skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for "My wife and I are a team"

OP absolutely needs to have this discussion with his partner ... if they don't see eye to eye on what their goals are, then it puts the family at risk.

Also +1 for noting survivor bias.

In the talk with his partner, they need to confront head-on the issue that the whole entrepreneurship thing may not work out. Or worse, may be "on the verge of success" for year after year after year. Decide up front where to draw lines and what plan B might be.
>as opposed to offering an exploratory period of life that is college (socially and intellectually),

To me, college has been the opposite. Most people I know feel restricted to getting a 9-to-5 job and are very stressed about how much they will make compared to their peers.

Nearly all of the depressed people I know feel very restricted. They feel as though they cannot get out of their situation in life. I think this is only bolstered by the enormous debt and time investment that comes with going to college---one or two small decisions (perhaps going into economics rather than stats, or going into chemical engineering rather than computer science) can lead to major regrets a few years down the line. These people feel trapped and full of regret. They don't know what to do.

Stepping aside and exploring opportunities that don't funnel you through a massive rat-race can be the biggest relief.
I don't think we really had a disagreement, here. Just keep in mind that one-on-ones vastly differ between companies and managers, among other things in frequency.
I picked up universe sandbox recently and I struggle to construct simple binary star systems with a few planets.
>The obvious example is blockchain, which would be insurmountably less efficient than banks if not for the fact that banks are so bureaucratic, heavily regulated and risk averse. But if banks start losing real customers to blockchain they'll respond. Hopefully by addressing their own failings rather than having blockchain regulated out of existence, but either way the result will be for blockchain to fade after they do.

That's assuming it is technically possible for them to be cheaper and faster and easier to use without blockchain technology. My non-expert understanding is that it's not possible.

Also, from what I understand a key reason financial institutions are so interested in the blockchain is it helps greatly with the trust and settlement problems that at present take so much work and expense.
I think you'll find a lot of gun owners who are Republican think the party leadership is out to lunch on some issues, and frankly opinions on side issues in the party have changed multiple times. Witness a lot of the MJ debate.

> You can only carry out the "election suicide" strategy if you have enough popular support. Until then you're stuck with what the EFF does: education and legal action.

Well, education and legal action are fine things, but they will not get you to where you want. They need to get over themselves and get a booth at the next NRA convention and maybe a booth at some gun shows. A nice catch phrase linking the protection provided by gun ownership with the protection offered by encryption would be a nice bonus.
We use stupid, simple maths problems (like project Euler 1-30) when hiring for junior positions.

We are not looking for someone to do the maths tricks that lets you solve most of the problems with pen and paper, but for someone that recognizes a 100x speed increase using memoization.

You'd think people with some programming experience would be able to reason about how to speed up a simple brute force approach, but those parts of the hiring process usually weed out 75%, and I don't expect someone to give me a perfect solution. Heck, not even a working piece of code. Just being able to say "hmm, we could maybe cut half of the computation by just using the relevant parts of the alphabet" is all I want.

Then we have people like my colleague that just wrote print(103) which was the correct answer. (He could also give several fast approaches to solving the problem, one which we hadn't thought about before).
Never assume management's expectations.
Ask HN: Have you learned to write shorthand?
I tend to take notes in meetings on paper as opposed to a laptop because I feel more engaged in the discussion if I'm not staring at a screen. While I've gotten reasonably good at jotting down the salient points, I frequently find myself wishing I had a more complete record of the conversation than my handwriting speed (or for that matter typing speed) allows.

I realize with the invention of stenotype machines, dictaphones and other recording devices, shorthand seems to be nearly dead, but I wonder if anyone here has actually gone through the effort of learning it.

If so, are you glad you did?
My sister, when she got married to a Stevens, changed her name to First name, Second name, Even, Stevens. I won't put her full name for obvious reasons.
The original pass seems to handle binary data fine:

$ pass insert -m mybinarysecret <secret.png
$ pass show mybinarysecret >secret.png

Admittedly, it's not very user-friendly, but some simple wrapper scripts could fix that.
Enpass.
A wise and respected co-worker once told me "know your limits" when I asked him how he managed to stay at a place for 10 years when it did not provide professional challenges or growth. At the time, I was young and "unlimited" and took his advice to mean that I should settle for something less than ideal, but since years have passed and I have a family of my own now, I look back on that advice with a different view: when you know your limits, you can work around them. I recently learned I have ADD. That simple knowledge has helped me to put little countermeasures in place that help to balance out my limitations; I pat myself down for the four essentials that should be with me when I leave the house and I put those easentials in the same place when I come home each day. Knowing your limits professionally means you can work to mitigate those limitations. If you know you don't have time to waste anymore because of your obligations, well then figure out what you want from life and use your limited time to accomplish those goals. Set realistic expectations for yourself based on what you know you can do, when you can do it, how you can do it.

