skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The subsummation of the word 'Gopher' into the Go language eco-sphere irritates me also. I believe it has something to do with the Language having adopted the Gopher (animal) as their mascot?

Just because something is no longer in common/widespread use, does not mean you can come along and use its meaning or name on your shiny new product.

Gopher the protocol maybe niche these days, but it's not dead. The continued use of the term 'Gopher-XYZ' by the Go language people will only accelerate the death of the Gopher protocol, which although inevitable it does not mean it should be erased from history by something else.
This broke the back button.
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Okay, but they're still very different things one is inhaling. E-cigarettes could easily be far, far safer than cigarettes while still being dangerous.
The Impact of Blockchain Technology on the Construction Industry
Interested to see what the HN community thinks about this. I'm looking at the linked studies for evidence that the relationship is causal but nothing yet. I'm wondering if preference for isolation is only another symptom of some other cause(s) of the highlighted health risks.
>"vocal, vicious and vindictive" are the words you use to describe people who are saying "Respect the wishes of people who want to be referred to in a specific way".

You left off the "or we will destroy you personally and professionally" part. Those are the people whom I describe as "vocal, vicious and vindictive".
disclaimer: I work for Netlify.

Netlify's documentation does not yet talk about a new feature we're just releasing around enabling JWT auth using our redirects capability. We should have some documentation up on this in the next few weeks, but besides HTTP Basic Auth or using an external service like auth0, we don't have a good method to do this built-in yet. I'll talk with you more about this in your support case for the time being :)
I have JavaScript enabled and it showed a blank page for me too, I had to reload the page a couple of times, I guess it's getting some traffic from HN
I am thinking an undergrad CS degree. I currently don't have any degree, I am just thinking long term. I want to break into the AI field. I just want to make sure I am employable.
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Nice post indeed. Few cents from our experience at ActOnCloud, Often Cloud-first and Cloud-only companies would face similar issues in future. Cloud is a one way trip. Unless one takes care of vendor lock-in and prepare the team for better governance and financial control, its going to be nightmare.

With cloud providers pushing for Serverless, it will be even more darker, there is not a way to get control, Just hope that everything will be greener.
And the difference here is that the 'tax' the employer pays lessens or disappears as employees get used to working remotely; whereas for the employee, there will always be a cost in time and money to commute.

With employees working remotely, the employer can also make big cost savings by needing a much smaller office space.
Hah, feels like it's been that way for a while now. Definitely strange to me, and I'm going on two years of only my vape after being about a pack a day. Imagine people treated patches or nincorette like they do e-cigs.
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Yep, you just run a fresh 240 line direct from your panel to your parking space, bypassing the aging interior wiring all-together. The plug is also not really an issue, as if you're fresh-running a line for this, you'd just hardwire a weather-resistant EVSE (like the ClipperCreek HCS-40) into that circuit, and you're golden.
I don't disagree that this is bad in general. I won't ever sign another no-compete. I was just pointing out that, at least anecdotally, there are examples of not needing to higher a lawyer.
So was windows, but that didn't stop Microsoft. ;)
I'm looking forward to seeing how well your dedicated OS supports the protocol. Are you following the RFC?

http://www.rfc-base.org/txt/rfc-1436.txt
I don't know how big the effect would be, but surely that is perhaps skewed by the NYC/Silicon Valley salary premium for their real estate markets?
Here’s exactly how Fam got 1,024,786 downloads in 10 days (with $0-ish in mktg)
I cannot agree more based on evidence of myself and my wife who do weight training. Now only if losing weight was as simple as gaining strength...it only takes discipline multiplied by weeks and months!
" But I am just raising the point that you can always push further if you want to."

I have had the opportunity to work on difficult stuff for a few years and after around 35 hours per week I was pretty much shot. I still thought about it in my free time but there definitely was no point sitting in front of the screen because I wouldn't get anything done.

I'll admit there are some high performance workers (you could call them athletes) who can spend 80hrs/week working and producing but these are rare from my experience. Most people I have seen that work 80 hr weeks have a lot of downtime in between. The only difference is they spend that time in the office.
But no one is saying they aren't unhealthy. Only that they are (probably/possibly) less harmful. On the other hand the title of this article says they are the same (not that the article matters, I've seen too many papers with broken methodology, I'll have to check the referenced paper).
Thank you for sharing your project.

I am unable to read the examples on the homepage as they scroll by too fast. Could you please do both of: increase the time each example stays on screen; and disable the automatic scrolling if the user makes an effort to select a particular example either by clicking the side arrows or the selector tabs on the bottom.
Indeed. A simple solution is to add a differential optimization layer (see Amos et al): https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00443
1. Note the weasel word "potentially". Almost any statement is potentially true.

