skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of curiosity, what do you expect to be able to use the wall for when it's not covered by the TV?

Roll-up posters hung somewhere else that roll out to cover the same area?
Zuckerberg former mentor has spent a week attacking Facebook for becoming toxic
Yubikey is a step in the right direction, but afaik it is still vulnerable at the pin entry level unlike a dedicated smartcard wtih pinpad reader. Likewise, gpg-agent, if I understand/remember it correctly, is also subject to attacks that would not be possible with the dedicated reader+card combo.
You need Cherry greens modded with 95g springs... or just buy an Unicomp :)
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I forgot to mention, the UK services pick up from your house.
Comparaison des meilleurs logiciels espions
The analogy is now getting in the way, rather than helping to clarify.
I agree that it is very difficult to understand equity comp and probably only moves the needle for high level execs when you are recruiting but it's not all about recruiting it's about performance and retention. I want employees to feel ownership and the only way to do that is to give it to them. I want them to understand that they have this asset that their hard work directly affects, I want them to be aligned with the company not just their own career path.
“You people in tech are crazy. I pay my employees handsomely in cash and I keep all of the equity for myself.”

Ha, yeah, I'll bet!

It's certainly not easy or risk free to deal with equity, but to me, some kind of stake in the company is the only morally justifiable way - if people help to build the business, they should share in the success, and even generous salary will never reflect that - you'll never get rich on a salary.
So much for a sovereign govt. I'd say that a gov't should be able to dictate what format is used, especially when replacing a patent-encumbered private format with an open one.

But heay, who still believes that gov'ts are on top of corps is living a fantasy I guess.
That’s fine, but then don’t expect your employees to act like they have a stake in your company’s future. Most will be doing what’s explicitly required of them but resist much more, whether you need it to be successful or not. When things get tough they’ll back off and start looking for a new job just when you need them to step up.
Well this is a graduate level course so I wouldn't say it doesn't require any degree or work experience. In general the numbering scheme at CMU is xx-yyy where xx is the department code (15 for CS department) and yyy is the course number (where 500 and above is graduate level).
There are, and very cheap too: https://www.amazon.com/RK-Bluetooth-Wireless-Mechanical-Keyb...
An artificial intelligence take on 2018 – Axios
End of a chip boom? Memory chip price drop spooks investors
Except when people show up by crossing the border illegally, then apparently, they have full legal rights above any US citizen, especially in California!

I mean, are you serious? They just show up in the Dakotas and apply for welfare and become voters. Why do you think Americans are so tired of this bullshit? You have no rights in an airport as a US citizen because it's some kind of special "international zone" but bypass the border any way you can and you're in good.
Public dataset for Tensorflow's Git history
China to block cryptocurrency platforms that allow centralized trading
One thing worth thinking about: after a couple of years of issuing options, people start being able to vest, and their presence (or not) on the cap table is a pretty interesting signal about people's expectations of the business. Especially if you have a few people leaving, with their options lapsing: to me, that's a big red flag you wouldn't otherwise have.

I think we're going to start seeing fewer (and worse) options schemes in tech, but I don't think it's going to be anything to do with how attractive or not they are to potential employees. It's going to be because founders and investors find them less attractive to give out (for reasons like the above).
what do you expect to be able to use the wall for when it's not covered by the TV?

A bookshelf. I have a bookshelf on the wall doing what bookshelves do. And then I'll hang the TV 'roll' in front of one of the shelves and pull it down in front of the bookshelf when I want to use it.
> the Linux community thinks it has a great development environment but it doesn't

This is an incredibly important point. The community is full of true believers and college students (and many are both) who just can't fathom that almost all of their dev tools and workflows suck compared to professional grade tooling available outside the FOSS echochamber. I have nothing against FOSS in principle, but in practical use I have become convinced that there is no reason to develop on Linux, unless you develop specifically FOR Linux. And even then it's such a PITA to do anything complex that it's often just not worth it to target Linux if you don't absolutely have to. Microsoft and Apple have realized how important it is to make it easy for developers to create good software.
Documentation available at https://github.com/gitential/datasets
Always always always take cash over equity. Equity is a lottery ticket and needs to be treated as such.
Could anyone with knowledge on history provide us with a similar situation in history? I can't imagine this problem is truly new, but I can imagine it's been a while.
I think at least some of the cynicism comes from founders offering salaries that are 30-40% of the rate they might get from 'bigcorp of choice' and then offering derisory amounts of equity in compensation.

If the equity you offer is just about enough to make up for the employees loss of income if you get both a minimum $100million+ exit and no future dilution, then your offer isn’t going to be very enticing to jaded potential employees who have been round this particular block once or twice before.
I thought Munnich's decision was also in part because MSFT would consider Munnich as a location for an office based on their decision on using their product to do their work.

