skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What tools do you use, or have familiarity with, or are interested in?

Follow those back to the vendors, and then from the vendor, find out who is in their channel sales organization.

Have lunch with the regional managers and basically pitch them on what you want to do. They will either see potential or not, and if they do, they will have some of their partners in mind and hook you up for a follow on discussion.

That dialog will tell you a lot.

You can also go to the VAR directly. Many enterprise B2B software houses have a direct sales force for larger accounts and a channel sales force for smaller accounts. (vars)

For a given kind of enterprise software, there are also services typically associated with them. You can do sales on both, or one or the other. Services through their organization are targeted toward the larger or major accounts. VAR organizations are more oriented on smaller or growth type accounts.

What you need is a keen interest in the software or service, ideally some experience using it, relevant industry experience, or willingness to do all of the above. The more you lack, the less you will get to start, but you can also get in and learn a lot too.

I got my start in CAD. I love mechanical CAD, am really good at it, have a lot of direct, applied industry experience, and enjoy the sales process immensely. I do not do it full time at the moment, contracting instead, but that's also due to a career shift into management that I'm doing personally.

That was a fairly easy path. Perhaps you've got some similar experiences to leverage.

You may have to either:

1. Take a modest sales position to get some experience. That might mean inside sales, cold calling, etc... Those are considered foundation type things and they demonstrate your character as a hunter, farmer, etc...

2. Do some pre-sales to participate in deals and work your way up to sales.

3. Take much higher risk, like commission only sales, where their investment is low, and you can make it instead.
US immigration system is broken & is a joke. H1B "skilled" visas are based on your luck (lottery) and not on your skills (surprise). They change the rules every now and then and its a nightmare to be on H1B worrying whether you are in legal status and the fear of being deported. Now LCA is not enough to change your work location. H1B amendment is needed which is another nightmare.

You can go for an investor visa option but it has it own quirks. With the current immigration system, foreign investors or founders should exercise a lot of caution as far the immigration system of US is concerned.
I disagree with the nitpick. Electricity is not a technical term. In its common usage, it encompasses many effects and broadly invokes many technical concepts, i.e. among them EMF or voltage, current, electromagnetic waves, etc. etc.

This article is not written for physicists, engineers, or anyone else so technically trained. If it were, it would read as follows: "Electricity is a vague term used to variously refer to the many aspects of electromagnetic phenomena."

If you want to keep that sentence, and cover your bases, you could reword as "the flow of electric charge, the potential to cause the same." And in any case, the escape clause already exists as "there’s so much behind that simple statement."
Customer Requirements in Agile vs. Waterfall
That blue is unearthly.

like this: http://www.alexcornell.com/antarctica/
and this: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tonyt/Tonys_site/My_Albums/Pag...
It's worth noting that modifying Tor Browser like this makes your TB easier to fingerprint/track.

I'm not saying people shouldn't do it. But just be aware of the trade-off.
Where Are the Big Data Jobs?
"The idea that the expert human mind could be outclassed by a bunch of amateurs getting together is very disturbing, as disturbing as saying the Earth is not the center of the solar system."

The article doesn't quite make the case that that is true.

Crowds predicting an election is no surprise -- crowds determine the outcome. It would be more compelling if the results were accurate a year ahead of time or something.

And for sports betting, the average betting amateur is actually quite well-informed.

I don't think this really applies to science very well. Crowds change opinions all the time, so they can't be right about some unchanging law of nature.
More Tech Pros Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs
Just skimmed through a bit, but I found this particular part comparing modern hyper-communicative society to mental attacks to be interesting

These subtle menticidal forces operate both within the mind and outside it. They
have been strengthened in their effect by the growth in complexity of our civilization.
The modern means of mass communication bring the entire world daily into each
man's home; the techniques of propaganda and salesmanship have been refined
and systematized; there is scarcely any hiding place from the constant visual and
verbal assault on the mind. The pressures of daily life impel more and more people
to seek an easy escape from responsibility and maturity. Indeed, it is difficult to
withstand these pressures; to many the offer of a political panacea is very tempting,
to others the offer of escape through alcohol, drugs, or other artificial pleasures is
irresistible.

Free men in a free society must learn not only to recognize this stealthy attack on
mental integrity and fight it, but must learn also what there is in side man's mind that
makes him vulnerable to this attack, what it is that makes him, in many cases,
actually long for a way out of the responsibilities that republican democracy and
maturity place on him.
Yikes. Shouldn't this information be protected under HIPPAA or something?
The ten-year-old in me was delighted to learn that there is actually something called the Butte Nugget.
Educated Africans with good English (and to a lesser extent French and Portuguese) skills can potentially earn a lot more working remotely than they can in the more limited range of work available to them locally. That foreign cash, like remittance incomes, then gets injected into the local economy.

