skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uber/Lyft definitely have increased the growth of riders. I use both regularly and way more than I ever used cabs

When I say population growth I mean literally due to more people moving to SF or working downtown, which would not be their fault. Sounds like yours is a case of shifting from public transit to ridesharing, which is definitely due to Uber/Lyft being a better experience at an attractive price.

Perhaps we need to reach a point of inflection like in NYC where taking public transit is faster than navigating congested streets. But as it stands MUNI is often (significantly) slower than a rideshare.
What do you think they could actually do? I doubt either could exist if restricted to pick up and drop off in actual loading zones + available parking spaces. Bus stops are drastically more abundant than either of those.
I'm not actually that young, I'm 33. (I also haven't been training very long, about 2 years now) I agree though, I am a sample size of one. There are forums of people who follow Ray Peat's ideas, and some do consume large amounts of sugar, and do really well.
At GitLab we have the following criteria to be a senior:

Senior Developers are experienced developers who meet the following criteria:

Are able to write modular, well-tested, and maintainable code

Know a domain really well and radiate that knowledge

Begins to show architectural perspective

Leads the design for medium to large projects with feedback

from other engineers

Leaves code in substantially better shape than before

Fixes bugs/regressions quickly

Monitors overall code quality/build failures

Creates test plans

Provides thorough and timely code feedback for peers

Able to communicate clearly on technical topics

Keeps issues up-to-date with progress

Helps guide other merge requests to completion

Helps with recruiting

https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/developer/
The human body have an amazing ability to adapt to the environment and we will survive as long as energy intake match energy expenditure. The only category that need some attention is protein where having too little or too much can lead to issues. An Inuit from Greenland is no more or less healthy than an American or farmer from Brazil because of what they eat.
Honestly I'm fed up of how video editors act like they're the whole damn "pro" market and nothing else matters.
If we're sharing annecdata: Almost every programmer I know owns a Mac and loves it, and prefers working on them.

Except me. My employer doesn't let me use my own computer and refuses to buy me one.
Sugar is just an empty calorie, there's plenty of studies that also show that it has no real net negative effect. The problem is when your diet consists primarily of empty calories, then obviously you are going to have health problems, from lack of nutrients. If your diet is nutrient rich, a bit of extra sugar will not do anything bad.
Also Fed Up.

To paraphrase, if an external force was making our kids sick, addicted and more likely to die, we'd be bombing them into oblivion.

But as this force is the food industry's vision of profit at all costs, we just watch them get progressively sicker with each generation.
> An Inuit from Greenland is no more or less healthy than an American or farmer from Brazil because of what they eat.

Is that really true though?
> TL;DR - a stack machine is conceptually simpler than a register machine, and it doesn't matter if it's slower since you are JIT'ing it anyway

It totally matters. See [1] for previous work on this topic. You need to perform expensive data flow optimisations to generate information the stack format doesn't need to encode, but that a register format does need. Better to do this analysis ahead of time in the compiler than at runtime.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/events/vee05/full_papers/p153-yunhe.p...
> HN has repeatedly demonstrated expertise in a very wide range of subjects.

Although I agree with this, there is also a lot of nonsense and factually incorrect statements. Not everyone is an expert in every field, and many people will make bold claims about topics in which they're not well versed – even on HN. Unfortunately, this applies to me as well sometimes.
Dear God, you aren't suggesting that perhaps the government isn't the solution to everything and that in fact volunteerism could be viable?
at least try to google "sugar calories".
Ask HN: Best practises for solo developer?
Being a solo developer is hard for numerous reasons:

1. You miss bouncing ideas off others (which most of the time results in quick useful feedback)
2. You are at a very high risk of missing deadlines since there're no mandatory hours to put in !
3. Without a boss/peer team the risk of distraction is very high, often jumping between projects or dropping some of the projects altogether.
4. Technical risks like - no code reviews, no good QA etc.

I'm sure there are many more. But what I'm interested to know is , if there're any suggestions/recommendations for making the best of solo development and overcome some of the limitations mentioned above.
Ok, we de-overblew (?) the title for you.
really, narcissism sometimes is a sign of more significant issues.
Title should be updated to clarify the spin out is from X, not Alphabet as a whole: (see correction at end of the OP) http://www.recode.net/2016/12/7/13875208/google-x-self-drivi...
Thanks for posting. I've just had a quick glance over the first chapter of your book and I like the simple approach you take to explaining the core elements of vue.js and SPAs.

Will be keeping an eye on your progress.
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
Now, if we could only institute/implement a tuck and roll deployment system.