The old "we have to serve the corps (and their owners) or they leave" argument.
> "mercenary" mindset

a.k.a. "professionals"

I agree with your assessment that what it really comes down to in most cases is that companies don't have the money and so they are trying to hustle something on the cheap.

The other factor is that unless a startup happens to have some very talented technical co-founders (very rare, even though they all think they do) they aren't going to be able to identify or attract real talent anyway. If they were paying premium salaries the money would most likely be wasted.
Dollar Slide Deepens as Euro Strength Saps Stocks: Markets Wrap
Aha.

When I was thinking of how to set up a distributed marketplace, I came up with Proof of Burn myself.

The idea would be that you want sellers to pay something to participate in the market, but it's not fair for them to pay it to a central authority. So the solution is to burn some coins.

I should really put together the rest of the ideas into a whitepaper or something... There's a way to do a distributed marketplace in a fair and reliable way. There are a few people trying to do that currently, but most of them seem hung up on some weird design decisions.

Mainly you want to be able to see how many orders a seller has "in flight" at any given time. If 30 orders are placed, and the seller hasn't processed any of them, it's a good sign they're going to welch with the coins. The fact that certain currencies are publicly viewable (BTC for example) allows buyers to have those insights into sellers' activities in a distributed fashion.
I'm curious what HN thinks of the current trend in languages like Kotlin and Typescript of having getters and setters masquerade as properties.

Then again if you have to use accessors in the first place you have already committed the crime and exposed the internals and might as well just go with the simpler syntax instead of trying to fool yourself with a bunch of getFoo()s and setFoo()s.
Ha :)

I am not very satisfied about current Markdown editors or note-taking apps. Most Markdown editors use side-by-side live preview to minimize the gap between the edit and read of Markdown. People usually think of "live preview" when it comes to Markdown, which is really a MISUNDERSTANDING about Markdown.

So I want to develop a note-taking app with pleasant Markdown experience, which try to minimize the gap of Markdown by carefully-tuned syntax highlights and in-place image preview.

Give VNote a try and you will be surprised by the simple and pleasant experience VNote provides. :)
I'm not entirely convinced that cryptocurrencies require fee incentives to stay secure. Most people using a currency aren't interested in the 'value' of a transaction, but rather, they want to perhaps pay a vendor or simply hold a balance. The miners (or stakeholders, in proof of stake) act in order to earn a profit, and may not actually act in the best interests of currency users (including holders and vendors). Miners and stakers are, in a way, just siphoning off profits, and it might be true that actors in the system would still behave honestly without the mining/staking incentives.

I wrote a blog post about this: https://medium.com/@brndnmtthws/questioning-assumptions-do-c...
I'd have to say mostly sweets and cakes ;-)
Is there any « bathtube auto-fill/alexa » product in the US?

Kohler was showing one at CES that seemed to be available (or available soon).
Sure! Thanks for your feedback!
He didn't leave to work on Swift; he left, then got a different job, then left that job eventually to work on Swift. I'm being vague because well, it's his personal life, and he'd generally prefer people not talk about it too much or read too much into it.
Public hates the idea of self-driving cars – 400 comments on article – all neg
The author has very little sympathy for the way "metoo" has evolved, I understand that. But it seems like at the end she was ok with it being "laser focused on college educated white men" and not really ok with it being focused on "brown" men, for whatever reason. Then when Ansari gets character assassinated it's wrong, but if he'd been a white guy?
The Drug Dealears Using Facebook to Target Children
Most VCs think about equity compensation like this: "How can we complicate the process, and use the most opaque language in order to screw the lower level employees and avoid diluting our holdings?"
I've never felt comfortable answering questions like those, because the designs are owned by the business. Even if I made it, I don't feel like I have the right to hand a design for my current employer to my next employer.
Yes, I should have elaborated more, thanks :)
Can we talk ?
A Guide to Modular Design Thinking
Eh, it strongly correlated with civil war in nearly every run down country in the world?
Reheating rice can cause food poisoning? I'd never heard of that, but it seems to be legit: https://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-p...

However, you have to leave cooked rice at room temperature for that to be a concern. The method discussed above speaks of "chilling" the rice.

In any case, I've eaten plenty of rice (and lots of other things) left at room temperature for a day, and I've never had problems. But yeah, anecdata.
Or perhaps you're looking to unload your position on gullible saps.
From research I've done lately, I found that new dishwashers are more environment friendly than washing dishes manually (taking into account water + electricity). So it's not only time saving it's also greener.
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The Lambda and the Kappa Architectures
Ask HN: Bootstrap a small profitable product vs. chase large risky opportunity?
If you could build a small (1-2 devs working for couple of months), indie hacker style niche product that could guaranteed generate anywhere between couple of hundreds to few thousand $/month. Perks like total control over a small venture, joy of building, possibility of working on multiple of these type of projects etc.

