skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Transition from freelance to salaried positions ( job search )
Hi HN,

I've been freelancing / consulting as a web developer / IT / anything tech related for SMBs since 2010. When I started the work / money / satisfaction was ok but right now I need more stability and looking for a traditional job.

Most of the work I did was very simplistic but brought value to the businesses so they paid me. Now as I search for a job I see big tech words, request for portfolios ( I'm covered by NDAs and mostly developed internal applications ), on site tests etc.

How do I get ready for this. I haven't practiced algorithms in years. I haven't interviewed for a job in 10yrs.
From the article:

"Encryption is one of many ways that an adversary, whether that's a criminal, a terrorist, a rogue nation, one of the many ways that they might use to hide their activities," former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis, told CNNMoney.

I recall Paul Graham's Submarine article...http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Did the NSA give CNN this story? If so, why? In order to retroactively justify its own attempts to route around encryption? In order to help generate support for some upcoming policy proposal or action?

Also for discussion -- how would you feel if you were the founder of Telegram, and this article is actually true? What would you do? I personally have had some ideas for secure email or chat services. But I really do not like the idea that it would be used by the worst-of-the-worst. I wonder if there is any way to reconcile the two goals of private and secure communication with avoiding being used as a tool of criminals.
>That's only a part of it. Between 1960 and 1985 Japan's per capita GDP quintupled

Yeah, and a lot of that was phony growth caused by debt and unsustainable asset price rises.
This is great.

For the last several years, I have had a ChromeBox connected to my tv. If lets me play amazon video, netflix, regular hulu (non-plus), nickelodeon, and just about anything out there that doesn't require silverlight. In another room, I have plex serving up all my local media. A k400 wireless keyboard/trackpad combo makes it work anywhere.

Prior to that, I spent a lot of time messing with android sticks, either with android or putting linux on them. Neither Hulu or Amazon prime work on Android, and if you switched to linux, you couldn't get flash to work.

So while I probably won't be replacing my chromebox anytime soon (actually, I also like the better performance of having a wired network connection), I could see putting something like this on a monitor in my office. And if I want something more featured, I'm sure someone will get linux working on here ala crosh.
The mistake is in diving into a commodity business where you don't control the only thing your customers care about. It's like artisanal gas stations or something.
I only used it for the last few months, and while it seemed like a gimmick at first it quickly grew on me. I had a tab group for each programming subject I was working on, with lots of documentation open. Next to these I had groups with things like music streams and Wikipedia searches. For me it was a neat way of organizing, and making sure I could start up exactly where I left off with every project.

They recommend switching to Pocket, but it feels like a mismatch. I thought Pocket was a bookmarking/read later service, while Panorama was about workspaces. It would be great if they could release Panorama itself as an addon.
My suggestion is to take something like 1-2% (definitely no more than 5 by any means) and stay as an advisor in the company. If you don't believe in the company without you being in it then don't take anything and just let it crash and burn.

Whatever you do, LEAVE NOW. It is a waste of both your time and her time.
Well presumably a doctor is trusted to have access to medical records in a way that a crematorium isn't - or has the training to perform a physical examination if they don't have those records.
Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data
Also see the $99 Lenovo Stick which runs Windows 10: http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ideacentre-Stick-Computer-90F20...
I think it solves the problem of having to carry around a screen, mouse and keyboard with your everywhere. It turns your portable computing device from an all-in one, to the bare essentials. So, if all of places you use your laptop at all have these things (e.g. home/office/cafe), then you can carry your computer in your pocket, and plug-n-play when you get to the destination.
Maybe he can write, but it didn't look like he could tell much of a story.

I found the piece to be thin, lacking much substance and failing totally to fulfil the promise he made to the reader at the start, "The Double Life...". I left unsatisfied and feeling like it was no more than a puff piece to promote the biography -- nothing more than a thinly veiled ad.

My time was wasted.
I did a deep evaluation at work of project Islandwood & my conclusion was that there's just enough framework support to make Candy Crush run, but that's about it.
And you picked that instead of "manspreading" because?
Yeah for sure... I attended a school for gifted kids. Those who where a lot younger than the rest of us where always pushed by their parents and their parents always told they where not pushing.

