skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soli | iOS Engineer | Boston | REMOTE, INTERNS http://www.solipoints.com/

Soli is a startup that has developed a loyalty/rewards platform that, in addition to providing cash back on purchases, will automatically offset CO2 emissions.

We are seeking an iOS engineer to develop and maintain our iOS mobile platform. (Interns too!)

This individual will be responsible for developing new features and maintaining an iOS application for a shopping-rewards platform targeted at millennial consumer adoption. Working directly with the CPO, BE Engineer, and design team, this individual will have a significant level of responsibility as an early engineering hire.

email: james@solipoints.com with the subject "HN: SOLI"
Yet you just lost 90% of your money. It's shocking that you can now see the trick being performed on employees.

What a typical employee thought:

- I have 1% of a 10M dollar company. We'll do well and in 2 years I will have 1% of a 100M dollar company.

What will happen in the best case:

- I had 1% of a 10M dollar company. They did well and now he has 1% of a 100M company (dilution in your face!).

He just lost 9M. They were actually never on the table, even thought the hiring department didn't hesitate to pretend they were.
I can't even... IANAL, but I would have written memo on those discussions as well because I would have been scared witless.
Apple adds simple Wi-Fi sharing in iOS 11
There's a difference between belonging to a sort of tool club, and paying with both time and money to keep things going well, and loaning out my personal possessions. I've been thinking about joining a local makerspace specifically to get access to large tools I don't have space for right now, and I have no problem with that idea. That's no different from joining a gym, in principle. (That doesn't mean I prefer using communal tools. I means right now, that's what's best for my situation. Once I have space, I absolutely will be buying a lathe, mill, etc.)

However, there's a clear difference between that and loaning out my personal equipment. I would never belong to a car share because my car is an intensely personal possession. It doesn't sit bare and empty when I'm not driving it--I keep things in my car--and I never want it to be unavailable to me. And the same goes for my tools. Even something as simple as a ladder or a socket set is personal, when it's something you selected and bought yourself.

I wonder how many mechanics you know? Machinists? Other skilled tool-using professionals? Ask some of them how they feel about loaning tools sometime.
Given how terrible mainstream news outlets are at reporting scientific results, I strongly feel that we should discourage users from linking to such "stories". It lowers the quality of discourse.

Sci-Am is one thing, CBS News really is another...
Possibly stupid question:

At the top of the article, we see `(reduce + (map inc (filter even? s)))` -- here, `reduce` is a two-place predicate, taking a function and a collection.

Later, `reduce` is taking a function, a 'base case' [], and a collection -- it's a three-place predicate, more in line with a signature for `fold` than what I'm used to seeing for `reduce`.

Is this a clojure specific overload thing? I'm not at all an expert in FP or anything so it might be fairly standard.
I think the important point is that everyone has to deal with bullshit, and it's generally better to assume it's not meant to intentionally hurt.

I've had many occasions where someone has said something that caught me a little and offended me and I ultimately just decided they didn't mean it that way (even if they did). I do this because I know I'm not the smoothest individual out there and I have no doubt I've said some things that may have causes someone else doubt or offense when it was just me saying things in a bad manner.

When you enter the work force there's a certain amount of bullshit you have to put up with. I once had the CEO of a company roll his eyes at me in the middle of a meeting and say roughly "you IT people are all the same" in front of everyone there.

Sometimes it's just a part of being it the work force and you have to deal with bullshit in your day to day. It doesn't mean it's sexist, racist, or whathaveyou, it just means you're dealing with people who are oblivious or assholes.
It seems like overkill to write software for that but I've killed these ones manually. Feel free to flag them as well.

To flag a comment, click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'flag' at the top. (There's a small karma threshold, currently 30, before flag links appear.)
> I've heard this argument before - that women are deliberately socialized to be subordinate.

That's because it's a fairly well established fact.

> Personally, I believe in the strength & agency of women.

Yeah, so do I. That doesn't negate the effects of differential socialization; objective external circumstances have real impacts.
Got a job at a level 1 once early in my career (2 years experience). Before I started the COO told me that the his team was the best and given I was just starting out in my career I had a lot to learn from them. Massive warning sign in hindsight.

First day on the job...so you guys really don't have source control?
> I'll go one step further... all new code should be written for clarity only. Optimized only if necessary.

I'm not saying you do, but many people I run across who have this point of view do a poor job at measuring the "if necessary" part. You aren't really prepared to detect it without some form of production performance monitoring, meaning on the chart, a level of around 2.5. I would say they should probably change this section of the spreadsheet to emphasize knowledge of performance.
They could even be for-profit companies if they were willing to accept regulation (like utility companies ) and a low but guaranteed profit (like utility companies.)
Someone with knowledge and money should push for the development of alternative open and free (as in speech) printer mainboards to swap the original ones. In some cases reverse engineering and flash reprogramming should be enough.
I'd happily donate some quid if such a project would exist.
It's also brave to play Russian Roulette. Should that be celebrated?

