skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Your own company?
You can do it"

In general, of course. In some specific cases, maybe not.

For you to have a job by being hired by an employer, someone else has to create that job. In the private sector, usually someone has to start and own a company, make it successful, and generate enough free cash to pay you.

So, if you are looking for a job at all, you are essentially admitting that it's possible, reasonable, common, doable, etc. to start and own a company and make it successful.

So, why not you? That is, if you want job, especially a good job, then consider creating that job for yourself.
That's another thing I have thought of adding for myself, notes on the recruiters. Some are really good and stay that way. Some start out good and fizzle like you have described. Some suck from the very beginning. I would love to be able to track this and give preference to the good recruiters and agencies. Much like a reverse CRM.
It IS the same everywhere. Just that, everywhere, and in the US too, the cheer words don't match the reality.
The D.C. Metro is funded and controlled by D.C. and various MD and VA counties that are overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats.
The better solution, although Airbnb has fought this, is to pass regulation forcing hosts to register with the city and forcing Airbnb to validate the host's registration through some means. Airbnb postulates that it's not up to it to figure out if a host is violating the law, but they deal with tax regulations efficiently, and I think this is an extension of that.
I don't know how GFW work exactly, but I think it's not blocking based on content, which means to check every page. What China gov want to do is just prevent those naive people from being deceived by some vicious foreigners, and they don't really care about normal college students or programmers(we don't care about politics too). Indeed, en.wikipedia is unblocked at all, and we can get all academic resource(including history, most universities bought them). So if you know English, you can get everything about, e.g., 64 event. Even the gov is more anxious about contemporary politics, clever guys can get some information by just refer a politician as "big tiger".

So,
1. Chinese gov don't care about those who just want to paste a photo on twitter, they blocked website such as twitter because it's known by even some Chinese farmers or workers. They are supposed to be susceptible, which means, danger.

2. It is said that China will block by whitelist instead of blacklist(maybe like North Korea), but they didn't do that.

3. Usually, someone who can buy and setup a server for himself is clever enough to distinguish between lie by terrorists and the truth.
see you at 5k bro
I meant the minority 10% who are usually rich vs the majority 90% who are usually poor that have different cultural or religious scenarios
If I were Gawker and going under because a predatory billionaire was going after me I'd throw as much money in other directions as possible as the ship sunk too.
I do agree that you don't make a dent, but it's a nihilistic point of view, because you're disregarding the ethics point of view. Sure, you don't make a dent in Amazon personally, but you make a conscious effort in your life to change something you don't like, which is significant and can't be quantified directly.

Also, I disagree that Uber will be around for decades, but it's primarily because of their finances.
My POV:

1) You can keep your job. Just always build things on the side. It keeps you coding for play and not just for work.

2) Try to sell the things you build. You don't need to be fully polished on day one. In fact, you shouldn't be and can't be because you need real customers to really understand their needs.

3) you can find the numbers online, but my saas project Cronitor had just $500mrr after seven months. You need patience and to adjust your work factor to match the available outputs. By letting it coast a bit while it picked up momentum we prevented burnout. When it started to grow faster we could pour some attention in and level up the product.

4) grow it while you work your day job. This is easy at first and grows harder. Having a partner is important here. Alternative: a business where a little downtime is not a big deal.

5) when it gets stressful, know your commitments. Your day job gets first bite and when you can't do that anymore you know it's time to move on and do it full time.

Most importantly the tldr is: quit your job after you've replaced most of your salary. And before you quit enjoy the incremental income.
I call BS. I really like Whole Foods, but they are WAY more expensive to fill a "normal" grocery list than a place like Publix. Granted, a lot of that is because they only sell more expensive versions of things (e.g. sometimes organic-only produce, and their meat especially tends to be much more expensive), but it's still very difficult to shop cheaply at WF.
A lot of people will say that they want to quit their job and start their own business. The people who will back up what they say with hard work actually do want to start their own company. The rest are all talk and when push comes to shove they'll fail. They don't actually want to start their own company. They want to keep working their job while dreaming about starting their own company.

Articles like these are for the former group who will doubt themselves because of all the naysayers and the latter group of dreamers.
> Who would run a browser specifically designed to track and show ads?

Yeah, I don't understand Chrome users either.

> Edit:

People already do this with mixed success. There's also nothing stopping you from modifying the browser falsely report that the user actually viewed the ads.
For some reason, basic things like the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm seem to be viewed as "advanced" or something by most programmers. In reality, it's basic (that's why it's taught in undergrad).

Fewer and fewer computer science students seem to graduate with an understanding of or appreciation for actual computer science.
Believe it or not: GitHub edition
There at least an order of magnitude more crap and less eloquence and content in the kind of comments Fry complains about than in the stuff he writes.

