skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, good observation.
Except that there aren't any legal moves for the white king, he's caught between the black square bishop and rook on 7th rank.
People are, it's called Patreon.

Which would be a good model, too, for "free but we need our salary paid" content.
Doesn't matter as long as enough people do it.
a year from now, I'd have expected the person to have owned several features and implemented them from cradle to grave.
Haha, Docker. Few months ago that word started being peppered throughout conversations in the office, everybody keen to jump on the bandwagon. Guess what, now we hired a "docker expert".

If this thing is so simple a toothless toddler could use it, how come now we need experts in it, huh?
> realize you on the path to make $100K on an app that, rightly or wrongly, could impact other people's livelihoods

Because someone giving me 100k for an app which wrote, to use it for the exact purpose I made it for is certainly /the/ reason I would change my mind about making it...

> and subject me to a torrent of unpleasantness. But that’ll end soon enough, and that’s better than how I’d feel if I kept going.

What he doesn't say is that he is obviously already getting what amounts to a "torrent of unpleasantness", from people which are more like colleagues than customers. Of course, no one wants to admit to kowtowing, so there is no mention of it, but as we can see, he cares about this sort of thing, so it was obviously a significant factor.
What sort of a job could I find with my background?
Dear HN'ers,

Besides what the title says, feel free to share your own experience or if you want to
hijack the thread, feel free to do so with your own questions. Maybe we could even
make this a monthly thing, supporting each other.

I speak two languages fluently and have a basic to intermediate in a third one. Last year I graduated from Psychology and I have some experience from doing internships. They amount to roughly 700+ hours in two different fields.

On the other hand, I have been teaching myself to code on and off for the past two years and full time for this one.

Language of choice: Python. I have dabbled with html, css, ansible, vagrant, git; among others.
Currently I am doing the second part of the course Systematic Program Design and MiTx: 6.00.1x, Intro to CS and Programming using Python. I'm also working through the exercises in freecodecamp.
Other courses and tuts won't be mentioned.

Hopefully this will give you a fair idea of my background. Now, the reason I am asking is because last week I applied to a job in Germany (I live in Central America [work visa is not an issue]), which was an internship (paid) as a research analyst. Obviously I didn't get it because of where I live.

Search for a job where I live currently? I did that for four months, every week after graduating. I got a single response. Additionally, most jobs I could get would barely cover rent. Let alone food and transportation for the rest of the month. In a way, it doesn't make much sense - at least to me it doesn't. Thus, Germany being my country choice. Moving to Germany and searching for a job isn't an option. I don't have the funds for that.

Any advice, suggestions, or if need be, even wake up calls would be appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

P.S. Half way through, this felt a bit like rubber duck "programming" :)

My github account if anyone is interested. Not much in it.
https://github.com/teichopsia-
"So had "agile failed" there? I'd say not."

But was it the cause of success? Who knows?

In my experience, if you assemble a great team (either by happenstance or by planning) pretty much any process you adopt can work great, but (ignoring the downtime for learning the new process) you could swap out that process with virtually any other software process that is common enough to have a name and still get great results. Meanwhile, a mediocre or overly political team will find new and interesting ways to fail with any process.
it was a conjecture only a few days ago
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/the-erdos-discrepa...
It is the merchants. Credit card fees are paid by merchants. It comes out of profits.
The curiosity for the reason behind things, the drive of rationalism, the human sense of awe are not the monopoly of religion.
Although a rationalist, a-religious, myself, I always liked Hume because he pushed empiricism to its logical limits. As Kant acknowledged, he woke us up from our dogmatic sleep.
Chasing Unicorns in Impact Investing
The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts
It's not the legal definition of a partnership. It's more like a nine-way joint tenancy.

An actual partnership would probably have contracts and articles that make it easier to do business. Notably, many allow for ratification of business decisions by majority vote of the partners, weighted by their ownership share. There may be a conflict of interest if you try to make your partnership buy something you already own individually, but as long as you disclose your interests up front and recuse yourself appropriately from conflict decisions, that's rarely an issue.
Not to mention, if it was written as an actual shell application, it would probably be easy to use Emscripten or something to make a web version, if someone really wanted it.
wish I could do this for the original Sony Playstation 1
It is a question of switch control more than anything. They are losing Cisco software, etc... with cheaper Open Compute switches, so they need some means to configure them within Azure; in all respects, that's a benefit to Microsoft. Facebook did the same thing: https://code.facebook.com/posts/843620439027582/facebook-ope...
The Oldest Beer Recipe in History from Ancient Sumeria, 1800 B.C
AFAIK someone did make adblocking glasses with image recognition software. :)
Outreachy Expands to People of Color Underrepresented in U.S. Tech
> I don't think good content necessarily needs to be paid for. Much of the best content on the web is created as a hobby, with no attempt to monetize, like dr-iguana.com (and countless others.)

