skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: RemoteHacker.com – Find your project partner from anywhere in the world
Hello!

My name is Eric and I built this site with my friend who works in sales. Like many programmers, I build a lot of stuff in my spare time that never sees the light outside of my local dev machine. I thought to myself "wouldn't it be great to find someone else out there who might like the project I have in mind and would like to join me in building it?". Not a job, not a "gig" to fix someones email template, but an actual project where I can join and be a part of it. Sometimes, after forgetting about a project, I start thinking the other way around. I wish I hade something to work on that was exciting and that I believed in. So, I decided to build a prototype of the site, which turned out way too programmer oriented, and when my friend in sales saw it he said "Why not making it so that people like me and you can find each other as well as programmer finding programmer?".

Well, here we are. I Would really appreciate any sort of feed you guys might have. Anything would be of value :)

URL: https://remotehacker.com
I had an odd experience recently: I took around 20 milligrams of sativa, in edible form, as someone who hasn't really experimented with cannabis before.

The sativa made me feel somewhat egoless - I could re-examine different events from my life and seperate the stories I tell myself to placate my ego vs what actually happened. It's a very vulnerable state - your ego is also a necessary shield - but I felt like I was able to look at myself with more impartial point of view.
Dark Side of the Coins: Cryptocurrencies on the Darknet
Over 500 Canadian doctors protest raises, say they're being paid too much
I clearly understand far less about electricity grids than I thought. Isn't that 50 Hz frequency generated by the power plants? It seems hard enough to keep them all perfectly in sync. But I don't see how demand can drop that frequency, and even less why you would want to propagate such a drop in frequency across other subnetworks.

Personally I'd expect a shortage to result in a lower voltage, not a lower frequency.

I'm also rather surprised that the correct functioning of my clock depends on the political stability of a politically unstable part of the continent.
@lukebennett Thanks for comment Luke! Can I ask you for a recommendation what you'd expect in our platform? It will help us to prioritize the roadmap.

We've got some features that Smooch is missing. For example, sending messages to phone numbers.
They probably will partner up with insurance company’s and will provide discounts if you take this test as part of your physical. And increase it if you don’t or start at a higher price for all products that the client doesn’t take the test. Yeah it’s gonna come to that
> Ebooks gave us digital versions of paper books. The impact has been minimal.

Eh maybe. These days I read a fair number of what I assume are self-published-on-amazon ebooks, as recommended to me by amazon's system. I assume the publisher has been completely cut out, and the length expectations have certainly changed (serials of more shorter books). Maybe people are still figuring out the medium. If you look at the early days of television you'll see "television plays" which at first were literally theatrical actors performing a play to the camera, and these plays were limited to a maximum of one rebroadcast and destroyed after by agreement with the actors' union. Television only became its own distinct medium (with the corresponding economic changes) over time.
I've found Linux usually works great on low end desktops with limited use (such as web browsing) but I've had many problems with modern GPUs and multiple displays. I upgraded to a 4k monitor and wanted to use my old monitor as a secondary and it required manual editing of configurations to support a setup with two monitors and two different resolutions. This is stuff that has worked on Windows or Mac for decades that Linux still hasn't figured out.
Some versions of the OS X PDF viewer crash if you search for the character “u”
Memcached servers can be hijacked for massive DDoS attacks
For many factory towns, white collar job loss hurts the most
My understanding was the vast majority of listens come from popular artists, and those listening to niche artists (of which there are tens of thousands) are the minority (~10%).

But on researching this comment it would seem I may be way off base https://insights.spotify.com/no/2017/11/02/listening-diversi....

I really hope that is the case. I have more than a hundred artists in my saved list and a huge spread of genres and styles. I enjoy Spotify constantly for giving me some of these insights. I am just as likely to get a suggestion for an artist with 1000 followers versus someone with 500,000 thousand. The algorithm doesn't seem to give much weight to popularity and I love that. Popularity just isn't a strong indicator for quality music and people have been musing over that point for centuries.

I think for many, music is just background noise or social fodder. Used solely for those ends then popularity matters. Otherwise, it's a useless metric and you are just as likely to find a genius with 200 followers as you are a vapid repeater box with 500,000. The hurdles serve as enough of a barrier for people posting just garbage to the platform, but they don't seem to hinder those who are creative but unpopular.
The rotor in a synchronous machine is coupled magnetically to the grid (basically a spring-mass system where the spring is a rotary field); there is virtually no reaction time in this mechanism.

(It should be noted that other motors, including asynchronous machines, contribute as well)

AIUI the HPR has reaction times on the order of a few seconds.
Utilitarian = gets the job done. In this case, producing clothes.

Rationally Justifiable = justifiable in non-subjective ways: warmth, durability...the kind of argument you could make to a central planner.

