skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> -Businesses should be able to fire someone for being under the influence of any mind-altering substance.

Pretty sure they already can, you do not come into work drunk, for example.

>> -The individual should pay for all of their own issues, medical expenses, etc due to drug addiction. ... It's unfair for me ...

You already pay lots and lots and lots and lots of money to drug-war enforcement efforts. The cost of health problems related to drugs would be minimal compared to this.

Lots of conservatives seem to want all the benefits of drug legalisation (reduced tax bills) without any responsibility (helping out your fellow man).

Further, those taxes help keep you safe. You want to be robbed by an addict or do you want to give a few cents to the free-heroin-for-addicts program that keeps them from committing crime and helps them become contributing members of society?
They made me ill too but I made a point to read about every ugly and evil little thing being done in my name. It's important to understand the costs being paid by innocent people in the misguided name of "freedom" at the direction of evil men and women.

I cannot close my eyes to the suffering of my brothers and sisters.
London, England. Little startup with a mighty heart. We are a sharing community for students and people who need their skills.

This is a summer internship position. Local is preferred but we will work with remote. We are redeveloping a platform which didn't do our original concept justice. While that happens, we have happy users to keep serving and we need to keep growing. The ideal candidate would have very strong selling skills coupled with the ability to do any job a tiny start up like ours could need; we don't always know what that could be so a ton of imagination, enthusiasm and initiative are needed and welcome! Think 'Swiss Army Knife'!

This is a paid position. If you are remote, we would prefer if you are not more than BST-5 away.

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Ask HN: Freelancer rush fee
I'm a freelancer on a short term project that's been through so many scope changes that my work has practically come to halt. While I wait for the client to make up their mind, the clock is ticking away, and we're now at the halfway mark. The scope is still not finalized but will likely be comparable in size.

I'm not as worried about my ability to deliver as I am about the toll the stress will take on my physical and mental health. This is not what I signed up for. Hypothetically, if the client came to me now with the same project I might have charged them twice as much, or wouldn't have taken it at all.

How would you deal with a situation like this? They have zero chance of finding someone else on such short notice, so I hold the upper hand. Still, I would feel bad taking advantage of them, so I'm basically trying to figure out what's fair.
You don't necessarily have to compete with what they are interested in. You have to compete with the boredom of sitting still at their desk for hours on end while doing trivial homework/reading assignments. _Everything_ is exciting at that point and may foster a lifelong addiction... hobby.
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“Fingerprinting” chips to fight counterfeiting
When projects I have fail I am generally pretty proud to talk about them. Usually it means that I have some new weird subset of knowledge that very few other people have.

This is crazy cool. People, technical and non-technical, generally love to hear these personal stories. They eat it up.

Working on things so they become popular isn't a good way to approach the process of working on projects. Working on things because you think it is cool IS.

If something you work on fails just know you have THAT much more knowledge about whatever you were doing than the next person now.
I am just going to cut and paste my previous comment on Musk.

The Musk M.O:
1. Identify industry with big inefficiencies that depends on huge government subsidies. That's cars, commercial space vehicles, mass transit and now: colonizing another planet with the 0.1%.
2. Convince the media and envious government officials you are Tom Swift, boy inventor. Have these governments fight over how many billions to give you to build your space car factory.
2. Use these taxpayer dollars and gigantic tax breaks to create iconic products and services for the elite class, effectively transferring huge dollars from the poor to the rich.
3. Rinse and repeat.

I see no evidence at all that Musk cares any more about technologies to enable several billion of us to live together without slaughtering each other than he does about money.

Add the utility business to the growing list of government supported industries Musk wants to "disrupt" by which I mean establish a publicly funded, government subsidized mechanism to siphon off dollars for himself, just like Tony Stark in fact. The electricity generating and distribution system is one of the most provably useful "common goods" in the history of the human race-- why not convince people to spend more than 10 grand to power their house for 24 hours?

His reasons:

Load Shifting - residences generally have NO economic incentive to ride the demand curve, only businesses do in some cases. It is one of the most important things about the electrical system--these huge monopolies manage that curve collectively for us. Sure, transmission is inefficient, but so is decentralizing that task, while adding the risks of keeping your battery from breaking/catching fire.

Increasing self consumption- a battery does not stimulate this at all - the grid needs your power most when the sun is shining. Solar power and an inverter provides that incentive today.

Backup - One day of power in the event of a true natural disaster for $10,000 is expensive and not sufficient.

