skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Low point was probably around my second year of college when I realized I wanted to be in a different major and failed or dropped almost all of my classes. Applied to a different program at my school and got rejected because of the previous semesters failure. Luckily I had already begun taking all the CS101 coursework and aced everything that semester, reapplied and got in the second time.

Got an internship some time after that. I didn't have the greatest GPA, and had to drop a few classes. I'm not the greatest student for a formal education, but I'm genuinely interested in a lot of stuff and pretty good at self-educating things that matter to me. Performed good enough on the job to get a full-time position without an interview.

From there I went into business with a close friend doing agency work. We eventually went through a tough time business wise and got acqui-hired by a larger agency.

Second low point was around then when our business hinged on getting one big client. We pitched the business and didn't end up getting it. Luckily we were already in talks with the agency that acqui-hired us, so we used that as a fallback. It was a good fallback for us, the pay is good, but it isn't a startup :-)
Now you just need to be able to SSH into the server running the game itself...
"pregnant woman’s data is worth fifteen times"

The reason for this is obvious if you've ever budgeted for a new baby in the house.
The MOD-t from New Matter sells for $400. I've not used it myself, but saw it at the Maker Faire in NYC:
https://store.newmatter.com/#!/mod-t-3d-printer
29 y/o. Did well in high school, didn't do to well in my school's comp sci program (only minored).

At work, adopted a policy to always try to own more things and make things easier for others (particularly those above me) without becoming a silo for information. Write everything down, make it accessible, and give people status updates (which include any accomplishments) before they ever need to ask for them. Then, just get to work, and own things as much as possible. Because of this, I was able to show ownership above my given position for every single job, which really helped when the next opportunity came along. Additionally, always be learning / focused on continuous improvement. If you can constantly be thinking about ways to chart a path forward and suggesting those things when they make sense, you work to make everyone's life easier.

You also have to know your market and not be afraid to leave whenever the writing is on the wall or when you feel your ownership is limited. Leaving for those reasons rarely leads to hard feelings; if you leave because you want better ownership in helping your company but aren't granted it, and have a track record of success, usually people don't want to see you go and you'll leave on good terms.

With this outlook, I went from a college grad in 2009 making 45k/year, and 6 years later I'm about to lead a team at 185k/year with a 40 hour work week (and paid overtime, somehow). Which reminds me: also, be grateful -- we work in an industry that gives us a ton of opportunity.

Ownership, proactive communication, continuous improvement, and knowing your market/value.
true, I was too fast but the mention in the article feels more like a side benefit, from what I heard it's one of the core features, here the snippet:

"They also can record when you had sex (Clue’s icon for protected sex is a man wearing a tie) or remind you to pack tampons"
At least medically speaking, yes, the term "defecation" is used exclusively to refer to "number two":

> Defecation is the final act of digestion, by which organisms eliminate solid, semisolid, and/or liquid waste material from the digestive tract via the anus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defecation
And what is that point? More roads mean less living area which means more roads to get out to where there is living area. A poorly designed response to a problem makes the problem even worse.
There are better ways of dealing with pent up demand for movement than to build more roads. Ones that are more efficient of resources, that are better for the environment and that provide a better quality of life for everyone.
And it continues today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10612382

We don't get this stuff back.
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Similarly, orchestra musicians will stomp their feet instead of clapping, since it is difficult to clap without dropping your instrument.
11 Years of Cassini Saturn Photos
I was emailing any technical contact I could find at all the interesting companies in my city. I was following up all these emails with phone calls when I could get a number.

I found a blog article interviewing one of the researchers (call him Bob) at "Company A".

I sent this email that eventually led to my job:

Hello Bob,

I've been researching [Company A] and came across this article from [BLOG SITE] that featured some of your work. I'm quite impressed with your assessment of the need for better data analysis tools in the [AREA OF RESEARCH], and the work you get to do in that area interests me. I found from your linkedin profile that part of your current research with the Company A Research Group is on [technical area I talk about below].

My recent PhD work at [University] involved a number of overlaps with your current work, both in technology ([short example]) and modeling physical processes ([short example]).

I am now looking for industry jobs in [City]. The Company A Research Group may be a good fit, but first I would like to learn more about what you do. Can you meet for coffee to discuss?

Best regards,
-[my name]

He responded and asked for a resume. After further conversations, it turned out they didn't have room in their group (headcount freeze in their department) but we found another group at the company that needed someone with my skills. I was then "the guy Bob knows" during the interviews (which helped) and landed the job.
It's nice if you are ok with being tied in to AWS, but I generally recommend my clients to stay away from AWS because of the massive cost premium. The cases where they've ignored that, I've generally been able to bill thousands to move them off AWS later when they've realised how much they're spending.

