skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are much more people who failed than people who suceeded, so it make sense that there are more blog posts about failures than about success.
> It's nobody's job

It's the job of the people we elect to govern our society.
Ireland: New guidelines on restrictions on data subject rights
The argument is that ProtonVPN is run as a joint venture between Protonmail and the people who run NordVPN. It states nothing about Protonmail.
> Companies I've seen don't care if you have fundamental knowledge of algorithms and data structures. They are testing you on specific frameworks via interview questions and take home projects

No, I got that. My point was that no one cares that you completed an algorithms and data structures course, they care that you know the fundamentals of (the subgenre they're interested in of) software development. You're just using a definiton of "fundamentals" that excludes the (entirely language and framework independent) concepts they care about that you don't know.

A take home project using a specific language and framework does not require you to know either to complete it before you start; if you know the concepts, you can pick them up as you're writing it. If you've never seen MVC before (and the knowledge you have doesn't allow you to grok it fast), then in a web dev context I would argue that that is a fundamental concept you are missing, which was my point.

Interview questions can be different, but you didn't mention them in the post I responded to.
Node.js is taking as much mindshare from Ruby as Python, I'd say. Pivotal's support for Kotlin in Spring Boot 2 is even more likely to keep grumpy Java devs inside the JVM world. It makes me mad that Ruby isn't competing with Python which is an inferior language. With all the promised speed boosts around the corner I just think it's all too late. Python and Node have already won. Python:Ruby by many metrics is about 4.5:1 and Node:Rails 3:1.
> How can this be true?

It's hot, noisy, uncomfortable, nausea inducing, and I have to put up with people falling asleep on me or homeless people harassing me.

The light rail (in Seattle) is fine, but the coverage isn't good enough.
Are you actually a bank? That’s a highly restricted term. To the point that non-banking subsidiaries of banks (like brokerages) use the word Banc to avoid the restrictions.
Both the article and the hyperlink on HN are titled greatest solo climber.
Seattle too.

Even if they people on the bus are okay, they are still uncomfortable.
I use an app which wraps the website up. Helps to keep the cookies at bay. Maybe.
Reading comprehension is a thing.

"Greatest Solo Climber"
> Eventually homeless ruin everything they touch and society needs to find a way to deal with them

Although your rhetoric is terrible, you're not entirely wrong there.

But using jackbooted thugs to kick homeless people off public transport is not the solution though, and doesn't achieve anything. It simply pushes the problem somewhere else. You need to actually solve the causes of the problem, rather than trying to cover up the symptoms. That's not even starting on how you determine if someone is homeless or not. I saw a hipster the other day who I genuinely thought was homeless, until I saw that he had a bottle of craft beer under his arm, rather than a $2 bottle of wine.

If anything, banning homeless from public transport is just going to make the problem worse, because you've just pushed them somewhere else. Now they have no means to move anywhere (or they'll just steal bikes), and they're just going to shelter anywhere else that they can, including breaking into buildings.

Society does need to find a way to "deal" with homeless people, but you can't just make being homeless illegal. Just like you can't "deal" with heroin addicts by banning needles.
Happens in Portland also
California lawmakers approve data-privacy bill opposed by Silicon Valley
I can't find it now, but I remember reading about the QA process that they use. If I remember correctly, each mold is uniquely identified, so if you do find a bad part, the mold is taken out of circulation.
> I wonder what the best way to combat large-scale astroturfing on a platform like twitter would be

Report them to the FTC because paid endorsements/reviews/etc are subject to disclosure [1].

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/ftc...
Sure hope you don't use Google in your life.
In your haste to be derisive you missed the adjective "solo" in the title. While I would agree Alex is probably not in the running for greatest climber, I think one could make the case that he is the greatest solo climber, and or at least the greatest living solo climber.
Your reason also apply to success. The o lu way they know what they think they learned through success was actually something meaningful is to apply lesson in their future endeavours and see if it works out. Until then all your interpretation are nothing more than Your opinion.
I still don't see how it can be accurate for tracking calories.
Fascinating comment. Makes me want to read random eye tracking studies.
Sorry for the stupid question but how does he get back down?
When we were living in Asia for a few years, one thing we really liked was that larger supermarkets had free delivery service once you reached a minimum total at the checkout. We'd take a taxi to a mall, take care of any small shop purchases, perhaps have dinner at a restaurant, then finish with a tour of the supermarket in the basement.

We'd fill a shopping cart with all the heavy items we needed for one or more weeks, sorting a few fragile or temperature-sensitive items. We would fill one or two bags to carry home with us immediately by taxi. The rest went back to the cart and got a delivery ticket attached at a service counter. Within an hour or so of us getting home, friendly supermarket staff would be delivering the remainder to our condo doorstep.

