skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As my CTO once said “If you’re gonna go so far as moving to the South Bay you might as well keep going until you reach LA”

Once you’re in SF or immediate vicinity everything else becomes veeeeeery far away. I used to live in Menlo Park and the city felt pretty close. Now I’m
In SF and I’d sooner come hang out with you in NYC than I would in Menlo.

Yes some people commute that far every day. I have yet to meet anyone who says they don’t mind and aren’t desperately looking for ways to get out of it.

A friend of mine works for Google and he said that any job opening for the SF office gets filled within seconds because everybody hates going to the main campus. Despite the fancy buses, a 2hr commute each way is killer.
Wind turbines supply energy equivalent to 93% of Scotland's household need
Yes! You have restated my position better than I could have.
The metro area is much larger than just downtown NYC.

Median 3 person family income in NYC metro area is only 85,900 $. So, you really can comfortably live in that area making 90k.

http://www1.nyc.gov/site/hpd/about/what-is-affordable-housin...
I worked for a small digital marketing and PR agency in NYC. We worked with clients mostly in the music industry. The environment was very collaborative and it felt like a family in many ways. The work was creative while also being relationship driven. Overall I'd say it was the environment that made me enjoy the job most.
maybe some sortof point system would be nice. You get points by providing good bug reports, good forum answers, good PRs, good code reviews, providing tests, donating, etc., but you can lose points by wasting people's time or being a jerk, for instance. Then maintainers can prioritize PRs by people with good points, regardless of how they got the points (be it from donating time, code, or other ways of helping the community & project).
.mobi

Well, at least they tried.
Autonomy, relationships and mastery.

Its never about the company or the work.

You'll be happy if you have a boss who trusts you completely and colleagues that aren't a-holes. If you have this you will find the work thats interesting.
Floridians Say Online Retailers Let Them Down Ahead of Irma
Why social media apps should be in your disaster kit
Depending on where he or she is working from, you don't need a ~SF Bay Area to enjoy the same quality (if not better) of life.
Autonomy, relationships and mastery. Yep
A friend just went through the hire process at FB for iOS.

It actually was very practical. According to him it was more or less stuff we do every day, with one generic, programming puzzle of sorts.
Very cool! Does anyone know how this is implemented? I was thinking of doing similar by using 'dtach'. Essentially the plan was to start the terminal with dtach, and whenever I wanted to change the settings I would detach, update, and then reattach with a new terminal. Of course, my approach would add overhead if you weren't already running dtach for some other reason.
Honestly? This warehouse where I was repacking lumber. The lumber would come from the sawmill on a big flatbed truck. However, the lumber would be stacked in a formation that made it impossible to fill up the shipping containers optimally for shipping the lumber overseas. So my job was to (with a bunch of other guys):

1. Unpack the lumber.
2. Restack the lumber in a formation that would allow for maximum lumber loaded into the shipping containers.
3. Rewrap the lumber in plastic and staple the plastic in place.

It was mindless work where I didn't have to think about anything, had no deadlines, and I got physical exercise to boot. It paid $12 Canadian per hour. Long-term, it would have sucked because the wage was too low. But short-term, it was exactly what I needed at the time to recharge my batteries.

In terms of real career work? Just after I graduated from university, it was a team of young hotshots that made custom .NET apps for improving work processes at a telecom company. Ton of freedom, ton of competence, ton of stuff that got done. Still possibly the best team I've ever worked with.
There was a lot of polish, cleaning and color correction done in those photos. Amazon warehouses look a lot dingier in real life, especially once they've been used.
Thanks for this.

Just to make sure I am getting it:

Does this mean if you never used React, but use Preact or Vue that Facebook can still countersue you in the same way if you used React?
I really love the 360 video here. Makes the content much more interesting when you can see all around.
> It is good an reasonable to show people respect but the same isn't owed to beliefs

I agree. This is exactly why I wrote as I did in the above:

> willingness to try to understand others

> try to do so in a manner that shows respect for someone else

> granting anyone the benefit of the doubt that they may be able to reasonably interpret religious texts to mean something other than a strict literal interpretation.

