skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Argentina, the University of Buenos Aires is free and I know plenty of people who went from there to Google. They got better scores than Harvard in ACM last year. So yeah, free education can be as good in quality as paid education, at least in some cases.
The funny thing about HN is how easily people discount Azure and AWS as the two largest computing clouds on earth, all virtualized.
It sounds, to me, like the priority is to reduce the proportion of energy expended on the workplace. That doesn't necessarily require changing jobs [though depending on the specifics of a workplace it might]. Changing the proportion of your energy, may not even require reducing the time spent at work.

Assess the workplace culture. Is working on open source during work hours an option? Are training, conferences, etc. something that the company will pay for? Is reducing the time at work because of burnout something that would be supported?

Again, there's no generic answer across all workplaces. Keep in mind that switching jobs can just be a way of starting a new hero cycle to prove one's self to a new group of people. That's o.k. but it's better if a person is aware of it.

Good luck.
Go is far more popular than western chess in China.
Leaving aside the fact that the subject includes 'Potential Failure Criticality', the key impact line "The result would be a catastrophe of the highest order - loss of human life" occurs less than 150 words into this. It's the 5th sentence (though they're admittedly long sentences).

Are you having serious engineering-related discussions with your management where they can't read 150 words before getting to the hook? (serious question, not snark)

Is everyone communicating via twitter or something? (sorry, that was a bit of snark)
if you destroy evidence, you should be found guilty of the crime itself as if you'd conspired in committing it, and get the maximum sentence.
I can proceed if I add an exception. But I don't know if I want to add an exception.

Edit: Clock is automatically set via OSX. Not a problem with other sites.

Firefox says

tails.boum.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is unknown. The server might not be sending the appropriate intermediate certificates. An additional root certificate may need to be imported. (Error code: sec_error_unknown_issuer)

Sooooo..... I need a root certificate of some sort then? See, this is what we get to contend with - I can't read this site because reasons. And it's up to me to find out what the reasons are I guess. Wait till this hits the masses when certs get revoked, expire, etc. :)
This is one of the reasons its a fun idea. The TV bands (50 - 210Mhz) can cover a huge area from a single antenna (that was their original modality) but because of the inverse square law, it means that a much smaller and lower power antenna nearby can still get a big chunk of real estate. During some experiments at a company that will remain nameless it was something like 1 antenna could easily cover 2 mile diameter circle, 4 would cover 8 square miles, and 30 - 40 could cover nearly all of the cities around the SF bay.

The actual cellular mechanics are quite an undertaking, but something along the lines of a coded point to point system would be implementable by a small group of people.
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You've gone from "plain English" to "spirit of the law" which is way different.

Again, I agree with you, but this position is not something you arrive at by just reading the 4th Amendment and then understanding its words without legal context.
> Pretty neat, when I first got it, but after 2007, I had to manually change the timezone on this "auto-setting clock" 4 times a year.

That's odd, because the WWV signal contains extra flag bits that authoritatively tell you when DST is starting and ending. I guess the manufacturers decided to ignore that data and reimplement the time change themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWV_(radio_station)#Daylight_s...
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SIMP 5.1.0-0 released by NSA
Better to kill the troll permanently than hope for the best.
All use utc and stop the daylight saving and timezone...

Use gps coord. And utc to know if you have a lunch or breakfast, dinner meeting

Time zones have no precision so why use them?
MIT dean to start new university: “No majors, no lectures, no classrooms”
Flipkart and Udacity want a world without job interviews
may I ask, to do what? I think they don't claim to "be web" yet [0] and I doubt you were using PHP other than serving over http?

[0] http://arewewebyet.com/
You still generally write an intro & conclusion, give the book a name, etc.
Tell HN: Thanks for your support, I finally published my book
Hey HN,

Almost 2 years ago I submitted a post here asking how to self-publish a book I was almost done writing; the topic was how to deal with depression and overcome it, a good idea considering I have been dealing with it all my life.

As I said, the book was "almost done". It took me two more years however to finish it. The journey was, since that time until yesterday, a nightmare. While I wrote down and tested every idea I had to push back depression, the illness itself still crawled in me, making me doubt myself, erase stuff, making my progress painfully slow, and even pushing me to have thoughts of suicide. I want to enjoy writing and somehow make this my daily job, but the process of trying to make a book that in my mind I knew would net me practically(or exactly) cero profit and that no one would read truly hurt and broke my heart. Don't think i'm saying i don't want to write unless I get money, it's just we all have bills to pay.

