jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think overseas development will only be competitive when they start producing products for themselves. The main reason off-shoring fails is because of culture and communication differences.

(I'm not a world traveler, so disregard the next remarks if you have better insight than me.)

I noticed while working with chinese developers they were terrified to tell me they were having a problem with a task I assigned. They also had no problems passing extremely poorly designed code in order to meet a deadline. It didn't even have to work, the understanding was, you just have to turn something in before the deadline. I had a developer that couldn't get writes to the database working consistently. So he wrote them to a file on disk... I guess that was good enough.

Working with Indian developers is a much more mixed experience. Aside from them interrupting you constantly, which I cannot stand, some of their attitudes were downright laughable. "I have 5 years experience, which is about 10 American years experience" one guy told me as he explained that it would be better to write their own messaging layer instead of my selection of ActiveMQ.

Anyway, if Twitter/Google/whatever was based in India or China, I imagine the leaders would know how to use their labor effectively to produce competitive companies. I don't see American companies ever using overseas labor effectively. The cultures are just inherently incompatible for working on a subjective task like software development.
Thanks. I find that when I focus on counting my breaths, I immediately start visualising the numbers. They get painted. Or flipped around in 3D. If I pay attention to breath, then it, too, takes on all sorts of stuff. A whistle-type breath might make me see a cliff with wind blowing by it, and then that'll trigger memories. I can't seem to get passed even 3.
I did this last year and reached 235 days (only ending because I got married, I think that is a valid excuse), but to be honest, it started to become a distraction because my competitive side took over and I started going out of my way to make commits when I had actually important things I needed to be getting done.
First step: make sure you're getting enough sleep. Try getting 8 hours a night for a couple of weeks and see if it helps. After that, make sure you don't have any sleep disorders like sleep apnea that are reducing the quality of your sleep.
For a lot of Git and GitHub users, that distinction is of minimal importance.
To clarify - this isn't to say that non USD denominated assets don't lose value if compared to the currency its denominated right?

That is, I could replace 'USD' with any other currency in both occurrences in the phrase: `USD-denominated assets don’t lose value like USD itself.` and it would still be true, right?
Couldn't disagree more. The piece of paper isn't some magic wand that makes you able to help people. Assuming this person already has a career they are happy with, and they already feel they can help people, this doesn't add much value.
Well, shared rides were pretty popular pre-pandemic. Cabs never really did shared rides (at least not legitimately). I pretty much always opted for the shared option whenever I Uber’d or Lyfted.
That is lucky!

Did you have to do much searching at Impira?
10π megasecond is awesome
You illustrate perfectly the point Karunamon is making. Thank you.
Yea I don't follow the 'bulletproof diet', nor do I use any of his bulletproof brand things.

I just use coffee with butter + mct oil. I eat a keto diet so it fits my macros perfectly, and it keeps me going all day.
My experience is limited to the Flatiron School, so I don't pretend to speak for other institutions.

I graduated from the Flatiron School at the end of April 2014. 6 weeks past graduation, I had 3 job offers (1 apprenticeship and 2 full offers) and accepted an offer for $75k - which, by the way, is a very normal salary for a Flatiron School grad (http://www.quora.com/How-successful-are-code-bootcamps-like-...). Now, 6 months after starting work, I think anyone on my team would say I'm more than pulling my own weight. I've already been involved with interviewing candidates and training new hires.

I had some experience with coding pre-Flatiron, but it was relatively minimal (AP computer science - so effectively 1 3-credit college course).

A great developer is made of 4 parts: 1. Inherent talent, 2. Grit and determination, 3. Effort, 4. Experience. You can always boost someone's experience by giving them time to keep learning and helping them along the way.

In terms of recruitment, I can't speak for other schools, but Flatiron grads tend to be placed by networking, not job boards. It's easier for a fresh developer to make a contact and open up a job than it is to fight with others for an already-open spot.
Can you do touch screen over HDMI?
Note that there's no Samsung in the picture.

Considering Samsung is the biggest Android vendor and TV manufacturer, this can't be just a coincidence.

It seems like both Google and Samsung want to depart from one another and avoid becoming too dependent on each other.
Thanks for this.

It seems like labour laws in the US are similar to other countries in this regard.

There could actually be another way around this, as the contractor could register his own LLC and work through that.

I'd advise the OP (again) to consult a labour and/or tax lawyer on this.
I agree that gevent is a hack. however goroutines correspond to greenlets rather than gevent. You could write clean asynchronous io libraries in python using just greenlets and then it's not a hack.

