skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I just hate the concept that there exists such a stratification, such as the "front end" developer.

I disagree, and think this industry needs more stratification.

I started out as an electrical engineer. Unless you hare hiring new grads, you do not hire an "electrical engineer", you hire a "power engineer", "analog engineer", "ASIC engineer", "RF engineer", "digital engineer", or one of the specializations I have forgotten. They are, fundamentally, all electrical engineers. They are not, however, interchangeable. You could certainly cross-train over a period of years, but it still takes those years of experience to gain the specialization.

That stratification does not necessarily imply one specialty is better than another. Some get paid more because there are fewer of them.
We used to have MSN messenger, microsoft killed it in favor of skype. Skype has been always awful for instant messaging. I don't remember I have ever used a skype client without some annoying bug.

Beside skype has terrible ui on Windows, current version has a bug causes wrong message ordering.

On android, I have experienced all those message delivery/notification bugs and it works slow.

I don't know how the experience is like in IOS and MacOs. Maybe I should all switch to Apple to have the best experience from a microsoft product?
Regarding:

1. Nested groups should solve that in the future https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/2772

2. We're thinking about that but for now the invite other group feature in EE will have to do.
Interview with a witch who casts out viruses with magic
Tech Book Face Off: Gödel, Escher, Bach vs. The Annotated Turing
Of course the cross signed cert works!

That not the point.

The cross signature is worthless if the signed cert beneath it is self-signed.

If Identrust cross signed self signed certs, the self signed cert would be trusted too... and it would "work" in all browsers...

Coly Tarry Frap Tarts! you're daft.

Here try this:

1. Setup a domain with an MX record that points off domain and a dmarc p=reject record...

2. Try to get a cert from any CA other than Lets Encrypt without answering any emails sent to the off domain MX.

...

Then... install Lets Encrypt... bam-o! Cert heaven!

It's self-gawd-damn-fing-signed.
Time for a new dev machine – just get a NUC?
Historically, I have purchased individual components to build my development machines. I like having control over the details, and there really are that many details so it's not overwhelming. I buy quality and keep my machines for about 4 years. My plan was to build a mini-tower with a Skylake Xeon and 32GB of ECC memory. Such a system with top-tier components would run about $1500 (no video card – I don't play games). Then the Skylake NUC came out. They cost about $350. Adding two SSDs brings it up to about $800. That's about half the price. Two things I'd be giving up are a) option to add a graphics card, and b) ECC memory. The ECC is perhaps the bigger issue for me. Crashes cost time and money. My current desktop does not have ECC – and it does crash every couple of months. I leave my computer on all the time – how would a NUC fare with that? I'm curious to hear the opinions of others who are embarking on a new dev build.
Which Professions Have the Most Psychopaths? The Fewest? (2014)
As an American my impression is blue collar white working class Americans decided they'd rather give up the benefits of unionized employment in return for not having to give up the racially based pecking order.
Am I misunderstanding something, or wouldn't this just be solved if they simply used SSL for all communications?
I'm glad Basic Income was brought up. If we continue to see automation and outsourcing grow, and as a result corporate profits soar, then as a country we need to plan for the loss of a host of "traditional' jobs.
Haha. Not trying to pass it off as the next google :) I have about 20 of these kinds of side projects. Don't worry, its not my day job. I'm proud of a lot of stuff I do. I posted this to get feedback from HN, not to present my life's work. Thanks for your input though.
3 days, I call bullshit on this marketing ploy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905845
There is simply not enough 'work' any more.

Here's a thought. Why can't we as a society ensure that everyone is paid a living wage according to their need.

It may take a while, but I believe this will be the only way that we can hold this society* together.

* Deep irony here, speaking as one of 'Thatcher's children'.
>What is "success"? Is it better looking houses? More expensive cars? Fresher food?

You need to think much more basic than that: Success is having a savings account, a roof over your head in a safe stable location so the kids can stay in the same school, reliable transportation, and a job that provides enough income for all of the above.
Of course! There are two aspects to this.

First, you obviously cannot work for $5 unless you're located in a low-income country. They are putting it up for $5, because they don't know how much it costs. However, you have to be careful to make sure they are competent so you're not ending up with a client who does not value your time.

Second, getting a job for $1,000 (when maybe it's really a $1,500 job) with the possibility of future work is better than not getting that job at all, in most circumstances.
Call it what you will. I registered the domain on Jan 9. look it up. But thanks, that makes me feel pretty good :)
Disagreed.

Procrastination is letting for tomorrow what you know you should be doing today.

Technical debt is what happens when you try to do today what is due for tomorrow but you know deep down it cannot be done properly in less than 3 days. Then you deliver and you pray that none will be looking close enough to notice the difference.

