skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However strange this might seem on the news site of a Silicon Valley VC hub, this comment is truly worthy of HackerNews.

Thank you, sir, for this insightful post!
What Are You? – Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
> created thousands of small entrepreneurs

Or, in other terms, removed stable jobs from the economy and replaced them with risky ones that require workers to provide their own capital with no promise of reward.

Entrepreneurship in the sense of forcing low-wage workers to provide their own capital and take on a disproportionate share of the risk, while the company itself makes money with relatively little risk, is not a good thing.
Analyzing tech stacks of 150 unicorn startups
Comparing Erlang and Elixir
They're not really that peaked, the M and L cones largely overlap, even, and are spread over at least a third of the entire visible spectrum. Pictures at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell
Well, recruiters are in the unique position of getting to talk to tens (or sometimes hundreds) of candidates a week for any given position, and asking them all a bit about salary usually yields a workable model for the market for any given role.

Some recruiters also have access to data from VCs or from other salary reports (there are a number of good institutions that run compensation surveys - access to these usually costs lots of money). Glassdoor is also a good source of data (sometimes) and PayScale is even better.
I think the most important bit about negotiation that I've learned and read is this: if you're not willing to walk away, your attempts to negotiate will fail. If you're not willing to say "sorry we can't come to a middle ground here" and leave the conversation with no regrets, you'll eventually cave in and lose. (This has been my biggest problem wrt salary negotiations. When I get an offer from a company that I like, I'm almost always unwilling to give it up. Having multiple offers on the table is the best alternative to this.)
> The discoveries in the tomb were prominent news in the 1920s. Tutankhamen came to be called by a modern neologism, "King Tut". Ancient Egyptian references became common in popular culture, including Tin Pan Alley songs; the most popular of the latter was "Old King Tut" by Harry Von Tilzer from 1923, which was recorded by such prominent artists of the time as Jones & Hare and Sophie Tucker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun
Anybody that you can hand a task and then not have to worry about it getting done are solid gold.
Facebook is using smartphones to listen to what people say
The changelog should be a document written by humans for humans.

So you manually maintain the changelog while working on fixes / features and you add any remaining notes just prior to each release.
The original poster was much more apt than your explanation. CMOS sensors in modern cameras actually have arrangements exactly like that on a pixel level. They use filters for each pixel, doubling up on green. With something like this you might be able to combine the filter and the lens.

Your explanation of 'thousands of frequencies' is somewhere between misleading and incorrect. Electromagnetic radiation is a continuous frequency. Our eyes' 'sensors' are not sensitive to exact wavelengths of course, they are sensitive to a range. Some more sensitive to red, falling off into orange, into yellow, into green (as the frequency of light goes up). We are most sensitive to colors in the green spectrum, least sensitive to blue.

Do you know why the sky is blue? It is because of the spacing of ozone particles. It absorbs and reflects higher and lower wavelengths _more_ but red and green light still make it through, as well as UV radiation.
The US is no better. Suppose a Vegas or Austin taxi cab takes the scenic route to the airport. What do you think the odds are of me getting my money back?

http://taxi.nv.gov/Complaints/Complaints/ (Yep, they require the form to be notarized. So consumer friendly.)

If I'm a tall black man, what do you think my odds are of successfully hailing a cab? (Hint: my black male friends in the US often ask me to hail them a cab.)

With Uber, I have full confidence that my complaints will be resolved to my full satisfaction. What regulatory regime do you propose to give me Uber levels of consumer protection if I take a yellow cab?

The fact is that technology + capitalism has solved the market failures that your proposed regulations theoretically address. Uber already does background checks. Uber inspects your car to make sure it's safe and comfortable. Perhaps taxi regulations were once necessary.

But with 2016 technology levels and current market environs, what is the specific problem that you think these regulations will solve, in either NYC or Mumbai?
Somewhat related: any recommendations for a good adblocker I can install on my iPad (where I do most of my casual browsing) as well as my and my girlfriend's iPhones (not as important)?

Or, on that same note, any that I should avoid, for whatever reason?
Seems down from here. Backup link: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304012251/http://www.nhplac...
If that's your takeaway from this article, then I got some bad news for you.

This kind of low-level analysis of programs is incredibly useful, it leads to discoveries of aberrant and often unexpected behaviour.. observing the system calls directly and the structures in their final form passed to the kernel.

You cannot gain this level of insight reading the source code alone, and if you have never stepped outside of your compiler before.. well, you should probably find a new hobby.
Jobs are becoming more unstable, lower paying, higher risk.

If Uber didn't do it, someone else would.

Go into business for themselves? These centralized platforms even set the price on behalf of their "entrepreneurs". They can squeeze providers anytime, as Amazon squeezed publishers, as Apple Facebook and Twitter pushed around app developers etc.

