skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work remotely for Bay Area startups. Have for the past three years, been consulting for six (lived in SF prior).

The burden of trust always falls on you, the developer. So you offer concessions to mitigate risk and hustle in the beginning to establish trust:

0) Reach out directly to the prospective job. Show them how you can make a remote arrangement work.

1) Offer a short term contract up front - if you're not "a good fit for each other" the terms allow either party to walk with little notice.

2) Offer to fly out to meet the team personally (most other prospective engineers won't do this). Factor this cost into your rate and _do not_ bother them with additional travel expenses. Tell them you'll "foot the bill".

2a) Give them a single invoice with one number - make it easy for them to pay you.

3) When you've finally joined the team remotely, quickly offer up cosmetic suggestions on PR's, open up new PRs to improve the on-boarding documentation, tackle a couple of simple stories and get a PR out within a few days.

4) Get the senior devs to do walk-throughs of the code on Slack. When you encounter something semi-difficult that Google can't answer, that would probably take you a couple of days to unravel but a senior dev already knows, _call_ them on slack. Swallow your pride. Make a call.

5) Goes without saying - don't miss the standups. If you were in the office, it's easy to see that you're doing something else. When you're 1500 miles away, especially in the beginning, nightmares of the remote dev going MIA kick in quick.
As much as I disagree with CORBA, as highlighted by my publication history, it's clear in many cases it was very successful in industry in limited applications.
What're they going to say? "CORBA was a giant shitpile and created tire fires for several years but since this is an academic paper, we have to present historical context for our ideas"...
«ATM it's pretty slow»

For most cases you don't have to wait for a confirmation. Accepting a typical non-RBF 0-conf transaction is safer than accepting a credit card payment, because it is trivial to reverse a CC charge, but difficult to suppress a 0-conf transaction sitting in the mempool of thousands of Bitcoin nodes.

«many coins have one pool with majority»

It is not the case for most popular coins: BTC, ETH, BCH, LTC...
A few years ago, I saw Captain Cook-looking gear at a friend's house. I knew he like boats, so I thought these were collectibles.

Turns out that he was a sea scout, as a kid. Civilian GPS wasn't available in the early 2000s... at least not to amateur navigators. I think it only became standard for airlines in the 90s and militaries in the 80s.

That GPS is new is not surprising. That one tech-generation back is "celestial navigation" with a sextant is shocking (at least it was to me). It was like discovering that before smartphones the closest thing available was signal fires.^

Good reminder that tech can work in big leaps, and that a good technology can last a long time. Moore's law has been such a factor for digital technology, that we can forget it is not the norm.

BTW, the alternative to GPS (unless you have a terrestrial signal) for airlines is computerized dead reckoning, the equivalent of throwing a log tied to a rope overboard and counting knots, but a computer counts the knots.
> They were not under requirements to hold an IPO; they were required to provide public liquidity to their shareholders

No, their SHA specifically said they paid penalties if the IPO happened after a certain date (roughly speaking). If no IPO ever happens, no penalty is owed. It's cheeky, but apparently it works. (In any case, nobody will sue after today's performance.)
Ever since my first Linux experience, where /usr actually contained way more useful tools by default than other systems, this has been a double-edged sword. All the convenience of autoconf and default behaviors, etc. goes far out the window when /usr/lib is ever so slightly too old. It’s kind of a curse.

The virtualenv concept makes more sense: set a default on day 1 but assume you’ll want a new foundation periodically. When the foundations themselves are versioned, you can evolve your environment to some degree without having a completely chaotic mix of the latest updates.
It's kind of crazy that, at least in the US, personal finance is not taught so much in grade school. I had to do a lot of reading and research now in my late twenties to figure out the best way to manage the RSUs I get at work and how to plan for a home purchase and retirement. It turns out (surprise) that most financial institutions don't have regular investors' best interest in mind. Instead, they see us as customers with value to siphon out over long periods of time.

Understanding how economies work[1], how financial service companies sell products, theories behind volatility and market forces, and how simple portfolio management can be goes a long way to improving an individuals ability to efficiently self-manage their finances.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
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It wasn't even a bad idea (indeed there was no real idea at all). They specifically set out to defraud investors.
Why is it sexist to suggest that women might prefer different careers from men?
> Consider using Boost

Atlas, would it be that simple. A few years ago I was in a similar situation to the one described here, and I tried to switch to Boost. Things went bad piety soon, as this old post of mine described:

http://ziotom78.blogspot.it/2014/07/c11.html
It doesn’t help that card terminal/chip card rollout in the US has been catastrophic.
* The new thing doesn't bring any real improvements. Many UI changes, few UX changes.

* Nothing about the design was broken before and users don't really complain about it.

