skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they took in serbs (maybe a few, but definitely no number that is comparable to the kosovo albanians). I don't even know if any serb would seek shelter in Albania. I agree, the noble thing to do would have been for people from both countries to try and feel some empathy for each-other. But I think a better question to ask would be whether albanians from northern Kosovo protected serbs who lived there from ethnic albanian nationalists (which I do not know). Albania doesn't share a border with Serbia.

Regarding jewish immingrants in WW2, I don't think there are reports of any attrocities in Albania. The number of Jews before the war was 200. After the war it was 2000. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Alban...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Albania

Anyways, the article probably does make it sound a bit bigger than it is, and even somewhat emotional. I just think that it must speak at least some truth regarding hospitality as a value among the population.
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Very interesting point. The investors and the general public loose their money. where is all the money going? In the end the only party in profit is the founders & CEOs and top management. I guess everybody in the top management realizes that they will be doomed and everyone just focuses their energy on developing personal assets.
> Twitter is forever judged by Facebook's bar, using Facebook's KPIs

> Twitter isn't allowed to be considered a success as a medium-sized company that punches way above its weight among influencers

I feel like it was Twitter, not the press, that decided to get rid of the things that made it unique and decided to be a forever 2nd-place Facebook clone. Twitter lost me when it got rid of the chronological feed and decided it was better than I am at deciding what I want to see and whether others should see what I post.
I live in a village of similar population in the UK and our telephone exchange looks just like a bungalow, situated on the end of a road dotted with similar houses. It's set back further from the road with tall hedging but I managed to cycle past it for eight years without even realising what it was. Weird, but in an opposing way :-)
Yeah, the UK should just man up.
The problem is not only with bash, but with entire gnu ecosystem. Bash disable something ONLY when the parent process is EMACS is totally nonsense. Bash should check for some behavior, instead of some technology... because I'm sure other editors can behave similarly when executing bash inside some buffer.

Doing software this way makes bash and emacs working well, but hard to make other softwares interact with both of them... Sublime, acme, micro, and so on can benefit of a better solution. In the same way, other shell should work fine inside emacs (M-x ansi-term).

But software design is not expected here (see downvotes)
Experience can be a replacement for formal education but you need one or the other. I think that anybody can work at a big 4, but it won't be your first job unless you went the formal route.
This contribution list in this article is based on the numbers of unique contributors to all of the repositories in a GitHub Organization, not email accounts. Which is why you see Angular and Google on the list because they are separate GitHub organizations. FWIW, I don't know Microsoft's current policies but if you look at the Organization list it does seem like employees use a mixture of both personal-seeming GitHub accounts and professional-seeming accounts, presumably based on employee preference?

(I think the table is a little more obvious in context in the Github Universe site it is from.)
Recruiting all the necessary people to negotiate with the EU (and all deals proxied by EU toward the rest of the world, including the US) do take time, the EU have handled most of this for the UK the last 40 years or so...
You seem awesome to work for. Need an iOS developer?

Your style totally matches mine.
Adam, if you want the guidance you're going to have to pay for it. I'm easy to find... let's meet for lunch.
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I'm not sure that nobody has it. It's basically a matter of hacking the system to get cheaper CPM than what you can get with ads. If ads are the market index fund, you are trying to beat it by exploiting some oddity in the system. Once you do so on a large scale, the market adjusts and the oddity either goes away, or becomes useless. But I can think of a few ways to do this:

- Produce awesome content. Remember the Old Spice YouTube channel where they set up and produced videos for a few days in real-time response to people tweeting at them? That got lots of people looking at their product. Sure, it was an expensive stunt, but a stunt that worked. I bet it'd work again and again, as long as it's not done too frequently.

- Send out brand ambassadors into random communities. There are lots of brands present as specific people on places like Reddit, Imgur, etc. They are not customer service, they are not there as the official faces of the brand. They are just there to hang out, shoot the shit, and occasionally give out some free stuff or do something "awesome", "rad", or whatever.

- Provide comprehensive media kits to journalists. The dirty secret is that nowadays people who make money by writing articles need to write lots of them. Do 90% of the work, and they'll jump on the opportunity to customize it a bit, and post it immediately. They get to take a longer lunch break, you get free page views.

- For small or personal projects, go and do the "Show HN" equivalent on various communities. Even if they generally don't allow self-advertising, the rule is usually overlooked if you don't push too hard, and just present it as "I made a thing. Check it out."

- Start a KickStarter campaign for no reason. Ideally, if you can afford to not hinge your business on it, you can just use it as both a pre-order platform, and as an easy way to grab attention of lots of people.