I wonder if dropbox evaluated this option or just rejected python outright.
Try using gulp, gulp-sass (libsass) and gulp-livereload (LiveReload.) It's almost instantaneous and you do not need to reload the page to see your changes. There's also a Grunt equivalent tool chain, but I find gulp faster and prefer to use code for configuration rather than using Grunt's giant config objects.
Video of a Super-AMOLED screen in daylight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMEarDy0QgM

Older, non-Super, AMOLED screen in daylight for comparison:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVYI4ko6_E0

It's maybe interesting to note that another improvment the "super" version has is the same removal of a layer between the image and top glass that Apple highlights in their Retina Display videos. Oh, and that rumor has it that Apple would have used these displays were it not for the fact that they can't produce enough of them to satisfy current demand, even without Apple's massive iPhone sales numbers adding to that problem.
There are freelance camps all over North America, each sessions info is stored on wikis. One that just finished is Vancouver Freelance Camp http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/freelancecamp/ and the wiki is updated with info
With a few clicks, the Adobe AIR “badge” embedded on the app download page takes care of installing or updating to the right version of AIR if needed.

You mean I still can't just give users an installer, but instead need to walk them through some "install this, then come back to this page and install this other thing" rigoramole?

This was my first reaction to AIR 1.x as well: if your users can tell which runtime you're running on, it's not doing well. This "separate download" rubbish isn't the only reason that VB6 and Delphi took off and Java didn't, but I suspect it played its part.
Um.. what do you mean by liberal? It is true that the Liberal government supported them (as did Labor).

But they were conservative in that they restricted financial institutions in a number of ways (high capital requirements, strong(er) regulation of loans, etc etc)
At least below isn't debatable anymore.

http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2010/06/john-gruber-jumps-s...
They're not even useful for making anonymous calls any more; what with disposable mobiles being so cheap.
It works for me, sometimes. But I hate having a wet pillow, something I can't seem to prevent. If you blow your hair afterwards the whole 'coldness/fresh up' is pretty much gone and a towel doesn't sleep that good.
I'd recommend doing sports. For me it is endurance like (road-)bike, mountainbike and running, but I guess everything else that gets your body in motion is a good contrast/antidote to sitting in the office in front of a Computer.
Just wanted to say I was looking for something like this last week and couldn't find one for my Mac. Thanks this is awesome! I'll def buy a license here soon
Here's a free link to the pdf:

http://circuit.ucsd.edu/~zhaowei/Journals/Nano_Energy_Dylan_...
I didn't say they were innocent of any wrongdoing. I said that the wrongdoing wasn't "insider trading", which is what most people have been discussing.

Price collusion and market manipulation are not "insider trading", nor is breach of fiduciary responsibility. Insider trading is probably legal in the markets they were operating in, and it likely should be (in commodities, "you can't raise your price just because your costs went up - that's not public information" is obviously ridiculous; I'm slightly less convinced about currency). What seems to have happened was worse than insider trading.
That may not be in your best interest, lefally. Pro-active moderation makes it very hard to argue safe harbor status.
I found this part particularly interesting, for strange reasons: "now less than 0.25% of drivers tested are over the alcohol limit"

Why are they testing those other 399 people (0.25% = 1 in 400)? Driving while drowsy? drunk driving checkpoints? Someone's a little swervy and gets noticed?
This is a very important point I think - only in very rare cases have I found my research actively improved by having a more sophisticated method available, and most projects have a statistician as a collaborator already. If not, they're readily available. It benefits a biologist to know what the statistician is talking about, and not just treating the analysis as a black box, but there's a reason we have subject matter experts. Sometimes, someone saying "Make sure to use robust variance" is enough information.
> SMTP sends a ton of messages, too. I don't see why an IM system couldn't take essentially the same concept,

Hint's in the name: instant messaging. For the most part, nobody stops using SMTP if it takes 2 minutes to deliver an e-mail
Cool, thanks for figuring that out for me. :)
You can check your inflammation levels via a blood test called hs-CRP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-reactive_protein).

I took it and was surprised to learn I was in the high risk range. I tried a vegetarian diet for just under a month, re-tested and I'd dropped into the low risk range (this was the only lifestyle change I made that month). I found that a full vegetarian diet isn't sustainable for me so now I'm trying out only having meat once a day (usually for dinner) and will re-test to see what result that has. I suspect that the absence of meat may have been less important than the increase in vegetables.

The caveat is that hs-CRP isn't a perfect test because your result can be spiked temporarily if e.g. your body is recovering from intense exercise or a cold. That's why I think it's a good test to do more regularly and have longitudinal data for.

I've been spending a bunch of time getting more comprehensive blood tests recently. If you've any questions feel free to ping me (harjeet [dot] taggar [at] gmail).
I was thinking of moving back to Punjab to work on my startup for a bit - with Chandigarh at the top of my list of places to set up.
Is the tech scene really that bad out there or has the OP just been unlucky?
So he's expecting Panasonic to upgrade the software to support it? I don't see how you can blame Panasonic for not having something that didn't exist when the TV was made.

