skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the strategy for big client is to lock them in for long engagement (like a 3-YR term). Throw in some nice support package, longer trial period, whatever. Since big customers often take months to fully use a product (6-12 months is very common), I wouldn't worry about "oh now I got big name, I need more infrastructure, more money to pay my cloud vendor." It won't for 6-12 months and you probably can keep all the pennies from the big client monthly. If you get a downpayment (say 1-year for a 3-yr term), you get ammunition to grow your team and get more smaller customers.
I have a lot of experience with remote teams, from both sides of the table. 100% remote work is not a good fit for most people, though some can be highly effective (thinking of a mobile dev whose office is an RV that has been roaming north america for a couple years).

For most people, what does work well is a split office/remote schedule. Some do a couple days a week from offsite. Some will work onsite 3 weeks, offsite 1 week. This sort of arrangement yields the benefits of being in a common location (face time, boss time, etc), while giving workers the option to work offsite part-time so they are not chained to the same desk all of the time.
The sad thing that I've observed is that any mention that this gets in the media or any earnest attempt to address this gets met with:

"Oh now that it's white people dealing with drugs, it's a crisis. America is so racist".

That's a load of crap on so many levels. I hope we figure out our next chapter here as a society.
Hell, a guy a fence with had surgery, then came to find out he had no health insurance as the company stopped paying the premiums and was POCKETING them, including his contribution. Several years later he finally recovered some of the medical costs in a lawsuit.
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You've never heard of Goop? Gwyneth Paltrow is HUGE. People buy the things she recommends, simple as that. You might not, but there's several armies' worth of gym-going, juice-drinking women who hang onto her every word.
Ask HN: Solutions to the “young American” no jobs/opioid addiction crisis?
Do you have any ideas?
My supermarket sells precut fruits and veggies already.
Yeah, there needs to be a way to save "removed" and "added" items. I will add this feature.
> an Ethernet port

!!!
Won't get as many clicks that way.
> The analogies to Keurig won't stop here

The elevator pitch to investors for this is probably "Keurig for organic juice".
To be clear:

1) In the case of someone who chooses to be a prostitute freely, (without desperation): that's fine, but then the issue is entirely different; namely that the populace determinate what should be permitted within its borders, and it's economy, e.g. I can make more money if I didn't pay tax, but that's doesn't mean it's an option; likewise, some women may freely pursue sex work, but not in a country that bars that economy.

2) specifically in the case of free, un-coerced choice; why should a female student be able to fund their studies through sex when most male students can't? Why would society encourage the explicit monetisation of sex?

3) My opinion is that having a vagina shouldn't imply the burden of having to use it, and I'm saying that's what it means to consider sex/genitalia a 'labour asset'.
This idea that government is responsible for the scarcity of housing is dishonest. It's called democracy. The government is made up of the people who live there. The citizens of San Francisco (and to some extent, New York and Boston) have made it pretty clear they don't want a lot of new housing and they're quite happy with the way things are now. Given this, blaming the housing prices on "the government" is pretty silly, isn't it?
World's longest aircraft 'breaks free from its mooring and lands on its nose'
Apprenticeships happen a fair amount with electricians and plumbers here still. And that's work that can't be readily outsourced (though it can be undercut with cheaper labor). The need to have work up to code ("need", some people don't care) does keep the rates higher than, say, carpentry work.
Being willing to answer questions is not the same as being quick to ask them of people that might otherwise be engaged. The first shows patience and respect that the other person is not wasting your time. The latter shows impatience and disrespect for other people's time.

Coworkers and friends are a resource to be cherished, not abused.
Do you have any specific criticisms of the partiality of the story, or are you just throwing bombs?

Who is your favorite "impartial" reporter? Publication?
I was thinking (in all seriousness from anyone around that had used this product), how on earth is that healthier than eating or squeezing 2-3 oranges? Apart from the convenience. Do those bags really maintain the vitamins etc or is it just a "healthy alternative to soft drinks"?
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This is what happens when all the most important innovation is illegal (housing, health, and transportation) and increasing shares of income goes to the top 0.01%. Innovators run out of real things to innovate on, and start creating 400$ bags of juice. You should Look forward to seeing more of this in the coming decades.
> At the same time, it seems a bit much to say "your life as you know it is over". Lots of people don't vote or own guns anyway.