Meanwhile, we had walkable, outdoor markets where we could grab produce or even some short-order carryout stirfry. So, we'd often grab just a few items at a time, lived with a much smaller refrigerator than we do in the US, and only did the supermarket run for heavy bottled/canned goods or the odd import item that helped with culture shock or homesickness.
The issue with Desktops is that motherboard layouts suck. 2' x 2' square with video cards nearly a foot long. Not much room to kill area unless you want fill the random gaps around your video card.

The real place to make things more custom is when you can do small and stick the computer in places it would not normally go. Raspberry pi or a micro atx in the glove box of your car kind of thing.
This is completely false by the way. ProtonVPN is created by the ProtonMail team, which has many CERN scientists on staff. This is public record and can be verified by simply looking at the scientific papers they have published:

ProtonMail CEO Andy Yen (former CERN physicist):
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=Andy+Yen&of=hb&action_s...

ProtonMail CTO Bart Butler (also former CERN physicist):
http://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&ln=en&p=bart+butler&of=hb...

TED Talk about ProtonMail given by ProtonMail CEO:
https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...

So the evidence that ProtonMail is run by former CERN researchers is actually quite overwhelming.
IANAL, I would guess not answering is safer than lying, but it does not stop the investigation of you, and it does signal information. Obviously, the fifth is far from a stay out of jail card, if a case can be made from other peoples' testimony.
Well if you’re gonna go there, the Cakkavatti Sutta, DN 26, of the Theravada tradition in Buddhism, says the upper limit is 80,000 years.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't know, I have no good reason it just annoys me. Alternatives that would annoy me less: This Scottish AirBnB comes with a job at a bookstore, or, An AirBnB in Scotland includes running a local bookstore, or, Take a working vacation at this bookstore AirBnB.
Certainly. But I think the gp is referring to the idea of putting a single greater-than sign at the beginning of a long, soft-wrapped paragraph. 4chan (and other sites) would highlight the whole paragraph, but on HN if it is very long it isn't immediately obvious that it's a quote. Hard-wrapping the quote and putting a greater-than sign in front of each line, as in email or Usenet is much clearer than the style typically used on HN.
I am unfamiliar with patent law, but the traditional discussion about it is whether it actually reflects these supposed values. Consider the major innovations of our time. Did patents play any role? As far as I can see, the best innovations spread quickly beyond the inventors (touch screens and gestures), and the remaining patentable details turned out to be either trivial details (eg icon placement on a home screen) or regulatory capture (see: codecs).

It just seems like patents were invented for an entirely different type of innovation than occurs now in software.
Ask HN: Would you rather work for Google or a smaller high growth company?
I read this article on Signifyd and HotelTonight on this website (BabyUnicorns.com). The whole website advocates for mid-sized high growth companies as places to work for, rather than large companies such as Google and Facebook. I am conflicted on this. Google is consistently ranked as one of the most desirable employers year after year. They will continue to dominate the world in the near future, and it's a super cool brand to have on your resume. But am I missing out on the big upside provided by these smaller but fast growing companies? Sure they are much more risky than Google/FB, but it's not like HotelTonight or Udemy are startups and can go out of business any minute. It seems like they much a lot of upside through employee ownerships.

What do you think? If you are a 25 year old engineer who wants a corporate career, would you rather go to Google or a HotelTonight/Signifyd/Asana?
Most of them are addicts who don't want help. You could give them a job and a free house and they'd end up right back where they are now.
That seems unlikely. For anything new or unfamiliar, people will not have established opinions yet. Their opinions will form under the influence of their experiences, including astroturfers on social media.
Google did the exact same thing with AdWords back in the day. Doesn't make it right but I think it's worth mentioning.
Oh please the issue comes up in a bunch of other places other than SF. LA, Chicago, DC, Portland, all have the same issues. I am not rich nor am I poor but I avoid public transit for the reason mentioned above. I don’t know that it will ever get better seeing as how the country is falling apart with an ever widening income gap.
There are walk-offs for almost all of the routes he free solos. For any others, he would have stashed some gear/ropes up top to rappel.
SRE vs. DevOPs
Ignorance of laws is no excuse, especially when it is laws relating to a expensive hobby activity that you have.

Would you support drunk driving laws that let drunk drivers who don't injure anybody off with a small ticket equivalent to a parking ticket, and only those who injure someone get their license revoked, jail time, etc?
There is a middle ground. I make quite a bit of stuff out of square and angled aluminum stock using only a few basic tools - drill, file, hack saw, propane torch, and aluminum brazing rods.

