jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm in Argentina) - Programmer

Contact: seekingwork.100@digitalservices.me

Software stack / knowledge: PHP, OOP, Design Patterns, Symfony2 (or almost any other PHP framework, really. I've even built my own DI-based framework, before it was cool), PHPUnit, Nginx, Linux, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, PostgreSQL/MySQL, MongoDB/Redis, RabbitMQ, Git, Javascript, Ajax, jQuery, LESS, SEO, and many more (just ask)

Eight years of experience, worked for several companies in Senior web dev positions, worked for one company in the US remotely where the team was composed of about 10 devs around the globe (we communicated using Skype chat).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01707-2
check out Helm - thehelm.com
Do big companies like Github have redundancy in place for events like this ?
Holy crap, this is a good interview.

"That we are far more similar to each other than we might think, that my desire for an iPhone as a way of expressing my identity is mirrored by millions of other people who feel exactly the same. We’re not actually that individualistic. We’re very similar to each other and computers know that dirty secret. But because we feel like we’re in control when we hold the magic screen, it allows us to feel like we’re still individuals. And that’s a wonderful way of managing the world."

The matrices and tensors may store that secret, but can anyone at FB extract that info? Or are the algos so complex that we humans cannot tease out the truth from the mass of math?

"They’re constantly playing back to you the ghosts of your own behaviour. We live in a modern ghost story. We are haunted by our past behaviour played back to us through the machines in its comparison to millions of other people’s behaviour. We are guided and nudged and shaped by that. "

Oh man, I'm barely 1/5th of the way through this and I already know this is a classic I'll be quoting from (and linking to) for years.
It's my primary source of tech news. I use Google Reader and still gave a fair number of feeds, but I use HN via the main page.

I used to read a lot of Reddit, but everything is too political there. I got sick of seeing 50 wikileak stories make it to the top of every sub-reddit.
"...and the linode one (at least according to ab) outperforms the slicehost."

I wonder if this is true across the board though. I imagine both providers have quite a dynamic collection of machines. New machines are being added, plans likely change over time as cash flow increases, etc. Surely not all their machines have the same performance. Some of that might just be luck of the draw. But I have never worked for a hosting provider before, so I wouldn't know.
The book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks just came out recently. Amazon picked it as their book of the year. My girlfriend, a bio-molecular & chemical engineer, just read it and said it was fantastic.

http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Life-Henrietta-Lacks/dp/14000...
I didn't realize Getting Real wasn't always available free, but then I only discovered it last year. Very interesting; I assumed the free online book was designed to drive sales of the for-pay PDF. (As a side note, thanks for the great info offered in Getting Real; it's a book I recommend often!).

I was actually planning to price my eBooks very low, even undercutting the industry average $9.99 just to try to gain traction. Would you still start at a high price even as a new book author? I have a fair online audience from various blogs I write for, but really am virtually unknown in tech writing. I know 37signals always advocates charging higher prices for products, but would you feel the same starting out fresh without an already strong readership and support?

Thanks so much for your advice; I really appreciate you taking time to reply!
I've often wondered to what extent programming is like learning a musical instrument or another language. That is, you can learn these things when you're older, but in order to truly master them you must start when you're young.
-Slashdot

-HN

-Drudge Report/Google News

-WSJ (Highest quality, but I like having the paper, which has eluded me recently)
Agreed. Most providers appear to simply slap on the "Cloud" sticker to whatever VPS solution they were providing earlier with absolutely no change in features. These are the features that I believe should be present in any provider that claim themselves to be cloud providers:

1. Ability to scale up or down instances with change in demand.

2. Absolutely zero machine agnostic. I really should be bothered whether I am running a linux/windows/lego machine.

3. Auto configuration and notification - Leave little configuration to me so that I can concentrate more on the stuff I like. But, please do notify me in case the whole system burns down.

4. Easily available APIs that are globally used by all - a user account management, cache management, web UI framework etc.

If you see, there are only a few couple of sites (Google App Engine, Heroku et al.) that satisfy these conditions. Rest all are VPS wolfs on Cloud sheep suits.
LOL! It's so funny reading that now; what a horrible little language. At the time I was neck deep in Java and a few years removed from my grad school studies. That project helped to refresh some of my dormant knowledge and excitement for Lispiness. I guess like riding a bike, you never forget closures. :p
Viable business models for B2B businesses that involve charging the price of a fountain soda per month for anything are few and far between. Just charging your card that dollar costs a quarter or two, and sets up expectations that free tiers don't come with. So you may want a $1.75 fully managed PaaS, but it's doubtful anyone wants to sell that to you.
Not fully, It is still full of massive compromises. Tablet mode is still broken and confusing and there's only two more months until it ships!
Two years old are perfectly able to turn on stove burners!