Uhm, that's not the only problems you face. If you're not aware of it: you don't get a lot of federal benefits, credit etc is screwed, noone will rent you their apt etc., unemployable for almost every job except janitor etc.... your life is over.
This is excellent advice. There is a local company near me that has been working on their SaaS for almost 2 years now and still yet to launch. They started it on Angular 1 and are now re-factoring it on Angular 2 (or maybe 4 now). During this time they released a small open source Angular library but not even an alpha release of their own product. Keep in mind their product is not gear towards devs. They also hit every Angular conference they can and are always doing dev meetups. That is fine for after you launch and are making $$ but seems like a lot of wasted time and money when you have yet to release a product after 2 years.

During this same period, I launched 2 SaaS products on boring PHP 7 and Python for the backend and HTML, jQuery/intercooler.js for the front-end. Both profitable and growing.

I think sometimes devs don't realize the hardest parts of starting and growing a business have nothing to do with code or the tech stack you choose. Marketing, getting and retaining customers and everything else in between is way harder than writing code.
Co-founder of https://forestry.io here. The Canadian regulations were just updated to allow for AngelList funding. A huge win for Canadian startups.

More info here: http://betakit.com/angellist-syndicates-finally-launches-in-...
Within capitalism itself, some economists also argue that wealth concentration tends to suppress investment opportunities, because there aren't as many "moneyed eyes" on economic events worthy of capital and management; investment gets tunnel vision.

I don't have any links on-hand but there's plenty of material out there (from reputable sources, and not-so-reputable ones) with a quick Google search.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wealth+concentration+suppres...
They've given the answer to 'Which programming languages are used late at night by people coming to StackOverflow for help.' Interesting I guess, but flawed from the start.
Likewise. Used to run it on a Hercules monitor on an 8088. Amazing. It supported so many different graphics modes.
I would use NodeJS for MVP. I think it is super important that you can have backend + frontend in the same technology.
The way it works was not immediately clear to me either.

If you go to her website: http://profane-justice.org/profane-justice.org/ (yep, you have to enter this weird URL)

At the bottom, it's stated that if you copy anything, you enter into a contract, and that for each page copied, you owe her money. This is how it works.

I don't think that such clauses are common on websites, probably because:

1. People don't know that they can do that.
2. People don't have the patience, energy and financial resources to sue everyone copying things from their personal websites.

So yes, you could put something like this on your website. But let's be honest, this isn't good for the "free" and "open" internet that we all want.
I'm pretty sure Simon Peyton Jones is still at Microsoft Research.
No, they don't. You can't even specify template-level tags in the template.

I think they have very incapable developers on the CloudFormation project. This could have been a game changer, but it's been a source of pain.

For example, they introduced YAML, and !Sub, but you can nest tags, yet, !ImportValue in many cases needs a nested !Sub. So, also, you can't have "$", "{", and "}" characters in the exported name, but they didn't add string templates to functions such as !ImportValue. Total nonsense!

Also, as you've assumed logically, all stack resources need to inherit the tags of the owner stack, but no, you have to do tons of copypasta!

Last, but not least - it's all designed that the templates are stored on S3 - most people use source control. Their other services already support Git - Elastic Beanstalk, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, etc. Why they don't allow Git-hosted templates?!

Anyway, when I see the complexity of my templates to have a basic Magento infrastructure running in VPC, which I've been working on, it's very disgusting. Lots of manual steps if you don't want to have a monolithic template, lots of CLI, and build steps. This is not how things like these should be implemented in 2017!

Lastly, they introduced CloudFormation exports. Okay, decent feature, but not in the real world! So, if you refactor your infrastructure, it becomes a huge pain as you cannot delete exports for some reason - they belong to the stack. So, if I decide to rename or split an export, I need to have an intermediate step, which duplicates the old and the new exports, I updated all importing stacks, to use the new values, and so on. Most AWS resources have "retain" capability - S3 buckets, ECRs, Route 53 records, etc. - CloudFormation exports don't! Honestly, they need to put some more experience and brighter developers on the team!
Former neuroscientist here. The fundamental problem of psychiatric medications is that the brain is wildly complex and the drugs are very broad-spectrum, activating multiple receptors, including ones you don't want. If you're lucky, a medication is both effective and not too onerous in its side effects.

It's like trying to fix a bad logic gate in your CPU with a soldering iron.

Unfortunately, brain science is still in its infancy, and it may be decades more before we have good drugs for mental illnesses (assuming they can be treated by drugs at all, which may be impossible for certain diseases/people.)
Write Yourself A Scheme[0]? It's a fairly big project for a tutorial so it might be a good next stage for you.

[0]: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_...
For plumbers, electricians and a few other trades you can become a journeyman apprentice in the US, and after a few years you can earn high 5 digits to low 6 digits with healthcare usually.

