skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great advice. YC hammers home hard the point about not "playing" startup. You should be spending most of your time building your product, talking to users, and selling (or some variation thereof depending on your market). If you're not doing one of those three things, you're probably wasting your time.
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One thing I missed in my point was that many other companies seem to want to exploit (or have already indulged in exploiting) information on social media. This could just be a trigger for other insurance companies to do something similar. Once it becomes somewhat well known, then more people will start curating their social media presence. This curation has already been a big thing on Facebook for other reasons. [1] It's just that the companies may not derive any real value out of such exercises in the long run.

[1]: https://stratechery.com/2016/what-facebook-is-and-isnt/ - this is a great read on this topic of how people present themselves on Facebook
I also use UPPER case for SQL Keywords to visually distinguish them from user-defined names (i.e. similar purpose to syntax coloring), but I don't collapse SELECT over multiple lines and line up each statement so the conditions line-up, e.g:

SELECT foo, bar
FROM baz
WHERE foo > 3
AND bar = 'craig.kerstiens@gmail.com'
I agree 100% with you except that the ratio is probably more like 100:1 rather than 20:1. Between all the arbitrary filters, employer inaction/black-holing, and networking-nepotism, your odds of cold-applying with a resume are really, REALLY small. When you're at that point it's a numbers game. Spray and pray as many resumes as you can.
Not sure I agree that the internet is loosening our grip on the truth. It's simply highlighting the fact that most people never had a grasp on it in the first place...
Not being a Mac user, a similar thing that always struck me as strange is that those Mac users I know all seem to have a huge amount of windows open in the background (multiple Finders etc.).
I found that being interesting because it is the first habit I got rid of when starting out in the new Gnome Shell: I have a workspace for every task going on, and each workspace contains no more than two windows, that are neatly aligned - or maximized if there's only one.

I switched to AwesomeWM a while ago, and the first thing I changed in the RC is that it replicated Gnome's automatic/endless workspaces behavior.

Of course that is highly subjective, but i always thought that going for a window hunt everytime you have to switch context is pretty backward, and I can't figure out why even the more sophisticated Apple users I know won't use workspaces for their benefit. On Windows, I get it - if only because that sort of workflow was impossible without special tools before Win10.

Does anyone have thoughts on this? Is this a "culture thing", or is it because users that switched over from Windows never even thought of the workspaces feature?
Usually 10 to 5 years ahead of what is commercially available. Depends on the eternal catch up and reverse engineering game that foreign militarys do. If you want tech to be declassified, leak it to everyone.
Is being able to do it without breaking any laws (which I assume is what you mean by possibility) really your criterion for ethical behavior?
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You should really add this info in one (preferably starting) page within your website, because it's not very informative now. Anyway, it's always nice to see some alternatives in mobile OS world, thank you and keep it up.
Also, if KDE is not your cup of tea, you might want to get in touch with the guys over at ElementaryOS (https://elementary.io/). Their Pantheon suite of apps are really nicely designed. I'm sure they'd do great with an additional hand on deck.
You misunderstand. That directly supports the comparison with East Timor. When enemies commit atrocities there is outrage and fury in the mass media, and when friends commit similar atrocities there is silence and downplaying. Also, the Wikipedia article does not support the claim that Chomsky offered "support for Pol Pot".
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no risk and guaranteed but limited salary...not great incentivization.
Indian startup develops low-cost wind turbine that can generate 5 kWh each day
Indeed, I remember a few posts/comments by 18f people here on hn - surely those hours taken were "spent developing the 18f brand". Of course, those people might have been doing that work for free, in their spare time.
Computer program analyzes presidential candidates’ rhetoric
Those who send tens or hundreds applications without trying to do any work or without any ability to perform the job are disproportionately represented in the total volume of applications you get. The best way to handle this is to screen them out by requiring just a little work. Writing a few original words pertaining to the offer is one way.
I believe the best one is "Mastering Bitcoin" Andreas M. Antonopoulos: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-C... It's fairly technical, but gives good explanation of how everything works.

