skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fully general purpose

Programmed via OCL? Don't I need some kind of OS/host CPU functionality to load the inputs into DRAM and retrieve them?
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I'm working on a time machine. This is how I'm dealing with it.
Also there is no language barrier in the US.
I'm 34 and I believe I'm dreaming up the next big thing.

Many entrepreneurs become succesful at an older age... the famous Coronel Sanders became succesful in his 60s !!

In the tech field, Jeff Bezos started Amazon in his 30s.
Great writeup. I was eager to switch to Fi myself and mad when my friends started getting invites and I didn't. But then the day came when I got my invite and I started reading what it would do to my google voice # and red flags kept going up and I ended up not switching.

One thing not explicitly covered here too is I actually don't want to lose either my carrier number nor my google voice # and you do need to lose one of the two. I've had the same cell #, albeit most people have my GV #, since ~1999 and I don't want to lose that or my 6+ year old GV #. The "solution" for me was to port my GV # to a different google account and then get a new GV # for Fi but I opted to just keep Verizon for now..
Transmitter code:

#include <PJON.h>
PJON network(A0, 45);

void setup() {
network.set_acknowledge(true);
network.set_collision_avoidance(true);
network.set_encryption(false);
}

void loop() {
network.send_short_command(44, 'B');
delay(1000);
}

Receiver code:

#include <PJON.h>
PJON network(A0, 44);

void setup() {
network.set_acknowledge(true);
network.set_collision_avoidance(true);
network.set_encryption(false);
network.insert_reaction('B', led_blink, false);
};

void led_blink() {
digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
delay(30);
digitalWrite(13, LOW);
}

void loop() {
network.receive(1000);
};
If you need a professional degree for potentially being able to get an H1B sponsorship, I would suggest signing up for harvard extension >> https://www.extension.harvard.edu/

Anybody can start class and you qualify to join signup for a professional degree after getting A in 3 or more classes.
Good luck !
While I agree with your sentiment, if you were using Dropbox when it had direct links then you should be grandfathered into Public folder that still behaves like a static server.
Don't ignore developing markets. The USA has plenty of roads to waste, but Beijing and Bangalore don't. You'll see self driving cars be first mandated in cities with serious infrastructure problems as a way to completely optimize traffic (e.g. No manual cars on the express ways). Then local western governments will see a chance to cut their own budgets, as an easy way to satisfy the anti-tax attitudes of those people who ironically would prefer to drive their own cars.
We originally started Pizzacharts with the goal of providing a better user experience for charting Bitcoin prices. Our goal has been to provide beautiful charts for the cryptocurrency community in a way that can communicate as much information as succinctly as possible. As such, we've sweated over each pixel and animation, and provided some features not typically seen on stock charts that can be helpful when charting long term trends or high volatility. For example, our charts can graph the volume logarithmically, invert the chart, chart the volume in either the base or the quote currency, and line knots can be proportional in size to the volume.

Since then, we've packaged our charting as a separate product for developers, which we're now announcing publicly, as we realize it can be useful to the broader financial community.

We aim for our charting library to set a new bar in the charting community as we iterate together!
Google Drive has an application data folder that is a separate permission from reading and writing all your files: https://developers.google.com/drive/web/appdata
You kind of have to tell the story now. It sounds too interesting.
"live to the fullest"

or maybe just..."live"

so often it seems like we're so preoccupied with 'hacking' our lives that we forget to live them at all...
This hits home. I read hacker news and sites like it, but I know in my heart that the people here are not, for the most part, hackers.
Or maybe camaraderie? If you only drank Guinness, maybe they'd point that out too?
Ask HN: Quantitative tests/analytics frameworks?
Particularly as someone involved with research, I'm interested in a framework to manage tests which produce a quantitative value or graphs measuring performance, and compare them across branches/old commits (I'm hoping it will work with Git.) My main use case is to tweak an algorithm and keep variants in multiple Git branches, and generate some graphs measuring performance on each branch. Testing old commits should be helpful for regression testing too, especially if one test runs some unit tests and returns the runtime/memory usage (to track performance regressions). I'm hoping it will also be usable for less technical scientific programmers, to encourage good software practices.

Ideally this would work as a Git post-receive hook on a build server, maybe including an HTTP server with some interactive visualizations. Does anything similar exist, or is there something useful to build off of? I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but this is something I'm interested in building otherwise.
I started using adblocking software -years- ago, when an ad on a reputable, syndicated comics page (gocomics.com I think) minimized my browser, and popped up an ad to look like a system dialog telling me my computer was at risk. That was it for me.