That being said, its a mature industry and not highly regarded in the US as it is a "blue collar" job. Stigmatizing & devaluing an honest days work is ridiculous to me, but that is what our society has done to these jobs.
Impartial or not: let's count the MSM-sources that do not report on this matter; or only report late (because it would otherwise become weird if they wouldn't).

I did not see this yet in any of the MSM sites I sometimes poll on these matters. Nothing yet! If this news if true, which I believe at this point, then it is a BIG story (proven total failure of democracy, high up officials in charge have to step down because of protests). Here on HN we seem to generally agree that it is a big story as it is on the front page for quite some hours.
That interpretation is a huge stretch.
Setting aside white, young is relevant as the numbers are showing a marked increase in some behaviors versus ~15-20 years ago among the same age group in particular. It's one thing (still bad) to see alcoholism and drug abuse amongst the middle aged following the termination of a career or something, it's quite another to see it increase amongst the youth before they even have a chance to start (or because they find they have no chance to start).
that's great! Thanks!
Aaah that is interesting. Let me dive into this later today and test my charts without that. It would actually make my life way easier for charting.
I got that from a very early stage work and never questioned it again (the /dev stuff). Thanks for pointing that out.
“America is not a great place for people with only a high school degree, and I don’t think that’s going to get better anytime soon,” said Angus Deaton, a Nobel Prize-winning Princeton University economist.

Coming from a Princeton egghead that's not a surprising point of view. It seems very typical for those with education to look down upon the less-educated.

The truth is, US high schools miserably fail the non-college-bound student. I know people without college degrees who make six-figure incomes in the trades or as entrepreneurs. They did not get there with any help from high school guidance counselors or administrators (all college-educated), who basically write you off if you are not college-bound or come from an impoverished background.

The message from traditional education for anyone not going to college is "you have no future" rather than helping to explore the limitless expanse of possibilities that are open to anyone who has the motivation and encouragement to pursue them.
I (mistakenly) thought you were referring to faulty equipment at the FRB. As in someone opened the door of a galactic scale microwave oven analogue megaparsecs away.

And that sloppy engineering is still Occam's Razor no matter the scale or distance.
Thanks, that was unclear from YT messaging.
Can you make cookies out of it?
The machine takes no time though - eg 2 min of machine time is zero human cost time :)
> Aren't we supposed to be qualified for a job when applying for a job?

Juniors aren't, though they are expected to show some capability in the
matter (and that's why everybody demands from them a college degree).

In the old days companies were training their employees on the job. In those
days it wasn't uncommon for employee to stick to a company for twenty-thirty
years, so training paid off for the company. Today employee works only for
couple of years before moving (or being moved) to next company, so it's not
surprising nobody wants to train anybody from ground up. Training requires
loyalty from both parties, which is a scarce resource nowadays.

> 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?

I don't. Apparently it's a location-specific phenomenon.

> Why do technical interviews force me to re-learn something not relevant to the actual job I'm applying for? [...] I'm referring to the mathematical/academic concepts like big O, binary trees, graphs, linked list, etc.

I don't know what are you doing in your work, but in my job data structures
and computational complexity are important basics. Without ability to juggle
with those in my head (assessing complexity on the fly) I couldn't even
start to think about anything substantial. And I'm not even fully fledged
programmer, I'm in large part a sysadmin.
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I think it's the mounds of used single cups I see in our trash every day that bothers me, not to mention how much the company spends for them.
OT: I see you've used "could of" multiple times. Just wanted to say it's "could have". Cheers.
This is a pretty useful utility. I have a number of other similar "why did this component re-render" tools listed in the "DevTools" section [0] of my Redux addons list [1]. I also have a large section of articles on React (and Redux) performance [2] in my React/Redux links list [3], which includes articles on measuring perf using various tools, optimizing re-renders, and more.

[0] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma... .

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[3] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links
Lol at stating a fact and then citing thst you have no idea. Haha
Wow. That's an impressive spec list for a body this size.

I don't see anything about how weather sealed it is and the press release doesn't mention it either.
Three!

Let's do it the other way. I'll name only one where living with your parents is considered not kosher - the USA. In practically every traditional society, living in the family home is just fine, especially for those members of the family that don't have their own homes.

In fact if the family home is sizable, raising your own family inside the family home is OK too. I've seen it everywhere I've traveled - much of Africa and South America.
I believe that might be part of the problem, but when I joined under this same role I was being fairly compensated, so it might be mixed.
I went to a school where a number of friends were not academic in the slightest. They left as soon as they could often with no qualifications but gradually learnt trades.

Many now have their own businesses (one is a plasterer, another a builder) and they earn good money, own their own homes, and have no student debt.

