skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At Matter, I’m building a team that shares the same work and lifestyle ethics that I do. This means that we begin our day at 9am, work normal business hours (with a break for a walk when we need it!), then head home between 5pm and 6pm to recharge.

I know not hiring night owls was mentioned, but I feel like this isn't the way to go. Even in startups one can make a ton of the communication async.

I know that my mind doesn't work 9-5, it's much more chunked and a good bit of that late. If I try to force it, I end up working in the evening to make up for low productivity.
I agree. I think it’s a mistake in the article. The author most likely saw that LastPass supports Yubikeys and thought that was the same as U2F?
You're not wrong that there's a mental health issue at hand. There's also a lot riding on my ability to do these leetcode questions. I've been talking to councilors for the past decade, but I'm at a point where I need to be financially independent. I wrote more about it in this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17594084
GWAS are great, don't get me wrong. but there's always a lot of jumping to conclusions that is done whenever a GWAS finds something interesting. afterwards, you find the people wishing that they could CRISPR themselves to fit the pattern found in the GWAS, etc.

you can see that in the article the authors of the study specifically went out of their way to try to caution people against doing that.
I gotmy PhD because grad school was more fun than a real job, and I made about 40,000 a year because I can program. The prospect of being a junior professor at a middling university gives me nightmares (think about the faculty meetings...), so now I am analyst / programmer in government.
Ambien is really a scary drug. I once had panic attacks while on it, where I really thought I was on the verge of a heart attack.

When Roseanne tweeted that racist twist, and blamed Ambien, a lot of people ridiculed her. The company who made Ambien even stepped up to claim Ambien doesn't make you racist. But I thought if the worst Ambien can do is make you spew out racist tweets, you're lucky.
Agreed on the nostaliga, but what cash grabs? The 32x and Mega CD might have been failures, but they were pretty innovative I think. The Dreamcast was also the 90s :)
Honestly while it might sounds like I’m speaking out of my ass that’s a bad business model.

Outlook is one of the best mail clients out there, not many can disagree about that.

The Office 365 web client is nearly identical these days and it runs in the browser.

You aren’t going to out Office Microsoft that is just a fools errand.

You can maybe focus on better mail clients for the desktop but there are quite a few good ones already yes they don’t work with Exchange out of the box but with IMAP and exchange connectors many of them do.

Also by essentially building a client for Exchange you are putting your product at the mercy of Microsoft that can change their APIs and protocol on a whim and even block 3rd party clients with their EULA all together.
I'm not sure I see what your issue is. It seems the scenario you're describing is just a case of working harder to make a deadline, which there's nothing wrong with per se. If you're talking about fudging results or cutting corners to make a deadline, then that'd be a problem. Otherwise, I'm not sure I see your point.
One of the coolest ways to learn programming I've ever seen is the Snap! visual programming language, which is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser.

https://snap.berkeley.edu

It's the culmination of years of work by Brian Harvey and Jens Mönig and other Smalltalk and education experts. It benefits from their experience and expert understanding about constructionist education, Smalltalk, Scratch, E-Toys, Lisp, Logo, Star Logo, and many other excellent systems.

Snap! takes the best ideas, then freshly and coherently synthesizes them into a visual programming language that kids can use, but is also satisfying to professional programmers, with all the power of Scheme (lexical closures, special forms, macros, continuations, user defined functions and control structures), but deeply integrating and leveraging the web browser and the internet (JavaScript primitives, everything is a first class object, dynamically loaded extensions, etc).

Y Combinator demo:

https://i.imgur.com/cOq8tvR.png

https://snap.berkeley.edu/snapsource/snap.html#present:Usern...

