skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The search function on jQuery documentation makes me want to pull my hair out.
Oh, come on. It has not been that long since we found out that major tech companies were colluding to suppress SWE salaries. Have you already forgotten?
This ethereum-based project could change how we think about digital art
The only disruption that occurred was 2008-2011 or so, when the economy tanked and demand for legal services took a fall. Except most biglaw partners realized their labor model could change without consequence - they laid off tons of associates and when the demand came back, they replaced them with contract attorneys, paralegals, some offshore, some software and a small number of actual associate attorneys. It turns out what their 1st and 2nd year associates were doing was largely replaceable at a much lower cost.

That's the opportunity - but it's really hard when instead of software they can go get an actual living, breathing attorney to work on contract for $25-35 an hour. More in California because of their OT laws, so maybe that's where the opportunity exists initially for disruption.

Critically, though, I don't think anyone's figured out how to charge billable hours for what your software does. Since you can still bill contract attorneys out at 3x what you pay them, it's tough going.
You are never going to be able to negotiate for yourself on an equal footing with a corporation, but unions can achieve a close approximation.
> C is not the only low cost abstraction and peak performance language available out there anymore.

It never was, it just happened to become one thanks to UNIX's adoption by the enterprise market.

Back in the 80's it was just yet another systems programming language fighting for a spotlight, and any junior Assembly developer could write better code than C compilers for 8 and 16 bit systems.

Oh, the pleasure of using Turbo Basic, Turbo Pascal and Modula-2 and not having to deal with the unsafety issues of C.
If I were him I would go with a burner laptop and wouldn't take with me any digital credentials.
Noticeably missing: Gray and Lamport's "Consensus on Transaction Commit"
How envy I am! I'm working mentoring some students to get this projects. Local companies don't see any value on this, you can't imagine how frustrated I am sometimes.
So we can send and support a million people on Mars for the cost of the Iraq war? Obviously affordable for a government or a large enough group of motivated people. It's not going to bankrupt the world by any stretch. Perhaps there are 1 million millionaires in the world willing to pay their own way.

Back in the days of colonizing countries, people did that. Even though their destinations were closer and more habitable, they also had more primitive technology so it was still a massive challenge by today's standards. No fridges, cars, or radio communications. Travel time was several months between countries compared to about a year to get to Mars. I wouldn't say it's obviously unachievable at all.
A lower T/S ratio is associated with advanced age (had to dig hard to find that one- check out page 9 of this paper: https://www.rug.nl/research/genetics/students/internships/an...). In other words, high T/S = good.

As far as statistical correlation, the p-value of 0.02 (lower, and further away from 0.05, is better) is pretty strong.

Where this article fails to convince me to start waving red meat in the faces of all the vegs I know is the limited sample size of a couple dozen people. Maybe there's some protective factor in red meat, or maybe their small sample size just overrepresented young carnivores and old vegetarians.
This may sound too self-serving, but at the end of the day, you need to ensure your bottomline and well-being as well. You have responsibilities and the necessity to feed yourself (and those who may depend upon you) which involves in some ways some financial means, which would be perfectly alright that you start looking for places that may well use your skills/talent and compensate you accordingly.
It would be Nemesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28hypothetical_star%2...
Because it worked well for Google and Facebook
The same could be said of almost anywhere, and almost any public event that is more for show than for benefit.

EDIT: I agree with jacquesm's sentiment ... but I feel we are too forgiving of these kinds of wasteful spends when they're in our own backyards.
Presumably you're allowed to destroy the Tesla you own - which wouldn't be true with a long term rental, you'd have to give that back.
So Reddit is worth less than Minecraft? How does this work?
Strongly concur.

Also make this a yearly habit, so you stay on the ball, know where the market is at, and become comfortable leaving at a moment's notice to avoid this life changing anxiety you might be feeling.

Once you do it regularly, it's no big deal. Companies hire and fire dozens of people a year, it shouldn't be that different for you.
And kuro5hin, where users sit around on stories endlessly trolling them or asking for clarification before they got published.

Kuro5hin did achieve some of the most amazing content, however.
> The worst offenders for readability are these C-ish functions that deal with unsafe pointers.

That is exactly the point, to make it pretty clear that the code needs to be scrutinized very carefully for its safety.
I love reading posts like these
So, why is the one big thing I noticed about this info graphic is the mis-spelling of "wether"?
There's a quote: "If you owe the bank $100, you've got a problem. If you owe the bank $100M, the bank has a problem."

Here's a tweaked version. If you can't get a raise, you have a problem. If a company can't pay its employees market rate, the company has a problem.

