jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been contracting for about 3 years now, one I found via StackOverflow Careers, and the other was via a co-working space.

I think the general consensus here is right. Avoid finding jobs on contractor bidding sites like Elance/Odesk (they're devaluing your work/skills). Put yourself in positions where you can tell people about your skills/services, and where people might be looking for said skills. I'd start with tech meetups, co-working spaces, other places where people you might want to work with are. Good luck!
I don't understand your objection to his original phrasing - he asked you what your salary requirement is?
I'm happy you are happy, and am not trying to convert you to Slicehost. That said, a bit on my thought process: I've been with them for years, switching costs are non-trivial in terms of my time (and switching could break stuff), and I have absolute and total confidence in them to treat me well.

I just checked my email. In the last year, I've had three incidents with Slicehost, all connected to issues experienced when migrating VPSes. All were resolved in minutes.

Not to knock Linode, or Rackspace Cloud, or EC2, or whatever, but none of them have ever been in the foxhole with me at 3 AM when the server was down and got it back up before customers noticed.
Same here. Great support after one of my user accounts was hacked because of poor password selection.
It certainly matters. Wiring 50k to buy a car or 500k to buy a house costs me literally zero, and maybe a few cents on the receiving end. Why would anyone be willing to pay 100x more?
In Berlin the normal start time is 10am
If you sell an ARM powered netbook that means no windows. So you can wave goodbye to being able to use OEM copies of windows on any other products that you make.

So anyone like Asus or Acer that have a PC business and launch a non-windows netbook soon learn the error of their ways.
Your 'everything is connected, inaction is action' argument is only compelling if you can provide a counter-example. A place where your rule breaks down. A rule without exceptions, in a complex domain, is just wrong.

Yes, we all breathe the same air. But at what point is you not fighting my battles with me reasonable disinterest - neutrality - rather than an active choice to hinder me? Clearly if you don't know me, and if you don't know the facts, etc...

I obviously reject it sooner than you, but if you don't reject it at some point then it's ideology and I reject that out of hand.
The entries this year at Revision were almost definitely a technical and artistic high-note for the scene.

The demo More by mfx was also in Javascript I believe and was also quite incredible.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=88631

For people interested, check out https://www.pouet.net/party.php?which=1550&when=2021 for the list of entries and results and https://www.youtube.com/c/RevisionCaptures/videos for video captures of all the entries. Some incredible stuff, including a GPU powered synth.
Did Buddhist cultures allow same sex marriages in ancient times?
yep, such a coward, I don't know how he's going to lead people after this.

no matter what, a chief should have his officers back.
>(Many) Youtube employees called for removal of the song.

Oddly specific and too on the nose. Since when did YT employees become a lobby group for social causes?

It should be noted that this was not a new song submitted to YouTube by the artiste, but rather a single for an album he made back in 2014. Taking out one song from the album renders the product incomplete, and I hope the same "cancellation" doesn't happen for audio streaming platforms.

Maybe the same YT employees (ahem police) should go back to 1996 and cancel Eminem's songs. Prune everything on their database that is not up to snuff as per their new woke 2021 moral & social justice standards.

Fuck youtube for playing with art like this. Fuck them very very much.

Big tech keeps abusing their monopolistic advantage all the time. The internet needs a new bipartisan and independent video hosting platform. Am sick of all the censorship and cancellation that easily happens too often these days. History and culture should be preserved.
> Google is probably the only company on earth that could spend about a year and build a vastly superior product to both Oracle and SAP that everybody would want.

You're making three assumptions:

1) Google could build a vastly superior replacement to Oracle's and SAP's products.

2) Google could do it in a year.

3) Google is the only company on Earth that is able to do that.

I don't see a reason to assume any of these three points.
I've seen Chris N around Miami the past few years for FOWA.

Beanstalk is amazing, I've always wondered if it was profitable & who built it.
Not a physics major, but my guess is E=mc^2 still applies.
Shrinking is not that necessary I believe. C++ and Java data structures do not shrink automatically either.
> They embraced EME web DRM.

They did not. They fought against it until it was clear they weren't going to win the fight.

> They didn't have to. They could have taken the position that if someone wants DRM they should do it via Flash or Silverlight, or some other external means.

That is not a reasonable position. Adobe was already in the process of killing Flash and Microsoft is the developer of Silverlight, and they were pro-EME. That's setting aside the multi-decade history of security disasters those plugins caused.

> They didn't have to legitimize it as a concept. It would have been so powerful if they had just done nothing.

It would not, it would have killed them overnight. 99% of the population doesn't give a shit, they just want to watch Netflix (etc.), and they'd stop using Firefox the day Netflix (etc.) stopped working. That's true even of most Linux users which is the only population that might would care whatsoever.