- Sell $1 bills for $0.90. That worked really well for Uber. It can work for you too!
Are you familiar with Wasavi? Vi(m?) for browser text windows, at least.

http://appsweets.net/wasavi/
That's for the lawyerly among us.
What do you think are the root problems here?
In the same scenario that Roth IRAs are at risk of extra taxation (or fees), 401(k)s are as well. That doomsday scenario isn't worth planning for with money, but with physical assets (property, food, tools) and skills because that's the scenario where the US economy collapses (not a recoverable crash like 1929 or 2008, but a true, complete collapse where the USD value goes to zero).

Roth IRAs make sense if you make too much to contribute to a Traditional IRA with tax advantaged contributions and little enough to still qualify for the Roth.

They also (both traditional and roth) have an advantage over a 401(k): You get to manage the funds any way you want. You also get to contribute even when your employer doesn't have one, you just need income (capital gains don't count, as I understand it, so being semi-retired and living off your earnings does preclude you from contributing).

You're also limited on 401(k) investments to whatever your employer contracted for. Could be shitty, could be stellar, you don't control it.
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Vanguard funds have ridiculously low costs
It demonstrates that even putting this to a referendum in the first place was an utter farce. People voted to be free of EU regulation, but the UK depends upon the EU market, so now we'll still have to conform to the same regulations, but with the added benefit that we'll have no way to influence changing them.

No one - leave or remain - is going to get what they voted for from this.
There's a 3rd option which is to not eat robo advisor fees (0.6%-1%) and instead do the purchases yourself through a brokerage. Option #1 doesn't really dominate this.
The SDK would only be able to show the advertisers that the ads where pushed to the clients, not that it was actually shown.

The apps themselves wouldn't have been anonymous. If many of one's ads were seen through TwitView3000, one might have had reason to examine TwitView3000 to see how ads were handled in that app. If one had discovered that ads were dropped, a single phone call would have been enough to revoke the app's API key.
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Hmm, few notes & questions:

- Being cut out for software engineering activities; vs software engineering career/success, may be different skills and concepts. You could be good at development, system administration database administration; without necessarily being good at succeeding in any particular type of company culture or organization, applying those skills. Which one is your question: can a person be "not cut out for software engineering", or can a person be "not cut out for success at particular type of company as a software engineer"?
[I would give the answer for both a "probably, in principle, but less often than assumed].

- You mention some of your perceived history of effort, success, and lack of success. What about more personal stuff - do you ENJOY the work? Are you attracted to software engineering (however you see it - development, sysadmin, etc)? Would you dabble with it even if you got a job in an unrelated field?

- Do you have a specific filter you might or might not be aware of? Are you seeking specific types of jobs in specific types of companies under specific constraints?

- Do you have friends you trust in similar professions, or with similar interests? What do they say?

- How about colleagues, classmates, profs?

- Number of failures at obtaining jobs is a metric but not a predictive one without context. Skill at interviews is not the same as skill at software engineering is not the same as skill at organizational success.

- Similarly, you may have _perceived_ to be working harder at college; you may have _actually_ been working harder, due to your higher standards; you may have been working harder but _not_ receiving the same results as others - without full understanding I would not automatically put full weight in your perception of relative work.

- Top Companies and Top Projects may not have one-to-one ration. Why do you think you want/need to work for those particular companies? Are you interested in prestige of the name? If not, what is your true interest - type of work? Team culture? Accomplishment? Paycheque? Write a list of your actual priorities, be brutally honest with yourself, and see how they match with those "top-tier companies".

- How would you perceive your skillset at large? Your communication skills, people skills, friendliness, dependability and reliability, loyalty? Personally, I look for a reliable willing learner on my teams more than somebody who can solve puzzles but will cause havoc - different companies have different fashions however.

Either way, best of luck :)
Have you read the case against Assange? It's very, very fishy.

At the very worst, this is not a case of rape in the traditional definition of the word. At worst, it is a modern interpretation as what qualifies as rape, as in "I invited him to sleep with me and stay at my apartment, and we were sleeping together for a week, but then a few weeks after we had sex I later regretted it."
You could actually ask them instead of aimlessly speculating.
This is just how voting tends to end up in many countries. First, not everyone is eligible to vote. Second, not everyone who is eligible to vote does so.

In the 2012 US presidential election, 65 million people voted for Obama. In the 2008 election, 69 million voted for him. The population was around 314 and 306 million respectively.

