skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do a lot of blogging. I also get paid to do freelance work, often for business sites, where I get explicit instruction to say nothing negative. This is sometimes an incredibly challenging thing to do.

There was no gun to his head to comment on this discussion at all. He was under zero obligation to describe it as a slack channel or even an online discussion. He was under zero obligation to give what description of it he did. He could have easily said something incredibly generic about "Discussions I have been fortunate to be privy to suggest...."

The fact that he had to spend an entire paragraph not talking about the contents of the discussion and trying ever so hard to be PC while the pain of that discussion clearly bled through in his framing of his comments speaks to how not well it actually went. It is entirely possible to just say nothing about things you wish to say nothing about. I do that pretty often.
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You have completely changed your goalposts. I will remind you of your previous points:

1. Canadian companies don't make much money so they can't afford high salaries

2. Canadian companies don't forecast they will have high growth after expensive hires.

Please tell me if I have misinterpreted your comment.
Is there any sort of backup in case it gets destroyed or lost? Can you clone it?
This article mentions the drop of 2013/2014, but does not mention this was caused by the collapse of an exchange.

Bitcoin recovered. And since there are now many exchanges, this will likely never happen again. Also, exchanges are about to be decentralized (NVO.IO).

This article also mentions Jim Cramer claiming Bitcoin would go to $1M. Anybody who has actually seen the video, will realize that Cramer did not actually claim that very strongly. It's taken out of context.

At some point, the dot com boom was a bubble, too. We all know how that ended.

This article is fuddy click bait.
This really needs more recognition. The fact that this practice is so normal is appalling.
The only time I've observed people in real life acting like people in video games is at a chess tournament. Constantly trash-talking until they lose, then accusations of cheating. You certainly don't see this type at all (or most) chess events; I think the lack of entry free drew them out into the open.
Well, not really; given enough fools who think they can successfully beat the marker, even in the absence of any actual ability to do so, some number of them will manage to for a few years by making riskier bets than would be optimal. So if someone tries to get you to invest based on their past performance, you have to consider how many people there are out there trying to beat the market to determine whether this person has any actual skill or just got lucky (and will proceed to lose a bunch of your money by making said overly risky bets).
So is the "institution" the different perception of local incarceration vs incarceration in other countries, or the incarceration itself?
> And we in the US struggle with getting anything built for less than eye watering sums - does anyone remember the recent bay bridge saga?

You mean the one partially built by the Chinese?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/global/26bridge.h...

Also, don't assume those bridges are built particularly well and will last for a long time. The Chinese have their own fair share of corruption, incompetence, etc...
Toronto eyes plan to crack down on Airbnb-style rentals
It's an interesting breakdown by job. Most of it's just "general labor," but I'd love to hear the story about the person doing forced prison labor as a caterer, or even better, the person doing forced prison labor as an offshore oil platform engineer.
That's in a fantasy premise that will never actually exist.

Back in reality, here's the switching cost: the start-up trying to take Uber's market share, has dramatically inferior data on ride timing/volume; said company has dramatically inferior ride availability in a given city (and at a national, city to city consistency level it's a joke comparison). Further down the line, the upstart is going to lag even further behind due to Uber's data wall, as we shift into autonomous.

Fantasy: it's friction free, anyone can start an Uber clone, there's no switching cost

Reality: it's extraordinarily difficult to compete with Uber, which is why so few have or can. There's a huge switching cost: Uber has all sorts of advantages over a start-up, that help Uber provide a superior service - locally, nationally, globally - over what a new company can manage. Oh yeah, and the biggest one: it's very hard to build what Uber built, it's ten times harder to do it while there's already an Uber, because you have to fight with them and their hyper scale while you're doing it (Uber didn't have to kill an Uber, now you do, good luck).

Wait there's more: and that's before we get to the fact that people are huge creatures of habit. Duck Duck Go produces excellent results, it'll never dent Google's search monopoly in a meaningful way; people do not want to switch unless they either have to, or the context goes beyond an extreme inconvenience. Both drivers and customers will tolerate a lot to not have to go through the immense (to them) hassle of switching. People grow to like their routines a lot, the things they use day to day, week to week; in fact, it's far beyond that, people are hyper resistant to change once they become settled in.
I think that would only come to pass if you set up a global
planet-wide government at the same time.
This thread provides a wide enough sample population of people who have a problem with these services. Additionally, this population is getting bigger. I do hear friends and family concerned about facebook -even in the early days. Does grandma care? no. She doesn't need to. We just need to create replacements for these services that replace the need to use them (facebook and google for instance) to 100% satisfaction for those interested. Then we can worry about growing them. We don't need to worry about the entirety of mankind... yet. Startups 101
When you have a repeatable business model. Uber has repeat customers but is a long way from having figured out how to make the profits required by their business and funding history.
Agree would be nice to add a new option which prevents invoking `apply` without a supplied plan argument. Create an issue in the GitHub, I'll upvote.
It's weird that you say that, because I always felt sarcasm didn't translate well to text.
Ask HN: Can you recommend any niche hackathons tackling interesting problems?
Hi, recently failed entrepreneur here, thinking about my next project. I have a lot of ideas, but many are not necessarily tied to a real problem and I know enough now to want to start with an impactful problem with real demand.

