skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By nature of the fact that I don't only associate with people who work in game dev companies but also aspiring game developers, hobbyists, and all kinds of other people interested in the industry.

Don't get me wrong, I see plenty of people having trouble finding a position in games. It's just that this isn't limited to people with or without degrees (and isn't even limited to engineering positions specifically, where finding work seems to be easier). A lot of the time the people I see asking about their troubles finding a position simply don't have a portfolio of work to show potential employers.

And then there are people who haven't started applying yet but want to prepare. They ask in online development communities what they need to do to be ready - a lot of the time the answer from other people who do or have worked in games is to make games and build a portfolio, not necessarily ship off to college by default. Having said that nobody is disputing that college can be a great way to build that portfolio and learn things at the same time! The paper itself just doesn't seem to be as important as it used to be anymore.
Truly, the difficulty of getting your Agenda on the phone is one of the great frustrations of Org. I have an Android phone, and while it's useful for some things (making phone calls, wechat), its utility would easily be doubled by having my Org information on the phone.

I think the problem arises because most Org hackers are Emacs hackers, but writing apps is a totally different domain. I went at it once, full of beans, and was defeated by Java, and the general app ecosystem.

Each uptick in my emacs lisp ability has had an immediate effect across my entire computing environment, and that has made learning lisp a practical endeavor, despite my not really being a programmer. Learning to write Android apps... I'm going to need that once, perhaps twice, and it's not worth it.
It's life changing, lol. Really take a weekend or two to get acquainted with it. (Fight through the emacs tidbits or use evil-mode). You will not regret it.
Script injection (see Comcast a few weeks ago), page manipulation (eg. pointing at download links with malicious side-load), keyword-based filtering (HTTP inspection). If you're using non-default DNS servers, you also get privacy on which site you're reading: all HTTP request headers also get TLS protection, which includes hostname, path, etc. And while outside of Tor, there's no protection for the IP address (so third parties can know you're reading a page on github), "a site hosted on github" encompasses a wide variety of content.
Btrfs: My filesystem is full, and I've put almost nothing into it
After developing a product on openstack and dealing with so many issues; I miss AWS so much.
A Roadmap towards Machine Intelligence
> Secretary of State isn't one of the top three offices in the Federal Government.

> Speaker of the House and President pro tempore of the Senate are both higher, and plainly more important.

There's an easy measure by which Secretary of State is third; they succeed after the vice president. Why are the two you listed "plainly" more important than Secretary of State?
Colour me biased (I'm romanian) but I think that Cluj is the perfect town to be based in if you have a well paying remote job.

Great internet (like everywhere in Romania btw), nice town, cheap living, nice places to hike to in the surrounding countryside, university town (aka lots of girls).
The period (typically just 30-90 days) for exercising the options is the most unfair of the lot. Most of my friends who left, say, after 3-years, simply were not in a place to exercise their options because of the financial implications. People leave for various reasons, and it's extremely unfair for someone to be in this position after 2-3 years. I wish more companies would adopt the 10-year exercising period.
I always thought it was pretty obvious that the stomach killed harmful bacteria. Never considered that it would be its actual purpose though, even if it makes sense.
Just to make things clear, this Gandhi family is not related at all to Mahatma Gandhi.

At India's Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister. His daughter, Indira, married Ferozeshah Ghandy [1], who was born into a Parsi family.

Indira Gandhi's son Rajiv Gandhi married an Italian woman, who is now known as Sonia Gandhi [2]

Sonia Gandhi's son Rahul Gandhi is now a Member of Parliament.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feroze_Gandhi
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Gandhi
Anecdotal, but I replaced my eeepc's charger with a cheap compatible charger from ebay and about a year later, I heard some buzzing on the speakers at my desk followed by a bang at my feet. The caps blew the wall wart's case right open. :\
So I've been looking at startup jobs on AngelList lately and came across many postings claiming to give "significant" equity. And then I scroll up and usually see something along the lines of 0.1%-0.2%.

Now I'm not exactly an expert on the intricacies of employee stock options, but simple math indicates that 0.1%-0.2% translates into 1-2 million for a billion dollar company.

Sure, 1-2 million is a decent amount of money, but that's before taking into account factors like dilution and opportunity costs of the associated golden handcuffs. The chances for a given startup to grow to a billion dollars is minuscule to begin with, and working at an established tech company could easily net you that same 1-2 million within a few years with none of the risks. And considering that the founders' equity will be worth hundreds of millions for that same billion dollar company, calling 1-2 million significant just feels downright condescending.
What you are describing sounds like a trade union and collective agreements.
Polyfilling custom elements right now is ready because only Blink has native shadow DOM, so the polyfill can use a single mutation observer. With native shadow DOM, but no native custom elements the polyfill would need a mutation observer in each shadow root. It would work, but might be slow.
> "Did I experience the concept beyond the technical definition?"

