skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny you use the car example, because actually yes, I have heard FOSS fundamentalist using that as a textbook example of when you as a user want to be able to verify what's actually running.

It's not that far off from tractors and the like, which actually is a problem for owners when they become abandonware. Comment thread and documentary on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16386012

I'm happy with my Switch despite it being locked down, and hey, it's Nintendo and people are already running Linux on it: https://twitter.com/fail0verflow/status/964954316892119040
"It does not seem like such a bad idea for society to have some entrepreneurial like jobs that are easy to get but don't pay very well until one becomes good at it."

Because no one ever needs to eat or pay the rent while they are learning their new job?

Sure, pay folks less while learning. That's fine. At least minimum wage, though - that's what minimum wage is there for. Then give them a raise. If employees have to "game the system" to earn minimum wage, what's the point? Besides, such companies do need folks during off hours, just like restaurants need wait staff during non-peak dining hours. Might as well act like it.
Point of Order: Godwin suspended Godwin's Law indefinitely, likely in response to the alt-right and Trump's election.
It depends on what you want. If you want some sort of "purity of code", that's great.

If you want more (especially control), you'll never have it. Except for your side projects.
I've been a PM for 3+ years, I switched after being a full-stack developer for 4 years. When I made the move the company had about 150 employees.

My experience so far: the role is very broad, and the responsibilities are -very- different across companies and products. The specifics depend on many things, like maturity/size/culture of your company, pricing of your product, whether or not it is open source, etc.

On one side of the spectrum you have PMs who are very close to the development teams, and you might still be contributing code regularly. You might be a sort of architect who also makes sure documentation is in order and who handles user feedback/discussions. These PMs are typically "user-focused", in that they try to improve the product for the end user.

On the other side you have a much more market-focused role (MBA type) where you'll do market analysis, pricing, marketing, sales materials, etc. You might see the dev team once a week, or maybe only the engineering managers. These PMs are typically "customer-focused", so targeting the buyers of the product (who might not be the actual end-user, but for example a CIO, depending on your market).

In any case: age/wisdom/maturity matters, it is not a junior role. You will also be in a lot of meetings. You will be the face of the product and you need to enjoy interacting with people.

edit: added the sentences about "user-focused" vs "customer-focused".
$X/mo + $y/kCalls. X is for license to the code, y is for API hosting costs. i don't know why we don't see such a cost structure much, it seems the fairest for consumer.
> I know I am not about certain ideas and philosophies

Can you give some examples?
In my experience, associate PM positions require applicants to be undergrad CS students and un-modified & senior PM title positions require recognizable PM experience.

The roles are very competitive, and unless you’ve worked with someone at the company before as a PM, I would say you’d have to be pretty special to be considered. I think a successful PM’s strongest asset is the trust of their team and company, so outsiders aren’t the safest choice for a new hire, unlike roles with more demonstrable skills like engineering.

Edit: I also went to Product School and think it’s a great way to show current employers your dedication to making a transition. For joining a new company though, it doesn’t come close to comparing to what HackReactor does for a developer applicant. As far as educational content, I think the only value I got was talking to current PMs about how the realities of their jobs differ from what you read in books like cracking the pm interview.
You didn't cite the whole tweet. The real tweet is a bit longer, cites analysis written by Uber, and in context, does not come across as childish:

MIT = Mathematically Incompetent Theories (at least as it pertains to ride-sharing). @techreview report differs markedly from other academic studies and @TheRideshareGuy recent survey. Our analysis: [https://t.co/S2aAqCuDR0]

https://twitter.com/dkhos/status/969805860594581509
Side comment, but using Roman numerals to indicate century is completely bizarre to me.
I feel many comments here are confusing "Product" Management with "Project" Management. Many describing being a "people person" which isn't (in my eyes) a needed trait for a product manager, but is for a project manager. There are obviously social aspects of being a product manager, but much of it has to do with relaying what's in your head moreso than trying to manage people day-to-day.

To me, what matters for the OP, is that you are actually a product person? In my experience too many people are just terrible at understanding their field, products, how to actually break down product problems to their basic pieces and build solutions up from there. Being able to trust their designers, ui/ux, engineers to take their vision and execute (or simply just being good at transferring the vision in their head to being executable by others.

