skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've recently started freelancing and from my experience the job boards aren't great. I've had a few leads from LaraJobs but most of my work has come through networking and repeat business.

It's tough but work will come! Just keep going with it and talk to everyone about the fact that you're doing a bit of freelancing, you never know when someone will need some work done.

Also, a good portfolio website will obviously help. Shameless plug for mine at: https://codefox.io :P
Like the article says, it's very hard to distinguish between market making and prop trading. Especially in illiquid stuff like corporate bonds, the MM needs to hold positions for extended durations, so they have a valid excuse to not be closed down entirely by Volcker.

The real reason they make all that money is flow. The guy on a desk like that knows what customers are calling, what they're concerned about, roughly how easy it is to get rid of stuff, and so on. It's not surprising he has a good idea of what's going to happen, and he's in a good position to take advantage.

Surprised their VAR (which is a crap way to measure risk) is not even halved in relation to before the crisis. People were definitely chucking it about back then, and the mood these days is like a morgue.
trig has seemed extremely important to me. specifically using sin and cos. helps a lot in physics as well as computer graphics and many other applications.
Oh, thank you very kindly! One does one's humble best.

I do wish to note that, when I wrote the comment to which you reply, I hadn't yet read far enough into the thread to encounter the many people saying "Oh, you just have to power through the first {100,300,...} pages, and then it gets amazing!" Such claims for Infinite Jest are new to me, and it's an argument to which I'm not without sympathy; I'm forced to consider the possibility that I've judged the book too harshly, and that this may be a case where I'd be well served to suspend the usual criteria by which I decide that an author is wasting my time.

(And I have to say, that cruise review piece you linked is doing a good job winning me over, too. Thanks for that!)
From my experience, this is naive.
It's funny, but really naive.

The bigger your application stack is (micro-services, API calls, network calls), the more failure you would need to test out and there's no way to "trust" developers to do it themselves.

Also, Netflix hires a lot of top-notch developers and their infrastructure is pretty awesome.

[I don't work @ Netflix, just a devops dude :)]
> Would you care to answer assuming that it wasn't a case of vandalism?

No, I don't want to spend more time chasing an increasingly stretched hypothetical that is being made to defend what would be asshole behaviour at the best of times.

I can't find a statement threatening to fire anyone, but the message I've seen says "Despite my clear communication at Q&A last week that this was unacceptable, and messages from several other leaders from across the company, this has happened again. I was already very disappointed by this disrespectful behavior before, but after my communication I now consider this malicious as well."

If your boss tells you to stop doing something at work and you keep doing it then yes, that can get you fired, no matter if it's singing Ave Maria or throwing rhetoric against a civil rights movement.
>The content creation though? Much bigger picture.

A lot of it is that, YouTube video stars notwithstanding, "we" have long become accustomed to pretty high levels of technical craft in video that takes a fair bit of effort and money to create. Some of the equipment has come down in price a lot. My DSLR, in the right hands, can produce technically stunning footage. But you need a lot of expertise and, often, things like lighting gear to turn that into professional-looking footage.
One junk-bond trader at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. earned more than $100 million in trading profits for the firm earlier this year, an unusual gain at a time when new regulations have pushed Wall Street to take fewer risks.
Study: Mass. Robotics Companies Employed 4,700 Workers, Generated $1.6B in 2015
IME the #1 problem is the failure to teach anything WELL. I took AP Calculus in high school, and today, as a 35-year-old, I'm still continually surprising myself with the problems I realize must be related to Calculus-- but nobody bothered to tell me. Things like the 'ol speed vs acceleration vs jerk kind of problems.

All calculus ever taught me was to apply these formulas to those problems (for some reason) and that dx/dy meant derivative of x with respect to derivative of y.

It boggles my mind that nobody simply bothered to tell us what a goddamned derivative was; what the word meant, and what real-life examples were. The "with respect to" was the most confusing and least useful concept. If we knew what the things were in the first place, the fact that one was "with respect to" the other would have been obvious. And "with respect to" could have been replaced with "relative to" in our minds, because we'd know what the things were.

Calculus seemed to be entirely repeating nonsensical mantras and applying impenetrable methods to problem sets and receiving an answer out the other end.

I'll also echo calls for more time on algebra. Surely the problem with algebra was that I wasn't a devoted enough student to repeating problem sets ad nauseum, but I just never got the 'knack' for it. I understood what I was supposed to be doing, but I was never satisfied with the answer "you'll start getting a feel for what to simplify to what after you do enough problems" as an explanation. It was frustrating to not feel like there was a concrete process to it all.

