skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I started at a startup 3.5 years ago as an embedded developer and I was on the opposite coast from them in the U.S. So yes, companies do hire that way. I have what I feel is a key advantage for that scenario however, in that I have a full hardware debugging setup which helps to eliminate a lot of objections or concerns. e.g. I have an oscilloscope, lots of misc programmers (JTAG etc), desktop variable power supplies, power load testers, soldering workstation, a microscope etc. I even have a small reflow oven. So essentially the only thing I needed was their specific hardware and schematics so I could be productive.

I am not saying you need all that to get a remote embedded job, but it just removes a lot of objections if you don't need them to fully set you up. And as a freelancer it becomes kinda important that you are self sufficient. I also don't think all that is necessary just for a firmware job either of course, but it never hurts. If you want to freelance, I feel your tooling is your responsibility and they should be getting target hardware to you and that's it.

One other aspect to it, I sold them a little on it back then but I truly believe in it. If we can work remotely on hardware and make it right then we have solved a lot of the remote debugging/support issues that usually pop up when you start shipping hardware. So we lived in an environment where we had to learn how to solve problems even if I wasn't right there next to the hardware exhibiting the problem. This I think has made us a better more technically competent company, hands down. And it made me focus on the firmware in ways for reliability that maybe if I was sitting in the office I wouldn't have started with to be honest, they would've been on things to do but may have been down on that list.
Everything we’ve imagined we’ll do
According to glassdoor, the average for "Senior Software Developer" is 93k in Phoenix. So, I'm a little off. Of course, I've also seen "senior" roles requiring all of "2 years experience" with the core technology (that's 18 years old). So YMMV. Also worth noting that the cost of living here largely offsets this.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/phoenix-senior-software-d...
That certainly looks like it's in the right direction, I'll re-familiarize myself with the docs again since it's been a little while
Here's a direct quote (from my link) - what would you say this indicates besides racism by your definition?

“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. … I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault, because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” Trump at first denied the remarks, but later said in a 1997 Playboy interview that “the stuff O’Donnell wrote about me is probably true.”
This is what I use to watch The Bachelorette every week without paying $40/month for YT TV. Thanks Stanford!

The GitHub is also very interesting - pretty good code for an academic website.
>"I am giving up more than I am getting" from Google, said the 61-year tech consultant who started scaling back his Google usage a couple years ago when advertisements began appearing in his Gmail account.

Ads have been in Gmail for many years, they just became more obvious with their recent design changes.

>Joshua Greenbaum, of Berkeley, Calif., said he pays about $100 per year to use Microsoft Office 365 software that he says has better privacy protections than Google's.

At least he's willing to put his money where his mouth is, though he's probably still using Windows. If I had a dollar for everyone who complained about Google but refused to self-host or pay for someone else to host their email... (Also, people who use free VPNs to avoid tracking. It's free for a reason.)
The B-2s problem is that it was obsolete before it was even built. Long range strategic stealth bombing isn't really a useful mission profile in a world with ICBMs or even ship launched cruise missiles.
These are really different facets of the same rookie and have to do with the role he can play in various relations -- each facet can come from a different prototype (or class...) if necessary. So "viewed as a" or "in the role of" a Catcher, we "see" certain attributes, and "as a runner" we see others. Certain knowledge representation schemes (frame systems, description logics, default reasoning and truth-maintenance schemes, etc.) can deal with this context-sensitivity well -- programming languages tend to have some weakened notion of these things, such as Inferfaces or Traits.
Does it have a means for outputting things like image files or 3D models, or only packaged apps? Also, is there audio support? And what's the pricing model going to be like?
Not sure why this comment by
robdachshund is dead: "Why bother trying to break encryption when you have backdoors in the hardware and OS? It's far easier to just use a keylogger on your OS keyboard, take a screenshot, access RAM buffers, etc."

To answer to that. Maybe the problem is in those hardwares and operating systems that do not have backdoors?
I don't disagree, but growth does get old. At a certain point you just want to do your job and be good at it, or at least for some of us that ends up being the case eventually.
I worked on an Apple contract in the late 80s - Apple leaked like a sieve back then too, we used our own code name, unrelated to Apple's for the project ... and when their code name leaked we were happily in the clear
People normally use a TEC for cooling things to below room temperature.

The material in the paper appears to only be useful for cooling things from high temperatures down to room temperature...

