skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read the article :)

They used IP geolocation to determine the users local time.
Intel to Open Source All Lustre Code as Brent Gorda Leaves the Company
there's things called scholarships, worked well for me and lots of other people.

The problem is that easy student loans has made it so people who should have never gone to college are now going and flunking out after a few semesters of partying and now have 10s of thousands in debt with nothing to show for it.

Combine easy money with indoctrination telling kids that they will be losers if they don't go and you have the current situation
That's the cheesiest thing I've seen in a long time and also I'm crying now.

Thank you
I was camping in Patagonia and away from internet. When I got back to civilization, I had a long group messenger thread that started from his stroke to his untimely death.

The morning after I learned about him passing away, I got up for sunrise photography, and we have a beautiful sunrise in Patagonia. I took the photos thinking of him and dedicating that photo to him. It was my way of saying goodbye.

http://imgur.com/a/DuFvn
Deep brain stimulation implants for depression act on “neural circuits”
Shiny Tiny Tools: cloudwatch-logger
I'm not so sure: if you have a well designed workflow, there should be lots of opportunities for mentoring.

Relatedly, I would design a 100% colocated team around basically the same workflow as a 100% distributed team.
Megaupload (which I assume you mean because afaik MEGA has not been in legal trouble) was a distribution platform; the purpose was to upload something and give the link to others. If it was a personal file locker that couldn't link out or be shared, as Plex intends to be, it probably would not have had issues.
> given that all babies act pretty much the same for the first few months.

that's not actually true - http://www.city.ac.uk/news/2016/july/infants-prefer-toys-typ...

there's a lot of evidence to suggest that choice of toy is at least partially influenced by sex.
Which app is this? If it's slack, you can use IRC or XMPP clients instead: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201727913-Connect-t...
Ask HN: Why do we have to study before applying for a job?
This is a question that has never been asked. Let's have a deep thought about it here. Aren't we supposed to be qualified for a job when applying for a job? I'm a senior software engineer, why do I have to spend hours/weeks/months on Leet Code, Hacker Rank, etc. in order to be prepared for a "technical interview" these days? Why do technical interviews force me to re-learn something not relevant to the actual job I'm applying for? I say "re-learn" because you learn it, never use it then you forget about it. I'm referring to the mathematical/academic concepts like big O, binary trees, graphs, linked list, etc.

I feel like the interview process for software engineers is designed exclusively for people fresh out of college. Why is it still bad in 2017? Honestly, how could we fix this?
They say it's "single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables" not juice.
True, but a pilot can leverage that later power by not taking posession of the plane. Door stays open, airline cancels flight and everyone is now a trespassor and must get off.
Scary. "The third parties are not bound by this privacy policy, but by their own privacy policies, which we won't link to or spell out all of our third party companies."

No indication that the data collected (independently of Boise) is even anonymized.
Not: Create something you would use yourself!

Do: Create something you would buy yourself!
These days Ruby on Rails is fairly orderly as well.
Build your own Luck
Maybe you could make some money on it like red hat does. Offer free software, but just charge for commercial support?
How much do you think an island costs?

Small ones are on the market for less than a modest family home in popular urban areas, e.g. http://www.orkneyproperty.co.uk/content/b7a2dd97-8b71-4b09-9...

Much of the issue with housing costs and difficulty getting the property you want are down to people piling into a few hotspots. More remote work seems like the answer to this.
>> much, much faster to load

> I would love to see some data backing it up.

In Stefan Krause' js-framework-benchmark, the vue implementation starts in 55ms vs 89-113ms for the various react implementations. See the 'startup time' row here: https://rawgit.com/krausest/js-framework-benchmark/master/we...

I haven't profiled vue and react on this particular benchmark, but I have done so for some of the other implementations. Baring anything exotic during startup, the 'startup time' benchmark comes down to package size. It takes time to fetch, parse, compile and load javascript. React is just a bigger package.

All disclaimers about benchmarks, microbenchmarks, n=1, YMMV, etc apply.
The prostitutes you mentioned would be fine under the Swedish system since they're under no risk and their johns under very low risk. That's the benefit of it. The system in my country keeps prostitutes in fear for what police or johns might do to them. I'd definitely take the Swedish system as a compromise if they wouldn't legalize it straight-up.

I prefer the situation in Nevada where they did legalize it. There's generally specific places (brothels) where you go for the prostitutes. They might invite you at bars. The women have a nice location, everyone gets STD checks, and there's security on-hand in case of unruly customers. Owner and state obviously makes money. Customers that are pro-prostitution are happy. Those anti-prostitution at least know the stuff is at a distance from them. If not decriminalization, it's the compromise I push in the U.S. with something like Swedish model if other side is dominated by hard liners.
Convenience at the hospitality level makes sense. That said, there is room for a squeezer with 396 less parts in sub-$200 range that provides empty open-top squeeze funnel bags. Allowing end user or companies to fill and dispense whatever..
"Companies like Microsoft, Intel and Amazon are also big recipients. At least 15 percent of the American workforces of Facebook and the chip maker Qualcomm hold H-1Bs, according to the most recent documents the companies have filed with the Labor Department."

