skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for many folks, at some level, you are enough of an expert in tech ABC that spending a lot more time on it gives diminishing returns. At some point, investing your time in something that's enough of a departure that might only be a 'jr-level' in that tech might be a good thing, while not completely ignoring your previous skills.

Just my own view on this as someone with the 'luxury' of already being 'expert level' enough in certain tech to be able to look at new things.
I think everyone that uses ssh heavily ends up making some form of that script.

Now I'm waiting for Apple to adopt a newer version of openssh
The advice I see everywhere is to do both. Be a "T shaped" individual who has a shallow knowledge over a broad range and a deep knowledge over a narrow range.
It would be interesting to see a demographic comparison between the people who frequent "conventional" bed-and-breakfasts and people who frequently use AirBnB. My (completely uneducated) guess is that the regular-B-and-B crowd skews considerably older, hence the predominance of the Thomas Kinkade-wannabe aesthetic in that segment instead of the more millennial-oriented "AirSpace" aesthetic the article describes.
The problem is, you are ignoring the very real social and political problems in China, either because they are hidden from your view or they do not impact people like you. San Francisco has social problems, but they let their social problems live on the street, as opposed to jailing them and beating them.

It seems that you prefer a world where social problems, mental illness and poverty are hidden from your view by an ethereal force. That is fine, you can live in that pleasant fiction, but don't for a single minute pretend that beating and jailing the homeless is utopia, or that Beijing is anything other than that.
Yes, their criticism of Snopes is misleading and dishonest.

There are several lengthy replies further down, but basically:

Ethics Alert quotes two small sections of a pages-long Snopes pieces, then acts like Snopes wrote nothing else. They claim that Snopes didn't answer the original question while hiding the actual image being analyzed (which Snopes addressed pretty directly). They draw specious conclusions (like equating a temporary 'not guilty' plea with calling the plaintiff a liar). They reveal facts already included by Snopes with the implication that they're unveiling a dirty secret, and without acknowledging that Snopes addressed those topics (in particular, the "Hillary laughed" bit).

They use quotes and facts, but their citations of Snopes are so selective, and use such fragile language breakdowns, that the content they're "responding" to has basically nothing in common with what was actually posted.
The difference in difficulty between Python/Django and WordPress is massive.

To do Django you have to know Python, which is a big assumption. For Wordpress you need basically zero programming knowledge.

Also compared to Flask, Django is much more complicated by making you adhere to their MVT (Model-View-Template).
It's pretty clearly a politically motivated attack on Snopes. Both examples were claims about things regarding Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party which Snopes said were wrong.

The Snopes arguments seem rather convincing to me. The first example was a specific claim based on a meme that went around of Facebook: "Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case."

Snopes said: Yes, she defended the rapist. However, she was appointed by the judge, and the prosecutor on the case backs up Clinton's claim that she didn't want to take the case. There is a tape of her talking about the case, and she does laugh, but to quote Snopes: "When she audibly laughed, she was not laughing about the outcome of the case, but rather about how the case had forever destroyed her faith in polygraph tests because the defendant had taken one and passed (while, presumably, answering questions in a manner Clinton knew or assumed to be false)"

Snopes says it is "Mostly False". I think that is a reasonable assessment based on the evidence available.

I'm not going to summarize the other case at all - I don't think it is worth the time.
Pebble also emailed me some links to http://kickstarter.getpebble.com/s/<unique_identifier> which allowed me to pay through Stripe. The HTTP links redirected me to the same URL except HTTPS, so I was happy enough with it.

It was a couple of weeks ago, but it all looked legit to me and I paid ~$30 which was claimed to be 20% VAT.

Edit: And here's part of an email that was sent out on the 30th of June:

1. Between July 11th and July 24th, we'll send invitations to backers, so you can finalize your pledge.
2. When you get your invite, you'll provide your shipping address and color preference, and we'll collect VAT.
For the record: I am French, but grew up/studied in the countryside and lived in Paris "only" 3 years, for work, after graduation.

What I liked in Paris:

* access to culture, many theaters, cinemas, events, etc.
* huge tech community (tons of meetups)
* relatively cheap food and drinks (but I live in one of the most expensive country now, so feel free to disagree)

What I disliked:

* high rent prices
* housing market flooded with old and flats (and getting older)
* housing price so high that a couple of engineers could not buy anything else than a crappy 40m2
* crazy working hours (with the commute I was often back home only after 8pm), but don't forget that I only worked for early stage startups
They're not mutually exclusive. You can learn a little bit of a lot of things on the path to "going deep" in a single topic. I believe this is how you end up with T-shaped skills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-shaped_skills
25-30 years needed for lifting Indian poor above international poverty line
PE of course is a special term for that single accreditation agency. We can call ourselves whatever we want. The PE types have sued people in some places for calling themselves software "engineers" but they've pretty much given up on that. The work I do is engineering, I'm a professional.
It's very doubtful her platform would be so progressive had she not just fought a brutal primary battle against Bernie Sanders, no doubt the most liberal and socialist-democracy leaning candidate to win popular support in the United States, ever.

