skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, one line from the original article jumped out to me:

"Lastly, we have consulting and support, which I think is a dead end. It certainly works on a smaller scale with individual developers, but it falls apart when trying to build a company. "

That seems like a very odd claim to make in support of Redis Labs making this controversial change restricting other people's rights to charge for consulting and support.
Fantastic talk, thanks for the link!
Living in Sydney Australia spending three times my income or less would be impossible. Didn't think it would be possible within decent travel of any city hub.
What about college football players, Mid-tier content creators, etc?

These are people who are providing a service, potentially because it’s a passion, but other entities soak up the profit.

You seem to be arguing that these people (in the grandparent comment and my own) do get paid, but my understanding is that they don’t, or barely do.
I agree about IOS but it is not hard to download an app for android outside the play store. Amazon has a competing store and fortnite skipped the play store and sells their game straight from the web.
That's a bad example because you don't follow standard keying methods. In you're nice example, you're using your pointer finger to press the "c" key. Standard recommendations say both "c" and "e" keys should be handled by your middle finger on qwerty.

You're also typing incredibly slow where you can physically move your hand to avoid contorting your finger. At faster speeds, which I personally hit frequently when slacking or typing up emails, I can't be moving my hands all over the keyboard.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom just to downvote every comment that is not about tech. Go back to reddit if all you can contribute is some circlejerking about politics and religion.
FYI for folks interested in diversity in VC, there is also Backstage Capital. I posted a few things about them to HN a few months ago and it didn't get serious traction. But it has been covered in such big name publications as Forbes.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=backstage%20capital&sort=byPop...

http://backstagecapital.com

The founder is on Twitter under the handle @ArlanWasHere. She appears to use the same handle elsewhere, like Instagram.
You don't want insulated and hidden, you want perforated and airy (while still being discreet).

The NUC-like hardware that goes into tanks have chassis consisting of a mesh cage to allow maximum airflow since the cabin temperature alone can exceed 100F.
Agree with your sentiment here. And it's amazing to me the number of people who will make a statement like that ("Humans are destroying the planet and we're all doomed."), or at least agree with it, without realizing that it potentially represents a form of psychosis!
I know exactly how this software works because I have analyzed it deeply. Every packet that goes through the Onavo VPN is analyzed. Using API's available to a normal sandboxed app, the source port is mapped with the process ID, then mapped to the package identifier, and then Facebook knows how much data is being used by which apps. Until SSL was mandatory for apps, they could also analyze the data itself, but that was stopped a couple years ago on iOS.

Once Facebook has all the packets, they can do various analyses and machine learning to even learn which features are most popular within a competitor's app. It is quite sophisticated.
Wouldn't Spinnaker be suitable for something like this?
I really hope Apple pulls through with a thorough research of other free VPN apps on the App Store and cracks down on other sketchy ones too. I doubt that Onavo users will be inclined to pay for a VPN, and I suspect they instead will look for other free alternatives.

Onavo didn't have to make money because it was owned by Facebook and it was known to collect data for its parent company's market research. Much less is known about how other VPN apps remain sustainable-- I wouldn't doubt some might be running on sketchy business models.
>HA! Not in Bay Area, not for a senior hire. That's a good salary for an engineer that's a few years out of college. Hardly competitive for anything beyond that.

I agree; but 1)it's an average figure, and 2)we don't know how many visa-holding employees are senior; perhaps many of them are a few years out of college.

As I said, we would need more data to argue either way -- unless you say that people a few years out of college may never possess unique skills. In which case I disagree; I've known US citizens with a PhD get this much.

>What software skills are "not available locally" in Silicon Valley that need to be imported from places like India?

I should also add that many (if not the majority) of the people who get a PhD in the US are not US citizens and need a visa.
I don’t know the op’s reason. I immediately thought of blood farmers https://www.wired.com/2011/06/red-market-excerpt/

But, uh, I’d hope this tech would help prevent that sort of thing.
In a fast food restaurant the latency of food orders being fulfilled (i.e. how fast your food really is) would be a reasonable metric to track.
>the junior bankers probably spent months/years of 100+ hours weeks working on slide decks to get this done, only to have all their work thrown out

Why would I care if I get paid salary for the work done anyway?
Not quite a normal game with no restrictions because it's a pre-selected hero pick from a limited pool instead of a full draft, but it's still very cool.

Interesting that OpenAI seems to prefer deathballing, but it makes sense: its main advantage over humans is probably tactical and in teamfights, and 5-man maximizes your options. The human strategy should probably be to split push, but one of the commentators (who is also a pro who played against OpenAI earlier) says that is very difficult because OpenAI can apply pressure everywhere.
Pain isn't the toughest of opponents at TI. Will they be playing vs a team that is currently still alive in the bracket? So far it seems Pain is kind of controlling the game at least much better vs the caster team (99th percentile)
> the Ritz-Carlton crackdown

What's this? Are you referring to the use of these hotels as luxury prisons during the purge?
Have you worked with k8s yet? A lot of the things you bring up are addressed if k8s is used properly.
That's a fair point. My argument was too much of a strawman.

