skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's pretty funny that on the one hand, I'm saying "conventions make it necessary to eventually have to read the code", and on the other hand, I'm saying "read these 200 lines of code to understand how to use this static site generator".

That being said, for either Jekyll or Hugo, I've had to read >>200LOC in order to really understand a problem. :)
I wasn't talking about gentrified/fancy neighborhoods. I agree with you there.

I was talking about the latter where it's definitely possible to find "authentic" stuff.
And that's assuming you can't exploit it by controlling an upstream/authoritative nameserver or via DNS poisoning.
It is off-topic, yes. For me personally it was very valuable however since I’m in the market for a backup application, and I will definitely take Veratyr’s comment into consideration when choosing between the available offerings.
Permafrost melting

Annual Arctic ice cap melt increasing.

Bird migration ranges moving poleward, migration times moving winterward.

Animal and plant range moving poleward and upward.

Do you have an explanation for these facts other than climate change aka global warming? If not STFU. If you do, I'd love to hear it.
This seems really low in an environment where the consequences of firing are minimal in terms of legal and financial cost (even for the employee, who can probably quickly find another job in this industry). Is this rate much lower for programmers than for other functions? Do you think that's because programmers tend to be nice people and firing someone is highly confrontational?
Downvoting to signal disagreement is allowed, and you can't stop it in practical terms anyway, so accepting that it is a thing is pretty useful.
That was really faster then I thought. It was just bearly in the introduction stage before pulling the plug.

Might Ubuntu Phone and others see the same fate? I really REALLY wanted Nokia to really given us a good Linux phone but those days were over due to poor management.
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Yes, but for a volumetric attack, it doesn't matter if you know the source IPs. It just fills your pipes until legitimate traffic can't get through. (This wasn't a volumetric attack though, which is why it would have helped.)
You forgot the part where, for every $100k you earn, a vacation day that you spend interviewing costs you $240 after taxes because you don't get that paid out when you quit. Or get to use it vacationing, which I value rather higher than $240/$100k since I get so few of those days.

So it's an expensive, stressful, crappy experience. Weird I don't want to do it speculatively, eh?
Chromebooks, and thus presumably the Pixel C, ship a fully functional ssh client. It is therefore easy to connect to a linux box and do some development from the console.

I own a raspberry Pi to which I connect from my chromebook. I think it's a great combo. I'd totally buy a Pixel C but that would be unreasonable of me considering I bought my chromebook only few months ago.
>almost entirely vapour

I work for an M2M company whose been around for 25 years now, in some form or another. M2M is the backbone of IoT and while it isn't as glamorous, it's a large space. Industrial gases, especially helium, are very lucrative right now.
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I hope they can figure out something to keep them afloat. Mozilla seems directionless lately.
I've given more thought to it, than is likely deserved. Most of the time, I don't say anything about it. There have only been a handful of times where I was even motivated to express an opinion in the past.

I didn't want to dig into this specific case, as it seems to relate to gamergate, which is a lot of bad acting on all sides, especially those making physical threats of violence, and doxing people. Regardless of the merits of any underlying philosophy, such behavior is indefensible.

I'm not really right-wing, though do lean that way on a few specific issues. I'm very much of a pragmatic libertarian mindset. I tend to disagree with many on the left and right-wing viewpoints simultaneously. Even on the same issue.

It's not just a right wing talking point to say that there's been a lot of over-reaction to a great many things, and some of the actions coming out of our universities currently is pretty backwards. People have every right to be offended by things... they do not have a right to not be offended by anything. One's privilege ends where another's rights begin.

My intent was not to derail conversation into a spew of he-said/she-said or even to deteriorate into hyperbole. I was vague because in this case, there's merit. I was only mentioning that in a lot of cases there is not.
i don't get the W vs Obama split screen. The voice was changed slightly to sound like neither individuals... The Obama 3D face fails horribly when it tried to snicker a little bit... This is slightly better than FallOut 4 quality facial animation.
Well sorry to be crude, but it just signals that you're all talk. You say you're a great programmer, and could learn to program in Ruby in a few days, yet in 10 years you've never done it, even though you are apparently applying for jobs that are interested in that skill.

If you can't even bother with learning the language that's requested in the advert in a few days, why should a hiring manager be interested in you?

I'm also in my late twenties, and have been programming for money for over 10 years and I also like to brag about how I'm a great programmer and am fluent in over a dozen programming languages, but you bet that if I'd go for a job that requests Node.JS experience (I wouldn't), I'd brush up on my Node.JS and make sure my resume lists it as a core competency. You can't just go around saying you're a great programmer and expect people to believe it from ten years of Java experience.
Hey Nathan,

Thanks for the straight-forward feedback, I agree 110%.

