skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As someone that also works remote, it's not all roses and daisies.

I spent the past two years working remote, and at this point I don't think I would ever want to do it again. Something I don't think I've ever really seen mentioned about working from home is that it can be incredibly isolating and overall mentally unhealthy. The isolation, lack of separation of work and home environment (in the physical sense), and even weird hours caused me to become very depressed and unstable.

In my case, my company was still located in-town and I even had weekly lunch/beer meetings. I pushed myself to get out and socialize with my friends, co-workers, and girlfriend several times a week. I still don't quite know what it is about working in an office with other people does that wasn't being replicated, but there's something there for me.

As far as the physical environment goes, I spent enough time reading different folks strategies. I tried many different strategies as well. I tried having normal office hours and a normal (home) office. I tried just floating about the house, working wherever I felt like. I tried working from coffee shops, bars, parks, and so forth. I tried working in blocks of time, all at once, having an inverted sleep schedule. As mentioned, I even had an actual company office I could work from. Still, I came to have a certain feeling of disdain, of wanting to escape the office at the end of a day of work. The only problem was my office was my home. You can't run from that.

I will say the convenience of having a flexible schedule is amazing. Being able to run errands as needed, or just go to the beach for a couple hours on a Tuesday because "why not" is great. However I always felt a bit weird about things, because "normal" people are in an office that I'm somehow doing something weird or wrong by being out and about during non-traditional hours. And of course among your friends and family there's always a little gentle chiding about how "You don't really work/have a real job", in a semi-jealous but not actually hostile way.

Working from home can be great, and I would enjoy the flexibility to do it a day here and there as needed. What I cannot do is work from home permanently.
You can put an ITT Tech degree on a resume. It will be regarded as less than a degree elsewhere, but it's something. But just non-transferrable course credit gets you nowhere. These students may be put back years on their career path.
This article shows how much the Wall Street Journal really knocked the Theranos story out of the park. It's remarkable that non of the investors or regulators paid half as much of attention.

> One of the only journalists who seemed unimpressed by this narrative was John Carreyrou, a recalcitrant health-care reporter from The Wall Street Journal. Carreyrou came away from The New Yorker story surprised by Theranos’s secrecy—such behavior was to be expected at a tech company but not a medical operation. Moreover, he was also struck by Holmes’s limited ability to explain how it all worked.

Theranos also sounds similar to a cult, which may explain why her staff never figured out that they were a fake company:

> After he wrapped up, the leaders of Theranos stood before their employees and surveyed the room. Then a chant erupted. “Fuck you . . .,” employees began yelling in unison, “Carreyrou.” It began to grow louder still. “Fuck you, Carreyrou!” Soon men and women in lab coats, and programmers in T-shirts and jeans, joined in. They were chanting with fervor: “Fuck you, Carreyrou!,” they cried out. “Fuck you, Carreyrou! Fuck. You. Carrey-rou!”
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> Looking for some good blogs and website to follow to keep myself updated with recent news in internet privacy and internet freedom.

https://www.privacyrights.org and https://www.epic.org you'll find many informations in both sites.

Two blogs I follow are https://paulbernal.wordpress.com and http://theprivacyblog.com
One, an excessive focus on trying to "disincentivize undesired behaviour" is pretty creepy and controlling.

Two, this is not a matter of poor life decisions, this is a matter of fraud.

Three, even if people are impoverished by stupidity, you're either gonna pick up the tab to some extent or literally watch them die of destitution on the street. It appals me sometimes how often America treats this like it was a choice.
Not yet, but China's National Council for Social Security Fund certainly are in the midst of researching the opportunities to use it.
I graduated in 2005 from ITT in Pittsburgh and the total cost was a hair under 28K. I got a few grants, but had less than 20K in debt when I graduated. Was the pricing really that different where you went?

Also, that was over 10 years ago. I haven't had any employer really care that I went to ITT. Honestly in the last 5 or 6 years no employer even asked where I went. Where I am now most care about real world experience; not where you graduated.

I don't know where I am going with this...
I absolutely think the government should forgive these students' loans. Arguably, it was the government's decision that rendered those loans useless. ITT Tech may have been a shoddy school, but it was still school.
British Navy trials new generation of autonomous maritime craft
I used a hair dryer on high and that worked really well until Apple issues official replacement.
Have you tried Slack's Screenhero integration? Being able to type

/hero @username

and start pair programming in seconds (with audio!) is a huge productivity increase.
how often do you go into the office now?
Xerox Alto restoration day 5: Smoke and parity errors
Migrate the DB in a backwards compatible way. So both version n and n-1 can use it. The next update (n+1) can then remove support for n-1.
What Mark Zuckerberg did and where he went while he was in Nigeria
> that statistically on average the diverse speakers will be worse

I mean, since you're being technical, then it actually means that the speakers will be slightly worse at writing talk proposals. But ability to write a talk proposal isn't the same as ability to give a talk.

