skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting by as a tech worker in Canada is possible. The way I made it work was to take remote roles. Don't live in the Vancouver or Toronto areas, if possible - that's just not going to work, given the out-of-control cost of living associated with both areas. There are still plenty of places one can live in Canada that are not saddled with such costs.
Add a meal and a PPI and I couldn't agree more.
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> you can rent

Vancouver literally has a 0.5% rental vacancy rate right now. If you put up an ad on Craigslist for an apartment for rent it'll get 50 replies in two hours. People are getting into bidding wars on apartments.
They wouldn't have to be recompiled. Unity apps running via UWP don't execute directly in the browser document context, UWP is it's own stand-alone plugin which is then embedded where needed in the page (similar to Flash and Java), this is why you have to download the UWP executable in addition to the browser plugin. The browser plugin is merely a wrapper for the UWP binary.

Unity apps compiled against the UWP runtime should run all the same regardless of whether UWP is wrapped in an NPAPI or PPAPI plugin, unless the wrapper plugins themselves and/or how they call the UWP runtime are implemented differently.
In the handbook, Figure 2.0‐1 "SE in context of overall project management" shows the relationship between systems engineering and project management. While some SE responsibilities overlap with those of project management, the larger set of responsibilities focus on technical work. Microsoft Project isn't intended to be used to define requirements, perform technical trade studies, model and compare alternative system architectures, or configuration manage technical artifacts of the engineering process.

Hope that helps to clarify my prior comment. Happy to discuss more.
> the project lead, who was, um, difficult

ah! it's been so long, i've been so busy i couldn't
remember who you were, out of curiosity had to
look you up. yes. i remember. from successful
experience of 10 years using wikis for note-taking
in reverse-engineering projects, you insisted on
posting unstructured information to a mailing list
where it was then utterly impossible for anyone to
find it (i don't mean me), help you with it (i don't
mean me), collaborate with you on it (i don't mean me)

so... let's rewrite what you said to reflect it from
your perspective.

> the project lead who has a lot of experience in
> complex reverse-engineering, ongoing documentation,
> information management and software libre, asked
> me to respect certain rules... and i refused to do
> so, causing his life and everybody's life to
> become, um, "difficult"

you were causing me a significant amount of work by
having to cut/paste things that you were writing to
the list instead of putting them in the wiki and
sending a link as i asked you to do, so that i was
the one that was forced to clean up after you.
not really very fair of you to do that to someone
is it... but you blamed me for that? uhn??? how
does that work??

so... yeah - that you left the list was a good thing
because i was able to focus on what i was doing rather
than having to clean up after you. sorry if you felt
that that was unfair or "a run-in" or was "difficult",
but it's real simple: when trying to find important
information, if it's unstructured, it might as well
not ever have been written. there's only so much that
a google search can achieve. i trust that in the
intervening years you've learned that by now.
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This is like watching a flaming dumpster fire.
I have used Mef before! Worked out pretty well.
Reproduction and dying off is not our natural instinct, it's not the strategy chosen by our genes. Humans have evolved to form families, communities and rich cultural systems to serve our "selfish genes". To see the reproduction maximizing strategy in action, you can look at other forms of life.
Some things end up in different box than they were in before when you cleaning up your house. Have you never moved your code from one package to another?
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That's so damn cool. So does the SEC regularly just raid places or wiretap them or ...? Seems like more sophisticated financial scams can just go undetected or impossible to prosecute if you split it up enough.
In my own relationship world, I've had dry spells, and I've had periods of abundance. I've had enjoyable relationships, and .... "less than fully satisfying" relationships. "Exercising" with others -- even those with whom I was not fully invested in -- is much more satisfying than going solo.

These old prohibitionists certainly didn't understand that not everyone finds it easy to find someone else to exercise with.

Plenty of horny people got in my cab... Horny men were easy to spot - sometimes they were going to meet up with someone else, sometimes to/from a strip club, sometimes to the porn shop, sometimes to the sex club... Sometimes women had a glow about them - because of where they were going, because of where they were coming from... There were three women who found me to be intriguing. I wasn't expecting that, I never heard from them again.

Most of these masturbation prohibitions were on men, but I know that women get frustrated too. Most of them internalize it, or find a new boy-friend. I had to provide counseling for one of these women, one night. That diary was titled The Difference Between Boys and Girls:

http://www.taxiwars.org/2016/02/the-difference-between-boys-...
I think there is more talk on HN about Raft. It ended up in some new visible open source projects etcd, RethinkDB. Any major companies the size of Amazon or Google running on raft?

As for Paxos I think Amazon, Google (Spanner), Microsoft? have all implemented Paxos based systems are built and in production for a while. Basho has made it part of their Riak database etc.

