skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about small cities, like Toledo, Milwaukee, Rochester MN, South Bend, Lansing, Kalamazoo, etc. They are in the middle of nowhere, but they still have people and jobs.

I live in Grand Rapids. There's lots of zoning and permitting rules. None of it is ever enforced. All a developer has to do is ask, and they get literally every non-safety rule waived.

- Don't want to build kitchen or bathrooms in your studio apartments? Just say your "micro-unit focused" and the already-tiny minimum unit size no longer applies to you. People are so desperate for housing, they'll pay luxury price premiums, even to live in door rooms. Extra money, for free!

- Annoyed about having to pay for your tenants parking? No worries! Just say you are a "transit-oriented design" and all parking requirements are waived -- you can dump infinite cars on the street for free! (Despite the fact that, like most mid-west cities, we only barely have transit at all)

- Want to skip out on your make ready costs? Just claim your lot needs "brownfield redevelopment" and the city will reimburse the developer for all of the make-ready expenses in cash.

I get that in California, the zoning and local governments are the major roadblock. But I have a hard time believing "zoning/permitting" is the root cause for this issue.

Because there are places where developers have no rules and get literally anything they ask for, anytime they ask. And yet even these places still only get luxury apartments.
The prevalence of these tests and the emphasis employers place on them should really put to rest that nonsense about "your Github profile is your CV" once and for all.

Recruiters are generally non-technical and unable to judge the quality of your open source work, and employers generally don't give it more than a cursory glance. And while Github profiles are needlessly abstruse, I doubt even a portfolio specially curated for their viewing would fare much better. Employers just don't care; they know that it's a buyer's market for talent and that there are more than enough applicants willing to subject themselves to their interview process, however abusive or insulting it may be.

Since almost no one ever gets a job because of their open source work, why do employers still make such a big deal out of it, with some even going so far as to state that they won't look at a candidate without a Github profile? Because it shows "passion," and a "passionate" developer is one they think they can more easily take advantage of. That's it.
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the title is "garden" and the alt text says "relax"

I have a hunch that if you leave the lights on and leave the page open, things will grow.

trying it now
with other <strike>open source</strike> solutions.
Let's not kid ourselves: right now people are buying Teslas for the same reason they're buying high-end Apple products.

They're well-made, sure, but they're foremost a luxury and status symbol. They're better than other status symbols because they actually have functional value that comes close to their market value, but they're still a status symbol.

However it seems that Tesla is actually trying to reduce its price point to make their products more affordable -- and that they're not as interested in treating their product as a fashion brand (yet).
From my experience I kind of disagree that you can weed out non-programmers by looking at their Github profiles. This might work for people that have a lot of projects/contributions there, but it doesn't work for most Github users which have (if at all) only a few stargazers and no very active projects at all. So if we'd use Github data to weed out people based on their repos/stargazers count we would probably miss a lot of very good programmers that just don't happen to be active there.

A simple coding test (ideally in a live environment over Skype) on the other hand allows me to (very roughly) judge a programmer's general ability within 10-15 minutes: Does he/she know the standard libraries of the given programming language? How does he/she structure the code?

Simple problems that are roughly related to your field of work are suited best for this from my experience. For example, as we work a lot with graph data, one task we often use is to load a set of lists containing vertices and edges from a JSON file and convert that into a linked graph structure within Python.

When hiring senior people most of this is usually not applicable as you can rely more on recommendations and the previous work experience of the candidate, which should give you better information than Github profiles / live coding tests.
A lot of people did hard time and worse to change cannabis laws and anti-gay discrimination, voting rights, &c.

Governments change laws when there is political capital in it.
Next blog post: Why I am unemployed

These coding tests are actually quite an equalizer in terms of interviews: you may be ace at answering all whiteboard/phone-screen questions, but when it comes down to actually coding -- something you are being hired to do, you can't crack it. On the other end: it lets people who may not be amazing at whiteboard questions the chance to show that despite that they can get things done.