I'm not a Panasonic fan, but I would guess they a) can't afford to add Prime and/or b) are trying to offer what they can in place of it.
Of course they would attempt this - NY is the state with the highest overall tax burden (https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...). The status quo is that all the big tax states regularly increase taxes and find creative ways to grift off others' private activities. A recent example is Washington state's Democratic party trying to pass a state-level capital gains tax (https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/sb-5096...) even though it is explicitly illegal per the state's own constitution. Pushing the boundaries of what is legal or ethical when it comes to taxation is the norm not the exception.

With the recent exodus in California, and the advent of remote work/decentralized economies brought on by the pandemic, I imagine all states with large tax burdens are going to try to get creative in this regard. Personally, I look forward to economic decentralization starving these bloated institutions, which hopefully will also reduce the extent to which they interfere and control our lives as individuals and private organizations. It starts with reducing the size of their giant coffers.
Maybe it's not "optimal" but considering that obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc rates have all been climbing like crazy for the last 50 years

The statement you make here is a commonly made statement here on Hacker News, and I believe you are making it honestly based on the latest information you heard. Nevertheless, the statement is incorrect in large part. You are correct that rates of obesity are going up. But age-adjusted rates of heart disease, cancer, and several other diseases are steadily going down and have been going down for my whole lifetime (more than fifty years).[1] That's why the greatest increase in life expectancy in recent years in developed countries is actually coming from reduced death rates at OLD ages--the infant mortality rates in developed countries have already been very low for most of my lifetime. See an article in a series on Slate, "Why Are You Not Dead Yet? Life expectancy doubled in past 150 years. Here’s why"[2] for more background information.

[1] http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v307/n3/box...

[2] http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_...
Yep. The Amplify JS still doesn't handle clock skew correctly for API calls after years of people complaining. I am still not sure they understand the problem.
Required reading on this topic is the signaling model of education, here's an example by Bryan Caplan:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/11/the_magic_of_ed....
They're using it:

https://talks.golang.org/2013/oscon-dl.slide#1

Also, does Go really need a full IDE? I'm pretty happy using Sublime Text. Perhaps the JavaScript types are just more demanding about their IDEs?
That criticism was spot-on, and dropbox actually addressed those issues.
On the bright side, you can "work for" dozens of on-demand services at once, and take work as you like.

You reduce your opportunity costs by multiplying your availability (do Lyft and Uber for example).

You can't work 40 hours a week for 5 different companies, but you can be available to 5 different "sharing economy" companies at once.
Harvard and Princeton both offer no-loan financial aid.

http://admission.princeton.edu/financialaid
Maybe we just need self-riding bikes to solve these demand balancing issues.
> yesterday's announcement about stopping development of
> Chrome Dart VM has put a dampener on things for me.

I had the opposite reaction; non-reliance on Chrome incorporating a VM means it might actually have long-term legs.
I think there's a happy medium. My experience has been the opposite: I have never managed to show up on time for a Meerkat so the experience was worse than horrendous. I understand what you're saying about the artificial ephemorality being important to the dynamics, tho. I'd try to find some happy medium where speed is encouraged but content is still available for a short period for us mere mortals.
Dr Racket is a horrible IDE.
Routinely uses ungodly amounts of ram, ever try scrolling through your code because it spends 30 seconds in some paren matching loop.
Doesn't this mean that anybody agreeing to those terms needs to ask permission from each and everybody in their address book?

And if they don't, can I sue them (at least in the EU) or ask my contact to be removed before the agree to the terms?
Futuleufu - Chile, I missed out on going there when I was there many years back, was keen to kayak there, but didn't have the time/money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qmFqTPJ0d8

Zanskar, Leh - In Ladakh, Northern India, the grand canyon of asia. Ideally for a kayaking trip!
http://www.purelandexpeditions.com/
> Freedom of speech would involve delivering all messages, not just the ones you like.

Why would freedom of speech involve delivering all messages to you, including the ones you don't want? What a strange concept of freedom that involves ceding control to others.
The fact that you think Cohen "bent to knee" sounds creepy to me, like you're implying some secret Jewish cabal that made him do it. It reminds me of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

What exactly has Cohen ever said that's anti-Semitic? The racism in his work, like Borat, is satire. If anything, he should've offended Kazakhs by implying they ignorantly hate Jews.

> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous. If people are easily convinced to hate other people, the problem is not dangerous speech or ideas. The problem is a breakdown in fundamental education, i.e., those people are dangerously ignorant.

OK, so let's say we agree that the fundamental problem is lack of education. That's great in theory, but that doesn't solve a problem today.

There are societies where unfettered lies about groups caused genocides. You can lament the poor education that contributed, but that doesn't change the fact that it can happen again.

The real issues are that lies are much harder to undo than they are to create; that many people are resource-poor, under-educated, and susceptible to lies; and that we have a biological tendency toward out-group violence that requires a thick layer of socialization to counteract.