The reason I'm writing here today is to tell you that no matter what is it you want to do in your life, it's always possible to find a way to do it. It may take years, breakdowns, tears, ideas of giving up or, in my case, dying, but it is never impossible. Now, is it worth it? I don't know. I personally acomplished my dream of writing a book and that means so much, but I'm not sure much has changed apart from that. I'll keep writing and see what happens.

Anyway, it all started years ago when I read here a blog post incentivizing people to write. Months later here I was, asking how to self-publish. So thank you everyone for your kindness and answers, even if writing a comment takes a couple meaningless seconds, it means a lot to me.

In any case, proof of the book. It's not perfect, but I did my best.

http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Depression-Powerful-Changes-Happy-ebook/dp/B01B3ZA2MQ/

I hope to see this post in a couple years and be proud of myself of how far i've come... Hopefully.

Thank you everyone!
Same with Chrome 47 on OSX
Regarding the MS products on Mac - I have only installed Outlook for Mac because the web (Office 365) version of Outlook lacks most of the advanced functionality in the first place. I was hoping I will be able to apply a rule to existing emails (not only those that will come in future) or perform an action on batch of emails. In the end this is not possible on the Mac version either.
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In the NYC market (and possibly others) TWC has been heavily promoting a new program which lets you get live TV via a Roku device with no cable boxes at all. They know it is coming.
From reading quite a bit of historical correspondence, yes, people wrote much more fully developed memos and letters back then. It's something that we have lost in the modern age.

I'd bet that this letter was written longhand or dictated and handed to a typist. That may be part of the reason why.
From the linked article:

> “We definitely thought about colorblindness but ultimately there was not much we could do in terms of the individual puzzles,” the game’s lead developer, Jonathan Blow, told me today.

It's been a decision by the devs. Still, it would be nice if they updated the puzzles for those who are colorblind.
> I don't understand. Do you imply that in the US any organization can grant a PhD to someone? And/or that there is no control over the requirements to meet to get a PhD?

In the US, the big distinction is between accredited schools and unaccredited schools. Probably any organization could grant a piece of paper called a "PhD" to someone, but not every organization could claim to be accredited by a legitimate accreditor.

My understanding is a lot of the online-only/for-profit schools are accreddited by less the rigorous "national" accreditors. The traditional regional accreditors are more focused on academics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accreditation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_accreditation...
May be struggling to make money but less than 3% military traffic. According to the links below approx. 21k flights in 2014 and 550 of those carried US troops and/or weapons.

See:
https://www.iaa.ie/docs/default-source/publications/annual-r...
http://clareherald.com/2015/09/272-flights-allowed-carry-mun...
uBlock Origin's advanced mode is also a lot nicer for JS blocking than NoScript and similar tools even as it allows you to unblock a CDN for a certain domain but not others, so you don't wind up allowing *.cloudfront.com for the whole internet.

And most privacy conscious people left Adblock Plus after they started allowing "acceptable ads" including from some pretty notorious trackers.
My HTC One still uses years old timezone information for its clock widget. I fixed the main clock by setting timezone to a different timezone that I'm actually in, but the clock widget is still off by one hour. It's extremely infuriating. Apparently you can't update timezone information in Android unless you have root, which is completely idiotic.
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And you shouldn't - this page uses a valid certificate for me. Either your clock is set wrong, you're missing CAs or you're being MITM'd. Verify your time, check the certificate chain on the site (should be UserTrust -> Gandi -> site) and try to check fingerprints against https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm if you can.
Boisjoly's rebuttal is that

1) Tufte had temperature datapoints for the previous launches that the Boisjoly's team didn't know[1]. I assume "know" to mean the complete historical data wasn't all consolidated conveniently at his fingertips before the disaster. Presumably, Boisjoly's team could have gotten it if it had occurred to them to gather it. Essentially, Tufte had the benefit of "hindsight" to make his compelling diagram showing cause & effect.

2) GIGO garbage in is garbage out. The Tufte temperature datapoint assumes that the outside ambient temperature is equal to the O-ring temperature[2] so substituting one for the other is wrong. (E.g. It's wrong to put them both on the same X-axis.)

Quotes excerpted from http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/profpractice/exempindex/RB-i...:

[1]"He thus supposes that they knew the temperatures at launch of all the shuttles and, assuming they acted voluntarily, infers they were incompetent."

[2]", in addition, mixes O-ring temperatures and ambient air temperature as though the two were the same."
Wow!, this has been kicking around HN for a long time. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=startupmatcher.com

I wonder what's been going on with the project in all those years.
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This was before the age of Twitter.
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Isn't it normal to have difficulty focusing on things that are really boring?