When somebody interviews for a software engineering position, the goal of the company is to as quickly as possible get an objective opinion on the person by seeing how that person compares to other candidates they have seen. This is good for the candidate too, because who wants to be subjected to an arbitrary process?

All of the alternatives suggested in the article are fine, but they don't make the interview process very objective.

Things you can see during a coding test:

- How they tend to structure their code

- Do they like to over-engineer problems

- Do they dive right in or think things out

- How easy is their code to read?

- Are they experimental, do things in an interesting way?

- Are they prone to making bizarre design decisions

etc. etc.
It could positively influence bad auth practices.
The article addresses that point directly:

"To be sure, Apple has some of the industry’s most exacting protocols for recycling products. The company says it typically manages to collect and recycle 85 percent, by weight, of devices produced seven years earlier. Apple’s eventual plan, as stated in its application to the government, is to set up facilities that take discarded phones and refurbish them for use."
The only viable way for me to purchase a large majority of shows my wife and I enjoy watching are to maintain a cable subscription, loaded with channels that I don't care about. I can't justify paying nearly $100 CAD / month.

(We pay for Netflix, Spotify, and have used Google Play to buy episodes of certain shows)
Why don't you put it up in your job posting? "MinCorp is looking for developers with 5+ years of min-implementing experience. Must haves: - Must be able to implement min in 2 different languages."

It would save you tons of trouble, time AND money.
Looks like the repo has been removed. Can anyone else confirm?
I would say there is more issues than gains. But sometimes it's nice, I once found someones wallet and was able to find his phone number with the service. Called the guy, he came and picked up his wallet and gave me 500kr as thanks.
VCXO = voltage-controlled crystal oscillator
Yep, gone for me too.
Yes by leech only I meant downloading alone.

Well clarified thanks.
If apple is allowed to sell refurbished phones in India surely lot more people will opt for those instead of the cheaper Chinese alternatives or Indian versions and this could be the reason why the manufacturers here don't want Apple in their price segment as it might affect them directly
I think they won in the sense that they forced the industry to move towards EVs. The Porsche Mission E just got the green light and I believe Mercedes announced they were releasing 4 new fully electric models in the coming years. I expect more auto makers to do the same now that the Model 3 is going into production, piling up preorders and threatening sales of ICE cars in the 30-40k price range.
Are you seriously planning to make $1 million in one year, with the expectation that you would make no income for the following 5 years? That is a very uncommon scenario. I expect you may need to consult a CPA or someone else with specialized knowledge on how to do this most cost effectively.

You say "it's not that easy", but that's besides the point. If you think you can save 10% of $1M than that $100K can buy you a lot of CPA time to make the problem become easy.

"if I make $1 million, I withdraw $1 million (which is the goal),"

Ahh, you want the fantasy of not paying taxes at all. Why should the state limit your liability in exchange for nothing?

If you really have flood/drought income, then talk to a CPA about how to spread your personal tax liability across multiple years. You can't be the first with these problems. Eg, low income people have to deal with capital gains from selling a house.

In that vein, you said nothing about my second point, on retained earnings.
Then link to a news site, not the dox themselves.
Okay I didn't mean it in the civil liberties sense. Could more accurately be written "I sympathise with his annoyance".
I'm not saying there aren't drawbacks, but I can think of two benefits:

1. It makes some forms of investigative journalism easier. For example, there has been a lot of discussion about the potential problems of having most of the influential journalists in Sweden living within a very small "hipster" area in Stockholm.

2. E-commerce companies may decide to only ship to the adress where you are officially registered, making it harder to commit e-commerce fraud.
Exploring Delegation in Kotlin
South Park, as always, was spot on with this issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af0wXeN6_FY
Note: I wrote this up as a reply but the parent was deleted in the interim so posting at the top level instead.

> Which server is this? A Whois lookup returned nothing.

