skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, find out what the company policies are. Those might trump the job posting if they really want you.
Happy?

My favorite quote from a Dennis Leary standup and I think his best recorded routine.

“Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list! ”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffrOovd741s

I guess he's saying it's the little things.
Oh no, I love (most of) ES6 and enjoy it when something shows green on caniuse. But I dropped Babel/Webpack from my build and (personally) determined that not needing to deal with configuration, deprecation, etc. messages in my terminal was worth the +0.005s to initial render and using <script> tags in my index.html file.

That being said, I'll likely give this a spin tonight for somerandomcrappyidea.js and provide you guys some feedback. Unfortunately, my work at Google has me more focused on Angular so I don't have as much time as I'd like to work on React applications. =<

As an aside, thanks for the work you've done on Redux and the talk that you gave at Hack Reactor!
Right, I thought it was clear from context that I was referring to the defaults frontpage.
WeWork evicted a startup after it published a negative blog post about it
That article is making a different mistake. It is looking at market cap versus total assets. That isn't a very good measure and does not mean investors place negative value on the core business. Yahoo's book value is only about $27B, which is the amount that would be left if the company were liquidated today (notwithstanding liquidation costs). Since their price/book ratio is greater than 1 it means investors do put value on the future business, albeit not very much.
As corporate copyright laws converge to more global uniformity, we're only going to see more resilient and ephemeral networks and data stores, esp as the technical means to do such expands to more and more people.
Not sure if you're familiar with the news guidelines, but here's a relevant entry:

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
THW global Заполняем новую анкету Без вложений
Visual Basic was a success until Microsoft killed it.

Remember when you could write HTML with a WYSIWYG editor?

Most sites can be built with Wordpress.

The hosting side of things is mostly automated and becoming more standardized.
I am making serious mental contortions to try to figure out how a grammatical term about the structure of sentences can be synonymous with a unary function and I just can't do it.
It seems pretty clear that the instance of the word that inspired that discussion took the computer science definition and mistakenly expanded its definition.
If it's not too far from the area you work in you should be more understanding of the engineering challenges here.

We can't clock these things faster like we used to in the days of 6Mhz CPUs. We can't shrink feature size since 10nm is proving to be a difficult node to crack. We can't jam more features onto the die since we're already producing some of the largest possible dies.

The easy gains are gone. Now we're stuck dealing with the hard stuff. Gains will be slower.
Ads!

Both the adoption of android and iphone apps are ad driven, and the pros absolutely know this. So if you're starting out, you buy cheap ads. Think of all those ad supported free apps. They are the cheap ad ecosystem. If you've made it to the big leagues, you buy expensive ads. Think high production TV ads during prime time with Arnold Schwarzenegger. There is a reason there are so many app commercials on TV all over the world. They work.

Despite all the innovation driven rags to riches mythology, and although you do need an awesome app that meets the bar first, the app game is practically a marketing budget slugfest. Google and Apple provide no other options.
Berlusconi was worse. Italy somehow survived.
The referenced blog post was submitted to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12124731) and I asked where OP got the data. OP dodged the question.
Nowadays I almost always use both data.table and dplyr together in my projects. It's a really expressive combination.
I'm 27, have had a great job for three years and very recently dropped into this weird "stuck" state that feels similar to what you're describing. I feel like a robot that gets up every day, goes to work, goes to bed, repeats.

I don't think the answer is the same for everyone, but my best times have been when I was helping someone accomplish their dream company/project/etc. Self-employment wasn't fulfilling for me in the way I had hoped, but sticking with someone who has a great vision for something and being their support really helped me to feel momentum for myself. Doesn't matter if I was making lots of money, or just following the project and offering my opinion when asked.

My advice would be to seek out an opportunity, however small, to find something that has meaning and momentum. Mentally put your office work on autopilot, use your energy on the nights and weekends to find interesting people and offer your unique perspective on what they're doing. I'm not out of the woods yet, so take my advice (and all the other posters') with a grain of salt. Hope this helps. Let us know how it goes.

Edit: The thoughts Derek posts over at sivers.org have been very inspirational to me as well. He'll even answer your email if you ask him some questions.
Virtual No-SQL Ambulator.
Anyone else stop reading at "intersectionality"?
Blue Hill in the West Village has a raw vegetable dish that changed my view on what vegetables should taste like.
Purpose-built syntax. Pandas feels like a hack by comparison.
Right, so I'm making you aware of mattermost.
I'd caution against drawing general conclusions about HN from spot observations about what does/doesn't get flagged. People usually fall prey to cognitive biases when they do so, e.g. thinking that the community is against them somehow. We're all primed to feel that way; the feeling just hops to different things depending on our different identities.

