skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's entirely possible for a "publicity bubble" to cause all this. A big article got published ripping Amazon, got a lot of shares and views. For a while after that, anything negative about Amazon that seems authentic gets upvoted hard because it's what people want to read, and it lets them feel what they would call justified rage. People like that and people who just want forum karma and attention aggressively seek out or sometimes even make up stories to meet what these upvoters want to read. Stories that buck the narrative get downvoted and ignored. And just like that, you form a big popular impression of something that may be false or grossly exaggerated.

I don't know that the impression is actually false in this particular case, but these things can happen, and you'd be wise to not take the "internet consensus" too seriously.
I don't know you, but I'm proud of you. And frankly, you should be very proud of yourself. Want to know why?

Writing this demonstrates something very important about your character. When you feel backed into a corner, you don't just hide away and hope that the situation passes. Instead, you fight to get yourself out of the situation. This is huge and frankly, this trait will serve you well in the future.

Other people have given you some wonderful, actionable advice and I don't want to repeat their words, so I'll cut it off there. But seriously, be proud of yourself.

Everything will work out and you will be okay. If you feel stuck, my email address is in my profile - reach out and I'll help you however I can.

Be safe.
The Iraq war continued for 3 years under the Obama administration.

In fact, a few americans even believe that Obama was in office during 9/11,and blame him about everything.

I'm also among the people that used to support Wikileaks when they were anti-estabilishment, but I'm now disgusted by them

(only marginally because of their involvement in Trump's election: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/media/201... )
I'm thinking specifically of the Windows desktop experience on ARM, so things like phones and Xbox don't count. But I didn't realize the Surface went through 2 iterations of ARM, so maybe this counts as #3? Or maybe it doesn't count at all since it was a watered-down version of Windows that couldn't run most apps.
Invisible Images (Your Pictures Are Looking at You)
Any reason Expect isn't included on many of the common Linux distributions? That kind of limits its use, for many of us.
No, banks are creating credit.

https://bankunderground.co.uk/2015/06/30/banks-are-not-inter...

By creating credit faster than the underlying wealth creation of an economy banks are appropriating real goods and services and the wealth generation later (or rather now as they lent for decades like this) and they walk off with the goods whilst we all drown in asset inflation.

I would agree that demographics played a big part. Boomers borrowed heavily as though the demogrpahic inversion were not a problem, and banks played along. Now we have the money supply collapse as we have more olds than young, meaning a collapse in credit supply which is a problem as the model requires that principal + interest is paid back which cannot happen unless more debit is issued into the face of loan expiry which destroys the credit but still requires the interest be paid from some other debt source.

Why else do we need constant QE and ZIRP? To encourage more borrowing to try and maintain the rate of credit creation to keep the money supply up as boomers pay down at their end of life.

What a nuts system and also a terrible one as all productivity gains are soaked up by adaptable pricing on land to capture all gains.

excited for my HN "you're submitting too fast" soon when anything about banks or rentiers is mentioned!
You know, cgit does come with two example syntax highlighting scripts... :)
Funny, I actually came across this the other day in my endless quest to cure my worsening gum disease: http://aem.asm.org/content/76/21/7243.full.pdf

I wonder why they never pursued it further. Their results sounded promising.
neat article on building your own flight controller.

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-ARDUINO-FLIGHT-CONTROLLE...
Well, at least it's in development: https://webkit.org/status/
As houses become less affordable, there appears to be much more demand at the "entry level" range of $1-1.4M out here. So you have much higher $/sqft often times on a smaller home than on much larger, nicer homes at higher prices. In fact, those have been leveling off lately as there are only so many buyers at higher levels.
A "lizard brain" (besides being a hypothesis largely dismissed by neuroscientists) seems unlikely to have any reference point or other handling for "I'm sitting in a tube 30,000 feet up at 700mph". Similar to how we're basically incapable of thinking about numbers like a billion dollars effectively.
Ask HN: How would you develop your next “big idea” if you were alone?
I have a new project idea, which obviously for me is like “the idea”, but it’s kind of complicated to do it for just one person (me). Also if you consider that it can take a really long time to do that it could end in frustration and nothing... Please also note that I have a 7 hour job.

My first though was to try to find someone which might be also interested (preferably no one from the company I’m working at), but since I’m pretty new in the city that I’m living, I basically don’t know anyone outside the office.

The problem to find someone from some meetup group, is that I’m afraid that my idea get stolen.

Note that I would no have problems to spend some money for this project. Like paying for an external company to help me with the development. Would you do that? Do you know any company/startup which will do that, preferably located in Germany?

How can I make this idea to happen?
While not a replacement for book, 'The Right Stuff' the movie is a great movie.
Komarov's was particularly sad. He knew he was going to die, and railed at the incompetence of the program engineers during the descent phase that he knew he wouldn't survive. The fact that the main problem was that the parachute straps had been hooked up wrongly was the final (preventable) insult to a brave man.