The whois command works on domain names, not IP addresses.

To get the DNS name associated with an IP address you can try a reverse lookup:

$ dig -x 185.100.87.84

Unfortunately that only works if the the reverse record has been set up and it hasn't in this case.

You can still see where the server is located via tracepath:

$ tracepath 185.100.87.84
[truncated]
12: lon-tel-01c.voxility.net 86.537ms asymm 16
13: buc-ird-01c.voxility.net 147.516ms asymm 17
14: buc-ird-27sw.voxility.net 136.914ms asymm 18
15: buc-ird-46sw.voxility.com 149.699ms asymm 18
16: 185.100.87.84 143.626ms reached

So most likely the server is hosted on voxility.com which looks like an IaaS provider.
If we are talking about the situation in Sweden, it must also be said that there is a copyright tax on storage media in computers, phones and similar devices. The tax is supposed to be there so authors get paid when people do private copying, but DRM creates a situation where the tax money get stolen and nothing is returned to the tax payer.

When copyright is used as an excuse to steal tax money, its hard to use morality as an argument against non-commercial copyright infringement.
Single molecule detected for use in quantum network
Paris-based startup Stratumn secures €600,000 investment
A regular person hit for 30 mm. USA is insane.
HackApp index: 135,000 potential vulnerabilities in 13,000 Android applications
This is pretty damning. It's pretty amazing how Oculus will lose the VR battle despite being "first". The HTC Vive and other more open solutions for developers that aren't behind a walled garden will win with gamers.
>What would you qualify HN worthy submission?

Something that doesn't dox random people, for starters.
Aren't net winnings are taxed for gamblers?

I'm usually calling out for a progressive tax system, however, the parent is right. Investment doesn't work the way you describe. You are asking people to risk capital in order to gain some reward. A particular investment may not pan out for years and then give a windfall. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this: typically, the longer term payoff kind of things benefit society more.

As someone who has very little capital, I too get unhappy when I see regressive tax regimes. The increase in inequality is one of the great problems of our age. That said, we must take care not to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Our current standard of living would not be possible without investment.

Your example about taking time off for the baby is an interesting one. Perhaps the tax system needs to take account of people taking sabbaticals and such.
"To use the DDoS Downtime Calculator, simply visit the calculator page and answer six short questions about your organization and its existing security measures."

And give an email address for them to deliver the key results that couldn't possibly be delivered right on the web site itself...

I'd recommend against detailing your existing organization and security measures on a webform that can be trivially associated with your work email address. The very best that will happen is that you'll get a bunch of sales information into your inbox.
My 2 years old BMW is one of those heavily computerized cars and can easily be serviced at third party shops. There's a whole network of them that specialize in BMW service, maintenance, and modding. Not to mention that anyone interested can, ahem, 'acquire' BMW service software and start hacking away at their car. You need to expand your tool set to include an Ethernet to ODB2 adapter, but that won't stop even an amateur tinkerer like me. Teslas, on the other hand, don't even provide a working ODB2 port, and attempts to hook up to the car's internal network were met with legal threats.
I'm quite sure you could do a breakdown of any technology and find enough problems that it looks like a bad choice.

What tech you use is always a compromise between the benefits of what it's good for and the problems you need to work around. In the case of MySQL it's ubiquitous across hosting services, easy to use, very fast once you've tuned it a bit, and there's clients for pretty much every language. You need to weigh those things against all its problems, and often you'll find it's actually a good option if you're doing web work that you need to deploy to environments you have little control over - less so now than 5 years ago admittedly, but that is the reason MySQL is so popular - because before the devops trend that's got web teams running their own servers most sysadmins made MySQL the only database available.
KDEConnect pulls the whole KDE dependencies with it which I do not want while using Unity. That is the only thing that is stopping me from using it. Pushbullet works well for now.
Exactly! This is about as secure as having your first dog's name as a password reset hint. I either already know or can simply ask about the birthday, address and mother's maiden name of practically anyone I know.
Yes. Any mirrors?
Seems like the repo was deleted.
Yea I'm wondering this too.

