skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve worked as the only remote employee for an NYC-based company for over a decade.

In terms of within-company career, working remotely (unless everyone does) will impose a drastic cost on possible advancement. And in my case, a hard ceiling on my title.

Why am I ok with that? Because if you view your career in a broader context, not necessarily specific to the company who currently pays your salary, there are trade-offs. I have less commute, but less mentorship. Etc.

It really depends on the company, and also how you view your career.
Nice! I didn't know about grap!
The science behind kids’ belief in Santa
So, tiny capacitor?

And I don't mean discharged in two hours, I mean discharged in 40 minutes when you keep it at max usage. Faster than a phone.
The entity is vice.com, not Viceland the cable channel, not Vice Magazine, not Vice News or Vice Films but vice.com the website.

Now look at how many articles on sexual harassment vice.com the website has published recently:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/topic/sexual-harassment

And yes someone has editorial control of vice.com.
Please don't post flamebait comments here. The last thing we need is yet another low-rent crtyptocurrency flamewar.
If the price of the stock would increase tomorrow by 20%, why wouldn't he be able to buy more than a tiny amount today?
Enjoy it while it lasts. In less than a decade you will be replaced for sure for a younger one no matter how good you are.

http://worrydream.com/#!/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg
Sea levels are projected to rise from 0.6 to 6 meters this century. [1] So while urban sinking is a much bigger immediate threat, climate change will pose a significant problem in the near future, and—crucially—will affect every coastal city in the world, not just Jakarta.

[1]: https://sealevel.nasa.gov/understanding-sea-level/projection...
Social peer pressure. Most kids want to have the respect/admiration of their peers.
AKA UWP for Apple OS
How would you expect someone in a third-world country to keep money away from a hyperinflating currency, without access to international banking? And no, we-will-suspend-your-account-if-you-look-at-us-funny PayPal is not an option. Cash in foreign currencies is extremely risky.
It is the fashion industry....
Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is
more Unix-nature in one line of shell script than there is
in ten thousand lines of C.”
Well actually, if it sinks slowly enough then people could build sea walls and so on to keep the water out.
People, and particularly people in large organizations, are often highly inefficient and disorganized, even when being that way costs their employer $$
I think it's more about getting a credible outside second opinion. for the same reasons you get a second opinion in medicine. It's less a judgement about a single source, than the requirement to have multiple sources.
Probably by assessing and presenting the cost/benefit analysis to management in a reliable, high quality, easy-to-understand way.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I read these two paragraphs and wanted to reply.

> I mean instead of playing playstation 3 days in a row, Why can't I convince this people to code? I know they want it, but they have pressure from they family and friends.

> I want to know if this happens in SV as well or is it because I am not in SV. People here are not trained to invest time in what they love. There is not entrepreneurial spirit.

In my experience (and I'm a sample of one, so this isn't scientific), about 1% of the people who say they're entrepreneurial are actually willing to put in the time it takes.

I don't think this is so much geography or culture as it is human nature. Entrepreneurship is hard and entrepreneurs are cut from a different cloth. Some might even say we're a little off...

Have a wonderful holiday season and best of luck!! I'll be hoping for big things for you in the year ahead.
According to the link you provided, most white rices are in the high-glycemic category. According to the "International table of glycemic index and glycemic load"[1], Jasmine Rice has a Glycemic Index of 109, which is actually higher than even pure glucose, which has an index of 100. Milo, on the other hand, depending on where you buy it and what you mix it with, has a GI of between 36 and 55.

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/76/1/5.full.pdf
>“We are building systems that govern healthcare and mediate our civic dialogue. We would influence elections. I would like to live in a society whose systems are built on top of verifiable, rigorous, thorough knowledge, and not on alchemy,” said Rahimi.

I like this guy
The number wasn't already reassigned.
I'm guessing that the time-crunch of being a "game jam" drove most of the participant's decisions to use Unity and C#.
Are you including millennials in the list of systematically disadvantaged groups like minorities, women, handicapped, etc? I'm not even sure what to say to that.
Alt-right is way beyond right wing. Chances are high that if you label yourself alt-right, you're also drinking the sweet red pill poison.
I wish I could upvote your comment several times over, thank you! As a [very] new development manager who has been a software engineer for many years, it is this kind of detail aggregation that I find difficult to really understand automatically (as in, I can do it, but it's hard to translate engineering-level detail on the fly without sounding kind of dumb, IMO).
>Does this exist? How do I hire somebody to do this sort of thing for me?

It does exist, but they hire _you_ not the other way around, because you would be their employee.
Which investments?
They diff the output of the consultant against that of the employee. Trust, but verify.
Ask HN: College Grad Interested in Cyber Security but Not a US Citizen
I will graduate in the upcoming May 2018. I have looked into lot of opportunities relating Cyber Security but I got to know that most of them require security clearance which requires US Citizenship.

