skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of the proverbial "Great Depression Mindset" that I noticed in my grandparents. Also this comment I came across on Reddit's Bestof recently that made me see the world and myself a little differently:

> Minimalism often focuses on a few high quality pieces that serve many purposes. When you're poor, you often can't afford higher quality or multipurpose...

https://np.reddit.com/r/minimalism/comments/86pkeu/meta_can_...
Grayboxing leveldesign – Spacestation
> They have the ultimate influence on the salaries once they have hired enough people. They can just not hire.

Likewise, employees have the ultimate influence on salaries once they have enough leverage in the job market.

A company hiring is like a person finding a job: they only have to once for a long period of time.

A company paying a salary is like a person working a job: they have to do it constantly.

---

You can say the cards are stack in the favor of employers, and they sometimes are, but remember 4 out of 5 businesses fail. Four out of five individuals do not go bankrupt.
He also goes on about how there were no large animals to be domesticated, completely ignoring the bison, and basically just saying the llama and alpaca don't count.
Windows Phone was definitely NOT good. It was stable, and it was visually appealing. But it was always "almost there". It always gave you the impression that the next update would get there, but updates were super slow, if you would get them at all.
> In technological terms, it is old.

Doubtful. In what sense is it 'old'?

In the words of Roy Amara: We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
>Bitcoin is moving towards the lightning network which changes things quite a bit, in particular potentially adding some centralization and giving some nodes advantages over others (well connected nodes with large open channels will have an advantage over a newcomer without connections for instance).

The centralization narrative involving LN is somewhat mischaracterized IMHO. Given that source-routing puts control of payments into the the payer, you can choose to mitigate the custodial risk of a single hop holding up your funds in their payment channel a number of ways. For instance, there is no reason one payment from person A to person B needs to involve only one route.

Intelligent wallet software, on the order of tens of milliseconds, could break up one payment of $10 into 100 different routes across numerous payment channels. In addition to giving you custodial risk mitigation, its also beneficial for privacy as well.
Could also be Amazon pretends to have social media, and then when challenged as being a monopoly they can say something like "well, ecommerce is but one of our many products and across out entire portfolio we have lots of competition" or something to that effect. Just redirect to the sham loser products to make an appearance of competition, even though the lion's share of revenue is derived from a line of business that has a monopoly position.
What's TFA
Windows frequently gets confused by my USB DAC and tries to send sound to my HDMI connected monitor.
The A7S is a very different camera. A high MP camera is rarely meant for low light photography. Traditionally its meant for studio/portrait/product photography work where the editor can crop into tiny details if required, and also the light is very carefully controlled/modified.
What makes good work?

I think in many companies, we can define bad work as lacking agency to do what is needed. I don't think maintenance is all that bad if you have the agency to fix it over time. I've been responsible for three complete rewrites of different systems, and they have gone off without a hitch. The key was building trust with management and making slow tactical decisions which each have impact.
> You can go in and demand the "new customer" deals. I've done it several times with Comcast. It's a pain, but they will do it. Best to do it in person not on the phone. It's not possible online AFAIK.

Sadly, everyone's favorite darling Sonic.net doesn't do this. They will gladly charge long-time customers more than the advertised rate though.
I hate it too.

In their defense, there was a pretty large subculture of technically knows-enough-to-be-dangerous people who would do everything in their power to totally disable Windows Update for various reasons.

Microsoft looked at this as compromising Windows' security and harming Microsoft's reputation. Their solution in Windows 10 was to make it much more difficult or impossible to delay or turn off updates for Home and Pro users. It's annoying as all hell for those who know what we're doing and do stay up to date. I hate it because it restarts in the middle of the night, then boots up into the Bitlocker screen - so when I get up in the morning I discover my desktop has been running at 100% CPU and blasting fans like a jet engine for god knows how many hours thanks to Windows update.

But at the same time, I can see why they did it, but there had to be a better way.
> While Jefferson neglected to read newspapers, he read many books and was arguably one of the most important figures in the Enlightenment.

This is my goal. Well, at least being more erudite by reading books and research papers and ignoring the news. I think I missed my window on being an important figure in the Enlightenment.
Money. "Crypto" has now been hijacked to mean "Crypto Currency" by the kids.
True, but valuations and predictions don't always follow a simple "right vs wrong" paradigm.
They did have a large range of animals that could be domesticated... they just didn't domesticate them.
New non-blockchain distributed ledgers like Hedera Hashgraph can support 300,000 transactions per second. That's enough to decentralize servers, or host an open-source MMORPG. No more single point of failure.
But if your windows breaks or decides to update it impacts your Linux as well no?
I’m so happy my middle daughter idolizes an artist who streams herself drawing and gaming as opposed to Selena Gomez who her elder sister compared herself too.