Now, I know that DNS can be a little bit scary when you dig into the details, and sure, it can be a little verbose, but it's not so bad that it's immoral!
Yeah, looks like he wasn't ready accept PR and issues.
The price for BS alone is down below $10k (afaiu, LTE oder Multi-system BS are at $20k). But to run this as a system you need more boxes than the BS only.
Interestingly enough, the page itself is an example of the very thing it criticizes: http://imgur.com/aQJvlG3. Almost half the screen is an ad when you load the page.
Both number of devices and bandwidth could be conserved if we had a standard protocol for these things to talk to a local hub that would (a) proxy interactions with the outside, (b) enforce privacy rules and (c) handle management overhead.

As it is now, a house can easily find itself with three brands of "smart" light bulbs, a thermostat, a power meter, six video systems and a camera: all of them demanding their own IP address and exposing varying levels of private information.

I expect there are six standards for such hubs already. Insert XKCD here...
While it most definitely is open source, it nicely shows the difference between an open source project and an open source product (which, on top, is cannibalizing the other, ridiculously high priced mainline inhouse DB)
That policy is for a first-hand phone. Does the same policy continue for a second-hand phone (which is basically "refurbish them for use")?
What do you mean by "whois does not work on IP addresses",

$ whois 185.100.87.84

Abuse contact info: abuse@flokinet.is

inetnum: 185.100.87.0 - 185.100.87.255
netname: FlokiNET-Romania
descr: FlokiNET ehf
country: RO
admin-c: KW2732-RIPE
tech-c: KW2732-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: FlokiNET
created: 2015-12-15T13:52:42Z
last-modified: 2016-02-05T18:53:56Z
source: RIPE

person: FlokiNET ehf
address: P.O. Box No 4
address: 121
address: Reykjavík
address: ICELAND
phone: +3544150300
nic-hdl: KW2732-RIPE
mnt-by: is-flokinet-1-mnt
created: 2015-05-13T15:26:09Z
last-modified: 2016-02-01T06:46:24Z
source: RIPE

route: 185.100.87.0/24
descr: FlokiNET ehf
origin: AS200651
mnt-by: FlokiNET
created: 2016-02-05T18:52:09Z
last-modified: 2016-02-05T18:52:09Z
source: RIPE
https://github.com/akash0x53/pirateflix
>No noise pollution.

EVs will still generate a fair amount of noise pollution. There will be important improvements for city quality of life, mostly in reductions in the sub 35kmh acceleration/deceleration moments. But for highway speeds the reductions will not be that big.

Check this interesting wikipedia article for reference.
Linking to the part that lists the basic variables that affect Roadway Noise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise#Description_of_b...
It has been taken down :(
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Reading these comments sounds like people think we're in China.

Next we're going to be arresting people who make knives, because you know, people can use them for illegal activities.
Every time I see a new tiling window manager I get a little thrill of excitement. Then I discover it's identical to every other one, including the one I already use. This isn't a complaint. I'm really happy with how pointless they make constant tweaking and customising
Website hacked: SBM account holders lose heavily to fraudsters
I've have gotten good results with Oracle Flight Recorder. A big downside is that it requires a license from Oracle for production use.
Standard arguments against your position:

- Using without paying is immoral, you should just do without.

- Even if it's OK for you to do so, we know that many people will illegally download films they could buy, hence offering these tools is unethical.

- As programmers, we rely on copyright for our income, hence it's unethical to infringe on the copyright of others.

Did I miss any? The feelings of deja vu in these threads are way too strong.
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Well, I thought he deleted the repo, cause he didn't like my issue :P
We (Lyst) recently shared our code review guidelines on GitHub:

https://github.com/lyst/MakingLyst/tree/master/code-reviews

We've tried to find a balance being keeping momentum and making sure you're shipping good quality code.
> Who has the best margins in the automotive industry? Porsche.