This can charitably (and without much of a stretch) read as "granting anyone the benefit of the doubt that they may be able to reasonably interpret <whatever> in a way that may differ from yours". It's not limited to interpretation of religious texts.

And below:

> I think it's important to take the time to try to understand where someone is coming from. Dismissing it out of hand prevents you from both understanding and hopefully being understood. You can understand and follow someone's logic without necessarily agreeing with it.

You comment:

> I would counter that interpreting religious texts as an overall activity is not a reasonable one.

Which is why I elaborated below:

> My point is not to discuss interpretation of religious texts.

If you expect others to understand your point of you (much less come to agree with it), I believe it's incumbent on you to understand theirs. If you've already written off or otherwise dismissed others, there's little point in discussion.
The post burned my eyes. Couldn't make it halfway. Hopefully the resume is a bit easier to read? My goal isn't to judge resumes by how they look, but they can't burn my eyes.
Clerk at an art supplies store. Fun colleagues. Low stress.
They need the temp workers during peak seasons - they can't really afford to not hire them, nor can they afford to keep on that many longer-term employees.
I'm willing to cheat.

A search on Google Play Store for "meeting cost clock" comes up with several, though the best looking from the screenshots appears to be the $1.99 Meeting Cents with almost no downloads and no updates since 2014. Several others are ad supported or low cost. Frankly it'd cost more in (billable?) time to test and select one than to buy all of them.

A very simple browser based implementation is at https://www.mcgurrin.info/clock.htm and another is at https://tobytripp.github.io/meeting-ticker/
I fear this article is a bit too technical for someone more on the marketing and less on the IT end of things.

Even organizations I would expect to get DKIM/SPF/DMARC right frequently don't. I don't know how many "Hey, I see your emails have DKIM/SPF problems, here is how to fix it," messages I've sent that nobody ever followed-through on.
Yup. It's not capitalism. It's not the free market. It's a game that's gamed. Unfortunately no one wants to hear this.
Not exactly: Mayella Ewell and Tom Robinson did not, in fact, have sex. Tom rebuffed Mayella's advances, and Bob Ewell concocted a rape as retribution for Mayella's attraction to a black man. However, the book strongly implies that, at some earlier point, Bob Ewell himself had actually raped Mayella -- perhaps habitually. It's not lingered upon, but the implication, while brief, is difficult to oppose.
So Melvin Redick of Harrisburg, PA really existed then? Glad you figured that one out. Not sure why I could not see it was Hillary's fault he wasn't real.
A silly and baseless claim. The executives didn't know about the breach at the time of sale, and it wasn't "covered up". It's standard industry procedure to first stop an intrusion, investigate the scope, contact law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and prepare a consumer response, before publishing a breach. This wasn't something that was dug up by an investigation, so calling it a cover-up is simply wrong.
Your employer benefits financially from the open source community. People who purchase software cheaply due to lower barrier to entry and more competition also benefit. As a coder I generally don't benefit so don't feel the need to give back.

As a coder the tsunami of FOSS is a negative. My job is now to glue free modules together rather than design stuff. I'd be quite happy to pay for a compiler if I had to.
At the very least, maybe we would have seen higher voter turnout. I know at least a handful of 'salty' people who didn't vote at all but would never have voted for Trump.
About any software stack for about any computer task involves at least some open source code running for you, written by someone on their free time, mostly out of pure altruism. I wonder how many dollars has this person contributed to, say OpenSSL, or to GnuPG, or to the GNU project, or to Linux, or to the Apache Foundation, &c.

