skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am bit scared/worried about maintaining a constant flow of work to pay bills.

You should be! The key to paying bills is not to get a constant flow of work, which will take a while, it's to live off of a portion of your income and save the rest. IMO you should have at least 6 months of expenses in the bank before you start freelancing. This also ameliorates a lot of the stress related to finding work, and means you won't feel pressured to accept or pursue bad work.

I got my first freelance gig by posting on the HN whoishiring thread, which I do recommend doing.
I'm used to living in chaos. I have a bunch of SOPs standard operating procedures for which tools I pick, how I organize those tools, and then what tools I use to organize those tools.

Sounds silly but it makes sense to me

Every tool I use serves a different distinctive purpose so its easy for me to remember.

I organize my chrome bookmarks A-Z, its a single location that links all my favorite webtools together. As things change I compact and reorganize these folders, they all point to different tools and links.

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

Like computer science, just remember what information resides where. Use pointers for everything, find out whats at that address afterwards. I am always constantly optimizing where those pointers should point too, so its always organized to me.

Things change all the time so I rarely setup a wiki and rarely ever use tools like IFTTT either. Most times, there's a wiki that already exists specific to your needs. I learned to keep things really simple starting out (paper and pen, no computer, traditional file folders) and evolved it, slowly adapting to new tools per my use cases over the years. So every decision I make is based off compounded decisions and history made previously
If there were one thing that we should be teaching kids, and only one thing, in my opinion it would be this:

How to enjoy and be a lifelong learner.

It seems to me that many people actually stop learning (some actively - as in they do anything not to learn new stuff) after the finish high school or college.

The don't read, they don't explore, they don't wonder, they don't invent - in short, they stop learning.

More horrifyingly, this is somewhat celebrated in our culture (at least here in the United States)!

I believe this needs to change, and soon, if we are ever to get out of the societal mess we find ourselves wallowing in currently.

I'm pessimistic, though, that this will change.
> Why Aren’t You Trying to Be More Like Elon Musk?

Not being bipolor has been working for me so far.
They don't require access to your phone companies premises?
Oh wow, these type of behaviors is why I’m starting to lean onto the idea of splitting these monopolists into their own companies. I wasn’t sure why it made any sense in the other article today from The Verge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17918264

But now...
If it really gets to that point, the rich are going to get all their NZ compounds taken away from them by the people they hired to build and defend them. If you’re a Special Forces veteran hired to protect the Zuckerberg compound why wouldn’t you replace Zuckerberg with your cousin Eddie? What can Zuckerberg offer in a world where money is worthless?
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Americans spend more than $5 trillion on restaurants, retail, and services each year. Nearly 90% of those transactions happen in a real-world store. Data is king and online, it powers personalized customer experiences and product recommendations. Offline, however, it’s still 1999. Brands are blind to their customers, causing them to spend more and more money on “megaphone” marketing with the same message to everyone. The result is an ever-increasing wave of generic spam that makes it hard for consumers to build deeper, data-driven relationships with their favorite brands. No wonder brick-and-mortar stores are being left behind.
Thanx is fundamentally changing that. As the CRM for offline merchants, Thanx personalizes every interaction between a merchant and their best customers, resulting in measurable increases in revenue for merchants and far greater personalization for consumers.

Think of us as Salesforce meets Google Adwords for offline retail.

Thanx is backed by some of the best investors in the world — Sequoia Capital, Icon Ventures, and Andy Rachleff (CEO Wealthfront, cofounder Benchmark Capital), to name a few.

Engineering
•	Team: early engineers at AWS, Cloudera, Climate, Zenefits, Okta. Experience from successful product companies like Disney, Google, and Facebook. This is an elite engineering team, period.

•	Growth: 10x YOY data growth; $100M+ delivered to merchants; 200% team growth; modern, rapidly-evolving platform -- adopted Golang, Elasticsearch, NLP, React, React Native, GraphQL, and added 5+ new microservices; all in the last 12 months. And we are just getting started.

•	Culture: data-driven decision-making, risk-taking, no hierarchy, collaboration & shared responsibility, testing and continuous improvement. As a remote-friendly team, we have flexible work hours. We take time off as needed. We work and play hard -- be warned, when it comes to Mario Kart, we are super competitive!
IDK, "longest part of code" to me clearly seems to refer to length of the code (i.e. lines of code), not to length of its execution time; so I'd say that there definitely seems to be some confusion caused by the choice of words.
Ask HN: Is Freenode IRC network now for registered users only?
It's look something changed on Freenode network and now for open any channel hosted on it's server user should be "registered".