Occam suggests you needn't look for "Anglo bias" as an explanation for why a story gets flagged when the thread includes "We must get rid of Merkel and the refugees" followed by "What do you suggest, gas chambers?"

(Not that there isn't inevitably going to be something like "anglo bias" on an English-language site. But FWIW the moderators here are acutely aware of, and grateful for, and interested in, the international aspects of the community—definitely including the German ones.)
No one can help you unless they know what you care about. You can't help you unless you know what you care about.

When you feel deeply happy, what are you doing? What things matter to you so much that they drive you do work more than anything else?

I dropped out of the EECS program at Berkeley because I felt like you did doing those studies, but found so much joy and meaning working with children, in my student job as an child care center teacher's assistant, as a summer camp counselor for inner city Oakland kids, as a nanny for one year for a newborn and her one year-old brother. I was determined to go into early childhood education, to make education better.

I went abroad, got sidetracked, got married, came back to the states in the middle of the first Dot Com boom, gut sucked into a coding gig, rose rapidly, made lots of money, but found myself feeling oh so empty again. I finally quit it all. I've been working on some non-profit projects, which feel meaningful to me, but still something missing. So I started volunteering to work with kids. It's been great. Now I'm looking to work with some of New York's 50,000 homeless kids. I'll do it for minimum wage if that is all I get. But I will be happy. Hopefully I make a bunch of kids happy along the way.
The problem is that it's basically impossible to come up with a book of rules that are reasonable to enforce in all circumstances. The world is too complicated for that, which is why it's necessary to look at each case individually.
I don't know if I've ever seen #1 given as advice, at least around these parts... very contrarian! I like it.
Pokemon Go Harder (a parody video)
In a world where Pokemon Go governs our lives, our two heroes find themselves on the verge of a late 90's Poke-relapse...

View the short parody on YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYP0da67qnE

View it on Funny or Die @ http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/049decdce6/pokemon-go-harder?_cc=__d___&_ccid=_1tuw4
It's actually super valuable to the affiliates/advertisers purchasing popups. They can look at the competition and get a head start on what works.

It's pulling in low 5 figures/month with very little advertising, so there's definitely a demand for it.
Blueprints/schematics are far, far superior at conveying the information they do compared to a written narrative. Given the ease of preparing written text compared to drawing schematics nobody would go to the trouble of doing so if that weren't the case.
Not as good an idea as it sounds. The problem is that the largest earthquakes release massive amounts of energy. Each point on the Richter scale corresponds to about a factor of 30 in energy. So to release the energy of one magnitude-7 quake would take some 900 magnitude-5 quakes. And a 5 in a populated area can still do a little damage. Can you imagine how people would feel about having one of these a week for 20 years?
I'd guess they use it as a DDoS protection layer, and have more proxies behind them.
Nice to hear they are trying to help some customers.

I opened a support ticket 12 hours ago and have just been told it will eventually be sorted.
You have two basic tasks: maintenance and improvement.

(1) pay debt. Pay rent. eat. exercise. this is self-care stuff. It's foundational to well-being. Fail at it, and you're going to be getting into serious problems.

(2) While you're managing self-care, focus on the vector you're going. Where do you want it to go? Not where do your parents want, your elders want, your friends what. What do you, the individual want? Write it down. Consider the regularly for, say, 4-6 months. I.e., enough time to cycle through personal emotional states. Ask yourself if what you want conflicts with your self. It's not always going to be coherent. Then start setting your hand to that in your free time.

If what you genuinely want is to conform, or to not, to be family-oriented, or not: that's generally okay.

Some things to consider doing and learning, while you quest for finding yourself occurs:

- Religion is traditionally the touchstone for meaning and making sense for humanity. While atheism is a rising tide, it doesn't cohere at all with humanity's history. You should engage with religious beliefs. I am a Christian and would advise to look here first ( ;-) ); there's also, in my opinion, a lot of wisdom in Judiaism and Zen Buddism. As a subpoint, a pastor/priest/rabbi is, theoretically, a specialist in answering "what is the point of it all".

- In the West, philosophy started as a non-theistic set of questions about what constituted good, the good life, etc. You might find Socrates to be an excellent read. IMO most of Western philosophy has been spent responding to Socrates in some form - he started the conversation.

- Spend time outside; not exercising, but existing in the natural world. National forests etc. This is the substrate where civilization has been embedded. It matters, deeply.