Children have more choices for idols today and that’s good. Many children are thinking entrepreneurially and I’m happy they have role models. I don’t care if the magazine looks like Tiger Beat. I’m a small business owner and I want my kids to grow up understanding the hustle mindset as opposed to the employee mindset.
As opposed to 'I generated $32k in 30 days selling a crypto USB stick' that is currently #3 on this forum? Or is that completely different?
Maybe the OP has a drinking problem that he's working on. Who knows? Regardless of the offense, there's no reason to ostracize him from society and employment after he's done his time.
> There is literally no place to tack on a middleman with nano/btc.

BTC is just a widely distributed set of middlemen imposing delays and costs (both mining rewards and transaction fees are costs to everyone holding or using BTC that run from holders/users to miners.)
"Your legal status in the country does not depend on your continued employment. If it does, stay away from this train of thought. The destination is a depressing and harsh realization."

Its sad - but most of us are out at this point..nothing more to add.
Yes, but it's a deadweight loss, waste that provides no value to anyone. It's a breakdown of trust leading to market failure. It would be better if the waste was converted to economic profit and the difference split between vendor and client.
https://www.builtinchicago.org/ -- a small startup may be more forgiving of your history. While I have no hiring experience, if I was doing hiring for a small startup, I would want the potential employee to share upfront (perhaps in the second round, definitely in the in-person, not necessarily the very first call) if they were a felon (or for that matter, any other potential red flag which would it'd be reasonable to expect me to discover on a background check). Obviously YMMV.

Also agree w/the parent comment wholeheartedly.
Starter Story looks like a great site! Love the metrics on this post: https://www.starterstory.com/blog/how-i-hustled-my-way-from-...
from what i've heard from my friend (who has both passports) the waits at checkpoints in the west bank are potentially interminable. now he does have both passports so that might be why
I'm not saying they don't edit search results (clearly they do); I'm saying that it's worth reexamining the expectation that they should edit search results for the sake of political agendas.
> And bitlocker's refusal to just encrypt a hard drive without a TPM module present is stupid, especially since it wont let me save the encryption key to dropbox (saving to the same drive being encrypted is not allowed).

???

Do you have Pro or Home? The full Bitlocker in Pro does (or did) allow encryption without TPM. Both my desktop and old laptop did not have TPM and have Bitlocker enabled. It also let me back up the key to the local (Bitlocker encrypted) drive.
I didn't mention obesity, which is definitely a risk factor.

Sugar is only partially correlated with obesity, and I have never seen anything implicating sugar itself with cancer outside of paleo / bro-science circles. Plenty of people drink multiple sugary drinks daily for decades without getting obese. Warren Buffet is a good example. So is most the population of Japan.
Hey John, I work at MS too and welcome! As for how this may impact you, you should speak with your recruiter and connect with your hiring manager. Please do not hesitate to ask.

Personal experience differ, but here's my story. When I joined MS 9 years ago it was in the midst of the big layoffs, and my recruiter reached out immediately after news broke and made sure that everything is still in place and I am still due to start in the summer after my graduation, and I've been happily working here since.

Good luck!
(eighth RacketCon)
" Now individuals can consider the potential of ideas to pan out and participate in funding them. Sure, sounds good -- I'll throw in 1,000$. Suddenly 1,000 like-minded individuals can satisfy the need of projects."

You mean Kickstarter, which has nothing to do with blockchain?

"Anyhow. I do think you are right. The integrity of the data has to be questioned. But I question why we have to assume that its useless just because it cannot be trusted? This paper trail is immutable. That is valuable. Future evidence can expose prior lies. Once you know that you have to maintain a lie for life, suddenly you are questioning if its really worth making."

Says who? Both Bitcoin and Etherium have gone through forks of their chains.
I remember being around that age and being obsessed with entrepreneurship. It was in the short stories I read, it was discussed in class, I even joined a Young Entrepreneurs after-school club, where students -- aided by local businesspeople -- would create a company, decide on products, then produce and sell them.

And while I'm a guy, I remember that club being balanced roughly 50-50, boys and girls, and in point of fact, most of the leadership positions (we elected Presidents and VPs, in mock-corporate fashion) were girls.

I think all that's changed is the focus of how and where money is earned, and maybe not all that much? The article mentions that some of the ideas recommended are "snow shoveling" and "setting up a laser tag course", which aren't the wild, forced-estrogen-display, YouTube-infested hellscape that some other commenters seem to be upset about.
Sadly this is true of many/most of these “based on a true story” movies. The very high level concept is typically real (there was a restaurant named McDonalds eventually taken over by a guy named Kroc), but beyond that the main plot is mostly just all made up—often to the detriment of many real life people who are made to look bad on the basis of a story or scene that’s completely made up.
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication (or how Contractize was born)
Correct, and this is how all companies would view it as well.