And even if it were, it's meaningless—when doing a conference, maximizing the individual speaker "quality" isn't helpful either. 10 speakers speaking about the same topic amazingly is worse for an attendee than 10 speakers speaking about 10 different things merely very well.
> It's valid, I believe, for the company to vet candidates for culture fit

I'm not sure what culture fit means. I have been passed over for culture fit and seen others passed over for culture fit and I have never seen it be because someone couldn't be productive with their peers. It seems, anecdotally, to just be based upon affinity, which seems stupid to me unless you're a lifestyle brand, like FitStar.

In the Army I learned culture can be taught. All of these groups who hire for culture fit seem like they want to hang out with other people like them. People who are nothing like me have been my best hires. I've indoctrinated them into our values, and only on rare occasions has that not worked out.

If culture fit isn't a "bro test" then why test at all? Why not just teach people your culture? Do companies expect people to come in off the street serendipitously sharing the same values? That smells to me like a leadership vacuum.
I got your point perfectly. You and I agree 100% regarding Crockford. As someone who loves guns and owns plenty, I honestly just wanted to know what you found so offensive about gun shows. You stated that you could describe the behavior and I obliged you.

"... I get nervous around people carrying guns where Nazi "collectibles" are on display."

That is all I wanted to know. Thanks.
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Someone posted on 4chan claiming to be FBI, provided no proof, and only made predictions (some turned out wrong) and vague insights. Almost certainly not actually FBI, or at least certainly not anyone high up at FBI.
I think the article is lacking some nuance here. Just because the image is delivered via HTTP(S) doesn't mean that it's only intended use is viewing a browser. A lot of images are downloaded and used beyond that, and quite a few websites primarily serve images for use outside the browser.
Having code running in a container is still harder to exploit than just having full ssh access to the boxes?

I am not a security expert by any means, and this workflow was not created with security as a priority in any means, but the latter still rubs me in a worse way. It might be just an ignorant hunch though.
I lived and worked in Sweden for a bit more than a year (I'm an American) and one thing helped me get native friends: learning the language. Everybody speaks English well, but I found that the Swedes I was around were much more open when I started the relationship in their native tongue. I really noticed this about 6 months in when my Swedish had attained a certain level.

Now, I'm married to a Swede, and we moved with the express intent of learning the language to speak it to our children. It is a commitment, but as languages go it is close to English.
Ex-Apple engineer applies for Genius Bar job, never hears back
housing would need to drop for companies to pay less.
I've published nine, the tenth is under review.

Whenever I published an article most often I got my references corrected, some grammar errors where spotted during the publishing process (I am not a native English speaker), also my articles are professionally typeset.

Maybe we work in different fields, don't assume your point of view automatically extends to every field of science.
If it meets the guidelines, the project might make a good 'Show HN'. Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Agree.

Additionally letting Apple (and other big companies)[0] clean up their own mess creates a perfectly aligned incentive to avoid messing with consumers again.

Edit: clarify

[0]: I actually like big companies. It's mostly just when they, -in spite of massive profits, do stupid things e.g: like whining against basic worker or consumer protection etc that they annoy me.
Discover Weekly has, in my opinion, made Spotify much more useful.

Pro Tip: You can subscribe to somebody else's Discover Weekly feed, also.
They know most of what they're doing is bullshit. They don't care. Just hand a guy a cell phone and tell him to dial a number to blow up a building. He dials it, nothing happens, FBI arrests him, sends him to jail for life. Repeat dozens of times and claim you've stopped dozens of terrorist attacks. This is the FBI today.
https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/tools2/docker/CIS_Docker_1...
Awesome book!
We don't do a ton of pair programming at our company, but yes I have definitely used it. Very helpful!
The additional cost of meeting the accreditation requirements, and the accreditation fees and dues, would exceed the portion that could be monetized out of the additional value imbued to the product by virtue of earning the accreditation.
Not sure. I would suspect it may have to do with less funding from states helping to offset public state school tuition. This probably made it easier for private for-profit schools to charge high prices and still appear competitive. Now more students "needed"/relied on loans and the government jumped in to support them. It was probably harder to get thousands of people to pay thousands of dollars for a private no-name for-profit college when those that were "qualified" could go to a state school for much less.
The plan is to go once per quarter for a week. We try to plan it around product kickoffs or team (for fun) off-sites.
> such as more diligence by free certificate authorities -- the crux of the talk was rekeying at up to 20x per week enabling the attack

You are wrong if you think this is the crux of the attack. Let's Encrypt is unique in rate limiting issuance to 20 a week. Other CAs will happily give you unlimited reissues once you pay a small amount for the initial cert (e.g. $15), and they have an API for it too!
Day One Strategy – Part 5
I see you're not too concerned about the whole 'slavery' and 'other human rights violations' things.
Perhaps they meant that only certain "stalemates" are computationally infeasible with their ethereum platform? There are stalemates where it is impossible to checkmate the King, but where the players can just keep making moves indefinitely.
There's hundreds of thousands of homes that are already built.

