skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're lucky, I have a bear of a time sleeping and often feel physically uncomfortable sleeping on the floor.

I bought a cotton-filled Japanese futon mattress and slept on it for 6 months. In the end, I was still waking up with hurt joints, almost like bruising, and I bought a $1,000 mattress instead.

So I think it's due to individual nerve differences or something...
Ask HN: Change career to find viable customer problems?
I am a programmer who has only ever worked at tech companies. I have long searched for customer problems/product ideas to build a (software) startup around, but my own domain experience is just as a developer, and I want to help non-developers (I also believe it is harder to build dev tools startups, especially as cloud platforms grow).

Besides reading threads like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14157880, I have tried the common advice of reaching out and interviewing people who do other things for a living. No great ideas simply fell out onto my lap of course. Every problem was either:

- a human/process problem or otherwise not blocked by software
- too minor, low-value, or niche
- solved by some existing products/features that they did not know about
- not important enough that they wanted to spend money on or otherwise invest in
- too hard/risky

For a while I successfully built and sold a low-value product for a particular market just to get a foot in the door, but interacting with my customers through that business also did not organically lead to discovering any higher-value products - the interviews were the same as above.

I am considering quitting and switching into a non-programming environment to learn about problems and form better hypotheses for myself. For example, joining a large non-tech enterprise's IT department, or studying to switch into corporate finance, or entering commerce logistics fields somehow. Is this crazy? I want to gain deeper exposure to other domains, and a common opinion is that it is best if you are solving problems that are your own, but this also feels like too much.

I am especially inspired by the stories behind Plangrid, Flexport, and many enterprise companies. They are brilliant - such "obvious" products, at least from my naive perspective. I know there exist many more unsolved problems that startups can be built around, but I don't know how to discover the right problems to focus on.
No. Clinical hoarding disorder is not normal human behavior--it causes "significant distress and/or impairment of personal functioning", by definition. Same goes with any other mental disorder.
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This is exactly the problem I see with my division's supervisor. He was a developer, and is now a program manager, but he wants to directly influence every single project instead of delegating. What is an effective way to encourage him to do his new job?

This is impacting the team b/c he takes away lower level decision making responsibility, while not spending the time he needs to spend planning out and setting top level vision.
I've never thought about that, that's very interesting. What is usually done about this? My first guess is bubble wrap.
Sounds like this was in the 1960's or 70's. That's a whole different world.

Knowledge of sleep may not have been as pervasive as it is today.
> Does anyone know what they want from Brexit?

It always seemed to me that this is what the referendum should really have been. Not "should we leave the EU" but "what should our relationship with the EU be?". The problem was that the politicians who proposed the referendum were convinced they could win and there would be no consequences.
Google Faces Third EU Antitrust Fine Within Weeks
> First, the right to have personal data minimized. Companies should challenge themselves to strip identifying information from customer data or avoid collecting it in the first place. Second, the right to knowledge—to know what data is being collected and why. Third, the right to access. Companies should make it easy for you to access, correct and delete your personal data. And fourth, the right to data security, without which trust is impossible.

This all sounds nice, but it requires a large level of trust in the companies doing as they say. How do we verify that certain data isn't being collected, that the data I delete is actually forever deleted, and that security standards are up to snuff? The FTC, as he suggests? Now the level of trust shifts to the FTC. How has their track record been? And the consequences of breaking the law, what would they be? As it is, companies engaged in shady practices seem to get less than a slap on the wrist.

Well, not to sound too dour, it is at least sounds like a step in the right direction.
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My ex-wife was a hoarder and I threw some of her things away while she was in a mental hospital. Cue screaming, crying, and rage that persisted for years. To her mind I had irreparably damaged the relationship.

I imagine the mother reacted the same way.
If using Android kernel eliminating rest of Android OS is the goal, Ubuntu Touch is being developed & run by ubports community[1] after canonical discontinued it.

I recently tried it on Nexus 4 & it is certainly capable for daily use. It is running on 16.04. It will provide regular Ubuntu OS updates but the kernel remains the same as the android version.

Since the android kernel is dependent on the manufacturer, once the updates are stopped, the device is at higher risk even if it runs Ubuntu Touch, LineageOS or other 3rd party ROMS though they release regular updates.

I believe, postmarketOS aims to address this in long term by using mainline kernel & at present uses android kernel for drivers without the user space? I'm not sure whether this offers any particular advantage over UBPorts Ubuntu Touch at its present state, but I really appreciate what they are doing & looking forward to use/contribute to it soon.

[1]: https://ubports.com/
It only failed 5 times, try more times and u will master all the interview process! maybe the hiring statistics is 1/6 smart guys get the job and u just had to try a little bit more.

