skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about that. Almost every time I update IDEA I get an annoying bug. For example, on last major update something broke and dialogs/popups wouldn't display. I couldn't close the editor because of this. When I tried to close the windows a confirmation popup should show up, but due to the bug nothing was happening. To me, being able to close an application without having to kill the process seems like a critical feature, yet it somehow was not noticed during testing.

What I'm trying to say is that if you're serious about finding issues no project/product is safe from you :)
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Nice chance is overstating it by a HUGE amount on the 'making it big part', yes quite a few developers in the start up world can get equity, the former rarely happens.
and Chrome seems to persist local storage incognito mode
I am not sure what you mean by the high flying CEO, I am talking more from the founder's side who puts his money and time on the line. Take Musk as an example, he invested most of his money in Tesla and Space X and both the companies came close to bankruptcy.

Those companies and many others will not work as a cooperative.
Thanks for the hint, I did not realize it was on GitHub. Pull request sent.

https://github.com/igrigorik/istlsfastyet.com/pull/97
You aren't an older engineer.

If you don't want to maintain poorly written legacy code, then you're in the wrong business. Learn Java server-side/web apps, learn D3.js and apply it to some public data set or whatever you are interested in.

See if you can use the new tech you learn at your current gig in some way, then you will have experience with it and can look elsewhere.
Nice.

I had serious trouble with the demo, though. In order to figure out the switches at the top I had to dig in the code. Apparently when it displays off, it is actually on. A little color would help here.
There's a term we in random ee blogs call this: being ftdicked

If you run a windows platform and you introduce FTDI chips in your design schematic, you run afoul of using accidentally counterfeit chips. Digikey and Mouser both have had this problem of counterfeits in their supply chain. And we aren't discussing FTDI-compatible chips, that do not counterfeit or claim to be FTDI. But the FTDI kills them all.

The safer alternative is to use a USB-serial chip that's cheaper, and doesn't harass users or nuke their chips: ch340G

Datasheet: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Breadboarding/BB-CH340T/reso...
There kinda is: http://devpressed.com/
Check out the work of Steve Potter's group at Georgia Tech. They culture rat cortical neurons in a dish while recording and stimulating them in a closed loop system. They did some studies with using these hybrid systems to control robots IRL and controlling avatars in a virtual world. If I remember right, the avatars learn... but I've never read the studies closely
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Mobile first :)
I'm going to be a bit vague, but if you haven't seen the movie, don't read this.

Its an epic movie that takes you through a persons life. Its great because it plays with your emotions. The audience starts out rooting for him and, and least I was, get impressed when he succeeds. Then you experience his decline and get a feeling for how success changes him. He makes some bad decisions, but its easy to understand why. The mistakes start to pile up and he quickly becomes someone most people loathe and he becomes the antagonist in someone's story.

Lots of movies do similar things, but I thought Barry Lyndon was incredibly engrossing and it actually succeeds in this crazy character development that might feel trite in most cases. It was also shot extremely well and the film score is fantastic.

I've always thought Wolf of Wall Street as a modern day version of Barry Lyndon, but with more flash and less substance.
Yes there are.

A Windows Shareware version: http://www.stargraphics.com/ambush.htm

An Android version: http://www.stargraphics.com/amband.htm
They will be able to send a shark tooth to angry clients.
What do you mean by "your Google login information is seen by that site" because I can't think of anything it could correctly mean, even in non-incognito mode.
I believe the well known theme is taken from Handel, not Schubert.
Same thoughts, i am a coder. I would never touch such Software. I still write the most correct HTML for my eyes and i am faster than anything else could be.
Oh, really? This can't be a bug, but looks more like it was planned. Looks like Microsoft wants to hit Google hard in their own game, well bad idea :)
There are somethings you may have not known about the codility test - they have an FAQ: https://codility.com/candidate-faq/. You can lookup stuff on the web. You can also use an IDE.

For the codility test you need preparation. The problems are not easy and the problem setters underestimate how long it takes to solve a problem. Unless you're regularly participating in coding contests etc, you will not make it. The way we program day to day, and in a timed test env are different. You should not feel bad.
I went to this museum on a road trip when I was a kid. It is truly amazing and I have thought back on the experience a lot throughout the years. Go check it out if you have the chance. You wont regret it.
On one of the very first tooltips at the very top of the landing page (the download button), my Chrome v48.0.2564.97 browser renders a very thin gap between the triangle of the tooltip and the content rectangle. Not a great first impression...Is anyone else seeing this? I suspect it has something to do with pixel percentages.
FWIW, this was in a section highlighting "things recruiters like".