Any advice for students who do not hold a US Citizenship but would like to be a Cyber Security expert in the US?
I practice challenges at https://www.root-me.org/ and https://lab.pentestit.ru/ and https://pod.cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk/ but I am looking to develop a career after graduation.

Thank you!
This seems like an unproductive rephrasing of the comments made in the linked piece, ironically not unlike how people unproductively rephrased Papert's paper. (And even those comments are strawmen of what's posted on code.org, especially considering they're brief snippets of marketing material and not parts of a research paper.)
"What countries don't have nice people?"

What countries don't have nice people you run into on the street? Who would be rude or surly to foreign visitors? I can think of several large western cities with stereotypes along these lines.
They can code. "Consultant" doesn't mean much. May as well say "Dude we hired to do XXX".
I wonder if there's any chance for George Hotz's project to come back...
Shot out to CJ Wallis who made a movie about this and is showing it at film festivals now. The movie is called Perfect Bid.
I think you need to go through the same steps that Patrick outlined:

* do work for someone you know

* write a case study documenting success

* repeat with a slightly bigger customer
Writing software that is half the quality is a recipe for disaster. I’m managing a team of remote offshore developers who assured me they had lots of ‘corporate development’ experience. In the early days we rejected about 80% of the code they wrote. One guy added 100 lines to a React reducer that we ended up doing in two lines of code.
Huh? That source gives Indonesia about USD4000 and for Netherlands around USD52000 per capita.

(I think I misread your comment and others might too, so I'm leaving this here)
I'm assuming you're some sort of programmer.

There's a lot of people who can write/edit good copy, and a lot of people who want a job writing/editing copy, but a limited amount of jobs, and I doubt the market is expanding as fast as tech. Think of some problem that can be solved with software and you've just created X programming jobs, X = # of people required for that company's engineering department, whereas the value to society of adding another news site diminishes quickly.

So there ratio of people who can write good code to programming jobs is lower. Also, and this is a huge assumption on my part, the # of hours you need to put in to be a competent programmer (at the level of money I'm also assuming you make) is greater than the hours to be skilled enough to produce decent copy (for the average person). So it's more difficult for the # of programmers to catch up to the # of programming jobs. Thus, the demand for programmers drives salary.

This is all without talking about the subjective amount of value to society a programmer can bring compared to a copy editor.

To fix this (I hesitate to call it injustice) we could raise taxes+implement UBI or increase funding to some other social welfare programs and raise the maximum income required to take advantage of them. But I think essentially, what careers people choose should be somewhat influenced by what society needs, and salaries can reflect that.

Not saying that the demand for programmers isn't all fucked up because of startup speculation and other factors, but I think in general the tech industry provides a lot of value for the world.
Purchasing Power Parity is meant to capture elements like cheaper costs of construction. It gives a real sense of the gap between Indonesia (4th most populous country, with China and India neck-and-neck, followed quite a bit lower by the U.S.) and the Netherlands. Corruption may be a factor too, but you can’t squeeze blood from a stone.
Especially since Indonesia had a massive genocide (0.5 - 3 million communists and ethnic Chinese) in the 60s and these people are still in power.
Exactly. This is no different from any other telephone service provider. HN should not be a support forum for people who don't know how to use their ISP or phone carrier.
Hence the title "Working Hard to be Lazy"...

Here's a basic programming example say you're writing some front end javascript to make a call to another site's api... if you have to do it once, you probably will set the headers, and make the call right? Well if you have to do it three or more times, it pays to be lazy and write some sort of function to wrap the fetch call and automatically set the headers for you each time.

This is the laziness that I'm advocating. It's not about people that don't put effort in, it's about maximizing efficiency and taking processes approach. In many cases truly lazy people will work twice as hard now to avoid work in the future.
It's sad that the author has felt the need to take this down after the HN induced whirlwind of comments. Some of the replies could have been a lot more constructive / supportive. For someone starting out with FP (myself included) this sort of thing is really off putting. Things like "point-by-point" rebuttals are for debates and attacks which affect one personally, not for responding to someones opinions on a programming language / scheme.
> no where

https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&ei=C...
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13889608
I would say it hasn't hurt me, but while I work remotely, I don't work from home. I have found a coworking space where there are a ton of independent workers like myself.