And that is a first hand experience watching 42 gifted smart young children pushed in our education system and over their interessents on behalf of their parents. I attended this school for 6 years.

It was a pain, and as if school wasn't boring enough ( school is mandatory where I live ) you had to consider every word you wanted to say as a 16/17/18 year old when there where 9/10/11 year old depressed and ADHDish, but extremely smart kids around you the whole time.

In the end I am a hundred percent sure every kid can study MIT classes at every age. Most of the stuff is rational trivia. Also beeing gifted has nothing to do with your grades or your ability to follow classes or lectures. Because that's something your parents could've pushed on you, but for sure you are allowed to be happy that they didn't.
Fetch  getfetch.net  DEBUG=True in Django = exploitable? (80char) [pdf]
thanks for that. lattice seems overly complicated for a developer machine usecase. I might as well do Docker.
A simulation doesn't mean that there is a simulator - just that what we consider real may be a projection of something else. As you say, the holographic universe principle can equally answer this.

That said, the simulation argument strongly pushes in favour of a simulated reality - particularly when you consider that there is no need for it to be real time, or of the entire universe. In short if we ever gain the capability to accurately simulate a small corner of the universe, then it stands to reason that someone further up the hylaean flow (apologies to Stephenson) also has.

Hell, maybe the rotation of distant galaxies is off because they're just sprites ;)
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jan/10/doctors-crema...

> Doctors are pocketing almost £15m a year from grieving families in return for filling in simple forms sanctioning the release of the bodies of loved ones for cremation.

> "Ash cash" payments, as they are known by medical staff, are considered one of the perks of the job. Tales of junior doctors vying with each other to fill in the forms, for which they receive £73.50 a time, are legion. A junior doctor who blogs under the name "The Daily Rhino" has described ash cash "as the house officer's privilege, it is the fund for Thursday night drinks all over the country".
Okay. I got the impression that something illegitimate was going on.
Saw this news in the Post. The skeptic in me says that this gives them a free pass for any manner of trash they want to publish about someone. Of course it's in the public interest!
I think at the time, most folks at NASA expected moon landings to be commonplace within a decade.
I'm not even sure it matters how broad his education was, if (as you said) he has been happy with his life, but also as long as he is adaptable enough to switch directions if he becomes unhappy with his direction later in life.

Many of us old folk change direction over the years. The key to a happy life in the long run is not to know everything when you are young, or to have picked the right direction from the start, but to recognize when your direction is no longer fulfilling, and to know when and how to change when you are old.
Why is exclusively technical education bad? Who cares if he doesn't know much about politics, art, or geography? All that matters is that he loves what he's doing.
Some commenters are afraid this kid was pushed way too hard and did not have time to learn proper social skills, play sports, get a holistic education in the humanities.

This all might be true but the article makes it very clear how precocious this kid is. I don't think his parents were trying to push him. If anything they seemed to struggle to get him the things that he needed to succeed.

Some people are just so laser focused on their desires that you just have to let them do their thing. I'm sure if he wants to play sports or learn history, he'll excel at it too.
I already suspected that people construct truths to meet their expectation and I think I might just learn something useful about the tells of fabrications if only I could see the research, but unfortunately it's paywalled.
Why would I switch to Fetch if I'm perfectly fine with using the default Google Chrome bookmark bar?
Agree with you. My wife and I are already arguing over the future of our 3-year-old. She wants him to learn to read and write. I want him to play, have time to be a boy, get in trouble, kiss a girl, and have a care-free childhood.

We're so obsessed with money, and forget all about the one currency that really matters. Time. Time to live.