I got this quote after failing google interview in the last round.

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill
Noted!

Not sure if this will help, but one of our users mentioned using symmetricds [1] to sync data from sql-server to postgres and then using Hasura.

[1] https://www.symmetricds.org/
Sleep Number is especially scummy in this regard. They'll have a specific model at a very deep discount when compared to their other models, but they won't have it in the stores. They'll have the expensive models in the stores, but assure you that the discounted model is very similar to one of the expensive models. If you fall for it, you'll end up with a very poorly made mattress that was nothing like anything you experienced in the store. They do this because they charge exorbitant "shipping & return fees" which cover their costs should you return the mattress, so the worst they can do is break even, while you're out real cash money. Their salespeople are especially pushy, like at a scummy used car dealership.
DuckDuckGo do have their own crawler, how much it’s used I don’t know.
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> This person is either not a good programmer or has a very poor attitude about solving new problems.

He probably isn't a good "programmer." He is a web developer, and has projects that are basically CRUD input and output.

He can stitch together various different components to build a functioning end product. This is a fine skill for most agency type jobs, and he will likely have a long prosperous career as a contractor.
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Interference means more than just change in this context.

Being significantly afraid of flying may be irrational and unpleasant, but the line is at the point where you’re incapable of dealing with that fear.
Pro.com raises $33M Series B for its home improvement platform
Ask HN: How important is linkedin and other social networks for recruiters?
I am scared of social networks, I don't trust any of them but recently I atended a conference and some HR people gave an huge importance to Linkedin, how much does someone without an account miss? Are recruiters going to worry that I have no presence in them? Am I going to be asked about it?

Is it worth to sacrificy privacy to get a job? I guess that last question is up to each one.
You'd be surprised.

A huge number of "tech workers" today are from the same families that would be working class, factory workers, and so on just a generation ago.

There's no magical racial difference between working class people and tech workers.
Don't even use create react app
DNS propagation time.
My community college has two different departments: CIS and CIT. CIS is more akin to "computer science", and heavily covers various programming languages and has a game development sub-program. CIT includes hardware troubleshooting and repair, certification classes for Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware, network administration, and has a subprogram in cybersecurity. Much like in the business world, academics now do treat development and IT as two separate fields.
It’s not revisionism, it was a cultural change sponsored by the auto industry. We may not like it, we may want to reverse it, but it’s not revisionism.
It sounds like he keeps it contained, though, and he uses the stuff he saves (though not quickly enough). That doesn't strike me as hoarding in the mental illness sense.
That's the answer that's supposed to end this argument, but real estate business is a cabal: if I'm agent-less or use one of the "disruptor" services, like redfin or openlistings, agents of the other party will simply steer clear of the transactions. Some would even say that to my face.
I'm not sure how common it is. But if someone does have open-source code that you can review and they'd like to showcase, why not do that? I guess that's all I was trying to imply.
And a lot of them also just didn't have the opportunity to learn it but are easily smart enough to pick it up when their ability to make a living depends on it.

Let's say 10% of these working class people just need a push to discover they're actually decent at coding/devops/admin/etc. 3,500,000 truck drivers means an additional 350,000 people competing for IT jobs. Now factor in all the other people employed in these sorts of jobs. There's going to be a huge glut of incoming "cheap" labor when these sectors become more automated. I don't expect them to be competing with people like Linus but they're sure as hell going to be competing with the neighbors kid that went to a public 4 year school for a CS degree because the job prospects were good.
I find the article presenting "screen time" as if it's a single thing highly problematic.

Ephemeralization has led to a phone or tablet being equivalent to a novel, textbook, comic book, telephone, game console, TV, academic journal (I do, in fact know an 8 year old who reads academic journals), and more. With parents often being much more hesitant than they were 2-3 decades ago to allow children to go anywhere unsupervised, it's often the primary means by which children interact with each other privately.

Even a subset like social media use can entail a broad range of different behaviors. One person uses social media to talk with a small circle of friends and family. Another puts on some sort of public display to get attention from strangers. A third plays the addictive "engagement" game.

Of course, an observer who just sees a kid holding a tablet has little idea how they're using it. A parent wishing to direct their child's activities has new challenges when a screen can be used for so many different things.
The eye strain problem is very real, but what I don’t understand is whether switching from screen to a book helps - it’s at the same distance so should give the same eye strain!

