skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They often don't count brakes as work hours so 10 hour work day with 1.5 hours of total break time means 8.5 actual work hours per week, that's not bad.
Self-Service CNC Machining Cloud
How to create a .Net REPL
Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think (Taming the Mammoth)
Isn't it also possible that it's always been an insiders club & you've only recently started being an outsider?

What you are describing could be attributed to a component of SV thats long existed. Ageism.
Grantham on Bubbles Revisited
It annoys the hell out of me when apps do this, but I'm very forgiving when it comes to operating system upgrade prompts. The reason is simple: unpatched/out-of-date operating systems tend to have a lot of security exploits. This is also why I've learned to live with Windows 10's mandatory updates.
> Why do you find that better than tethering to a phone? The last thing I want is a separate mobile account for my laptop.

Because not having to tether is better. And every mobile-operator under the sun offers twin-SIMs for your laptops and tablets and what not.

Usually free of charge, if it's already a business-subscription.
That's why Debt-to-Income ratio is a thing. If you're someone who's typically adverse to debt but willing to make an exception in the case of real estate, and you're living close to your means (while renting), then it can seem to make sense to get your necessary down payment (plus closing costs etc.) through revolving debt. As long as your DTI remains below the cutoff, lenders are happy to let you do it.
Why the downvotes?

This is the economic explanation for the diminishing marginal returns of labor.
Here's the original HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11074587
Can we please cut it with the boomers/millenial shit-flinging? There are plenty of boomers out there who don't have tons of money, even after multiple decades of working.
Depends on what you think "marketing" means. A lot of engineers think that it means basically building ad campaigns, running adwords, etc. Business people have a bigger definition, more like understanding the market that you're trying to sell to and building things that the customers want and need. That definition probably covers a lot of different possible job titles.
Does that work under a hypervisor/xen/VM/whatever? Can you apply a microcode update only within a given VM?
Link to the actual project?
I think the idea is good and could be useful.

I'd like to test it but have no CSV available.

Why not support URL? Like here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13274331
Remember that you're not a developer anymore, and that the way you contribute to the team isn't coding. You're moving from a role that focuses on concrete contributions, to a role that focuses on creating leverage so that others can contribute better.

Your job now is to manage the state of the projects you're working on, and enable the developers on your teams. If you're coding, you're almost certainly not doing that to the degree you could be. The new job will be difficult. Change is hard, new skills are hard, and there are days you'll want to just go code something because it's easier to do and more fun.

Don't do it.

Your priorities are enabling your team and making sure that everyone knows and is on board with the state of your projects. In your new job, the way you succeed isn't by putting out code - it's by your projects and teams succeeding.

Make sure you like the sound of these priorities; if you don't, you should probably reconsider the change of roles.

Lastly, make sure that you understand what you're accountable and responsible for. Project managers don't (by default) have people responsibility, but at your company they might. Same question about doing product ownership, agile coaching, tactical team leadership, reporting, etc.
This is such a great comment. I found myself thinking something similar while writing up a business plan recently: "This is actually just another act of design." You design how you want the business to function and what risks you want to take and which resources you want to leverage. The only thing businesses definitely share is that money flows through them, as such, financial statements are at their core. Everything else is taken up as necessary.
>You can't have equal opportunity. It's an impossible goal.

I never said we could have completely equal opportunity. But by implication, the outcomes of our voluntary agreements are never perfectly ethical or completely justified.

Redistribution of wealth makes up for the fact that the playing field is never completely level. Rejecting all social processes that lead to peaceful redistribution of wealth or to more equal opportunity is both unpragmatic and unethical.

Also, extreme inequality distorts markets massively. It's much more than just noise. Markets break down completely if too many participants are forced to sell or buy at any price just to survive.
http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/5191/how-does-th...
Transparency isn't about things being exciting all the time, it's about being transparent. I would venture to guess that Patrick is not a 10x developer and his real skill is self promotion. I agree about equating really technically advanced and getting paid more and also agree that it's bullshit. Any independent developer should spend more time understanding sales and self promotion than learning another language, IMHO. You will get far more bang for your buck by being a good negotiator than you will from coding the bestest codez around.
This is a great perspective. Although, sometimes, a poorly spec'ed tank is worth pretty much his weight in garbage. :)
I'm curious, how do you spot this "forces parallel" on a query plan? Or is this one of those magic things you have to just know?

