skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've stayed at Roam in Miami, London, and Bali. I was at the London location as the same time as the author of the linked article, and am currently at the tail-end of a three week stay in their Miami property.

I think to compare the pricing to a long-term lease, or the facilities to a luxury hotel, is to miss the point. The biggest value proposition is in having a community of like-minded people from the moment you walk through the door. I've never met so many friendly, diverse, interesting people as I have each time I've stayed with them.

I sold my home in San Francisco at the beginning of 2015 and have been a full-time nomad since then, staying mostly in hotels. I am 10X more social and more productive when I stay at Roam. Being in a city where you don't know anyone, and aren't a native-speaker of the language, can be very lonely. Having to track down laptop-friendly coffee shops, or commute to co-working spaces, or hunt restaurants for lunch and dinner, can consume a ridiculous percentage of your day. Roam completely solves these issues by facilitating a community, providing great co-working spaces, and having a well-stocked commercial kitchen.

Is it more expensive than living on your own? Not compared to SF or NY (or zone 1 in London, where the old London property was). And not compared to a hotel.

Is it as nice as a 5-star hotel? Nope (at least none of the rooms in which I stayed). But I'd rather walk out the door of my room and be invited to drinks with friends, than waved at by a bellhop.
Waymo and Tesla’s self-driving data differences
Fairly small, but all improvement is obviously welcome.
Herman Miller chairs are somewhat of a scam. They aren't really ergonomic in that they round inwards at the top edges around where your shoulder blades contact with the mesh. If you actually have good posture, this will round your shoulders inwards as well.

People can say how much they love their Aeron all over the internet, but you have to understand what that means. They are just saying that they feel good while sitting in them, which often means they sit hunched over and it makes them relaxed. This doesn't mean the chair is helping them in any way. Often it means that the chair is compensating for their poor posture and making them feel good despite not being healthy.

You can see videos all over youtube of people actually working while sitting in Herman Miller chairs, and they all have poor posture. For example:

https://youtu.be/_R8bIIQxajA?t=15

https://youtu.be/cGEb-q5JMU0?t=17

Most chairs above around $500 will be fine. That is to say, you will still suffer serious health issues like everyone else who sits down all day, but the chair should not cause any pain while you are sitting down.

If you have back pain and so on, you should probably go to the gym, which will be the ultimately way to feel comfortable at work and everywhere else. Although, it still will do little to reverse the effects of sitting down all day. Programming is a career that guarantees immediate and serious health issues due to sitting and poor posture.
> they often end up including every possible need anyone could have.

I don't think that's what is happening here with React. It'd be much different than it is already if that were the case, but instead it's stayed pretty lean
And, to paraphrase another poster, be a honey badger about it. "And then what happened? And then? Why did you do it this way? Why did that fail? Why did <cause of failure> happen?" until you get to the bottom of the story or hit a wall ("dunno. My boss took care of that"). If the candidate can explain what the root cause of the problem was, how they identified that root cause and then proceeded to fix it, that gives you a pretty good idea of how tenacious they are.
£45k is an enormous salary, especially for someone in their 20s. 85% of the country earn less than that.

Looking at median London salaries from 2015 (which I have to hand), and assuming a 10% increase on that, you earn more than average for all but two boroughs - Tower Hamlets (i.e. docklands) and the City

[1] http://www.itv.com/news/london/2015-11-19/how-does-your-sala...
It was for the lifetime of the contract. Once the device was paid off, you could unlock the device.
Let's destroy Bitcoin
I'm so deep into quality measures, I don't know if I can ever climb out. Not sure if I even want to at this point. It's incredibly tedious but I enjoy it.
There is a key difference here between your friend's job and UBI. If your friend instead of having their job got UBI they would still be able to go and find fullfilment in the workforce and bolster what they recieve from UBI with a salary.

In the scenario you mentioned they are probably locked in by way of a contract from being able to find fillfilment unless they do it in their, probably small, amount of personal time.
"Students contesting any form of criticism ... In some cases, students are SUING the university for poor grades ... Plagiarism is commonplace"

Anecdotally I heard the same stories 25 years ago when I was at university.
Ask HN: How to allocate startup equity between parttime and fulltime cofounders?
I'm working with my cofounder on a software startup. While I'm working on the startup fulltime, my cofounder is involved part-time (i.e. works a separate fulltime job). I work on the technical and business side of the startup whereas my cofounder works on the UI/UX design aspects. The startup is not revenue generating at the moment, but likely will be by Q3 2018. The cofounder will jump in fulltime once there's some level (TBD) of funding or revenue.

I want to set up a LLC and for that my cofounder and I need an operating agreement, which details how we split equity, set up vesting, etc.