But I still think that the impostor syndrome is a real problem in our field, and that most people are not faking it.
> Should I just go and basically say that this person did a bad job?

No. This has the disadvantage of possibly making you look naive. The code might actually be fine and you might not have enough experience working in unfamiliar codebases or reading other people's code. Moreover, original developers will have made choices for a particular reason, often without commenting and you might change something unintentionally if it doesn't read straightforward the first time through.

If it's mostly style issues, forget it. Unless it's highly trafficked code, the computer doesn't care if you use PascalCase or snake_case or awkward indentation, etc.

Report that you might be wrong, but the code seems overly verbose/incorrect/hard-to-read in some areas and that you are carefully refactoring, but that you are still getting familiar with the company's product and would be excited to work on a different area of the codebase as soon as this project is complete.
Not just Infosys. Here is one Indian h1b talking about his experience in Intel: https://youtu.be/ge9LQQfckUY?t=117

His words after joining Intel: "That was the first time I found out all these managers in US blatantly use h1b situation to make people work more than others".
I'd imagine that on a yearly basis, plantation forests sequester more carbon than old growth forest. Modern pine trees (especially pinus radiata in NZ) are incredibly fast growing. Time from planting to harvest is 25-30 years for pinus radiata.

The old trees that they were cutting down would've been hundreds of years old. The growth rate of trees slows down over time.
Looking at such visualizations of mathematical axioms, like these and the Ulam Spiral [0], gives me a kind of vague .. intuition? apprehension? feeling/fun-idea-to-muse-about, that maybe Reality began from these.

As in the root of the "What caused the Big Bang" or "but who created God?" questions. Stuff like 1+1=2 shouldn't need a root cause, and would give rise to patterns like these.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Why do you consider the cook "a poor sod"? Because he/she is working a job and making a living? I imagine you didn't mean much by it but understand that just because everyone isn't employed in what many consider desirable professions doesn't mean their work is not important or that they don't take pride in what they do.

Not meant to be a rant, just wanted to make the point.
Numerous princes were detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel and weren't allowed to leave until they admitted to corruption and surrendered significant amounts of cash. A few fought this but most folks just handed over the money.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/saudi-ara...
> had under 4 stars because these places where just really busy

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." -- Yogi Berra
There are lawsuits pending on the issue of college players not getting paid. It is a problem and it is going to get sorted out soon.
Quite a few stores do that when they get busy.
> Apple does not restrict the ability of another browser to be installed (like Chrome)

They do not allow you to develop/use any other webkit than the one provided though.

> nor another music service (like Spotify)

Back when I had an iphone, you could not change the default app switches to competing products like spotify and google maps.

> nor another video service (Amazon)

Amazon cannot sell their videos in their app (nor books in kindle) without paying Apple a 30% cut and there is no way users can download an amazon app that allows them to do so because you cannot install software onto IOS devices outside of their app store.
Yes its writen in the app description. Its free in return for data collection. How is this damaging my device?
Everything is! Not just retail. I live in an apartment building that could be described that way, office spaces... the list goes on.
Things I didn't know...
They announced it a couple of days ago: http://blog.dota2.com/2018/08/the-main-event-with-new-steam-...

It still have limitations and bugs, yesterday it just wouldn't load for me, but it works now, and you are unable to watch yesterdays content.
I shift this way too on Colemak. I much prefer the slight shift down of the pinky than the whole arm/wrist shift to tackle the rights shift in many cases.
both ways have problems. when I'm dissatisfied with a place I want to help people not go there but let's say there are separate ratings for service, decor, food, atmosphere. I don't want to lie so if the food tasted like garbage but everything else was a 5 then it will look like I'm helping to recommend the place with 5 5 1 5 average 4 out of 5. 4 out of 5 sounds like a recommendation but what I really wanted to say is "don't go here!"
Glad you could still find the time to tell us.
The first thing that popped into my head when I read about the Maya thing was "Those poor folks - if only they'd made good use of fossil fuels!" And it's my understanding that the now "recovered" forest probably bears little resemblance to what was there originally.
Come to the dark side / defense industry. It's only citizens in my office.
Wow. That makes a huge difference.

Iteration 0 took 0.6579999923706055s
Iteration 1 took 0.6540000438690186s
Iteration 2 took 0.6460001468658447s

(I noticed the code from hastebin was an old version, I forgot to swap the starttime-time.time() in the version I posted. Not that it matters much, just change the sign.)