As I looked around, it occurred to me that many hackathons actually supply great problem statements.

A good example is U.S State Department's "Fish Hackathon", which partnered with dozens of fisheries, environmental organizations, and governments to summarize the biggest problems in the fishing industry. Take a look at the problem statement around 'ghost gear' for example - https://goo.gl/YshXQZ

It's a great problem statement that clearly captures the level of impact from both a financial and environmental perspective and also identifies the stakeholders looking for a solution. Along with the problem statement, there is a listing of relevant resources, a few solution ideas and contact info for various people at these organizations.

Other good examples include NASA's space apps challenge (2017.spaceappschallenge.org) which compiled incredible lists of datasets for important problems tied to UN's adopted sustainable development goals and Bangledesh's hackathon (https://goo.gl/LA6Sao) which lists the 10 biggest problems facing the country along with domain experts willing to help for each problem.

Defining a great problem statement is a very important first step to a successful project. Reading the problem statements of these hackathons has been eye opening for me. I've found a dozen interesting hackathons and I'm looking for more.

So I'm here to ask if anyone can recommend more hackathons with good problem statements. If I find enough, I'd be happy to compile them into a free resource for other makers/entrepreneurs.
In defense of Travis ... so interesting. would love to hear more. @Julie188
Wouldn't AMD and the collection of ARM fabricators take Intel's place?
String Enums look nice. I'm also looking forward to the improved type-checking for promises and callbacks.

All in all looks like a solid release, although breaking changes means I'll be a little hesitant with updating anything critical :)
Oh, geeze. This is about: terraform.io
Looking forward to the string enums! I've been using https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3192#issuecom... but it'll be nice to have this built-in.
I don't think he's a majority shareholder by percent, but he certainly owns the majority of votes.
Here's the FDA summary report - https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm173146.h... - and the actual report - https://www.fda.gov/downloads/drugs/scienceresearch/ucm17325... it's not "deliberately opaque"

And um, yes, the supplement industry is essentially unregulated and is notorious for doing exactly that - putting random shit in there that hasn't been tested for safety and isn't listed on the label. That's up to and including controlled prescription medications.

https://www.livescience.com/40357-herbal-products-unlisted-i...

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/dangerous-dietary-...

Nor did I ever say, or even imply, we should stop selling e-cigs or any other product for that matter.
These are always the best problems to have
The only backup I know of is getting another key that you register in the same way as the first key.

Hopefully they don't both break at the same time.
Non-competes... anti-worker, anti-innovation, anti-freedom, anti-competition, anti-freemarket, anti-independence, anti-entrepreneurial, anti-business (to the ones wanting the skilled labor not the ones the employee left because it is a free employment market) and fully anti-American.

Non competes treat employees like they have no value and are mere slaves or sharecroppers.

I especially like the ones where you have a contract that is for 3-6 months and they want a non-compete for multiple years.

How about this, if a company really wants a non-compete, then make sure they are paid fully above salary, otherwise this is just ownership of skilled labor.
Ah, you seem to be
talking about having the source code of function
X inside the source code of
function Y and, then, the names
known in function Y are also
known in function X unless
declared again within function
X. I LIKE that! That's what PL/I
has.

Once I got a phone interview from
Google. An early question was,

"What is your favorite programming
language?"

Sure, right away, PL/I! Opps, (from a movie) "way
wrong answer!". Apparently the
only right answer was C++. Gee,
I didn't want to lie. Besides, to me
saying C++ instead of PL/I should
cause me to lose a full letter grade!

So, PL/I has descendancy, static
and dynamic. The static version is
from the nesting in the static source code. The
dyanmic version is from functions,
subroutines, etc. that have been
called (are active) but have yet to
return.

Then with such descendancy and entry variables, can get
some interesting situations, design
patterns!

I did that once and avoided a
total mess in the IBM AI language
KnowledgeTool!
Influx of immigrants, with zero shackling of immigrants == good chances of successful entrepreneurship.

