jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK

Location: UK

Remote: Yes (only)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: React/Webpack/Babel, etc. (5+ years), TypeScript (3+ years), Go/Golang (9+ years), PHP, JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 (ES5, ES6+, 10+ years), Node.JS, Python, Linux, Docker, Podman etc.

Résumé/CV: Available on request.

Email: hn@sonoya.uk

Website: https://sonoya.uk/

I’m an independent contractor (own ltd company), full-stack/front-end engineer, designer and open source programmer who's been coding for ~15 years.

Currently building website/page speed optimizer https://oya.to/

An ideal position would be a fully-remote contract, full or part-time, but willing to negotiate.
There are examples of both kinds of systems, afaik it swings one way far more strongly than the other.
i) why should all those individuals have to campaign for individual pardons? Why not just issue a mass pardon?

I'm not sure why you think male prostitutes are relevant. Prostitution is not illegal in England. (Although the law is complicated).

If you're saying that men who have sex with children should not be pardoned: that's fucking obvious; so obvious. I didn't bother to mention it.
Even requiring 3 or 4 karma would wipe out nearly all the deads (which I have turned on, sometimes good front page stuff gets deaded..) and 50 karma would get the page down to about half.
This chart is a little suspicious given that iPhone battery density has only increased by 20% in 9 years.

https://twitter.com/Alxbk/status/1181307722991652864
This seems to be a remarkably creative interpretation.
The same way Wallstreet does.
Firecracker is a CI runner starting a VM for each run in this case, just a more optimised one, no?
Yup, I’ve been mostly justifiably conditioned to believe that the overwhelming vast majority of missing persons reports for people 12-25ish are likely people running from abuse. Typically unfathomably horrendous abuse.
If I download my music, I don't need to pay for a subscription service that might remove music in 6-12 months. I can also sync it between my devices with Syncthing and bam! Free Spotify Premium replacement. If I want to stream something, I can always use NewPipe on mobile. Normally I just download it.
> The national median rent was $1,792 last month, up 17% from a year ago, according to a report from Realtor.com. Rent for studio apartments, one bedrooms and two bedrooms all saw double-digit increases over the past year[0].

[0]: https://abc7.com/rent-prices-apartments-cost-of-realtorcom/1...
Give Bezos time.
I'd like to install FreeBSD on my MacBook Air. Unfortunately, Broadcom Wi-Fi. Still no driver.
Looks like they require Google Authenticator or Duo Mobile app to do two-factor auth. I'm not interested. Why can't they be like Github and just send me a text message? I don't want a dependency on some other company's product to make Slack more secure.
Not trying to be nosy, but, what qualified as 'intrusively' obsessing? Would it still bother you if you were aware of the obsession but not subject to any intrusive actions?
RiderOfGiraffes, is this you?
Not recommended. The cross-chain links will gradually wear from grinding on the pavement to the point where they'll break. When that happens, the loose chain can get snagged in the frame (or--even worse--the fork) and lock up the wheel. I went over the handlebars when this happened to me on the front wheel several years ago.

Carbide-tipped studded tires made by Schwalbe, Kenda, or Nokian are definitely the way to go. We've operated a bike delivery business for the past 18 years in the upper Midwest US and have tried almost everything. Nothing else works as well nor as reliably. The tires will last a few years so the cost per year is not huge.
Third question: "Did you find anything?" Option 1: "Yes" => panic. Option 2: "No" => "Liar!".

You have to release all the details sometime, but the longer you wait, the more people suspect they aren't getting all the details (even if they are) and the larger the drama whirlpool becomes. Did "Kaminsky found a DNS bug, details will be forthcoming" accomplish anything? No, it was a giant clusterfuck.

