skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I have seen, the thing that in mostly gets you a job is that you already had a similiar job somewhere else. The sentence for junior positions is "completed bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or at least 2 years of work experience in field."

On the other hand, my two years of experience was "Sysadmin a server for a local church." and only reason why my local church needed sysadmins was because me and a friend of mine bought a server, collocated in a local ISP that a third friend worked at and decided "Hey, our church could use a website and we could be the sys-admins :-)"

To answer your question, I think the utility of Master in CS as well as learning through MOOC's is dwarfed by anything you can present as "Somebody already paid me money for a thing I did", if you want to primarily land a job.

When I thought about getting a master degree, I thought about these questions:

Do I see ever wanting to pursue some sort of academic career? I.e, get a phd, desire to write papers on obscure topics, e.t.c. then definitely.

Do I want to learn things that require at least somewhat well furnished lab? I.e. it is quite hard for MooC to offer a lab on side-channel attacks on security cards or hands-on with sensor-array networks.

Do I want to learn the theory more in-depth and does physical classroom help in this regard?

How does the cost compare? What do I get out of this credential-wise?

In my case I wanted to get masters in Information Security for these reasons:

1. I already endured 2 semesters of algebra and I.S. was one of the few that both interested me and would use the theory I have learned in BC

2. yes, one day I might go back to school to crank out few papers just for fun and the low probability of getting a proper academic title :)

3. school did have a few nice security lab courses present

4. having a course end with proper seated exam with lecturer present helps me focus on studying

5. I study in Czech republic, which means I have first 3 years of tuition paid for by the state. (Even if I didn't it is under 1000E/semester).
As if having to install a VM because their website was only compatible with Internet Explorer (not Microsoft Edge, mind you) wasn't crazy enough.
Oops, years, not hours. I should proofread.
Thanks for your comments - they are quite helpful.

> Regarding (1), there's a word for people who try to go around the medical establishment and run a business selling a cure-all pill. It's "quack", not "hack".

I manufactured a supplement once, then I realized it was a legal minefield. I have plans to apply for FDA approval for a claim for a device. This would provide legal protection against the status quo, while destroying their harmful business at the same time.

I gave a bottle of my supplement to a young woman who'd just been not-helped at the hospital. I called her a few days later - she said, "THAT STUFF REALLY WORKS!" I called a few months later, and her sister said she was in the state mental hospital. People need more than a supplement to become truly well.

> The credible approach is to write a case report plus literature review and get it published. I suggest the topic of the literature review should be "low-cost, low-risk interventions to assist in diagnosing subtypes of schizophrenia".

"... for the Emergency Room physician." Yeah, I like that idea. I have some ideas of people to work with.

Robert Whitaker has pointed out to the psychiatrists that their "science" is paid for by the industry whose products they use [1]. He hasn't gotten very far in the last 15 years.

[1] http://www.madinamerica.com/2016/09/confessions-of-a-trespas...
Blip Systems installs passenger tracking solution at Edinburgh Airport
(Using a throwaway for obvious reasons here.) I couldn't agree more. Lately I've been taking down scammers left and right. For instance, my wife got a text recently trying to phish Bank of America accounts. She gave me the URL, and I emptied their database and took the site offline. These people are straight-up evil.
Like some mentioned, Thimble uses Brackets in it's core. After some hiatus, Brackets has seen more commits to the past month than in the past year combined.