The author has seen the average Twitter/Reddit/forum comments, I presume. Do they look anything like what Fry (or any talented writer for that matter) posts?

So, yeah, Fry is right, what he complains is people actually breaking "universal rules of discourse".
As long as we're talking about consulting, you shouldn't need a few years of living expenses saved up. If you aren't making a living within the first year then it's time to try something else or go back to a salaried job.
Right, that's why the advertisers are the ones paying them in this model. Websites and users collect.
In 1974 I started Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and I got my first email accounts (plural) on various timesharing systems. The one that I used most was on a Honeywell 6050 TSS system (we called that one Honeybun, or the 'bun for short) and using the campus comms network, we would login to check email from several buildings on campus, many times a day. That comms network also allowed dialup modem access using acoustic couplers and I remember one department that had a TI Silent 700 terminal with acoustic coupler and modem, specifically so that they could connect to the 'bun.

And the IBM VM 370/CMS system also had email. People on that system developed a way to interconnect mainframes across the globe using a system called BITNET that was an email predecessor of the Internet proper.

On the 'bun we had the MAIL command which was either part of Honeywell's GCOS TSS or perhaps was one of the enhancements that we got from Bell Labs. When the University started setting up UNIX systems using the software from BELL Labs, we interconnected the UNIX email systems with the 'bun. Then by 1976 Waterloo folk had built an enhanced email system call Space Mail (because the command to invoke it was to type one space by MAIL) which had almost all the features of modern email systems such as revoking a message that you had sent by deleting it from the recipient's mailbox.

I suspect that no single person invented email. We lived in a world surrounded by paper mail delivery systems so at the earliest possible moment, anyone who could, was writing code to emulate mail systems in the computer. It's that simple.
I'd actually be likely to contribute a bit more in Github if it were a bit more gamified. I understand that understanding it's a Skinner's box trap, and then falling for it willingly anyway is not necessarily great. But that kind of visualized fictional progress actually does wonders for my motivation, now I sort of want something of the sort to exist.

The counter side might be that the game aspects may become controversial (similar to the defunct streak) and stress some people out to no end.
Given the title, the article presents little evidence as to the achievable reliability of eyewitness memory. The closest it comes is the experimental result that identification by eyewitness is 97% accurate in those cases where the witness is very confident of the identification. I am skeptical as to whether witnesses to actual crimes would accurately estimate their confidence level in actual line-ups.

Nevertheless, the suggested reforms are well-argued and seem to be sensible.
If you can get a remote contract or salaried position, then you can live in a low-cost area while still earning the same amount.
See stack overflow documentation, it's a chance to do everything from day 1 again.
I think you're drawing a false dichotomy here.

As a founder of a YC company, I can tell you there's no signal from YC that "a small exit is equal to failure".

From personal experience, I can tell you that YC holds the wellbeing of the founders it funds as a top priority, even if it might seem to be against YC's own short-term interests.

It's true that YC's economic model is to fund companies that can be $10B+ successes, because having a few companies that make it into that league enables them to fund all the other companies that don't make it that big.

But they're still happy for founders who don't achieve "unicorn" status but make an exit that yields them a life-changing amount of money, or indeed any outcome that leaves them better off than they were before.

Still, they'll encourage all their founders to try to build a breakout company, because by doing that, even a "small" exit will often be much bigger than the exit you'd make if you started out with deliberately modest ambitions.
Wow... what did I just read....

I knew the prisoner situation in the US was harsh but this is unbelievable.
I usual bide my time on commercial upgrades on important machines (the big Cos have no qualms on pulling the rug out from under you on an upgrade.) I'll let the bleeding edge guys beta test it for a few months till theres a decimal version available and that I can be assured nothing will break in the upgrade,.

Now on Linux, I have played with stuff on the day of release on a secondary system, mainly to see what works better, what's not broken anymore, and what still works (hasen't been broken or deprecated). Still takes me a while before initiating an upgrade on my main machines but its good to check.
Removing Some Code
While you are right that this is the statistical definition of entropy, there are two issues: first, entropy is a unitless quantity, so defining it exactly doesn't actually move the ball forward in terms of defining units of measure. Second, outside of its theoretical underpinnings, physicists and chemists hardly ever talk about absolute values of entropy, they almost always use differences in entropy -- which factors out the need to define the exact number of microstates present before and after.
Straight consulting... probably not that much, I suppose, but you still need enough to carry you through a couple rough quarters (at least) to retain and serve a steady pipeline of clientele, and be able to account for payment scheduling issues that arise from time-to-time. (Those small disruptions quickly compound.)

