skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not say we need to do an absolutely amazing job for every person that gives us money, but me personally, I like to think of myself as professionally upstanding because I want to make my employer's dollars count by doing the best I can.

Maybe its because I've been doing this for 14 years, but I produce to the spec. Of course, I'll make recommendations during the scoping process, but what I produce matches what I've agreed to with a client or employer; no more, no less. My time is far too valuable to me to provide anything additional than to what I've committed to. If you want to give your time away for free because you think you professionally upstanding, more power to you.
>Too easy kills people; too restrictive kills different people. Saving more of one set of people almost automatically means killing more of the other.

Your statement I just quoted above is FUD. I'm not arguing that the OP link describes the best way to reform the FDA, but I refuse to believe without substantial proof that there is no room for improvement the FDA medical device approval process.

>But I don't see it as supporting your opinion, and I'm the guy it happened to.

But it's my opinion. You get to make and have your own opinion, but not mine.

Here's what I took from it: A likely competent software engineer quits field due to onerous work requirements.

A lot of assumptions are being made here, but your anecdote isn't dissimilar from other ones that I have heard, and negative anecdotes are in the majority WRT this field. Overriding conclusion is that better engineers are avoiding or leaving the field; leaving those jobs for less-capable candidates and driving costs up.
Great write-up, thanks for sharing!

I'm curious about HAProxy being a single point of failure as well. What happens when it fails?
Why would Google hire only the tech team? Home services seems like the sort of thing that absolutely demands a solid customer service and sales organization.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sleep-t.htm...

> The six-hour subjects fared no better — steadily declining over the two weeks — on a test of working memory in which they had to remember numbers and symbols and substitute one for the other. The same was true for an addition-subtraction task that measures speed and accuracy. All told, by the end of two weeks, the six-hour sleepers were as impaired as those who, in another Dinges study, had been sleep-deprived for 24 hours straight — the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.

https://hbr.org/2006/10/sleep-deficit-the-performance-killer

> People like this put themselves, their teams, their companies, and the general public in serious jeopardy, says Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, the Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.1 To him, encouraging a culture of sleepless machismo is worse than nonsensical; it is downright dangerous, and the antithesis of intelligent management. He notes that while corporations have all kinds of policies designed to prevent employee endangerment—rules against workplace smoking, drinking, drugs, sexual harassment, and so on—they sometimes push employees to the brink of self-destruction. Being “on” pretty much around the clock induces a level of impairment every bit as risky as intoxication.

The majority of people can't run on 6 hours of sleep. It is the luck of genetics to be able to do that on a regular basis and pretending it is anything else is silly. I can point to numerous articles like these with similar results.
the terrorists won.
Try getting another offer from a more environmentally-sound and lower cost-of-living location, like a Missoula or Vancouver and then leveraging that—emphasize that you don't want to exacerbate the problem of about 4 million people living on a water table that can serve only about 2 million people without being able to pay suitable environmental reparations.

Obviously don't do this if the bosses aren't the stereotypical SF-hippie type but it works for a lot of us. Feel it out and use your best judgement with this food for thought.
I agree with 1 and 3, but 2 seems exaggerated. Enterprise jobs vary a lot depending on the organization you fall into. There are lots of engineers at Big Corp that are innovating and pushing the envelope.
The data is not anonymous to begin with if it contains plain identifying information (like an email address).
New Electric Car Company Emerges: Faraday Future
sounds like a very cool project.
> So the industry is saying 'you're going to allow something that you know will facilitate copyright infringement and thus destroy sales

What? And this is why the media industry is seeing as anti consumers.
Wheel base is actually one of those things that can be beneficial both ways, depending on the type of tracks you're racing, but weight is always bad
That's interesting. We do something pretty similar in the Manatee component that I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, except that the designated synchronous standby can takeover if the primary goes away. But it can only do so when another peer is around to become the new synchronous standby, so we maintain the write-blocking behavior that avoids split-brain.
Em Redistribution
Blockchain is a means to an end, not an exciting technology by itself
My favorite part, at the end:

...With INTERCAL, you can regularly type your name in your program. Especially if your name is FORGET.

Author

Jean Forget ...
Disappointing to hear of all the setbacks; though. I hope it'll be available by next year, if not I may end up investing in a KeyMouse, depending on how it's received.
The carbon footprint of producing the battery, even not considering the chemicals, is very large. So much so that you'd have to drive it on many years from a full-renewable source for you to break even with a regular car[1]. Tesla, sadly, maximizes the battery in their cars.

My read is that their main goal is selling batteries and everything from opening their "patents" (i.e. their custom connectors/battery pack) to the home wall-pack is designed to do that.