> They killed off XUL based extensions, and embraced a much more limited extension system (but at least it is more compatible and less differentiated with Google!). The functionality that was lost has not been restored.

XUL extensions were horrifically insecure and often caused terrible memory leaks that got blamed on Firefox - they also prevented proper sandboxing and multiprocess functionality from being implemented.

Although your defense of Flash and Silverlight leads me to believe you don't care much about security.

>the best outcome is for the Mozilla foundation to go bankrupt, so that maybe we can pick up the pieces.

You're delusional if you think that anything good would come of that. If that's how you feel, why wait? Go build something now.
>Isn’t there a claim that known evidence shows it was mostly Neanderthal females + human males that resulted in offspring and not much of the other combo?

There may well be such a claim, although I hadn't heard it before.

However, IIUC, there isn't really evidence for Neanderthal genes in mitochondrial DNA[0] which is passed, unchanged, through the maternal line.

It's certainly possible that at some point, all female descendants of female Neanderthal ancestors somehow didn't reproduce.

Perhaps there was some incompatibility between human and Neanderthal X chromosomes?

Or perhaps it was that Neanderthal males procreated with human females at a much higher rate?

We'll likely never know for sure.

[0] https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/genetics/ancient-dna-an...
The problem is the “banning” things as suggested in the article leads to bullshit like FIPS 140-2 mode.

So MD5 hashes are disabled in the system library for applications where it is not presenting any meaningful risk, for example. The other issue is that bans usually come with lists of things are not aren’t banned. So now you are stuck with waiting for some disinterested committee to support something that delivers a benefit.
> There’s a recent trend (I think) capitalizing the word Black when referring to skin color.

No, it's when referring to a racial identity group.

While the label for that group originates as a reference to the dark skin typical of the group, the capitalized term does not refer to, and does not have any necessary relation to, skin color.
I didn't make an argument about education. I made a comment referencing mass financial and economic illiteracy in America.

An economic theory is not right or wrong, good or bad, or otherwise based what the "educated, mainstream experts" believe. The history of human knowledge is essentially a history of paradigms (sometimes temporarily useful) being proven completely wrong, with some non-mainstream ideas being proven right. QE and mainstream economics, in my opinion, will turn out the same way, and end up causing the destruction of arguably the wealthiest nation in human history.

It's only a "burn" if you actually think it's a legit argument. I was just pointing out that it is not.

"One of the great commandments of science is, "Mistrust arguments from authority." ... Too many such arguments have proved too painfully wrong. Authorities must prove their contentions like everybody else." - Carl Sagan
That... doesn't make a lot of sense, at least on face value. In the Protestant view, your work (human effort) has no effect on your salvation. In the Catholic view, it has a lot to do with it.

For a modern review see Laborem Exercens: http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do....
The anti apple ads were run here:

The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.macobserver.com/news/facebo...
The gov can still pay its employees with its own currency. There are plenty of bimonetary economies.
For mere hyper-inflation, it seems there's a cap of 100% value loss. It's something else together to lose more value than there was in the first place.
source or is it more anecdotes from a self proclaimed crypto quant trader
Maybe it will be like "The Core" (2003 box office failure) and we discover Earth is dying way faster than expected, then we have to send a squad of heroes to...
The full name as shown on addons.mozilla.org is "NoScript Security Suite", which more accurately conveys its purpose. Some of the features it provided really had nothing to do with JavaScript, such as NoScript's implementation of Strict Transport Security about 1.5 years before Firefox itself implemented that feature.
Didn't Apple have an ad mocking all the access prompts in Windows Vista?

My how things have changed
I thought you were playing devil's advocate and I wanted to take the bait. My apologies.

Regardless, in a discussion, I don't the onus is on me expound on the numerous facets of the position right from the get-go. Abortion is a topic with many facets. You can't cover it all at once. I mean, yeah, you have to establish a position to start, but not all that much.

I think rather than just saying 'without any justification' you could have more charitably asked a number of clarifying questions or could have taken an opposing stance to argue from. There was enough in my statement to squabble over.
No, it isn't. It is a general criticism of hypothetical behavior. It isn't focused on any particular person or group, much less any particular commentator in this thread. It might be better to say "a poor driver" rather than "an idiot", but that's a style issue rather than one of decorum.
I don’t have as much time as I’d like to do CTFs and crypto challenges and could never remember where they were when I went looking for them, so I made this list that I hope is helpful.
Hydrogen fuel cells on a hydrogen blimp make a remarkably decent amount of sense.

I'm not sure if this is quite whats being implied, but I can definitely see loading up supplies, floating to a disaster area, dropping supplies, & spending a while acting as a power station as useful & sensible. This particular mission cycle involves dropping a bunch of cargo before starting to burn your float/power reserves, which makes consuming your float sound less crazy. Not sure how these things work, but alternatively, if it's fixed volume, you're not even consuming your float: you're trying to pull vacuum where you had gas. Not sure how do-able that is!