If you're not great at the above, please don't try and shoehorn yourself into product management. I've had too many terrible product managers that should have been something entirely different in my day that just literally ruins years of people's lives.

If you are not interested / good at the above, I'd consider a more Project Management role, which is about figuring out how to take a team and turn them into a well-oiled machine that loves working together towards common goals.

In many places (like startups) the line between the two above obviously blurs, my only concern is moving into Product Management role that you're not fit for. I say this more in general for people thinking about this themselves - mostly because of all the Product / Project Managers I've seen, I'd say 2/10 of them I'd actually want to work with again (though they both had engineering backgrounds which works in your favor).
I used to work with a guy who was really proud of that...
Most people don't espouse the FSF's definition of evil.
Leaf owner? Sounds like it if your going woosh.....yes you can change that audio.
I can’t believe there are articles taking Jordan Peterson’s pseudoscientific claims seriously. He’s widely recognized as a sexist and transphobic male chauvinist.
Intermittent probably.
lol, who uses PhantomJS anymore, it's 2018!
I seem to remember using dosemu on early Linux on the console, and was amazed at seeing my graphics card perform its POST BIOS run on-demand - the first few times, I thought Linux had spontaneously rebooted, but it was just dosemu getting ready to run VESA graphics, IIRC. Or maybe I'm just misremembering?
Facebook’s various settings have an annoying tendency to undo themselves...
HN turned reddit. See other FP Ask HN as well. Very shallow and general questions.
wake up and keep doing as many pomodoros as possible. workout, cook, eat and try to do some other non screen activity.
what happens to that metal afterwards? wouldn't it continue to be metal which can scrapped and reused? the reuse/remelt is much more energy efficient then original production you seem to allude to.
My wife did this as a PhD student in Animal Science, along with a fellow grad student. Only her skeleton was that of a draft horse — she mainly wanted the skull. It took place on the hill in back of the lab building and used a fire, an enormous cauldron, and a canoe paddle.

I can only imagine what undergrads wandering by thought. But we still have the horse skull in a tupperware in the basement.

She teaches comparative animal anatomy now. For a few years she kept a colony of flesh-eating beetles in her lab for cleaning skeletons. They were delivered by FedEx — yes, you can order flesh-eating beetles online. Unfortunately the box had a puncture, and beetles were coming out. The FedEx guy who delivered it sprinted into her office, threw the box on the desk and sprinted out again without stopping to ask for a signature. I wonder why...
I had a fair amount of exposure to this kind of thing solely because I grew up in the 70's. Families didn't spread as much geographically. So, I got lots of great experiences with aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, sharing things they knew, etc. Also, there was more freedom for me to interact with strangers. No cell phones, etc, so my parents couldn't really manage me real closely. Big potential downsides, of course.
Yeah my first thought was - well dogs and cats look kind of similar under fairly simple transformations.

What would be interesting is if you could establish a correspondence between visual and genetic similarity... neural networks provide a distance metric.
I don't know who you're debating. Your original comment used a reference to the weather to argue a point about climate. You can't do that, as your follow up comments clearly explain.
I am guessing that you've been tested for Celiac. If not, see my post from a few months back; i had a hyper sensitivity to gluten for over 3 years and found a fix:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15699841
It would have been too tempting to sing this:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43189/song-of-the-wit...
The GPD Win 2 is taking preorders right now.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gpd-win-2-handheld-game-c...
It seems like it'd be far easier to track usage and prevent/resolve disputes with a monthly charge, too.
I apologise, that's totally true. I did cite only the bit that jumped out at me, and my implication that it was the whole tweet does make it seem worse than it was, but I would disagree that the context redeems the statement.
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شاهد.. خروج نيمار من المستشفى بعد عملية مشط القدم الناجحة
Build yourself, using your own signing keys and your own patches (if you need any - I do).

There are various Docker images with everything necessary in the Dockerfile and user needs to only specify the device's model name (and any extra options, like build type).

Takes some time but the only thing one needs to trust is the source code (which is nearly impossible to fully audit, though)
Money laundering and immigration fraud are absolutely not legal, but they are absolutely not punished in Canada when committed by mainland Chinese. That is a fact, not an opinion.
How do you improve your knowledge if every path forward is still wrong?

