jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When I was a wee-toddler, I would freelance in the afternoons and nights. I used the regular job for living expenses and banked my freelance money until it was enough to make the switch. It gave me a big comfortable cushion.

I started small and all jobs were delivered before deadline and the execution is what set me apart from the rest of the competition. Work with less people and really deliver. Once you do that, existing clients will up their spend with you and refer you to other clients. Good work spreads fast.

Once you get a lot of clients, then it is time to hire someone. For me, I hired someone with little experience and trained them from the ground up. My ratio was roughly 10-12 clients per employee.

Small jobs are good when you are starting but they can also generate a lot of noise. Your time and expertise is very valuable. Price it accordingly.

If someone is trying to nickle and dime you walk away. That will most likely to be a customer who is never satisfied and will continually ask you to do things that was not in the scope of work for free or fight you when its time to pay up.

Good luck! :-)
Thank you for that link. I was trying to find it when another discussion about the idiocy of SF city government came up on HN a few weeks back.

Folks, it really is this bad.
"It could be intentional and still entirely unintentional as far as Apple the company is concerned."

Agreed, as far as Apple know it was a bug, but one of their staff could have been turned. But they'll be able to audit the change logs, and I imagine a company famously known for their OTT internal security would be preparing the car batteries and nipple clamps if they thought they'd found a bad actor.
I've got confused by the definition of European over Wikipedia, "A citizen or attribute of or from the European Union[2]", but you're indeed right. I should know, as I live right under Switzerland :)

I've fixed my comment now.
Those kids have grown up.
Call it racism, if you want. Homeowners conspiring to protect their neighborhood from people who aren't up to their standard isn't different than a country setting up an army to protect its borders from low quality foreigners.
In my 20 years of experience under the stars, nothing beats the aesthetics of a refractor with a binoviewer. If I was starting again I would get a 4 inch refractor and put a binoviewer on it with a pair of 24mm panoptics.
Keeping it real with Biological kids is important.
Adopted kids basically dont feel loved no matter how much you do or say. Although one day it will start to click.

Sure it varied a lot. But I learned quickly that I had to really certain kinds of jokes.
Your upgrade path would be the new SE, which is fingerprint and not faceID and has the A11 processor

I still use a 6S as a burner and have another for tests, they’re a great device
I guess I just don't care how consistent the NYT is in offering people control of their portrayal in stories, because I don't believe the NYT has any obligation to offer anyone that control.
Sure, you're free to ignore that one (of several) motivations was protecting his patients (which there absolutely is a real-world norm around). "My Doctor is the guy who writes SSC?" isn't a question he wanted asked. You're also free to ignore that NYT journalists do, quite often and as a norm, protect the identities of their sources and subjects of stories, and in this specific instance choose not to do so.
I have also spent (too much) time on improving my typing--custom layouts etc--even though I was already a proficient touch typist. I realized I do way more thinking than typing and there's little benefit in productivity. I've stuck with it in the hope that it avoids RSI in the future.

I always try to spend the most time on learning higher conceptual things. There are so many things that are written about, most of them are either already known/practiced, not such a big deal, or so poorly described as not to be of use. Whenever I come across one that I can't make sense of, that's what I try to understand. Of all the 'patterns' I've read or used, the one about policy vs mechanism was one that read like 'ok that seems good' but I couldn't recall consciously applying. After thinking on that a good long while, it's now becoming internalized and I see it everywhere, or clearly see where it could have been used to good effect and wasn't. In practice, it basically comes down to building an elemental set of capabilities or facilities that can then be flexibly combined to make the feature(s) you want to deliver.

The best every day skill is having a style of code that conveys the important ideas in small parts without having to hunt around and reverse-engineer the idea that should have been conveyed. This is usually through a good choice of 'factors' when you refactor and giving an disproportionate amount of time naming things and mentally reading it back to see what another developer might think from reading it.
I got hired after helping an external consultant at my student job. I solved a task I was given one week time, within 2h by writing a simple scriot doing all the work. I only had to fix some few edge cases manually.
> 2015 I saw she had moved to the private sector

Strange that the author does not mention she joined BioNTech:

https://biontech.de/sites/default/files/2019-08/20140202_Bio...
Much work has been done on genetically engineering viruses and that includes coronoviruses. We certainly know very well how to do it for one purpose or another. This is a fact not a theory. Currently it's impossible to say Covid-19 resulted, maybe in part, from this activity or not. Terrible not to know something for a fact but that's how it is. Call a particular view a conspiracy theory if you like but that's just rhetoric and takes us not a step further towards a definitive answer.
Make 'em come with Angry Birds and hire a few hundred programmers to put out new levels every day and you'd be set.
> You can synthesize more than 2lbs of muscle per month, if the muscle you're synthesizing has been in a trained state previously.

