skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At the end of each of the Bridgeport experiments [Condition 23], before he revealed the hoax, Williams asked each man what he thought the Research Associates of Bridgeport was and why he had volunteered. Milgram had presumably told Williams to ask this to demonstrate that subjects had no idea that Yale was behind the research. Most said they didn't know, but many assumed that it was an organization conducting scientific research. Williams probed this issue with several subjects, and it was obvious that even though many didn't have the slightest clue about the organization and what it ostensibly did, they were still prepared to trust it because of the scientific imprimatur. One man who had gone to 450 volts said that he was motivated by his six-year-old daughter.

> Man: I can only say that I was- look, I'm willing to do anything that's ah, to help humanity, let's put it that way.

> Williams: Right, that's what we're doing.

> Man: I've got- I've got a child that's a cerebral palsy child.

> Williams: Have you really?

> Man: And you know they're experimenting steadily on trying to find a cure for it. It's a sad thing.

From his correspondence we know these experiments were very personal to Milgram, motivated in no small part by his desire to understand the Holocaust. Yet these experiments were not testing obedience to generic authority, it wasn't testing obedience to military officers or gestapo thugs. The above man was compliant because he thought he was helping to advance medical science. The whole thing is farcical.
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Personal gripe, but he just had to mention coffee, didn't he?

Are there any folks out there who like to get difficult things done without caffeine?

edit: I guess not.

edit #2: You're sending me mixed messages, Hacker News.
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It starts at $39. So just like a book?
Hey, you are "one helluva badass" :)

> Each of us is the sum of our scars.

Caine, in Stover's Blade of Tyshalle.

Also, the horse witch in his Act of Atonement books.
I don’t think Wisconsin is in the EU.
Regarding folder structure, we developed saturn-gql [1] to help out with that. Have a look if you're still battling this.

[1]: https://github.com/electric-it/saturn-gql
No one doubts that some developers are paid that much. What they doubt is that that compensation is normal. To me, the argument implicitly seems to be over the definition of what's "normal" rather than the actual existence or non-existence of highly paid developers. Of course highly paid developers exist.
Even if dreams arose as interference, given that evolution "tries" to capitalize on every possible opportunity, doesn't it seem likely that there's useful information in them? The ego controls the self all day in a process that discards lots of information; at night, other processes (perhaps that were ongoing in the day, or perhaps new ones) might be able to "speak" and be heard where in the waking state they would be ignored.
Being remote is one of the few things startups can compete on for really talented employees who for whatever reason don't want to live in a tech hub.
> compensation: Average for the market in Chicago, depending on where you land as far as talent and skills you can probably get 100k-200k base.

Could you name any of these startups that you are talking about? I'm also in the Chicago market and I'm curious. It's hard to tell on Glassdoor or Paysa what salaries are and I definitely don't see many being in the 150-200k range.
Yes it can. I don't say my total comp in a given year was my salary and the target performance bonus. I say it was my salary and my actual bonus. Stock comp is much the same.
I actually used to use the Firefox one. IIRC when they changed the extensions system the dev announced he couldn't support it in the new system.

Time to give the chrome one a look, thanks.
I'm at Google and I think only L7+ are getting that much, and that's not many people. I'm an L5 and my RSUs are less than 1/4 that.
Given that Zillow home value 'estimates' are poor, often all over the map in areas with near idential homes, I would not take anyting they offer up with more than a grain of salt.
Terminal mode is awesome when combined with the quickfix feature. You can use :make and :grep without blocking the editor.
I thought I would add to this an interesting youtuber I've watched, and the idea of "Arcologies". The claim is that, a (current) skyscraper sized building that is a self sufficient ecology of human living space / food production, poking out one every few square miles, could support dozens of times our current earth's population and that heat, not space, is the real bottleneck for further growth[1]. Has some estimate calculations to back it up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKQ94DtS54&t=2s
I said “all else being equal,” and the example was deliberately hyperbolic to make the math obvious.
Even if you're the only employee in the company living in that place, if it's not somewhere with basic conveniences like stores within 20-30 min drive, that sounds like a huge tradeoff.
The rest of the list notwithstanding, this one got me thinking:

>Well-meaning friends and relatives will try to sabotage your efforts to be thankless. For example, while you’re in the middle of complaining about the project you procrastinated on at work to your spouse during an unhealthy dinner, he or she might try to remind you of how grateful you should be to have a job or food at all.