You have to distinguish between brave acts which have a moral purpose. And brave acts which are just displays of bravado.

Bravery to save a person from a fire ... that is worthy of celebration.

Bravery to jump between two tall buildings to impress your bozo friends below ... impressive ... but any society that makes a point celebrating this in its culture might see some problematic developments in how its youth view risk.
Sure, but let's say it would be globally optimal to slow down and let you in. You could imagine this only being done for cars of the same brand, which is different than explicitly attacking competitors. Regulation is likely that answer, but I have my doubts that "behaving like ants" will be the default behavior.
The CTO is incompetent. Don't blame the junior engineer.
"I don't understand how using a persons gender for gauging ability to cope with forceful men isn't sexist.
"

Yes! That's the entire point I am trying to make. You just said it in far less words.
No arguments here
Is there a non PDF version?
It's at 1:07:41 in the video linked in the parent[1], but start at 1:03:50 to get the full context (short of watching the whole video).

Also, in case someone does a Ctrl+F for "timestamp", there you go.

[1] http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/programs/big-universe-bi...
Gaining weight. I love eating. I could eat a lot of food. I also have night eating syndrome. So I usually have my first meal of the day very early in the morning around 2:00 AM or so. This happens after I fall asleep. I will wake up in my sleep and grab food from the kitchen, usually about 400 calories worth of food. Then, I go back to sleep. I haven't been able to solve this problem.
URLs dump from December 2016 (13Mo)
> They're expensive (beyond a little bit of included data usage) and high-latency. How's SpaceX going to change that?

Very many lower cost lower orbit satellites.

The plan is to double the amount of active satellites in orbit (4425 new satellites) in the next few years, resulting in half of all satellites being SpaceX internet satellites that cost an order of magnitude less than current satellites.
Privacy Badger is what you're looking for.

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Heck, I wonder if my dad knew your dad ;-). My dad also witnessed a number of nuclear tests, include at Bikini Atoll, and his ship went in to take measurements shortly after the explosion (he was a meteorologist in the Navy). He's 84 now and he will die before too much longer of old age, not cancer. (he also lived near Hanford, played with mercury as a kid, smoked a pipe his entire life... he's been lucky)
There will be a video version tomorrow.

In seriousness, here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/read-james-comeys-prepar...
Statement of record – James B Comey
I look forward to trying this out. This idea has been on my mind for a few years now. Never built it of course :)
I run a google group called Business Bootstrappers. I don't have a unified theory, but I did forward the links to this article, discussion and Startup School to it, which is part of why I asked this question. It has no goal of fostering what people call "lifestyle businesses" (a term I am not fond of http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-love-lucy-...), but it does have a goal of supporting businesses that aren't specifically looking to take VC funding.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/business-bootstrappe...
> Silicon Valley is truly uncannily realistic.

Silicon Valley and Veep are both disturbingly prescient.
There are almost a billion good reasons for it to track your location all the time.

http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-News/Google-announces...
I finished their ML course pretty recently, and was able to take the quizzes and assessments without paying.
Big fat nothing burger.
Dogs and chickens, I forgot about them, but with safe slow traffic, your dog can tag along. With a special purpose compartment on the bike trailer, you could bring ~4 chickens, and have a couple fresh eggs every morning, wherever you happen to be. Home is wherever you can inflate your bed; your party only moves forward, never returns.

Perhaps someone should specialize to handle sheep and goats. If you want deer or bison, then form a hunting party, and then trade 100s of kilos of sausages for your kid's first bike-trailer-home.
Allegedly, their latency is "as low as 25ms".
Thank you for clarifying those points.
> That precludes the breed of jerks who will talk over anybody that will tolerate it

So are you claiming that those sort of jerks are not going to be extra nasty to women that will tolerate it? That they are going to be equally nasty to people of both sexes?
If that's what you're claiming, I'll humbly disagree but won't engage any further.

> What makes you think there aren't women who also like to claim the center of attention, regardless of other men OR women around them?

I never claimed that there aren't such women. Indeed there exist women who behave worse with other women than they do with men. But then what's your point? Women being sexist doesn't make it okay for men to continue to be so now, does it?
i like php.net's "user contributed notes" system:

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.p...

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php#u...

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.header.php#usernot...
FWIW, I think the original title was pretty good. I have had the unfortunate experience of screaming pretty much exactly those words (albeit replace "Google" with a different company from which one of my CEO's advisors came from).

EDIT: how about combine the two?

You Are Not Google: Another "Don't Cargo Cult" Article
Why shouldn't employees also demand, and also be given, the right to buy more shares in subsequent funding rounds?