ADHD diagnosis rates are several times higher in the US than in other developed countries, and orders of scale higher than in low-diagnosis countries (such as France). The biggest risk factors for an ADHD diagnoses include things like "being male" and "being in the youngest quartile of your kindergarten class". That's an amazing thing to pathologize. In the US, the drive to perform well on standardized tests has gotten to such an extreme that kindergarteners are expected to have literacy performance that was expected of 1st-graders a generation ago, and children are expected to come to kindergarten with the alphabet knowledge that they would have learned in kindergarten a generation ago. Meanwhile, the amount of time young children have spent at recess has declined hugely in the last 30 years, with very many schools having no recess at all.

Isn't there a margin where this is a disorder because of the interaction between an individual and their environment, where the environment is the problem?

Some amount of ADHD-spectrum behavior might should be considered within the range of normal child development, which is being pathologized by a system that doesn't give young children (especially slightly younger boys) enough exercise. The main treatment for ADHD is lifelong amphetamine use, and nobody can say whether this treatment prevents children from developing coping mechanisms that they would otherwise normally develop before adulthood.

If something as simple as more exercise can marginally reduce ADHD diagnosis or medication rates, that would be a huge advance.
Canada's electronic spy agency stops sharing some metadata with partners
Has this been addressed directly with the employee? It hardly seems worth firing someone over.
Some states or localitis have things that might be parallel, but there is no single US equivalent.
This was a terrible thing. So many saw this coming and nobody listened to them.

In my mind, what made this tragedy even worse was the way the program itself was conducted. You learn new modes of transportation and hardware by using it, many times to the point of exhaustion. We should have built a dozen orbiters and flown the shit out of them through hell or high water, learning as we went along. Instead we built 5 and every time something happened we backed farther away from the entire manned space program.

A lot of time was wasted, and the lessons we didn't learn? Somebody else is still going to have to learn them someday.
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No. That is the method of problem solving espoused by Jerry Springer culture. It is literally beneath HN.
Tzdata can encode future changes, but that's only helpful when politicians change the rules on advance and notice is given to the team that manages the data. Many jurisdictions don't appear to consider the impacts of changes and make changes with little notice.
Thanks for the link. I looked at them. They even have one targeted specifically for Caregivers. (https://www.truelinkfinancial.com/caregiver-card) While it sounds like a decent option, I'm turned off by a $10 monthly fee. I know they have to make money somehow but I have never been keen to pay fees for my money. :/
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Not the most honest route... but you could 'accidentally' damage it, buy him a nicer one as a loaner, and send the damaged one to the shredder.
And hopefully they get a lot of pressure from Google, Apple, Roku, and the other devices in favor.
Sounds like a hacker house. Why call it a university if it doesn't grant degrees?
I'll try to do that since Nim is on my list of languages to check out. Keep hearing good things about it.
Sorry, that was a popular culture reference.
It took me a bit to realize that there was an issue with ADD vs ADHD inattentive, and I pissed off a few people before I started doing this.
It's not a great situation yeah - I'd heard there was some effort on Ocaml multimedia libraries but I don't know what's happened to that. Mozilla appear to have got some of their video stack implemented in rust but nowhere near the range of what ffmpeg supports. Hopefully in a few years we'll get there, but in the meantime there's no way around running some C code.

Even so, I would (and have) still use an FFI and put as much as possible in a safer language. You will get segfaults and memory leaks because you're still calling C code, but you won't be adding more, and IME that's well worth the overhead of an FFI. (Also ffmpeg has had quite a bit of attention from people using valgrind, afl-fuzz etc, so its defect rate is lower than your C code would likely have, unless you're also using those tools). Alternatively, depending on your use case you might be able to separate the decoding/encoding stages from the processing, in which case you can write the code without needing much in the way of libraries, and pipe to/from ffmpeg.

Write a quick prototype and see if you can get the performance you need within GC or a small amount of -XXasdf (you might be surprised, particularly with the state of Haskell and OCaml today. I've done literally this from Java, JNI-ing the ffmpeg libraries to do realtime streaming, and had it work fine, and that was five years ago). In the rare case something like that doesn't cut it Rust is what I'd use (there are other options but I know less about them).
I took a couple pics looking in from the door - I cant see anything out of the ordinary WRT "stingray" labeled equipment... They have a fence around the thing.

https://imgur.com/a/m1BzQ
This website is _extremely_ outdated, please don't take it as accurate.
Boisjoly later revealed this memo to the presidential commission investigating the disaster and was then forced to leave Morton Thioklol after been shunned by disgruntled colleagues.