Your LinkedIn profile hints at what you're good at. It doesn't replace a whole job interview.
I read your description of your work and how it makes you feel. I thought it sounded awfully familiar. It isn't you, it's voice. I've worked in this industry for 18 years and it keeps getting worse, but there is money to be made. It's a trap, but a mildly soul destroying comfortable one. Do get out if you can.
In the mean time, I am stuck at slow 3G. Are there regulations for the frequencies at which they can transmit their services? Err?
Don't tell the wealthiest country per capita in world history that - Switzerland. One of the few European nations that skated through the last decade almost entirely unscathed. They made a mistake in their attempt at currency debasement a while back, however they've almost always gone with a strong currency, and it has done wonders for their well-being. The median Swiss now earns twice what the median German does.

Also don't tell the US from 1820-1970 that. The strong dollar, backed by a gold standard, enabled the US to become the largest economy at warp speed.

A balanced to strong currency is ideal for a country. It provides increased purchasing power for consumers; it lures foreign capital; it keeps import costs low, including for commodities + producers; it keeps inflation from eroding the standard of living of the bottom 3/4 of citizens that can't hedge inflation; and it generates confidence for consumers, foreign investors, domestic investors, and businesses.
That is true but not for species that reproduce sexually. This is precisely why sexual reproduction is so successful.
Do you have any advice for freelancers looking for interesting clients?

I'm mostly able to find clients that either 1) want full-time employees or 2) are working on 'me-too' CRUDs (sometimes both).
yes, but only when i zoom in/out
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I agree. Credits wouldn't make it any more careless, only more tedious. I think only 'an all you can eat' would be a more attractive system than the current one.

Though, it seems to me that even in the current model what is missing are very strong network effects. It would be interesting to see if adding additional incentives increases/improves sharing. For instance, what if an article becomes free after N friends read it after sharing? It might cause people to share articles that their social circles are very likely to read.

Another interesting feature would be a share-once link. Sometimes you read an article that you want to share with someone specifically. You don't want to be an *ss pointing them to a paywall, so you pay the Euro 0.25 for them :). It's not only a convenience, but also a potential way to bring in new customers.
LiFi is such a sketchy idea to me, due to how IrDA has been in the past.

Maybe somehow I'm the last generation who remembers really shitty remote controls for televisions. :\
Arent 5 & 6 exactly how one would learn.
Racket is not Common Lisp which is what Roswell is built for, so why bring it up here?

I've used Racket ever since it was called PLT Scheme but I've moved on to Common Lisp for the past 5 years, once I realized that there is basically nothing that Racket does better than CL, and a lot that it does worse, interactive development being the most important.

SBCL being 2-4x faster without declarations or special optimization passes (in my own code I could get 10x the
speed of Racket by doing declaration passes) is also immensely useful.

Not to mention, the thriving ecosystem around Common Lisp.
Quicklisp has helped with the explosion of popularity and there are well-maintained good libraries for the vast majority of tasks one would like to do. Most of these libraries are also portable across CL implementations which is something one doesn't see in Scheme-land (besides the lack of libraries to begin with).
You can safely pass mutable pointers to stack data to scoped threads.
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haha, how many times did he gave that talk already ?

It is a worthy cause though, Kotlin is ridiculously better thought out than java (which is expected for a language release 20 years later).

If it is an option in your current workplace, do yourself a favor and check out Kotlin.
"Perl, despite the fact that it was a very popular programming language [..] was apparently not detectably easier to use for novices than a language that my student [..] created by essentially rolling dice and picking (ridiculous) symbols at random. That result was astonishing"

This sound-bite needs no comment. I do like Perl.
I think this is true, but that the beauty is meant to serve as a farcical contrast to the triviality and lack of meaning in Barry's story. The point was really driven home with the final scene of the story being accompanied by Handel's Sarabande, a work of monumental gravitas implying transcendent tragedy, when in reality Barry was a nobody, a jerk with no morals or conviction hardly deserving a second thought.
And the real solution is to get a grip on your supply chain.

Somehow with FTDI chips it's "normal", "okay" and expected to get counterfeit goods. And heaven forbid the original manufacturer doesn't support you in your innocence.

But if someone ships you a fake ATtiny all hell breaks loose and the Chinese ebay seller must be punished, hours and hours are spent communicating with ebay, with PayPal, with other users' on web forums.

Hobbyist electronics people are strange. Wake up and give Mouser hell if they send you faked goods!
Case Study: http://www.xerox.com/downloads/dl/usa/en/bpo/casestudies/bpo...
Arguably, none of us are chartered. But I agree, you have to compare like-for-like.
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You should Base62 encode the issue number in the URL string!
Thanks buddy !
My suggestion is actually not to find interesting clients. My suggestion is to find high-paying clients and then to become your own 'interesting' client (aka, reduce your lifestyle cost to a point in which you're able to use this money to sustain months of self-directed work).

