skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hwo would your grandchildren be able to view outdated digital file format that no one knows how to use anymore ?

They'll probably be busy trying to find clean air, clean water, food and shelter scrambling to face the consequences of overpopulation in a climate changing world out of cheap oil more than looking at photos they don't care. You don't even look at your own photos from a few years ago.
Unroll.me Service Faces Backlash Over Selling User Data
To invest in your own future? Being successful leads to promotions in meritocracies, which can bring to to retirement faster, offer more interesting challenges, etc.

If you don't care, look for a union or government job where seniority reigns king and do the minimum every day for 45 years.
> Uber already lease out vehicles so people who don't have a car but want to drive for Uber.... can lease it out from them

Do you have any links for Uber-backed leases? This is the first I've heard of them and I'd like to know more. Last O heard, Uber was encouraging/facilitating leases from 3rd parties for its drivers without being involved in the resulting lease itself.
If this Hackintosh was originally built in 2014 (with 2014 parts), I would assume the price is significantly lower to build this today. Also, seems like that monitor makes up more than half of the price of $3000 for parts.

Can this be done now for under $1000? If so, this is a pretty attractive machine.
My ADHD doctor said less than 10% of the people who try GTD are able to make it work for them. It's hard.
Totally missed that, my bad.
> And how come no one ever calls out the n=1 case, but everyone is calling out this? What exactly is the difference?

The difference is in making a claim and recounting a personal experience. The two have entirely different bars for acceptance.
Atleast AFAIK in Bayarea, nobody cares as long as you have the skills. I have had the pleasure of working with some amazing engineers & team players who were let go in earlier jobs.
I think the point of the article is that adding an index to a big table with lots of writes is practically not possible:

Quoting from the article:

real problem for big tables

as adding a few columns to our biggest tables started to take 2+ hours
or sometimes was completely unpredictable and exceeded our announced downtime windows.

Apparently, adding a column was even a problem during a maintenance window because the runtime was even longer than they expected.

Compared to PostgreSQL:

As long as the new column is NULL and does not have a default value,
it’s in practice a no-op to add it. No matter if your table size is 100MB or 100GB
As others have written, it is similar to people reluctant to leave abusive relationships. Just as people who have not suffered clinical depression can advise to "just snap out of it", those who have not experienced this phenomenon, or are psychologically less vulnerable to it, will say "just get another job".

Sometimes the answers just aren't easy.
Well, I replaced my 2010 MBP with a 2015 MBA, just because I got bored with it, and was also bored with waiting for a 'proper' MBP update. I also got it within a good deal, so I haven't had to touch my piggybank which has £1500 in it since 2013 waiting for Apple to hear the voice of developers who are busy with more advanced things than selecting the perfect emoji on the touch bar at a Starbucks.
I bet if you combined speed bumps with a decent gas tax (with tax discounts for business use) and eliminated the "light truck" tax loophole for SUVs [1], you'd probably wipe out the huge SUV syndrome.

Of course, SUVs are highly profitable for the auto and petroleum industries, heavily represented in lobbyist circles, so it's pretty much a no-go.

[1] https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tools/tax-tips/Small-Busines...
Plagiarism hiding behind the thin veil of inspiration
> It will be interesting as rates return to normal and the Fed starts to shrink its balance sheet later this year.

The FED has predicted they'll do something about their amount of debt pretty much every month (except, I believe, 2 months) since 2009. Initially they were going to raise interest rates to 0.25% in 2012. They repeated that prediction, increasing the rate they were going to hike to (e.g. in 2015 the prediction was a raise to > 0.5% immediately). They finally "hiked rates"[1][2] in december 2016.

[1] With the VERY important caveat that there are no plans to reduce the balance sheet. In other words, as long as you owed billions to the fed 6 months ago, you're still lending for free to some extent. In other words, we can have an intelligent argument about whether interest rates are "really" above 0% or not.

[2] Also to be taken into account is that European, English, Japanese and Chinese interest rates are still negative. (QE = negative interest rates)

Excellent Graphic of FED predictions here: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/fomc-dot-plot/
> It will be interesting as rates return to normal and the Fed starts to shrink its balance sheet later this year.

The FED has predicted they'll do something about their amount of debt pretty much every month (except, I believe, 2 months) since 2009. Initially they were going to raise interest rates to 0.25% in 2012. They repeated that prediction, increasing the rate they were going to hike to (e.g. in 2015 the prediction was a raise to > 0.5% immediately). They finally "hiked rates"[1][2] in december 2016.

