skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"almost always went through a period of ridiculous and obsessive long hours early in their career."

Maybe. But for sure they worked on something challenging and not on checking off endless lists of JIRA tickets. It's not long hours but quality of work that makes you grow. Both together is probably the winner.
So App Academy is fulfilling the selection process that companies really want?

Sounds like a cheaper way to a $150k salary than spending 4 years at a top CS university or MBA program.
gemini requires you to give them your bank's username and password. It's not like you are authenticating with your bank directly. It's actually quite deceptive. It'll show you something similar to your bank's login screen, but you are still on gemini's website. You are literally giving gemini your password. I'm not sure why people don't object to that. They have a roundabout wire transfer way for the initial authentication, for which they claim that they credit the wire fees. I did the roundabout wire thing, and still waiting for the credit. Support has been lackluster. gemini also forces you to use authy, as opposed to standard totp. Overall, gdax(coinbase) for me is much better than gemini.
Open source RF signal generator features WiFi
> without a venue for employees to drug themselve

Order a non-alcoholic beverage? When I go to the bar with coworkers to talk and vent about the workplace it's not to be drunk and make a fool of myself in front of everyone.

Drink a beer or a cocktail if you enjoy them but otherwise order a soda / a delicious non-alcoholic cocktail or simply order food and eat your meal.

It's not as if people were hitting divebars with their coworkers, getting totally drunk and high on drugs. While those things can happen it's generally way past the 5-7 you are expected to be at.
Reading this thread, and the hundred other threads on HN about Uber over the years, I can hardly believe how many people don't understand basic business concepts that are preventing other companies from easily taking Uber's crown.

If it can be done as easily as so many in this thread are claiming, then why aren't you a billionaire? (oh I know, you just don't want to be)

It's a repetition of the same things I read on HN when it became obvious that Facebook was going to be a social monopoly. Fantasy: it's easy to clone Facebook, it's really not even that complex, someone should build an open competitor that the public will reject in every way and never want to use. The same was frequently said about Twitter as well, countless clones were attempted, zero succeeded. And it's dramatically harder to successfully replicate & compete with Uber than Twitter.

There are in fact numerous switching costs and extreme barriers to entry, that prevent competitors from just rising up and taking Uber's position as king. Otherwise there would be a dozen Ubers in the US, all vying to be multi-billion dollar companies, making their founders billionaires, and yielding huge returns for VCs.
Because that is a terrible thing to do. What gives us the right to stop other people from becoming software engineers?

Anyone should be able to become an engineer. Don't the fact that they have an effect on our huge salaries? Well thats the market. Tough shit. Get better and compete with them. Don't stop other people, who are better than you, from competing by using the law against them.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/the-clintons-had-slav...

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Technically, it is apparently legal. But it is still slavery.
The confusion might come from the fact that the UK can be quite expensive. So prices look nominally the same in GBP as in USD---it's just that the US is often a lot cheaper.

Thus for the casual observer it look like the difference is in the exchange rate---not in the prices.
> But still, it's a decade later and we don't seem to have made much progress.

Despite all the "IIoT" buzzwords their marketing may spout, industrial vendors operate a decade behind the software curve at best. Arcane proprietary stacks running atop XP, CE, ActiveX, and various flavors of DOS are still getting deployed in new industrial installations...often supported by vendors staffed by a hundred salescritters to every engineer, if they're lucky enough to have any staff remaining that wrote or understand the original product in the first place.

It's filled with dozens of mini-Oracles, each with licensing more insane than the next because your typical integrator will either run for the hills at the first sign of anything that isn't ladder logic or spew forth spaghetti garbage that makes INTERCAL look like the most pretentiously elegant Lisp. When you're the lone programmer on the team that even knows what Git is, you start to realize why nobody ever got fired for just buying Rockwell.
I don't think people would complain if it were only a little less for the benefits you describe, but the factor of three that is mentioned by other comments is not an exaggeration. It is one thing to take a pay cut of 20% to live in a "safer, more liberal country." It is quite another to take a pay cut of 70%. Right now, I am trying to move back to Canada. My goal is to get about 50% of the salary that I got at my last job in the U.S., and even that is looking very unlikely.
Reminds me of utox[0]. Early on names were just hashes but then came along a few nickname registration servers through which you could use a memorable name. This could benefit from something similar.

[0] http://utox.org/
We do the exact same stuff.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/10/news/economy/us-debt-ownersh...

Also as for holders of debt. Japan beats China

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/16/investing/china-japan-us-deb...
Library at Mount Char was reeeeally disturbing. Good, but ye gads... not what I was expecting... :)
World of Warcraft for quite some time, I think about 4 years, had a "mysterious" limit for the maximum amount of gold that you could accumulate on a single character. It was 214.748 gold, 36 silver and 47 copper...

