skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this feedback! We'll definitely take it into consideration as the interface evolves.
Essentially the same as "smartphones are about 95% useless without mobile broadband". Except for the tiny detail that lack of mobile coverage is unlikely to kill you...
We use most of the principles of atomic design, but not the terminology. Atoms and molecules and whatnot are a cute analogy but make the concepts harder to explain, not simpler.

It’s pretty simple: Design the smallest bits - headings, paragraphs, buttons etc, and combine them into progressively larger components. Use only those components, adding new ones if absolutely necessary.

At work we’re in the process of moving a 20+ year old website with many thousands of pages to a completely component-based system. We’ve gone from about 70 templates to three, massively simplified the stylesheet and increased development speed as new pages are built from ready-made and tested components rather than buildings every page from scratch.

By doing this it means that UX, design and code can be kept consistent through design, development and maintenance.
Please don't post cheap shots at titles. Authors mostly don't even write those, and a thread like this is shallow and ignorant enough as it is.
I still don't understand the appeal of wireless charging...it always struck me as a solution in search of a problem. Is the half-a-second act of plugging in a phone really so burdensome to people that we need to "solve" it? A wireless charge still requires an outlet, a cord, a place to set the pad down...it's identical to current charges minus the so-minor-and-quick-you-dont-even-think-about-it step of plugging in the phone.

Maybe, maybe if an entire surface (eg desk) was capable of wireless charging that would be a neat upgrade, otherwise I just don't get it at all. Now get off my lawn.
Like I said in a different reply, it was previously possible to compare right on Debian's language shootout page. Apparently they took out that feature, so here's an old link to somebody comparing SBCL, Factor, V8, and LuaJIT.

http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2010/05/comparing-factor...

All four languages have improved over the last 8 years, but you can see SBCL and LuaJIT are in the same ball park, each winning on some tests. My recollection is that SBCL usually "wins" in the number heavy tests like Mandelbrot, but I don't have time to dig up the links.
Many argue that you can't have Tesla without Musk, but I don't believe that's true. There is a paradox that can be observed over and over throughout history: great conquerors rarely make great managers. What Tesla needs now is a manager.
He wasn't wrong, he just dared displease King Elon
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First, I'm not the "US political left".

Second, the thread you're commenting on is about the ability of social network operators to block people, both on Twitter and on Mastodon. You're commenting on a thread rooted in a comment suggesting that people should not, under ordinary circumstances, be allowed to block other users on a social network.

The whole thread is there for you to read, and I object to you pretending for the sake of your argument that I'm the one veering it off course. Please stop.
We are very aware of the problem. I think you are going to really love what we are working on.
In a private Slack with a thousand or so industry people, I've seen "WeWork is a cult" mentioned more than once.

That isn't particularly surprising to me. Not because of anything specific to WeWork, but just because of general tech industry dynamics. Job advertisements want people who are "passionate", who "believe", who want to "change the word". We have had decades of "holy wars" and quasi-religious behavior, starting with editor choice [1] and OS [2], going up to the present moment [3][4].

It's pretty common for exposes of tech companies to talk about cult-like behavior. E.g., Dan Lyons on Hubspot [5] or John Carreyou on Theranos [6]. I don't think all startups are this way, or even most of them. But the seeds of cult-ish behavior are clearly commonplace. E.g., charismatic leaders, a group dedicated to a non-mainstream vision, people spending a lot of intense time together, hazy boundaries, top-down power structures, and a lot of young, impressionable people.

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

[2] https://tidbits.com/1995/06/26/computings-holy-war/

[3] https://www.recode.net/2018/5/30/17386068/brad-garlinghouse-...

[4] https://www.recode.net/2017/12/6/16680816/elon-musk-spacex-t...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Disrupted-My-Misadventure-Start-Up-Bu...

[6] https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/07/theranos-elizabeth-holmes...
What is machine intelligence?
As of today, GitHub has 89 open positions:

• 2 openings - Business Systems

• 2 openings - Communications

• 38 openings - Engineering

• 3 openings - Finance

• 1 opening - Internal Communications

• 4 openings - Legal

• 8 openings - Marketing

• 2 openings - People Operations

• 1 opening - Policy

• 7 openings - Product

• 8 openings - Sales

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• 1 opening - Services

• 3 openings - Support

— https://github.com/about/careers
Unequivocally good but this does raise a question to my mind. So the dividing lines are $65,000, $130,000 and $200,000. What proportion of Rice's undergrads come from each of those four income brackets?
i worked for near free for a few months to prove my chops and built up a bunch of clients + a portfolio and started from there.
That's definitely possible, and an option we've considered but haven't yet been able to implement. We'll be sure to add it to our list. Thanks for the feedback!
There can be cases in two wheel drive where the engine is just idling with the transmission in Drive, touch the brakes just a little, and have the drive wheels turning and moving the car while the other two wheels, with so little traction, are not turning but sliding with no directional control.
And the GDPR says "good riddance to you if you can only make money by tracking people without the tracking itself being part of your value to them".