This allows me to have the flexibility of a remote job, but the social benefits of an office ( and without the drama in my case). I have also found it invaluable for networking.
Great reference — thanks! Hopefully we can bring some of these algos into our platform!
Bitcoin Miner Consume More Electricity Than a Country Consumes
I quit Facebook and deleted my account. I have done hard things in life and that is certainly not among them.
I'm into mainly into stuff that either pays or plans to pay dividends, NEO, WTC, ARK, ETH etc.
humiliation surely, but 'trauma' sounds like a truly extreme stretch
No ads unless each user opts in, then only:

0. Consent required for any ads at all, from user and (see 2) publisher if involved.

1. User private ads, anonymously confirmed (ANONIZE2 ZKP protocol, will move on-chain when Ethereum supports it). Ad placement is signal- and cookie-free, by a machine learning agent running only on device and looking at only your on-device data (private sync uses secret key, no data in clear on any servers), matching against common per region/language ad catalog listing edge urls + keywords per ad.

2. Revenue share of 70% to inventory (ad slot) owner, i.e., to the user in (1). If publishers partner on indirect ad slots p, pub gets 70%, user gets 15%. In all cases users gets at least as much as Brave gets.

So users of Brave block ads and trackers by default. If you want to contribute anonymously you can fund your user BAT wallet (we are doing initial grants). Pinned a la Patreon contributions as well as private pro data by view count and time send tokens in one transaction on chain per 30 days of uptime.

But when BAT ads are up and sharing revenue to users, the you can opt into those to fill your wallet. If you want to can out, you will be able to, but only via KYC (banking “Know Your Customer) level vetting. By default your revenue will flow back to your pinned and supported sites and creators.
North Sentinel island. And New York. :-)

But I take your point. It even seems a little patronising.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, or rant here in flamebaity ways.

We're looking for thoughtful comments. That doesn't require changing your views at all, just presenting them with more information, and an orientation to good conversation rather than venting.
The issue is BTC trading costs are so high that arb'ing it doesn't work well. You need massive spreads and perfect trading execution for this to work.
There are actually real problems to be solved, and nonsensical factless arguments don't solve them.
Ugh, this is definitely a fear of mine. I'm 33, and the other day I realized that I'm one of the oldest employees of the startup I work at... older than my boss and possibly older than the founders themselves. It was a strange and slightly disconcerting feeling, realizing I was now the "old" guy.

I know about the ageism in the industry, and I do worry that in 5-10 years I'll be struggling to find work. I hope I'm wrong.
There's nothing wrong with jotting down some thoughts about your own blog post, however half-baked. The person who screwed up here was the person who posted it on HN and then clickbaited it up by adding 'engineer from Facebook'. That's just a poopy thing to do.
I pay $4,500/year in property taxes on a house that's worth less than $250,000.
+1

hardwork != productivity.

The idea that "working hard is good" is an outdated notion from a time when manual labor was more closely tied to productivity.
Sybase is pervasive in investment banks. Not sure why.

Sybase were always very willing to customise their product for financial services customers. Someone I knew there told be about the changes they’d made to their DATE datatype to make it easy for one bank to handle bonds from the Napoleonic era for example.
UK Cops Want to Use AI to Spot Child Abuse But It Mistakes Desert Pics for Nudes
Yeah, but weren't they intending to buy crypto (why else would you deposit money into an exchange)? The only effect I can see here is people not being able to back out after getting cold feet.
1) Apologies

2) The article isn't about Gmail, it's about an entire Google account where the author stated they ARE paying for extra storage for Gmail and Drive -- where you seemed to imply they're not paying. And buying your own domain does nothing for getting access back to your 10,000's of past e-mails or your 100's of GB's of files you're paying to store.
If they thought they could take a proposal and productionize it with someone available for hire at a total cost of $140k in their first year and that they’re capable of finding, closing, and managing that person then a) my blog is free and you’re welcome to it and b) they would have more than one email written. But for whatever reason they have not made that hire, as evidenced by having no emails actually traversing the interwebs.

People occasionally took my proposals and productionized them with existing or (much more annoyingly) new staff. Oh well. That’s one reason I charged what I charged; the sales process assumes 1 to 3 “actually nope we decided we don’t need you” per engagement which happens.
They’ve been fighting deflation, not inflation. Asset prices need to correct and they refuse to let them. There’s a reason young people are buying so few homes.
Wait till you see how much more money is in the world's money supply since 2001, thanks to derivatives [1].

[1] https://pavlok.com/moneysupply
Just add a setting. Prefer performance, or prefer battery life.

Is that so hard?

What arguments are there against this other than planned obsolescence? Educate me. Downvotes aren't arguments.
Banks are regulated. They require licenses to operate. Can I operate my own bank and issue retail credit without regulations? No?
That’s been true since Watergate.
Just because names can be faked, doesn't mean that everyone who should be doing it (which is everyone), will be doing it.

Some might misinterpret the sign-up process, thinking the name will only be used in special situations, others might think that they're thought of as weirdo, if they don't use their real name, when everyone else supposedly is.

And the last group simply does not understand, or does not think of the consequences of entering their real name. It's simply irresponsible to leave privacy and security entirely up to your users. Especially without any reason.