When you try connect to Freenode server you will get notification message:

freenode-connect: Due to the persistent ongoing spam, all new connections are being set +R (block messages from unidentified users) and will be scanned for vulnerabilities. This will not harm your computer, and vulnerable hosts will be notified.

If you has no registered user account on Freenode -- then you couldn't do nothing on it's IRC anymore...

So, Freenode stopped to be friendly for anonymous users? What is going on?
Any time there is an IPO filing, I immediately come to the comments on HN, because there is always someone well versed in reading these things that can provide an excellent summary. Thank you!
Family members are pretty much exempt from labor laws. Hence the cost structure can be a lot lower by using family labor.
Maybe, but ESR is also just a regular old crank.
I often test out things like this by completely disabling components.

It's one way of measuring, and can really help narrow things down in larger programs.

i.e., pipeline takes 300s to run. Suspect the final output may be worth profiling and optimizing. Stick a 'return' at the top of the output function and see the pipeline now takes 295s to run. Conclusion: final output not the problem.
The original blockchain:

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

Very difficult to trace and crack by authorities.
Elastic also has an excellent market position. They have far fewer credible competitors than Mongo.
Alas, I don't quite understand the point you're trying to make (and I'd like to!)

Perhaps this will clarify things: I think "decentralized by design" is linguistically ambiguous, because "decentralized" has a bunch of odd baggage -- do you think it's reasonable to say that email is "decentralized by design", and why (or why not)?
What kills wood is a changing environment. Keep it dry and it lasts forever. Keep is wet and it lasts forever. Let is cycle between wet and dry every hour, it last a week.
>They expect the solution to come without significant investment in data collection. One, even over-paid, data scientist is a far smaller budget than having your dozens of teams make an effort in fixing data collection, and setting up a reporting team.

This x100. I've seen so many places where the budget for "data" is zero. This includes funds for paying for new data, budget for additional people/software to support data collection/cleaning, money to provide to existing data vendors/suppliers to provide better data, support from legal to re-negotiate contracts with existing data vendors who historically have only provided aggregated summaries, etc.

I've seen situations where a Data Scientist discovered that a data pipeline was broken reports using that data had errors for years. Rather than trying to fix the pipeline, the Data Scientist got in trouble.
A vision to connect every remaining human to relevant advertising?
I'll just point out that "Twitter" sounded equally ridiculous when it first came out.
I believe Gates started Microsoft with a $5000 loan from his parents. Not that "immense".
The alternative is voting for people who support your viewpoint in the upcoming European Parliament elections next year, not quitting.
Deleting the Facebook apps (Facebook and Messenger) has been a huge boost to my productivity and happiness. Could not recommend a single thing more to the average person.
Oh sorry I didn't know that and can't edit. Hopefully an admin can help.
The idea of moving en masse to a technology that's controlled by a single company just doesn't sit right.
I haven't used Netflix in a few years so I don't know if it works the same now, but the region restrictions were based on your IP address, not credit card info or anything. That meant you could easily turn on a VPN and easily access the worldwide Netflix library.

They would blacklist IPs from public VPNs like Private Internet Access, but you could easily just set up OpenVPN on a Linode to get around that.
Riddled with Questions: Interrogating Your Technology
I think everybody goes through a stage where they second guess their career choice. Work is work. Even if you find work that is enjoyable, it tends to be fleeting as most engineering problems have an end. You probably want to address these concerns directly with your superior or mentor. I would do this simply by stating that you would like to expand your responsibilities and share your interests with her/him. There is typically more work than people to do it, so maybe you can carve out time to work on other things or help people out. Also, sometimes focusing non-technical things is helpful; personally, I love helping other people find success.

Consider focusing on yourself and your process, this is a good way to gamify your experience as an engineer. There is always room for improvement and many of the good engineers I know focus on self improvement over the period of many years.