Not all business models deserve to succeed.
It's strange that there is an apparently objective, value-free aesthetic ideal for personal photographs. What is the endgame here? The look of fashion magazines and advertisements?

Because hey, like Gruber, I'm also an unattractive mid-30s gremlin, nothing like a fashion model. My wife, whom I love, is not Kate Moss either.

I used to run around with Dianas and Holgas - plastic cameras with plastic lenses that expose 120 film (medium or 4x5 format). Half of the shots turn out unusable, which gets really expensive -- but the half that turns out good is great. Unlike my (cheap SE) iPhone images, they have a quality that's uncannily "real". Like real people living real lives.

And when I say "strange" I don't necessarily mean "bad"; just that it sure looks that we will soon be normalizing the hard-to-notice glitches of ML models and miss them in "normal" photos. With cheap plastic cameras you knew that the artifacts (light streaks, dust on lenses...) were artifacts.

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Next up: thanatropism complains about auto-tuners in modern pop music.
Pray tell -- what are ASMR creators actually selling, that's so indecent?
Ola raises $50M at a $4.3B valuation from two Chinese funds
Why does seemingly every university rolling out these sorts of plans set hard cutoffs instead using a simple equation for doling out aid? Under the current plan, if your family makes $130,000/year, you go for free. But if you make $130,001/year, you pay thousands? It's so absurd.
Beside cost saving, I wonder whether it is generational with Millenials having been closely watched over by the hovering parents, etc. all their live.

To the comment below: Not all Millenials may be explicitly asking for it, yet they definitely have lesser allergy/resistance to it which makes the cost saving measure of the "cool offices" more feasible. Other people have also at different times/comments (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18009641) noticed that the open office is frequently used as an "ageism" filter.
Linkerd 2.0 GA: From Service Mesh to Service Sidecar
The big takeaway for me was that coinbase not only trades on their own exchange but accounts for 20% of its volume.

Coinbase went from being one of the "good guys" to being one of the "bad guys" really quickly here :(

There is a reason that we dont' let the exchanges trade on their own markets against their clients. It's a long learned lesson.

Especially because coinbase came out earlier and said expicilty that they don't do this

https://www.recode.net/2018/1/22/16911692/cryptocurrency-bit...

> Coinbase makes money not on bitcoin’s price but on the volume of trades — charging both the buyer and seller usually a fee between 0.25 percent and 1 percent of the total transaction size through the site. The company serves as both an exchange and a broker of deals, though it does not serve as a market maker that holds bitcoin

The NY AG has a tweet storm about this here

https://twitter.com/NewYorkStateAG/status/104209855584926515...

Question to the crypto currency community.

Who are the good exchanges now?

Where can you trade with any sort of assurance that the exchange isn't front running you or using your order flow to trade against you?

I guess this is a good place to start

https://twitter.com/dlauer/status/1042114043065126914

Also

> Circle reported that it accounted for less than one percent of the executed volume on its platform Poloniex during the most recent time period reviewed.

So the exchange backed by wall street was squeaky clean, while Coinbase comes off looking pretty poorly from an ethics stand point, that's actually a shock and pretty refreshing.

Though Wall street is alot more regulated and risk adverse so maybe that's not too surprising.
It's not pointless from the perspective of any given engineer. If a given engineer is willing to accept a lower relative quality of life in the Bay Area, the absolute amount they save as a result of that decision is larger at a larger absolute salary. This is relevant as long as the probability of living outside the Bay Area in the future is greater than zero.
It'll be interesting to see if Elon Musk, darling of startup entreprewannabes, gets a pass here.

I hope his followers understand the precedent this sets. Are they truly about engineering solutions to tough problems (as they claim they are), or are they just a cult of personality cultivated to protect a thin-skinned master?
Ya I agree. I've worked in several disciplines here in Idaho - working for myself writing software for 20+ years, moving furniture for a warehouse for 3 years, computer repair for 3 years, freelance contracting and consulting for at least 5 years. In most cases employees could be at-will terminated, the pay disparity between the company's hourly rate and what it pays were rather high, and employees had little or no ownership of the business. This last point is most important IMHO.