Tuck and roll, grandma!
I can understand a project with millions of lines of python2 code, it would be a headache to port it all to python3
I think it was perfectly relevant considering "We've been running in continuing resolutions so long we've effectively been losing funding at the rate of 2%/year".
Most comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155146.
The Economist also has a fairly evident political agenda.
They were they just had crude metrics for doing so.
How does one mark things as dupe?
Just a small suggestion, clicking to see the difference on the demo images wasn't clear at first. Maybe you should use one of those sliders that they use for before/after images. I think that would be better UX.
Lower their prices, without prompting. At Flexport we sell logistics services. The price of ocean freight is highly variable (less dynamic than, say, the stock market or airline seats, but still fluctuates a ton). We make money by brokering these services. In some cases, the price of freight drops in the time between customers when contract us (and agree to a price) and the service gets executed (when we contract with the asset owner). We pass those savings on to the customer and let them know. This usually results in big joy, all around.
You'd be surprised (I often am) at the wide variation in the things people notice on HN. Stuff that seems obvious to you or me, many other active readers are certainly oblivious of.
Combination of these two on a large scale might me interesting:

* creating energy from filtering co2 out of the air, http://www.sciencealert.com/a-canadian-start-up-is-removing-...

* turning salt water into fresh water, http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-turning-salt-wate...

A energy neutral way of irrigating desert (Sahara , large part of California), reducing sea levels, and reducing co2 levels in the air.
Add a comment like:

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155146

It serves as a note to others to comment on the other submission. No magic. Sometimes a mod will come by and clean up comments and mark the submission title.
You should always google the opposite view points too, and not just consider the main stream opinion on things.

There are forums of people that take the opposite viewpoint, and do very well too. It's best to be open minded. We don't have everything figured out yet.
But that's a reflection of "The People" and their will. People want their existing jobs and status quo. They care about next week's pay check. Not a theoretical tidal wave that people they don't know say will happen if they don't stop working on fossil fuels and switch to being a cashier at Wendy's. To separate that reality of will from democracy would make it no longer democratic.
Would you mind telling me what those other techniques are?

Have you used them, and how well have they worked for you?
Why scary?
Is the browser sandbox going to keep growing until it's pretty much a somewhat pared down desktop virtual machine?

Not implying this is good or bad.
1. They lobby the legislature right, they can't lobby judges themselves.

2. Is there is any evidence that they are lobbying for more or heavier prison sentences to make more money, because that's a pretty serious accusation. I would think that the lobbying money is actually going to get politicians to choose their prison service over public ones or their competitor's private prison. I think that allegations that they are lobbying to get more people into jail is a serious and unsubstantiated one.
The Men Who Mentor Women
The problem is again the tendency to generalize. A small number of the "wealthy" stepping up to address climate change does not mean that the "wealthy" are stepping up. You made a similar mistake in generalizing the "people".
> Really? Interfaces everywhere you can possibly imagine? Is that where we're heading in Go land?

That should be where you are heading, because contracts should be separated from implementation, things should not be tightly coupled, etc. This is good programming practice. How can you be opposed to accepting interfaces instead of implementations, especially in a standard library or the standard tooling for the language?
For us, a Senior Software Engineer is someone who can finish tasks on his own and on time, and make good architectural decisions for his tasks.
Haven't read the spec and am totally uninitiated in this kind of thing. But doesn't it add a very broad surface for attack?
Agreed - I can understand why there would be concern over lower equities or bond prices - but how are lower real estate prices really a bad thing? Young families are killing themselves trying to earn enough to subsidize the retirement of older homeowners through high real estate prices, mostly because our cites are so badly managed and zoned. Or well managed and cunningly zoned, if you're a Hollywood villain and what you're interested in is destroying a whole generation with debt.
There are big minds without power/wealth and also far sighted people without. You pretty much need both in order to do something significant which doesn't align with the overall will of the general public.
I'd say "truism", but yes.
How about an expert in enterprise and/or cloud storage in general?
Do you think retail credit lending isn't sleezy, dang?
Happiness depends on health and friends, not money, says new study
I think it makes complete sense to have someone from the oil industry to be involved here, they'll offer useful perspective. This isn't your typical international governmental smoke and mirrors show, this is extremely successful men setting out to solve one of the world's biggest problems using their own money.
The only thing which matters when considering "The People" is their aggregate "generalization" -- contrasted with these uber wealthy where a handful of them can make an actual positive impact on climate change where the people failed. Sure, plenty of people are gung ho about making a difference, but if their sum doesn't add up to actual change then that's the aggregate reality.
Here's an internal facing one: We send an automated greeting from the CEO as part of onboarding, but he actually sees and replies to every customer response, in both english and spanish, and forwards the more heartwarming ones on to the entire office.

It's pretty cool to get a handful of emails every day from actual customers who are very grateful for the work we do.