If I was going to work at a company for X% ownership, I'd sure expect to have the right to invest my own money to preserve my stake in a funding round and avoid dilution. Many employees might not exercise this privilege, since it would require putting (potentially a lot of) cash back into the company, but why aren't they given the choice? I also might expect to receive the same liquidation preference on any shares purchased in cash this way.

I'm not sure I could be comfortable working for a startup without pro rata rights and relatively full knowledge of the cap table and preferences. That's probably why I'm not working at a startup.
How is this available before his testimony? I'm confused.
Talkington, quite the aptonym for this article.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how much of it is due to the way we make devs work and the hours we make them keep.

For example, I'd be more than happy to use the same old, tried and true, boring tools to just get the job done, if it meant that I could then go play golf or otherwise not be in the office.

But if you insist that I be in my seat 8 hours a day regardless of workload, then goddamn let's take this shiny new tool for a spin!

Do I want my resume to show that I used the same tool for every job for the last ten years? Or do I want it show some new hotness?

The industry and employers are as much to blame for this as the engineers, if not more. When you use middleman firms to find your employees, and all they understand is buzzwords, well then guess what game the devs are gonna play?
Ah, but that is a treaty and those are not worth the paper they were printed on these days. Just unilaterally withdraw and do whatever you want.
It's like when you meet a bad boss, you know immediatly you should keep everything in writing...

I did that in a previous internship and it helped me greatly afterwards. Though in my case it did escalate to physical threats.
Legislators who stand up to nonsense like this need to be supported for protecting children against an overreaching state.

The law is absurd in what it targets, but even if children were actually guilty of a crime (as opposed to just engaging in sexual behavior), they should be allowed to mature.

This is just another example of the GOP outlawing sex. Society won't accept their archaic social morals, so they shove it down our throats under other guises.
I can see the desire to disable JavaScript, but I think it's more useful to disable CSS on most sites. I'd be interested to see this article except without CSS instead of JavaScript.
I think people downvoting tend to ignore the fact that the proposed "optimal" solutions for non-Google companies were at some point novelties themselves. If the same logic is applied we'd be using CICS app servers, IMS, and buying terminals.

At some point things change, the new normal changes, etc. The shift we are seeing in some areas also contributes to finally accepting the realities of distributed systems.
Not that long ago we thought the sun orbited around the Earth.

Do we know better? Probably. Are we correct in our understanding of the natural world? Hell no.

"All models are wrong; some models are very useful", as the adage goes. Science isn't so much about being right as it is about being less wrong.
This study seems small and with the effect being the opposite of that previously found it basically amounts to "What's going on here???" I did like this from the article, though:

In an accompanying editorial, Killian Welch, consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, says the findings "strengthen the argument that drinking habits many regard as normal have adverse consequences for health."

"This is important," he writes. "We all use rationalizations to justify persistence with behaviors not in our long term interest. With publication of this paper, justification of 'moderate' drinking on the grounds of brain health becomes a little harder."

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In company with Ioannidis's article "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"[1], I believe the rationalization effect is big in such studies. People want to believe that the things they already do are virtuous, thus there's a bias toward finding that chocolate, wine, etc., are all actually good for you. Not to mention respective industries that would benefit from such findings.

1: http://faculty.dbmi.pitt.edu/day/Bioinf2118/Bioinf-2118-2013...
Oh. Uploaded prematurely. Got it.
The infrastructure one had me chuckle a bit. Just go straight to large clusters or platform service plans guys. 2ezpz
I do exactly this and have no problem with FB. I only friend people I actually know and care to have interactions with, and I kick anyone who's posts are overall more worth my time than not off my feed. This means my feed is actually worth scrolling through (and takes maybe 10 minutes every couple days to get through) and if I want to see what's going on with some particular person who isn't on my feed, I can go to their page and skim through.

I don't get all the hate on FB. Sure, the default is mess, but that's what most people want, and if it's not what you want, there are means to control it and still have a powerful communication tool. A tool is what you make of it, and it's really not hard to make use of FB in a sane way.
YAGNI is dismissive. That other approach with a comparably silly acronym is an actually useful checklist.
They were taking samples of the air to obtain fission products and other clues to the performance of the weapon.

This is pretty important since you can both evaluate your weapon, and also to calibrate your instruments to use when collecting downwind of Soviet tests. Thus you can evaluate their weapons too.
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> In my opinion, ignoring hurtful behavior because we believe the intent wasn't meant to be hurtful will only encourage these behaviors in the long run.

OTOH, maybe you should man the fuck up and move on with your life. I know that seems blunt and assholeish, but that's sort of the point.

I've been offended plenty of times and talked myself down because I knew ultimately it was my emotions misinterpreting the intent.