Here's an excellent mind-blowing example by Ken Kahn of what's possible: teaching kids AI programming by integrating Snap! with existing JavaScript libraries and cloud services like AI, machine learning, speech synthesis and recognition, Arduino programming, etc:

AI extensions of Snap! for the eCraft2Learn project

https://ecraft2learn.github.io/ai/

>The eCraft2Learn project is developing a set of extensions to the Snap! programming language to enable children (and non-expert programmers) to build AI programs. You can use all the AI blocks after importing this file into Snap! or Snap4Arduino. Or you can see examples of using these blocks inside this Snap! project.

https://github.com/ecraft2learn/ai

http://lntrg.education.ox.ac.uk/presentation-of-ai-cloud-ser...

Use devices with Snap!:

Orbotix Sphero guide by Connor Hudson and Dan Garcia:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11wR53OTnofRtTtxZCmxnCUjI...

Lego NXT package by Connor Hudson:

https://github.com/technoboy10/snap-nxt

Nintendo Wiimote package by Connor Hudson:

https://github.com/technoboy10/wiisnap

Finch and Hummingbird robots package by Tom Lauwers:

https://www.hummingbirdkit.com/learning/snap-programming/

Parallax S2 robot package by Connor Hudson:

https://github.com/blockext/s2

LEAP Motion by Connor Hudson:

https://github.com/technoboy10/snapmotion

Speech synthesis by Connor Hudson:

https://github.com/technoboy10/snap2speech

Arduino package by Alan Yorinks:

https://github.com/MrYsLab/s2a_fm

Arduino package by Bernat Romagosa/Citilab:

http://snap4arduino.rocks/

Fischertechnik ROBOTICS TXT Controller by Richard Kunze:

https://github.com/rkunze/ft-robo-snap

Snap! for Raspberry Pi by rasplay.org:

http://downloads.rasplay.org/pisnap/

More Snap! extensions for CS education:

snap-apps.org provides Edgy for graphs, Cellular for multi-agent simulation, and more.

http://snap-apps.org/

http://www.snap-apps.org/edgy.html

http://www.flipt.org/#cellular

Netsblox for multiplayer networking.

https://netsblox.org/
Agreed- I dislike Apple for many reasons, but I cannot deny that they make computing extremely intuitive and easy for many people.
UK had a couple of options in my day for STEM stuff. Basic research council stipend was an untaxed £13K per year and then it could be upped with industry funding to £18K. I know that the Wellcomme Trust had some cross discipline medical/engineering programs that went up to £24K. Decent money and graduated in 4 years
I commend you on your courage. Reminds me of one of my good friends from college, who bailed out in the second year of his PhD program in geochemistry and started anew in a MSc program in Computer Science. He now works happily in a startup company as a SDE and never looks back.
Do you see any problem with using a phone TOTP authenticator, but when setting it up saving a copy of the TOTP secret in a file encrypted with my public gpg key?

The idea is that if I lose access to my phone, I can decrypt that saved copy of the secret, and load it into 1Password temporarily until I get my phone back or get a new phone and get everything set back up.
Nice: half price offer

Not so nice: expires in about three hours so you give up the ability to try the software first
Bits vs. Bytes Podcast: How a chat app is changing healthcare
> 1. type classes in Haskell are supposedly coherent, i.e. the compiler is supposed to force a single type class instance in the whole project, however GHC does in fact not do that so you can end up with multiple instances of the same type in the same project

Can you give an example?
The idea that it's better to just do something quickly and learn from mistakes, rather than take your time, get a lot of good advice, and do it right, seems very accepted but I think it is not always generalizable. In particular, in biotech the cost of a failed experiment is much higher and one poorly designed experiment can kill a company. It's best to get an advisory board with relevant yet diverse experiences to really dig through the details of the experimental design and critically think about what you do and don't know about the biology

I know a few biotech founders who have the tech startup mindset of just getting some money and rushing into an experiment, except they need $200k and 6 months for that experiment. If you realize three months in when it's too late to stop that one of your assumptions was wrong, or you used the wrong model, that's a terrible feeling
Ok. I will watch Hachiko and use the resulting sentimentality to train my limbic system and its connection with my neocortex. I will try to feel something.

