skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of opting out... as a non-EU citizen, is there any way I can opt out of the EU's internet regulation? Like some flag my browser can send so I don't have to deal with the meaningless cookie/privacy popups?
Some of the links to other sites on that page no longer work.

Nice project! I particularly like your factory, that looks like a fun setup that you have.
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5 people, me as a developer, another guy as a mostly database stuff (he knows Java and sometimes helps me, but prefers to work with database-related tasks), 2 kind of management guys to work with papers, money, documents and all that stuff and recently we hired one young guy to help with boring stuff (something like first line technical support).
>>> We can't just throw out having nice things because they aren't "required."

I wouldn't assume driving for 30 min in traffic is "nicer" than a 30min train ride.
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There are also lengthy guides on each part ORM, Templates, etc.
Idiocy. The motive is to hamstring some of our most innovative companies which by itself is baffling and of course the collateral damage is the extra overhead and lawyers inflicted on all businesses big and small.

The desire to imitate the euros in their efforts in making it as hard as possible for our companies to operate there is beyond stupid.

California ballot initiatives like all referendums must be eradicated and the fact that a california real estate developer (the source of all that is wrong in the state) straight after killing recent zoning reform is using a ballot initiative to blackmail the assembly into passing this law makes it worse.
How about your previous partner? Are they able to help you connect with relevant people or circulate your search to their network?

I wouldn’t worry about being open with your search if that’s what it’ll take to find a partner.
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MS have their own ad platform: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Ads
Is the physical volume of the average pill predominantly "active ingredient"? If not, why not just "print" a single pill per customer-dose comprised of the prescribed constituents?
It is pretty remarkable how inefficient getting pills from a pharmacist is. The actual dispensing could be easily handled by a glorified vending machine so all the pharmacist would have to do is punch some buttons on a computer instead of having to physically handle anything except dumping packages from the manufacturer in it upon delivery.
The Most Productive Meetings Have Fewer Than 8 People
+1 for the estimators API.
I don't know. A lot of people are searching and holding out for non-Mac alternatives, because Apple ruined the calculus of "$200/yr premium in exchange for a device engineered to satisfy needs and comforts you didn't even realize you'd love", and replaced it with "No way I'm paying a fortune for a physically painful and unreliable keyboard that missing one of the critical keys just because some industrial designer was wants to feel special."
Let me just respond to this in short: No. They're not circular.

The same vague claims keep getting repeated, with absolutely nothing to back them up. Not even a "here's the problem with the law in our case" super fuzzy high level overview. It's always about the effort of adhering to the law without any discussion about why these companies are facing difficulties in the first place. Not the actual difficulty with implementing the law, just the vague effort they've put up with.

Hundreds of thousands of businesses have not had issue with the law. Suddenly some guy on HN with two "top tier" law firms at his back faces this unimaginably heavy burden and extreme obstacles when trying to adhere to the law. Sounds like a nightmare, in the sense that it never happened.

OP's post and the many others like it are just typical American business favoritism against any kind of regulation masquerading as a personal True Story (TM). I still remember when cookie warnings were "hard" to do and businesses actively implemented them in obviously shit ways, in bad faith with the regulations. It's so obviously contrived for a particular audience it's kind of absurd it immediately doesn't get flagged.
I am compelled to say it is spelled Jakubowski.
Which mistakes did you make when you were transitioning from an engineer to a manager? Were there any incidents with your employees that you wish now you had handled differently?

Thank you for taking questions.
There's a 'showdead' flag you can turn on in the prefs, that will show you stuff that has been flagged to death. When in the very rare cases something gets moderated in a comment (like removing someone's private info), there's a moderator comment saying so.
Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records
Alt title could be: how I went from CTO/Co-Founder to the CTO and VP of Engineering.
> What exactly is the problem you're attempting to solve with this?

Keeping all database access in one place to avoid having selects around the codebase.

> What about maintenance or admin queries which aren't tied to a specific user_id?

This is the web interface for users, all admin stuff is done elsewhere

> What about sql injection?

The selects are passed as parametised queries, so the where clause would be 'title = %s AND folder = %s'
You could tell the sticky pieces by the teethmarks from pulling them apart :D
What's wrong with chamfer?
I loved this, thank you. I never knew how the abolitionists managed to pass the slave trade act until now.
What part of heavily regulated is hard to understand? The Amazon Marketplace is regulated by Amazon. Pharmaceuticals are regulated by the FDA.
You're not going to like this advice, but I'll give it anyway.

