skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to build something for your portfolio that uses various things that might be considered useful or fancy for buisness applications. The best hting imho to get a job is to be able to show what you can do, instead of being able to do it. It's hard to convey your skills via words, so try to implement all of your skills in tangible evidence of your ability.

Other than that im rubbish at web development ,so i wouldn't dare point you in any direction there ^^. But getting a personal blog / portfolio to show what you can do was the best advice i ever got which yielded direct and fast results in job interview. (notice its not plural ^^...)
This article is from the Torygraph so we should not expect too much.

The one thing I like about the Telegraph is the obituaries. I don't know why, but I love reading about the life of some obscure military officer or member of the landed gentry.
A lot of military submarines have titanium hulls because it's non-magnetic. Interestingly, during the cold war the main source of titanium for the US military was the USSR.

Edit - It looks like the principal reasons for using Titanium was likely to reduce weight and dive depth rather than it's magnetic properties. Thanks to respondents for clarifying that. Much appreciated.
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. If I can help it, I don't want any advertising to touch the knowledge functions of the site. It's part of a larger project that offers subscription services and sponsorships for interest communities, so all of this is just one piece to that puzzle. Donations would be wonderful, but I don't really see getting a lot of them. If nothing else, I still love building this stuff. I've been at it for several years and my interest level hasn't diminished at all, so I have that going for me!
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This story has been picked up several times by mainstream sites. How is it that this is a news story but no mainstream pieces are ever written about pixel artists for example.
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This will get me on a rant. I want an updated iPhone 4. I am not small, but the iPhone 4 is so easy to carry around in my pocket that I have not upgraded. Apple if you can't think of anything new then think small.
Thank you. Every time I read, "I never expected so-and-so to stoop so low," I think, "Well I wasn't inventing expectations of others, so I don't have this problem you have." This how-dare-so-and-so instinct grates on me.
Nice they will actually thinking of create a smaller device. I hate the size of the iPhone 6s. I upgraded from a 4s which was much needed but I constantly feel like I am balancing the phone when trying to use it one handed. My wife has a 5s and I've considered trading her many times.
Time arbitrage is mostly at the millisecond time scale, not microsecond. For instance there is massive investment in microwave data transmission between New York and Chicago. Microwaves in air go close to speed of light in vacuum, while the more typical fiberoptic data links are at the speed of light in glass, about 30-some percent slower. The microwave links beat the fiberoptic by about 2 milliseconds on New York to Chicago, which is enough to arbitrage between markets located in those places.
Voxels are the most expensive way to model a 3D shape, and browser CSS is the slowest way to render a 3D shape. These two were made for each other. The next step is to reimplement the Mars DOS demo [1] using voxels in the browser, and marvel at the slowdown compared to 1993. It's discouraging that we're supposed to cheer for progress even when it's headed backwards.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSjpIyMt0k
I know an upvote is the usual protocol in these cases but just this time I'd say - what an awesome comment! Thanks dang :D
As further examples, elemental mercury, radium, and phosphorous were also used as medicines even when they did not have redeeming medicinal uses.

Eg, Lincoln took mercury pills ( http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/07/0717_lincoln... ) , radium cures were the thing in the 1920s ( http://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/radium.htm ), and in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701117 I mention an account 1931 account of a man who had been "prescribed tonic pills that contained both elemental phosphorous and strychnine". After taking them for 27 years later, he had an advanced case of phossy jaw from the phosphorous.
I understood Aral's rethoric as follows: I develop for Apple (and only) Apple, due to the lack of a better platform.

A majority of privacyscholars participate in CPDP, due to the lack of a better platform.

Bit hypocrite no?

People seem to like Apple a lot...
don't you mean 2006? even google glass is more recent than the first pitch.
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If your game is in the browser then I run it in a sandbox which I trust (if you're using native web technologies as opposed to a java 'webapp'). I don't need any storage on my local machine and when you make a change I just 'update' by refreshing my page.
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> The mechanism is there in HDMI to say "this Blu-Ray only works on Samsung TVs that are less than 6 months old." Imagine what Samsung would pay a studio for that!

Imagine what I and probably several other potential viewers would pay for that. Not a cent.

The current movie and film situation already is pretty bad, unlike music which I can buy anywhere without DRM. I happily pay for things I enjoy and usually buy 10-20 albums monthly + streaming for preview purposes. With movies these days, I mostly can't buy them.

