of the low dollar-value of some of the items stolen vs. how much the police spend arresting the subjects. I fail to see why the value of the stolen goods matters from a illegality perspective; it's not like Walmart can punish the shoplifters themselves.

Honestly, shoplifting and other small scale financial crime committed by individuals who are not conspiring, should be largely considered in financial terms.
Could the troublemakers simply be attracted to Walmart and would go elsewhere if things were different? Walmart might even be doing the police a favor by concentrating them all in one place.

I think it's a journalistic failure that this simple explanation has not been addressed in what is a very long, biased article (they didn't even ask Walmart for comment as far as I can see).
Generally, I agree with what your statement. If you sexually harass others in your personal life, and your employer finds out about it, it's prudent to manage them out.

In this case, the employee handled the unwanted advances herself, and later told the OP about it. It's not clear if the female employee felt that it was "rude sexual advance" since to her it was "no big deal."

From the EEOC:

> Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious, harassment is illegal when it is so frequent or severe that it creates a hostile or offensive work environment or when it results in an adverse employment decision (such as the victim being fired or demoted).
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It would be interesting to also see YC's perspective on the idea/company/founders. Why did you choose to fund them?
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I guess the hard part is to find something complex enough that you'll get motivated and simple enough that you can get done on your own in the free time you have. And software is pretty good at teaching you how complex simple things can be.
Inexperienced programmers naively believe that about all string input, so the fact they believe it about names isn't particularly interesting.
This isn't entirely true. People have been making good money for ages in specialized trades (electricians, plumbers, etc). However, it's arguable that their apprenticeship is equivalent to a degree. In addition, there are plenty of people in technical fields who manage to make up for education with self-teaching and real world experience. This probably becomes an obstacle when applying for jobs through automated HR systems, but I've noticed that those aren't nearly as useful as networking and knowing people anyway.
I'm ashamed I didn't know the origin, definition of neoliberalism. Ignorant me thought it was something like "new-liberalism" even though it was used in contexts where maybe something like "libertarian fruitopian Freedom Markets (tm) Murica!" seemed more appropriate.

TIL neoliberalism means laissez faire economic liberalization a la Reagonomics and Thatcherism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
I have ideas and know how to program but lately I'm not feeling the passion that I used to have. I think I won't start anything unless I'm part of a hard working team that cares enough too =/
A language with more strictly enforced interface inheritance would probably require a more, uh, deliberate intent to stick an electrical outlet into pig's snout, but you could probably still go ahead and do this if you were really hellbent on it.

I will concede that duck typing allows you to do this sort of thing more casually, though.
Assuming, of course, that there are companies you want to work for locally.
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This helps as a clarification. But doesn't help for usage. I was happy about the unlimited repos feature, and willing to pay the surplus. But if an outside collaborator with access to one repo out of 100s of ours must count towards headcount, that's a pretty useless model for us.
I'm all for validating software. But it's difficult and we're exceedingly bad at it, and imo this problem is orthogonal to validating other users on social networks.

If your argument is "let's not trust Whatsapp", then it helps not to confuse it with discussion about QR codes.
The problem is not C# or .NET. The issue is Entity framework. Either stop being scared of using SQL and use something like PetaPoco or stop trying to turn objects into records and use Mongodb and just store the damn objects.
If Oracle wins this piece of brain damage then you will see every legal troll in existence coming out of the woodwork to claim ownership of APIs and how others are using them.
I've also got Outlook open, so that's at least 25.
Each approach comes with its benefits and challenges. I would never suggest anyone jump right to a microservice architecture if they haven't come to appreciate the problems posed by a Rails-type design.

One aspect I keep hammering on about with regard to microservices is reusability. If you're developing just one user-facing product, nevermind. But if you have a bunch of products, reusability across microservices is a huge boon compared to monoliths. Reuse all your job processing, notifications, data storage, login/auth/group/role/permission management, identity verification, image processing, NLP processing, feed processing, etc. etc. etc. across your entire stack.

With monoliths, the only other option is to build these as libraries, and unless you want to write bindings or write code more than once, you're now chaining yourself to a specific language.
> CLEARLY

I disagree. It's the most cost effective method that we have that prevents stores becoming a free-for-all for shoplifters. This response serves to prevent other, similar crimes. Hidden from the cost of this is the saving society gets by crime not being worse. Higher shoplifting rates would mean higher prices for everyone because stores' security costs would be much higher.
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The problem being that a minor volunteer who donates 4 hours of coding over the course of a year would now incur a $108 github bill for having that access. It's totally out of proportion with how much they're using the service.

Or say you have 80 very-part-time contributors who together match the output of 1 full-time employee, github is going to charge you as much as they would for 80 full-time employees.

