skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah yes, besides this fiasco...

* trying to dredge up dirt on journalist for being negative towards your company
* having the ceo say an incident involving a uber driver choking a passenger "never happened"
* offering customers rides with "hot chicks" in france
* kalanik boasting that he should have called the company "boober" from all the women he gets
* having a "god view" that employees used to spy on exes, politicians and celebrities. they paid a measly $20k fine and supposedly continue to still allow employees to use god view.

keep in mind the executive who tried to find dirt on journalists to blackmail them wasn't even fired by kalanik.

BUT YES. YES. the press! the media! they're all out to get Uber.
To be altruistic means to be selfless, by definition. And you shouldn't expect anything in return. It looks like you expected things in return but didn't get them and now you have become cynical and claim everyone is selfish...
Paddle harder. Motivation is like wave/wind on the sea. Easier to get around with it, but we still have to move on with life even without it, even if it's harder, slower, or more painful.
To elaborate, the actual title of the article is "Why Engineers Should Blog"
I'm certainly no expert in motivation, and can't give you advice on your specific goals, but I personally find that reframing long term goals into short term goals can be a big source of motivation. for example, don't focus on bench pressing your own weight, focus instead on getting to the gym 3x or 4x a week and working on your bench press. don't focus on finishing that personal project, focus instead on making a little progress on your personal project every day or every week. having long term goals is still valuable, but having short term goals to focus on can make it a lot easier to find motivation. it's easy to get demotivated on big goals, but if in a given day you meet every single one of your daily goals, then you've aced that day as far as your goals are concerned. and you'll ace the next day, and the next, etc.

having a job with big impact and big money is a sizable goal that you won't reach overnight. you might not even reach it in a year, or several years, who knows. it's a big goal that's easy to lose motivation on. but reframing it into daily goals, and focusing on taking one step at a time, could be a source of motivation. just my 2¢
Sad to see Ara die. I don't understand why they took three years to realise the path they were pursuing didn't work. Why couldn't they figure out earlier so they still had time to do something that works?

Google should have pursued a less ambitious and more practical version of the idea. Instead of making everything replaceable, maybe just identify one component that would be. Like the camera. Why do I have to buy a new phone if all I want is a new camera? Would a phone with only one or two replaceable components be feasible to build, and not impose too many tradeoffs?

The Ara team pursued the "everything should be replaceable" dream for too long, and failed. I wonder if a limited version would have been feasible.

It doesn't make sense that you should buy a new smartphone, priced at as much as ₹80K ($1000) even if all you want is one new component. Imagine if you had to buy a new laptop for more storage for your movies, and external hard discs didn't exist. Or a bigger screen, when you could use an external monitor. And so on.
And you need a DNA test to know this, just by how it looks isn't comparable with a real piece of chicken meat.
> Marketplaces like UpWork and ELance, which were originally designed to match US companies with global talent, have literally made it impossible for US engineers to find work...

As a freelancer working from India - this stands true even for the good experienced freelancers in India. Upwork (and Elance that is now Upwork) make it hard to get good rates - forget about raising rates. And when Elance merged to Upwork - it just made it harder to filter out good clients (I had some respect for the former Elance). Most buyer's have this perspective - "You are from India, your cost must be cheap!". Add to that rated courses on Udemy that underline "Get your work done at 1/10th the cost" (that I subscribed too) and similar stuff on YouTube.

Blogging helps. Mine is a pretty small one. But I got quite a few leads from my blog and at one point I was heavily overloaded with requests that would give me acceptable rates. I stopped writing for 6-8 months and the leads stopped coming in. Also, these days video-bloggers(good ones) get to take much of the leads.
If you are looking to live with "like-minded" people, it does not take much effort to organize a shared-house rental. I've been living around Asia for the past few years, and have lived in mansions with up to 5 other expats (each with our own huge private room and bathroom) for no more than $300USD/month + ~$50/month for all other bills including high speed internet. Malta is more expensive than most of Asia, but what these guys are charging is ridiculous and by no means are they "just trying to break even".
You alluded to this with mention of interest in a leadership position at work, but what are your near-term goals in life? Make a list, devise a strategy, and focus a portion of each day stepping toward those goals. Be careful and explicit in drafting these goals. For instance, "Become wealthy" isn't as clear and actionable as "Increase my income by $500 per month."

Are you focused too much on work? When is the last time you took a week or two off just to mentally reset? How is your social life? I was interested in a specific field a few years back, but I had zero friends or connections in said field. I started a meetup group around the topic, grew it to 1500 members in just over a year, learned a TON about the field in the process, and made invaluable and exclusive connections that would have been otherwise very difficult. It was a beautiful blend of social and professional advancement and I highly recommend something similar.