It's not the knob that stops them, it's being disciplined by parents.
"Need another indicator of climate warming in Antarctica?"

It's interesting how high temperatures equates to climate change, but low temperatures doesn't mean anything. Even mentioning it will be followed by a torrent of people commenting on how temperature != climate.

More proof that 'climate change' is a political tool.
Hey there, I loved the service!!

Want to kindly leave my feedback: I tried to upload using Firefox, and found that there are some friction with the uploads..

1. was unable to upload a single file, called "index.html"; the site asked it to be zipped, or worst to switch browser (that almost made me walk away)

2. zipped the file, and same error; was thinking this site is broken

3. I created a folder, dragged the file inside, compressed and upload.. and finally it worked!

Now that I know that I need to upload a folder, it seems right .. but it took me a while to figure

just my 2 cents :)
EOL or not, many of its specs are better. Some are worse, I admit.
If you don't support TLS, then browsers won't connect to you using HTTP/2 anyway, so it's a moot point.
Re: "copying isn't stealing": If a producer prices someone out of the market, he/she is no longer a potential customer. That's a business decision about market size made by the producer - they get higher profits at a higher price point and smaller market. Great!

However, producers don't get to complain about piracy by people who aren't in their market. Unless they eventually put the product on sale at some point, a pirate has no impact on the bottom line. In the simple (one-price-forever) case, the producer lost nothing - not even potential profit, because the consumer was already priced out.
This ship has sailed. For most people this is no ethical dilemma. Argue all you want, but the user does not care. They have the whip hand. If we don't provide something suitable, they will not care.

No one is going to buy a TV for Amazon Instant Video support. They will buy the TV, see that it does not support the service, and promptly pirate the content they want.

We will adapt to this situation, or lose to those who will. And if no one adapts? Then many will pirate. And all our diatribes against freeloaders will do nothing to stop them.
VLC, iTerm (& Terminal? I think), Chrome, Firefox, ... Most things I used had some sort of full-screen mode that was then "hijacked" by 10.7's native full-screen mode. I say "hijacked" because even versions that were pre-Lion would somehow end up using the native "feature".

The thing to reverse would have been the "switch to new workspace when full-screening" - or at the very least make it optional. Certainly not respond "that's a feature" and close as "working as expected" when thousands complain.

I failed to see the value in that feature even with a single screen. An action that used to happen instantaneously now took 1-2s. and a dizzying sliding animation. (Many a flow was lost to toggling full-screen by accident - whereas previously you could toggle/toggle back immediately without losing your mental state - surely you appreciate that as a developer?).
Apparently it's an A/B test thing. I was a lucky winner. All I did was update (Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS)

To confirm I disabled all plugins immediately to ensure it was bog standard Firefox (which is why I was so irritated at the time, proper threw off my day).

Bonus it had the Amazon tracking code "admpdesktopuk-21", which if you do a search reveals a bunch of plugins that went rogue.

E: apologies I can't track down the source where I saw it was an ab test
If this is so good why aren't cameras using 2 lenses?
Wouldn't making zoom better by improving the one lens be cheaper than doing so by introducing other?

I am not mocking this, but am really interested. Because it seems like this idea would have already been tried & if it were good would already have existed mainstream for cameras.
His point is that the entire Unix ecosystem should be maintained as a single cathedral?
The results for 'what causes promiscuity' are both amusing and slightly worrisome.

objectification of the self (2), Spring break parties (2) can lead to unintended promiscuity
vaccine (2) will cause promiscuity
sex education (2) causes promiscuity
.cb? Is there a rule against 3 letter country TLDs? (And, thanks for the info).
How did a non-programmer land private YC funding? I'm curious because I was under the impression that YC is very hacker oriented. Or is it the idea that counts?
Checkout http://searchyc.com/submissions/evaluating+idea?sort=by_date for some related posts in the past.
Did Feynman said that elsewhere? A more generous interpretation is that "complexity" is a genuine interdisciplinary subject, but for administrative/academic/whatever reasons it doesn't need its own institute.
At least Glenn Beck is attempting to educate himself/his audience.

Although, he'd probably do better to show everyone this (it's educational, hilarious and very well done): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
> Heating water with electricity is the literally last thing we should do.

Would you consider electric showers an exception? They only heat whatever water you're using. I've lived in houses with no hot water in the taps for months, but could still take a hot shower whenever.
Although fixed rate mortgages are far more popular because they are subsidized by the federal government. Right now I can choose between a 15 year fixed rate mortgage at 2.375%, or a 30year fixed at 2.75%, or a 5/1 adjustable for 2.75%. Obviously nobody is picking the adjustable rate.
"there is more than one race which is scientifically incorrect."

