skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest, when I have a lot of money, I want to build housing for homeless people, but there's a difference. They work for us. There's a product that any human can do. We have a couple of floors full of cubicles with terminals. And in exchange for doing X hours of work for Y days per week using this product, a person gets their own room, 3 meals a day at the canteen, and some kind of monetary / card / bitcoin allowance they can use in the outside world. The housing has its own in house security, with monitoring and accountability. Also we vet and include some sort of community building, personality building, NGO / social welfare programs to work with people. It's sort of like an 18th century work house. Without the shame, coercion or slavery aspects.

A very important point is we do not start from the perspective that "these people are 'wrong' and need to be 'fixed'" instead we start from the lovely awesome assumption that these people are humans and are inherently useful. So we get them to do useful things and give them stuff that most people want.

Obviously, some people don't want to be part of any community, and some people would still prefer to live on the street even if they have housing. Such people can work there, but the whole package is really a niche for people who are looking for the whole package.

Basically: food, shelter, work, money, without any hassle at all.
I was a vegetarian (abruptly) for a couple of years. Eventually I started to feel sort of icky, not properly nourished, though this is probably the fault of my specific dietary habits and not vegetarianism in general.

Since then I've stuck to a low-meat diet; I mostly eat vegetarian, and when I eat meat I try to eat low on the food chain. I'd say I eat fish and chicken about once a week each, and pork or beef maybe once a month. I also cook with chicken broth pretty often.
There are a few ways of doing it all with different tradeoffs:

If very quick startup times are a necessity, then you just build a standalone image. This is very much like deploying a program in e.g. C. You build it with asdf, and then install it (and any dynamic libraries) into your deploy environment.

For "long running" programs, this may not be as necessary, and since the lisp runtime includes a full lisp compiler, it's not uncommon to just have a script that launches your lisp executable, uses ASDF to load the system, and calls the entry point.

For either one, it can also be useful to expose a swank server, though that does have security implications (anybody who can connect to the swank server (either localhost or unix domain sockets) can run arbitrary code).
Where do you see the pricing?

https://www.construct.net/ca/make-games/buy-construct-3

It's telling me it's in beta.
Ashley, Congratulations on such an ambitious release! I volunteer at a coding club for kids and Construct 3 seems like a perfect fit for the education market.

We primarily work with Scratch, but are always looking for a good "next step" for kids interested in publishing more ambitious games outside of the Scratch sandbox. We've tried a few downloadable engines or pure coding environments (e.g. Stencyl, Gamemaker, Phaser, Corona, Unity), but run into problems with the learning curve and installations.

Being web-based is a great advantage for Construct 3 in education. In our school district (NYC), students share laptops on carts and rely on Google Drive for storage. If you have additional information regarding your roll-out plans for the education market, please let me know. I could speak to some administrators at various schools and also teachers working with the csnyc.org initiative.
Increasing equity is great, but in general my view is that increased equity does two things:

1. It compensates for the increased risk of working for a startup (you don't have as much runway as google, might fail to raise your next round).
2. It gives the employee a stake in the company, and aligns their interests with making the company successful. I.e. Not just doing whatever they're told, failing to raise potential issues because "it's not their job".

It doesn't really compensate for reduced pay in my opinion.
It's not a "death penalty". It's natural reality, akin to stepping off a high cliff - a choice with natural consequences.

Forcing another person to share a bit of their wealth IS a death threat. Why do you think death is the right penalty for not sharing a bit of wealth?
I debated about the recommendation, but went with the simplest one to start.
To be fair, the straight and gay communities are really just opposite sides of the same fish tank, not two fish tanks, as a metaphor for compartmentalizing the sharing of diseases.
It was lucky you lived somewhere where you even had an opportunity to see the butchering process and thus make your own informed choices about it.

In the USA, it is not difficult to go your whole life eating meat and never seeing where it comes from, other than "from the supermarket refrigerated aisle." Many if not most supermarkets don't butcher on site (eg, in college I once briefly worked at a Walmart meat department and was disappointed I would not be learning any butchering, but would just be moving around boxes that happened to contain meat)

I'd like to propose a perhaps odd view: It may not be wrong to eat meat, but it's surely wrong to eat it if you wouldn't be willing to do the butchering and preparing yourself if that were the only way to get it.
Don't you think that its strange that the UK can't train enough nurses (sisters) and has to import nurses from poorer countries?

I guess the nationwide (near) monopoly on healthcare, the National Health Service (NHS) will have to start paying market prices for nurses as well as start more training programs instead of relying on importing cheaper labor.