Do you have a link to that by any chance?

It does make sense though. Perhaps that's what happened with him, but without that key bit of info it's fairly misleading.
That depends. Do we just have to find a vuln somewhere in one of NETSEC's check-ins, or do we have to prove it was put there deliberately?
And I bet the person pictured was heavily using steroids.
I'll take a stab at this. First, a few assumptions:

1. You have no children
2. You are currently single
3. You are technically savvy
4. You are healthy, probably relatively young (20's) and able to work.

If those assumptions are all accurate, then I offer this: Hit the power button and reboot again.

Marriage, as someone else said, can wait. Finances cause a lot of marital problems. This, of course, is optional. Get married if you want. But I think it would be better to do so with a clean slate. Your first years of marriage should be joyful and full of intimacy. It's hard to do so when you're financially strapped. It's just an extra source of stress you don't really need.

Since you currently don't have other baggage (kids, wife, mortgage, presumably pets) -- how about another stab at doing a self-employment thing? Do some consulting work to get some cash flow and build work on a business you might enjoy. Once the wife and kids and house and dog and cat and picket fence come along, that's going to be a real bitch of a thing to do without significant cash reserves. I know, because I've got first hand experience and have limited myself and my options as a result of my choices.

A lot of people fail at their first (and subsequent) business attempts. Surely you've read this all before. Wouldn't it suck to quit right before you got it right?

But, forget all that crap! Right? I get it. You want a little stability. Good! But, will you be happy? Will your corporate job fulfill your passionate needs? Will that steady paycheck make you happy? Perhaps. If so, do it!

How about getting that corporate job and seeing if you like it? Before marriage! Hey, if this person loves you, they'll wait. No rush my friend, right? Or am I wrong? If I'm wrong, then maybe you better think twice.

Now, you got your corporate job, you aren't married, you have no kids or house or pets and picket fence --> you have options! Selfish options at that. Step out and get back to your thing.

Oh hell, I probably said too much. Good luck and smart choices to you. And...my sympathies for the debt - but don't let it destroy your spirit. Life is a roller coaster - the nice upside will pay you visits in your future and you'll look back at this as a great education.
Thanks for the suggestion. How much do you think card processing costs?
But it's much better than taking a sentence out of context from a regular conversation or article because it was authored with the intent of being distributed sans context.

To me this is a great strength of twitter's model, not a weakness.
For any ex-yahoos out there, there's a topic on Quora for startups looking to hire those recently laid off.

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Recruiting/Which-startups-c...

Good luck out there!
I also will go with "no", although I'm a little too close to this story to wager.
What are some resources one can check out to start increasing their understanding of these, starting from roughly zero?
I was going to joke, "So you're saying -1! = 1/0" but then I thought I'd check Wikipedia first and that's exactly the reason they give for factorials of negatives being undefined, which spoils the joke.
ENIAC the worlds first computer?
What about Z3 by Konrad Zuse?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
SARS-CoV-2 was almost certainly spreading in Wuhan in October. If your brother was there, and caught a virus, and gave it to you, and you substantially lost your sense of smell, then you should buy a lottery ticket because you were one of a small set of cryptic 2019 infections in the US (or wherever you are).

I would normally kind of shit all over anyone outside of China claiming to have caught the virus in 2019, but you tick off the two boxes which are complete and total loss of smell and contact tracing to someone actually back in China. Presumably you didn't pass it on to anyone or it otherwise died out and never found a superspreader (the majority of chains of infections of SARS-CoV-2 actually die out due to the way it transmits mostly by superspreading and it can take 4+ "seeds" on average before epidemic spread kicks off in an area).
preeeeecisely
Typically you print the lower receiver - not the part where the explosion happens.
In the US, I see them fairly often. Doubly annoying because I know they don't even have to obey my answers in the US.
In case others are struggling to watch this through reddit's video player, the person connected IR LEDs to a battery and taped them to sunglasses.
I am old school, so I will give my tech stack: Bootstrap, jQuery, C++ and PostgreSQL. That is all. Not much moving parts.

But if you want something that will get you up and running quickly then go with Bootstrap, jQuery, Django and PostgreSQL.
There's also the TrueSkill rating system from Microsoft (developed for Halo), which claims to be better than Glicko:

"Glicko was developed as an extension of ELO and was thus naturally limited to two player matches which end in either win or loss. Glicko cannot update skill levels of players if they compete in multi-player events or even in teams. The logistic model would make it computationally expensive to deal with team and multi-player games. Moreover, chess is usually played in pre-set tournaments and thus matching the right opponents was not considered a relevant problem in Glicko. In contrast, the TrueSkill ranking system offers a way to measure the quality of a match between any set of players."