The standard advice I get is "a founder is someone who works fulltime", "founders need to split equity equally," etc. (see references below). But, I don't see how that advice would work for me. I like working with my cofounder and although not contributing to full potential my cofounder is a talented designer. My cofounder acknowledges that I put in the lion's share of the work and is willing to take less than 50%.

I think that in addition to the unequal split, my cofounder's equity needs to vest at a slower rate than it does for me and there has to be a clause where after any significant event (funding, revenue, etc.) if the cofounder doesn't join fulltime the cofounders equity will have to be forfeited.

Could you chime in on the following questions:

1. Do you foresee any problems (legal, potential founder breakup, etc.) with the unequal equity and slower vesting for my cofounder?

2. How would you split equity, set up vesting and what kind of commitments would you need from a part-time cofounder in this scenario?

Please do point out if I'm missing anything.

References:

1. https://avc.com/2011/04/how-to-allocate-founder-and-employee-equity/

2. https://gist.github.com/isaacsanders/1653078
I think it might be more a case of that you seem to be misunderstanding that the web is there to show you ads, not information.

That web design seems explicitly designed to make your normal way of looking at things fail is not a bug. Also I bet those designers judge themselves (and get performance evaluated) based on how long people look at those sites.
> paints small companies as some nirvana which is obviously not the case

Seconded. At least at big companies, they have defined procedures for promotions and departures (if for no other reason than to cover themselves legally). In small companies things can end up as unpredictable as middle-school politics (and about as mature).
Emacs does not verify tls certs by default
It's highly presumptious to assume you know better than the person asking

For me, questioning someone's question, asking more info, pointing out he/she might be doing the wrong thing, ... does not in any way involve me assuming knowing things better than the questioner or anyone. (e.g. for all I know, the asker is way more intelligent and wise and knowing than I am, but just temporarily confused - happens to me sometimes so can happen to others) Those two are orthogonal for me, it's just my nature to always question stuff. Including myself. And this certainly helps in finding solutions. And doesn't lead to me thinking I'm better. Perhaps different sometimes, yes.

your answer should... actually answer the question that was asked, as it was asked and not doing so should result in a servere punishement.

To stick with the enalogy: while the answer 'buy lamp, take ladder, unscrew old, screw in new' might perfectly answer the question, it is in my view completely useless if it doesn't solve the problem. So I'd leave a comment asking for more info. And if someone else would already have given that answer I'll probably leave a comment saying it's rather incomplete. Because it's imo the only way to actually help the OP. Why on earth should one get punished for that? Isn't it the right thing to do?
Lieberman singlehandedly killed the public option, though. Obamacare would have looked very different if that had survived.
Interview for Potential (not for algorithms)
Dumber phone
Apple has an /8 but Microsoft does not? How did that happen?
Move fast and break things....
Yep. Here in Texas we have an open energy market and in most areas you get to choose your energy provider and an array of plans.

One of my co-works with a Tesla got a plan where electricity is free at night. He cranks the AC during the night and charges the car and ends up paying around $40 a month. Not bad.
Couldn't agree more.

This kinda of `anti-active` pattern where you only take the output (no need to read the news online), could also be applied to SaaS products.

You don't need to use the product, you just take the tech output that matters to your business.

Recently wrote a thing on the topic: The Next Generation of SaaS Won’t Optimize for User Engagement

While reading these comments, it popped up in my mind.

[0] https://www.plainflow.com/blog/next-generation-saas-user-eng...
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You don't download podcasts through iTunes, and iTunes doesn't host any podcast. When you register your podcast with iTunes, they direct users to your RSS feed via their client.
Back when I worked on skywave HF OTHR systems in the late 80s we knew that they could detect and pinpoint stealth aircraft easily.

Most stealth systems are designed to either absorb or reflect millimetric point source radar. HF long wavelength systems reflect nicely off the top surfaces of the aircraft, which aren't designed to dissipate and absorb those frequencies. To one of those systems a stealth aircraft shows up brighter than a 747...

So while this is neat science, it's not economical compared to the systems currently in use. The only real downside of OTHR systems is that you need a couple of miles space for the transmit antenna and a big empty space for the receiver; plus plenty of CPU to process the data.
Maybe that would've helped for the Mirra, though I did tend to keep it at its minimum setting anyway, since I also found it rather uncomfortable. But the Embody and Freedom chairs have no removable lumbar support to begin with....
> It's highly presumptious to assume you know better than the person asking.

But SO is a QA site - you are only supposed to answer if you indeed know better than the person asking!

