skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. An acquaintance on facebook recently posted about how he thinks obesity is a disease and he finds obese people gross. This cost him some friends and the esteem of some other friends. Being honest that you hold positions which are repugnant to other people can generate needless conflict. There's also the moral question of being an asshole towards a large class of people needlessly, but I'll leave exploring that as an exercise to the reader.

2. Recently I ran into abberant behavior with our database that freaked me the fuck out (it shut down saying it recieved a ctl+c, but none was given), and disclosed this to my superior. It freaked him the fuck out. Now I'm being provided pressure in a way that doesn't help, and somewhat hinders, my ability to do effective work. Omitting this when giving a status report until I had more information would have been better.

3. I recently spent a lot of time with an ex, a relationship which has longstanding fractures. I made a passing comment that made her hoppin' mad, and she brought it up with me pretty maturely (+/-), but then devolved into a lot of "you always _____ and I hate it, who even does that!" statements. I saw very clearly that I could respond: "this is a bullshit way to talk to me, you haven't seen me in three years and you have no idea what i always do or don't do, and fuck you and your high horse." That would've been the really authentic, honest response. Instead I bit my tongue, managed the conversation back to the specific thing I had done and how I could avoid doing it again moving forward. The next day I was able to say (also honestly) that I appreciated that she'd gotten better at articulating ways in which I hurt her, but I really didn't appreciate the way she did it. By not disclosing how I felt in a timely manner, I saved my vacation.

These are all examples of when substantially less disclosure either did or could have improved outcomes.

Outright lies I tell on a regular basis:

"Hey, it's good to see you!" (read: I want you to find this interaction pleasant.)

"Yeah, things are going well." (read: Things are objectively terrible right now I'm not interested in talking about it)

"I'm really excited about this sprint, I think we're gonna get a lot of good work done." (read: I'm getting yelled at because our work isn't done yet but stress doesn't effectively motivate good intellectual work.)

"If you need help, please feel free to ask me questions at any time, I don't mind at all." (read: It stresses me the fuck out being interrupted all the time but it facilitates my team being able to do their job, so I'll deal with it, and lying about it keeps other people from being responsible for my feelings.)
I'm not sure I'd describe Coreboot and Libreboot as "having momentum", at least not at the level where anyone is thinking about them while making PC hardware?

For RISC-V, the biggest issue seems to be a) actually designing a full chip with all the necessary peripherals (assuming just scaling the core bits is comparatively easy) and b) motivating someone to invest the fab time. I guess many potential commercial users will continue going with ARM, just because it is proven, designs and knowledge are available, ...

Before laptops, I'd expect more microcontroller-type stuff, where customization and license costs probably are more relevant, less complex periphery is used and the necessary fabrication capacity is more easily available.
No reference to the fox?
http://www.gagbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/a8ff6bc1f12...
The astronaut one was definitely a list stuffer. It was from 1992. Not sure why it's already in such poor shape? Looks quite old.
Folks, is this really deserving the downvotes it receives? Parent is merely querying on his assumptions. Please, let's try to be kinder on these types of well meant and non-hostile comments.
Gandi is the best. Although you pay for their no bullshit, and sometimes they won't let you do (questionable) things that other registrars allow.
The only people that can positively rule out plaintext storage are Facebook engineers, which are generally competent, especially with something as simple as storing password hashes.
Nuclear Football
You mentioned financial independence, so you may have already done some research into that, but I'll just leave this here:

http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

And this nifty calculator: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement

It's mostly about the savings rate.
Usually, multicast market data is used within a single local network (single optical cross-connect / multiple consumers). Even in professional environment, it is not yet necessary for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as the amount of trading instruments is small (compared to e.g. US equities).

There are institutional-grade solutions (cross-connect, colocation in NY4, FIX feeds / order placement), available e.g. from Gemini (https://gemini.com), however, I am not sure that current overall Bitcoin trading volume is enough to warrant this. Both one-time setup and monthly fees for direct links are significant.
Did people honestly think that Agile was going to be a silver bullet? If so the consultants won.
But Scrum fans always seem to warn against cherry-picking just the bits of Scrum you like and not using the whole process.

But of course. If you just cherry-pick and experiment, then you won't have any reason to pay an expensive expert to tell you how to do it right!
Red is full-stack programming language
Imo it's the unspoken truth in our industry that nowadays the real opportunity costs aren't held by the founders nor investors but by (non-junior/experienced) employees.

It comes down to a very strong but important question: why should anyone work for your company
Do conspiracy theories make you feel special and smarter than others or do you legitametly disbelieve in science and willfully follow a propaganda train funded and supported by predatory oil and coal companies looking out for their own interests?

The idea that when confronted that their profit seeking actions are destroying the world they rely on, humans will react by trying to cover it up squeeze out a few more decades of extreme wealth is a solid argument that, as a whole, we deserve extinction.
Others may messed it up, but Intuit lobbies to keep things that way.

