skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started out on a 3 month contract with the understanding there would be a good chance it would either end in 3 months or I would move to the Bay Area after to renew. I flew to the office quite frequently. I worked hard to prove myself, and three months later after some negotiations I had a FTE offer for remote work.
The Electric, Driverless Revolution Is About to Hit the High Seas
We need electric busses, not cars.
Good article. I think they hit on something there not mentioned (maybe I missed it) in this thread so far:

"One reason automobile styling has changed so little these last two decades is because the industry has been struggling to survive, which made the perpetual big annual styling changes of the Golden Age a reducible business expense. Today, Starbucks doesn’t want to have to renovate its thousands of stores every few years. If blue jeans became unfashionable tomorrow, Old Navy would be in trouble. And so on. Capitalism may depend on perpetual creative destruction, but the last thing anybody wants is their business to be the one creatively destroyed."

It seems to me (in fashion, culture, technology, art, etc.) that we consumers are the victims of a giant hill-climbing problem, and our current batch of corporations, in their relentless effort to optimize everything, have us stuck at some local maxima that they can't A/B test their way out of. This year's jeans are a variation of last year's. This year's smartphones a minor iteration from last year's. It's too risky financially to make a wave, or move us into the next generation. Those shareholders want their risk-free YoY growth after all.
> My biggest regret is that I stopped going to the gym

? So go back.
It amazes me to read the comments on articles related to e-cigarettes. Everyone is quick to point out any potential flaws -- or even point out that this is still _better_ than regular cigarettes. I suspect it's like taking a time machine back 50 years and experiencing the same thing that happened with cigarettes.

The fact remains, folks using e-cigarettes are still inhaling dangerous chemicals. You'd have to be crazy to suggest this is probably not dangerous. Just because it's delivered slightly differently doesn't really make it ok.
Of course management will try to sell you your job as "higher aspiration" or a "sacred" goal (drink the startup kool-aid!). Means you'll work harder and longer and bargain less. They will also happily fire you, lay you off or cut your wages when times are bad. And then your lower aspirations (food, shelter) will suffer too.

Which is not to say you shouldn't enjoy your job, or aim to do fulfilling meaningful work. But doing one thing to exclusion of all others is not healthy. It's not productive, either - work/life balance will make you more productive: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/10/work-life-balance-so...
> "...like stress and mental imbalances."

About half of tobacco consumed in the US is by people who are mentally ill and/or alcohol abusers because they are self-medicating for their illness. They are very heavy smokers. 90% of people with schizophrenia, 60% of those with severe depression.

That said, we should be helping these people with other treatments instead of smoking.

Also, there are other ways of dealing with stress (such as exercising) that using cigarettes. I live in NYC which can be very stressful, but only about 14% of adults and 7% of teens smoke.
No, we're not generating revenue. This is actually why I want to resolve this issue now. If we launch with him having not really done much of anything in the last 6 months and we do have revenue he's going to be entitled to it.
"This also means that "work-life balance" is not a thing for experts the way it is for normal people. "

I have seen quite a few experts in their field and they didn't work long hours but everything they did counted. The problem is that most of us are being overloaded with repetitive, trivial stuff and never get the opportunity do deep thinking and solving difficult challenges. This can't be solved by working more.

You pretty much wrote this but I just want to emphasize that long working hours won't get you ahead but challenging work.
Very cool! Looks great for people who want to or are getting started with ML and want to visualize what's going on in the training process.
There are also measures that can be taken when using SMS based MFA, via services that check if the SMS is forwarded to a burner phone, or do a SIM check with the phone.
In addition the SMS based MFA services should be leveraging fraud score and number deactivation checks for the target numbers to catch the most obvious fraud scenarios.

Not sure a lot of the companies providing these services actually do that though. And all-in-all, non-SMS based MFA is going to be better anyway.
I had really bad lower back pain years ago. Started going to the gym and doing weight training. Went from not being able to deadlift 80 lbs without pain to 495lbs for 3 reps. No back pain now. I also recommend "Starting Strength" by Mark Ripptoe. It works. I wish I could convince my wife to do back squats and deadlifts. She's also having back problems but she's stubbornly refusing to do anything about them.
> For me a comfortable life is the end and making good software is the means.

I have a comfortable life. It involves being on a kayak with my wife and kid, not hanging out with coworkers.

> But even if your goal is good software, looking at the past couple of decades of big professional companies being displaced by scrappy startups, informal organizations seem a lot better at producing good software.