No one would come out and say “limit your kids’ book time to max 20minutes”.
This is an incredible athletic and mind-over-matter feat that makes overpaid football and soccer stars look pathetic in comparison.
I'm doing amazingly more involved things much faster now than 20 years ago. However, user demands and expectations are higher than ever.
I'm 100% agree with the author of this nice post
Guided Narrative: The Secret to Working Toward Consensus
I have always used DuckDuckGo instead of Google and to be fair, they both perform the same way except DuckDuckGo provides more privacy which is something that is important to people anyways.
The top Google result for free phone number yields, for me, a PAYGO internet phone service that offers a number for no monthly costs. I can't imagine they're the only one doing so. And even if there's a limited number of such services, I'd be surprised if a number of other internet phone operators don't allow you to change your number for free or very cheaply.
Where is your non-opinion-based, hard evidence that screen-time is "the same" as these bad things: cigarettes, alcohol, sleep deprivation, etc. Those things can be MASSIVELY bad for you, as we all know, however there is simply NOT the evidence base to support that claim for screen time.

I understand it's a newer phenomenon than those other negative influences, thus hard to know as of yet. Still, before you spout off very long pseudo-scientific opinions: provide data and evidence.
So, is a hypothetical scenario, an employee that is their own supervisor?
Google seems to have a strong hold on up-to-date news sources. I find myself going to !g when trying to find information on a current event.
Really the rich in the UK are known for buying high quality stuff and wearing it for years Prince Charles has a favourite Barbour jacket that's 40 years old.
If He's Sexually Aggressive in Bars, It's Not Because He's Drunk
I skimmed through their talk, but my understand of eBPF is that it cannot do syscall interception (i.e., actually changing the code that a syscall executes) itself. Their PoC, from what I can tell, is a separate kernel module that disables some of eBPF's safety checks so that they can do more expressive things within it.

They do, however, show that eBPF can be used to detect changes to particular files and alert the user/provide feedback when that happens. That's extremely useful, although not the same as actually denying that change (which would require modifying the syscall itself).

Edit: I just watched up to the point when they discuss `bpf_probe_write_user`, which I didn't know about. Looks like you can indeed use that to do much of what I'm interested in!
For what it's worth, DuckDuckGo has .25% global market share on desktops:
https://netmarketshare.com/search-engine-market-share.aspx

In the US, it's .66%.
Instead of attacking the specifics of an example given off the top of my head, try to understand the point I'm making.
"Indicas" tend to be more tactile. (I use quotes because indica/sativa doesn't mean anything. The subjective effects are really a matter of the ratios/amounts of cannabinoids and terpenoids and the manner of ingestion)
Journalists make stuff up all the time in ever more major outlets...
Network Solutions is failing the test currently, anyone have info on when they might become compliant?
There is a lot of wisdom to be found in people who do not make their place of employment the end all be all of their existence, even if for a period of time.
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They've done experiments on animals with sterile guts and it's not like it alters their morphology.

Just because something uses a broader variety of building blocks, doesn't mean the resultant structure is necessarily more complex than a structure built with less building block variety.
We've been through this before. It was called Windows NT. The democratized tools were Access and Lotus Notes. Amazon is doing this for the same reason Microsoft did -- it's revenue by a thousand cuts. People spent $5,000 in 1995 to give diesel mechanics PCs so they could update work orders -- they will do the same for little apps.

The reality is, you're going to have a million monkeys hitting a million keyboards, and very few will be producing Shakespeare. All of that crap will be consuming lots and lots of AWS/Azure/etc bill.

You'll need way more IT people to rationalize it. There are tens of thousands of people in the United States whose purpose for the last decade has been re-implementing the 90s version of this in formal IT systems. You will have churn as we purge the legacy staff, especially windows click to admin types.
It's interesting because as the company I'm with (SalesLoft, 35 on this list) has gotten larger, with more revenue and goals, we've been hiring more experienced people to help guide the company. I do wonder if these people come with higher $$ expectations that aren't possible in the early days of a startup without taking on significant amounts of risk. I feel lucky to work with these people because they know what they're talking about and aren't afraid to say it.

I look forward to leading others with their level of experience one day.
The timer is a smart idea. I'm stealing that.
By calling it “coordinated inauthentic behavior” FB is themselves being inauthentic. Authentic would be to describe actually what it is and what the problem is. Is the problem that it was coordinated? That it was not true to the poster’s personal belief (inauthentic)? Not actually true assertions (not authentic)? Maybe the behavior is the problem? Or some combination? So if the Russian state clearly put out content saying “This is Russia and we think you should vote for X” is that okay (coordinated authentic behavior)? What about all the “CIB” originating from inside the US? Or, how about FB’s own “CIB”, like the link in question?
There have been many times in the last few years where I searched a section of a complex error message, and got results that were almost the same thing, but with one word or a few characters changed. I suspect the reason has to do with how they normalize and store ngrams for making results faster, but I would much rather have a slower response with accurate results.
sadly on iOS you can't use the camera while the app is in the background. Android might work but probably not without problems too
Not cool that he made it less inflammatory? I think you're missing the goal of HN here.
‘She changed my heart. And that changed my mind.’
Well yes, but the state of the market implies things about building too.

