skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, this sounds like justification to go days/weeks/months just reading articles to me.

"Don't worry boss, maybe next week my subconscious will come up with a brilliant solution that will sink our competitors. You'll see."

A little planning goes a long way. You can avoid doing things like planning and wait days/weeks/months for your attachment to the task to clear up. You can also plan out what you'll need to accomplish a task and once you're done, your mind can essentially go on autopilot till you either hit a snag (in which case back to the drawing board you go for more planning), or finish the task.

You can trust your subconscious to show you the right way and hope it's correct, or you can plan the right way and have more of a guarantee that it's correct.
but true :)

rich people have it easy. because a failure is not really a failure for them... it's an attempt.

But for the rest of us a failure is a failure. Deal with it.
Do you not consider #1 to be at least close to accurate? Instead of XML we got JSON databases (NoSQL) which are very popular in some circles. They definitely do not surpass the number of relational database installations, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they stored more data in absolute terms.
I find it hilarious that anyone is signing up, man or woman, after finding out that there were so many "bots" there talking to people. If this company has ambitions of being public (or being a company at all) then the bots shouldn't be a thing. That's just straight up defrauding users.

The problem with the site in general is that (relatively speaking) there aren't a lot of people looking SPECIFICALLY for affairs. No doubt SOME, but not a LOT. I think that the reason is that affairs work that way. I don't think people wake up, sigh deeply, and say "I think I'll have an affair today". It comes from a relationship that is broken (actually, 2 relationships that are broken), and an opportunity (finding that second person).
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For game 2, flip a coin and guess what is shows.

If the original coin was heads, your chance to win is still 50%.

But if the original was tails, and you only have to guess once correct, your chance to guess wrong twice is only 25%.

So a 50% chance of winning half the time and a 75% chance half the time gives you an overall better chance that the 50% of sticking to one answer because it doesn't matter.

It seems a random guess is the best solution for game 2.
> in debt, maybe kicked out of your place because you can't pay rent, I'd say that rather terrifying.

There are two types of businesses out there. Those that make money from day 1 and simply need to be scaled up. Those that require substantial investment and time before you even make a penny.

For anyone who isn't financially secure, doing the latter is idiotic. There are plenty of business models that you can pursue that don't involve you ending up on the street. A business model where the worst-case scenario is that you wasted some time.
The more I realize how much students struggle with setting up tooling for development, the more I start to wonder if we need to start focusing more on that instead of trying to skip it.

When I first starting programming a lot of my difficulty and frustration was trying to get my free copy of Borland Turbo C++ running. Once I got a bit older and started to learn Linux and more fundamental things about operating systems, programming became a much easier because the additional tooling steps were much easier.

EDIT: It's certainly possible tooling will soon become a thing of the past, but judging by the trends and past experience, I do start to wonder if it's time to expect it as a necessary evil and start to handle if head on as opposed to trying to avoid it.
If you like Erlang but can't use it, consider either Go or Elixir. The former is probably the "more enterprise" and conservative bet, but Elixir is growing enough that it's probably not going away any time soon.

(Honestly, whenever I have to go back to programming in a language without cheap threads I am often sad with the BS that comes out of my fingers. Single-threaded languages, even ones wrapped around an event loop with various hacks to try to obscure the single-threadedness, are so 20th century compared to the ones that were built for it from day one.)
tl;rify: risk is a privilege of capital.

I've always thought the framing of capital risk as the primary basis for allocating reward was suspect for this reason.
99,500 of them men. Or fake.
why? Seriously why. Like watching paint dry.
How the Cloud Is Reshaping the Working Economy
I was really sad that Lisp didn't take off like it appeared it might in the early 2000s. With Practical Common Lisp[1], Yegge's articles and Edi Weitz's software[2], as well as other articles and resources available at the time, it really looked as though the programming world was beginning to get why Lisp is such a good idea.

And then the focus became JavaScript, which has all of the bad and many—but not nearly all—of the good points of Lisp, and one key differentiator: it runs in the browser, on effectively every computer, tablet and phone on the planet.

Maybe the Lisp-compiled-to-JavaScript efforts will help.

[1] http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/

[2] http://weitz.de/lisp.html
$100k after tax (including stock) is basically starting salary in the valley for 22-year-old college graduates at big companies.
> They probably also lied about their numbers on female members.

A friend of a friend said (read: no resource to back this claim up) that someone dug into the data and found a vanishing small amount of real women. Leads me to ask:

> Ashley Madison says it added over 100K users last week

Do they mean that they added 100K users, or did 100K users sign up?
This is really great stuff.

Now, I need to have my boss assign me to Hacker News reading duty, so that I can get my work done.
This is brilliant.

