skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I moved from being in a software only world where I couldn't see the benefit of my work, to one where I see my work being used on a daily basis. I find the sense of helping people and improving their lives oddly satisfying.

I do acknowledge working with non-technie teams is frustrating to start with, but once you bring them to learn the benefits it becomes pleasurable.
The main cost difference between trains and airplanes is the staffing required X hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
You seem actively hostile to the idea of there being bad employees, and I'm not sure why. Such an idea is completely independent of whether corporations are involved at all.

But corporations are usually very reticent to say negative things about people, so for them to specifically call these people out as bad employees at least makes it plausibly true.
I'd be up for volunteering. I'm not quite sure how to find a good group to volunteer for.

Occrp looks interesting, but it looks working there involves going to Kosovo. Open-emr looks potentially interesting, but I'm not sure how much I care about hospitals being able to make more money. I'm not convinced electronic medical record are actually a good idea.
You base your State shapes on magnets and not cartographers?

Ah well, at least the map makers got some work to do. There's also a number of other examples besides what they mentioned. It's a nice documentary series, of you're interested.
It's disappointing to find out that The Killing didn't turn a profit. It's a great film.
Wouldn't be too surprised if something like that is in the works at Nintendo or The Pokemon Co.
Why not ask the users to check in once a month or so by having them click a link?

That way, it's on the user to remain active. If they don't click the link?

So sad but sayonara.
Self driving cars are fun. Immediate feedback on code on car after down ramp up.
> I'm sick of working with advertising-based businesses ... I'm also totally sick of the ideological crap at lots of startups. I don't want to have to drink the kool-aid. Neither do I want to work for some large corporate machine.

Work in health care. Lot of work there building apps that support clinical trials, etc. Probably a lot of ways you could apply your data scientist hat.

Work for a small company that creates a real product or service. That means you might have to look outside of the typical startup world and may lose all the coolness that goes with, but it sounds like you're over all that anyway.

Do your own thing. Training, consulting, etc. I'm sure you have an idea burning in your mind, like we all do.
Then they'd only use the 0th and 1st positions in their number system, which would spread out the data, but as it's compressed or encoded it would still be readable. If you've ever opened a utf-8 document in a utf-16 file reader, you'll see the letters are spread out, but still readable. It's the same idea.
Spoofed yes but they're hard to guess in advance without prior knowledge of the device's MAC address.
Can a clock nerd please ELI5 how this chip differs from a frequency standard like even the old Agilent (then Symmetricon) 5071A, not to speak of more modern variants? For bog-standard businesses that want a on-prem physical backup time standard for IT in case NTP and GPS are not available, would even this chip be overkill?
This! But you know, starting your own non-profit is a great idea too. I started one this year, and now I get to invent my very own job every day: fighting and sometimes suing the government under state and federal Freedom of Information laws, and rescuing millions of records that I return to the public domain! It's meaningful work that I can do on my own schedule, and it fills a void that no one else was doing. And no dumb-ass recruiter is ever going to beat that.
I do love object literals. The 'static' keyword for array parameters actually dates to the C99 standard.
Why isn't Julia a good choice?
I second this recommendation. Since listening I have heard all manner of things compared to the 747; yoga poses, describing something large, etc, as raised on the Podcast. It truly is an icon that translates across countries.
Come work with us. https://www.freeplayapp.com/

We want to take all of the advances in psychology and ML, and instead of applying it to the problem of getting people to click on ads, we want to persuade people to have a fun exercise that improves their life.

Email me. adam@freeplay-app.com
You're 100% correct, my mistake.
PHP-FPM: pm 'static' for max performance vs. 'dynamic'  'ondemand'
> I'm also totally sick of the ideological crap at lots of startups. I don't want to have to drink the kool-aid.

I don't mean to threadjack, but what are some examples of this?
Meeting all of the current legalities is a low bar.

I'm sure there's some anti-smoking "non-profit" out there that gets 90% of its revenue from Philip Morris, and is 100% compliant with the law. Doesn't make it right though.
> I don't want to work in health, because the government and insurance have fucked up the healthcare system ...

Eloquently put, but you don't mention where you live (ie. which government this is). Generally people that don't say where they are when asking these kinds of questions are in the USA - a fair assumption, I'm sure, as 5% of the world lives there.

Anyway, consider that 'health' is big - really big - and isn't just the bits you've seen. I'm confident there are some good efforts being made under that banner domestically that may fit your criteria. Further, if 'the government has fucked things up' maybe consider relocating to a place where things aren't quite so regrettable -- lots of (perhaps 'every other) countries have better health systems than the USA. Useful if it's an area you're genuinely interested in but for local government (mis)management.
I've made a similar argument myself plenty of times. But one implication is that, in the context of an assassination market, a buyer isn't committing (a crime, violence, harm, etc).
Already discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478750
It's hard to understand U.S. drug policy when prescription opiates are legal
Why is it that the U.S. is so hard on drugs, unless it is the giant drug manufacturing companies selling legal opiates.

