skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not all that happened. Torba did more than antagonize people on a Facebook feed. He carefully chose a screenshot that left out the context of his actual harassment of YC batchmates. In the most recent instance, he screenshotted the Facebook status of a Latino batchmate expressing concern about the election --- not to him, but to their personal Facebook feed --- and posted it publicly to Twitter with a "build the wall" taunt.

If the roles had been reversed and, on November 10th, a Clinton supporter (like myself) had done that to someone expressing relief on their personal Facebook feed that Trump had pulled off his upset, I'd have booted that person too.

But I'm not sure even that was enough to get him booted! It seems like the last straw was that, upon being confronted with his behavior and how it made his colleagues feel, he had an entitled temper tantrum. This could have been a Bears/Packers argument and still have been a fireable offense in a real company.

Since this is probably obvious to anyone over the age of 15, let alone to people with Philosophy/Business degrees, I think this is one of those rare cases where the most cynical explanation succeeds: this is a person whose YC Facebook advertising startup failed†, saw little future for themselves in the California startup market, and decided to burn their relationships for PR fuel.

† I should have been way more careful here. I have in fact no idea how well this advertising startup was doing. I apologize for characterizing something I have no real info on (I think the company changed names, and I was going off Twitter feed activity and LinkedIn bios). For all I know, the company was doing great before the founder pivoted to an alt-right social network. Cynicism loses again!
And the doc has 4.2MB of minified javascript. Jesus christ.
Tooks 9 seconds to load the page.
All credibility gone. Why would I use components made by people who don't see performance problems?
Can you expand on this? As it is, your reply seems very dismissive. I am interested in hearing your reasons.
I was referring to secondary roads (not limited access) and cities generally. Sorry I was unclear. Major cities would actually seem to be the bigger challenge than smaller ones in general.

Detailed and current mapping will likely be a necessary part of fully-autonomous systems at least initially. But there's nothing especially difficult about doing that mapping. It's just a question of economics.
Not to you or your comment, but to the President that if he shuts down NSA programs in the final hour, then it would be arrogant indeed to have let them run for 8 years.
Thanks super helpful. Had a couple of followups: (1) Which boot camp did you attend if you don't mind me asking and in what city? (2) How you find the job interview process? (3) What kind of work are you doing now? (4) Do you feel that today you could learn anything you wanted to learn for example deep learning if you put in time or do you feel webdev is extent of what you can do? (5) What do you enjoy most about it? (6) Enjoy least? (7) What was different than you expected going in? (8) Where do you see yourself going in the future as a software engineer? -- Thanks a ton for your help.
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That is the same for all taxi companies! All taxi drivers are contractors, not employees.
I wasn't aware they had good articles.
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I know a lot of people hate him but Martin Shkreli is an Excel wizard. Check out his videos on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vAgzPp3oI4
Ask HN: Have you faced burnout for days?
I'm facing burnout these days, this time the duration is quite long. I thought a week off would help, but it didn't. Any ideas, suggestions, tips, tricks that had worked for you guys? Is it the job or me?
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qBittorrent if you want a drop in replacement for uTorrent, otherwise Transmission is great if you want it running in the background and like having some command line control.

http://www.qbittorrent.org/download.php
Coming from OpenStack land where Ceph is used heavily, it's well known that you shouldn't run production Ceph on VMs and that CephFS (which is like an NFS endpoint for Ceph itself) has never been as robust as the underlying Rados Block Device stuff.

They probably could have saved themselves a lot of pain by talking to some Ceph experts still working inside RedHat for architectural and other design decisions.

I agree with other poster who asked why do they even need a gigantic distributed fs and how that seems like a design miss.
Do whatever the fuck you want. It's your life and your career. Opinions are divided here as voters in the USA so no one will help you make a decision in this better than yourself. :)
As someone who has had several 'crazy' career moves over the years, it may well be crazy to do it, and yet still be the right thing to do for you. I think the best way to do this would be to keep working, but to study part-time with Udacity.
Continuing to work in a good tech company gives you a big advantage in that your "professional network" (aka "people you know") contains a lot of smart developers, a small number of whom may have made similar career moves. It would be worth asking around in person or on your internal work chat groups etc to see if anyone has experience with Udacity courses, then meet up for a coffee and a chat. Don't say you want to change jobs, just start by saying you want to understand better what developers do, and that's why you want to learn to code. That makes you a more valuable PM, while at the same time you are building the skills that would let you make a career change.