Which would be done rather efficiently by a simple fan...
"have you not ever heard of our service?"

No I hadn't heard of rsync.net before. I even browsed a few 'listicles' and didn't come across it. I admit even if I had, I'd tend to lean towards more established clouds. But I'll certainly take a peek now since it seems to fit my bill. Thanks for the reminder.
Snap shares surge as results smash estimates
This sounds like a disorganized workplace to me. The standard thought experiment is: what happens if <supposedly important person> gets hit by a bus and dies? What if they're just in a coma for a few weeks? The response to the first satisfies a sudden "I'm quitting" and the response to the second satisfies a sudden "I'm going on vacation". Business is more forgiving of course, since both quitting and vacation planning typically have a time delay.

The simplest response for both is to delegate: "<person y> now has temporary or permanent authority in the decisions <person x> used to have". That means you need to have a person y for each person x and there needs to be enough trust that person y will make decisions that x would approve of (even if sometimes different). If you're a single-person startup, there is no person y, but then these questions aren't really relevant. As the Pinboard FAQ says, the answer to what happens is the bus will be fine.
In another post on his blog he "proves" he "invented" Facebook with this link:

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2009/05/facebook-and-think-comp...

>Starting in August 2003, Think released a web based student portal called houseSYSTEM through a Harvard student group. This software was designed to make life easier for students, faculty, and alumni. By September 2003, houseSYSTEM featured a section (devised and implemented by Greenspan) called “The Universal Face Book” (sometimes called “The Face Book”).

Which is an odd claim because I was under the impression that "face books" weren't an original concept.
I use the same one I use in the database engines I work on, so not open source. It provides a flexible storage abstraction on top of Linux with a lot of control over performance and behavior. It is a bit like an explicit mmap() implementation. Underneath the hood it uses direct (i.e. no kernel caching) pread/pwrite.
The vast majority of programming jobs, like the vast majority of ordinary jobs, are not going to be able to offer growth potential, at least, not growth potential that would actually look appealing to anyone posting here. If the only incentive on the company's part is increased retention, that's just not a good-enough reason to spend time on more than lip service.

My company is a weirdly-effective consulting firm with a staff-augmentation business model. I chalk their success up to two factors. One, there's no middle management, only team leads reporting to a cadre of developer-owners. Second, they've been really good at landing the right kind of clients.

It's rather funny watching them try to figure out how to engage their workforce, but with a staff-aug model, devs feel more like employees of the client rather than of the consultant. So everyone's just kind of meh. It feels a little The Office-ish.

The other consequence is that there is practically zero real growth potential, and no incentive to do anything other than keep butts in chairs. Nobody's going to let me jump from the consultant to the client, the only path up is out.

I hope this business model dies. It feels distinctly evil.
This could be an interesting HN submission, but not in this form. Here are some tips:

(1) Wait until you have an article that goes in-depth into some topic in this space, rather than just an intro, then submit that. People need something to sink their teeh into.

(2) Add a comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.

(3) Have a username that represents you personally, rather than the project as an abstraction. On HN it's an antipattern to have your username be that of your company or project. It creates a feeling of using the site for promotion and of not really participating as a person. You don't have to use your real name, of course, just one to communicate that you're there as a person rather than as a brand. If you'd like to change your username, we can do that for you.

If you do those things, email us at hn@ycombinator.com when your article is up and we can make sure it doesn't get flagged.
Yes the classic 60's saying from computers "Garbage In Garbage Out" still holds true. Though today we can process that garbage faster and react faster - what could go wrong.
Jitterbug? https://www.greatcall.com/phones/jitterbug-flip-cell-phone-f...

If you're trying to give the kid a device to call home and call the police if they need to.
> “we are talking about consumer products and services such as messaging, smart phones, e-mail, and voice and data applications,” and “not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes.”

Talk about putting the cart before the horse! The USA is made of people, not hardware.
I assumed machines do the cutting according to CAD files or equivalent - whatever movements are there I must believe is designed and deliberate.
> but they usually don't usually like the results of what they asked for.

We're not allowed to say it work because someone thought it was a race thing but... 'pay peanuts, get monkeys'
> Countries of origin and religion are not race.

“Racism” encompasses bigotry by ethnicity (which encompasses national origin), not merely that based on the 3 classical races (Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid.) In fact, “race”, as commonly used, encompasses ethnic identity groups that are not classical races, too.