I pretty firmly believe that if money is tight at a company, paying fewer people more money (and setting higher expectations around performance) is the way to go. Otherwise you end up with top talent leaving and those left feel entitled to not give 100% (because they aren't being paid 100%).
Actually, typescript was built by a quite famous static typing advocate.
There are overheads to running a bricks and mortar store. This, plus the price will be whatever people will pay for it.
People do get attached to animals in open-sim type virtual worlds and spend real life money to buy them food (necessary to keep them alive). The people who sell the pets and food make a good profit, probably second only to virtual world landlords.
> I'm sure that everyone here will have been in similar situations before.

No, because I've only worked for businesses that make money.
> Twitter is a cesspool of useless noise and ego

That's what Reddit has been, in my humble opinion, since I've started using it - since 2005.

Country subs, most of the most famous subs, pretty much everywhere - it's just a lot of nonsensical quips, flame wars, karma hoarding (Reddit has a different unparliamentary word for that starting with "w"), the ubiquitous herd-mentality - one comment (mostly a "quip" reply) that came early gets bigger and bigger and everything else takes naturally a back seat, your very genuine doubts, points getting downvotted to oblivion sometimes for no apparent reason. It's a big list I believe.

Yes, there are subs which are good and can actually mean some meaningful interaction but it's not very proper to always call reddit right or better than Twitter or any other medium by referring to those few subs like /r/TrueFilm [0], then there's /r/DepthHub and /r/TrueReddit which are supposed to be "good" reddit but there are just no interactive discussions there they usually connect to popular comments usually highly gilded and popular ones.

Initially /r/ImAA seemed promising but that's just a PR board or been reduced to it. No, candid conversation (and I don't mean masala and gossip and scandal) is as rare as it gets. Places like /r/AskHistorians are as difficult to start participating that you just give up in the first go - it doesn't at all encourage participation; you don't know who you will flare up with your seemingly innocuous comment. At many places Reddit makes being a newbie almomst a crime and then there's instant justive too.

Reddit, for me, is mostly about what I have mentioned above and mod ego, monopoloy and knee jerk reactions and botached interventions by admins if at all they do. Abuse goes unchecked which is compounded by the herd-mentality. Like really unchecked and it's a hell for female users. The famous Reddit saying goes like "There are no girls on the Internet" and whenever a user is indentified as one it's almost unlivable there for them. And then there's doxxing.

Reddit sometimes works for just a lurker whenever I need something and it has it. Or a casual browsing for few minutes here and there.

[0] Conincidentally when I opened it there's this post from a day ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueFilm/comments/6hg21r/the_declin...
Nice page. My mobile browser janked immediately. Even back button didn't work.
Whether to stay or leave is obviously an important decision that can impact your career, and you may not want to base it on something as simple as the things you've mentioned here.

Of the things you mention, there seem to be two primary concerns.

One is that you definitely won't get a raise until a new round of funding comes in, and even if that funding does arrive I assume a raise is not a guarantee. We obviously aren't aware of your status or current and past performance. We also aren't aware of how much you are making now, and whether that amount is perhaps at the higher end or lower end of market rate already.

Two is that the company seems to be having at least some financial concerns.

You've also told us "they anticipate that the round will close over the next couple of months, if not weeks". That sounds optimistic. Being that the next salary review isn't for a couple weeks, it sounds as if this entire thing could be about nothing.

If you like your job enough where not getting a raise is OK for at least a few months, you should stay.

Beyond liking your job, are you still learning? Are you becoming better at what you do year after year by staying there? If the answer is "no" to either of those questions, you should probably leave regardless of salary raises and free champagne.

You should always be prepared for the worst, of course, so if an event (layoff, closure) were to happen you should always want to be in a position to start looking for work quickly.

I don't think suggesting a 4 day work week due to an incomplete salary review is a good option. That suggests that you may have anticipated a 20% raise, which isn't all that realistic. Making unrealistic demands of a cash-strapped company could be a quick way to a layoff.

I'm not sure at this point it's even relevant to ask the founders any questions. They seem to be forthcoming about things - it's not like they told you there will be no salary reviews the day before they were scheduled to happen, and if they have been trustworthy in the past you should have no reason to doubt their honesty now about their expected timeline for the next round to close.

When should one start looking for jobs? There are lots of reasons. If you are not fairly compensated for what you do and there are no other 'upsides' to your employment that make staying a good option. When you aren't learning or challenged by what you do. When you feel work is having a consistent negative impact on other parts of your life. When your company clearly makes decisions that do not consider the best interests of their employees.

Good luck to you.
Since the title isn't very informative about the content of the article: it's about the 2017 world expo which is held in Kazachstan and the steadying decline of visitors to these events.