I am not a Luddite and I am a libertarian, and certainly our society needs technology visionaries right now, but I find Musk's increasingly cynical ploys and the adulation they receive pretty annoying. They seem designed to distract from the overall failure of his businesses, even if he continues to generate ideas and hype.
Hands on with Microsoft's Impressive HoloLens
Several Asian countries very successfully waged "war" on opium usage, to the benefit of their societies. They killed you if you were caught with any.

I'm not a prohibitionist, but we need to drop the lie that a war on drugs has even been tried in the West. Sentences for drug possession are typically avoidable and usually light. What has been done (same as back in alcohol prohibition days) is corrupt law enforcement rackets have been funded to pursue "dealers."

Well, we know that doesn't work. What does work is very harsh and uniform punishment for users. Which, I reiterate, has not been tried in the West for over a century.
Having lived through Hurricane Sandy in NYC: don't assume you can get gas to fill your generator in a disaster situation. Solar panels paired with a battery aren't dependent on a supply chain (that itself needs energy).
At least for the running example, running marathons is extreme. A lot of people run 6-10 mile distances, precisely because it doesn't take over your life. You might be surprised at how many people you know run and don't talk about it ;)

More broadly, I think you're falling into the trap of assuming the loudest/most prominent people represent the average. Just like there are a lot of people who run and also do other things, there are lots of people who are quietly religious.

I don't even get where being fat comes into this? There are a lot of factors that go into Americans being fatter on average than Europeans, but your list devolved into the typical one-dimensional "I hate North Americans because I moved to Europe and I'm so continental now" rant.

> Aim to be more well-rounded

Good advice for everyone, regardless of where they live.
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Generally available for freelance web app engineering work. I've been working with Rails and JS for ~8 years now, at all points up and down the stack. Everything from performance work on existing code to bringing up a full-fledged product from wireframes.

In the past, I've worked with companies like Leap Motion, Anki, Rocket Fuel, and TaskRabbit. Before that, I had two startups of my own. In my spare time, I fly airplanes.
Currently fully booked through summer 2015, but I'm always happy to grab coffee and chat.

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Came for this. This allows someone to build GPS-guided missiles, artillery, etc.

The laws need to be changed, because consumer-programmable things like FPGAs and SBCs like BBB/RPi have made weaponizing with even commercially-available, off-the-shelf products super easy.

For instance, building gps-powered drones with thermite self destruct and an explosive/incendiary payload is fairly straight forward and extremely dangerous with little ability to investigate the violator. ICBMs and fast-flying missiles are much harder.
Squats and deadlifts.

You are forced to adopt good posture if you want to do them properly and with any heavy weight. You'll carry that posture with you into your daily activities.
I don't want the concept of Twitter to go away, but I'd like to see that concept become federated. One company should not own this.
Um... when did it get better?
That was my thought took until I remembered people already steal copper wiring whether or not it's carrying load. That would be a tempting target for theft. I think I'd stick it in my garage instead, but that's just me being paranoid.
I have also been a supporter of legalizing MJ and light drugs, but I'd never go far and say the same for hard drugs. I knew people in HS who got hooked on hard stuff and it ended terribly for more than I care to think about.
>Almost all of them are late or very very late

To be fair, I have always thought that for many projects the 'expected delivery date' was a joke.
When a project explodes and gets 10x the required funding and has either very different logistics problems to solve for hw projects or grows its scope for sw ones, you can't expect the delivery date to be unaffected.
William and Mary is not unique in this regard. A similar story from Yale circulated last year; this has happened to nearly a dozen people (that I know about) at UChicago.

Expelling depressed students is a publicly nationwide "best practice" in higher ed administration apparently.
This is fascinating! I immediately compared UK with USA, everything comes out red apart from "make 41.55% more money"
Embedded Systems Engineer | Shift Labs (YCW15) | http://www.shiftlabs.com | Seattle, WA

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· Expert at embedded software development
· Expert at electronics circuit design, testing, and PCB layout (digital and analog)
· Experience with electronics design for manufacture, dealing with suppliers, including putting together electronics manufacturing packages to get production quotes.
· Capable in ultra-low power design
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Blackbird is a stealth, ventured backed, artificial intelligence technology company focused on solving some important challenges created by the shift from desktop to mobile. Our stack is primarily in functional style Scala (we are heavy functional programming users) with most of our AI stack in Python and C++.

We're one of a few startups that do AI research above and beyond product development. We host regular talks on multiple disciplines ranging from systems to functional programming to deep learning.

The team was founded by former Stanford CS graduates that built self driving cars, search at Google and Yahoo Research, co-authored the google file system and scaled Twitter to 200 million users. Our open source code powers Snapchat, Tumblr, Wikipedia in production today.