Are startups "better at producing good software?" They may be better at entering novel markets, software that's novel isn't the same thing as software that's good. E.g. Facebook's iOS app used to be a buggy piece of crap. It's gotten much better as Facebook as gotten more "corporate." Some of the best software I've used in the last decade was made by Apple, which hit a billion dollars of revenue the year I was born.
The environmental advantage, if there is one, is almost certainly on the margins, and I don't know if the equivalent of 100 cigarettes would be enough to realize an advantage.
That's a very good point! I can't say I've ever roasted my own coffee, so it's something I've not experienced in person. I hear you can buy green beans and roast them with a popcorn machine though, which sounds kinda fun to try.
Rspamd 1.6.0 has been released
> The problem with the phrase "identity theft" is that it puts the onus of security onto the consumer to secure their personal details instead of onto the bank/telcos/etc to secure their systems.

And it's really even worse than that, as you are assigned blame for something that the party blaming you is itself forcing you to do. Like, they won't open an account for you unless you tell them your SSN, but then they blame you if you don't keep your SSN secret.

It's reasonable to some degree to expect that you keep your password secret. It's a different thing altogether to take information that is unavoidably known to lots of parties, or in many cases even outright essentially public info (like, stuff you can just buy as a database) as proof of identity, and then insist that you are legally responsible for a contract or whatever they made with someone who knew your DOB or something.

It's really not much different than just throwing darts at a phone book, and then pretending that the fact they hit your name proves that you now have a contract with them ... no, it doesn't, and it's your fucking problem if you think it does.
They also (most likely) include many other, even network packet level checks in addition to primary and secondary authentication. Its not as simple as it looks to the honest end user.
I don't want HEAD, I want a specific commit.
How do I specify this from a "git clone" command line, as you're suggesting?
Uber CEO Kalanick likely to take leave
Yes, if e-cigs are harmless then I don't care. I don't think that's very likely. Nicotine is not good for you. It doesn't look like there's any question as to whether or not e-cigs cause harm, only a question of how much harm.
I work remote full-time and I agree. No way will I work at a cafe all day. I usually go across the street to work at a cafe like 3-4 hours max. Maybe only 3 days a week as well.
Same account. You can use the Google Voice number to 2FA its associated gmail account. A printed backup key will protect you from getting permanently locked out. But nobody will be able to login without physical access to your device or printed key.

This is how 2FA was meant to work. It should always require a physical device only you have access to. Otherwise it's just using 1FA two times.
>On the other hand, working in an office is a sort of work tax too

On yet another hand working in an office and having to deal with remote workers is also a tax on the local workers productivity.

Lost count of the number of times I've had to take time out of my work schedule to VC with remotes to solve misunderstandings that would never have happened if they were working in the same room.

Company I work at also has several people who have remote worked from the very early days and don't seem to understand the entire culture of the place and workflow has changed which throws spanners in the works at times.
I can empathize, OP. I started a company with a good friend almost a year ago. I run tech, he does business. A few months in, and I moved 1000 miles away and have been building a client base on my end, while he has done nothing to help us grow in his location. However he has done his part outside of that.
We had a frank discussion and decided while we're happy to work together, this isn't something he's interested in pursuing. I paid him back everything he's invested in the business. We agreed that instead of splitting it 50/50 I would pay him a flat fee to continue what he's doing while I take the rest. Keep in mind we're doing less than $20k/yr in sales. I considered removing him from the legal structure but it's not worth my time.

Like with any relationship, you need to talk about it with your friend. Not what you've done by "alluding to it", but by being straightforward. "You don't seem interested in our company. I don't want to continue like this. Is it time for you to leave the company?" Yes it may be a difficult discussion but can it really be worse than what you're putting yourself through right now?
Interesting concept, and a really fun interface. The main issue I'm seeing is that the suggestions being surfaced are too close to what I've already selected - i.e., once I've indicated that I've read one or two of the books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, it should probably downrank the others, because while they are similar, it is likely that someone who's indicated they liked two of them has already read the others. There also seems to be an issue where the list of recommendations on the right still contains some of the books I've already liked.
With the S not capitalized in "Gopher-Os" I read it like a cereal (like Cheerios).
I smoke slightly more with ecigs than I did with cigarettes and I use the vape throughout the day. But whenever I have a real cigarette now I get a head rush and feel the nicotine quite strong, which is the feeling I would previously get with the first cigarette after the numerous times I quit smoking and started again. Clearly I'm using far less nicotine with e-cigarettes, which surprised me because I didn't notice any side effects (additional "niccing") when I switched to vaping last yr.

So even if I smoke 30% more than I used to I'm probably consuming significantly less harmful chemicals in the end, including nicotine. Which means it will probably be easier to quit vaping than cigarettes, especially as I could taper the nicotine percentage from 6mg -> 0mg over a period of time without adjusting behaviour.
> What happens when the remaining kidney of a poor donor fails?