"Gagarin wrote a 10-page memo and gave it to his best friend in the KGB, Venyamin Russayev, but nobody dared send it up the chain of command. Everyone who saw that memo, including Russayev, was demoted, fired or sent to diplomatic Siberia. With less than a month to go before the launch, Komarov realized postponement was not an option. He met with Russayev, the now-demoted KGB agent, and said, "I'm not going to make it back from this flight."

Russayev asked, Why not refuse? According to the authors, Komarov answered: "If I don't make this flight, they'll send the backup pilot instead." That was Yuri Gagarin. Vladimir Komarov couldn't do that to his friend. "That's Yura," the book quotes him saying, "and he'll die instead of me. We've got to take care of him." Komarov then burst into tears.

On launch day, April 23, 1967, a Russian journalist, Yaroslav Golovanov, reported that Gagarin showed up at the launch site and demanded to be put into a spacesuit, though no one was expecting him to fly. Golovanov called this behavior "a sudden caprice," though afterward some observers thought Gagarin was trying to muscle onto the flight to save his friend. The Soyuz left Earth with Komarov on board.

Once the Soyuz began to orbit the Earth, the failures began. Antennas didn't open properly. Power was compromised. Navigation proved difficult. The next day's launch had to be canceled. And worse, Komarov's chances for a safe return to Earth were dwindling fast.

All the while, U.S. intelligence was listening in. The National Security Agency had a facility at an Air Force base near Istanbul. Previous reports said that U.S. listeners knew something was wrong but couldn't make out the words. In this account, an NSA analyst, identified in the book as Perry Fellwock, described overhearing Komarov tell ground control officials he knew he was about to die. Fellwock described how Soviet premier Alexei Kosygin called on a video phone to tell him he was a hero. Komarov's wife was also on the call to talk about what to say to their children. Kosygin was crying."
L.A. prosecutors are accusing four big retailers of tricking shoppers
And the blog post about this from Jeff Barr - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-aws-canada-central...
List or Form, why not both? Making a list with a built in editor in React
I think it applies to everybody. I think it was Terence Tao who had a blog post claiming (and showing) that teaching by example first is the most effective.
Playing devils advocate here...

If they only hire a subset of interns this way, how would a full-time candidate have any clue? If a manager doesn't get an intern that had this happen, how would they know?

Okay now most poeple know, it's on HN (and people are pissed apparently according to another commenter here). Do you expect the current employees to up and quit?

I think it's easy to say that "you'd just earn the right to work with a bunch of clueless people", but Amazon is a huge company. Do you expect that all MSFT/GOOG/AAPL/ETC employees keep close tabs on programs that recruiting are using (potentially even testing?) And do you expect that people with mortgages, families, commitments are just going to walk out as soon as they hear about something like that?

I'm not defending Amazon at all here. Something may be wrong if this shit keeps happening (there isn't a faces of google website, for example), but I don't think the burden here is on a lowly SDE or whatnot who is powerless, and in most cases has no clue of the situation.
Fi's market competes with Verizon and ATT, and even if it's a play on Android as you say, vertical integration != market domination.

ATT is now rolling out it's own Fiber program and Comcast it's own gigabit service, in response to Google Fiber, so it was successful in moving the oligopoly.
> I think the problem I'm having with continuum is that it's based on us only using the computer in a few fixed places

I'm still holding out hope for a "Surface phone" with a laptop dock. The dock would really just be a battery, keyboard, trackpad, display, and probably a few USB ports.
See a doctor. It's an illness like any other, and drugs will help treat it. If the first med you try doesn't work, try another. Different things work for different people.

Some people close to you won't understand at first. That's ok. Their only people, and it's hard for them to have sympathy for an illness they cant physically see.

Do at least 1 productive thing everyday. Congratulate yourself for it.
That's a very good point.

I wonder if there are any other companies with stock structures similar to Google but without all powerful founders that would provide more data on this question? I don't know of any off the top of my head but my knowledge in this area isn't particularly strong.
How did they not title this "Finders Fee"
Will it still kill my laptop's wifi connection speed if I try to use it?
Hmm.

If I'm reading that page right myself, then if you travel 1000 miles in a car there's ~4.3 times as much risk of death than if you travelled in a plane instead.

So if a plane travels at least 4.3 times as FAST as a car on average, then your risk over time in a plane could be higher.

