skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I've only had one interview as long as you describe in Chicago.

I am not sure if there are fewer great engineers in Chicago; I have certainly met lots of people who were as good as anyone I've met in SV and that I've learned a lot from. I think it might be that (Midwestern sensibility and all) they aren't chasing the latest shiny thing as much, and often work in some more boring business domain, getting things done rather than "changing the world".
You mean a Series focused on Phrengi?
> school is not a recent invention

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/freedom-learn/200808...

In relation to the biological history of our species, schools are very recent institutions. For hundreds of thousands of years, before the advent of agriculture, we lived as hunter-gatherers. In my August 2 posting, I summarized the evidence from anthropology that children in hunter-gatherer cultures learned what they needed to know to become effective adults through their own play and exploration. The strong drives in children to play and explore presumably came about, during our evolution as hunter-gatherers, to serve the needs of education. Adults in hunter-gatherer cultures allowed children almost unlimited freedom to play and explore on their own because they recognized that those activities are children's natural ways of learning.

In sum, for several thousand years after the advent of agriculture, the education of children was, to a considerable degree, a matter squashing their willfulness in order to make them good laborers. A good child was an obedient child, who suppressed his or her urge to play and explore and dutifully carried out the orders of adult masters. Such education, fortunately, was never fully successful. The human instincts to play and explore are so powerful that they can never be fully beaten out of a child. But certainly the philosophy of education throughout that period, to the degree that it could be articulated, was the opposite of the philosophy that hunter-gatherers had held for hundreds of thousands of years earlier.

With the rise of schooling, people began to think of learning as children's work. The same power-assertive methods that had been used to make children work in fields and factories were quite naturally transferred to the classroom.

In recent times, the methods of schooling have become less harsh, but basic assumptions have not changed. Learning continues to be defined as children's work, and power assertive means are used to make children do that work.

> schools are the same as jails, education is the same as torture, it's just bullsh*t.

Meant in jest.

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

- Mark Twain
Gene Pool Engineering for Startups
Yep, this is some kind of weird _feature_ in it. You can pay $5 to get "stealth" domains that others cannot register sub domains of.
There's speculation (not sure if it's more substantiated than) that the obesity rates seen in the Pacific islands may also involve selection for humans who could amass energy stores necessary for long oceanic voyages.
I'm not sure how it is elsewhere, but here if you peek inside the separate bins outside, or in restaurants, it's basically just mixed trash.

Aside from the usual problem of people not caring about sorting, one or more of the bins is often full, and homeless people sort through the trash to take the aluminum cans, leaving mostly the incorrectly sorted stuff behind.
Instead, he recommends taking a supplement shown to be next to useless...

This is a tough argument, because AFAICT this is the full argument:

1. We can do positive things for what the sun hurts, e.g. we can treat high blood pressure.

2. We can't stop melanoma.

3. Therefore, avoid the sun, and take medications to treat the resulting complications.

That's an argument that takes one risk (Melanoma) and contrasts it with other risks minus the efficacy of their treatments. I have no idea how ANYONE has worked out that equation, as no working is shown.

Personally, I really like the sun, and the lifestyle that comes with it. Doesn't seem like a small increase in Melanoma risk is worth giving all that up, especially when the cost is taking more medication for years as a result.
Or just tell them you’re paying cash and ask for that price. It won’t count toward your deductible but it could be significantly cheaper. I’ve seen urgent care facilities that charge $50 for cash patients and $130 for those with insurance.
Below market rate? That will be a shortage then.
Ask HN: Which mobile stack to choose, for a desktop/web dev?
First mobile project, absolutely no clue about mobile dev. I'm primarily a web dev.

Which stack to choose (anything other than Obj-C is fine)? Any advice?
This is written like a political hit piece, and while an interesting viewpoint, it's about as useful to foster a rich policy discussion as any other partisan media - meaning, not very.
I really wish routine procedures had fixed prices so you know exactly what you're in for. Obviously there should be some limits, but you should know what you're in for with a low chance of surprises.

If prices were fixed, you could shop around if your procedure wasn't urgent. This ability to shop around means that prices should stay competitive, which will benefit people who don't have that luxury.
> Getting 75% of your salary to do nothing for 2 years is the opportunity of a lifetime

The examples you listed makes me ask this. Imagine your parents, while raising you, given this option of having their pay reduced by 25%. How likely would the options you listed have been an "opportunity of a lifetime" to them?
Up until as recently as maybe 6 or 7 years ago it was about the only option if you didn't want to pay for a full dedicated server.