As for what the Clintons did in the 90s, not everyone has a rosy picture of their work. They weren't beacons for progressivism except maybe in education, and many of their reforms including the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act are still very controversial on the left. Other reforms like the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act are widely reviled. The Clintons have always been centrists, that's how they got where they are today, and calling them progressive because they have to appease an anti-establishment wing in their party is extremely disingenuous.
It will be confusing to people thinking in a 20th century way, where everything must have one reality.

The future is all about multiple versions of reality maintained simultaneously. There's no reason there has to be a single monetary system with agreement. Small groups of people with different values can have a totally different view of who has how much money.

You're right it's confusing, that's why this hasn't started happening until the software age. Now that we have software, we don't have to understand the books, we just have to be able to write software that can make sense of them.

There will always be a "main Ethereum" for people who need a single-source-of-truth and don't want to deal with multiple realities. But the point of anarchist software is that everyone doesn't have to agree. Everyone can just do their own thing, and elect to share realities when they want to.

This idea that there is one Bitcoin Network and one Ethereum Network is the biggest misconception people have about federated technologies. People imagine consensus means "one truth". But consensus means many truths, each which only have consensus within themselves. There's always been many Bitcoins. We just ignore most of them, by choice. We're so used to someone forcing us at gunpoint to agree to a single universal legal reality that we have a hard time imagining a world where there are lots of different sets of conflicting rules, and individuals choose which ones to pay attention to.
I think it is supremely useful to have a deep understanding of one subject, not necessarily so that you're an expert of that subject, but instead so that you experience the process of working hard to understand something. The challenge of learning something deeply requires more focus, and the focus skills you gain can then be reapplied in the future to learn other topics more quickly.
When the article says Wal-Mart is closing stores, how does it count when they close a normal store and open a super store?

Also, at this point I feel safer buying cables and chargers from Wal-Mart. I now worry about any retailer doing fulfillment for other sellers.
It is not in their national interest to have activities of Chinese citizens controlled by foreign companies. They can create their own services, which will serve a huge domestic market, keep the wealth in the country and support domestic economy.
What I was trying to get at is that the value of money is both absolutely consistent (unit of account) but also completely situational ($10 can save a life). At the same time, the IRR of investing on public markets, like an index fund tracking the S&P 500, is exactly the same for everyone, and anyone can invest 10% of their net worth, whether that is $1,000 or $10,000,000.

The original comment was that holding money generates nothing, you have to risk it, and I completely agree. You can risk 20% of your net worth and you're not risking your livelihood, and odds are in ~8 years your investment will have doubled, and your net worth increased by 20%. For some people that's a thousand dollars, others it's ten million. If you want to double your net worth in less than 30 years, you're going to have to risk a lot more. Everyone has access to the same returns on the public market (and we restrict access to private markets for very good reasons).

So it's a literal definition of risk, and as a percentage of net worth it works well. The problem of massive wealth inequality to me is completely adjacent to risking capital in return for investment returns.
As someone who has recently needed said 6 months in the bank, I agree completely, yes - you need it. I burned out, but I couldn't have done something about it (quit) without that cushion.
Perhaps it may not be winter everywhere all at once?
He never does state that, he says "not saying winter is coming". I.e., regardless of what the future has in store, put yourself in a favorable position.
So $26B in holdings to insure $1.372T in outstanding mortgages, that seem pretty low but since the taxpayers will cover the rest, I guess it's fine to continue handing out subprime mortgages.
Not for non-technical users. It's just another layer or abstraction.
I would say not currently. If anything, I'd say that Docker can make creation and deployment of complex systems more complexed. There's various tools (and work on docker itself) to attempt to simplify this, but I'd say the tooling isn't quite there yet.
Rust and C++ came to mind when I wrote that. That's why I didn't write modern languages _must_, but only called it a minus if they didn't.

And thanks for the relativism in that remark about the most highly polished language from the 1980s. I fear you are right in that (example: today, a colleague said this was the first time he created a thread. He has had a job as a developer for a few years, and, given his age, likely never wrote for a CPU that isn't multi-core. Luckily, he isn't dumb, as he asked what would happen if that thread threw an exception)
Mattermark CEO: “There’s never been a better time for a Series A”
I didn't see that. I think the writer needs to either sell a book and offer whatever he wants for free on the blog, or offer everything for free with no restrictions. I don't see the point in the writer begging or making others feel guilty as a monetization strategy. Either it's free or not.
I guess we can't use ssh for everything.
I love how a 3X exit is a "disappointing end". I'll take disappointment all day long.
You can use google search to bypass paywall.
Become a specialist expert in something well-paying and bound to be in demand for a long time, but learn enough about everything else that management doesn't consider you outdated when they decide to pivot, and may keep you on during the transition.