I certainly would never choose to build on top of another layer that's AWS dependent - if I'm first going to layer something on top of AWS, I'd use it as an opportunity reduce AWS dependency for the near inevitable moment when I'm asked how to move somewhere cheaper.
Greek does have the letter Ζ, which is the capital Greek zeta. It is written just like the Latin capital Z.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta
Helpful Apps for Ubuntu Including an Efficient Time Tracker for Linux
I still don't see why "Adding 10 percent more road capacity leads to 3-6 percent more vehicle miles in the near term and 6-10 percent more over many years" is being interpreted as "ending up with the same amount of congestion".

If public transit or bike lanes would provide a better benefit for the same cost, then I would support them. But that's a separate and complicated discussion. Instead, this article seems designed to mislead people into thinking that expanding roads has literally no benefit, when obviously it does even if congestion remained the same (which it doesn't).

Maybe I'm too cynical...
Have you ever been on a guided tour? I know that museums shouldn't rely on guided tours to be interesting, but for those museums that fail to capture a wider audience, guided tours can be a godsend.

When I went to the National Cathedral, we didn't get nor want a guided tour. The architecture was enough to keep us interested. There were enough tours happening concurrently that we could weave about the cathedral at our own pace while still getting most of the tour experience. For people without an inherent interest in the cathedral or its architecture, the tours sounded great. Perhaps the tours would be helpful for potentially interesting museums with awfully boring experiences.
It's only a matter of time before Italian Falcons unionize and start complaining about American Falcons coming in here and taking all their jobs...
M-Pesa is part of what lets GiveDirectly transfer money to poor Kenyans so efficiently: http://www.givewell.org/International/top-charities/give-dir...
thank you for the video link. just bought his recent book
The name is inspired by stud (Scalable TLS Unwrapping Daemon), another TLS termination server with a cool acronym.
You are free to correct me if I'm wrong, but in reading this I can't imagine you have kids.

As someone who does, let me affirm that children absolutely get as much out of gallery visits as adults do. It isn't a perfect overlay in subject matter, but they learn as much as you or I. At pre-adult ages, exposure is as critical as understanding, which will evolve only via experience.
God says...
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I believe that I'm responsible for that. Jamie Turner asked me to review bump's STUD, which was at that point the "Scalable TLS something daemon"; I suggested to him that the "something" could be "unwrapping" and would both make sense and make the acronym work.

You'd have to ask Jamie to be sure, though. It's entirely possible that someone else suggested this too.
The leap is a trojan horse for respect
I like that page, and also the Non-Libertarian FAQ[1] linked on it, which saves me summing up my feelings on the topic.

I'd still love a good dissenting take on it. The one linked near the bottom is awful.

[1] http://raikoth.net/libertarian.html

[EDIT] Now includes the link!
I too think it's a fair point; Perl tends to have too many syntactical features that take up processing power in the brain: JavaScript style foo.bar.baz is just lower overhead than $foo->{bar}{baz} or $foo->{bar}->{baz} or $$foo{bar}{baz} or if foo is a hash variable, $foo{bar}{baz} or variants. The brain has to filter out whether the first variable holds a reference or is a hash variable, then has two different dereference syntaxes to choose from (ok JavaScript has two variants, too), then later '->' are optional. You get used to it, but it still draws some attention away from the more interesting parts of a program.

In a way my project improves a bit over this, since you're often not using Perl base data structures directly anymore; OTOH of course that means writing out a function or method call, and while this is more universal (which I like) it also uses more space to type. Also, sigils are getting more pointless when using libraries (I usually don't use % and @ anymore, always references, the good part of which is that this is giving a bit more consistency).
The Internet could be better off if the AOL-ian masses started believing "Facebook is the Internet." Let them all move over there--a Reverse Eternal September [1]! It would be even better if all the crap moved over to Facebook with them. All the spam, trolls, ads, tracking, malware, etc. could follow the masses, leaving the rest of us in peace.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
More details about the development of this film can be found in the book "The Animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams, animation director in this film.
You can mark ingredients for search in the crafting menu (press 'T' on the pc version I think) and any item that has those ingredients will have a spyglass next to the item name when you look at the item. I have gears, springs, adhesive, and aluminum all marked.