...not quite. There's definitely more than one race ;)
Ah that's true. During a layover in Amsterdam I was "frustrated" at how a bottle of coke was only 350ml at a restaurant compared to the 750ml you'd find in the US "in the worst case". I didn't order another because I realized that I was probably consuming excess amounts and should instead take this opportunity to realize that optimally I wouldn't even be consuming it.
fun but what are the legal implications of using these voices for projects? Does the license cover the use of these voices?
Getting rid of cash bail does not mean never holding people in jail until their court date. It's not like paying a large deposit to get out of jail is stopping someone from murdering a person before their court date.
One of the greatest things about this avocado is its great taste. If you are going to buy an avocado, you are definitely going to like it. When you are buying an avocado, you should always make sure that it is the fresh one and not an old one.
You seem very knowledgeable on the market trends. What do you think the effects of COVID-19 will have on the market, given unemployment broke records and all that?
NYT reports 'hundreds' at a crowd and organizers were preparing for an expected crowd of 5,000 on Tuesday and more than 30,000 throughout the week. Not particularly newsworthy for HN.
I don't get it - why is a great answer posted on Quota to this question a testament to HN?
How much did they pay?
> it might not be in the best interest to downvote someone
> into oblivion on one of their first posts to Hacker News

I disagree. If someone doesn't have the courtesy to try and understand the community they are participating in before they participate, lowering an arbitrary number associated with their username is hardly any kind of punishment. The only impact it has on the user is that they now have to earn back points on their arbitrary number. If it also bans them from posting for a while, even better.
iOS won't fly, at least not legally, but a hackintosh type version might be feasible.

Android will be doable, and has been done, but it means google still owns your ass.

At present, a lot of hardware documentation is proprietary and only available through large contracts and NDA's, so a truly open source operating system is not possible. Read up on the PowerVR graphics and the Qualcomm chipsets for more info. Some will undoubtedly argue that android is "open source" but without the hardware docs, all you really have is unmaintainable rotting mystery meat.

One of the larger problems is the FCC and similar rules for spectrum use various countries. Many cell chipsets can do a lot more than what is legally allowed in particular places, and hence, not doing it "correctly" results in a lot of headaches. Similar legal issues are also true for some "WiFi" (802.*) spectrum usage.

Of course, the carriers will fight it. The last thing that they want is to become a "dumb pipe" and have their profits diminished.

The last major problem is integration. If you haven't disassembled any modern mobile phones, I'd encourage you to do so. The complexity and compactness required by a handset results in very tight spacing and integration of components. Doing this sort of thing al-a-carte would be difficult, and the vast majority of the population would never know how to put it together (i.e. very limited market). On the flip side, I do remember a company that was doing something like this, but they gave you a list of possible features (hardware) and you ordered it from them assembled. Sadly, I can't remember their name.
I did some analysis to figure out the consensus on his name

http://www.ecogito.net/anil/2011/02/how-do-you-spell-gaddafi...
How does motivation factor into this due to the release of chemicals such as endorphin (game addiction or posting) or adrenaline (deadlines)?
Thanks. I thought it must have been. Had no idea how it could have been done.
Working on this, if anyone wants a corpus (positive examples from twssstories.com, negative from fmylife.com)

https://gist.github.com/945614
The article says 99% accuracy for 13 cancer types.

Some cancers like pancreatic are a death sentence because it's usually caught too late.

"Toshiba says its device tests for 13 cancer types with 99% accuracy from a single drop of blood"

"The test will be used to detect gastric, esophageal, lung, liver, biliary tract, pancreatic, bowel, ovarian, prostate, bladder and breast cancers as well as sarcoma and glioma."
Indeed; it's certainly possible the people making that argument are misinformed about the ramp-up, or maybe they really don't think it's slow enough. And that's assuming they're wrong, maybe we just haven't seen the effects yet because we're not yet in 2025.

But misinformed isn't bad-faith. I was pointing out that, yes, actually listening to the other side does reveal real good-faith arguments against the increase.
Maybe there really isn't a shortage of tech talent, and that narrative has been pushed by companies in an effort to encourage more people to enter the industry with the promise of easily finding jobs that pay well in order to increase the supply with younger, less expensive workers who are more easily exploited for long hours and poor conditions? It stands to reason that more senior devs would be the ones shafted by this scheme.