Hydrogen zeppelins could also works around one of the unfortunate down-sides of a potential hydrogen economy, which is that typically one has to (non-recoup-erably) pour a bunch of energy into making the hydrogen one is generating transportable/compressed: here there's a balloon one can fill effortlessly. Attach a hose & open a hatch in the bottom.

The article talks about the current fuel cell systems only being 250kW (equal to ~336 HP). For reference, the Hindenberg (unforunate reference point but whatever) used 4 x 890 kW (1200 HP) diesel engines. It does make me think an airship would be absolutely drinking the heck out of it's own float to move, but hopefully the cruise demands are much much lower. Ah, ok: this page[1] alleges the cruise power was 610 kW / 820 HP. Could be worse!

[1] https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-operations-proced...
So it replaced 2000 miles. If the average person puts 10k-15k on a car, it sounds like you only used it on a few little trips around the neighborhood.

You're making my point for me. I'm not saying bikes don't work. I'm just saying that there are many times that they don't work. And it sounds like you're a bike lover and even then, you couldn't replace 8k-13k a year of car travel.

And I'll note that you're using an electric bike. That's like an electric car, but with only two wheels. So you're really on the wrong side according to this article.
If your speech is really valuable you shouldn't depend on the free services of a privately-owned ad-supported company meant for streaming games to propagate it.

Furthermore speech as the forefathers probably meant was people physically going to town squares and talking there.

There is free press, which is what social media is more like, and the owner of a press has the right to decide what he/she will print--the Constitution prevents government interference, not private interference.
Very relevant and well laid out! Ideally, in-person, human interaction is best for user testing although would be awesome to see these projects become immediately accessible for UX-interested users to practice with, via e.g. an artificial intelligence bot set up to respond to UX-related questions. Or even better, users get paired up with another UX-interested site visitor over video chat and they are each given a different, e.g., card sorting scenario to take the other person through.
I biked to work year-round in Calgary, Canada every workday during a 16 month internship. Including during heavy snow. Tungsten-studded bike tires made it easy. This was before the current era of electric-powered fatbikes, which easily handle such conditions.
https://based.cooking is also a similar site
If you are mentioning MRR, I assume you run some sort of subscription business model. Make sure you have all the standard subscription model metrics in place and easily accessible. Find examples below.

MRR, ARR, LTV, CAC, CAC Payback, LTV/CAC, NDR, Churn (Gross and Logo), Conversion Rates (if freemium), etc.

Besides these metrics, make sure to have a solid Revenue Forecast.

I work in the Data department of a start-up that recently raised capital and those metrics were crucial to our funding round.

If you want further advice, let's connect in some way (I'm new to HN, so I'm not sure how to do that).
Haha adding garlic to carbonara. That'll get you some angry Italian comments.

As I mentioned before[1], I'm skeptical of this premise. Recipes are hard to get right, hence the use of cross testers and standardized language in professional test kitchens.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26420783
I can't wait for PBS Spacetime to tell me what to think about this.
The best data says that eating Crayola's is safe. Young children do it all the time. That doesn't mean that I'm going to munch down a boxful if asked to, even if I work for the company and I'm talking to someone who is skeptical. It isn't food.

EDIT: check the bottom of the article for an update. He is not an employee or lobbyist for Monsanto (the manufacturer).
Don't publicise more than the minimum in uarch details, and give a friendly reminder to anyone who sues that their IP is also dependent on other IP secretly and starting a nuclear war is probably not worth it?
It was perhaps a little ambitious for Google to expect to sell more Nexus Ones (with easy sign-up/subsidy by T-Mobile) versus Verizon selling Droids (with easy sign-up/subsidy by Verizon). It's a great device and I love mine, but that doesn't mean Google is equipped to be able to sell it.

Actually, paying more on eBay for a device that is scarce is just called economics. Though, it would be surprising to learn that the price was much higher than the original unlocked price + $30 - since you can still purchase one if you have registered yourself as a developer with an Android Market account.
Google Profiles has a fairly large base of users, mostly due to people coming to it via things like Blogger, Picasa, and Buzz.

about.me/whatever is a nicer URL scheme than google.com/profiles/whatever, though.
Wow very nice work!
Interesting, they invest heavily in Cassandra (something like 10PB, 80K+ nodes). I've not really seen much of FoundationDB but is it not similar?
I am the data modeler for an organization which lends to small businesses. In my experience "big data" is all in the eye of the beholder, and it's not all about how many gigabytes of data you work with, how wide, or how long it is. The challenges are the same: how to use the data in relevant ways to forward organizational goals. In my case the days isn't particularly long in terms of number of rows, but it is exceptionally wide in terms of potential variables. It's enough data that I have to spend a reasonable amount of time thinking about the most efficient way to model (statistically) and data mine. The issues are similar to other data oriented jobs I've had: how to determine which variables are relevant, clean and transform the data... And ultimately how to turn a big pile of data into a model which effectively predicts likelihood of charge off if the loan were to be approved. Scintillating stuff, but obscenely difficult. Of course, it's harder too because I'm the only modeler and am fairly inexperienced. My last experience building predictive models was a couple classes in college... Which was also my last experience using R (which I prefer to SAS.