I think the very simplest step to remedying labor-capitalist relations in the US is to change the corporate mandate to maximizing worker quality of life instead of maximizing shareholder value. This would basically mean that corporate boards would be > 50% workers and that work (earned income) would always be taxed less than capital gains (unearned income). This could be obtained through unions or by new legislation at the state/federal level. Richard Wolff has many videos on YouTube about it.

Unfortunately since this is the US of A, democracy has been conflated with capitalism and most people seem to have forgotten that our country was founded on the principle of no taxation without representation. I argue that since wages are so low now, we're all paying an effective 50% tax to the private sector, which gets vacuumed up by the very wealthy or moved out of the country to exploit even poorer people. Our income goes to rents, school (which used to be public), medical care (which is public in most other countries), etc etc etc. It would be more profitable for the middle class to do these workplace reforms and make 2-4 times as much income at a slightly higher tax rate than we have now.

The above is the most logical, succinct way I can put it, because I have firsthand experience in how the current system isn't working and isn't sustainable. And I've had it relatively easy compared to people struggling with 2-3 jobs and children to support. But the level of vitriol I get from friends and family that agree with me on most things (except politics!) is just incredible.
I'm talking about constructions, which are part of "the math".
Think of a substantial surface in public places like an airport. Also I’m sure the design guys at Apple are thinking this is how they remove the last port on the iPhone a few years from now.
It was partly the fault of the original baity title, but what a trainwreck the bulk of this thread turned out to be. If ever there were an occasion to dust off pg's old phrase, "the middlebrow dismissal", here we have it.

Discussions celebrating one's own and mutual ignorance, with people shooting whatever cheap shots pop up about a great thinker, writer, and soul, make me cringe to be part of HN.

There is a morbid interest in seeing how internet discussions, viewed as a whole, behave like a physiological process—perhaps a digestive organ, turning waste of one kind into waste of another.
Yeah, I agree that is a reasonable approach, particularly since it tends to align well with product development (as you add more advanced features, you can easily justify segmenting them into a new premium plan). Though I'm a proponent of having enterprise pricing (or at least "call me" pricing) at any stage -- if a large enterprise comes knocking, you need to make sure you can get enough value for you to support their scale and procurement processes.
This is a port of OpenBSD's code:

https://github.com/aperezdc/signify/
The difference is that additional housing can be created in most places that aren’t the Bay Area.
CopyrightFilter – Open EU compliant content filtering library for node
> Use the Apple model. Steve Jobs was needed until the IPhone was really established ...

The Apple model was to fire their impetuous founder, decline slowly into mediocrity, bring back the founder, and then achieve historic levels of success. Perhaps Musk needs a Jobs-like break?

> until the IPhone was really established (not to mention the IPod.) Only then should you bring in a guy like Cook

If Jobs was healthy, he'd still be running Apple. And maybe they would have done something visionary since the iPad.
There's no statutory limit on damages for defamation per se under California law. It's literally whatever the jury decides is appropriate, modified by what the judge thinks is reasonable.

EDIT: added the "per se" since regular defamation requires proof of damages but the per se form does not.
I think the only thing that will happen in the US is setting some minimum standard for what the employer must pay you during the non-compete period.

Right now the employer can claim that your severance pay is your consideration for the noncompete period.

Basically, if the non-compete clause actually cost them something, you would only see it in cases where it mattered.
Glad you found it helpful :) I recommend following patio11 on Twitter -- this is one of his regular drums to beat, and it helps having a frequent reminder of how enterprises work and that left to your own devices you will almost always undervalue your own product.
I don't much mind the branding, but the LED is a real problem and it's not at all apparent from some of the listings just how bad it can be. I first bought a Samsung [0] (because it was one of only two that were purported to be future-compatible with the fast wireless charge once Apple released it in a firmware update), and could not bear the whole-room-illuminating glare of the bright green/blue LED and do not recommend it.

I'm using this Spigen charger [1] now and happy with the tiny LED on there that is mostly covered up by the placement of the phone. This newer one by Anker [2] is on my list of chargers to try if I need a replacement since I have been happy with their products in the past, but the hard, shiny surface makes it look a bit cheaper than the matte finish on the Spigen, although it's more reasonably priced.

I also have this stand-up Samsung charger for my desk [3], which does not have the same glaring light issue as the first one I bought, but I specifically did not want a stand-up model for my nightstand.

The Samsung models are specifically designed for Android Qi-compatible phones that use a version of the protocol that is not fully compatible with Apple's. In particular, their LEDs are dual-color and intended to light up blue when charging then switch to green when charge has completed. They do not switch to green when charging an iPhone. The Spigen by contrast just has an indicator light that turns on when the iPhone is in contact with the wireless charger (i.e. can charge, regardless of whether or not it is fully charged).