[1] http://www.environment.ucla.edu/media/files/BatteryElectricV... (page 7 with relevant graph)
Also http://www.enveurope.com/content/pdf/2190-4715-24-14.pdf
(page 10/11)
Has long irritated me that car audio systems have a discernible boot time, having come from the days of instant-on radios. There really is no excuse, between optimizing the boot process and starting it the moment the car starts (not like there's that much of a draw, speakers off, from the alternator).
Please see my other response in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9905275
Release of Gerrit review's comments preparation helper Vim plugin
Mostly it's used by spammers. When you use it there's a hard to shake impression that you don't understand the point about getting confirmation by email from the email address owner, and that you might be using eg checkboxes on a webform as a confirmation.

That mailchimp blog? It's wrong. What they describe as confirmed opt-in is not confirmed opt in, and what they describe as double opt in is in fact just confirmed opt in.

If anyone from mailchimp is reading: please fix this fucking annoying and stupid error.

EDIT: That constantcontact post is correct. Notice how they put "also known as double opt-in" in brackets, and then never use it again but only use confirmed opt-in?
> Hard to argue with that logic, of course. But I don't see how this observation is relevant to the question I posed: why we should think that this hurdle, but not the many others that exist today, would stop people from selling melatonin, as nostromo suggested it would. (As opposed to merely making it marginally more difficult which, of course, is undeniable.)

I guess I just don't see how this question isn't a tautology. No one is arguing that the other hurdles couldn't stop it either. But if the manufacturing costs are $1 million, and the FDA costs are $1 million, then I don't see how it isn't obvious that needing BOTH is $2 million and thus MUCH more difficult. I agree that if we could magically reduce manufacturing costs to zero it would be even better. But your argument literally seems to be "since this is already expensive and difficult, we can make it arbitrarily more expensive and difficult with no reduction in success rate". Which obviously isn't true. More to the point: we know that it can get through the manufacturing hurdles because it did. We thus know this company is capable of 1x costs. Had they ALSO had additional costs from the FDA then it would have been >1x costs and thus we don't know if they would have succeeded.

Perhaps an analogy. Let's say someone proposed a new fee for graduating college of $50,000. I would say "well, that might make it so less people can graduate, since it'll cost more". Then you might respond "But what makes you think THIS cost will prevent them, and not the existing expensive tuition?". Well, both do, but they already pay one and we're in control of a theoretical second one.

> Or, perhaps more to the point, why this particular hurdle is not worth the supposed consumer protection benefits of FDA regulation?

This on the other hand is a completely reasonable question, but not more to the point, just a a compeletely different point than "the company already has costs, what is the problem with more costs?"
0-60 times are nice but I want to know what the 60-100 time is. That's what generally used for 1/4 mile estimates.

Is there any diagrams of information easily available about the couple style used between the motors and the wheel hubs? I wonder how they're done and what the limit of them is with the amount of torque they put out. In a previous life I used to build a lot of race cars and shearing axle bolts wasn't uncommon in drag applications.

It would be awesome to see them test out a full on drag tesla.
Inconel has been around for decades. It's just a nickel alloy. Nothing terribly special about that.
I would be very happy to find such a person in Seattle.
Note that -- in a not untypical for Re/Code demonstration of a near-complete absence of journalistic standards -- the assertion that Google's hiring of (some of) the Homejoy team is about moving into home services is not even attributed to any source or set of sources. The only sourced facts are:

(1) Google is hiring a portion of Homejoy's staff (sourced to Google)

(2) Homejoy's current platform will be shuttered (sourced to completely unspecific "sources", but this is pretty explicit in Homejoy's own public shutdown announcement.)

(3) Google "had set out to enter" the home services space "earlier this year" (sourced to a Buzzfeed article, which actually claimed that Google was in the process of readying an offering in the space, that doesn't indicate the timing of the planned launch, so really doesn't support the past-intention characterization given in the Re/Code article.)

So, Homejoy is shutting down (which we knew), Google has hired some of Homejoy's technical staff, and there were reports a few months back that Google might be readying some product in a space related to (but not identical to) what Homejoy was doing.
HN today (7 days later): MS have released their PhotoDNA publically so it's now easy to use for small sites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9903263
It shows that they care about their product, their customers, and their brand.

Any other car company would save software updates for the latest years model and tell users that they have to purchase a new vehicle to receive the updates.

Great precedent Tesla, thank you, and I hope other car companies follow your lead.
...and welcome to the coastal American attitude to service.