There's tons of starter issues (and more advanced ones) that can be tackled in the core right now too. If you want to get into OSS contributing or maybe you already are and want to contribute in general, check out the issues on GitHub!

https://github.com/adobe/brackets

(Disclaimer: third party contributor of Brackets)
I looked at ebikes a few months ago and it's still too expensive. Even the kits for converting a regular bike was almost the price of an ebike. Is it this expensive in the rest of thr world? If not, why is it so expensive here, why isn't someone just importing it and selling it for much cheaper?
> My main gripe is syncing my ipod or phone interrupts music playback

It doesn't though. I just tried. Start playback, plug phone (keeps playing), sync (itunes still playing), disconnect, itunes has never stopped playing.
It's quite interesting. I've read some Bjørneboe, and I already knew about the case this author refers to (where a young delinquent was choked to death by a drunk off-duty policeman, and avoided conviction), so I knew these things used to be a lot worse. I guess the establishment of SEFO in 1988 helped quite a bit. Still it's kind of surprising to see Norway described as having a huge blue code/police brutality problem.
I would see A. The cloned me in chamber B would be brought into existence at that moment. They would share all the memories as me, and believe to be the one in chamber A. May be slightly confused about why the letter changed, unless you prepared yourself beforehand.

But the original observer that was put into the duplication chamber, would maintain their letter A
AFAIK the vast majority of itunes is a regular cocoa application, what does webobject have to do with anything?
Cesium is a really great iOS music player app. It's basically the iOS 6 UI with the bug fixes you always wanted, and none of the gunk from iOS 7 and above.
A few years back body hair was considered attractive, and now it's not (or maybe it is, I haven't kept track). This change in preferences was within a span of 20 years. So I don't find it surprising that a strong neanderthal man or woman would have been attractive to our ancestors.
A Wizard Did It
Very cool. Would love to chat and see if we can push this stuff forward together. I can't seem to find your email address. Could you please email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com?
Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures [video]
Tried it, liked it. How do you stop spam, link farming, etc.?
Where are you getting a jump like that? The monthly plan is $25/mo ($300/year) and there's a pay as you go option.

https://firebase.google.com/pricing/

Edit - Ah I see in the article. I mean, there's a pricing calculator right there on the page, if they knew they were going to be transferring 100G+. Not sure how they managed 100G for a dashboard though.
But there is a huge difference between 'intuition about conversation' and 'intuition about the state of reality'. The former is not tied to rationality as much as practice at fighting through obtuse language. The latter is much closer to telling you whether people are thinking rationally by default.

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12524799 this comment, where the kids already know which pile has more candy, but they don't understand what the weirdly-formatted question is asking.
Do we really want to fuse our brains together?
As though exceptions themselves are somehow not a "l33t feature". :P
GitHub vs. Bitbucket vs. GitLab vs. Coding – A Comparison
The 10-20K fee doesn't come out of your pocket, if you are using a good recruiter they are actually more likely to get you a better deal.

Most people don't know how to negotiate, recruiters do, mostly because more often than not their fee and reputation is somewhat dependant on it.

A recruiter would usually find you a good fit especially if they aren't just some employment/vacancy agency but actually build their network.

How much of a good fit and how long you stay at your job is tied directly to their reputation, recruiters that fill positions with people that don't stick around or worse don't even pass a probationary period don't get too many second chances.

Overall the recruiter fee isn't even a major part of the onboarding cost, the time spent by everyone from HR to the tech guys on everything from defining the job to handling the interviews cost considerably more especially if you take valley salaries into account.

The position not being filled or worse being filled by a contractor who often charges considerably more than the average daily market rate for a full time employee also costs the company money.
I really, really like Netlify. While it's probably not the cheapest option I think the pricing is fair and the ease of use, workflow and performance are great.
I wrote a self-hosted static-comment system here:

* https://github.com/skx/e-comments/

Seems mine is more basic than yours, due to lack of registration and lack of threading though.
I've just migrated to Hugo, and agree with the comments that it really does matter. Between the near-instant compilation and the live reload, the Hugo development server can update a local copy of your site in the browser faster than you can switch tabs. In effect, you get genuinely instant preview anywhere, out of the box.

In every respect, Hugo is a really good site generator (not just a static blog engine), but this is the feature that makes the competition near-irrelevant to me.
You are exactly right, and they're already doing it.