We could mandate that anyone who sells a kidney has to buy insurance for that risk.
Dictatorships are really good for a country when everything goes well.
It depends entirely on your schedule. There are a lot of people who are at work/commuting from 8-6 every weekday. IF no one is home during those hours, your power usage drops to just maintenance power for fridges and the like. The hours from 6pm-10pm are a bit of a challenge, but with some minor load shifting (start the dishwasher and clothes dryer at 10pm before bed), you can get some savings on TOU.

A few years back SCE had a EV-TOU plan that was peak hours only from 10am-6pm, and it was very easy to save money on that plan.
I think that for most people any (safe) strength training is the best programme. I'm also a bit sceptical about monstrous squats - enough of those and you'll compress the discs in your spine and end up shorter! I recall a Polish friend telling me that when Polish blokes came back from their military service they were generally a couple of inches shorter and a foot wider from all the intense lifting.
If this was classified, and only Russian officials have been given this leaked info, why would they let the press (NYT in this case) publish this? i.e if Russian officials were the only one this was originally leaked too, then ISIS would still have no idea that Israel had hacked their systems.
10 hours a week on teambuilding seems extremely excessive.

The thing is, many people don't want personal relationships with their co-workers, they want business relationships with their co-workers. Forcing employees to socialize with each other means you are excluding those people who don't want to socialize with their co-workers and those who don't have much in common with their co-workers, or even those who don't like their co-workers on a personal level. This seems pretty obvious, but only in retrospect.

I also don't understand what "understanding motivations" means.
FWIW, I've heard of it as the gold standard too. At minimum, it's a good place to start.
None of those are meaningfully different. At core, they're all the same program:

1. Basic compound lifts

2. Linear progression

3. 3x5 (StrongLifts also switches to 3x5 once the weights get heavy)

There are some differences, but they're pretty minor and people nitpicking them for beginners are mostly wasting time because it really doesn't matter that much.
Yes, I have low expectations, but my main early goals is for him to get used to keyboard and mouse, and maybe understand how things are working.

Thanks for your comment.
second in command exits, starting from entry level employees all the way up to the top of the pyramid, people are exiting the firm, this doesn't look good.
Yes and no. In a scientific sense you may have a great point. In a pragmatic/popularity and also anecdotal/conversational sense, I think Rippetoe can be comfortably called the gold standard.

Anyway, I think his books are unparalleled.
That's an interesting problem because (if I'm understanding you correctly) forecasting would need to be done at an individual level. A consumer getting rides primarily during off-hours should (imo rightly) pay less than a rider booking rides primarily from busy locations. Amortizing that cost fairly while also making a safe profit is a tricky balance to strike, I'd think.
They don't have to be successful at enforcing them. The threat of a potential lawsuit scares employees, and - more importantly - scares their competitors from hiring Amazon employees.

If you were an employer, and you had two candidates - one from Amazon, bound by a mountain of non-competes, and one from Google, who isn't - which would you choose?

Maybe the Amazon person is a bit better, but they also come with the possibility of six figures in legal fees.
What is this, an image for ants?

Sorry, but I'm legitimately curious what that image was meant to be and it looks like you linked a thumbnail.

Mid-post edit as the Google Image Search result comes in [0]. Amazing how I was able to find it with a reverse image search. I hadn't heard of the Greyskull variant, and I do 5x5 Stronglifts.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/TxOyhuh.png
By single precision, do you mean 32-bit floating-point computation?

Probably not but, if so, isn't that what both computer gaming and deep learning need the most?
Socialism is about distribution of wealth. This is mainly about distribution of risk. It is also a more fundamental thing than creating a more equal society.
It is also simply a fact that many people outside US don't call their country socialist just because they have a public healthcare system. So this might cause confusion.
What was so good about webOS?
II used to play with my Sinclair and get the code from some Sci-fi books that had games in it.
I would also recommend Wendler 531 (https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comments/4sbgpw/531_how_...), I switched to it from SS and have found it an excellent follow up program.
The abstinence part is (almost?) always in the context of "until marriage" which can extend well beyond high school and remains highly mismatched with people's behavior.

It should also be noted that abstinence only sex ed usually involves many outright lies, such as that sex outside of marriage is objectively immoral, that waiting until marriage prevents STIs, vastly exaggerated figures for the risk of disease and failure rates of birth control, etc. Whereas smoking is actually dangerous, and "don't smoke, it'll greatly increase your chances of getting these various horrible diseases" is actually truthful.
You could incorporate, both contribute all of your valuable IP and whatnot, and receive shares on a vesting schedule. As part of incorporation, you establish ground rules for number of hours spent on the project or milestones to hit, such that either of you can be let go (and halt vesting) if the targets are not hit.