In terms of philosophy, I grasped Bitcoin only after I read enough of the Austrian school of economics.
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technical interviews are asinine.

they make ya feel pretty good but cmon anyone with half a brain knows it's all bullshit. Like seriously this is the best idea we have as software engineers? tell me the big o of an algorithm that can reverse a string? a lil quiz

Dustin muskovitz helped build FB he learned php from a perl for dummies book in one weekend. there's 1000's of these stories all over the world but just replace billions with thousands and millions of dollars but u get it

referrals are preferential because we don't wanna hire someone we can't immediately fire if they suck.

how about how badly do you want this job or how eager are you to learn
Actually you can find similar versions here. http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
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> In my opinion this is just like grabbing a big handful of Halloween candy that was left out without a sign saying "take one"

No, that would be a DoS attack. Browsing without ads is taking the same amount of candy anyone else does. At worst it's ignoring the stack of flyers next to the candy bowl.
Yes, readability is good, it makes any scripting easier. SQL is no exception. Hand in hand with this is calling things what they are and good comments for the 'why' rather than the 'what' parts of a statement.
They are probably trolling for a debate about NPM ... I can smell politics.
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And of course Android Rutime does AOT compilation to native code and with Android 7 a tiered compilation Assembly/JIT/AOT with PGO.
From the article: "SalesForce, and even much smaller companies, can comfortably spend $5,000 on a trade show booth because it’s a small part of their larger marketing strategy. It makes sense for them, because they can afford to buy booths at every relevant conference and get consistent face-time with their market over the long-term."

SalesForce spent $250K on a party pre-IPO, back in 2000.[1] Four floors of the Regency and the B-52s. Playing startup was much bigger in the first dot-com boom. This time around, everybody is working very hard. Not necessarily on the right stuff, but working hard.

[1] http://www.sfgirl.com/webtrash.html
Pretty sure you're the one doing that, NYT, over the Internet.
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I don't think it's cynical at all. Unless you're one of those rare, elite, top-0.1% talents, who can literally pick and choose among offers from his favorite companies, the deck is very much stacked in the employer's favor--you often have to settle for what you get.

"I'd like to be able to pay my rent this month, but gosh I don't have a passion about this company's area of interest so I think I'll pass on this job" -- said nobody ever.
Kali is just a Linux distro. Most/all tools in Kali are available in other distros, and not just the 'hacking' distros. In other words, you can still run Metasploit and suchlike on something like Plasma Mobile.
Ah yes, if Soros-owned voting machines can't do the job, let's get the people to vote using an insecure-by-design device
Hello, founder of a bootstrapped WordPress theme & plugin development business reporting in. Been running a profitable "startup" for 5-7 years (depending on whether you count my first two years as a solo freelancer).

Can confirm that not all startups are like this!

1) Meetings

We have one per week and sometimes cancel that because we feel it's overkill

2) Hiring tons of people

If anything we don't hire enough because we never spend money we haven't yet earned

3) Vanity benchmarks

One benchmark - cash in the bank (if it's too little, tighten the belt, if it's too much, spend it to grow)

4) Meetups

I'm terrible at networking and should do more of these!

5) Sponsoring conferences

HA!

6) Office, business cards and so on

Don't have either... 100% remote has worked since day one... OK, just got an office (sort of, it's shared) in Bangkok but no one works there!

7) Having more conversations with people outside of your market than people in it

I am totally guilty of that one!

Please don't take any of this as a claim that we are better... I can and have leveled a thousand criticisms at how I run things... just saying, "startups" that exist way, way outside of this mold are definitely out there :)
How "powerful" would the Jewish lobby be if support for Israel among Americans was not at 62%[1]?

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/189626/americans-views-toward-isr...
So they should nickel and dime them on scope changes and deliver solutions that meet the requirements but are useless? I know I'm straw manning a bit here but asking them to operate like these contractors is highly questionable. Their mission isn't to be cheap and competitive but to change how the government uses technology and make it more agile. To drive culture changes and set standards that allow government agencies to produce solutions that are aligned with their goals.

How many failed government IT projects have we read about that fulfilled a contract but was ultimately useless? Or stories about government inefficiencies and a failure to keep pace with modern technology?

I don't know why there's an expectation that they do this cheaper or at the same price as government contractors. Have we forgotten what happened with the healthcare.gov site already?
I was on pornhub last night and didn't see any ads. ;)

Could it be that noscript will block this if you are forced to whitelist each video by clicking it before it plays?
Regarding drivers, they are probably present as linux kernel modules in original phone firmware. Cannot they be reused in a custom open firmware? Of course you might need a userspace components to control hardware too which is a problem.

Also SOC manufacturer usually has the drivers reference code but he might not publish it.
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>The biggest real problem I’ve found with large “where” clauses is that they tend to have a lot of implicit dependencies on variables from the enclosing scope.

For me it's always a toss up. I like to make things local where possible to give some indication that the definitions need not be looked over with a fine-toothed comb -- they aren't used extensively. On the other hand, it does often lead to implicit dependencies. It would be nice to have scope highlighting - color every identifier based on the distance from the scope it's defined in. This idea shamelessly stolen from Doug Crockford in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc
> Have you ever used software or website that was written entirely by an offshore team and felt that it was a bit "off"? The translations were a bit wonky and the interactions felt somewhat unintuitive?

