skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
27. After High School, I screwed up about as bad as I could. I already wasn't doing particularly well in school, then I went to Seattle to attend a community college, with hopes of transferring to a more ideal school afterward.

But, as always, I wasn't at all comfortable with school. I hated learning at someone else's pace, by someone else's rubric. I hated never building on yesterday's learning, using what I'd discovered moving forward, but instead having just as much reason to throw it away as I did the remnants of that day's meal.

So, I failed hard, and my parents stopped giving me cash to survive. I ended up moving back home, and struggled with finding a job in the ruinous California Central Valley economy, which before the recession was already alarmingly high, and as we trended into it, would turn into a complete disaster, regularly fluctuating between 15-18% officially, with the unofficial at times being as high as 25%.

Years later, at 24, I'd get an opportunity through a friend I'd met online playing a game together. As she was off at college, her family would let me stay with them in Claremore, OK, where finding work would be much easier, and I could at least begin to build a life. Within two weeks of being there I had work(which took months to get in Fresno and would often see the company shut down weeks later) delivering auto parts.

Without the influence of my family there to discourage me("You need a degree to do that!"), I returned to programming in my evenings, where one day I would ask just the right person online a question about the Django web framework. They presented the idea of me becoming a junior developer, and from there I was granted the opportunity.

I was paid horribly, but it really was an opportunity. I had no degree, no open source, no experience, nothing. But over 11 months I built a resume to be proud of, and was able to successfully turn that into a high paying job at UnitedHealth Group.

However, neither at UHG or the following startup I worked for, Doximity, did I really find a culture I felt I could grow in. I need to focus on my work, try new things, feel like I have the freedom to make more user-facing decisions. I put time into personal projects, further developing the Ruby skills I'd begun at UHG, as well as becoming a competent Javascript developer, and figured out a whole host of automation problems through a variety of Docker, VirtualBox, and Vagrant.

Eventually, one of those would get me my current position at A10 Networks, and it's easily the best job I've ever had. The culture is amazing, the quality of work is superb, the people are kind yet passionate- it feels like a dream job.

If there's anything I'd want to say to anyone in a low point right now, it'd be "Stop listening to anyone who tells you that you can't do it." You can. Maybe you'll have to change tools or tactics, maybe it's a question of time. But never let yourself rest if you're not enjoying what you're going through, and never tell yourself that the horrible circumstance you're in now is what you must endure for years to come.

It isn't. You've just got to figure out the way forward.
I cannot evaluate the claims made within. But I respect cneukirchen who linked to it, so I thought HN might have an interesting discussion.
(Author here.) I'd be more wary of using security software that changes frequently, since every code change is an opportunity for a new security vulnerability to be introduced. I'm very cautious with changes to titus.

That said, 0.3 will be released any day now. It's pending testing of the new FreeBSD support.
The interrogator’s soul
I was also thinking that if competitors showed up in the results you could then use the botnet to then link bomb them?

I agree that it does seem like quite a bit of effort for an undetermined purpose though...
Confronting Self Doubt for Fun and Profit
So these companies act as a kind of payment bank in this capacity.
Reverse Engineering Code Completion
New Dell computer comes with a eDellRoot trusted root certificate
DockerCon Embraces Container Security
hmm, works for me in an incognito window. Sorry, I wouldn't know how to fix that. :(
Finding Fuboy: one man spent four years and $35,000 to unmask his internet troll
This could be resolved by forking.
I agree we should do tests on low-cost machines as well.
But at least on my machine the js libraries performed better than the Flash ones.
So moving to flash-less should improve performance.
> Bottom line, if there is not an EU wide solution to this problem it will break Germany and Sweden unless they change policy

I think it's plausibly that by pursuing their open-door policies, Germany and Sweeden also encouraged the flow of immigrants into the EU. Assuming this is true, isn't it a bit unfair now to unload that burden to other EU countries that were more realistic from the start? Basically, Germany and Sweden were to only ones to accumulate moral capital, but now they expect other countries to share the financial burden.
MasterCard with Apple Pay users can travel for free around London on Mondays
Hyperbolic though that statement may be, Twisted is complex. Even after the initial learning-curve, there's quite a bit to juggle...
Why not just use transitor-based gyroscopes and lever the vehicle one way or the other when turning to keep the riders level? In other words, why not just treat the carriage portion of the vehicle like a large gimbal?
A bit too memorable perhaps.
That discussion of evolution seems to me like he was paraphrasing and criticizing Chomsky's ideas of language evolution. Chomsky has both argued for an innate language organ and language acquisition device, and been critical of attempts to explain such a thing in terms of evolution. It's a weird position that the author is right to criticize (if a bit clumsily).
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002134.h...
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1995/nov/30/genes-m...
In Los Angeles most positions are really dead end, by the time 6 figures became the norm the housing market here plus the additional taxes on california for singles has turned 6 figures into bare survival money. The attitude of most employers in Los Angeles is that you're essentially a slave and as a tech person you're about as important to them as a maggot, your talents are taken for granted and yeah I have a job but I have to work over 140 hours a week for 40 hours pay. My parents body blocked me from being a part of the Stanford class of 94 despite being a legacy, that was one of those cases where I needed to run away from home and walk from LA to Palo Alto against my parents' will lol.
That sounds like a high end professional model if it's able to print items the size of a lamp.