Furthermore I don't see how the end of DRM has been any problem for the music industry. If they made a mistake it was probably the shift to streaming.
I think there is a ton of subtly and trade-offs around choosing to do vs not do something. Of course not doing something is better in the abstract, but that isn't always an option. I'd be much more interested to read something on how to best make these kinds of trade-offs.
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> How much the company has to pay, how much IT sector usually pays?

In most of the country (California is probably an exception), the company does not have to pay anything at all.

I don't know about "usually". A lot of these big SV companies seem to usually pay some severance.

> Also, what are the usual time limits in the industry?

What time limits do you mean? As in, what notice do they have to give you? In much if not most of the country, none.
Which is why Dijkstra's take on it is excellent: the LOCs you write are a liability. Incurring liabilities is normal, but your goal isn't to maximise liabilities.
Its more than this - its that the model of balancing the weight of water with the vacuum pressure being the siphon limit is not correct.

This paper shows an alternative model is more likely to be correct. It is that the water boils easily at low pressure, and that is the limit of siphon height.

By careful preparation (degassing), boiling is prevented. Which here allows the column to be raised about 10m.

A 'law of physics' has been modified. This is pretty cool!
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See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deperming
Why God?
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Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but the author doesn't make it clear what exactly is objectionable about Palantir with respect to privacy issues. That's not to say that there isn't anything, but just that it would be helpful to have a synopsis of what exactly they're doing wrong.

I understand that they do work with governments, but that's as much as I've seen in the press. There has been far wider discussion of the privacy challenges facing Facebook and Google.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that sounds like he was trying to get the formula for kinetic energy, which would be half em vee squared.

Just to be clear: I'm not questioning the story, just the details in the recollection :)
Growth is about to be stalling with smart phones and you talk about a dumb phones comeback.
...to me what this means is that smart phone companies are about to start shriveling up and dying while other companies that are able to would have to take a hit on their margins.
Why would someone who wants and could now afford a cheap smartphone by a dumb phone???

I dont understand why you would think smart phones would make a comeback.
The article does suggest we are not alone. A sleek and small iPhone would be a hit with a reasonable number of us.
UK government retreats on plans to water down the Freedom of Information Act
Cool sarcastic comment. Maybe just leave that part out next time.
How a change in logback conf resulted in double the JDBC traffic via Hibernate
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That's nonsense. If anything the maximum resolution of sampling is higher, since it has lower overhead, so it perturbs the measured thing less.

However most sampling profilers only report CPU-time spent in a task, not wall-time. So, the things he discusses like time spent waiting for a task to complete would be obscured. However it would be perfectly possible to report the number of samples in which a thread was blocked in a method call (though it could not be said with certainty it was the same invocation, it would be enough to see that a majority of time blocked was elapsed there), it's just that they do not typically do so.
Has Aral left the UK yet? https://ar.al/notes/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
The Moto E is $89

No ones going back to dump phones
There are easy examples of operational waste to be found; e.g. trains are overstaffed (relative to any international trains) with highly paid conductors, and we still have token booth employees who grumpily point you to the metrocard machine if you interrupt their candy crush.

http://nypost.com/2011/07/13/mtas-too-nice-pay/

Unlike construction, it's harder to find concrete operational numbers to compare to other more functional systems.

But here is an obvious one: Singapore (pop 5.4M) gives their MOT $2.3B for operational costs and and $4.6B for construction costs (the plan is to double the length of the MRT).

http://www.singaporebudget.gov.sg/budget_2013/expenditure_ov...

NYC (pop 8.4M) has operational costs of $13B, and no particularly ambitious construction plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Transportation_Au...
Huh?

$ curl -i codes.io/600

HTTP/1.1 -424 ???

...
I'd love a phone the size and shape of the HTC Wildfire S.
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I just read Flash Boys[1], which is a fun read, and explains how being faster than others really helps in making money (on the expense of all other traders).
Basically: If you buy stocks, the trade is executed on multiple exchanges. When the order arrives at the first exchange, it shows your intent to buy these stocks. If a HFT firm buy them at other exchanges quicker than your order arrives there, they know they can sell the stocks to you, and make (a tiny tiny) profit, at your expense.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Boys
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At "super corporate" companies people are at their desks for 8 hours, but hardly anyone is working that much. It's all a game of pretending to be working hard (desks where people walking by can't see your screen are highly sought-after).
Well, you know, when you are eulogizing someone its generally courteous to talk more about that person than about yourself. When you are promoting your books and "science", be plagiarizing and criticize those who point it out. Just try to put it on pause for the eulogies.
Gzip uses DEFLATE, which uses Huffman coding.

Huffman coding works by replacing common symbols with shorter codes and uncommon symbols with longer codes.

The codes used are therefore variable-length.