The H1-B program is rife with corruption. It should be ended immediately.
Pedestrians need to learn to expect bikes on those lanes. I don't know what they look like but they should stand out as bicycle lanes to anyone on the road. Also, cyclists should be careful just like regular drivers and adjust their speed to their environment. If you were raised in The Netherlands you would know very well to check for both cars and bicycles when crossing anything.
How intelligent is a spider, truly ?

I mean, creating a machine that beats us at a game we invented ourselves is one thing, but how does that compare to a species that has survived much longer on this earth than us?

I mean most people are more worried about iPhone 7 than climate change.

I am not arguing that we are not smarter than spiders, but I'm also not going to argue we truly know that we are.

It would be wise to keep our egos under control.
Not only that, when I had to re-download the firmware due to the failed iOS10 update, even pausing the download caused it to restart..
I agree. One aspect that catches me out sometimes is that often the first iteration of something is in such obvious need of abstraction that it's hard to let it go for the time being. The reason to do so, of course, is that you don't know what the proper abstraction is yet, but that doesn't make it pleasant.
Universal Drivers Pack 2016 Highly Compressed Full Free
When Information Storage Gets Under Your Skin
Yes but not for real, it revolves around the idea of making hackers the most feared bunch of people.
There's never been a real "war on drugs" in Norway. Yes, drugs are illegal, but penalties are almost non-existent by US standards.

It's true that Norway had a strong temperance movement. I lived for a while in one of the last municipalities that still had a beer monopoly (Sula), it was removed with referendum when I lived there. Storeowners were actually divided on the issue, many of them didn't especially want to start selling alcohol. But the temperance movements have not lobbied for harsher penalties for drug use or possession.
Why the Paperless Office Is Finally on Its Way
Libreboot screwup viewed from the other contributors
Book: _How Music Works_ by John Powell.

Youtube series: "How Music Works with Howard Goodall". Start with rhythm, then melody, harmony, bass.
Any key a fifth away only changes one note - if you go from C Major (CDEFGABC) to G Major (GABCDEF#G) then only the F# has changed, and as a result there are chords which are common between the two keys - any chord without an F in it in C will be common to G as well. Works the other way if you go 'down' a fifth (to F), but has a flat instead. (Bb)
Sorry for my naive question. What are the features this is adding over GitHub's source search?
Yes, exactly. I teach Music Technology, and that's one of the questions I get nearly every year, and one I've not found a concrete answer for, so I always preempt it by saying that the C is arbitrary as far as my research has gone.
I'd just like to point out that interest rates are really unlike any other policy instrument. Compare them with other policy instruments (regulations, taxes, social programs, public works) and you'll see that they're more easily changed and create much less hassle among voters. Plus, they have a much more obvious impact in people's pockets and welfare, at least from the viewpoint of the voters.
Where is here for you? In The Netherlands, an e-bike costs you about 1300 EUR. Not cheap for a bike but not overly expensive either, there are more expensive non-e-bikes that are regularly bought.
More to come... Skype though wasn't strictly UK, has a huge engineering office in London. Microsoft just announce it will close it.

Some of the losses are inevitable. Even in San Francisco Bay Area a lot of titans has died/been acquired. The most fundamental metric is net new titans/value created. New Startups - old titans that are winding dow.
Solfege is definitely still in strong use, especially in public school choirs. They are convinced that it helps in sight-reading competitions (yes, sight reading is one of several areas in which a choir can compete).

Having said that, I absolutely hate solfege. But my bachelor's was in piano performance, not vocal.

Interesting note: quite a few countries use a "fixed Do" system rather than "A-B-C". It is quite confusing (and humorous to observe) when a solfege disciple tries to sing with a fixed Do native.
Good to know I'm not the only one who can't figure out UIs these days. Mobile apps have all these icons that give me absolutely no idea what action will be performed. I miss the days of being able to hover and get an English description. (I guess this is where I say "get offa my lawn!")
This seems quite limited. I went to the site and it seems to work only on a few languages. Honestly, the best code search out there is GitHub. I learn so much on there and it works across every language.