Additionally, the consensus explanation for the FED hike is that the FED is hiking fast now so they can drastically lower interest rates when the next shock hits, as we're already "over time" (shocks to the financial system are (recessions, either preceding or preceded by a recession), on average over centuries, 8 years apart. Well, it's been almost 9 years).

[1] With the VERY important caveat that there are no plans to reduce the balance sheet. In other words, as long as you owed billions to the fed 6 months ago, you're still lending for free to some extent. In other words, we can have an intelligent argument about whether interest rates are "really" above 0% or not.

[2] Also to be taken into account is that European, English, Japanese and Chinese interest rates are still negative. (QE = negative interest rates)
Or any other voip provider, for that matter?
I wonder how much the equity handcuffs are to blame here.
I had a colleague who'd ask: "What kind of beer? Heineken? That's no beer."

After a couple of those, everybody knows your taste :D
There're two critical ways out of the situation like this which looks like severe major depression to me - 1. remove yourself from the stressful situation 2. seek medical help.

The worst in this situation is that the person is unable to clearly understand the severity of the situation and take an action so the role of friends and family becomes the critical one.
The are always simple answers to complex issues, and they are usually wrong. This answer desperately needs more insight.
> You are not your job

This. 100% this. While I've been fortunate enough to not be in a position of job stress like this, the moment I realised that who I am is not defined by my job was the moment life (both inside AND outside of work) became so much easier.

Edit, to elaborate: take that higher-paying job but less 'prestigious' company because who the fuck cares. Clock out of work on time and refuse consistent unpaid over overtime. Work not doing what you want it to, leave and find something better. Quit defining yourself by your employer and instead work on you.
Unless you know now of a better solution, it is important to, at least, point out the options available.

Are there other interventions that are better than hotlines?
> Do you have any links for Uber-backed leases?

One of the uber drivers told me this. I forgot the exact amount. I guess he said he pay around $250 per week to Uber

Here you go - https://www.uber.com/drive/vehicle-solutions/leasing/

Uber might have collaborated with some third party to handle the paper work

Edit -
Uber partnered with Xchange Leasing, LLC for this leasing program
This is hard for me to read. As a native English speaker, the writing here seems like it was badly translated by some automated program from some foreign language.
Its sad to see why smart people set themself for failure. Under bad situations at work all it takes is to go out the front door and not come back. Living a life where you're just trying to out-compete everybody or oneself is a trap. Best not to do that.
I imagine people are wanting to blame Uber because there have been other reports of bullying, hazing, sexism, etc. in the company. Couple that with all the accounts of Uber's willingness to test or even flout the law and it doesn't paint a nice picture.
Practical examples:

1. How not to do it IMO: Road next to me had a limit of 60 because of "road works", there even was a road works sign standing there. Everyone knew it was safe to drive 80.

One day I was driving suddenly after months of inactivity a worker comes walking out into the road while I come driving. The sun was low and I just saw his legs moving and managed to brake and steer away.

If I had crashed it would have been my fault - and I would have deserved jail and losing my license. But I totally wouldn't say road authorities would have been without blame:

Designing a 80 zone, then training everyone to think the road works sign is just a forgotten artifact is really really not a good idea if you intend to suddenly send your people out there in low light.

2. How it should be done IMO: Next to a school that I sometimes drive past there is a 60 zone. But it (used to) only apply when kids could be reasonably expected to be there (0600 - 2000 or something). Every summer road authorities would even cross it out.

This way we are constantly reminded about why there is a very valid reason to slow down at this place - and we are reminded that at least some of them honestly think before they restrict us.
Nice. Being able to consume JSON Schema would be really handy since there are other tools to consume plain JSON and emit JSON Schema.

I'm considering taking a crack at a Julia output module for your project. Those output adapters look pretty straightforward.
Yahoo did not lost, they never even intended to enter the ring if they were aware there was a ring to enter.

It's not only yahoo, all the big contenders do this: they buy a smaller but growing or holding interesting/competing asset to kill it, or poach employees or tech. Microsoft and google are notoriously been doing this, this is standard procedure to maintain dominant position and try to mitigate the lack of internal innovation and creativity that comes with being dominant.
Those languages also have more than 123 words. Sophistication implies complexity, and Toki Pona was designed to be simple, even to a fault.
Genius of the Modern World: Marx

I think it's an Open University production by the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gpdbx
Search User Intent . The End of Keyword Based Optimization?
Just use Hackintosh approved components[1] and you'll have an easy ride.

[1] https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/april/2017
And in case anyone asks, the fact that lending free money to banks and companies just causes that money to be paid out to the very rich is just a totally unrelated coincidence.