Around here, 90% of homes are built with the largest piece of roof facing South (city is a grid with lots being longer on the East-West dimension).

In most areas it doesn't make a lot of sense to retrofit at current prices, but it's getting pretty close.

I also think there will be a huge tipping point if/when the cost of solar gets low enough that installing it to run air conditioning pays off in a modest number of years.
Start acting like a technology company
How to Kill a Hacker (or Could You Be the Next Junaid Hussain?)
The iphone 4 originally shipped with regular phillips head screws on the outside, but Apple quietly switched those out to the pentalobe head screws sometime after the initial batches of phones came out.
I'm the author and I am happy to answer any questions you might have about the post or Slack's SLI team.
A Theorem about Primes Proved on a Chessboard
The problem is medical, it's also societal. The solution is not chemical, but antidepressants are effective (for many people) in alleviating their symptoms.

Loneliness -> Depression for many people. Stress -> Depression for many people. The solution is to address those. What causes you stress, can you alleviate it, can you change your circumstances. What causes your loneliness. Can you move somewhere else, can you meet other people and develop a social life.

There is a (probable) chemical imbalance for most of these people, but the cause is not the chemical imbalance, it's the emotional/physical/mental stressors. They're what need to be addressed for long term recovery.

EDIT: I should amend this. Some cases of, particularly the severe cases, anxiety and depression are the result of an actual chemical imbalance where addressing concerns like the above won't help. In those circumstances, medication is certainly appropriate and probably necessary.
> Are admissions requirements drastically different between the two types of schools? If not, why do people object to for-profit colleges?

ITT's troubles have nothing to do with admissions requirements, and everything to do with fraud (securities and otherwise). Their accreditation problem stemmed from business-viability problems stemming from the fraud lawsuits, and their problems with DOE stemmed from their accreditation problems.

Corinthian's problems similarly were rooted in fraud.

In both cases, the frauds included misrepresenting placement statistics in the context of both seeking admissions and, more critically in many respects, nontraditional student loan programs operated by the schools.

> It seems like there is little accountability in either community colleges or for-profit schools when it comes to accepting students.

Community Colleges are generally chartered with the purpose of the broadest possible access and low, taxpayer-subsidized tuition. Students aren't wracking up tens of thousands of dollars of student loan debt a year at CCs,
and CCs aren't conducting massive marketing campaigns directed specifically at drawing in more people who "unable to see and plan well for future" (as internal documents showed Corinthian was doing.)

I don't know why you are focusing on admissions standards, when the difference in attention between for-profit institutions and public community colleges isn't focused around admissions stanadards.
Curious what's new in WhiteStorms since R10 a few weeks ago.
We hire mostly remote workers at both of my companies. There are some challenges but if you build to make it work, it also provides a lot of advantages.
> 1.5 BTC is required by Bittrex to execute the swap.

Does this imply that the "operators" of those cryptocurrencies pay the exchanges to list them?
Yes and no, it goes to the culture. My current team, where that quote is apt, has slack. But it's rarely used.

On a prior role when we had discussions exceed the HipChat/Slack medium we did a quick google hangout/skype session. Doing face to face, and with a screen share. I can't really think of a time where we didn't get something resolved in under an hour, more likely I would say under 30 minutes.

Face to face can resolve slightly quicker, but with the amount of interruptions it provides. I'll take the bit of extra time resolving something via HipChat/Slack -> Video conference for more uninterrupted work time.
What's your local community college?
> If you work at a chocolate factory, and own the chocolate factory - your entire livelyhood is tied to that chocolate factory. If the company goes under, you lose your job and your savings.

Not true. Owners risk no personal stake because of incorporation. The company can go bankrupt and their personal wealth will not be touched. Just take a look at Hanjin. The firm can't pay it's employees but their kids are still driving around in MacLarens.
ITT Tech received > 70% of it's revenue from federal student loans. As soon as their business plan became "take as much money from taxpayers as possible because we know our 'graduates' will never be able to pay this back" they opened themselves up to this.
if everyone else in the same profession is granting themselves raises and hiring extra staff, the definition of 'reasonable' gets skewed to "this is how everyone is doing it". And... it doesn't happen overnight, but I'd bet staffing levels and pay scales are pretty out of whack compared to 30 years ago for university staff who basically do the same things as 30 years ago.
Related: "The Law School Scam. For-profit law schools are a capitalist dream of privatized profits and socialized losses. But for their debt-saddled, no-job-prospect graduates, they can be a nightmare."
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/09/the-law-...
I suspect that, at least in today's society, we have more to be depressed about.