You can't really split Porsche off from the rest of the Volkswagen group; their margins derive largely from taking commodity VAG platforms* and adding bespoke engines, tuning magic and brand cachet.

If they had to return to the pre-1990s stand-alone operating model they'd be as unprofitable as, well, Tesla.

If you do want to compare them to another car company it'd be AMG or Alpina who operate in the same manner and enjoy the same benefits of mass-produced chassis.

* which are developed with a lot of Porsche input but are made on common production lines before being shipped to the 'brands' for completion
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For what it's worth, I answered accurately (except for my email address) and was told that we had a FALSE% chance of suffering a DDOS attack.

Needs some work.
it does not implement basic database features correctly

For 99% of use cases that doesn't really matter though. Google, Facebook, Github, etc all started out using MySQL to drive the data behind their services. Some of them still do. Yes, you have to work around the problems, but it's still a very powerful piece of technology.
> Inspite of importing more high-end labor than almost any other country?

On a per-capita basis, I don't believe this is anywhere nere correct.
If media is popular, everyone is entitled to it?

Piracy will be rampant even if everyone is able to legally download all media.

PS - I am one of those who are not "well educated with high earning potential". Even as a "poor" person, I am unable to morally justify my selfish actions (piracy)...
I take coding tests when they require up to 3 hours of my time. Once I had a company send me a coding test that they said should not require more than 20 hours. And that was after a 20 minutes talk with the hiring manager. My first convo with anyone on the team.

Asking me to put 20 hours before even meeting the team is laughable. But, seriously, 2 hours is fine. It is fair since all candidates get the same test, plus it gives something to talk about during in-person interview and help avoid the f-ing coding at the whiteboard.
Quoting a Turkish friend:

---start quote---

Luckily there’s no really valuable data, other than personnummer. But i am sure with a little bit of digging it would be super easy, during Gezi police had a pwd like 12345

The important thing with the data is national stats, which is super important commercially. And that is for free now. More spam in the mailbox for everyone.

Obviously, for stalkers, sickos, or pedophiles this is an open source to attack. That is another security concern, because there was no db as in Sweden where you can access someone’s address this easy

---end quote---
Black and white thinking. Content creators still need to get paid. I'd be quite upset if my favorite sites had to shut down due to the rise of ad blocking and non-viable alternatives to ads (like "subscriptions", etc...)
And losses of millions of turkish liras for a while is a feasible trade-off for that?

Whoeves did this is an utter idiot, a profoundly inconsiderate hacktivist, whatever that shall be.
I think that, all other things being equal, you're likely to get a better offer with a solid github profile though.
Besides profiling I also use ad blocking because I hate the usability of most pages which are cramped with ads. It didn’t use to be like that a few years ago. From the moment advertisers decided that their ads should mainly appear above the fold, web page usability went downwards very fast. There are quite a few sites where you can’t see a single thing without scrolling down. I don’t ever recall advertising being so annoying online.
I find the idea of people dressing up simple theft as something other than it is, and in the ill-fitting trappings of a global social good, despite the fact that the institutions being financed by this form of theft were the largest non natural cause of death in the preceding century truly objectionable, too.

Letalone moving onto a particularly egregious sort of theft involved in modern taxation rackets where the burden approaches three quarters of the total earnings of any given individual. If you're cool with this how about I extort you for 75% of your income and then use it to finance a private mercenary company that runs around the globe destroying lives and property for ill-defined "geopolitical objectives"?

But I guess "I find x truly objectionable" is somewhat of a content free statement, unless we're just trying to farm moral outrage from our respective in-groups.
Pfft. I just use the 'min' package on NPM.
Yes, that is truly disgusting.

This is the organisation he/she is talking about: http://www.copyswede.se/in-english/