As a side note, I think it's weird that in a "post-wikileaks" era people are arguing that an open source project named openbsd be less transparent.
Libya would not be my first choice, if I was trying to escape politically motivated interventions from my DNS supplier.
I wrote some bash scripts a couple months ago which automates this process. When Hudson is done building, it uploads the .dSYM directory, signed .ipa, HTML for instructions and legacy zip file for pre-iOS4 users. Check out http://www.oiledmachine.com/posts/2010/10/27/automated-ota-i...
Same story, several sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332 - google.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637 - nytimes.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930 - datacenterknowledge.com - This one has a comment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407 - bloomberg.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281 - yahoo.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338 - killed

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009001 - bbc.co.uk - no comments.

Additionally, related:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783
Facebook has, this year however, become a mega force, ingrained in society, and pushing to become an all encompassing layer OVER all of reality.

I would say WikiLeaks should be "named" next year (depending on whether anything actually changes / consequences are met with the disclosures). Currently WikiLeaks is in its "infancy" of impact / effect.
There plenty of poorly run, large companies, that are filled with people that aren't that smart, bright, or motivated. Many of these companies don't have great perks, but you might get some job stability out of it.

If you are going to work for a big company, choose wisely.
nice--thanks for giving us the inspiration! as of yesterday, facebook.com/zuck had a nice banner from our app but has since been removed. =P
The poverty line where I live is $82,200.
If you're adjusting for inflation, you should adjust both the GDP numbers and the stock indices.
It's a dreadfully common story: some ugly hack which was necessary at the time persists for decades (or centuries, in the case of legal/social systems), because nobody can really be bothered to change it.

The extra file size is not much of an issue, but it does mean we still require stupid workarounds with Git and anything else that needs to handle cross-platform plaintext.
Is this different/better than pwgen?
They should. But MAFIAA loves automated takedowns, and they don't care if they're valid either. So it's likely not going to happen.
Time to team up with someone abroad... What's the niche about? :)
You've missed the point that this isn't about horsepower but about being a "set top box". I can't connect AWS to my television.
I was taught the variant with two linear systems at each step. I don't remember the exact details, but the general concept of a "dual to the problem" made an impression on me.
Your side project isn't worth anything if you're dead from a heart attack at 45.
To compare the impact of climate change to the impact of terrorism, you must factor in how many people are affected. They are not comparable.

> Talking about this as a catastrophe is probably inaccurate (it will certainly get fixed, and if it doesn't, who cares what we call it) and doesn't help actually fix the problem.

We disagree about mankind's ability to sort things out, apparently. The question of labels depends on that opinion - If, as I believe, it is a catastrophe that isn't being given enough credit, then labelling it a catastrophe will help.

> In the interim we should be politely pressuring our governments to invest in action

How is your martian cave? ;)

> ...and resources AND we should be taking steps ourselves.

I don't believe people have any impact whatsoever. I don't believe democracy is effective (better than the alternatives we've come up with, but it's still two wolves and a lamb voting on lunch). The only option open to us is spreading awareness, IMHO - government action is the only thing that can make a difference, and governments will only act when they have to. Our current polite pressuring are not nearly enough, apparently.
Part II: http://mirceabotez.com/journal/2010/11/14/design-like-iron-m...
See, I had the same reaction when web apps started gaining traction: "Look at all the native libraries and UI and tools you're giving up, just to solve the app distribution problem! Solve that, don't take GUIs back 15 years just to fix distribution!"

But, there is more to web apps than just distribution. And, there is more to why people want to write for these mobile devices than just the app stores.

If you've been doing web stuff for a while, you may be surprised to find some of us prefer the tools, APIs, and patterns behind native app development -- just as I was surprised to learn some people had legitimate reasons to make web apps. Some of us have investments in native code that we can move over to these devices. Some of us think having at least some code in the vendor's pet API provides a better user experience, and makes you better able to track with their platform as it changes.