Here's their lobbyist's disclosure form. It says "Oppose IRS government tax preparation" right there in Box 16.
https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&...

Their SEC disclosure says essentially the same thing. Grab it from here: http://investors.intuit.com/financial-information/annual-rep... Specifically, on page 10 of the 2016 version:

"We are a member of the Free File Alliance, a consortium of private sector companies that has entered into an agreement with the federal government. Under this agreement, the member companies provide online federal tax preparation and filing services at no cost to eligible federal taxpayers, and the federal government has agreed not to provide a competing service.... However, future administrative, regulatory, or legislative activity in this area could harm our Consumer Tax business."
I think (though I'm no expert) it's more likely that RISC-V will be in embedded devices and appliances around your house than in your laptop, where even ARM is a dubious proposition at this point.

Given the open IP and ease of customization, we might even see RISC-V inside peripherals or on the motherboard in a PC doing specialized tasks. But not as the main CPU.
|> Straight honesty isn't always a virtue.

>I find this an interesting statement. Would you mind providing some clear examples of a real-life situation where honesty isn't a virtue?

Umm, certainly.

The canonical example goes something like this—

Someone knocks urgently at your door. You open it to find your best friend on the stoop, bent over and panting from exertion.

He says there is some madman chasing him and for his safety he needs to hide there at your place for a spell.

You welcome him in, of course, and he goes to the smallest upstairs bedroom to lie down.

Moments later there is another knock on the door.

You open it to find someone you've never met before, only slightly less out of breath than was your buddy.

"Hello, is <friend's name> here? I'm here to kill him, you see. My rationale is rather not your concern, but as I'm in a bit of a rush, please do tell so that I may finish the job or be on my way."
--
The remainder of the dialog is left as an exercise for the reader. ;-D

/* Philosophy major, with emphasis on Kantian ethics */
When I joined zenefits they offered me 500 shares before raising the 500MM round.

Then after the 500MM round they were 5000 shares.

When I was negotiating my offer, I didn't budge on getting a market rate salary and in the end, I got it.

Why? Because they did some hand wavy arithmetic and told me my 5000 shares would be worth 500K at some point. Yeah no thanks. As employee #500, I knew better.

What happened? I hated it there. Left after a year. Company lost half of its valuation.

Moral of the story: don't compromise your salary for equity, even for a unicorn. The only exceptions are if you are truly an early employee. If you're not sure whether or not that's you, then it's not you.

Even then you aren't safe, I saw them fire other engineers for no other reason other than they had too much equity.

Careers are messy. Even the people who WERE one of the early employees and got a shitload of equity eventually got their salaries adjusted.

Don't compromise on your salary.
So what? Everything has a suffix in js-land.
I am frustrated with some of Apple's web services. iCloud is better than it used to be but I find Siri to be inferior to Google Now.

That said, I love my MacBook and iPad Pro devices. Also, it is easy enough to use the Google app on iPhones (which I don't have) and iPads.

For consumers, I think the MacBook is a good direction to go: excellent battery life and screen, and compact form factor. I use a 16 core, 60GB ram VPS for development so the MacBook being a little weak in the CPU department is fine with me.

So, I think Apple is going in a good direction, but I would like them to ramp up investment in web services.
I've always assumed an investor would want to see the cap table prior to investing (is this true?), but thought it odd that such is hidden from prospective employees. Both are investing, just in different ways.
My buddy from down south moved to Silicon Valley, with his wife and newborn baby. They camped in the State Park in a tent while he interviewed. It took moving, taking an entry-level job and doing whatever was asked for him to succeed.
This is not true.

What if the EU realises that even if both walk away as winners no one will easily follow the UK, because frankly no other EU member state is in a similar position to the UK?

There's only 9 member states who didn't adopt the Euro, so basically everyone else already disqualified to leave the EU. When you look at the remaining 9 (Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) there is either no appetite for an exit (Sweden, Denmark) or the country has simply no leverage at all.

So would the EU risk to fall apart when the UK gets a good deal? Nope.

Remember you heard it first here.
Founders and investors have favorable terms -- they can take money off the table in the former case, and have liquidation preferences in the latter. So their stock has non-zero value, though it may not be as much as the paper valuation suggests.
And a few DIY VPN options (open source ansible etc. scripts) that have been features on HN recently (in order of popularity)

https://github.com/jlund/streisand (6000+ stars)

https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign (6000+ stars)

https://github.com/Nyr/openvpn-install (3000+ stars)

https://github.com/ttlequals0/autovpn (1400+ stars)

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo (1100+ stars)

https://github.com/robbintt/popup-openvpn (700+ stars)
Playing Rush of Blood
Accepting equity instead of cash is like asking for your paycheck to be denominated in Bison Dollars. If they want to add some options on top of my salary for the full amount I'm worth each year, that's one thing. But options in lieu of part or all of one's salary is tantamount to a cut in pay.
Somewhat dated (2015) but useful visualization for factors driving climate change and global warming: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wo...
Why I Don't Listen to What the 'Experts' Say
I have to be nice about HMRC (the UK tax agency) as they were actually responsible for me making a chunk of money by refusing to make on a call on some options we'd been granted as the result of a ratchet agreement (which we'd actually tried to get removed from our first VC investment agreement!).