As you learn more, you should keep in touch with those devs, and you can ask them for feedback on the projects you work on (clearly, the onus is on you to not abuse their time, but most people like to help someone who is hardworking, enthusiastic and respectful). Then, by the time you've developed your skills to the point you could take an entry level developer position, you will also have a bunch of developers in the company who know you, know how hard you've been working, and will often be willing to pass on knowledge of openings, and put in a good word for you in the hiring process.
Also, don't ignore the possibility of joining a startup once you have sufficient technical skills, a growing startup is exactly the kind of place that would greatly benefit from someone who understands team and project management and can deliver good code. They will hire you for the technical skills, not the PM skills, but that doesn't take away their value.
Email me if you'd like to discuss further, and best of luck!
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Is this the tolerance of the left I've been hearing about? 'Love trumps hate' and all that?
There may be a paywall issue. Can someone please post another related story?
Using Feedbin and Reader but only check feeds over the weekend when I can spend time reading and sorting.

One thing on this approach: you are screwed if the website isn't using well structured HTML. Having to write rules for individual websites will become cumbersome and will break if they decide to change their markup.

I keep track of a few websites off the command line by doing a checksum of the HTML page and then doing a diff. It doesn't work if the HTML includes a timestamp but it does work for the websites that I am watching.
Read Cal Newport on career capital. Do you have enough of it?
Your anecdote supports the truthiness vs. factiness argument. Trump avoided making statements, such as what his improvement would be, so that didn't get reported. He only made claims about at issues he considered needing intervention, leaving the specifics to implementation. One set of people assumed he wanted to undo progress, while another assumed he wanted to advance it. One statement, two conclusions.
Corporations and the Silicon Valley echo chamber itself are going to get the smack down for being such insufferable Marxists. It's only a matter of time. They might want to study some history and stop being such annoying know-it-alls. Might be a good idea to apologize to your conservative-leaning customers, too--they are at least half of your sales.
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Yep... Settled for CSS modules for now; Works well enough.
Poll: What's your reaction to SSL “secured-by ” logos on websites?
NOTE: I'm not asking what you think other people think of it. I specifically want to know what this audience thinks about it.
Feel reassured and trust the website more
Completely ignore it
Laugh and ignore it
Trust them less but still finish the check out process
Refuse to use the site because you don't trust them at all
Right. The way I look at this, suicide attempts are just the tail, the extreme cases -- even more people are not quite that desperate, are suffering at a level that's only almost unbearable.
I believe GitHub is or was distributing repos instead of files. AWS code commit likely stores pack files in S3 or otherwise takes advantage of existing AWS systems..

Using a single Ceph FS is an odd choice IMO. You need to have or acquire a ton of expertise to run stuff like that, and it can be finicky. I'm not convinced you can't get this running well enough on AWS though.. So I'd be worried the move to bare metal would just cause the team more problems.
I don't know what OP means by saying SGD. If he/she means it is Gradient-Based optimization algorithm as a whole, it is definitely a challenging and open question, and a lot of researchers trying to improve them.
I hate the fact that we've come to the point where everything is now open for discussion and sticking your fingers in your ears and screaming is considered a valid debate style. These days it's the person who holds out the longest that wins, right or wrong.
Maybe just me but I'm having a hard time seeing how this is substantially different from or better than bootstrap or foundation with some react-based wrappers like reactstrap. Seems like performance is an issue and you're just as tightly coupled to the framework as with bootstrap/foundation. Am I missing something?
According to this advice
https://www.quora.com/Is-stochastic-calculus-helpful-to-get-...
these interview questions are not the most important thing
I do the same thing, but... grocery store bags are pretty small. I would imagine you would need to use a number of grocery store bags to hold the equivalent amount of a black drawstring bag most people use.

I also use a reusable bag for most my grocery shopping. I know a number of people who use cloth bags.

I do know there are programs which seek to collect plastic bags and recycle them, but I've never actually looked into what they are being used for.

If you feel like your contribution of recycling grocery store bags is meaningful, I don't think you should stop.
You have to admit though that this guy is smart. Getting kicked out of YC is probably exactly what he wanted. It will be PR magic for his startup... He almost definitely planned the whole thing from the beginning.
We just wrote all our own inline styles to override their stuff. It turned out to be not that bad. We just set up a context object like theirs, and wrapped all the components we used.
> Depression is a label for a wide range of complex illnesses

Depression is closer to a symptom than an illness.
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Classification is not the right metric to use here. Lidar doesn't classify the objects it's looking it, it just tells you the direction and distance.

Cameras can also gauge distance pretty effectively from parallax. Either using multiple cameras, or from the motion of the vehicle itself, or both. From this it should be possible to gauge where obstacles are and drive safely.

But NNs give the possibility of gathering much more information from recognizing objects. Information that Lidar systems don't have.
This isn't backup. It's user profile element duplication on the same machine. As long as they are not admins or power users on the system then they can't do much damage outside of their profiles.