It does sound fantastic though.
Forgiveness in a vengeful age
The context of calling the cost a benefit was in picking between reasonable and competitively-priced options. You're not arguing against the point that it's a commitment to better transit, you're trying to pull a cheap gotcha.
The alternative explanation is, selfishness has led Sweden and Germany to proclaim their "no limits" policies in order to accumulate "moral capital". This resulted in a huge increase in the flow of asylium seekers, but now these countries want the rest of the EU to share the burden of their failed policies.
Rubycritic: a ruby code quality report tool
Very interesting 3D projects! Which 3D printer do you use?
Estrogen is carcinogenic.

1. http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/publications/in-vivo/Vol2_Iss10...

2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10688862
The DC Metro has a daily ridership of about 700,000 trips. This is nothing to sneeze at, and it is impressive. However, I'm not positive how they calculate a trip, but my guess is that it's a card swipe entry and exit. Most people are traveling to and from work, so that is likely half that number in unique people. So say 350,000 - 400,000 a day. On the other hand, I-270 through Maryland sees about 200,000 cars daily. That's one highway - with at least some cars carrying more than 1 person. Interstates 66 and 95, US route 50, MD route 295, and VA route 267 all carry similar amounts of traffic. And lets not forget the other minor routes and streets that carry additional traffic. Your assertion that it "would be intractable for ANY highway system" to handle this is absurd - it already does.

While I too find some scorn for the McMansion culture, it is not really a local developers job or role to plan for medium to long distance infrastructure. I don't think it would even be legally possible for a private entity to take on a highway project that crossed multiple counties and/or states without a massive amount of support from local and state governments.

Also, I wouldn't call suburban and rural development an anti-pattern. Unless you want the cities to be double the density they already are, some people are going to have to live in the suburbs and rural parts of the country.
It isn't even a "cool new concept" in the context of the article. It's been used like clapping since at least the beatniks, and possibly since Roman times.
I must have these, and a link to their alibaba page.
The web has done more to decentralize networked computing than any other technology, because the web is basically decentralized. Only the agreements (IETF and W3C) are somewhat centralized, but even then we are seeing a proliferation of REST APIs to encourage decentralized data management. These usually aren't exactly "RESTful" of course because we are so busy with our own startups we aren't really working towards interop as a priority.

The only inherent reason we have popular centralized services is that there is limited economic incentives of funding or adhering to a decentralized social (or business, or health, ...) network standard - the Web would support it, but we've got to WANT to build the agreements to make it work.

Tl;dr the Read side of the web is decentralized; the Write Side of the Web is currently an oligarchy but not permanently so.
Graduated with a Computer Engineering degree in 2009. Got a job with feds at Ft Monmouth engineering center. Base was closed due to BRAC in 2010/11.

Didn't want to relocate to MD at the time so I started a consulting company with 2 other friends from college. We build rails apps / did other misc ecommerce work mostly learning as we went.

Did that until this past summer when I took a full time position at STAQ in Baltimore. I had decided to take a job with more reliable income / benefits to allow my wife to return to school full-time. Since the majority of my recent development experience was in Rails, I made a list of local or remote-friendly companies who had a similar stack and I sent out emails with cover letters and code samples.

I found STAQ via their recruitment website - https://programmerswanted.staq.com/. Mike, our CTO, got back to me super fast and we scheduled an interview which went well and led to an offer. Very happy with my current position and enjoying the new challenges.
That's not really the same issue, people are free to accept contributions or not, if you're not happy with the state of things you can fork the project. Like GCC/EGCS back in the days for example.

TFA is about ubuntu making forking difficult.
The Philips Hue bulb is the only one I'm really aware of, but I didn't think they were cheap. From the post it sounded like he was using something similar to the Hue bulbs but much cheaper.
It's even worse than that, people are generally not good about making accurate observations about themselves, too many cognitive biases.
Thanks, for these projects I used a Dremel Idea Builder.
This is silly. Free software is software that complies with a free software license. Full stop.

Even RMS supports commercial use of free software, and has stated before that binaries don't need to be free of cost, or that it needs to be easy to distribute, only that the source is available for modification and 'free' redistribution.