I think they tried to force you to learn how to use this system when you need a circuit board to build a sentry for your settlement and the closest one is in the red rocket in a phone. I just got mad and used the internet. It wasn't until about 20 hours into the game when I wanted to start building mods for the guns that I noticed it.
The Maker Select[0] is also available for $350.

[0] https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=107&cp_id=10724&cs_id...
> "Reality has even shown that many people irrationally overestimate how much they can squeeze from you"

Please explain this further.
We make 4-digit PIN more secure than complex passwords (PaaS)
Hi Job, how much data can users store on GitLab.com? There don't seem to be any settings regarding LFS on the project/group setting pages.
At least it sounds as if there's still hope.

I quite liked their statement:

“I am sorry that I predicted such early shipping dates in the campaign. I was completely naive about the shipping dates, and the amount of time required to really take the Peachy to v1.0. I should have done more research on how long hardware product development takes, having said that I don’t think research would have made me wise enough. I know now that getting a grip on how long R&D takes really requires one to experience it first hand. I do know one thing, I was dead wrong about our original shipping dates, and I posted those estimated dates without having the skillset to really estimate them. I’m also glad we didn’t stick to our estimated shipping dates. When you’re wrong about something its disastrous to not admit it and just stick with the original plan. If we had shipped what we had at the original shipping dates we would have disappointed everyone. The printer didn’t work that well and wasn't designed to be produced in high volume. Today, after a lot of R&D, we have something that we can’t wait to send you.”

- Rylan Grayston
Website; self-serve dashboard to be precise. We are building a Proximity Marketing solution, see: http://beaconstac.com
There's the whole elephant in the room of de jure segregation and disenfranchisement that significantly weakened the demand side's ability to engage in voluntary contracts. That's not some incidental thing to gloss over, but a clear case of crippling binary intervention.

There were plenty of land grant programs at the time, such as the Homestead Act. The state, through common law, retained eminent domain and condemnation of private land for nominally "public" purposes. There were several immigration restriction acts passed that served as a free trade barrier.

Let's not forget that the railroads which characterized the Gilded Age were kickstarted by government initiative in the form of the Pacific Railroad Acts, which ensured land and bond grants.

There were at least a dozen tariff acts passed by the time the Gilded Age was emerging, and indeed U.S. trade policy was quite protectionist back then. The U.S. have also been involved in plentiful military interventions, some overseas, others covered by the Monroe Doctrine, since the earliest days for economic and hegemonic reasons.

The federal government was weaker, but not as much as often presented. They tried wholesale embargoes as early as 1807, enacted tariffs, controlled trade (Commerce Clause and other justifications), intervened militarily frequently, and remember that the Constitution in general greatly expanded federal power relative to the prior Articles of Confederation.

As such, I'd think it disingenuous to qualify the Gilded Age as "libertarian". There wasn't really so much as a system back then, it was a country in an identity crisis trying to see what worked, and often coming to protectionist conclusions that would foreshadow what was to come (ironically, tariffs are much less of a problem in the present than back then). It was economically liberal... that was it. You can't really characterize it as anything beyond that, the circumstances were rather unique.
yeah, i read ECAA requirements and thats an accelerator for me. thanks
I've used it mostly for prototyping and gifts. I've made a photography turntable, a functional arduino robot, and 3D printed my dad's house to put in a shadow box frame as a gift.

http://jrbedard.com/printing
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I dunno. TITTS seems pretty memorable to me
not surprised :)
I did. I was one of the youngest people in the company (250+ person company) and worked in the R&D department. There were several rounds of layoffs in the year I worked there and I survived them all and was given a raise.

I simply found ME to be too slow on multiple dimensions.
Looks interesting; thanks!
>They are only “mostly alike” if you carefully cherry-pick the ways in which you count similarity, while handwaving over the number and importance of the ways in which they are different.

They are very alike if you look at all the other bodily activities and then rank them based on how different they are.

Is 1mm a short distance or a huge distance? Without knowing the scale, you can't say if a 1mm difference is important or rounding error. 10000mm and 10001mm is not a big difference. .001mm and 1.001mm is a big difference. But both are only the difference of 1mm.