Plus there are plenty of examples of Trump being racist in the narrow classical sense, but if your best defense against the charge of racism is that he’s really just a bigot in a number of dimensions that aren't technically “racial”, well, that says quite a lot on its own.
Recalibrating the DoH Debate
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says
FYI, "2010 PK9" closest distance will be .02 AU from earth.

For comparison the moon is .002 AU.

So, it will be 10X farther away than the moon.
No, they don't have an excuse of using that weapon, just because the system is broken enough to arm them with it. Surely, the system needs fixing. But foul actors are sill foul regardless. That's pretty self explanatory.
Yes, they are the main problem: Nymphal ticks cause most cases of Lyme disease. Because nymphs are as small as poppy seeds and their bite is painless, people often don’t realize they have been bitten. Adult ticks can also infect humans, but are easier to spot and remove.

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/ticks/about-ticks/
"I admit even if I had, I'd tend to lean towards more established clouds."

Early winter of this year will mark 18 years that we've been providing cloud storage ... although it wasn't called cloud storage until we created the "rsync.net" corporate entity in 2005 ...

We'll be around if you decide to check us out :)
It blows my mind that there are still projects managed without git. I've seen entire production projects in a shared network drive with

appname_april_3_2014

appname_april_4_2014

appname_april_4_2014_new_order_schema
I wonder if the paid version of FireFox will feature per FireFox container IPs per their VPN service I've heard they intend of integrating into the paid FireFox. I would pay good money for that level of detail. I do mostly hope they eventually own and maintain their own VPN provider though (if not outright buy out whoever they partner with).
I don’t think it’s fair to assume that at all.
Without evidence, I’m unconvinced the governments need for information access is motivated by justice rather than the interests of a few.
These programming paradigms are really all about impedance match with a model that's already in some human's brain -- going from the brain-space model to code with the least amount of transformation. So if you're struggling to get to the mind-model, something is wrong! It definitely doesn't make sense to begin looking at the implementation details. They're only there to facilitate that simple transformation from thoughts to code.
>He's vocally questioned if the democrats are "traitors" during public speeches[0], a wild accusation even for US political discourse.

Spare me. How many people have said he should be investigated for being a Russian plant? Every one of those people is questioning if his loyalty is with Russia, or in other words if he is a traitor.

>Today, he proclaimed in a speech that Article 2 of the US constitution gives him the right to do whatever he wants[1]

You are interpreting his remarks as uncharitably as possible. He's not claiming he has absolute power, he's claiming that he can do whatever he wants to do that the president has the authority to do without asking anyone else first. There is nothing in Article 2 saying the president needs to get permission from someone else before exercising the powers vested in him. That's all he's saying. The context is that he's saying he could have fired Mueller if he wanted to, without asking anyone for permission.
That page doesn't cite any sources, so it's not really any more credible than any other random blog. I would consider this to be more credible: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278789/

More importantly though, Lyme is just one of over a dozen tick-borne illnesses, some of which can be transmitted in as little as 15 minutes.
/me was really hoping this was going to be about the vegetable.
> Government generates a public/private key pair Gpub/Gpriv [...]

Isn't that exactly the Clipper Chip scheme? The arguments against it are as valid now as they were then. If you haven't seen them before, they can be found at the 1997 paper "The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow, and Trusted Third-Party Encryption", and its 2015 followup "Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications".
>banning it would make challenging a market incumbent more difficult.

That doesn't seem obvious to me. Why would it not make it more difficult for the incumbents relative to the upstarts?
How do you it was a Google rep? I mean provably.
Their problems sound a lot bigger than "too many bricklayers".
Just yesterday lkrubner posted their multi-year battle with lyme disease. I thought it was a pretty interesting read:

> Slightly off-topic, but for anyone interested, I did write up my own battle with Lyme, which went on for many, many years, till I found a simple solution:

> "How I recovered from Lyme Disease: I fasted for two weeks, no food, just water"

> http://www.smashcompany.com/philosophy/how-i-recovered-from-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20494464
Scaling Database Access to Billions of Queries at PayPal: Introducing HERA
On the face of it, I'd sort of agree with you, but a government wanting the ability to spy on anyone and seeking bans on technology that enables private communication should be terrifying. That's an enabling step for totalitarianism and should be treated as a red flag.