There is nothing that says just offense can't be mistaken.

edit: watch someone call the phrase 'man the fuck up' sexist.
And even today, isn't the latest system under development only running about 50/50 on successful intercepts? It's a hard problem to solve.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497784
Yesterday's thread where the majority of the conversation was
It seems like the other perspective has been lost here. The host has now been publicly branded as a sexist on "evidence" that at best is ambiguous. To the people upvoting this: Shouldn't claims like this that are extremely damaging to a persons reputation require more evidence?
"The President then returned to the topic of Mike Flynn, saying, “He is a good guy and has been through a lot.” He repeated that Flynn hadn’t done anything wrong on his calls with the Russians, but had misled the Vice President. He then said, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” I replied only that “he is a good guy.” (In fact, I had a positive experience dealing with Mike Flynn when he was a colleague as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency at the beginning of my
term at FBI.) I did not say I would “let this go.” "
Zulip is easily the best open source group chat solution, especially for companies.

It's very well designed from the ground up and gets all the little details right (real name + mail address handling, not mangling pasted content, full text search, hell, they even ship with Nagios checks for their backend services...).

The threading model is second to none - once you've become used to it, using any room-based chat software feels cumbersome and "wrong".
Try DMAIC six sigma - Define/Measure/Analyze/Improve/Control

or OSEMN data science - Obtain/Scrub/Explore/Model/iNterpret
http://www.dataists.com/2010/09/a-taxonomy-of-data-science/
I believe that only a small subset of courses on Coursera can be taken for free while being able to do the quizzes and assignments. A lot of them are restricted though.
It's fairly common in functional programming languages for functions to be differentiated both by name and arity (reduce/2 being different from reduce/3.)
Why are so many people looking for Heroku alternatives?
I really dislike the culture of drinking at startups. I don't like to drink unless I'm with my girlfriend.
I agree with your sentiment, I would appreciate it if we had an ongoing meta-analysis of pre-existing studies instead of hype - but non-hype doesn't get people to pay attention to the news, and if the news doesn't have everyone's attention, how can they sell advertising?
Here's a main feature I was looking for. I think I can solve it via "Notes" on a person but I'd love it has a main feature. I think it's similar to the SO and Children boxes.

It would be great to be able to add friends of a contact... so people that you've met once or twice (at your friend Steve's birthday party, for example), you don't know them enough to add as contact but you want to remember their name and where they work, etc. And it's essential that they are somehow connected to the person you know so you can look them up easily next time you go to Steve's party.
Gentoo dropping support of sparc as a security supported architecture
I wish more studies accounted for how drinking is done.

Indeed. From what my own innards tell me, drinking almost any amount just before sleeping feels particularly disruptive to the various housekeeping activities said innards are entrusted with. The same amount in the afternoon (or well before nocturnal drowsiness sets in), rather less so.

It would also be nice to know to what extent the various damages detailed in the article compare with those of, say, loss of sleep or poor nutrition - or even (seriously now) social isolation, stress, or watching too much TV. And to what extent the body and brain may be able to repair these damages, over time.
THIS! I had privacy concerns, but you just blew them away. If I can host this in my own server, I'm sold. HUGE THANKS!
Why the downvote? Guy is a well known statistician pointing out some statistical flaws in the study...
ClearInk – Video E-Ink display
Why do you assume people embrace "personal car culture" just because there's a lack of public transportation? People like having their own vehicles. It's freedom and independence.

Even if I lived right on a bus line, and my workplace was on that same line, I would still drive or ride a motorcycle to work (or bike, if it was close enough I suppose). I got well over being on the bus's schedule by my senior year of high school and I have no interest in going back to that.

I do absolutely agree we need more remote work options but that's up to employers, and they don't seem to like the idea much in general, so... not holding my breath.
> He said he had nothing to do with Russia, had not been
involved with hookers in Russia, and had always assumed he was being recorded when in Russia

Boom, there it is. What kinks does Mr President indulge? That is now the question.

Edit: come on down voters, you know that's what's going to viral out of this statement: FBI Director, Trump, Russian hookers. If you don't agree, at least comment!
Quit drinking completely 6 months ago. Don't have any intention of picking it back up. Friends think I'm weird, but the mental clarity is worth it. Funny how alcohol is so ingrained in our culture that it's strange not to drink it.
I don't agree with all the levels and their description, but I do think this is an excellent way for a senior engineering leader to ask themselves "What can I do to make the engineering team better?"

You'll notice that a lot of the different items are directly under the control of a VP Eng/Dir Eng role. "Do you insist on code reviews? Yes we do/ No we don't" etc.

So if you find yourself in such a role, whether you've inherited a "good" organization or one that needs work, its a good methodology for stepping through and figuring out what to improve.