Last point: if you're considering grad school, be aware that this is much more accessible and palatable early in your career vs. late. If you have a shot at getting into an MIT or Stanford, why no give it a whirl? It isn't necessarily the degree that is of value, but the high-end network you'll obtain in the process.

Keep your head-up -- motivation will ebb and flow throughout your life. This is normal and a sign that change is in order.
First, if work is not challenging, you can make it challenging. For example, challenge yourself to automate every aspect of your job. It will give you something interesting to work on, you will learn a lot (and not all of the lessons will be technical), and you will have some tangible accomplishments to point to (whether that is efficiency, uptime, cost savings, ...) during you next conversation about being given more responsibility and authority.

Second, as you noted you can find challenges outside of work (particularly with all the free time your automation has given you. |-D

You could try for getting into MIT or Stanford, but you could also simply take the courses you are interested in. Learning something new if a great motivator, I've found.

Then again, so is crushing your enemies, seeing their men flee before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

But I digress.

Another possible creative outlet & source of inspiration is participating in open source, up to and including starting your own project (which might be part of your automation platform, or something completely different).

Or get a non-tech hobby. Drawing, painting, knitting, dancing, a sport, volunteering at an animal shelter, gourmet cooking, write a novel, learn a new language etc. I personally find gardening to be a great way to recharge my mental and emotional batteries.

Good luck!
But since no one bothered to assert their rights (I'm sure it would have been mentioned), we'll never know how a court might have interpreted the situation (or whether the agents would have done the right thing and backed down - but who am I kidding?).
How to Start a Blog in 30 Minutes or Less
See what happened to Michael Flynn. He had three of those stars on his shoulders and the IC pretty much wrecked him.
This is brilliant, especially the idea of loading content from correctly configured sites to set bits, loading incorrectly configured sites to test bits, and using an error-correcting code in case the user happens to visit some of the correctly configured sites before returning.

The right fix would be to either always fail a site load that doesn't serve the right intermediate certificate, or do what Chrome and IE do and always find and load the intermediate certificate.
The steps from consumer to professional seem pretty smooth. The higher end consumer machines cost more than the lower and professional machines. You can buy SkyLake Xeon processors from Newegg for as low as a couple hundred dollars.
Thanks. This also applies to a lot of other fields :)
Dynamic vs. Static Procedural Generation #NotGDC
Just keep doing nodejs. It pays well to be a competent javascript dev
Don't forget Zenefits and Theranos.

I've been predicting failure for Instacart for a while, mostly because of their business model. But when the funding dries up and the business is unsustainable, businesses start doing shadier things (like stealing tips), so maybe they'll go out on a PR comet.
Non recursive algo with python:

def flatten(array):
queue = [array]
result = []
while len(queue) > 0:
item = queue.pop(0)
if isinstance(item, list):
for sub_item in item:
queue.append(sub_item)
else:
result.append(item)
return result

a = [1,[2,3], [4, [5,6]]]
print 'input:', a, '\noutput:', flatten(a)
Thanks for the answer.
(I'm also surprised by the downvotes. Maybe people are having a bad day at uni.?)
The Fast and Furious franchise ;)
Welcome to Code.mil – an experiment in open source at the Department of Defense
Quantity is defined by mass.
Costa Rica would work (I think some people have done it). Panama might work.
People often take the minimum as the representative statistic. The article implies the mean event for self-driving cars is much worse than that for human drivers.

Yes, I bike, so I know the worst of the worst. I also remember a few courteous encounters, but probably many fewer due to negativity bias.
You could be mildly depressed. How is your sleep? How do you feel about other aspects of your life, like relationships?
I'm seriously considering doing something like this in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Linus ranted[0] about how it's idiotic to worry about SHA-1 collisions in 2005 months after significant weaknesses[1] were found in it (which have recently been demonstrated by Google). I'm certainly not about to waste effort making a patch that he's going to reject as idiotic.

[0] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0885.html

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.h...
What? Google was on California's roads in 2009 before anybody, least of all the DMV, knew what they were doing.
> Lately, I don't feel motivated about anything. Job is okay and I just switched about 8 months back.

I wonder why you mentioned "job" as your first driver for motivation and happiness. What about other parts of your life besides the job? Now I imagine since this is HN your probably only shared about that part, but I hope there is more to it - relationships with family, friends, significant other and so on. Hobbies (go to local meetups about your favorite technology), maybe other interests like sports. Someone mentioned other stuff like helping others: mentoring perhaps, a soup kitchen (I did that for a while, it really changes your perspective on a lot of things and challenges some assumptions).

> I need to find something with purpose,big money, and satisfaction.

That won't sit right with a lot of people. It is good you are honest though. But be prepared for people to focus on that. So you already make good money it seems but you feel you deserve big money? Why do you think you deserve to be in a leadership position and making big money?