I hadn't even heard of the fact there currently was a world expo in Kazachstan if it wasn't for this article. For previous expo's I at least remember them having quite some coverage in the news.
> That said, once he was stuck in the embassy, he left himself vulnerable to being manipulated by the Russians and now it seems he is acting as a Russian agent.

I wrote something along those lines a few months back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13513523

I have little reason to doubt that Assange and Wikileaks as Russian agents. However, I'm willing to defer to Gruqg and his chain of deduction: Wikileaks was always destined to be become the unwitting propaganda horn of a foreign power.
"The Rust Evangelism Strikeforce lingers in the distance, not sure how to leverage the color of Martian dust to their advantage but convinced of the feasibility of the endeavor."
Also, HN provides YC with unending nuggets of insight.
Google's Magenta / Fuchsia – Magenta and Fuchsia Notes
Very cool. I am currently learning Chinese and have found it hard to find movie/tv shows that include the pinyin subtitles. This is so much better with the color coding, formatting and dual translations. Thanks for putting in all the work and sharing.
I am extremely skeptical about the statistical analysis here.

It sounds like they tested nine food types, eight beverages and then even tried out different types of comparisons for each food/beverage. And the best p-value they observed was p=0.02:

"Among nine food types (cereal, fruits, vegetables, diary, red meat, poultry, fish, sweets and salty snacks) and eight beverages (juices, coffee, tea, mineral water, alcoholic- and sweetened carbonated beverages) only intake of red meat was related to T/S ratio. Individuals with increased consumption of red meat have had higher T/S ratio and the strongest significant differences were observed between consumer groups: “never” and “1–2 daily” (p = 0.02)."

Nowhere in their methods do they mention adjusting for multiple testing. If we do that using the standard Bonferroni approach, the p-value would have to be multiplied by a factor of at least 17 x 2 to account for the number of options that they tried. So the adjusted p-value would be 0.02 x 17 x 2 = 0.68 and thus far from statistical significance.

In other words, this seems to be a real-life example of this: https://xkcd.com/882/

Maybe I missed something, but if this is really the case then it's embarrassing that this made it through peer review.
Not the time or place.
I'm with him/her. This website makes me angry and the HN-comments are the only way to express these feelings.
I know this really isn't the place for religion but somehow the Quran talks about these things:

51:47-49
47. We constructed the universe with power, and We are expanding it.
48. And the earth—We spread it out—How well We prepared it!
49. We created all things in pairs, so that you may reflect and ponder.

And that the universe is actually expanding is something that wasn't known at the time of Mohammad.
I understand your point and would agree in most cases. I am usually pretty forgiving of mobile popups, etc. However, in this case I gave up before even making it to the real article. I felt like I was in a loop of modals that wouldn't relent until I subscribed. Give it a shot and let me know if I am wrong.
This simply sounds like a forced password reset scheme which I don't see the benefit of. Standard passwords can accomplish exactly the same thing with the added advantage of allowing instant log-in if you remember your password.
As a founder of a startup, reading posts like that make me sad. In the imaginary world I live in , tough times a company is going through are triggering employees to give up their benefits and work harder to help the company recover.

Before my entrepreneurial journey I was working for a startup as a developer , I sticked there around for 5 years. For the last 3 years of the company existence I voluntarily gave up 20% of my salary and worked my ass off, simply because of being loyal and caring for the organization.

I work hard to create a sense of commitment and loyalty in my current start up, and during the recruiting process we pay a super attention to don't hire people who are looking for just money and are easy to abandon a ship during a crisis.
If people don't complain, developers won't know they need to fix their shit. Push the pain back on bad devs.
I think it's a stretch to read programmers need the ability to check their work as don't trust the programmer.

They codified interfaces with bounds checking. They gave us tools. They deprecated a function that cannot be checked and used securely inside a program without also checking what happens outside the program.

That's good, they give the ability, they give tools. But that's not at all distrusting the programmer, least of all in the sense that I spoke of: assume the program is wrong if you can't prove it right.

And because of that, I do not think these updated guidelines are a reversal of spirit or incompatible with what C alway was and still is.

They still trust the programmer in general, and also allow the use of older interfaces that do no bounds checking. They just gave new toys for the programmer who doesn't trust himself. That may help him check the work.
Soundcloud is out there for several years raising rounds with great expectations (meaning high valuations) and still hasn't found a business model yet. They've lost a lot of high class tech talent such as Peter Bourgon. Users stay stagnant, no exit in sight. If you have equity, count it as zero, as latest at the next round, liq prefs will be so high there won't be much left for employees. If I were you, I'd start looking in any case.
For some reason my mind immediately went to the fact that Wikileaks has to honor protecting its sources.