This made later Calculus and Statistics hard for me, because many exams would simply be 2 enormous problems ; the calculus I could get through but I couldn't simplify the problems quickly enough to be able to apply calculus or statistics at all.
Hard to take an article seriously when they conflate "anabolic steroids" with "supplements" in such a casual fashion. Like, really, it's incredibly poor word choice.

How do I know? Because I've taken plenty of legal-at-the-time testosterone precursors, aka prohormones. If that's what the article is trying to talk about, they did a terrible job. Anabolic steroids are illegal in the US for recreational purposes, err, without a prescription.
For the firm.
RefControl (use a Google property) and Cookie Controller (deny cookies).
from the back row comment i think they are either cheating off each other or have some notes written down.
I'm sorry, why did you instruct him not to give his last name? I didn't get it.
Who Built the Pyramids? (2003)
interesting how many 'mainstream' companies are acting like the online porn companies did in the late 90s... easy to keep rebilling the customer if you don't provide a way to cancel.

i always look for this before signing up to a financial service. if you aren't easy to reach from every page on your site(or only allow phone calls from 9-3 EST, kind of crap)... i don't trust you with my money, period. I know really good customer service reps are spendy, but hiding from the customer is unacceptable.
It doesn't apply to a lot of people, but I have a mobility disability that makes plugging into ports difficult or impossible without getting someone to help. With MagSafe I really appreciate just lining up the cable imprecisely and letting magnetism do the rest.
While I don't disagree with the annoyance as to laying things on the left side, magsafe is more nice in that if you hit the cable or accidentally have torque on the charging cable it just disconnects, not causes a ton of pcb or connector damage.
David Foster Wallace also had an annoying habit of sprinkling non-standard (or at least obscure) acronyms throughout his writing.
> you want to drop privileges (as in Docker entry-points) but you don't want your process to be child process of su or sudo process.

> Unlike su or sudo this tool would exec to replace the current process (so it would receive signals ..etc.)

Where did you get the idea that su or sudo spawn a child processes for
commands to run? I would be very, very wary of any security-sensitive code
from author who didn't get such a basic thing right.

Unless you do very magic thing and replace my current shell, which would be
the parent process of your command.
Yes, this is something that I absolutely love about the Chromebook Pixel. Having two fully functional type c ports on both the left and right side of the laptop offers an unexpectedly amazing degree of convenience. The ability to daisy-chain several devices for charging is pretty cool as well. I'm never going back to a laptop that doesn't offer charging ports on both sides of the computer.
In its VR/AR push, Twitter trolls itself
think a little harder.

If you actually happen to NEED unlimited data, and someone offers you unlimited data at some speed, and when you go to use it it is not that speed. And now your system does not work as designed.

Are you a happy consumer then? and since everyone get fooled by the false marketing, the actual providers of unlimited data at a certain speed is now out of business, because they had to charge for the real deal.

This is not about having sane limits. It's about false advertising with the only goal of killing competition and stealing business.

And btw, all carriers do that. It's a shame FCC is a tool for AT&T and Verizon nowadays on their plan to split the country into two monopolies. I will bet you money that they will never get a fine like that. ever.
Nice writeup!

I was just starting to look into this since people were claiming it was pretty severe and yet I hadn't seen any POC's. Have you made any more progress?

For whatever my opinion is worth (i.e. not much), I would agree with you that remote exploitation of this particular bug would be really difficult.
I think the factual counter-argument is that child mortality has declined both from accidental drowning[1] and all causes[2]. I still think it is open to interpretation if helicopter parenting is causative or justified.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/figures%5Cm6115a5f....

[2] http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/63_fig...
I dated a woman from France for three months and was surprised to find that the French government healthcare system reimbursed for homeopathic prescriptions. See [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25921648
His book is not available on Kindle, so no
Honestly, most of Infinite Jest is not like that. It's only like that when you're "in the head" of certain characters.

But you have no idea what's going on in the book for the first 300 pages or so. It takes until around 500 pages in before you're immersed in the story, and then reading it becomes kind of an addiction. And once you're done, you feel an intense need to start it over again, knowing what you do now.