Would it make more sense to have a precompiler go through and inline my UDFs? They seem pretty amenable to a macro-expansion.
i got bored from using Google. i like trying new products so i'll go with DDG until i get bored from it.
Why no foreign developed markets fund?
Such as? Let us know what we are missing, and we can look at adding it.. remember tho, we are not trying to be a replacement for Swarm, we believe swarm service orchestration to be a winner, so are supporting that (as opposed to rancher, kuber etc who have their own cluster solution).
Neat! Does someone already used it in production? I'm wondering if it could be useful to replace a medium sized postgres database. I'm trying to replace some clustering currently done with Elasticsearch with postgis, but it's really slow (6m points * 700 boxes, it's taking 20 minutes to scan the table).
Most of the GDP doesn't go to wages, so it's silly to tax wages to fund a UBI. UBIs are only necessary because more and more GDP goes to capital gains, so capital gains, not labor should be the tax base.
I really like that google isn't anonymous and that it pulls everything that I've done in the past to give me better results. I usually have to jump through a lot of hoops to get the same level of results from DDG.
Oh, HN audience: how transparent you are.
The one thing that bothers me more than it should is that their image viewing totally sucks.

You can't enlarge an image you're viewing. Designed for mobile first, yet the size you view an image at is tied to whatever size your phone screen is. Why? I'm sure the image they are sending over the wire isn't at all as small as your screen, so why restrict it like that?
Pilot training time.

At the Hiller Museum in San Mateo one of the docents was talking about how helicopters seem so great but they are so hard to fly with the pilot managing rotor pitch, rotor speed, and countering torque with the tail rotor. A typical quad/hexa/octo copter type vehicle is much easier to fly. (as is a gyrocopter but it cannot really take off vertically)
77% of investors made money in 2016
I think you mean soar need. :-)
I understand the point you're trying to make but it's like saying don't take these black crime statistics seriously, some black people are actually very nice. Look at this one nice NBA player. Pointing our x rape statistics is nothing but and x race shouldn't take it personally! It can be nasty sometimes but you should take it personally. Jesus christ this sounds like Donald Trump! I give you this example only because you're an American. Does two wrongs make one right just like in maths?

Just like the privilege dogma itself preaches, the people who spread should stop using such terms. Practice what you preach. I don't find anything nuanced taking massive group of people and repeating they are all doing or have done bad things.
Ok I guess I meant specifically, is there any reason to think the intelligence community would prefer Trump? Presumably they would prefer someone who was more interested in foreign involvement, and less likely to provoke mass donations to privacy and civil rights organizations.
One more thing: always remember that it is not your job to protect your employer from the consequences of their bad decisions. It is their job to give you incentives that align with their own interests. If your employer is putting pressure on you to ship faster at the cost of sweeping a lot of bugs under the carpet, do that. If you think they're making a mistake, say once, calmly, that you think it would be worth spending more time upfront debugging. Once. After that, follow the priorities you are told to follow.
Open sourcing something like that involves way more work than just keeping it running.
We are adding support for compose YAML files in the Feb/March timeframe.. you will simply upload a yaml file, which portainer will then use to create containers/services
Satellite orbits degrade overtime due to drag, among other things [1]. Operators counter this decay with periodic boosts. (The International Space Station is boosted, on average, once a month [2].) Boosting, even electric propulsion boosting, consumes propellant.

If this works by impelling against the Earth's magnetic field, provided it is more efficient than a simple magnet, it could still have a market with satellite manufacturers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_decay

[2] http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9087/how-often-does...
I was wandering as well if the ban won't drive the price up even more, just like the Prohibition did with alcohol.
Hello,

I went through something similar. As a self-taught software engineer with a business background from a not great school, the hiring process at most large companies is specifically built to prevent people like me from getting in the door.

What you are encountering is the "gatekeeper layer" of these major tech companies. I call this "the front door." To put it mildly: The front door of tech is configured to reject everything that doesn't match some unrealistic perfect ideal of a genius savant engineer. To summarize Gandalf's general disposition towards flaming Balrogs:"Thou shalt not pass!"

Why is the focus on rejection and not acceptance?

There are three reasons. First, everyone wants to work at Google, Facebook etc. and there are a lot of unqualified people coming in. Second, these companies can't afford to grow at the rate at which they can gain talent. If Google were to hire a tiny fraction of the people applying to them every day, they would rapidly grow far beyond a size which makes sense. Third, they are very strategic about which directions they plan on growing in. They would rather acquire talent in groups focused in strategic topics like automotive than bother letting in single general-purpose individuals based on some brain teasers. Fourth, the actual volume of truly qualified people is even too high! The big companies can't afford to hire every qualified person who actually wants to work for them in some cases.