I was wrong to think people only went to the web for distribution. Consider that people may not just be on these native mobile systems for the app stores alone.
Clarke was no technical slouch!
http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/
Indeed. 25 megahertz and 8 megabytes of RAM for $6500 ($11.5k in today's dollars). And a machine with 2.5 gigahertz and 8 giabytes of RAM can be had for under $1000 today; as much storage as the NeXT harddrive can be found on a $10 usb key. 1000 times more powerful, 1/10th of the price in two decades. We live in an incredible age, people too often forget.

It's these machines which indirectly enable so much as well. People like to talk about the cloud a lot, but video that gets uploaded to YouTube has to be edited somewhere. Now while it's true that YouTube has a flash based editor now, they didn't before they got big. And there is all the other video, HD quality, out there that needs to be edited on beefy machines: 3D modelling, games, music et cetera.
Since the site doesn’t need anything except a static list in a .json, it would make sense to use a static website generator (e.g. Jekyll) instead of an index.php which loads the JSON file.
Rust has been used to write code that runs on bare metal too. Typically, this is done by using #![no_std], since the standard library depends on things like jemalloc and libc stuff. Everything that doesn't depend on these is in libcore.
No. I don't make any universal claims. Rand did.
What's competition like for those jobs?

I mean, I'm sure there are some very high paying jobs that don't require a college degree. But there are millions of people that lack a college degree who want to work. Shouldn't we assume that the vast majority of these people will not get high paying jobs and will be lucky to get 30 hours a week of minimum wage work?
I don't think that suicide bombing is ineffective (so in that sense yeah it could be considered rational from the planning perspective), however i don't think the campaigns that are waged today are consistent with the values that people claim to espouse.
We're hiring at Meetup. http://meetup.com/jobs
Bad beer seems to be an American problem. We have plenty of good beers you can buy in a normal supermarket in Belgium and Germany. Even England, the home of bad food, has good beer.
this is just a very part time and temp job but may lead to more, and possibly fulltime. Would be managing outsourced programmers who will be putting prototype together.
I would say that Wall Street is probably more appealing to experienced professionals than it is to recent grads. People have goals (e.g. comfortable retirement) and very real needs (paying the house, providing for family, etc.) that take money to accommodate. Most people would gladly accept a salary that allows them to reach these goals faster than most alternatives.
"Ever" is a difficult time frame to bet against.

There are good reasons it won't happen anytime soon.

First, there are 2 kinds of Android programming:
* majority of programs are written to Dalvik VM using either official Java SDK or with clever cross-compilers (I believe C# can be used with mono-based compiler)
* for performance sensitive programs (i.e. games) code can be compiled to native ARM assembly. There's official NDK from Google based on gcc. However, those programs have very limited access to the system, pretty much enough to write games but you can't access majority of the OS libraries, since those are written in Java and compiled to Dalivk VM.

Go already has an ARM compiler so it wouldn't be hard to make it generate native ARM code compatible with Android, like NDK's gcc does.

Go, however, has a feature (concurrency based on goroutines/channels) that is fundamental to the language and just doesn't mesh well with traditional runtimes, which are provide good support for threads. Making goroutines/channels work on Java/.NET runtimes is either impossible or would have terrible performance.

Again, it's not inconceivable to e.g. modify Dalvik VM to also support goroutines but that's not easy and no-one is even talking about that being a possibility. Go is still a very young implementation, it'll take a year or two before the basics are worked out and then esoteric use cases like supporting Android will invade implementor's minds.
One of the things I was taught was that when leading/managing a team, the six things (in order of importance) you should focus on for ensuring a high performing satisfied team are:

1. Clarity - ensure your team understands the end goal and what they are trying to achieve

2. Standards - ensure standards are set (standard for quality of work, behaviour etc)

3. Responsibility - give employees responsibility, trust and hold them accountable for their actions

4. Flexibility - give employees control over their work day, don't spoonfeed or straitjacket them

5. Recognition & Rewards - positive feedback etc

6. Teaming - ensure a team spirit is developed

As someone who has managed technial teams from 4 to 90 people, I've found these 6 factors are a pretty good guide. Most people focus on #5 and #6 when discussing how to have a productive team, but you seldom see #1 to #4 mentioned - they may be self-evident, but I've seen more teams suffer from the first four factors being absent or neglected than not.
I don't believe this is simply because of QNX. QNX sits at the lowest layer. If something is draining massive amounts of power then it sits on top of QNX. Like maybe for example ... Flash?