Truthfully, I know what he really meant with his words: he had a wife and family who were his primary concern and he was happy to put his professional concerns on the back burner to give them a good life and to be able to enjoy that good life with them.
Only in America.

In Europe, as I understand it, people generally study law right out of secondary school.
Why do the trouble of replying but fail to explain your reasons? That's wasting your own time mostly.

I would recommend 1password over lastpass as well. First reason being the security issues of lastpass chrome extension. Though claimed it is fixed now they have claimed before on other issues only to be proven wrong after. I simply don't trust them anymore with my data.

But even more I would choose 1password over its usability. I used lastpass before but switched during the past few security issues reported. I have never looked back. 1Password is much better integrated in your mobile devices. The app feels more robust and is easier to operate. In addition the whole process of setting up your devices felt easier and more secure using 1password.

Second. My wife understands it which is a big plus. She doesn't complain anymore about the cumbersome lastpass. We keep a shared vault as well. That alone is worth every penny and maybe the only reason I keep with a commercial password manager. I don't think she will use the alternatives.

I would strongly advice you to at least try it. It claims to be able to import your lastpass though personally I didn't try as my lastpass was a bit of a mess.
Alright, I get it. You're not interested in the subject I brought up.
I like Jinja. It's straightforward, easy to reason about. I'm a bit taken aback that you _aren't_ a big fan.
Everywhere I've ever lived had higher property taxes on homes which were not your primary residence. At the very least people are paying those increased rates.

If a person isn't reporting their income, that's a federal crime, and we have enforcement mechanisms for that. They might be lagging a bit, but if there's anything the government is fairly good at, it's making sure you're paying income tax.

In what way is a bonafide Bed and Breakfast going to result in additional documented employment? All of the bonafide BnBs I've stayed at were completely run and maintained by the home owners.
My teacher is called Mrs Willy. Just change your name.
Like those ethic and chick dum dums who complain they can't get interviews because of their names on their resumes.

Just change it right?

Sarcasm aside, it's worth considering if your name is an obvious minority. Hack the system, don't let it run you, run it.
"Aerial camera calibration targets".

Saved you a click.
>purportedly a bit more secure?

The worst bugs in LastPass are:

1. Four months ago a bug was discovered by project zero[1] about how all of your passwords can be stolen just by making a user visit a webpage. Moreover, any code can be executed remotely, compromising your entire computer. Discussion[2]

2. Later on the day vulnerability (1) was published, another was found. Project zero bug report. [3]

3. Last year a software engineer who wasn't a security researcher found a bug[4], which again, gives all your passwords.

4. The bug in (3) wasn't fixed properly, which lead to this [5]

Other bugs, but not as terrible as the ones I listed above

Jul 27 2016 [6]

Mar 25 2017 [7]

Jun 17, 2015 [8]

Nov 17, 2015 [9]

You are also forgetting a whole another class of attacks -
Phishing [10]

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924737

[3]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

[4]: https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...

[5]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=11...

[6]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=88...

[7]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=12...

[8]: http://www.businessinsider.com/security-expert-describes-las...

[9]: http://www.martinvigo.com/even-the-lastpass-will-be-stolen-d...

[10]: https://www.seancassidy.me/lostpass.html
If the citizens of these towns want more affordable housing, they are free to vote such zoning into existence. If they continue to shoot themselves in the foot, then I'm not sure how many crocodile tears I'm supposed to shed for them.
Hmm, that sounds just like Venice Beach when I spent a lot of time there in the 90s.
I don't think this is the time or place to post something like this, but I feel compelled to respond to it now that you've brought it up. I agree that Iran is a much more liberal society and that its young population is eons ahead of the Saudis. I also understand that it's frustrating to see it bundled in the media with cultures and ideologies that's is not representative of the country. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

"Girls and Boys do get the almost exactly same education, they have great opportunity to be a successful scholar in any branch of science they want", "yes, It is like USA" or "Paris of the middle east" is completely untrue.

Women are continuously harassed in university's for how they dress and many professors treat them with contempt. The notion that they get the same education or experience in college is simply not true.