Any pricing structure is going to have some people who get a great deal and other people who get screwed, but it sucks when you've selected a platform, invested in getting set up on it, and then have the pricing rug pulled out from under you.
Can the 'internet of moving things' end traffic jams?
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How blatant.
hired.com worked pretty well for me too
trust your gut. they're sales people, not technical people, so judge them by the appropriate metrics. i.e.:

are they putting you in front of the right companies? are they asking you questions about your needs? are they pitching you on the job (it should be worthy of a pitch), as well as vice versa? are they working with the right hiring budget?

these are the basic questions you use to judge the quality of a sales person. they have to "get it" on a relationship level, not a technical level.
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I wonder what kind of effect that will actually have, given the stark divide in retirement preparations. On the one hand, we have a lot of people who have little retirement savings, who play a small role in the markets and will delay retirement (or just never do it). On the other, we have some people with well-planned retirement accounts. I would not be surprised if a fair number of the latter have planned to live only on the proceeds of their investments. That will introduce some bias towards dividends over reinvestment, I suppose. This is speculative, granted.
I also use Bitbucket and am very pleased with it. It seems like their model is that bitbucket is well integrated and complements their paid products like JIRA and Teamcity, so they are not depending on free users to upgrade like github needs to, so it seems more likely to be sustainable.
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Disclaimer: I've used recruiters to find every job I've had other than the first one

So have I. I really don't get the whole "I hate recruiters" thing. Sure there are crappy ones. Tell them you found a job if you don't want them spamming you any more.

To me, a recruiter is a tool: I tell them the kind of work I want to do, the salary I want and where I want my career to go. Then we discuss the leads they have and why I do/don't want them. If it's not working out, we end the relationship. If they aren't sending me good leads, I find another recruiter: it's not like they're hard to find. However, if they can listen and fine tune the leads, I have found that they are a great way to help me understand what I want in a job.

Last time I was looking, my recruiter (nice company: took time to understand me, bought me lunch at a nice restaurant, etc.) pointed out that he was finding tons of jobs that my skills matched, but none that paid as much as I wanted. I remembered that my current job was partially technical leadership, and that gave him the insight to look at a slightly different category and he found me a great fitting position shortly afterwards.
I suppose neither of us can assume.
slightly off-topic, but "amazeballs" is a terrible terrible word :-/

on-topic: Why did you only include one company in this post? Are you going to reveal one daily or something?
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Music isn't art. It's a tool to solve a problem. Not knowing what to compose is a solution looking for a problem. Generate ideas by getting out into the real world and finding out the pain points in life. Compose scores to accentuate those problems. Preferably, pick a problem which people are willing to pay money to have portrayed musically.

Still not thinking of anything? Go outside and play until you find something.
There's a difference between me calling you a DILF either in jest, as an actual compliment or because I want to see how you react than repeating it ad nauseam.

Also you seem to be imagining that everyone's doing this during working hours and that there's no context to the comments. If I just walked into work and started yelling such things at people, I imagine folks would quite rightly pause, but the "had success" point was that there is obviously situations where this is appreciated.
I have to say I'm loving reading the thoughtful and insightful comments on this thread.

With any programming language and/or framework you have to pick your poison. Rails backloads a lot of big development obstacles that ultimately you may never actually encounter in the life of your app. The issue regarding gems can be aggravating. But the speed in which you can get your app built cannot be understated. Rails is not a one size fits all, and you might eventually outgrow rails (i.e. Twitter). Be grateful the framework got you to the point you could outgrow it, rails helped you get there.
Is Agora Energiewende still counting ethanol as "renewable"? Any article about German energy that doesn't mention the country is following the same disastrous path (of fulfilling new energy demands, caused by the loss of nuclear, by moving the energy sector inefficiently to agriculture) that the US took in the Bush years is negligent.
This is becoming a tiring pattern.

I've just gotten used to the UI.

Can anyone commit to building a proper business? Is Sustainability no longer a virtue of creating a service/application?
Regarding a parts concierge for Kicad / Eagle. We've built this for Altium, you can see it here: https://upverter.com/features/concierge-altium/

We hadn't planned on supporting either KiCad or Eagle though. We didn't think there was much of a market. Im curious what you all think - do you think people would be willing to pay for parts creation as a service for either kicad or eagle? Also don't you think there would be a flame-war of the FOSS Kicad crowd vs. proprietary pay-to0use parts data?
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It's pretty easy to filter out the bad recruiters (I call them keyword monkeys), though.

I have about half a dozen recruiters I trust. All of them contacted me with a cold call email after finding me in LinkedIn or elsewhere.

Yes, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty bad, but you can essentially pattern match the good from the bad really easily based on the emails they're sending out. The bad ones look like templated emails. The good ones send personal emails clearly not sent to anyone else.