Decoration = Not Rationally Justifiable

BTW... central planning is not a rare thing. Tesla is centrally planned, so is Shell. If you want to argue for private offices or gym memberships in a company, you'll generally be limited to "rationally justifiable" (to stick to this choice of words) reasons. People will get more done, employee churn will be lower..

^ I'm not going to argue back
The graphics capabilities of the 8-bit Ataris are quite mind blowing. Having grown up on an Apple II, the whole idea of the graphics chip running through not a bitmap, but a kind of "program" that caused pixels to appear on the screen was extremely liberating.
Drop in intelligence levels in seven Scandinavian countries
The clocks thing isn't quite true but you're right that it's a badly editorialized clickbait title. The linked press release never mentions anything as dramatic as 'an energy war in the Balkans' nor does the actual title reflect what's been posted on HN at all.
That is definitely interesting, do you know where I could find more info on it?
A recipe can't (in USA and UK, AFAIK) but the specific presentation of the recipe can. It's an extension of facts not falling within copyright.
"We didn't want to build a computer that looked just like a refrigerator or a washing machine, even if that was the most "practical" and "functional" way to package it. We wanted the design to express the excitement we felt about the machine and about its potential to revolutionize computer architecture."

:-)
geneticgenie.org analyzes your 23andme data. You can upload raw data or just link your 23andme with oauth. It might be more narrow in scope than what you had in mind since it is primarily used to generate a methylation and detox profile. I used it primarily to determine if I had a MTFHR mutation but it was helpful since it showed other potential issues with my methylation system.

I don't know how hard it would be to programmatically do, but if geneticgenie is any proof, it can be done.
Does being paid more make you perform better?
Blind Mice See Again with Gold and Titanium
Possibly not, but that isn't the average price of a jumper. It's the lowest price.

What I mean is this. A soviet-like economy might be able to produce enough jumpers for everyone, at a lower average price than a modern one. There won't be the choice or fashion and consumers may not like them as much, but they will be perfectly functional jumpers.

This is not the case for cars or smartphones...
I got it wrong, not you. Thanks for the heads-up.

They didn't mention who leaked the data. I got confused.
The symptom they described looks like an automatically updated system with a leak. One of our swiss customers, a big hosting provider, uses such a system and would fit.
It is amazing that we have so good knowledge over what the body needs that one can live on just water, yeast and multivitamins for a year. But why the yeast?
- Tour of C++ (http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html)

- Principles and Practice Using C++ (http://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html)

- From Mathematics to Generic Programming (http://www.fm2gp.com/)

- The Scott Meyers books

Some of the Bjarne Stroustrup videos,

"Learning and Teaching Modern C++" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX2W3nNjJIo

Some of the Herb Sutter videos,

"Writing Good C++14... By Default" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEx5DNLWGgA

"Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqTKD8uD64

Some of the Kate Gregory videos,

"Stop Teaching C" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWhqhNdYyk

"10 Core Guidelines You Need to Start Using Now" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkDEzfpdcSg

"It's Complicated" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTexD26jIN4
It's a few KB with Cordova/Phonegap. However, startup is bad, performance is bad, and testing is terrible.

Also, making UIs with HTML/CSS/JS really isn't that nice. The workflow with Flutter is way more streamlined.
What about the Panchen Lama? IMO that's a good summary of China.

> It has been claimed that Gedhun had been taken into protective custody from those that would spirit him into exile and is now "in captivity against the wishes of the Tibetan people", whereas the Chinese government states that he is living a "normal private life".Tibetans and human rights groups continue to campaign for his release.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Lama
In the UK, CAP devices are common, that allow you to complete a PIN-verified numeric challenge response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program
> It's "everyone thinks they're roughly 75th percentile."

Unless you know that everyone thinks they're 75th percentile, and then you can assume it's the deluded answer--and more likely, you're much closer to average. Eventually, this is not so much a question about intelligence, but self-awareness.
The current narrative suits your beliefs well, and you have no incentive in questioning it.

I believe there's enough to be questioned, and want the govt to fund research that ask these questions, and provide its findings to the public.

Neither you, nor I are asking for the govt to change the history blindly. Where we disagree is whether to question the history as we have been taught or not.

Looking at your responses, I think we better agree to disagree and keep this comments pyramid of doom short! :)
Want a math-ish PDF and some LaTeX source for training on possible edge cases? Think I might get someone (or something) to read my dissertation this way...
I was just comparing different countries in middle east. Iran vs. Pakistan. Iran is scoring higher but seems Iran's score is mostly because it is more stable and it is more secure and less internal conflicts. On the other hand, Pakistan's government is more Open, and it has more powerful military still they have less security and higher internal conflict. How Turkey in the region is changing is also interesting.