Nothing is perfect and I've no idea whether this particular idiosyncrasy would suit other people - I'm still undecided whether it's for me.
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Everything you say is true. It would still be better for systemd to mount that filesystem read-only, and for the few (root-only) utilities that need to write to it to remount it read-write, write to it, and remount read-only.

Another reasonable option would be for a distribution to include SELinux policies that allow only the blessed tools (grub-install, systemctl, etc) to write to that filesystem. It would be a big change, though, because most distributions leave root and normal user logins unconstrained.
no.. the article is right:
http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-the-origin-story-2014-1...

those two were best friends and worked on tesla for quite a while before Wright (their neighbor) joined the company as VP, and quit shortly after to start his own company WrightSpeed.

Musk came along about a year after to lead the series A. Straubel was actually working on his own startup called Volacom when Tesla was founded.. Musk brought him on board later the same year.
It's Missouri River, not Mississippi.

Place of sinking at Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/Mwvbn9KiyUQ2
Login to gmail. Now go to docs.google.com in a new incognito tab and all your docs will be visible.
Well, that's kind of what FTDI is trying to accomplish. You won't buy from the same supplier again after getting a counterfeit.
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This is a negative review. I don't generally like bagging on peoples' projects, but this is an important subject and I feel it has been significantly failed. Their hearts are in the right place, but I think they've failed by even their own metrics.

I was very curious to read this topic because I firmly believe we need to do much, much more work to make the full range of computing more accessible for people with disabilities. It's not just about equity--though that should be reason enough--but that systems designed for systemic handicap are also useful for situational handicap. I work from home and have a brand new, baby boy. I'm going to want to hold him a lot, but I currently need two hands and two eyes on my computer. Also, with the work I do in Virtual Reality, it becomes very clear, very quickly, that our UI metaphors are informed by and designed for 2D systems, and do not adapt well to 3D systems. The current market of VR being primitive also presents problems in that User Input schemes have largely been either overlooked or exclusively focused on gaming applications.

So I've been keeping my eye out for a more ergonomic programming language. I imagine a very high level language that makes functional tasks easy when I want FP, object oriented tasks easy when I want OOP, but perhaps doesn't go out of its way to try to marry the two.

With this article on Quorum, they talk up a big game about using studies on live subjects to figure out more ergonomic programming languages. I found myself nodding along the entire way and was very excited to see what they had built.

And then was quite deflated to see that what they had delivered is essentially a small corner of Java or C++ with no more changes than having all the keywords renamed. It seems they start with the assumption that OOP is the most natural, correct paradigm for all cases, and then only go so far as to test whether or not different variations of keywords are easier to understand as spoken language. I get renaming "for" to "repeat". I don't get how you're helping anyone with multiple inheritance, or boxed primitives for use in contajners, or Arrays that are really Lists, but also a separate List class.

With the direction they've gone, it does not impress that the people involved understand programming language theory beyond keyword replacement. With zero apparent effort put into constructs and semantics, it just seems like a dead-end of bodged-together shell scripts.

Also, the example code in the documentation would be wholly inadequate for a beginner. It is definitely written for an experienced programmer to learn how to map concepts in other languages to Quorum. The first example on each page does generally demonstrate the most basic usage, but subsequent examples don't actually demonstrate what they say they will demonstrate. In some cases they demonstrate how not to achieve what has been described, but then don't describe how to achieve it. And in at least one case, two entries in a compare-and-contrast example were identical. In a few examples, I'm not sure the example will even run.
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It's not about disrespect. It's about how much effort you put in to get to that point.

How much effort is needed to get a cashier position? Show up, be sober - you got a job. Many people in IT started learning the ropes in their own time after school. Although it was a hobby, it was still an effort that turned out to be helpful in job market.
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Minor correction: Mostly from the twentieth century, not the "last few."
Is "De Lite" really "By lawsuit" rather than "By law"?
And what if the fake FTDI is in a piece of medical equipment keeping someone alive? Surely FTDI has no culpability in bricking it, they should have gotten a grip on their supply chain!
> This is brilliant, not only for privacy but for speed.

But these resources are probably already cached by the browser anyway (using the appropriate http headers). So how can this solution add any improvements to that, once the resources have been loaded for the first time?
Echoing with the OP said. Figure out who your ideal client is: who they are, what projects they offer, how much they pay, etc. then go to where those ideal clients would hang out. Talk to them, understand them and figure out how you can relieve whatever business discomfort they’re facing.