I acknowledge there is a grey area with the so called XY question, where the questioner ask about one thing but actually want to achieve something different. But in such cases the correct approach is, in my opinion, to help the OP solve the actual problem they have, not lead them down the wrong path.
Do the iTunes only podcast feeds need auth to access? Would you be willing to open source this?
Video from the surface of comet 67P (Rosetta photos post-processing)
I am not sure if I understand, but if you only need a terminal and browsing, what's the problem with Linux?

I switched recently from Win7 to Linux Mint and it has been a smooth experience (granted, Libreoffice is sufficient for my use-cases). Even my relatives have little complaints and mostly stuff just works (which I can't say from my prior Win7 experience).
>That brings back memories. Wonder what he's doing now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pud
Lessons learned from the App Store (by former Senior Director) [video]
Frankly you have no idea about wages in the world outside of your country. $15/h is ok for dev in my country, maybe not the most experienced one but still ok. And WE are offshoring a lot of the programming jobs to countries with much worse pay.
Trade bodies like the GSMA are constantly at risk of collusion accusations. Most meetings on these types of bodies start with reminders about the anti trust rules and what types of discussion are not allowed.

It isn’t surprising that they would stop meetings given the fact that an investigation seems to be in play. Not a reliable signal of bad behavior. It is probably simple pragmatism.
Berkeley Mayor: We Passed the “Strongest” Police Surveillance Law
I presume that the "open courses" that you are consuming online are produced by the western university system?
I can reassure you that 'research methods' courses are mandatory for all students in the vocational only FE college that I do some teaching in. Taught by LRC staff.

The plagiarism checker is active as well.

Most of the level 3 award tutors set a small assignment within the first few weeks of the course to assess writing level and catch any issues like dyslexia &c.
"works on my machine"

Our infrastructure is heavily using Route53 and we are not seeing any outage. (~1000 domains)

Edit: from http://status.aws.amazon.com/

"5:19 AM PDT We are investigating reports of problems resolving some DNS records hosted on Route53 using the third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 . DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers are not affected at this time.

5:49 AM PDT We have identified the cause for an elevation in DNS resolution errors using third party DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 and are working towards resolution. DNS resolution using other third-party DNS resolvers or DNS resolution from within EC2 instances using the default EC2 resolvers continues to work normally.

6:10 AM PDT Between 4:05 AM PDT and 5:56 AM PDT, some customers may have experienced elevated errors resolving DNS records hosted on Route 53 using DNS resolvers 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 . The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally."
I remember what my friend's sister shared with me a few months ago. She put all her adventure and travel into a blog so that the time when she becomes a grandma, she could just share the blog with her grandchildren to tell them her life stories.

This is what I think also about documenting my life.
After reading the exchange on SO, I agree: Questioning motives is the right thing to do. The problem isn't that people are questioning the motives. The problem is that we have to. The question is very reasonable within a certain context, and it is the responsibility of the person posing the question to point out that context.

For me personally, it has happened a bunch of times that I Googled something, which led me to SO, where the answer was "Don't try to do it the way you're asking - the better way is X". I'm really glad I got those answers because I was educated about why what I was trying to do was bad and how to do it properly. The times where I really needed to do it the poor way are a small minority.
but what is actually being cached?
Anybody have a recommendation for an inexpensive chair that isn't bad for your back or body?
Link is to the tweet from the person who originally performed the post-processing.

In English: https://twitter.com/coreyspowell/status/988579545988124673

Started to be picked up by news outlets, e.g., https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/world/eerie-footage...
It was so effective at stopping anyone from buying up and moving the team, that the NFL banned any other teams from structuring their ownership this way. Which says something about who the game's really for I guess.
I've read many anecdotal stories like this of students complaining that the quality of their education is suffering due to a large portion of the class being utterly not qualified to be there, dragging everyone else down.

I think it also has interesting potential long term implications for relative national competitiveness if you think about it regardless of whether that is a goal or not.
32 core from Amazon Used, the Xeon phi when it was on sale 2 yrs ago.
Like, What Even Is Satire?
> I believe that the only country in the EU who has English as an official language will be Ireland

And Malta. Though Malta is minuscule.
The issue is that while the OP might be wrong, someone searching for that exact problem might not and it's extremely infuriating to have those unhelpful comments cluttering your search results.
I'd say that a technology that attempts to exploit entanglement can reasonably be called 'Quantum'. Now, whether the technology is feasible is a separate question from whether it is accurately named.
> e-reading, I realized that I should have said "artificial" rather than government created. There are many ways to catch mice, and it's worth varying more than just the colour of the cat.

All markets are artificial. You can't have any kind of market without some enforcement of the rules that make it a market. Otherwise it degenerates into a free market, which, despite its name, is not a market.
Just because they accept them doesn't mean they need to keep them. If the students can't keep up, that's on them.
RMHttp, Lightweight REST Library for iOS and WatchOS
Worth buying a car anymore?
Are you avoiding buying a car for you think that car ownership will be soonish irrelevant?