I felt that way for a long time. I am basically living that philosophy. My blog[1] has always been free to read and free from ads. I wrote a book[2], and you can read the entire thing online for free, again with no ads. Almost all the code I write is open source.

I imagined a utopia where all kinds of creative people would have enough free time to pursue their hobbies and share the fruits of their labor. I am lucky enough to basically live that utopia now—I happen to love programming, which is a very lucrative field.

It's fine to dream of a world where my personal utopia is more widely available, but that world isn't here today. You can think of a culture or society as the aggregate sum of all of its shared creative works.

When creative works can only be done by those who can afford the leisure, it skews society towards the perspective of the rich. Think back to 19th century English literature and how few novels there are that show how regular working-class people lived. That's because regular working-class people back then were too busy working in the mines to write a book.

There are some counterexamples, sure, but even most of those were created by rich people observing the poor from a distance. As sympathetic as Dickens was towards the poor, the stories he tells are still different from what an actual poor person would tell.

You can see this happening in the US now. Over the past thirty years, the middle class has gradually gotten sucked dry. Here's a fun game: try to find a wide release Hollywood movie where the main characters are "middle class" and where the sets actually resemble a real middle-class life.

The most striking example I've seen was "This is 40". There, every single dramatic point of the film was about money problems, and yet the characters lived in a giant mansion, drove two late model high end cars, and threw an enormous outdoor catered birthday party, all without, apparently, any irony or self-awareness.

This is because many of the people producing creative works today are out of touch with how the increasingly large number of poor people live. And the poor people are too worked to the bone to contribute their own story.

The end result is increased ignorance about how the bottom half (hell, 90%) of the world lives, and that ignorance is what leads to many of the structural problems causing increased economic disparity.

If we're going to help the poor and increase equality, we need to hear their stories. And we won't do that if they can't afford the time to share them.

[1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
[2]: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/
> I don't actually know, but it's a weird moral problem, something feels not quite settled about the two typical responses on this topic...

I totally agree with you, this is an awkward topic because advertising itself raises moral questions.

The problem is exactly what you said, we're all destroying the web by being terrible consumers. We're used to an internet where we do not generally have to pay for content, and that has led to a culture where paying for online content is almost unthinkable. This is a problem of our own making, but here we are.

People pretty much universally hate ads, but almost no one hates them enough to actually hand over money instead. We know this because of the failure of things like flattr and the experiences of developers on app stores - if you offer a free ad-supported version of an app, and a paid version which removes the ads, only a tiny, tiny percentage of users are going to choose the paid version. And this is in an ecosystem where products usually cost less than a cup of tea and you can pay with almost no effort - it's literally easier than finding the equivalent cash amount in your pocket. People just don't do it.

I don't have an answer to this. What I do know is that quality content costs money to produce and therefore we need a way for content producers to be rewarded for their work. Right now just about the only way that works on a large scale is with ads, and even that works poorly for most cases.

Some people reading this will say to themselves "well, I'd pay for content". Congratulations on being an outlier, most people are not like you.

Some people reading this will say to themselves "well, the free market will solve this problem", and that might be the case in the long term, but it will have terrible consequences for content producers in the short term and will fundamentally change the web. You might hate ads, but do we really want the series of walled gardens that an ad-less internet would necessarily devolve into?

If everyone blocked ads, things like Google would have to become paid services. What kind of social inequality would that lead to in the long term?

Obviously this is related to game theory. Blocking ads makes sense on an individual level, but if everyone does it we're all screwed. It's not a solution to the problem, it's going to cause more problems, and that's why I don't do it.
More on the rule history and this puzzle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_%28chess%29#1862_Bri...

"The broad language of Law XIII also appears to allow promotion to any piece of either color. This led to the whimsical endgame study diagrammed at right. White is to play and checkmate in one move."
Ad blocking is interesting in that it shows what happens when something that probably should be regulated has not. And because of this the public trust has eroded and then the answer has become an arms race of ad blockers vs ads. Resulting in a downward spiral resulting in less quality content.

The world of online advertising is a fantastic way to study the possible downsides of no regulations.
> What's the coordinate system? What are the units?

Good question. Where are you going to look that up? In the documentation of drawline?
Should drawrect, drawcircle, etc..., also include documentation about the coordinate system/units?
Of course not, that information should be centralized. That's where Point come in.

