skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why put quotation marks around "data-driven" and "streamlined"? They are data-driven. People who do their jobs well get recognition, and the guys who show up and put in a half-assed day are asked to leave.

The jobs are designed to be doable with 5 minutes of training by anyone off the street. But they offer 40-hour weeks at above-average wages for untrained labour, with set expectations that can be met. Many sites offer after-work classes for in-demand skills to help people get better jobs. They have medical staff on-site in case of injuries, water stations everywhere to help keep people hydrated, safety rules and regulations they follow very carefully.

Most warehouse jobs do not offer those things.

>there's a line of people around the block waiting to take your job the moment you slip up.

Recruiting is typically handled by outside firms, at most sites I saw. They don't want to fire people, because hiring people costs money. Even if initial training takes 5 minutes, it takes a week or more to get good at the job, which means every time they fire someone, they lose money on labour efficiency while a new person gets up to speed.

I have some criticisms of the company after my time working there- including some that, as you said, gave me trouble sleeping at night. None are related to the way warehouse associates are treated.
Unpack grit and you're left with psychological traits which many normal people have.
I believe what makes the voices robotic is due to the little amount of audio they need to generate a "usuable" voice from the system.

Speech models usually use triphones, which turns out to be a huge amount of audio. This is particularly impressive because of how little data they need.

Google used their own datasets, which are most likely massive.
No. The AMT is completely unrelated to the issue abhv brings up.

The AMT is essentially a 2nd tax code for individual income taxes were fewer deductions but also lower rates. Individuals compute their personal taxes both ways and pay the higher of the two systems.

It's kind of a crazy system.
Because I want to follow HN etiquette and stay civilized even though on HN opposing views are immendiatly squashed and silieneced without proper debate.
57, I build and maintain 911 (911, E911, V911), Telematics, Alarm, PERS and custom SIP programming systems. On any given day my job is a software developer, dba, systems analyst, process analyst and data analyst, sysadmin. Not mention fire putter outer and consult with outside companies to best implement their requirements.

But I'd rather be out riding my motorcycle.
Going one by one would present decision fear to any number of said engineers. "Am I going to be offered this deal as well, or will I be left out?"

By going at it collectively, it reduces perceives downside risk. Also, it reduces Square side's risk that one or more key people it wants would balk at the individual offer. By offering a group deal, it pressures everyone to join, since human nature is to not want to sabotage the communal good for your own benefit, especially when you've worked together for years.

It may also permit a more holistic retention package for the next 4 years for this team and keep VCs happy.
> Obviously not on StackOverflow

Definitely. The content on Stack Overflow is heavily weighted towards languages and specialties less likely to be of interest to older programmers. We (I'm 51) are far more likely to be working on infrastructure and devops than on front-end. To do it, we're using C, maybe C++, maybe Python or even perl and bash, not Java, definitely not JavaScript or any of its variants, or Erlang, or Clojure, or whatever. Not always, but much of the time. The things we need to know are scantly represented on SO.

The atmosphere on SO is probably also more of a turn-off for older programmers. Those who are established don't need to bulk up their karma on some website, and the one-upmanship from the resident karma whores gets tiresome really fast. So does the rules lawyering that leads to answers being hidden, questions being closed, and so on. The few times I've found myself there, it has seemed like a game and a distraction that I just don't have the time or inclination to keep playing, so I get out and don't come back for months. For those with broad work responsibilities plus homes and families and other outside connections, life's too short to spend much of it in a virtual mosh pit. HN is enough for that. ;)
Really interesting project! Must look on it much more closer! Thanks for the pointer.
I found this website pretty helpful for investigating a career path change to cyber security and it contains information about more specific jobs within the cyber security field.
http://www.cyberdegrees.org/jobs/

I guess I have a couple of interests ... developing secure code & architectures as well as hacking/defending against hackers (ethical hacking).

From some of the job descriptions in the link above, things like: Penetration Tester (ethical hacking), Security Analyst / Security Auditor, Forensics Expert
Or maybe a body swap -- his for Snowden's, maybe?
Plasturds(tm)
There is a manual lever in the lower part of the door by the speaker.
And let's stop talking of "job creators" while we are at it.
Is there some measurement modality that is more accurate/better that doesn't require physical access inside a person's brain or using meds etc ? because i don't think those are realistic for non-medical uses.
yes. Nintendo is even hostile to Youtubers playing their games. Is it possible to copyright even the hardware somehow? I know that they sued someone who created an emulator while they were still selling the NES.
Page 24, looks like you have to remove a speaker-grille and reach into some mechanisms behind it.
Part of the problem is it is not just the expected trash that is buried there. I've seen people taking plenty of old electronics, batteries and all kinds of other toxic stuff and nobody is really checking a lot of what makes it in there (especially when you haul in a trailer load of demo stuff and just dump it off).
There is still some truth to it. I'm 37 and have had to repeatedly and forcefully turn down managerial roles. The idea of horizontal growth is a hard sell to people who've chosen the vertical path. It would be very easy to drift into a management role, and in fact it happened to me once and I had to take deliberate action to get off the management track.