Interesting, 15%: jobs that should be held by American. It begs credulity that Facebook and Qualcomm could not find American staff. Rather, it is more credible that they wanted lower cost staff that could not change jobs if they wanted to.

Also from the article:
"Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat whose district includes Silicon Valley, said the issue of foreign workers was real, but dismissed the president’s order as poorly targeted and unlikely to achieve its desired result."

“Half of the start-ups in Silicon Valley were created by highly skilled people from other countries,” she said. “I don’t think the president and his staff fully appreciates that fact.”

Well, first off, Trump has Peter Thiel as a consultant and so I'd guess he understands very well the dynamics of SV. Name someone has high visibility that was a consultant to Obama in the manner Thiel is to Trump.

Second, the statement is misleading if not false. Some of the SV startups had as one founder someone not from the US. That is not to say that a founder could have been from the US instead.

Microsoft: 0
Apple: 0
Oracle: 0
Amazon: 0
Facebook: 1 (Savarin)
Intel: 1 (Andy Grove -- big)
Whether they are mentally capable of making good decisions is another story. But presuming those people exist, then the system should at least be structured in such a way that they're incentivized to use them to properly manage their own assets, rather than in more shifty/nefarious ways.

Tell me what you think the result of this scenario might look like. A manager wants to conduct an LBO that grossly undervalues a stock. He couldn't get the votes from shareholders if they were paying attention, but instead he walks up to management at Blackrock, Vanguard and State Steet, and offers the people in charge of voting a very lucrative job at the new private company. How do you think they'll vote?
Why-did-you-update – Warnings about unnecessary React updates
It's apparently "single-serving packets of chopped fruits and vegetables"
Show HN: Goof: Go object finder (runtime binary introspection)
If any rejects want to just bootstrap (or consider it), you are welcome to join this group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!forum/business-bootstrap...
I think the long long term problem is that the stock market has an increasing disconnect between investment in new businesses doing anything well new, and to an increasing degree novel business practices in existing businesses.

Yes, there are some IPOs, but overall new business starts are still in decline, and large portions of financial markets seem both too systematically risk averse, and yet willing to follow other risks blindly.
We received our second rejection for an interview yesterday, but luckily for us YC was just a nice to have and not end all.

As I read through the comments, I believe many businesses forget the fact that business is ran by the numbers. Yes, can YC help you get attractive numbers for investors, but you can do the exact same thing on your own if you build something people need (love). I find it hard to believe that any investor that YC can introduce you to will turn down your meeting if you have built a business that has attractive numbers. That's what they look for anyway...YC funded or not.

For those that got an interview, congrats. For those that didn't, keep going and be great in what you are doing.
What makes you believe this? Why would they not also send through names and fingerprints of played music so they can use those tracks to "improve compression over bluetooth for the things people are actually listening to"? I could see quite a few engineers thinking this is perfectly acceptable, without considering the repercussions.

And this doesn't even account for the "third party SDKs, bound by privacy policies not covered in this document".
Don't you think? Nobody that read the article or the complaint itself thinks that.

https://www.scribd.com/document/345620278/Bose-Privacy-Compl...

(i) collect and record the titles of the music and audio files its customers choose to play through their Bose wireless products and
(ii) transmit such data along with other personal identifiers to third-parties—including a data miner—without its customers’ knowledge or consent.
Yah I've got a good few years more on my parent's insurance, it's an overlooked fact that you need well-off parents to have a strong safety net while you're young.
> My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later.

Could that be mitigated by people not completely jumping on the passive bandwagon (e.g. by keeping say 5% in active funds)? Wouldn't all that you need is an active enough and large enough market to resist manipulation?
It is especially common in the rural parts of undeveloped or developing countries.
> 3D circuits/chips is one possibility.

Yes, but we've been aware of that one for decades, it just isn't going to happen for anything other than maybe (and that's a small maybe) for memory. Removing the heat is hard enough with 3D heat infrastructure and 2D chips. Removing the heat from 3D chips is not possible at a level where the interior of the chip is above permissible values unless you clock the whole thing down to where there are no gains.

> There are others that are being researched.
Yes, but nothing that looks even close to ready to mainstream.

> Then there are the unknown unknowns...

They've been 'unknown' for a long time now.

