skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The inconvenience of glasses are relative. Before I had LASEK/PRK done, I had a very strong astigmatism and mild case of nearsightedness. Combined, I basically couldn't make out much of anything more than ~6 inches from my face.

I didn't mind wearing glasses at all, or even contacts (although they caused dry eyes). What I minded the most about glasses was my dependency on them, and the fact that I'd be dead in the water if anything happened to them. Having a contingency plan was a part of everything I did; having a second pair on me, avoiding activities that risked my glasses if I didn't, dealing with them at the beach/pool/water activities, etc. I went through a lot of glasses growing up, and also had several ruined vacations and social situations due to something happening and becoming a lame duck reliant on other people to get me squared away. Although not consciously, I very definitively became more risk averse over time to avoid those situations.

The most profound impact of getting eye surgery was the complete and utter removal of that dependency, and the cognitive overhead that came along with it. Not that it seemed like a big deal at the time, as I spent decades accounting for it. But now I just don't think about my eye sight anymore. It's a small and subtle thing, but profoundly impactful on my quality of life in a way that I didn't even realize prior to surgery.

And when I have to start wearing glasses again, it'll be contextual need due to gradual degradation of my eyesight rather than an absolute dependency on them for every aspect of my waking hours.

I'm not sure I'd have made the same decision if eye surgery would have only been an incremental improvement in vision for me, but wanted to provide some insight into why some people would choose eye surgery, even with a high potential of side effects.
Are you from China? I'm American, and doing this would be completely out of the norm for my culture.
President Trump's experience with the World Wrestling Federation qualifies him as the literal embodiment of Idiocracy's Wrestler President. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc
To think of that, when it goes against all the laws of nature.
There is a lot of talk in the comments about amount/value of startup equity vs FAANG companies, but having founded and worked with numerous startups, there seems to be an overall lack of transparency when it comes to equity. It's not just how much (percentage), but how are you even measuring that percentage? Fully-diluted shares or current outstanding? What are the liquidity preferences of the VCs? 1x, 2x, 3x? Beyond the rare chance of the company even exiting, there are so many terms that most engineers are completely oblivious to, and the startups are usually not there to inform you.
"An apple a day keeps the divorce lawyer away."
That assumes that a maximally efficient economy is also the maximally desirable. I strongly disagree. (Though if a generous UBI was already in place, I could change my mind...)
> I have no idea why you are framing it that way

I think it's because you said:

> [Regarding therapy:] spending an hour or more every week digging around in the dirt of my past [...] was keeping me miserable.

That sounds like at least the later portions were a bad experience. Also, I suspect a lot of people here have a default assumption that any therapy experience is bad unless otherwise noted, but the above quote is probably the main factor.
The API comes with a TOS that severely restricts what you can do with the data.
TSLA Fired Exec After He Raised Concerns RE: Workplace Injuries Going Unreported
Angular 6 Features List
Many Christians do not do that, FYI. I know many still do, and I can't speak for all of them.
"human convention of written language" is a bit much. Stroke order is almost as important as what the actual strokes are in the definition of a Chinese character, for example. Of course unless you literally watch someone write you observe the characters after they're written, but the most predictive latent mental representation of a character does include an order component. I know this because I made the mistake of memorizing many characters almost like bitmaps and have had to go back and learn how to reliably write/read hand written characters.
I write my blog posts and miscellaneous coding notes in Org mode, and export that to Markdown + front-matter for Hugo.

I simply commit the edits in git, push them to Gitlab, and Netlify picks those up and publishes using Hugo to https://scripter.co.
> Imho, 1.x is still the best.

Have you done any serious work in 2+ to make an assertion like that?

I know people are still mad about the rewrite and I was one of them, but I would encourage you to try to look past it next time you are firing something up. 1.x was great but 2+ is orders of magnitude better especially when you throw TypeScript into the mix (I know you can use TS with 1.x but its a first class citizen with 2+). Seriously, its shockingly good. More predictable, stable, and faster with less magic than with 1.x. The angular cli is amazing (code gen, linter, test runner/reporter, auto upgrade wizard... powerful stuff) Being able to do proper component based dev with a sane api is a dream. Observables in 2+ are kind of a mixed bag IMO but, when used right, they offer a lot of benefits for managing streams of data in a functional, composable way. I commend the angular team for continuing to support 1.x but I'd be surprised if you still feel that 1.x is better after spending some time with with 2+.
I slammed this milk company on social media. Here’s how the CEO responded
As a former startup founder, I tend to agree that most startups are low-balling early employees. These employees over-value their stock by imagining what it would be worth if the company reaches $1B valuation. It really is a lottery ticket.

But in my opinion, the answer is more pay, not more equity.