Completely unrelated.
The US electric grid is widely considered to be at risk: http://wapo.st/2qd2gFQ

Internet infrastructure is decentralized in nature, making it hard to control. Though rogue individuals can have outsized effects: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/pakistans-accid/
That's part of the problem - and it's one of perception, not reality.

People are good in the right environment and with the right team. If the fit is bad, it could be a lose-lose.

I've seen great people (I personally knew) do worse in a subsequent job, and vice-versa - people who were subpar in a previous job do great at a new gig.
IVF babies aren't guaranteed to be infertile, they just have a slightly higher chance of it (because of selection bias in the parents).

My wife and I might well have babies via IVF because she can't get pregnant while on chemotherapy - but that doesn't mean we carry any infertility genes. She just had the bad luck to have some cells mutate into cancer.
Good point! IANAL also, but I read a bit about this and got the following[1]:

> Ultimately, the WCAB emphasized that it was the “work condition that must be uncommon, unusual, or totally unexpected” in order to qualify as an extraordinary employment condition

So, I wonder if by rejecting the claim, Uber is claiming that whatever work conditions Thomas was facing is normal. I wonder if the converse is also true, that accepting the claim also means Uber claims that his work conditions were actually unusual.

[1] http://pknwlaw.com/Newsletters/2015/Q1/2-LC3208.html
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Well said. I've worked at 3 start-ups and at all of them I've worked long, grueling hours with the most recent one I was doing at least 65 hours a week (typically longer especially with a 3+ hour commute). I became severely burned out to the point where I didn't want to look for work or do much of anything. I was depressed and had severe anxiety. I went to the hospital with an anxiety attack so strong that I literally thought I was having a heart attack and was going to die in front of my two year old (I was trying to explain to her what to do if daddy passes out). My chest was in pain, my arm numb; I still don't understand how it wasn't a heart attack because of how intense it felt.

I eventually took some time off and started interviewing at various places. Shortly after taking time off I was told that the founders felt I wasn't "working fast enough" and was fired. I had never been fired from a job before and I contest their reasoning but secretly felt incredible relief to the point where I barely even argued, I just packed up my stuff and left with a smile on my face.

Now I'm working at a place with fantastic work life balance.
Man I so relate to this right now. Is there anyway I can email you? I really want to know how to overcome this.
I'll put this out there.. somone who has destigmatized and open sourced depression is Rob Delaney. Now has an award winning show featuring the late Carrie Fischer (Catastrophe) but nearly killed him self a few times in the past and has written extensively about it[1]. Alcoholism too. Psychiatric medication saved his life. REALLY funny guy, check him out on twitter (best reason to use twitter still).

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/comedy-545-v17n10
Robots.txt doesn't confer copyright.

What about domains that have been sharked ? Does controlling robots.txt now give me the right to suppress all content ever originating from that domain, for as long as I control robots.txt?

Internet archive is right to spider the site, but defer showing. Collection != dissemenation.

The IA isn't synthesizing, selling, cross referencing or afaict doing anything nefarious with the data.

You are literally picking on the last org on the internet that needs to get picked on.
Uber seeks deposition from Larry Page
> This should be the future of DSLRs. Provide some sort of API so that I can create recipes for my photography project. Bonus if the hardware is powerful enough for me to process the way I want to on it (as opposed to the builtin, mostly useless, features).

Most DSLRs already have something like that. Both Nikon and Canon, at least, have free SDKs downloadable from their websites, and on Linux gphoto supports a ton of cameras.

As far as doing everything on camera, most higher end DSLRs have built-in controls for bracketing, multiple exposures, time lapse, etc.
I think the point is we should be careful about "doing something" and then indulging in the satisfaction of "something has been done", especially if there is no evidence that the 'something' we pick is beneficial to anyone.
> Is there a consensus on this interpretation v. "just adding more dark matter"?

This reminded me of https://xkcd.com/1758/
Around here red light cameras where removed. I heard it was because they where found to significantly increase accidents.
Xchange Leasing is an Uber affiliate which takes capital from wall st banks and loans it to uber drivers. uber takes out the loan payment before paying the driver.
>>On the other hand, I feel that we will not have self driving cars for a really long time. Instead I believe we will have flying cars before that, who will solve the last mile problem.