The exact opposite is true, so it looks like we need to clear up our copy and value proposition.

The goal is to close the "skills gap" that is plaguing the workplace today. Students of all ages, education levels, and professional backgrounds can learn professional skills that are in demand.

Employers can post a job listing, and select relevant skills or courses from our curriculum library (or create their own courses) as perquisites for applicants. Thus, your job opening only receives highly-qualified applicants that have completed training BEFORE being hired.

Does that clear things up or do you still have questions?

Warm Regards,
Erik Arrabal
Founder | Wunderbal
it was meant as a bit of a joke but honestly I was unaware of the existence of Mozilla phones
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You don't need to subsample chroma in JPEG. I often disable it (use 4:4:4 sampling) if there is high color contrast detail. Say a tree with red fruit, marketplace, kid's toys, etc.
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They seldom use OTR, I think infraud (in fraud we trust) still uses a group server in Azerbaijan to cleartext chat on none of these guys really care, some of the boards still use cloudflare.
>Most likely because if you are doing ML and do not have a PhD (or previous experience), you are just looking at calling a library function that you do not understand.

I'm assuming that's your interpretation of the industry mindset, and not a view you personally hold.

IMO it's a naive assumption, and it would be trivial to test for it in an interview.

I have an interest in ML for a specific domain, no PhD, and it wouldn't cross my mind to try to use it as a set of shrink-wrapped library functions.
When we use a computer programming language, we are directing an abstract machine to interpret and manipulate data to get a result that we want. We have all the knowledge we need about the machine because we conceived and designed it ourselves.

DNA is like a programming language for a biological computer, a living cell. However, we don't know nearly everything there is to know about a living cell. We can't predict its mechanisms. There is no debugger. The compiler didn't come with an instruction manual. The code bootstraps itself into its own machine and runs in an environment we can't predict. And the syntax has been obfuscated and optimized by a genetic algorithm that's been running in parallel on quintillions of cores for a billion years.

Because the code executes on an unknown machine in an unpredictable physical environment, many features we might expect to see in a programming language are missing. This might be what he meant by "shallow".
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Thing is that Android apps, when properly made, should be able to go from phone to tablet without existing in different versions.

That at least was the idea back when they introduced the Fragments framework. there they took the existing activities concept and turned them into panes in a larger UI. Sadly the world quickly turned that into that "hamburger" bar.

Nor did it help that Apple, via the iPad launch, had gotten app devs to think about phones and tablets are separate spheres. Thus for a while there was "HD" apps popping up in the Play store that had the whole Fragments thing going, right alongside existing phone apps.

And then Google kinda abandoned the tablet world for a while, instead trying to pitch ChromeOS and Chromebooks as a corporate platform.

That didn't catch on so now they seem to be returning to Android tablets after doing some work on various things like multiple user accounts, and Android for Work that allows someone to have one app state for work and one for personal use on the same device.
About the security content of iOS 9.2
The botnet would still be able to perform an attack of the same size. And with many validation schemes it would still be able to randomize the last octet or two, avoiding direct identification of compromised computers.
Firefox appeared at a time when there was huge potential being stifled by a stagnant monopoly in the space, and people were desperate for something good. It filled a real need, and people loved it.

FirefoxOS appeared at a time when there was huge potential being actively being pushed forward and innovated on by the two largest tech companies in the space, and people already had two great options to choose from. It filled no real need, and nobody wanted it.

For Mozilla to stay alive, they need to pick a space that is currently desperately needed but being ignored by large corporations and the government: privacy and identity. Mozilla could be the champion of the Snowden era, yet instead they're distracting themselves with IoT, VR and other shiny new toys.

(And yes, I realize that users don't care about privacy. But nobody cared about web standards, either: it's all about packaging. That's Mozilla's strength.)

Mozilla is a non-profit with a mission (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/). It's time they start acting like one again.
> What do you mean by non-linear?

I mean in the mathematical sense [1], if modifying a piece of DNA can still produce unpredictable results then I wouldn't really feel we should claim that we understand how the whole process works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system
IoT is better for R&D now, because its going to happen (if not through a nice clean adoption but rather through sheer force of will).

Mobile was already mature with a well entrenched duopoly when FFOS began. IoT is still up for grabs.
Clickbait would be "You'll never believe which character ruined Sesame Street" or "10 reasons we hate Elmo". This is more of a "I have a thesis, it's not simple enough for a headline, but here's what the article is about" type of headline.
Requiring programming in off-hours is pretty nuts, but in general if you're in a huge-stability big-corp programming job you're not going to be changing tools often and that will have consequences when you want to be hired at a startup.
Don't forget to make sure your minimal skills section includes at least one language or framework that requires a Mac to use.
> Worse, even if Google fixes the problems in the OS, there are (still!) virtually no 3rd-party apps that support tablet Android natively; they're all just blown-up phone apps. Not only does that ruin the experience but-- like Microsoft and their stalled phone ambitions-- it's not a problem Google can fix no matter how good their developers are.