Employees should get market comp, period. Doesn't matter how early-stage the startup is. If a founder can't afford employees at market rate, they shouldn't be hiring yet. They could perhaps offer to take people on as co-founders -- with an appropriately equal share.

People looking to join early-stage startups as employees should be extremely skeptical of equity. Obviously, you want to take some. But if a small chance of getting super-rich is your goal, you should start your own startup. If you are going to make bets, bet on yourself, not on someone else, because you know yourself much better than you know anyone else, and wise bets are all about having information no one else has. Yes, non-founding early-stage employees can have a big impact on a company, but they are still beholden to the founders -- if something goes wrong, they can fire you but you can't fire them. Making a big bet while letting someone else hold the cards is just too risky.

Instead, demand market comp. Do not join a startup that won't offer you market comp. It's not worth it.
I'm not sure what your objection is. What I find tenuous is the link between snoring/apnea and jaw size, not the link between snoring and apnea.
> Mr. Brady, who remains Aqueti’s biggest shareholder, said he has no qualms about aiding China’s surveillance system, which critics claim leads to humans-rights abuses.

> “A government doesn’t need the hand of technology to be oppressive,” he said.
Should be titled:
How To Drive Yourself To Suicide
You're assuming that people would have to live in the same place after their employment ends (you do bring this up later, though). This definitely isn't the case for me; I've moved every single time I've changed jobs.

The point remains, in the first scenario the person has $250,000 worth of disposable income. In the latter it's only $150,00. The former is in a much better position to build up saving. Heck, even one year's worth of post-rent income in savings is enough to spend as much money as the average American annual income (~35k) for the next 7 years.

> Then you have to pay that much even in retirement. That means you have to save up a lot more in the first scenario before you can retire, and may have to work longer, despite the higher pay, and the higher savings. Of course, you can always retire in a cheaper place, but that's a matter of preference. I would rather retire in the place I lived much of my life in - not in some strange city.

Sure, but now you're talking about a drastically different scenario if the resident has concluded they will live the rest of their life in their apartment. In that scenario, optimizing for post-employment living is a more important factor. But until unless you've decided to retire in your current apartment, the first choice is strictly better.
The article didn’t really mention the sources. It’s hard to believe the quotes sugar from drinks are being given to toddlers, but perhaps that’s in the form of juice?
They're not having a "theoretical discussion" any more than me reading a phone book. What they're saying is entirely meaningless, baseless, and devoid of insight.
RSUs are taxed at vesting. There is no tax advantage in holding them after they are released.
> Many art historians credit him with inventing “comic foregrounds,” those plywood pictures with a cut-out hole for a head, allowing passersby to pretend they’re bodybuilders or mermaids.

Comedian James Acaster did a bit about “pictures that you put your head in”, joking that everyone knows of them, yet there’s no name for them because (or therefore?) they’re never talked about. But apparently there is after all, even coined by the person who invented them. And of course such a kitschy thing was invented by the guy who painted “dogs playing poker”.
Small C library for the PDP-10
Why? When rent/mortgage is easily upwards $35k and taxes are upwards of another $30k, that doesn't leave the employer with a ridiculous amount of money.
And when the bubble pops, how long will you be able to make your 30k/month mortgage payments?
Why spend time building an API at all? Just point Postgrest at your PostreSQL database and you get a REST api for free. There’s similar projects for graphql and other DBs.
TLDR: 30 years experience, I learned: don’t go work for a SV style startup. Be a founder, even if you have no experience. Don’t take VC money for more than %10 of your equity in total. Better off, right out of school, founding a company and failing than working for a startup, especially if they take VC.

It’s lopsided against the founders too. They might walk away with big checks but the risk is too high.

This is the problem with the SV model. VCs take way too much off the table, founders and employees are not adequately compensated.

This is partly YCs fault because they basically groom startups and usher them into the maw of VCs while glorifying the exploitative VC model. But that model makes YC partners rich st startups expense.

Founders and employees in the SV model sell themselves way short. This is also why so many startups are BS non-innovative companies— they are chasing funding rather than the future.

Better model:
- slicing pie with no bonus for money contributions- this rewards people fairly.
- crowd funding, consultancy funding, boot strapping, angel money with no liquidation preferences, and no VC termsheet BS.

Having founded and worked for startups for 30 years, I won’t ever take a meeting with a VC again. I have not met any good ones (and people who say theirs is great are generally just kissing ass to keep money flowing.)

Worse- the number one cause of failures of startups in my experience is bad strategic decisions forced on them by VCs. The number two cause is conflict among the founders, and the number one cause of that conflict is VCs trying to force a bad decision in the company (and one of the founders realizing it.)
I am no longer a physics undergraduate, by the way, I solid get that changed. But I appreciate the effort to stick to the discussion and not dig irrelevant information /s.
I'm a huge fan of GraphQL, and when I see negative feedback that lists some of the points you make, I can't help but think that you are using GraphQL in a way for which it was not designed.