Running a full VM, especially on the tools back then, took a ton of resources. Even server class machines only had 4 or 8GB of RAM typically.
this happens to me maybe 1 or 2% of the time
$0 to $1200 MRR in 3 months: 5 Most Important lessons learned
Start with a budget to see where every penny goes. You need to make sure you're not wasting money on frivolous items. Going out and entertainment should be cut. You can have some on special occasions but you really can't afford it.
Get a second job. Does not have to be in tech but you need to continue to look for a job that's in tech so you continue with your career.
Goto to tech meetups to MEET contacts. Do not stay on the side by yourself. You need to make sure you make contacts.

Rethink the car, seems to me like you really can't afford it, now. You will in time.

Don't be afraid to be cheap. People criticize cheap people but those critics aren't ready to help with cash. They just criticize and never help.

Determine how much you can save and make sure you put that amount in the bank the moment you get your check.

Your best bet is to stay where you're at right now and put all your effort into finding a job. A full-time job in tech will earn you a good living. Don't move out until you have a full-time job.

I assume that you're healthy and you have a vocation that is in demand. Poverty is not an absolute but it can become a mindset that overpowers you. I strongly suggest you start reading self-improvement books that will let you see alternatives. Also, biographies of people you admire. I suggest Benjamin Franklin's. His autobiography is online. It's free. It's easy to read even though it was written 200+ years ago and it opens one's eyes as to what a person can accomplish, if you have the right prespective.
CCPOA has approximately 40,000 members. CTA has 325,000 members.
literally every other country has "death panels" in which they deny care based on cost/benefit ratio. In America, everyone gets every treatment; we have the best cancer survival rates, but we pay for it. 90% of all health Care spending is spent on people within the last two years of their life: because in America we try to keep people alive for as long as possible. They have different goals in Europe. There's a reason private health insurance is big on Germany: because they don't have guaranteed coverage for everyone and everything at all ages.
Social scientists are people. We are all people first. None of us are robots. We can be rational in certain situations, but overall, we are not a rational species.

In order to fight some of our worse qualities, we have to first identify them. Then break down any social barriers that keep us from not fighting them.

That is what this article is doing. It is naming one of them, and then asking us to be forgiving. And helping us realize that mistakes are not as punished as we all may think.
I use Continuous [1] for C# and F# coding on my iPad Pro. It implements a lot of Native iOS libs like UIKit, SceneKit, SpriteKit, Foundation, and CoreImage, but I am not sure if it can do what the article here does with Pythonista, which I also use on my iPad Pro. It has code completion and debugging, and code changes update very quickly for interactive development.

[1] http://continuous.codes/
I’ve followed HN for around 10 years now but even basic stuff like this can come across as jazz to me. Funny thing is I understand jazz at a professional level. I feel foolish because I use godaddy, because they have good customer service and their interface is easy to understand but as a HN lurker I want to have good web etiquette. I’m going to see about turning this feature off in the way the author describes but what can I do to stay clear of the Kenny Gs of tech? Full disclaimer I have nothing against Kenny G, and even respect him, just one of those jazz expressions...
I think it's pretty unfortunate that even now, CSPs are getting so little love in the comments of a post where they would have easily prevented this script from loaded at all, and could have helped the author discover the script the second it was added.

For the unitiated, Content Security Policies (CSP) allow you to, among other things, define a whitelist of origins for things like scripts, css etc. and also notify you of violations. There is little excuse to not set a strong CSP on your sites if you can and you'll be glad you have it once something does happen.
> Another thing California does right is refusing to honor noncompete agreements from other states.

They might refuse but the originating state companies have caught on and claim jurisdiction out of CA.
Tbh I’m not sure if they are meant for less interaction. I think they were meant to get you talking to a bunch of other people, not for true puzzle solving aficionados. Then again - I’m not sure where you could satisfy your puzzle solving itch. Perhaps there is a market for escape room type mystery books and strategy games. Reminds me of those Sierra games in the 90s lol.
No, the worst situation is to have no insurance and develop a super expensive condition. A high deductible insurance is way better for most people than either expensive insurance (you're paying for care you're not receiving most of the time) or no insurance (bankrupt by bad luck).

If you have a high deductible insurance plan (mines pretty high at >$10k for my family), keep cash in your HSA so you're not put out if you max it.
Bald Brewery
None of this is responsive to my comment; I didn't make any of those claims, nor do I control the collective voting of HN users.
These types of books usually have a more positive approach.
The workforce democratically organizes the union and collectively bargains. In a union shop, you aren’t an at-will employee... you have a contract. They administer benefits and negotiate on your behalf whether you join or not. The unions are also obliged to defend you, even if you are a shitbird who chooses to not join.

With Janus, the union that I was recently a member of lost about 1,500/55,000 members. Not a huge impact so far.
It sounds like what you’re proposing is for browser vendors to, in unison, overthrow IANA and the related organizations and stage a coup where they start running their own DNS root authority. And then claiming that this would happen without impact to end users / owners-of-individual-domains.
I agree. If it's possible for the infection to "spread across the other websites in the same server", then that implies that clients can access and modify each other's files, which is not the case with any shared hosting provider I've heard of.