And that's just a detail, the main advantage of using a class is that is abstract details.
In the Point class, you may want to switch from int to int64_t without having to revisit all the methods.
And are you hiring?
What it’s actually like to be a Black employee at a tech company
Yes, though it involves actively processing every request for every page and processing it to replace (or just remove) integrity attributes from the HTML; that's a lot harder than just wholesale replacing the contents of specific JavaScript files on their way across the firewall.
OS is linux for the hosted environments. Workstations are Macbook Pro
> "C++ instead of bare bones unsafe C" is C++ really much safer than C?

If one codes as "C with C++ compiler" then no.

If one makes use of the features that fix C unsafety, then yes.

> "an OOP ABI (COM)" you really think this sort of thing is super great and there's nothing like it on "UNIX clones"?

Which UNIX clone provides a standard OO ABI, as well as, a shell close to the Xerox PARC user experience?

Taligent failed.
Is Apple Inc. Getting Ready to Use It’s New .apple GTLD Domain Extension?
And only in the metro ATL area. The rest of the state doesn't do emissions testing.
Well, for the BP spill at least, people were charged with negligence, but the trial is still under way.
You could make the same argument about all ethics though?

I'm not sure I'd throw out all bioethics. Wasn't it bioethics that put an end to eugenics?
The video ends with a brief second where the cyclist explains what prevented even higher speed. I make out: "too much vibration...", "knees rubbing...", "unable to continue increasing power output". Would love to hear more about this.
I think that it means that thing #1 and thing $2 might appear to be just as difficult to untrained eyes while one would require very little work because of what's already available (libraries, data or whatever) and the other would be a very large task because most of the work hasn't been done yet (but of course a different engineer might be able to find more efficient ways to do things)
I know a number of guys (roughly a half dozen startups) that have taken the "Let's get college students to work for us for cheap, or recent grads who are really excited about breaking into the startup scene." Their startups have all failed, without exception. The best outcome was a talent acquisition that netted the founders slightly less than they would've made working for Google over that time period (they were both ex-Googlers).

I also know 2 guys who have exited for ~$80-110M after taking $5-7M in funding, plus the founder of a unicorn who once asked me if I was interested in being employee #2. They all followed the same pattern: the founders built the initial product, they found customers willing to use it, they got funding, and then they hired people. (For completeness, I know an additional half dozen or so people that have followed the same pattern without success, usually getting absorbed back into a big company or other startup that's already gotten funding.)

A dozen data points isn't a statistical survey, but I know which strategy I'd rather follow (and am following).

There's a big seedy underworld in the startup scene that's filled with people working on bad ideas, with minimal funding or just their own savings & credit card loans, who try to get anyone they can to work with them for really cheap rates and small equity promises. Usually these startups end in drama, as they go belly-up and people realize they've spent years being underpaid. If you'd like to be a part of this scene, more power to you, but I'd rather steer clear.

If you want the argument-from-authority perspective, here's Sam Altman:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/610902540608122880
Point me to an AUP that would make your music to article an apples to apples comparison and I may listen.
As I said elsewhere, you might be responding to a different puzzle (the original) from the one now being discussed (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10240289 )
I might say, though, myself: "When you're young, you think you want things. When you reach middle age, you want to think what you want."
I find it difficult to understand how failing a car with clean emissions levels, thereby forcing it out of the state, contributes to cleaning up smog.
Signatures are taken care of by connecting via TLS.

If a hypothetical attack breaks TLS or you don't use it, you can just change the public key served.
Citizen scientist discovers 3000th comet from NASA data
Very cool interview. This quote:

"He’s known for being both straightforward and kind — an uncommon cocktail of no-bullshit and no-asshole."

Really succinctly explains why I'm such a huge fan of his. He says what needs to be said, and he does it in a kind way.
Trade within versus between nations
Note the video was from last year when they failed to set the record. This year they've done it. They probably will release a video of this year's efforts eventually.
That makes sense - did not check post history and thought flagged comments were for the comment, not the user.
I'm sorry, but I'm not the one who brought up Python.

In any case, even compared to other systems languages, C++ is a mine field. It's sad that C++ and C are so entrenched that you've even equated systems and fast and unsafe, when unsafe really doesn't belong there.

Look at Ada. It performs just as well as C++ and is/was routinely used in low level embedded systems and safety critical systems. It's widely regarded as safe and doesn't have the problems C++ is so often associated with. It was first standardized in 1983 and C++ is just now getting around to adding some of the stuff Ada has had all along.

And then there are the newer, relatively unproven languages like Rust, Go, and D.
Several tens of thousands of dollars.
I'm guessing something can't get much more aerodynamically shaped? I wonder if they used a power meter to measure the driver/rider's power output and whether the driver was an accomplished cyclist. It seems that at this point, it would simply be a matter of getting a stronger cyclist, say someone like Brad Wiggins who can push 430 watts for an hour over an amateur, but still respectable rider, who puts out something more like 250 watts for an hour.