I would use open modular hardware if it were available everywhere like plain metal stock is, but it's not so I've learned to improvise.
This comment is hard to word without sounding like I'm grinding an axe with the author or the blog post or something. I'm not. It's a good post.

Anyway, I was disappointed but unsurprised to find that Ctrl-F "leadership" yielded 0 results. Anyone can read management books, and I am sure they're super valuable for learning techniques to maximize the value the company gets out of its employees.

However based on my experience over the last many years, it's not enough to be a skilled manager. "Necessary but insufficient."

Leadership is a different skillset. I am sure Mr. Kim has learned a lot about leadership, he just didn't split out the two in the blog post. Undoing the semantic smushing of management + leadership so they can be focused on independently is important, IMO.
Why make a human type it in if the majority of scripts are coming in via E-prescription?
Elixir adoption is going nowhere. If you search Indeed.co.uk by job title there are currently 7 Elixir jobs in London compared with 104 Ruby and 364 Python.
Thanks for the explanation! Does anyone actually release code due to this license (which they wouldn't have released otherwise)? I'd imagine generally if a commercial developer saw a license like that they would just choose not to use the AGPL code. I know I won't use any code or libraries which place these sorts of obligations on me as a developer, unless it's in a product that I was planning to release the source of anyway.
This is also not true. ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are not related to NordVPN in any way. The only possible "connection" if you can call it that, is that we might use some of the same server providers (Leaseweb, Amazon, OVH, etc).
It was a mistake not just for Germany, but for Europe in general. Frankly, the unification of Germany in 1871 was a mistake. Prussia, Prussianism, and its antecedent Teutonic Order are some of the worst things inflicted on that part of Europe, including Germany.
If you are running events in the 50k range you have capital to manage the process. I still fail to see the argument you are making, few groups as you mention here are running 50k events.
Oversimplification too. In LA, a large number of homeless people have mental illness, are we supposed to just provide them with resources as average citizens? I would argue that’s something that can only be solved with proper funding and professional care.
I did not miss the word "solo." Honnold is not the worlds greatest solo climber by a Longshot. He's the greatest "free solo" climber. A ton of solo climbers are way better than him, they just use ropes
The common failure point, which the author mentions, is that people management is not like coding. And trying to do both at once is a losing proposition. I always stress to new managers that managing is different than coding in its execution but similar in its perception. What that means is that when you code a system and it works well, it operates smoothly and when things happen (like you lose a disk drive, or a server crashes, etc) it continues to operate and perhaps degrade gracefully. This is also true of well run organizations. Most people recognize when the organization is running smoothly, and appreciate it when the organization responds quickly and without disruption ton changes in the environment. To me, I see that as the essence of good people management.

Sometimes when you have a piece of code that in spite of rewriting it a couple of times the system still bottlenecks or whatever, you restructure. Same with groups, except instead of code being moved around you move people around. Being able to see people as a team with unique capabilities and putting them in roles that are successful has been compared to programming.

The next step in the growth of a CTO (or perhaps the one after the next step for the author) is when the company gets big enough to start making choices about which problems they are going to focus on. Are they the payroll company that you can run from your phone, or the one that integrates with Salesforce? Or the one that blends remote workers from the largest number of areas into a single payroll. That is when you have to start thinking as both a business person and a technical person so that you can help steer the priorities to solve the customer problem as it arrives and before it is solved in dozens of ways by your other competitors.
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> Do you recommend that the State stop homeowners from saving their houses or hiring people to save their houses if their actions involve the use of drones?

Yes. You don't get to hold up containment efforts for potentially thousands of homes because you believe that your home is more important. Private firefighters are fine, but they can't impede real emergency personnel.
It's a problem in Melbourne. Although not as bad as America from what I've read here.

Trains are mostly fine, but I won't take a bus or a tram if I can avoid it. If I can get somewhere by train or bus, and the train would be 10 minutes slower, I'll take the train.

The other day on the tram I had to deal with drunk ex-con listening to his bluetooth speaker and verbally abusing a poor Asian lady to the point she had to get off the tram. I was disgusted, but I wanted my teeth to remain in my mouth, so I couldn't do anything.

I've had to deal with plenty of abusive arseholes on the bus too. And even just people being noisy, like South Americans treating the bus like it's a nightclub (which I personally don't mind) or just drunk people yelling at each other because they've forgotten their inside voice.

Then some people treat public transport like it's a landfill. Especially on a Friday or Saturday night, public transport will be filled with beer bottles.