To say that there aren't enough Brits to do the nursing in a population of 60 million is ridiculous.

The elites in Britain (and perhaps the entire wealthier countries of the EU) basically didn't seem to care (and perhaps encouraged) the importation of labor to drive down market prices of labor both for untrained as well as trained labor. In the case of healthcare, it is simply a means for the government to pay less for healthcare than they would if there were a competitive market instead of their monopoly.

It wasn't absolutely necessary to have the free flow of labor as part of the EU trade agreement. For example, NAFTA between US, Canada, and Mexico does not allow for the free flow of labor, only the free flow of good. I can't think of any trade agreements that the US has with other countries that allows for the free flow of labor. The free flow of labor benefits elites (think professional hiring nannies, government running health services, companies running factories, firms running high tech needing software developers) to help depress wages. Now the elites of Britain will have to start paying market rates for their labor.
So, they are asking businesses to pony up the equivalent of one Starbucks coffee per day for skilled immigrants? The horror!
Same publication, today: http://uk.businessinsider.com/eu-brexit-resolution-article-5...
it looks beautiful. sometimes applications like this are hesitant to share their source code b/c of their business model or something.

are there any good "hackable" web browsers these days?
Correct, but it is a start.
I think you put entirely too much faith in our ability to diagnose mental illness and entirely too little in respecting the wishes of the individuals themselves.

To be able to say, "I diagnose you as sick, what you want is now invalid" is an incredibly powerful tool, and obviously open for abuse.

Just a few decades ago homosexuality was considered a mental illness. Your line of reasoning would justify involuntary "treatments" for homosexuality. (And in fact, this sometimes happened.)

Today, many of the homeless are likely suffering from schizophrenia. Drug-based treatments for schizophrenia have permanent, non-reversible side-effects, and lower the chance of recovery to basically zero.

Today, as a non-schizophrenic person, I can tell you that if I did develop schizophrenia, I would not wish to be treated with those drugs. Would that wish suddenly become invalid because I was suffering from mental illness?

To my mind, it's pretty evil to force someone to take a drug with permanent side-effects against their will.
I am copying this to Evernote because you pretty much described everything that is wrong with startups.

Now, to be fair, there are good things as well, but they are more rare. 37 Signals comes to mind as innovative company that is doing things just right. They never wanted to even be associated with startup world.
Disable for 1hour works great most of the time.
I agree but the problem is also the money. A lot of the VCs want to talk about how many ex GOOG and FB engineers who graduated from MIT that they have building their next unicorn. They don't have the same story talking about three state school graduates from Kansas who may be just as talented and have a better product. They also never want to fly to Kansas, like ever.

I've lived through this working at a startup in central PA. We were in discussions to be acquired by several of the top 10 west coast tech companies and having to have an office in PA and come here killed all but one deal. Some Director of X doesn't want to fly to Philly and take an hour train to visit the team. This is despite the fact that costs here are like 30% and there is plenty of reasonable talent.
If they could work they would.
Why Is My Insulin So Expensive?
This website really needs a screencast video. The all text features page has zero pictures. I have no idea how the product works besides the one screenshot on the homepage.

Look at this UX: https://www.construct.net/ca/make-games/features it's a long list of links, all text, and you have to click each one to see the block of text.
If legal opinion is now that the FTC does not have the ability to regulate internet privacy, it is not the fault of congress, it is the fault of the 9th circuit's ruling ruling last year [1], which has effect over its area of jurisdiction.

Traditionally it is the FTC which regulates consumer privacy. The republican's position w.r.t. internet privacy is that regulating this is in the domain of the FTC, as has always been the case before [2][3][4].

Sources:

[1] https://iapp.org/news/a/the-att-v-ftc-common-carrier-ruling-...

[2] http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017...

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/protecting-c...

[4] http://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/the-ftc...
Out of curiosity, what makes your salary "fair", if it results in an offer that's significantly lower than BigCo? How do you decide what's fair?
The problem with the structure of the EU is basically: How do you set up a supranational state without massive constitutional changes in all the member states? Because the appetite is not there for large constitutional changes.

The result was basically a giant hack on top of the existing systems by leveraging the authority that the member state governments have to act as agents of their state in carrying out their duties under treaties.

More and more power has been handed to the EU Parliament with various treaty changes etc., but there is a limit there in that ultimately without enshrining the power of the EU Parliament in the member states constitutions, it is impossible to cede the kind of power vested in the member state governments to the EU Parliament.

So the irony is that a lot of the centralisation of power in EU organs is a result of opposition to further integration. Pretty much nobody likes the current structure of the EU. The problem is people dislike it different reasons: Some because they want the power handed back to the individual states. Some because they want a federalised EU or similar.