They wouldn't make a decision on how things would be taxed until after our IPO - so we were able to exercise the options and sell the shares to cover the worst case tax scenario.

After the IPO nice tax man said that the best case rules applied and we got to keep the money that would have been used to pay our tax bills.

Thank you HMRC!
Honestly, I was surprised to see Vue at #1 and not React.
Of course it has nothing to do with shorting in particular, except that shorting (at least until the Winkelvoss ETF gets approved) requires using precisely the same Bitcoin financial ecosystem that people thinking it'll crash are unlikely to have much faith in at all.

What you say of the exchange business model not being exposed to price movements in principle might be true of properly capitalised and regulated exchanges, but its less evidently true of the exchanges that actually exist.

The most recommended place to short Bitcoin is/was Bitfinex...
I said ”this way”. To me it is paranoid, yes. In my opinion nobody does this. (Don’t give them any ideas, either.) These are multiply redundant time sources aboard satellites in a multibillion euro program. Nobody is sabotaging them (in my judgment†), and we don't need to even bring the idea of this into the discussion. I won't reply to any more replies about this.

† Again as a disclaimer: I don't have a horse in this race and I subscribe to a ton of conspiracy theories (way more than you). This is just not one of them.
There are trends over the long run, and there are trends in the short span.

Something like glTail (http://www.fudgie.org/ ) or even with a sonification, those would be nice complements, if well tuned, to give some sort of a sense of what is happening.

I found those were not many. Is that there is actually little benefit to use these sort of vis/sonification, or that there's just not many projects that tried to scratch the surface in this area?
I am impressed that you watched an hour long lecture in only 5 minutes.

I think if you're actually technically inclined, which as an HN reader, you probably are, that you'll understand and enjoy the lecture.
President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Prison Sentence
Yes, fixed some errors in the external tools (js libs) and added more details on installation, structuring pages: http://doc42.io/docs/getting-started/start
That's a matter of perspective. I don't think this is too different in concept from, say, Bigtable, which is billed by Google as a database.
Sorry, but aren't you changing the subject? You've leapt from coworkers to friends, which is a completely different social situation.
New York City public datasets now available on Google BigQuery
It's an expensive journey.
>> I find it bizarre that there are certain sounds that I can make with my mouth that ripple through the air and upon hitting the delicate ears of another human being will cause offence. I think people of the future will look back on this period of time and refer to all of us as crazy for being so sensitive when there are much, much bigger problems facing humankind.

>> I also do not swear, for obvious reasons, in front of my three year old or any children for that matter. Again, it's just common sense.

You should think about this contradiction, before you say people are sensitive, no?
"Treat as zero" is bad advice. "Treat as 10x or 50x cheaper than they say it is" - that's good advice. The difference is that 10x more equity solves a lot of problems with equity, and it's not what you'll be gunning for if you think its value is zero.
Indeed. Much more eloquently put by our great leader:

The whole age of computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what is going on.

- President Trump
Also, everyone seems surprised at this nugget, "Only 4% of my drivers are women ." I wish there was something we could do to make it feel safer for female drivers.
> That seems the strangest of them all: "If the login fails, try stripping a character off the end and see if that matches".

Not really.

(The other ones aren't strange either, but I admit I have never heard of this practice.)

If you have the password stored in Notepad and there's a space behind it. Or you already have a space behind it, and then entered it. Or it is a DOS document you copy/paste from. Quite common. But I suppose the other 2 are more common.
I tested in a clean VM running OpenBSD 6.0, worked fine for me, see my sibling comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428005 for what I did step by step.
> In 1974 Egyptologists visiting his tomb noticed that the mummy's condition was rapidly deteriorating and flew it to Paris for examination. Ramesses II was issued an Egyptian passport that listed his occupation as "King (deceased)".

Humanity is simply amazing... we have come so far. A king who died ~3500 years ago was flown thousands of kilometers on a plane and was issued his own passport!

> bury them in the North African desert

How viable do you think would it be to setup a business that provides storage space and tracking capability in the Tunisian desert? I'm from Tunisia btw, and I think government seed funds would be happy to fund something like that. The biggest issue is who would actually pay for a service like that?
A kickstarter brings in about 30k to 40k euros, before kickstarter takes its part. That wouldn't be enough to hire a receptionist for Adobe, but it's almost enough to pay for a single Krita developer, Dmitry. We've given him a raise this year, since it's the fourth year we've got him full-time!

