skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree on the first two paragraphs.

Wrt. signing: I'm assuming we are talking about PyPI and NPM here. Also I'm assuming the major threat vector for a repository compromise is that (some of) the dev's accounts on some other services (most likely email) are somehow compromised. In which case it's down to that dev's OPSEC practices whether the repository can be compromised using the data from $OTHER_SERVICE. If the dev has poor OPSEC and would reuse the password for multiple accounts in a user/pass repo auth scenario, it's reasonable that this person would also have emailed themself the keys for signing packages, e.g. for transferring to another location behind a firewall. In either case, you're down to trusting the dev's OPSEC.

IMO, the threat models for other kinds of compromises which signing protects against are much more far fetched. AFAICT neither PyPI nor NPM use third-party mirrors, which basically leaves MitM attacks. If an attacker is capable of successfully MitM-ing the connections you make to PyPI/NPM over https, you have much bigger problems.

Or am I missing your point here?
On firefox also on linux reader mode is nice. Further nicer with Pentadactyl and toggling reader mode bound to rr.

Further its possible to style the reader mode with stylish. Example: https://userstyles.org/styles/114669/firefox-reader-custom-w... you can of course further customize it to allow you to say pick a more desirable font.

Page in reader mode: http://i.imgur.com/uWrgtMm.png
All I can say is you're not alone. I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, have 4 kids (youngest is 7months) and I'm going through therapy and working on medication. It's aggravating because for me the medication takes time to make a difference. Also I'm working on 2 engineering jobs to make ends meet.

The thing that has helped is opening up to a select few of friends. I am not the kind of person to open up emotionally but realized that if I want my kids to have a healthy dad, I have to do something different. But the older kids have noticed my sadness.

My therapist told me something that helped and that is I should strive for progress and not perfection. A goal oriented person is striving for perfection but that's an impossible goal when going through depression.

The fog from depression initially made me believe I had no friends. But when I took time to observe my life and journal, I realized there were a few friends for which I eventually opened up to. It helps to have a support system in addition to any doctors you see.
It's a disease. The problem is that there is no unique and universal treatment. It depends on the person.

You should try something like see a doctor and if that doesn't work try something else until it works and it can work and take a bit of time.
It's a social network for the unemployed.
Would love to hear that Xamarin will be free and will be part of Visual Studio :)
> The real goal is creating value, or wealth

By itself that isn't sufficient though. The distribution of wealth is important. If you create more wealth by allocating it all to one individual and none to anybody else then that is not superior to creating a bit less total but having the median wealth across individuals be higher.
I think it was a poor attempt at humour - that is my generous interpretation anyway.
Historically, they do. People talk about high marginal tax rates in the 1950s, but few to nobody actually paid those rates. This was because there were a lot of tax shelter options available, and deductions were a lot looser. Reagan got the tax reductions through Congress by agreeing to eliminate the tax shelters and tightening up a lot on deductions.

The result was a massive shift out of relatively unproductive tax shelter investments into more productive ones. Although I've never seen this opinion in print, I suspect a lot of the economic growth that resulted was a consequence of this shift in investments.
I'm pretty sure that I don't have depression but I've certainly felt "stuck". The responsibility of raising a family can be a heavy load - and a responsible father feels that weight. An irresponsible father doesn't feel the weight and it has little bearing on his decisions. Kudos for being a real dad - you'll imprint important life lessons on your daughters whether you realize it or not. My eldest daughter (almost 23) recently told me that she's only now realizing how much I sacrificed to make my family a safe and nurturing place for my kids.

In any case, when I feel "stuck", I look at specifically what's making me unhappy and what would make me happy. Then I form a long-term plan. You may not be able to quit your current work today, but what would it take to move into something you find rewarding. It might mean life-style changes: Got a car payment? Replace it with a beater you don't owe money on (my beater is really really nice but was a simple cash transaction).

I'd also caution you that you can't naturally work the long hours you're describing as a permanent schedule. You will burn out and/or your body will give out whether you have depression or not. If you're not exercising some minimum amount and you're not eating a healthy diet, that will also lower the threshold at which you give out.

I'm not a doctor or even a therapist - you should find one to talk with. I have however had joyless periods in my worklife, so please take my advice above with the understanding that you actually have two problems ... your depression is one and your lifestyle is the other. They will potentially exacerbate each other.

My email address is in my profile - feel free to correspond if you're interested in talking about the work related problems you're experiencing. Again, I'm not qualified to counsel you on the depression you're feeling. I've been in this industry for over 30 years, so you probably won't surprise me. Also notice my profile lists my family as my priority - they provide grounding for my work life.

