skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that in the long term, Bill Gates running his foundation has a much deeper impact on humanity than being president, which would effectively cut him off from his philanthropic activities for 4-8 years. In other words, we're better off with Bill helming the Gates foundation rather than presiding the USA.
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The problem with simulation for testing is that it requires creativity. Creativity of a distributed set of actors, each acting in their own (perceived) self-interest and trying to find exploits.

If you program a simulation with the same type of thinking used to draft the law, assuming that people will employ and comply with the law "as intended", you're liable to fall prey to an exploit that you weren't creative enough to think about, else you'd have (possibly) addressed it in the law.
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6. Network. Get personal referrals from people you know who work at the companies you are applying. These personal referrals have an order of magnitude better chance at getting you noticed. Use your time to reach out to people you know. Have coffee with them. Yes. Face to face. Let them know you're interested in working at their company. Ask them to submit a referral. Use linkedin to find people. Don't be afraid to ask a connection for an intro to another person you don't know who could help you. You'd be surprised how helpful people are willing to be.
Ah, Firefox. Now fixed for real. Thanks!
Place an ad on craigslist? I'd be careful though. A friend of mine searched for an activity partner there, and ended up getting married a few years later.
I also tried a startup which was largely premised on having better scheduling, and solving obvious operational inefficiencies with competitor businesses.

In hindsight, that was dumb, because we never got to anything near the scale where the scheduling would matter.

We didn't have a better way of acquiring customers, so efficiency never came into play. Conversely, if you have enough customers, operational efficiency doesn't matter that much.

Anyway, no profound insights here... just pointing out to people that if you have a great startup idea based on using a more elaborate scheduling algorithm than your competitors (an attractive trap for programmers, no doubt), then think again.
See e.g. https://github.com/google/wycheproof

Fuzzing tests can also uncover weird bugs and edge cases that can lead to vulnerabilities.
You can also use:

git rev-list --count HEAD
> It seems like Oracle could have a play here, working on adapting cloud infrastructure tools for managing on-premises data centers.

That's what the ExaDatas are supposed to be.
IMO, the CEO is responsible to at least three sets of stakeholders generally: customers, investors, and employees.

The order in which or degree to which the CEO considers each constituency when making decisions might vary by the decision, but I generally favor them in the order listed above (even as I am an employee). If you don't serve your customers well, nothing else matters...

As for the law being worked arond, that was bound to happen; I think anytime you unduly restrict one side, that side will seek loopholes or exploits or withdraw from engaging. In this case, hiring temporary workers, engaging other companies under contract, automating the function (entirely or partially), moving that function to another geography, or doing without happens.

I'm in the process of opening another software development location in Europe. In studying where to locate, it was surprising to me how varied labor law was across various locales, and while any such decision is obviously multi-dimensional, labor law was a significant driver in the final location selected. (Several finalist locations were all workable; one of the locations had a much more balanced set of labor laws and local practices.) To inhabitants and prospective employees in the locations not selected, that looks identical to jobs moving away from their locale to another, more balanced, locale in large part due to local labor law.
I get Bill and Warren, but Mark?
Most people who adopt a ketogenic diet that is lower calorie do not report hunger. In fact, many report less hunger despite consuming significantly less calories. The reason being is that the body becomes more efficient at burning fat so there is always enough energy. That is in contrast to a non-ketogenic diet that has highs and lows of energy corresponding to eating.
No, it's not.

Most startups fail. Most people need retirement savings. That seems a poor investment.
I understand this is very new. As more people visit the site hopefully a lot of feedback will stream in for you. I'm just one person so I can't really suggest what you should add, only where I found things wanting. If you aggregate feedback from visitors and do your A/B testing or whatever system you use, that should point to the right places to make changes.

For example: Your landing page says "You can do whatever you want with them". Imagine a person not familiar with any of this stuff, I could imagine such a person asking themselves, "what can I do with them?" and "what's the catch?"

For someone familiar with online currencies and/or basic income, I could imagine such a person clicking around and finding no info or evidence of a back-end infrastructure that would support this idea. Nor is there any explanation how you expect to give away something every day and have users or vendors want to accept such a thing for something they do know the value of. Play all product launch games you want, but you are asking for people's real first and last name and their email, I don't see experienced early-adopters giving this up without more proof of concept and knowing more about you guys and your plans.

I wish you a lot of success, just wanted to point out two groups of users who might be more apprehensive to sign up and why.
> There's more of it in your gut than in your brain (why do you think people on SSRIs gain weight?)

It's true most of it is in our guts, but the weight gain link seems a bit far fetched. In the gut, serotonin depletion leads to the feel of hunger and high levels of serotonin is where you get a diarrhea. If anything I would expect the opposite [1]

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7312891
In theory yes, in practice that almost never happens.

