skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds horrible. I can only echo the advice given here. Carve out time for yourself, exercise, and balance your life. A balanced life is the key to avoiding burnout (this after 25 years of specializing in tiger teams and rapid prototyping).

Also, there is a startup opportunity here for someone. A specialty of concierge medicine around concierge psychology for startup founders, CTOs, and CEOs. Not sure whether it would be profitable, but given that it would likely save company productivity and in some cases make the difference between failing or not, I'd think it would be very profitable. I do not have the chops or desire to execute on it though. Feel free to use the idea if you want to run with it. If you do and want to compensate me then remember that nine nines (99.9999999%) of success is execution, not the idea. If you succeed, and still want to compensate me, and I'm at the point where I can use it, then give me attribution and free access to the service for life and we'll be 100% good.
One resource Mars has that no land on Earth has is Low Mars Orbit. It is much easier to launch mass into the solar system from Mars because LMO is closer to the surface in terms of velocity than LEO. Space craft don't need booster stages on Mars.
Once AI is sufficiently advanced, your job will be to turn your robot on and ask it to do what you want.
scrape the data and call it indexing

My last company did this with business listings and reviews. We combined this with public data sets from the census and were able to come up with useful insights about whether a business yelp rating was going to increase or decrease without having to generate our own data.
Unions have a board seat in larger SME's as well as much greater clarity on internal plans and finances.

Makes hard decisions easier since the union and employees can see why decisions are made.
It's much easier to maintain an internal pressure against an external vacuum than it is to maintain an internal low pressure against an external high pressure. Mechanically, the former is much stronger - tension is easier to manage than compression, so catastrophic failures are less likely. Also, if you suffer a minor failure, it's fairly easy to maintain pressure just by releasing a little more air into the system. On Venus, a small puncture will hiss with sulfuric acid.

Forced to choose between fighting cold and low pressure or fighting heat, high pressure, and fighting gravity that wants you to plummet 50 km through the acid clouds....I'd pick the Martian colony, thank you very much!
They don't. That is a different state.
This essay, which touches on the subject of whiteboard coding, has some good food for thought on the subject: http://lacker.io/tech/2017/04/05/why-you-cant-say.html.
Slashdot is still a better community than HN
Interesting. Thanks for the details.

In theory a compiler can do this optimization for you and can use simple syntactic checks to determine whether recursion terminates and whether the optimization applies (at least given a language designed with these things in mind, I'm sure this is much harder or maybe impossible in C++). With something more modern than C++ I'd imagine you could adopt a rule that says "you can use recursion but we compile with --dont-allow-nonterminating-or-unoptimizable-recursion".
Can I just get a normal, chronological feed back again? None of this "We thought you'd find this interesting" crap?

I miss out on so many tweets I would actually find interesting because of this.

Sorry Twitter, but no, you're not capable of figuring out what I enjoy reading.
We placed the technical interview as the second interview. So if we thought they were a good match they would go to the technical interview, and if they completed that we would offer them the job.

I am not sure how many we rejected before the technical interview, because I wasn't involved as much in that part.
Musk's PR team at work ladies and gentleman.
> O(N-squared) pile of crap

It's a TODO list. If performance is an issue you've done something terribly, terribly wrong. Like write your own algorithm.

> There are other programmers who would spend those 40 minutes on a single subroutine

Something which has not shipped has no value. This is an excellent indication for a 'no hire'.
More like arational. Rationality is a tool to efficiently accomplish goals, what ultimate goals you choose to pursue is not a question that rationality is designed to answer.
Not all JS on the page are ads!
It's been a while since I've read that book, but I seem to remember Taubes argued that LDL cholesterol could plausibly have a negative effect on cardiovascular health and that VLDL cholesterol had a extremely negative effect on cardiovascular health. Am I misremembering?
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/stone-paper-notebook/: "this paper is made from stone, but it isn't exactly eco-friendly".

Not surprising given that it is around one fifth plastic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_paper: "The process for creating Stone Paper was first developed by Taiwan Lung Meng Tech Co. in Taiwan during the late 1990s. Stone Paper has been patented in over 40 countries, where its products are marketed under a variety of other trade names such as GPA UltraGreen, MIST Paper, Parax Paper, Terraskin, ViaStone, Kampier, Limex, CleanSlate, EmanaGreen and Rockstock, Pixz Printing, KYStone Paper and Nu Stone."

So, the main idea it isn't new either. What, if anything, is special about this startup's process?
> Or alternatively is this a problem that's better / just as viably solved with an encrypted filesystem?

Yes and no. They discuss this on page 2.

> An oft-cited threat to DB security is disk theft, i.e., theft of persistent storage [2,16,20,32,37,42,47,50]. Full-disk encryption (FDE) can mitigate this threat, but EDBs aim to protect data even in the absence of FDE. Without FDE, this attack yields the persistent OS and DB state, but not any volatile state.