Thanks Kalid! Wish there were more resources in that notion available when I was starting my Telecommunications studies.
I did mention that something (such as electron, nwjs, or xulrunner) could be used as a distribution mechanism for desktop... likewise there are options (cordova etc) for mobile.

No, it wouldn't/shouldn't be a dedicated app, as a proof of concept, but could be very usable in that form.
I'm not much of a gun enthusiast. I don't own any. But I certainly see the appeal of 3D printing a gun just to get it to work, because it's cool. The same goes for other things I think are cool, like jet engines, stirling engines, airplanes and multirotors, trebuchets, 3D models of fractals, complex gear systems, etc. I'd be interested in printing all of these things just as a hobby, and a 3D printed gun is no different. There's no reason why a gun is unique, such that I or the average 3D printer hobbyist would only be interested in printing one to commit a crime.
When American treats their poor and middle class like Europe does; we'll talk about higher gas taxes.

Sorry about being blunt, but higher gas taxes will just hurt guys like me.

The poor and middle class need to commute. The poor and middle class can't afforded the latest energy efficient vechicles. We are tied to our old vechicles. We repair our old vechicles. The last thing we need are higher gas taxes.

I would like to see higher gas taxes, but let's tie it to income? While I'm a little tipsy, why not tie traffic fines/fees to income?

A rich man gets a traffic violation; he tells his wife over dinner.

A poor man get a traffic violation; he just might not make rent that month?

Since, I was 15.5, I never felt that was fair.

Happy thanksgiving!
Gas prices are relatively high compared to the price of oil, and the reason the are high is that the taxes on gas have already been raised multiple times, just not at the federal level. You are ignoring both state taxes, and state expenditures on roads.

A federal gas tax is a regressive tax on urban poor to pay for rural highways. States like California take more money in on gas taxes than they spend on roads, so force states to maintain roads instead of funneling the money through Washington DC.
Shareholders have rights to information, increases paperwork and such. Also, can be forced to release financials to the public once you have 500: http://www.businessinsider.com/rule-12g5-1b3-or-how-facebook...
Kings often have shortish reigns, but you're comparing the performance of multiple families to the reign of an individual king. 50 years is nothing compared to the time a set of multiple royal families can hold a throne.
Why are 911 calls honored from Google voice or other VOIP numbers?

I've only had scam calls from numbers I could trace to GV or magic jack.
What was the problem with 10/20/30/40 grants and what kind of vesting schedule is used instead?
Bit masking tricks (though Leo Brodie objected to calling that kind of code a 'trick'). Kind of amusing history: in FORTH-79 tests returned 1 for true, then FORTH-83 changed it, and also changed NOT to mean bitwise complement because you could use 0= for logical complement. Confusion! In the next standard NOT was left undefined, or rather they changed the name to INVERT.
I agree with your post, but Byzantine Paxos require at least 2/3rd to be honest not 1/3rd
And the population will be uninformed in a direct democracy and advertising can still influence opinion even without buying politicians.

Moreover, the population will be engaged with work and other activities, leaving little time for general education that will make them informed voters.
> "a site hosted on github" encompasses a wide variety of content.

That doesn't help, you can easily fingerprint a page from secondary requests or incoming/outgoing links.
"""it would be hard to argue for an increase just to hire a single employee."""

For a lot of tech startups hiring a single employee is actually a big enough deal in most cases to try and argue for it (imo)
Ironically, Stout does not support SSL "out of the box": https://github.com/EagerIO/Stout#ssl
Not to mention destabilize an entire region and create a brand new generation that wants to see us destroyed. Our best course now is to start doing nothing.
An HTTP client that gives a simple automated response is easy to write. An HTTP client that gives simple automated responses to 10,000 connections every second is not easy to write.

(Disclaimer: That said, I haven't seriously assessed the scalability of typical ACME clients. I would appreciate any hard number for them.)
Neural Programmer-Interpreters (Google) – At Wikitract
Alchemy – Open Source AI
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Another reason I don't put a license plate on my car. If I ever get caught, it's just a fix-it ticket, which I'll correct and then promptly remove the plates again.
As part of my job I teach some classes and give the occasional conference talk. As a result, I've spoken to dozens of people who have tried to adopt OpenStack and eventually gave up. There are a lot of reasons. But I also happen to know a very senior technical person with OpenStack - and he described a completely dysfunctional organization. I wish that there were some way to stop these organizations that are wasting people's time - maybe somebody could sue them out of business for the good of the industry?
Has anyone been thinking about or seen analyses on the potential changes to tax treatment of stock options for start-ups in Canada under the new government?

http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=86190d96-b169-...
Well in the past China has intercepted non-https connections and inserted malicious javascript that joined the users into a botnet that launched a DDOS attack on github.