I've heard that many people get tears while watching it, although many people don't score high on standardized psychopathy tests.
You would expect that as the largest cohort in modern history retires en mass that the ratio of people in the work force to those outside would start to shift. I think its valid to say that a lot of baby boomers were discouraged post-2008 and perhaps would have worked an extra decade had things been better. But at this point we're well into their retirement years.
> You don't have France, Denmark or the UK refusing to recognize Kosovo, for example.

Of course not. They, the UK in particular, were essential in creating it and actively encouraged it from ceding from Serbia. It's their baby. Why would they not recognise it? There is at least 9 Albanian children from Kosovo and Metohija, southern Serbian province, who have been named "Tonyblair" (no, not misspell). In the honour of Tony Blair. See: http://albanmuja.blogspot.com/2011/11/tonys.html
For the record, you’re in good company: even John Carmack can’t function very well without 8 hours of sleep. https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/932600909632327680?...
I've been taking Ambien on and off for the past 8 years. Stretches where I've taken Ambien for a consecutive year.

I've done exactly what the author talks about: write long incoherent but beautifully written poetry, dive deep into studies and journals about the most random subjects, and have auditory hallucinations. But, what she doesn't talk about is the horror stories that come with it.

I've destroyed countless relationships. I've had friends that refuse to pick up any of my calls after 12am. I've crashed my car into a tree because of sleep eating. I've withdrawn from the medication, and don't sleep for 3-4 days. I've taken Ambien, then drank an entire bottle of wine, and the next morning to find out that I took 6 more Ambiens. I should be dead.

If you haven't taken Ambien in the past, and are interested, I would just avoid it at all costs.
The waste of human potential is staggering. The purpose of the economy should be to enable making full use of it. Instead we focus on profit.
I use it partly for FLOSS reasons. But I'm not an absolutist. I still pay for JetBrains IDEs, and I pay for Mailspring (https://getmailspring.com/), among others.

FLOSS is also arguably more important in some software. OS is most important. Technically IDEs are very important too, but there just isn't an open source alternative for JetBrains IDEs. And they definitely deserve the money.
I'm really disappointed when I hear this kind of thing. It's a sentiment that so many people believe, and want to believe, and choose to believe even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

It's almost like a pernicious, psychological cancer, except it can also spread virulently to other susceptible hosts.

Humanity's rise is due to lots of factors, especially the countless individuals who have worked to improve the health, well-being, safety, and wealth of the people around them. Greed is but one aspect of humanity, and unbounded greed destroys societies.

Yeah, there are problems in 2018, but to sit here today, in the relative comfort of modern society, and say "we only have all this because we're terrible animals" is hugely disrespectful to the work of a lot of people.
Ah I wanted a GP32 too. The homebrew scene looked so great.
Why the U3 statistic for unemployment is far from telling the whole story:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=us+adult+population,+us...
Did anyone in here actually try?

I installed the snap, from there on it went downhill:

* after start, I get "Nouveau is known to cause crashes" -> restart for fixed rendering

* after I login, there are no mails showing up, but there is also no "Something went wrong with your login"

* when I click on the calendar, there is a "Sorry. We are unable to load your calendar"

* when I try to send mail: "Yikes, something went wrong."
Paul Bucheit nailed the problem: "Limited life experience + over-generalization = advice". Most startup advice is horroscope-like in its applicability and utility. It's very easy for advice to seem entirely right but be entirely wrong. Having a single teacher is no answer to this problem.

The solution is to have a single "anchor" or goal that all incoming advice is supposed to serve.

For standup comedians there's a great anchor: make people laugh. If crowds laughs at a comedian's routine, they're succeeding. If crowds don't laugh, they're failing.

Paul Graham described the founder's anchor: make something people want. If users are using a startup's product, it's succeeding. If people are not using it, it's failing.

This eliminates most (but not all) room for self-delusion and misjudgment. All advice for comedians should serve them in "making people laugh" and all startup advice should serve founders in "making something people want".

A comedian can ask: "How will this advice help me make more people laugh, or how will it make people laugh more?"