- Start a few food plants in pots and tend to them; eat the produce. Learn about them. The cycles of nature underpin our bodies and our minds.

- Take up an art - music, painting, sculpture, etc. Spend time learning about traditional art and its history. Art is one of the few timeless things in history. Lives are poured out here; it's well to understand it.

- Spend time with your parents and extended, if possible. Most people derive at least some meaning from family. If you have siblings on speaking terms, now is a good time to strengthen your relationship.

- If you have a SO, I'd advise holding off on a kid. Get your head straightened out a bit before giving the kid your problems. :-S

- School is best considered as a means to an end. Loans are murder on choices, since they force you to choose high-paying jobs and limit your ability to do risk.
Upvoting for visibility. Not because the question has been asked to death, but because reading those threads are so damn fun.
... that is not what slavery is
This is trivial compared to lots of good advice here, but I've benefited in stuck times by cutting my hair. Of course, alone, this doesn't do much, but sometimes that moment in the mirror with someone looking slightly different-- it helps me lock-in a course correction just a bit.
We scrape hundreds of thousands of publishers who we know run the popup/redirect ads, with IP's from 100 + countries, spoofing hundreds of different mobile devices / orientations / etc. There's a little more magic to it than just those things, but that's the principle.

We see what popups appear, and then record this info and show it in the tool.
As a reader of books, one of the good things about growing older is that the books the younger version of myself read are books that this older version of myself hasn't and there is great pleasure in rereading the books the younger version of myself read as the older person I am.

And that makes this exercise impossible for me. The books I would tell the younger version of myself to read wouldn't resonate the same way (or not at all) with that other person I used to be. Picking books that might have appealed to the younger version of myself accurately would mean picking the books I actually read -- e.g. The Fifth Discipline -- and not books that the younger version of myself tried to read but couldn't but that I read and recommend today: e.g. TAoCP.

Part of the complexity is that the world in which I read books today is radically different from that of my younger self. Today I can get a MIX interpreter from the internet [1]...there's even help on StackOverflow. My younger self couldn't because even in the time when there was an internet bandwidth was low and Google didn't exist.

Like I said it's great to pick up a good book and realize it is better than I remember when I remember it being really good, but it's hard to see how it could have been better for my younger self.

1. Neuromancer

2. Blood Meridian

3. A Pattern Language

[1]:https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/mixal/
Thank you for your comment, i agree with your point but it is not at all necessary every time that if someone stole your phone then he/she will sell that phone to a guy who will go to another country. It may happen but once in a blue moon and for rest of the days we can try our level best to protect our device.
If someone has the mindset that "the programming language will make it so I don't have to think about bugs" then it is guaranteed that you will have more bugs.

If you want good code, you need to think, in every language.
Smart. In that context, I can see the value. If I was going to create an ad campaign or something, I would want to start with a base that I knew was working.
I agree. That's why I would put them behind flags. Even though most of my own projects wind up using them, I tend to start from a clean slate and apply things only as they become relevant.
My 2 cents:

Happiness is in the journey, not the company/product/money/measurable.

Happiness is shared with other people, and rarely an individual achievement.

But... Unhappiness can also be chemical reactions in the brain. There's nothing wrong with seeking help if you're having any kind of emotional issues. Quite the contrary, it's very admirable to seek out help. And admirable to get on medication if that's what's needed. If the unhappiness is bad enough, don't tackle it alone.
I think the best part of this is the "eject" feature. It's great to be able to spin something up quickly but migrate to a custom solution if you outgrow it.

However, it would be nice to be able to tweak some of the configurations (Babel, ESLint, Webpack) without completely "ejecting".
If you're using Django, I created django-anymail[1] earlier this year to simplify switching between full-featured transactional ESPs. This was a direct response to Mandrill's (relatively) short notice of major changes -- I used to maintain a popular Mandrill-Django integration.

[1]: https://github.com/anymail/django-anymail
No. Work hard. On something that matters. The world needs a lot of help. If people with privilege use that privilege to slack off rather than give back, the world has no hope.

You will find a lot of meaning and joy in giving, in focusing on the well-being of others. Your own well-being will follow.

Yes to 3, 4 and 6! 5 Never hurts.
The problem is that a lot of studies are bogus (p-hacking, deliberately hysterical to gain media attention , etc) so it's becoming difficult to winnow through it all and find the stuff that's meaningful.