If that doesn't work or sound good to you, perhaps finding another position is a good move. Just keep in mind that every job has different problems to overcome. There is a reason you are paid to do the work and the honeymoon period typically only last a few months before you are right back in it.
It couldn't be with a limited set of marbles could it?
Just OOC, what do you recommend as an alternative to ADP for payroll? Didn't know about Clerky. Very cool.
The Biggest Problems Startup Founders Face Today
Defaults matter. A lot. I kind of wish G+ was a more successful competitor as it would have pushed FB to adopt this more thoroughly than tacking on an optional feature.
Question: with such big news going on for such a long
time, how does not even one person -- whether manager or otherwise -- just take 5 seconds to ask if they are prepared for it? It's not like the reporting on this was just in some dark corners of the internet... /some/ people in a given company should have at least heard something was going to happen to Symantec certificates.
The headline is also, probably in reality: "A small subset of Google wants...'
They literally gave you the reason. Spam was getting unbearable.
$100M is likely a placeholder amount. They're filing to go public and can adjust that figure later, it's not that strange to do so. I don't think $100M means much there, and relative to their overall valuation if $100M is all they wanted they'd likely have other options.
It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining–And to Start Fighting Back
They literally gave you the reason. Spam.
Will you buy the new Kobo e-reader?
$23,420.63 in todays dollars. [http://www.in2013dollars.com/1975-dollars-in-2018?amount=500...]
Let's sidestep the politics today, eh? We're doin' good. Little bit of hyperbole there.

I'm just trying to draw emphasis to your point being sound and not for HN personality-cult reasons.
Sorry for the double comment. My client messed up.
Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed on Too Long
Let's not pretend we're surprised.
You could buy a Tesla semi and throw away the trailer. Or better yet - use the trailer as a garage to drive around your black model S.
Also forget the personal security team turning on you - if the shit really goes down, it's pretty hard to imagine New Zealand's national sovereignty holding up.

As if elites in Australia, or in the actual pacific mil powers, are just going to happily burn/drown in geohell while New Zealanders, with no real military, sit smugly in a still-comfortable climate / social situation.
Something to think about, if Netflix comes in with their brand recognition and cash and buys the digital rights (more money for exclusive rights of course) to the local movies, this regulation basically locks up the market for them. As long as they have the bigger user base, they can pay more for any new local content, and effectively shut down any competitors. Amazon Prime might not be able to compete, forget about Hulu or whatever. So instead of a few big American companies and some local start ups in the market, you get just one big American company.
That was the plan as a part of the Digital Single Market (https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/digital-single-ma...) but they settled on, essentially, roaming for digital services for now: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4681_en.htm
Do androids see electric blue? Visualizing the latent space of color perception
Darpa wants to make AI a ‘collaborative partner’ for national defense
The dogma of Catholicism did not destroy the clan structure in Europe, though it was certainly used by those who did. It was the humans running the church, who had particular political objectives relevant to the time and place which are not necessarily anything like the political objectives of the people involved with the church these days.

No one here is making the argument that Catholicism cannot exist alongside close extended families, so your objection to the argument that is being made falls completely flat.
None of these articles ever talk about any concept of economic "distance". This one at least discusses the need for throttling if you read past the headline.

End consumers pay an set price for generic data at their ISPs corporate node, but data that comes from further nodes fundamentally costs more, as do large sources at peak times. Personally, I would rather the ISPs sort this out between themselves and other corporations rather than graduate my bill based on which sites/times I browse. The best would be a patchwork of municipal, regional, and private owned wired ISPs, private wireless carriers, and an open standard for peering agreements with concepts of "distance" and "congestion".

In response to the title of the article and ones like it: why is it surprising or "evil" that a company charging destinations a fixed price throttles at peak times or tries to be selective about data sources, even asking some over a certain threshold to reduce or foot part of the bill? It's OK to be suspicious of quasi public/private companies, but I need to see more evidence and more logic in news reporting to conclude people are acting immorally here. For example, outright blocking of content at the behest of politicians or differential throttling of data with equal "distance" outside of a common price structure.
But there no any press-releases from Freenode on "every user now should be registered" on their blog...
I think its more than 50%.

My new owner origination had about 16 owners/managers. 8 owners were Indian/Gujarati, 1 owner was from Pakistan, 1 white owner and rest were managers.

I went to my first franchise conference and almost 70+% of the US owners were Indian/Gujarati.

I got 2 greeting cards from the franchise in 1 year. 1 was for Diwali/Gujarati New year and 1 in December for the new year.
I don't like AMP at all and fully agree with all the lock-in concerns - but I didn't find this post particularly convincing.