Canonical has every right to protect its brand. Firefox does this, as do many others. This doesn't change the fact that you can use their code as you wish.
As someone who was just fighting with a Replicator 2 at my local makerspace last night, quick question for you: Have you ever had a print with multiple bed-contact areas, and Makerbot Desktop only generates a raft for one piece?

The print starts out fine until it moves over to the second area (where it forgot to build a raft) and starts spewing plastic out into the air since there's nothing in lower layers to print on top of.
Caught my eye as well, wouldn't mind cheap WiFi-lamps to play around with.
I don't think so--the author addresses it. From the post:

>My WiFi bulbs are some unknown, eBay sourced devices that use a crappy mobile app for control.
I was thinking exactly the same thing.

I had to check the numbers for Finland which has abundant, cheap, and clean groundwater just about everywhere. By the token of the first few Google hits the average consumption here is roughly 150 liters per person per day. It sounds somewhat realistic, based on my own usage.

I do wonder where all that water of hers goes.
Except when you are overusing groundwater resources.

(Over here, no shortage of clean water whatsoever, but per-person usage is much smaller than California average numbers. The average consumer uses 155 litres (41 gallons) per day, which is 4700 litres or 1250 gallons per month.)
Angular/Cordova puzzle game
I think 3D printing is similar to copier/printer technology about 15 years ago. Back then, you could have your own deskjet printer at home by that was only for low quality stuff. If you wanted professional prints, you would go to a Kinkos etc. Now you can get great quality prints at home with a cheap lazerjet. Similarly, I think in the next 10 years 3D printing will evolve to a point where everyone will have one in their home.
Whistled language isn't all that uncommon: it also happens in some Inuit languages and tonal languages. The even have different airstream mechanisms IIRC: Inuit whistled languages use palatal whistling, whereas on Silbo Gomero (pardon the spelling) you whistle into your hands.

Check out the Piraha channls, where they also have "hum speech", "yell speech", "musical speech". http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003175.h...
Honestly, the only way I see this ever being taken seriously is when the DfT has to ringfence 10% of their budget to the development of high-quality cycle infrastructure. When a road can be identified as a major "arterial route" and councils have to prioritise cycling over the provision of on-street parking. That one is an absolute killer for many schemes. As a resident, you can object to the removal of an on-street parking space, creating a major weak link in a good cycle transport corridor.
Have you tried letsencrypt-nosudo[1]? Also, mind testing my new browser-based client, gethttpsforfree[2]?

[1]: https://github.com/diafygi/letsencrypt-nosudo

[2]: https://github.com/diafygi/gethttpsforfree
Impact of Interest Rate Changes on the Automobile Market
as karpathy said, i really don't recommend it and i'm surprised it works at all. details here: https://gist.github.com/kylemcdonald/b02edbc33942a85856c8
Discounts on SaaS services and great stories for startups
I'd argue urination is less stigmatized than defacation('number two') or menstruation. How many times have you seen someone urinating in (semi-)public vs. defacating in public?
They were thinking solely of their immediate individual gain, of course. They had bills to pay, and mouths to feed, and no time to watch the tragedy of the commons unfold.

Even if it is the last one, if taking it is the only way to individually profit, then it will be taken.

The only way to preserve an endangered common resource is to make the conservation pay more on an individual basis than immediate harvest. Usually, this is accomplished by imposing stiff penalties such that harvest is a net loss, but that is very dependent on being able to reliably catch poachers. Bribing people to not destroy their own commons also works, but is much more expensive, which is why when this happens at all, the bribes are usually paid out from money that was originally taken from the people being bribed.

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As for the article, my household runs about 180 gallons per person-day, without any extreme conservation measures. We flush every time, plus gratuitous flushes to dispose of dead bugs or simply to refresh the hands-free toilet cleaner product, and take long showers. Our water bill stopped having intermittent spikes and unexplained fluctuations when we put plumbing locks on our outdoor-accessible faucets. Some neighborhood dipshit had been stealing our water.

That, by itself, was no big deal. A cubic foot or two here or there is small change. But they also left the water running while no one who cared was around to turn it off.

If you are forgoing flushes, skipping showers, and such, there is no way you're using more than 170 gallons per person-day without "help".

You could probably make some decent money buying up some faucet locks and then peddling them door-to-door in those water districts.
Do you know what model of printer he uses?
tl;dr Someone hacks WordPress websites and includes strange .js files that a) lead to fake Flash downloads that install a botnet on your PC and b) abuse your browser to get URLs from a Google search.
When you have structural barriers around the right to contract, then yes, that's a practical issue with your libertarian narrative.

Sure, but all of it amounted to very little regulation compared to any modern Western countries.