Am I the only person who finds these sorts of pithy attempts to be colossally irritating?

Feeling sad/depressed? Cheer up!

Feeling overwhelmed? It's not so bad!

Job annoying you? At least you have a job!

Yes, thank you for the comment and completely shutting down my attempts at commiserating. Now am I not only still bothered by what I was originally bothered by, I'm annoyed at the interlocutor.

Perhaps I'm only 1/14th miserable? :)
What is the source of these quotes? If it's an original interview, you should say so. If from somewhere else, you should say where and link to it.
Your example isn’t that accurate. Imagine being a talented sailor coming into an already sea worthy vessel. That’s for sure worth something.

Now imagine having to create convince people to invest in your crazy boat idea, build the darn ship, prove it won’t sink, and then finally do some sailing.

In no alternate universe is sailing a ship the same as all the other steps. Maybe you’re just as talented as the main dude/owner of the ship. But you sure as heck don’t have the experience or skill in building a sea worthy ship.
Sane zoning laws would be much easier and do a lot more to ease the burden on people (I currently live in an “OMG no high rises! Won’t someone think of the neighborhood character!?” city and the rent is ridiculous). We just have to have the political will to change them, which unfortunately means angering very powerful monied interests, including Betty and Edgar who really love their now-valued-at-$500,000 house next to downtown.
It's intended that you compare the returned full hashes. Otherwise why would the API even return them?

This URL is the entire API. Just change the last parameter to whatever 5 characters you want:

https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/aaaaa

Note that the returned hashes omit the first 5 characters, since that would be a waste of resources.

You should also note that ALL possible combinations of 5 characters return at least 300 results. So it doesn't make sense to use this API any other way.
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That's a good idea, too. I was actually just interested if he was taking part in the destruction of Sweden's homogeneous society.
I'm totally tweeting this.
Cons:

If you're an engineer in demand, and your startup exits nicely, your equity is still less than the market rate you would've gotten over the years. Less than your 3rd-best offer, for that matter.

Often you can't even know anything whatsoever about your upside and have to take it on faith. Faith! It is increasingly common that, as an employee, you are intentionally given too little information about the equity to know what you would be getting even if you had a crystal ball telling you the price for which the company was eventually going to be sold.

In 2018, because both the salary and the upside are low, working at a startup is in the same bucket as working pro bono, except that it's pro bono founders instead of pro bono publico. But you'll still get a pitch that the upside is big in the event of a nice exit (you just can't be trusted with specifics), and you'll hear a lot of rhetoric about how being scrappy is better than having 18 cafes and 23 massage rooms.

In 2018, unfortunately, it is, in short, a bit of a scam.

Pros:

Lack of bureaucracy.
Art imitates life, go figure.
> Whatever my next job is, it has to give private offices, end of story.

Given how incredibly rare private offices seem to be these days I can't imagine what kind of leverage you must have to be able to stick to such a requirement.

Especially since unlike salary and other benefits it's not something that any company can decide to give you.

Either they have private office culture or not. If they are an open office company like most of them are you just have to exclude them, severely limiting the type and number of companies you can work for.
Yeah, I guess that's fundamentally what annoyed me about the article. I hate smugness.
It's seen on Swedish road signs because it was copied from Swedish road signs. Did anyone really think it might be the other way round?
How is that about mental illness? I genuinely don't get it. People can be unhappy without being mentally ill.
Some of them used to work at Tesla. They also take issue with the use of lossy sonar and the failure to incorporate lidar.
I think it might be more intuitive as an explicit stream modifier: hex, decimal, etc. No reason to turn anything “off”, which is actually the activation of a diffferent mode.

Edit:
What I mean is

hex
00
dec
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utf8
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"Overall, top tech pay about the same."

No, they do not. Again, obviously you have never worked at a FANG company otherwise you would probably realize this. It's quite a well known fact in the Valley that FB/Google pay much better than MSFT/AMZN.
To be fair to Zillow, looking at historical home sale data is a much easier problem then predicting what a home will sell for the future.
Lots of things are kitsch, and these paintings could be considered the epitome of kitsch, but there's other dimensions of analysis - whimsy, memorability among them, where these works have massive success.