Then sales of dvd's and so on, donations, and sometimes special, bigger donations, also bring in money, and I'm currently living from that income, together with my wife, since it turns that trying to combine a paying freelance gig for four days a week and doing krita for five, six days a week isn't sustainable.

So I'm looking to make supporting me working full-time on Krita sustainable as well; fortunately our three daughters have left the house, so it's just me and my wife who need to live on the income.

That makes for two people working full-time on Krita (one of them the project lead, which eats into coding time): then there are two volunteers who help with kickstarter and communication, a volunteer webmaster/UX designer, a volunteer bug triager, three or so summer of code students doing a 3-month project, and now and then a flurry of volunteers who want to hack on the codebase.

But developer-wise, it's about one and a half person shouldering most of the burden at the moment, as a quick look at the github mirror stats shows: https://github.com/KDE/krita/graphs/contributors

For this year's fund raiser (not sure if it'll be a kickstarter again), the theme is going to be "Stability, stability, stability!" -- we've added so much stuff in the past years, while still fixing about 1200 bugs a year, that it's time to take a breath and clear out the bugzilla backlog, and do some serious polishing.

But first, svg/vector tools, text tool and python scripting need to be done!
Thank you, but I have no interest in a channel that puts "science" next to a video titled "Donald Trump exposes the globalists." Or one that uses a scientist that has been exposed as a fraud repeatedly and stripped of their titles.

My dad was into all of this stuff for years, it's really disheartening that regular folks with no ties to the industry feel invested in their lies.
Huh.

Should I ever inherit an #ifdef mess again, I intend to replace #ifdefs with Strategy patterns.

#1 figure out all the known defs in actual use

#2 rerun the preprocessor with each variant (combo)

#3 capture the output(s)

#4 aggressively apply the Strategy pattern, refactor code

Last time, I removed dead code piecemeal manually. It sucked.
All these comments about innovation vs lack thereof, and no mention of Jonny Ive?
God bless Bill. I've also heard great stories of chairs being thrown (not at people, of course) in high-level Microsoft meetings. Can you imagine him getting away with it today though? Someone would have tried to sue him for creating a "hostile workplace" or something like that.

We're getting too soft these days.
Here are the graphs to the actual data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

I never understand why these article don't just provide you with the sources where this data was captured...let alone the actual data used. I guess we are just suppose to "believe" them?
None of what you said matters.

I said in my previous comment (and was implied in the OP) that people feel left out by Apple. The only proof I need for that is one person write a blog post saying that they feel left out by Apple, which we've definitely seen.
Man, metaheuristic algorithm designers are so creative in finding ways to avoid mathematical justification....
It's applying leeches still recommended for most health conditions there?

What makes you trust one ancient knowledge over other ancient knowledge?
Scientists declare 2016 the hottest year on record. That makes three in a row
British renters group builds a chatbot to advise people about rights
for mankind?
British people are Europeans as well. EU <> Europe. Leaving the EU <> leaving Europe (and I am not even British, but it still annoys me when people don't know what they are talking about)
>I was promised that more options would be issued and we wouldn't get diluted from future rounds,

I understand you're only relating your previous misunderstanding but to others reading this, they need to realize that it's unrealistic for employees not to be diluted.

The founders' ownership will get diluted. The investors also get diluted. Therefore, employees are not special in this regard. Getting diluted is supposed to be a Wonderful Event because it means the smaller ownership percentage is worth more.

E.g. Larry Page's ownership of Google Inc got diluted from 50% in 1998 down to 16% in 2004. That smaller 16% was worth ~$3 billion around the time of the IPO.[1] If Larry insisted on "no dilution", no VC would invest money to help the search engine grow and therefore, he would own 50% of a worthless company.

In other words, you can't look at dilution in isolation; it has be combined with the (hopefully increasing) value of the shares.

[1]
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5033780/ns/business-stocks_and_eco...
Built in UI stuff for windows is pretty cool. Defiantly going to try this out.
Curious about an appeal to the authority of this "Dr. Salby," I went to his Wikipedia page:

>In 2005, the National Science Foundation opened an investigation into Salby's federal funding arrangements and found that he had displayed "a pattern of deception [and] a lack of integrity" in his handling of federal grant money.[2] He resigned his position in Colorado in 2008 and became professor of climate risk at Macquarie University in Macquarie Park, New South Wales. In 2013 he was dismissed by the university on grounds of refusal to teach and misuse of university resources.[3]

He is unconvincing as an authority on the subject due to his ethical issues. As far as presenting an actual argument, let's see it as traditional scientific papers rather than a collection of YouTube videos, hmm?