2. "...when it comes to causing DNA damage" is the far less sensationalist claim in the actual text.
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Not the OP but I presume GitHub-the-company was meant since it is them who are behind ElectronConf, not their customers.

They are also somewhat infamous for having hired one self-proclaimed "notorious SJW" who previously harassed a GitHub user for his contribution to some unrelated Twitter flamewar and later went on to work at GitHub on "community management and anti-harassment tools". Go figure.
> I don't drink, and its kind of sad that I get to miss out sometimes because I don't go to the bar. Because I like to bike instead, why can't I not feel pressure to go to the bar and do my own thing after work?

Because having a liminal zone where people feel allowed to step outside the hierarchy and say things that might otherwise be unacceptable (e.g. "this framework we're using is totally fucked") is really important and valuable? It's not about the alcohol per se, but alcohol is a particularly effective way of creating that atmosphere.
sometimes I work on a problem way too late. Get stuck and try all kinds of things. Then I go home, eat, spend time with my family. The next day I open up my computer and immediately find and solve he issue.

It's very hard for me to put a problem down and simply not think about it for a period of time, but as I've matured I've realized how important that skill is.
- ...training people to be open to hop on a VC or chat at a moment's notice and documenting everything through email or a shared document is not trivial, especially when you're not used to doing things that way, and the costs are not zero.

How is that any different that in office? In my experience, in office communication is often MORE difficult to document. Remote communication often happens via email, or text, and can naturally document in an informal way. Technical documents are no harder, or easier, to 'train' employees to create when working remotely or in office.

- Or you could do everything asynchronously to deal with time zones, but then you're introducing an inevitable lag based on overlap of working hours.

This is really more a problem with dispersing your team, than it is with remote working. You can have a remote work company with everyone in the same time zone.

Remote work carries with it a certain number of risks to be sure. But it's not nearly as risky as I feel like people make it out to be.
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The bomblab is from CS:APP student labs section if anybody is interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14522391 specifically here http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html
Keeping up can be a problem. The US State Department has some off-line resources on political correctness for the use of people returning from a few years outside the US. After a few years in Djibouti or Bangkok, some readjustment is necessary. These are even offered for kids of foreign service officers. ("Transgender bathroom rights? Waat?")
How to piss off the AI talent you're trying to recruit
I know some of what he's not doing, because it's things we've been talking about for several months. But of course I don't know every single non-technical requirement. Isn't the point of having a partner to split up the work? If I did all the research into what legal requirements we have within our field, etc. then I'd be doing all of the work, instead of just most of it.
Yes but it can get pretty noisy when a component that is deep down needs access to some information.

Redux decouples component structure from information access.

This is useful when you have some little button for example that should look different depending on whether the user is logged in or not.

Without redux you will burden each and every component in the hierarchy to manage that state up and down.

With redux that button can hook itself into the state and be dropped anywhere without burdening its parents for any state management.
I was born in the 70s, but was not old enough to remember them directly -- so I'll defer to your direct experience. Of course there wasn't zero access to media from other decades -- but I remember in the 80s and even 90s cultural access was very, very different. I could access an album from the 70s, but I'd have to go buy it. Or borrow it from a friend and give it back. I could see reruns on TV, but only certain TV shows and definitely not on-demand. (Or I'd have to go rent, which, again, limited access.)

> I can hear a piece of music from 1965 to about 1980 that I'm not familiar with and pin it down to within a year or two just by its sound. Maybe it's possible to do that with music from the last 20 years, but I certainly can't do it.

I also think some of what you're describing re musical trends is related to the above: Artists have a million outlets and tens of millions of tracks at their disposal to be influenced by, so the idea that there's a "sound of the year" as promoted by major labels and radio stations is just... gone. It's not like Justin Bieber songs are playing everywhere. He's a huge celebrity musician and I still would have to go out of my way to hear one of his songs. They just don't permeate my media sphere. Again, compared to the 90s when a hit song would be unavoidable.

Anyway: I don't think it's the sole cause. I think labelling decades was also simply a branding and marketing trend that has fallen out of vogue, maybe due in part to the simple problem of what to call the "aughties."