This is an extremely tricky situation; perhaps he showed poor judgement twice in his life. Statistically, its likely he did it more often, but what do statistics matter when dealing with an actual persons life?
I think what you're describing is the machinations of a capitalist society gone off the rails. Founders are focused, and what you're saying is they're focused _to a fault_. I don't think there's any fault there. Not every company has to continue growing indefinitely. That's insanity. The problem is the shareholders or boards who demand indefinite growth, and do so at the cost of their products, the most devout customers and their culture.

In other words, you can't use a broken system to criticize leadership.
Agreed - don't name those companies publicly. It's an extension of the principle not to talk poorly of previous employers, etc. The risk is rarely worth the reward.
While clearly true, I think we'd have to rephrase that as "all cultures" - here in the US people are sleeping on the sidewalk outside my office. In the PRC, they're willing to gamble on geoengineering which could poison people (just not people in power). I can't think of any current society that really values every member - but we can keep working towards that goal...
I am the captain and take full responsibility: Steven Smith
I don't think it's really fixable. As I mentioned, Windows has gotten too complex, and one of the reasons why is that there is too much legacy cruft. Some bug in a random piece of software flipped a bit somewhere in the registry that upsets another piece of software? Good luck ever finding that. And is the registry ever going to go away? Nope. Not unless MS decides to break with backwards compatibility on an apocalyptic scale.

To give you a real life example, just last week I was trying to get my Win10 laptop to do local DNS lookups successfully. (I run dnsmasq on my home LAN, and I have it resolve names like "router" or "server" or whatever.) Not a problem on Linux or MacOS, but on Windows it's often a problem. Why? I don't know. There are all kinds of different ways Windows looks up names -- NetBIOS, WINS, DNS, etc., and they interact unpredictably from where I sit. I'm not the only one with this problem so I found a lot of blog and Stackoverflow posts with various fixes. I applied one of them by adding "." to the end of all local lookups. Seemed to work just fine.

Two nights ago it stopped working. Then I rebooted. That made it work again. Last night it stopped working. I rebooted. Nope. Local DNS is no more.

Why? I have no clue. So I'll just go try some other random fix to see if it works.

This process of applying random fixes should seem familiar to anybody who troubleshoots black boxes. I really don't want my OS to be this much of a black box.
And how do you know that's the actual person, or that such a person/entity exists?
Sorry. Yeah, that was “trolly.” Will tone it down now. Apologies.
Moral outrage against hurting bulls always makes me laugh, as most people have no issue eating animals.

And no, animals are not killed humanely. You can't kill something that wants to be alive humanely. And even if you could, no one bothers to check where their food comes from, so it's impossible to verify.
These self-congratulatory articles are always a bit off-putting. I'm not sure if they're meant as a humblebrag, or what. Yes, we get that all jobs can suck. Great, you've got savings. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for doing what countless billions of people have done in their lives: quit a job. But don't consider yourself a daredevil for jumping with "only" a 2 year savings 'net'.
Site isn't loading for me. What makes this better than all the tools that are currently in the market? Where do you get your data from?
Out of curiosity, which part of Microsoft have you joined? The culture in large companies can vary greatly between divisions.

What aspects of the culture do you not like?
He is on probation, so he hasn't paid back his debt just yet.
This was pretty uncalled for. First time I’ve ever clicked the flag button.
Pre-emptive runtimes are hard. Inserting yield points judiciously in loops isn't that incredibly difficult, and neither is reducing the cost of a yield point. It's far harder to make sure every machine instruction in every part of the runtime is prepared to be interrupted and have all it assumptions violated by the time it resumes.
Landlords also no that empty units are worthless and good tenants are hard to find, so usually they offer good rates to long-time tenants, unless they are sold out of inventory in a tight market.
RTFM is to RTFA as TFM is to TFA
So why use a blockchain instead of a regular database?
I've heard of a couple of startups in London giving that a go. The same person who I was discussing that also told me that they had problems with illegal goods and potential insurance voiding - in case of fire/pests home insurance wouldn't pay for the damages because that would be considered running a business from your property which is likely not covered by your average house insurance .

Edit: some UK based startups in the
area http://ww.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-38211628
A good quality 2x teleconverter will make your sensor the equivalent of 80mp in this context.

Ie with the same lens, a 20mp camera with 2x teleconverter will resolve more detail than a 50mp sensor.
> Improving old code bases

From my experience, I think there's a great need in large tech organizations for people that are able to advocate for and drive initiatives that can scale up efforts to improve old codebases.
How about we list all our compensation for a better comparison
Is this just a clever way to dodge regulations?
All these companies are putting in a good amount of effort in "gaming" their clientele (for lack of a better word) - I wonder if they spent this brain cycles and time and other resources in actually improving their product, their support and generally treating their customers as human beings instead of Profit/Loss items, how much would it pay off in the long term.