There is nothing more irritating than a CTO that continues to code. For one it will seriously disturb the team dynamic because you are going to set the standard for everything, whether you like it or not and if you've hired smartly (better at the job than you would be) you've now dragged down the whole team with you.

Also, you are going to be there part-time as a coder, and whoever ends up drawing the short straw to review your code will be very much aware that they are reviewing the work done by a c-level exec. That review will be less than a similar review done on the work done by a peer.

So if your company is dear to you leave your coding for some hobby project and allow the people you have hired to do their very best under your guidance.
All a symptom of the browser being a document-first platform that's been reused to be app-centric. I agree with you it's a bummer that these things are getting reimplemented on top of a platform that already offers them, but the way the platform offers them hasn't changed much since the 90s and hasn't kept up with what apps need.

The core issue being that you have no way of statefully going from one page to the next. State only exists within the page you're on. Hence the rise of SPAs.
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> SQLite [is] not a recognized standard by any body of peers to my knowledge...

Well, there is this: https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/data.html

Also, the on-disk format for SQLite has been extended, but has not fundamentally changed since version 3.0.0 was released on 2004-06-18. SQLite version 3.0.0 can still read and write database files created by the latest release, as long as the database does not use any of the newer features. And, of course, the latest release of SQLite can read/write any database. There are over a trillion SQLite databases in active use in the wild, and so it is important to maintain backwards compatibility. We do test for that.

The on-disk format is well-documented (https://sqlite.org/fileformat2.html) and multiple third parties have used that document to independently create software that both reads and writes SQLite database files. (We know this because they have brought ambiguities and omissions to our attention - all of which have now been fixed.)
How many examples do you require?

Conservative comedian Owen Benjamin being banned from Twitter for life is but one:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wehNVE7_G24
Ahem I believe you mean to say that it's a decentralized donation that uses cutting-edge, game-changing BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES that will REVOLUTIONIZE the world as we know it. /s
It appears very little (succeeded in hitting funding targets, posted a product roadmap and a beta deployment of a chain/platform that showed some evidence of development in the past three months) per the source. Not really sure how you could justify a notional valuation of $50m before getting to that stage...

https://medium.com/satis-group/ico-quality-development-tradi...
(source for the Bloomberg graph is Satis Group, an ICO advisory firm comprised of people fired from another ICO advisory firm. It's a dog eat dog world out there...)
None of that is new since Jobs died.
You can't just tell that story w/o namedropping....
No, you have the bad attitude. You're getting some good advice and you are responding in a way that shows that you are not open to input.

Which is exactly why you should stop coding.
it's offensive only because you choose to be offended, it actually tells more about yourself than parent.

> people running successful startups don't have time to write about it, while people who have wound down their companies do

tell us what kind of mental gymnastics you have to go through to go from above statement to come up with such a twisted interpretation as "it implies that if someone manages to find the time to write about how they're running their company they probably aren’t successful". Since it's HN, I'm sure you can show how you came to that conclusion, in logical expression.
The TV market is an excellent example of the sort of market you think smartphones are in. Everything you said makes perfect sense and would find consensus here if the context was TV sets. They are not marketed for their design aesthetic, because the audience doesn't care. They look at headline dimensions (screen size, bezel size, thickness), bullet-point features[1], image quality and price.

This is not remotely similar to the way the iPhone was marketed. At the time it looked utterly distinctive to all its competitors so Apple used that as the key differentiating feature in its marketing.

Samsung released a product that was so aesthetically close it wouldn't pass the masking tape test, certainly not with the iPhone's target audience. It's important to remember that nearly everyone being marketed at had never bought any modern smartphone before, ever, from any brand.

[1] This is why Samsung aren't making sets that mimic LG's OLED industrial design—they're making old-school backlit LCDs with the marketing label "QLED".
To be honest, you're not yet at the scale where this much of a concern. You're either "flat" and about to need to put in structure or you already have it. If you already have the structure in place, then you have at most 4 direct reports and at worst 2 (ideal team sizes being 3-5).

I say this not to downplay the work you've done, but instead to put it all in perspective. You're in the `11-50 Engineers: Clinging to coding.` stage.
People keep saying "Look, the sky didn't fall, what was all the hubub about?!".

A job well done!
Someone who wants to steal crypto for example. Being able to inject a crypto stealer in a major distribution surely motivates a lot of people to try.
Clearly the parent commenter didn't intend to imply that the industry is not regulated. I think it was more of a tongue-in-cheek jab at Amazon.