Maybe I should get my tinfoil hat checked out, but every time I see a giant tech company with one of those "everyone can learn to code!" pushes, all I see are executives hoping to play the long game and reduce the cost of engineering talent.
I wonder about this, I don't dispute that there is an issue here, but I think that this, and similar analyses, fails to take into account the change in the size of the IT workforce over time. I'm currently 47, I started my first paid developer role (job title "Analyst/Programmer"!) 25 years ago. The size of the job market then was a fraction of the size that it is now. Inevitably there are fewer older people in the workforce.

I'm much more interested in attempts to quantify age-related hiring discrimination, something that I have been fortunate enough not to encounter (yet), but that my brother (50) currently feels like he is running up against.
From my perspective, "not something a dilettante can just jump into after a teenage diet of scifi" is obviously a snarky internet putdown. I'm pretty sure the bulk of the community would see it that way.

Nobody claimed that the blog post was anything more than a blog post. Informal conversation is what HN is for. This is no academic journal. If you have specialist level knowledge on a topic, that's wonderful, but then the thing to do is share some of what you know in a conversational way.

If you say you had no intention of being a jerk or putting anyone down, I believe you. But you did break the community standards (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). I wish I could find a better way to persuade you not to post like that, because you obviously have valuable contributions to make.

Edit: maybe this would help. Sometimes people post harshly critical comments that are modeled after the communication style of more specialized environments, like literary reviews or academic colloquia. In those smaller environments, critique is often done in a concentrated and devastating style; that's how the game is played and how mastery is demonstrated, and it spurs the other players to get better.

The thing to understand is that this game doesn't work in large, flat internet spaces that are open to everybody. Here it just starts fires, drives away thoughtful participants, and encourages others—who are neither knowledgeable nor witty but far more numerous—to join in on what they think is the game, and it just gets degraded and degrading. It took me years to understand this, because I used to be irritated by the idea of bland communication. Who wants verbal blancmange? What I didn't realize is how context-specific this is. The highly-critical game doesn't translate into the broader internet playing field. It just makes things nasty and dumb. I've written about this in the past with this analogy: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237524 and more linked from there.

Basically, it's a case of the-medium-is-the-message. We need to adjust our commenting style to the reality of the internet forum, or this place will get worse than it already is.
Yet they manage to invent and vote for absolutely atrocious laws. I bet their intelligence is highly concentrated on improving their own agenda whatever that be rather than well being of general populace.
Nope, you've got it right. We're increasing prices next, however your sentiment is still true. Once we have the enterprise-flavor out the inverse will be true.
> However, being a blind person, I guess I have to accept that Google doesn't care anymore.

This is not a blindness issue. It would be more accurate to say that Google doesn't care about geeks who cling to old ways of doing things long after there's a good reason to do so. As others on the thread have pointed out, blind people can use graphical web browsers with a screen reader, even under GNU/Linux. I know you know this; I'm pointing it out for the benefit of everyone watching the thread.
Perfect! It breaks the stranglehold of party leadership.

With the Freedom Caucus, we've seen what that a relatively small (approx. 30 members) coalition can buck leadership and drive their own agenda. If you expand Congress, I'd guess the likelihood of these coalitions increases (for better or worse).
Thank you, I’ve been trying to remember where that buyer’s guide lived.
OpenBSD always goes with simple, easy to understand solutions that "just work out of the box" and can be easily configured and maintained.

Yes, we hear this every time. But this is the same project that advocated systrace, which provided access control with respect to syscalls. I do not see much of a difference between systrace and a mandatory access control framework, except that the implementation of systrace was flawed, it didn't support file labels, and SELinux has a more sophisticated policy language.

The OpenBSD Project has a very narrow view of security, and do little to improve attack mitigation for software that is not in the base system (ports).
The list beginning the article is very much the US literary landscape--largely the New York literary landscape--of Ozick's youth. The chances are good that she had met nearly all the persons mentioned, and knew two thirds of them fairly well. So I wouldn't infer too much from that.

I don't know whether we're particularly averse to translated literature. A neighborhood book club I belong to has read four translated books out of about 30 total. For myself, I find it frustrating at times: I often suspect that the translator got something wrong, but can't guess what.
http://www.roguelikedevelopment.org/archive/index.php
Pedantic but appreciated! My formal schooling in English was a bit lacking, so I don't always know what things are called. Filed away for future reference!
"Clearly it is necessary to intercept browser keystrokes, gestures and so on, transport these over the websocket and emit them into the LibreOfficeKit core."

So it sounds like it's similar to their earlier demos, where the client is "thin" and the bulk of the work is done on the server, as opposed to being a Javascript/HTML/CSS app that runs in the browser.