If you dont want to respond to pull requests or to emails, just ignore them or dont put your code up on a platform that allows these. Publish release tarballs. Nobody's obliged to accept patches. But what this article tells is a merely a shortcut to making someone hard-fork your project. If I have to pay to get my patch upstream, well, I'll just maintain my patchset against upstream instead, if there are no alternative projects.
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Archaeology is a new and evolving field. In years past, people we certainly would categorize as archhiologists did use dynamite.

(study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture)

And OP's general point remains valid -- scientific instruments and methods evolve. Worth considering "why now?"
Some people did, like Warren Buffett. https://qz.com/67052/heres-how-warren-buffett-made-3-1-billi...
None. Haven't found a company that would meet my standard. And we're talking about class A companies. I should try to start my own company, I think it's the only way to get what I want.
Those small teams only need to be concerned in the event that they intend on suing Facebook for PATENT INFRINGEMENT. That's it. That's the only event that this could ever be relevant to you. Small teams should focus on building great products. If their hope is to patent some software algorithm in the hopes that they're going to make it big in a legal battle with Facebook...I mean, I suppose in that special 1 in a million case you should probably avoid Facebook open source. But you are probably going to face patent counterclaims regardless, because they own thousands of software patents. You might be accidentally violating one of them now. Who knows? Have you combed through your code base and Facebook's patent portfolio to find out? What about all the other big software companies out there? Google? Yahoo? Microsoft? Your choice of tech won't prevent you from violating broad software patents like Amazon's infamous 1-Click patent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Click, for example.
Yes, and hence my suggestion to him.

But this is also why I introduced my only vaguely related example of the large search engine company who wanted me to work for free to help them organize 30-40 school events for Hour of Code -- a big undertaking. They just said no to my request and did not do the events, and implied I was the reason why those kids wouldn't benefit from their hour or two at each school. No "'business opportunity'".

As context I do A TON of free work already in schools around computer science education. Was I being unreasonable to ask to be paid for this work? They sure thought I was, even though the people in their CSR group who'd have been the PMs of my work sure as heck get paid. The company chose just not to do the events at all (w/ a market cap of both of $500b) - the kids lost out too.

It's actually not so that the request for free work is a negotiation technique - it's an actual expectation of more and more people in the tech community who will get angry when you won't work for free (and they'll convey that anger from the desk of their $250k/year job).

I at least am seeing this dynamic play out all over the tech world. Work in a big tech company, nominally as a software engineer but really as someone who makes a lot of PowerPoints and watches (and "likes") a lot of Ted Talks, and the ecosystem seems to be ok with you pulling down $250K (and from that comfortable seat demanding quicker response times from volunteers in the tech community of various sorts).

Work for yourself selling your time as a contractor in the "gig economy" and you've become the maintainer and/or a significant contributor to a couple OSS projects that are related to the services you sell: you're a "sell out" to the ideals of open sources for wanting to be paid for that time. Again, I exaggerate this duality, but it's starting to become a real problem, I think, for the industry.
Robots are cool. Even though amazon is hiring, they employ robots for a reason, it means that fewer employees are needed per a unit of work. In the absence of robots, more employees would be hired.

I like efficiency. I think abundance is great. Our economic system ensures that those things will not help the great mass of people in our society.
I agree. But not to parse words but the risk wasn't mismanaged. They knew that worst case they'd get bailed out. From their POV the risk was close to zero. Not only that, there was zero legal follow up. It's not difficult to figure out who is really running shit.
I'm a copywriter who's trying to get into affiliate.

I've literally spent the last few weeks mulling over one niche to the next. I've read almost every post on nichehacks but still can't pick a niche.

Any advice on how to bite the bullet?
Plenty of important work to be done:

https://aeon.co/essays/the-key-to-jobs-in-the-future-is-not-...
> Now I’m In SF and I’d sooner come hang out with you in NYC than I would in Menlo.