I mean, sure if popular is just number of times it appeared on HN recently, yes, raft wins hands down. But otherwise, I think Paxos still seems like the workhorse of distributed consensus.
Everything old is new again - serial port debugging has been invaluable for me when I was messing with the Dreamplug, and then the Raspberry Pi.

I think I'd add using a serial-based terminal to that list too. Embedded hardware can be infuriating, but fun.
You do. The interesting thing about paracetamol is that toxicity arises at only about 3 times the maximum daily recommended dose. For a drug which is perceived as so safe it's common for someone to continue downing them when they're in pain and become quite sick. Certainly a problem of education, not the drug itself.
I beg to differ. (Since we're all talking frankly in this thread about masturbation.) Masturbation is what makes porn porn. Without the threat of masturbation, porn would just be boring medical images. (I say this without wandering into the subject of whether the porn industry has side effects like human trafficking or objectification of women, etc. Those are bad, but it's a different question. The question at hand is whether it medically harms the "self-abuser".)
Sounds promising. But not sure what this adds on top of Hangouts, which has a great group (and of course one to one) video calling feature. The only difference seems that Duo works with phone numbers, not Google Accounts.
Google culture is hiring the smartest or most motivated college grads, paying them to babysit legacy money printing systems built by the generation before them, then occasionally encouraging them to team up and clone popular services from other companies and startups.

The clones get passed around the campus for dogfooding until enough interest builds up and the project goes up the chain of command until a VP (at the time Marissa) signs off on it with notes on what to improve along with granting the necessary resources to spin it up.

Then if someone decides the project has legs they figure out how to engineer it for Google's audience and launch. If it doesn't work then the team disperse and move on to another project. Or it works and the team gets a moment in the sun.

Every single popular thing on the internet has a Google clone somewhere in the intranet.
Only if you are doing it wrong.
Their Jazz Network is so bizarre... http://investor.neuromama.com/neuromama-library-of-entertain...
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I know these will be preinstalled on Android, but many friends and family use iOS and I will feel silly asking them to install Duo and Allo.

Hangouts is able to mix voice, video and text just fine. Why start requiring separate apps?

This is Google at its dumbest. They are squandering the small amount of momentum Hangouts has.
Peter Thiel seems to be the polar opposite to a majority of Facebook's board. Not to say you don't have a point.
> How does it stay at this level from generation to generation?

Perhaps the trait is mostly non-genetic.

Gay passengers had a tendency to hit on me. I tried to be courteous, but did not appreciate the shoulder-rubs.
Sounds more like my friends doing ibanking in NY than my friends doing startups in SF.
Nintendo should do what Rockstar did with GTA on mobile platforms. I would not hesitate to pay $5 per game if they did.
These days tar autodetects zipfiles, and you don't usually need to see the files as they come out, so you can do 'tar xf' instead...
"The only difference seems that Duo works with phone numbers, not Google Accounts"

Which is a huuuuuge difference. This is the same factor that made whatsapp so popular on the smartphone compared to all other other chat apps that were popular at the time (including google talk) but where each system was using a different account creation/login flow on that tiny screen, Whatsapp came along and had the brilliant insight/accident of simply supporting your phone's addressbook to find you and your friends. Even facebook chat couldn't keep up with them even though facebook app was installed pretty much on every internet connected phone at the time. Rest is history.
The graph's wrongly labelled. You may want to fix that.
> Hangouts is able to mix voice, video and text just fine.

For varying values of "just fine". For me, hangouts is probably the worst performing app on mobile, desktop and tablet. It's so bad that even Skype shames it. And FaceTime...well let's not even compare.
It depends:

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is portable, whereas:

source

is not... which was a surprise. :)
Just curious, isn't this kind of basic legitimacy verification supposed to be done by the peer reviewing process? Are scientific journals really publishing papers so obviously illegitimate that laymen with a bit of statistical knowledge can spot obvious errors or problems?
There are usually ways securely to backup HSMs to other HSMs.
I might. I might also be interested in just the initial delivery and web interface to remind me when to replace things, with an option to order the replacement from you or just buy it myself.
Do you mean social media sites? People voluntarily give up that information to the public, so it could reasonably not be considered private.

The sex tape would be considered private.

Presumably he draws his line somewhere between those two extremes.

Has he done anything inconsistent with the position "The paparazzi should not write scandalous articles about famous people"? For example, has he invested in companies similar to Gawker? If not, I don't see any real conflict in his position.
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This limits and subtracts from Hangouts for no real benefit.