Double standards are an everyday thing in western society, but the scale of the double standard here is so vast that it is hard to understand.

How is it that these companies are not subject to criminal prosecution for drug trafficking?
You sound like quality founder material. I mean that: a lot of good innovation comes from people who simply loathe how something is currently done and want to improve the situation by doing it right.

Have you thought about starting your own business? It doesn't necessarily have to be a startup; lifestyle businesses are just as valid a path. That said, startups do unfortunately require you to drink your own Kool-Aid to a degree. They do not however require you to foist bullshit upon your employees, which most founders unfortunately do anyways.

Of course, founding isn't for everyone. It's hard, and there's a lot less guarantees involved than working for someone else. It may not even be a possibility given your current life situation, I don't know.
These guys have them.

http://www.eyeglasslensdirect.com/1-74-High-Index-Progressiv...
I've been going there, and thinking I want to work for any of these companies.
Just empty space. There's a smooth plane of atoms, then a few atoms that make up your frame on top of that, and everything else is vacuum.
Sounds like this solves a similar problem to Docker. Can you comment on what the differences are, and the relative strengths and weaknesses of each approach?
Why kids need to learn philosophy (2016)
If we want ridesharing to decrease emissions and traffic, someone should subsidize it as first and last mile transit. That way cars are always at capacity (always picking up or dropping off users) and traffic gets reduced on highways (people will be on transit).

In addition public transit will fill to capacity, allowing them to run more often.
Sink it all to the bottom of a cold freshwater lake?
Looks like it will be another pretty branded CVE:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PFSENSE/comments/76ksdi/core_protoc...

They mention it will be at https://krackattacks.com
I read through to see if anyone had mentioned this.

When I retired I was rather bored and felt as if life was not really giving me any challenges. So, I found it in volunteering, including a small non-profit startup.

I'd also add that there may not need for it to be your work, as in gainful employment, that is meaningful. You may be able to fill that outside of work - assuming you have time. Dunno if it will work for you, but I'll add it.

It's nice to be able to give something back. It's uplifting to fill a void for someone else. I suppose, in a way, it may even be a little selfish. I do, after all, sometimes do it because it makes me feel better.

Ah well... Just some potential food for thought.
A congress consisting of half the population might be a little too large to work well.
Supply curves are a real phenomenon, even for us paperclip maximizers. For example: you built the first factory in the most convenient spot, out of the best possible materials. You have to ship materials farther, build more transportation and energy infrastructure, build more protection against environmental hazards, etc to build the billionth factory. And you have run out of the best materials, so you have to use more expensive substitutes.
This isn't universally true. Lufthansa put their first class on some configurations on the top deck.
What is the difference between “women are biologically unsuited for tech jobs” and “the distribution of personality traits is different in men and women, which accounts for the skewed gender distribution in the tech industry”?
If a fan made this and hosted the web frontend to the contract on ipfs (initially hosted just by nodes behind Tor, and then pinned/rehosted by many users), then Nintendo would have a very hard time taking it down, even if the original creator was known to them.
Some airlines still have lounges. Mostly the Gulf carriers and I think Korean.
It will take more than a lone vigilante to save the IoT from botnets
> if a democratic society decides that it doesn't want unbreakable encryption and that it wants all encryption subject to 4th Amendment procedures, why should that desire be overridden?

The general concept of a right, outside of what $ruler declares.

If a monarchy doesn't want unbreakable encryption, why should that desire be overridden?

The only thing that differs is the process by which centralized decisions are reached. You might have total faith in one of those decision processes, but I don't.
Final Fantasy 7 on the PlayStation had a Chocobo breeding mini-game. Chocobo were a type of flightless bird and by breeding there was a chance to get birds with different characteristics, denoted by different colored feathers, which granted you access to different parts of the game.
As an undergraduate senior in the CS program at the University of Washington, I can definitely attest to memory management giving the majority of people a really hard time in our required C course. I've only talked to one other person in my cohort that likes programming in C, and unsurprisingly they don't have any trouble with the finer points of it at all.
In the next 50 - 100 years children in NA will never experience snow. Ice in the Arctic Region will not exist. Every reef on the planet will be basically dead, Ocean acidity will kill off much of the fish. Water scarcity in North Africa, Middle East and South Asia will drive the largest migration the earth has ever seen. Billions on the move looking for food and water. The first world will not be spared, we will survive because of our wealth and technology but it will draw all who are trying to survive. 10's of 1000's showing up on the shores of NA ever day. The Planet is dying unless some miracle happens.....
That’s a lot of buzzwords but it fails to answer how any of it would work, why you’d want that, or why it’s better than mature alternatives.