This is actually the fairly troubling reality of medical research in general. People who have financial interests in achieving particular conclusions have managed to weaponize these kinds of studies. There's a very real risk of important research getting lost in the tremendous amount of noise that's being generated.
My favorite thing to do when i don't know what to do is drink water.
The creator posted in here that they didn't want to post this on HN because it's not the target audience. Clearly it's not with so many comments about why you wouldn't use it.. but I think it's a great thing for its intended audience (especially given the price) which seems to be much more casual computer users, or maybe even moreso, people who don't have a computer but have a smart phone.
Over a long enough timespan, the probability that you will experience some form of cancer essentially goes to 1.

We tend to die young, of violence, malnutrition, and disease, a whole lot less often than we ever used to. Aside from the really obvious tumors, even detecting most cancers is a relatively new technique. So my hypothesis is that, historically, people died off before they broke down and developed cancers, or, if they lived long enough, either died with their cancers or because their immune systems were weakened enough that something else got them first.
Well, we essentially just sell the data to affiliates, who then get value out of it.

They either copy what their competition is doing, or expand / work on it and use it as a starting point.
Makes sense. Do I understand correctly, then, that Verizon is taking on an unknown amount of Yahoo's debt as part of this deal, with the exact quantity to be determined by what the two parties negotiate, and until that's known it's pointless to talk about the net value of the piece that Verizon is buying?
Essentially what he's saying is that in the future people will just read and not write . . .
This shows that the Göttingen science faculty is maintaining its centuries-long tradition of taking chances and nurturing scientific talent, without regard to sex, race, or class, often in defiance of the surrounding culture. The most famous example is Emmy Noether:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathematic...
Golang post-mortem debugging
Well, if you replace "fascists"/"Nazis" with "totalitarian threat" -- the former is modern shorthand for the latter but obviously want used that way until after experience of their rule established that perception -- a big part of the Nazi schtick was portraying other groups that way (Communists, the supposed global Jewish conspiracy, etc.)
Thanks for the link, I am very familiar with them though (I've been a HN member for over 5 years). Despite the rules things like this used to be fine. Personally I think people got tired of out-of-context stuff and started flagging more but have now over-corrected.
Try the chat option -- it's more immediate. (Though the chat agent did mention they're pretty backed up.)
The title of this article is also helpful: «Study ‘proves alcohol causes cancer’. The problem? There wasn’t a study.»
it's interesting to see that Microsoft is actively adopting Jamie Zawinski's CATD model[0].

0. https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Sure, winning and losing is zero-sum, but the payout isn't. Lebron is still going to get that $27 million / year from his contract, regardless of whether or not the cavs win anything. (or whatever team he's decided to switch to most recently, haha. I barely follow these things)
I'm still pissed about a terrible interviewing experience I had with them.
I recall seeing figures for other sites and they weren't making millions. Infact they were barely scraping by.

These sites seem to be run by idealistic individuals, rather than as a profit making enterprise.
Just curious, but why choose to ask $8k/mo? Seems a random figure.
It has only happened once, but I doubt the phone is faulty - it instantly went from a charge in the 40% range to a 'plug in now' screen, eventually returning to normal with the same amount of charge once I got out of the cold.

Could be that different phone models behave differently in low temperatures?
Do something completely different. Go on a road trip. Join an art collective. Volunteer to help others. Perspective comes from contrast.
Imagine if you posted this story on a knitting subreddit. It's like that.

Edit: I didn't know there was a knitting story on the front page when I wrote this!
Limitations of Deep Learning and strategic observations
You missed:

* naive idealists who believe that truth and reason matter more than immediate public perception

This is subtly different than "people who don't care about real life reputation" in that they sincerely hope that despite any short term damage to reputation, in the long run others (or at least some subset) will come respect their honesty and rationality.

I'm probably naive and idealist, but at least on HN, I think this is a significant group. Although, am I reading correctly that you are considering HN to be "without anonymity"? In the current "persistent pseudonymous" system, what do you think constitutes a "fake account"?
Almost like you need a faraday cage for the phone, with an internal antenna, a "router" through the faraday cage that you have hardware/software control, and then an antenna to rebroadcast outside the cage.

Basically, a radio firewall. So you can enforce absolute radio silence if needed. And log the signals.
The courage to say what people already know, to people who protect his financial interests, yet despise him for who he is? The party that just nominated Trump for god's sake?

What a hero.
Lol.

No, I still fully agree.

We think React is a tool to create great UIs, and UIs definitely include concerns like data fetching, etc. So some of this might make it into React in some form in the future.
there are also other things that can take you out - like depression for instance; however alcohol is considered to be a depressant - so it doesn't quite help here (I guess the main point here is temperance - but that's a non scientific personal opinion; its a Friday, isn't it?)

Like what the Poet said: "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night, its all right ... "