skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Believe it or not, those interviews usually aren't that expensive. You probably have a mix of managers, which spend all their time in meetings anyway, and engineers, which are paid salary so they typically end up putting in a couple extra hours when they fall behind due to interviewing.

Sure it isn't free, but remember, this person had made it all the way to the end of the process. The determination was made that they represented such a large gain, for the low salary they were paying, that it was worth the risk of that small cost to get an employee at a 30% reduction in salary.

If you are going to save 30% of $140k, that means you will save $42k. It would take a lot of interviews to make up that gap.
There's a whole thing with the $0 copay coupons on many expensive drugs like this, it usually just depends on which insurance you have. In many cases the drug companies have actually set up charities which will donate your entire max out of pocket on an HDHP regardless of income.
It's so cool. A simple simple tool that adds more content in the form of comments and comments is probably good for HN, but it takes way too much time - you have to add the ability to submit comments as the comments are on the top of the page.
The carbonation is one thing, but your saliva has lots of buffers to maintain pH.

There's usually a pile of acid added for "tartness" to sodas that lower pH, which overwhelms the buffers.

Often, it's phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid will quickly react with any free calcium to form insoluble calcium phosphate which will mostly go right through you. So not only are you robbing your mouth of calcium you're also robbing the re-supply process.
The distribution problem has been solved for many years - travel agents were disrupted in the first wave of the web.
Hipmunk tried to create a friendlier UX than what Kayak, Expedia, et. al were trying to provide, but it wasn't a step change.

I think RouteHappy was the last travel startup that caught my attention. In fact, I was thinking of doing the same thing, but they beat me to it :) They brought visibility to data about the flights such as seat width, pitch, inflight entertainment/connectivity, inflight power, etc. that had been hiding in other places (SeatGuru, various travel review and business travel interest sites such as TPG).

But, they were acquired, which meant that they were more a feature than an independent distribution channel.

I'd love to see what this person is doing but as a viable business, based on current travel-agency-commission business models, I can't imagine anything that couldn't be copied by the big travel companies in an instant.

We need new business models here, or at least a strong incentive to go back to fee-for-service travel agents...
> I don't think we're reporting the distribution of compounded returns after N years anywhere, but there may well be something misleading somewhere — what specifically are you referring to?

The output, e.g. after 21 years. You'll write something like property value is X +/- Y. The problem is that the distribution isn't symmetric. In particular, being at X - Y is far likelier than X + Y, at least if I interpret X as a mean. In addition, the median is less than the mean, which is X?

> I believe we are just taking the sum of historical earnings! What suggests otherwise?

As I scroll over years, the net rental earnings are clearly not linearly proportionate to the year.
Book writing is a punishing endeavor. I started writing a book once. We got a contract, we got an advance ($5,000), we even wrote 3/4 of the book. Then in one month twelve(12!) books came out on the same topic. The publisher pulled our contract because they didn't want to be yet another book on the same topic. That seemed reasonable.

They were kind enough to allow us to keep the advance and maintain the copyright on what we had written, some of which were turned into blog posts.
This recent article on the Atlantic is more interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

Covers both lack of evidence-based science in dentistry, and also culture (thankfully doesn’t seem to be the norm) of over treatment.
Users should have three options. Allow, do not allow, and refuse with prejudice, where that involves the company losing maybe a dime.
> Those who don't refuse treatment tend to not be homeless.

You just literally said that 30% of the homeless are severely mentally ill. That means that 70% of the homeless are not severely mentally ill.

And you have not proposed any solution or way to tackle the problem at all. Not a single suggestion.
it handles hot reloading, high resolution raster output, animation and gif output, and has some handy features to help you keep track of code when you're quickly iterating while sketching.
those are some good points, I been wondering if they are doing things like that myself.

I also wonder how much of it is also #1 data gathering, #2 advertisement, and #3 slightly counter to what you are saying - bad tools/people using said tools.

for point one, I can learn a lot on what microsoft is doing by pulling resumes from microsoft workers, even more if I interview them. you can quickly glean direction, head count, tech stack, etc.

for point two, tech companies especially have to remain relevant in the news. Imagine if you post positions for great ML shiny positions, that gets seen by tens of thousands of people for 0 cost. "Did you see that great posting at company X? wow they have an impressive Y team"

point 3, I have seen recruiters get thousands of resumes for a position they posted on the web, really want to hire someone, but instead send people through the hiring loops because of direct contacts. Its like they search for skills, the resumes on the website dont get searched well so they assume there are no matches. its baffling to me this happens given the tools you mentioned
The Macho Sperm Myth
And yet there isn't a proper Python to JavaScript transpiler, like ClojureScript is to Clojure. I wonder why.
It seems to me that they're not contradictory. A "talent shortage" would be if, when you consider all roles requiring some particular qualification or experience, there aren't enough people to fill them.