This reads in places like a developer or publisher who has grown accustomated to stuffing his pages with gobs and gobs of javascript and questionable UI patterns and is now outraged at the prospect that someone wants to take that privilege away from him. I can't agree with that.

Examples:

> The underlying message is clear: Google wants full equivalency between AMP and canonical URL. Every element that is present on a website’s regular version should also be present on its AMP version: every navigation item, every social media sharing button, every comment box, every image gallery.

So Google's suggestion is that, if you've already chosen to offer an AMP page, that page shouldn't have intentionally worse usability than the original?

> For years Google has been nudging webmasters to create better websites – ‘better’ meaning ‘easier for Google to understand’. Technologies like XML sitemaps and schema.org structured data are strongly supported by Google because they make the search engine’s life easier.

Other initiatives like disavow files and rel=nofollow help Google keep its link graph clean and free from egregious spam. All the articles published on Google’s developer website are intended to ensure the chaotic, messy web becomes more like a clean, easy-to-understand web. In other words, a Google-shaped web. This is a battle Google has been fighting for decades.

Sitemaps and structured data were the non-proprietary attempts to structure the web. Those could have made the web more accessible for everyone, not just Google. They are something fundamentally different than AMP.

Yet, he condemns them too? Why?

He seems to argue that the chaos and messiness of the web infrastructure is itself a quality that should be defended. Why would that be the case?
Google's pro-Muslim algorithms
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A regulation and a subsidy are called for because people don't wash their hands often enough?
We recently moved our stuff at work from AWS to Elastic Cloud and it’s excellent.

Performance is miles and above better, there’s actual security options on the clusters and there’s way more features.
> While that's true, they seem to be saying that being a startup is not an immutable trait of a company, but rather a phase, and that any side project or solo business could enter the startup phase at any time.

I mostly agree with you, but I don't really agree with this idea. I mean, theoretically, yes, it's true - but I still think it makes sense to differentiate between a new restaurant, and someone trying to create a new technology product/company with billion dollar potential.

And this is what investors are looking for, too, which is why only this kind of startup gets VC money.
The best way to prepare for doomsday is to prepare everyone for doomsday and to keep civilization and the rule of law functional.
1. Nothing in that article makes me more worried about a Chinese company being potentially compromised than I am worried about a US company being potentially compromised. Every single argument there - performative patriotism, military-industrial complex, government expectations of backdoors - would apply equally well to the US.

2. The threat model makes no sense. Why would Google send you to a compromised vendor of cheap devices with weak radios to falsely secure logins to your Google account, when Google already has control over your Google account?

There's a simpler answer, which is that the only vendors that have Android NFC U2F devices are China-based. The YubiKey doesn't support U2F over NFC (at least last I checked). That's why they previously had you get one YubiKey and one Feitian. On that assumption, the most rational thing for Google to do if they have good intentions is to suggest the leading Chinese security key in the short term, and in the medium term, white-label that key's hardware and flash their own firmware (or at least firmware they've audited) onto it and rebrand it, which appears to be exactly what they've done.
> Sometimes even speck may be the right tool for the job.

I disagree. Proliferation of very-likely-backdoored crypto is dangerous. By using it you're demonstrating that it is OK to use crap the NSA is pushing. If it gains in popularity, you'll have people trying to use it for sensitive communications, etc, without understanding why it is a terrible idea.
You need to print it on epaper, hurr~
That you will never use in real life.

The chapters are first, second, and higher order were all a bunch of useless tricks. Then they introduce you to series solutions, where it starts to feel useful, and then they hit you on the side of the head with useless transforms.

ODEs are taught the way they are taught out of tradition, a bad tradition.
90s is far to early. The anti-asian immigration laws were repealed only in 1965 [1] only to benefit Poles and Italians but then also ended up benefiting Indians and Chinese. Many of them came to USA during that time and toiled mostly in menial jobs. It was only around late 80s that they had gathered enough influence to buy motels and such and this motel takeover was much more visible during early 2001s. In the Obama era recession the property prices dropped further and many Indians purchased even more motels.

Also the Patel community is not really into high end motels like Hampton Inn. They are into Motel 6, Super 8, Choice Hotels, etc.

[1]
It is very, very easy to spend money; and if you have any, there are about seven billion people who want you to spend it.
>despite having 500 years for Catholicism to settle in, is still really big into the extended family.

And? The people running the catholic church around 1000 AD were not running the catholic church in Latin America in 1500 AD.