Even with FDE, an attacker who can do some sort of software exploitation can still grab all the data they need out of the filesystem.

It's worth reading the whole paper if you're interested in the topic. It's only 6.5 pages of content, and it's written in a way that makes the technical stuff pretty accessible to a general CS audience.

> Any good recommendations for running Postgres transparently as a fully encrypted database (not just on a table by table basis)?

Hard to tell what you're asking here. You can't just encrypt all the data inside Postgres, or it won't be able to perform queries anymore. You can read the CryptDB paper cited here to learn about the trade-offs that some encrypted databases have made in order to re-enable queries on encrypted data. In a nutshell, they use much weaker encryption that reveals a lot more information about the contents of the DB. Then read up on the attacks also cited here to see why that's generally a bad idea.

(Full disclosure: I'm an author of one of the attack papers.)
Population of Kerala : 34.8 million and many more live in Persian Gulf and other parts of India. This is a huge population, about size of Venezuela. When you talk about a State in India it pretty much is a large sample size.
It's less dense, so you generally feel more full than if you eat more dense foods like meats. That's just personal experience though.
I've been with them since 2009. I know the current recommendation from security-focused people is not to use them, due to their mishandling of past events. However, I've found them generally to offer a higher quality of service and support overall.

Tried to check out their new Linode Manager, but: "The Beta Manager and API V4 are not available for legacy pre-pay accounts. Please convert to Hourly billing." Shucks. Guess I'll have to give up on the idea of an annual discount.

I hope the new API fixes the security issues they've had in the past. We'll see.
I misread your original submission-- so I'm wrong on what you were offering.
This article is written for a particular audience. The people selling it to law firms are going to pitch efficiency.
Digital Ocean just launched that: https://blog.digitalocean.com/cloud-firewalls-secure-droplet...
Intro to the Serverless Framework: Building an API
When you have a documented record of mistreating you're employees, both white and blue collar, the onus is on you to rectify the situation and demonstrate that you'll behave better in the future. Amazon has done neither of these things.

It's entirely "fair" to posit that a company with a documented record of abusive workplace practices might extend that same umbrella of mistreatment over an acquisition. Even more so given that the acquisition involves a large number of employees of the category that Amazon has always treated as disposable.
I feel vindicated. All my hipster friends cook with this crap... My main issue is it makes everything taste like coconut.
That the company, were it to be a human, would be a 14 year old teenager. 14 year olds, as you know, can be brats due to various reasons (hormones being first among them).
Byte-order-mark is not implemented yet :-(

https://github.com/atom/encoding-selector/issues/18

I've bitten by this before when doing Unity coding. I no longer do much of Unity dev, but I deal things where this makes big difference and I haven't given serious try on Atom because of this. (I use VSCode which handles this correctly.)
Don't print Musk's journal article in black and white: the copy editing is bad. Table 4 distinguishes Good/OK/Bad using colored circles -- it's undecipherable in black and white.
The Amazon-Walmart Showdown That Explains the Modern Economy
We already had a few thousand in MRR before joining Startup School, but didn't have proper roadmap towards growth, sales, development and running a business in general.

Startup School and the weekly calls helped us identify our weaknesses and now we're better equipped towards scaling Nestify.

Our presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/532
First things first its python and qt. To me it feels quite responsive. I also have no idea what "modern" means in this context unless you mean flat with few buttons or options. Calibre can be styled by choosing a qt5 style for your system. If your default is ugly you ought to change it. Such styles can be chosen in your gui configuration menu or via qt5ct at least under linux.

This is what it looks like for me. http://imgur.com/a/px8zF

That said I don't want to start up a whole app just to open a book I usually just open books via a script that wraps calibredb a cli interface to calibre's ebook library. If more than one result is available in response to a query it shows them via rofi. https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/

It also remembers the last n books that have been opened whether they have been opened in the gui, a script, or otherwise and when called without arguments it returns the list of recent reads which can be selected via rofi. Since I often return to the same several books repeatedly on multiple sessions this is a more pleasant way to access my books.

My script is a bunch of not so awsome shell script. If you want to improve something a better cli experience out of the box for calibre would be nice.
Care to explain why? You are 50 km above the surface all the time, so half the trip (when compared to Earth) is already behind you.
Not too surprising given the low barrier to entry and acceptance rate. Doesn't mean there aren't some gems. In fact that's the whole point of this program, to give more people chances to do something great. Maybe not everybody makes full use of that chance, but it gives the opportunity to do so to more people
> Launching a ship toward America was irrational. The scientists of the time could tell you with absolute certainty you'd die if your goal was to get to Asia by sailing west.

