skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hiring Manager: "Wow thanks for including a link to your github in your resume."

Me: "Yes I have to tell recruiters not to remove it. They think it's contact info."

Me: "As you can see I can implement search algos, web services, and even have some samples on how to insert your own frames into a web cam feed"

Manager: "Fantastic! Can we send you a coding quiz?"
Me: Ugh. "Sure."

I get an email asking me to implement FizzBuzz.

Give me a break.
If nothing else that was a great pitch for the class at the end. It was actually informative and I felt pretty confident that I could get something out of the course by the time that I got to the end and saw it. A+
Some countries are starting to do this. I think it is a great idea.
Never knew about or seen the phone card before. Good thing to remember, but do they really have this in every country? But do note that with a shack in the mountains, you'd probably have normal landline access and even possibly cellular reception, so it's not a good comparison.

I said the caring part out of frustration with the current system. I've always felt that if they couldn't map you to a US address within their jurisdiction, then they'd know that you had less of an ability to influence other voters around you via petitions, grassroots campaigns, etc. So discounting your opinion wouldn't matter as much.
Well, if you keep working on shitty tasks (because you assign them to yourself) and keep being interrupted, only for your product to depend on the hazards of the market, you will get burned at some point if what you ship fails for reasons that don't depend on you or the team and people leave as a result.

I honestly hope it will not happen because you seem like a great Lead, but you can't say this scenario is not a possibility.
Jack Dorsey's net worth is approximately 2.4 billion [1]. Back when Bill Gates stepped down as CEO of Microsoft, he did so not to retire, but to take on the responsibility of spending his money in the best possible way for society. [2]

It's pretty easy to imagine a situation in which increasing your net worth can't really earn you more to experience or nice things. I'd wager Dorsey's already at that point, but maybe still wants to create things.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey

[2] http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/15/technology/microsoft_news/
More than page weight, this article demonstrates that averages are dangerous, especially for performance metrics. All key metrics should be plotted in 50/90/95/99 percentiles, and for latency-sensitive ones, geographic breakouts can often reveal a serious delta from the mean.
Well, bitching isn't that great. But as a web developer myself, it has affected the way I work. Like, there was an article just the other day about how to achieve "lightning fast page loads". I shared it around the office and as a result, 4 people have added new steps to their workflow to help reduce page load latency on our client sites.

The author knew the article would get good reception here, because of how much people complain about page latency, and I knew that page latency is a thing that's important to more people than just me, for the same reason. (My clients mostly don't seem to care, for some reason, but I bet their customers do).

So yeah, having these public conversations can make a difference. We just have to stay positive and constructive.
Your summary is not commensurate with the story you linked.

Something can be both a “terrible mistake” and also a violation of international law.

At a high level, it seems unlikely that American military leaders would intend to bomb a hospital, considering the horrible human toll and subsequent political and public relations disaster.

Perhaps the investigation will turn up a more complete story about why the hospital was targeted.
I'm not sure whether it's the reason T-Mobile is asking for it, but a number of countries have added identification requirements for mobile-phone services, due to pressure from law-enforcement agencies, who don't like the possibility that people can buy anonymous "burner" phones & SIMs. In Denmark nowadays nobody will sell you a SIM without tying it to a national ID number. Bank accounts have similar requirements, to combat money laundering and tax avoidance.
The Autonomous Winter Is Coming
You can only abuse it as long as you have points. With Reddit (or systems like it) you have no limits - for instance, you could upvote all content on the front-page every hour. On the other hand, with this Kudos system, you would run out of points rather quickly if you did that.

I agree, as others posted in this thread, that there are many other problems that need to be addressed. Frankly I don't know if a p2p network system can even be built to address all issues - social voting networks based on reputation are rather complex.

However I hope to have shed the light on some interesting properties that can be achieved by combining the decentralized aspects of DHT keys, with the consensus features of a blockchain. Moreover, the idea of of using cryptocurrency tokens, for things other than currency, is a field that needs to be explored more.
Should I supply your sarcasm tag?
Oh that's the case for pretty much anyone on HN I am sure. I was explicitly referring to the rest of the population that is largely illiterate when it comes to technology (they just consume).