Sometimes you're feeling bad about the world because the world's relationship with you is crummy, not because you're broken your self.
What those have in common is that they're numerical, not that they require (integral and differential) calculus.

It's true that in a lot of cases, deeply understanding discrete numerical algorithms is a lot easier if you can analyze the continuous versions, which of course cannot be executed directly. But you can get really far with just the discrete versions, and you can understand useful things about the continuous versions without knowing what a derivative or an integral is.

And I don't just mean that you can use Unity or Pure Data to wire together pre-existing algorithms and get interesting results, although that's true too. You don't even need to understand any calculus to write a ray-tracer from scratch like http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/aspmisc/my-very-first-raytra..., which is four pages of C.

You could maybe argue that it's using square roots, and calculating square roots efficiently requires using Newton's method or something more sophisticated. But Heron of Alexandria described "Newton's" method 2000 years ago, although he hadn't generalized it to finding zeroes of arbitrary analytic functions, perhaps because he didn't have concepts of zero or functions.

You could argue that it's using the pow() function, but it's using it to take the 64th power of a dot product in order to get specular reflections. People were taking integer powers of things quite a long time ago.

Even using computers for really analytic things, like finding zeroes of arbitrary analytic functions, can be done with just a minimal, even intuitive, notion of continuity.

Alan Kay's favorite demo of using computers to build human-comprehensible models of things is to take a video of a falling ball and then make a discrete-time model of the ball's position. A continuous-time model really does require calculus, and famously this is one of the things calculus was invented for; a discrete-time model requires the finite difference operator (and maybe its sort-of inverse, the prefix sum). Mathematics for the Million starts out with finite difference operators in its first chapter or two. You don't even need to know how to multiply and divide to compute finite differences, although a little algebra will get you a lot farther with them. A deep understanding of the umbral calculus may be inspirational and broadening in this context, and may even help you debug your programs, but you can get by without it.

I agree that calculus is really powerful in extending the abilities of computers to model things, but I think you're overstating how fundamental it is.
I would like for this to be true. There are a bunch of red flags in the abstracts of those papers though. For example "Fortifying refined grain and drinking water with biologically available magnesium to pre-twentieth century levels is recommended." Seems to be overstating their case a bit. Anybody with more expertise care to weigh in?
Amazon Cloudfront as Our Content Delivery Network – Web Performance Part 2/3
Strange, never heard of that happening.

My teachers were awesome
Agreed, in those cases preserving the metadata might be the way to go depending on your use case. You just need to be aware of the trade off you are making..
> What basis does the government have to make such demands (as it appears to me) out of the blue?

The utilitarian argument is that the taxpayers should be secured against paying for useless education. I guarantee you schools like that are a net utility loss for the public and the government obviously doesn't like that.

Not out of the blue at all.
Umbra, shadow, IMHO that sort of names don't have a very positive connotation for the general public. How about calling the next one Lux, light or something like that? Maybe not priming people with the idea that those tools will be used only for shadowy business can help their success.
Just because you had a great experience does not negate the fact that for-profit college students, statistically, fare much worse.

A common pattern I have seen:

Person does terrible in high school, doesn't get into a good college because they don't have the drive or commitment to get good grades. They go to community college, and surprise, they again get terrible grades and stop going. After a while they want to go back to school, so they start looking into these for profit colleges that promise them everything. These colleges make it sound so much more appealing than community college, because, well, community college isn't trying to sell you a bullshit education. Anyways, these sales people will constantly pester you trying to get you to signup and take out huge loans because for some reason we think that it's ok to lend someone with terrible credit $50k+ in worthless education.

The end result is either them regretting their decision or trying to justify it with some bullshit about it being a good learning experience or something of the sort.

I have seen many people follow this exact path and I am glad to see these companies shutting down. You can get a much better education for cheaper at a community college.
That's what I mean!

We're only now getting to a point where people really know how to take full advantage of multi(core/processor) systems and are given nice frameworks in which to do so; in the mid-90's I'm pretty sure that that was a really difficult task!
Instrument, Measure and Learn – Web Performance Part 3/3
Technically speaking, Common Lisp isn't a functional language, yes. Common Lisp is a multi paradigm language and you can do FP with it if you want. But from my very limited experience with it, it's not the norm.

However Lisp, the original, is based on the lambda calculus and that is very much about functional programming. So surely you can do FP with most Lisps, but whether that's the norm or not is another question.