I'd rather he were average academically, and experience life exceptionally.
تملك الآن في تركيا
المشروع الأفخم في تركيا وأكثرها تميزاً وانفراداً, فقط بأسعار 310,000$ و بالتقسيط على 12 شهراً
للتفاصيل بشكل كامل يرجى التسجيل: bitly.com/beylikrealestate
- المشروع يقع في منطقة بولو. تعتبر منطقة بولو -ابانت من اجمل مناطق تركيا التي تمتاز بغطائها النباتي وبحيراتها
ومن المعالم السياحية الطبيعية القريبة من المشروع :
مدينة ابانت : 20 ميل
بحيرة يدي غولر : تبعد 40 ميل
بحيرة غول لوك 40 ميل
جبال الكارتيبي للتزلج 60 ميل
- المشروع هو عبارة عن 700 فيللا قيد الانشاء وباقي منهم 200 فيللا فقط !!
- من أهم ميزات المشروع :
بناء استقبال فخم جدا مرفق بقاعات اجتماعات ملكية بالاضافة إلى قاعات مؤتمرات ومراكز اجتماعات
بالإضافة إلى مركز دراسات دينية وجامع.
بحيرة اصطناعية – مدينة العاب مائية - حديقة حيوان - مياه كبريتية - مضمار خيل - سباقات خيل
مركز تجميل
مسابح داخلية وخارجية - حمامات بخار - حمامات تركية - ساونا - مراكز رياضية - مركز صحي متكامل
مراكو تسوق - سينما - مطاعم - انترنت مجاني بكامل المشروع - ملاعب تنس - ملاعب مغلقة ومفتوحة
- مساحة الأرض لبناء كل فيلا 324 متر
--------------------------------------------
واتس آب - فايبر - لاين/ Whatsapp & Viber- Line
Mobile : 00905495050620
Office : 00902122194890 - Saudi:00966505324561
register : bitly.com/beylikrealestate
Website : www.beylikrealestate.co
Facebook : www.facebook.com/beylik.turkey.real.estate
Twitter : twitter.com/Beylikturkia
Instagram: instagram.com/beylik_real_estate
Google+ : beylik real estate
LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/beylik
Flickr : www.flickr.com/people/136303874@N04/
pinterest: www.pinterest.com/beylikrealestat/
Tumblr : www.tumblr.com/blog/beylikrealestate
Vine : vine.co/Beylik.real.estate
Address : Harbiye, şişli /Istanbul/ Turkey
Putin on ISIS
When you say "vanilla JS", do you mean "just JS with other JS-only libs for special controls, etc.", or "just JS". Because, if the latter is the case, then the challenge is easy:

Virtual list controls that need to manage thousands of items/rows.

Hint: you're going to need a custom scroll bar.
You mean investors, at a minimum, will pay at least 3 times what they used to pay to invest their money. That's far more substantial than you are making it out to be. SPY is an ETF tracking the S&P 500. It has ~180 billion in assets. 0.1% is a nontrivial $180 million.

It is rebalancing, but you seemed to state that rebalancing only occurs at creation and redemption. In the case of SPY, the holdings will change every time the underlying index changes, which has happened 20 times in 2015. Each change in holdings requires, at a minimum, 2 transactions, and involves 40 tax payments as a consequence.
I'd love to own one, but 800$ is too steep for me.

At first thought it's expensive for basically an (hardened) Intel NUC but then I realized it was the price of a medium range MAC mini.

I guess I need to find a better paying job.
If that's all his desires then good for him. I hope he doesn't corner himself too much and experience other parts of life nonetheless. Very important.
Would it have been cheaper to pay the top 100 Android apps to make a Windows version? Perhaps they do it on a continual basis to keep their marketplace up to date?

On that note, I'd like to try making a windows phone app. Is there anything sorely missing from the platform?
"Most of the stuff is rational trivia" --- rational trivia, I like the word.
The thing to remember is that we're all unique, and there probably are a tiny minority of people for whom this is an ideal path, so it's best not to judge until/unless we know the child & family personally. The fat part of the curve absolutely benefit from a varied and diverse childhood & adolescence ... although I'd argue we've [in the US] slowed formal education too far and there's ample room for a) faster academic education and b) a dedicated vocational trades track.
Not a word in the article about Wikipedia, which is the source of so much learning material by all players. Not to mention WikiData, which Google supports. It's really a shame how concrete signs of a thriving commons, a really exciting thing in the world and as important as the internet, are ignored by surface level press.
Financial Times 404 Page (Economic Rationalizations)
I Turned Off JavaScript for a Whole Week and It Was Glorious
Just sew it into your arm. Problem solved, unless you lose your arm that is...
# this should be a start, it still needs output all permutations of the cipher applied over all possible substrings in the ciphertext because not all parts may have the same cipher applied and it also needs to brute force a salt up to a reasonable length to precede/follow the output text since salting passwords with a memorized constant is common.