The "Great Cannon".
One thing I found interesting:

You can view the FT as a method that fits exponentials. You can even generalize this idea and then you have the Prony method.
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper

Potential missing staff in some areas is a separate issue, and educational programmes are not designed to make up for it. On-the-job learning and training are not separated but dynamically linked together, benefiting to both parties. In my three years of operation, I have unfortunately witnessed cases where CERN duties and educational training became contradictory and even conflicting.

http://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2013/06/lets-not-confuse-stud...

Resolution of the Staff Council

- the Management does not propose to align the level of basic CERN salaries with those chosen as the basis for comparison;

- in the new career system a large fraction of the staff will have their advancement prospects, and consequently the level of their pension, reduced with respect to the current MARS system;

- the overall reduction of the advancement budget will have a negative impact on the contributions to the CERN Health Insurance System (CHIS);

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2015/46/Staff%20Asso...

The situation is equally difficult for postdocs trying to make the jump to a junior faculty position or a permanent job at a national lab. The Snowmass Young Physicists survey received responses from 956 early-career researchers, including 343 postdocs. But INSPIRE currently lists just 152 "junior" positions, including 61 in North America. And the supply of jobs isn't likely to increase, says John Finley, an astrophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who is leading a search to replace two senior particle physicists.

Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.

This lack of an element of social responsibility in the contract policy is unacceptable. Rather than serve as a cushion of laziness for supervisors, who often have only a limited and utilitarian view when defining the opening of an IC post, the contract policy must ensure the inclusion of an element of social justice, which is cruelly absent today.

http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/unsatisfactory-...

Pensions which will be applicable to new recruits as of 1 January 2012; the Management and CERN Council adopted without any concertation and decided in June 2011 to adopt very unfavourable mesures for new recruits.

http://www.gac-epa.org/History/Bulletins/42-2012-04/Bulletin...

precarity at CERN, aka cheap disposable temp labour w/o healthcare: http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisse-prete-aider-e...
Andrew Clay Shafer called it in 2013:
https://stochasticresonance.wordpress.com/2013/11/04/opensta...

In a former life, I was frustrated by the futility of trying to be involved with the Openstack project. My next phase was to warn people away.

Now I wonder why I bothered. Years later it's apparent that I was right, but what benefit do I see from that? Better to aggressively ignore bad technology and spend effort on the stuff that looks promising.
I bet that developers writing XSSable IoT firmware web interfaces aren't exactly the type that would read a spec like this and implement it...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10620119
10/20/30/40 is insane without double trigger. There's already enough stories of people being pushed out of their stock.

The value a super-early employee provides is disproportionately in the first couple years, so backweighting it is quite unfair. Even if the employee is in for the long haul, the company may find it economical to terminate before the compensation increases.
"As an aside, some companies now write in a repurchase right on vested shares at the current common price when an employee leaves. It’s fine if the company wants to offer to repurchase the shares, but it’s horrible for the company to be able to demand this."

Which companies are those (and who are their advisors/investors/etc.) so I can never work there, or with them? Seriously, fuck everything about that.
AFAIK the hostname is not encrypted when using SNI
The Y Combinator (2008)
As a remote worker from Romania, I'm also interested how do you connect a bit more directly with companies/employers.
"we have had to host it on physical tin". Is this an English English thing? In America, we would say "host on our own iron". Do other countries use different metals?
A simple story of a 19-year-old refugee from Somalia
We have all heard about the refugee crisis in media. Some stories are horrifying, some are simply heartbreaking. For the most of us “refugee crisis” is a few minutes worth of reading on social media. But for others, words “refugee crisis” represent their whole life
Note: From 2014.

Interesting discussion from original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605993
Steve Jobs was a fruitarian for a while iirc and he died from pancreatic cancer. I wonder if all the fruit juices he drank had something to do with him getting cancer of the organ that creates a hormone to control blood sugar.
You have to look at the 0.2% in relation to the salary that they offer. And, many companies do allow you to negotiate the salary vs options trade-off.
The article is mostly about the backlash, which is not pretty either.

Historically, internet users were young, educated, and urban (or old, and working in a research lab, tech company, or university) - probably mostly Democrats in the US.

Over the last few years (as you now need the internet to do banking and pretty much anything else) it's now roughly equalised. It wasn't that long ago that people were shocked that "Mom" was on Facebook. In 2010-2013, the conservative networks (news sites, social network cliques, forums, etc.) really started to form. As an example, Twitchy (a fairly popular conservative "news" site made up of embedded tweets and commentary) was founded in 2012.