In a few months/years, students from India and China going to US for grad studies will slow down, and most of them chosing Canada over US.

In a few years, if US continues its systematic and unfair ways of keeping citizens of India and China from immigrating to US, and Canada continues its policy of courting immigrants, you'll see a culture of entrepreneurship growing in Canada too.
Its very easy to talk about "problems" in the abstract. This happened under his watch - https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/the-victim-in-ubers-ind...

Anyone with an iota of a moral compass would be able to understand whats wrong here. Travis wasnt able to.
Of course, it looks like all of the breaking changes introduce compile time errors, so if you try it out and it compiles, you're good!
Yes, it puzzles me that my government sponsors people who fancy changing their car for an EV up to 10000 € (!) per EV (and considering the prices of EVs, they have to be rather wealthy to afford them even with the sponsoring), while cutting welfare for any stupid reason for people who have no other income (yearly welfare being around 5000-6000€...).

Giving away money worth 2 years of welfare to people who don't need money and just want to dump a car that still perfectly works sounds just crazy to me.
> you don't have to document things because people "just get it".

and then a year later when you have to figure out why something was done a certain way what do you do? or when some of the people that "were there" have left and nobody else remembers?

If all the discussions are written, there is no risk of forgetting anything: even working in an office I always send an email after a meeting or random chat to the person involved to document what we talked about, what was decided and why. I might also cc other people that should be kept in the loop, which is also something you cannot do if you just talk.
I was wondering what the string enum example compiled into. Its this.

https://gist.github.com/scttcper/7691497d4b8db9ad6e599aa2d34...
http://www.sqrl.pl/
https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Where did you get that deal for a Nissan Leaf at 2500+36*200=9700? That's sweet. Any extra payment at the end of 3 years? Do you own the battery?

The leaf is for sale in Belgium at €32-38K.
A lot of "interesting" jobs are for the state itself:

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/prison_inmate...
I take a slightly different approach for my implementation that allows me to use the standard go toolchain. I use nasm for the early ASM code and patch the go build tool's output (see: https://github.com/achilleasa/gopher-os/blob/master/Makefile...) to bypass the link step and replace it with a manual call to ld that links the go object files with the output from nasm.

I will be talking about this approach in more detail in GolangUK '17.
Doesn't Amazon try to screw everyone pretty much the time? Don't they just do whatever they can get away with?

I think pay statistics from multiple companies would be mcuh stronger for your argument..
Of course, most of Canadian population lives in cities. Also, people who have the means to buy a Tesla have also the mean to have a second ICE car, thus making this a non-problem. However, commuters who have to live outside of the cities won't have that option. Heck, their apartment complex aren't even wired.
Blake2, modern? With the same addition/xor mixture and narrow pipe Merkel-Damgard as MD4, MD5 or SHA-1/2, it's kinda old fashioned.
Large companies like cell providers have concentrated benefits and their customers have diffuse costs. They force a large contract on you (because they have an oligopoly and you have only ~4 or fewer realistic choices) and that contract almost always contains a "no class action" and a "forced arbitration" clause. While those clauses exist, we are at the mercy of cell providers. Potentially very large customers (large companies and governments) might be able to demand changes in the contract, but it's unlikely to automatically filter down to the individual consumer.

I'm starting to worry about similar weak process security on the part of the IRS and Social Security. You can theoretically opt out of using a cell phone, but it's far harder to opt out of government programs that are forced on you with the threat of state force.
How does this pan out if they don't want to sign?

Obvious issues I can see are "don't put that in writing, pull the offer and don't say why" or "no, it's not adhesion at all, we just don't like any of these specific changes, you're welcome to try again!"
The entire security model depends on the devices being uncloneable.
I am reminded of nothing so much as Christopher Hitchens' quip about Libertarianism: "I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough."

If someone is taking FMLA, the overwhelming likelihood is that they or someone they love is dying (or the opposite: they have a brand-new kid). You're worried about working a little bit harder.

Some perspective might be warranted.
Even then, mix in people switching jobs, losing the knowledge of where or what all these landmines are, and add similar but unrelated issues across your entire codebase. This stuff adds up. I like to at least add stern log messages when we are at 10%-50% of the limitation. It's saved my ass before, especially when your base assumption can be faulty.