This will take some time but you’ll eventually get a stream of the type of client that can support the lifestyle you want and want to work and refer you continuously.
But that's the rub: FTDI doesn't have any good process to identify fake chips, other than "install it in your board and wait and see". And if you've tried ordering from FTDI themselves, they routinely have shortages and backlogs going from 3-6 months out. Meaning you lean on reputable places like Mouser or Digikey.

And you also glossed over "FTDI compatible" chips. They too exist, and do not claim to be a legit FTDI (the markings on the case are what make a counterfeit, not the underlying silicon). Yet the FTDI driver disables them all, in one way or another.

You assume I'm talking purely about the hobbyist market: anyone who pays for a usb FTDI adapter at $1.50 should know it's likely a counterfeit.
The game could use:

+ A description of syntax, i.e. that commas separate commands.

+ Moving the triangle for incomplete or incorrect solutions to allow iterative solving, REPL style, would improve game play.
Hmm sure but we are talking about a completely different scale here.

I mean as an AI you are connected to the whole planets sensors, you have the whole worlds knowledge in your possession and will be able to cross reference with what you are getting as input. You can prototype, do scenario planning on the fly, you can calculate and so on. Furthermore you are potentially getting inputs from other humans too and have the ability to mostly likely control a number of things which again provide new input.
What Elsevier does should be illegal. Giving up your copyright to make those pirates rich is the worst idea, anyway.
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Why do people need a FTDI driver, it appears that Windows has a USB Serial Class driver? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn...

At least on recent OSX the OS CDC one seems more robust than the FTDI provided one if you pull a cable while it's running. (I assume it's a genuine chip, who knows!)
I tried to rediscover this fun with modern languages in the last year and figured out how to do it:

Don't use most of your language's features.

Write a lengthy main loop. Use a lot of statically-sized arrays. Use plain old data instead of classes. Use primitive types and some indirection instead of a high-powered metaprogramming solution.

If you need the fancy stuff, it's all there (unless you're working with Go) -- but YAGNI really does apply.
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As someone who used to write a ton of C++ and only occasionally fired up gdb (and never anything fancier), I feel like maybe "easily" means different things to different people.

Going by what was said above and how I developed in C++, it sounds like "easily" to me.
> Why would QA ever look into some internal db file? (sigh)

That is too painfully familiar. So much testing is "does the UI work?"
"When We Left Earth"
It's a great documentary TV miniseries about american spaceflight. Must-watch for every space fan.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/barry-lyndon-aspect-ratio/
I would suggest looking in the mirror ;)

Let's be honest. Freelancers are not there to find "interesting clients". They are a temporary resource that enables a client to get a job done they under-resourced.

You have a choice as a freelancer
1) Become money focused. Earn as much as you can for as long as you can.
2) Become idea focused. Earn as much as you can until you have enough to bootstrap the idea. Rinse and repeat.
3) Become money focused but use your income to get the idea fleshed out using upwork.com

If you can get a few of you together it will be a better experience. Working at a co-location hub can be worth it.
I worked in landscaping and then as a custodian making $7/hr before I started learning to code. Working as a programmer has transformed my life. I've got a lot of autonomy in my days, I enjoy solving technical problems, I get to work from home and see my 2yr old grow up.

Yeah it sucks when your manager puts heavy deadlines on your team, or having to do things you don't necessarily agree with, or navigating corporate politics, but at the end of the day it's the best. I don't come home physically exhausted, I don't make shit money, and if I ever end up in a job I don't enjoy, I am able to find a new one fairly easily.

I think it's easy for programmers to hate life sometimes. Most people who are good at this line of work started doing it because they enjoyed it before it was making them money, that's how it was for me. Sometimes I miss haphazardly stringing code together to make something fun, but at the end of the day being a programmer has made me feel fulfilled.
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Good work!

> "Works in all modern browsers."

It'd be really helpful if you listed which browsers it's been tested to work in.
I'd say that the problem is not well-defined. You are asking to create a 3d reconstruction from 2*2d image data, so no wonder that some information has to be made up.
But at a completely different scale though. You have to imagine a whole planets sensors as your sources combined with the whole planets knowledge and so on.

I don't think it would make much sense to compare with the limited POV we are experiencing the world from.
Yes, they should have. And tested the function. The applicable standards actually demand it.

Safety development is serious business. You cannot justify your "I want everything as cheap as possible, counterfeit or not" attitude with some hallucinated safety risk.
I’m happy for the most part. When I am not happy is when I’m busy fighting with time thieves, mostly bugs and oddities introduced by someone else working on the same system that I would not have picked to work with if it was my decision.

I’m at my peak happiness when I work on my own solo projects or on projects where everyone is “one team, one dream”. Although I’ve built up some thick skin over the users I’ve worked on too many projects with splintered goals amongst team members, even well-meaning ones, that I start to think that I’m too tired for that shit.