The article states that riders have 5 miles to speed up before they cross the speed trap that measures. Assuming the average speed of the whole endeavor is, say, 60mph, you would want a pro time trialist who excels at hard 5-minute efforts. This chart[1] states that a world class cyclist should be able to put out 7.5 watts/kg for 5 minute efforts. Brad Wiggins weighs 77kg, so I guess theoretically he should be able to put out 577 watts, versus a "good" with the same weight who might "only" put out 350 watts in the same 5-minute period.

I would be very interested to see what would happen if you simply replaced the 85mph rider in the submission with Brad Wiggins.

[1] http://d4nuk0dd6nrma.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/...
"Dr. Frankenstein cries aloud: 'My God, what have I done?'" It happens.
The endgame of your position is that the content you'll receive is that which has zero marginal production cost. I hope you enjoy bot-generated content farms.
I could've sworn they were based out of Vancouver based on their last job posting for a DevOps person.
Peace app creator pulls top ad blocker
Are you implying that native advertisements aren't ads, or are more acceptable kind of ad, or are impossible to block? Because none of those things are true.

Native advertising is probably the worst kind of advertising. If I see a website or magazine publish an "advertorial", I'm never going to trust anything they publish from then on. It completely undermines credibility and only makes sense as a last-ditch moneygrab. It's not even worth blocking because it's a useful red flag.
I wonder how much impact a professional track cyclist would have. Im sure the current pilot is a strong rider, but if you got a world record sprinter into the world record bike, how fast could they go?
They didn't think he had a bomb
They still exist, Bank of America has it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number
I don't believe he wrote an app hoping to have a small user base, so I don't believe that the success of the app was the problem. Without to mention that there are a number of ways to fix that, including finding a price point that makes it less interesting in order to reduces the installation base. But if the app was created in the first place, it was because the idea was to make everybody install it. It's a blackbox since we don't know the details but from the outside output I don't believe the blog post contains all the facts that influenced this choice.
KENYA/ See what these teachers did while demonstrating for a pay rise
>All the people downloading music strenuously claimed that the industry model was broken and they should come up with a new one

Most people now pay for their music through iTunes, easily-accessible YouTube channels, Patreon, or Satellite XM radio.

So I'd say they found new models - and they're working.

The issue with music was a different one (accessibility/distribution) and not a privacy-concerned one. So it doesn't quite fit. But they were able to change their business model to accommodate.

Now it's "change your business model or die." for another industry.
nfl.com was actually the site that turned me into a "default to blocking" person. The severity of ads on their site is pretty ridiculous.
Google Contributor is terrible. Not because it doesn't work, but because it still leaves big green gaps where the ads were saying, "Thank you for using contributor!"

Not even mentioning the fact that it only works on a minority of ads, the green boxes are even more annoying than the ads were.
Hardware Requirements
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- 64 bit Linux compatible with Docker [1]

[1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INST...
If you're recirculating exhaust back into the engine, you're able to attempt to reburn any fuel that wasn't burned on the first pass

That's not what EGRs do.

EGRs take exhaust, which is relatively inert (combustion having already taken place) and injects it into the combustion chamber to lower combustion temperatures. The reason you want low temperatures is that NOx (nitrogen oxides) form at high temperatures.
I wonder how many of these could be implemented in clang tidy:

http://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/index.html
Like Ada?

I do enjoy C++ a lot, but it payed an hefty price for C copy-paste compatibility.
Presumably because that is the price that their provider sells it for. Most people do not have a choice of ISP, and cannot negotiate the terms of their service.
The sentence you quote doesn't appear on the page. I think it might have said that at one time, but that was long ago, so I wonder if you're somehow seeing some ancient cache or something? Or are you looking at some other page?

With that said, it's true we've had a tough time coming up with a two-line summary that fully explains what Sandstorm is. If you could suggest what would have made more sense to you, that would be helpful. Otherwise our strategy has been to try to push people towards trying the demo, which I think illustrates what it is much more quickly than words can.
Fair enough. I think we're basically in agreement.
Couldn't agree more. The fault for the state of web advertising these days lies squarely on advertising networks that do not vet their content.

For a long time I used but did not recommend adblock to my trogladite friends and family. Sadly its gotten so bad that I've begun installing it on their machines on their behalf when they ask me for help with their computer because ad blockers are today what antivirus was 10 years ago. They're how you keep yourself safe online.

Adblock usage won't change until the networks do.
I would imagine that power to weight ratio is more important than just the power. Also the smaller the cyclist, the smaller they can build the aerodynamic shell, thus reducing drag.