I don't want to manage people. I want to build, and learn about building. And I hope to be lucky enough to do that until retirement age.
Of course not :-), What survey?
To be fair, this thread started with someone describing the killing of maggots as "disturbing". It was never going to be a productive argument.
What successful company has been built by "1,000 cheap non-Western consultants hired through three layers of outsourcing"? We don't need a rule against a losing strategy
You mentioned you previously shipped iOS apps. How was the Android integration with React Native?

Is it easy for someone unfamiliar with Android dev environment to push to Play Store?
So why don't many normal people successfully grow a business?
Wow looks like you triggered half of HN with basic economics.

You'd think people disagreeing with you would love Venezuala. But nobody is moving there. So odd.

Economics never lie... https://i.imgsafe.org/e594388497.png
Who used this?
What about https://www.openshift.com/ – good for Django, but mail might be a new ground for it?
A better language? Pascal.

A lot of people here forget this.
OMG the executable I installed can run commands on my machine? No way -- down with electron! /sarcasm

... isn't this exactly the case with ANY executable?
If you're like me (skinny caused by fast metabolism) then you need to eat more often as a first thing. Like have a proper breakfast ( i know u coffie/cig junkies ; ) and then be sure to eat something (doesnt need to be a lot) every 2-3 hours.
For me this works a BIT (i.e. slooww growth, but growth), in order to really gain weight I need to train 3x a week and eat gainer (carbohydrates) and then I grow.
The big problem with our high corporate tax rate is that the big corporations have loopholes and don't pay anywhere near 30%. But the smaller businesses don't have the tax lawyers and so do pay the full amount.

Hmmmm, this sounds familiar....

EDIT: typo
I'd argue the cult of the entrepreneur and cult of the founder are two different things. You're right, anyone can found a company. Entrepreneurship, on the other hand requires execution, vision, and creativity and is a real art.
Macroscopic black holes seem like a good source of energy mid-term. But if you consider the very long term (tens of billions of years and beyond), this seems like a waste of matter. You're sending lots of precious baryonic stuff literally down the cosmic drain.

Microscopic black holes seem more efficient. They are one of the very few ways to achieve total mass conversion (complete conversion of mass into energy).
That's a mischaracterization of his argument. He's saying that a lower corporate tax rate would help grow companies, and the economy as a whole. We would continue to pay income and payroll taxes (which are the main source of tax income anyway), and that the benefits of a larger economy + more income/payroll tax income would offset the lowest revenue in corporate taxes.
Actually i wasn't planning on saying either, just having the calm voice of Morgan Freeman tell me i need shoot the zombies or whatever the game will be, and then David explaining with fascination how such a poor shot could have survived this far whenever you miss
This is why we need mobile devices that run a full operating system and full browser. Missing features and incompatibility make mobile useless in many real-world cases.

Why can't we just watch YouTube videos in Chrome on a mobile device?
> In addition, the passengers didn't even try the emergency door release levers

The no-power mechanical release cable is hidden and not even properly documented.

A reasonable person who has not pored over every page of the instruction manual or the first responder guide would not think to try to remove the speaker grill when they're sitting on a battery fire.

It's absolutely unreasonable to expect every single person who sits in the back seat to have been given a bloody briefing of "oh, in case the 12V power dies, the door won't work, you'll have to dismantle the car a bit to pull an override cable".
That's a fair knock. Email support system has been pretty good, though. At least very knowledgable support staff. But I can see where more would nice, particularly if paying at a certain level.
You're getting downvoted because you pretend that a neoliberalist trope ("lower corporate tax rate helps everyone") which has been beaten to death over the past 40 years is something that "most people fail to realize".
Yes, a typo I can't correct. Good thing I enumerated them!
And do you think only the CEO deserves credit for when this happens?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14187223 and marked it off-topic.
Yep. Great analogy.

There's a book: Where good ideas come from.