I wish this data had Saudi Arabia and Israel for the comparison of the region.
How NYC taxi ride data suggest cozy relationship between big banks and the Fed
I did 23andMe many years ago around when it first came out (and I therefore have access to certain results others can’t get since this was pre-FDA settlement).

At the time, I ignored the fact that it said I was 4x more likely to develop colon cancer (I was in early 20s). My sister was diagnosed with colon cancer 3 years ago. When you are a woman diagnosed in your early 30s, apparently it is due to genetics. She discovered it by going to three different doctors after insisting she wasn’t feeling well and that it felt “deeply internal”. The doctor who suggested a colonoscopy did so because he had an internship for a year at a cancer clinic in Boston. The others thought it was in her head. Well they found a malicious tumor and the prognosis from the nations leading cancer clinic was to remove her colon, her uterus and ovaries and large intestines (in their entirety). You can imagine this is a lot to ask of anyone. We asked for data that supported the conclusion that if we don’t remove all of these parts the cancer would spread to her ovaries and kill her and there was literally none to be had. It was 100% based on the doctors personal experience (again we were at one of the top clinics in the world for this).

There is something structurally off with the modern medical system. I believe it relies too heavily on anecdotal experience and memory. I don’t know about you but I can’t remember what I ate yesterday. I think services like 23andMe are on to something, if only as a data point to empower patients to self advocate. We did nothing with the data but he moment I got the phone call I couldn’t help but wonder if we could have found this earlier.
Specially in America, with only recent History of course family recipes are adapted from books.

On the other hand my family(in Europe) holds recipes that are more than one hundred years old. Most books recipes came from taking the knowledge of grandmas on villages on places with culinary History.

Those books serve as text books over which modern cuisine has evolved.

But is a kind of food that most Americans will consider strange. They are sophisticated stews that take forever to make or have flavor that they are not used to.

When I went to China the hardest thing to get used to was all the flavors of their food, which is very rich, but most Westerners do not know it(note:Chinese restaurants have very little to do most of the time as real Chinese food is not commercial in the West).
>You think their staff are that naive?

Sorry, can you expand a bit. Not sure what you mean.
If stations are not in sync, will that mean they cancel eachother out like with soundwaves and anti-sound?
> All of the languages you mention put developer experience above portability, so usually require a basic runtime.

Rust's runtime is comparable to C's. It is less portable because it uses LLVM as a backend, not because of the runtime.

> Then again, debugging segfaults isn't for everyone, so most are fine giving up C.

Depending on the application, having vulnerabilities due to undefined behavior is a much bigger problem than having to debug segfaults.
Use it.

Not being a smart@$$ here. Any language you want to learn will only become natural when you've used it for a significant project or set of exercises. Either clone or port something non trivial, or use it for your latest pet project, or get permission to use it at work.
Nassim Taleb, Absorbent Barriers and House Money
I'm a morning person, but I like to go to bed once I've seen a summer sunrise; does that make me a night person?

Actually I just love peace at any time of day.
In the book 'Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture', author Alan Sokal, Math Professor at University College London, writes under the heading 'Hindu nationalism and Vedic-Science' in 'Pseudoscience and Postmodernism' chapter:

On February 23, 2001, the University Grants Commission (UGC) — the central government body overseeing the funding of higher education in India — announced that

"there is an urgent need to rejuvenate the science of Vedic Astrology in India, to allow this scientific knowledge to reach to the society at large and to provide opportunities to get this important science even exported to the world ... [Accordingly,] the Commission decided to approve in principle [the] setting up of a few departments of Vedic Astrology in Indian universities ... leading to certificate diploma, under-graduate, post-graduate and Ph.D. degrees."

The plan provoked a storm of protest from Indian scientists and rationalist intellectuals. But what on earth prompted such a bizarre decision in the first place? The answer, not surprisingly, is politics: more precisely, the Hindu nationalist politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which governed India between March 1998 and May 2004. The BJP is the political expression of a multifaceted mass movement for Hindutva, or “Hindu-ness”, “an ultranationalist and chauvinistic movement that seeks to modernize India by recovering the supposedly pristine Vedic-Hindu roots of Indian culture”.As part of its program for the Hinduization of Indian education, the BJP rewrote school history textbooks to excise the contributions of Muslims and other non-Hindus, and promoted university-level courses not only in Vedic Astrology (Jyotir Vigyari) but also in karmakanda (Hindu priestly rituals), vastu shastra (sacred architectural rules), “human consciousness and Yogic science”, and “Vedic mathematics”

... Contemporary Hindu-nationalist intellectuals, many of whom are trained scientists and engineers, have brought this art to an even higher level of refinement. For instance, Subhash Kak, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Louisiana State University and one of the leading intellectual luminaries of the Hindu-nationalist diaspora, claims to find “astronomical codes” in the Rig Veda's descriptions of ritual fire altars, using a method that, as Nanda wryly observes, “is breathtakingly ad hoc and reads like numerology 101”.Even more ludicrously, #Raja Ram Mohan Roy asserts that “the Vedas are a coded book ... of particle physics and cosmology”: thus, verses referring to wild and domestic animals are really alluding to fermions and bosons, respectively; passages recounting the destruction of black-skinned people are in fact “about annihilation of anti-matter”; and the phrase “ten-finger form” in the Purusa hymn gives us “compelling evidence of [the] universe being considered ten-dimensional in Vedic cosmology”, just as in modem superstring theory.