The irony there is that Brexit might end up a catalyst for tighter integration, because the UK has been one of the biggest brakes on that process.

> I look at Switzerland and Iceland with envy - the people can achieve change there. The USA, EU, even UK? Not so much.

I don't agree with this. There are policy areas we can't easily change unilaterally, sure. But at the same time, when a change is agreed there is far more power behind it. Some policies only make sense to make at large scale, some makes to push down as far as possible. Ideally I'd like to see the end of modern day nation states through devolution of as much power as possible. But some decisions will still need to be taken at a higher level.

As it stands, in the UK there is still plently of power at the local level, and while I am very upset at Brexit, the UK at least has one thing going for it in an ongoing long lasting process of gradually devolving more and more power to local councils and regions.
No, it's that this isn't the place for memes
I noticed a massive battery life improvement after removing f.lux and using night shift/night light on mac and windows.

Far less stuttering as well. Whatever f.lux is doing is not worth the janky implementation.
This is very clever! But it requires trusting that what the API spits back is actually reflective of how your words are perceived.

In theory you could test whether an "optimized" CV actually leads to better results. But in practice that's very challenging for one person to do, since the sample size is small and you're testing live with your own career...
>I'm no fan of the DPRK regime, but isn't it naive to assume that any state, even a completely mismanaged despotic one, will "inevitably" collapse?

I could not agree more, and if it does collapse there will be a lot of credit taken for prescience that will amount to having said the same thing for 60+ years. I think the problem is that the intellectual space around the DPRK is dominated by loud people with minimal expertise, but since expertise is so lacking, loud counts for a lot. I've read as much as I could on the subject of the DPRK, and even thoughtful scholars who make very guarded predictions seem very aware of the limits of their knowledge.

One thing that most of them seem to agree on, is that most of us in the West underestimate the degree to which the North Korean people are into their own propaganda/mythology. That at least, seems to match with the struggles that defectors seem to face with adjustment. In essence, the people in the DPRK might not buy into the official line in all things, but what they do believe is no less bizarre.
I've lived places where my only ISP choice was Comcast. I trust them as little as the worst VPNs, and having a choice of VPN lets you choose one which is trustworthy and in a convenient jurisdiction. That matters some in the States (no NSL to Canada, for instance) and a great deal in China or other countries.
> I'm surprised by the favorable comments about Night Shift.

Apple made it, which means that Apple's PR shills & Apple's fanboys think it's revolutionary. These are the same folks who proudly claim that wireless headphones are awesome & losing the escape key is great for vi-users.

Frankly I think theirs are low-signal comments, but … to each his own, I suppose.
AT&T had a program in place ("Internet Preferences") where they offered a $29/mo discount on their gigapower FTTH offering to customers who allowed them to inspect traffic for the purpose of ad targeting, including sending you offers by e-mail related to your browsing.

They defaulted you in to the program, hid its terms in fine print, and made it difficult to sign up for service w/o accepting the program.

Now, they did away with this program late last year and started giving everyone the discounted price. It's not clear why they did so: maybe it was the upcoming FCC regulations; maybe it wasn't making enough money; maybe it was competition from Google Fiber.

With Google Fiber going away and the FCC regulations being rolled back, I'll guess we'll see whether the program comes back.

But regardless, at least one major ISP was willing to inspect its customers' browsing data and use it for ad targeting. It would be great if this were solved by the market via customer backlash, but I don't see that happening. Sadly, I think most customers just don't care. People are willing to tolerate a lot to save money.
Fair point, will add some. Need to think if main page or a screenshot page.

In the meanwhile, you can look at the user guide (link at the top right) for a general impression, though since it's a sync adapter, you actually almost never interact with EteSync's UI.
Hitting the same message, as my Chrome is 1 version behind.

Most people will not be willing to change their browsing habits to use your web application. The onus is on us, as software developers, to ensure our code runs in the user's browser, not the other way around.

Ultimately it's up to you to decide where the line is drawn; nobody supports IE7 anymore because it's hardly used. But I suspect you'll lose a tremendous amount of potential users by not supporting Firefox, Safari or recent Chrome.

I'm sure you guys are aware of preprocessors; is there a reason you haven't used them to implement things like HTML imports or CSS variables?
That is cool. Most of the sentiment analysis APIs I saw just give a -1 to +1 score based on positive or negative feeling but looks like Watson APIs are much more elaborate.
What else would you call it?