The most common issue I see is when folks list "what about arbitrary complex join/filter clauses to function like sql statement with multiple joins and where clauses" which, in my use of GraphQL, is literally never something I would want. GraphQL is not SQL or designed to be an arbitrary data access layer.

One of the driving principles of GraphQL, taken straight from the spec, is: "Product‐centric: GraphQL is unapologetically driven by the requirements of views and the front‐end engineers that write them. GraphQL starts with their way of thinking and requirements and builds the language and runtime necessary to enable that."

IMO GraphQL is designed to start with the UI, and develop models that conform to the needs of the UI, not to start with the data and develop arbitrary joining and fetching strategies for that data.
I had Lasik done in India to both my eyes in 2009. The total cost came out to Rs. 25000 (~500 USD) for both eyes. I went from a 20/600 to 20/20 in 15 minutes. Best decision of my life. I made sure to get the surgery done from a highly reputed ophthalmic surgeon who had performed 1000s of surgeries with success. As in every surgery, there are side effects. For me, there was temporary mild dryness that lasted a few months, and eye drops were recommended. Besides that, there are no halos, no blurred vision, or any other visual aberrations that others report.

One thing I'm really concerned about is the flap itself. I always have the flap and eyes at the back of my mind when I play any sport. Since the flap never heals, a blow to the eyes can possibly detach the flap. I've also read instances where people who have had surgeries and swam in pools/sea water have had their flap edges infected resulting in complications. But, I am not really a swimmer, so no worries there. I went into it with as complete a knowledge as possible, and it has been worth it.
Go read Ronald Coase's "The nature of the firm". And if your work _can_ be structured to minimize the transaction costs, you might as well go to a low-wage country rather than mess with a remote, medium-wage team. I worked with one company that had all of their engineering team in Pakistan. The SV-based VP engineering never saw his team face-to-face. They had a huge cost advantage.
How is downtown Chattanooga for family living? I've seen some cool apartments.
I'm guessing they were running a bunch of experiments in parallel and killed ones that weren't yielding good results in the first few hours/days/weeks - I doubt they are wanting for GPU resources unlike me!
Yeah, so a trip to wikipedia can answer pretty much all the comments here.

AngularJS 1.7.1 was released June 8 2018 (3 days ago), and active development is set to end June 30, with 1.7.x supported as LTS through until June 30 2021. [1]

Angular 2 - 6 is on a much shorter release cycle, with Angular 7 scheduled to release in Sept or Oct 2018. There have been steady improvements, but nothing as radical as AngularJS 1.x -> Angular 2. [2]

For familiarity's sake, I imagine working with 1.x isn't a bad choice, but personally I wouldn't recommend starting a new project with it, especially if said project expects to have a large, nested tree of components. Such a project may exceed the recommended 2000 digest cycle watchers per page, whereas Angular 2+ and the use of immutable objects and observables inherently better performance characteristics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_(application_platform)...
It wasn't a negative experience. Therapy was effective. But at some point I realized that continuing to invest so much time in a negative past experience was giving over my present and future time to said negative experience and what I wanted was to invest my time in positive experiences, to pursue something enjoyable and life enhancing.

Long experience suggests that it won't matter how positively I frame it or how carefully I say it, some people will insist on viewing my statements and me negatively -- as has been discussed elsewhere in this very thread.

And I don't plan to discuss this detail further.
I live near my parents in the suburbs of nyc. Reasonable price but there are much cheaper places.

I would move to Ithaca in upstate ny if not for family reasons. College towns are a nice mix of rural cheap housing and stuff to do.
From my experience, it's mostly about creating value or filling a need, most of the interviews I have read, they either did user interviews, built a simpler version of the product and iterate on it. In a nutshell I would say there's not a single way for all startups to validate their idea, it depends on the industry an what you are building as well as where the idea originated from.

https://launchbasket.com/interview-with-laurent-pellegrino-t...
https://launchbasket.com/building-a-30000-month-user-testing...
https://launchbasket.com/building-a-60k-month-online-lending...
https://launchbasket.com/the-details-of-building-a-15k-month...
https://launchbasket.com/building-a-1000-month-slack-bot-an-...
Start by mounting a camera on your bike. Record for a couple of months and you would have good enough data to start experimenting with. Next step would be having your friends mount camera on their bikes.
The main risks are never technical, except in hindsight.
It's quite significant even within much more common ranges. If you make $60K/year and spend 25% of it on rent, you net nearly 20% more than someone who makes $40K and spends 5% on rent. Looking solely at percentage of income spent on housing will lead you to a very wrong conclusion in that circumstance.
This is the _one_ thing I miss about getting my eyesight fixed. Within a month of getting laser surgery, it was so natural that I'd essentially forgotten the experience of glasses and contacts, as though I'd never experienced the previous 20 years with them.