Don't be fooled. This is the dynamic. Centralized platforms squeeze producers and make them compete globally. Jobs shmobs. As soon as self driving cars go mainstream, all those jobs will be gone.

Providers will alwas be squeezed. We as a society should stop expecting everyone to produce in order to not be homeless. There is no economic law that says demand for human labor will always be high. We need to tax the machines to fund unconditional basic income.
This is pretty unfortunate. But we don't know if the company would have done the same for a male.
I did read the article. And while I don't particularly care for ads, I think suggesting they are a "malicious stance against human rights" and that ad-supported media content is an unethical business model is, well, headed well into the realm of the absurd.
Ask HN: How can I better market my JavaScript library
I'm a big fan of building web apps with React/Redux, but I found a number of issues with that paradigm, including excessive boilerplate, indirection and difficulty with code re-use. I wrote an API framework that solves these problems, and I've gotten it to a point where it provides pretty major time/code savings.

I've presented it a few times for groups at my workplace, and I've always gotten a very enthusiastic response. Unfortunately, when I try to promote it online, typically my bounce rate is extremely high (~93%) and the time on page averages about 12 seconds. I get the feeling I'm not communicating quickly enough how much of a time and energy saver the framework is.

I would greatly appreciate if anyone who has had success promoting their library/etc online could take a look at my pitch and give me some feedback for improvement. Ultimately, I wrote it to scratch my own itch so lack of uptake doesn't bother me much, but I think it could make people's lives a little easier.

Links:

http://www.nathan-rice.net/projects/radical/
http://www.github.com/nathan-rice/radical/
The only trouble I have with motorcycles is the safety aspect. My parents were involved in an accident on a two wheeler. I myself have been involved in a rather serious accident but luckily the car took almost all the damage and I escaped with minor whiplash. Its also why I would never drive a coupe other than for pleasure. Statistically, the amount of driving involved with living in most American cities makes it rather likely that one will be involved in an accident.

Apologies, I don't mean to question your lifestyle. I'm merely expressing one of my biggest concerns with driving. Of course the best solution is to not have to drive so much.
Luddites are alive and well into the 21st century
"No doubt"? Really? He's been there 2.5 years which is longer than most founders stay on after acquisition. It's certainly possible he was fired. Maybe even likely. But I certainly have some doubt.
> Won't that just cause all the amoral people in politics to begin promising to raise the basic income more than the next politician will

No, the same as all policymaking now isn't reduced to a race to bribe the populace with tax cuts.
SDGE is offering free Ecobee installs. Check with your local electric company, they might be offering it for free too. We got two units installed and really love it.
You don't just get asked to resign, you get made an adviser for awhile and still paid! Tony will be an adviser for a set period of time and still collect a bunch of money, which will help him save face and probably prevent him from working for other tech companies for a specific period of time. My guess is that he will be an adviser for 1-2 years.
Man, I can't even imagine how much time your script has saved us! Thanks for the awesome work!
You've highlighted Seattle as if it's an example of a terrible place to rely on a motorcycle, but I'd take the rain over snow, ice, and sub-zero temperatures.

I'd be fine with my commute for most of the year. Having to get to work in the winter makes a pretty good case for a car though. And unless there's a bike/motorcycle that will turn into a car for three months of the year, I'm sticking to the one that works year round.
> ... as they can legally get away with.

Can you clarify a bit? I'm not sure what you mean.

An ISP isn't, by law, required to peer with anyone.
If you think taxi jobs are stable and well-paying and don't cost any capital... I've got some bad news for you.
Give yourself permission to fail
https://keen.io/blog/135255657976/permission-to-fail
It varies slightly by state, but many places you can have up to 750-1000 watts and up to 20mph unassisted on flat ground and still have a bicycle, meaning no license or insurance requirement. You'll typically pedal close to 20mph on flat ground. I find these limits to be reasonable.
I've heard that negotiating a higher salary at companies decreases what you can get for bonuses/profit-sharing. Is that true?
This article is super old. Those options are now default, and the overhead is much smaller. (I think even in 2012, we already had 1-word headers.)
I am not joking when I say I don't know a single liberal who has read Rawls or Mill.

In fact it is curious how little 'well educated' people read. They appear to absorb their opinions from Thomas Friedman and George Monbiot as if by osmosis.

That is not to say there don't exist conservatives or libertarians who also do not read books. Certainly I know religious conservatives who read very little outside of the Bible. I just also know a lot of college educated people whose houses are as bare as caves when it comes to books and most of them are liberal. They spend most of their time working long hours or frenetically socializing, not book friendly activities.