* Having used it, the site is noticeably slower. Turns out that shiny is expensive. And I'm on a powerful machine too.

* The UI is now more cluttered and less information dense taking a page straight from FB's playbook. They might be successful but hackers have constantly shit on the design.

* Nobody said that managing a site that large was easy, but doing nothing was always an option for them.

There is a theoretical design that would make the community salivate but this wasn't it.
I disagree with this common, yet faulty, explanation. (IMHO coming from people who have never worked in science and for whom everything R&D looks like "science!".)

Building engines or cars (involving a lot of tests!) is considered engineering. And as any serious engineering it's not purely random trails&errors. A/B tests are not a sufficient criterion to make something science. And data science (in business) is focused on solving practical problems (which may or may not be research) rather than open-ended research (which may or may not be practical).

Source: I worked in academia. I now work in data science. You?
Even worse he attempted to fake a signature and was caught doing so. He's a con man.
I cannot relate. Maybe I could at one time. I don't recall. But I seriously cannot relate.

I like the town I am in. I don't wistfully wish I could go back to my hometown in Georgia, not do I wistfully wish I could somehow return to California and make that work.

/cranky oldster moment
> I believe that the latter is a better option, when it's available.

Expanding on an aspect of that...

Usually portability, along with many other such things, should be considered as a higher level goal. Decide on the portability requirements and then pick the best options within constraints. This varies wildly between projects! The same dev team may come to different decisions on various projects.
favorite: the ancient greeks: good teacher:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/ancient-greeks

other favorite: absolutely insightful about Russia
https://www.coursera.org/learn/russian-history-lenin-putin

history of the modern world: really good just with headphones:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-world
https://www.coursera.org/learn/modern-world-2

ancient assyrians:
https://www.coursera.org/learn/organising-empire-assyrian-wa...

best was "Social Psychology" by Scott Plous/Wesleyan University.
inexplicably gone now from Coursera and internet afaikt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16536153
If you mean mbell's comment, they said it's 18 months late, not 18 months out.

How many months it's out from this point is presumably something only Intel knows. Or maybe not even Intel.
I'd imagine that the self-published music gets discovered by a few people and put into playlists, then more people who follow those playlists discover those songs, and then they percolate upwards through layers of algorithmic and editorial Spotify playlist generation including Discover Weekly.

There's also the Fresh Finds playlists, which work a little differently by surfacing unknown songs that "tastemakers" have been listening to.
Japan's Silent Strategy for Driverless Cars
You mean women could stop evaluating men based on money?

Wealth for men is the single highest factor when predicting response rate for male profiles in dating sites (according to the data I have read). Wealth and earning rates of married men correlated to the rate in which their spouse will file for divorce. Men and wealth has a similar relation as women and appearance.

Men as a single group has as much ability to stop being evaluated for their wealth as women as a single group can stop being evaluated on appearance. In theory women could stop compete on appearance between other women, but its dubious if that would actually change male behavior. Similarly, men could stop compete for wealth but its questionable if that would cause any cultural change for women.
I recall reading a proposal about this before, and I'll echo it here. There's already a solution to avoid aircraft collisions, mentioned in the article: ADS-B. Why not equip drones with ADS-B transceivers, enabling both drones and planes to be aware of each other's presence and avoid one another?

A counter argument I can anticipate is that with all those drones in the air, broadcasting ADS-B, they will clog up the system with too many signals. Those who make the argument aren't wrong. I propose a solution for that as well: reduced transmission power on drone ADS-B transceivers. Small craft have a minimum transmission power of 75W, and craft that can fly over 15000 ft or faster than 175 kt have to transmit at at least 125W. Few drones are going to be moving that fast or that high. So why not make them have say, a transmission power of 1W? I'd think that would be enough power to warn planes on approach to an airport to watch out for nearby drones, without clogging up the system with useless noise about drones the next city over.
Army uses Thrift Savings Plan in fake e-mail to test security awareness
Hi, this is my first proper free-time project. I would love some comments and your thoughts on it!
I wanted to try genetic/deep learning combo and thus have built this wrapper to be able to use genetic algorithms more comfortably since they have to modify a dictionary.
It is wrong to blame a company for people's evil.
It's natural for /r/Canada to go against the government of the day. Just like they loathed Harper, so too will they loathe Trudeau. That's just the burden of governing.
at which point you're into extrapolation, I wonder how accurate it could be. I'd guess good enough for most situations.
Good health of the customers benefits competitors too, so it's a type of commons. By the Tragedy of the Commons, it's in the company's interests to damage the health of their customers for short term profit. If they don't then a competitor will.
Why is it white flight and not those who have the means flight ?

