skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is wrong. Back in the day, unions did see that, and were happy to work with the companies. However, the companies were the ones that broke that social contract first, trying to frame negotiations as adversarial.

And, so what if the employees are trying to extract as much value as they can out of their employer? Isn't that what capitalism is all about? Isn't that what the employer is doing to the employees, and anyone else they deal with? Why do we see it as acceptable for the company to do so, but not the workers?
Amazon has levels of developer (SDE 1,2,3, P.Eng, Sr P.Eng, Distinguished Eng.). If you've been in industry for 10 years or more, they'll only consider you for an SDE3 role or higher- which is a very hard interview.

So yes, Amazon does hire some older distinguished engineers and principal engineer, but if you aren't at that level, they aren't interested in you. Is that fair? Maybe. But they also don't fire engineers who never get promoted past SDE2.

Source: gave 60+ interviews for Amazon while I worked there.
I don't understand any of this shit. Like, what is this a package management system for?
But that's the whole point. We have solved this problem for over 2000 years now using financial derivatives.

A farmer in ancient Rome did not want to undertake the volatility of grain prices when his crop eventually comes to the market, so what he did is sells his future crop to a fixed current price to someone who wants to undertake the risk of price fluctuations, and this way a speculator got the profit which came out of correctly predicting the future grain prices and farmer got a fixed predictable price.

Same goes with these currencies. A speculator might provide enough liquidity to your crypto, in return he gets a better deal for your coins.
You can link statically as long as you make it possible for your users to re-link with a modified version of Qt. If you have ClosedProgram.exe and distribute ClosedProgram.obj and QtSource.zip you're fine.
.NET core is cross platform. It is also far more performant than traditional .NET. The new framework is a huge leap forward.
Can you expand on how it can be used outside of Kik? It seems to me that's the critical step for this to be anything other than "sticker buying" currency.
PyCon 2017: Awesome Command Line Tools [video]
> California is decidedly against right-to-work laws, so why in this case you are allowed to opt out of the benefits of the union while still having to pay for it is what I take issue with.

You misunderstand the situation. California public employees covered by a union can opt out of union membership and full membership dues and pay reduced “fair share” fees, get all the benefits negotiated by the union (including union representation in disciplinary proceedings); they only benefits they lose are voting rights and non-representational benefits (e.g., if the union has separate arrangements to make products or services available to members separate from benefits negotiated with the employer.)
The high-dosage NMN (boosting production of NAD+) fed to mice via drinking water appears to be 300 mg/kg of bodyweight/day.

How much would it cost to produce 5 grams per day (adjusted for a couple of humans)? and how could a regular, motivated (software) engineer learn to do it?

Edit: adjusted the dose to 1/12th for mice-to-human adjustment, we're looking at 5g NMN/day for a couple (not 50g).
Minmax as used in chess is nothing more than a Depth First Search constrained within the space of moves of agents acting in their own self interest. It searches the maximum number of plies it can (you can think of a ply as a move by a single player in chess[0]) within the time & memory it has allowed.

This approach is brute forcing the search space restricted by computational limits. Alpha-Beta is just an optimization to minmax and not a fundamental change in the search approach.

Chess and Go are very different games and need to be treated as such. Lots of the recent excitement about Go is due to the innovations in machine learning and specifically deep learning that have been discovered. Particularly their performance on such a complex game - significantly more complex than chess. It was predicted that Go wouldn't be able to match top strength professionals for another 5 to 10 years.

AlphaGo Played Lee Sedol last year (considered one of the top players of the past decade) and won.[1] AlphaGo beating this prediction by so much was a large part of the excitement for last year's event.

The reason for the excitement was demonstrating that Monte Carlo search, which was originally dismissed as inferior, was a significantly better approach for the game of Go. Monte Carlo is a probabilistic based approach that uses random sampling - this is very different from the DFS approach used in chess.[2] It has proven be to very effective and without another breakthrough will almost certainly be the option used going forward.

[0] -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ply_(game_theory)

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14405132
just from my experience of working with their engineering teams. but in my follow up post i note that i mostly work with managers, so it's a skewed sample
Unlike potato chips? What product is not designed to be as addictive as possible? One could argue they are being more manipulative but this is not unique or special to social media. Anyone remember subliminal messages in advertising?