If there aren't many people that meet the requirement, but there are at least as many as jobs that need to hire them, then there's no shortage - that small number could even be too many, if some of those people are overqualified for the jobs they end up doing.
Also, regarding the guy that doesn't trust dentists that posted below...consider this
- You had a very good dentist for several years that never suggested you do unnecessary procedures

This dentist had the balls to drop out of network, probably because he's good and has enough patients to not cave in to the absurd demands of insurance companies (they pay far less than a FFS practice, just FYI)

So you decide to drop your good dentist, and go to lower quality ones, just because they are in-network (guess what? these guys actually need to drop their fees because they don't have enough patients otherwise)...and then you find out that these new dentists are lower quality and need to prescribe unnecessary procedures to make ends meet

Solution: like in any other field, value quality over price, go back to your old dentist.

It's like Apple charging more for an iPhone simply because it's higher quality and is time-tested, of course if you buy cheap cell phones they are worse and screw you up some other way.

The real problem is insurance companies here, they are screwing both dentists and patients extracting money in a place where they shouldn't be (why do you need a middleman between a doctor and a patient anyways?)
Spill resistant keyboard means there are slits inside that channel the water under the laptop without it reaching the motherboard.
There's an obvious distortion that makes bad recruiters overrepresented: good positions in good companies tend to be filled immediately, typically through personal contacts and headhunters without posting ads, while mediocre positions require a serious recruitment effort (with mediocre recruiters, mediocre job postings and mediocre candidates) and really unreasonable morons need to shout very long and very loudly to select suckers.
Women suffer needless pain because almost everything is designed for men
Please tell me you went to work for a competitor and ate their lunch. That would be so satisfying.
The current data we have about hiring practices seem to disagree with you. So either, this process is not as expensive as you think it is, or companies believe it is less expensive than it actually is.

Either way, the effect on hiring is the same.
I stopped using a powered toothbrush because:

1. my hygienist said it made no difference in plaque formation on my teeth (I did A-B experiments)

2. I was concerned it was abrading the enamel.

I'm old, btw, and am mostly concerned about receding gums and bone loss. I brush, floss, use the pipe cleaners for between teeth, and run one of those pointy rubber things along the gum line, and still get gingivitis. My dentist says there's nothing more I can do about it.

I've also tried various mouthwashes, which made no difference.

Anything else I can try?
Ask HN: Heavily Diluting Original Investors
I'm an early tech employee at a startup whose original investors received a huge portion of equity for their seed investment. This equity amount is such that new potential Series A investors do not feel comfortable with it. Currently, the original investors will not budge on re-negotiating their equity, but if they don't, we're dead in the water in terms of scaling and runway. The option that is being pursued by the CEO is working with the Series A lead to greatly dilute the original investors down to more appropriate percentages.

In your experience, is this "rocking" of the boat too much for such an early stage startup? Is a massive dilution of the original investors a very bad signal for future opportunities? Is this kind of thing common?
“Must” according to who? Should, in many cases, sure.

I’d rather physically removable sensors rather than off switches, though.

Cameras on laptops are far from my greatest concern. Microphone on cellphone is a much bigger concern, as well as perpetual passive metadata plus sensitive data on third party servers required for normal functioning of most services.
Why the huge variation in interventions for the same inputs?

If the same software was giving different outputs for the same inputs in 2 different locations, everyone here would see that as a concern to be addressed.
Revealing the Gardens' Secrets
Windows 7 Users Will Soon Start Seeing a Windows 7 End-of-Life Notification
Not only warmer, but what we here I Scandinavia are experiencing, and I suppose people in other places are too, are weather that is a lot more temperamental. It doesn't follow the traditions of the seasonal changes as it used to do. Instead it changes like at the throw of a dice, which makes sense as a result of the climate warming up. I think that what people will be experiencing more than "warmer weather" is a lot more "crazy, unpredictable weather" that is "nothing like it used to be", which makes sense as a result of the climate getting warmer overall.
I only recently came across his Twitter account and started following him (he had some interesting ideas about and experiments with TiddlyWiki). He seemed like a passionate and enthusiastic technology lover, which was a good enough reason to follow him.

And it is only just a few minutes ago that I discovered that Joe is the guy with the moustache from the famous Erlang: The Movie video…. I had not pieced those two things together.

So I knew nothing about his history, just one little thing he was working on/interested in. That may make me seem ignorant, but I share this because it goes to show that the light that shines in people like Joe was a genuine light of curiosity and sharing. Bright enough to attract people like me.
Its not that hard if you've worked in corporate america.