I liked having a one-year nest egg stashed away when I was operating at full-steam.

And, of course, smart players will have a little next egg AND have a pipeline partly-filled before leaving a day job. :)
Run unit tests?
I agree with the sentiment and appreciate the motivation, but...

> If a high school drop-out with nothing but a typing diploma could do it, so can you. Now go do it.

this is not representative. From the reading you seem to be "smart" too apart from hard working. =D
I'll try it!
Not exactly a high school drop out, but dropped out when I was 19 and I now work at a bank (r&d team). I'm far from being the only one too.
I'm from Camillus and go to school in Rochester. Last summer I was living back at home whilst working remotely (as part of graduation requirements).

To me, the Syracuse area is prime for living and if you are able to make good money remotely it's truly the best of both worlds.
remember if you find that an answer that google finds is misleading or inaccurate there's a box right there you can click to provide feedback
Any ETA on those TPUs? Stop teasing! ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism#Prevention

> the botulinum toxin is destroyed by thorough cooking over the course of a few minutes
Where I'm at that's about $1000/month plus health insurance. Minimum wage is $1700/month.
When they ask 'why has it not been this way" isn't the obvious answer 1) Infrastructure cost. Building this vs tracks on the ground would be a significantly higher investment. And 2) if something goes wrong with the engine, the entire line is shut down, vs pushing a train off the track and other trains continuing.

And I missing something but aside form the gradient capability I didn't see much advantage presented here. And if you are going to build these atmospheric pipes why not put the carriages inside them? I wonder if you could combine the 2. Have express trains shooting through the pipes and local/scenic trains riding that energy on-top. Workable or not, great to see people developing ideas!
I write the blog http://datagenetics.com/blog.html

In 2016, it delivered 4.3 Million PVs

I have a single Google AdSense advert on most pages and revenue generated in 2016 was $1,124.95

It pays for hosting, and the occasional steak dinner, but no, it's not a fulltime job :)
Not to Godwin myself, but an example someone once used was that in Nazi Germany, only a small percentage of Germans actually were firm Nazis. The moderate majority, however, let the radical minority dictate the agenda for everyone, and that's how Nazism gained power.

In the same way, I see this phenomenon all over our world. I don't know if it's because of 24-hr news cycle, Twitter/Facebook or whatever, but we see the radical, loud minority dictate the agenda. So even Fry says that it's only a small percentage of trolls that are ruining it for him, but it's enough to drive him off Twitter, despite all of his fans that want him on Twitter.

In other words, the signal-to-noise ratio is very low, but people are now taking the noise as signal and reacting to it. It's not a good thing when trolls and radicals dictate the agenda for the silent, moderate majority. All the noise from the media and anti-Trump haters is a good example of where people who listen too closely to the noise end up missing the signal where it matters, and don't react properly. I think if the Democrats really know how Middle America was feeling, they would have conducted a much different campaign, but they listened to the wrong things.
Ask HN: Social/dating life in the Bay Area?
Hello

I'm a 32yo male software engineer currently living in Southern California, been here for a couple years at a startup. The startup is not doing too well, so I recently interviewed for a couple big tech companies in the Bay Area (Google and Facebook) and got an offer from both, and I decided to accept the Facebook one, and I'm going to relocate to Palo Alto in a couple months.

I am mostly interested in the learning experience (working in systems at a real scale) and financial benefits (even after adjusting with the higher cost of living, the spread between income and costs if one is frugal is still significant).

However, I am single, and am also looking for a happy social and dating life, and eventually finding a stable partner with whom I can start a family.

I'm not a shy person and generally considered attractive, in the couple years I've been in LA I dated a couple dozens women mostly from online dating apps.

I've heard the Bay Area is particularly bad from that aspect: can you comment? Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks!
I see. Thanks for the clarification. It's a topic I've wondered about for some time.
According to the logs there were about 1200 people who viewed our promotion - we had pretty good traffic to our booth but we had also generated some buzz before the conference started. Overall I'd have to guess it had a mixed effect - maybe half the people thought it was clever and half were irritated that they didn't really get free wi-fi.
You sir were not talented at all, but instead you were a very hard worker, kudos
It's fascinating that, in your analogy, folks sharing progressive views on Twitter are the Nazis, considering that literal white supremacists tend to favor the other side.
> if you are going to build these atmospheric pipes why not put the carriages inside them

Because when the vacuum breaks then people die if they are inside. This happens to be one of the biggest weaknesses of Hyperloop. It's not a good system when a failure _anywhere_ in the pipes causes a massive loss of life. If this guy's propulsion fails then, well, the train stops gradually, not a biggie. If air enters into a vacuum tube where the Hyperloop carriage is, the shockwave will do something to the carriage people ride in and it won't be pretty.
Is it still distasteful if you just use it as fire n forget to broadcast your thoughts?
Reduced noise was another advantage as well as potential for powering with solar.