FWIW I really like purple.
5 years ago, when i did comparision shop (remote and on-site) many remote places offered drastically less. But, it's impossible to do a 1 to 1 because, by design, the sellers don't want you to be able to identify you mattress. A online store might sell it as "Cloud" while the same mattress in store will go by "Canper Comfert". They wont have the same id either, as Canper Comftert will have some minor detail changed just to warrent a new id. Fix that problem, and mattress shoping will become a much saner process for the buyer.
Why train employees when you can pay just a little bit more and get pretrained ones?
It's quite sad that most of them are traffic/ad optimization/analysis companies. Clicking on the link I was hoping for a nifty list of tools that benefit various (web-connected) industries.
i think with the elderely it can often be a different symptom.
I'm not sure anyone is fooled by the "It's cheaper" - but there are a lot of us who will pay a reasonable premium to not have to go to the store and deal with salespeople in person, and personally... I think that's a reasonable luxury to buy?

I mean, even if salespeople weren't... salespeople, it's still often a good several hours of time during business hours to drive to the store that has the thing you want, and I personally have a really hard time telling you how much I will like a mattress without sleeping on it for a week, anyhow, so I don't feel like I'm getting any value out of shopping in person.
I think we’re finally out of saas ideas. Most of these seem to be sales, logs, or analytics.
Let's say the job listing says "3+ years experience with JavaScript," among other requirements. You only used JavaScript for 6 months, so you roll JavaScript up as part of your web development skills. You say, "5 years writing web apps, using Java, .NET, C#, and JavaScript." This is true, the hiring manager understands that you have not necessarily spent all 5 years writing JavaScript, and it gets past HR's filter.

The hiring manager will then make sure that your skill set is a good addition to the team.

Keep in mind that the hiring manager may have asked for someone "with some JavaScript experience" and HR might have translated that into "3+ years". In some cases, when the hiring manager sees the job posting, they're surprised by the requirements and say, "So, this is why we haven't been getting any applicants!" This is, yes, somewhat dysfunctional but it is a common dysfunction. Yes, you are essentially second-guessing the job listing and this is not the way the world should work.

As a rule of thumb, if you are applying to a job and you meet all of the listed requirements as written, you are overqualified and should apply to a higher level position.
there is a legitimate economic (I'm not advocating this) argument for hiring single men. Single men are cheaper, often more idealistic, don't get pregnant, take more risks, and are more willing to work for beer. Throw some cheap perks in there (catering, beanbags, free passes to Hooters, etc) to encourage them to spend all their time on company turf and I'm sure it adds up to a greater company benefit than hiring married women even allowing for experience/skill difference.
I mostly agree with you about Google search results, however I think the decreasing quality is more due to political influence and corruption, rather than SEO-games.
Indeed.

The reality is that if you're driving fast enough to not be able to stop for someone looking at their phone, you're also driving fast enough to not be able to stop for some kids chasing a ball into the street. You may not mind murdering some dude on Instagram but I bet you'll feel pretty bad about flattening someone's kid who was just playing outside after school. High-speed traffic and pedestrians don't mix. The problem is not distracted pedestrians, the problem is that the situation where the two classes of traffic can mix exist.

Ultimately, pretending that asphalt swaths cutting through the center of society is some "safe zone" for high-speed vehicles was a huge mistake society made. It was never true; someone could always penetrate that space and the unfortunate driver would end up killing them. Very slowly we are walking back on that, sharing space between cars, bicycles, and pedestrians. Lot less people getting killed. But it is unfortunate that China wants to repeat our mistakes there, and blame pedestrians for existing.
I highly recommend reading "The Manager's Path" by Camille Fournier. It's a great overview of the different things to consider while working your way up the ladder (specifically in engineering management).

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920056843.do
That'd be a hell of a thing to lie about, and he'd easily be called out and discredited over it.

Also, not sure what kind of official confirmation you'd expect in this situation. Facebook isn't going to come out in the wake of this and confirm it, as it'd give it more creedence. You should be watching to see if they deny it.
Check out the Kano computing kit, which is built around the Pi.

You could also probably stick them in DOSBOX.
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By this argument, you wouldn't have the pedestrian right-of-way laws that you have today (unless you're in certain areas of the states)... Instead, the onus is on the vehicle to stop and cede right-of-way.

How do you reconcile these two - almost identical precepts? The only difference is the phone and where "attention" is paid, yeah?
You know how to avoid hitting deer at night? Not driving 50 on a rural road with no street lights.