Executives like to work with people that they "like", so its frequently people who went to similar schools, have a similar sense of humor, don't say stupid shit etc. Even if these people are totally ineffective and have no skills, they will keep getting hired. Then, they make use of the new labor markets, where you can just outsource everything and hire consultants/contractors to do the actual implementation.

If the project succeeds, the hired person is a star and gets showered with money, poached by other firms where they try to replicate a similar, completely short sighted way of building business value.

If the project fail, blame the contractors get new ones.
I so dislike the ball-gargling exercise of "why do you want to work here?"

It's often a "well, I need a job, you're hiring, and what you guys are doing looks at least marginally interesting to me" - I ought not need to find whatever product/service/market they're doing/in inspiring - I should just want to do it for the pay offered.
https://jstris.jezevec10.com/
And who weren't hired by the other 100 companies who also "only hire the top 5% [of people they get resumes from]"...
I skimmed but there’s a kind of sucker I think he missed:

“Yes, ten other companies are doing the exact same thing our company does, and there is open source that almost does what we want but we’ve hired fifty developers to reinvent that wheel because reasons.”

There are too many people out there who could cut and paste most of my job descriptions onto their resume. That’s only partly a failure on my part. Most of my bosses don’t value my specialized skills (or only 3 months out of the year), and there are too many people repeating my work or vice versa.

There are a lot of custom CMS systems out there. If we refused to build them or insisted on making them thinner layers over standard modules, we would have plenty of people to go do other things. And I bet HN could name at least three other tropes that repeat all over the industry like that.
>> Do you have any studies showing that string floss is more effective than Waterpik when a Waterpik is used properly?

>No, I'm not a medical doctor or dentist. I'm just a dude who brushes their teeth.

I hope you realize that the whole discussion, and submission, is about the lack of scientific evidence to back these claims. Everyone is welcome to do whatever makes them feel better, but medical professionals should not give guidance that is not based on much evidence. Unfortunately, the dentists do not appear to have any more information than you do. Some have literally told me "Oh, we were just taught that in dental school" (regarding Waterpiks).
Most people aren't capable of using a webcam correctly before the addition of a mechanical switch that adds a 50% chance they'll deactivate it and think it's broken. A physical hand-operated integrated cover that slides in front of the camera is a great option for software engineers and HN-level thinkers, but it will only cause grief for the majority of users. Having hidden redundancy would allow Apple's tech support to turn the camera back on when Grandma calls in unable to use FaceTime. How many failed attempts will a typical user make before permanently giving up on a feature, maybe 2?
Here's a readable version:
https://outline.com/XadkNU

I hate that "make websites usable" is a key service someone has to provide, but that's where we are.
Must admit that’s part of why I’m here too. ;)
It's doubly self sabotaging because some of the most talented juniors and mid-level engineers I've worked with are the types that will say "oh, I can only do half of those things, I probably can't get that job anyway".
Something that Neal Stephenson predicted in Snow Crash. Artisanal, single-origin laptops.
DNS hijacks at routing level are not common. But they do happen: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/24/myetherwallet_dns_h...

DNSSEC fully supports DNSSEC validation on the host. So the main reason you have to trust your ISP's recursive resolvers is that software vendors, in particular browser vendors, don't want to do DNSSEC validation.

Of course you can run your own local validating resolver.
Real world front end development case studies
Oh wow, it's good to have some feedback, I do my best to write something explaining what changed, and what would make sense for someone reading that is not me, I guess I have to try harder. I do not agree that the tool makes you lazy, I think it actually forces you to write something, I've seen many other popular repos (like requests) that don't follow any conventions and they have commits like "fixed stuff", "more changes", etc.

The prefix on the commit has the benefit that you can parse it and use it for something else, like to generate the semver, this doesn't mean you have to use conventional commits, but any convention.

With commitizen you can make your own rules, and make it easy to share with new colleagues, it's better than pointing to a useless confluence lost in space and time, that was my idea at least.
> They were kind enough to allow us to keep the advance and maintain the copyright on what we had written

It'd be shocking if this weren't the case.
Not all JavaScript code is async. If you write an infinite loop what takes a while, you'll lock up your entire JavaScript thread...

let count = 0 ; while (count < 1000000000) { count += 1 }

Counting from 1 to a billion will block any other operation from happening. In Elixir, that's not the case. Or am missing something?
An incredible achievement matched only by literally every other employer, and requiring the level of emotional investment immediately supplied by any employee with recurring rent/mortgage payments.

In other words, "get over yourselves, you're not curing cancer". If you need employees to "care", because the company supports their livelihood - don't worry, they already do. If you need them to "care" more than that, you need a better justification.
A lot of startups and companies are centered around advertisement. And ads & martketing are not exactly the most popular thing in the world.