The reason? They had supportive parents. Many of the people who are falling into despair tragically come from very broken families.
Almost certainly ggplot2 in R.
Or another option: uBlock Origin + uMatrix. Playing embedded videos will need such an amount of configuration that you'll really want to watch it before bothering. This could be a positive or a negative, depending on the person :)
Doesn't really give you an advantage if you don't have customers. Even after you have customers, oftentimes the old/boring technology actually results in a faster, better app.
We've been on a collision course with this since we left subsistence agriculture and started living in larger groups. Automation's rate has accelerated since the industrial revolution, but it's been happening for thousands of years, which is why I think more people don't see it as a problem. Society's increased consumerism and rising standards of living has allowed people to move into producing things other than food and eventually into service, but it's foolish to think this can continue indefinitely; automation will put more and more people out of work.
There are always tradeoffs, though. Using technology X instead of technology Y isn't free; maybe there is an additional up front engineering cost, or maybe it's harder to hire devs who know X, or something else. And it's impossible to generalize, of course, but usually the tradeoffs for using superior tech aren't worth it in the short-/medium-term, which is all that matters as a startup.
No idea what AWICA is, but AC-21, at least, is good thing for workers, because it allows to move between companies more easily.

disc: Work for Microsoft, run here from real body shop by using AC21 rule
How exactly do you fix the reputation of a system that previously claimed unlinkable transactions that is now essentially deanonimized, with some of those users DN users? Everything is ok now and users should have confidence in these people, including G. Maxwell?
Considering autism's fundamental causes are unknown, it shouldn't be surprising drugs made to combat it don't work. Why should they? It sounds like blind experimentation combined with a bit of placebo effect.
And more importantly, will they invest in my $1,000 wifi enabled can opener?
I prefer product haikus:

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This smart microwave,

Explodes when our servers fail,

Sorry about that.
> However the psychiatric/pharmaceutical establishment still assumes biological causes even though they have no real proof. The mind is a metaphysical concept which no one understands, and yet those who stand to profit upon still want to make unsubstantiated assumptions.

Yeah, sure. And next you tell me that only in the hands of some supreme being we can find help. This attitude is one of the reasons that people with mental conditions have to suffer. "It's not a real diagnose. They just do it for <'reason' of the day>". Thanks, but no thanks.
A four year degree is no longer an advantage but rather a base which allows you to have even a hope of competing. Not having a degree is of course a disadvantage.

As automation and outsourcing continues, the issue will only worsen. On top of that we are constantly bombarded with images of the life we should be living via advertising and television. Not meeting these media driven standards leads to further depression and despair.

Doctors prescribe opioids because drug companies encourage them too, leading to an easy addiction and escape for the depressed.

We need to start treating people like they matter and help them understand that there can be joy and happiness in even the simplest of lives.
what if the customers are engineers?
Disruption - the rallying cry of an industry that is notorious for displacing working, paid products, by creating non-working free products.

The latter either start non-working, or become non-working once the money/interest runs out, and they shut down.
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Alternatively: Make all data immutable, then make all components pure. Finally, look for and fix breaking components, since those will point to code smells and anti-patterns (using context incorrectly, mutating data, non-unidirectional data flow).

Not only do you get a big performance boost, but your code is greatly improved.
My point is that we don't have good privacy controls on FLOSS mailing lists now-- in terms the social graph it represents, the metadata, and the content. So the question is: what risks do FLOSS mailing list archives pose, as measured by analyzing the publicly viewable data in those archives?

To answer your question: technically, yes. But I don't think it will practically change things until we have clear, concrete ways to measure how what we're already doing is bad.
To your last point, not true. I think I fit the category of hardware and got an interview with a prototype.
Many of the Beautiful Machines science fiction from the 60's promised now exist, but not for you or me. We never stopped to think who these things would actually belong to and who would benefit.

The 'liberation' of business that replaced the controls put in place before has brought us to a place where corporate feudalist rules supreme. Those that defend capitalism and democracy frequently confuse the one with the other. Hating on 'communism' while being oblivious to the fact that the capitalism they so feverently defend has died 20 years ago.

Mark Blyth has a lot to say on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYb6RbuOG0
A lot of the reviews are positive about the first 2 chapters, but complain that the remaining chapters lack depth. I would like to own a good marketing book for techies written for this age, but I like to see concrete advise.

How do you feel?
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My point is that international students may "subsidize" the university, but in practice this should have very little to do with what the university would charge its students (they are not "subsidizing" the domestic students). Implicit in your assumption is that tuition uses cost-based pricing which I find hard to believe. Admittedly this is all conjecture on my part but I don't find that line of reasoning persuasive.