Become an obsequious corporate yes-man, but be resourceful enough that management will value you as a "self-starter" and "independent thinker".

Be quirky enough to seem creative to management, but synch up perfectly with whatever process is already in place no matter how bizarre or soul-draining. If you rock the boat too much, you -- not the process -- will be considered the problem, as it's easier and cheaper to fire you than it is to implement real change.

If all these things seem self-contradictory, welcome to the mindset of Corporate fucking America. You should see the correct answers to the Unicru tests which are actually used as employee screening for low-level retail positions.
LGBTQQIAAP FTW!

The speechifying conventioneers of the last several weeks had enough trouble pronouncing "LGBT". A more mellifluous acronym (or, dare one suggest, actual word) would make this an easier topic to discuss, but perhaps that wouldn't do justice to it: is every new letter a new inclusiveness?

TFA takes the bathroom brouhaha as its starting point. ISTM the only tenable long-term solution is to have any number of single-toilet rooms, each of which may be used by whoever wants to use it. In locations that serve many people at once, these could be supplemented by a single many-toilet room, reserved for those who are comfortable eliminating in the presence of other humans. Future generations will laugh at us silly Victorians.
Legal confusion threatens to slow data science
Probably, since Walmart presumably doesn't have to work as hard to acquire customers. Better make your VC-subsized purchases before the deal closes!
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, and Google also have established business models in-place. Many younger companies are burning investment dollars in the hopes of turning profitable or being acquired.
That statement makes sense given that there's really never a convenient time to have kids or a point in time at which they will become less expensive. If having kids is a priority for you, it's better to start earlier rather than later because you'll be able to make decisions with the next 18+ years of raising children in mind rather than an uncertain horizon of childlessness followed by the possibility of children.
Docker doesn't do it automatically, of course, but it makes it easier to to build systems that make easier deployment and hosting possible.
6 Ways to Fuel Your Legacy Software
Indeed. Especially the idea of some "silver bullet" truth, the revelation of which is enough to get people to switch parties. People really underestimate the role of loyalty in politics.

The Trump campaign is providing really spectacular examples of this: there are a lot of senior republicans who are really unhappy about him being the candidate, but out of loyalty to the system aren't going to break ranks publicly. But no amount of "surely this will convince people" argument is making a dent in his support.

It's always hard on the internet to know if you're convincing bystanders. Your interlocutor is rarely going to give up, but what about everyone else reading who doesn't want to tip their hand?
Tapping genetics for better beer
I lived in Guangzhou for a couple years, recently moved back to the valley. Passed 5/6 levels of language certification, was enough to communicate with co-workers and deal with my projects and get around.

The biggest obstacle I found was that often my ability to communicate with someone had less to do with my level and more with the person's preconceptions of "foreigners". So there would be some people where I would speak Chinese and they'd have a stunned "Whoah, a talking giraffe!" reaction, and with others it was totally normal and fluid.

The concept of "internationalization" as it exists there is "more people should learn English to communicate with the outsiders", not the sort of melting pot ideal in the US.

Chinese do not distinguish between race, nationality, and language, they are all one thing. It is for some reason inconceivable to 99% of people that any (white-skinned) foreigner could learn Chinese, even though most of us do. Whereas it's a real head-scratcher for them if, for instance, an American of Chinese ethnicity who grew up only with English came to visit and didn't magically know the language.

There were many situations where I found myself excluded from things or where people refused to communicate with me directly at all about things that concern me, which may be as much language as cultural.

So I'd say learning the language is a good investment if you spend any period of time there, but being of non-Asian ethnicity will be a giant road-block to any real sense of integration, in spite of overcoming the language issues.
I tend to agree with the article in general, which has implications that run counter to that piece of advice. Namely, that current success is not necessarily a predictor of future success.
6 months of gross salary, net salary, or expenses?
Nobody puts in that kind of money for a 3x return regardless of time window its not like the VCs can put the money back into something else.

Decent article on this from Fred Wilson
http://avc.com/2009/03/what-is-a-good-venture-return/
FAA approval: http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=20...
> Keep having children

Really? This is fiscal advice?
Jet.com was founded in 2014. How did they get enough traction to be viable when there are so many other online retailers like Amazon, and all the other brick and mortar retailers that also have large online presence.
To be fair, Django doesn't make you adhere to that pattern and you can use Django any way you please. Django has a lot more "in the box" than Flask and I will agree that I think it's more difficult to get started with.
6 absolutely free tools you should definitely use if you are a startup
What about the long term gain?
I hate Canadian bilingual keyboards so much.
I had the opposite reaction: how on earth has no one looked into this!?