What the article says is that technical debt is actually a good thing if whatever you are doing today has more than 50% chance of being thrown out of the window by the end of the month. If is better to try 20 crappy things, discard 15 and keep 5, than to do 8 good things and keep 1 or 2.

But this is only true when people take next month to fix the 5 things that were found to work in the past "sprint". The reason we all hate technical debt is because virtually no one does that.
It's great to able to articulate that, but in the real world this sort of thinking does not actually hold much weight. Launching a month early is a good thing.
I was also curious since it was so obviously a brigade with most reviews posted on the same day. It seems he angered Breitbart fans with a tweet: https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/175240732045619200
As said in other threads above, we are aware of the shortcomings of GitLab.com, but working very hard to resolve these [0].

Setting up your own instance is not hard [1], but we're also offering managed hosted instances on GitHost.io nowadays.

If you're still in the middle, you could use the one-click deploy options from providers such as Digital Ocean, Cloud 66 and AWS images [2].

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/aws/#uw2
> I personally disagree that college is the solution. Some people lack the financial stability required to excel in what is essentially a long, expensive vacation learning things that won't directly impact their earnings.

Which is why like I said, it needs to be greatly reduced or preferably free.
What tool does one use to inspect requests?
I also hate to add this to the conversation, but not everyone has the drive and inclination to do anything but bolt turning.

So when bolt turning peters out, they won't suddenly find their higher calling in advanced application and design of bolts and fasteners.

What they will do instead is hard to know, welfare, unemployment, early retirement they probably can't afford.

Maybe a foray into boutique bolt turning, charging excess for manually turned bolts. Machines don't turn bolts like they were turned in the good ol' days after all.
Just as high speed trains are lighter and less crash-worthy than slow trains, self-driving cards will evolve to be as light as reasonably possible while providing comfort. Lanes will become narrower, or allocated on demand. The extent of disruption is mostly underrated.
Most people yearn for purpose, family, and community.

I think of my grandparents and how they lived their lives. My mom's dad was a NYC Sanitation worker, among other things. They lived frugally and eventually had a small summer cottage in the country. He had an 8th grade education, because his family in Ireland couldn't afford more. Yet he taught himself calculus up to the calc 2 level. That whole cohort of grandparents, grand uncles and aunts had a healthy disrespect for wealth. They had pride in their work, family & their church.

My dad's dad was a very successful pub owner in Brookyn, who essentially lost it all when the city went to pot in the 70s and his clientele vaporized or went to Jersey. But he wasn't a bitter man, he was a guy who lit up a room and found joy in all sorts of things -- he was a bike messenger in his 60s, which to my young ears was probably the most important job on earth. Family, community and friends are values that I think about when I think of him -- a man who lived through a lot of tragedy beyond the scope of this little post.

Misery and despair isn't a racial issue or even a poverty issue. We created a society where passive entertainment degraded the social fabric, (read "Bowling Alone") and now we're in the process of smashing ("disrupting") society and robbing people of their purpose.

That pretty much fits to a T what has been done historically to many segments of black and Hispanic society. So why should we be surprised at the manifestation of misery and desperation from discarded white people?
Lol. When do you think millenials will have kids? When they have houses? Stable jobs?

Nope, you Gen-Xers have fscked yourselvs as far as that goes. Nobody in my generation in the West will ever be able to have children. Hope you like immigrants.
Charles proxy is pretty good https://www.charlesproxy.com
IBM Watson team declines to compete in the Allen AI competition
Don't do it brother...trust me, you're just getting started.
China economic growth slowest in 25 years
The best way I learned to deal with technical debt is to package it into securitized collateral debt obligations and find a product manager who can structure them into traunches and then find a QA manager who can rate these traunches and set up a regulatory framework with in which project managers can provide liquidity necessary to deal with it. If that does not work try to find an executive who can issue an Asset backed commercial paper that developers love. Now at this point the debt is handled so well it no longer is an issue.
Pretty sure you can use a microsd card?
Another Egan book well worth reading is Schild's Ladder, which reminds me a lot of Diaspora and was recently reissued in the US:

http://www.amazon.com/Schilds-Ladder-Novel-Greg-Egan/dp/1597...
I don't think there are any valid use cases for a widely distributed network of any kind of personal item that make sense for consumers. Consumers don't continuously manage large repetitive processes. They don't own items that remain distributed, or are being redistributed on any regular basis. They simply don't have the minimum threshold of Things that would benefit from the Internet.
You're playing fast and loose with the definition of 'make' there. 'Physically assemble' is not the only element of 'make'.
I wasn't advocating Telegram as an alternative transport for financial data. More that I'd rather use telegram for im than anything facebook owns.
15 years is a long time. Don't hold it against him.
You don't have to believe in a "Golden Age" to think that sloth and greed drive airline operations to fall back on excuses about security and their TBTF status to monetize "less horrible" vs "horrible."
A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) [pdf]
Just counting the number of weeks is pretty misleading too. Some schools are only 9am to 4pm or even just evenings five days a week. Others, such as Hack Reactor are 11+ hours per day, six days a week.
Entrepreneurship – A second attempt – Feedback welcomed
I have come to the realization that my current startup's lethragic growth rate will not allow me to afford a living in the bay area. As such, I am presented with a few options: Get a job, or take another shot at starting a company (albeit, working out of a cheaper city). I am heavily leaning toward the latter, but this time I want to take some feedback earlier on from the YC community as I have found the people here to be amongst the most honest and knowledgeable.
I would appreciate your critique (as well as pointers) of some of the ideas I am proposing for my next startup. Also, do you think there is a market need/ actual problem to be solved, or am I just forcing the issue?

a] Outsourcing: As I plan to operate out of Africa for a while, I was thinking of a managed outsourcing business where we train and place the smartest candidates on projects ranging from creative services to development. I see a shortage in talent locally and this model could allow companies to augment their talent pool with affordable labour.

b] Similar to A above but a focus on deploying and managing opensource projects such as wordpress, moodle, open ERP etc. Not only would I provide the technical talent, but also the operational labour to perform services like order management, chat management etc

c] Building a tool gamifies social actions (twitter, fb, instagram sharing etc) - with a lotto/random winnings component that creates recurring engagment by players

I would appreciate any feedback.

Regards.
Three obvious reasons...

Cost to the end user $10-200/year - even more on Heroku($20/month).

Configuration/Setup sucks - seriously you are supposed to run a bunch of unix commands, copy something to a server, and the whole process isn't user friendly.

Limited end user benefit - A business owner and user up until recently hasn't thought much or cared much about information security outside of online purchases.

Until it is cheap/free and once click easy, it won't be everywhere.
Consider reading http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html for more background.
I don't know if "debt" or "procrastination" are really the correct words. It seems to be somewhat in the middle of the two, where the problem comes from "We'll take care of that in the future." where the future never comes.

A good example of that might be in log refactoring. I recently quit a place for what amounted to a complete lack of interest in correcting bad logs. After spending 8 hours trying to fix some non-prod issues and being completely halted by timeout errors, I was told "Those errors are fine, they even happen in prod (!!!). We talked about fixing it, but agreed to do it way further down the line." So, not really procrastination or technical debt, but something similar since it's 'debt' and 'procrastination' are simply symptoms of a larger problem.
The Moto E at least supports moving "supported" apps to the SD card. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for the Google apps. But I can squeeze in Firefox Beta, an epub reader, and the Google apps so I'm fine with the internal storage.
Do the channels yourself with NATS. http://bit.ly/1ZzpJAw
I am the author. Happy to answer any questions about my post.
Absolutely. We can repurpose the old quote from Winston Churchill "We had the choice between war and shame. Now we have chosen shame – we’ll get war later."

Shameful behavior was the choice of the USA's white working class: They had the choice between prosperity without racism, or immiseration with the continuance of racism. They chose the latter. They voted against pro-growth policies because those policies were promoted by a political coalition that was also committed to extending prosperity to every citizen, regardless of race.
I mean the initial http response, not even the speed of the subsequent ajax.
I use org-mode for writing, time tracking, issue tracking, storing links, snippets, literate programs (ie: my emacs config is an org-babel file) etc... it's really quite flexible. I even wrote a self-published book using org-mode[0].

[0] https://gum.co/VjJMf

It's kind of the killer-feature of Emacs (besides being a decent text editor/operating system).
But more panning in more places finds more gold does it not?

Maybe I misunderstood your point. Stories like that of Jaime Escalante suggest that there's a huge number of undiscovered talent and/or that better teaching makes more talent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Escalante
Vintage cultivation pattern used to save topsoil after bushfire
Affirmative action is a non issue, a straw man at best.

The plight of the working class is about free trade and reprioritizing economic policy. Union busting sent business to the South, NAFTA sent it packing.

Now even high end service jobs are at risk. A local hospital voted to unionize, and immediately afterwards the ER fired everyone and ships in visiting nurses from 400 miles away. It keeps the local labor hungry and costs down in the long term.
Cool, I created an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/43
Fantastic. Is this the defacto tool? Can this be done without a tool?
Let me clarify that excellence in college is expensive, even if tuition is waived, at least the way it's currently structured.