All these gimmicks work short term, until someone figures it out (like this article). But if everyone is doing it then it wouldn't make a difference I guess.
Looks promising, this may be nice for cars.
It is and I know what you mean (grew up in a house with 8 kids, hand-me-downs and cheap meals). I personally always feel better, the more stuff I get rid of or donate. I hate looking in my shed or closet and just seeing junk. Its value is so marginal and purging every year helps to prevent accumulation in the first place. It is tough and I have a lot more to do too.
The problem is, what is your alternative? We don't all get to do compelling work. Tade0 said in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16707413 that there's a difference between "hard" and "tedious". Much of tech is tedious, not hard. Quitting because you didn't get "good" work means you go somewhere else, and... what kind of work do you get there? Odds are, not "good".

A better answer (and one that the article seems to recommend) is to not find your identity so much in your work.
I'm not the OP, but nighttime street photography would be great, such as walking around NYC at night. Right now I am having to handhold at 1/10th second and 3200 ISO, which makes any moving subject a blur (in addition to the shake from my hands).
Two Turkish imams have been fired for possessing Bitcoin investments
Quitting a top tier tech job isn't the difficult part. The difficult part is figuring out what to do next.

I quit my job as a Head of R&D for a major tech/publishing company and started https://tradedash.io (crypto desktop trading platform) with an old friend of mine who also quit his job as one of the first employees in a major fintech unicorn. For both of us, it was hands down the best decision we've ever made career wise.

For years we were depressed, working jobs that we didnt value only for nothing other than the money and stability. Even though I make a whole lot less today, I haven't had a single night where I don't sleep like a baby. Quitting our jobs was the easy part once we figured out what it is that we wanted to do.

For anyone looking to quit their job: figure out what to do next. Once you know what you want to do, everything else will become much easier.
> (and also enabling things like money laundering, drug trafficking, etc.).

If you're trying to take a dig at blockchain technology for its decentralized nature and ability to circumvent government controls, you should be aware that this is considered a good thing. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702684, for instance. The recent SESTA/FOSTA debacle is one example of why such decentralized networks are needed.
Robot used as aid in brain surgery on a Parkinson's patient
Both positions! Woooo!

Trait methods, eh, we'll just have to live without that for now, just making it easy to return iterator chains from functions is a massive thing for me and a huge boost to the usability of the language and the practical value of trait abstractions.

But you know that, of course. I'm just excited.

Now very interested in what 1.27 will have in it! I haven't tripped over the lack of NLL for a while, but that's been another thing I've been eagerly awaiting because I used to and I've just trained myself out of it.
Show HN: Full blown YouTube/SoundCloud music player build with angular5
Yep, definitely stayed in a job longer than I wanted to because of VISA issues. No happy thoughts there.
Yeah, I saw this answer and it seems wrong. I really doubt the difference is "binary string vs. vector of real valued numbers". I've seen things characterized as GAs that use vectors of real numbers.

Anyone familiar with the subject willing to answer this themselves?
"The Fine Article"

Sometimes another four-letter word is substituted for "fine".
i think the kardashians are smart enough to not tie their brand to a single platform. it wouldn't make sense for the long term, even if they were to be paid out a lot for it.
Videos are very important in digital marketing. I hope this tools will help to create intuitive videos. It's sad that YouTube is leaving this market and good to see that few players there to match that macho
Lessig: https://youtu.be/pcYJTIbhYF0
Another alternative is a synthetic scrubber pad:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018823HZG/

These have the added bonus of not scratching porcelain coated grills.
Not true - obviously it slightly depends on the grain of the film but the theoretical resolution of high quality 35mm film is ~87MP

Full frame, obviously.
I can go back and rewrite history pretty easily in Git.
Hi OP,
another felon looking for a job here, I got out this January after serving 11 months. I would encourage you to apply for whatever government benefits you qualify for, if you haven't already. Just like you I've had offers rescinded after the background check. Doesn't feel great, but you have to keep at it. As someone else said: Get a job. Get any job. Right now I'm working at a commercial fish market doing manual labor. At the same time, I'm teaching myself Android development so that I have a portfolio I can show prospective employers. If I still can't get a job I'm going to try freelancing.

>Because I'm still on probation, I can't move out of state

This may not be true. I'm on Federal probation, not state, so it may be different, but you can have your probation transferred to another state. The receiving state must agree to accept you, which may be an issue as a sex offender.
Best of luck.
I meant that the variation in electricity costs harms the reputation of the blockchain. Work needs to be approximately the same difficulty for everyone.