skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Draper backed Bancor completes largest ever ICO: $150m
Can You Scale an SME Facing B-to-B Business in India?
How did you get from "very nice people" to "hateful" and "whiny"?
The MSN page is pretty distracting (maybe it needs an ad/sponsored-content removal diet :)) - here is the linked article which has a pretty good summary (probably as good the MSN article) at the top of the page:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07315724.2017.13...
It must be possible to get the same effect without copying the files by using links. If it is all on the same file system then hardlinks would work and be very space efficient.
> There can be consequences for violating social norms, this isn't a difficult concept.

I've already agreed with that. And referring to men as "male" and woman as "female" is not violating any social norms, at least not in the United States.
> Roman chair is a better choice than sit-ups.

Anything is better than situps, since situps don't actually work the abs and are murder on the back.
More or less. It's copyright Google because I am a Google employee and it's related to my work. But it's fully open-source (Apache 2) and I'm the only one really developing it or deciding things about it.
They want you to buy the expensive Xeons, or higher end i7s to get the proper amount of PCI lanes.
I have business ideas, some small scale business ideas and some tech startup ideas. The main reason I am not able to pursue anyone of them at this point is because of visa limitations. I am on H1b visa which does not allow me to start a business or startup. I have to always work for a employer who sponsored my visa. I took H1b visa and came to US because my then would be wife moved here and I had to put family first. My finances and personal situations did not allow me to start a business in India and now I am stuck because of visa restrictions.
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Also how I got my remote positions (this is the second one I've had). In both cases I didn't actually intend to be remote, but after a year or so life circumstances required that I move. So I went to my bosses, explained my situation and asked if they were OK with me working remotely. In both cases my employers were not that experienced with remote workers, so there have been a lot of challenges. Having a reputation really helps to remove misunderstandings. Still, you have to expect to work hard to keep communication as obvious as possible.
I think this is right on. I listen to quite a bit of music and I have said several times to friends something like "I could spend the rest of my life listening to music released before 2000". Hyperbole, perhaps to some, but that is pretty accurate. I am now able to go and "discover" bands from the 70s.

Film is another form of media that behaves in a similar manner. Why would I need to watch the new remake of movie X when the original is so readily available, and likely better.

I think the internet has worked to make media and culture diffuse much faster. Something new and interesting is suddenly everywhere and certain kinds of surprises, or hype or suspense similar to say, the Beatles landing in the US in the 60s, would be extraordinarily hard to replicate.

I would though, take a less dour attitude in regards to the future than you seem to have hinted at. I think society is adjusting to the this bombardment of entertainment, a more more people live fulfilling lives mostly detached from social media, you just won't find them on facebook :-).
Or send it back with markup. A lot of companies will wipe off stuff at that point because the manager wants to make the hire. This is the point where you have the most leverage in making the deal.

It's also important to stay unemotional, e.g., treat it at the same level as what your office chair looks like. You just want them to agree, not start wondering if you are a good fit.

I personally dislike non-competes but the point is to get it removed, not make some big statement. (Unless your goal is to make a statement, not get the job under desirable conditions.)
After we shut down my last startup, Staffjoy [1], I wanted to travel full-time. I realized that I hated going to an office every day. I also knew that I wanted to contract, and that the contractor market was broken on both sides.

So, I started Moonlight [2], and started working for a variety of companies remotely on a contract basis. We're working to expand the marketplace, and are adding more projects every week. One of the factors that helps getting remote contract work is having a track record - meaning, at least 3 years of experience working professionally in technology.

About a month ago, I sold all of my stuff (I currently own a carry-on suitcase and backpack) and hit the road. I'm currently in Mexico City until the end of August, working about 10 hours per week through Moonlight to pay for all of my living costs.

[1] https://blog.staffjoy.com/staffjoy-is-shutting-down-39f7b5d6...