One of my very favorite things to do before then was sit in Central Park, or at the Diversey Rocks in Chicago, or anywhere with lots of color, remove my glasses, and just enjoy the blur of it all. It was very calming. An escape from all the details around me, which immediately translated to an inner calm.

I still prefer my perfect vision, and I paid a lot more than I could afford when I had it done to make sure it was done well. But I do very much miss that old shortcut to a quick and simple calm.
I was mainly thinking of byte order issues and handling of NaN / infinities (especially if, say, you're sending a value from one computer with FPU exceptions disabled to another one with exceptions enabled), but I seem to recall reading about other subtle implementation differences which tended to mean that floats aren't always portable between different CPUs even if they're ostensibly all IEEE compliant.
StreamAlert is a serverless, realtime data analysis framework
Giant African baobab trees die suddenly after thousands of years
Seems like a sad and shitty way to think about other people.
Yeah. So, if this happened in the 90's, it can't have inspired the video game. If it also happened earlier, it could have inspired the video game, but it is irrelevant that a later version was more widely played...
We're talking about San Francisco. There aren't any $750k properties. ;)
I can relate to this...
Good thing they aren't adults, then.
> No, you wouldn’t.

The hell I would too.
Bruce Sterling: Distraction

...also Heavy Weather
Apple’s complete removal of old docs/videos is really unfortunate, although in this case it’s already deprecated and I think will be fully gone quite soon. Check out the Advances in Networking sessions from last year:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/707/
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/709
> is a lie

Or maybe people have different standards/expectations?
http://prisma.io solves that second problem quite well. It implements and handles the issues of complex queries for you with minimal effort
Every time someone steps through your function in the debugger, they read it.
Facebook and Google and others make their money globally. They don't actually make a lot of money from Silicon Valley that's just where their workers are. I can't think of a more diversified, protected stream of income than one of the FANGs right now, even if the US has a recession, there are still countries around the world that will be doing better.
I had PRK done at Stanford about 10 years ago, right around. I wasn't a candidate for Lasik for a reason that I can't quite remember (thin corneas? large pupils?)

For me, it was a complete success. Healing took about a week (PRK takes longer than Lasik). It was painful during the healing, but afterwards there have been no issues at all. No night halos, no dry eyes. Everything has been great.

I "couldn't" wear contacts, which affected my decision to get the procedure done. I had astigmatism in my left eye that was "half and half" right across my cornea. Spherical astigmatism on one side, cylindrical on the other. Given this description, I'm still kind of surprised that glasses worked well for me, but they did. Because of this strange shape, even though contacts worked to correct my vision, I just couldn't stand to have one in my left eye. It always felt like I had something stuck in my eye.
No, but if you came in super early, wouldn’t you have (negotiated at the start) more equity anyways? A super early employee with decent equity ought to be treated as a late stage founder - so if the founders don’t take 50% raises, neither should the super early employee with decent equity. It would of course be silly for someone super early to not negotiate significantly more equity than the usual couple of basis points (0.0x % of the company)
As much as I like what Domino's is doing here, it irks me that they didn't flush the idea all-the-way out. Domino's could have easily made an app that would allow users to manually fill-in potholes in exchange for piping-hot Domino's Pizza and sides. Imagine chronically unemployed individuals from all walks of life diligently scouring the streets looking for potholes. Documenting, geotagging and filling them in with non-Newtonian fluid repair packs. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/04/silly-putty-potholes
I wonder if it was possible to use Hinton's idea of local features (where a 3 is recognized as an E in a 180 rotation map and a W in 90 deg. rotation map) to make the recognition partially rotation invariant....
I think it's fair to say in some instances that a person would have had a higher IQ but for some thing, but the term "effective IQ" is semantic jibberish. The score simply is whatever the test says it is.
I think the idea that the grandparent commenter was pointing out is that pointing to higher percentages of income going towards rent is an overly simplistic metric. If the percentage of income spent on rent goes from, say, 20 to 40%, but average incomes double then the total amount of post-rent income still went up by 50%.
I kinda want to start a reading club for code. Somewhere between a book club and a comparative lit class. I’m pretty curious how many PRs a group like that would end up filing.
I would wager the majority of Christians believe in hell and teach that belief. Perhaps not in San Francisco... but across the country as a whole.
Facebook Inc. Responds to Senate Inquiry [pdf]
Even learning English the stroke order can help considerably. Mostly it helps in just learning to write legibly, but that really is just a fancy way of saying it increases the accuracy of recognition. :)

I completely concede that it is possible to get the same results with other stroke orderings. However, there is a reason when teaching children how to write, we often get fairly prescriptive with stroke ordering, as well.
An app promo video for a very very small startup