skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So your theory is that this is the result of industrial sabotage facilitated by a government?

Given that three letter agencies have assisted in industrial espionage in the past and industrial facilities have been damaged through remote exploits (iran's uranium centrifuges were targeted with a virus if I recall correctly) it certainly is not impossible.

However, we are discussing lots of sensitive batteries so problems in the errors of margin in manufacture or operations is a simpler explanation.
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online
Like the pixel it does not support SD cards. That is a no go for me.
> I am tired of everyone trying to be the hero - all my contacts try to support one-another, the interview process should be no different.

Amazing, until you put it into writing I never realized that I do this too.

At least once a day I'll get a random question from my peers in areas where I have more experience than them, which also helped me gain real world work experience years before I even had my first job.

And I do the same when I wander in areas where I haven't had so much experience, discussing approaches and common pitfalls, which makes so much sense.

Yet in interviews it's like you're going to be working alone forever and have to be the best in these exact technologies/languages/stack or you'll never be able to do your job.

I guess this is what you end up with after calling everyone a ninja-rockstar-guru.
I run https://uimovement.com/ and it makes just over $1,000 a month from sponsorships and ads most months.

The majority of that is from sponsorships for the weekly newsletter, which has almost 13,000 subscribers now. Currently doing cust dev and what not to see if there are income opportunities that don't involve ads.
Streisand [https://github.com/jlund/streisand] works quite well too.
So, I am probably biased :
- as I said earlier, I spend a lot of time polishing the app I develop, so I tend to really appreciate a device with impeccable performances. I doubt that normal buyers focus that much on performances even though I think it is a very important aspect of a device. It is not just a matter of looking good, fluid animations are always a very important cue allowing to relay what is happening in the app. They don't work if you miss half the frames.

-my company will probably buy me a Pixel, so I don't really know whether I would buy one.

Off the top of my head, my issues with the 6P / things the Pixel can potentially do better :
-Just a bit too big. I love the size of that screen, but I often mistype and I think it might be related to its size. Even the biggest Pixel is a bit smaller, so I am curious to see if it sits in the right spot for me.

-Performances are unimpressive. Previous generations of Android devices showed each time a big leap in real world performances. Not that much with the 6P. It does not perform that badly but there are numerous micro hiccups. It looks like performances have plateaued in its generation. I am not sure how the pixel performs in that area (I am waiting for some real reviews for that) but it looks like some things like touch latency seems to have improved a lot with this phone. I am not sure how much of this will transfer to the 6P when it gets 7.1 though.

-Better industrial design with the pixel.

-Again, I think that a really good camera in your pocket is pretty important. The 6P is already pretty good in that regard. It is a bit slow to compose these HDR+ shots though. From the DxoMark test (https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-revi...), it looks like the pixel solves this. On top of that, unlimited storage in original quality is also something I really appreciate.

So, is the pixel a better device ? it surely looks that way. Is it worth buying over the 6P (or even a Moto G) ? I don't know. It really depends on what you want, what you can afford (and are ready to spend) and how costly the device is in your region (especially with carrier subsidies).
I started basically when I stumbled upon a problem myself. https://thehorcrux.com/why-i-built-horcrux-app/
TL;DR: Google disabled my account. So, built an email backup app to not get into this situation again.

I started building the app 4 years ago. I put it on Hacker News and it blew up a tiny bit. That was enough to keep it going until now.

There is still a lot of work I can put into it marketing or coding wise. So far, it's been going well ($800ish). I recently rolled out a UI/UX improvement.

Its 4 year anniversary is in 2 days. :)
https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.
It's not the secretary problem, because in the secretary problem you cannot recall a dismissed candidate and you can only evaluate one candidate at a time.
I am but I don't know how long it will continue!

My side project is: "How to Make an RPG" (http://howtomakeanrpg.com/) which I released in June.

It's a collection of code samples, art and digital book that shows the reader how to make an old-school, Japanese-style RPG. So, it's super niche! I wrote a little about my process here:

https://medium.com/@DanSchuller/my-first-side-project-part-1...

There was supposed to be a second part to this article but I haven't written it yet.

It's been over $1000/month very comfortably so far but it is trending down. This isn't uncommon for this type of project - there's often a spike followed by a slow decline.

Still, for the last three months I haven't actively worked on it and it's still sold well. I've moved country and been finding a job (all sorted now), so I haven't had much free time.

I'm not really sure where is good to go after this project. For now I'm building on the base the book introduces, just for fun.
For 'shallow' bugs, printing / logging - solves problem 90% of time.