Since then, uBlock occasionally gets disabled on Chrome because I don't even know, and it usually is just a few pageviews before an ad is so obnoxious that I notice and re-enable it. I don't understand how people without adblockers even use the web at this point.
What's next for the privacy-conscious ownCloud project?
If tech workers were to organize, what might they fight for?
there is nothing wrong with drinking alcohol in small quantities every day - red wine can prevent all sorts of diseases - most of the world drinks a beer or two on a daily basis.

drinking coke and pepsi contains no health or nutritional benefits - you ideally dont drink them ever (drink water or at least the diet version)
It's a union busting strategy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_union#China
This is such a poorly thought out article. The term hacker has also meant so many different things to so many people. I grew up with the 90's hacker scene. I was a teenager for almost all of the decade and I started programming and reading about, interacting with, and being a part of the 90's hackers groups. Those groups were called criminals, crackers, or cybergangs but a lot of the old school MIT crowd of hackers. Then the mainstream media picked up the term to mean criminals. Then my age group entered the workforce and redefined the term to mean an excellent programmer, as in hacker news. It's been constantly changing and meaning different things to different groups. How can you co-opt something that fluid? This article smacks of someone complaining about a culture they don't understand themselves.
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I am less driven by the prospect of becoming an old expensive programmer, and more concerned about missing out on gaining management experience. I have conversed with many programmers who express concern that they have no management aspirations, and yet the longer they remain pure programmers, they find they have fewer options as they age, instead, as one might imagine, more.

Maybe it's because it's harder to convince a 40-year old programmer to work bullshit hours for a few slices of free pizza.
40 year olds today were the first generation to grow up with computers. 10 years ago, 40 year olds were "old" in computer parlance. The myth of the 20 year old hacker will go away over time, as more and more people grow up immersed in technology (and thus possess the necessary skillset).

I would even go so far as to say that our culture's preoccupation with youth presents an opportunity for disruptive ideas/startups, based in "wisdom and experience."
You can always say that you're the designated driver, which at some bars will get you, ironically, free soda.
1. exercise

2. Am I exhausted from my day job? no -> side projects yes -> netflix

3. Read books.

4. Do dishes and other chores. My girlfriend cooks so it frees up a ton of time.
Yes. By definition, hackers are not bound by rules others impose on them, and I don't think a person's age necessarily makes any difference to having that mentality. Although age affects people in other ways. As people mature, priorities shift, and this can affect how a person perceives the world or their place in society, and this in turn could affect a person's willingness to push the boundaries.

So there's definitely a bias towards people who are younger and have less to lose, but it's not like any hard limits exist.
Ever hear of this process called MIPS? The design behind MIPS (Machine without Interlocking Processor Stages) was originally based on the notion that every time the hardware needed to introduce a bubble, the CPU would instead continue executing instructions--giving rise to load slots and branch delay slots.

The resulting finds from practice were that these new slots were hard to fill (i.e., mostly nops), and, instead of making hardware simpler, they made hardware much more complex if you ever decide to adjust microarchitectural details.

There is some limited support for poking the cache, though (prefetching, flushes, bypass, load streaming), but all of those techniques tend to be very coarse-grained.
So your solution to poverty is gambling on the stock market? You can dress it up as investment if you like, but it's still gambling.
It depends on the amount of CocaCola in the can, and the formula for that particular distribution.

Eg. USA has a 12oz can with 39 grams of sugar. UK has a 330ml can with 35 grams of sugar. (They aren't required to provide more precise accounting and so that 35 or 39 are rounded figures). These are close to the same.

Of course, if one is using 'coke' generically, there are many that have more than 40 grams. A 12oz can of A&W root beer is at 46 grams, as is a 12oz Mountain Dew.
I recently just hit my limit, too. The final straw was advertising videos that grabbed focus and refused to let it go. Worse, the videos were at the bottom of the page and would force my browser to scroll to those videos, refuse to yield focus until X seconds were played. Then, after I was able to scroll back to the top of the page to view the content I was after, the whole thing would start again as the next video played. AdBlock was installed after that.
That's the biggest problem; when your union caves into the government/corps demands then you get screwed and yet you're still forced to pay union dues and be a member of that union. All the major unions in Ontario (Canada) actually maintained a wage freeze and gave up some benefits and vacation because of financial issues in the government; the only unions that had wage increases were the police unions.

On the other hand, my buddy who's a construction worker gets a decent wage and great benefits because of his union. The last time their union leaders tried to screw things up for them, the union workers went on strike against that leader.