It's an interesting topic! I love the media environment today. God. When I was first tinkering with music in the 90s I would've killed for access to things like Spotify and SoundCloud. So amazing.
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It also takes advantage of the fact that most people will assume they are referring to cancer.
So will Gitlab.
Oh, I don't blame you, I do in fact wish I came to the same realization much sooner in life, especially since started to design systematic trading algos and drawing more and more income form the stock market...
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Are the slides from the kotaku post really that bad? I mean the one on girlfriends/wives is pretty nasty (although has a nugget of truth), but the rest of it seems reasonably valid. It doesn't seem as "exploitative" as kotaku is trying to color it, it's just a rational take on hiring practices that the vast majority of the world ignores in exchange for hiring degrees and certificates.
But the Pixel is an unlocked phone by default. I use mine on TMO.
I live in Kansas City where Sprint is located. You think they would have the best service out here because of headquarters and all, and yet, every person that I talk to that has Sprint hates the cell service quality.
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I don't really get what you're trying to say.

Are you defending the fact that you benchmarked whats essentially a "function() { return 1; }", called that a "database operation" and then proceeded to claim to have achieved a level of performance "not possible with other databases"? Can you really not see how that is wrong on more than just one level?

Or are you saying it's okay because other "javascript database" vendors are also cheating in their benchmarks?
The yellow fiesta is similar to the yellow tone of the dishes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)
If you smoke anything in parts, it's well worth it to learn to purge. It's a cigar trick, you basically slowly blow through the cigar for a few seconds and it improves the taste and slows the burn for a while.

It might just be the placebo effect that makes it taste better after, but who cares?
Not quite a blog as much as some long-form writing. Writing helped me keep my sanity while I was a nomad, but it is updated much less frequently since I "settled down", as most of my writing happened on airplanes or while waiting in airports :)

https://keerthik.github.io/essays/
This is a pretty solid answer. It's really hard to land a remote job if you don't have senior level experience.
You can buy the international edition with PayPal and re-flash it.

https://crp.to/p/

I am interested to find out more info on the tamper-resistance of the hardware.
Are there any technical or other non-closed-garden-monopoly reasons why Apple requires that all iOS apps be written using a bloated Apple IDE that only runs on Apple computers?
This isn't new, being needlessly rude has always destroyed you personally and professionally. I know a guy who lost his job for calling a coworker "Sugar Tits." I would not describe his boss as "vocal, vicious and vindictive" for firing him.

If you are polite to others and "respect the wishes of people who want to be referred to in a specific way" you will have no issues.

If you're being a dick you can be expected to be called out for being a dick, we live in a polite society, this is how these things work.
Thanks, good idea and will definitely do that.
This looks great. I'm still a little fuzzy on Dart--does it still compile to JS or is it it's own language now?
I think it works for some companies, not so much for others.

At the company I work for, we're spread around a few countries and are well used to working this way. But despite the benefits, not everyone chooses to work from home - not everyone has a home environment conducive to remote work, and some simply don't like it. We've got decent comms tools, and honestly, the 'remote work tax' is very seldom an issue.
It's funny because "aligning employee interests with the company's interests" is probably one of the easiest problems for a business owner to solve, yet it's treated as some holy grail of business knowledge.

I once worked with an entrepreneur of a very closely held small business. It was owned exclusively by the entrepreneur and his family, no employee had any share whatsoever, as far as I could tell. He often complained that employees lacked initiative, work ethic, etc. and didn't "treat the business like it was their own". Yep, that's a head scratcher.
Do expert violinists put in crazy hours of practice? Where is the evidence that experts achieve this experthood by the application of brute force?

In my understanding to become an expert requires a careful balance of focused and deliberate work, with alternating periods of rest and reflection.
One disagreement i have with this otherwise great piece is that the future may very well end up becoming MIMT/D. MIMD is a more flexible programming model than the lockstep SIMT of GPGPU and examples like the Rex Neo, Adapteva Epiphany and OpenPiton show that efficiency often supersedes GPUs.
You can buy a used Leaf in Australia no problem. Better get-there functionality than an unreleased car.

https://www.carsales.com.au/car/nissan/leaf/
I think he's taking the surface level and assuming if we copy the surface level, we are going to get the rest.

No.

The reason Fog Creek works well, is because it's very smart people, who care about what they're doing. They care because it's a product company - they get to make decisions that impact the product. They feel a sense of ownership.

Contrast that with a sweat, uh sorry, I mean dev shop. Contrast that with doing contract work for big companies where you come in, leave 6 months later. Contrast that with start-ups that only exist because someone got free money.

Contrast that with shit maintenance work at big corps.

Does that about cover 95%, if not more, software jobs out there?

There is no fixing shit workplaces because the foundation is rotten. When you have no say, when you don't care about the product, when you move around every few years - yeah, it's shit culture.

There is no fixing that - most people long for a stable group of people they can make something happen with.