To answer your implied question, I'd recommend picking up ANY size real world data and playing with it. Build statistical models (predictive or otherwise), apply supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to it, but above all develop a foundation of experience working with real world data. In class in college we used "canned" data sets which were already cleaned, validated, organized, and so forth. This made it unrealistically easy to model. In the real world just working with the data effectively is a hard won skill. So from the get go you need to learn how to explore data, visualize it, interpret plots and statistics, clean/transform/normalize it, formulate a question your data can answer, and apply the relevant methods in pursuit of the answers you seek. Once you have the fundamentals down the size of the data is immaterial--only requiring you to put additional thought into what you can computationally achieve (for instance, how to determine which of 150 candidate variables are statistically relevant).
Learning after school is self-study. Don't expect anyone (even a mentor) to teach you what you need to know.

Every job comes with different challenges and requires learning new things. You'll spend the first few years getting comfortable with the technical side of things. When the business side becomes a more important/bigger challenge than the programming side; that's when you know you're a developer.

My advice is this: identify role models in the fields/technologies you are interested in and follow them. Try to find someone who is more passionate about what you do than you (i.e. someone doing the same things as you but is better than you) and learn all you can.

One of the books I can highly recommend is Evan's Domain Driven Design, it makes it easier to reason abstractly about business.
You are right about IronMQ, they are said to have a very strong product. For the record, we haven't actually checked redislabs and cloudamqp either, but since they are based on opensource that is mentioned in the blog post, I added them to the notes section. I couldn't say anything intelligent about IronMQ since it is not based on an opensource offering, and so other than actually trying it, I cannot tell its pros/cons.
I guess so. It is also the top comment on r/programming for this (link also contains the corresponding blog entry of the author): https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tibrh/zstd_a_...
The triangular grid is dual to the hexagonal grid -- if you take a hexagonal grid, put a vertex in the center of each hexagonal tile, then form tile edges by connecting each vertex to its six neighboring vertices, you get a triangular grid. Doing the same operation to the triangular grid gives you the hex-grid back again.
I wasn't being sexist. The context of the parent comment was women negotiating pay.
SF doesn't have "centuries" of infrastructure. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed nearly everything. SF doesn't have "vastly limited space" either. It's not even in the top 100 cities in the world in terms of population density. Source: http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-...

Nor are SF's roads and bridges really all that complex. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has 446 bridges, and is one of the cheapest cities to live in in the United States. Maintaining two big bridges just isn't that complex, certainly not enough to explain a 10x factor in the cost of living. Sure, SF has a high minimum wage for construction employees, but so does California in general. And somehow it is not that expensive to live in Fresno or Sacramento.

If anything, rural and suburban areas tend to have to maintain more infrastructure per taxpayer, since people are more spread out.
Is it like Discworld where Ankh Morpork has a Guild of Thieves and a Guild for Assassins?
I'm just not a fan of watching the interesting sites I visit turn into cesspools. I've seen the pattern many times and this kind of thing is one of is early symptoms.
But how do they pay their taxes? Sign up for electricity or a mobile phone? Literally everything now requires an electronic account somewhere.

I now have 200+ accounts in my Password manager. Sure, I know I'm part of the 0.01%. But I can't imagine that there's anyone who does own a smartphone but still has less than 10 online accounts somewhere :) You just need them for too many basic necessities of life these days.

It shouldn't be so much of a barrier, and if it is, they probably need help even with setting up Signal or Whatsapp too. After all that requires a google play or apple account to install from the store too.
And this nonsense doublespeak is why Ethereum 2.0 (proof of stake, sharding for real scaling) will get all my investment for the next cycle and why it will eventually be the dominant cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin was a beautiful idea but it was ruined when it refused to scale. Like Brian Armstrong, the ceo of Coinbase has said, Bitcoin broke my heart when it chose that path.

https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2017/11/bitcoin-broke-coinbase-ceo...
As a new year's resolution I've blocked reddit on my pihole and life has been better.

If I search for something and the result is a reddit post I'll turn on the vpn, view the result, and close it. The site is run by shills, advertisers, bad actors, agitators, and toxic people.
Anyone can write options; it is not a fixed supply. There is (almost) always a market maker who will take the bet for the right price.
Here's another I haven't tried it but it looks slick https://github.com/syphon-org/syphon