At least they had a goal, even the trip was risky. I was replying to a comment from someone who wrote "It's mars. That's all the justification I need".
Whole Foods stock has been down for years. Their year-to-year same store sales fell last year. The entire grocery industry is in a slump:

https://www.google.com/search?q=whole+foods+stock&oq=whole+f...

http://www.chron.com/business/article/Kroger-s-darkening-out...

Amazon buying WF will likely have two results:

1) As long as Mackey can run the company WF employees will stay. Once he leaves (likely soon), they will leave. This is an opportunity for some other investor with Mackey's same principles to buy up WF's human capital. For example, Starbucks will benefit b/c former WF employees make good baristas.

2) Amazon will be left with the infrastructure of WF, primarily the real estate, warehouses, storefronts and whatever slice of humanity Amazon hires to replace former WF employees. So maybe Amazon wants WF primarily for the locations, the real estate and the warehousing capacity. They're getting a good price by buying while WF is at a low.

Amazon is simply too much - time for the monopoly-busters to break them apart.
Exactly my thought.

We had WF delivery for a couple of years. It was great for us. But, you could tell they were trying (unsuccessfully) to monetize it. When they curtailed it they offered a pickup service as replacement: Instacart is the app for placing orders. On the whole, the pickup service works pretty well except you don't get sale prices.

I can see delivery coming back now that Amazon is in the picture. I can also see a bigger push to sell prepared foods for delivery. Prepared foods are the real money makers.
The earth was flat according to many people.
Chinese scientists have built the first quantum satellite network
Well, Publix is employee owned, does that count?

Comparing the wikipedia sidebar shows Publix with more stores, revenue, and over twice the number of employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market

I'm not going near Amazon, though.
Does anyone believe in the straw form of the EMH? Not I, surely. Standard weak form suffices to imply that nobody should be showing an ML-derived chart showing an expected tripling of price.
I lived and worked in Iceland for five years, and they have a virtually 100% unionization rate. It's handled at the industry level rather than individual companies, but when you start a job, you are pretty much automatically enrolled in the union relevant for your work. A little money comes out of your paycheck, and the union is there in case you have problems.

The unions also provide other benefits. For example, most of them own summer houses that any member can reserve to go spend a weekend away. You rarely hear the average Icelander on either side of the worker/manager divide complain about them at all. Everyone more or less views them as beneficial.

Once or twice a year they make headlines when one group of workers or another feels aggrieved and it escalates to a brief strike in some small sector of the economy, but on the whole, I don't think many Icelanders would trade their system of employment for ours.

Like so many other areas, I think the problem is that we in the US are just so very much worse at running our society and country than most other comparable countries. Look at health care. No one liked the ACA; no will will like the AHCA or whatever the Republicans pass. The problem isn't that it's impossible to do a decent job at a health care system. The problem is that we specifically suck. Put us in charge of anything, and we'll turn it into something awful that doesn't work, but provides some brief period of outsized shareholder value.
It still is!
Going forward, I would bet on the middle market shrinking.
>"triggered by reading Red Plenty"

>"A central problem faced by Gosplan was the collection of high quality data about supply chains and the estimation of the utility function of consumers."

Red Plenty is a book of fiction, is it not?
Well, in America.

Data protection in EU is stronger and only getting stronger with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula... which will target EU citizen data stored worldwide.
its qt
People in India have eaten Betel nuts/leaves for generations, yet that causes oral cancer. Doesn't seem like sufficient enough evidence to me that traditional foods = healthy.
With all do respect for your personal health choices, that's not science nor "evidence". Just because some culture does something, doesn't mean it's the optimal way of things, especially nutrition. It's just something you have chosen to base your life on.
This might be what they're trying to buy here, dunno if it will work, but they've got the capital to try out a variety of things.
Ah, this text from the scammer's site is still hilarious:

> 8. There is nothing more critical to true success than openness, honesty and integrity.

> 18. Don’t ever take credit for others' work.

Yeah, I'm sure stealing other people's work makes you an honest person.
No, just an admirer. Those are facts. And I generally cast a skeptical eye. But he's got the ambition and that rare combo of design-engineering creativity to see how an impossible task can be achieved by rearranging existing technologies in new combinations. It's a rare combination of skill and art.
Does it really take 10000 hours to master programming?
I am a programmer who wants to pick up a new language and become better at programming. I am trying to realize if 10000 hours is a good estimate of the dedicated practice on needs to do in order to become good? Else what are the hacks? I want to learn the MEAN stack.
https://xkcd.com/681_large/

This was the most approachable explanation of gravity wells I've seen.
Macron unveils tech initiatives aimed at making France a ‘startup nation’
No, that's missing the point. People have differing values and goals, and as a result will have different assessments of whether this project is worthwhile. Given their different values, goals, and priorities, it's a rational decision.
What I'm saying is if the only way to retain the top-top talent is to pay outrageous, unsustainable wages, then it's better to let someone else take that hit and instead focus on making the best with what's left.