Really, this is as far as I can see more hope than reason.
A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor
> is your ability to put up with the general "office bullshit"

I have been lucky enough to work with really awesome people in good environments. If I have worked from home I will have lost the pleasure to meet them, and - with some of them - to have long lasting friendships.

I also have learned a lot about people needs, fears, and worries. And how that affects the work environment, and how to deal with it to create a more productive environment, at the same time that a happier one.

To hide away from "office bullshit" just hides the problem, it doesn't solve it. If you have a lot of that in your company, maybe it will be better to change to another one.

> I don't miss the commutes, business lunches, and the general overcrowding of the city.

I live at 10 minutes from the office, 45 minues if I walk. And I love to go for lunch with my co-workers. We have a really relaxed and welcoming environment at the office. So it translates in people that want to work toguether.

Working from home can solve some problems. But "office bullshit" needs to be solved in other ways. Otherwise you are just hiding it behind distance.
Completely agreed. Here's another way to look at it from an economic perspective:

It's usually best to focus on propping up your differentiation and competitive advantages, going stock with everything else. If you rely on standard components for things that aren't your special sauce, then you get to ride market forces of commoditization which will drive the cost of those standard components towards zero.

Can you build your own backend database in Haskell instead of using Cassandra or PostgreSQL? Yeah, that would probably be really cool and do well on these boards. Then look back at how many hours you spent getting that to just understand simple SQL, and how many customer-facing features that could've been. Is it cooler to build that database than to set up an email auto-mailer? Yes! Special functional algorithms that operate on B-trees are far more exciting than simple state machines that send emails. But the latter is what the customer cares about, so therefore that's what you care about.

One interesting exception to using cutting-edge stuff may be making it easier to hire cutting-edge people.

It doesn't matter how smart you are. The opinion of the market is the only one that matters, and it expresses it in the form of repeat sales.
I have some kind of fetish for saving interesting data images, so here's one for this (covering Europe + US):

http://i.imgur.com/Ps8qQ4A.jpg
Not only does it depend on your personal preferences, but also to a huge degree on life circumstances. I worked from home for a fully-remote startup for two years and loved it. My wife was working long hours downtown at the time, and I had the apartment to myself, with a nice setup and the space I needed to be productive. At the end of those two years we had a baby, and after both taking a few months off to enjoy time with the family the agreement was that I would start working (from home) again and my wife would also stay home and take care of the kid. We even moved to a bigger place so there would be room for everybody.

Unfortunately, it didn't work at all. Even though the nominal agreement was that during "work hours" I wasn't to be disturbed so I could be productive, and my wife agreed that was necessary and ok, in practice little things inevitably came up each day that broke flow and made it nearly impossible to get anything important done. I ended up switching jobs after a few months to a BigCo with an office in large part to regain that separation between work and personal life, to the benefit of both.

I'd still like to work from home, but I'm not sure that it's possible with my current life situation.
A full time job is a 9-5. Let's say you commute from 8-9 and 5-630. That means you can gym from 645 to 8 (including travel time), eat decently, do some coding, hit bed around 1030, and be sleeping around 11 (so you have enough time in the morning by waking up at 7). Cook on the weekends, code on the weekends, social life Friday and Saturday night...

Do you work more than 40hrs a week? Why? Sounds like you're creating someone else's brand if so.
Thanks for the insightful response. I think you make a compelling case, and it's something I'll be thinking about (I've gone back and forth regarding what to think about JSX).

In the specific use case of React and Riot, I feel like it's more natural to have markup be the main structure and code to complement it, rather than the other way around, but I don't feel that strongly about it and I find React's approach is still not too bad (imho of course).

I tend to get a bit of an "overly academic" or "cargo cultish" sort of vibe from designs I consider overwrought, and I had a little bit of that sentiment about React back when I worked it, but really it was not a very strong feeling and I'm convinced React is pretty great.

The one that really gives me that vibe is Angular. No offense to anyone who likes/uses Angular, but I view it as a criminal case of abstraction run amok.
1) make an MVP. minimum viable PRODUCT (not prototype)

2) Pick an idea that you would pay to use (product champion). If you are not the target market, you need to find a product champion who will join your team prior to the MVP creation.

3) Do things that don't scale. don't future proof your MVP, just make it so you can validate that your product has a market beyond your product champion.

4) Create a website for your MVP and make sure you can run it at low/now cost for at least 6 months before you decide to abandon. Marketing is hard and product discovery might be the biggest challenge you face. As long as you have more customers every month you are doing ok.