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-r...
These police are missing a prime opportunity to play Don’t Stand So Close To Me.
I'm originally from the Great Plains area (center of the US and, in fairness, a rather conservative region) and work IT. I'd say about half of my American coworkers were some level of gun user (from "I own one and know how to use it" to "don't tell my wife I bought another one").
I think if they were in it for a quick buck, they'd have exited during the run up to $1200. But they didn't.

Actually when they were buying Bitcoins it ran up to $250 over the course of a few weeks, then crashed down to $75. That's my recollection of events.
I mean that it can devolve into scamming where people pretend to be interested but aren’t really and many will be people in “Romania” (some country) with fake profiles and so on...
That's rather bizar logic. An obligation to keep something secure comes either from a specific law, or from something specific in a contract.

The fact something is important to you, and you failed to negotiate that in your contract, doesn't mean that the company providing the service is somehow required to take that into account.
I actually rent a car for transporting stuff (mostly big stuff to the dump/disposal). The savings on fuel alone during the year make op for that easily.
You can completely use a linear ratio. Google any world class chef's recommendations, they will all recommend a fixed ratio e.g.:

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-cook-the-perfect...

Rice cooker instructions also use a liner ratio.

Cooking rice isn't rocket science.
If ads (political or not) had to be true to be run then nobody would run any ads at all, ever. Ads are all lies and everyone knows that.

Also, as for the role of truth in public discourse: If at least a majority still gave a shit, Trump couldn't be president. The propagandists produce, but the masses gobble up that crap as if it meant their life. Entertainment has won over truth and without the customers ("users", like if the product were a drug) that buy it the propagandists, and Zuckerberg, would have no market and nothing to sell.
Sounds like an excuse for making websites riddled with lots of unnecessary JavaScript.
> How can removing it possibly constitute a crime?

I think what's worse is that this opens up a 4th Amendment "exploit". Want to search someone's house but don't have a enough evidence to get a warrant?

1. Put a $20 bill where the suspect will find it.

2. Wait for the suspect to pick it up.

3. Accuse them of stealing the $20, get a warrant to search their home.
>I don't run a company that could get screwed if YC lands on Beijing's shit list

The fact that not being on an oppressive country's "shit list" is at all a priority is exactly the problem here. If your company relies on making money from these places, you deserve to fail.
Adults wouldn't have put nuclear missiles in Turkey first.
I think most people use credit cards for convenience/points not because they're so broke they need to borrow money to buy a Big Mac.
I worry about exit strategies. Stack Overflow was supposed to be "programming-question forum, done right." We've seen a lot of old people come through with the strategy of "build up critical mass of questions+answers, then enact paywall."

I'll probably always be skeptical that SO is just about to become ruined, unless they explicitly move it into a long-term strategy where the careers board is all they want for revenue.
Their business model runs exclusively on draining the accounts of people that forgot their wallet keys!
Sure, but just to be sure, you don't seem to be responding to what I said. Elon Musk's venture isn't based on doing science. Again, they're trying to build a colony for a goal that isn't necessarily scientific, but will have scientific benefits.
4th sentence:
"but the investors and companies eager to send information—stock trades, wire transfers—are so intent on earning a fraction-of-a-second advantage over competitors that the US $850 million price tag for the approximately 15,600-kilometer cable may well be worth it."
Ah like SPAD's (Special Advisors) are they considered temporary civil servants it seems odd that an unelected "advisor" is making policy and being quoted in the media though.
Well he also started a spread of snark that made the entire industry look bad. His own site is called destroy all software. Even if that is meant to be ironic, even that irony isn't helpful.
That would be a good framework!

But that's not what DoNotTrack was. It was supposed to show specific intent. It wasn't there to change the default.

So by removing the intent, the fragile agreement broke entirely.

If you want to change the default, you need something that can be enforced.
That has been proposed. But has been shot down by powerful lobbying groups. One being the tax prep software companies, but another being a conservative group that objects to making paying tax easier because then it will become too easy for the government to just keep raising taxes. The idea is that if you have to file your taxes every year, you have to acknowledge how much you are paying.
You forgot the second part - the total miles commuted. The same is inflation - faster growing total money divided by slower growing total "stuff".
ARM will definitely need a BIOS interface standard before it sees big traction in servers, desktops, and cloud. There's apparently some work going on here. As it stands there just hasn't been a big motive to create such a standard because ARM has mostly been used on embedded and mobile devices that ship with canned images anyway.
Well there's a motivation from some people to claim that people taking advantage of social programs don't exist, and the opposite as well to claim that social programs are overrun with fraud.

So what? Neither is right, generally. The political discussion about social programs needs to be about how to maximize their effectiveness, not to be about this existential struggle between two sides who both deny reality.
I think fragsworth was suggesting one could short Bitcoin (a lot) then launch a 51% attack to erode confidence in Bitcoin, thus dropping the price, and profiting from your short position.
From watching the tsunami videos, one major issue is the debris in the water. If a 10-foot wall of water - terrifying enough - hits this, the pod will pop up and float on top. The occupants will probably lose their lunch, but not their lives.