def ceasar_permutations(ciphertext):

alpabets = [ascii_lowercase, ascii_uppercase,'0123456789',' ~!@#$%^&*()_+``-=[]{}:";\\\<>?,./]']

for perm in permutations(alpabets):

alphabet = ""

for p in perm:

alphabet+=p

for i in range(0, alphabet.__len__()):

shifted_alphabet = alphabet[i:] + alphabet[:i]

table = str.maketrans(alphabet, shifted_alphabet)

print( ciphertext.translate(table))
>... she believes genders should be treated differently, that's PC and sexist.

Sexes are different. In some areas, like strength, they almost form non-overlapping sets.

In others, like personality, there is not much overlap either.

See for example:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

Why do you think you can motivate women and men by using the exact same thing? Biology has made both value different things. Discernible in voting patterns and gov't preferences. Here is a paper on how giving franchise to women impacted US government..

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~iversen/PDFfiles/LottKenn...

Do you think men enjoy the same things as women? Treating everyone the same is a very good way of not getting anything done.

And as to stereotyping. It's unavoidable. The human brain is wired so it tries to abstract and save effort. Dealing with everyone as a total unknown is not we're set up.

Furthermore, stereotypes are somewhat accurate. Moreso than social science. Obviously, if they are accurate they are useful.

See for example:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201408/st...
Also Perejil island disputed by my country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perejil_Island
I'm in denial. I refuse to believe this is happening.

When Rdio is gone there's going to be a huge hole in my life that needs filled with good design and experience browsing my music. iTunes is a shitshow. Spotify is ugly. Pandora is radio. It's all rubbish.

The Winamp revival cannot come soon enough.
I also have one, and it's great for office tasks. Nice to be able to fit a functional PC in your pocket. Windows 10 runs decently on it.
The Gizmodo review was negative because you couldn't play games on it. It's definitely not a games machine, although I have been able to play World of Warcraft on it.
Except we're already hypocrites. We support all kinds of dictators and terrorist groups. Though a lot of it has to do with preventing wars with Israel.
You can combine the two.

Paint letters onto toy cars, paint a car park with letters in the spaces.

Or paint letters onto rocks, and use a toy dump truck to load them up and move them around.

Use synthetic phonics and sound out the letters when the cars are parked or the rocks are collected.

(but in general I agree with you)
Unfollow: How a daughter of Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs
I've checked, it's spam. Flagged.
Yep, I don't get this whole trend. Want to start a virtual machine? Use docker-machine. Want to start a bunch of services? Use docker-compose. Want to define the service stack? Use a Dockerfile with the predefined language stacks.

Previously we used to write hundreds of lines of puppet/chef/whatever scripts just to set things up. Its all already boiled down to just a few lines of configuration files. With tools like this or otto, its getting further hidden into nothing, seeming to look almost like magic. I'd rather stick with the few lines that I can control.
While I don't think your tool is for everyone your site design is. Love the colors and clean design, goes a long way towards making me want to understand Nanobox.
SpiderOak'er here; as a reminder, we also offer Encryptr, our own password manager: https://spideroak.com/solutions/encryptr

Which itself _is_ open source: https://github.com/SpiderOak/Encryptr
You yanks and your aversion to the metric system...
Join us for a week of #ContagiousGratitudes
If you like using the default google bookmarks then probably will love using fetch. There are so many instances during which we forget to bookmark something and managing bookmarks is a nightmare in itself. Fetch streamlines all and makes finding links a breeze.
Wouldn't that be approaching the energy density of TNT?
> I'm not sure how much hiding the SNI would get you in terms of privacy. You could always just look at the destination IP address of the packet.

Destination IP will be the same for all sites on the server, SNI tells you exactly which site was asked for. Not meaning to be pedantic, sometimes the distinction isn't clear.

But in order to encrypt the SNI name, you'd first need to verify a certificate tied to a bare IP address. You'd also need to trust DNS completely. RTT would inflate significantly.