My guess is that few of any political conviction go to the source.
J9 has had one-word headers for years now. I think this article was already out of date in 2012 when it was published.
You don't say it for them. You say it for yourself. You have nothing to gain by going around telling everyone you've been fired.
While gzip compression is obviously better than this, which is more of an optimization, you can certainly pair this with gzip to get better results; albeit not much:

Sample JSON Object, using this technique:

>>> Length (Original): 25565

>>> Length (Original, gzip): 3966

>>> Length (Using 90deg): 15626

>>> Length (using 90deg, gzip): 3633

So while the optimization gives you almost 10k bytes in size reduction, the gzipped result is only a 300 byte reduction in this example.
Amazon AWS, please support prepay with credit cards
You said Sweden is socialist sympathizing. I said that Sweden does not implement socialism, but a welfare state. As I understand it, those sympathizers of socialism in Sweden are actually sympathizers of a welfare state, while erroneously calling it "socialism".

This is very different from Latin America, where socialism really means it (see Cuba, Venezuela, for example).

Point taken about Sweden's corporate taxes, though it doesn't detract from the fact that there's nothing socialist about its economy.

China and Vietnam reduce poverty the more they embrace capitalism... Not a coincidence I guess. Even in far from ideal conditions, the presence of an even somewhat free market improves the quality of life of the population.

Trade is beneficial and stopping trade can be used as a weapon. However, what is usually claimed in Latin America is that having trade is the imperialist weapon, which is absurd.

My whole point in this thread is that the people who claim that the US are evil imperialists simultaneously claim Cuba would be better off if not for the embargo. I'm simply pointing out this contradiction.
That's what I initially thought, but time will tell. If the media starts hyping this like the Assange case, then yes, the alphabet mafia may have had a hand... After going through some crap with an outright psychopath working for a non-profit (the signs were there (classic ones), but it took a bit of time to put together a comprehensive picture), I have some insight into how organizations (or groups of humans, fundamentally) tend to deal with this stuff. Tor's terseness does not surprise me - 'he said, she said's never go well and it violates some unspoken social rules.

Giving people the benefit of the doubt, allowing for differences in temperament and personality, amateur psychoanalyzing trying to understand a person, compassion... these are all things normal healthy people do, in the interests of co-operation - which psychopaths consciously take advantage of. And overlooking things because person X is effective at their job... it is the same sort of pragmatism that underlies the legal system - e.g. you may be entirely in the right and the other person in the wrong, but the legal system only cares about money and really, which one has more - and more lawyers. At some point, the rational person decides this is stupid and a waste of time and not worth it to their personal life, especially when society, as complex as it is now, isn't going to care that much about a bad actor unless they are very very notable.

E.g. Bill Cosby still has his supporters and Jimmy Saville got away with all sorts of stuff for years while others consciously looked away - because the cost of standing up and fighting the Establishment wouldn't have been worth it. It's groupthink, plain and simple, and a lot of people can't jump that hurdle.

Eventually, you realise how fundamentally corrupt humanity can be, and become more conservative (re: that quote). But ... if you have integrity, you have to realise why "conservatives" value hypocrisy so much because it is the foundation of power, and then you begin to see the real Truth about the world.
eh, if people are so much against basic income, get those unskilled hands fixing the country infrastructure.

I guess any country has plenty of fixing to do anyway.

most importantly, stop producing unskilled workers. automation isn't going to go away.
"disrupt" is for startups/VC what "beautiful" is for Javascript/CSS frameworks.
Couldn't a smart thermostat end up being cheaper than dirt cheap if it saves you money in the long run?
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Yeah, it seems like launching G+ as a Google integration product to force people into G+ was dumb step one (so G+ wound-up immediately disliked by more people than it was liked, including me as involuntary recruit). It seems like Google's in-practice more draconian real names policy was dumb step two.

The "social must be everything" Mantra that Google was chanting then was annoying and ridiculous. But part of the situation was the company didn't want to just create a useful service for people but rather wanted to impose a situation where people's identities could be monetized by Google.

Facebook has had trouble monetizing their product and I suspect they're safe because every company with the resources to produce a UI and service as useful as Facebook is going to want have such a service impose more conditions, be oriented towards quicker monetization, etc.

Even MySpace could have persisted if they'd focused on providing things Facebook didn't - but no one wanted to extend credit to them to do and creating this stuff apparently costs a lot of money for a significant amount of time.
Ah I see. Well a few years back I heard that OVH is one server provider that looks the other way when it comes to torrents, but I'm not sure if that's still the case.

Another option is to just get a seedbox. You basically get a server running a torrent client that you can access through a web UI. Once you download a torrent, you FTP it over to your machine. Many of these providers can give you amazing bandwidth .

Yet another option is to save yourself the effort and simply get a Usenet account ;)
The biggest one for me: It regularly takes 10+ seconds for the app to load and connect to the thermostat. When it's faster for me to get up and walk to the thermostat than to use the app from another room that's an issue.