Backup is another matter entirely.
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Hello, I'm hoping for a suggestion for some math courses that will help me understand these questions.. I only took algebra in high school and didn't go to college. Since, I've looked at a couple things (basic proofs, lambda calculus) but quickly was overwhelmed. What is a good starting point for someone who can reverse and exploit all sorts of binaries but does not know what a derivative is? Just start on Coursera? My other question is - what can I achieve with this knowledge? What use is it? What problems can I solve? I think one thing that kept me progressing learning code was I could see what I was looking to achieve and I reached it. I learned it because I wanted to understand it. When I look at math, I see something that I will never be able to understand... There is a part of me that has a strong desire to learn it but the other half tells me to leave it alone. Is it understandable in the same way programming is understandable? By learning the syntax?
>reddit.com/r/<subreddit>/comments/

Thanks for posting that; I'd never seen it before. As my sister comment said, for smaller subs it could be quite useful for finding active discussions - like on /r/truefilm or something.

People always say "sort Reddit threads by comment age if you want the 4chan experience" and that has some merit - but that only applies once you have chosen a thread to open. A subreddit-wide comment feed gives an idea of which threads are active without relying on the blackbox thread ranking algorithm Reddit provides.
Trump won because college-educated Americans are out of touch
money makes people dirty.
I asked Paul Graham on Twitter if YC would discriminate against Trump supporters, and while his answer was fine [1], I never did get a response from Sam Altman about the same issue. I also never got a decent response from an anonymous thread I posted here [2]. Sam Altman's statement of support for Hillary [3] was fine, of course he is entitled to his opinion, but it was incumbent upon Altman to make a statement that neither he nor the YC application review team would discriminate on the basis of political affiliation. He didn't, and one has to wonder, given this new situation, whether there really is systemic bias at YC.

[1]https://twitter.com/sparkzilla/status/788684294130630656
[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733252
[3]http://blog.samaltman.com/the-2016-election
Well that was a waste of time. Poor talk, no technical information, nothing innovative.
Have a look at social media to see what the current sentiments of the left are regarding white (males). Pure hatred and death wishes, it's absolutely grotesque. The KKK has nothing on them. Get off your moral high horse.
Thank you, I was wrong. I see the problem.
You say that, but I'm not sure what gives a government organization the agency to own and maintain such weapons, either. It all seems to come down to "might makes right" and we know that isn't true. So the whole argument goes right out the window, then.

What makes the US Government so special that it should be armed with world-ending nuclear weapons? How is a large bureaucracy somehow better than say a private corporation or even an individual in that regard? There is no answer...
If an apprentice in one of Trump's reality shows was caught on video telling others to "fuck off", after being repeatedly told not to do that, Trump himself would've said "You're fired!" Probably kicked him out of the door himself.

Good riddance.
Very impressive! Keep up the good work.
It is sadly amusing to look at the utter lack of empathy though. From the article, re his move to Texas:

I didn’t feel safe anymore in Silicon Valley as a conservative. I felt like
such a minority that I just didn’t feel safe being there anymore.

The inability to connect that to how the Mexican founder he mocked is feeling is instructive about Torba's character.
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https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6067583?hl=en

Seems like it only does the reminder part though.
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I really hope this comment stays up. If you downvote have the courtesy of explaining why you disagree. Especially when I am proving proof of my view point.

1) Supported by the KKK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKiWpb7di_E

Want more information, google Hillary Clinton and Robert Byrd.

2) Bill Clinton also groped and molested women, in the whitehouse no less.

3) The democrats wanted a strong immigration policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4384XQR44yM

4) I suggest you watch this title. https://www.amazon.com/Hillarys-America-Digital-Dinesh-DSouz...

It's a story about the true democrats. I then task you to seriously try to debunk the content.

I ask you to rethink you viewpoint about Hillary and the Democrats. It's painfully obvious to those who have woken up. That her and her party, don't care about the American people.

The only people she cared about, was the special interests who paid her.
I really don't know the answer. I'm a front end guy too.

But it just seems like we are all stuck on this collective transe of needlessly complicated, overly fashionable tools that struggle with the basics.

From what I've seen (granted, not much), animation and styling look like an after thought, which is surprising.
But I'm weird, I still write bare CSS to this day whenever the decision is up to me.
SASS is cool, but not enough to justify adding another lever to the machine, IMO.
Looking for feedback/ideas/contributions. So far this is working well at my company for having permanent links between rooms in different offices. Things that might be useful/fun to add:

1. better theme - I didn't spend any time on the default looks/feel. Channel selection is low hanging fruit (dropdown might be better)
2. make channel definitions dynamic rather than static
3. let users add new channels via the UI rather
4. show channel status so you know if a channel is already in use by a link
5. fix the SSL issue - maybe use lets-encrypt with dns verification? Difficult thing is that this is intended to be used in intranet where the simple domain verification methods won't work.
Being an informed adult also means recognizing the inherent limitations of the human brain that allow for the framing, presentation, context, and social group perception of a thing (as seen in branding, marketing, opinion essays, and many other places) to considerably affect how we think and feel about different aspects of the world.