I don't think capturing it as "addictive" is totally fair. If people don't get utility from these hooks, they'll leave. Growth hacking doesn't ensure long-term retention, product utility does.
Workbox
Emacs config for Dvorak layout
I'd recommend finding 5 more people with a problem like that, who're all prepared to sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) that they'll pay you $200/month for it. It's often easy to find a single person like that, but if you have 5, you might be on to something.
Are there instructions? I did not use Pocket etc.
Here's a short video that explains what Kik is doing:

https://vimeo.com/218866968
A devops engineer should know how to apply devops to your organization before the other roles have become proficient. It's someone to ask vs. reading the Internet for things that might not apply to you.
A deep dive into the GTmetrix speed test tool
This did them in. If you run a community-oriented website you can't just promise me the moon and then tell me "Your name's not Dan, you're not coming in."
In what sense is "You may have won $100! Watch these 5 advertisements to find out!" palatable?
MsMpEng: Multiple problems handling ntdllNtControlChannel commands
A lot of the people not doing web dev. It's a pretty good cross-platform toolkit, both for traditionally looking desktop apps and stuff that's custom design-wise (esp using QML for the latter), and free as long as you can live with an LGPL-dependency.

(Asking less condescendingly might help against downvotes)
You just provided a (good or not is another question) justification for neutering unions, not an argument supporting the position that right-to-left laws aren't about neutering unions.
0. My browser will not connect to the page in the text.

1. To directly submit a link, leave the |text| field empty on the submit page.

2. Often there is little need to explain why a link was submitted because it is assumed that the person submitting it thought it was helpful or interesting.

3. But it is ok to add a regular comment after the story appears on the |new| page.

Good luck.
Thanks for your perspective; there should be a word for people who talk condescendingly about things they've never done themselves.

Have you personally summited Everest? I'm interested in hearing you talk about your experiences and what it's like to operate at over 7000 meters.
Exactly. Basing an article entirely on famous people over 30 that companies have hired is stupid, but even if you wanted to use that as your yardstick for some stupid reason, AWS still doesn't win. Sure, they have James Gosling (age 62), but Google has Vint Cerf (age 73).
It makes complete sense to not ignore them though.
same here, on a daily basis. worse when my email is supplied by someone else to a party that does not confirm AND there is no way to unsubscribe (such as Best Buy's geek squad's email). my gmail delete filter list is 50+ items now.
Matt Levine AMA
It's in my profile. I work for Google.
Well, I'm not sure a technically impressive hackathon project is a plus past a certain point.

Not everyone follows the rules of the hackathon and works only during the time period. I was on a team that was a finalist at one of the startup festivals and won a few thousand dollars. Talking with the prize sponsor afterwards, they said something along the lines of "you don't have to pretend you did this all at the hackathon, I know how these things work". When they realized that we did, I think they were disappointed!

It worked out for us that time, but in most hackathons they don't have time to vet all the projects thoroughly, and if you do too much there will be a strong suspicion that you are cheating and just using it as a pseudo startup pitch and that can be held against you.

If you want to win, I think the best strategy for productive teams is to do more than one project since it's hard to know what any particular judge will like.

Anyway, to answer the question, the most impressive was probably a UI layout app (Mac) that synced the layout in real time with native iOS and Android apps using native widgets (this was before react native was popular). Where it was only a 24 hour hackathon and I ended up doing all 3 apps from scratch. I'm still pleased about getting horizontal and vertical snap alignment in! I'm sure the judges (reasonably) thought it was not from scratch but it can be fun to push once in a while, and people you hack with will know you did it.

It's best not to take it too seriously though. Rather than be impressive, it's probably better to be creative and do lots of stuff (and have fun too!).
> But that's no different than the prices of any good subject to natural supply and demand fluctuations.

You're just explaining my point in more detail, but not disagreeing with it.

My point was, "Bitcoin can't be used for kik tokens because it has limited space and kik transactions are not justifiable for this purpose (via the high fees)".
Stripe Connect: Payments built for marketplaces and platforms
Couldn't agree more! The GORUCO conference is amazing! I've had the wonderful opportunity of speaking there once and volunteering a few time too. It was also where I was first introduced to a dear friend that would go on to become an amazing co-founder of our funded startup (now defunct :) ). Its a great community, great format, you won't regret it!
I started blogging (then stopped) mostly to share general ideas about tech and thoughts I had. Usually things that most people would not agree on.

I would say, I was blogging in order to share my personal opinion with who ever wanted to read.
Digital Paper
Getting Started at a New Product Manager Job
I guess I'm new to the whole WebAssembly thing. Could you please elaborate more on that statement? If FB were to do that, how does WebAssembly stop you from doing what OP suggested?
This post really needed to be written -- I get this question a lot, too. I like the blind indexes concept, it saves you from having to find some weird deterministic encryption mode (like using an HMAC of the message as the CBC mode IV or something insane like that) and it's more flexible by allowing the fuzzy indexing.
what if elon signs up as elon@spacex.com. he then fills out a personal details form, which includes a phone number. if a 2nd user comes around and enters the same unconfirmed email within 48hrs he'd get to see those personal details.

this surely only works in very specific situations...
Honestly, add another machine and the problem is solved. youll be able to afford a team of programmers to rewrite your app in any language of your choosing by the time you feel the slow down.