Actually, with sufficient number of sufficient-quality developers, its a problem Google can solve fairly directly, by developing their own, compelling, Android tablet apps.

OTOH, I think that this is a problem that is overstated; Sure, there's lost of Android apps that are just "blown up" phone apps, but there's a lot of apps where there's no compelling need for something more, and "blown up" to tablet size improves interaction when you have a tablet available.

Its also not really like like Microsoft's problem.
It is very hard to put yourself in position of very young child and issue judgement on what toddlers would like.
I couldn't stand Teletubies, I still can't. But young kids are fascinated and my late grandma loved them too. Who am I to judge.
Google employees (although I have to imagine even they would be very frustrated with an Android tablet right now).
The Shockley-Queisser limit should not be treated as the pillars of Hercules. Multi-junction and next generation systems hold great promise.
I interview with whomever actually responds to me. :|
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I believe that is the real issue. I didn't want to include it in the parent to keep it clear so I wrote it below.
Sad, but properly to be expected.
Possibly testing or demonstrating a botnet. I doubt the goal was to actually bring down the DNS root servers. That's been tried before and it's never even made a blip - the system is massively over-provisioned, for good reason.
You might find the first answer interesting here: http://dsp.stackexchange.com/questions/7833/how-to-mimic-cop...

Looks like there's some interesting research on Voice Conversion out there, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment on how close we are to seeing it as an actual product. This pdf (from 10 years ago) seems interesting, though. Hmmm: http://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/papers/thesis_helenca.pdf
Google could eventually use this information to determine your eligibility for a home loan. They have already dipped their toes in this area [1]. With all this data, we have to ensure that it is used fairly (or not at all). There is enough concern about digital redlining that a 2014 report to the white house reports on this [2]. As we know machine learning is quite capable inferring sensitive attributes [3].

This inference doesn't even need to be intentional, machine learning is capable of accidentally picking up on latent variables. Even if your neighborhood (the original redlining) isn't a feature in the original variable, it could be inferred from the other variables.

TL;DR: Your surfing behavior could be used to deny you a home loan one day.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/23/google-launches-mortgage-sh...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/big_data...

[3] http://www.pnas.org/content/110/15/5802.abstract
Looks like it is up for me in NJ.
I know what you mean.

As an American who knew next to nothing about Turkey before ~2000, it seems like Turkey is in an "Uncanny Valley" in the American mind. The results of the reform/revolution era (1920's and 30's) are astounding, and I think that the Turkish Republic doesn't get nearly the credit it deserves.

It's one of those "truth is stranger than fiction" things. Usually societies that get to the point of the Ottoman Empire just collapse. That when the Empire fell, the Turks took a such a hard look at their society, decided it wasn't working, and radically changed it overnight, is a fascinating story that isn't really known here.

Oh, and it's a lovely place to vacation, too. ;-)
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Come to the Uk, 20 days is minimum, 25 is fairly common, plus 8 bank holidays. Sick days are extra, not taken out of holiday.

Usual disclaimers about not every company etc.
WhatsApp killed the email.
Outside of hacker news, I haven't heard of Firefox OS even once. They had no marketing to speak of, and you have to complete HARD on marketing to get into that market.

"If you build it they will come" isn't a valid benchmark when there's already two options with massive market share that consumers are more or less happy with.

(Since it's talked about in some replies, I live in the US).
The parent could be stating that late twenties is the average age of startup founders, not that that they are in their late twenties themselves.

I do agree with you that someone who claims to pick up new languages in a week should already have picked up a few languages. The grandparent says they only do the _majority_ of their programming in Java, so perhaps they have that covered. I'd love to know what the other languages they've chosen are, and their dissimilarity to Java.

I don't know how to evaluate their claim that they're a really_good programmer, given that it's a throwaway account. But then, given the data of this article, I guess no one does.
The premise of a countable number of languages should tip off the reader that this is mostly for entertainment value; Africa appears to be entirely missing (bad data source?). I like the visualization though, in that it relates nation-states to linguistic identity. It shows a generally strong correspondence between these two variables, with some outliers, generally related to colonial history: people in India speak many languages; Spanish is spoken by people in many nations.
> Chromebooks, and thus presumably the Pixel C, ship a fully functional ssh client.