What is more plausible is malicious server-side code eating up server resources, and that load impacting the websites of other customers, but that has its own solutions which are different from automated detection of malicious JavaScript code.
The New Yorker story is still the most thorough and best reported story I have read on this subject:

>> Smith rejected this explanation [of mass hysteria]. “To artificially display all of these symptoms, you’d have to actually go and research, practice, be the most consummate actor ever, and convince one expert after another,” he said. But he acknowledged that more data were needed to convince skeptics that the syndrome was real. He said his team was awaiting “potential tangible evidence” from a new neuroimaging study involving the victims. In addition, experts from the National Institutes of Health were examining the JAMA results. “Let the scientific process play out,” Smith said.

It is also suspicious to me that the Cuban government has refused to provide surveillance footage from the alleged scenes of the attacks:

>> Investigators, arriving months after the incidents, had to contend with the fact that such attacks would leave no physical evidence at the scene: no shell casings, no burn marks, no chemical residue. There might have been video evidence, however. Agents visiting the two hotels saw surveillance cameras in the lobbies and hallways, which might help determine if anyone was outside the rooms during the incidents. The F.B.I. asked for access to footage from the hotels, and from cameras near the Americans’ residences. According to U.S. officials, the Cubans have yet to provide it.

It's kind of pathetic and lazy for an article like this to assume that this is some elaborate Trump-fueled plot against Cuba.
If you don't mind the feedback, I get the point of your post but you came out pretty aggressive very often. "This is horrible", "wtf is this", "this is awful" are not useful.
(link here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/the-mystery-of...)
How to Make a Terrorist Scammer Ask: Are You Trying to Defraud Me?
No but the idea of scientific journals for example is that there's a wider science community which collaboratively iterates.

It's the same thing which has happened for engineered artifacts such as 3d printers.

A world where the nuclear industry has a common best Practice design for each reactor, overseen by a steering committee of experts ala the Linux kernel, could actually lead to some progress and allow building some coherent and verifiable narratives about safety.
But with fewer tlds supported (for now).

Was excited to move my GoDaddy registered domains there, alas none of them are supported (yet).
I thought doctors had to be a but conservative due to lawsuit concerns and insurance requirements. I hear about concern over doctors misdiagnosing, so I'm guessing that doctors order more tests than strictly necessary to cover themselves.
This is fantastic. Thank you, dang.
I do something similar,

Priority = Benefit / (Time to complete)
I use Java, Groovy, Python and - to lesser extent - Javascript, on a regular basis. In terms of frameworks, I regularly use Grails, Spring Boot, and, uh, that's about it.

Note that I don't do a lot of front-end heavy stuff, and when I build web based UI's they're usually done with fairly simple HTML/CSS + Bootstrap and jQuery. I have been intended to learn either React or Vue, but haven't found time to really dig in yet.
No, these are very much private APIs.
Everyone has a voice, unless you're on HN where smart kids enjoy arguing minutia details about why someone else's argument wasn't up to their standards until sounding intelligent enough they convince others to downvote their competitor, at which point no one wins (on the Internet).
Find cheaper options for people who don't want to pay as much. Innovate.

That's what I'm hoping for by making procedure prices transparent.
Different goals indeed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/6127514/Sentenc...
I'll mention FutureQuest. I've been with them for 20 years now. I'm certain they're not the cheapest, and I'm aware their website looks a decade or more out of date. But I've been extremely happy with them, they definitely wouldn't do something like GoDaddy did. They started as a small family business, and while they've grown a bit since then, many of the staff are still there. My occasional customer support emails still get answered by familiar names.

Since they're not the cheapest, I throw my experimental projects up on DreamHost, but my mission critical stuff is on FutureQuest.

https://www.futurequest.net/
Recently Obama gave an interview where he pretty much stated something along these lines. You go into politics locally, and you meet idiots, so you shrug it off, go into state politics, and meet idiots. You then hit national, and world politics, and you meet the same idiots.

While I like and respect Obama, it did make me think about the saying, if everyone is a dick, you're probably the dick.

More on topic. I know a pastor and she recently told me that its sad and disheartening at how many people will come up to her after a sermon and say, "Oh that was great, I just wish X was here to hear it." It seems when people hear about a possible flaw in behavior/personality they always search for people that have that flaw. But they rarely ever look at themselves. So it's not too surprising that the author would displays a blind spot while decrying them.

We can only hope he's realized it and is working on it.
Obfs4proxy-openvpn: Obfuscating OpenVPN traffic using obfs4
> with all the negative safety implications

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/04/europe/teens-die-poland-e...