I'm waiting for someone to mention Thomas Kinkade, there's definitely some spiritual connection that I'm unable to articulate but maybe others can.
All this comp talk is a little silly imho.
I literally just quit a job (today) at a big boring company where I brought home north of 300k / year to join a startup making less.

Why? Because doing something interesting is more important than making a ton of money. Because creating something is better than tending someone else's garden.

Seriously though, do what you want to. Go make some money. It may get old though, and then you'll be back. Impact has value
Yes I know the median is making $240k. The median eng is probably doing 250-360k. You do not work at a startup for 5 years straight out of college and then goto FB making 400k a year. A few do, but the median engineer does not.
Are apples and divorces plausibly related?

Or was the professor simply drawing from an enormous number of metrics to find a spurious relationship (and report just that).
They took down the link for a little while but it's back.
>> ... is NOT a good strategy

I think you can be right under some circumstances and wrong in others.

For such a strategy to be effective, what is required is for there to be a period of social / technological stability in the rest of the world. I believe that once the direction is clear, Japan's internal coherence allows it to forge ahead. Until that time though, they cannot figure out how to proceed, so they prefer to wait for clarity.

Definitely more Waterfall than Agile. Again, Waterfall remains the best methodology for some types of project.

But all of this is a vast generalisation. Even now, there are signs of adaptation.
I haven't gotten a dog because I feel like renting isn't stable enough environment for a dog. I get the owning a home is a prerequisite for children point of view.
Every night I have to throw a few blankets off of me in the early morning.

I read somewhere (?) that the body cools during sleep. Somehow one of the implications was that taking a shower before sleep can help you sleep faster.

The fact that a body is sweating indicates not necessarily that it is hotter than during the day; it could be that the body is trying to be cooler than it was during the day. (Of course, if you wake up feeling hot, it's probably because you're hot.)

Thermodynamically, it makes sense that being in a bed, with insulation against almost all of one's body, would (once the insulation gets warm) leave someone warmer than when they're sitting or standing -- at least if the ambient temperature is the same in the day and night.
This is clickbait FUD. I got lasik last year, and I was very clearly warned about the possibility and likelyhood of every single side effect in this article, aside from the "seeing triple" one. (It worked great for me, incidentally.)
I don't think anyone is confused that the origin is swedish road signs. to quote from the article:

"I was just not sure what a ‘feature’ looked like … so I was thumbing through a symbol dictionary and I came across this symbol (⌘). In the back of the book, it said it was for an ‘interesting feature’ at Swedish campgrounds. I thought it was maybe a little abstract, but it worked."
These basic designs pretty much stayed the course all the way through OS 9, and some even in OS X. It's gotta be surreal to think something she designed is on millions of devices. Reminds me of someone I met who wrote video drivers for Intel. It's something small you don't think about, a tiny piece that is essential in bringing the whole thing together.

Too often we think about the captains of the ships, the Gates and Bezos and Musks of this world. People attribute so much to them, when all they really did is convince other people with actual skill to make the things they wanted. I doubt Elon could design the engine of a rocket. There are no Tony Starks outside of the movies. There are 60 ~ 150 engineers who carefully design and check each others work.

It's like when we see Columbus discovering the new world, even though so many other civilizations had discovered it before him, ignoring all the ships and crews that got him there, and the fact that the new world was named after Amerigo Vespucci, the cartographer who actually mapped it out.

There are hundreds or thousands of engineers and designers like this one, who are the people who really make these products real.
> This demo is constrained to only using one stroke per letter, but systems that permit multiple strokes still get into trouble when the strokes don't match what they are expecting--for example if you draw an X using 4 individual strokes outward from a central point.

Arguably, an X drawn this way should NOT be recognized as an X--that's not how an X is spelled.

If the task is communicating with the computer, then recognition of the gesture is a valid approach. Just as there are conventions regarding the spelling of words, there are conventions involved in the formation of letters. Why not use them? It would even seem incorrect to leave these out.
I do not understand why a single experiment is considered good enough for research results in the social sciences. A single experiment with unexpected outcomes must be backed up by replication in order to start becoming interesting.

Even if you took the SPE at face value when it was first conducted, surely you have to repeat it before deciding if it is valid. What if the outcome only occurs once in every 100 times and they got lucky that first time? Surely that is somewhat important to know.

The most disappointing outcome is that nothing has really changed even after all this time. Each researched is only one great result away from making their career.
> then it's on to plan B.