At least they put an actual check in there - you didn't suddenly overrun and wake up with an enormous debt, so I'll give them some credit for that ;-)
Worth reposting Kraken's mobile phone security advisory:

http://blog.kraken.com/post/153209105847/security-advisory-m...
No, the regulation includes "400 feet from any structure". So if you fly within 400 feet of an obstacle such as a building, transmission tower, or antenna, you are within the law (of the sky). Whether you are within the law of the county or state regarding trespassing is a whole different question.
The respectable frameworks I've seen also offer obsfucation/virtualization to deter tampering. Thats the harder and more critical part.
Yes indeed, and that's what's on the site. My bad typing that on mobile...

Still the 57 does not really directly translate to ST in my head at least.
Yeah, a title change would be nice. I was anticipating something much more interesting.
Celebrity Shoe Styles at the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards
Why remove drivers?

...price.
Printing it out because it's too long to read on screen? (Maybe I have failed as a writer to be concise)
There is no way to serve static files, mmmmm.
The old expression "all our wood behind one arrow" was actually "one of President and CEO Scott McNealy's favorite quotes", which Sun used as a marketing campaign slogan and in presskits around 1990.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080515194354/http://www.sun.co...

Sun even produced a TV commercial in which an arrow that presumably had all of Sun's wood behind it whooshed through the air and hit the bull's eye of a target. (Nobody at Sun ever knew what the target was, but by golly they all knew which arrow to put their wood behind.)

Photo of Scott McNealy in his office at Sun with a huge Cupid's Span style wooden arrow through his window, and a small Steve Martin style wooden arrow through his head:

https://findery.com/johnfox/notes/all-the-wood-behind-one-ar...

Sun's Workstations Still Shine, But Rivals Cloud The Outlook

Daily Gazette - Nov 10, 1991

Associated Press (Google News Archive)

Sun touts an "all the wood behind one arrow" slogan, meant to describe
a company focused on one goal - workstations. As an April Fool's joke
in 1990, Sun employees built a 60-foot-long arrow in McNealy's office
with the point going out the window.
This is The Verge. It's not a site known for rigor. It's a pop culture rag, a mish mash of Maximum PC, Game Informer, and Men's Health for meme followers

Not to say Uber is or isn't imploding. No clue either way
A lot of the UK's railways were built on the back of a private investment bubble in the 19th century. Many of the schemes were caught up in corruption and many of the investors lost money.

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

Looking back though, those investments were absolutely without doubt a net positive for the country. It's hard to even quantify the benefit having 10,000 miles of railways cut through the country has brought us over the 150 years since. Building even a few hundred miles of railway now is extraordinarily expensive and mired in all sorts of legal issues.

I'm sure not all of these big infrastructure projects will succeed, but I bet they will be a net positive over the long term.
United Airlines Disciplines Flight Attendant with AIDS
Well, humans have evolved to eat cooked nutrition. We did not evolve to inhale that cooking smoke.
Good or bad, you reap what you sow.
> I'd be surprised if there are more than 500 engineers with a salary over $250k between them.

You're conflating things. Nobody says everyone has over $250k salary. They do say that Senior Engineers at Google and Facebook make over $250k total compensation.

As someone who has made over $250k total year comp at a big company in the Bay Area, I will tell you there are far more than 500 engineers doing so.
How is this statement even possible to make that because it's a creative environment it drives away minorities when the vast majority of actually artistically creative pursuits like theatre, several fine arts, and fiction have massively more diversity than startup culture?
Data Science with Python in Visual Studio
At least the proposal allows for full apartment rental any x months of the year, it's just you can't be an AirBnB landlord and snap up a bunch of units you don't live in.

Still true to the spirit of AirBnB without housing market externalities. Sounds like an ideal model for cities.
In which case you should budget for that regardless of the new 240 line, of course. :)
To those that have suggested eye drops, I highly recommend some of the gels/creams you can get for nightly use. They not only help your eyes feel relaxed before bed and when you wake up, but they also have the benefit of helping you sleep better if you suffer from dry eyes.

From what a doctor told me after a recent abrasion, your eyes move around while you sleep, and if you have dry eyes your eyelids will irritate your eyes. Obviously, if they irritate you enough it'll disrupt your sleep. After a few days of use when my eyes started to heal I slept like a baby, and felt great after waking up.

I still regularly use eye drops, but if my eyes are noticeably dry I'll use the eye gel during the night, and by the next day my eyes will feel great.
Sense sleep tracker maker Hello is shutting down
It would probably say Terraforming gotchas if it was about the other thing.
You know this net neutrality thing? Well, people really love it
Amazon has continually reinvested for growth rather than profit. They are able to turn a profit any time they want, Bezos is simply managing the company for growth. Uber is a long way from ever being able to turn a profit.
I agree, the one thing I was hoping for with the new 10.5" and other iPad announcements was some sort of indirect cursor input for the Smart Keyboard.