Just to put this in perspective, you'd rather go down BART to Millbrae (up to 45 minutes), go through airport security (an hour on average), fly 4 hours and get out at like LaGuardia and find your way into whichever borough you wish of New York City which is gonna take at least half an hour... than ride Caltrain for 60-80 minutes from 4th and King to Menlo Park, or drive 45* minutes (according to Google maps right now).

I'm not sure I can trust your time economy. Fully understand nobody wanting to do it twice a day, 5 days a week, but to hang out with a friend? Come right the hell on.

* : typo.
I read OP as suggesting that we prioritize sites threatened by nature, and work to leave some sites pristine.
Why is Facebook ok with changing the license on RocksDB but not React?
There is something I don't understand about the HN comments when the React license comes up.

Whenever something about software patents in general comes up, the majority of commenters seem to condemn them - at a minimum in their offensive usage. And a vast majority of commenters seem to be opposed to them at least to some degree.

So if as a general position you do not support the offensive use of software patents, why does the react license matter _at all_ to you? The only time it would matter would be if you would sue facebook for violating your patents. Am I not correctly understanding the license? Does it apply any other time?
> This seems inherently linked to the increase in complexity and precision of scientific ideas, particularly over the time scale investigated (back to 1881).

I think that's a reasonable conclusion here. I mean medicine in that time frame seems to have gone from "Yeah just shelve some cocaine and your cough will go away" to MRI's so it makes sense that the research and results have gotten a hell of a lot more complicated.
Correct, but in this case, it wouldn't have protected them from Yahoo, for example. Yahoo was suing over other, unrelated patents. Facebook had to counterclaim in order to stave off the lawsuit.
Other than some of the stuff on the Wikipedia article and the double inverted pendulum, I used it with a weird heating problem and some social stuff.

So, there is this material that needs to be heated on a curve (time 0 = room temp, 20 minutes = 400C, 120 minutes = room temp - cannot remember after 20 years - it cooled sorta quickly because of fans when heater off). Software package with oven basically turned heaters full blast, the off, then full blast, etc. about half the time material wasn’t cooked properly. I wrote a bunch of rules that computed a % the heater should be at. Worked really well and was an amazingly small program.

Social wise I wrote rules to judge success based on about 20 factors. Never bothered to pursue it beyond my own satisfaction.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas S. Kuhn (1970) [pdf]
With few exceptions it's always the place I'm currently working, because happiness in work is a big priority for me, so when I move from place to place I always try to make an improvement in how much I enjoy work.

When I'm unhappy, I ask myself why, and how much effort I think it will take to change what I don't like (which often is something I can change in myself, rather than expecting the environment to do it for me), and if I think it's worth the effort to change (myself or my surroundings) I do.

Otherwise I stay where I'm at until I can figure out how to improve things.
This is fair to say when working on your own projects as you set the rules. You can pick any software you want.

The trouble is when you go to implement some of this stuff at work and get pushback from your team or higher-ups about the licenses for the software.
People over 40+ still have kids. So, there would be a direct link if people started to die at 41.
Do you have any particular way of reading? Like just read the same book in your spare time, or flip between books as long as they hold your interest? Or even a way of choosing which books to read?
Interesting site but how do you drive traffic?

There's no traditional blog or long-form content. The site is literally a compilation of books. Though it's useful, useful I don't see how users will find it online organically at least.
Ask HN: Who is selling/trading a side project? (September 2017)
Hey HN I like how there is a Who is Hiring every month on HN why not a who is selling/trading a side project?

Listing format:
Name of side project - description - asking price or trade

Here are a few of my projects I am interested in selling/trading (I have a big project that is taking all my time)...

JobCompass.net - iOS/Android/Web App with loyal following since 2009. Featured in major media like Mens Health, Yahoo Finance, Mashable. Some sales of job listings and newsletter list.

