skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After pouring through your comments throughout this thread I'm kinda left with the following conclusion (take it for what its worth, a random person on the internet): you have a mindset problem, and you're generalizing to the point that you wouldn't be able to accept nearly any job, or be happy in one.

You've determined:
Most companies are bad/wrong/awful/burnout machines
All recruiters are either spambots or leeches

If you have this mindset, you've set the bar way too high. You say you've turned down many positions, and yet are in a big financial struggle now. Take a job that doesn't sound quite as bad as the others, before you're forced to take ANY job. I'll bet this rubs off on anyone who's interviewing you as well. You obviously have the skills and experience necessary to be a good engineer from what you've said, but engineers are in higher demand now than just about ever. If you can't find a job to your liking, the problem is you, not the industry.
Why I turned down $500K and shut down my startup
So no one has replicated your findings and you're better than everyone else? K.

edit:

TBH it looks like you're making multiple accounts to comment on your own posts to make the comments that disagree with you appear lower.

You and the child above mine had this same conversation 383 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584269

This is pathetic.

for posterity:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160609010955/https://news.ycom...

https://web.archive.org/web/20160609014033/https://news.ycom...
All governments and bureaucracies suck. Let's keep the internet in the hands of the one that has the strongest legal commitment to free speech and due process. Not even European countries, with their narrower and more nuanced conceptions of free speech, are fit for this purpose.
SMTP is ancient and we've been piling crap on top of it for 20 years to keep it working (and all the OSI layer 5, 6 and 7 things that depend on mail continuing to flow). SPF, DKIM, DMARC, IMAP daemons that present email over TLS1.2, clamAV and realtime malware scanning/filtering, spamassassin, bayesian filtering and analysis of mail body contents, email-to-SMS gateway, SMS-to-email gateways, I could probably make this list 4x as long.

But it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
I think it is important to acknowledge why people do things they do.

- Somali pirates and Congolese poachers: poor and miserable conditions with no perspective to get out of it

- patent trolls: greedy, moral-less legal positivists

- serial killers: psychopaths

- ISIS terrorists: brainwashed losers, who want easy answers, a mission, a group and a leader

- child molesters: I would say mentally ill

If you see it like this, you can fix the problems below. You will still have to protect society from serial killers, but all others seem to be solvable.

- African criminals: fix Africa

- legal positivists: fix the law

- ISIS terrorists: fix ghettos

- child molesters: fix paedophilia

Of course this will only fix the problem for future generations. Potential patent trolls will be assholes in a post-troll world, too, but you will always have to deal with those. There are paedophiles who are not human scum, but are aware what consequences their actions could have. That is also why the catholic church with its celibacy is so attractive to some of them.

I personally think that institutions must act perfectly morally, but personally affected individuals should be required ultima ratio to act against morals and be later judged and punished for it. So in this case, when you are a small developer and there is no way out …
But you'd give cf that cname I think
Thank you. That's pretty much exactly right.
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My expectations are that if she discovered a magnetic monopole there's probably something wrong with her calculations.
Given that any such international organization would be controlled by groups of countries, and given that US free speech protections are vastly stronger than anywhere else in the world, I say we don't fix what ain't broken. No need to give Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia a vote. Even huge swaths of Europe would try to control hate speech, or try to impose their privacy laws on the rest of us.
"only a handful of countries that seem to get the whole "free speech" thing correct, the US among them"

I have to wonder about that, especially with the fight over net neutrality.
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I wasn't trying to make any particular point as opposed to just presenting some data. As a quick summary, it seemed reasonable to combine the GPL versions while keeping the other different licenses separate (even if a number of them are of the weak/no-copyleft variety). In general, a variety of published analyses have shown a general increase in non-copyleft license use vs. strong copyleft but I haven't seen such an analysis recently.

If I wanted to compare strong copyleft with no copyleft, I'd probably combine all the GPL variants (including LGPL and certainly GPL) and compare that number to, at a minimum, MIT + BSDs + Apache. That leaves out a lot of licenses in terms of absolute number but covers a pretty wide swath of projects.
Forever a fan dave! Thank you so much for teaching me about the open web from all your blog posts :)
Roomcarnage has a rather compelling story as well -

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=139393.0
Well for various definitions of fine I guess.
> You can link an MP3 or video file to a post, and 1999.io will generate standard RSS 2.0 enclosure code in your site's RSS feed.

What? No Atom? No NewsML? That is so 1999.
Of course, other countries don't need the USA to regulate their own internet infrastructure - they can fork off their own DNS and IANA functions within their countries, with as much or little cooperation with the USA as they desire.
The thing about smart home hubs is that you actually need one. Zigbee or z-wave or some other 900MHz channel is a really good way for these smart home devices to talk to each other, and for that to happen you need some sort of radio operating as a 900MHz hub.