And at the other end you have a typical VC style startups that would eventually require building team, raising capital and could fail or succeed in a big way.

What would you choose? Why?
This is gonna end in a disaster. Linux usability is bad to begin with, managing Linux desktops at scale is even worse and interoperability is meh.
Reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld's method "Don't Break the Chain".
I inteviewed for a startup once (I don't live in a big startup hub).

I was offered a 40% drop of my current salary, no benefits, no equity and no options. I was also sternly warned during the interview that they were looking for someone highly engaged in making the company grow.

I cannot begin the understand the reasoning of the founders on that one.
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The last thing I want to do when getting dressed in the morning is undo a bunch of buttons.
SWAN+PARK+ĐÔNG+SÀI+GÒN+|+DỰ+ÁN+SWAN+PARK+ĐÔNG+SÀI+GÒN
Did you define them exactly the same way? Every aspect has to be identical; extern, no mangle, function name, arguments, lang item.

If this happens to be open source, I can take a look at it.
It should operate like a real engineering discipline. My point is in many ways it does not.
That sounds pretty interesting. My wife's work has a dedicated rendering machine that sits idle something like 75% of the time. (And apparently due to contract issues, they can't farm it out to an external server somewhere.)
Dropbox Paper provides a great single pane interactive Markdown editor. It’s an example worth following for other apps.
Currently I am focusing on the edit experience of VNote. Next step, I will try to connect to third-party store services within VNote, which enables VNote to sync by itself. After that, we could think of the Web client. According to current development progress, I think it will take long time to achieve it.

Currently I use other apps to record thoughts anytime and anywhere via phone and reorganize them in VNote.
I don't understand one point you raised. What downside risk is there to the employee if a company fails? The only risk is the cost of finding a new job which is offset by latitude in experience gained.

Why would you work for money instead of equity at a high risk venture? Because paying in equity pushes the risk onto the employee. Paying in cash takes the risk out. You are paid in full up front for your work. You'd take the job because it is paying you.

Startups pay in equity because they don't have cash.

Since then the lottery ticket aspect had taken grip with the labor market. However those people who view options as lottery tickets I find are subpar. Trend followers mostly. Those chasing Klondike gold.
Are you accounting for manufacturing or just usage?
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13625508

mschuster91's first-hand experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13627452

Also, I read the underlying consultancy report, which did not appear to support the specific approach that was chosen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13643182
Ah ha! Yeah, it's quite different.

Thanks :)
All of these tricks work with unbuffered channels as well. So it leaves the far more interesting question "When do you use buffered or unbuffered channels?" unanswered. Naturally, it depends a lot on the kind of system you want to build. Amking a channel buffered exposes the performance pitfall where a slow consumer is masked or hidden until it's supplier fills the buffer, and the real throughput is then exposed.

Edit: An interesting application of a buffered channel, for example, is when creating an object pool of finite size. Or, in conjunction with a timer, rate limiting a piece of code. I don't think I have ever considered a buffered channel in the typical producer/consumer setup.
"bone-chilling,.... Vancouver winter"

I guess temperature really is relative.
I will highlight the most glaring problem I find in your take.

> FizzBuzz test is actually pretty great interview question [...] you should be able to do that without thinking

If you are going to code for me, I'm not interested in what you can do in 1 minute, I'm interested in what you can do in 1 year. I want you to spend more than 1 minute just thinking about any problem that is remotely worth solving. And that's the underlying problem: FizzBuzz is not representative of the problems I hire you to solve, and solving it fast is not representative of the approach I want you to take for solving the problems I hire you to solve.

FizzBuzz can be a reasonable point to start a conversation about approaches and style. But that's true of almost any piece of code - I used strcmp() for a number of years.
They won't because they have widely different worldviews. For one, Aaron believed in freedom, while Alexandra did it literally for the glory of Motherland. Please don't buy into the simplistic narrative pushed by most Western outlets, Alexandra is Putin's fan who vehemently represses any discerning voice on platforms she controls. Like, a few months back she outright banned Russian IPs from accessing sci-hub over what she perceived as a personal insult [1]. This is very, very different from what I know about Aaron.

Tangential: the way she's covered by Western media is such a crying shame.

[1]: https://medium.com/@alexandraborissova/sci-hub-banned-in-rus...
I don't think we need an "algorithm" just better RSS readers that let us filter things easily.

Or ideally more effort put into feeds by sources, so we get better curation of the feeds to start with.
I understand that it's not opened by a lot of light, but with some pattern in the light intensity.