Therefore, anyone who possesses a diversity of skills beyond pure programming should completely avoid the front door, it isn't going to value your whole person (as you have seen).

Instead, you need to be using the "side door." That means you go and find people who you like (want to work with, resemble, build interesting stuff you like to use) and approach them personally and sit down with them like a regular human being and talk about building cool shit together.

If you are really great, people will recognize your greatness and they will help you get in the door.

Using the side door is about creating your own interview process rather than letting someone else define your interview process for you. Shoot high. Pick people who can hire you or have influence directly over hiring decisions. You don't need the gatekeepers.
Slavery also existed 200 years ago, and yet "not being a slave" is a basic human right.

Equally good healthcare for everyone, independent of their wealth, is a worthwhile goal for society, and all but one of the so-called developed countries have pretty much achieved it.
Correction: on the second to last sentence above, the (2^32)^n figure is incorrect. I make this sort of mistake all the time... sorry! The point still stands, however :-)
The books I read in 2016
> we managed to keep the 14″ display ... in a 13″ chassis. Now that’s innovation.

Indeed. I'm not sure what they mean here.
What kind of accountability are you looking for in Oakland? You're looking at a history involving a battery factory, lead paint, and freeways that stretches back 60+ years. Who is there that can be held to account today?
The Ehang 184 has 8 propellers, two for each of the four quad points. I'd assume the reason is safety, that it can limp to the ground with just 7.

You're wrong about a quadcopter not being able to fly with 3 rotors, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA

That looks like it would be quite a ride with a human on-board, but would probably suck less than crashing.
Don't most people outside of the public sector work more than 40 hours / week? That said, even in the public sector, once you've transitioned into management; the 40 hour work week no longer applies to you.
> Usually relieved

I think almost everybody will have the same answer here. I don't think it's a good question, because most people have too much interaction every day and is tired of it. That does not mean they will be happy standing most of their days alone.
Thanks for your feedback!

Amazon Affiliates get credit for purchases for up to 24 hours, including "an aggregate view of what people bought and in what quantities" (as of 5 years ago, but I believe this is still the case).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4157107

I personally believe that added value is worth rewarding but this particular blurb didn't add much. @deutronium provided more value by linking to the actual publisher's early-access e-book page elsewhere in the thread, but that wouldn't make Cory/BoingBoing any money.

Either way, I appreciate being made aware of the book's impending existence!
Ironic that you would choose Amy Hoy as a counter-example here. From what I can tell, the majority of Amy's "success" is in teaching, not doing. Don't get me wrong, Freckle seems to be doing well, but I think it's only at like $60k - $70k in MRR after eight or nine years. And that's with multiple staff members.

That's an accomplishment, yes, but I'm positive that I make 2x more with consulting than Amy nets from Freckle. I also know multiple SaaS founders much, much more successful (like 5x - 10x) than Freckle in much less time.

To be clear, it's not that Freckle is a disaster or anything, she should be proud of it, but it hardly means that she's qualified to be teaching people as some kind of brilliant guru, imo.

Not to mention that, unlike Patrick and Tim, she can be extremely abrasive and rude if you disagree with her about anything.
I read somewhere that one way to measure crime is surveys that ask people about crimes that they have been a victim of in the previous year. These surveys indicate that the reduction of crime isn't due to reduction in reporting or policing.
Probably the same way they are for planes- victor airways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_airways
What are your expense categories like? I was running my business without external accounting help.

But I grew my business in the last year, and had a wider variety of expenses as a result. Keeping track of it all was eating too much time and mental space, so I'm handing off bookkeeping to a local cloud accounting firm.

I haven't incorporated, but past a certain income threshold, I would, as that would save taxes and let me make investments pre personal tax within the corporation. I've also spoken to a lawyer for a visa related to the business, and about a copyright issue.

Is pinboard mostly "finished", and you just have to maintain it? I imagine that would greatly simplify accounting and overhead. If so, that's a great situation!
> We need to provide social and economic alternatives to small growers of illegal crops and other vulnerable communities in order to create the necessary conditions to bring them back to legality,

We don't want legality. The reason why the situation is really bad currently is because back in 2008, CITES lifted restrictions on ivory sales which allowed several African nations to sell their ivory stockpiles to China and Japan. The current situation is believed to be a direct result of this and the demand has skyrocket since then.

In 80's, there was a similar poaching crisis, what eventually put an end to it was making as much of the trade as possible illegal.

War on drugs and poaching are similar only on the superficial level. Read my comment below where I talk about it.
Its not that he was slow, the problem is that he was honest about the hours he worked.
There is a list of improvements in the article under "Latest Paper".