Another issue I have is that I can only schedule temps. Auto-away seems to recognize in about an hour that I've left for work, but Away state never shows on the schedule. I leave for work at the same time very morning, I'd like the thermostat to tell me when it thinks I've left so I can adjust it to the correct time and not heat/cool the house for an hour before it realizes I'm gone.

These are minor things, but I paid literally 10x as much as a regular programmable thermostat, I expect a premium experience.
You'll get to know a bunch of small ones if you want them to accept bitcoin.
Currently I use one named vultr.
The 4 year number is mostly from my own experience. I interviewed recently, and my highest offers (after significant negotiation) were

~316k from a public company
290k~350k from a private company, depending on which valuation you use (409a vs preferred)

Again, this is including equity, expected cash bonuses, etc. I have 4~5 years experience and no unique skills.

The key is to get at least 2-3 offers around the same time, do a lot of research, and be mindful about what info you share when negotiating. When a recruiter asks about salary expectations, I think it's good to share a number, but it could be your current salary, a competing offer, or just a (substantially high) target number. And it could be base salary, or blended compensation. Share the bits of info which are most advantageous to you, and keep the rest private.

The new grad and 8 year numbers are from some info friends have shared with me, and some public info (like the spreadsheet that appeared on HN a while ago, and some info individuals have shared on Quora).
So effectively a TOS has no force of law?
You can maybe retain 99.9% of the color information humans can perceive, but that is a very small part of what's in the visible spectrum signal.

Maybe this example will clarify: Our eyes can not tell the difference between monochromatic green light (540nm) and a mix of blue (470nm) and yellow (580nm) light.
I have never used a product like Nest. What is it like for those who are used to? I live in Barcelona and I never seen anyone using a product like that.
> It'll be interesting to see if source/sink channel types ever get retrofitted to Go in a decade or so.

Channels can be designated as receive-only or send-only in variable and function declarations:

ch := make(chan int, 1)

var send chan<- int = ch
var recv <-chan int = ch

send <- 1 // ok
<- recv // ok

recv <- 1 // invalid operation: recv <- 1 (send to receive-only type <-chan int)
<- send // invalid operation: <-send (receive from send-only type chan<- int)
And legal, but that's the common law coming through.
If you don't love what you do you are basically committing yourself to 40+ hours a week of unhappiness. Not to mention the fact that people who love what they do tend to do a better job, and improve more over the long term.

I really encourage you to find a way to view your work that lets you love it, or do something else.
It's frequently used in law contexts as well in American English ("treble damages")
If you're interested in memory layouts in Java, I wrote a blog post recently discussing a way to make super-tight data structures in Java:

https://engineering.vena.io/2016/05/09/transpose-tree/
does quantum mechanics operate so far outside regular physics that even rule 34 doesn't apply?
And you get to keep vesting. There's $$$ in it for you.
> Most Ministers might want there to be sharing options on websites so that citizens can easily promote government on Facebook and Twitter. But the GDS tested this, and found that only 0.1% of citizens

No shit. Every design job I've had ever.
Hey, had a look into the description and my subjective feeling is first two sentences should be really high level. What direct benefit would I get? 50% less time spent on development (making things up now).

My general understanding (not being a javascript expert) is you need really good justification for adding something on top of stuff like react.

Oh forgot to mention, I'm consumer of these things, not creator.
Well it has the word Senior in it, so it seems like an important position /s
Does Uber support wheelchairs and disability accessibility?
Access is explicitly allowed in my region. I'm not going to stop riding because some cyclists are worried. If the law changes, I'll have to reconsider my position.
I don't see any additional information about applying in the HEAD of the page or the response headers.

Can you let me know if I'm missing something re: "How To Apply. We did not make it obvious on purpose. As the first step in the interview process, please use your HEAD to figure it out. :)"
the only real way to market it is to engage with the core react guy and gals, and big players in the community. Get them on board. If they like it, they will tweet about it and spread it. Case studies/real world demos are also helpful.
How you you encode "dimensionless" quantities within such a system?
screens separate out different colors into different areas at a small scale, wouldn't this work here as well?
Myself I'm worth about $120k given my experience, the market I'm in and what is standard for benefits in my area. (Minneapolis/St. Paul) And I have had no issue with that.

The key to me on top of that is that I am satisfied with that salary. It is not one that would make me look elsewhere with any urgency. Yes, I could try to negotiate more, but I feel no need to and believe that if I got more the company would be paying over market value and eventually realize and act upon that.

It sounds to me like you would be comfortable making around $100k and that if the market bears that for your services that is what you should demand. If the market doesn't support that for you, look at raising skills/experience until it does.

The odd thing is how much more you make by switching jobs versus a salary raise at companies. I am typically offered a 3%-5% raise but have typically increased my pay by 10%-20% by looking elsewhere. Companies really should assess the market more often.