My question is how reliable it is in a sunny day when there is a lot of background light and the signal to noise is much smaller. Do you have a working prototype?
Working in "edge" roles. I've always been the "digital" expert in teams I've worked in, and doing so has meant I've been partly responsible for building up organisational knowledge on all kinds of things that (as far as the org is concerned) have never existed before.

Now that "digital" is baked into most marketeer's roles, I'm looking for the next frontier to build across. Probably AR or machine learning.

My personal remit has always been to make myself redundant, it's always pushed me to explore the novel and build out the next set of skills to make myself relevant when my current "edge" becomes the norm.
Thanks for taking the effort to think up a solution, but I'm not sold.

> Rethink how we store things

My apologies, but no. I'd like to not design my whole kitchen (and kitchen usage patterns) around my dishwasher.

> Rather then all plates in one place, all bowls in another ect. you mix everything up so each cabinet has the same variety of objects in it.

How would I quickly find the dishes I'm looking for? (No, installing RFID sensors or watertight cameras in each cupboard, "indexing" the dishes and providing a smartphone app with search is not an option.)
Vendetta in Modern Greece (2014)
I understand that the risk, in many cases, is the salary difference between a startup and a more established company that can pay higher wages.
Yea... my project for this year - don't get crazy, and depressed as my wife will pass away... For now this is the most interesting, and time consuming project in my life. And a funny thing: all the personal stuff that matters most is so stupidly treated when going with that publicly.

However when someone makes some, usually useless, stuff, he/she will be famous, and lots of people will write so many nice things.

And don't even try writing that you are depressed :) You will soon be blamed for everything, including voting on Trump. And the good people will have so many useful advices like "would you try not being depressed?".

So... 6 small projects in a year. Cool. Will that help some people live the next day? And during that year you could do so much good to others.

Sometimes I feel like living on another planet. I know, such posts here usually get so many negative points... I hope this will eat all my karma.

And have a nice 2018 year, but really find some meaningful projects.
Handling 1M Requests per Minute with Go (2015)
Sharing a data point: I've interviewed with Google multiple times and at no point during the interview was I asked a question that required an ML/CV/DL algorithm.

I suspect those would be more appropriate for a 'data scientist' / 'researcher' position - for a generalist, the interviews were very standard and not crazy at all.

In hindsight, if I had taken the time to review basic CS algorithms ahead of the interview, I would have done much better.

That said, I'm not sure I'd be a better employee at Google if the only difference between my being hired or not hired is the fact that I reviewed some basic data structures and algorithms.
> but I do have a cat.

This. I have animals and letting the Roomba run daily while I'm making breakfast helps keep the fur at bay until I vacuum each weekend. The Roomba does a good job getting under furniture, and having it run daily makes my weekend vacuum go much quicker.

95% of my house is on a single level so that does help.
Good grief. No wonder he wants to stop.
For traditional HVAC, because of the lag and few degree temp variance, you really only need the P part of a PID controller. But the same would happen of any controller. If the sensor goes bad it isn't going to work. Also, heat pump may require more sophisticated control.
This is not the first time I see a RAW reference when it comes to personal growth/mental health. But he has written so much. What should I start with and how should I continue?
the books I read, the TED talks I watched and the people I met!
I use a similar technique [1] and I’ve also yielded great results from it, but my goals tend to be more progressive. Everything that you do better than yesterday is streak, so if your aim is going to bed at 10am (why!?) the streak is what takes you closer to it.

[1] https://medium.com/@duopixel/the-qualified-self-7f69c6b23623
Agree with you on the frugality bit. Take a look at fatFIRE, a community of people who save aggressively to retire early but still enjoy a relatively lavish lifestyle after retirement.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/

My savings target is about $6MM. I won't need to live like a 'homeless person' as you say when I get there.
> The idea would be that you want sellers to pay something to participate in the market

What? Why would you want to do that beyond covering expenses for scam prevention?
Ironically many of the tools that the German government and public sector created didn’t work.

So when you have some docusign like scheme that doesn’t run on Linux or on non Adobe PDF clients well....
Oil won't last forever, so Dubai is betting big on science and tech (2017)
I can't agree more with this. Robert Anton Wilson's books are extremely readable, entertaining, and will definitely help you see a new perspective. For programmers and tech people I'd recommend RAW above Godel, Escher, Bach, for example. One of his many intriguing ideas, borrowed from Alfred Korzybski, is that "The Map is Not the Territory". Always know that whatever map or idea you have is only ever, at best, a fragmentary and limited version of whatever in the objective world it's meant to represent. Kudos.
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@jeffhuys my gut feel says you don't have childeren. At least not in the 0-3 yr range :-)

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