There are similar warnings on products like food, drugs etc...
Britain’s Antarctic Research Station Looks Like a Spaceship
Was just about to say 'Meanwhile in Australia where I pay $79/month for 100GB of ~500kbps'. And I live in a relatively modern populated area, I shouldn't have to fight my neighbours for open ports!
I stopped using Dropbox after the Rice appointment. Here's the thing - I'm not concerned that she's going to spy on my stuff or let the govt spy on my stuff any more than, say, Google. I'm concerned that she lacks integrity. Now, either the board knows this and doesn't care (b/c they lack integrity) or doesn't know this and doesn't care (which makes me question their judgment). Perhaps they appointed her b/c of her ties to govt and academia in the hope that she could help open new markets. OK. Has she? Perhaps they appointed her b/c they want to see more women and people of color on startup boards. Bravo! Wrong choice. And this is coming from a person of color.
How to Shop for Pot in Denver
I highly recommend turning on page throttling in the Chrome Dev Tools sometime. You'll be amazed at even how slow even 4G seems.
The Quietest Place on Earth?
I love your attitude, I'm sure you'll do great but please, don't be so judgmental. Programming is not for everyone, people get older and as they grow older their capacity to absorb knowledge diminishes.
sama, of 1,000 co's how many have exited to date?

Exit as in: cash or public stock readily convertible to cash

Know there is a timing issue, but would be interested in just total actual exits?
Working with government is the ultimate schlep startup.
> “I'm not a native English speaker. Imagine my reaction the first time I saw the ‘gainsboro’ color or ‘papaya whip,’” Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the CSS Working Group, told Ars.

Speaking as a native English speaker, I don't see how this could possibly be worse for non-native speakers. They have no idea, and neither do we.
How Bad Will It Get for American Express?
That only applies when the relationship implies bi-directionality. On Twitter, me following you doesn't necessarily mean that you follow me. Thus both directions are persisted in the model.

If this were on Facebook, however, you would be right. (:User)-[:FRIENDS_WITH]-(:User) would only need to be persisted once and with an arbitrary direction.
The porn industry is in a bind
Well, the point isn't exactly that they film in a different location than the setting. Never seen LA with dirt roads.
Yeah, antennaweb uses that system the antenna makers set up involving coloured zones. Unfortunately that oversimplifies the problem too much. In practice you need more detail so TVFool.com ends up being much more useful.
I think it can be summed up as "code less".

I want to stress that this is much more easily said than done.

- A lot of programmers gain immense satisfaction from writing nice code, and getting into "flow". There will be less of this, and you have to rewire your reward system and vicariously experience this through your team. If you already get more satisfaction from shipping and having users use your product/module/apis rather than how elegant your code or apis are, then you are heading in the right direction.

An earlier comment on this page sums up the goal:

> Your satisfaction changes from being happy that you've polished some nice bit of code to being happy that you've shipped a product and successfully run a group, and gained the admiration of the people on your team and in your company. Competence is it's own reward.

- You must prepare yourself to watch others implement things you would love to do yourself, in a less-optimal, and less-clean way than you might have. Its harder if the codebase is your baby that you wrote from scatch. Instead of coming out of a project with new skills, new familiarity with modules, code that you could open-source, satisfaction from having written nice modular, maintainable and testable code, you will only have the satisfaction of the hitting a deadline.

- Coding less allows more time for you to ask your team what they need, think about what they need but don't realize, and get that for them.

- Giving feedback is an art. You want to keep a positive, upbeat repore with your colleagues. If you empathize too much about how the developer will feel when you deliver criticism you will end up doing it less and not being as honest. Finding the right words will make it easier for yourself to deliver, and will create less tension.

- Hiring people like yourself who write code similar to you will make life much easier - but often you have to money-ball your team, and make do with what you have.

- Creating an atmosphere where employees can all talk about problems, and personal mistakes, without feeling judged by their peers is important. Encourage everyone to acknowledge their failings, and identify improvements. "What did everyone learn this week/sprint? What could you do better?". As soon as employee holds back, everyone will start because they will fear they are underperforming. If someone is falling behind, others in the team should be thinking how they can assist their colleague, rather than looking at it as an opportunity to stand out. Standups are great for this. Make sure its not only one person asking for help at the standup.
Wow, this really shows off how pretty Arabic looks. I can't read a word of it but I really appreciate the aesthetics of the language and it's unfortunate it always gets mucked up in digital format.
I'm not sure that categories don't exist outside of the mind of a person.

I think sets (for example) probably have a real existence, in a sense.

some of the categories we choose might not have anything special about them to mark them as any more real than other categories that we would see as arbitrary, but that wouldn't mean that they aren't real, just that they aren't more real.

But maybe the ontology of abstract objects isn't very relevant here.

Also, I don't mean to say that the categories we use are all arbitrary, just that even the ones which are arbitrary (if any) I think still exist.

Also, I don't right now present any argument for why I believe what I do about abstract objects. I'm just stating beliefs that I have, and which your post seemed(?) to assume something that contradicts.
Tesla's Autopilot System Is Creepy and Wonderful
Racism is stupidity. Hanlon's Razor says nothing about the kind of stupidity in play.
I had not seen that, thank you. Slowly but surely, the Xbox One pushes my Roku out of the picture.
Try double tap zooming on a paragraph in a body of text. It should automatically zoom so that the paragraph occupies the full screen width. That's a pretty nice feature to just give up.
Some of the best tech leads I've worked with are exactly like this. Your example of "find another job" is the quickest way to destroy a cohesive team.
I'm not going to take the inter-generational warfare bait :). But I agree with what I think is your main point.