But yes, there are certainly parts of Africa that could benefit more from money being spent on things other than internet access.
No, this is terrible advice. Stop using DH-1024.
Wont this just prompt NSA to crack the others if they see a spike in disabled crackables?
The spreadsheet as a minimum viable CMS
>> Is it possible to use this technique to introduce, say, infix arithmetic operators, or ObjC's dot syntax?

Yes and no. The fact that the language is a list (which is the same data structure that you use to manipulate value) is what makes it that powerful. Once you start adding more syntax, then it's not a list anymore.. so you can't just pass that code to your macro and it becomes trickier.

For instance, you could receive your AST, manipulate and return it, but now you're getting into implementation detail about how the lexer and parser are working. Compare that with lisp where you get a list and you return a list. The fact that your code is your AST is that makes it so magical.

I understand that the lisp syntax can throw someone off guard when they're used to seeing obj-c or javascript. But honestly, it's much simpler and easier to get to than, say, get familiar with C++ if you're a java programmer.

One problem that I see with Lisp is that since everything looks the same, it's hard to quickly parse it when reading a file. I feel like reading a Python file is really fast because it's separated in classes / method, or even the methods are clearly separated in "paragraph". While in lisp, everything has the same syntax and to know what's happening you need to read almost every line. Basically, I feel like it's lacking visual clue. Clojure fixes that a little bit by adding a few more data structure.

The other problem that I see with Lisps are that code abusing lambdas is hard to follow. I.e. In python, lambda are used for very short functions. But in Lisp, most people nest lambda in lambda in lambdas and often don't even use good variable names or variable name at all. Lisp code feels "write-only" to me. That being said, this is more of a mentality than a language problem because it's easy to define internal functions rather than nesting everything. Similar to how javascript can be one giant pack of nested functions or well defined functions with good variable names.

</ end of rant.

All that being said, I think Arc (And other lisps) are amazing and I'm sad that they're not more popular.
The government isn't a monolithic machine, it's people, and some of those people may abuse their access to the dossiers and databases.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOVEINT
Interesting and surprising given that companies exist that offer it as a service, but I stand corrected.
From now until March here in Scandinavia and a lot of central and eastern Europe the heat generated will simply add to the general background heat in the house and reduce the amount that has to be produced by the electric radiators. Of course if you live somewhere where air-conditioning is a necessity your mileage will vary :-)
You should nail down this story. Write the guy, ask for background, confirm your version of the story, etc. The reason I say this is, if your memory is off by a single degree, that could change the entire story here. If your professor's memory is off by a single degree, getting that resolved could prevent some other people from hearing the story and going down a rabbit hole and causing themselves unneeded anxiety. I've never read a hypnosis book that suggested people would do things against their will, but that is different from being open to suggestion.
> Guess how many companies care?

Many. But, more in the way of actively and enthusiastically supporting the ability to wipe the archive this way than, you know, being concerned that it is a problem.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
Actually that is exactly what happens. The store gets about a $100,000 cut for powerball
> but it also means people here have access to those designs as well as tools and expertise to iterate on them, tweak them and repurpose them.

I don't see how that's relevant. If they're designed elsewhere, then who is going to be tweaking and re-purposing? The Chinese slave labor? Anyone who matters will be back in their home country, doing the work there. Anyone overseeing manufacturing operations in China literally doesn't matter from a design or innovation standpoint.
Daniel Craig is no more culturally Scottish than Idris Elba.
> Every day, when I sit down with the manuscript, I start at page one and go through the whole thing, revising freely.

I cringed at this.

I've tried my hand at writing fiction and I can't think of a better tactic or excuse to spin your wheels and not progress.

Revising is easy whereas writing content is hard. I'd rather vomit out a semi-structured mess of a story and impose structure on it through revision (a minimal # of times) than have to constantly revise each time I sit down to write.
"one of the best if not the best sci-fi series ever made, science-wise"

Ahem. Babylon 5. ;)
Url changed from http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/10/16/microsoft..., which points to this.
I (Australian) had never heard of the E3 visa until just now - Interesting that it defines "Speciality work" as anything that requires a degree in the job description.

I don't have one, but have been working professionally in this field for 4 years (I'm 22), and thus would not be eligible. To qualify for experience in lieu of a degree you require 3 years of work for each one year of university, so when I've been working for 12 years I could do that.

Interesting regulation, in Australia we have a "skilled occupations list" [0] which is a list of skilled work which specifically is in demand in Australia

[0] http://www.visabureau.com/australia/skilled-occupation-list....
PredictIt Arbitrage
On a similar note, I do think that best way to get a shot at better and more investments in space would be to build a hotel on the moon.