Always with the race.... its obtusive
So nobody turned a profit by correctly shorting TWIT or FIT as soon as possible or by jumping in on FB when it plummeted to <$20 a share in 2012? Seeing that trend on FB specifically, instead of jumping in on the IPO, is the difference between 4x and 8x your investment by today's valuation.

Tech stocks are regularly IPO'd on pure hype, and the market will regularly turn on them when they don't understand the business model.
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MITs statement seems to position themselves to not be at risk if the startup goes south. They seem to think that with current technology it is unclear if the upload is feasible. Also, it would be interesting for someone to comment on how this embalming process is done?

From what I know from cryogenic freezing or preservation is that it is a good idea that it could be "scanned" back in but most likely the information is lost. I would like to understand how they solve this using embalming. MIT seems to say that we don't know that at all.

Is this company a part of Ycombinator Winter 2018?
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/nectome#section-fund... says it was funded in January 2018.
You CAN'T ignore the extra information like P(Rain|Seattle) though. What if this were the question instead: "Three friends in Seattle told you that Earth exploded and everyone died. Each has a probability of 1/3 of lying. What’s the probability that the Earth exploded and everyone died?"
And in fact they do turn them back on.
Every fucking time I boot into windows their obnoxious office ads get re-enabled after an update.
That would be mapgrep's point, I believe.
Then every cash handler must not be inept when it comes to breaking bills and making change.

Unfortunately, that’s already a trend we’ve been seeing in the US youth for the past 20 years.
How to Make Friends with Pain
Plenty of OTR-like plugins for your IRC client of choice.

IMO IRC is still the best chat experience.
Well-Intentioned Destruction (2009)
ECB also banned 500 euro notes, which may also be another leading indicator. Sweden's housing market is in a downturn right now. If it starts looking like the early 90s, deeper negative rates might seem attractive (they are currently at -0.5% in SE).
I always phrase this as "simple vs easy". Often people, especially self-titled UX designers, mistakenly conflate the two.

To make something "easy" requires the system to predict what you want. To make something "simple" requires the system to behave in obvious ways so the user can reason about how to make it do what they want.

I'll take "simple" over "easy" any day.
> To become music's Netflix they would have to produce their own music which people want to listen to

Which would make them (like Netflix) one exclusive content provider (potentially among many) which is fine for them if they can get good content, but not great for users who may find music fragmented like streaming video. The great thing about Spotify now is that they have access to nearly everything. Netflix has a decent streaming library of TV series, but their movie archive is terrible compared to the red envelope DVD.com option (or Blockbuster in its prime). It would be a shame for that to happen to music, too.
For me it's:

- Better discovery

- Much cheaper (150kr/mo for 6 subscriptions, vs 100kr/mo for one with GPM)

- A desktop client (even if it's a crappy electron one)

- YTRed isn't available here anyway
The second sentence corrects the sensational headline: "the small but growing number of Swedes anxious about their country’s rush to embrace a cash-free society."

It must be very small. The only person I've ever heard complain about it is... myself. Not for the reasons this article gives, though. I'm more upset about Visa and Mastercard skimming 1% of profit off of the entire country's retail commerce. Maybe if they weren't simultaneously terrible, but they also have unimaginably bad fraud detection, and push their own fraud problems onto local businesses.
For me it would be speed.
The GP's post was implying that it's easier to bypass traditional gatekeepers (labels) by self-publishing on Spotify. I don't see how either of your recommendations solves the problem of the flood of self-published releases in a "labels are no more" scenario.
They just pay a percentage to the change maker instead...
Spotify was first for on-demand streaming in the modern era, even before Google or Apple Music. Its radio/recommendations are better than Pandora, and I haven't tried others.

I think Spotify's UI is fantastic, and its multi-device awareness is functional and intuitive. To your point, Google does have ad-free Youtube, but the ads don't bother me enough/I don't watch enough Youtube for it to impact me like it does with music.

Finally, I like diversity sometimes; giving not-Google money is a plus, all other things being equal.
Google Play has good options for music discovery too... I stick to them mostly for their "Radio" option which is very good at selecting music similar to a song I'm listening to.

That being said... I've been underwhelmed by the app's UI and performance and have given frequent feedback but haven't got any response and there has been no changes. Typical of Google... Its been so bad that I'm considering switching to Spotify soon. Its really annoying when you're trying to select some romantic music for dinner with your partner and the app keeps refusing to work.
It'd be really cool if they rolled down the https://riscv.org/ path. They wouldn't have to pay anyone anything and could do whatever they wanted.

Then again, wont happen
I have lots and lots of failures, so I write an email every week with one of them (https://softwareclown.com/).