For example, how are you defining trustless? Personal data systems needs to be based on trust and reputation (otherwise you’ll have a bunch of 4chaners spamming claims about you) so are you simply thinking tamper-evidence and non-repudiation? That’d raise the questions of why this would be better than PKI, Merkel trees, etc.

All of the other claims hit similar problems: e.g. you can’t store the data in a blockchain and make any of those promises, and it’s not clear how useful a shared index or log would be when you can’t trust all of the participants.

Another fatal flaw is the lost of control and inability to correct mistakes. If there’s ever a vulnerability all of that data is irrecoverably public. What organization is going to turn control of something they get sued for over to an entity they don’t control? “They told us the software was perfect” doesn’t seem like a good HIPAA defense tactic to me.
This doesn't "capture" them. It just puts them in a place they think won't be a problem anytime soon.
Isn't Thinking in C++ a little on the outdated side, by this point?
This seems to be almost exactly like systemd-nspawn other than the ability to write seccomp policies in kafel.

Are there any other notable differences?
See 1861-2017. We are very efficient at wholesale slaughter.
The typical is we are the best and we are changing the world for the better. If you make critical comments, you get pulled aside and told that criticism is frowned upon. The general expectation that employees be true believers while the founders are just in it for the money. The ideological belief that entrepreneurship is the solution to the world's ills.

Basically, I'd say the TED ideology. Look, tech is amazing, and it can all the solve all the worlds problems. Yet, beneath the veneer it is just propagandizing the power and wealth of 'divine' founders.

I'm also sick of startups talking how they are doing good for the world, when it turns out they are actually serving ads. When you look at the ads, the ads are often dishonest, unethical, and encourage behavior not in the interest of the viewer or broader society.

This can all be compounded by the creation of 'reality distortion fields' by dishonest founders. This can be compounded by the whole game of misrepresenting the value of stock option. Then, this is compounded by the naive belief in stock options. Further, I object cult-like devotion to the startup cult over strong moral values.
Not O.P., but 1 type of "ideological crap" is probably in reference to how certain startups enforce and indoctrinate certain "practices" that they staunchly believe are core to their organization. Some even wear these practices like a badge of honor on their job listings.

Example: Pivotal Labs is known for it's insistence on "Pair Programming" and touts it as an "extremely beneficial" practice.

Source: Pair Programming Considered Extremely Beneficial => https://content.pivotal.io/blog/pair-programming-considered-...

...and here's one person who left because of that.

> When you pair program, you're effectively joined at the hip with your pair. You can't pair if only one of you is there. This means that you both come into work at the same time, you both take lunch at the same time, you both take breaks at the same time, and you both leave at the same time. The work is so concentrated that you work 8-hour days (which is good). But you can't take time off without affecting your pair.

Source: Why I Don't Like Pair Programming (and Why I Left Pivotal) => http://mwilden.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-dont-like-pair-pro...
Correct me if I'm wrong or just not understanding what you're saying but you can't take binary, interpret it as ternary, and expect the result to be meaningful (and correct). Take 11101110 and convert it to decimal. Now, instead, interpret it as ternary then convert it to decimal. If we meant to encode the number 238 then they'd get the wrong answer.
This is silly. I think the differnce between you and most of the population is the ability to perform basic cost benefit analysis.

Gun control. Cost: lessens ability of people to wage a violent revolution, the possibility of which puts a check on the government. As you point out, this argument is pretty shaky given the revolutionaries are using guns to fight a government with nukes, chemical weapons, drones, fighter jets, missiles, tanks, etc...Good luck lol.

Benefit: Likely reduces the some 30k+ firearm deaths every year to levels more inline with other countries that have gun control.

Strong encryption. Cost: lessens the governments ability to spy on everone, purportedly to catch criminals and terrorists. The government has provided scant evidence of the fruit of such efforts, but I think we can assume they catch relatively few terrorists by these means.

Benefit: privacy and anonymity for citizens. Protects citizens from their own government as well bad actors and malicious foreign governments.

Honestly, these two issues seem like night and day to me. I find this kind of comparison typical amongst the hard core libertarian types, who for some reason find it contradictory that I support regulating sale of cocaine (i.e it shouldn’t be sold to minors), but not that of apples or breakfast cereal. Sometimes, different things are different.
Its a product of the UW, so no surprise the quality is crap. IMO their Cybersecurity course (which is mandatory for CS students) is the biggest load of shit I've ever seen in a class.

The head of information security at the UW calls the PSTN bulletproof secure, but VOIP insecure, then babbles on about how he shares classified info with his buddies casually (happens to be a felony to share said info).

Needless to say, UW's Avaya phone system barebacks the internet, with no regard for using silly security things like TLS or SRTP.
Humans never cease to amaze.

I'm anxious about an event tomorrow, and this put me at ease.