I wanted a solution like this for static websites, especially ones that I host on S3.
Minimalist design has nothing to do with "omitting relevant information"
Before this we tried the Angular.JS but we were not happy to do so. Luckily we later discovered the ScalaJS and since that time we are very happy. But we have not tried the ScalaJS and the Angular together. Maybe the integration is good? But I think Angular is not good. Sorry don't have more helpful informations.
What defines an African Startup?
> Because there is little to no evidence for that, and I'm talking about metabolic ward quality evidence.

Do you happen to know (I don't) if "caloric uptake" specifically has been studied closely? Specifically:

* When you consume <x> calories, how many are extracted by the body and how many are excreted?
* Can this vary by food type?
* Can this vary across persons, and across time for the same person?

From personal experience I have witnessed what seems to be impossible, and my diet was so simplistic (sausage, bacon, spinach, multi-vitamins) that I couldn't have been making a mistake, yet I hit a plateau. The only logical explanation I can think of is a massive short term change in caloric extraction.
Fragments of World's Oldest Koran May Predate Muhammad
Dojo Foundation Merges with JQuery Foundation
Woman who claimed was 'allergic to Wi-Fi' gets disability allowance from court
My music teacher once told me that I'd start practicing more when school started up again in the fall. He said it's a common way to avoid doing homework. IIRC he was right.
Sorry about that...PayPal.Me isn't available in your country.
It takes far less cpu time to draw a bitmap than to draw a vector shape. An in-between solution is to pre-render vector shapes into bitmaps for later use; this is what METAFONT does.
Its in german.
Noisy signal, weak effect, usually equals lots of headline grabbing papers.....that end up being disproved.

I saw 'paywall' and guess the actual research is hidden.
coincidentally, i live and work in Germany ;) immigrated from Croatia 2 years ago. and i agree, no doubt about it, the system is really functional here and provides a good safety net (although, welfare involves a bit of humiliation everywhere, the money is never just handed out...). from my kinda outsider perspective, Germans seem obsessed with doing the "right" thing. the word "ordentlich" came to mind ;) the culture is a bit conformist, not too much, but noticeably. so, many people play it safe, avoid going too far out on a limb. but i'm still processing the whole experience, and occasional culture shocks, so i don't stand too firmly behind these impressions.
Towards a greener CCCamp
Outside of a few hot spots like SV, $120k/year is certainly not starting salary.
In 1964 my parents took me to a restaurant in New York called an Automat (see http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/revisiting-the-...). It had a wall with little windowed doors that would open for a few coins. Inside were dishes of food that one could take to your own table.

Off topic aside: we were in New York to go to the 1964 World's Fair. All I remember of that was the IBM pavilion. There I wrote handwritten digits on a card (in little boxes) that a machine read and printed out. Even then I was fascinated with computers.
I can completely relate to this. Doing a practice interview with a career counselor we got to the part about negotiating pay. I said I had no idea how to do this. She said ask for 70k as a junior developer. I told her that, that felt like saying "I'll be needing all the money in the world please."
Ask HN: Italian and 38. Am I a bad prospect employee?
I was wondering how many Italians landed jobs via HN, and how many 35+ (not only italians).

I managed to get some technical written tests, and 1 pre-interview via Skype, but as soon as I mention being Italian and 38 (15yrs work experience) everything starts going wrong.

The opportunities I look for are as a frontend engineer and/or UX engineer (as in research & low-fi mockups, not as in pixel-perfect photoshop comps).

Is this something someone experienced, or am I just not good enough?
So does the freedom of speech include you being able to invade my home to scream at me? Or force me to go to a church? Or listen to you while I'm walking by? Seriously, I'd love to see this form of extreme speech survive a day in any big metropolitan area. It's likely its adherents would wind up with broken jaws in less time than that.
Credit agencies are in a monopolistic position, end users are the product not the customer. There have absolutely no reason to be less terrible than they are.
Is Capital Being Reallocated to High-Tech Industries?
Interest is subjective.
I doubt that'd work; I don't think they could make it expensive enough that they don't loose money without driving users to free sniping tools.

(It's funny that there's a fee for the auction scheduling feature when good auction scheduling increases selling prices.)
How uhop from the isle of wight to Amsterdam
Summer Is Over: How to Jumpstart Work Mode
Movie is nice but this is not the tech news.
Service Providers See Gold in Shares of Startups
I love how you can't even see FAQ or About pages if you're not in the supported country. That's Google Play Store level UX.
Standardized licensing across Europe seems to be a very thorny problem. Between the different languages and regulatory bodies I do not see much hope.
Reddit seeing some elevated error rates
> It's not that simple. If your people won't breed, your civilization will die out, along with all its values, culture and legacy.