Running it on OP's website again just to be sure, it now takes 4.9 seconds instead of 5.25, so there is some variance there, but this is still a big difference. This is Firefox as well (see another comment in this subthread), I don't have Chromium installed.
> There's nothing wrong with open source as long as you are honest to yourself regarding the intentions.

My takeaway from your bullet points is more specific – that you shouldn't bother with open source unless you want to advance the state of the art while being perpetually unpaid and unrecognized, which I can not agree with in any way.

> Many open source developers start with intentions like "advancing the state of the art" and over time become disappointed because others build businesses and profit off of their creations.

I just don't buy this distinction of starving artists vs commercial enterprises. Especially as the project grows in scope, complexity, and popularity you might need to spend more time on it to keep it in good shape, and time does not come for free.

While you might have been willing to spend 10 hours a week on it for free, the now-grown project would really benefit from you working on it full time, but that's not feasible to you, so you turn to monetizing it. There is nothing wrong with wanting to both advance the state of the art and to be paid for it.

It's not about being disappointed with others making money off of your project, it's about ensuring sustainable development of your project.

If OSS projects weren't funded by a chance of money or fame, we'd have much less such projects available to us, especially significant ones, because not everyone who currently contributes to OSS can afford to or even wants to work full time for no pay. I don't know why that would be a desirable outcome to anyone.
In all seriousness, that's not malware though. Facebook is a big company competing directly with Google: it makes sense that they want a similar level of access to market insights as their competitor has.

Google collects a lot of data [3], including app and website usage [2] too. They have full access all the analytics a phone OS can provide, after all.

I'm not saying this is ok, but if we claim this is malware then Android is malware too. I rather reserve the malware label to software that is directly designed to harm.

PS: Apple collects app usage too [1], but IMO they're at least more clear about it.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202100

[2] https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

[3] https://privacy.google.com/your-data.html

EDIT: Why the downvote? Rather than downvoting, some constructive discussion on spyware and business practices would be IMO more welcome.
My anecodotal experience is that SNRIs and SSRIs can massively increase the propensity, and even induce panic attacks where they were never present. My recommendation is to first try dancing - I know it sounds dumb, but the risk reward profile of this I think puts it at the first line of defense. I get that it is very hard for somebody in that mental state to get up and go dancing.
AI systems dealing with human emotions
> My Bitcoin friend from 2010 wound up a millionaire, but he lost his love along the way, and as far as I know he still hasn't found anyone. Was that rich life worth it?

Was his loss of his 'love' related to his 'investment' in bitcoin? If not, how are the 2 events related?
well, there's constantly empty chairs on the face cam whenever it's on the OpenAI hero, so something must be fishy ;)
> In the 40s and 50s a middle class household could get by just fine (and the house be bought) by a single income earner. Such a house now would be on the verge of bankruptcy.

I dunno, it feels like responding to that with a comparison of a household in the 40s to one today is fair.
It's a historical storyboard for a “Quest for Fire 2”, sequel to one of the greatest romance films ever!
It's obviously in exchange for data, but I'm skeptical of how anonymised it is, given that FB has made a business of tracking everyone on the web as much as possible.
Also, pedantically, the true shape is more accurately an oblate spheroid.
Train wild corvids with the CrowBox
The sniffling condescension is towards the sentiment, not the people or the general idea of protecting the job market.

Unionizing and making sure visa workers don't get paid less and exploited? Hell yes. Making the process of obtaining visa and immigrating here a living hell for the people that, by all logic, deserve to be and are needed here? "dey turk ur jerbs".

Also, "imported workers" should not be conflated with "people who don't hold a US green card". The latter category includes people who gave 5-7 years to this country while getting a PhD here, for example.
How can I tell looking at the screen who is winning? Is there a score somewhere? Maybe the left side sliders?
I see nothing wrong with him providing a free community version and a paid custom enterprise versions.
Hacker Slacker 6: YC Demo Day 1 (Podcast)
This is really the main goal of these threads. It's your standard Two Minute Hate [1]: everybody gets together and signals their own virtue by spewing fact-free nonsense (apparently China's entire 11T is run by bribes and no foreign company ever made money there). There are two goals here: signal the ingroup but more importantly signal the outgroup. It's a concerted effort to drive away Asian programmers and, as I've pointed out before, it's working.

Note that despite these highly coordinated, anti-China circlejerks (seriously look at the other thread [2], just two down, all the same people and new accounts spouting the same exact nonsense, virtually all of it baseless propaganda) the moderators are to pounce on any "meta-commentary" that tries to pushback or highlight the stupidity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17820157
The decision making process is different and the decisions are different. It's different. Perceived lack of transparency[1] does not change that.