Biggest one... negotiate for your salary? Start looking for job after first round of layoffs? Don't deploy into production with new language in way that can break biggest customer's service?
For those who are unfamiliar with the general concept, there are several organizations that will be happy to take large sums of money from you, for a scientifically sketchy claim at resurrection at some future unknown date.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=alcor+cryonics&oq=alcor+cryon...
Not his money.
But I never said 100% of Google products exist to drive revenue to Ads, I said most do, ie, most free products.

We are not talking about B2B or B2C products for obvious reasons.

Outside of B2B and B2C offering (ie, Gsuite and Youtube RED), both youtube and Gmail makes money from ads. Docs is part of the Drive and Drive with Gmail share same free space limit. Drive is free tier to their B2C offering (pay money for more space). Just like Dropbox has a free tier. Docs is a feature of a drive - which they needed to compete with other similar services.

TF is used as a paid service (along with TPU) for their GCE, also TF is a great marketing tool to hire top-notch machine learning enthusiast to their company. Nothing wrong with that.

According to this (not sure how accurate this is): https://www.statista.com/statistics/266471/distribution-of-g...

Google still accounts close to ~90 of their revenue from ads. The good news is that it looks like their diversification plan is working.

I have nothing against Google or their employees, I think it's an awesome company, I would rather live in a world where Google exists. Regardless of their profit motive, it would be hard to ignore their contribution to make the internet a better place.
If TSMC's fab is as good as or better than Intel's, then fabless companies like AMD and Apple will reap competitive benefits over Intel, which now has to have IP for CPUs it sells as well as IP for its fab business.
To be fair, quarterly reports for companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, and Google often make the front page. And HN is just as interested in Tesla as those companies. Furthermore, this is a particularly interesting quarterly report for Tesla, as it comes after Tesla faces serious questions about its production shortfalls, on top of the other bad news (fatal AP crash, huge recall for Model S, Moody's downgrade) it has received this past week.
The goal is to make the labels need them too. Plenty of people just won't listen to music if its not on spotify.
Could you expand on how it changed things for you? How did you learn them before vs after?
I was a longtime user of Google Play (Songza before that) on iPhone. I loved the playlist but the app was incredibly buggy. I was using the free version so I had ads. Often the ad wouldn't play and then freeze all playback, or the ad would play and then the music wouldn't start again. This made me very hesitant to pay a monthly subscription.

I've switched to Amazon Music (free with my Prime membership) and although the app works well, the curated lists aren't as great.

My point is that maybe other people have started with the free Google Play (Music?) app and had the same experience and looked for options elsewhere.
I meant the impact on global CPU markets won't matter to Apple, they don't care if Intel makes less money.
Along those same lines if I'm going out to eat somewhere that accepts credit cards I will almost always pay the bill with the card and tip the server in cash. They can just pocket the cash and as far as the restaurant knows they didn't receive a tip (that would otherwise be taxed).
Can it be a problem for Spotify that it will be hard for them to increase the revenue they extract even from the most loyal customers? If streaming music becomes a commodity and price sensitive people switch to competing services what will happen? Some companies like Apple are in nice position, because they can just sell more stuff to the loyal customers. Phone, pad and watch instead of just phone. And then more expensive variants of these.

Is there something Spotify could do to differentiate, something that matters even for those who don't value the sophisticated playlists? Should they go the Netflix route and start producing their own music? Or would it make sense to produce some other audio content? Think programs like "Serial" [1]. Or maybe some radio drama [2]?

[1] https://serialpodcast.org/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama
Last I checked there was no Signal client for most Linux or BSD distros. IIRC they did something silly like a Debian-only package or something.

But as many others have stated, its inability to work without exchanging phone numbers is a show stopper for many uses cases. Especially now that my country requires SIM registration with valid IDs.
> (I think GCC took like 4 hours to build at the time, even with a parallelized build)

were you running on potato computers ? I clearly remember building GCC 5.0 from source a few years ago and don't remember it taking more than 15-20 minutes on a i7 2600. (Of course you have to disable the whole unnecessary bootstrap stuff and only build c & c++ support).
Regarding your #2, in my experience as a remote dev., I have visited HQ multiple time per year.

Would having the company coordinate your travel and expenses give you insight into how the company functions?
Are you really implying that all groups of organized people are fascist sleeper cells?

That MLK and Gandhi were saved from their Hitlerism by assassination by heroic ethnic-separatists?
Yea, this really depends on the illness but there is a lot of slack in the system.

It can take 2-3 months before you get a bill after medical treatment add another 60-90 days before it's very late and you have 6 months or so before your credit get's trashed assuming zero payment.

However, partial payments can push this out much further. Remember, companies don't want to sell you debt as they only get a fraction of it's total value so work with them. So, paying say 1% per month is often enough to avoid sending a very large bill to collections.
They can't pay them as well.
The unequal effects of partisanship on brands