This assumes the obviously false position that culture, values, etc. are transmitted genetically, and exclusively so. If you want to assure survival of culture, you need to assure the spread of your memes; spreading your genes isn't essential.
What part of the country do you live in? That's a great salary in some places, and an incredible salary in others.
well, a full answer to the question would also need the percentage of college graduates that land jobs in big companies in the valley...

P.S. I don't think we'll get far with this... i just noticed, e.g., "median household income in the US" - that seems a tricky thing to compare with, given that many ppl in the US don't have health insurance, or live in trailer parks eating off food stamps...
The reason there are more tech startups in France is because people are better educated.
The black plastic head of the lighter looks clearly sunwashed to me, and where it connects to the white plastic tube inside looks pretty yellowed to me.
Everyone in this thread mourning how nobody really learns that symbol-pushing isn't math (it isn't!) needs to look at Lockhart's Lament.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
Mine has never had GPL code.

Mine has never compiled with another compiler. I think Microsoft bans making operating systems. I just used TASM.
I mostly agree with the article in that at some point you must gain access to capital in either cash or credit and then put it at risk. That said, I was born in WV to 17-year-old mother and 20-year-old father. I was their second child. My father was a coal truck driver, mother a secretary, neither college educated. By the time I was four, my father was in prison two years, and my mother was a struggling 21-year-old with two kids and no family support. Anyhow, I worked my way up from that start, became a bootstrapped entrepreneur in 30's after raising $15K seed, no salary for two years, bought back my seed equity, now a millionaire net worth by 40. If sufficiently hard-headed, stubborn, and unwilling to quit trying to find any way to succeed, it can be done without family money.
I like that the article is about hacking your bad habits, but at the end of the day procrastination is exactly that - a bad habit. It isn't who I am, and so I think the best way to fight it is to replace it with a better habit...
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Amazingly a lot of those movies listed resonate for gen-x, in our youth those were on UHF channels late at night.

So if you were up late or couldn't sleep for whatever reason during the summer break, you'd turn on the old TV you inherited from the parents. plug in headphones so as to not wake the rest of the family, adjust the antenna a little, and watch mutiny on the bounty at 11pm or a charlie chan movie at 2am. The other-worldliness of the experience was enhanced by sleep deprivation. Of course a decade or so later youthful experiments in chemical enhancement made the same middle of the night movies even weirder.
Try reading the article
I still hold out the hope that they will be able to look at Steam and realize that what they're doing is beneficial. Steam seems to be at the forefront regarding these things both in terms of technology and legal matters.
Interestingly, for all his insight, Steve Yegge doesn't understand why Java is popular and lisp is not.
Wow, talk about complete BS... I'm an entrepreneur that started because I didn't have access to capital. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Only if you email all those blogs. The old username is now free and can soon (not sure what the waiting period is) be registered by somebody else.
If you have red hair, s gene that sits on Chromosome 16 is not working right
Based on my previous paypal experiences, I would rather send my money with any of the other money platforms that are out there.
This looks very interesting. It's one of these things I wish Node had a native mechanism for.
> Then why do different courts come to different decisions then if this is already the case.

This is a quirk of the US Federal legal system -- independent circuits. Any sufficiently important matter is settled nationwide in US caselaw by the Supreme Court.

The law is incredibly consistent. You will, without recognising it, have hundreds or thousands of invisible interactions with it daily. It is incredibly robust in the face of massively variable outputs. No software product has ever come within a cooee of sustaining decades to centuries of uptime at a stretch in the face of sustained attack.
Robin. The smarter smartphone
I don't know about the constructions and attack scenarios pertaining to this app, but MAC-then-encrypt is generally insecure; it's not "easier to get wrong", but is itself a flaw (typically: of exposing the cipher to malicious ciphertext, rather than screening it out with a MAC, which is designed to distinguish between valid and invalid ciphertext).
Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks
paypal is by far the worst payment processing system that I have ever used...
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I ran across a couple of issues:

* highlight to copy is broken (I assume because the source is not first-class text and they manipulate the clipboard with JS)

* failing to close the last list item in a ul causes the preview window to stop updating and highlights the next line in the editor but doesn't provide any indication of what is wrong

This is definitely not going to be sufficient for professional programming or web development but it looks and performs far better than similar projects I've seen in the past.
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> TL, DR; On an average, it is much easier to start a start-up if you have some basic level of financial security in your life.

I didn't realize this was some secret. Someone who has parents who are doing well and can pay for their college and living expenses indefinitely will be at an advantage. They can take risks others can't.