Two things:

I think they have simply underestimated the power that a dual core CPU requires. Apple has optimized this to death. If the world would have been ready for efficient dual core ARM CPUs then we would have seen those in other tables too, no?

They went for a very nice user interface. Stuff animating, multitasking, movies playing in thumbnails on the home screen, etc. Compare this to what Apple did with the iPad: it's interface may be a little sober, but it is all about being energy efficient.
They're integration is still pretty limited... they're just much more integrated than their competitors. They still outsource all manufacturing and fabrication, battery tech, display tech, and storage tech. They're just integrating enclosure design, chip design, OS design, media sales, and carrier sales. Of those 4, Google and MS only do OS design. RIM does OS, enclosure and carrier sales.

Importantly, Apple is very easily able to disintegrate when needed. They're doing their own chip design now, but if someone comes out with an off the shelf chip design that's better than the A4, there's nothing stopping them from building it.

Your point makes sense in theory, but I don't think it applies here.
I can't read the video stream on linux (ubuntu 10.04). Does anyone have a direct video d/l link or something, please?
20 years ago I was about 2 months old. I don't remember shit.
No it doesn't. There were plenty of pre-Win 8 motherboards that had UEFI on there. Apple's been using it in their computers since the Intel switch in 2006. I don't know what you think is going on with your computer, but every other Windows 8 computer I've touched behaves identically to all other PCs, with the exception that Secure Boot is turned on by default.
I loaded the article and searched for "Github", "Bitbucket", "Mercurial" and "Git." I didn't find any. No tech interview and no carefully prepared resume of source with 3rd party annotations for a base level of veracity? No hire. Doesn't matter how neck your beard is.

And I am certainly not going to introduce a TON of overhead into our process bringing you up to speed just to assess this. You go from asking for 3-5 hours of my time to asking for over a week like that is reasonable. Like that is somehow a superior outcome for everyone? Here's a hint: it is not.

You live the life you wanna lead buddy, but I am not going to "trust" that you are a good developer without getting at least some indication that you are not a very convincing impostor. I have trouble with high-stress googletard interviews too (and I don't give them), but to ask for tech jobs without any real evidence of tech capability?

That's unreasonable.
The latter, of course. Humans are imperfect. Humans know that they are imperfect. Humans know that other people recognize their imperfections. Life goes on because we don't rub in each others' faces what we think of each others' imperfections. Sometimes it's necessary in cases where a particular imperfection is becoming a serious issue either in the persons life or in the friendship, but generally the best policy is to leave things be.

I love every single one of my friends dearly and would go to great lengths for them. But for any one I can point to a list of things that are flawed about them, and I'm sure every one of them could put together a long list of things flawed about me. I'd be pissed at someone who told one of my friends that, e.g. I thought they had unrealistic expectations about potential mates given their own looks, because the only reason someone would do that would be to either hurt my friend or to hurt me.

Human relationships are very often about delicacy, and part and parcel of delicacy is knowing what thoughts to share and what not to share. When someone takes away that discretion and makes that decision for you, you are entitled to get mad.
> as far as I know, I'm not using WebForms

If you have "event handlers" like "Page_Init" in a .apsx.vb file then you are using web forms. No other framework has these. They were an attempt in the late 1990s to make the web look like winforms. it worked, to a degree.

> what I'm using is lighter weight than MVC

I doubt it.

> I see no problems with what I'm doing.

That's a different question; I'm sure what you're doing is workable.
It says I've used up my number of articles for the month, but I can't remember reading any in a long time, which my browser history confirms. Weird.
Can you explain better how ?