There's always been Libertarian and right-wing internet users, but now it's reached the same fever pitch as the left-wing outrage machine. It's no longer just Libertarians talking about how the government is the source of all evil, or an alt-right conspiracy theorist, it's that Jane Sixpack can now access the internet just as easily as a college kid.

I suspect the bulk of people on the internet used to think the outrage machine was a bunch of well-meaning idiots. But when it's the extreme Republicans (who were previously a tiny minority on the internet) pulling the same shit, it starts to be obvious why this is a problem.
I lost any confidence I had in the author when I saw that line.
That can't be true, right?
Not a "trade union"; a "professional association," like the AMA or ADA.
>Gas prices are relatively high compared to the price of oil.

There are many costs associated with the use of gasoline, and the price of oil itself is a small portion of that. By this same simplification, the cost of a loaf of bread ($2.50 for 1.25 lbs) is relatively high compared to the price of wheat ($4.77 for 60lbs). But we know that there are many hidden costs to get us from wheat to bread. Add to our gasoline usage the external effects of Co2, safety, and the influence on the housing architecture -- the price of oil doesn't seem to be a particularly accurate measure of true cost.

>You are ignoring both state taxes

I ignored state tax hikes on fuel because they haven't haven't been particularly active.

• Twenty states have gone a decade or more without an increase in their gas tax rate.

• Fifteen states have gone two decades or more without a gas tax increase.

• Among the thirty-one states levying a “fixed-rate” gas tax, the average length of time since the last gas tax increase is sixteen years. [0]

>and state expenditures on roads.

State expenditure on roads is precisely what I'm attempting to draw attention to -- the states don't make enough in gas taxes, they have to spend from their general budgets and raise bonds. Several states have now reached the point where the cost of servicing debt for past projects now soaks up nearly all current revenues from gasoline taxes.[1]

>A federal gas tax is a regressive tax on urban poor to pay for rural highways.

Absolutely it is. But subsidizing the urban poor's use of cars doesn't help their situation either -- it just leads to more roads and less investment in public transportation. Public transportation is more efficient and benefits the poor and middle class, and makes roads less congested and safer for people who can afford to drive.

Additionally, mandated parking takes up valuable real estate in urban areas, driving up the cost of living. This negatives effects the working poor. [2]

>States like California take more money in on gas taxes than they spend on roads, so force states to maintain roads instead of funneling the money through Washington DC.

Current revenue from California's 42.35-cent gas tax covers only a fraction of the state's annual highway repair needs. This is why the Senate panel passed a recommendation for a 12.5 cent tax hike [3]

[0]http://www.itep.org/pdf/gastaxincreases0515.pdf

[1]http://www.uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Who%20Pays%20... [PDF page 9]

[2]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/driving-...

[3]http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_28668276/senate-pan...
And by co-incidence, I was ranting about the same thing on Twitter https://twitter.com/HashNuke/status/670118075841187841

0.1% is hardly anything to make it worth a pay cut to take risks.
money no object then? Of course not. Safe harbour is a huge problem in EU AWS breaking the rules. The G could find itself in a sticky regulation mess when people start suing for data breeches.
Ultimate success story with forex :The door of freedom
I have had success doing this years ago with just a normal Monopoly or Risk PC game and the Logitech mouse app (though you have to make sure there are no bad actors and that it's turn based as there can be obvious problems with multiple input devices).
Yes. But it's also true.
Oxygen absorbing material may allow us to breathe underwater
This is why I have mixed feelings about the Liberal party.

I voted for them because I agree with their platform in principle (i.e. invest in infrastructure, take global warming seriously, help the middle class prosper), but between this and reverting of the TFSA contribution limits, their actual policies makes me a bit nervous about their definition of middle class. What definition of middle class consists of people who can't benefit from being able to save and invest 4.5k more per year or from working at a startup with low pay in hopes for a better quality of life down the line from equities?
If you just want something to manage your game library, you can use my project, Start9.io (http://start9.io). We currently support GB, GBC & GBA games, and I plan to add SNES support as soon as I can spare some time.

As for the emularity project, I can only advise you to use my Virtjs devices* in order to give modularity to your users at virtually no cost.

The Emscripten SDL implementation is nice, but not easy enough to interact with when it comes to an actual project rather than a proof of concept. Good luck!

* https://github.com/arcanis/virtjs
A Brief History of Skype on Windows Phone and Win8.1-Win10
Why options at all? At startup valuations is the cost that great?

According to the Buffett worldview (I think) Actual shares align shareholders interests, unlike option grants, in later stage companies.

To my mind options are a free and usually worthless offer. But actual shares have a value and significance, not for their monetary worth, but the actual ownership.

I must admit I am hazy on the details of options - but then as I am a profile of typical early employee perhaps that's also the point