It's not just that all these vendors want to be the hub, something has to do the communication.
Agreed. I think the other part of it is organizational blindness, as well. They reacted to OCS in the same manner that Microsoft reacted to the iPhone. They were the established player with a mature platform and here came along a service that did things radically different and lacked, what they perceived, as the major features that customers in that space were looking for so they simply laughed at the product. Companies certainly didn't flock to it like people flocked to the iPhone (a trick I think only Apple can pull off), but by comparison, Cisco's offering provided a far less integrated experience at a greater cost and once those back-end features got worked out (or were no longer relevant), they had a surprise competitor with (at the time[1]) a much lower price. Couple that with the fact that people are far more comfortable with making video/voice calls from a PC due to Skype (consumer) and the idea of getting rid of your desk phone[2] and taking it with you on your laptop for all of your "business phone needs" isn't so radical anymore.

[1] At the time, there wasn't even a comparison. It took far fewer servers, cheap (by comparison) licensing that gave you dial-in conferencing for the cost of the server and the call's cost (no additional per-minute surcharge for the privilege of using a bridge). I haven't priced a Cisco equivalent in a while so that may all be different, today.

[2] You can still have a phone with Skype for Business (and they're great phones from what I've seen) and many companies still pop those phones on desks. I worked at Global Crossing when we switched, though, and we required a departmental waiver to get a physical phone (to save money). People did get decent, certified, headsets, but we made the switch the way people take band-aids off and there was a lot of bleeding in the first couple of months. It died down once people got used to it and within a half-year, meeting rooms went empty in favor of calls with desktop sharing (one can multitask and no need to walk down the hall carrying your laptop). Laziness always wins. :o)
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I agree this is a problem worth solving. But shouldn't it be solved for every country, not just the US?

As a non-US citizen, I find it strange that matters of global internet governance are discussed with apparently mostly arguments about US-specific issues.
I think what is meant by a non-last mile user is someone who tends to stay in cities and suburbs, and rarely, if ever, ventures into rural areas, where cell phone service is still often non-existent or limited to one carrier that may or may not have a roaming agreement with your own carrier.
Would incorporating your tech company in England instead of the USA protect your company from these patent troll lawsuits? It's extremely easy to start a company based in England, even as a US citizen living in the USA. With the patent trolling this out of control in the US at the moment, would basing your company abroad offer you any protection?
Are you saying that Hillary should avoid the female pronouns?

I have to say, ImWithHer seems pretty innocuous to me. Gerald Ford had, "He's making us proud again." Goldwater: "In Your Heart, You Know He's Right." Would you say they were unnecessarily emphasizing their maleness, their role in upholding the patriarchy... or is it just that most of us use "he" and "she"?

War hawk, sure. Using "her" to refer to herself, ...
I don't mind hosting my DNS at registrar, since they provide the service, but I do want to have secondary DNS servers/provider somewhere else: dns.he.net (free), or paid service elsewhere. But, unfortunately, none of the registrars I tried allow you to have secondary DNS server, ie allow dns AXFR for the zone file. (godaddy, hover, gandi, namecheap and 1and1 -- note, I tried them over the time and asked all of them for AXFR to have secondary zone elsewhere -- all of them declined. Latest and current is Hover).

After long time researching, I've decided to use $2/month plan on cloudns.net for primary DNS, and secondary at dns.he.net.
Why Taiwan Is Far Ahead of Mainland China in High-Tech
Bit OT but does this count as a garden path sentence? I originally parsed it like:

- "The leaky bucket of Indian food" - a leaking bucket of Indian food

- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery" - a metaphorical leaky bucket of delivering Indian food

- "The leaky bucket of Indian food delivery startups" - metaphorical leaky bucket that is Indian startups delivering food.

I don't know that the second change in meaning counts as a garden path, though, since while it did change the noun modified by "Indian" from "food" to "startup", that was from context, not gramatical necessity.
What exactly is yours? The german internet exchange points? The hunderds of chinese internet start-ups?
An excellent question... their carp, maybe?
The world trusts the United States to correctly manage the foremost reserve currency. Many countries trust our military to protect them in times of need.

I agree that making it more international is ostensibly a good thing, but in reality I haven't seen a good argument that the world, or the internet, would actually be better off.

Specifically, while countries like the US don't have perfect human rights track records, we are much better than countries like China. And if we're going to give them even a bit of control of this infrastructure because "its the right thing to do", well, I can't agree with that.