Run for the hills?
That's really just a distinction without a difference. The point is that for reasonable definitions of normal, this is true. Some people don't believe that. Sure not every engineer takes home that much, but its also not only the top 5 or 10%, its significantly more than that.
I've worn glasses for almost forty years now, and I'll probably wear them for the rest of my life. I actually like having something between my eyes and flying objects, in spite of the annoyance of always having to clean my glasses (or having to wear bifocals for that matter).

I never liked the idea of undergoing a very new surgical procedure on eyes that are otherwise healthy. Not to mention, I'm old enough now that cataracts may be in my future, though they may be years off.
> Facebook does not create profiles or track website visits for people without a Facebook account.

This is pretty unbelievable for a company that makes their money from ads. I would almost say this is commendable if true, but...

> We use the browser and app logs that apps and websites send to us—described above—in the following ways for non-Facebook users.

This is pretty misleading. It's like when FB basically secretly redefined "third party" to mean what was convenient for them. So we don't have "profiles" of non-FB users, and we would never "track" such users, but in lieu of that we store logs containing identifying information and use that analyze their usage?

I can understand since the profile isn't being used for advertising why this might be an okay simplification in casual conversation, but this is unacceptable in a letter to Congress.

I've only skimmed this but the rest of this isn't much better either. In another question by the same senator about how long they store deleted users' data they don't give a clear answer (at best we know in some cases it can be over a year). It also comes up a few times where they're very protective of ads targeting/excluding protected groups (which makes sense since targeted ads are their bread and butter). I haven't looked at the second scribd, but I doubt it's any more informative.
Definitely, that's probably the best way, considering all the other commands are "stream-y" as-is.
> Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found. Nearly one-third developed dry eyes, a complication that can cause serious discomfort, for the first time.

If that's actually the case across the full population of Lasik patients that's insane.
It doesn't look like it is an original interview. One quote is from here, for instance.

https://www.salon.com/2012/01/04/the_architect_of_apple_icon...

Some of the sketches seem to come from the work of the person who wrote the introduction to her book.

http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook-...
It's also pretty shortsighted to underrate human advances in adapting their abilities.
I think this is a better exercise. I stole it from Seneca.

Look at the back of your wrists: see those fragile greenish-blue veins?

What if tomorrow - while thinking about some problem with money or love - you trip and fall, and a particularly sharp rock on the ground or a shard of glass on the street cuts one of those thin exposed blue-green veins open?
This, and other summaries of trials / research in here, do indeed imply dramatically more complications than I've ever heard. Gonna have to dive in deeper, I suppose, but the fuzziness around this kind of stuff has been part of the reason I haven't done it already :|

>A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A.[1] suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon.

>Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found. Nearly one-third developed dry eyes, a complication that can cause serious discomfort, for the first time.

[1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaophthalmology/fullartic...

Or this one:

>even after [5] years, nearly half had dry eyes at least some of the time. Twenty percent had painful or sore eyes, 40 percent were sensitive to light, and one-third had difficulty driving at night or doing work that required seeing well up close.

Like... one third have difficulties after 5 years? That's potentially insane if representative.
For the lazy: the symbol (⌘) has apparently been used at Swedish campgrounds and parks for decades. It's used to denote interesting features, both natural and man-made. It was inspired by the way Swedish castles look from above (a central building with a turret at each corner).
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That's excellent point. When I digged into express source I understood several things like how it extends the response object via prototype to add methods like send etc. Also you will understand how exactly next function is implemented and then you can literally understand anything about the library.
I was hoping that if I zoomed in enough I'd get a 3d street view of a bunch of dinosaurs walking around. I was disappointed.
Which part of Japan are you in? There are two very active Slack communities (Tokyo & Kansai) that can help you even if you can't do face to face with anyone (http://hnkansai.slack.com is use; can't recall Tokyo's off the top of my head, but sure someone will supply it)

I think you would benefit greatly by finding a partner of some sort. A business partner might be good down the road, but for now just a "mentor/stick-shaker" type to keep you motivated and on track with things. It can be very, very hard to do what you are alone.

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You can, for instance, object to perfectly valid criticisms. How dare this person question legibility!
I’m more interested in the unquestioning belief that people seem to have with information provided by an authority

Oh, the irony!
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