Right now I am coding in Obj-C, Elixir, Ruby, and doing web development in React. That is my day to day so this seems quite limited.
I think it's because a lot of people saying that don't really know (and I mean really well) their scales; if you do then it's "obvious" that (say) an F is a semitone above an E, despite that gap on the stave looking the same as F to G. All the musicians I know who can read well know their scales inside out. I'm a bad reader, but my reading has improved considerably over the last couple of years as the scales have become something that I know really well (in simpler keys). Then it turns into a "how could you -not- know that?" kind of deal, internally. I think that's the missing piece from most people's ability to read well; not the actual reading, but grokking the key that you're in so it just becomes 'obvious'.

I'm not there yet!
What I mean is are the costs of the tech industry disrupting the restaurant scene worth benefits. I get that it isn't a problem specific to tech. My city, with a vibrant tech scene, also has a vibrant restaurant scene but the situation described in the article is extreme. It's the sort of thing that could strain a city in a few ways from hurting the middle class to boarded up shops and decaying neighborhoods.

So is it reasonable to ask is worth the damage? It's a reasonable question to ask.
I've used http://archive.is in the past to get around paywalls.
How does this work?

The CEO is ostensibly supposed to wire cash into the mark's bank account, but needs their banking info?
Global SAP Consultancy Launch by Amir Najam
40kmph is actually very fast compared to the average cyclist. Fast enough that I would consider it reckless if done in heavy (cycling) traffic.

But you highlight the issue nicely; bikes are not self-powered, it depends on the human. Even with e-bikes this is true, most of them will only support the rider and have been made not to power the bike all by itself. So how to regulate that? Perhaps a good old speed limit is all that is really needed.
Wow, that's a not good article. More like a rambling than anything else.

> C major is identical to A minor, and I don’t understand why we need both.

That's like saying house numbers are not important in finding an address...

I'll just leave this here: http://openmusictheory.com/
That, and they didn't all necessarily use a pure Equal Temperament, either. Different temperaments can give more distinct feelings to certain keys more so than the modern equal temperament. (Note: I used to tune pianos.)
Old games usually kept their sprite sizes to multiples of 8. 8x8, 8x16, 16x16, etc. So 8x10 would have been weird for the time, and anyone who thought about it would probably assume they were 8x8. But there was likely nothing actually "wrong" about 8x10. I am just speculating here though.
apt-get install docker protobuf-compiler
mkdir foo
cd foo
export GOPATH=`pwd`
export PATH=${PATH}:`pwd`/bin
mkdir bin
mkdir -p src/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph
cd src/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph
git clone https://sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph sourcegraph
cd sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
make
make serve-dev

good luck.

It doesn't actually run for me, just crashes, but you'll get kind of... most of the way there with that.

(oh, you probably dont need protobuf unless you run `make generate`)
It seems GameMaker Studio Pro is only available on WIndows. There seems to be an older version also available for MacOSX, but the current version is Windows only, right? Please prove me wrong!
That sucks for those people. It must be acknowledged that it sucks. There are costs and there are benefits to everything. It'd be good to note and acknowledge the costs. I get the feeling that a lot of people talk about the market like it's a religion or spiritual force and that all that happens with its guidance we must embrace.
Thunderbird literally implements it by rewriting it into HTML:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/mime/sr...

text/enriched was basically proposed as an interim result for richer text than plain text back when HTML email was controversial.

There is a more-or-less defunct community group at the W3C about building an HTML email specification. In practice, the elephant in the room remains Outlook, which uses the same HTML engine built into MS Word, which, IIRC, is built on IE 5.5.
UK 'appallingly bad' at startup funding
Sourcegraph CEO here. Unlike GitHub, Sourcegraph actually understands the code like your IDE. Unlike your IDE, it has all the code on GitHub and some other repo hosts already loaded up and built. (We're working on adding more languages beyond Go, etc.; check https://sourcegraph.com/beta for early access.)