Deeper bugs use the IDE, breakpoints and debugger, goto definition and call stack examination solve the other 10%

Some tips for production: Put logging calls in at critical points -- e.g. initialisation of interfaces log input and output shapes (I work in mostly in vectors), DEBUG level logging, which is more verbose, can log the shape of incoming vectors to help with sanitation efforts.
Why did you jump straight to MILP for ordering the lines of segments? It seems like it would be more obvious to first try ordering the routes by id for each segment. That would guarantee that routes are always ordered the same way relatively to each other and would eliminate the problem in the before/after image with much less effort.
I don't have your personal experience with any of these services, but it does provide a good explanation why even the franchise model has not taken much of the market. It really is a business area where anything beyond individuals working for themselves struggles.
I'm one that doesn't care what it contains, but want to help keep it available for those who do care. I typically just seed linux isos and other free software, but when there are leaks or other things that people care about I'll chip in too.

I don't have 1 Gbps, so thanks for providing that bandwidth to the swarm, even if it's only for a short amount of time.
I would be scared too if our government blocked pornhub.
I am sad to say it but Github is also blocked.
You are richer when you do not squander the wealth into social programs. /s
TrueCraft – A free and open-source implementation of Minecraft Beta 1.7.3
The IT industry is not special. It's not different from other industries that have been nationalized or have to do what the government of the countries they work into wants. The only way out is to somewhat control those governments (good luck with China) or operate within mutual trade agreements signed at government level. Again, China put itself into an almost unassailable negotiation position having so many of the industries of the world.

What I see is a trend to rebuild on the Internet the same borders that are enforced in the physical world. Some countries will keep their internets open to each others, others are already closing them down partially. They're probably putting them at a disadvantage, especially the small ones, but the governments usually only cares about keeping their seats.
11 year old rapper who scared Simon Cowell
As a Brit and a left leaning type, it baffles me to see America. From talking to friends who live there (I won't pretend I know fully) but it seems between income, state and property taxes you guys pay a lot. Add in health care and it seems you pay in line with or above many European countries. Yet with your society's wealth there seems a resistance to supporting your own people, and almost actively seeking to add to the poverty through the prison and court system. It seems crazy, when getting these people up and productive, would not only be the moral (Christian?) thing to do, but would ultimately also add to the wealth of the nation.

Is it because in America who are 'your own people'?
Being an IT worker in Turkey is horribly hard.
I started Hacker Paradise as a side project in 2014, and now we're a full-time team of 3.

We organize trips around the world for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to work remotely while traveling. People pay us to organize housing, accommodations, and community events wherever we go (past speakers have been CIO of Estonia in Tallin, Matz in Tokyo, etc.).

Happy; to answer questions about running more of an ops business that still is related to tech.
How PMs Can Earn the Respect and Trust of Their Team
I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys

It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it.

The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it.

The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunity to make more tools, and the downside of having to maintain them, I decided to create paid tier for the tools.
Parse strings using a specification based on the Python format() syntax
https://standupjack.com is a side project I started earlier this year on my own. It's making more than $1k/mo now :-)
I sighed with relief that the characters were not emoji.
We could compare the time it took to submit (seconds) to the time it took to comment (3 hours and counting...)
I came 2003 for /b/ which is practically 9gag with older people and stayed for /fit/, which is pretty nice and I have the feeling the boards don't overlap that much in terms of users.

But many other boards are full of hate.

/k/ and /pol/ is full of racists.

/r9k/ and /v/ is full of misogynists.

and many boards are filled with homophobes.

Nicest board I visit was /ck/
That's a fairly common vulnerability. A good approach for services that need to fetch arbitrary URLs is roughly:

1. Resolve hostname and remember the response

2. Verify that the response does not contain any addresses in a private IP space, or any other IP that is only accessible to you

3. Use the IP from step 1 when establishing a connection

With other solutions, you might end up being vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks.

Bonus points for doing all your URL fetching in some sort of sandbox that enforces these access rules.
We’re getting closer to clothing made entirely by robots
This is where it made me laugh:

> As a plus, now I can graph my family's phone usage.

> If I poll every few minutes, I can see exactly when people are watching videos, etc.

And interesting use of CasperJS for scraping.
ZPE in this context is a hook for perpetual motion/perpetual energy machines. Against the known laws of physics (in particular the laws of thermodynamics).

Without proof it's just another scam.
Image unshredding using a TSP solver
Any blog posts or other info about this? Sounds great and a HN front page worthy business!
How Much Are Your Words Worth – Literally?
Can I get a hacker to hack my wife Facebook account ?,I think she is cheating on me and am troubles
To what level?

Being able to waterstart, turn and stay upwind is akin to being able to order an evening meal in a foreign language.