It also changed my opinion on the "canned CEO greeting". As someone who knows how those are built, they always struck me as annoying and disingenuous sales gimmicks, but our customers are significantly less tech savvy, and a huge number take the correspondence at face value and actually start a real conversation with the CEO.
There's a difference between 'selfies' and keeping a record of your training towards certain physical skills. I follow a number of people who I feel inspired by, on IG, that share similar videos, and I like to return the favour. If I can do this stuff, then anyone can, I'm not naturally inclined that way. So my goal is to inspire. Plus my skill level is still beginner basically, compared to what some other people can do. :)
It's a problem IMO that they are trying to pick 1 site. Geodiversity is necessary for any serious enterprise, and given that, I would suggest 1 site on the US west coast to please users in SF/LA/SEA (and most of Asia) plus 1 site somewhere in Europe (AMS, FRA, etc). Once you can afford 3 sites, add Asia or US east, depending on where the users are.
I honestly don't think the number of natives in America were relevant at all to the conditions aboard the colonist's ships while at sea.
Yeh on researching a bit after this comment, I found exactly that. Server source code is still a "To be released" without a strong date. Other criticisms are generally around lack of full crypto audit, which as far as I'm aware (i.e, not very), is a criticism of most of the modern crypto-chat apps (with exception to OpenWhisper when it was TextSecure).
Thank you! I didn't know about the sharpness and scrollbar co-relation.

I don't sit btw. I use an IKEA standing desk that I hacked together using their table top and adjustable legs. Cost me < 100 as opposed to the motorized ones costing 1000s of $s.
India has made solar a priority. We are depending a lot on coal right now, but our leaders are thankfully not obtuse enough to see the future it will lead us to.

That we also have enough sunlight to make solar easily feasible is a plus
Yeah, my thought too. Plain ol' "getting rich" is the more common motivator.
Does LB give you a separate instance of LB, or are you on a shared instance with other customers?
But think about when people succumb to problems because of poor diet choices: it's not 33. It's more like 65, for heart disease or 45 for Type 2 Diabetes.

Not that you CAN'T see differences, in some instances. I look at former classmates from college and they look horrible when I compare myself (and they know it) - but it's mostly from abuse of alchohol, which I think we can all agree will age you.

> There are forums of people who follow Ray Peat's ideas, and some do consume large amounts of sugar, and do really well.

How are their teeth?
The Rhythm of Education [pdf]
Interesting, if the price rises do you pass that on to the customer too or do you take the hit?
Yeah. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

> Thiel has been publicly vague about the specific policy alignments he shares with Donald Trump—but the two share a certain grandiosity and a disdain for the government, as well as a warped view of what it means to be a good and decent human being.
Thank you!!

> It's essentially like having 4 1080p monitors stacked 2x2.

Is that right? So you are saying I'll be able to fit 4 screens in a 1 40-inch 4K monitor and it will be similar to 4 individual 1080p screens, at what physical size tho? 20" each??
So... a message queue?
> Two self-inflicted gunshot wounds directly through the cranial cavity approaches near impossibility.

I'm not sure that's the case. A second round consciously fired would be practically impossible, sure - but if the person is using a semi-automatic handgun (the most common type) and their finger muscles contract automatically upon the disruption to their CNS, I can totally see a second round being fired.
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Your comment is not a substantive addition to the discussion. It's generally understood that anyone on HN who doesn't take the time to click into this thread is likely to be either not in the target market or is otherwise unwilling to pay for an ebook on this topic. Chiming in on discussions anywhere simply to say "I'm not the target audience and here are some reasons that no one should be", is generally met with some social equivalent of downvotes.

When someone makes a thread along the lines of "Non-NodeJS devs, what keeps you from using NodeJS?", this comment will be a welcome addition. I'd suggest that even there, you add something substantive. That the language is dynamic is probably not a good starting place given that dynamic languages run like half of the internet. Start with threading, the event loop, callbacks or swallowed errors - all ripe targets.
> But.. but what happened to "refugees welcome"?

It died around the same time German women were molested by the dozens during New Year in Hamburg by newly arrived high-testosterone male refugees from war-torn Syria and parts of Africa (via Greece)
Nice example. What do you do when the price moves against you? Swallow the difference?
Monitoring Microservices and Containers by sniffing their network interactions
Product manager calls for more wood.
Why not? Ensuring that the true cost of a product is factored in its price will make people reconsider their purchasing options, and it may potentially show that alternatives are competitively priced.
> Someone made a Bing2Google extension for Chrome ... Edge's extension ecosystem is a walled garden. When it comes to browsers, I prefer freedom over performance and efficiency.

Maybe I'm reading your comment wrong, but to me it seems like 1. you use Google Chrome and 2. Google search.

If so, how are these not walled gardens? How do these promote freedom? I'm not sure I see how those are any better.

If I misread your comment and you use actual free software for browsing the internet (which leaves you at Firefox and seemingly only Firefox), please have me and my comment excused :)
Ask HN: Where to work and reflect?
This is a throw away account because ... I have other ventures going on ...