Try out jumping to definition and seeing hovers at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/mux/-/blob/mux.go.... This helps you understand code that you're browsing.

Check out global usage examples and refs of any function, such as those at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag.... You can get to this page by right-clicking on tokens in the code view above. This helps you quickly figure out how to use a piece of code and see best practices.

Finally, the code search is also semantic and is ranked by popularity. Try it out at https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=new+http+request.

Code analysis and search at this scale is tough, but we're going to do it right, because it'll help developers learn more quickly, write better code, and reuse more existing stuff. (We're not totally there yet, but if you want to help by adding language support or joining our team, email me at sqs@sourcegraph.com.)
If you start off from assuming that the Do-Sol (fifth, 3:2) harmony is a "pleasing" one, and also the Do-Mi (third, 5:4) one, you can create new "mostly pleasing" harmonies by for example taking the fifth of a fifth (9:4, which can be transposed an octave to get 9:8, which is Re or a second), and doing similar things (you can also do things like finding the note whose fifth is Do, which is 2:3, or 4:3, a fourth or Fa).

Repeat this process and you start getting a bunch of notes which fall on the 7-note scale. In the blog post the major seventh is listed as 17:9, but by this method you get a 16:9. Basically the same thing.

At this stage, you may notice that the notes are roughly equidistant, except for Mi-Fa and Ti-Do, which are at ~half the distance. This is the first hint of the 12-note scale. We could have stopped earlier in the notemaking process and had a 6-note or a 5-note scale or whatever, but it wouldn't be so equidistant.

Now pick each note, and build an octave from it. The new notes created will invariably be very close to existing notes, or very close to the midpoint between existing notes. This gets us the 12 note scale (5 midpoints + 7 notes, the aforementioned half-step notes don't have midpoints), if you choose a canonical note for each part. The number 12 just happens to be the number where simple harmonic ratios can get you a mostly-equidistant scale.

At this stage, different music systems do different things.

One kind of Chinese scale uses a 2:3 ratio and generates ratios involving these numbers that form a 12-note (roughly equidistant) division.

Indian music does something similar, though it instead generates a 22-note scale, where many of the 12-note scale notes have two forms. It is rare that a given piece of music will use both forms of the same note.

Western music goes ahead and invents the piano, realizes that the piano is hard to tune/transpose, and settles on the twelfth-root-of-two stuff so that transposing becomes dead easy.
As far as I have used iTunes the only problem I see with it is trying to do EVERYTHING in a single package. It tries to be

- music player

- content manager (music & video)

- sync manager

- update manager

- Apple Music client

and these are the five things I can name on top of my head, without opening up the app. This is fine, but they are not honoring their boundaries. When I am listening to my music, don't mess me with the sync business. If there is a new version, put a helpful icon but only steal my focus if I click to sync tab.

It's like going to a supermarket to buy a piece of candy. Sure there are meats and potatoes on the next shelves but I need my candy. Yes I can hear you overhyped sales person about the discounts but. I. Need. My. Candy.

Also I cannot see the logic behind the Apple Music's integration with iTunes. I have tried to use AM with iTunes on windows and it is not a fun experience I can tell you. Spotify, even though people are grumbling about its ux, provides a smoother experience. Search, double click play, right click to save or add to a customized playlist. Or mess with that knob to download.
Is there a guide for handling things like auth and permissions with gun?
Try VOX Player https://coppertino.com
A person posing as the CEO emails someone who has access to wire money on their behalf, and provides a target account to transfer to.
On the topic of joins, I'd suggest if you're bumping into the joining limitation that you've chosen the wrong database for your needs. Having said that, a lot of it can be solved by rethinking your structure to take advantage of embedded documents.
> Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting iTunes, too.

While a great quote, it's not entirely true.

Some of us said enough is enough and ditched the iOS/Itunes ecosystem for something better. Why suffer needlessly?
I lol'ed. Thank you for this.