The number of teams I've seen pursue golden-image tests on GPU pipelines and fail has been 100%(4/4).
> Even if you poop in your fancy bungalow toilet, it does end up in the rivers, along with detergent and toxic toilet cleaners.

Wastewater should be treated. And at least if you concentrate all the waste into one place, you greatly reduce the spread of infectious diseases spread by untreated waste.

Also, your children tend not to be stunted. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sanjay-wijesekera/why-are-indi...
Thank you! it is actually enlightening :)

I think it's a little bit awkward to not use put, patch, delete... I wonder however if my server must follow the same technique, if not how to wire a delete endpoint to handle a form post and so on. I'll try to handle a form using only get and post sometime just to see how it works. Thank you!
What were you trying to do, locate your favorite commit?
How does it compare with floss https://leanote.com/ ?
First off, impressive stuff.

That said I think having a CPU tessellation path is going to be critical if you want to see wide adoption. Platforms like Android and the like don't always have geo shaders which is why you see FreeType so widely used.
There was this scene in Mad Men where Don Draper, Betty Draper and the kids go out for a picnic in the new family car. They eat lunch in a grassy field, then when they're done, they pack up their basket and blanket, leaving the beer cans, food wrappers, empty bottles, plastic cutlery, and chicken bones scattered on the grass.

That scene shocked and horrified me more than all the sexism, racism, and homophobia combined.

Edit: saw the other comments, looks like I wasn't the only one affected by that scene.
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Also spreadsheets (e.g. Excel) in the hands of a smart user are very powerful. They are incredibly flexible and will handle most data management tasks for a small/mid size organization. And with Google Sheets (which has gotten a lot better in the past couple of years) or other cloud storage, the fear of losing everything with a failed hardrive or lost laptop is gone too.

I run a small nonprofit. I get emails at least weekly from some little tech company that has an app for some aspect of my operations. I usually ignore them, but when I do answer it's always some variation of "I can do everything I need for free with Google tools." And to myself I wonder why these companies are even targeting small organizations that have almost no money for technology.
Agree. I remember someone advising me against getting a degree in computer science, back in 2000. Argument was -- look at MS Word. what else you want to add to this? It has more features than you need.

Not a fair argument against the point made above, however, I believe we will find the next big challenge for software to solve as soon as traditional problems are commoditized/automated and considered solved. Also, just knowing how to code is not going to be enough. You must complement it with domain expertise to solve challenging unsolved real world problems.
Not when you eat the animals that eat corpses afterwards. That's how you spread diseases, plus when animals eat human flesh, they leave bits floating in the water supply.

We bury people for a reason. Or we burn them, or leave them on the land to get eaten by animals, away from water supplies. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial)

The difference between what you're proposing is the difference between composting an animal corpse and then using it to fertilize your crops, or just grinding it up and spraying it all over your tomatoes.
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One of the worst thing they produce is just ridicilous amount of noise and vibration. New buses in London are awesome, can't wait more places to adopt them.
GSM crypto was designed to not be strong (in the late 80s).
I don't think the UBI is a panacea but I do believe it's worth looking at.

Quite incredible how much rage is evoked by even mentioning it, though.
I can't help but shudder at the thought of the dystopian future that leads to a Zuckerberg presidency.
I'm not arguing against on the job training. I'm arguing against 3-4 months of on the job training before you can write code.
Cable is being unbundled in favor of on-demand. The traditional broadcast/channel model is annoying now that many homes have high enough bandwidth to stream what they want when they want it. Netflix is getting business from people who think cable is overpriced but they're also getting a lot of business from people who are sick of never finding anything on TV and sitting through commercials when they do.

I'd probably pay Netflix $100/mo if they could deliver everything I would want to watch in streaming format without commercials. As it is, I pay Netflix and Hulu and Amazon and HBO. I don't pay Comcast for cable but I'm paying nearly the same for all the services I subscribe to.
It's worth noting that the execs are speaking purely for their own benefit, and not thinking about the greater effects across society as a whole.

Sharks are welcome to have an opinion on the food chain, just be aware of their position when evaluating it.
Is Google Maps trying to be a social network?
Thought experiment here but I think there may be an argument for no taxes on a business by flowing the taxes through to personal income. Double taxation creates incentives that I don't think are good for small businesses on a systemic level.

Here is why: as a business owner I face a 40% tax rate at the corporate level and then 35% on personal income. I am thus highly incentivized to keep profit in the business and reinvest it or look for growth opportunities rather than distribute it to myself and our other shareholders.