The thesis is that most of nature is fractral and in it The author draws parallels to innovation.

https://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-From/dp/1594487...
Are 32GB SLC SSDs even available any more?
But that's kind of what I mean — if you were using your business as a "deduction" hopefully the alternate computation would ignore that and you would be in for the higher (and deserved, IMO) bracket.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-is-how-you...
That's my experience with a certain 10+ year old piece of PHP enterprise software. Not only is the ORM homegrown, but it started as a data-mapper and somehow ended up being used in a degenerate way like active-record, and has lot of "fun" quirks.
I agree. But just because education is the best defense doesn't mean it should be the only defense. Guns are literally the very last resort to prevent tyranny after all other safeguards have failed.
Because the economy can only support a limited number of business owners, but a large number of employees.
It's in a stupid and inaccessible spot. The position should be made more obvious in future iterations of the vehicle.
@kifler - Mentr is a peer to peer mentoring platform for college and career advice. It lets high schoolers, who are unable to find any help related to college (except for factual info available on google), with real college students to get college advice. It fosters peer to peer communication, which is exactly whats happening right now. It does not mandate someone should have a degree in "mentorship" (if there is anything like that) but allows free information to be served. In the example below, the NYU student just felt like "fucking suburbia" and thats what she wrote. Moreover, as a company, we love when such "open" discussions happen and not afraid to hide it. Thats why you see this is as the top thread. If anyone feels all the communication between peers should be professional or highly intellectual, they need to hire professional college counselors. Was I able to answer your question satisfactorily?
>>In the first programming course many students can't judge "what works and what doesn't" yet

That's what the instructors are there for...
Sure.

But I'd want to see a world where headlines like "Entrepreneurs are just rich kids" cease to be, because that headline is only created when entrepreneurship is put on a pedestal and is seen as something that is inherently superior to everything else.

People wouldn't feel indignant that it is "unfair that rich kids have an advantage" at the entrepreneurship game (which they absolutely do), if entrepreneurship weren't seen as this holy grail mount Kilimanjaro thing.
Because this is supposed to faster and have much longer operational life than a NAND-flash based SSD used for the same purpose.
Sorry, I should have replied here--
@kifler - Mentr is a peer to peer mentoring platform for college and career advice. It lets high schoolers, who are unable to find any help related to college (except for factual info available on google), with real college students to get college advice. It fosters peer to peer communication, which is exactly whats happening right now. It does not mandate someone should have a degree in "mentorship" (if there is anything like that) but allows free information to be served. In the example below, the NYU student just felt like "fucking suburbia" and thats what she wrote. Moreover, as a company, we love when such "open" discussions happen and not afraid to hide it. Thats why you see this is as the top thread. If anyone feels all the communication between peers should be professional or highly intellectual, they need to hire professional college counselors. Was I able to answer your question satisfactorily?
Yeah, I've thought about that too, actually. And certainly, I feel better about killing any animal that I perceived to have had a "full life" (dogs included).

I tend to think that lifetimes are measured in lifetimes (relative scale) by various animals. So where a fly might live four of our weeks, to that fly, perhaps it was perceived as a good 60 years time if it was on our scale.

So to me, lifespan doesn't factor into it too much, although perhaps you're right that that is another piece of data used by people to measure an animal's "worth."
The IRS is not stupid, but wealthy enough people have been very effective at creating and exercising approaches to bring their marginal tax rates down to impressively low numbers.

So if the IRS is smart but this still happens a lot, there must be something else at work, no?
Because they're doing other, equally-valuable things that require the same traits?
Ask HN: Would You Sell Your Startup Data?
I'm a PhD student in quantitative marketing. A major bottleneck for people like me is getting data. Students at the top schools get data from advisors, but there are lots of students who would benefit in a major way from better access to data.

I'm thinking of starting a platform for transactions where PhD students get data from startups in return for either money or services. It'd be a data marketplace.

I know from my end that PhD students are willing to do basically free work to get the data, or they may have funding to buy data from startups (if they didn't want to be time constrained, for example).

But what about startups? If you could sell your data, under an NDA, would you? Would you be interested in PhD student help for studying business problems?
Curious choice to name a company & product with a name that sounds like "Liar Bird" when spoken. To me, that looks like they're fully embracing the concept that this can be used for nefarious purposes. If one of their goals is to bring attention that this technology exists and can be misused, the name reinforces that.
I'd recommend you keep using Heroku, and use a service such as Mailgun for emails. The only change you'd need is to add SMTP parameters for mailgun/whatever in heroku and django config.

If you still want to host your own email server, perhaps setup a Digital Ocean instance and have the smtp credentials on heroku.
Because they might want to diversify into areas other than where the company operates in?
Care to elaborate? I've only been using their service for 18 years, so it's possible I missed something during 1997 or 1998 that would change my perception of the counterfeiting issue. But from where I sit it appears to have grown much worse over that time. Do you mean that Amazon has always had a terrible counterfeiting problem and we're only just noticing?
This is scientifically very interesting but pretty much orthogonal to solving problems with plastic pollution.

The worms can't live in landfills. If you could separate the plastic before landfilling to feed it to worms, then you could just burn whatever separated plastic can't be recycled. (Yes, that releases CO2, but so does having worms and bacteria eat the plastic.) The problem with plastic as waste isn't that it is super-toxic or impossible to destroy. The problem is that it's mixed in with a lot of other kinds of waste. We don't need new ways to destroy polyethylene. We need ways to separate it from mingled waste streams or prevent mingling in the first place.
I block the suggested videos sidebar on youtube, too.
This is hilarious. Any chance that the gif could be upgraded to an html5 video?
> The real challenge here is that the market is bifurcated

This is spot on and has been one of the biggest challenges in building my startup. [0]

The way I've been approaching it has been to build less of a platform so much as an engineer-as-a-service. Our primary output is code and pull requests, so it works into existing automation. I'm really curious to see how Opsolutely is tackling this though.