5) Even if you give your product away for free during MVP/beta, figure out some way that customers who want to pay you can. This is very valuable for determining product fit. if nobody wants to pay, figure out what would make them decide to, and use that for determining how to pivot.

source: myself, I made/make phantomjscloud.com
I really hate what those machines have done to coffee. It's difficult to explain to people at work, family, and friends how they paid a premium to be overcharged and produce extra waste without coming off like a jerk. I miss getting up from my machine and filling my mug with a regular coffee pot.
In Numbers. “Ask HN: Who Is Hiring?” (April 2017)
ASUS Tinker Board
On HN, typically a quote is done like this:

> This is a quote. It won't become a scroll box, no matter how long it gets. It will just wrap to the next line. True, the next line won't begin with a ">" character, but the convention is that the whole paragraph is a quote if the first line begins with a ">".
Requiring only a single bit is only true for a two-way set associative cache, i.e. the content stored at every memory address may only be cached in two different cache slots. In this case you can simply flag the other corresponding cache entry you did not access as least recently uses every time you access a cache entry.

The implementation in software was probably fully associative, i.e. every item can be cached in every slot. This requires a lot more memory and it is the same for caches in processors, they require more additional bits and logic the more freedom they have where to cache the content of every address.

To be more precise, you have to keep track of the order all cache entries were accessed which requires at least about n * log(n) bits unless you only implicitly store the access order by using something like move to front.
I hate the format of the Nature paper. I have no idea how the algorithm is different than their neural turing machine
Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "Mk1 Eyeballs: Unaided vision. Commonly used by military internet know it alls to confuse people in an argument." I don't know whether MkII is an upgrade to aided vision or just a new version of the confusion.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mk1%20eyeball
This reminds me of a bluetooth toothbrush I just bought that requires my location to be enabled to change the settings via the oral b app which is required since this model has less buttons than others.

The reason why I bought a bluetooth toothbrush was for a wireless hardware clock, brushing timer, and ranking system which also really doesn't work correctly even with the app.
Wrote about this here in an article titled Just Build it in Django or Rails:

https://www.wyc.io/posts/just-build-it-in-django-or-rails/

It's just really hard to beat the reliability, community, ecosystem, and features that are table stakes when using a competent web framework.

When you're poking at a new market, you really don't have time to give a shit about writing CSRF middleware. That's one less customer interview or feature request to grow your business. I'm sure you can do it, and no one's doubting your capability to do so. But these are just things that are tricky to implement and takes everyone time and effort to do so correctly.
Deploy a HIG Stack in Kubernetes for Monitoring
You don't have to put up with that. Protect yourself. Install uBlock Origin and NoScript.
There's validity in both positions. I am generally the same in that I only use Facebook for stupid life events and keeping in touch with people. Then again, I'd prefer not to use Facebook at all, but these days you are pretty much a no one without a FB profile. Nobody answers their phone and they hardly even text at this point.

Anyway, the problem is that Facebook pretends that it wants to make people "more connected", yet they also want to be the place where people get their news, and the only comments on current events that ever bubble up are the first handful of inflammatory nonsense. Post anything even 30 minutes after the fact, and the likelihood it gets seen drops drastically. Note that this mostly applies to comments made on posts from the media. Make a non-vapid comment on a friend's post, or make a post that's more than a sentence long, and it may never get seen. There were plenty of times when I made posts or comments that should have offended my friends, but when asked if they sae that activity, they had no idea what I was talking about. Yet they somehow always know about my family photos when I add them.

I'd be okay with it if Facebook wasn't also full of shit about being a place for discussion and for aggregating news. Sure, you and I can get our news elsewhere, but most people will continue to use the trending posts as a lens to view the world with. For things that arent vapid, I am going to move to Minds.com. I'm getting sick of Zuckerberg.
Furthermore, I admittedly mostly use fruit but tossing what I need into a blender is not a big deal. A lot of what you need is in the supermarket freezer section these days. And if that's too much work, there are (of course) smoothie ingredient subscription services. https://www.wellandgood.com/good-food/daily-harvest-vs-green...
This link has an autoplay video with sound. Can we get some kind of title warning on these, like the [pdf] or [1927] warnings? I really don't want to click on these without being prepared. Lacking a better alternative, for now, I'm just flagging it.
> while the technology is important and can give an edge, it is not the main value in your business.

Going out on a limb here, but I've been searching for a way to define this for a while, but... maybe those aren't tech companies? I'm talking about companies like Snapchat or Uber or AirBnB which, while they do exist as smarphone apps and lean heavily on the Internet, which unarguably involves a lot of technology, but they're brands, and not tech companies. Nothing wrong with that, but there are "tech" companies where the tech is the value... there are just a lot of non-tech "tech" companies, a majority of them B2C.

Companies that are doing things that humanity previously hadn't done are tech companies. Intel, as an early semiconductor company is, at least originally, a tech company. SpaceX's technology is the company. Regardless of who ends up winning, self-driving cars are going derive a lot of value from their technology in the form of patents.