[2] https://www.moonlightwork.com
Wage fixing is not a "reasonable level of protection."
Why must electric cars look and feel like gas cars?

I’d love an ultra-light 4-wheeled vehicle that runs on electricity and is modestly outfitted for non-expressway driving.
I'd hazard a guess that most HN readers are early adopters. This is a perspective from the opposite. If you're making a software product there's a very good chance that 20-60% of your user base is going to come from these self-identified "low end" users. I didn't upvote the OP, but it's valuable to surface this kind of perspective occasionally, if for no reason other than to remind us that the people that consume readers' services may be coming from a different perspective than we do.
It's an assumption that they're not comfortable discussing hot-button topics publicly.
Brad Stone covers it in great detail in "The Upstarts". Great read.
Despite having a formidable Mount TBR, I occasionally branch off into a genre I have barely touched and would like to read more of that genre (example I'm thinking of is horror after reading 14/The Fold). My to be read list is not a guidance, but a fallback :)
Wait, are you serious about this working for you while you are aware of price being a part of the deal or are you fucking trolling us? I was under impression that people to whom price matters as such usually are in denial of it.
There are pollution issues related to rare earth materials, and aluminium also requires a lot of energy.

But the big issue is still car culture and related energy waste, urban development and health issues.
On the other hand, eCigs use replaceable batteries that will wind up being disposed of when you’re done.
If your organization can't encourage frank discussion about workplace issues without a venue for employees to drug themselves, you probably have more important problems to dive into.

More importantly, if you lean on off-site drinking as your method to get real feedback and communication, you probably have less incentive to fix your workplace culture in the first place.
Do you have any sources for those claims?
This is an important distinction. The salaries on this sheet seem low overall, and it's probably because they're new grads from bootcamp. Someone with 10+ years of experience should be demanding more than the average salary on this list.
Duality for the Support Vector Machine
Extreme bias. As great as these salary's look from the big guys, it totally discredits the real salary ranges from the non big players. I also think it gives a false impression of salary when the truth is very few applicants would get the jobs listed at those rates.
Honestly was expecting a lot more, considering the salaries people throw around on Hacker News. Using http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/savings/moving-cost-of-l... the adjusted value for $136,000 in SF to where I live in New York is a decent chunk less. Especially being in a DevOps/Systems role, and not a Software Dev one.
Because many of the workers who are "good" come to the Bay Area for the money, the lifestyle, the location, and the job selection. If you could, why would you not want to live in an excellent climate by many of the US tech companies and make 3-8+x what you'd get elsewhere? You also typically get to work on "cooler" stuff since the companies out here can afford to make bigger and riskier bets. There aren't too many AI/ML positions around the rest of the country, but it's hot right now here.
Don't have the money. Also, a reasonable index fund like XLS has had 13% on its own. Add to the trading oil ETNs. Those can have 10% moves on their own in a few weeks. They are also 1099.
Ethical Questions for Marketers – Part 1
That's not a good comparison. The original quote was made in reference to the total number of machines, not to the number of models.
Nothing is harmless. People drown in drinkable fresh water all the time.
Not a bad thing. You are obviously more than free to configure your browser however you want. Just don't whine about it. Maybe give some constructive criticism (It would be nice if..., Maybe you could consider to...).

Or just open the developer console and inspect the source, like a hacker/reverse engineer.
Very cool. I'm currently working from home as my wife is on medical leave and I'm assisting. I'm not sure I could live the full-on itinerant lifestyle, but I'd love the ability to fly to some foreign city for a month and work from there.. a couple times a year. Of course, that doesn't require full-time remote work, and likely finding a full-time remote position would be a slight hit in the ability to pay a silicon valley mortgage.... but maybe not.
It may be interesting to also list age, besides gender and race.
I think in ye olden days there was a deliberate attempt by someone -- the shadowy world of cultural illuminati, maybe - to segment by decade, even though I never remember any directives saying, "It's now 1980 -- please burn all of your stuff that dates from 1979 or earlier."
Are you claiming that all sudoku solvers are constant time algorithms, because the upper bound is not greater than enumerating the total constant number of boards? There are no O(1) sudoku solvers in existence that run in a short amount of time, yet you seem to be suggesting that the "very simple" sudoku solvers you referred to can be classified as O(1) algorithms.
I published some freeware. Someone contacted me about making a fancier paid version. 10 years later that product is long dead but I'm still here.