(Maybe I should submit my blogpost about that to a journal to get academic cred.)
Already did that, submitted to Show HN, several subreddits, tweeted about it, got added to Slack's api list etc... It did yield hits and got my repository trending on github which increased the audience, again, but then the exposure stopped :)
I have an O-1 visa, it's not impossible and it's a great visa to have since you can reuse the same documents for your initial application for subsequent renewal. The key is to get as many peer references you can get in your industry.

While getting letters from your advisers and investors is great, it's a common mistake to ONLY do people in your startup. You want to get recommendations from your previous employers and also academics who write about the industry you're in to justify your extraordinary ability. You don't want to put "founder" in your application (unless you're IPO'ed), you want to put "founder + professional skill".

The reason is that an O-1 is really meant for talent or skilled professionals. Being a founder is not necessarily a skill, it's just an indication that you've started a company. By applying as a founder, you miss the main purpose of the visa and that gets your application rejected.

edit: not a YC founder, just a founder.
i've been playing around with supercollider lately and i would love to see a writeup on your process for creating this. sound synthesis is really cool but i've been having trouble finding good resources for understanding things like ring filters at an intuitive level.

seems like it would go nicely with a procedurally generated game too!
I'm not saying criminals don't kill people. I'm simply making a point about assuming all criminals are the same. There are plenty of white-collar criminals that have and will cause the death of innocent people and there are plenty of violent criminals that won't purposefully cross the line to killing a person.

If for no other reason, we should be wary about stereotyping criminals because what is considered criminal is sometimes quite arbitrary and can change quite fast. How many years ago was it a felony in some states to possess more than token amounts of marijuana, or to take part in sodomy?
I'm a member of a religion that is often thought of as a cult, and a website where I share my experiences in said religion is often Googled by people looking to confirm their cult-oriented thinking (edit: to clarify, they are googling to confirm that their assumption, that religion X as a cult, is true).

So I ended up doing a lot of reading up on brainwashing. My tack was to determine the objective signs of brainwashing or mind control, and it was a very productive exercise, even though I came up negative regarding my own experience.

What did fascinate me, though, was learning about Douglas Rushkoff's research on our consumer culture. "The Persuaders" (Frontline/PBS) is a pretty amazing show that gets at what I suspect is currently the biggest brainwashing-equivalent threat that we face.
> Am I the only sane one here? Can no-one else see that the response is hysterical?

This is an asinine pair of questions to ask because they are logically unanswerable and interdependently blaming. If someone were to answer "yes, you are the only sane person here", then you've successfully elevated yourself to a level by which you can judge. If someone were to answer "no, you aren't the only sane person here" you get the sequential treatment applied to the rhetorical question "So you can see this response is (then) hysterical?" and you still get to judge.

Clearly you think I'm hysterical, regardless of whether it was asked as a question or not.

I have every right to voice my opinions and questions about how we can trust the tools we use for our craft on a day-to-day basis. I also have the right to the expectation the tools aren't being mass-monitored by our government as a cheap and insecure way of doing their job: law enforcement. I am grateful to be fortunate enough to understand how we technically implement these levels of trust in our tools and feel it is part of my social responsibility to share my views on these matters with my peers. I don't believe in allowing criminals to break laws, but I also feel that making things less secure by trying to monitor everyone for criminal activity is not the answer because I also think it's prohibitively expensive to eliminate all criminal activity. Maybe that makes me hysterical...but at least I don't speak for others.

I made ZERO blaming statements in my comment. I asserted that, from what I understand of the parent article, we have reason to suspect the government has cracked, or has the ability to crack, large primes. We know for a fact that a lot of software uses the default primes, so the logic goes that the government has the ability to monitor a portion of what we would normally consider secure SSL traffic. That individuals have little way of mitigating this "venerability" is an important one here because it may depend on us working together to determine the attack coverage and exposure. Without knowing those things, we're really at a loss to what could possibly going on with monitoring.

I will also point out that, if those cracked prime solutions exist, they will eventually fall into the wrong hands.
I love this, but what differentiates it from the others like Alpine or Void?
By the way, I love Python and use it every day, so I'm not trying to get into a language war.

The difference between using a decorator and a lisp macro is that using a decorator is "using the syntax of the language to solve your problem", while a macro is "adding a new syntax".