A larger percentage of the population voted for brexit than the most recent US president.
Unrelated to imaging, this domain jogged the memory. Author is the guy who created the "NOPPP" - no parts pic programmer: http://www.covingtoninnovations.com/noppp/

More than a decade ago I was starting out with microcontrollers, and that was the first programmer I built from scavenged parts. He also wrote a book (PDF available on site) for absolute beginners to microcontrollers that was very helpful. The man is a famous polymath, and it was good to run across his site again.
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this isn't the case though, the agreement as a result of Article 50[1] only has to pass through QMV in the Council and through a majority in the Parliament:

"That agreement shall be negotiated in accordance with Article 218(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It shall be concluded on behalf of the Union by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament."

[1]: http://www.lisbon-treaty.org/wcm/the-lisbon-treaty/treaty-on...
You forgot the most important one: To prevent another war from happening.
You see so much value in it but would never pay for it. Are you trolling?
I wonder if it might be possible to start some kind of group buying organization to negotiate insurance like rates without the actual insurance.

I would seriously consider going without insurance except for the highest cost goods & services (say over 100k) except for the fact that it will cost me more to go to the doctor for a check then my insurance company currently pays.

The group discount without the risk sharing would be a very interesting product for me. I wonder how many other people would be interested in such a thing.
For those that do "get" twitter, can you tell why it's useful? I've been on twitter for about 5 years now. I go through phases where I visit just about every day, and tweet a decent amount, trying to find the worth. And I can honestly say I see almost no value at all. I'm really trying hard to cross into the "get" category, and it just isn't happening. Lately I've been considering closing my account and being done with it.

The signal/noise ratio is horrific, and the insistence on 140 characters is far more aggravating and frustrating than anything. Nowadays I see people dividing their thoughts into 8+ tweets (prefacing each with 1/8, 2/8, etc) and I just shake my head.
So it is. It isn't very clear looking at that chart though, unfortunately. Another reason why I prefer FRED for this kind of data [1].

1. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1A225NBEA
I'm a counter-example, I find Twitter extremely useful for sending quick notes of appreciation above all else when sending an email usually strikes me as overkill.
You say you've only been prepping from CLRS and Cracking The Coding Interview for the past 1 and a half months. It's not unusual for candidates to spend up to 6 months prepping if not longer. Also, it's normal to be rejected from one of the big four 2-3 times before getting in.

When you say you had to work harder to get the same result, do you mean the programming or the math? In my CS classes I saw really smart kids who were aces in the theoretical aspects of the program but couldn't grok programming. I also saw the reverse. You will have to be honest with yourself and figure out which kind of person you are and if you are willing to put in the necessary work to be 'big 4' material.

My advice, is keep practicing the algorithms, but do so with purpose. Try to tie in what you are learning with what you are doing at work, or a side-project. The essentials will osmose over time. Learning this stuff without having the proper context to understand is value is difficult ... (for me anyways).
Ask HN: OldGeekJobs– Evolving the MVP
Tim Bray’s post "Old Geek" was the impetus I needed to create the MVP for OldGeekJobs.com. It made HN yesterday, and the response was tremendous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12506232

I received a ton of supportive e-mails, and a backlog of jobs I still need to review.

Slapping a name on a website won’t be enough to drive long-term adoption though.

What if I made jobs filterable by the age(s) of the the technical interviewers? If you're 35, would you prefer to be interviewed by people your age or older?
Does no one have a sense of humour?
HSA contributions are arguably better considering they are not subject to FICA.
Of course is matters but as others have already commented the case against Assange is very fishy smelling.
This seems like an apology for the unforgivable: type erasure is a language implementation detail, and thus it shouldn't affect language users. A user might want to choose an implementation that uses monomorphization for performance reasons, or an implementation that doesn't erase types for debuggability reasons. But the language implementor's choice to use type erasure shouldn't affect the meaning of code written by language users.
Is everyone cut out to be an Olympic athlete, or are some genetics involved?
The answer is "it's a mix."

Can anyone with diligent work ethic and a continual effort into learning find some place that needs their skills? Very likely.
How well does your skill set match how broad a market? It depends. If you are narrower, or aim higher, it will take longer to find a match.

That being said: if you have sysadmin skills, have you considered an SRE position? Or DevOps?
It may be that you find a better match there.
Because our company's 401K plan has limited choices. I'd go for index funds and/or ETF's if offered. BTW, my S&P 500 is an index (SWPPX).
"Tyranny of the minority"? I want to reply to your comment but before I do I want to make sure that was a typo (as in, you meant to type "majority"), and not my misunderstanding what you are saying.
@dang, this actually was pretty confusing to me as well. Being that we're all on a tech/hacker forum, I also thought that "Newton inventor" meant that he invented the "Apple Newton."
Nope. At least in Sweden you have to disappear for 10 years.

So he only has another 4 years to go
> Each Daily Calm session is available for that day only,
> so you either listen to it or you don't.

I'm really not in the target audience at all, but doesn't that make the situation described by the parent commenter _worse_?