It's very, very hard to get good grades while working enough hours to support yourself, especially if you have no skills (and even affluent college students rarely have marketable skills).
Which companies plan to hire interns during Fall 2016?
CERN+allegedly+finds+new+parralells+-+YouTube
How about the various "where are my friends" tracking apps, dating gadgets that light up when a person with shared interests is nearby, body metrics scanner that help health services create a map of say areas with an increased amount of people having hay fever?
"The geometrical pattern has been worked up in 1ha blocks using a standard five-metre 33-tyne cultivator. The constant directional changes mean there are always ridges at a 90-degree angle to the wind, reducing the chance of wind erosion. ... He said his father used that style of erosion protection in the 1940s when there were some bad droughts and horrific dust storms."

Ingenuity of farmers. The motivation? Australia has very poor soils: "“There are about six inches (15cm) of top soil here and then clay. You may as well walk off your property if you lose that topsoil because after that you’ve got nothing.”
I'm working on a new approach to programming that is in the direction of Bret Victor's Inventing on Prínciple (focusing on environment, all open source)

Because we're prelaunch(and working hard on getting it to all of you!) I can't talk about it much yet, but we're funded and looking to work with great people.

Email me at cammarata.nick@gmail.com if you're interested in this space, would love to hear ideas and talk more.
Would you agree with this generalization? - Best companies in the world keep redefining the central problem they are attacking.
Hardwar was kind of like your "ultimate space sim": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwar_(video_game)

War Thunder has good support for the rift: https://share.oculus.com/app/war-thunder
No, because every language has one specific set of abstractions and interfaces chosen by the language's developers. This is the same for textual and visual programming languages alike.

What might well be very hard is making a language where all abstractions and interfaces map to useful graphical representations; I imagine it's much, much easier to represent a JSON object graphically than it is to represent a piece of C code this way.

For instance, how would jumps look? Lines going from far-removed boxes, producing code that literally looks like spaghetti? Moreso, do you even want to graphically represent things like pointer arithmetic, will this be easier to work with? How do you represent variables, globals?

Maybe you would only represent course features such as data flow graphically, and hide finer grained details and code in "blocks" with labels and defined in- and outputs. You would still mostly write your code, but the graphical view might help you mentally model your program.
>This particular thing from Johns Hopkins is just incredible and gives us a glimpse of what might be in 50 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q

Who's going to be able to afford those?
Thanks, so far we're really happy about Softlayer.
I don't have any information or opinion regarding the choice of cpu but I doubt your crashes are due to not having ECC, unless the machine has a bad memory module. It's more likely to be a software problem, maybe driver related. Failing that it could be bad hardware.

My current laptop (running Linux), which certainly doesn't have ECC, hasn't had a system crash since I've had it, which is well over a year. In my experience system crashes with properly working software and hardware should be exceedingly rare, even without ECC. Granted none of my machines have had 32 GB of RAM, my current laptop has 8 GB, but that's only a factor of 4 difference and I'm pretty sure my accumulated experience with various machines adds up to far less than 1 unexplained system crash per month per 32 GB.
Ugh. 16-hours later follow up comment (because I accidentally a couple of entire sentences):

Maybe the WF GUI only exposes a tiny sliver of what you can do with WF, but WF seems really limited when compared to iptables. It seems that the only thing you can do in WF that you can't do in stock iptables is refuse to direct IP traffic to (or from) a given program on the system.
Sociabl celebrity-charity app responds to negative interview
Build your own Khan Academy
FWIW, keygen's deprecation isn't a rejection of client-side encryption: it's a rejection of the design of the keygen feature to address those requirements.
"H/T" is this newspeak for "all content from"
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/the-divorc...
No wait, maybe it's "we got the idea to plagiarise this from"

Original source
http://www.randalolson.com/2014/10/10/what-makes-for-a-stabl...

Either way it's a very silly article "If only you spent less on your wedding he wouldn't have started beating you." I mean really. Correlation is not causation is the most overused phrase in analysing anything but that doesn't really excuse this.
ah you are right, I ate one zero

CSI is uni directional, camera is controller over separate interface (I2C)

dual csi on compute module is cool because you get four mipi lanes, and one of (former) broadcom engineers, 6by9, was kind and awesome enough to write _generic fully open source_ CSI driver, meaning you can use FPGA(for example MachXO2, lattice offers free MIPI cores) to pump up to 400 MB/s into Pee Linux userland

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=109137
Sure, except when your architect has some sort of contention, whether it's time, patience, or ego. Last time I had a decent idea to pitch, I pitched it to the architect twice - first time, it got completely thrown down. Second time, practically same pitch, except it was approved. I genuinely feel like a month was lost because of that.

There's something to be said for "just doing it", and so so many times have architects completely gotten in the way of making good progress.
If you want reliable hosted Git right now consider https://githost.io/ (single tenant)

And we're working hard to make GitLab.com reliable, fast and free too.
Yeah I'm curious too. Did you try Zvents, the company mentioned in mrbirds link? Which city? I normally live in London where a big problem is filtering the events for the cool stuff as there's >1000 things/week. Never heard of Zvents before.