Now imagine you are Sam Walton of Walmart. You stumbled upon a fantastic business model that prints money (or your Apple sitting on $250bn in cash). On the margin you will always opt to reinvest the money in the company or at least let it sit there unspent (i.e. Apple/Google/Msft) if the alternative means paying an incremental tax on it. So what do you do? Grow grow grow.

Anyway just wanted to share my thoughts. I am not trying to be controversial... I believe that long term sustainable health of an economy is predicated on the health of small businesses. I genuinely believe double taxation may have a potentially perverse incentive and negative outcome on a society simply by the way it alters my own decision making and incentives.
Yes it will. I'll let you know when I put out a prototype.
I'm only 33, and the 401K loan automatically takes money out of each paycheck until it's repaid. I believe it was a 72 month loan? Might've been shorter. So, pretty sure it won't be a problem before I retire.

Of course, if an exigent circumstance comes up, and I can prove it (medical emergency, bankruptcy), it's possible to borrow the other half of the 401K. But if I'm short on the mortgage, it's not going to help me, so it was still somewhat irresponsible of me.
> you're effectively saying "I don't like the default monospace font my browser is configured to use, please change your website to fix this"

No, that's not true. I have just changed the monospace font on Firefox to Ubuntu Mono, and it is still showing as Nimbus Mono. This is the website doing this -- for example the change is reflected fine in HN.

> I feel you as a user have some responsibility in that case.

These days when I build websites I normally specify specific web fonts so that I know it won't default to something not good.
It's a funny observation that Mark Zuckerberg (32) actually isn't old enough to run for president at the moment (35). The next election would be the first where he's legally able.

(all this irrespective of whether or not that's in his or others' best interests)
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That's a grey area.
get a new job :D
There are tons of things GTM can't do currently, unless you're willing to write custom code. And if you're writing custom code, I'd personally prefer that code to be in my app, under version control, and running through my test suite rather than in a GUI that can be modified by anyone with GTM access.

Here are a few examples off the top of my head of things you can't do with GTM today (without writing custom code):

- Tracking when (and how long) the page was in the visible vs hidden state.

- Tracking anything performance-related.

- Tracking when DOM elements are visible in the viewport (via IntersectionObserver).

- Tracking the active media query / breakpoint.

- Tracking social widget button usage.

- Tracking the use of service worker

- Tracking interactions with native web push notifications.

I think GTM is great for marketing websites, but for better understanding how someone is using a complex web app, I think it makes more sense to have that logic in the application code.
I like Digital Ocean solutions, but I am currently using Nginx under a Digital Ocean Droplet, for USD 5 month, and it's working very well.
Unemployement unfortunately never feels like vacation though. I tried to take a cross country trip last time i was unemployeed and ended up just feeling guilty i was missing out on interviews.
Thanks, that is good to know. I wish there was something as easy as the iTunes backup for iPhones. There are Android apps that claim to do a more thorough job but I haven't tried them.
Haha! Sadly, I have seen CL posts like that. 5+ years experience for frameworks that have only been around for 1 to 2 years.
SEO also includes: "what meta description can I surface on a SERP that has the highest clickthrough?" so in that sense, it's an A/B testing/software problem.
I have found many of these, usually in suburban or rural areas underserved by services that seem to work only by city or state. CL is guilty of this. Living between two largely served areas, but bad s/n for nearby stuff. A local website, originally just featuring a single persons webcam and static greeting page, is now the regions most active online marketplace. People sell cars, livestock, propery, and various more CL like stuff. They often have strict moderation in stark contrast to CL.
I work in a similar role where we previously did have a lot of contact with call centre folks, and the whole "overload us with requests" thing is very real. You become the go-to IT guy in no time at all, because if you make stuff for computers, surely when one breaks you can fix it, right? Or you could build something else in place of it? And suddenly, you have nearly no time to actually finish projects anymore. We had to distance ourselves by a floor and implement a ticketing system to avoid exactly this. Sounds like you had the opposite extreme though, which sucks just as bad but for the floor staff instead of the devops guys. Seems to be a fine balance.
A reference to the rumors that he's preparing to run for office.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/zucke...
Agreed. That said, I'd gladly read a book based on that premise.
It's interesting that William S. Burroughs already came up with this theory back in 1953, in his book Junkie, I think.
The biggest danger here is that's it's now becoming impossible to satirize Nazism, lest someone get offended. Satire is probably the most powerful weapon against it.

And why is no one worried about the racism inherent in Judaism, God's chosen people, etc? This is a message we force on kids.
That's obviously not what I meant.
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They're both cash drains. One's just bigger then the other, cutting back on both is sound advice if you are looking to save. I agree that you are probably right in that rent is a bigger factor but they are also right in that by not eating an expensive lunch everyday will add up over time.