The CA system is a mess, but DNS is worse. Tying certs to bare IPs would create a deployment nightmare as well.

SNI is imperfect, but it is a big improvement over the previous status quo, which was single-IP per https host, which obviously did nothing to obscure the site hostname either.
That only works if Lyft/Uber get the money from the credit cards very quickly.
I'm not an "Arab Spring sceptic". I'm just a realist. The West largely kept out of the Arab Spring to avoid getting their hands dirty and the result is a huge mess.

We were too afraid to risk our own soldiers or pissing off the wrong people. Now we have Islamist extremists everywhere and a self-proclaimed Caliphate is trying to establish a permanent Islamic state.
Adjusting for 19% vat and one euro = usd 1.07 that would make the price EUR 95. It's annoying when the prices get jacked up. I guess they are probably giving a middle man some cut but it's unnecessary these days. Just sell direct and don't bother discriminating against non US persons.
I would add Knight capital thingy on top: http://money.cnn.com/2012/08/09/technology/knight-expensive-...
I remember a strategy similar to this earlier in the Windows Phone lifecycle - maybe they weren't outright funding the dev teams, but they were offering large incentives. I'll paste a link here if I can dig it up.
Microsoft’s Biggest Contribution to Security Is Free Windows Upgrades
Thanks for the kudos cooperadymas.

We take a snapshot every time you visit the page. We don't version the page yet. Do you have a specific use case for a feature like that?

There's a very strong correlation between time spent and usefulness of the article. We index all articles, even the ones you spend less time on, so when you search, a few page scrolls get you to the link you need. That said, time spent is a heuristic, its useful in a lot of cases, but not all, we'll have to see.

"Proprietary algorithms", we have a patent pending on how we sort and filter data

We'll think of a catchphrase around ""Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before"

Hope you enjoy using the extension. You can send us feedback from the plugin directly, or mail us at dev@tryheld.com
And then people wonder why there's a teenager suicide epidemic in Palo Alto and Silicon Valley in general...
Pubnub BLOCKS: Realtime Apps Made Simple
Applications for ‘Sustenance’ During the Depression in Australia
Best web design resources, tools and freebies of November 2015
Python 3 makes it easier to develop high-quality software
“I will never forget the feeling of walking into the lobby of Building 7, looking up, and then touching the pillars to see if they were real. I couldn’t believe I was at MIT. My life and my ambitions moved to another level at that moment.”

I think this impressive achievement is more a testament to the role that aspirations acquired during childhood play in determining a person's success than it is a reflection of this young man's intelligence. Yes, the latter is necessary, but it isn't sufficient. I have little doubt that there are many 18 year olds entering MIT's class of 2019 who could have entered at 15 had they been provided a similarly advantageous upbringing.

These stories attract the attention of some of us because we wish we had been raised similarly. Had we not devoted our attention as children to, say, petty family turmoil or a hedonistic preoccupation with computer games, perhaps we would have progressed through life with a singularity of purpose and self-confidence that would have situated us in a better position today. We might have been spared years in our teens and twenties trying to find a sense of meaning in our work, unlike this fellow, who seems to have it figured out.

I won't speculate about his social skills. I've met college students his age running the gamut from borderline autistic to social butterfly. Yes, the sense of "peerlessness" must be a bit alienating, but many of us have had this experience without leapfrogging high school.
> All the sharable stuff (code, IP, etc) just get cloned and you get a copy each.

I'm not even remotely in this situation and probably never will be, but I'm curious how this can work legally.

Sure copying the code is easy but isn't there the problem that the rights to it (to sell, to use in a different product) are difficult to distribute among several partners.

Wouldn't a potential future buyer of the IP want to make sure that he buys exclusive rights? Otherwise the other partner could just sell the same code to the competition. Same goes for patents etc..

I have no experience with such things so I might missing something very obvious here.
Rustic Automata [video]
This sounds like an interesting article, and indeed, the article has a lot of fun factoids. But unfortunately, it's just another he said/she said "objective journalism" article, in the sense that whatever one scientist says, another disputes.

I realize that's the way of science, but really, you should title the article to reflect its main thrust, eh?