Some might even call this a feature -- such cognitive shortcuts and heuristics allow us to assess threats in our environment, enjoy the warmth and aesthetics of a newly purchased jacket, or complete a shopping trip to the grocery store in a reasonable amount of time.

Through large efforts of will we can begin to become aware of this in ourselves, and then attempt to mitigate the negatives to a small degree. However, we can't do much beyond that.
On the other hand, the very public circumstances of the dismissal will make it impossible to get funding for the startup from legitimate investors.
You are writing as if technological unemployment has even been a problem. It just hasn't. (We might see some in the future, but I would bet against it.)

Let's look at a recent historic example:

The housing bubble employed lots of blue collar workers in construction. The bubble burst, and those jobs went away. But---and here's the crucial part---people forget that unemployment did not pick up: basically those laid off found new jobs.

We only got a general uptick in unemployment when the fed's mismanagement turned this minor recession into The Great Recession.

See https://www.aei.org/publication/did-the-housing-crash-cause-... and just look at the timelines: housing starts (and thus employment in the construction sector) decline by around half between the peak in 2006 and the end of 2007. General unemployment barely budges.

Then only in 2008 The Great Recession kicks in, and unemployment takes off.

The oft-repeated narrative that when the housing bubble burst, those blue collar workers lost their jobs and never got another one is simply not true.

The narrative that those blue collar workers who lost their job during The Great Recession didn't have another job to switch to, that's much closer to the truth. But that Great Recession was entirely avoidable.
Are you under 40?

Yes.

I assure you that it's really quite challenging to undergo retraining after 40 and then essentially start your career all over again as a fresh graduate.

You don't have to retrain everyone. Retrain younger people as machinists and toolmakers. The older people can have their old jobs back, working in the same supply chain as the newly-retrained tradespeople.
Rook may be alpha, but they didn't start from scratch:

> rookd uses an embedded version of Ceph for storing all data

> rookd embeds Etcd to store configuration and coordinate cluster-wide management operations
It works around half the time. So, yea it can cure depression though it does not cure everyone of depression.

It's kind of like rebooting a computer, it does not always work and sometimes it makes things worse. But, comparing the cost vs benefit it's generally worth trying.
I'm not sure what you're talking about - there's been plenty of carving away at the bill of rights, and it's started well, well before Obama took office. And what have those passionate gun-owners done? Absolutely nothing but protect the second amendment. Where were the gun-toting constitutional defenders when the 'free speech zones' went up, for example?

The idea of a popular uprising against government overreach is a fiction. You even have the police shooting citizens dead in the street to the fury of their community, and the gun owners do...? Well, the ones you're describing, the Trump-loving RKBAing lot, decide not to fight against the government, but instead find excuses for the police's actions. The gulf between their 'talk' and their 'walk' is better described as a chasm.
We're aware of this: https://github.com/palantir/blueprint/issues/39

Feel free to make a PR to improve things boubiyeah, we just haven't gotten to this issue yet.
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Ford used to work for Edison. (According to Wikipedia.)
Distributed file systems are tough especially if you're putting it together yourself. I'd go for an already built solution every time unless I absolutely could not for whatever the reason.
I am fairly certain this person is making a joke around "contribute to climate change" being a wording that, while clear in context, does suggest "make climate change happen faster/worse".
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Co-ops are the more ethical approach: http://platformcoop.net/
It might be, but you have to look at what's important for a product like GitLab. It's in a market where those who'll pay want to run their own special version of the system. So it's naturally partitioned.

Architecting, or even spending mental cycles on day 1 on distribution isn't going to win you as much as focusing on making an awesome product.

This move will probably buy them another year or two, which will give them enough time hopefully implement some form of partitioning.
Getting trust is the hardest step. An interesting idea that sadly seemed to lose traction:

http://www.shareable.net/blog/lazooz-the-decentralized-crypt...
Fairly certain that this is due to the animation on the marketing page and not the components themselves.
I don't think so. He will find even stronger support among conservatives (especially when you factor in the nature of his startup). That's the thing about capitalism; there is no down-vote button.

The more controversy you create, the better it gets financially. Friends pay well and enemies don't cost much.

I think that this guy was secretly hoping for a Clinton win; then he would have looked even more like a victim; and the defeated, angry Trump supporters would have been cheering him on with pitchforks in their hands.