That may be enough to say box ticked, I've learnt that, but in reality your not going to be throwing down megaloops or back mobes; that's ridiculously hard.

Not trying to knock you personally, fantastic that you've taken it up; Maybe I'm just bitter that after well over 10 years at this I still get shown up by the local kids :)
Very cool. Where do you get your stats from?
Wow, did you read the article or just the first sentence and only came here to post your pseudo scientific thoughts?

I'm no neuroscientist but I just had a child and read up on brain development. Your assumption that main difference is time is not only wrong but dangerous. I was going to cite you some research but the article does a pretty good job in going into detail why it's not just time. Yes, if you spend enough time or something you can eventually catch up but you have it backwards. Neuroplasticity dwarfs time. If your assumption is all about time, then the feral children the article talks about would be able to acquire language. I'm sure they have plenty of time and teachers after being found in the wild!

I seriously hope if you have kids or plan to have kids, you do not assume they can catch up later on and that you give them to proper learning environment when they are young. Otherwise your child may be closer to those feral children.
> According to that definition, everyone living in a northern climate becomes disabled each winter

This seems valid to me.

The prefix "dis-" is a negation prefix[1], and "abled" means to have a range of abilities[2], so it is equivalent to not-abled. Not having a range of abilities.

There's nothing in this most basic description that suggests being disabled is an abnormal or permanent state.

In the context of getting to the grocery store in the winter, I am quite literally disabled by the cold temperatures, unless I have some natural occurrence or form of technology that en-ables me–el nino, clothing, vehicles, underground tunnels.

I am disabled from reading this screen if I don't have my glasses on. This is a permanent disability, but I can correct it by either putting on my glasses, or by making the text bigger.

Our set of abilities is not immutable, and technology is just meant to add to this set. Microsoft's document is just about making designers aware that not everyone always has the same set of abilities as the designers themselves. Recognizing this allows us to design technology that helps more people in more situations.

WHO did not change _the_ definition of "disabled", they _corrected their own_ definition to recognize that whether or not a person is disabled is a contextually dependent question.

[1] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dis-
[2] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/abled
> How about cash instead of donuts? How about fake references?

Paid advertising. Guerilla marketing. Fake reviews and scores. Cardboards bigger than contents. Yep, that's exactly what marketing section does. Why would you think that would disqualify a person to work there?
100% this.

My mother has been in college / school since I can remember, with brief periods of work in between. She is in her 50's now, has several degrees, but more to learn and master so she keeps on going. She is one of the few adults who has both the time, determination and opportunity to learn new subjects, study, do homework, put hours upon hours of time into learning - and consistently makes all A's.

So basically, I see the requirements of learning in later life as hard work, time, determination and opportunity - not brain plasticity.
Didi grapples with Chinese cities’ draft laws
Yes. I think so too.

The post are all that count. You can't vote someone up or down, like on HN just because you agree or disagree. You don't have to think about your personal reputation when you post and how much upvotes you get.

Simply plain information.

Yes there is a whole bunch of BS going on, if you visit stuff like /r9k/ and /pol/, full of nazis who think hate-speach is the essence of free speach. But the topic boards like /fit/ or /fa/ or /ck/ have really good distilled informations.
Most mod-heavy games support that, going back to the classics like Unreal Tournament 1. Generally using Lua or some other embedding-oriented language, and minimal security audits. Anything else has a prohibitive workflow, and players won't exactly be auditing the mod-packages they run.

Lua is well-sandboxed for this, but I doubt devs are auditing the entire API they present to Lua.

And no, there are no security audits on engines like this. The only reason the mods havent installed a cryptolocker is because nobody has mad a really concerted effort to do so.
Seattle has already been doing this for at least a year.
I'd hire this person just to improve his life for a while. Hiring him will probably help him more than someone else.

If you can hire or promote or help someone, then do so.

Recently had to choose to promote either a single mom (stable home) 11 yrs in the job or a part-time just graduated woman renting a house for free in exchange for child care. Both were equally qualified. Which would be helped more? The part time student. Once promoted into FT position she gets benefits. Easy choice. Plus, the company stresses helping employees as #1 priority.

Even if this guy does not work out and he is termed after 90 days, he is better off trying and I improved his lot.
with autonomous vehicles you do not need to increase speed to gain capacity, you can already reduce the safety distance since the vehicles have a much lower reaction time than humans.