Then again, I have a spleen...
This. Without stating my employer I rub elbows with people from all the household name cloud vendors and an knee deep in their stuff plus we invent new things where they can't cut the mustard.

It's hard to find but it is possible
Not always, but the opposite side of this is bloated organization that can't compete. Government positions often fall victim to this because they don't have to compete and it leads to a lot of waste.

Like most things in life you need to strike a balance. Most managers hate firing people, even when they probably should. The person might be just the kindest sweetest person they know and maybe a friend but they're just not very good at their job. A big overall workforce cut gives them the excuse to fire the person without having to hurt feelings or look bad.
Edmund Optics, https://www.edmundoptics.com/, is a resource. I don't know about cheaply. But for prototypes with an optical bench, it is probably a reasonable alternative to an exhaustive search among a myriad of suppliers when optimizing for figuring out what you want matters.
Work on privacy enhancing block hain. Work on stuff like Monero.
Couple of reasons - it is well within your ideological beliefs, it's technically super challenging, and you can make gazillions of money
I think this is a great idea, and something that could hugely improve semi-automated documentation sites, man pages, etc.

I also think that you could get a lot of people to agree that it is a great idea, and STILL have a lot of trouble enforcing it in a project without very rigid code review policies and very good linting rules.
Tribrid is newish (2013) and targeted for stronger prescriptions in the +/-3.00 to +/-7.00 diopters range. It's a little heavier (1.23 vs 1.11) than Trivex and slightly worse Abbe (41 vs 44) but has refractive index of 1.60 vs 1.53.

http://www.visionmonday.com/article/ppg-launches-tribrid-len...

I want a tool where I can find out if a lens for my prescription is lighter in one material vs another. Trivex is lighter than Tribrid but has a lower RI. I'm at -3.
I think the current state of the creating software can certainly be complex but it is so mostly out of necessity and not necessarily bad design. It can also be very simple for simple things and that shouldn't be overlooked or dismissed when we look at the state of the art.

I also think that to conclude "The HTML/CSS/JS stack is a mess" one is really complaining that they want to do something it's not designed to do or doesn't have some specific functionalities they want or need, which is not at all the same as being a "mess".

"Are there visions for an entirely reimagined OS, web, programming, etc, that are interesting to you?"

Well, for me, yes. But we have to look at it with a long term perspective to see it. My first web app (an invoicing app) was made with perl using CGI.pm and HTML. Later I added CSS, then a bit of Javascript to manipulate the UI with Prototype.js and it's fair to say that for me, Prototype.js allowed me to reimagine how to build the app. It allowed me to take multiple forms and "hide/show" them instead of sending user data to the server, saving it, and sending another form for them to continue on with the process of making an invoice. That process was reimagined again when I saw how AJAX worked. And again when I first learned about "Document Databases".

I didn't like the way SQL stored data for creating invoices so I never used it on my app. I used CGI.pm's "Save" feature to store data in a "name=value" format. When "NoSQL" databases, or "Document Databases", came out that were designed specifically for web apps I was pretty amazed because I thought I was the only one who thought SQL was a really crappy way to store document data and the few times I'd mentioned that on the perl mailing lists I got torched by most who responded.

Currently, I think it's probably fair to say that React.js "reimagines" how we approach building web apps.

Finally, when it comes down to the bit level processing going on in an OS I don't have a frigging clue and I know that, so no, I don't know of any better way. I am still in awe and constantly amazed and don't expect to ever not be.
I want stronger community and trust between people. I don't want to just build something for individuals. I want to transform overall society.
Related: A Serbian flight attendant who survived a fall of 10,160 metres without a parachute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
+1 for non-profits with a mission. There are many good projects out there, and they are often can't afford a full-time and experienced devs, so the addition of one competent person could make a significant impact.

You'll definitely experience more higher-level-Maslow-pyramid buzz when working for a big mission than for big dollar.
and does that mean it isn’t real? (adding hawaii was also "too small to map"
That's the barrier for riding public transit in much of the country to be honest. I'd be happy to take the local light rain or commuter busses with my kids but the fact they're usually used as toilets and air conditioned sleeping areas with wheels for vagrants means I'll be driving. Even if it's less convenient.
1. Identify causes that truly interest you.

2. Make yourself look like a strong candidate on paper.

3. Search for companies that are focused on the causes you care about.

4. Reach out directly to the appropriate individuals at those companies. Don't pay any attention as to whether or not they are hiring.

5. In your approach, briefly mention your qualifications but also your interest in the organization's mission. Mention the latter first. Make it clear to the recipient that your message was written exclusively for this organization.
Because most mass transit in the US is awful. For $3 more, I don't have to deal with people using drugs or defecating on the bus in my vicinity. Honestly, this is a failure on the the public transit cops and administrators for failing to keep stations, trains, and buses clean.