A founder can ask: "How will this advice help me make more people want our product, or how will it make people want it more?"

And then its their responsibility to judge which course of action will best further their goal.
lolwat, first year summer students make that in Finland :D Generally speaking, no graduated Bachelors should accept anything under 1800€ from the school and for graduated Masters anything under 2100€ from the school is an insult (in the workforce the numbers are something like 2k€ for first year students and <3k is an insult for Masters).

PhD students definitely earn >=2k1 here.
Hm, I suppose, though that is the functionality the poster I was replying to was discussing. Though, one has to wonder, what other flaws are lurking below the surface on that chip. It isn't flawless. Once there is another major issue it is going to be an abandon ship type of situation. What are the alternatives if any, move to a new key that doesn't have the problem or look into an alternative means, etc.
2/3rds of the challange in taking apart an iPhone is the various adhesives holding the screen, battery, and home button together.
This is false for Germany.

A full-time position pays around 44.000€/year (varying a bit from state to state) which is ~3.650€/month. This goes up over time, up to around 56.500€/year. All of this is public information, TV-L 13 is the keyword to look for (TV-L stands for "Tarifvertrag der Länder", 13 is the group in which PhD students are typically placed by universities). Source in German: http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/west/ Table for salary per month in Euro (relevant row is E 13): http://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv...

If you don't get a full-time position, you get proportionally less, obviously. In theory if you only have a 50% position and only get 1.800€/month, you should be able to work somewhere else to make up for it. In reality, though, this isn't happening as the professors are tricking the system and are practically abusing the PhD students' dependency on the professor's good-will as he/she is the one who is deciding whether they graduate or not. So even even if a PhD student is only being paid for 20 hours of work a week (50%), they are still expected to work 40h or more.

In non-STEM fields this is sadly happening all the time, sometimes to the extreme where 4 (or even more!) PhD students are being paid from the budget for a single full-time position. In Computer Science, however, I didn't meet a single PhD student that wasn't employed full-time.
Probably a different issue, but one of my greatest gripes with CI is that I can't limit steps to (for example) master branch AND having a tag. It seems such a basic requirement, but is unfortunately not possible via .gitlab-ci.yml.
Ask HN: What business software do you wish was available on linux?
Can't wait for Intel to put this onto every one of their processors!
I loved my PhD - had no intention of staying in academia, got paid a decent stipend for the whole time and was in and out in 2 years 10 months and it gave me the prefect spring board in to starting my own business (unrelated topic but the skills I developed and learned in that time have been a huge help) - I treated my PhD like a full time job and avoided the procrastination that many suffer with in the first 18 months.
You know, I keep hearing the 'many stopped working during the recession' thing bandied about like received wisdom, and have not seen any statistics to back that up.
Note: I am not saying it's not true, just that I personally haven't seen any studies or reports to back up that fact. Have you a link? All the U6 (real) unemployment rate numbers I've seen indicate 'real' unemployment is back to pre-recession numbers
From an employer standpoint, educated and experienced = expensive
With the right setup, PCBs are basically source provided. There's only so much you can obfuscate when all of the chips still have to be connected the right way.
Richard Feynman, "DISREGARD!"

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/563/2/Goodstein.pdf
(End of page 20 and beginning of page 21.)
>the example BFE Arkansas headline you provided is just an impassionate reporting of the facts.

My point is that even if you are trying to write something that's impartial the tilt is still gonna depend on the author and society's (in that locale) attitude toward defending yourself with deadly force. The fact that you think that's impartial is your cultural bias creeping in. There's definitely people out there who will claim that particular headline is highly biased. In the US we're generally much more accepting of defending your home with deadly force than people in (for example) some parts of Europe are. Those people would see a headline with what we consider unnecessary tilt (e.g. calling an 18yo a "boy" to imply a younger age) and consider it impartial. One man's critical detail is irrelevant to another.
Homosexuality was considered a disorder by the DSM until 1973, which is what I was alluding to with my comment. And like most actions in psychology and psychiatry there was no scientific logic behind the decision to add it, or to remove it. It was simply proposed as a motion to the board of the American Psychiatry Association, and passed. Of course I'm not suggesting homosexuality is a disorder, but rather that their entire process of determining what is or is not a disorder has a very tenuous connection with science.