Disclaimer: my job is basically making sure our customers can send you commercial email spa... sorry, interesting product offers from their line of business. It's also making sure the tracking is properly working and detect if opened the email/clicked on a link.

It's really hard to get motivated about that. One, ecologically minded for example, could even see it as damaging for the environment as it pushes people to buy things they don't really need.

However, it's also where a lot of the the money is, and also some of the interesting technical challenges, for which an engineer could be motivated.
I've been invited to write a Packt book on a topic that I knew very little about; I might have had one repo related to it.
So Robert Shiller is not fully versed on the topic, in your opinion?

> The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the river for a few minutes) to lower the chain. [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
If the positions are being filled and the offers accepted then why would anyone be complaining about a "talent shortage"?
games in ruby
neither reveal snowflake very well.
> ambitious and willing to bend the rules.

Please don't call organized crime a "willingness to bend the rules."
The ones who are good salesman do get takers. I don't really know why or how but they get them. Not the greatest engineers but also not bottom feeders. It's surreal. Granted it's usually people who don't realize their own worth or are naive about how much equity is actually going to be worth.
> There's even less evidence for pulling wisdom teeth

At 21 my dentist wanted to pull my wisdom teeth. I asked why, he said they're hard to clean and I'd lose them at 30 anyway. I said I'd take my chances and found another dentist.

I'm old now, still have them, and they're still in good shape.
Hello, that's another great suggestion! Thank you.

Will add it soon. Hopefully, it will help :)
How is VAT paid? How is it accounted for when a business pays it's tax? Are taxes on revenue in the local currency due in the national currency?

The only article I could find (in French) suggests that payment in these local currencies bypass the French VAT. https://www.europe1.fr/economie/Les-monnaies-locales-c-est-l...

It it lets local business circumvent VAT, it not surprising that they quickly become popular.
Ahh yes, of course! Thanks
Your stolen personal data could be used to empty your bank account or to commit a crime in your name which could cause permanent damage to your reputation, even if you were exonerated.
Its a new nag popping up that talks about backing up your files and prepare for whats next

it look like this:

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/images/2019/kbpic.png [PNG]
Maybe Humans?
the article mentions how monopoly-esque the notes feel. i assume they're easier to forge than euro notes. maybe some cryptographic signature on the notes would allow instantaneous verification of banknote authenticity, using eg. only a cell phone?
I can field this one. DNSSEC was conceived with support for a traditional zone transfer process. When you edit the zone, you sign it once (potentially offline) and send it via zone transfer to all your authoritative servers. In that context, the authoritative servers can't do things like serve the best A or whatever record given the recursive resolver contacting them and global state. Instead, you generally end up with your keys online on all the authoritative servers. Which means if your DNS account is hacked, chances are, the hackers are in a position to change your records. If your registrar account is hacked, the hackers are certainly able to remove or replace the DS records at the registry, so DNSSEC doesn't help there either (good auth at the registry and registrar and maybe registry lock help there).

DNSSEC might help with MITM, if you only communicate with recursive resolvers you trust to properly implement it and not sneak in any garbage, but it doesn't help against account compromise.
If they regulate the gig economy, most of these people will be out of work. The reason is that a company like Instacart will need to make sure that these minimum wage employees are bringing enough value to the company, which means less people being hired.

We need to ask the question, is it better to have more people making less money or less people making more money?

If you interviewed them again, do you think they would rather get paid less than minimum wage for a contract gig or nothing?

These are also contract gigs that allow a certain amount of flexibility that you don't have with a regular job (no boss, work when you want, etc).

If you can't afford to pay your bills, you should get a different job (Minimum wage jobs aren't hard to come by). This isn't going to be solved through government regulation nor should it be the fault of the company offering work.
Because I get a share of their profits? If they plow all of its profits back into R&D, assuming I got no equity, what do i get as a reward? A potential chance to say i worked for a company that IPO’d? More coworkers?

Profit sharing means money in the pocket for me. Actual hard, green cash.
Have you tried SmartMouth "DDS strength" mouthwash and toothpaste by chance? It contains a zinc formulation that inhibits baterial growth. So far, it's the best I've come across.
Because once you run into somebody who decides that your subjective judgement represents illegal discrimination, you’ll wish that a third party checked the boxes you.
Exploring Connections Between Crypto Systems
> I also got to pick the cover image from one of three suggestions the publisher sent me. Manning uses images of historical figures on the covers of their books ... I picked the image of the woman carrying clothes as I thought it was at least somewhat related to a transport protocol carrying messages (a stretch I know but I was rather pleased with myself for coming up with that analogy to justify the cover image somewhat).