The drivers don't care. They sit in a little perspex box so that they can't get assaulted by the passengers and just drive the bus or the tram around.
!g, you mean.
This reminds me of the MIT course "How to make (Almost) Anything"

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/4.140/

... as well as the follow on course "How to make something that makes (almost) anything".

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/865.15/index.html
Sure, for something new or unfamiliar. But most astroturfing campaigns are not directed at such issues.
He's not the greatest solo climber g, he's the greatest solo climber who doesn't use ropes.
> In a pharmacy, medications are NEVER allowed to be commingled. If your medication is coming from two different manufacturers, or even the same manufacturer but the pills just look different, the pharmacy must put them in two different bottles to give to you

Are there any exceptions allowed? I'm pretty sure I've had a major nationwide pharmacy give me a bottle with pills from two manufacturers in it. It had pills from the first in the bottom of the bottle, then a cotton wad on top of those, and the pills from the second manufacture on top of the cotton ball.

They opened the bottle when I went to pick it up, and pointed out what was going on inside and made sure I understood. They explained that they did not have enough pills in stock from the manufacturer they had used before for that prescription and refills, so filled out the order from a different manufacturer.

Perhaps it does not count as commingling because they divided the bottle into separate champers with a wad of cotton?
F# got mentioned already but I would like to add another vote to it. C# is the first choice for most people when building desktop apps for Windows but F# works exceptionally well too. There is a small but robust community and there are a ton of libraries/tools that you can hook into via .NET.
Where's my 40 acres and a mule?
LOL right back at u

There are many solo climbers better than honnold. They just use ropes
I used to work at a mail order pharmacy. Even though a machine counted the pills a pharmacist had to certify every bottle. This amounted to bottles coming down a conveyor and the pharmacist picking each one up, scanning it, and looking at a picture of the pills on a screen to make sure they are the same. I wouldn’t doubt if Amazon would need to do the same were they to use individual pill counts.
I agree strongly with the ease of model saving / reloading in Keras. I found this basic functionality to be exasperatingly difficult and cumbersome in TensorFlow.
But the standard comparison operators don’t distinguish them.
Most important part of the tldr; is this law does not take effect until 2020. Lots of time to be amended before then.
Add a dab of lavender to your milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.
Trains are faster than traffic.

Buses and trams are slower as they're still in traffic, and now have to stop every 500 m to pick up or drop off passengers.

I'll usually take an uber if I actually need to get somewhere on time and it's not near a train station.
If their customers aren't checking accuracy and complaining to Equifax (and they aren't), then the incentive has no effect.
Survivorship fallacy is one thing, but I would say overall there is far more value to success stories where a majority of stories are failure ones. Generally speaking it would seem the path to success, varied as it is, is far narrower than the path to failure.

From a failure story you can look at what they did, but if they did X that doesn't mean X leads to failure, as others could do X and succeed. It's possible they succeeded in spite of doing X, but it's usually apparent when that's the case. Maybe X only worked because of a perfect storm of conditions/timing.

I would also say a vast majority of people who fail go on to fail a second time, making their whole reflections write up from the first failure kind of weakened by the fact the lessons they learned from their previous failure were not enough to avoid it the next time. Paying too much attention to what not to do just leads you down a totally different road to failure. Common pitfalls are worth knowing, but it would seem there are 10 ways to fail for every 1 way to succeed. Often big successes do the exact opposite of all the "don't do this" advice.

But that's just my perspective working in games, where creativity and rule breaking is a lot more substantial to the success, I think. However, I feel it all applies to a broader scope of business and software.
Nobody needs to do much of anything, but people want to. 10 miles is 130th st to downtown Manhattan, a distance people most certainly either want or need to travel regularly. Even in the most culture/store/apartment dense corner of the country.

Now I'm all for effective public transit and dense neighborhoods, but walking and/or biking are simply worse for a lot of use cases.
Should have been entitled, why people on the coasts can't afford America.
I take the bus from my neighborhood, transferring to light rail at the UW station.
LA, Chicago, Portland, SF, any major metro area.
Feminist Philosophy
Yes but they're not necessarily libertarian or classically liberal. It's a different spectrum.

They could be somewhat 'Communitarian' - like Christian types who tend left on social issues.

Blue Dog dems do me are like Angela Merkel and Germany CDU.

There's no specific analogy for Lib Dems in the US really, though you could say a good chunk of the educated professional class might fit this.
Yes, that's why key provisions of a contract are often mandated by law to have dedicated signatures or initials.
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If you don't want to read the contract, you can sign without reading.
Look at the % of peak for ethernet systems vs various Infiniband speeds, or Intel Omni-Path, and you'll see that there's a significant different in the % of peak for Ethernet vs Infiniband vs Omni-Path.