Yes, there are practically philosophical questions like "who gave us the right do manage this" or "what happens if we screw it up?", but in reality we're doing a pretty great job and until that changes I think internationalizing it would just be trying to fix something that isn't broken.
Someone really needs to create a patent that defines methods of patent trolling, so every time one of these scumbags starts a lawsuit you can sue them.
From [1]....“All of our home towns are sitting on a tax-liberating gold mine,” Deputy Ron Hain of Kane County, Ill., wrote in a self-published book under a pseudonym. Hain is a marketing specialist for Desert Snow, a leading interdiction training firm based in Guthrie, Okla., whose founders also created Black Asphalt.

Desert Snow created civil forfeiture training seminars for law enforcement. Black Asphalt is a system "that enabled police nationwide to share detailed reports about American motorists — criminals and the innocent alike — including their Social Security numbers, addresses and identifying tattoos, as well as hunches about which drivers to stop."

Now, he's stealing debit cards. This guy is quite the civil forfeiture innovator.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...
Ours only make noise when they are laying eggs. We have 4 in our pretty small yard and ours make quite a lot of noise when they are laying, but that only lasts a few minutes usually.
I'm not particularly enthused with how the code was presented. Here's a marginally more readable version of the first large snippet that still doesn't exceed 77 (or 79) characters in width:

https://gist.github.com/austinzheng/dbee353163eb22920d7a567c...
Also depending on the method they use to drain the card. What about interchange fees that cards brands charge for transactions?
I recently did a lot of research into this as part of a project. As far as actual laws on the books (and not whatever one's political opinion of how they tend to be applied), the U.S. isn't just "one of" - it is literally the only country in the world matching descriptions like "first-world", "liberal", and "democratic", that does not have some variety of broad, nation-level laws against insulting people or groups of people. Aside from the U.S., only a handful of completely random small countries happen to lack such laws.

So, as far as I can tell, the U.S. is practically unique in having the most liberal free speech protections, and actually unique among any countries that could be considered peers.
You are right, but as I described "Brutalism" is a scientific term, not a social construct. There was an inventor, there are sources. The meaning inside its scope is well-defined.

If you would now go ahead and use it to describe a concept of a different scope where it does not apply at all, say web designs, you could do that, but you would expose that you just tried to name something in a sciency way to sound sophisticated without having any idea what the term actually means.
Zero-downtime deployments using NGINX
Yes it is easy to use. But too bad it also fails "transactions" silently so that you don't even know if your changes were "committed" or not. Don't worry, it only happens every once it a while so it's not a big deal...

Unless you are coinbase or an organization that deals with money/bitcoins/etc and you need ACID compliant transactions so that "debits/credits" don't just magically disappear.

When the bitcoin craze was going crazy, coinbase had all kinds of problems due to their mongodb backend.
If how the individual came into possession of the property is a mystery, how is it clear the property was illegally obtained? I would be hard-pressed to prove that many of my assets truly belong to me.

Edit: all of this is off-topic, as the bank can be proven the owner and the police would not keep the money.
and you don't fall under any of their 3 use cases.. which the closest for you would be -"to help individuals share their own content with 3rd party applications"

My issue is that they only will give "basic" permission to 3rd party apps? (which it seems like it under their valid use examples). My app DOES help individuals share there own Instagram photo content (like Tinder profile connects with users Instagram photos) but I also need public_content and follower_list.. and not sure if they will just deny with "one off project!"...
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Then why doesn't apple create a trial mode? Photoshop has one. The solution to try before buying isn't a subscription model, the solution is a trial.
There are many 24hr turn PCB fab houses too. Usually costs an extra 150-200RMB for that service, which by western standards is still an absolute steal.
Ugh, I hate feeling like a Silicon Valley naysayer, but this outlook is entirely wishful thinking and not remotely rooted in fundamentals. But hey, why ruin a good story?

Baron was once a legitimate investor and knew how to root out value, but now his business is fees off of a massive AUM. Its hard putting $26B to work in the market at a reasonable rate of return, so I guess he's resorting to "talking his book" and investing in popular stocks to make his wealthy clients feel comfortable in the crowd.

He's apparently already gotten a little bounce off his comments, so good for him I guess.
Ah. That's a really important detail..
I disagree. Write a kernel driver on Linux and NT and you'll see how much more superior the NT I/O subsystem is.

Can programming against the userspace interface the I/O subsystem really be compared to programming against the kernel driver interface to I/O subsystem? In Linux, kernel drivers have access to structures, services, and layers that userspace doesn't. And can these be compared between a monolithic and a micro-kernel approach, other than what has been debated ad nauseam for micro/monolithic kernels in general (not just used for I/O)?
That's a good idea, but it comes with caveats:

- You need a cellular data or Wi-Fi connection to send and receive text messages, even on your Project Fi phone

- You will no longer receive SMS messages in your default SMS app, instead you will receive SMS and voicemail in Hangouts on the web and all of your devices
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The plan still exists, you just have to jump through hoops to find it: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/other-prepaid-plans

Had to go to prepaid plans > Individual plan > Talk and text only Link underneath (even though the plan is the opposite, good labeling).