> was hired for a position that has no decision making power at all. Everyone here seems dumb and working on a few useless things.

Now imagine if you made big money and still had no decision making power? What if you made less money but had decision making power? Which one would make you happier?
I haven't yet to be hit may be out of luck, but in my city, I don't have the option to be separated if I want to get everywhere. Instead, there are a plethora of "share the road" signs everywhere.

I'm okay with the separation if I get the same access as everyone else...and I am not blocked by slow bikers. Of course, I don't need to ride on highways/freeways (nor do I want to).
Seeing Theory: A Visual Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Sam Altman traveled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters
Seriously using the term GF? What are you 5 years old? Hey guys, I can't spell out the word girlfriend, and like to use GF instead.
Same here, Uber Black everywhere in Rio. Never had any problems, quite opposite actually - going with the little one, folding buggy, drivers were always helping etc. - very pleasant experience. Also very cheap. There are too many yellow cabs in Rio anyway, they're just making traffic driving empty up and down.
Ancient Greek Buddhists?
That doesn't make much sense; both predate Islam by over a millenium.
I'm interested in taking a look at this assignment for my own learning, but it looks like there are a bunch of files you need. It would be cool if you put them in a git repo!
If you feel CRC64 does not meet the requirements, use CRC128.

For what it's worth, I think CRC64 should be fine for git-like workloads (but would still recommend using a cryptographically secure hash function, because git's usage is security-critical despite Linus constantly insisting it's not).
Shrink George – Petition to US Treasury
>> pesky $7/hr labor.

Well the end goal of this should be a central warehouse(maybe run FBA style, maybe even hired on demand,inc. fullfilment from someone ) , and instead of ordering being on-demand, set up time windows, each at a certain area, enabling optimized routes(and on top of that network do on-demand orders).

That should reduce costs to minimum and build a somewhat defensible business(unless Amazon attacks).

And having a lot of customers will be helpful in achieving those goals, so what we're seeing is just step 1.
I believe they're likely referring to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
What backwards compatibility was broken?
A new attention disorder
A brain surgeon is like a hairdresser because there are only so many heads you can work on over a lifetime using only your own two hands.

Only some surgeons can be full time lifesavers, some hairdressers however can be full time media production savers.

Either way, for someone in the top performance bracket who is truly saving the day with each head they work on, more energy professionally devoted to clients which would otherwise be expended on their own superficial appearance and gratuitious recognition-seeking can only be a good thing for the clients themselves.

The best could possibly be expected to not appear very much like the well-known Hollywood stereotypes or not be fashionable themselves at all very often.
> I don't get this. Is this a hostel/guest-house? What's with the "Digital Nomad" thing, what's special about it?

Hostels are for the poor students who want to see Europe. Digital Nomads are the traveling full stack developers building microservices out of the latest cool frameworks you read about on HN :P

It's the same as saying "here is a restaurant, lunch will be $7" or "here is a bistro, lunch will be $40".
I use pocket and surprised to see no one mentioned it. Is it nt that good? Now curious to know.
Saying that the mechanisms are known is a major case of hubris. For example, it is still not known exactly how aluminum salts, used as adjuvants in vaccines, work. Many vaccines were developed empirically, and researchers struggle to replicate the success for other diseases. If the mechanisms, as you say, were fully known, we would already have conquered cancer.

Here is an interesting example. In the 60s a vaccine against chlamydia was developed and then tested in one of "developing" countries. Vaccinated people showed high titers of antibodies in their blood (this is, by the way, how efficacy of vaccines is judged, not by the actual clinical studies, read the inserts, you'd be surprised). Despite the high titers vaccinated people were much more likely to get the disease and the course of the disease was more severe. The vaccine was pulled, and the reason for the failure was not known at the time.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews-science/why-1960s-ch...

If you follow the links in that article you will see how the process of how the body deals with a vaccine is not necessarily the same as the process of dealing with the disease directly.

Human immune system is complicated and is not fully understood. Infant immune system differs from the one of the adults, which further complicates the matters. Saying that the science there is settled is just not true.
LocalStack: A full-fledged AWS cloud stack. Develop and test cloud apps offline
The actual mailing list discussion thread can be found here, and is infinitely more informative than any of the bull being spouted in this thread: http://public-inbox.org/git/20170226004657.zowlojdzqrrcalsm@...
A distraction free GUI for hugo(http://gohugo.io/)
What do you want to do with your bookmarks?