It doesn't even need to be a full trackpad, even just a nub would work - the idea is it would just be used to move the text cursor around the screen. The on-screen keyboard does it really well...but typing on the on-screen keyboard isn't great (and obstructs half the display.)
Sparse Files
Shameless plug, if anybody wants to generate a Terraform module with a testing harness preconfigured then I hacked up a module scaffolder last night/this morning: https://github.com/howdoicomputer/terrashovel
There's a lot of cities trying to figure out how to handle Airbnb -- Barcelona for example is cracking down on unlicensed AirBNB's -- and the reason is the resulting rent increases.

Like taxis and taxi cab companies taking their hatred out on Lyft or Uber, I do believe that technology changes economies and that this will be another example of a misled attempt to prevent a technology from changing a city's economy. I also believe that many times these preventative measures are led by lobbyists by the very industry that is being hurt by the technology, and in this case it's likely hotels -- but then blaming it on rent prices.

It'll be great to see where all this leads, but making it illegal and taking it out on owners or drivers is going the wrong direction.
> B[a]P: Benzo[a]pyrene

Benzo[a]pyrene is a product of incomplete combustion and is basically found wherever organic stuff (in the carbon containing sense) is burned with low available oxygen. It's super carcinogenic by way of intercalating between DNA basepairs leading to misread transcripts. Since nothing is being burned in a vaporizer unless something has horribly gone wrong, this is highly unlikely to be present in vapor.

> NNK: 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone

> NNN: N-Nitrosonicotine

These are nitrated derivatives of nicotine. If they were in the eliquid, it's likely due to impurities in the nicotine. However, it's been previously shown [1] that they're not present in vapor in any significant quantity.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4555263/
Pandas Cheat Sheet: Data Science and Data Wrangling in Python
The solution to the "Airbnb problem" of rising home costs is less regulation, not more. It's the same situation in virtually every other city: housing regulations preventing increased vertical development are the true culprit, not services like airbnb which in my opinion are a positive force for home prices due to them adding "housing liquidity" to the market. Sure, in the immediate short term an airbnb rental property buying spree could raise house prices, but once housing prices are high enough, real estate developers will realize that they can just build bigger/more buildings.

That said, I do think it is fair for airbnb rentals to be subject to the same taxes and regulations as hotels.

Edit: I don't mean that housing liquidity raises or increases home prices. I think that would be tough to say. I just mean that it's good for the housing market from a consumer standpoint: it creates a kind of flexible vehicle for dealing with short term housing needs. It's better as a society for us to have a way to rent somewhere for a week than to not have such a way to do that (and hotels only offer a very specific kind of residence, which is not to everyone's taste).
How I took my first step in tech – Lara Martín – Medium
App is back up and working for me now (for anyone concerned and wanting to buy or sell). site still down.
AFAIK, the debt is internal: it's Chinese firms that owe Chinese banks who owe Chinese people. The possible problem is if those firms aren't solvent; that could bring lots of Chinese savers to lose their savings.
Canadian developers should compete in the market and should not make up new BS laws to keep out competition. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

We are specifically arguing that the market should determine salaries. Don't put up barriers to entry. Let the market work it out.
I wasn't aware of the Google Drive thing; that's a shame it was found to be confusing to users. I'm glad Gmail still has tagging, because I do label my messages in multiple ways, and would find it agonizing to use a hierarchy.

Regarding photos, I fully intend to have a tag-only system to organize my own collection. I see file names and folders and counterproductive.

I agree with you that tagging becomes more complicated, and the semantics of "delete everything in here" is different. Gmail provides some insight into this - you have to distinguish between untagging a bunch of files versus actually deleting the messages (and any tags they carry). This isn't a dealbreaker in my opinion; it is a consequence of being more expressive.
“The Greatest Story Ever Told .. So Far” – Talks at Google [video]
Money is fungible. If companies weren't benefiting from low wage labor they'd be charging the state more to house the inmates.
Can an isolate handle multiple requests at once? (For example, suppose there are lots of cheap requests, so it's I/O bound, not CPU bound.)

How much extra memory usage is there per isolate?
https://www.hellofresh.com/tasty/
Unfortunately, declaring your company a start up is sexy. My last company was about 130 employees, made some profit but mostly enough to keep the business afloat, been around for a little over 10 years, and was reluctant to call itself a start up.

The company I'm currently at has close to 1,200 employees, been around for close to 10 years, its own free cafeteria, profitable enough to fund several high-risk initiatives, but easily calls itself a start up..

My personal opinion: you're no longer a start up if you're able to afford your own "free food cafeteria". ;-)
Maybe it's just me, but I think this test avoids some questions I expected there, and does so in a very contrived manner.