I do think there are way in Python (or in C++) to use meta-programming to tweak the language but it always feel very hacky. I.e. I'd hate to jump into a python code-base that isn't standard, such as using @awhen decorator instead of a normal if ;-) What about you? But in Lisp, there's no difference in the syntax.. and adding missing features to the language instead of repeating the same pattern is the standard way to code.
I'm a bit late to the discussion, but I'm interested: are bank guarantees or letters of credit used in software sales?

http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/202005.asp

Escrow.com (a service recommended in many of the comments below) has an article mentioning them:

https://www.escrow.com/news/Articles/the_advantages_of_using...
Wow, Doctor Who is actually a fantastic comparison I had never thought of before.
That's the entire backstory and the connecting over-arcing story for AC (and also somewhat Watch Dogs because it's apparently the same universe), and for the most part it's much more interesting than the game with allot of very cool ideas and premises.

Basically modern humans and neanderthals were bred by a more advanced and ancient form of humans (physically similar to AMH) we were all designed to have a naturally occurring fractal antennas in our brains that allowed them to mind control us to be used as slave/servants (humans) and soldiers (neanderthals).
Some humans had a mutation (either naturally occurring, or a case of sleeping with the help which was also implied in the game, basically seraphim doing earthling hot chicks > flood recap) that made them immune to the mind control tech.
There was a rebellion and a catastrophe (solar eruption) the ancients mostly have died out, some organizations know about them and some parts of the mind control tech have survived (pieces of eden in the game).
The templars are after that tech to control the entire world, the assassins want to stop them.

PSA:
That's pretty much spoiler free you can probably find a whole recap of the premise online.
[...] Gonzalo Merino, the IceCube computing facilities manager at UW-Madison, wrote in an unencrypted email.

What an odd thing to say in such an article.
> A negative charge has an inward electric field because it attracts positive charges. The positive charge has an outward electric field, pushing away like charges.

If this was true, then why does a negative charge not attract other negative charges?
The more dastardly conspirators upvote you, for obvious reasons.
Idris Elba was born, raised, and educated in England and is as entitled to play the role of James Bond as any Briton, though none of that should matter. By your logic Pierce Brosnan's (Irish) turn as Bond was an even larger case of cultural misappropriation due him not being a Briton.
BitLocker requires giving Microsoft the recovery key (unless you're in a domain)
Its actually worse than that. You keep the same electrons, the electric company just wiggles them back and forth and then bills you for it.

As my prof used to say about AC, "you don't pay for the swing, you pay for the push".
I know. I need to finally watch it. Queued after I finish Andromeda.
I don't think Twitter is going to shut down anytime soon.

I do think though that they've overscaled (employee and spending wise) hugely though.

Remember kids, cashflow.
Is corruption of government officials a real problem in the US? What do they mean by government officials? Civil servants?
With JavaScript enabled on GitHub, the separate links highlight different sections of the code.

If you start with if check 1 (such as in w.sh), a refactor-er would have to s/elif/if on check 2 and s/if/elif on check 1 if he wants to swap their order. By having all of the checks start with elif (such as in w2.sh), the refactor-er can change the order of the checks without having to modify them, making cleaner diffs.
Their consumer protections are significantly better than other credit card companies. That alone makes owning a gold card worth it to me.
Vine Loses Its Last Co-Founder to Twitter Layoffs
"The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as 'sock puppets' – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organisations to do the same."

I'd guess that the military is a latecomer to this game, and that corporations, political campaigns and activist groups have been doing this for years.

"He said none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to 'address US audiences' with such technology, and any English-language use of social media by Centcom was always clearly attributed."

There are plenty of people inside the U.S. who read web content in languages other than English.
That's exactly my experience. What's more, I find that people tend to rate a comedies more positively than movies from other genres.
thanks for the comment :) what i would do is start with an SC tweet:

http://sctweets.tumblr.com/
https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~kermit/website/sctweets.html
https://twitter.com/search?q=supercollider%20tweets&src=typd

and reverse engineer / expand upon it

SC and any text based audio programming language does something interesting in that it combines the instrument creation and compositional process. ultimately it's great to create your own instrument / musical process (maybe they are one in the same), but it can be productive to focus on the latter just to start with by using someone else's instrument to learn from
> and also somewhat Watch Dogs because it's apparently the same universe

Wait what?! Ok, my mind is officially blown here. Thanks for telling me that, I'll check it out.
"I like it, too, but, boy, does it need some rethinking—the visual dissonance between Moments and the Twitter Stream is deeply unsettling."

I agree. That's exactly what I aimed to remedy with my redesign:
https://medium.com/@danielrakh/redesigning-twitter-moments-f...
This is exactly the type of bullshit I'm talking about when I try to stress privacy to people I know and they think I'm a lunatic. Most people don't want to hear what "could" happen, only what has happened in the past.
Electric field forces are drawn as if you were placing a small positive charge in the field. The wording is awkward. If convention used a small negative test charge, the language (and diagram arrows) would be flipped. "inward electric field" is only with respect to a positive charge, not to all charges.