Hangouts works on phones, tablets and laptops. It does voice, video and text. Fragmenting these features across apps and devices seems to be a major step backwards...but apparently two apps is simpler than one?
1. build an algorithm to detect (using open cv?) and adjust eye position so they look correct to the viewer
2. patent it and license it to apple/google/microsoft
3. ???
4. profit
Chemistry of a Hangover
I guess that proves it isn't then. Bummer.
The funny thing is, all audio circuits run on DC power, thus necessitating the inclusion of an AC/DC converter in every piece of hifi equipment on the planet.

So if you go to the trouble of setting up a battery bank, it would make sense (both financial and sound quality) to ditch the sine wave inverter and hack your equipment to accept DC directly.

Take a look at this amplifier: http://www.allegrosound.com/Accuphase_P-400.jpg

Those giant round things and square things along the sides? Totally unnecessary if you already have a (DC) battery bank...
A link would be useful.
What kind of gains do you see in practice with tax lots harvesting?
Hey I'm just trying to keep my prostate healthy.
So why can't it be fixed?
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Thanks for your insight and reply.
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I dunno if you're doing it wrong (it sounds better than what I do), but my build for most projects won't build if there are warnings so I don't end up looking at the terminal unless there are errors that I don't really understand.
What is a "startup-friendly registrar"?

Godaddy has lots of annoying upsells in their checkout flow but they're cheap, fast and work just fine as a registrar and DNS host.
Look at what the Daily Beast did _today_ when they ran an article outing olympians. They took the article down and apologized:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/11/a-note-from...

Had Peter Thiel not done the public service he did by backing that lawsuit, I'm not sure that the (aptly-named) Daily Beast would have backed down.

The media doesn't have the right to dig into anyone's bedroom, and Thiel is a hero for standing up to them.
I see your point. However, a shitty surgeon would likely kill someone which would terminate his/her practice. A shitty programmer would keep making shitty software until the day he/she retires. Having said that I do agree that a simple technical conversation works well. The trick is weeding out the talkers which is fairly easy to do once you get to the nitty-gritty stuff and their wheels fall off.
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Rather than employing isolation, you could also use filtering.

In the case of the article, $10k would buy you an unbelievably effective 60hz band-pass filter...
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Which by the way works very well for our daily meetings.
Cool! I stand corrected.
This strategy seems to have born out of Facebook's success with breaking up the app into specialized features (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp etc.)
Only if you're actually paid $100 more by working instead of preparing a meal. Most people on that level of income are paid a fixed annual salary that doesn't change with more hours worked, so whether you spend the time preparing a meal or working makes no difference to your earning.
None of riaa/dmca/drm can prevent pirate from cutting apple headphones with knife and receiving audio directly from speaker wires, so drm argument is pretty weak. What is really worrying me is that "one doesn't simply plug quality 3.5-headphones into lightning socket".
I must admit I was kind of hoping they'd fixed their horrible requirements for your directory structure, interesting article nonetheless
Worse, now I have to find my friends' phone numbers. Is this targeted to people in developing countries who use apps like WhatsApp? Those people don't have fast enough mobile internet to make video calling work.
Read the original post again. I don't care what the news sites said at the time, the guy who wrote the post literally worked on it.

Read the post carefully.
Something about a sucker being born every minute seems appropriate.
However, MongoDB seems to be marching on fine in comparison to other popular NoSQL DBs (viz. CouchDB and RethinkDB) for the past decade - https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2006-08-16%202016...
Yes, being tied to Google account does seem limiting, after all there are more phone numbers than Google Accounts. I have a gut feeling that one of Allo and Duo will be a success.
Have a clear understanding (and be able to explain) how to design different systems. For instance, you should be able to walk through (and sketch on a whiteboard) how to design a web service like Pastebin, Imgur, Pingdom or other such services.

You should be able to solve many common algorithmic problem patterns. It sucks, but the only way to get a job these days is to do well on coding interviews that are heavy in algorithmic problems, so do a lot of practice. The best way to practice is with a pen and paper, don't type up the solution until you're done and you've walked through it yourself.

Have a basic sense for social skills and learn to tell the company what they want to hear and make them feel special.

If you can do all three of those steps you've got a job.
> build an algorithm
> adjust eye position

yes, those are the hard parts
Looks like you'll be waiting until 2020:

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/07/22/electric-bmw-3-series-co...
Agree, but as long as Chinese money is seeking sanctuary as quickly as it is, I don't see any sign of SFBA real estate cooling off.
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Very surprised to not see any jabs at Burning Man, or waiting in line for brunch.
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I feel like this underestimates how hard it is to get started. I've started playing around with the kernel and making small modifications. It's not straight forward. For me just getting it complied in a vm was an ordeal. Most books are pretty old and if you go google for what ever you want you end up with a lot of very dense resources. Then you need to figure out if that article you found actually applied to whatever current kernel your using and what's changed since then. Ive been doing like hours of reading for a few line change here and then.