I'm using .NET core for a production app now. Team of 16. It's working beautifully. The data access is the bottleneck in 99% of what I have ever worked on, not the web framework. That is why Rails is so popular.
It was 4 projects per entity plus a few shared projects:

the Dtos, the data, the WebAPI, and the tests; all for each entity.
Zillow Prize: $1M to Improve House Price Estimates
This article needs an editor. I can't always be positive. Maybe I'm having a bad day? Funnel. Condense. Then condense more.

I once had an English teacher whom I thought was a Red pen nut job. I'd get my papers back, and they looked like an abortion.

Now--I realize he was just doing his job.
Girl Dragged into Water by Sea Lion Treated for Possible 'Seal Finger' Infection
I dunno; I do think Trump fits the structure (with someone like Bannon acting as Gouda in this case). Regardless of how you feel about him, he is clearly a very charismatic person -- SAC mentions MLK and Hitler as pre-cyber examples of people around whom a Stand Alone Complex formed, so the motives of the person are less important than their charisma and ability to identify and address the distributed concerns of the population.

Trump was obviously able to tap into this collective consciousness / common desires -- a border wall is a stupid fucking idea that basically every expert thinks is a waste of money, but is an example of the masses projecting their inadequacies onto him (and Trump reacting in turn to give them what they want).
I would generally say that there is a reciprocal relationship of performance and maintainable code, no matter what you use.

React is a powerful way to build your front-end, but it's power is in structure / code.

In my experience with React, fine-tuning components for faster rendering is always a pain. Too much magic happens behind the scenes and too difficult to keep that in mind while writing your beautiful components.
Lost in Time in the Antarctic Ice Age (2012)
Soft sweeps are the dominant mode of adaptation in the human genome
Thanks, the alternative funding approach makes sense. It really doesn't make any sense that everyone wants to utilize the output of large scale science that might not necessarily be hypothesis-driven at the start- but as an individual scientist it's heavily discouraged to start by approaching things that way. I think that's going to have to change, but I have to work within the system for now...
+1 for this. I think the idea of hiring a small team to replace yourself is the way to go OP.
Yeah, but not everyone is a hype-train riding, super-cool hipster intent on switches languages every 6 months as some kind of fashion statement.
If the data structure is immutable, such that it's either a pointer comparison or "check until first part of the data is different", isn't it faster than render + diff anyway?
He invented outlaw country music. Why is he still rambling around TX in a van?
It's only a "candidate" so far, maybe you can add some suggestions?
Related: https://www.elysiumhealth.com

I've been taking this for about 6 months. Haven't noticed much other than better sleep, easier to wake upon time feeling refreshed.
Apparently I'm missing something. How do you go to the website to even load the code that talks to the local storage? (Also that last link says it's been deprecated and is being removed).
Yes. This seems to be a classic two-sided market problem. Developers won't flock to it unless there is a critical mass of users. Users won't flock to it until there are widely used and understood tools that are better than they have now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-sided_market
It's an interesting thought that, if the users really got a value out of Facebook, they would be willing to pay for it. I think people do, but if Facebook asked everyone to pay even just a penny, they would instantly lose hundreds of millions of users. There just isn't a way to charge users directly for occasionally useful products.
They derive worth from the parts they can control. Most people wouldn't survive the climb even in the best weather.

Changing weather is part of the risk, but I doubt anyone heads out knowing a storm is on the way.
I think classifications are necessary even though nature is fuzzy and gradual.
Biggest Lessons I Learned While Building Past Startups
That's not the title of the web page.

Please fix it and add your (perfectly fine) question as a comment.
Did Armstrong cry on the moon because he man eater Aliens
Well we certainly consider it an important aspect! But also, as said, we were standardizing the existing set of federation functionality currently implemented in the federated social web.

But the Social Web Incubator Community Group has made anti-spam/anti-abuse stuff part of our mission, but that's hard stuff. ActivityPub does include federated blocklist support, but I think it's not enough. I've written about possible directions though: https://dustycloud.org/blog/possible-distributed-anti-abuse/
What is are the best JSFiddle work you have seen?
Looking for the best JSFiddle work you have come across.
Yes. If AWS hired non-household names over 40 across the board, that would be a different story.
Are there any future plans to expand the analytic power of views beyond just a number - like breakdowns about referrers or locations of viewers? Seeing analytic functionality similar to Twitter would be really interesting for Reddit posts.
I don't want those either.