#A contemporary author, not to be confused with the early-nineteenth-century Indian reformer of the same name.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2036727.Beyond_the_Hoax
Interesting observation:

I also see a major extrovert bias, which might seem a little funny for tech.

But, again, product managers (or, God forbid, Sales people) are all really subject to the “let’s just get some people in a room” style of planning and problem resolution.

I firmly believe some massive amount of productivity is squandered from people choosing the wrong communication paradigm.
I think it's worth asking yourself, "What is the consequence of being unable to answer this question?" In most of your examples, the answer is likely: none.

These questions are mostly some form of arbitrary categorization--the sort of thing humans love to do to make sense of the world. But these are just mental shortcuts, and best used for trying to understand others for whom you have little insight into their deepest thoughts and feelings. If your wife rises at 6am everyday, you don't need to deeply feel what she feels about rising early--just call her a morning person and move on to thinking about breakfast.

For yourself, you are free to appreciate the nuance of experience because you have unfiltered access to all of it. Don't feel the need to categorize yourself, which can just constrain your thoughts and actions to those stereotypically within that category. (I've associated with enough -ism's over the years to realize that I don't ever want to describe myself with any -ism label again.) Really examine the thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations of your experience apart from labels created by society.
I’ve long had this dream of building a system that would allow for symbolic algebra manipulations, where the representation knows about the semantics. The idea is to replace long and tedious pen-and-paper symbolic calculations, while still having direct control over each step of the calculation. In looking for something like this I’ve found specialized proof verifiers, which are doing something different. At the other end of the spectrum there’s Mathematica, which does symbolic manipulation but doesn’t understand enough semantics.

Are these projects aiming at something like what I’m describing? Or are they more about something else like verifying proofs?
This is undoubtedly the best c++ resource available http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920040385.do
For video they don’t have the same expectation.

I think this has more to do with the economics of pirating movies versus music.

When Netflix started, people were not used to torrenting (or Napster-ing, or Kazaa-ing, etc) movies. They were already at the mercy of Blockbuster, so being at the mercy of Netflix instead wasn't that big a deal. Pirating movies is more popular today, but people are still generally OK with having a limited movie selection.

Whereas by the time iTunes Music rolled around, people were already comfortable with having the whole world of music at their fingertips. You can't undo something like that easily. So the only way forward has been to try to have everything.

Perhaps the most interesting part about all this is that there was never (to my knowledge) such a thing as a store where you could rent records, tapes, or CDs -- Blockbuster for music.
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan 1.1
The best advice that was given to me in college on how to learn a new programming language was to use it.
Before diving into smart pointers, move semantics and other (mostly) recent additions, I would recommend getting well acquainted with the basics: RAII and common patterns such as passing by constant reference. Effective C++ by Scott Meyers, as others have noted, is an excellent entry point.
If you mean Lucy in the sky with diamonds, Lennon wrote it after a picture his son Julian drew about his classmate named Lucy (who sadly passed away a few years ago). The drug connotation was applied to the song afterwards, not before; the same acronym was coincidental, while the lyrics being inspired from Alice and Wonderland was applied later to the drug movement, not the other way around (the song became an anthem for the drug, it wasn’t written that way and many of the similarities we see today are because of its adoption).
> The missing energy amounts currently to 113 GWh. The question of who will compensate for this loss has to be answered.

This seems to be the primary issue, not the minor drift in cheap clocks.

Also, the press release says nothing about "energy war" so that kind of hyperbole does not add anything of value.

What is going on here is akin to someone tampering with their electrical meter, except done by a state electrical company, so on a somewhat grander scale.

1 GWh = 1,000,000 KWh and in Serbia/Kosovo the price is around €0.07/KWh so the retail amount of this theft is around €8 million. It is significant enough to make an issue of it, but not really a big deal.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/...
I'm the author and didn't make this post on yc, but yes, the implementation is in 680 lines of standalone c++

The point of the article isn't about c++ or why it's a good language for doing this sort of thing, but I'm a real time graphics and game engine programmer, so it's my language of choice.
Underpaying drivers is essential to Uber business model – new study on low wages