Most people are confused about how much work and dedication it takes to make something great. Most people's actions create what most people complain about and they don't even know it. There is no fixing it, there is only becoming good enough to either start your own Fog Creek, or be good enough to join one.
I'm still playing with it because of the, completely understandable, technical problems. But initial comments:

1) Love the idea, I'm always struggling to find the next book to read.

2) It seems to be pulling some scam books, I put East of Eden in and got some sort of help you with your homework summary book.

3) I'd echo the suggestion to deemphasize other books by the same author. If I loved Foucault's Pendulum, I almost certainly already know about In the Name of the Rose.
Rate limit is 200 per day. This project was inspired by textbelt. I decided to create my own free version when they started charging.
+ It is (fully) open source

- Doesn't support U2F (yet)

- Supports only one password manager [1]

- Recommends using their own password manager (That has a limit of 16 passwords)

[1] https://www.nitrokey.com/documentation/applications#a:passwo...
> There is also a reason for that

Don't be shy. Do share what that reason is.
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> Given that there are numerous chemical additives in traditional chemical cigarettes that are known to cause health issues nicotine may not be the dominantly harmful component in cigarettes.

Based on your above comment, it sounds like you think that they tested for nicotine specifically. They did not. From the press release:

There are potentially hundreds of chemicals in e-cigarettes that could be contributing to DNA damage, Kadimisetty says. Rather than test for all of them, the UConn team targeted three known carcinogenic chemicals found in tobacco cigarettes. They then loaded their device’s microwells with specific enzymes that would convert those chemicals into metabolites. If these chemicals were in the sample, the test gave them a reading for genotoxicity. If the chemicals were not present, there would be no reaction.

Based on that paragraph, and other sentences throughout the press release, my interpretation is that their findings are that e-cigarettes are potentially as harmful as cigarettes. Some of the comments in this thread make it sounds like the researchers showed that just the nicotine in e-cigarettes is as potentially harmful as just the nicotine in cigarettes, but that's not my reading.
The games people play smarten up AI
Maybe this is more about drinking than dress code. Companies of Japanese salarymen have the same problem - too much group drinking, and a very uniform culture.
@good_vibes - Is this presumably directed only at devs or are you speaking to any remote workers? I'm head of Sales for Pagely.com and just finished a program called Remote Year where I worked across 51 cities, 16 countries and 4 continents. I ended up giving a talk at PressNomics in April on everything involved in making this situation work. It was well-received. You can find that here if interested: https://pagely.com/blog/2017/04/making-remote-work-work/

lmk if you have any questions I can help with
Thanks! I didn't know about the OnlyKey, being a Teensy fan and looking for a yubikey alternative, this looks really good. I already ordered one :)
> when people claim its about effort and hard work.

it's not just about effort and hard work. there are a lot of other factors, and one of those factors is his decision (for better or worse) to become a dancer vs. a doctor or lawyer or engineer. he's an adult and made his choice. we as a society cannot afford to subsidize everyone's "dream" of being an artist. someone has to actually do the work of moving us forward and keeping the lights on.
"The internet has utterly failed us on data about smoking."

Wikipedia seems fairly rational about nicotine

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

It seems to boil down to "mostly harmless" whereas all the delivery technologies for it, other than the patch, seem to be almost infinitely more dangerous than the nicotine itself.
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$350/mo?? How much would the gas cost for you to commute to your physical office (assuming you have one)? Are you really coming out ahead compared to commuting to an office?
Just an FYI that might interest you:

http://gigworks.blogspot.com/2017/04/moonlight-work-for-soft...
There a tons of name conflicts for things that are more popular than the gopher protocol. If the creators wanted to avoid this they need to pick a unique name.
I've never met someone who could do 80 hours of focused work. Everyone I've seen who puts in a lot of hours doesn't achieve more results than if they had put in 40 hours of focused work. They feel like they're making progress, but they make many mistakes along the way and then later have to spend crazy hours making up for those mistakes, making more mistakes, etc... ad nauseum.
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Or the 3 or 4 competing apps named "paper."
OP is the author of the Bowhead opensource library and the author of the article. Let me know if you have any questions.
My comment is to be taken as anecdotal evidence only. My personal experience. Nothing more.

It's just what I've encountered as an American interacting with other Americanized Americans in the United States, with whom I've had a direct face-to-face relationship. Without any IRL interactions, I have absolutely no idea who's on the other side of the internet, and don't claim to know anything about anyone anywhere else.
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Ask HN: Why was this post flagged?
Flagged after getting about 170 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14536254

There seems to be a lot of commentors who disagree with the article ideologically. I'm guessing some of them flagged it. Would that be a misuse of the flag button? If so, can a mod unflag it?