But hey, I handle my own bans on tracking. I don't care that everything that this persona does online is tracked and associated. But then, I have other personas.
It's like any other industry. You need to build a good brand in order to sell your products. What you mentioned are just brands... it's marketing. They all aim at the same things anyway so it doesn't matter who does what.
Please don't fall into the trap of this fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_the_well
I think HN titles should start carrying country codes just as they sometimes have dates. My experience of HR is that they are people trying to do their best for everyone. But this is in a different country (Norway). Of course I could just be lucky, perhaps it is just this company, or just the division, or the factory, or even just the people themselves.

Nonetheless I think it is time for HN to admit, and celebrate, that it has become an international forum and start behaving accordingly.
Experiences are non-transferrable. Billions of humans have had children. Nonetheless, when I had my own kids, it was a profound experience.

Self-actualization for many is not about standing out in comparison to others, it's about simply doing the experience itself for oneself.
I find that kind of ironic. I know there's a lot of people that love Go and it's a solid language, but I personally see it as the ultimate blub language.
We did reach out to both all the major centralized social networks and also all the distributed social networks. The major social centralized networks didn't seem interested in participating in this round, but they were welcomed and encouraged to become part of the group iirc.
Ask HN: Are there any courses/course materials that teach oop concepts well?
I am trying to find a good course that outlines the essential topics for object oriented programming and encourages practical applications of the theory.
No problem, I hope it doesn't come across too harshly but it's those little things that can make an app frustrating.

It'll be interesting to see when/if hybrid does get "good enough" as there are certainly benefits if you can pull it off!

I'm already convinced by React Native's approach and have seen really great apps built with that tech (although they keep things easier by sticking with native components) and am intrigued by Microsoft's ReactXP as a more cross platform option.
I think originally 'DevOps' was intended to mean that dev/eng teams deserve to have a stable environment on par with c-suite email. Then it morphed into yet another way to pay people less by over-specializing them into tool operators.
>You'll need a processor beefy enough to run the Webkit javascript engine. There was talk a while back about V8 making it into Qt, but I haven't seen much about it recently.

How recently have you used Qt? Qt replaced WebKit with V8 in the 5.0 release, way back at the end of 2012. Since then they've developed a QML-optimized JavaScript engine called V4. It's slightly slower than V8 for some things, but significantly faster than V8 for the most frequent and critical QML use cases.
FWIW: It's not working at all in Microsoft Edge.

Here's a screenshot with the console messages.

https://imgoat.com/uploads/8f13708210/19062.PNG
Let's Encrypt OCSP and Issuance Outage Postmortem
UK police stop passing information to US
Module is an overloaded term in software engineering. The most generic definition is just some bunch of code packaged somehow with a well defined interface.

Ruby has its own kind of "modules":

http://ruby-doc.com/docs/ProgrammingRuby/html/tut_modules.ht...
"Visa loans you money"

edit: Visa doesn't loan the money, participating bank does. and when bank loans the money, most likely it is money that bank doesn't have, i.e. created money.
Yeah; that's what I meant about "dumbing down" the movie. I agree that Ghost in the Shell in all of its iterations is heavy on exposition -- which makes it a difficult show for audiences to get into.

I also agree about your point about Westworld -- I think Ghost in the Shell could be pulled off as a live-action TV series because the exposition could be spread out across a whole season. Because it often doesn't have a guaranteed global market at the time of production, anime in general tends to be a balance between ambition and budget -- the compromise often being "recap" or "expositional" episodes focused on one or two characters (fewer voice actors to worry about) and using recycled animation. I get why they do it, but it's frustrating.
Social networks function in the context of society. Which is messy. Developing a system that doesn't have very harmful failure modes is not easy. And if it's a federated standard, there is no easy way to fix it after the fact. I'd recommend that anyone working on something like that (or really any social network) read this: https://www.twitterandteargas.org/

Evan Williams, a Twitter founder recently said: “I thought once everybody could speak freely and exchange information and ideas, the world is automatically going to be a better place. I was wrong about that.”
Yet you can package and reuse code without introducing the cost of distribution!
That's NR, not NMN. Also, the daily Elysium dose of NR is 500mg, much less in proportion to body weight than what was fed to the mice in this Harvard study.

Added: Thanks to jclos below. The human-mouse-equivalent NMN dose would be 1/12th, 25mg/kg of bodyweight/day.
I hope you mention the dissatisfaction with the environment in your exit interview.
Or just add DRM. Worked for video.
You can't modify or block the newsfeed if they don't even have a DOM. Just feed raw pixels to the screen via webasm. And they have some incentive to do that because like many sites, they are in a constant war against scrapers and Adblock.
"Seal Finger" -- This one was news to me.

I have worked with Sea Lions before - they are fast and aggressive.

They are also fast on land for short distances - they can take out dogs that get close enough.

Another example: http://doubtfulnews.com/2015/04/they-dont-call-them-sea-lion...
This sort of demographic is definitely very rare, but it definitely exists.