Translations off? Sure. Unintuitive? I don't know, but let's say I'll give you that. The offshore team lives in their own cultural bubble, where English is used in a particular way(incongruent with what I/you are used to), and maybe they like to place their menu on the left instead of on the right. I can see, intuitively, the link between "local differences" like language proficiency and cultural preference, and producing a different product.

You then cite "white men" making software that's intuitive for "themselves". I don't see any intuitive characteristics that would encompass "white men" in any meaningful way. There's white men in the US, there's white men in Russia. The white men in Russia don't build applications the same way the white men in the US do.

I can instinctively tell the difference between a german developer and a US developer(visible language differences). What are the common factors attributable to "white males" that lead them to create software that is intuitive for them?
> a large part of it is decided as part of internal political posturing

I agree that not "everything" on the lowest level (single politicians) is simply "oil" but even looking at your example the motivation on the lower level is surely to keep the power and influence by these who already have it and to
get the power and influence for these who don't have it. The next step is to ask what the power and influence does in total, what are the interests of the whole systems.
Paid $200+ for e-mail marketing? What does that actually mean? You bought someone's mailing list?
> board in the end brought in a Trojan horse that made a deal with Microsoft.

And the lie keeps being repeated, it was the board that sold Nokia by having a contract that would grant Elop a huge bonus if he managed to do sell the company to someone else!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/terokuittinen/2013/09/24/nokia-a...

"According to changes implemented in 2010, Elop was entitled to immediate share price performance bonus in case of a “change of control” situation… such as selling of Nokia’s handset division."
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I've gotten very cynical and hardened to this over the years. I remember meticulously researching companies and preparing detailed cover letters showing exactly why I'm a great fit for that job, spending hours reviewing and tweaking them until finally sending them off, only to be "black-holed" by the company. After 40-50 or so of these you just start spraying and praying.

Hiring managers & HR: Tired of getting "spray and pray" resumes? STOP DOING THIS.
And nobody cares because it is easier to just use a word Set. Or Program. (in Church-Turing sense, and not awkward Curry-Howard isomorphism)

A true Program is not really an Arrow, as it deals with mutable unknown state that cannot be reduced to a known set of inputs completely. (Where functional and monadic programming gets awkward or impure.) There may also be multiple outputs and inputs at any stage in the process, an Arrow limits you to one output and input vector making actual programming awkward. Forces the kinds of composition you can describe.
Or maybe these "diverse" people often don't want to go into tech, and we should be so eager to point to the racism spook, lest racism it's meaning (if everybody is racist, nobody is)
Some here used to work for that unit. :)
https://goo.gl/6qSPBC
Breakfast comes first.
> a low-cost wind turbine that can generate 3-5 kW hours of electricity every day

I'd say it's for a very narrow definition of "a house":

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=97&t=3

I guess it could work in India, but households in most developed countries spend much more energy:

http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/average-household-electricity...

BTW, much better article here:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
8) "We are doing it for passion, creating value, vision, future, entrepreneurship, making clients' lives easier, etc.. and NOT FOR THE MONEY OR POWER AT ALL"
The purpose of capitalization is to visually distinguish the keywords.

In this style that's done in other ways so there is no need.
What?!

This is the early international reaction of Pol Pot criticism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide#Internation...

Chomsky, according to the w-pedia link I gave in the GP, criticize that and call it probable anti communist propaganda. And then they write supportive/neutrally of communist Pol Pot defenders.
Dang, that right! Always thought those two were stangely similar...
There's a difference between encroaching on your sovereignty (i.e. Making a law against you blocking ads, which I strongly oppose) and what you're doing being unethical.

Do you really think everything you can do that takes advantage of legal rights you should totally have is ethical? If that's the case, which of the following do you agree with:

A. It should be illegal to cheat on your significant other.

B. It is totally ethical to cheat on your significant other.
Taking a closer look at Amendment 71, I'm actually thinking it is a good idea. The state constitution is the foundational document that sets the course for how the state government works, and isn't something to be altered trivially. I'm surprised that it wasn't already required for signatures to be collected from all districts.

It's not like Amendment 71 is getting rid of the ability to put statute proposals on the ballot, and IMO, most new idea experimentations should probably be done at the statute level anyway. Put in a sunset clause that limits the new statute, and if it turns out to have been a bad idea, it can be allowed to expire -- no additional round of constitutional amending needed to undo it.
Yea, I've been thinking lately that another avenue for Adult entertainment would be to create legitimate long-format (3-5 minute) commercials. Get sponsors and show products and actually make a good video with a script and actors and everything.