Pictures being potentially worse does not have anything to do with this being shit as well. Many potential stalkers don't know reverse image search either.
Going blind and learning to love audiobooks
I've considered doing this, but I can't figure out if the networking upside would be outweighed by the "annoying people making lots of noise" downside. Not to mention I really like my setup at home, which I value more than I realized. Now that I'm working from home, I'm finding it hard to pry myself out.
Well lets make more NOISE
That was the original title we commented on
How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting
Refers to 2012 and certainly the dust has settled since then.
Yes, Vice is extremely left wing. They apparently also commit a good deal of sexual harassment internally if this article is to be believed.

Not sure what the founder who left (and his politics) well before any of the alleged offenses has to do with anything.
Obviously it varies, but usually there is an element of papering over management problems, under the guise of actually fixing anything. Watch House of Lies on Showtime...
We're talking a single bowl here, and fork. If you're that hard up that you can't even wash something out with water. Clean it out with a towel, and use it again. Shit, as a bachelor, I do that now, and I've got plenty of cash.
> 5 years is a lot

There must be something wrong in this industry if 5 years is a lot. 5 years per company over a 40 years time spam yields 8 different companies.

That seems a lot to me.
> you can think of their actions as real large scale cases of “the ends justify the means” and “putting the greater good ahead of the individual.”

I'm curious. What makes you think the Party's actions were anything but a selfish attempt to maintain control over society, like any other authoritarian government?

> our frankly ineffective and destructive forms of Western democracy

What do you mean by this, and what alternative do you propose?
You are asking this as if the trust question relates to honesty of the employee.

Trust in this scenario is NOT a question of "are they going to lie and steal and cheat!

The trust in question here is whether or not the employee/s are sophisticated enough in their understanding of the organizations "big picture directives" to contribute the correct feedback to the questions in need of answers. It is the rare employee whose feedback takes into consideration the big picture because they rarely are exposed to all the information that upper management is.

Either management (or a consultant if need be) has to pull in the data/answers and then prioritize the problems relative to the bigger picture. This is a perspective that the production line worker rarely considers when answering questions. Even the biggest brains in any organization can be blinded by the problems that immediately affect them as opposed to the issues that are central to the organizations overall health and strategic goals.
Not on the props pig one they watched in the car today - some unskippable logos and copyright warnings that annoy me and remind me why I rip dvds to the home NAS, but no adverts.

Yet rarely watch dvds. I've noticed Amazon has adverts on their fire tv stick on some shows though, but we use the built in lg tv app which doesn't.
Consulting refers to advising the executive branch of a company. So one key ingredient it requires is experience (that the client company lacks), and the ability to communicate (in business/cash-flow terms) why the advice you are giving is superior to the company's current strategy. Obviously, it is necessary that you then can "make it happen", too. The "advice giving" typically happens before you are hired to get the "foot in the door", while the implementation is what you get paid for. I think the German term is more precise: "Unternehmensberater", that is, "company advisor". Anything lesser is just work-for-hire, with a cute title.
Yea I totally agree, partial function application certainly complicates things. Instead of `called` vs `not called` like you said, a function can have any number of states depending on its number of arguments.

I will give you my two cents on its benefits though and let me know if you agree or disagree. I would compare it to taking a step up on the ladder of abstraction. Computers are powerful because they are programmable. If we take the example of a value like an integer, in a computer we can make it anything we want (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 etc). Functions are how we program a value. We say for example

speed(distance, time) {
return distance / time;
}

The value of the speed depends on these two variables (distance and time) which are programmable.

Partial function application is just a continuation of this idea. It's obvious that `values` are programmable, but why can't functions be programmable as well? After all, we gained a lot of power from letting values be programmable maybe the same will be true for functions? Using the previous example lets say we want a function to calculate the speed of runners in the 100m dash. We could write a new function for this

speedOf100YardDash(time) {
return 100 / time;
}

but we already have logic for calculating the speed and we don't want to reuse it. So the idea of having a `programmable` speed function starts to look a little better.

speedOf100YardDash = speed(where `distance` = 100)

Obviously, this plays into your criticism of 'pedagogical examples' being simple, but I think the idea is even more valuable with more complicated code. Why? Because with simple examples it's easy it duplicate code without much consequence. The value of speed and division are not changing anytime soon. If we have more complex functions, however, this is where we absolutely want to avoid code duplication. Because if we write a complex function multiple times it's more likely that one of those implementations will be written differently or eventually diverge from the other one.

What do you think?
C# 24.0 Lots of cool new features were added!
How much do you know about Proposition 13 in CA? That's also one of the reasons why real estate market is fucked in CA (together with zoning and 'let's not build enough so our assets will cost even more')
Punk often misspelled things to make some punky point, so "right" was likely a deliberate pun.