It might be less of a red flag if regulation was likely to be able to prevent terrorists from using encrypted communication technology, but that's absurd as long as we have general-purpose computers and access to the open internet.
This HN post/discussion from 2017 [0] may be of some help.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228712
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> now they send me emails telling me that as a liberal, I am radical, insane, an anti Semite, and hate America

Political rhetoric has always been inflamed. I see it from my liberal west coast politicians. I see it from friends and family. You yourself have said that all conservatives are alt-right.

> If there are conservatives that don't engage with the world like this, I want to get a drink with them, on me, because I've lost hope.

The truth, I suspect, is that they are probably all around you. Most people are not particularly introspective or philosophical when it comes to politics, but if you dig in you'll generally find there are good reasons for them believing the way they do (even if, in the end, you find those reasons unconvincing).

Dr. Haidt has done reasonable job (as a liberal) of trying to understand the conservative mind. I also recommend Arnold Kling, an economist who wrote The Three Languages of Politics, and Thomas Sowell, who wrote A Conflict of Visions.

I should also add that there is an increased intensity with some of the rhetoric, but I think that has more to do with people (on both sides) sensing that we may be undergoing a shift in the political landscape, and that more is at stake than usual. If so, it's not the first time it's happened in U.S. history (they happen approximately every ~40 years, from what I've read). Hopefully it will pass in a few years, but we'll see.
A look at people who have persistently high spending on health care
Submittable (YC S12) raises $10M to help companies manage their submissions
I worked on a site supporting voter calls in 2004. There was no sanity checking of the usernames people proposed, so we had gems like leading spaces and multiple embedded spaces in the usernames. I figured some people signed up and then were never able to login.
Is giving them your wife's phone simply to discourage them from calling for non-emergency situations? Because in an emergency I highly doubt it would prevent my employer from getting in contact.

I do agree about unplugging, but I've never had a vacation ruined by having a work-related text or call steal my attention for 5 minutes. If me being reachable (not necessarily _available_) puts my employer at ease then it makes it easier for me to take the vacations I want to take because they're more likely to be flexible with my schedule during busy times.
> You could just select a camp where ticks aren't a concern.

No problem, that rules out most of the US and Europe:

* https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/geographic_distribution.html

* https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/disease-vectors/surveillance-and-d...
Aren't they in the business of funding rocket ships, though?
Nice catch! This one is typo for sure :) Thanks!
The HP-65 was pretty swank.
Analytics startup Heap raises $55M
I was surprised that autonomy came in at only 11%, although they only allowed 3 answers...

I'm all for growth myself, but I've always found that people who have some confidence in what they're doing also want autonomy.
I'm getting a 500 error when I click Take the Test.
I can't imagine not having any remote days in the week. Unfortunately, many enterprise jobs in my area expect people in their seat 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

I'm hoping to polish my skills and eventually find something 100% remote even if its less thank $100k. I want to buy a lake front house, and get on a jetski/boat during my lunch break.
Me, too. I feel like I want my click back, damnit! :P
Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar or ideological flamewar.

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seems like a pr piece for azure. I'm sure if amazon bought LinkedIn, they would have migrated to AWS as well. Cloud revenues have been one of the most dependable income sources for Microsoft, what better way to have a competitive advantage than to be able to say a very popular product like LinkedIn "runs on Azure" and since Microsoft owns LinkedIn, well this will be done.
Do you have plans to make a full programming language? if so are you working on a open standard for save file?
IMAP doesn't support push :(
That's a phase. And it's more annoying when the parent teach the child how to argue and value discussions as a mean to solve conflicts or find a solution to problems. So,... sometimes it's really annoying :).
I'm really struggling to understand how you can think that.

The launch codes are used by the president. If a party has access to data then that data can be replicated and stored anywhere else that party can access.

The president is the authority that decides how the codes are stored, they exist primarily for his use.
Learn when the most productive thing you can do is look out the window for 15 minutes.

Quit when you're tired.

When there's something that took you a while to figure out (like what the command line arguments are to get the compiler to produce a link map, say), write it down in a file of such info.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments or flamebait to HN.

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Pangolin: A Fault-Tolerant Persistent Memory Programming Library
"In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values."
One scary way face-capture apps like FaceApp can be used to manipulate elections