And even after they graduate most job postings for roles beyond secretaries literally say "Women need not to apply"

Now I know Iran is much better than many other countries in the region and I know it's frustrating to see it represented unfairly in the media. But it's important to have a realistic perspective on the country and understand that it still has a LONG way to go. If what you're saying was true people like Maryam and thousands of other Sharif graduates wouldn't leave the country for European and American universities.
I find the title a little manufactured to be honest. He openly admits that if his kids decide they want to go to college then the fund will cover 4 years tuition, but if they decide to do something else then he'll fund that pursuit too. I think his open-mindedness is great as college isn't for everyone, but neither is entrepreneurialism. At the end of the day though, he's not really replacing anything but rather he's doing exactly what he was previously just with a different label.
> "Online registrations are canceled within minutes, tables at restaurants are canceled and given to others (makes surprise dates for partners a hassle), and renting a car is even worse," Mann says. One time, "I reserved and rented a car through Enterprise online. Confirmation email and everything in hand. I thought going through Costco Travel would eliminate the usual rigmarole, but I was wrong. A few days before [my trip], I called Enterprise to verify the reservation. The woman on the other side was nice about it, but those familiar words stating that they had canceled the reservation because they thought it was a joke came."

Nice, he got the human-equivalent of "Null", the magic name that breaks certain reservation systems.
Spidey sense didn't detect these problems then?
In the cyclic-4 group (integer arithmetic modulo 4), 3 + 3 = 2.
I agree with the sentiment that college is not the only choice after high school and may not be the best place to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit. However, I was surprised that after all the words used to describe how school was lacking in this particular direction, taking the kids out of school was not considered.

As some of the other commenters are suggesting, it may be too much of a jump to offer such a choice to the child at 18 if the child was not preparing for such an opportunity.

Homeschooling has its own critics and supporters and we don't need to get into that here. But my question is this: If he's going to trust his child to make a choice at 18, why not even earlier? How about 14? Or, in other words, why not have their education focus on learning how to make their own decisions as early as possible? And if school doesn't provide this for his children, should they be there?

Granted, the author doesn't outline what he plans on doing between now and the end of high school for his kids so maybe he is, in fact, preparing them for this decision. I just think that the decision would be too drastic to spring on an 18 year old who has had no preparation for it.
Not everyone is built for success. At least you recognize that in yourself.
Stop by the repo and say hello. We can always use more help with maintenance and improvements; a bit of history doesn't hurt either!

I've been surprised how often new contributors mention that it's their first time contributing to an open source project. We need help to make sure it's not their last.
uh, if they had a spine, why wouldn't they eliminate the big companies, thus protecting those among them who are unable to grow spines?

we are meant to do this. we must destroy. reach your ideals. do it.
Here we go again. We see these happening to often.
Exactly my point.

Myanmar got their freedom. Now, there is another problem and the current establishment isn't doing enough. And, what you shared is, again, the world media covering these lapses.
Suu Kyi did a lot right in the fight for freedom, but doesn't make her infallible. Perhaps some one else from within Myanmar will rise up and champion the cause. And, the world media and external entities do their part to help in terms of coverage, spreading awareness, diplomatic pressure, sanctions etc. We cannot just brush off the efforts of the latter saying they are doing it just to please themselves.
Opposition to mathematical realism also tends to bring in heavy doses of mathematical+cultural relativism, i.e. believing that if a culture decided 2 + 2 = 5 or that the interior angles of a triangle sum to 360 degrees, then those statements would be just as true as "2 + 2 = 4" or "the interior angles of a triangle sum to 180 degrees".
I am not sure that "starting something" is a good idea when one of the two alternatives can be completed succesfully by applying yourself diligently (i.e. studying hard enough to pass with good grades) while the other can fail for any of a large number of reasons, mostly outside of your control.

I.e. if the author's son or daughter opts for starting a company, works hard and diligently, and after three years it goes bankrupt due to:
- A competitor cuts them out of the market
- New regulatory laws make the original idea unprofitable/untenable
- A technical breakthrough makes the product unappealing

The boy/girl may have worked as hard as if they were in college, or even way harder. And after three years their company is in debt, they have nothing worth selling/salvaging, and they are 3 years late to go to college.

Also, it is not clear if the parent intends to provide something more than just seeding money. From the article it looks like that. Is this really so?
Suppose that the "baby-entrepreneur" has a really dumb idea for a start-up, but they are "passionate" about this (how many 18-years old can be passionate about financially untenable ideas?). Will the author provide money even if he cannot see anything reasonable getting out of it?
And after it has failed, will he have enough money to pay an equivalent sum for going back to college?
When Debuggers Lie
it was difficult to frame this question

because the philosophy of mathematics has so many branches with even more leaves i just went with the vague 'opposing' of one branch to cover as much ground as possible

in doing so i was moreso hoping to encourage others would define their own philosophical views on mathematics

i suppose if i was 'arguing against' anything it was more against a sort of mathematical formalism that states math only exists in the mind, or the axioms defined by human minds

if one can construct fractals and then encounter a plant like this it would seem validating to infer the mathematics being utilised by both the plant and the mathematician does indeed exist outside both
What Wi-Fi chip vendor would be preferable then?