Hope to hear from you ... and happy Easter.

P.S. I've got some job openings if you decide you need to make a work change. Perhaps there's something that matches your skills.
Yes but wouldn't 16 colors in composite mode look worse then?

It seems like these colors were chosen exactly because when you mixed them you would get nicer colors.
Why would that happen? Where is the actual limit to anything?

If we run out of land, we take the sea. If we run out of sea, we take space. And so on.
What city do you live in? Maybe if you share that some people here could give you a good therapist referral - and the therapist can give you suggestions for a psychiatrist to perhaps try some medication in addition to counseling.
So just did a quick check, opened the same setup I had currently in Firefox in Chrome (30 tabs across 3 windows). 670mb in FF, 340mb on Chrome. Firefox has YouTube Center, Ublock Origin + Ghostery, Chrome just has YouTube Center.

I guess for my use case, I just don't care about that much memory usage. Firefox has definitely improved over 3-4 years ago, where it would have been 2GB for the same level of usage.
Is anyone really worried about pollution being eliminated? :-)
I don't get why updating your profile is associated to "looking for a job". For me it's good to have the profile in a good shape since it can create leads.
> Are you going to forget the highlights of the work you have done? Not really.

It's less about the highlights and more about the numbers. I found (when I worked FT) that if I spent a little time every month or two--and I mean a little time, maybe ten minutes--reviewing my LinkedIn and my resume and updating anything that might be useful. Like--oh, hey, I was using Ruby now, and I'd like to keep using Ruby, I'd better update those. Or I might have gotten hard numbers about the outcome of a project I worked on--HR and prospective employers love hard numbers--and could go back and update a bullet point from before.

In addition, it made me think more about the story that my resume is going to tell a future employer, and made me think about what I wanted out of my career in general. Because I was doing it on a regular basis every so often, and it became a habitual thing.

So, personally, I wouldn't be so dismissive of something that helps you be prepared and helps you be mindful.
For those that are adverse to freemium gaming and the various F2P shenanigans that many apps employ: Puzzle & Dragons is arguably the most generous F2P game I've ever played, giving out expensive premium currency daily. As a result, you can get atleast a month of playtime without hitting a paywall.

While the board mechanics mentioned in the linked article are fun and interesting, there is little variation in gameplay style from level-to-level, and as a result, PAD is grindy as hell and is the reason I've stopped playing. A modern freemium mechanic other apps use to combat player dropoff for this reason is Auto play, which lets the game play itself (or simulate a runthrough of a round) for the same rewards. There's been a lot of debate in the gaming community on whether this is good design, but Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, a F2P game which implements both styles of Autoplay, has been doing very well on the Top Grossing charts.
Face on the home page looks too big for me, and on the second page text was all over the face for some reason...
Yeah, pretty much everyone has to collude. Otherwise, why would anyone work for $10 when someone else offers $20?
I think your expectations are too high. What else are you expecting other than a website or mobile app? This is the hackathon format: the end product is software, so people are going to gravitate to mobile apps, which many believe to be more ubiquitously accessible.

Nobody believes the true solution (or biggest thing that needs to be done) to domestic violence is a pure technology solution, so all you're going to see in a domestic violence hackathon are small software products that chip away at the problem.

It's not sad. Maybe (shocker) there isn't a lot that tech can do to solve domestic violence.
Here you go:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
Additionally, if you're an Amazon user, Amazon Smile allows you to choose the EFF to donate to. There are Firefox/Chrome plugins that redirect normal amazon.com links to smile.amazon.com links so you don't forget.
You're making a lot of assumptions. You're assuming that it's that easy to make a self-replicating probe that's that intelligent, for one. Any civilization that advanced may have put a lot of thought into what such probes should do, and how they should interact with other civilizations. They may very well have come up with the Prime Directive and only observed, without becoming detected by primitive cultures such as ours.

You're assuming that there aren't other spacefaring civilizations out there who are opposed to these probes, and that don't actively seek them out and destroy them.

You're assuming that the galaxy and nearby vicinity is old enough for one of these civilizations to become this advanced and to build these probes and for one of them to reach us. Who knows, maybe there just aren't that many really old civilizations around yet. Just look at how long it took us to evolve to this point.
If you don't buy something, and hold off on spending, then the GDP goes down, as the velocity of money slows down.