The codes are created in such a way that no code is the prefix of any other code.

That way, the decoder is able to know when it has reached the end of a code without the need for extra information other than the Huffman tree, which tells the decoder which codes belong to which symbols.

The Huffman tree can be pre-agreed or, more commonly, included with the compressed data.
I'd agree with you if the color was user-changable
Well.. this is a bit silly, given that half the world's businesses run on Excel. It's an incredibly powerful and useful piece of software despite its (numerous) shortcomings.
Better way to put it, thanks.

Not Nicholas Carr, btw?
I've had similar experiences with foreign family members attempting to visit me, a US Citizen. It's just a roll of the dice, no matter how prepared you are, no matter how much evidence you have. It's all extremely subjective.

Despite what the US immigration authorities think, not everyone wants to give up a well-paying job and universal health care in their home country and move to America to take an illegal cash job as a dishwasher.
There should exists such devices and be open from day 1.
Society does have a reponsibility to not provide those substances that cause serious physical harm to many people more readily and cheaply than those more suited to good life.

Yet we don't tax sugar, processed food is the cheapest and non-processed are the most expensive.

The entire food industry is designed to sell more of 'their' product, and the addictiveness is developed more than the health value. Lobbyists ensure the governments keep the status quo.
the microwave signal you are trying to block is basically wireless power
> I think many people in the UK admire the Swiss and Norwegian models of participating in the "European project". The country retains sovereignty and only implements laws that suit its citizens.

Since they participate in the EEA, they don't really have a choice to say no to the EEA legislation. They are required to implement similar legislation within a certain time period, otherwise the EEA will sue the government for not fulfilling their contract. About the only way to really say "no" to something is to rescind their EEA membership.

Case in point: data retention was forced through in Iceland through the EEA agreement. This unpopular legislation went through because "it's an EEA requirement, you don't want to leave the single market do you?". After it was implemented, the directive was struck down by the EU court, so it's no longer required for EEA area countries to implement. But Iceland is still stuck with the data retention laws, and they're unlikely to go anywhere as revoking laws is much, much harder than passing them.
> Yes, in 2014 you should be supporting Python 3, or at least have it on your roadmap.

Why? What's wrong with 2.7?
> Why not just sort the list of requirements according to urgency?

This is a noble idea except that there is more than a dozen ways which "urgency" can be measured. Do you measure by its deadline, where the requirement is sourced, its dependencies etc.
for VMs on a personal computer, is there any reason to use VMWare over Virtualbox?
It's missing the most important React feature (Virtual-DOM diff.).

More specifically, he's manually adding and keeping track of all DOM elements. Once elements need to be updated, he would need to go back in the DOM and manually add/remove/change elements.. welcome back to the jquery messy world. Whereas with React, the render function doesn't change because it gets smartly rerendered.

Also, as far as I'm concerned, jsx is a big part of what I like about React. Basically, being able to add html from javascript instead of using all kind of hacks.
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Until I can get something better than slow dsl adblock plus will go on.
What a random stupid shit. Basically boils down to the classic "I dont understand anything, therefore i believe in God and have a explanation for everything now!"
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_deviation
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Can you expand on this point? When I tried OCaml a little time ago, it was a pain even to have a polymorphic print function. I would be surprised if there was a serialization mechanism that produces a binary form that cannot be adapted to produce a textual form
One thing I love about the Choas Communications Congress in Germany at the end of the year is how uncorporate it is. It's a massive, multiday, 10,000 attendee conference that has been going for decades and they manage it without corporate logos splashed all over the place.
That could possibly explain some results, but not those involving transmission. If the knocked-in DNA is transmitted to the next generation then I'd think it must have gotten incorporated somewhere, however, this need not be at the intended site if the primers are amplifying the template.

Then again, supposedly shingles is caused by extragenomic Varicella-zoster DNA that is somehow stable for decades and can be passed on during pregnancy. I'm not sure I believe that though, and of course that is viral DNA.

Anyway, in that Ruan et al (2015) they claim to have detected exactly the expected sequence across the junction in at least a few cells. I can't think of any explanation for that data other than CRISPR working as advertised. However, they don't report in what percent of the cells this was observed.