Broadcom's Wi-Fi chip solution has now been the focus of many man-months of security analysis, but I'm not aware of any other vendor that has seen the same thorough analysis, or?

Is any Wi-Fi chip vendor actively marketing themselves as security oriented and has anything to show to back that up?
Slowly getting there, but they still have to wear pants...
And the presence of a load of suits is a good indicator for the rest of us that it's not the sort of restaurant atmosphere we'll enjoy...
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ngnin/akka_co...
Did Jabanga edit commnet? The one I'm reading says nothing about "literally no effects".

It says that centuries of real wage increases an effect of automation.
"Only the good die young" is a good sentiment to write a song around but reality and statistics don't back it up.
Do you assert that he's lying, then, about getting in all sorts of bureaucratic snafus with people who've never met him? Other than the dating thing, most of the people giving him trouble have never seen his personality.
Take angry bird for example, see where that company is now.
"There is no special "business property tax" for AirBnB/VRBO type rentals"

There's no extra property tax, but most places require sales tax to be paid on all short term rentals and many charge lodging tax on top of that.

In my case in Virgina, I pay 10.3% combined sales and lodging tax on every dollar of rent.

There is also much more wear and tear on a vacation rental than a long term property, so it's not just increased business for local maids but all construction trades, local handymen etc.
You may be interested in a concept called "unschooling."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling
Isn't he lucky? He has an ultrafilter for people who have certain hangups... Which is most people, but those that remain must be valuable.
There's a wide spectrum between single family homes and skyscrapers. Pretty sure even Tahoe has some multi-storey hotels...
I made https://stitchpics.net a few years ago just for this.

100% client side, 100% browser based, made with polymer 0.8 i think.

You can see the code at https://github.com/Klathmon/stitchpics

It was written kind of as an exercise to learn polymer at the time, so forgive the questionable decisions in architecture.
We get it. Y'all don't like the parens and long function names.

Yet 98% (prior knowledge pulled out of my posterior) of lisp haters never spent more than zero seconds actually trying to figure it out.
seems like a reason to switch banks.
Totally agree. I mean, look at all these dull, uncreative, mindless drones http://www.uh.edu/engines/Solvay-1927.jpg.
Or, you know, look at the third tutorial in the list.
> supply grows to meet demand

Clearly you've never been to San Francisco.
I remember working in a bullpen among other young, enthusiastic, hard-working, poorly groomed males coding in the horror show that C++, CORBA, and Oracle could put on for a production environment during that first 90s dot.com build up.

Meanwhile the president/CEO guy came wandering through the production gallows with our manager speaking about how next-round VCs were going to show up tomorrow for a looksee.

I asked my manager if we should dress up for that. The CEO threw his hands out and said, "No, no, no! Wear that penguin shirt and flip flops and shit. We are a start-up."
The in browser Slack is getting slower each day. If I don't do a full refresh of the page after about an hour, the interface is so slow that even typing text is painful.

So having a lightweight client is definitely appealing to me. However Slack keeps adding features often and every one using Slack assumes the recipient runs the same version of Slack as his.

I wonder how can your unofficial client can deal with this problem the next time Slack releases the next update that is as big as adding threaded conversations for example.
Online calculator for password strength, what a great idea!

I've got to offer one on my website (gimme all your passwords, mwahahaha!)
Thanks - I despise this format of "let's explain a two-paragraph concept in a five-minute long video" where the text is ungodly slow to change and there's random highlighting of words.
I used KeePass on Windows, and I use KeeWeb on Mac. KeeWeb is fast to search, allows for the inclusion of arbitrary data and tags, has a password generator, and it does autotype, which is nice. Also, it's open source.

http://keepass.info/
https://keeweb.info/
During those years, London switched from suit (with tie) to suit (tie optional).

I don't recall New York being much more casual, but it might have.

Back then, in NY, they put a foosball table on the 26th floor (IIRC) of 85 Broad St for the quants ("Strats"), in an effort to compete as an employer with the first dot.com boom (foosball = cool, right).

Once the tech bubble burst, the foosball table was gone pretty quickly though! :)

The London head office was in a listed art deco building on Fleet Street, beautifully renovated with a great gym and waterfall, quickly dubbed the "NASDAQ 5000 memorial waterfall"... (It only hit 5000 again in 2015)
Please add 2006
Funny, I read the comment as meaning "I get plenty of social deference, and any more would be just be annoying".
I would argue that "few people are capable of so on their own at that age" because they were never given the opportunity to learn and practice self-discipline at an earlier age. After all, the typical American schooling experience allows very little room for deviation from the same thing everyone else is doing.

If you started to self-direct at 13 (or earlier), you'd probably be pretty self-disciplined at 18.