I think it's just generally weird that a shipping and commerce company is taking interest in pharma to begin with. I think it SHOULD make users uncomfortable that a single company is potentially exposed to all these different vertices of user information. They know what you buy, soon they'll know what groceries people buy, what they read, what medicine they take which could in turn reveal metadata like sexual habits or genetic patterns.

It's weird.
Opting in implies a choice.... often times the “choice” is “give up your personal information or you can’t get the service at all”, even if the service is, say, a water utility.

A large part of the problem is that companies can pretend to use the information as an ID when actually using it to just get credit history. I wish we could simply pass a law saying that identity verification cannot use SSN, and that one must separately opt in to credit checks than to id verification.
Some of them have been deleted. Some of them were text-only and didn’t show up on the main index.
'The 3 Most Important Things in Life': http://harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

Ellison worked at Disney for a total of 4 hours. :)
In the states we have a similar branch of the democratic party that is primarily pro-business and voted left on social issues - see Blue Dog democrats [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition
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Nothing screams "Apple" as much as a perfectly designed, elegent beautiful, device (campus) that is underpowered and unsatisfactory on launch day, requiring a bunch of external attachments to make it useful outside of the demo use case.
Is "negroes" supposed to be a super offensive word now?
It's worth pointing out that "James Tiptree, Jr." was the pseudonym of Alice Sheldon, who adopted a masculine pen name in order to get her work past editors who wouldn't otherwise have accepted/published submissions from a female author.
Equifax has an incentive not to get things wrong because their customers care about having accurate information. Nationalizing credit ratings would remove this incentive. That Equifax still gets things wrong does not imply that things would not be even more wrong if it was nationalized.
People _hate_ time share hard sells, some people still do them and some people still get suckered in but if you're trying to sell a product and you take the time share hard sell approach you'll scare off customers, even if the product is deserving of their attention. The approach I mentioned might not be the right way, but (for the sake of the free market, why won't anyone thing of the poor free market) we, as a society, need to start pinning the costs of externalities to their benefactors. I think burdening them by removing transferable rights might be a good step in that direction.
Won't this just lead to "laundering" platforms like what happened with Whois?
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Don’t glorify misbehaviour.
He's referring to /g/
The old cliche to work your way out of a job really resonated with me when I made this transition. It is natural to want to take on a task for yourself and to think you're doing your team a favor by shielding them from details you have a mastery on. But, once you get into the mindset of enabling everyone by focusing on training and knowledge sharing, you find that people are far more capable than perhaps you give them credit for and in fact do them a disservice by not giving them more reign. Worst case, you get a bit of sanity back from being less of a bottleneck. It may not seem like it, but most of the time the people applying tight time pressures are ourselves (customers also have more patience than we give them credit for), and it is generally worth it to invest in teaching someone to fish, as it were.
The argument about buying “small amounts at higher prices” is really interesting to me.

I recently downsized places for a much more walkable environment. Keeping less stuff in my house is a feature. One I was worried was going to cost me.

But my budget has largely not changed. Any increase in costs associated with bulk buying are at least offset by lowered transport costs. It’s really hard to exactly account though.

My instinct is that it is much more efficient for stores to warehouse things & me do JIT buying. I’d love to see research on it.
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Yes.

We do some coding problems in our interviews, but it isn't puzzle-oriented or even requiring much knowledge of a standard library.

We're looking for basic stuff, like looking for a pattern in a list of items. Things were there will be multiple correct ways to implement it, and can choose an implementation language.

One candidate we had... oh boy. The guy could talk. Excellent, excellent verbal communication skills. He really sounded like he knew what he was talking about. But completely balked when it came to putting bits in a file. Just wouldn't / couldn't, even when I tried to talk him through the process.

My recommendation after the interview was a hard 'no', that we should under no circumstances hire this person. Management, apparently dazzled by the aforementioned communication skills, wanted to give this guy another interview, over my strong objections.

The second interviewer came to the exact same conclusion. Maybe they'll listen to me next time.
I would imagine drones being flown by the fire department would be exempted. However, that should not be taken to mean that a random person who modifies their drone should feel free to fly over the fire under the guise of "helping".
It's a good idea, but making it a felony is not.

Is everything going to be a felony these days? Why? It attaches serious long term consequences, because a FELONY is widely regarded as a crime of direct, major harm against a person.