>Otherwise, they just take money from our paycheck and do nothing useful

Yep, that's par for the course for most governments whether they're liberal or conservative :)
Yes it is.

Your right to privacy conflicts with my right to express myself freely, e.g. by entering your bedroom.

As one example.

Of course, if you define rights as what is left after all balancing has already been done, no conflicts arise. That's not very interesting.
Should we aspire then to be as successful as the distinguished His Excellency Lord Satan?
This is a duplicate.
Hostess is a really bad example for why unions are bad. Hostess suffered from several non-union related problems such as repeatedly selling off profitable assets, failure to update their product line to keep up with trends, and repeated raises for management while the company continued to decline [0]. I can't find a relevant article to site right now but iirc the unions had already made significant concessions previously (I think it was during Hostess' previous bankruptcy). Hostess failed for many reasons and mismanagement was at least as big a problem as labour costs.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/helaineolen/2012/11/16/who-kille...
This is correct. There is no formalized stack ranking (at least for eng positions) at Google. There's always informal stacking: "does it make sense this person is rated above this other one?" "If we line up all the promotes and don't promotes, does this cut off point make sense)." However, I've seen cases where 75% of the promos made it and cases where it was closer to 30%. It just depends on the group at the time.
Is this off-topic gossip what you call intelligent conversation or are you just trying to insert yourself into the drama to put on airs?
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Why do you have to be 20 to be doing something interesting? Also why is it assumed that every new innovation that some 20 year old ivy league drop comes up with is good for our society and our culture? To me most start ups are just superfluous, these apps and such are created just to make our lives slightly more convenient in most cases, they rarely improve the human condition or outlook. Go ahead and glorify the startup culture but I have more respect for the grizzled old devs that have created the foundation we stand on today and the people moving things forward incrementally.
Come on man, let me give you a hug. You seem to need it. Do you feel better now?
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true innovation isn't cheap, and sometimes it's cheaper to try warping the market instead of innovating. After all, money is like water - it flows through the path of least resistance.
There's a peculiar phrasing of this statement. Would you happen to originally be from the Pittsburgh area?

We're dealing with a similar phenomenon here. We have a lot of Colleges and Universities and big money is coming in and heavily recruiting people. Instead of a large number of start-ups, we have a culture that favors going straight to work for big businesses.
Acceptance.
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And electrifying things like bicycles and long boards still means people are going to be active, balancing and whathaveyou.
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Don't care about any of the features listed on the front page. GV does those fine, and I don't find them useful, anyway.

I do care about: ringing multiple phones, being able to receive/respond to group MMS, and integrating with Hangouts. Obviously the last one is impossible.
The trouble with the no-soda rule is, at a restaurant at lunchtime you're pretty much down to water, tea and lemonade. You can get pretty sick of that. Especially if you don't drink caffeine (because of blood pressure issues) so its water or lemonade.

I've innovated - ask for lemonade cut with soda water. Fizzy lemonade!
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At this point I feel it'd be fair to make heavy revisions to the blog post.

One must think, if you really were the expert you position yourself to be, you should've been able to talk to at least ONE person working in a BIG4 before putting your name underneath it all?
There is this japanese approach called kaizen, meaning one step at a time. You already made the first and hardest one - decide for a change.

removing sodas (and other corn syrup stuff) is amazing step, what about a bit more movement? try walk, start with shorter, make them longer over time. find something to enjoy on these changes, that helps motivation a lot.

be persistent, don't make petty excuses why to skip it, and give it all a bit of time. learn to enjoy sweat - it means you're doing something good for yourself ;)
Are you saying they could just cancel office hours, and all their events, and just coast from here on out? Cranking out successful companies on inertia alone?
Generally I wrinkle slightly more each year, moan about my joints seizing up and grow more cynical.

On a more serious note I am becoming better at what I do because I understand much more of pretty much everything in far greater depth than I used to. And while I perhaps don't have the stamina or raw LoC output ability of a 21 year old any more, I can usually achieve tasks much faster because I know what I'm doing and I make fewer mistakes.

I'm definitely much more cynical about flavour of the week languages and frameworks though. And I find it very funny that things get reinvented every few years as a new generation decides some thing is too cumbersome (often SQL or DMBSs) and needs to be thrown out, only to be slowly reinvented as all the edge cases that lead to the abstraction are discovered...

And I'm only 36.