I know it should be real obvious that the task of protecting sources itself is most paramount in their operation, but for some reason I get the feeling that "full disclosure" includes "how do you get the info / who do you get the info from / tell us juicy secrets / tell us the truth about your legal cases". I don't know why, it's not that I do or don't fully trust Wikileaks, I think they can do both good and bad for the world -- not very different from any government, but I don't expect Wikileaks to get a fair shake from many people.

Everyone is looking to get the best information these days to get ahead. Information and data is the name of the game so the possibilities are really endless when it comes to the lengths people would go to get that information.
Honestly this sounds like it should come from Congress. You spend tax payers money on closed access journals you cheat the tax payers.
Interesting, I'm going to try to implement that in my file parser.
Well, businesses come and go. Start ups come and go faster. Nothing tragic will happen if you accept that. I am sure you will find a job if you keep things in perspective. It is just business.

However there is no reason to panic yet. It is likely they will raise again.

Meanwhile you can use your energy to prepare yourself. Get your resume and LinkedIn put together. Make sure your personal finances are secure and can handle 3-6 months with no income (standard advice for everyone). Start inquiring about what other companies would be worth working for.

If you have a plan to handle the downside risk, this will be less terrifying and more of a business like decision of the merits of staying or going.

Once you can feel safe walking away then you can negotiate a better structure if you want the extra time. It is important to have the walk away plan as your BATNA when negotiating.
Just like The Millennium Dome, in a country far, far away:

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

This did not work and there was just a huge void of content that no amount of inspiration could 'fill'. I worked on it and did not go to see the finished work, I was that ashamed!

Compare and contrast with something like the German IFA trade show that really does show off the technology of the future.

Perhaps the problem is compounded when you have to make it nationalistic as is required for a world type of Expo. The world is too global for country pavilions to work, for instance, why would Ford Motor Co. build a stand on an American pavilion when they have been a global company for the last century and market themselves as local product in all of their major markets.
Canada's biggest cities move to regulate Airbnb, but it's no easy task
As a freelancer, how many projects do you take on at once?
I would never give up promised benefits because the company is struggeling. Because I know exactly what happens to my salary when the company is successfull again: nothing.
Note: as an observational study, this is not the final word on the subject. A p of 0.02 being the strongest evidence may also be the result of p-hacking. More research is needed. Causal studies should be performed to confirm.

Further, the sample size is exceptionally low (n=28).
My approach at the moment is to work on two projects at once. I try and spend about 4 hours on one project and then 2 hours on the other. Then I alternate each day. This doesn't always work so some weeks I'll just dedicate entire days to one project and then other days to the other.
It's a pretty good approach because it means I always have paid work. As soon as one project is finished I spend that time looking for new work. I usually find my next project before the second one ends so there is always overlap.
The downside is that I prefer to focus on one thing and dig into it. I can't really do that with my approach. If I did then there would be gaps where I am looking for work between projects.
The other downside is that I don't work as fast as other people. I always quote longer deadlines because I know I have to account for working on both projects.
I'm interested to know how other people handle their workflow. I'd love a better approach.
How many projects do you take on at once and how do you handle your workflow?
If you're in London there's a cool company called FutureLearn, they are not actively advertising for new employees but you should check them out.
I really wish people focused more on progressive enhancement(?) since 95% of webpages would work just fine with HTML and CSS, and of those 95% only need Javascript for interacting with things.

At least let me see what the site is about, even if only a landing page, so I can see the value of enabling Javascript.
As an employee of a company, I'm paid salary for my time.

I'll take a pay cut for more equity if I want it, not for nothing.

If I take risk, I get rewarded with ownership, but if I'm paid cash, why do I honestly care what happens to a company.

This isn't some fairytale, we're all here to get paid, and employees​ aren't your buffer for bad cash flow management, that's the responsibility of owners and management.
I agree. "There are only 3 rules to remember" -> "here are 6 keywords to remember" caught me as well

Interesting concept nonetheless
Belgian think tank study: universal basic income is a dangerous utopia
> you're better off using the C++ API

Using it for what? If I understand this project correctly, it allows you to put an application and corresponding application-specific language features/optimizations into one source file. You can then always be sure that those language features and optimizations are available.

I have a hard time seeing how this would work with LLVM's C++ API in a comparable way. There you would have to (1) write the application in an LLVM-supported language, (2) use some other transformation language to add features to your surface syntax, (3) separately compile your LLVM extension pass written in C++, (4) make sure your LLVM extension is used when compiling the application.
Sorry, that's not an excuse here. The issue was not a breach. It was an uncaught bug that revealed the moderator's identity when they performed an action against the alledged terrorism group.

This is a process and protocol oriented issue. Facebook could have allowed the moderators to use anonymized accounts, or have better error testing.