StockBrokgerGame.com - iOS/Android/Web app with over 18,000+ players interested in trading stock and $10MM+ in game trades.
Price: Make an offer or trade

Bookcelerator.com - Curated book list from Product Hunt, Good reads, Amazon with loyal following featured on Product Hunt. I have 10+ premium book summaries (not yet pushed to subscribers) and a list of 150+ subscribers.
Price: Make an offer or trade

PitchPodcasts.com - A web app that helps podcasters find guests and people promote their skills/stories/startups on podcasts looking for quality guests.
Price: Make an offer or trade
What works for me is locking down the application behind a plan. Users can submit whatever feedback, bugs, suggestions, enhancements, and wishlists they want. These contributions are important, but they won't change the roadmap.

This only works when an open source application becomes ubiquitous or nearly ubiquitous and the users want it everywhere. Popularity and consumption rates are irrelevant to whether this works. This is because ubiquitous software solves an extremely common problem and takes too much effort to replace with an alternate solution. Ubiquitous software is not necessarily good software.

When somebody wants a change in the roadmap they can pay you money to compensate you for the additional time it takes to pivot into another direction. You probably aren't going to make any money like this. Then benefits of this approach is that the maintainers won't burn out. They just work to the plan and occasionally respond to issues. The software has a transparent and published trajectory.
Examples of Patterns in Ruby
I used to get paid surprisingly well to play capture the flag and hit children with dodge balls, then we'd do stuff like make electric pianos out of 555 timers and paper clips, and popsicle stick trebuchets that could throw a rock several hundred feet.

Easily the best job I've had.
If they use the San Jose-Santa Clara MSA, then yes --which is probably how they are calculating it.
We may, but do you really think we have the most violent people in the world? Do you think we have 7x more violent people per capita compared to #2 China?

That just doesn't add up.
Freedom of trade and property rights are hard to separate from other liberal freedoms and rights. Capitalism sort of follows.
I thought Oracle's loss against Google for the Java/Android API lawsuit sort of set a precedent that APIs are not patentable...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....
I had the same thought. I've poured some slabs. We might've covered some smokes or trash, but we picked up every weapon and dry good.

I suppose they were burrying the stuff like Hoffa's corpse.
A really nice outline by Prof Frank Pajares, can be found at [0] for people who might want to read through in a hurry. However, I personally would recommend reading the original text itself.

Link(s):
[0] https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html
Wasn't there a study published recently showing that money really does buy happiness, up to a certain point of diminishing returns?
Welp I guess everyone forgot:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=acorn+dead+voters

Elections are always gamed. The "loser" (this this most recent elections everyone lost in my humble opinion) always seems to have a louder voice than the "winner"
The issue of not wanting open source contributions to inadvertently license valuable patents is not unique to Facebook.

Qualcomm reorganized itself several years ago so that their employees who interact with open source would be assigned to one corporate entity while all sensitive patents would be held by a separate corporate entity.

Other large organizations muddle through with closer oversight of the open source teams by the legal team than either would like.

It is a difficult problem to solve.
I've seen these kinds of things and have always been dubious that they are able to pay a full time salary for someone that is even close to what they could make with a normal full time dev job. What's the highest monthly amount your company pays a dev? What's the average and median?
35 minutes drive seems..optimistic. I can't remember the last time I drove the 101 from that part of the peninsula into the city or the other direction in less than 45 minutes. Traffic on that whole road is a little taste of hell on Earth, and it gets worse around the San Mateo bridge, which seems to have an accident every few minutes.
If everyone used React, Facebook would then be rather free to sue everyone (especially other mega corps) for violating Facebook's patents. Normally, this isn't the case, because every company of appreciable size has at least a few patents laying around that you're violating, which they could use to countersue. It's a MAD situation. But if you sign away your right to sue Facebook, you're also signing away your right to countersue Facebook—thus removing any disincentive Facebook would have for just suing anyone they like.
You complain about not waiting for new tech, and then complain about not using current tech. What use is future tech going to be if it's applied with the same kind of people?

Also, what kind of tech are you expecting to be developed that will be available to archaeologists? It's not like they get CERN's budget.