And what you mean by "search" ?
The options are:

- Show ads
- No ads
- Tragedy
Since 1981 we've had one capitalist fairy-tale after another.
If you're into the last month or so of said contract and then your vendor is bought out before getting a chance to renew then one of two things happen:

1. the new owners aren't interested because they want to product to cannibalise for something else they're doing. Original product will never see the light of day again, no new bug fixes and possibly no more security patches.

2. the support contract cost is hiked up from maybe a few hundred dollars a year to several thousands

or the possibility of:

3. one or other of above but with the product's support staff reduced, dispersed or fired.

#1+3 above happened to us after Oracle bought out a bunch of stuff we relied on heavily for our hosting platform. Was a very painful time.
Would you elaborate? What is a serious contributor in your opinion?
good start,
nothing is ever perfect,
kudos to you for being open to the deficiencies and being happy fixing them
Agree, one session had obviously just had 'rm -rf /' run on it. Now, if you leave a root shell open to the Internet you're kind of asking for it, but this is like posting a list of GPS locations of cars with the keys in the ignition up on a notice board for car thieves...
I'm not really implying that. Somewhere or other it says Andreas is working for a top secret startup and is always trying to start his own.

What I'm saying is that it can be misleading how much academic institutions are "behind" academic projects. If you talk to most academics, you'll discover that they believe their academic institutions are doing everything they can to discourage their projects (academics can be somewhat sarcastic).

Some of the Julia core devs are academics and write papers on Julia, yes. Their salaries are paid by those institutions. They may have students who can do some coding for them (so long as they write a thesis too). But being an academic is a very demanding lifestyle. With few exceptions, you are paid to write papers, teach, do administration and apply for grants, not to write code.
Metaprogramming: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Metaprogramming#Nimrod

My bignum library for Nim (not well tested yet): https://github.com/def-/bigints

Complex numbers: http://nim-lang.org/complex.html

How is the macro system primitive?
Probably attributes indentation for HTML tags would be better if the final '/>' will be at the separate line. The purpose is to be able to remove attributes simply deleting the whole line. It's much more useable in any IDE. If you delete last line when '/>' isn't on separate line you will need to add '/>' or tell IDE to somehow end tag (it's not a problem, but redundant movement).

<input

type="text"

value={this.state.newDinosaurName}

onChange={this.inputHandler.bind(this, 'newDinosaurName')}

/>
The next question is what happens to people who want to work in the US?
It depends how you read it. If proponents of banning a drug (say, marijuana) argue that it should be banned because it is harmful and will threaten the fabric of society (or something), while more dangerous drugs are legally and readily available, and have failed to destroy society, parent's argument is reasonable.
Yeah, I think it's one of the those where you're not going to be able to please everyone, so don't even waste time on it. Personally I like the "end" statements and the 1-based indexing better than the alternatives, but that's just one preference among many. If syntax is important, you're going to alienate many potential users no matter what decision you choose.
What you say about the article may very well be true, but the surrounding discussion is not as bad as that. I recognize that the problems pointed out by PG ("chance meetings") and others are genuine problems that haven't yet been solved by technology. However, what I object to is that the rallying cry (and a lot of PG's essays are now rallying cries for how the industry should be, even if he just thinks "I'm just a dude that likes to post my thoughts on the internet, I don't know why everyone objects") of the industry is "move more people into open offices in SV and NYC", rather than "improve the remoting process".
This is one the most popular topics in the Sony vs Bose war. For reasons I haven’t seen any explanation for, Sony headphones have much less of that vacuum feeling.
Yeah, everytime a downturn shows up these are the first to go, does no one remember how many philosophy programs got shuttered cause of 2008? Its why I had to move to software, compounded with the utter plankwalk that is pursuing tenure as it stood.
It is the lack of fur allowing sweat cooling that prevents heat stroke that made us the apex predators; we jogged all mega fauna we met to extinction.