(Screengrab of how I got to it in case they're doing cookie/referer checks and the direct url doesn't work: http://paste.click/VSgPVD )
I mock .NET all the time. I was unaware I needed a framework?
>We've seen where the money goes and how it's been misspent

Serious question, where does the money go and how is it spent? Who is it spent by?

We do have a process for the confiscation of proceeds of crime here in Australia. I believe the money goes into a big pot controlled by a federal government department (https://www.afsa.gov.au/ ie not the police) to be spent on community projects. I am sure that there is plenty of scope for waste etc but if nothing else the system would seem to do a good job of removing any financial incentives for the police to seize stuff.
The DHS seems to have seized non-US domains in the past on disputed legal grounds.[1]

I'm not completely sure, but I'd think a transfer to a non-US entity would make this harder in the future.

[1] http://blog.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-domai...
People are used to the POSIX readiness model, that's all. And you can kind of make it work on Windows, even though the performance is not great. OTOH, porting an IOCP-oriented application to Linux will give you catastrophic performance because you need to use many threads to replicate the async model on top of the synchronous Linux I/O calls.

And for some reason, people get very defensive when you point out some of the advantages the NT kernel has over Linux. I mean, I use Linux, I don't like to use Windows but I have no problem admitting the IOCP model is better and async I/O on Linux is a sad broken mess. Denying it only serves to keep it that way.
For a company that claims to be the #1 best place to work, the hiring forms process is awful.

Forcing applicants to fill out all the info in their resume into your system chases off any good developers including this one.
You can get a checkmate in 5 moves:
http://imgur.com/E5XTouu
Nope, it's still the "new" design: https://icons8.com/request-icon/free/hot
By that logic you could get rid of the complete UN though.
Completely agree! I resisted replacing a laptop for more than 2 years because all of the options available were 16:9 and I had an nice, high-resolution 4:3 display. That was years ago.

In my basement office, I have both of my displays set at a vertical orientation. When I took a new job, which has me working full time out of my home, I vowed to get used to using my laptop's display (and purchased a laptop based almost entirely on the display characteristics) because I wanted to be able to code wherever I was. This resulted in my writing an extension for Visual Studio to help identify certain code blocks I often scroll around aimlessly for and using parts of the IDE that I hadn't often used due to being able to see even terribly written classes all on one screen.

With a few adaptations, which included relaxing my style rules, I'm as productive on my 1080P display as I am with those two monitors. Some things are more difficult, but its made up for by being able to get up and work outside, up the road or on the beach up north, when I run into a wall with a coding problem. I require fewer breaks because I work feels less like work when you can change your environment on a whim rather than adapt to it.
You should allow to reset password to the users without authentication (and therefore without authorization).

That's the nature of password reset link.
That language is a social construct does not imply that everyone must automatically accept any usage someone else proposes as equally valid as any other. Individual people, as well as groups, are free to reject any drift or change in meaning as they see fit.

Indeed, this is by far the usual case. People collectively can, and do, reject almost all proposed novel usages, which are quickly forgotten. We just remember the few cases where things change due to survivorship bias.
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Hah nice. Probably not the kind of firm you want to be messing with, however...

Then again I'll just leave this here.

http://uniloc.com/wp-content/backup-9b7a1/uniloc_wpu_2012032...
Easily monetizatable ideas (as a service).
Heh, 10 years old, original link doesn't work, image is tiny. And it sounds like they were comparing Linux and Apache to IIS and Windows.

It's hard to evaluate this in any way more than "yeah that's a cute spaghetti diagram". If I wanted to drag Linux through the mud visually I'd depict how much time every socket I/O op spends in vfs/fsync stuff. (i.e. you can depict anything to make your point)
Do you mean the SpaceJam website?

http://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm

I go here every now and then. Not sure why.
It's important to understand the difference between "any medical care you want" and "any emergency medical care you need". Emergency is the key word there, and it's generally applied in a fairly common sense way. (When it comes to payment things are far more screwed up in the US, but for "not denying care" it's pretty straightforward.)
"But I'm no more afraid of getting shot by the police than I am of dying in any other unlikely way (terrorist attack, random serial killer, etc.)."

You may be unafraid, but there is an order of magnitude difference between your examples. Serial killers murder about 150 people per year, terrorist attacks killed 19 in 2015. Cops killed 1146 people.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/0...

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/...
Does anyone know if pre-paid cards will be required to go chip-in-card due to the EMV liability shift?
..and the fact that no one called it blogging in 1999.
Cruz and other Republicans have been raising concerns over this matter for over two years now [1]. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Sanders.

[1] http://www.thedomains.com/2014/04/02/35-senators-demand-answ...