My natural tendency is to want consensus. I think that's worth attempting within a reasonable time-frame. But after some discussion, eventually a decision needs to be made.

Many decisions are reversible at a very small cost. Sometimes making the wrong decision, soon, then correcting it, soon, wastes no more time and resources than not deciding at all. Sometimes it's even preferable for morale.

Having everyone row together in the wrong direction, then change course, isn't ideal. But at least everyone is rowing in the same direction and feels like a real team. Often that's better than sitting in middle of the ocean, oars in the water, debating and going nowhere.

But as with most advice I offer unsolicited, I'm going to waffle and say, "it depends on the situation". :)
Just curious, are you this upset because it's the US or because you genuinely care that those responsible for the problems get away "without consequence"?
Boko Haram - death to western education.

Yeah, good luck with that.
Thanks, changed from https://www.sqlite.org/news.html.
Two Client Hints are in the works to provide exactly this. Check out Save-Data and Downlink: http://igrigorik.github.io/http-client-hints/
what does full partnership entail? -- thanks, newbie me
"traveling several hours for a coffee date"

Guys I know at SpaceX don't have time for dates because they're working late every night of the week or have given up on relationships after having failed ones because of working too much.
Right! That's why I think fully distributed peer-to-peer is the wrong goal to strive for. A lot of group activities (like posting to a topic and voting) are much more easily done in small cohorts. Yes, mental poker is possible but it's in its infancy and our efforts are currently better spent assuming there are going to be servers. The question is, can we choose what servers! The DHT can route you to a server which is authoritative for a particular group activity. That allows you to clone some post and share it with your friends (on a server you trust) and they can reshare on servers they trust ...As you said, what is needed here is not consensus but just signaling from people you KNOW.

The rare resource here isn't work, it's reputation. You personally won't add 1 million friends. If you want to get signals and votes from friends then you don't need proof of work.
Only fixed wireless where I am on the Sunshine Coast, QLD .. and unfortunately my building is not line of sight to the tower, so I don't have any options whatsoever. ~2mbps/200kbps on a good day, otherwise the backhaul is so saturated it is practically unusable. :-( I can get satellite apparently, but last I checked they hadn't worked out the physics to get terminal lag/latencies down to acceptable levels for that to be an actually viable alternative. At least where I am, the NBN is a joke even for those that do have it.
I can't speak for the producers, but this would not offend me were I one of them. I'd be quite happy with it.

If I were a producer of the show I might go so far as to actually discuss this issue with the (graffiti) artists on camera, so long as they agreed to be reasonable and collegial about it.

One of the great opportunities for the producers is to shine a light on the show not being particularly racist, but that characters might be - a little.

Having said that, it sounds difficult.

I think the best example of this is The Americans, which stops just short of making the FBI look stupid while kind of raising its eyebrows at the then-prominent "evil empire" narratives. The ...constraints of Soviet political culture are also shown well.

But the craft level of "The Americans" is extremely high.
The Deadly Cargo Inside MH370: How Exploding Batteries Explain the Mystery
I was just about to share this. That's my company (and me in 2 of the pictures). Thanks for sharing it.
1) This is often used colloquially to mean 'used the accelerator'. In the very literal sense, yes, you must accelerate, but you can use the car's idle to reverse, rather than pressing the gas. I don't normally hit the gas pedal just to back up and I would know that doing so was dangerous if there were people around. Moreover they knew (or should have known) that people were nearby if they were fleeing, otherwise they had no reason to hurry.

2) This is possible which is why I said it merely reduces (rather than eliminates) the accident excuse.

For 3-4, I think it will come down to what the evidence shows about their intent. I found this explanation of Nevada law -

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defe...

Tesla did give evidence of intent which the RGJ story did not rebut (accelerating in reverse & striking a person in front of them) and having injured two people at two different times is weak evidence against it being purely accidental. So it probably will come down to what can be shown regarding the driver's intent. Meanwhile, the passenger appears to only be on the hook for trespass, according to the reports.
Wow, I guess people out there really do think reality is as predictable and simple as a movie plot.
Forums about TV antennas:

* http://forum.tvfool.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10

* http://www.avsforum.com/forum/25-hdtv-technical/

* http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/81-over-air-ota-digital-tele...