In one of those scenarios, where we expected the growth of an integer to last at least 100 years, due to certain unaccounted for pathological behaviors, a user burned through 20% of that in a single day. But we had heavy warnings around this, so we were able to address the problem before it escalated.
I feel bad for Travis' loss on a personal level. But clearly he didnt feel bad enough when someone got raped. https://www.buzzfeed.com/pranavdixit/the-victim-in-ubers-ind...
There is a huge difference between "you could hack" and the default. In a system that defaults allowing users to get into trouble, most users get themselves into trouble.
It must be nice to have the money and power to be able to do this. When my mother passed, I missed the first couple weeks of classes and then returned to college (and had a ton of work to catch up on). When my father passed, I took a couple weeks off and then went back to work. I imagine a lot of people wouldn't even have that flexibility.
I'm currently working as a web developer, with a focus on frontend development.
> It seems to be mainly for APIs that provide a service, not for protecting client-side applications.

I'm not so sure about that, right at the top of the page is has the line: "For licensing desktop apps, on-premise software, and other digital products." That certainly sounds like it is meant for client side applications.

The FAQ seems to indicate that it's meant for client side apps as well.
Are you having any vision problems or just problems with dry eyes? Do you get headaches more frequently than before? Do your eyes constantly feel tired?

I wear glasses and would describe my eye problems as being mostly about having dry, tired eyes. As I age, my prescription is changing so I almost need bifocals (but I'm too stubborn to get them).

With those issues, the following has worked very well for me:

1.) Eye drops. Visine is absolutely amazing and, as a bonus, whenever my daughter keeps me awake all night, my eyes aren't red the next day.

2.) Walks. Since my daughter was born, I have been putting on the pounds. So, I kill two birds with one stone and go for a walk about every two hours.

3.) Change my focal point. There's the old 20:20:20 rule (every twenty minutes, focus on an object twenty feet away for twenty seconds). I'm not that rigorous, but I do something similar.

4.) Force myself to blink. At a hackathon in December, I sat across from a developer who told me that I don't blink very often when I am deep in thought. Oops.
That's the most successful reason for failure.
It's clearly a product of liberal democracy, and it's liberal in the sense of allowing such business ventures to exist and to indeed to be voted for by the public (manipulated by advertising and ark money, of course, but nevertheless).

The problem of liberalism is its failure to adequately guard against such institutional abuses, just as the problem of communism is its failure to guard against being hijacked by authoritarians. In the 25 years since the fall of the Soviet Union and the general consensus that communism was an ideological failure, western democracies own ideological limitations have been examined and found wanting in many respects. Chief among these are an incarceration rate that far exceeds that of the most stereotypically autocratic nations, and the deplorable conditions therein.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

Liberalism all too easily degenerates into mere license, and has demonstrably failed to result in liberation for those who suffer unjustly under the yoke of authority. To some extent the blame falls on a myopic utilitarianism that equates its quantitative capability with omniscience, and by assuming its own goodness as axiomatic has lost the ability to evaluate its own moral anchorings, instead drifting about aimlessly on the currents of its own desire.
I've posted about this in the past but I have "suffered" from an eye condition for the last several years due to I think extreme computer use and an overhead HVAC vent (I think).

I've seen a few Ophthalmologists, official diagnosis is Blepharitis but ultimately my eyes are constantly tired, floaters, sharp pains, dry from the moment I wake up and have nearly constant muscle spasms.

I've tried fish oil, antibiotics, Restasis, numerous drops and gels, various apps, changing behavior etc. I haven't found the silver bullet but I give my eye lids massages and try to drink plenty of water and try to avoid environments that make it worse. I limit computer use to work hours only and am in a role where I only really use a computer for ~4 hours a day. The last few years things haven't gotten worse but haven't gotten better either.

Best advice I can give is take breaks and have hobbies that don't require a computer.
I think it was sarcasm
According to the article he holds super voting shares.
Are you just assuming new secure versions exist that could be used? I work with industrial control but mainly Rockwell not siemens and I don't know of any PLC communication protocol that supports any kind of encryption but I want to hear about any options that do exist.
Regardless of what you want to call it, it is forced labor, which is still a definition of slavery, even if it is a more expansive one.
Interesting. I wish I could browse the available skill sets before filling out the extensive form. For instance, I'm in need of a webRTC specialist. Preferably with experience using simple-peer.js. Is there a way to tell if you have anyone with these skills?
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Sales emails from great companies
Dunno, this is only the eighth quarter that Amazon has turned a profit. Uber is a young company
That's a really low bar to congratulate anyone for stepping over.
I always use the example of Japan. $1 = 109 Yen, so do people think Japan costs 1/100th of what the US does?

Japan is a good example because people have an idea that it is a rich, expensive country.
Rereading your post I see that I read it incorrectly the first time. Thanks for pointing that out.
If that kind of statement is unacceptable (even if you were to clean it up a bit), then your company has bigger problems. Masking them with alcohol, like masking any other problem with alcohol, is a bad idea.