I think using Pocket (mentioned in comments, not by you) solves a different problem than browser bookmarks, for example. Describing your desires may help the community describe (or build!) options.
Why would you do that? Even if you don't know exactly what you want, are wrong about whether it's the basis of 'trust', for the purposes of writing git, you'd just take SHA-1. Nothing terrible is going to happen if it's both overkill and you aren't really building a secure system. You seem to be arguing, if I'm understanding you right, that you should only use a cryptographically strong hash iff you need all its properties. That seems like a really odd angle.
I've been with FastMail forever, never had a need to even keep up with whatever else might be available. It just works. Plus, AFAIK their being Australian helps in light of the Snowden leaks.
Altruism is doing things without expectation, recognition, reward, or return. It's possible by seeking a return, you are being a little selfish in your desire for a reward and attracting selfish people.

There's a big difference between thinking less about yourself, and thinking less of yourself, and it's up to you to learn the difference between being nice & dumb vs nice & smart.

Don't mean to be mean, just clear. No one's special or the center of the universe so it's up to all of us to find and add value before expecting anything back.
Most people in the US measure food in ounces, but carbs are almost always listed in grams. It's common enough that I didn't even think about it when I wrote it.
If it meets the guidelines, this should likely be a "Show HN":

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I've been in both federal and private prisons, and in the federal ones, there is always an officer in the unit with the inmates, and in the private ones, the inmates are alone most of the time.

And in all of the prisons I was in during my length time of incarceration, no one ever was raped. No one wants to become a sex offender while in prison nowadays. DNA evidence... The feds collect _everyone's_ DNA when they go to prison.
That doesn't seem very difficult. You can try judging yourself harshly and make a habit of ruminating over it. Quite a number of people have those sorts of habits and want to break them. You might find it hard to stop if you develop those habits.
I take some time off and go scuba diving.
If words have nothing to do with it then I am not sure how your link shows that Markov Chains are better at memorizing, because a Markov Chain over characters would do a much worse job at generating coherent text.

But I actually acknowledged your second point, so I never said that RNNs are useful for password guessing, unless maybe you have a very expensive hash function. However, they are good at memorizing sequences and log-likelihood is not an irrelevant measure of performance on passwords. It measures ability of the model to generalize to unseen data. In this case that means generating realistic passwords that are not in the training data. That is important because otherwise you might as well just use a dictionary attack.
Revamping Technical Education in India
Postal-service analogues suggest themselves. Issues with mailstorms (chain letters and the like) were a sufficient issue that there are specific statutes against them.
> Polio is transmitted fecal to mouth, so proper hygiene is absolutely going to prevent you from getting polio.

Fair enough, but "In the U.S, following a mass immunization campaign promoted by the March of Dimes, the annual number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 by 1957. By 1961 only 161 cases were recorded in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Jonas_Salk

This isn't a result of a major hygiene change. So far as I know, hygiene in the US did not drastically change in this time period, while polio cases dropped by orders of magnitude. This is the result of consistent and systematic vaccination.

> As for the effectiveness, it is absolutely must be questioned, and here is a case in point

This is very interesting and very relevant to whether specific vaccines are effective. It does not in any way dispute that in general vaccines can be extremely effective.

For the record, I'm totally in favor anyone putting forth evidence that certain vaccines are ineffective, or dangerous, or even cause autism. So long as there's actual evidence to discuss and debate.
Coming across the Lapka concept for Project Ara[0] made me realize that the problem was to market this as a "phone" in the first place.

Few people are willing to take the risk on a phone with an entirely new form factor, let alone an entirely novel premise, and no one would carry two phones around in their pocket.

It seems like they missed an opportunity to position this as a customizable mobile computing platform. Or perhaps they did and thought it was too niche.

[0] https://medium.com/@my_lapka/lapka-x-project-ara-78fc5fe9f50...
Are you sure? I bought an i7-6850K for a personal GPU server, and 'top' sees all 128GB that I put in.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1681911...

I see an i7 6950X should also support 128GB:

http://www.overclockers.com/intel-i7-6950x-broadwell-e-cpu-r...

I wish it had ECC, but you can't have everything.
You were just ahead of your time :)

Multicore advantage for gaming is starting to materialize with Vulkan, mantle, etc.
Like a department or agency of government? In the US the SSA may be a good contender.
No, Google had a permit from the DMV when they started testing. Can't find the reference now, but I remember how they'd had to take DMV people in the car to convince them that they were serious.
Revealed: how US billionaire helped to back Brexit
It does not remove the fiber but it changes the structure. The natural structure is like a balloon with good stuff inside. The digestion process breaks down those balloons one at a time and liberates the contents. That process slows down the absorption of sugar. Blending pops all of the balloons so you everything can be accessed/absorbed at the same time, leading to sugar spikes, etc...
Buddhism remains practiced in the modern world on a significant level, ancient Greek polytheism is not. In that way, Buddha statues are a symbol of something that the Taliban is actively opposed to, whereas Greek antiquities, even to the extent that they contain specific religious content, generally are not.
Pandoc support writing Man format, but not reading it, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc
Can't trust them -- I've seen too much.