* https://www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters/
I think (not 100 % sure) that companies hire each one of the two people on a part-time basis, but with flexible working schedule, I guess other arrangements are also possible though.
It Was You Who Made My Blue Eyes Blue
The Ember FastBoot project has the goal to provide exactly this: lightweight HTML/CSS on the initial load and then hydrate the page/application with JS.

http://emberjs.com/blog/2014/12/22/inside-fastboot-the-road-...

https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot
Ethernet cables. My friends constantly complain about the quality of wireless, and I try to get them to take a step back in technology and try a wired network.
ROMANES EUNT DOMUS
The Art of Debugging
They are up to European standards. In fact US has more people over 10 Mpbs than the big European countries like France, UK and Germany. Only 34% of people in Sweden do better than 15 Mpbs. I get 75/75Mpbs in DC. Comcast offers 105Mpbs. We pay more, but that's probably because competition lowers install rates.

https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q2-st...

Several East Asian countries--namely Japan and Korea--have placed great important on ISP speed. It's heavily subsided. America could do that, but it's a policy priority.
> "Go doesn't have exceptions" is mostly misleading.

It's worded too strongly perhaps. While `panic` behavior is similar to `java.lang.Exception`, it is not idiomatic to panic on problems like IOException/SQLException. They are detected by return codes to be handled immediately, rather than a broad swath of code wrapped in `try`.

This in Java:

try
code
code
code
catch errA
handle
catch errB
handle
catch errC
handle

Would be this in Go:

code
handle errA
code
handle errB
code
handle errC

It's fair to say "Go doesn't use exceptions" since Go doesn't use panics for common error handling.
What's crazy to me, especially as a person who grew up without cable, is that you can get these channels for free, but they have commercials and there's no guarantee nothing good will be on. OR you can pay all of this money, and there are still commercials and nothing good is on! What are you actually paying for?
Pagination with RecyclerView explained
Of course typeclasses can be viewed as dependency injection as well. It its just that with typeclasses the injection is implicit rather than explicit. But mechanically they are identical
Sure, most games these days are probably more CPU/GPU bound, but then again people usually don't have more than one game running at a time, while caching the assets of thousands more.

Also, isn't adding bloat "more work"? And just like in real life, I think losing bloat is often harder than gaining it. Why not worry about carousels or endless scrolling or video background when even just one person misses that stuff? Where are all the highly successful websites that started to reduce bloat after they got off the ground? It's not a rhetorical question or sarcasm, I am interested, but I honestly can't think of even one example, it doesn't really mesh with my own (admittedly rather pedestrian) experience. A site starts with a blank design doc, and empty file and a white screen, and adding something and later removing it isn't easier than simply not adding it in the first place.
Building sites and web apps for every device (guest series for npm)
Also Norden did not want to work with Sperry which had some better gyroscopes and less production issues.
In Search of an Apprentice
There's also been a lot of problems with heroin abuse in my hometown in rural Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a steel town outside of Pittsburgh.

I am not sure what the solution is, but the War on Drugs approach of criminalization needs to be replaced with rehabilitation. I've seen my friends' and high school classmates' lives get ruined by opioids (and these are good people with tremendous potential whose environment failed them), and I don't think throwing them behind bars is a solution.
So in other words they want that mystical 10x engineer
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No thanks.

FONT is listed as "obsolete, non conforming, not to be used" in the HTML5 spec.

It couldn't do very much in terms of styling anyway.

I would rather keep styles in a reusable cachable resource than bloat out the HTML.

I would rather styling changes NOT turn into coding exercises, especially ones that cause a massive 'WTF?' for some future maintainer.
I'm really looking forward to the Silicondust DVR software. I was never able to make MythTV work correctly for me.

I've been using Windows Media Center with an HDHR Prime, but the quality of the WMC listing accuracy took a huge dive around the time when they announced they've halted development and would not provide a version for Windows 10.
As part of senior leadership pushing for the war in Iraq under false pretenses, which killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, thousands of Americans, and burned nearly 2 trillion dollars, I'd say she's earned the adjective of "terrible human being".
Why does Akami only report ~1/3rd of Sweden and Norway having above 15 Mbps?

https://www.stateoftheinternet.com/downloads/pdfs/2015-q2-st...

I've never been anywhere either country, but I suspect this uberInternet Meme about Scandinavia is not quite representative of average Scandinavian ISP speed.
I'd argue that's not "average," that's probably a good GP at a top VC firm, but it's by no means unreasonable.
Wow Netflix, Bitbucket, AND Twitter today, wtf is going on
>You make it sound like table display was added after the failure of other layout methods. Not so - table display was there right from the beginning when CSS first added layout (CSS2 in 1998).

Yes I mis-formuled it.

>It was IEs failure to implement it for nearly a decade that meant nobody was aware of or could use it for many years.

No it wasn't only IE, display table was also broken in Firefox and Opera. There were plenty of layout that you couldn't obtain in CSS but worked well with HTML tables.