(In ML terms, how do you apply gradient descent if every path forward is up?)
"The Rideshare Guy." Oy.
Canada lent a family $41M to buy a luxury jet. Now the jet is missing
Yes, like that. However, in the last couple of months, I managed to move my kid's schedule from waking up at 4:30 AM, to more humane 6-7. I am very proud of this achievement.
It's not just a biological imperative. There are strong cultural influences as well.
Maybe x/month plus y/call over a certain amount, for the people who use a disproportionately large amount of resources?
I guess he's talking about the initial investment. Not sure how this compares to solar. I know that solar would be much better, but in some places it's not an option.
Bell Labs developing “the Sleeve” fabric to control experiences powered by 5G
Beta HTTP Archive
Who is “them”? Cellebrite is mostly in the business of buying vulns, not developing them. That said: Apple pays $100k for SE leaks and $200k for boot firmware vulns. Based on described capability, the iOS11 vuln in question would be one of these two.
There are lots of PM jobs where an engineering background would be really helpful.

Shameless plug: we have a bunch posted at datadog.com/careers. Take a gander.
I just recently switched from using PhantomJS to pupeteer for PDF generation in a production application. Works like a charm and has a very clean API.
Should think that "Only fit able-bodied should apply" is simply illegal in many jurisdictions. Would medically-overweight wheelchair-bound black gays be rejected and on which grounds? At least one or two might prevent them entering the "wall sit time" competition... None should be relevant factors for hiring.
Joining the club, I've had the same obsession with portables. The first portable device I tried to shoehorn Linux onto was a Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 from the late '90s (attempt made in 2001). From there I tinkered with the Sharp Zaurus series, the HP palmtops, and the Netpliance iOpener "web appliance", which I had running Slackware Linux. I carried that contraption to college and used it as a demonstration of the power of Linux to my NA instructor's delight.

I always wanted the eMate 300 having never owned a Newton. I also was a PalmOS fanatic from about 1999 through the late 2000s, with my first "smartphone" a Treo 650 after having owned over a dozen Palm devices previously.
Thank you for this. I appreciate it. I like collaboration and working with people to drive projects and get things done. As an IC who has been a tech lead (without direct reports), I haven't had a chance to demonstrate or learn a lot of leadership nuances, but I've recently moved to a scrum master role, and am learning a lot there. I'll definitely read up on the books you suggested. Thank you so much.
I think its probably best for @pixiuPL to move on, have a look at how his actions/comments might be perceived by both the community and potential users, and treat this as a learning experience.
Technical co-founder with controlling equity is the role you meant, not side projects. Like most co-founders of big tech companies nowadays.
Maintain some relationships with relatives. Mentoring a nephew, talking with an aunt that's got health problems, etc.
Or drink...if you want to triple the effectiveness of a fast, not drinking will do this.
I hate pricing schemes like that. They force me to spend time trying to predict usage, which is often impossible or frustrating.
it's a lot easier to dismiss political ideas that you don't like by labeling them "irrational" than it is to open your mind to the reasons why a person might rationally disagree with you.
I agree. It seems very clear that code readability is reduced by var-like type hiding. When I'm doing code review and I see "var address = contract.getAddress();" what is the type of that variable? I have no idea.
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If you try as hard as you can, it will breed a good sort of fatalism about being successful. You can't try harder than as hard as you can, and once you're doing everything you can, what's the point of worrying how well you'll do?
So, I'm endlessly programmed, therefore nazis are good?

You can critique the way we acquire information and use that to cast doubt on conclusions. But you definitely can not use those criticisms to add validity to any conclusions either. So I don't see how this world view does anybody any good.

At some point, you see nazis, you say "those are bad", and you just know you're right about it. In that sense, morals are a true compass when faced with endless doubt that can creep in if you want to be maximally scientific about things.
Or antithesis (still a thesis).

Anti just means "against". The opponent could also fit the suffix (antithesis) or not (antisocial).

Contrast with "non" or "a" or "un'.
Yes, but there is also the real possibility that your beliefs are irrational as well. Everyone thinks they're right, and everyone has a train of thought that has led to that belief.
> Did anybody try to use APL (or a derivate) in web development?

I'd love to see how it handles web dev. It doesn't look like it'd be good at those types of things.
Non-US here. How is it that you are subsidizing here? Don't you share expenses?
"Consider the fact that you are a byproduct of the endless programming and propaganda behind the War on Terror."