Career-wise, no discrimination noticed yet.
Worth mentioning, but this isn't exactly true for baseball players: "Baseball players (stars made middle-class salaries before the union)."

They got nothing like the millions in the game today, and ownership was taking 75% of the revenue (today it's closer to 55%).

Babe Ruth famously signed a contract that paid him more than the president ($80k in the early 1930s was a LOT of money). When asked about it, he said "Well, I had a better year than he did."

Not intended to diminish your point, I just wanted to share a funny store about one of the more interesting characters from the game's history.
Hey, fantastic and best experience so far in Munich and I have lived in other 6 different cities so far. Said that, Munich can feel a little bit dull sometimes, but if you get a good circle of friends you'll have a great time, especially if you are into outdoors. Feel free to shoot me an email if you have more questions.
Your comment seems to bridge two things: hacking life and staying relevant in technology. For the former, I'm 42 and doing just fine. I try to keep up with the latest trends though I don't buy into everything just to keep my sanity. I write as much code as I can. I've learned though that someone who listens with empathy and attempts to understand a business' problems will always be relevant.

For the former, I read a lot on diet, nutrition and exercise. I believe in 50 years, we will look back at the time when our diets were largely based on sugary carbohydrates and wonder what the hell we were thinking. I experiment with fasting. I do different kinds of exercises. We don't have total control over our health but so many of us make regular poor decisions that even tiny improvements have to help. Of course, I could walk out in front of a bus tomorrow but attempting to improve each day goes a long way.

From a health perspective, I subscribe to Nassim Taleb's idea of reduction instead of addition. High cholesterol? Don't start taking statins, start eliminating things like sugar and processed carbs and wheat. High blood pressure? Don't add blood pressure medicine, try exercising regularly, don't smoke, eat vegetables. Etc, etc.

Long story longer, if all you do technology and health wise is exactly what everyone else has always done or always told you to do, you'll get what everyone else has always gotten. True, experimenting and hacking may not help at all but there is plenty of evidence out there that walking a different path can get you different results.
> As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?

Hackers we'll die earlier, obese and with mobility problems, and probably sitting, while trying to hack "life". :)

I'm not a big fan of the whole "hack life" mentality. We aren't used to deal with complex systems, such as organisms or life. Despite the echo chamber we live in, the systems we deal with are simple; way simpler than life, and deterministic. Every time we think we "hacked life", we're just ignoring the complexity of the problem at hand (just think about the "hack nutrition" ideas around...).
It's inevitable. Why worry about it?

There's nothing about age that prevents you from understanding or coming up with the next big thing. Keep your mind open and eyes open for stuff that's happening in whatever field you're interested.
Come on. Google doesn't need to unionize cause they are the chosen ones made of special star dust. They believe what IBM employees at their hey day believed - in rainbows and ponies. And then what happened?
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Well done sir.
The article just sounds fundamentally flawed to me.

Let's consult the Jargon File. It was written by old-school hackers, and it hasn't been updated in years. It should have a handle on what it means to be a hacker. Let their definition of "hacker": http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

The first seven senses all give the same impression: a hacker is somebody who likes to tinker with stuff out of intellectual curiosity and for the sheer fun of it.

And here's "hacker ethic" while we're at it: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-ethic.html

There's nothing in there about "fighting the man".

Now, yes, a lot of the more traditional aspects of hacker culture would recoil at the idea of "on-the-fly problem solving for profit" (in fact, the entry on "wannabee" appears to hold "professional programmers" in disdain). But that's because the old-school hackers did what they did for fun. No, they weren't interested in profit, but they weren't interested fighting "the man" either.

And while we're talking about "large alienating infrastructures", that probably applies now more than ever, what with the rise of walled gardens, proprietary APIs, and the resurgence of closed-source software thanks to mobile and web apps replacing desktop apps. If the hacker ethic was a response to "large alienating infrastructures", it would be stronger than ever right now.

Actually, I'd argue that hacker culture flourishes more in the absence of "large alienating infrastructures" than anything else. Hacker culture started at universities where students all had access to powerful timesharing machines (or, hell, even access to the batch-job machines that preceded timesharing). Then, it underwent a resurgence in the '90s with the open-source revolution... because suddenly the entire world was connected through the Internet, so anybody could download, run, and hack on an entire open-source operating system, and they could submit their patches or host a server in their living room and post new software up for the whole world to see.
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The domain owner initially asked for $30k. We negotiated him down to $12.5k up front and another $12.5k a year later. As an early-stage startup, this structure was a huge win, since we expected we'd either raise money or no longer exist within the next year.