Nothing FB is doing is threatening speech in the US. If you want them to have less power over the broadcast of speech, I'm on your side, and I'll be voting for people who want to break them up and decrease Zuckerberg's power.
NAS fails for smartphone integration. Photos should auto upload. Calendar, todos, and contacts need to show up in the usual apps. It needs to be available from remote.
> How has this backfired, I'm curious?
..
> I'm imagining that the future-you's fail to seamlessly slot-in, and management types don't have an appetite for broken eggs on the way to an omelette, when they already have an omelette in you?

No, not that way - I took about 9 months off in the last 4 years, which has forced a replacement of my past self.

But there are still problems which are "new".

So in a manner of speaking, but more along the lines of filtering out all the easy problems with automation, documentation, others with similar skills - by the time the buck stops at my desk, I have nowhere to move it to.

Instead of being obsolete, I'm a SPOF higher up the problem complexity.

The more guesswork I do, the better I am at guessing what's wrong and every time I pull off a further "last minute miracle", the more entrenched I become, rather than obsolete.

> For me, the anxiety would come from the question "sure, I have this here and now, but would I be able to reproduce this elsewhere, or what this a fluke?"

The success part of it was a total fluke - lots of bets on me by others which came through.
I think they're anticipating support for other coins, which might work in the US, judging by their blog post [0]:

> The first payments protocol we’ve added support for is a privacy focused payments network called MobileCoin, which has its own currency, MOB.

(Emphasis mine.)

[0] https://signal.org/blog/help-us-test-payments-in-signal/
Well that is only if you look at software/ops as a 100% commercial undertaking. It is not.

One way to understand why people self-host is to understand why people self-cook their food. It takes significantly longer to prepare food (get raw material, cut, cook) than ordering it. People still do it for $reasons - some find it fun, some find it cheaper, some find it nice to be able to control the taste, some find it more healthy to know whats going on their plate, and so on.

Only concentrating on the dollar cost is too narrow a view, IMO.
Actually, that is something we've discussed on the mailing list (I've been on the list since the last time this was posted to HN) and its something I'm personally interested in building once the compiler and runtime are far enough along. Dataflow-based visual programming is something I've been very interested for a while now and is even partially related to my startup stuff, so its something close to my heart.
I posted this article because a Zuck quote seems eerily similar to something Paul Graham wrote.

Zuck: "Your map is wrong," Zuckerberg said. The biggest part of the map has to be uncharted territory. This map makes it seem like it’s zero-sum, but it’s not. We’re building value, not just taking it away from someone else."

Paul Graham in "Hackers and Painters" (also "How to Make Wealth" http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html):

The Pie Fallacy

A surprising number of people retain from childhood the idea that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world. There is, in any normal family, a fixed amount of money at any moment. But that's not the same thing.

When wealth is talked about in this context, it is often described as a pie. "You can't make the pie larger," say politicians. When you're talking about the amount of money in one family's bank account, or the amount available to a government from one year's tax revenue, this is true. If one person gets more, someone else has to get less.

I can remember believing, as a child, that if a few rich people had all the money, it left less for everyone else. Many people seem to continue to believe something like this well into adulthood. This fallacy is usually there in the background when you hear someone talking about how x percent of the population have y percent of the wealth. If you plan to start a startup, then whether you realize it or not, you're planning to disprove the Pie Fallacy.
We no longer have to care about actor career. We care about whether the show is good as a whole.

Movies are subpar compared to TV shows with a tiny number of exceptions.
Interesting. It seems like one potential hazard is that bonafide port conflicts are not detected. If SO_REUSEPORT is preferred for performance reasons, and most/all servers are using it, then starting up a server that uses the same port as an existing service becomes a silent error.

It could even work as expected for a while (since the kernel gets to arbitrarily decide what port to deliver incoming requests to) only to intermittently fail later.
And Microsoft's revenues and profits have been growing in the past decade as well... I don't think anyone can reasonably conclude they're nearly as relevant as they used to be.

Large institutions don't get "killed", they slowly become irrelevant (and the perhaps die), or change to suit the new market in a much diminished role.
Wacken Open Air, I'd guess. Been twice, never a problem. The second time a friend of mine who made his way there independently and who would come back home with me said that the police even returned his weed when he said he was going to WOA.

Then again I guess Germans got over authoritarianism around sixty years ago.
People always enjoy escapes from reality. This is what makes Hollywood so successful. And while artistic movies might not be the biggest money makers, there are still plenty of respectable titles that earn a large amount of money and are tasteful/fascinating to watch.

In regards to your second point, I think you didn't read the full article. The point is that Hollywood historically HAS been a VERY successful industry at rebounding, most specifically in the era of the TV (which is probably most applicable here).