"Agh! Better listen quick or it's gone forever!"
Of course it's the goal. Every company should have a goal of being a monopoly in what they do (big or small) it ensures the highest efficiencies.
> The law was passed in 2014 but gave a two-year transition period that ended on Saturday, when owners became limited to renting only rooms via such sites, not entire flats or houses. Offenders can face fines of up to €100,000.

> Tim Boening, 41, who rents out a loft in the trendy Kreuzberg district, said he was not shocked by the law, given practices he had seen. He cited “the nice couple with two small apartments who move in together to a bigger place and keep the two apartments to rent them out on Airbnb … I don’t think that’s good – it should be stopped.”

Sounds like from now on the only thing you can rent via AirBnB in Berlin are spare rooms.
If the EU really wanted to hurt the UK they'd declare the following things, in increasing order of nastiness:

1. Britain can swap immigrants for retirees. The residency rights of all Britons in Europe are contingent on residency rights of Europeans in Britain. If Europeans are made to apply for visas, so will every one of the millions of Britons in Spain.

2. Drain the country of talent. Recognizing that millions of British are being unilaterally stripped of their EU citizenship, create a new category of general EU citizens, and allow talented British to apply for instant and permanent residence, conditional on (1) giving up British citizenship and (2) learning the language of their continental locale within the next five years.

3. Tell Scotland that it would accept their continuing as a member of the EU if and only if they applied, as an independent state, while the UK was a member state of the EU.

4. Tell the UK that Article 50 is considered to have been invoked as of now, and they have two years to leave.

The last two would be especially funny.
So you think that if you don't click anything, Google doesn't log your query and IP? That's so endearing.
I'm not an engineer but I'm am a tech consultant. First, there are options outside of engineering that you may like. Second, being rejected by 20 companies doesn't seem excessive to me. It really is a numbers game. I have 10 years of experience and I'm looking a list of 83 places that didn't want me within the last year. Interviewing really beats me up and makes me feel like I have absolutely nothing to offer.

Companies focus on these code puzzles and things even when you will literally never come close to that level of code in practice. I mean, I can't even complete the screening challenges Uber gives you but I still found something I can do in the industry. If you are applying for some senior engineer position than you probably need to know this stuff, but if you are looking for a junior role than I really doubt the value of these.

Honestly, I question if I'm cut out for the work I do still. I sometimes just want to walk away from tech and never come back. Today is one of those days that I am questioning WTF I am doing with my life.
Reminds me that I really need to apply to become a German national, so I can hopefully remain here without any hassle when this shit storm kicks off.
> A 401k without some matching shouldn't be called a 401k in my opinion.

I partially agree, but the big difference between a crap 401k with at least one decent index fund and a Traditional IRA is that I can dump 18k/yr into the 401k. IRAs phase out quickly and have low deposit/yr maxes.

Considering how often people change jobs these days, the 401k is a way for most people I know to shove 18k/yr into a special bucket so they can move it to Vanguard within a few years when they leave the company.
Software engineering covers is an increasingly wide range of skills. For me, it has been critically important to realize the things which I love doing in this field, and the things which I am genuinely particularly good at.

Overall I might not necessarily "talented," but I certainly enjoy my side projects, have looked for jobs in different areas of work, and try not to shy away from my opinions.

Your comments are varied and it is difficult to fully understand your perspective. Nonetheless, I greatly recommend finding two things: the things you love about software engineering, and the things you believe you have done well within the field.

Capitalize on those things!
No, it's because it's a separate organization on GitHub. The chart is from GitHub's evaluation of contributions to public repos per GitHub organization. (From their GitHub Universe analysis site.) If the contributors to both the Angular and Google organizations don't overlap at all, they "win", but there's probably at least some overlap.

(Of course, if you were to do try to merge the Angular and Google org statistics then you should probably also look at all the other orgs listed at the bottom of microsoft.github.io too. I'd be curious to see someone do the BigQuery work to update this query to account for multiple known official organizations per company.)
For me, interviewing is the worst part of being a software developer. Now that I am a little more senior (5 years experience) I can see that its pretty miserable doing the interviews as well.

There are plenty of reasons that I haven't gotten a job that had nothing to do with me, for example, the CIO already had a third party ready to do the same work or they already had someone at my level of experience and focus.

The only thing that has worked for me is focusing on what I have done, and look for companies that also need those problems solved.
In the days of Strowger switches, their clacking racket would have blasted you from the bike ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch
I don't get it. I suppose Spanish is not required to get it, the question marks, "si" and "articulo 50" give most of it away, but I don't get what Maannyaaannaaa means, or what it's supposed to sound like. Or why the UK representative would speak Spanish anyway.

Explain please?