We already have flying cars. They are called helicopters, and they are only available to various government agencies, large corps and the rich.
I'm not sure. I just get the feeling the hotlines are more for people to feel like they're doing something to help, when maybe they're really not doing much at all. I'd like to find out more about what really would help, and hope that I and others would be willing to put the real effort in to make a difference, behind something that works.
I think Uber is currently a lightning rod for everything that's wrong with technical employers, especially in the USA. I think there is a great deal of simmering rage against the widespread mistreatment of engineers, and Uber has, in a sense, become the monster that has the villagers getting out their torches and pitchforks.
Using VFIO is a better solution.
Sometimes it just feels like Uber wants to be in news
So, I Bought a Surface Book
Not intuitive at all. Instead of the snazzy animation on the clock face after selecting hour, the animation should focus more on the hour vs. minute transition.
As you probably expected from your phrasing/question, no.

Ultimately there's often some frustration from both sides when hiring. Interviewers get a ton of under-qualified candidates and need a way to weed them out. A semi-technical conversation isn't always enough (lots of practically useless programmers can repeat dogma). Stumping someone _is_ a good way to assess their technical capabilities (you get a nice mix of analytical thinking and creativity to try to come up with a working solution even if it's not perfect).

I try to tie my technical questions to previous projects/areas of interest, with increasing difficulty/complexity, but sometimes this is difficult (particularly if the potential hire doesn't have any particular specialisations). If you start too low, the interviews go too long and you don't get a good feel for what the person can actually do. If you start too high, it comes across as demanding knowledge of obscure algorithms. I know that I've unintentionally asked questions that have come across this way, but in those cases you can't really expect a full and correct answer -- all you can expect is an appreciation of the components and some thought on how the person approaches problems.

That said, if you're being hired for your specific pre-existing knowledge, that's a different matter.
Well, we're made up of DNA. Scientists unanimously agree that DNA is responsible for all of our characteristics. If you search the internet, you should be able to find plenty of papers and evidence which document the effects of specific genes on personality. Recently, I watched a lecture about a specific gene nicknamed the "Warrior gene" - Scientists found that people who carried this gene were more likely to become serial killers.

I would argue that the presence of this "warrior gene" would be strongly correlated with greed. Police officers will tell you that the serial killer mindset is about low empathy combined with a desire for power over other people - That sounds like a pretty good recipe for greed too.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were other genes that played a part in this personality trait we call greed. Having a materialist view of the world, I think it's pretty safe to say that everything which differentiates us from non-living objects can be attributed to chemical reactions which trace back to DNA itself.

The cultural/environmental aspects of greed are merely feedback loops that are rooted in the genetics of the members of any given group/culture.
Very possible.

If an Uber executive or PR person were particularly unscrupulous (would that surprise anyone at all?), another method would be to say something really insensitive in a thread like this and start a flame war to trigger HN's ranking algorithm. Imagine how easy that would be... a somewhat carefully disguised comment with the sentiment of "depression is just weakness, suck it up!" would rightfully send this thread into a frenzy of angry commentary and downvoting.
So you know if it works in space.
It's amazing how a toxic work environment can dismantle an otherwise perfectly fine human in a matter of months. For anyone who is reading this thinking it can't, I've seen a number of friends get completely demotivated and numb due to the circumstances of their work. Luckily all ended up finding better jobs, but the PTSD was real and took everyone a long time to shake off.

I can totally believe this guy was a great engineer too, as I've seen the work stress affect the best ones the most. The lazy and dumb can coast for months, speaking fancy words and pretending to be working, but really smart people actually want to deliver value and they grow tired and frustrated when they can't.

Stress isn't talked about much in SV, as the focus is on growth and revenue, and it's a shame. You can't build a long-lasting company without good people.
If you flip onto the curb "by accident" and kill someone then, sorry, you suck at driving. The roads should be reserved for people who can control their vehicles, and in that instance you proved you couldn't.

Current laws don't do much, but an incident like that should be a minimum automatic five year suspension with mandatory re-testing.
> I had a Pavlovian response to the sound of email arriving on my phone, to the point where it would be in my nightmares.

I went through a rough period last summer where a project I was involved in was a complete disaster. I basically spent 24x7 terrified that a new "emergency" was going to roll in on my phone via email with a stakeholder telling me how this new issue was ruining their life and how disappointed they were; an issue which I was expected to deal with immediately. After that summer and to this day I keep my phone in "Do Not Disturb" mode 24x7 and treat it as a passive communications device that I only check when I want to, because I have literally run out of notification tones on my phone that don't send a burst of adrenaline through my body upon hearing them.

This is even after that project is over. I feel like it permanently damaged my brain and my ability to deal with stress.

I have used smartwatches that notify you when an email comes in by vibrating on your wrist. I view these as modern-day human "shock collars" where the shock collar beneficiary is actually not you, but your employer. I actually warn others against falling into that trap of wearing a "shock collar for work". Having your arm vibrate the moment an email comes in is not healthy.