"Switch to Electric" is favorably compared to "Hitch a Ride", and then "Hop on the Bus" is unfavorably compared to "Ships ahoy".

The overall impression I take is something like: "just wait and see, some guys are working on hard engineering problems wrt ships and planes, you save for your Tesla while eating plants and you'll be doing your part".
I am not the person you replied to, but US$3000 is about CA$4000 or CA$48000 per year. For a junior software development position, that does seem to be in the ballpark of what gets offered in Canada.
Can someone compare Flow and TS? Last time I worked with Flow I had to constantly restart the server to get fresh typechecks. Is that still the case? Other pros and cons?
Just use functions calls already. Modern languages and compilers / interpreters have gotten good enough (at least the ones that care), that there's no need to bless a small set of control structures by being special-purpose built-in.
I didn't realize onshore wind was going to be bigger than solar. I wish they had some references.
In GCC's C you can nest functions. (But that's not portable.)
The same cohort of companies in this form.

State schools averaging below $100k.

Prestigious private and fancy public (UC system) averaging $115k, for new grads.

SF Bay Area.
...Like, you guys just want to create yourself an echo-chamber in which you can believe that EVs will magically solve all the negative externalities of driving.
I guess we're both having a bad day. Let's break down the original statement:

> git clone https://username:password@github.com/...

This command produces a new git repository by cloning the supplied URL

> will end up in git reflog

The newly generated repository's reflog will contain the credentials passed on the command line.

> so yes, it's a problem

Assuming the newly generated repository also happens to be a static HTTP server root, which is the subject of the thread in which you've been posting
>Normal people are not going to tune their diet by measuring their blood chemistry.

Not consciously, but that's what normal people already do.
Lyft is going bankrupt in my opinion. They'll be acquired by one of the far larger companies interested in the space. They have a maximum of 12 to 18 months before an acquisition is forced upon them, as it nearly was a year ago, when they failed to find a buyer at the valuation they were seeking. There's no scenario where Lyft remains a viable stand-alone competitor; they're already not a viable competitor, their last funding merely bought them one more year of flailing about, burning vast red ink, looking for a buyer.

It's obviously a different context globally, due to regulations, nationalism, et al. Didi for example will never own the US market, they're likely to end up like other Chinese tech giants, struggling to dominate internationally as they do domestically.

Ola is the next Flipkart.
Yes, but do you really want to test that in court? Even if you're right, you may end up destitute (Money runs out before the trial ends, your lawyer is an idiot, the judge is an idiot...)
How would a city officials detect when a home is being used for rental , versus having guests over
Nicotine is a neurotoxin. I'm sure it's fine though, as long as you didn't need your neurons anyway.
This makes me think of a hypothetical scenario proposed in one of Nassim Nicolas Taleb's books where-in some senator gets a bill passed in the weeks before 9/11 requiring reinforced doors on all commercial airplane cockpits.

No parade would be thrown for this senator for having prevented 9/11 and likely he'd be castigated for having given airlines an excuse to raise prices due to restrictive government regulations.
That's an incredibly smooth transition. Microsoft has really learned from the javaverse's mistakes regarding compatibility.
There's even an exception for it in the 13th amendment. Some slavery is still legal under the US constitution, as amended, which is probably a fun/easy bar bet to win.

Not sure how the wider legal landscape treats this, especially whether other laws narrow the exemption to apply only to the "involuntary servitude" portion of the amendment, but if a state wanted to try to actually enslave people as punishments for crimes in the US they'd probably at least have a lively court case on their hands, and they might even win it, depending on how the rest of the laws are structured—the constitution alone wouldn't be enough to guarantee defeat.
And even in imperative programming, you don't need the loops. At least not as a built-in.
https://djcordhose.github.io/flow-vs-typescript/elm-flow-typ... compares Flow TS and Elm :)
We're using Terraform for our AWS env and while it worked great for getting stuff out there, we're now scrambling to figure out how to get Terraform to do non-destructive updates to the environment. For instance, I need to update our base OS for the application servers we're running. How do I do this without incurring a downtime? Or I need to now interject a new reverse proxy between our ELB's and app servers, but want to do it without causing an interruption. We're doing our research and this blog post is very helpful, but if you have any pointers...
Maybe it's because of how young I was at the time, but I remember media outlets reporting on the Y2K problem, and showing video of hundreds of older computing devices that were being retired (thrown in landfills) because they wouldn't work properly after the date change happened.

Maybe this isn't a "real" failure, and the symptom of some IT departments working diligently to solve the problem before it happened. In any case though, I'm curious how inaccurate the televised reality from my youth actually was.
And you are probably not an engineer.

As a passenger I suspect you would expect different standards from an Aircraft autopilot than a cellphone. But, there is a lot to be learned from system that just work.