If I was to go with what I know... SF Zen center is maybe an option... their tassajara center is more to my "recover" need.

Are there centers offering meditation, live onsite, and cater to work needs?
So, wrt the article, by my estimate the quantifiable criteria you listed are:

* Fixes bugs/regressions quickly (time spent)

* Creates test plans (number of plans created)

* Helps with recruiting (number of candidates interviewed)

* Keeps issues up-to-date with progress (number of issues updated)

* Helps guide other merge requests to completion (number of merges)

* Provides thorough and timely code feedback for peers (time between commit and feedback)

Just curious if you track any these metrics or if this is mostly a "qualitative" feeling of how the developer is performing?
Unless a 500kg pallet of sugar falls on a person, I don't believe sugar has ever killed a single human. I know that people die from complications arising from diabetes. A quick google search shows that Saudi Arabia has the highest incidents of Diabetes of any country, more than double USA but they are not even in the top 10 sugar consumers. So, why is that? When did their diabetes problems 'start'?
I think Solar coupled with batteries or hydroelectric storage makes a lot of sense - decentralized, proven tech, relatively easy to repair, much cheaper to build in remote areas instead of long high voltage power lines. I'm just wondering about Lithium supplies if half the world is going battery powered.
> The downside of this approach is that if we all did it then the world would be a much worse place.

I can't fix the World or the dark aspects of the human soul, but hopefully made my local area a better place since I dropped-out of the news-cycle a few years ago. I use my former news 'time-budget' to become invoved in Council business, to follow the activities of my local politicians and to just go and do stuff that benefits people around the town.

I feel better informed as a result and I'm no longer surprised and enraged by 'unexpected' changes in my local environment.

I helped to fix a pothole in a local road last week. Utterly irrelevant on a global scale, but then so is a plane crash in Colombia.
I'm going to take a different tack: a senior developer is a developer with enough experience that if you subject her to the bullshit processes that work on lower-level developers --- things like scrums, status updates, architecture reviews, and other command-and-control measures --- she either performs badly or quits.

Developer seniority is developer autonomy, and autonomy must be matched to skill level and scope.
Sales figures out how to pitch the fire as a feature.
Or it could be that Apple just really doesn't care and most Apple customers don't either.
> How are their teeth?

This.
And someone in AWS gets the 2AM pager wake up call.

Kindle. Fire. I'll see myself out.
I don't follow it that closely, but aren't they also pretty up-front about their own bias?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_editorial_stance
There are probably relevant security related journals that could inform you better about it than CNN or FoxNews.
Good point I think, the timing does look about right. This would be a bit similar to smart phones, as well as VR where we're now on try #2 and I think the technology is good enough this time to get a large number of early adopters on board.
That's not true, some people can eat a lot of cheese.

http://www.irkitated.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/eat-bloc...

Things are not as simple as "don't eat sugar"
I don't know if I'd call 20 hours passive income.
Can Last.Backend deploy LB clusters (ie. is it self hosting)?
Enabling local extension install in Chrome is a single checkbox at the top of chrome://extensions -- the same place where you manage the rest of your extensions. But point taken.
Did he praise that decision? I don't remember that, and I do remember him praising the one guy who quit after Germany surrendered -- Feynman said roughly that the rest of them, including himself, kept working without reflecting that their original motive was gone, and that was a mistake.
Thank you :-)

I plan to finish everything off in the next few days. The chapter5 contains a working version of the code, but it sure needs some refactoring.

If you want, I'll email you when the book is done. Leave an email id somehow :)
I'm just as confused. What does this have to do with named pipes?
Yuri Bezmenov:Psychological Warfare Subversion and Control of Western Society-1983
Altera was acquired by Intel last year and they dropped the Altera brand - they are now Intel FPGA.
> I bought a laptop with Windows 10 with secure boot that cannot be disabled. I am stuck with it. FOREVER.

I guess someone missed the news 5 or so years ago that Linux supports secure boot perfectly well.

It's an open spec any anyone is free to implement it. And Linux devs did! Amazing, eh?

Looking at your comment, I guess this is how life looks for the people who read and spread FUD on the internet without never actually checking out any of the claims them selves.

You've locked yourself down. And secure boot had nothing to do with it. Interesting eh?
Tableau vizs
What would be the alternative anyway? Imagine a DJ playing a set and suddenly having Windows force an update on them. Linux during some periods barely played audio for regular use cases.

If you want good hardware and a reliable operating system, you go with a Mac. A few annoyances with adapters it might require won't change that at all.
> "I always think we're 30 days from going out of business," Huang says. "That's never changed. It's not a fear of failure. It's really a fear of feeling complacent, and I don't ever want that to settle in."

I dunno where this company is going next or even if it will be around (independently) in 10 years, but if that's really the attitude of its CEO, then at least today it's definitely in good hands.