I find this phenomenon so difficult to understand.
Note: the title is misleading.

The book is not available yet, only the first three chapters.
Apparently the one that down-voted my comment can't articulate just why they disagree or disapprove. Was it too long a reply? Is it too full of sentiment? Is it too complex of an issue? Or could it be that a person with a bunch of karma points is trying to show me how to respond in such a way that I get more points? I think I'm done with this board as a forum for discussion. Down-vote away you karma bums.
I think it is clear we need a national body to oversee police.
They don't have JCR Licklider's talk linked (I've added it to their Disqus comments) but it is actually available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN--t9jXQc0
Read that discussion. Learned a lot of good things.
Cant reply to your last statement... but read my initial post.
I started using Snabbdom, which is also tiny, but has a nice module/hook API: https://github.com/paldepind/snabbdom (plus 'style' module supports transitions/animations).
Thanks! It's an exciting place to be.
First chapter is good. It introduces the main concepts gently. I would have mentioned compile times, since it is one of the main draws to Go, but other than that I think the first chapter is good.

Even though I write Nim code, I still bought the book, but more so for the later chapters:

8. INTERFACING WITH OTHER LANGUAGES
9. METAPROGRAMMING
10. DIRECT HARDWARE CONTROL

Since I don't have very much experience there. Also maybe a chapter on debugging might help, especially for people that are coming from Python or Ruby.

Best of luck with the rest of the writing!
Around 2008 when that article was written was the peak of the hype of transactional memory. Many people thought it could be used by normal programmers placing atomic blocks around arbitrarily complex code using any data structures from the whole program. Some people even thought code could be in transactions by default all the time, committed with 'commit' statements periodically.

That article should be read with that context in mind.

Now that transactional memory has fallen well out of fashion and people are being a bit more realistic I think it's more likely it will be applied by experts as a kind of multi-word compare and swap, for implementing specific data structures with some support for composability. Which of course would still be a gain for software engineering.

This C++ work could support that kind of use-case.
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Alice will be able to provide a list of employment and value added to the business.

People, who read that, know what they are getting same as they do the prolific developer with a nice portfolio.

Both are high value. It's all in the presentation for Alice.
They're really "thick" sentences. By the time you get there, your brain has had to process so much that you go "huh".
I suspect that HN'ers are a skewed sample set because I think there are fewer of what Hanselman calls "dark matter programmers" on HN than in the wild.
The article says that only "Three genuine conspiracies" where used to estimate his model. That seems like a very small sample to me.
Reminds me of depenguinator back from the days :)

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0...

https://github.com/allanjude/depenguinator
Are up-to-date Rails applications exposed to this issue?

Not 100% sure, but from what I know, Rails gets timezone handling right. Specifically, it leverages the https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo gem. So, correct me if I wrong, by performing `bundle update` you're all good?
I agree, but to do that you need root to the World.

As long as we're regular users, we need to work around these realities.
Thanks for the link. The top comment's explanation, esp on GC, makes a lot of sense. Both specific keywords and a module-level declaration are rational ways of handling it. So long as it's clear to a person or program analyzing safety properties of a module then they can do what they need to do.
The main problem with languages that generate C or some other language is debugging.

Does Nim have a good answer to this?
Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks, I couldn't gauge from the pictures how hard it actually is.
SpaceX successfully tests parachute for bringing astronauts back [video]
> Pharmalot: What do you make, though, of the editors at The New England Journal of Medicine? In a recent editorial, they expressed reservations and set off a ruckus by saying that some researchers worry about ‘research parasites.’

>Krumholz: There are lot of people who feel the research they do is the best research. It comes across as self-serving and absurd. Science is about replicating and testing your work. We need scientists to test and investigate and provide new insights. … Remember, people may make errors and the only way to catch mistakes and make corrections is to see the data.To call people parasites who are taking advantage of existing data and using that to generate new knowledge is not parasitism. That’s synergy and building on work of others. … Anyone who holds that view is not seeing the big picture about how different people can work in different ways to help society advance.

There's been a lot of anger at NEJM for this editorial, largely because it used the brazenly derogatory term "research parasites," more than any other particular complaint. The same discussion happened last decade in the basic research community, as gene expression microarray studies started publishing lots of data, and no single initial publication could fully mine it. Now that the clinical science community is encountering more of this, and information dense technologies are being used to gather data during clinical trials, the same discussion is getting rehashed.

Meanwhile, those whose primary research thrust is analysis of data rather than generation often have more offers to collaborate than they could ever meet. They may not get the Science or Nature papers though, as those are typically reserved for data producers.
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