- Guy grabs a Magnum Condom and proudly puts it on while girl smiles.
- A couple have a picnic lunch in the bed of a Ford F150 pickup truck and end up having sex
- etc...

I'm sure you couldn't get a deal with every company (McDonald's probably wouldn't buy in) but there are quite a few adult companies that would work. As long as you could accurately track views across distributors you would be golden. :)

Just an idea.
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It seems like the culprit here is easy money. We've had twelve years now of ample funding for startups, and a whole generation of coders who have not seen lean times in their entire career. In such circumstances, you would expect people to get profligate.
The requirement to sync git repositories seems pointless to me. Why sync a distributed VCS via a filesystem?
I was under the impression that user sign ups is a real metric?
You've oversimplified here. People, place, and techniques are highly coupled and influence each other.
> SalesForce, and even much smaller companies, can comfortably spend $5,000 on a trade show booth

5000 for a booth is a bargain even for really obscure trade shows, and it makes absolute sense for a B2B entity to be present at trade shows.
I'm actually working on a fun project that sorts through months of "Who's Hiring?" posts looking for companies posting identical or nearly-identical postings month after month. It'll be called "Who's Not Hiring?" Look for it once I get some free time :-)
Qt developers are nowadays pushing for JavaScript instead.

Qt5 programming model is that C++ Widgets are legacy and you are supposed to do the UI in QML, a JavaScript dialect, while coding in C++ the business logic or the hardware interaction of new widgets you might create.
It's a metric but to be honest I would be more interested in daily users if it's applicable.
More and more people (myself incl) are not using fb app. Reasons:

* all time location tracking

* inability to block ads (firefox allows to block ads on android)

* making it harder to induce compulsive fb usage (its addictive)

* battery usage (this is huge, try it)
What is your solution for gendered languages?
I did not write that, I claimed the standards were very different.

You wrote "Chomsky answered. The reason (at least then) was that Israel ignored an Egyptian peace initiative in the early 70s, so they deserved what they got..."

How is this not saying that Chomsky claimed that Israel deserved it?
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Sales before breakfast = productive and energized rest of the day.
Ubuntu Phone, Sailfish and Blackberry also had it.

It didn't help them that much.

Plus as far as I am aware, none of them contributed anything from their forks back to the Qt community.
More accurately, his secretary (as per https://cs.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html).

As per https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-Knuths-secretary, the secretary role has changed a couple of times in the last couple of years.
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That seems to be the entirety of the last two jobs I've had too - go and build something in dev that's incredibly useful but not signed off/uses APIs that'd need a 6 month review process for (did something similar with LDAP access, found an endpoint and used it for something infinitely more useful to the business), once IT finds out about it, I get my wrist slapped, but have built a fairly solid business case in only a few days, and get to fasttrack through sign off to production.

Ruffle a few feathers, but organisational inertia would kill off anything particularly useful for our teams that are 24/7 fighting fires.
In the context of the article - India - it seems spot on.

Additionally, energy use in western homes has fallen dramatically in recent years. We've gone from 100W bulbs to LEDs and from big vacuum cleaners to small robots and even fridges, freezers and washing machines have been using less and less each generation.

Hopefully electricity use will pick up again slightly as we all start charging our cars at home, and that will be a good thing from the total energy usage and environmental perspective.

PS you edited your post and added all those links and mention of India only after I replied ;)
> I had a quick look at Hackage and noticed that someone already has written a parser for Java in Haskell

The author of "corrode"[1] wrote it in Haskell because there already was a C parser available. As always, the importance of libraries.

[1]: http://jamey.thesharps.us/2016/10/corrode-update-support-fro...
I use a rsync-based script to upload only changed files. In large projects rsync takes some time to find changed files so I wrote another script that finds them by modified time and passes a list to rsync.
Apache NiFi is pretty decent. Eg http://www.slideshare.net/BryanBende/building-data-pipelines...
I was commenting like how this looked like Polymer and then saw this.

I like Polymer, but it's not as popular as (i think) it should be.

Html & Javascript files are only loaded inside the component, and once they are loaded they sttay in it's "dom". So it doesn't mean, everything is loaded at once.

I think https://poly-mail.appspot.com/ is a nice example of a Polymer app ( email and login with Google fyi)
They didn't start with all that, but somehow amassed a lot of users anyway. I believe it's more about the personal networks of the original team, but that's just a guess.
Not to detract, but it's around $200k when you include just the pay and not the benefits.