We're currently looking to add some great engineers to our team. Have a passion for AI/ML and want to work with the bleedingist of edges? Want to write highly scalable software with the architects who scaled Twitter and Google? Want to run ops for software which is designed for fault tolerance? Want to design next generation user interfaces? jobs at blackbird.am
"If it's war, it must be serious and we should fund it seriously."

This is America. Have you seen the wars we fight? Millions dead throughout the word. Millions in jail being tortured. I don't know what definition of war you have, but that is war.

"I think any association with race is coincidental."

If it's not about race, please explain the arrest and incarceration rates for different races given that consumption is roughly equal for all races.

You don't criminalize an everyday, common activity without an agenda. The war on drugs was not a policy mistake, it was intentionally created. It was intentionally labelled as war and now has those connotations despite not being a traditional war. You cannot remove connotations that exist in the world simply by wishful and naive thinking.
Oracle Data Cloud | Westminster, CO | Engineers | Full Time | On Site Only

The company I work for is looking to hire engineering talent. Here are three job descriptions in particular:

Director Cloud Services - https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=1...

Sr. Cloud Systems Engineer - https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=1...

Sr. Software Engineer - https://oracle.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=1...

A couple of notes (personal notes, not the corp speak in the job reqs): This is on-site work in Westminster, about 25 min from Boulder and 30 min from Denver. Lots of java running on AWS deployed via puppet, but python, node, groovy and R are all used as appropriate. Small teams (3-7 engineers) with a fair bit of autonomy--use Rally and agile processes. Quarterly hackweeks. Forward looking engineering culture--continuous deployment, testing.
How well do ARM server work for Paypal?
What makes me ill is people who think it was exclusive to Bush's term.
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Currently the lead full-stack developer/engineer on a Node.js and React.js isomorphic Javascript single-page app/website that serves 200M pageviews/month.

Technologies I'm most comfortable with: Javascript (ES5, ES6), Node.js, React.js, Sass/Compass, Foundation, Redis, Ansible, Amazon AWS, git

Open adopter of new technologies

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> Being an adult is a boolean not a integer, either you are responsible for yourself or you aren't.

Edit{snip}

"Capacity" is variable. Someone may have capacity to feed themselves but not to make financial decisions. They might have capacity to give assent, but not consent, for surgery, but have capacity to give consent for other medical treatment.

When you remove capacity you should restrict that to the minimum actions you need to take to protect that person from harm.

Of course, that's all England which operates to European human rights laws which operates to international human rights treaties. Things might be different in the US.
so rss...
I still find the 140 characters 'news' easier to skim.
Software/Security/Systems/Network Engineering

* Los Angeles, CA

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On-site only, visas available

Riot Games - http://www.riotgames.com/careers

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We make League of Legends (a popular online game with a thriving e-sports scene), we're hoping to make more things too!

We have a variety of software engineering, systems, network and security roles available.

Example software engineering roles:

* game development (C++)

* game infrastructure (Java/Python/Go)

* web apps (PHP/Javascript/Python)

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On the security side we're looking for application security people as well as incident responders and infrastructure security types (network/system).

We have many other roles as well! Check the careers link above.

Let me know if you're interested or have questions, my email is arkem@riotgames.com.
I find this same effect in myself, but I've managed to moderate it down by identifying things that give me a sense of satisfaction. I suspect these aren't terribly transferrable, but here are some things that work for me.

- Mentoring other people. Helping other people who are missing a skill that I have do something cool gives me that same kind of elation that I'd get from doing it myself. It doesn't necessarily take piles of time, but feeling useful is good for my feeling of self worth.

- Cooking/Working Out/Errands. It sounds silly, but getting a whole pile of stuff off of my to-do list, even if they're really easy, makes me really happy. Cooking is great because it's something I can do that people appreciate pretty much guaranteed, and which is a nice technical skill. Working out is great because I am both improving myself and learning new skills (for me, karate for the last 10+ years). Feeling like I'm making progress, clearing up loose ends, and doing things that are appreciated by others make me feel a higher sense of self worth.
Yes. "You will be working in our office at the SfunCube in downtown Oakland."
What exactly is wrong with deriving your sense of self worth from your work? The problems of allowing your work to effect your mood seem obvious to me(lower productivity for one). There's no point in getting down on yourself when your work doesn't meet your goals/expectations. Just get back at it, or take a break! Personally, I feel like I came here (into the world) to work, and I'm glad about it. I don't expect everyone to be this way and I support others in realizing whatever it is that brings them self-worth. But me, I came to work!
> If a company sells it and you choose to take it and die, your family shouldn't be able to sue the company or the government.