In the same way, these bodily functions are different, but their differences are not great compared to the differences between these and other bodily functions. Urination is one of the only things I can think is closer... and it also has a lot of stigma around it.
41 years old now. Failed out of a top-ten college. Went to work assembling trophies for minimum wage. Lived in a shitty apartment and hung out with people going nowhere. Felt doomed. Got interested in Linux (early 94). Took a job as tech support at local ISP. Accepted back into same top-ten school. Dropped out a year later. Moved to SFBA and took low-wage job as a junior sysadmin with early cable ISP startup. Left after six months and moved back home. Built successful e-commerce startup around my family's brick-and-mortar business (1995). Moved to Utah to ski and work for another startup. Then LA, Boston, and DC for more startup stints as a sysadmin. Back to college to finish degree. Moved to Utah again to do sysadmin work for backcountry.com. Later became manager over the systems, network, and desktop support teams. Moved back home to work for Rackspace. Stayed there six years. Got married. Commissioned in the Army Reserve and spent six months away doing initial training. Had two kids. Moved to WA.

Currently Director of Technical Operations for a SFO-based SaaS company. I have an office here in Washington state. I've been here two years. Make great money. Love my job tremendously. Every day seems amazing that I get paid this well to do what I love. Extremely grateful.

Bottom line: I've seen some shit and some hard times. Never give up. Keep working hard and it will get better.
The Future of Money (M-Pesa)
They are mandated 24 hours of instruction per year.

As a foster parent in Ohio, I was required to attend 40 hours of continuing education per year. 24 doesn't seem like much.
The preview functionality is pretty mind blowing!
Well it was my favourite movie as a kid, so it was just a knee-jerk reaction
FanDuel said in a statement: “In any nascent, disruptive industry, important questions are often raised about how the industry should operate. Fantasy sports is no different, and we are reviewing our policies and practices to ensure consumers have a positive experience on our site.”

This statement, and the attitude motivating it, is extremely irksome. If your disruption is plowing VC money into user acquisition and legal fees, while you skirt (or break) existing regulations and exploit your users and employees (oh sorry I meant independent contractors), I want no part of it.
Thanks; I like Mailchimp's, but we can't use it for commercial use due to their license.
Played with programming from age 7 to 17 (basic, php, java). Went to a decent public university (blessed with a full scholarship), not very motivated, got a BA in creative writing, 3.1 GPA, but squeezed in two CS classes during that time. Later went back very motivated to same university for BS in CS, 3.9 GPA, completed in 4 semesters (consecutive, including a summer term), no scholarship, total tuition cost ~$28K. Worked out really well for me - definitely got my value for the 18 months and $28K to get CS degree - learned a ton. Been working in start ups ever since. I wish more universities were welcoming of students to return like mine was, I am super grateful for the second chance. Sharing my story as a counterpoint to the overwhelming cynicism about universities in the United States. I am 29 now.
I'm on the East Coast, mainly Boston. And I was between 26 and 27 when I got the "achievement unlocked"... That is not to say it can't be achieved much younger, but then again, it's never too late.
Only level 12 by November 20th? The desire to play must not have been that strong. He already got side tracked with something that isn't getting him any more loot.
Ghana
please i need more news about your systems
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wouldn't want to be this guys neighbour...
OK... but so what? If you're doing a general interest article on debates in linguistics in the last 10 years, you're going to end up covering Everett's work and its implications for Chomsky's theory du jour. This article's discussion of Everett and recursion was pretty brief, overall.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/03/28/poisonous...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004592.h...
It has all the unreasonable stigmas of bodily functions and some of the unreasonable stigmas around sex and the much of the unreasonable stigma around puberty.
Quantum entanglement at ambient conditions
fwiw I got reports of inconsistent/unreproducible performance issues when I was working on a webaudio synth project last year. Never figured if it was down to audio hardware or what but I have seen a couple upgrades of Chrome that performed weird, tho webMIDI API was still shifting a bit
Jimmy Wales: All major internet traffic is going to be encrypted very, very soon
Ah, a classic book indeed. I second the recommendation - even if you aren't that interested in animation, it helps you see movement with a new perspective.
PAYDAY 2: An update and an apology
Lambda Architecture: A state-of-the-art (2014)
Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA
I have an app idea now. There should be a cycle tracking app for men. It could have black leather and chrome theming to make it very, very masculine; perhaps there could be big trucks or motorcycles as metaphors in the controls somehow.

And it would track periods using the same basic time series regression methods as the girly ones. Only instead of predicting when your period is coming, it will predict those three days a month when you need to tread very lightly around your wife or girlfriend to avoid emotional trauma and fighting. Maybe I'll monetize it with affiliate links to chocolate vendors or florists a couple days before the target date. There could be an automatic scheduling of a nice thoughtful present via Amazon Prime and calendering of a night out with the boys for those days when it's a little dangerous to be at home.

Yup. I'm going to have the investors lining up.