This is not acceptable. No matter what you do, be a professional and strive for excellence.
I have. I use Meteor, and for Meteor it doesn't support debugging Package code, so that's a no-go for me. But I was impressed by what they were going for in the situations I did get it to work. A few things I miss from the chrome style debugging, but a few new things that were quite useful. In general, debugging for Node needs to be fixed and addressed from the ground-up. It's an afterthought for everyone, which is why we see things happening like chrome dev tools being repurposed. I mean that's not a bad idea, but when the implementation is so clearly a half-assed hack job, it's clear a more foundation-first approach must be done.
So many instances of "theif"
Yeah, I emailed a couple but heard nothing. It's not something that I've spent much time on to be honest. I know when people email looking for links I just delete their emails, so I'd expect the same treatment myself.
actually I think it was a full business test of something big they have planned for the holidays, and it involved performance and security testing as well. I expect Amazon to both create and grow new way to reach every potential shopper on the planet between Thanksgiving and New Years...
Look at sewing machines though. They used to be made of cast iron and wood. They were built properly, and it shows. They still work 50 or 60 years later.
Modern day sewing machines are made of cheap plastic and flimsy metal. They last 5 years.

Yeah there's some survivor bias, but the materials used to make things in the olden days was just better material. On the down side, sewing machines used to cost a months wages or something.
Most Googled Products on the Planet in One Map
The quote from one of the lawsuits suggests that the 'independent contractors' really weren't very independent...

"Cleaners are unable to provide any additional information before jobs are assigned. For example, a Cleaner cannot tell Homejoy that while she may have picked different zip codes or cities as part of her territory, she only wants to stay within one zip code, or within one small part of a zip code, each day. Instead, if a Cleaner chooses Oakland and San Francisco as part of her territory, Homejoy alone determines whether the cleaner will stay in Oakland on a given day, stay in San Francisco on a given day, or travel in between the two cities multiple times on a given day. Furthermore, Cleaners cannot tell Homejoy whether they want a little or a lot of down time between each job, or each job start time or end time. Cleaners cannot tell Homejoy how much driving they prefer to do, whether the jobs need to be near public transportation, whether the Cleaners prefer to be stuck in rush hour traffic or instead on routes that are reverse commutes, how many jobs the Cleaners want to perform each day, or whether or not they want to return to a previous customer."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/startup-workers-s...
> black james bond

so are we going back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaxploitation? how is that even portraying 'african' culture if you just get British culture and put black skin on it?
> Is there anything legally preventing a startup from folding regardless of their VC's demands and going to work for someone else if an offer is extended?

The principals might have enforceable contracts which they would be breaking by doing so; most employees -- and this is about a subset of the technical staff -- would, however, be free to leave at any time.
Groupon acquires OrderUp food delivery service
Firefox OS fork “H5OS” gets a $100M boost
I would say that acceleration, forward and backward, in the 55-80 area is critical to safety.
I should have clarified that I meant small in the context of less scaled out and more vertically scaled like the traditional rdbms running on big iron.
Once you figure out some rules for avoiding chain completion, you can fairly easily extend time. When/if it gets a bit blocked, just take extra care to end the chain on prime number lengths. The top score is then just determined by how long you want to keep at it... currently at 1.8 mill, with 500+ seconds to spare.
Decoupling Ruby Applications with Amazon SNS and SQS
Those updates don't count though, since they weren't sent to the leader. Might as well pipe them to /dev/null. There is no need to track them.

A client shouldn't use a stale value. If a DB does not hold a valid key, it shouldn't accept new connections, or signal that data was committed.
You will get advice like "do it now while you don't need a lot of money." But that's not how money works, assuming you have discipline. All else being equal - the more you make sooner, the more you will have overall.

Two big reasons for this: you will invest the money you have now and will earn interest on it. And: what you will make in your second job will generally be based on what you make in your first. Settle for less the first time around and you will always be playing catch-up.

You want to find the best of both worlds: something that offers you good compensation and stability, while also giving you a chance to learn and grow. A big company can do that, you just need to find the right one. Get as many interviews and offers as you can, feel out the company cultures and do research. Someone else mentioned Google and FB. I am sure that's true, there are also lots of other companies where that's true as well.

Personal anecdote: I work in a fairly large NYC based fin-tech firm. Started 12 years ago out of CS undergrad. Now in my 5th role, including having run multiple dev teams and done product management. The firm supported my growth in other ways (grad school tuition.) I would challenge the notion that I learned less than I would have in a startup.

At the end of the day, you want both: money and opportunity. If you are good, you will have options that give you both. Good luck.
Worth mentioning the Red Alert : Israel iOS app. Informs you every time a missile is launched against Israel, rather distressing considering every notification means someone could/did die - and how often those notifications occur.
Guns no, but encryption yes. The right to "arms" includes encryption. Too bad the NRA sucks up the 2nd amendment discussion and casts it as only pertaining to guns.
Is it not just cheaper/easier to buy a 40GbE NIC for $350-400 at that point?
A 40GbE switch is < $250/port.