This will not be inexpensive to set up (a couple thousand in legal fees), but if you're ready to launch and want to clean up your legal situation, it could be worthwhile.

Right now you would likely be considered to have a partnership, and you each have rights under that (which vary from state to state). If you go off and build this on your own without a document that your friend has signed, you'll be on shaky ground if he/she comes back after you've become successful. For what it's worth, I am a former lawyer (but never specialized in this particular area of law).
Does not ship to the Netherlands... Meh!
Thanks, I saw this one. Is there any book that you might know and recommend?
I suspect there are cultural issues that break down communications.

I've seen people who've got really cool sites to show that they've worked on in their spare time, or worked on with local collaborators.

Somehow, and it's hard to pinpoint how, when they try to work with someone in the West, it breaks down. Understandings that are natural to you sitting in one part of the world may have been completely missed by your remote guy in the East. Doesn't always happen, but it's enough to warrant a risk premium.
Graduated: App Academy December 2014 (almost 3 years)

What are you doing now? I'm a front-end developer at an NYC unicorn. I used to work full-stack but I think backend work is boring to me. I also run a consultancy where I build random projects for clients. So far, I've built an iOS app and a couple one-off web apps. I am on my third job. I left the first because I didn't like AdTech, then I worked in media, and now I work in a nerdy infrastructure monitoring company. I finally feel like I found a fit.

Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got? It was necessary and the best RoI I have ever gotten on anything in my life.

Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers? Yes. Most of them are on their first or second job. My cohort had about 14~ people and they went to Google, Tumblr, couple into regular startups(Finance, Health, AdTech), and a few at unicorns. I don't know anyone who graduated who didn't find a job. A couple people got kicked out for doing badly in the bootcamp, like 1 or 2. I haven't followed up with the people kicked out.

I mainly learned Ruby/Rails at my Bootcamp but I'm pretty much only writing functional JavaScript (ES2017/Sagas/Redux) now with a hint of Python (2.7). I straight up love my job. I've flirted with a bunch of stacks throughout my jobs: Angular, Rails, PHP, Scala...and found I like working with Python/JS the best...

My only regret is going to a bootcamp so focused on Ruby, but at the time the financial model was the only viable decision...and I don't think any bootcamps existed yet that were focused on JavaScript.

The only real critique I have of the bootcamp is I also wish I would have more career guidance. My career has progressed financially but I am not sure that I am doing the right thing, whereas if I had an extensive network from university I could compare/contrast, talk to fellow alumni, brainstorm career ideas, etc.

I'm kind of on my own career-wise. I already got my 10x+ RoI, which is more than my uni education gave me, and a better lifestyle.

I've also helped 3 friends go to a bootcamp and they've ended up at Hack Reactor or App Academy. All of them have jobs. I think going to a bootcamp is fine as long as you pick an extremely selective one like a/A or Hack Reactor.
They still make annoying noises over Skype calls too. Have to tell one of the remotes on my team to mute often.
What if people stopped buying cotton that was grown and picked by slaves?

I mean, they could have, but they didn't. You can't pin the blame (Or even dilute it a bit) for American slavery on a Frenchman wearing a cotton shirt.
The intuition of a qualified, incentivized reviewer that optionally will call a person whose voice or knowledge are known a prior. Stronger than some and weaker than others.
He is getting the gist of Minecraft, we have a PS4 with the game, but he likes the mouse interaction more.

Thanks for your comment.
> Or that stupid PHP thing where 'config.php' and its MySQL passwords are world-readable

I mean, if you're tracking config.php in git, you're already doing it wrong.
Well, .notes are standard ELF .. the reason I'm asking is because .notes are for vendors, and well .. this seems like a tool-of-interest to vendors, y'know ..
The car hire company never knows that you have it because the insurance you take out is for the excess only, not the full legally required car insurance. Most hire cars come with a basic insurance included in the cost, but with a massive excess charge if you damage the car. When you hire the car you accept the massive €2000 (or whatever) excess. If you need to make a claim, you reclaim the cost of the excess from the third party insurer and pay this to the car hire company. The third party insurance costs ~€40 per year. This is a much cheaper way of reducing your excess to a manageable amount than taking out the €15/day 'super cover' option from the car hire company.

EDIT: The car hire companies make a massive profit on the 'super cover' optional insurance.

If you are worried about the provenance of a financial services company, there are usually national regulators who maintain registers of companies that have to abide by certain standards. You should check that an insurer is on this register before taking out a policy, as well as checking to see if there are a lot of complaints about them on the internet.
Because he knows the importance of weight bearing exercise
What's the rate limit? And does it have anything to do with the textbelt project?
I've read "I don't endorse this" from open source advocates, but none from crypto engineers.