Are you jealous? I know I wouldn't mind earning 350k. It isn't as if I'd move anywhere for Google to start earning that, at least not right now, but to be honest, if you are going to earn 300k less that WOULD be a pretty big pay cut.
I can imagine the early adopters: male actors, athletes and other men of high social value as a way to enjoy sex without the chance of unwanted offspring.
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This is true.

For many startups the technical issues are not even the most significant problem they face. It's more about marketing and business focus.
I actually agree with you. I am in disagreement with our CEO on that one. But unfortunately it's all we can afford to give so at least it is something.

I have had a number of heart to hearts with devs to make sure their expectations on stock options are set right.
Does anybody ever actually want to do serious work "in the browser"?

I can think of many drawbacks. Where's the benefit?
> This is a difficult avenue to walk because it's not very hard to define everyone not doing what you think is right as mentally ill and no longer deserving rights or choice.

Well, we can start somewhere, right? Like fraudulent panhandling. Or the various forms of low-grade assault that is typically ignored rather than added to a history documenting mental illness.

I have a neighbor who lives on her own that regularly forgets her husband is dead. She leaves the gas stove on. Is it that hard to hold the authorities accountable in documenting that history and certifying that (very sweet when healthy) lady as no longer qualified to live on her own?
How containers became a tech darling (2015)
Gobbler looks great. Have you used the collaboration features and have they worked well for you?

One of the goals is to streamline the experience of navigating and listening to sets of files. If it's built correctly, then using Sawtooth should be a smoother experience than managing where your files live in your Dropbox folders, having it sync them, finding them on another computer, then listening with a separate media player or the player in your OS file navigator (thinking of Finder on MacOS).

This is not meant to replace any of your desktop DAWs. If anything, it could interoperate with them in certain cases, if people are interested in that. Maybe an API would be handy for others developing websites or apps that work with audio.

I'd like Sawtooth to keep simple audio work really simple. I suspect it's easy to overwhelm newcomers to the audio world with complicated UIs (which are necessary for advanced work).

Gobbler for example seems very geared towards musicians and music creation, which is great for many. But there are also lots of people working with audio for other reasons... field recordings, voice recordings (podcasts etc), signal analysis, etc. Maybe Sawtooth becomes more optimized for one of those other cases.
The average engineer at google with 5 years of experience makes at least 250K. To put it bluntly: I'm pretty sure the average cash compensation (that is, disregarding RSUs entirely, which is likely at least another 100k/yr) is going to push 200K. The same is substantially true of the main competitors to Google (Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft).
I went to an Earth day event in the late 90s, which had lectures on the environmental impact of beef and really good vegan pizza, vegetarian ever since -- Vegan for 7 years of that; but got tired of being that guy. I was already vegetarian at home at the time, so I just stopped ordering meat when I was out to eat.
I have to ask if you have ever applied for a UK visa, because dealing with the Home Office for visas is very painful, and choosing to relocate now, with a reasonable expectation of having to go through that process I would consider to be rational.
Is this slave mentality or what?

If I make 350k+, and a startup is telling me I should take their 150k base + worthless options deal, or else I've "pigeonholed myself in the current role" (actual quote), I think they're just being stupid and unrealistic.
You have good intentions but need to learn more about how one finds themselves in chronic homelessness first.

If you are expecting something in return, or holding over someone (who may be delusional) a condition for help, you will not end up helping the people you set out to.
He is saying he is not qualified to talk risk/benefit of eating meat BUT REGARDLESS food/diet is the worst reason(in his opinion) to go vegan.

And I agree.

I found no contradiction in his statement.

There are better reasons to go vegan, and as repeatedly stated in thread, reason is important to sustaining the (any) path.
These moments feel like validation for sticking to our guns and not relocating to the valley. From what I hear from our coastal investors, hiring engineers is a major major problem in their portfolio and it's only getting worse. Frankly, we don't struggle to hire engineers.
One of my friends was rejected while interviewing for some SV startups. But was not rejected by Google. Now he works in Google. Startups should re-think how they're interviewing people. Seems like they suffer more from broken interview process, not Google salaries.
> The elites in Britain basically didn't seem to care (and perhaps encouraged) the importation of labor to drive down market prices of labor both for untrained as well as trained labor

And you have hit on a basic truth there. A fair part of the vote to leave was because of economic hardship. A fair part of that is because of the perception of "people coming over here and working for less". But every employee has an employer. Government and business can do a lot to set industrial policy, starting with funding for education (for doctors, nurses etc), and minimum wage levels (for field & factory workers).

Emphasis on "can". They didn't.
Or simply less numerous. We do know that many of us (Europeans and Asians) have some Neanderthal DNA, it's entirely possible they were just bred out of existence.
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