Flying a drone that actually causes a collision, sure, maybe that's a felony. Just getting caught in the area, because the pilot is curious and maybe never even /heard/ of this law? No, that's not a felony, in my opinion.
Have you tried these:

https://shop.lego.com/en-AU/Brick-Separator-630

They work very, very well.

The other thing about Lego is that it's a bit trickier to clone than you'd think. Most of the other 'compatible with other major systems' brands don't come apart as well as Lego does.

It seems part of the trick of Lego is to make things that are appropriately easy to take apart, as well as put together.
> most innovative companies

If that innovation is about stalking people online & offline to serve them ads then no thanks.
It seems most every discussion here on HN about political censorship devolves into flamewars, mass downvotes, and mass flagging. That in itself seems quite indicative.
There's one self-centered hipster in every office.
Probably talking about FSF.

Employees of backconnect.com including Tucker Preston and Marshall Webb DDoSed them for a while to land them as clients for their DDoS protection service.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/ddos-mitigation-firm-has... (ctrl-f FSF)
It's great when you have the opportunity to use your free time to or something that impressive on your CV. I wouldn't pass on it, personally.
The terms benefit the coercive institutions more than the end user. They protect the institutions while reducing their accountability to zero. Credit monitoring companies are mafia like rackets and your blind support of them is extremely concerning.
Opal is a beautiful girl and tends to be quite vocal about the fact. I'm not sure why you felt it necessary to misgender them.
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> bad public transit is 10x worse than just sitting in a bit of traffic, or dropping a few bucks on an Uber/Lyft.

How can this be true? Public transit allows your attention to wander and typically is much, much faster than traffic. Adding uber/lyft will get two of the worst attributes: traffic and high cost, although you’ll be able to do something else simultaneously.

Furthermore, it’s not clear how parking fees affect low income families: for my commute (between east bay and SF), public transit is an order of magnitude less expensive than driving, especially if you consider parking.

Finally, it’s not clear what homeless people have to do with this. The cost of affordable transit is interacting with your neighbors. If you don’t like your neighbors, please don’t screw them over by investing in car-oriented transit.
They don’t care about language, they care about algorithm ability (specifically solving problems quickly) and system design ability at higher levels.
Nothing per se. But you just don't see many politicians promote such backgrounds as a plus. The guy's book is called "The Art of the Pimp", his really show "cathouse". His attitude to women and employees is horrible. This guy is is just plain sleazy. But he won the republican primary in a red state. He will win.
Doesn't bother me, but I'm not American. What bothers you about it?
Was that real eye tracking or a fake for pedagogical purpose?
California Passes Sweeping Law to Protect Online Privacy
Even high-end cars are made in series. Fine art is usually unique.

It means you can show off in your stolen Ferrari an not raise too much suspicion, because there are plenty of cars just like yours that are not stolen. However, if you show off with a unique art piece, people who know about the theft will immediately recognize it as what it is.

You will also get a lot more people pissed off. By stealing a Ferrari, essentially, the only person who is going to get pissed off is the original owner. Steal fine art and you have all the art community against you, and some of them may be influential even in your shithole country.
Looks really cool. I’m not sure how much it will actually be used though. I can imagine a few examples - for instance, I have an app on my phone that gives me breaking news alerts from multiple sources. But how many other uses are there?
Needs change over the lifetime of a project. The flexibility that is a virtue at first becomes less so as designs solidify. Theoretical issues become problems as a codebase/team scales.
I’d love to see a study on this.

Anecdata: there are 3 grocery stores within a 5 minute walk from me. But I live there because of that.
By reference to HM, I mean to illustrate that Rust has fundamental similarities to the typed lambda calculus, which has been done more formally by Rust Belt. Additionally, traits in rust are highly similar to type classes in, say, Haskell. Describing rust as a functional language is reasonable, see eg http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...
Does that include the army of right wing trolls that appear out of nowhere to hurl racist invective or curse words at you every time you post something like "way to go"! on the page of a progressive candidate? I can't be only person who experiences this. A lot of times it's in all caps, and usually the person's Facebook profile features them holding an assault rifle. The insults range from "stupid mother fucker" to "you're a tool of the Jews" to just "retard". Am I to understand that conservatives want to be more free to post that kind of stuff?
They would not need to block access. They needed to set up a time-plan on how they would get compliant to show in case they get a complaint. This is not US law, it's EU :)

Seriously, that is my impression of all conversations here, US companies trying to understand a law written in EU. I imagine this to be very hard.
Neil Patel was one of the founders of Kissmetrics, so at least it's not like they sold off the domain to some random person.