If 1 dollar is spent 5 times a year, that economy has a higher GDP than when that 1 dollar is spent 4 times a year.

Advertising makes sure that money is spent quickly, to increase the GDP by increasing the velocity of money in an economy.

If you get rid of advertising, you slow down the economy.
What about templates make them incompatible with modules? If they can be encoded in text, they can be encoded in some abstract binary format. People just have to agree on what that is.

From what I understand it is the preprocessor macros that make this really awkward. Personally I would like to see C++ abandon those in favor of a "real" macro system.

If there was some kind of parametric polymorphism in Fortran I would die happy.
All of my coworkers have endorsed me for Wordpress for this same reason (to mess with me and potentially get Wordpress recruiter spam)
Yes, I know. But they have plenty of old features that they support prefixed versions of, and people often enough use those without the corresponding standard syntax. This means, of course, that Chrome can't drop their prefixed versions without breaking websites. As a result, Edge and Firefox are now implementing a bunch of prefixed stuff simply to be web compatible.

For a view of what's needed in real-world terms for compat with the web nowadays, see https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/
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There's a couple sites specifically catering to the software dev for hire vertical, like Hired.

Though I think software devs have a unique view of Linkedin, in that we have many other avenues for professional networking AND we are heavily recruited at all levels of experience. When the only real way to network is via mutual acquaintances (as opposed to open source projects, chat rooms, etc.) and you aren't getting spammed with every "game changing startup" Linkedin can give you real value.
As an employer, I posted a job ad a couple weeks ago, paid a few hundred dollars, and got 2 non-qualified applicants. Many of my 'connections' (friends) saw the posting and clicked the job posting...and LinkedIn reported these ads views (making me think my posting was more popular than it actually was). Needless to say, it was a learning experience and I'll be sticking to Indeed. I'd short LNKD...
Yes, that closing remark is very interesting. It would essentially be formalising what we somehow do manually/instinctively today: "Installing numpy/react/etc.? Yes, everyone I know trusts that, so I do too." "Installing random small non-popular package? I better have a bit of a look at the code first."
> R&D departments creating inventions

Those aren't ideas any more
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If workers negotiate for higher wages, then business is forced to put them on more productive tasks. Less productive tasks tend to simply not get done, or get replaced by automation.

Unions have sometimes priced themselves out of the market, meaning the business closed. Didn't that happen with Hostess?
> The fog from depression initially made me believe I had no friends.

That fog is the hardest thing to deal with. I'm currently in a good spot, emotionally. In my case depression is a consequence of anxiety. Managing that better has kept me emotionally healthy.

But when I've been depressed I'd forget that I've had friends, good friends, for years that I could talk to and who would be there for me. It's not easy, but taking that step back to really examine your situation (as you've done) was the part that has turned me back from the brink several times in my life.
The article covers this. Nothing wrong with the fact that you get that kind of entertainment out of it. But the poorer you are, the more likely you are to play, and the more likely you are to play for money instead of for fun.

Sure, these people are being irrational, but that's not a good reason to take advantage of them.
First, I try not to play near the train tracks. Second, when you are known for doing your job well, you often get advance notice that a train is coming and are given an opportunity to get away from the tracks.
It's horrible to say, but almost every manager at the tactical to low-operational level keeps people around in good times specifically to act as ablative shielding in the bad. Sometimes they're low performers who can still be useful as tape-monkey equivalents, or perhaps they're "nice to haves" who aren't of any use when everyone has buckets out and are bailing, but in either case they exist to protect everyone else from layoffs or forced-ranking herd culling. This isn't a workable strategy in eat-what-you-kill environments, but you see it all the time in midsized and large companies.
LinkedIn is great: everyone you want to connect with is not active on the platform and everyone you don't want to connect with is very active.
Linkedin has become a creepy social network, with those hundreds of headhunters trying to build their database and mostly spamming you with worse and worse offers, with those creepy notifications that "somebody has visited your profile", looking more like average dating site more than something professional.

Yes, it seems that LinkedIn is lacking a vision on how to make looking for a job a better experience.
And yet research tells us that two fathers raise children who are as well adapted in every way as ones raised by a father and a mother, and that two mothers raise children who're better adapted.

(I find it slightly hilarious that you think that children had only two raisers In The Ancestral Environment.)
It’s not only unemployed that are looking for jobs...
Vision or not, they have exceptional engineering talent able to draw conclusions about who my ex girlfriends are from 20 years ago and suggest I connect with them.