We actually have an even better example of a contemporary Western nation achieving great results through economic liberalization: the United Kingdom repealing the Corn Laws and abandoning mercantilism circa the 1840s. Agrarians and formerly rural landowners did get shafted in the process of industrialization (as it tends to occur), but free trade policies were a boon for everything else.

But there's also the whole problem of just looking at macro-level "regulations" without taking into account the vastly different social and technological climate. See below.

True, but again, it was still closer to the libertarian ideals than the USSR ever was to communism

Smells of a fallacy of composition.

it would be at least as equally disingenuous to conclude that we can't draw any conclusions from that era to libertarianism

You can, but it's very limited. The Lucas critique demonstrates that analyzing historical macrotrends in of itself is useless because of a lack of policy-invariance. You need good microfoundations for proper modeling. Hence my assertion that calling the Gilded Age a "libertarian failure" is so simplifying as to be little but a political provocation.

You're echoing the old Methodenstreit debate all over again.

If a valid experiment can be nothing short of full global libertarianism, then it will forever be a beautiful utopia in the minds of the precious few who still prescribe to that ideal.

No, it doesn't have to be a "global libertarianism". The problem is again, you're extracting one component (relative economic liberalism, but still ignoring barriers to voluntary relations) in specific complex time periods as a catch-all argument against "libertarianism" even though you clearly do not have the proper microfoundations of libertarian theory to even make such a judgment at all.
Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves to Austrian Supreme Court
Kinglake road crashes (2014)
"A" student in high school, "B" student in university, sent 100s of resumes and got one offer (programming), moved there to work, changed jobs to a tech start-up, DotCom Bubble 1.0 burst, unemployed for several months (low point #1), contracted a bit to get on my feet, went full-time with a client, left to get MBA, graduated MBA the same year the banks all exploded, unemployed for several months (low point #2), sent 100s of resumes and got one offer (back to programming), moved there to work, job hopping every couple of years ever since. Don't know if there is a way out of the rat race, but grateful to be employed in this environment.
Show HN: Connecting Refugees to Employers
This is very similar to what I've experienced. My first job was with a multi-national where most of the decision making was taken away from the developers and we were only meant to implement mandates made outside the team (senior devs as well as junior). This left a really bad taste in my mouth, so I decided to go the startup route.

I am really curious about what makes working for a non-startup more attractive and better fit for you. It's something I've been kicking around, but hence prior experience I've been hesitant to pursue. Do you find that you are able to exercise meaningful choices? Is there real adherence to standards? Does the work/life culture allow you to leave work at work more often?

(Sorry for the barrage of questions, it's just you seem to have headed in the direction I'm most curious about)
I was with you until you said the depth and variety of content on the internet took a hit. that smacks of back-in-my-dayism and doesn't survive even the most basic sniff test.

I'll grant that perhaps you can't find anything that satisfies you, but I consider that a problem on your end. I find more that interests me than I could ever handle, and I don't even try.

so sure, I'm not surprised you have a way you like to dismissively characterize how billions of people use the Internet, but all you're really doing is explaining your elitism in great detail.
In terms of resources used to gain ratio that's terrible. Methods that reduce traffic density are much better than ones that increase it.
And that's before you think about what adding extra capacity does to a city. I've lived in quite a few cities in my time and the wider the roads in the city the worse the traffic, pollution and enjoyability of the city.
This seems like it'd be awesome for Minetest [1]. Minetest has a lot of (very) rough edges, but basically it's a Minecraft-like engine where most functionality beyond the very basic is added through mods written in Lua. I'd be fun to be able to live-code the mods on an in-game computer..

[1] http://www.minetest.net/
Expatt.org is a hub for connecting employers to expatriates or refugees.
We're a nonprofit startup helping refugees to find a job.

Any suggestions (or criticisms) are welcome.
There's a cost to the isolation. It's not for everyone.

Ultimately, I'd like to provide a knob to the administrator to control how much isolation they'd like. If you can't afford full isolation, you could tell titus to service multiple connections per process. titus would only do so if the server was under load, and would recycle processes frequently so memory wouldn't stick around for too long. But this would require complicated changes which I haven't had time for yet.
Discussion at Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_shi...
Tell me, how does uploading some files via FTP provision a database server and create the initial tables required by the application?
Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes
WIFI Hack in less than a minute
Making Software Pricing Easier [pdf]
Embracing the prison of Routine
Just turned 33. Was a terrible High School student and a less than stellar college student. I have always been into computers minus a brief stint as a wannabee rockstar. Moved to NYC after a couple of software development jobs in Boston. Got a job for a startup as a Rails developer. Did some freelance. Joined another startup and moved into a Wework coworking building. Then more freelance. Met a guy with this crazy idea to start a company that allowed users to play the lottery on their phones. Became CTO of Jackpocket. It has been an interesting journey.