[0] http://getgandalf.com/
YC will not help you with "growth hacking" or "marketing". I worked at a YC company (Magic YC'S15) while they were in YC before Demo Day. The one thing YC helped us with was to help build the best product for our users. Our service had gone viral and the focus was to focus on a specific KPI and grow it 10% week over week before demo day. YC doesn't help you with your first users, YC helps you know what to focus on for the best organic growth and building a product your users love.

My advice for you to get into YC is build a product that small group of users love. Then when you apply to YC you'll have traction. Also your team plays a big role, you'll need a technical cofounder & sales cofounder. Then the last thing is DOMAIN EXPERTISE. Someone on your team has to be an expert in their field. If you don't have these three things (traction, team and domain expertise) then the chance of you getting into YC are 0%.
15% is still 15% compared to the 0% they pay on money funneled to tax havens.

A lower rate won't stop this; a closing of the loophole will.
What's up with the phrase, "Still programming?" Would anyone think it odd for a 60-year-old physician to still be doctoring, or a 60-year-old lawyer to still practice law. Or for that matter for a 60-year-old artist or craftsperson to "still" pursue their craft.

Corporate culture embraces the notion of management as a profession. I think programming would benefit greatly from more of a tradecraft model, where leadership is provided by the master practitioner rather than the professional manager. In the alternate universe that's how we do it. The bottom line productivity boost is awesome. I don't know if it scales, but I don't care to scale.

-- 63-year-old full-stack web and machine learning programmer...living the dream
Obviously it'll depend. But if a founder/CEO turns a 3-person startup into a 500-person multimillion dollar company within a year or 2, and is responsible for a lot of that effort, then they arguably deserve the bulk of the credit.

In most cases, probably 10% or less of the credit belongs to the CEO, though.
Something huge is missing here. This blog post states they're going to be more clear about how they sell users' data, but I just read every word on the Features and FAQs pages, and there's not a single mention of it.

https://unroll.me/features/

https://unroll.me/faq/
There is no deduction for "a business" in the way you describe. That's....not how it works.
> All Freelancer cares is to get their fee.
They take your money and that's it. Doesn't matter if the actual project is finalized or not or if the client closes his account.

Well, we don't know that, do we.

Customer service told the guy they'd email the buyer, and the guy went crazy. What did he expect the rep to do? We don't know if the buyer responded with "oh, yes I was sick" or "I must have disabled notifications on my phone".

Then, we don't know what actions Freelancer took if the buyer never responded.

They guy went crazy, and posted on Reddit to shame the company because he felt powerless/angry, or to get attention to his case.

Whatever.
I'm 46, been coding for 3 (three) years, use StackOverflow several times a week, never answered one of their surveys.
The biggest hole in this premise is that it assumes you own your home/place to live, or are willing to live in a cardboard box.

Sadly, most of us do not own or want to live in a cardboard box.
Yep -- you can help out, but as soon as you figure out if it's for you, your first "appointment" is ASL.

It's essentially what you want from it -- don't consider them "levels" but different roles. They're all volunteer after all!

I don't want the added responsibility of having to lead the entire section so as an ASL, I'll plan and lead 1/3rd (ish) of the weekly meetings, and do some of the day to day with the young people on camps, but my SL handles the longer term planning, balanced programme prep, and so on.
No need for your respect. Visit this post
https://www.facebook.com/mentrapp/photos/a.1160039210690959....

It shows the actual email that another student sent me.
As I said, photo is stock, testimonial is not.
Panera deals with leftover breadstuffs by donating it to charities. Just walk in and ask about their "Dough Nation" program: sign up under a recognized organization and pick a day of the week you can reliably pick up leftovers at close of business. I've been doing it for years, taking about an hour a week to pick it up, keep it overnight, and deliver next morning to a local church's public food pantry distribution. Personally, it's a way to (in a sense) donate hundreds of dollars of food weekly with just an hour + $2 gas per week; the food is otherwise wasted if not for someone merely transporting it. I also get to teach my kids about charity; easy to take them along to see and "help". A real "bang for the buck" volunteering job; not sure it helps me grow so much as help others grow with little effort on my part.

Another is randomly volunteering at "Save The Horses" locally. In a high-tech world, helps one to stay grounded by working on a farm; this being a volunteer-run farm rescuing unwanted farm animals, they need people for unrelenting litany of feedings, cleaning, walking, brushing, repairing, decorating, collecting, ...