I think your post makes a good point in general. Way too often, people compare statistics that don't consider major factors like how often people drive vs. fly.
I wasn't going to say anything but...
Yeah, I guess Marvin Minsky wasn't aware of Technic and Mindstorms

Which would be somewhat amazing, given Mindstorm's pedigree.
I attended MakerSquare (now Hack Reactor) and made several projects but my two final projects were:
http://roadtrip-advisor.herokuapp.com/ (source: https://github.com/spacemanatee/spacemanatee)
and Unearth, a mobile app made with Angular-Ionic that uses GPS to uncover "fog-of-war" on a real world map overlay as you walk around and explore the real world. (source: https://github.com/unearth)
I knew a self-taught programmer who was a little sensitive about his lack of formal training. Sometimes he'd tell the story of when he was 19 and talked to a recruiter at ITT Tech and the school had 'wanted him' so much that they kept calling his house but his parents just couldn't afford it (thank goodness).

He was a smart guy from a background where going to college wasn't on the menu. He managed to learn an impressive amount on his own, but I think that was one of the only times he'd felt welcomed or encouraged in his interests.
Who says that?

If it's you, just say so. If not, what is your point?
The full version of MS Office ran perfectly well on the ARM based Windows RT Surface and Surface 2 tablets and that was several years ago.
Seconded. Planck is fantastic for scripting, and the accompanying tutorial[0] is great for getting started. The only problem is that its OSX only

[0] - http://planck-repl.org/scripts.html
I was born three days after his flight. There was a large upsurge in the names "John" and "Glenn" for newborn males, which I somehow escaped...
At what point did Wikileaks ever scan their releases for personal information? This is completely false. They never have, nor is it feasible to, they just don't have the manpower to do so. That's a major argument against Wikileaks, that it has released names of ops, contacts, and soldiers in the past, far before this election.

What people don't seem to understand is they don't have the manpower or time to go through everything they receive. The bad comes with the good, which is why there are legitimate arguments either way.
> this was presumably before people accepted mathematical concepts as being as real as anything else

Maybe as "unreal as anything else" would be a more accurate way to put it. Mathematical realism and even any kind of Platonism have a lot of detractors. I think the attitude change was more due to what is now known as Logicism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicism) and Formalism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(philosophy_of_mathe... ) when people realized that you did not need to appeal to the physical world to come up with useful things.
Ask HN: VoIP CTO Needed for 10k MRR Company
We are an established VoIP company in the US. Our current CTO has left to take a position in another company. We are looking someone resume development as CTO. The candidate could work remotely or in our office in Santa Monica, CA. The technologies we use are: Cassandra, Scala, Spray, Akka, Joyent, AngularJS. To learn more about the opportunity, please email daniel@vonjour.com. Include in the subject: CTO Position.
I have seen paths that will generate upwards of 10 promises and then put them together at the end. In theory, this shouldn't be a problem and the code was readable enough. Reasoning about all of the different ways backpressure can happen was not as easy.

Compared to knowing that you have a set of queues that ultimately feed into other queues. It is much clearer to reason about the throughput of individual queues and take that into consideration when designing new queues in the system.

It is basically like someone throwing a ton of outlets on a wire going through a room. I mean, yes. You can do that. Often won't even cause issues. However, for large enough systems, you ultimately need to know what the load on that circuit will be and it is not acceptable to put yet another plug extender there.
What's most frustrating about these conversations is what I've noted in another thread: people feel really comfortable talking about what FP can and can't do without even acquainting themselves with 10+ year old techniques in the field.

I'm sorry, I decline to continue this conversation further.
If the email and calendar apps of Win 10 Mobile aren't are seamless and simple as the iOS apps, it's a non-starter. The current apps look like they're from 1999 and are horrible when you have multiple accounts.

There are probably about 1000 apps that MS would need to make sure are in their own app store for any new Surface Phone to survive, plus continuum, plus "something else".

I personally think they need to dump the tiles and mimic the UX of iOS/Android and just admit that's what people like and are comfortable with.
You know, you could actually study why the gold standard is a terrible idea, rather than just fantasizing about it.

The financial trickery you're talking about is caused by deregulation and would happen on the gold standard just as often, but with probably far more disastrous consequences.
Others downthread have mentioned it, but you still have an element of control in that situation. I've seen someone driving down the wrong side of the highway, and I pulled my car over and didn't get hit.

Even if the % of control you personally have is small, as long as it's > 0%, you feel like you're in control of the situation. In a plane, it's 0%.
Makes sense, since I was there when it was smaller than it was today. Let me guess, the logic questions were along the lines of "You have two coins that equal $0.55, and one is not a nickle"?
I mean, even in low-latency trading where error checking is viewed as a sign of weakness (I kid, mostly) at least people have the common sense to add sensible limits to message size (like MTU) when using length-prefixed protocols. Even in these situations where the I/O is across all-ASIC optical and electrical paths corrupt messages do happen.
My point is that you can take an existing Java codebase, stick in a Kotlin file, and use those "future Java" features right now, in your Java project.

But the fact that those features might have existed in Haskell or Algol68 or whatever is largely irrelevant since we're taking about Java.
RIP to a true boss.
Those who haven't heard about him should watch "When We Left Earth", a fantastic documentary miniseries about NASA.