And this perhaps generalizes to these fields in general. The entire fields of psychology and psychiatry are currently in crisis in that their studies and research in general is now, more often than not, deeply flawed. I'm sure you aware of this [4] study which showed some 61% of major psychological studies published in reputable journals did not yield the results claimed when replicated. Follow up results from different researchers have corroborated this issue. One of the responses from the psychologists and psychiatrists involved in the unreproducible studies was to complain that they didn't use the nearly identical samples - for instance using students in e.g. Germany instead of students in New York. However that is a rather direct acknowledgement that these studies do not generalize in any way. But if they don't, then these fields are in no way producing science, let alone actionable science.

A very related issue here is the medicating of people. A recent study indicated that some 17% [1] of Americans are consuming psychiatric drugs. That number nearly doubled in a decade, yet the science on these drugs is very questionable. In recent trials upwards of 80% of SSRI's effects were explained by placebo alone. [2] That number should be doubly surprising as the side effects of SSRIs are, by contrast, very real and tend to undermine double blind studies. And the longterm effects are looking quite dire as well. This is all made more problematic by a pharmaceutical industry that sponsors research more aimed at them making money than on improving healthfulness of people. Emphasizing this is the fact that more than 50% [3] of preclinical medical trials also have results that were later found to be unreproducible.

[1] - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

[2] - http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[3] - http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...

[4] - https://www.nature.com/news/first-results-from-psychology-s-...
Sure -- though Bohemia had preceded modern Czechia for centuries, and was still a quasi-state in its own right under the Habsburgs. Such historical unity is rare in modern Africa.
Or you know, more pizazz!
> California would gain nothing and instead lose an awful lot if it split from the rest of the US.

I'm not saying it's worthwhile, but I don't think California would gain nothing. California is a net payer to the federal government, so there would be some amount of surplus. California would be able to fully legalize marijuana, and have some other autonomy gains. Required duplication of federal efforts would of course reduce some of the surplus. Continued access to water from the Colorado river would be a major issue, I'm sure. California already pays a tax on every transaction, whether that's from California emissions requirements, or California prop 65 warning stickers on everything (I fully expect to see one on drivers licenses at some point).

California ports process a large majority of the west coast shipping [1], and California produces (and imports) a large amount of food for the nation; the US has a lot to lose if it doesn't negotiate a good trade deal. There's certainly some room for port expansion in the Pacific Northwest, as well as diversion to gulf and east coast ports.

[1] http://www.pmanet.org/port-locations-stats
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How Opendoor calculates your home’s value
You may get results out of repetition. When I was a kid, I remember reading and rereading the same books over and over again, and really getting to know the characters and the storyline. You experience each new watching / reading in a different way, bypassing the cognitive mind a little bit by not giving it as much work to do. You'll get more limbic immersion this way.
It just made me sleep, which is what I had it for to begin with. Tried to use it recreationally once and ended up falling asleep at a concert. I'll stick with the intended usage.
There are one-time codes and and there is support of remote keys over SSH (in most simple from this key just pretends to be USB keyboard and does typing of the code for you).
It would be remarkable if there was not some predictive value when applied to AA datasets given the level of European ancestory in the AA population is around 30%.
From a political science perspective, (and as we saw with the Spanish response to the independence election) Catalonia doesn't have a monopoly over the use of force in their borders. Somaliland appears to have that monopoly.
I'm sure this varies across disciplines but a lot of PhD students in CS are hired to do their thesis as part of a research project. In these cases they get paid very decent salaries.
> Normally I believe they just require the password.

Shoot, you're right. Not sure what I was thinking. My bad.