I got out there and then I got lucky.
You're kidding me.

I'm in the UK, 10 years dev experience, BSc Computer Science.

Every single salary in that list is higher than mine.
My wife owns a business with 20 employees that basically makes it so that we can't move out of the area. Moving would have been preferred but they understood it wasn't an option and did have some other remotes at the time. Many more now though.
I'm surprised to see the vegetarian and vegan question get so little attention, but you could get two of these in one by going to Shizen.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/shizen-vegan-sushi-bar-and-izakaya-...

Other thoughts (with very different ambience, price range, and focus):

Golden Era is generally delicious but maybe not that healthy in terms of salt and sugar.

Udupi Palace for nice dosa and uttapam options.

Dim sum at Lucky Creation for an unbelievably non-touristy Buddhist vegetarian experience.

If you're particularly looking for juice bar-oriented vegetarian places, Judahlicious is probably a clear candidate (they also have a specialty in raw food). Nourish Café is also a great option in this category.

I was personally not impressed by Seed+Salt or Vegan Picnic.

The vegan scene is stronger across the Bay in Oakland than in San Francisco proper. I love two spots that are not especially healthy: Souley Vegan (soul food) and Timeless Coffee Roaster (vegan baked goods that seem kind of impossible, plus coffee and chocolate).

But this is drifting quite some distance away from the original focus of the question.

You can also get a vegan poke bowl at, at least, Veggie Grill (a chain with its nearest location in Larkspur, over in beautiful Marin County) and Eatsa (a vegetarian bowl-oriented automat, with two downtown locations, where your food is made by unseen workers behind the curtain and appears inside of little boxes on the wall).
Serverless computing with OSv
Talk about co-dependent relationships...
I see what you mean. Something I've been doing recently to help with that problem is reading clusters of books that all relate to each other. For example, I'm currently reading a bunch of Hemingway's stories and next I'm gonna read a bunch of books centered on the American Revolution and the founding fathers. By clustering books the list I have to sort is much smaller.
I think it is pretty pointless to make nationwide comparisons.

For example, I looked and found a level 1 Software Engineer opening in Kansas City for 50K. That actually seems pretty good -- the median house price there is 120K. Here in Portland it's 345K, and entry level engineers aren't getting 3x the salary. More like 80K or so.

This actually sounds kinda like a good reason for moving to the midwest, assuming you like everything else about it there.
You're making a lot of assumptions for someone who hasn't seen that Slack conversation.
What I dislike most about a cubicle is the lack of natural light. (Open space doesn't necessarily mean that natural light is available, I know, but a cubicle makes it even less likely.) I am all for productivity but the cubicle setup feels like going to an extreme for the sake of the last few available percents worth of concentration improvement by stepping over parts of our inherent nature. I am willing to tolerate that only for limited periods if I absolutely need that productivity boost, I am not however considering that good for me or anyone else for the normal daily work regime.
You're right, "insults" was the wrong word. A better word is "flamebait". The last thing we need here is more drive-by gender flamewarrage, and when accounts do this repeatedly (as this one has), we ban them. Hence the warning.
Based on talking to peers at my company who work in the UK, and corroborating stories from friends at similar companies, UK salaries are dramatically lower across the board.
Will we see one for female employees? Or would that be too expensive to compile?
I've seen a handful of friends injure themselves weightlifting over the years, and almost every incident stemmed from poor form and/or too much weight.