But if you dig into it, it's horrifying how little "evidence" goes into treating a lot of common medical conditions. For another trivial example, the stuff in Sudafed PE (phenylephrine) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1081120610... is much worse than the psuedophedrine it replaced.

I wish the NIH (and other funding agencies) would consider running big, confirmatory trials on a lot of "obvious" things that affect people every day, the money clearly isn't there and it's politically difficult to get it there:
There are a fair number of ignorant Congressman in the US who love to rant about 'wastes' of government money on studies like these.
Zizek is so far out of his depth here that it's comical, and it shows in his juvenile "trans leads to bestiality" concern troll. Idiotic. Does LARB have an editor, or are they just supremely aware of the fact that even the worst garbage by name-brand thinkers will get eyeballs on the page?

I don't even know how to approach the weird discourse on Jews....
I don't know about a study, but I figure if you're a real expert in something—especially something less trendy than the suggested topics—your job expectations can become mostly decorrelated from the broader job market. It's like the job equivalent of a hedge fund. What that actually looks like depends on the field your specialize in and the sort of connections you can build but, hey, in the worst case you can always revert to a generic developer job.
Obligatory Matthew Garrett quote from a Linux kernel EFI patch in 2011:

UEFI stands for "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", where "Firmware"
is an ancient African word meaning "Why do something right when you can
do it so wrong that children will weep and brave adults will cower before
you", and "UEI" is Celtic for "We missed DOS so we burned it into your
ROMs".

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/228
> That'd be a killer position for Microsoft to be in.

What do you mean by this? I don't deal with things of that scale, but I would imagine it would put Wal-Mart in a very good position to negotiate down near at-cost. It could be good for Microsoft on the PR front against Amazon, but bad for profit margins (on this one account).
I don't think drones are going to fully replace anything we have now, but they are going to augment other methods.

The "last mile" is extremely inefficient to do in a delivery truck. Especially so in suburban areas.

Ships, trains, trucks, and even normal cars will probably always be cheaper than a drone in terms of raw price per lb of stuff moved, but there is a big "want" in the market for quick deliveries.

To use an already overused analogy, a truck full of hard drives isn't going to replace your home internet connection any time soon.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-crea...
Prominent founder who previously sold a company to Amazon for half a billion, and a whole lot of funding.
It appeared so, but then I clicked "vouch" and it came back. Of course, this may just be a sort of hell-vouch, visible only to me? [EDIT:] No, not a hell-vouch; it still appears in incognito.

[EDIT 2:] ...and now it's flagged again. Philosophy on HN casts pearls before swine. If I were illiterate I would call it "ironic". A simple essay that addresses matters of broad public discussion (certainly on HN) in slightly idiosyncratic fashion (not rude, not disrespectful, only a bit out of the rut of banal everyday discourse), is immediately round-filed by the right-thinking brigade? Could there be a more convincing proof of TFA's title?
Wanted to pop in here and expound on the topic.

CrashPlan has versioning that is set (by default) to back up changed files in 15 minute increments. If a file is corrupted, CrashPlan will attempt to back up the changes as it is not a corruption detection utility.

However, it's versioning allows for a user to easily restore the uncorrupted file by selecting a date prior to the corruption occurring.

This process is explained in greater detail here:

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Recov...

The default versioning can be adjusted, so ultimately it's the responsibility of the individual user to confirm the health of their backup and verify the versioning frequency that best fits their needs.
I agree. On my latest job, it took more than three weeks from me accepting their offer to a starting date, normally this is fine, but I was unemployed at the time. By contrast, my previous job was ready to start weeks before I was.
There aren't going to be a study on there because the most relevant feature is evolutionary adaptation. Going deep on a single topic works great when that topic is in vogue, but leaves you open to disastrous results if that topic loses its sheen (or becomes over-subscribed with competition). Think, for example, of those poor engineers who invested their lives in BlackBerry systems. Conversely, seeking to build a wide range of skills necessarily reduces your ability to go deep on any one topic, but gives you the ability to more quickly react to shifts in the industry.

Thus, anecdotally at least, my company (and I) advise our staff to become 'T-shaped' - have one area of deep competence, but familiarize yourself with other areas at least to the extent that you can have an intelligent conversation on the topic. This leaves you desirable for your knowledge but not forever tied to that one area.

I know you wanted a study, and the above is anecdotal, but it's based my experience recruiting and many discussions with candidates.
You must mean something else besides rxvt, which doesn't support Unicode.