[1]: There are vastly different levels of transparency for, in order: Foreigners, rural poor, non-party members (there are 90M party members), party members, people who are well-connected locally and/or nationally -- cynical people might say it's the same here in certain ways, with the biggest difference being party membership as a prestige badge to work for and benefit from.
There's Young Sheldon now, so don't think you're getting off that easy.
The one in Austin Texas ("Live Music Capital of the World") appropriately has a grand piano on it.
Why does Amazon need to use H1-B when it can open offices overseas and pay workers low wages?
I love your answer because it calls out the perception of what you're doing. It's so important to frame what you're doing in a positive light, otherwise you'll fail, whether or not you make the codebase better.
You're not the only one. It came across as cultural fetishisation to me.
All gratis VPNs, for sure. I'd figure that paid VPNs would probably vary on that count.
I don't have a strong opinion on Zoox, this CEO, or even this story, but there sure does seem to be a lot of frustration in the self-driving world.

Leaves me with two thoughts:

There's a lot more runway for these bike sharing startups then I thought there'd be.

Self driving is hard.
That Netflix has offices in the EU[1] where GDPR can easily be enforced, while YC does not. Supposedly, the EU will try to enforce its own law on all the nations of the world, but I've yet to hear of a case where it does enforce GDPR outside of the EU.

EDIT: I remember there's also had the "requirement" for worldwide businesses to setup physical offices in the EU before accepting EU citizens as clients. I put "requirement" in scare-quotes, because I find that equally difficult for the EU to enforce throughout the world. Maybe, the GDPR will either apply only to those companies that have set-up physical offices in the EU and not the ones that haven't, or cause the creation of The Great Firewall of Europe to block out businesses that haven't set-up physical offices. I do wonder if some nations will allow this enforcement of foreign law by treaty.

EDIT 2: s/Realistically speaking/Maybe/. Realistically speaking, I have no clue how GDPR enforcement will play out.

[1] https://jobs.netflix.com/locations/amsterdam-netherlands
The best things to look at are the gold difference (below the top bar) and the towers remaining (on either side of the top bar). But neither fully captures who's winning. Dota is remarkable for how possible comebacks are, so it's often hard to say with certainty who's winning at a certain moment.
Perhaps a good open source analogy might be libcurl. And just take the many ruby bindings. Since about 2007 or so I’ve maintained a libcurl ruby binding. Other than perhaps using it in some of my own commercial works - that project has netted me $0 and yet has plenty of alternative open source libraries that compete with it for the mind share of the ruby community.... I want great open source projects to prosper so that we can use them to build cool things solve real problems and make real money
>Every time you see an article like this, make sure people understand that foreigners aren't taking our jobs. We're all being mistreated and exploited by the same greedy companies.

That's exactly what I was trying to do with the comment. I agree with what you wrote fully.
Oh! I have an answer for this one on Mac. https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

It let's you software remap keys. I've entirely disabled my caps locks key (I barely ever used it) and turned it into a combo esc/modifier key.

Holding caps plus a home row key types the corresponding symbol (e.g. "a" is "!", and ";" is ")". I also have u,i,o,p mapped to arrow keys (similar to vim). Then some misc. combos for things I commonly program (e.g. caps + m = "() => {}" - very helpful for JS)
In general its the number of towers they've destroyed + number of kills.

Not always a great indicator but you can tell who's behind.
A rule of thumb for determining who is winning is the delta net worth: the money icon that appears under the kill counter at the top for the team who's ahead. (as of posting, OpenAI is ahead)
The sign doesn't say US passports, but the e-gates take anything with the RFID chip in them.
This sounds too simple, but you just don't let people go days without checking in.

I wrote about once simple process here: http://williampietri.com/writing/2014/simple-planning-for-st...

The key points to keep things on the rails: 1) it's a work queue for the whole team, and the whole team is responsible for every work item, 2) the units of work are small, so they should generally be finished in a day or two, and 3) you to quick daily checkins to make sure work is moving along.

If you add pair programming with frequent pair rotation (e.g., 2-3x/day) then you make it impossible for a person to get stuck for long periods. Even if two people are stuck for a couple of hours, when pair rotation happens then the pair can ask somebody with specific experience to tag in.
They should have to pay more than the average salary. Assuming they have equal abilities, a local worker should be preferred over a foreign worker. That kind of social contract encourages locals to invest in education because they know they won't have to compete against a global workforce. IMO it's not a good idea to increase dependence on foreign workers and, in turn, foreign education systems.
I don't get why you think comments that generate conversation are "unsubstantive".
My go to for this is question is the `Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male` (aka. Tuskegee Experiments). Where government clinicians withheld the diagnose and treatment of syphilis from the 'participants'. The men were instead told they had 'bad blood'. This lasted into the 1970s. Only ending due to an upstanding epidemiologist, Peter Buxtun, going to the press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Buxtun