I don't know if I'd recommend a personal trainer for anyone seriously considering it, trainers aren't cheap and most people aren't likely to stick with weight training. If we're talking weightlifting as a sport, yes you should definitely be working with experts whether trainers or fellow weightlifters.

I'd recommend anyone new to study up on form when you start working out, and maybe ask a trainer at the gym you go to to give you a quick form check.
This was brought up in a post below, but the first sentence is hard to decipher. I think "patiently allowed" here implies that they kindly answered his questions even though he was touching the third rail.

In other words he was afraid of being hated on for opening the dialogue, but the people on the Slack channel were fully willing to engage.
Sure, but isn't that ten years old already? It's not like these big changes come every month.
A fascinating read, but it could use (1997) in the title.
I wrote a Soduku solver in Python while waiting in the airport on a long layover that solves even the most difficult puzzles in a few seconds on an now old laptop. It requires some backtracking but it's really not that hard.

Edit: I decided to publish my implementation on GitHub. https://github.com/jcoffland/fsudoku
Proper form and reasonable weight are important. I've had a few injuries due to those as well.
This makes me want to cry. I'm below all but one of these entries. 30 years experience + full stack + dba.

All because of where I live (small northern ontario town -remotism?) and likley ageism (57). I should be getting paid MORE because of where I live.
> Triple price and 1/3 quantity directly follows the linear demand curves they teach in Economics 101.. not sure what else you were expecting.

It doesn't follow a linear demand curve, because we only have two data points (any two points can define a line, so we'd need at least one more to estimate the second derivative).

Furthermore, linear demand curve doesn't mean that the price elasticity of demand is 1 - and in fact, unit elasticity would be quite surprising, and it would generally not be desirable for Tesla[0].

But finally, Economics 101 classes don't teach linear demand curves. Every introductory economics textbook I've seen draws them this way because it's easier and it doesn't change the math at the introductory level, but every single one also introduces the concept with an indicator that it's drawn this way for convenience, not because they are teaching linear models.

[0] You can come up with somewhat exogenous reasons for wanting to operate in the unit-elastic or inelastic portions of the demand curve, based on the venture model of optimizing for brand penetration, but it's not the place that they'd financially be able to or want to operate in the long run.
1. pay off all debts.
2. buy a 20' conex and turn it into a tiny home/office with solar panels, water catch/purification system, and composting toilet.
3. sell current house/land (+$400).
4. buy land in Baja Sur MX or Fiji (or New Zealand or Iceland).
4. move conex to land.
5. set up a chicken/vegetation/fish/vegetable permaculture thing (https://gardenpool.org/). and goats.
6. drop a lump sum into cryptocurrencies. wait to see what happens.
7. play guitar a lot.
Great post!
I'm mostly holding ETH but have been thinking of doing some semiautomated day trading. How much botting do you think is going on successfully in the ETH world, or other altcoins? Do you think it'd be worthwhile to spend a few hundred hours coding up a system and attempting to find good indicators or strategies? Do you know of any people making a lot of money doing automated? Or any good algorithmic trading forums for discussion?
In the process of hating someone (and there is a lot to dislike about Kalanick) people commonly and unfortunately loose sight of that fact. You can hate how someone runs their business (which I do, somewhat) and still have compassion for a loss like what he went through, which I had not heard of until today and which sounds quite heartbreaking.
I'm a contractor/consultant and 95% of the time I work in my own private office. In order to duplicate this arrangement it helps to have some sort of expertise/reputation such that your clients don't think they need to watch you work.