He was one of the many NASA astronauts interviewed.
The location will help, but it's not like Montreal is in the frozen tundra. It's about 30 miles from the border with Vermont. All of Washington state is north of Montreal.
stop reading hacker news
"Finder (nee Archive Utility) should just execute the task without any visual feedback" -- no.
If someone is looking for an alternative with a GUI, I use The Unarchiver [0] and I'm generally happy with it. I don't usually have to expand lots of small files like the OP, so I don't know how it compares with that task.

[0] http://unarchiver.c3.cx/unarchiver
It's not fair to count retail or warehouse employees. Walmart would only need to offer those perks to its corporate employees.
Couldn't you just divide the deaths per mile by the typical speed of an airplane or car to normalize the data?
The reason why there is a negative perception of employment conditions is because employment conditions are not very good, and they're not very good because a lot of people want to work in the industry.
Chrome disables just about all of this when you have the developer tools open, so that might be what you are running into.
>The paperwork I cared so much about has never been useful.

Going to school just for the paperwork is kind of a bad idea. Ideally, one should learn something useful when getting a degree. Just pointing out the obvious which seems to be overlooked here.
It seems reasonable that you are suffering some form of depression, even if it is transitory in nature. Good part is that makes you human and no better or worse then anyone else.

Just my 2 cents, but this is part of what becoming independent is all about, you have to make decisions based on the information you have and not focus on the next great thing all the time, nor allow yourself to be insulated in your thoughts so much. Your reality should be, if you received offers all around the same rough compensation, then that is likely the going rate for a new grad with your skill set and presentation in the areas you applied. Accept the best one with the team you feel you fit best with (that is more important then raw compensation) and move forward. You can always change later as you gain some experience. Don't wait for the perfect solution right now, move forward and change if you need to later.

You are still really fresh out of school so you can still accept a reasonable offer and the faster you start contributing to a team the faster you will feel better. Get focused, get organized and accept your reality so that you can change it. I don't care what your reality is, it is always changeable by you. Other people can help, but in the end you are the only one that can act to change your circumstance.

If you need to go see someone to talk through how you feel, do it, don't hesitate. There are too many people afraid to seek out help, go do it, celebrate that you are enlightened enough to recognize it and get the little extra guidance. Most of the time it is that simple, talking it out with someone who has empathy but can help lead you on a path to pull yourself up. You don't sound like you are in a bad situation, just not where you thought you'd be, so it is far easier to fix today then 3, 6, 9 months from now if you do nothing.

Take care, good luck.
Does MSFT/GOOG/AAPL/ETC do this or is it Amazon-specific?
In my opinion, massive automation of tasks is going to cause a massive demand of programmers, developers and QA engineers, so no robot apocalypse yet.
Basic income is not the solution to this problem because this is not a problem. The solution to this 'problem' is having a better education and making tech more accessible for everyone.
I really like this analogy. I'll use it.
When people find I'm a software engineer during casual chats in social situations, they immediately tell me their billion dollar idea.
When they ask me about costs, I can now respond with a car analogy.
I'm a supporter of basic income as an experiment but it is interesting to think about alternatives. Is basic income simply a stepping stone to some kind of Star Trek post-scarcity utopia where there is no concept of money or wealth at all?

We survived the industrial revolution, is it not just human nature to adapt?

One example I recently discussed with friends was the idea that most truck drivers may soon be out of jobs due to automation. Since this is a highly specialized skill it would be hard for those workers to find alternative work without learning an entirely new skill set. But would it be feasible for those drivers to simply buy self driving trucks much like they already buy their conventional trucks and simply enjoy their lives while the truck drives itself? So even if self-driving trucks show up tomorrow is it necessary to pay truck drivers just to live? Can we offer an incentive like retraining to those drivers?

Is basic income actually the solution or do we need to take a harder look at things like the income gap and a tax structure that strongly favors investment in creating actual value (goods and services) instead of wealth for the sake of wealth (investments).
for me it all starts with marketing. how are you getting the word out about it? if you can't:

1. Build a landing page and collect names of people that are interested then it's going to be hard to market.

2. if it's B2B, generate leads from advertising or SEO trouble.
Oh! Yeah, that (embezzlement/fraud) is why they got in trouble.
You definitely sound spoiled. You turned down several offers because they didn't reflect how highly a company should think of you? It's a job. You're compensated for your time, not how big your ego is.

Suck it up and go be a worker bee. We all do it.
We tried Avro, Thrift and Protobuf and Avro was our choice. The schema of collections in Rakam is dynamic and with both Thrift and Protobuf schema evolution is not that easy at runtime. Avro is easier to use in Java and doesn't enforce code generation, the dynamic classes are optimized for performance so it's a better option for us.