I think everyone can agree that learning how to properly budget finances should be something we all should learn.
I believe you are limited to 200 miles with this option.
Would it? If it's permissible now to run a major international business while President, would it not also be permissible to run a giant charity?
Don't know about Buffett, but I don't get Gates either.
He was a ruthless businessman using every trick in the book (legal and illegal) to solidify his company's monopoly.
I believe "Don't Mess With Texas" was also about littering.
I would argue the otherwise. Imagine the resources and the influence power he would have on both U.S. and other nations, compared to few billion dollars spared by few people.
I would love it for content bundling services to take off. Who wants to maintain 30+ subscriptions to content websites?
Peer5 is a brilliant idea! Glad to see they're doing well.
I would sign up as a contractor with a staffing firm. Youll get hired immediately and it will give your income and buy you time.
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be careful what you whish for. very careful.
If your startup isn't a labor of love or you're not driven by a strong dislike of an alternative career path, then almost every startup would die the second the founder(s) do the math of income opportunity cost of trying vs stable employment.
Then I'm sure US is doing fine in that regard, because american agencies are morally superior to be involved in such a thing, cogh, cogh...
I believe the comment was in regards to time spent on either venture, not the legality of doing both.
This is our fault, you know.

Many of us, myself included, have worked on technologies that were meant to profile and manipulate users. Many more of us worked for companies who did this or did similar things through traditional means (eg, psychologically manipulative ads). We've not only allowed, but encouraged technology to have a manipulative and addictive relationship with users. We took the paycheck and played red team against humanity. (This is common -- red team is sexier than blue team, and has an easier time of it, pretty much in any field.)

So, personally, I think it's time we spent some of our effort undoing that damage and playing blue team.

I don't know what that looks like in full -- though I have some ideas -- but I do know that allowing the weaponization of psychology against humanity to continue unabated will end in disaster.

In some ways, that's the struggle of the 21st century: will technology serve the public or enslave it.
I am curious where you work; is it in finance?

I'm not sure I believe you when you say "there are no relevant milestones". From a business stand point it doesn't matter what technical milestones are hit, but almost every business in the world tries to determine if employees are doing as well as expected or better and there is often no clear link to the exact monetary value of any given dev work. There are obviously issues here, but I find it hard to believe any compensation structure exists that doesn't, if nothing else but because teamwork is hard to quantify.

If this project isn't expected to take more than a year to get off the ground, it doesn't sound significantly different from just having a very uncertain bonus.

In any case, if you have no preference in how they should be compensated, consider letting them decide how they would like to be compensated; in a bonus driven culture people may be quite happy to take a percentage they think is reasonable, or they may want to keep their existing structure.

If these developers are able to command such a salary elsewhere, I doubt you will have much luck getting them to take a salary structure they dislike simply because the stakes are so high.
English being a core general education class is actually strange, possibly excepting international students. English is properly an admissions requirement.

This may apply to high school as well.
We're currently looking for Early adopters to test our beta 2.0 and give feedback on the app itself. Perfect for users already curating content to get more out of their posts to engage their social followers.

Sodaclick empowers users creativity through a simplistic, yet powerful app. By combining your everyday digital media in one visual canvas, interactive posts are born for your social media feeds (i.e. FB, Twitter, Insta etc.)
(US only) 1.1 If available, ensure temporary on-going health insurance coverage via COBRA [1]. Usually your former employer / previous health insurance is required to send you a letter regarding how to file for COBRA - otherwise ask.

I had exactly, precisely the same thing happen to me. I agree with 1-5 above (and 6 in the child post).

Try (really hard) not to get depressed and find a weird way to enjoy this unforeseen break in your work life. You probably won't get any other breaks like this unless you decide to take them or get lucky.

[1] FAQ about COBRA https://www.dol.gov/sites/default/files/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-...
Sorry, but why not?
Traditional full time employment is a much safer bet for savings.
As dudus mentions: the GA article posted yesterday includes a recommendation to use this library.

As for a comparison of it vs. the GTM setup used by thenextweb, I briefly explain my thoughts on GTM in another comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13648771
For the longest time our local carriers would deliver to 2330 Someplace Street instead of our address at 2030 Someplace Street. Luckily the neighbor was honest though it was really hard when they delivered my 55lb office chair in a box too big to fit in my car, but that was FedEx of all people.
Nobody ever looks at Netflix and complains "I never watch most of these shows, I shouldn't have to pay for them" because Netflix doesn't encourage people to think in those terms.

Cable companies caused the demand for de-bundling via a partial de-bundling. If you could get all channels for $50 then nobody would complain. But if they force you to buy half the channels for $25 and half the channels for $25, people start to wonder why they can't just get a quarter of the channels for $12.50.