BTW, this is true from the time someone is born. Parents who are well off will send their child to pre-pre schools, pay for the best elementary, middle and high schools. Then their child gets to go to college, likely loan free, and can focus on college and not working to pay the bills. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, and I certainly didn't grow up this way. I'm surprised it wasn't common sense.
Let them complain, it doesn't change the fact their stupid business model is costing them money. I say let the stupid complain as they go out of business.
> They aren't really in the business of limiting access to your credit report

That's exactly the business they are in: limiting access to your credit report to people that have paid them for that access.

> Their value revolves around keeping and generating reports on your credit history to sell to people asking. What incentive is there to put in more restrictions on access?

Unauthorized access is people getting their product without paying for it.
Vtune gives access to PMU counters as well as attributing them to assembly. JProfiler is a purely java level profiler (it won't even tell you Hotspots in the JVM itself, nevermind assembly). They're not really comparable.
The reference, for all those who think this comment is off topic, is a blog post by yegge in 2009 entitled "Have you ever legalized marijuana?"[1]

[1]: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
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I hope you don't mind me asking, but it's been ~800 days. How is your mental state? I hope you're in a better place.

You don't seem like the kind of person who's motivated by $, so I'd say join a more challenging/interesting startup. Where are you based? I may be able to put you in touch with an incubator.
> Please use Google Chrome :)

Nope.
People are always going to tell you that you made a bad decision. But in reality, it's up to you to decide how you can make the most of what you've accomplished.

There are always opportunities and advantages in what you do. You just have to know how to communicate that your experience with SAP for 10 years is valuable. An example would be that you're familiar with the enterprise software industry and you've been up great networks with your clients. By leveraging your experience, you can help startups sell better enterprise software and help them avoid pitfalls.

People told me I made a mistake starting my career as a software engineer at a smaller, startup-culture company. Then they told me I wouldn't be able to get into larger companies. I've got experience in both large and small companies and this makes me invaluable because almost all small companies aspire to be large companies. And I can help them navigate their journey. For large companies, I can help them become more innovative through my experience with smaller companies.

Bottom line: It's how you communicate and how you view things. You've got tons of potential and plenty to offer.
The cost and unwieldiness of paper ballots is a feature, not a bug.

A paper system has hundreds or thousands of individuals, some percentage of them mutually hostile, who must be subverted in order to subvert the election.

A digital system is one stolen key, one bad sysadmin, one disgruntled programmer, from total compromise. They might be proved "safe", but they cannot be observed in the way that the mechanics surrounding a paper ballot can be.
Paypal owns Venmo (via the Braintree acquisition). How is this not cannibalizing on Venmo (whose primary existence is around sending money btwn friends)...?
From the same source (highlighting mine):

Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need. Man is a perpetually wanting animal. Also no need or drive can be treated as if it were isolated or discrete; every drive is related to the state of satisfaction or dissatisfaction of other drives.
If you have two VMs with identical /dev/urandom states, that's a grievous vulnerability that will impact far more than GPG. This doesn't seem like a good reason to use /dev/random, but rather a reason to fix whatever distro bug is preventing your (u)random from being seeded properly.

You do not need /dev/random for key generation.
But how many people know that ahead of time?
Your linkedin page says you're based in Italy. Are you applying to jobs in the US? Could it simply be your visa status (or fear that the visa process takes too long)?
Value types will provide ability to allocate storage embedded in heap object or stack, but it doesn't provide layout control (i.e. order of fields in the layout). It's a good change, but let's not exaggerate.
Amazon Prime Video Gets Offline Playback on iOS and Android
Flarum – Next-Generation Forum Software
Since you're only targeting Linux, if you are fine with requiring recent kernels (3.17), you should probably use getrandom(2): http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html
It´s available here in Germany and I feared that fees would apply for every transaction but learning from the FAQ, when transferring money between friends/family this is actually free. Given, that in Germany, transactions between banks are free too, the whole cycle of shifting money should be also free for Paypal (omitting costs for running the service of course).
I am looking forward to trying it out, it might be much nicer than giving someone the IBAN and letting him handle the transaction via the bank.
Make that 100K + 1. Now that I know they can't be trusted with their data and that there's the potential to completely destroy my marriage and my family how could I pass that up?
Square or Stripe?
The pricing seems crazy high. At that cost, it's worth a programmer's cost to write a custom listener for 2 weeks to a month and then write it to a cheap db like google cloud storage. I also don't care about performance monitoring to pay 100 dollars or 1000 dollars. I would just write my JS in a much higher performing platform like react.
I mean employee stock options.
Or they're searching within a general proximity of their location just to see who's on.
I'm having a little trouble imagining a situation where unit tests for a C codebase are appropriate that would be stymied by having to write the tests in C++. (Maybe relying on struct layout?)