Talent is a renewable resource as well. It's a fact that every year students graduate from university. If the market changes and Canadian firms can pay more competitive wages, either by getting more money or because Silicon Valley implodes, everything will sort itself out.

Canada is just one country in a world of much bigger countries. To think we could retain 100% of our top talent is to over-state our importance. We should let some of our best and brightest go work abroad. We're not sending literally everyone, after all.
My roommate works at WF and gets paid minimum wage, gets crappy benefits, is never allowed to work 40 hours to avoid being labeled "full time", and her schedule is generated by a computer with no human input allowed.
How do you know that is telling?

The issue with whiteboard interviews isn't that it proves people will do something not fun, all parts of the interview are that.

The issue with whiteboard interviews is that they bias heavily towards talkers not doers. There are some talkers who are good doers, but as both a positive or negative signal it's fairly worthless.

You could test this pretty easily by comparing a whiteboard interview opinion with post hire opinion on your employees or by having someone else reinterview your staff and comparing their score to your own internal performance evaluations.
Those are scientifically accepted ideas, but I haven't read Taubes' book. If he didn't say it, maybe you heard it elsewhere.
Must finish mug of morning coffee before posting. Comprehension suffers badly otherwise.
Elon has said repeatedly that he is not concerned with how people will live on Mars, he's just interested in how to get people there en-masse. Living, surviving, and making it economically, and ecologically feasible is beyond the scope of what he can plan for.
Look for a third-party Twitter app, or at TweetDeck. The official first-party UI seems to have permanently moved away from that.
A great number of familiar concepts are described here in just 2 pages:

- Subroutines

- Modularity

- Unit testing

- Reusable libraries

- Documentation

- `goto`/`return`

- Debugging

The tone seems to place this writing as instructive -- someone who wanted to write a programme at the time could refer to this document for hints at what to do. Very interesting window into the past.

I haven't quite decoded exactly what the modern formulation of an `interpretive routine` is. Is it the same as the layer we would now call the "instruction set architecture" that sits above some "microcode" operations? Where some instructions do more work than others behind the scenes. It also seems to have some relation to "just-in-time compilation", just at a lower level than the current systems.
Glad you mentioned Bulletproof. Asprey said once in one of his many videos that Coconut Oil doesn't work when combined with coffee because it contains bad saturated fats which you want to avoid. It does however contain MCT, but not in the ratio you want, hence his Octane oil products which only provide the good fats that you need.
At no point did you contradict any of my points. What is your goal?
The author describes users becoming automatons living lives that are divorced from each other and motivated by extreme personalization.

Is it excessive?
If Developer and Beta are both 55b2, what's the point of having the two separate channels any longer?
> If you are standoffish and unwilling to participate that is quite telling of how you will be when you are given tasks that aren't fun

By getting me to multitask between:

- solving a problem

- allocating space on a whiteboard to inject code later

- legibility of my handwriting

- speechwriting

- public speaking

you've gauged exactly how I would react when asked to do my job and be heckled with other tasks that add no business value while doing so.
Or will your job be to turn your robot on, and ask it what it wants you to do?
You're an admirer because you've bought in to the absurd idea that a ruthless capitalist is somehow the savior of humanity. Which is exactly the image his (very expensive) PR team wants you to have.
If reduced gravity is the goal, then what would be the advantage of doing things on Mars versus in orbit, or just on the Moon?
Thats what I heard.

Twitch.TV is the same way, after it got acquired. They just leave them alone and let them do their own thing.
Is it expensive?
The real problem is the intersection of people who can afford it and people who want to go. Mars will need more people than that intersection to be successful.

The human race needs a loss-leader.
When you're talking about India, 34 million people is a rounding error.

It's also a country with unusually high population diversity which means that genetically speaking you could be talking about a group of people that are naturally immune to the effects of whatever they're consuming. You'd have to take a broader sample to find out.
AFAIK -XDuplicateRecordFields and -XOverloadedRecordFields solve this now, creating a typeclass for each of the record labels. In this case, the compiler would generate a HasName class. (This is conceptually similar to classy lenses, but minus the TH.)
> suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees.

Isn't it the same company that comited a fraud by selling products that weighed less than what they were charged for ?
Pretty obvious, and pretty trivially circumvented by not sending traffic over the in-store Wi-Fi network. (Do such things really exit?? Never seen one here in Italy)
Ah. In that case: the goal is to colonize Mars. But you knew that.

I think what you're looking for is a justification. Like love, sometimes there isn't one.

Maybe it's a waste of resources. But it's theirs to waste.

It's awesome, in the original sense of the word. That's the justification.