The Pixel C is an Android tablet, not a Chromebook (unlike the Chromebook Pixel which is, as the name suggests, a Chromebook.)
Since they started flogging Material the tablet-friendliness of Google apps has gone to crap.

Take the latest iterations of the Play store for instance. A while back they introduced a semi-floating search bar on the front view, that has the "hamburger" button integrated. Except that if you put a tablet into landscape, that bare stays fixed width, so now the burger button is suddenly not in the top right corner.

And i think Hangouts produce a single column down the middle with massive whitespaces on either side.

Edit: Thinking about it i wonder if this device is Google's attempt at dogfooding tablet development. Right now it seems that most of their apps are developed firstly for Apple devices.
With any vacation allocation, there are really two numbers to think about: 1) the technical number of PTO days you have been given; 2) the number of PTO days you actually feel at liberty to take. Often, though not always, #2 < #1. When this is the case, employees will "bank" PTO days and get paid for them.

As a response, many companies are switching to "unlimited" plans. These look good to the uninitiated. But the real impetus for an "unlimited" plan is that it frees the company from having to guarantee -- or pay out for -- a minimum number of days for each employee. It's not really about lifting the ceiling; it's about lowering the floor.

I'm sure there are companies out there who really do have, and make every effort to honor, "unlimited" vacation plans. But I believe these companies are the exception to the rule.
Well, this comes as a huge surprise to no one.
age-ism for somebody in the late twenties? That sounds, ... dunno, exaggerated or even ridiculous.

I'd expected age-ism to start at the 50s or maybe 40s, but then I'm not in Silicon Valley either :-)
Not completely random, but by my estimation being self-taught fully 40-60% of engineering organizations (trending higher as they get bigger) care much more deeply about academic CS than they do about whether you're able to ship a product. Those companies are looking for people who fit a mold (a generalized interface) so they can scale their teams out. Startups and smaller companies tend to value people who are flexible and can learn new things very quickly and are less likely to test you on alg analysis and are much more likely to throw you an unfamiliar problem and see how you solve it.
The amount of hypocrisy is simply baffling.

> European officials hope the removal of online barriers could add tens of billions of dollars to the region’s annual gross domestic product over the next decade.

hmm... so what are those barriers? what will change?

> Some of the European proposals are expected to target American companies. Changes to Europe’s complicated copyright rules could force Google and other news aggregators to pay European publishers to use their online content. The Brussels policy makers are also likely to push for legislation to regulate online messaging services like WhatsApp... And the officials are also expected to announce new investigations into how American-owned online platforms like Uber, the ride-booking service, and Airbnb, the lodging website, operate in the region. Those inquiries might eventually lead to legislation aimed at helping European companies compete on a level playing field with their much-larger American competitors in the so-called sharing economy.

So instead of removing barriers and encouraging growth inside Europe, let's put barriers to US companies, to "level the playing field".

Any word about VATMOSS? I'd like to see a young (or even not so young) startup trying to figure out this mess of charging different tax rates across 28 different countries. Not just charging, but keeping records with location info with 2 matching forms of evidence for 10 years. Those barriers also apply to non-EU companies by the way, but no sane small-company outside the EU is really going to bother. How is that for a level-playing field?

Or what about the cookie law? Yup. Let's put a big warning sign on every site accessed in the EU. This will remove the barriers for sure.

And that's even before we talk about localization into dozens of languages, or local / tax-specific regulations...

... and the examples on this article are also perplexing. Mobile phone roaming charges? (isn't this old news?) access to Netflix? Is this what's going to make the EU compete on a level playing field with the US?

I usually avoid rants, but this article really make me lose hope of building a small business in the EU.
Sad thing being that Android had that, and then it was taken away (my personal suspicion there is that it was done as part of an agreement with big media about content in the Play store).
It's not "completely random". It's a process biased toward false negatives with some variance.

I've managed to land some really stellar opportunities, and I've bombed several opportunities that are better, worse, and on par with my experience. Please get lucky and unlucky. The truth is, it's hard to tell which category you belong to.

It's best to just try your best and try not to get discouraged. Someone will notice if you're talented, eventually.
Somewhere, right now, someone is reading this and thinking to themselves about how we've got to stop code slavery and protect the children from swear words in dpkg.

PC has gone too far
I must say I'm not entirely surprised, though part of me wished they had gone through with it, would of been interesting to have more than just 2 options for a phone. I am reminded of PalmOS though for some reason, similar project if I remember correctly.
That would be true if you could show that candidate "types" are actually meaningful distinctions and not just the founder's first impression based on limited data. I think that's a stretch.
FirefoxOS was a perfect fit for me on the paper but I never got how to buy one here in France. I'm stucked with Android and I don't like it.