If you worked for company A at one point in your career and left on good terms, you might do some part time contracting for them from home. If you worked for companies A, B and C and you can swing the same arrangement you're now a consultant.
The vast majority of these are App Academy (a/A) programming bootcamp graduates, which explains why only 10% have CS degrees. Bootcamp graduates are probably not representative of all CS grads, or even most devs, so take this with a grain of salt.
The CS degree column seems to confirm that as well. More proof that you don't need to hand over a small fortune to some college to succeed at what we do on a day to day basis. The industry should have a better indicator of who is a "front-line" developer and who is actually what I consider a computer scientist who is at the forefront of research and development in the field (and should be making a lot more salary/income).
I bought a used Leaf with 19k miles for $8500; so I can buy 8 of those for a current Tesla. The larger charge port is 50 kW.
Even worse is when Justin Timberlake did that song "Cry Me A River", when there was already an excellent song by the same name. It just obscures the existing song, and does the world a disservice.
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Guess HN killed it :\
If you can find the other ones for me, I'd appreciate knowing what they are. Maybe email them to hn@ycombinator.com?
Unfortunately very many people casually lump a huge range of maladies under the umbrella of "RSI" and treat them as if they all have the same root cause and the same remedy. Wrist/arm pain could be carpal-tunnel syndrome, or it could be tendonitis, or it could be any of a bunch of other things all of which are technically "RSI". For some, strength training can certainly help; for others, as in your case, it may do more harm than help.
When I lived in London in the late 2000s, dev salaries were shockingly low relative to what we saw in the states both before and after living in the UK.
Exactly. Have some empathy.
Even a SAT solver is overkill.
> "The growing body of Big-data, HPC, and especially machine learning applications don’t need Windows and don’t perform on X86. So 2017 is the year Nvidia slips its leash and breaks free to become a genuinely viable competitive alternative to x86 based enterprise computing in valuable new markets that are unsuited to x86 based solutions."

Google's TPU paper [0] showed the CPUs were relatively competitive in the machine learning space (within 2x of a K80). It's not true that x86 doesn't perform on these workloads.

The existence of the TPU itself threatens Nvidia's dominance in the ML processor space. Google built an ASIC in a short time period that more than rivals a GPU on these tasks. The TPU performance improvements (section 7) make it look very straightforward to get even better performance with a few more years of development effort. With developers moving to higher level libraries, migration between GPU/CPU/TPU becomes painless, so they'll just go with whatever has the lowest TCO. (Google hosted TPUs?)

Aside from machine learning tasks, the author seems to be advocating for the cpu/gpu combinations that AMD is already selling to game console manufacturers. Granted, Nvidia has a piece of this via the Switch. If Microsoft/Qualcomm goes full-on with their ARM-based x86 emulation, then perhaps a future ARM-based Xbox is in the cards driven by an Nvidia chip? /speculation

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04760
anecdotal evidence from Facebook: if you transfer to London office instead of Bay Area, your salary gets slashed 20%
This data doesn't seem too reliably sourced. Sorting by ascending years of experience shows negative numbers with the top entry being -9001 and an annual base pay of "a trap a day makes the boner go away"...
I had minor back pain and also pickup strength training including doing "starting strength". The biggest difference though was reading "Becoming a supple leopard" and focusing on getting mobility and flexibility back to my lower body. Getting your pelvis back into a neutral position will do wonders for your back but that requires focusing on short hamstrings and hip flexors that comes with sitting all day.
Similar... and by quite a margin too. This is very sobering.
It's surprising that no one has mentioned Body by Science[1], SuperSlow from Ken Hutchins, Arthur Jones and Nautilus, and other research based programs from the last forty years. Free weights can be very dangerous as you approach muscle failure, and all sorts of momentum, breath holding, etc. are problematic. Unless hypertrophy and/or bad time management are your goals, I prefer the system of deep muscle inroading in 12 minutes a week, and then I work on sport skills, not building muscle mass, the rest of the week. I have a median genotype, not the genetic makeup of a muscle magazine.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Body-Science-Research-Strength-Traini...
"Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week"

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PdJFbjWHEU

[3] http://techzinglive.com/page/1500/268-tz-interview-dr-doug-m...
Why would your remote location with a lower cost of living(I'm assuming, at least for housing) mean you should make more?
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