But note that the Samsung comes with an AC adapter capable of supporting fast charge, but the Spigen and the Anker do not -- you'll need to make sure you plug them into an adapter capable of supplying the sufficient voltage and current (as I believe fast charge switches to 9V), otherwise charge speed will be limited (and wireless charging is already slow enough).

0: https://amzn.to/2POFUau

1: https://amzn.to/2NmnlNW

2: https://amzn.to/2OBQlxK

3: https://amzn.to/2xrXkC4
Yes, GH search leaves so much to be desired. And this post doesn't actually seem to address the weaknesses.

The search appears to be configured for natural language documents, not code. The stopwords are not right and search appears to strip all sigils. They could get pretty far just by parsing documents and changing their lucene/elasticsearch configuration.
We will never know, but I think his lacking formal training helped him as it didn't confine him in a boundary and allowed him to choose his own path. Its often said he rediscovered many things already known, there by casting a bit of uselessness to his works. Be that as it may, I think, more than having access to established and formalized knowledge, he should have just lived longer. He would have been like the mathematicians in renaissance Europe who tackled and pursued whatever interested them and produced great stuff. Eventually, he would have done something remarkable. Of course, he could have ended up being utterly mediocre once his "beginners luck" faded, but it is more likely that he would have succeeded.
Replace indoors by closed and you'll have it. Complex systems to maintain at long term, but we are learning still.
Also the shunting tracks at the train stations aren't electrified most of the time.
You can thank exacting regulations with the goal of safety/etc for modern calls all looking samey and generally ugly. I feel like there must be ways to give more leeway to aesthetic design without compromising what's truly necessary in terms of safety and economy.
Hopefully you don't travel through Oakland... A knife 3 inches or longer is classified as "a dangerous weapon." It's quite ridiculous considering people with the right permits can bring guns on BART, but it is the law and probably not good to go around bragging about breaking it.
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We're talking about WeWork here, not a tech company.
Ask HN: Career advice for a CS grad who dislikes programming
Hello HN,

I'm a recently graduated 21-yr-old CS major with average grades and ZERO relevant work experience during my time in college.

Now that I'm out on my own, I'm starting to realize that freelancing as a writer for tech/science-y magazines (which I thought was a great idea back when I was in Uni) is not a great way to keep myself financially afloat; I'm struggling real hard to pay my bills and rent.

So, I've got two questions I'd like to get answered --

1. Which component/arm of CS/IT is most straightforward/quickest to pick up (in your subjective experience) and pays relatively well? I'm specifically looking for those areas where I can get certified/validated from an online course (free or reasonable cost), in addition to my BS in Computer Science.

2. What are the areas of CS that doens't require much programming but pays decently well (and scales with experience), especially for new graduates?

Thank you!
Python Packaging Is Good Now (2016)
Do they? The main product appears to have 0 product velocity
I'm also skeptical a family (of let's say, four) ceases to be middle class at just 130k, even in Houston.
Where can you buy stamps in the USA?

It varies by country. Most convenience shops, supermarkets, etc will sell stamps in the UK, and I'd guess the US is like this, but in some other countries only the post office is allowed to sell them.

(My postal votes for the UK come with an international postage paid envelope.)
You seem to have no problem 'freeloading' HN.
Yeah, it's reasonable. Although it kind of kills any side projects if you're working at a big company; because name something fun to do that doesn't compete with Yahoo.

But that's what I think of, when someone says non-compete. Because it's the only kind of non-compete I've seen, no one has tried to get me to sign a post-employment non-compete.
> Isn't there a good chance they'd just mothball the whole company and keep on making regular gasoline-engine cars?

All of those companies - and the entire industry - are investing heavily in their own electric cars; some already have announced dates when they will stop production of gas engines IIRC. Depending on the price, of course, I imagine they'd love to add Tesla's prestige, patents, and maybe their talent.

My uneducated guess is that's how Tesla will end, a division of a major car-maker. When did GM last add a new brand? Imagine the bidding.
Indeed, and to that end, the punishment could be that he is barred from serving as an executive or board member. I think that would be a far deeper punishment to him than if you took every penny of his.
Where did you find clients?
Roubini has been saying this for years. /s
"By using these filters, you are allowing sites to set cookies by default, without you first being notified, and are agreeing to allow the sites you visit to set cookies."

Does lack of interaction with a (blocked) cookie banner give implicit consent to be tracked?
Why is financial aid tied to family income? Why isn't it granted in order of merit?

Under the current system, if the most meritorious student's family makes over $130K, he/she is saddled with debt, regardless of how good he/she is.
I worked at a company for a few years then moved overseas and went freelance for them then. Also at the same time started working for friends who had a promising startup.