Or somehow to draw conclusions about who I communicated with on an anonymous dating site and suggest I connect with them.

I'm looking forward to the day that as I walk down the street wearing my Augmented Reality glasses, LinkedIn transparently identifies the faces of the passing people and suggests that I connect to each long lost deeply valued relationship, or suggests I connect to the person walking past who has been stalking me online after I went on one date with them and hated them. Viva LinkedIn!

If "being creepy" is their core business model then they are a great success!
I would recommend Person-centered therapy (Carl Rogers). It's a very human and soft approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_therapy
Does that happen at LinkedIn, or are you just assuming? It sounds a little weird, actually. Why would a manager get agitated about one of his/her people actually updating their skills on their very own site?

I'd be suspicious if someone was not updating their profile at least once or twice a year.

Though, in practice, I would just avoid managerial stalking of my employees. So what if someone's keeping their profile up to date? So what if they're checking out the market regularly. We all do it. You'd be a fool not to.
I love the Book Fair. Go there every year.

You should go to http://www.josecuervoexpress.com/jose-cuervo-express Never been on the train, always did the trip on a motorcycle. But It's amazing. Be careful where you buy Tequila because there are a lot of fake tequila.

If you want to work, visit http://hackergarage.mx/. I have good friends there.

Also, visit Tlaquepaque and Zapopan.

Don't take cabs because they are super expensive. I would suggest taking lyft, but only Uber is available.

If you have more time you should visit Colima. I've been living here for 7 years now and love it. It's smaller, hotter and prettier than Guadalajara.

Last, visit Manzanillo. It has great hotels and an ok beach.

Federico Ramallo
http://densitylabs.io
Can you elaborate on your last paragraph please? What is the fundamental cause in your opinion? Or are you saying it's like turtles all the way down?
You know that the "laissez-faire" capitalist alternative in this situation would mean that people starve?
I accept only people I know, but my bar is lower than my bar on Facebook. Basically anyone I've (or could have) exchanged business cards with is ok.

I actually find LinkedIn very useful, and am kind of baffled by people who say they find zero value in it. I do find many of their practices annoying; it's far from perfect. And I agree with a lot in the article. But I've been working for 20 years, and having a reasonably complete way to search all of my former co-workers, and where they currently work is amazingly powerful. Whenever I am thinking of applying to a job at some company, I can spend 30 seconds looking on LinkedIn to see if I already know someone inside (which not only drastically improves my chances of getting an interview, but also can yield much more candid information about what it's like to work there). Similarly, if I need a professional contact at some company to solve a problem at work, my LinkedIn account is hugely useful.

This might be skewed by the fact that I've worked in some pretty big-name companies, so I have a large network of other people who tend to work at well-known places. But I basically view it as an automatically updating and easily searchable rolodex. And it works great for that.
Yeah, I update my linkedin profile pretty constantly, as well as the resume on my website. I like to think this causes someone in HR conniptions on a regular basis.
dont understand the mystery that is attributed to 'jawn' in this article. I have known a couple slang words in my own lifetime that have been used in an all purpose manner similar to 'jawn', the only real difference is that jawn manages to remain stable, most of these generic slangs fade out relatively quickly because they are pretty much meaningless...
Without patents, what would a small hw start-up do to protect itself while raising funding? Product development can take decades for nonsoftware projects.
Or maybe the other part told.
So, as an intellectual exercise, what would I want from a "perfect" LinkedIn:

- well I gotta trust it, so all of the below I cannot see LinkedIn actually doing but
- become a contact manager. When did I last call / mail this person.
- become a graphical network tool - show me my personal business network
- and remind me who I have not called despite really wanting to

- What about? Did I promise anything? Did they? Keep reminding me of my todos
How the TV Sitcom 'Friends' Triggered the Downfall of Western Civilization
> Are you going to forget the highlights of the work you have done? Not really.

I do.

I implemented a specific kind of distributed calculation in the financial industry before it was a thing. We (I didn't design the calculation) literally invented something that hadn't been done.

Totally forgot about it. It just got patented 15 years later. It's not on my resume.

Right now, I'm applying machine learning to a domain that hasn't yet had it applied and it feels similar: it's going to be awesome, going to do great things, and I probably won't remember it when I need to update my resume.

If I were to start all over, I would write down every single thing I ever did in the resume and when it came time to send that resume out, I'd whittle it down to the things that apply just for that job.

Here's to hoping I never need to send out a resume again, otherwise I'm screwed.
It just seems to be a similar sort of placeholder word like "thing".