EDIT: I see they are using RJ45-based 10GbE - this can end up being more expensive and power consuming than SFP+ based stuff (fiber/twinax).
I'd imagine pretty good. It's got such a low drag coefficient, and at those speeds liquifying the tires is not as much of a problem. I'd think that the 60-100 times might be more impressive than it's 0-60 when compared to conventional cars!
> I wonder what someone who owned equity in Homejoy would think of this.

If this was a contributing factor to Homejoy going belly-up, rather than a consequence of the shutdown decision, they'd probably be unhappy with it, not that there is anything they could likely do. The technical staff aren't property which belongs to the company or its VC investors.
Ads, of course, for some definition of 'works best' (extreme variant: self-driving car offers to pick up what you order while you are at work) If I were an employer, I might pay my personnel to have the infotainment part replaced by educational material on their way to work.
What's wrong with hiring someone? I've never understood why investors, sales/idea people, and various other hangers-on should be rewarded during the acquisition of a technical team.
This is going to sound cynical and self-serving (even though I'm not actually available for hire right now), but find someone who knows what they're doing and buy their time. It probably won't be cheap, but it will almost without doubt be cheaper than what you'll do to yourself if you try to hand-roll database HA.
Delays have hampered the ability of journalists to use FOIA as a tool
Having recently spent a bit of time finding a roofer, an all purpose handyman, a drywaller, a cleaner and a yard guy, I finally have a good personal team I can use. But my god it took a couple years to assemble them. And there were quite a few duds along the way. I went through 5 roofers just to get one small job done and finally had my handyman just go rent some ladders and do it.

It sounds like such a first world problem, but finding quality people and reasonable prices to do this stuff is such a pain. I didn't use homejoy to find these folks, I just worked my personal network until I got them, but I can definitely see a market for something like homejoy.

It's a really great idea and it's a shame it didn't work out.
On a different note: is it possible to opt out of Tesla software updates (for whatever reason)? AFAIK, this is not possible (http://my.teslamotors.com/forum/forums/same-distasteful-appe...) The two options when an update is available seem to be install now or later.
He did mention redundancy as a benefit.
>Presumably they are making a profit at it.

Presumably they would not if they had to fund an arduous regulatory adventure while competing in a market against unregulated peers.

I think the best we could hope for here is that the USDA or some independent lab might test & certify that a bottle of melatonin contains what it says it contains, without respect to the safety or efficacy of melatonin.
Didn't know they had a kernel-supported way of doing this. Thanks for the info!
Nice study!

I wonder if there is a way we can see emerging lingo in near real time, as opposed to a year-old.

Because I got teenz.
SpaceX seem to try pretty hard to avoid pyros -- one reason I've heard is that pyro devices can't be tested!

i believe they do still use a few, but pretty sure not for stage separation.
You might be interested in this

https://youtu.be/K4NRJoCNHIs?t=672

Only a short quote, but quite powerful. The whole episode I think is worth it, but this always stuck with me.
Given the huge information asymmetry problems between employees and employers introduced by options, (see the comment by 'babababa for a good list of things to ask, that not all companies will want to share) - would it just be easier to have an agreement like "if the company raises $X million, employee gets a bonus of $Y"? (you could have different X's and Y's for different tiers of round e.g. 20K bonus if we raise 10-50 million, 100K bonus if we raise 50 million+, etc, and maybe a different one for "company goes public").

You lose the tax benefit of cap gains vs income tax, and you miss out on some upside if you're an early employee at the next Dropbox (but you're probably not one of those); on the other hand the downsides are at least quantifiable, as compared to receiving an unknown percentage of the company at an unknown valuation with unknown liquidity preferences and having unknown tax issues (83b, AMT, etc).

This is literally something I just thought of now so I expect it to be full of holes. What do people think?
Agreed! My point was not against the home cleaning industry, as it was the "dispatch-as-value-add" model. Tax and liability are probably the biggest "headaches" that could be managed by homejoy and ensure they retain their position in the relationship.

Anecdotally I pay Molly Maid to clean my apartment, because i don't want to deal with liability, legality or tax complications.
What about the carbon footprint of producing gasoline? You're missing half of the equation.
Thanks for the great historical overview. I encounter a lot of these terms and ideas as independent concepts throughout my experiences but I don't have a great overall sense of their evolution and relationships to each other. Do you havd any concise overviews you could recommend? Wikipedia tends to delve right in for audiences largely familiar with the names and contexts. Id love to find a phylogeny of philisophical evolution.
look up dual-clutch transmissions. agreed though, nothing's faster than not having to shift at all. the downside of a single gear may be limitation at top speed.... maybe.