If the water rises more slowly - well, 1 foot per minute is darned fast but not the same as being hit by a 10-foot flood - the story is even better.

But if a 10-foot wall of jagged wood, metal, cars, and mud hits this, I don't know how well it will fare. I suspect it'll be torn to shreds before too long. Heck, the 2nd scenario, as rosy as it sounds, might be less so if the water has enough debris.

I hope I'm wrong ... I haven't read every page of the site so maybe he's addressed the latter scenario. Or, maybe he just plans to address the first 2 scenarios since it's possible, and in the 3rd everyone's screwed anyway.
I wish they had extended content negotiation to let the browser request an image near an ideal size in pixels using some kind of Accept header. Adding cruft like "med-hd" to the URL path is a design smell, and so is being able to suggest it from HTML but not HTTP.
My dim understanding is that the term "column" in Cassandra doesn't mean what we think it means.
That and interesting configurations (systolic arrays, message passing architectures, Erlang on a large number of nodes and so on). Lots of fun with stuff like this.
It isn't a system I developed to remember though, it is just... I put them somewhere sensible where they won't fall behind something or scratch anything etc.

My keys are often in different places, it is just that the list of "sensible" places isn't very large so if I have forgotten checking them all takes practically no time

EDIT: I should say not a system I developed consciously, I do have ADD so my habit of putting things in sensible places generally might be an adaption to that, though if so it happened before I even had keys to lose
> PIA is ok if your not doing anything illegal

Actually, they have "shielded" customers facing criminal charges.
If the engine manages to get half as much useful thrust out of the fuel, it's still a nice 1g all the way to your destination. Still quite a revolution.

How much would be realistic?
I am not sure IDs are exactly incremental in Twitter at this point. I think they are issued by blocks or something of that nature. Someone here could answer that far better.
The example of typename shows that it’s a problem that can’t be overcome by the compiler, so it’s trading off one bad syntax for another, not trading off bad syntax for difficulty to implement.
Ahah, i like the idea. However many gym cards have a photo ID, or a photo is displayed on a screen when we tag in.
> Because the market for desktop Linux applications is too small to be worth considering.

And that is because office and other major applications aren't available on linux.
This seems more like a signal/noise pollution problem. Which also means that false things are harder to correct.

Showing something that is blatantly false is much harder when all information sources become jammed.
In the early 2000's, I exercised some options and did receive the stock certificate. Of course, they were worthless anyway (company was "acquired" for well under the capital put in.)
> I think there should be less money in politics

Using a thought experiment, I must ask the question: Let's say we paid politicians $0? What kind of person would you expect to be a politician? Let's say we paid politicians $5 million/year. What kind of person would you expect to be a politician?
I agree. My wife and I are facing the transition to a fixed income. We'll move to less expensive digs soon, in a rural area.

We're both on Macs & iPhones. I'm worried about data charges for MacOS & iOS updates. No clear solution ATM.
This would most probably result in corporations laying off the lowest paid employees and paying contractors to do the same work.
Why not cover the safety aspect with simple height and or weight ranges like boxing etc? That seems like it would work better and is much easier to check.
No.

Our internal source control server is more reliable than our local shared ethernet with cable backup combined with the reliability of github.

We've had 43 minutes (scheduled and unscheduled combined) downtime in the last 11 years across three VCS technologies hosting internally.

If it was github and remote, we're talking about 7 days of downtime in the last 2 years alone.

We're definitely in charge and it has consumed virtually no admin effort in that time. The VCS server currently has an uptime of 3 years, 5 days, 20 hours and 38 minutes. It's also shifting 10mbit peaking at 200mbits pretty much all day every day 24/7/365.

(CentOS 6, SVN, HP DL380 for ref)
Given Snowden's recent allegations that the Canadian government is engaging in false flag operations (causing havoc and placing the blame on other nations), it could even be another country that just wants to make China look bad. To be honest, I would expect an attack from China to be a little bit more subtle... Of course it could be a double bluff... but then... Basically, it's pretty hard to know what the heck is going on.
But C4, cancer that it is, finds its way onto every architecture

I stopped reading here. If you can’t be objective about a topic, don’t bother posting it on a neutral platform.
The people that are angry about it should feel free to take the last source code that worked for them and fork it and maintain it.
" I bet Stallman's projects, and the free software movement itself, are responsible for the non-existence of numerous jobs."

No question about that. As someone who back in the day paid thousands for business software that is now almost always free, money went from our company to a company that had employees, sales people, programmers who made a living off the software that was being offered. Not to mention obviously the people that we didn't need anymore as a result of that software. (Bookeepers, anyone?)