And somewhat off topic. I think it will be interesting to see what happens to linux in the long term. Are that many new/young programers getting into kernel development? Id imagine there's not to many people getting into programing now that are writing c or working on the kernel. Who is going to replace the kernel developers of today? Or am I just totally off?
That depends on whether this is an iterated game or not.

(They could return the previous high bidder's bid at the point where they are outbid, could they not?).
Why should a video app be required for N of M situations? Just do one app that works well.
What you really want to be doing is comparing local purchasing power to local purchasing power, unless you're looking into cross-currency transactions. Sure local purchasing power can be affected by exchange rate (e.g. things that depend on imports), but that's indirect and is a bit more complicated than doing a direct currency conversion on your yearly (pre-tax) salary.
I've always thought if it as:

Renting, 0 houses owned = short

Normal homeowner, 1 house owned = neutral

Investor, >1 house owned = long

You gotta live somewhere!
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Depends on the parser combinator library.

Real regexes can be matched in time linear in the input size; you'll need to use an applicative parser combinator like regex-applicative (https://hackage.haskell.org/package/regex-applicative) to get that kind of asymptotic complexity. A monadic one like Parsec is impossible to analyze statically to turn into a finite automaton.
That's all 60Hz AC coming from the power company, and the only thing connected to it are the step-down transformers en-route to your house. Not much there to generate noise.

Try the following experiment: Go through your house and count how many "wall warts" you have plugged in.

Two decades ago, 100% of those were simple, inefficient, low-noise, transformer+rectifier+caps AC/DC converters.

Now? 100% of them are high-efficiency DC/DC switching power supplies. These power supplies create switching spikes -- a kind of noise which is extremely high frequency and has a nasty habit of propagating places you don't want them to go. The thinking which leads to having your own power pole installed is that some remnant of these spikes are propagating into your house from all of your neighbors.

Having your own power pole installed is one way to address that, but I'd think that $10k would buy you one hell of a 60hz band-pass filter...
Great point. Would be nice if we could integrate the lens into the display. :)
Python has excellent packages like mwparserfromhell and wikitables for this kind of processing.
> As the equality of outcomes is achieved by transfers, it makes the equality of opportunities meaningless (money-wise)

It's actually worse than that; Danish equality of opportunity isn't just "meaningless", it doesn't exist (relative to the US). There was a recent study done that indicated that income mobility (after taxes and transfers) in Denmark isn't any higher than in the US. This means that the taxes and transfers aren't actually having much of (any?) effect on equality of opportunity, as measured by the outcomes of the next generation.
Is anyone able to download this? I am trying to download this on iOS, the App Store is giving me the message "this application is not available to download the in the US Store"

strange!
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"We’re beginning to roll out Duo for Android and iOS today, and it will be live worldwide in the next few days"
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aaaaaaand it's not on the App Store
If a conservative site was outing gays on a regular basis it would have been shut down long ago. But liberal sites outing gay conservatives is considered totally acceptable and even commendable in today's society. Thus the vitriol towards Thiel.
Ask HN: How would you make an audio only call similar to appear.in with html5
https://mobile.twitter.com/wikileaks/status/7652109776253706...
It's mentioned in the blog that it's going to be rolled out slowly over the next few days.
Anything interactive. Yum updating, where one is inclined to view the dependency tree, is a quick example.

I wouldn't be using blessed to replace "noisy and scrolly" but rather to replace Qt for some simple-but-not-trivial scripts.
Ignoring that I probably won't use this (no fan of of that company), if it doesn't require a weird setup it might be more accessible than Hangouts.

At least last time I checked Hangouts required you to join G+ first? Is that still the case?
Just need 4 front facing cameras
Can't they just put a camera behind the screen? Been waiting for this for over a decade
Sure. My setup: https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda
Providing for more people is not the same as creating more total value, and markets do the latter, not the former. PA is the result of market forces, together with democratically elected government, working together to serve a particular segment of the market: rich people who want to live in a low-density area close to both undeveloped land and urban amenities. Yes, this leaves a lot of people on the outside looking in, but that's not a market failure. Not everyone can live in the most desirable areas. If they did, they would cease to be the most desirable areas.
What is the point of these "mods?"

You can hook speakers and projectors up to phones that have proper ports on them. Why not simply give the phone proper I/O, instead of bulking it up with a bunch of overpriced and eventually mutually exclusive modules?

Oh wait: THIS phone needs an adapter to simply play audio, since it idiotically lacks a headphone jack.

Why vote for that kind of anti-customer insult with your money? What a rip-off.