Edit:
I mean supposedly those exact sequences shown in figure S2 never physically existed before and now they do, exactly as predicted by the theory. That is strong evidence.
"Raise your hands if you know who John Carmack is."
(long pause)
"Raise your hands if you've ever played Quake, or Rage, or Doom..."
(pause)
"...or if you've ever heard of them."
(pause, blank stares)
"Oh! Well, I guess it's been awhile..."
"By the standards of Mathematica or Wolfram|Alpha, the 1961 integration program was very primitive"

That is indeed quite distasteful.
The USSR was the only country to build submarines with titanium hulls, a practice which ended with the Cold War.
I sometimes wonder if it's possible to use a gobo-linux style system, whereby the package manager just downloads the package to a versioned folder, possibly expanding it out, to a a package cache - then the venv need only symlink to it. The same could be done for python installs. Then do the same for the system python (e.g /bin/python points to /someplace/pyjunk/system/python, which in turn is a symlink to a particular interpreter, e.g. /someplace/pyjunk/interpreters/py2/2.7/cython_2.7_blub-i386/python).
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Not I.
Pretty much any of them. He interviewed zero HFTs for his book and seems to repeatedly misunderstand how the basic concepts of order books work, or things like "someone trying to sell a million shares is going to drop the price of the stock", which you learn on level 3 at the very latest.
I see that line of thinking a lot in the iOS dev community. Lot of people publish components, and lots of people just stick together published components.

Of course, each of those components is a dependency. It's not unusual to see an app use a dozen third party frameworks.

Every time that an OS upgrade comes along, you need to hope that non of the dozen frameworks you are using breaks, and if one does break, hope that it is still maintained. If not, you will have to get familiar with an unknown codebase at the most inopportune moment...

Also, usually existing components do only 75% of what you need, and lots of stuff you don't.

If you write everything yourself, you will never depend on other people to maintain code that you use, and you wont include lots of bloat that you don't need.
A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here’s what he found
Whats the purpose of a conference in the youtube era? I mean, medieval jousts are kind of obsolete so we don't do them either, outside renn faires. I have some theoretical reasons conferences still exist:

1) There's corporate money sloshing around to be soaked up in giveaways, free food, fancy rentals, honorarium payments...

2) The American obsession with uncivilized amounts of vacation is partially (only partially) made up for in som white collar fields by providing a fake vacation aka a conference. Of course some really cheap companies not only don't pay expenses to attend but don't even pay salary, which is off the charts cheap. But at least some attendees are getting conf week in place of civilized euro-style vacation schedules. Historically you take some brogrammers and give them a non-beach spring break at a conf, they act like they're back in the frat flirting on the beach, and next thing you know its social media meltdown mode, which is at least funny to watch.

3) Only that rare bird of very rich noob will attend to learn. Everyone else there "knows the score" and if the "bad guys" are buying lunch, we'll I'm glad to reduce shareholder value by eating their lunch. On the internet we have agreed we have to LARP that everyone is a noob, the public are all noobs, only noobs matter, but once in a while its OK to admit expensive conferences are for non-noobs, possibly even for experts. And its impolite to speak down to all the experts and tell them they're all idiots for not noticing what they probably noticed back when you still wore diapers. Sit back and listen to grandpa talk about military sponsorship of university research back in the hippie decade half a century ago.. This is only "news" if you're not observant.

4) I had the misfortune to have a presidential debate in my home town less than a mile from where I work, so at least some form of evil on earth was talking nearby while coworkers and I had those supposedly valuable "hallway conversations" at work. I'm seeing a parallel with letting the evil empire sponsor the official track which doesn't matter because conferences are all about meeting people in the halls or sitting at the (subsidized by the evil empire) bar.

This is a good example of the net loss to society caused by excessive social signalling on the internet. Yes he earns exactly 332515 whuffie by making an air tight politically correct (at least by our standards) accusation, but the big picture is it does nothing for anyone and doesn't matter. Even worse 332515 Whuffie and $7 will get you a cup of coffee at starbucks, its worthless and can't be converted into anything useful in general, or specifically it can't be converted into anything more useful than hanging out at a conference and talking to people.
This is an excellent and fairly short book on the subject:

http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
Does this work around broken 3D transform depth sorting? To see what I mean, look at this in Firefox: https://ajf.me/demos/200blocks/

I love 3D transforms, they're great. I wish I could practically make stuff with them. But they're so slow and there's bugs in every implementation.

So WebGL is all that is practical for anything beyond a few spinning cubes.
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They're always looking for full stack devs. Send me your resume and I can forward it to the hiring manager. My email is my HN username @ Gmail.
Oh, came on. Of course you sometimes want code.

You spend lines of code, to get functionality. Keep your expenses down, but nobody is saying they must be zero.
I haven't seen any benchmarks recently, but it's historically been noticeably faster. Vagrant's VMware plugin page has a general overview, although it's marketing material and not very technical: https://www.vagrantup.com/vmware/