So companies are free to do as much advertising and marketing as they like to make drugs pervasive, and only the consumer is supposed to resist? It's a heavy penalty on everyone's brain cycles. In Europe we generally forbid ads, marketing and product placement for alcohol and tobacco.

[edit: If you go down the road of charging the consequences of drugs on the users,] I also believe that many of us aren't mature enough, and recreational first-time users should have to consciously unseal a sticker: "Upon consuming this drug, you are not allowed to work for x years, drive, or be treated for health", in addition to cancer/addition-related notices. I have no idea how to convey this message to users.
Pandora is worth $4B now. It has 200M+ users with active users at 70M+. Spotify has a total of 60M users. What's the logic behind this valuation?
Glute activation in general (which is needed to drive the hips forward in a deadlift) has really helped my posture.
This is relevant:

"Are Foreign Nationals Entitled to the Same
Constitutional Rights As Citizens?" http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
Totally off topic, but I recall a guy who killed his father because his father disapproved of his relationship with his dog. I think that was in Maine somewhere. Guy was obviously not quite sane. He'd signed the dog's testimony with a pawprint.
Location: Milwaukee, WI USA (relocation only)

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: I'm currently applying to jobs in Amsterdam/Utrecht, as my wife and I would like to relocate there.

Technologies: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, JS, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: Email for CV

Email: johnl@crumpington.com

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How Secret Used Automated Testing for Their Android Launch
Guess who spied on their European allies
this is really great advice. did crossfit for a bit and stopped, but some of the mobility stretches using a lacrosse ball and band have changed my life. (warm up first)
david gerard, if I could upvote your comment a thousand times, I would. Especially this:

"Who thought "Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. nothing to commit, working directory clean" was a good idea WHEN IT'S A DAMNABLE LIE?"

I use git because everyone uses git, but I wish the tech industry had consolidated its use around a version control system with an easier-to-understand API. Especially when it comes to "undo". For desktop software, I can just hit Command-z, but git has a complicated syntax, and it is course grained -- per commit rather than per file, and then there is the issue of whether the files have been pushed to the repo yet, or not. To me, the whole point of version control is to have infinite undo, and a version control system that makes that difficult is a bad version control system.

But the worst thing is probably merges -- I merge in a whole other branch, and want to push the changes from that other branch to the repo, as part of my current branch, but git says that everything is up to date and there is nothing to push -- what the hell is that?
An Introduction to Real Time Spark
From an Android-owning imgurian: good luck with your hires!

Banana for scale:

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It's part of the paradox. The prisoner believes he has proven that his execution is impossible—however, he was wrong. The paradox is how a seemingly correct argument leads to a false conclusion.
There are easy to use meters such as the Kill-A-Watt for 120V appliances to measure usage directly.
Agent Inbox | Fort Lauderdale, FL | Senior UX/UI Designer

Agent Inbox is a design-driven real estate application that is transforming the way real estate agents communicate and schedule. The application has created an easy to use scheduling and showing process for all parties through a secure mobile messaging platform, route planner, and an agent-to-agent scheduling system. The result is an exceptional tool kit designed for the way real estate agents work.

You will be joining an amazing team: one of the top Realtors in South Florida, 2 of the top 100 Ruby on Rails contributors, a market research expert, a seasoned startup operations veteran, and 3 additional senior engineers. Our design foundation comes from the world-class designer behind Desk.com, Bitl.ly, Heroku, Grooveshark and more, so you will be building upon an incredibly well organized and high quality product. Our development team is entirely remote, but you should be local.

As our UI/UX Designer, you will be at the forefront of our product team, moving ahead of the rest to determine what we need to work on. You must be excited to challenge your assumptions and prove ideas with data; everything we do is an experiment, but decisions are made pragmatically.

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Software Engineer | Atlanta, GA | PrimeRevenue

We're the industry leading solution for supply chain finance. Recognized as one of Atlanta’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For and a winner of numerous prestigious industry awards, PrimeRevenue offers a challenging, rewarding, and truly entrepreneurial working environment.

Our employees enjoy competitive compensation, excellent benefits, and flexible working conditions.

Currently hiring developers experienced in Ruby and JS. See http://primerevenue.theresumator.com/apply or email me directly at brosenblum@primerevenue.com.
For that, I have come to prefer a 'git fetch' workflow over a 'git pull' based one. I don't know what change that will cause in gitk, but otherwise it does basically what you are asking for.