And energy efficiency decreases with higher speeds due to air resistance, so saving energy (reducing load on the grid from charging) is also a competing concern.
As a fellow left leaning Brit the pull yourself up by the bootstraps thing always seemed strange, sometimes people just don't have the bootstraps to start with!
http://getlivead.com and http://chattorney.com. They're different front ends to the same backend. Makes everything from aubscriptions. Not enough to live on as primary income but not shabby either. It has been a long four year road, with a couple of pivots and rewrites, 3 years of attorney's fees for patents but hugely personally rewarding and self-sufficient now.
I heard there's a country where Entartung ("degeneracy") is illegal and in some cases punishable by death... oh wait, that's Nazi Germany, never mind.

Seriously, if you look at the countries that try to ban "degenerate" activity (which itself is a matter of opinion), the list isn't all that pretty. Singapore is probably the only one that's livable, but only if you relish the idea of living in a full-on police state.
If you can access github...
You might disagree, but the scientific community disagrees with you.

A new brain allows a child to learn language much faster than an old brain. The poster isn't saying he can't learn new language, but it's more difficult.
As a user, I don't think I would want the contents of the list influenced by the restaurants.

I would look into something like the OpenTable affiliate program.
Why such small thinking? Why not work on a new project that might make you $100,000 a month? Sure $1000 is more likely (zero the most likely), but why aim small.
People get silly when it comes to tools they've invested time in, lots of people don't like to think they made the wrong choice and will defend it often to the extreme, I don't get invested in tools I use what works for me and switch when it seems reasonable.

Git is a necessary evil basically.
1. it's not exactly a "small percentage" as you claim.[0]

2. Who says other sectors aren't hit with reductions too? Every sector has to make a contribution, that includes vehicles.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/b/be/Energieverbra...
can I get a hacker to hack my wife account?
With ssl the best they can do is this host level blocking unless they perform mitm attacks.
Study a program language and recite codes from memory.
Comparison of Popular Natural Language Processing APIs from Top Vendors
This won't help with IAM roles, since the credentials provided in the metadata expire. Of course, a small tweak to the iptables entry would help there as well.

Mind posting your entry for us iptables impared folks?
>Wow, did you read the article or just the first sentence and only came here to post your pseudo scientific thoughts?

Why are you so vehemently disagreeing with someone else's anecdotal experience?

>I'm no neuroscientist but I just had a child and read up on brain development

His opinion is wrong because you read something and just had a baby?
Emacs Lisp's future [the discussion revisited]
Can I get a hacker to hack my wife account
Along with the other three Horsemen of the Infocalypse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
Thanks! I wrote a basketball simulation engine, it does a play-by-play sim of every game.
That's really cool. I wonder if you could make some money by doing actual in-person classes. It obviously wouldn't scale as well as a book you write once and release, but you might be able to charge a lot more for in-person education.
Cage was playing around with numerous ideas. In a way, he was a scientist, asking questions of the seemingly obvious, so we realized it wasn't at all obvious.

For example, most traditionally notated music is timed by meter and tempo. Music is divided into bars of a certain number of beats, and played at a certain number of beats per minute. I saw a Cage piece performed that used a timer rather than meter/tempo. Music was performed as written during intervals specified by the timer. Some sections offered barely enough time to play what was written. Other sections might have three notes in thirty seconds, giving the performer a lot of say in the feel just by when the notes were played. So using Frank Zappa's formula that "Music is a way of decorating time", Cage was playing with the necessary relationship of time and music.

His prepared piano pieces questioned the nature of the instrument. First, question how it is played. Why do you have to play the keys? Can't you reach in and touch the strings directly? What does that sound like? Next, it questioned tone. Pianos are designed to be tonally consistent across the range - in a well-tuned piano, all the notes sound similar except for pitch. By placing objects on the strings, he could make different sections of the piano sound different, opening up new realms for composition.

Cage found many ways to inject randomness (as opposed to improvisation) into his compositions. The works for radios, mentioned in the article, are a good example. The composition is precise, but the results of performance are wildly unpredictable, and not reproducible.

So despite the fame of 4'33", and its intent of making the audience listen to their surroundings, Cage explored the nature of music a great deal more than just that one thing.
But we're not talking about the atmosphere. That mercury goes directly into landfills.
For people working in a turkey as programmers I'm pretty sure not having access to GitHub and Dropbox is not great. Surely for political statements you can use any stupid host.
The Trump subreddit (r/The_Donald) prohibits any criticism of Trump or his supporters. It's purely there for celebrating all things Trump. I suspect it has the highest number of banned users of all the subs. The eager use of the ban hammer means you can't ignore the rules.
For smaller SaaS companies I think this approach is best.

If you have a stable passive income, whether you rely on or not. Why post about in an arena where people have the ability to copy and undercut you easily and threaten your income.

I sometimes find posts like these slightly disingenuous.