Its mainly the need to carefully characterize and document all the test equipment and EM Drive support equipment to make sure its not caused by the test setup. This would involve testing with a dummy load so things like interactions with chamber wall can be ruled out or if there are, the effect can be mitigated or accounted for.

Basically they proved their test setup produces thrust, but haven't proven the thrust was a direct result of the EM Drive. They need to more rigor to prove its only the EM Drive and not a setup error (eg: something like the FTL neutrinos turning out to be a poorly tightened connector).
We are adding "tasks or jobs" in Feb/March timeframe, which will allow you to schedule any portainer task (such as scaling up or down a service). Swarmmode really does make service discovery a lot simpler, no need for Consul etc.
Federal regulators are not in any way the consumer in this line of discussion, so your comment is a non sequitur. Doctors are not expected to regulate the drug industry, federal regulators are. Please read the comment I was responding to.
I'm a bit conflicted by this...

My American brain tells me this is an insane way to live. No work life balance. It's horrible inefficient, as you can't downsize, or compete international like this. You're forced to hangout with coworkers.

However, having this long term stability with work is something that is sorely missed in the US. A pension? Job for life?

No one gets these things anymore.
> Users do not know how to tell a good search engine from a bad one.

I am sure there is a presentation bias. I am sure that there are plenty of cases where a user cannot tell if a set of results are good or bad for a specific query. I am sure some users have trouble communicating why they think a specific result is good or bad.

However can people tell the general quality of a search engine? Absolutely. Google's simple aesthetics certainly helped them, but they didn't become the top search engine by luck and aesthetics alone. AltaVista, Yahoo, Lycos, Excite were all junk compared to Google, even the first version. It was very obvious.
Thanks for linking to a place that actually has the (early access) e-book available right now rather than real soon now.
Sluggish sales? Well, they're sold out (and with a sizable backlog) here in Portugal. A family member needed a new phone and we were put on a waiting list for "at least two weeks".

No 7, 6s or SE have been available (unless you really like rose gold) for a week or so now, at least in the couple of retailers and telcos I checked.
It's interesting how that has changed over the years. For a long time, the standard advice was for investors of any age to have 50% stock and 50% bonds. Then "age in bonds" came around, and now many people recommend even less than that.

Of course, 50% bonds was easy to recommend 40 years ago when US savings bonds paid 5-7% annual interest, guaranteed for 30 years.
and to these, I would add a talk that he gave at FOSS Asia earlier this year about a hardware devicde made for Burning Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNtQsyysaGk&t=5s

The amount of thought put into the design and implementation is remarkable and inspiring.
At some point CalPERS and the city of El Monte aren't going to be able to cover the costs of the defined benefits pension packages - there will literally be no money left to fund the ongoing costs especially given the demographics listed in the article.

Presumably some hard decisions will need to be made in the coming years. Given that "El Monte has more than twice as many [municipal civil servant] retirees drawing pensions as it does active employees" any attempts to legislate changes will be met with fierce political opposition until it's too late.
Why would the warlords, narcissists and sociopaths get rid of their own privacy? Zuckerberg seems very keen on preserving his...
1. Ill look at the scholarly results later out of curiosity. So far, the "found what Im looking for metric" is very strong anecdotally with widespread acceptance. Maybe Ill change my mind. We'll reject all opinions on the effectiveness of the engine in favor of whole, search histories on DDG and Google with terms and resulting HTML files as sole form of feedback in HN comments. Each user will do it for same terms for reproducibility or countering per-user generation biases. We'll discuss these specifics. This will lead, instead of claimed "good" or "bad" results, to claims of X terms or Y category having Z probability of accuracy or acceptance. Our discussion of DDG will be objective, scientifically accurate, possibly free QA for DDG, and likely be ignored by almost everyone everywhere (including most HN readers) outside CompSci or startups studying search engines. Im game, though, if there's a consensus here that we only discuss search constructively, objectively, and scholarly. ;)

2. DDG has contact info. I maintain that it's better to send data directly to them if one is troubleshooting it or helping them improve the product. Hoping a random employee is on same tech forum is a stretch despite it happening here more often than average. So, if we all did search data, we'd post it on a dedicated forum they host after we email them about the project.
It seems like we're due for another round of this pendulum.

I fear this too. As someone who now lives in a city that suffered enormously from the 70s crime rise, and benefited greatly from the 2000s decline in crime, the prospect of another crime wave makes me wonder if I should hold off on buying a house.