Can you expand on that? It sounds like it may contain a very interesting perspective, but I'm not quite sure what you mean.
Ha, thanks! (I'm the author of the post.) It's funny, I don't post to my personal blog much anymore - started it in 2007 on Blogger, and so it's definitely old-school. (Plus, I have a column at Forbes, so I tend to post most of my writing there.)
I recently wrote out my morning routine as part of an exercise, it involves the following and takes about 45 min.

1. Wake, Toilet, 200 ml Water
2. Yoga (sun salutations x2) + listen to tech news podcast (10 min)
3. Water 200 ml, Brush Teeth, Quick Shower (8 min)
4. Get Dressed (10 min)
5. Water 200 ml
6. Journaling (5 min)
7. Look at Todo list & Calendar (5 min)
8. Start first work time block

In the evening, I have a shut down ritual that starts at about 9:30pm where I reset back to a neutral state:

1. Take computer back to desktop (close apps + use OneTab to save any tabbed chrome sessions I might need to reference again later)
2. Clear desk of unnecessary junk, put stuff back where it belongs.
3. Shower (Shampoo + Condition Hair, Wash Body + Face)
4. Light candle
5. Turn off bright lights
5. Meditate (15 - 30 min)
6. Extinguish candle
7. Go to bed
> possibly solving a lot of housing issues in metropolitan areas

Sprawl does not solve housing issues. Let’s say the metropolitan range is expanded by 100 miles, all that’s happened is now the 100 mile area will soon get filled up with low density housing full of new NIMBY homeowners. It’s much better to approve new housing near existing transportation infrastructure than spend billions building out a speculative technology to fix a problem with an easily understood solution.
Yes, metal can be recycled. It's still more energy-intensive than concrete. Materials intensity is a pretty good figure of merit for energy systems, and energy intensity is an ideal one.
That is not actually true. Distributions are not consistent in such things even across a single distribution, and there is certainly no universal rule about only packaging the latest release versions of everything.
Ask HN: How to decide when to do something?
You're writing up some instructions you are going to use later and the word 'positivity' is marked with a red line by your editor indicating it's not a word. Do you go off to google to learn more about the definition of the word and related words ?

You're adding a new feature that your business partner and a customer have asked to be completed for review/testing by tomorrow. As you're coding you notice that a library class that's used in various places is miss-named. Do you refactor it or do you add it to a list of stuff to do later ? I worry if I don't do it now it might never get done, yet that one little side street of improvement can lead to noticing another 2 things that need to be improved, which in turn ...

I find it demotivating to see code that I know should be improved but if I jump into refactoring working code I worry about breaking functionality and not progressing with features fast enough.

All feedback appreciated.
That site's design is an anti-pattern. :|
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Same here. No problem accessing it. I am a Telekom customer using IPv6.
Fear and Loathing in APL (2015)
No need to apologize/backpedal re: the equally childish "your opinion's wrong because mine's right."
I forgot to put in the following story:

As I was leaving my lab, carrying the crockpot, my department chair saw me: "Ooh, what delicious thing are you making?"

Me: "Uhhhh, Cecilia and I are going to deflesh a raccoon this weekend."

Him: "Ew. Now I'm not hungry anymore."
Thanks that looks like a very clean library. Will switch to this.
Tesla’s new ‘light-years ahead’ navigation and maps engine is ‘almost done’
Is this the fifth or sixth time this story has hit the front page? Seriously, I’m losing track. I want to think that the fetishistic reposting and popularity of this story doesn’t say terrible things about some people here, but each time it makes the front page that’s harder to believe.

76 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498586

351 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16497551

17 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16513739

23 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16504820

58 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16500834

Sixth time it seems.
I'm not the person you asked, but...

any philosophy/belief system that is descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive/normative) will be _apodictically_certain_ to the extent that it is free from internal contradictions. in simple cases we can examine the ideas and be very confident that there are no internal contradictions.

for example: given "A implies B" and "A" then we can conclude "B".

essentially any time you formalize definitions to the point that a statement of equivalence becomes obvious as a tautology, then you have an idea you can be certain about.
27% off too
I would love to see Forbes print an adaption of this work. Encouraging STEM is really important, so thanks for the great idea!
You can change what you're doing, apply the same effort, and be more successful. Roughly equivalent to mechanical leverage. Some management types even call it that.