I'm asking whether the already working Carsharing services (e.g. Zipcar, DriveNow, or car2go) plus the upcoming fleets of driverless cars is already stopping some of you in purchasing a new car ?

In my particular case, I live in Munich (where BMW DriveNow began), and besides just loving moving around with my bicycle, whenever I need a car I just look up my phone and find one for rental nearby. Therefore, I'm not seeing myself buying a car soon at all... The only reason why I would buy one is whether I could rent it myself to others (perhaps in a driverless scenario).

What are your thoughts on car ownership in the year 2018 ?
The IKEA Markus is around $200 and often recommended as a good compromise on price and ergonomics.
An outsider coming to London and not living in the centre needs to deal with the cognitive dissonance that they would actually be materially better off and generally happier in Manchester or Newcastle or Edinburgh.
They do come and go pretty quickly. You need to be at the right place at the right time.
Phase-locked loop
This sounds shockingly similar to a lot of 1st year student dorm blocks I've been in around the country
All of which complexity used to be handled by printing a course guide with a sentence about prerequisites. And perhaps the professor would remind you on day one. This seems like an example of IT not saving anyone time.
The Synchronization of Periodic Routing Messages (1994) [pdf]
Thanks! You are free to use any kubernetes cluster and install Jenkins X there: http://jenkins-x.io/getting-started/install-on-cluster/

The default is to use separate namespaces in kubernetes for each teams developer tools & pipelines, Staging & Production environments (plus Preview Environments). Multiple teams can obviously use the same cluster with different namespaces.

We’d expect ultimately folks may want to use a separate cluster for development & testing to Production. GitOps makes that kind of decoupling pretty easy but we’ve still work to do to automate easily setting up a multi-cluster approach:
https://github.com/jenkins-x/jx/issues/479
For the first question, there are 12 answers providing pure CSS solutions. One of them is marked as accepted by the OP, which indicates it solved their problem.

Then there is a single comment (not an answer) which says "you are not supposed to do that", which have received a single upvote.

You say "people won't bother", but in reality, 12 people have bothered and provided detailed solutions with code. What more could you want?

I don't really see the major problem here.

The second question has 23 answers, the top one having 186 upvotes. And then there is a single comment (not an answer), saying JS is more appropriate for this, and a reply from the OP explaining why it needs to be pure CSS.

Comments are for asking questions, request clarifications and providing information which does not constitute a regular answer. This seems to work exactly as intended. Several answers make it clear that the CSS solution is more fragile and worse supported than a JS solution, so I think it is pretty relevant to ask the OP (absent any information either way) if they couldn't use JS instead.

I really have a hard time seeing the problem here?
At SEO4Ajax, it looks like we're getting about a 5% performance gain when scraping pages (we use Chrome 68 as I write this message).
This is the best way of getting an intuition for linear algebra that I'm aware of. One of the few cases where video is the best medium for teaching the subject.
All I know is that my company stores image data and we don' do any face recognition but the lawyers say that to comply we need to start removing faces.
My argument is the same as what's described in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16912248
I wonder why the author did not compare performance of pypy? I guess pypy is jit compiler.
>As an example, Google's stock was unaffected even after being fined $2.6B last year.

What is this supposed to be an example of?
https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/desert-storms-opening-shot...
This is exactly what I was asking my bank, TD Bank, after their recent upgrade was also a disaster. It looked like a fairly straighforward error from the client side- the login script was looking in the wrong place for my email and couldn't find it (they had my email, because they were still emailing me).

Tech support switched me over to a part of the site that had not been updated, and that worked for a while. Then it didn't. Back to the bank I go, with a new customer service representative, who really didn't grok the issues (new to the company?), and who became quite snippy.

Very aggravating.
> not quite painful enough

NAT was (and is) destructive and painful that some of us gave up writing network software in the late-90s/early-00s. I personally abandoned several network-focused projects in the early 2000s.

The current status quo only seems "not quite painful enough" if you accept that most people cannot use true network software, limited to client-server architecture where party lines[1] communicate with each other only with the permission of central privileged imprimatur[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_%28telephony%29

[2] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
The End of Internet History and the Last Ad
Open-Sourcing Our Approach to Autonomous Safety
No, that's what you were proposing indirectly by bringing up Laura Ingraham as an example. She's a salaried employee – as long as Fox News doesn't fire her over this, she sees none of the downside of pissing advertisers off, so there's nothing particularly "risky" about it. The same logic doesn't apply to 99.99% of YouTube creators, who are paid directly by their advertisers.
Ikea's markus chair gets a lot of good reviews: it's one of the best options for the price.