Currently in Poland authorities starting to look into possible regulations to make escape rooms safer
If my years of adolescent beatings for anything less than an A taught me anything, it was: don't bring report cards home on Friday and sign your own progress reports.
This reminds me of ads they ran in the UK about domestic violence going up when a team lost a football match. I’m not sure what to make of it. Are we going to have an ad for any and every generic stressor in this life? If a report card or sporting event is enough to induce a physical beating there are some more serious problems going on.

https://hyperallergic.com/450815/uk-national-centre-for-dome...
I never watched the TV show, but I played a Cyberdrome Crystal Maze as a child. This was an attraction that competed with bowling and laser tag that let you play a simplified version of the real Crystal Maze. It retrospect it wasn't very good, because too many of the games were just simple video games played with a trackball, but there were some with interesting physical interfaces, and I enjoyed it at the time.

More detailed description:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050305152830/http://alumni.ox....

I remember being impressed by "Sensor Cell". And some games had one player operating some interface while only the rest of the team could see what was going on, so they had to shout instructions (like the TV show "Knightmare"). I think that's good design.

I'd like to see something like this again, but I don't think it would be commercially viable without a popular license. Bowling and laser tag are both cheaper to build and have more replay value.
When a union organizer yaks about the evils of corporate <insert topic>, a critical reader discounts the rhetoric because of the source. If you want to form an opinion about the Verizon CEO, don’t use the CWA as your primary source.

Similarly, these folks have an agenda that drives everything they write. Read it, but do so with a critical eye and remember that the authors employment is tied to the positions/opinion that he is expressing.

The answers to the problems we have with education are nuanced and numerous. The convservative portfolio of solutions is narrow, and never, ever changes.
How do perceptions of beauty vary across the globe? (2015)
> There is little excuse to not set a strong CSP on your sites

true, but

> if you can

IIRC that excludes every website with Google Adsense and even just using a manual ad network includes always fiddling with your CSP.
Also, remember that this is medium-wavelength IR at 1500nm, which is between two and three times the wavelength of visible at 400-700nm approximately. The energy in a photon is calculated as E = hf = hc/l where h is Planck's constant and c is the speed of light, while l is the wavelength. Notice how the energy decreases nice and linearly as the wavelength increases - this is good!
I much prefer CTM to SICP. It's my reference for most programming related concepts, and I find it a very entertaining read. It is a wonderful intellectual journey, which I suspect would appeal more to ambitious programmers who want a deep understanding rather than to those just interested in pragmatic knowledge. No hip frameworks here, plenty of timeless concepts with all the context you need to choose which are suitable when, and that underlie all present and future frameworks.
All punishment results in emotional injury. That's what punishment means...
Both headlines are factually accurate.
It's a power grab.
By the other hand, one can think that the level of Knowledge of the authorities and the state-of-the-art in certain fields may be overestimated, because of the confidence of the authorities and the excess of humility of the person who is looking at that field of knowledge. That said, It is impossible to overestimate your own ability of making gross blunding mistakes.
Denialism
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not new to the field and in hindsight it makes perfect sense, but back then, I worked for corporations that hosted their own servers and never needed to host a site for a personal/small company.

By the time I got to the point where I would think about doing something on my own, VPS hosting was so cheap, I wouldn’t have thought about anything besides a VPS like Linode.
Do non competes ever come back to bite you? I signed a non compete at a previous company, and several of coworkers left to a direct competitor. No one cares, no one ever heard anything about it.

My current company tried to get me to sign a non compete by leaving it on my desk. I dropped it in a drawer and now everyone's forgot about it. No one is ever going to remember to get me to sign it. The main thing that weirded me out about this one is it also said I can't recommend that any of my current coworkers come work with me for something like 2 years after I leave the company.
In Australia all the escape rooms I’ve been to have an entrance and an exit, the exit is locked (that’s your escape) but the entrance is not. So in the event of an emergency you can always get out.
That's because due to fire code, they aren't allowed to lock you in. You should be thankful that that is the case.
From another viewpoint, I spent a significant amount of time in high school reverse engineering and retrofitting grade update notifications onto our school's (well, School Loop's) existing gradebook, which I shipped as part of my app for accessing this system. For privacy reasons, I would not display any grades or scores in the notification itself, opting for something like "your grade in $course has changed". This gave students the chance to wait to see their new score, since they would have to actively tap on the notification.
Open source software took over the world – TechCrunch
Can anyone comment on what puzzles they've had to solve in an escape room? I haven't been to one but people I know want to do it, not sure how fun it would be.
CSP wont help you if you authorize scripts with a source of self or if the malicious script contains a relative "src" attribute.

This approach has the added benefit of letting you know that malicious things are happening.