Good point about it breaking down.
Refrigerated beef is McD's next attempt at a market revival. It's being pilot tested in Texas and is supposed to expand soon.
Nope, not what I said at all. I was talking about the trolls on Twitter. My point is that if you listen to the noise, rather than true signal, you might take the wrong path or get the wrong idea. In the case of the election, EVERYONE thought Clinton was going to win in a landslide, and the real signal was that it was a lot closer than that. But you never would have seen that from Twitter or the media. And that's the problem. If the Democrats were able to root out the true signal, they probably could have stopped Trump with better communication to Middle America, and stopped this debacle that we're currently in.
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There is block based on content now, but not by check package by gov themselves(is it possible?). Search engine in China must follow the instructions by gov to block some content, which is the reason that google exit China. What I've learned told me if you have encrypted, it's impossible to get what you sent without a key. If it's possible, clearly it's in use in CIA too, not just GFW.
> To be fair though, I'm assuming a situation where you don't have kids, a house payment, etc.

Exactly. "You" means different things. On average, even smart people (maybe especially smart people) aren't cut out for this shit, and that's not to denigrate them.

> Is it really wasted time though?

Again, it depends. People in the startup world can feel so much pressure that they end up offing themselves, as we saw during the last downturn. Due to survival bias, we rarely hear about the failures, fractured families, ruined savings, etc. There are guys who kept trying over and over and never made it. They usually don't write books or blog articles about it. There are even more guys who started something, limped it along for five or ten years and then watched it peter out, and absorbed all the psychological punishment that entails.

I started a reasonably successful company. I'd be really careful about who I recommended it to.
One thing I noticed while doing a 40 hour a week software job recently (I'm not working now) is that your ability to work in the evenings and weekends depends on how much cognitive load you go through during those 40 hours.

I've had jobs where the load is moderate, but in this recent one, the employer wanted to extract work from every hour of the 40 hour perior. I was so exhausted, that I couldn't do anything in the evenings, would spend Saturday in a state of haze, and on Sunday finally be able to think straight. But then on Sunday you barely catch up with what you were doing last Sunday. So your progress practically comes to grinding halt.
What does "hyperfine" actually mean, in this context?
One can be a quite talented writer and still have regressive views. These two properties are orthogonal.

Not saying Fry is regressive -- I honestly don't know his views -- just saying that the "rules of discourse" are not about how well you write, aesthetically.
I once heard that McDonalds was the largest toy distributer in the U.S. not Toys-R-Us, McDonalds. Not sure if it's still true, but Happy Meals are definitely a big thing. I grew up with them; many of is did.
I think the Big mac and McNugget have a very unique taste and cant say I've heard of or tasted any competitors versions of these that actually tasted similar. Im surprised to see a few people agree with the bland opinion.
Berkeley removing 20K free educational videos
COBRA is usually prohibitively expensive.

Your best bet is having zero declared income and going on Medicaid.
Have you been outside a major metropolis or SV? Who, to your mind, the Trump's supporters are?

More people in the US are worse off than they were e.g. in 1990s, let alone around 2006 or so.
The "trolls" Fry is talking about here are progressives. At least, that is the signal I'm getting from the following: "It doesn’t matter whether they think they’re defending women, men, transgender people, Muslims, humanists . . .."

He is essentially invoking the "snowflake" meme. And, in what might perhaps be called an instance of the Law of Snowflakes, it's in a context where he is whining about discourse not taking the tone he prefers.

(If it seems weird that I'm ignoring 80% of the parent poster's content in his comment, it is because its initial iteration of that comment only contained the first two sentences.)
It's Amsterdam, so the size is more like 250 sq ft.

That said I regret badly going to uni and wasting my time drinking with my buddies.
Really enjoyed Noah's OpenVisConf 2017 talk which covered a lot of the motivation and prior art behind the development of the library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLc1y-gim_0

(Link is in the README file on GitHub too, but easy to miss)
In my experience the real bureaucracy has no direct relationship to the bureaucracy expressed/perceived by individuals. This seems true both for statements about your local level of bureaucracy and that of other areas.
Debian 9 Stretch released
Trolls exist on both sides of the spectrum.
Gave away too many secrets
I think the fact that Twitter made a name for itself by restricting the degree to which you can actually express your thoughts (by constraining response length) doomed them.

It's far easier to be snarky and mean in 140 characters than it is to be rational and respectful.
You're talking about new languages, not new implementations of a (specified) language.