I only really got the theme of it on the second reading. I actually put it down for a few months the first time I tried to read it because I was confused. But it's worth it...oh man, is it worth it.
I just hope we get 32G of RAM on the MBP. It's desperately needed.
Google S/MIME Requirements for Gmail
Schools should adopt more dynamic curriculum, instead of a one size fits all, for individual students. Not everyone will grow up to be an engineer, but that doesn't mean those who have an interest in advanced mathematics should be held back. Encourage students to pursue their academic passions, and don't limit certain subjects depending on grade level.

A personal anecdote: I didn't start liking math until Calc AB, as subjects beforehand were presented as dry and were relatively easily so I didn't individually pursue mathematics outside of school. But by that time, I was already a junior and as a result, I often wonder what better math teachers and a non static curriculum would've done for my education.
this is correct, its called a chargeback.
Or switch to the Help tab. Note taken.
sigh Apple, can we have at least one USB-A port left on the Pro machines? Please? So we can plug in bunch of useful devices and TheyJustWork(tm)? It's sad enough that quarter of talks I visit start with "Does anyone have their Mac video dongle with them? Anyone? ... " shtick.
Unfortunately NXP is nuking most of the iMX6 support from orbit after they bought Freescale. Even things like most of the SD card images for their SABRE boards were deleted of their site. It's only due to the large open ecosystem around the iMX6 that we were able to debug some issues while bringing up a board recently.
> I don't think you're going to find the woman you do want in the MGTOW community...

Surrogate, adoption, orphanages. I love kids. But I don't care about my 'lineage'
Is it, though? The most basic implementation, where things are still erased at runtime by the JIT, should be fairly simple, although it will not give the expected perf gains, of course.

Either way, CLR and C# did it a long time ago, and in the same time period when Java acquired its type-erased generics.
I couldn't disagree more. It gets too hard when you're asking students to memorize arbitrary equations that make no sense to them. It gets too hard when you give them 30 problems that look identical and they do 3 or 4 and figure that's good enough because they know how to run numbers through the meat grinder of a formula.

I don't see how students can truly learn if they don't understand the formulas they're applying and their relevance to the real world.
Phoenix Todos – Adding Lists and Tasks
Wikileaks did not steal anyone's identity. To use another one of your tortured metaphors, it's a bit like if Wikileaks found your wallet and pinned your credit card and driver's license to the nearest telephone pole.

I don't agree with most concepts of responsible disclosure; most would have Wikileaks contact the DNC, who would then likely attempt to hide their mistake. I am in favour of informing those harmed by the negligent actions of those they trusted; and so the right thing to do is to expose the donor list, as well as what data was present.

Personally, I would have replaced credit card numbers with Xs, but as the CC values could no longer be considered secure I fail to see the egregious additional injury caused by revealing them. It's unkind, but not particularly beyond the harm that the DNC had already done by failing to properly secure them. Who knows who has had them, and for how long? Not the DNC, and not Wikileaks.
I absolutely did. Thanks!
I'm skeptical that a person can really understand why x^(2/3) is not differentiable at x=0 but has an absolute minimum at x=0 without understanding the algebra. I think one can get an idea of the concepts without knowing algebra but I doubt one can understand calculus without knowing algebra.

We always teach the meaning of a given mathematical concept before doing using them or doing calculations. It's just that true understanding comes from the doing the calculation part.
Skyping and Typing Threatens Privacy
You mean like the $100 million the FCC fined AT&T for the exact same thing? http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/mobile-fined-48m-...
No, but movies are only one of a myriad of entertainment/spare time options. I do suspect that "What's on Netflix?" (or Amazon Prime) is often going to be a default and if a film isn't there, it will lose out.

I do seek out specific films for home viewing--I have a Netflix DVD subscription--but I suspect I'm increasingly in the minority.
I would agree that interaction design for the web is in it's infancy inasmuch as it still displays a tendency to stick it's fork in the power outlet when left unsupervised. Otherwise I disagree strongly. All of the design lessons learned leading up to the .com implosion have had to be collectively re-learned at least twice (remember jello mold layouts? eyeroll) in the last 15 years. The root problem: designers either refuse to make peace with the fact that layout and control interfaces have been largely solved problems for close to 20 years now, or they fail miserably at conveying these limitations to potential clients.
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Yes, my intent was to emphasize that lower-than-maximum contrast through paper (and not grey ink) is typical of most high-quality printing, to avoid giving the impression that it implies age, wear, or low quality (pulp/newsprint), which designers probably want to avoid.

(There was an 18th-century fad for extremely high contrast, but fortunately it passed. And current printer/copy paper is excessively bright (often even using fluorescent brighteners), but no one considers photocopies to be the height of good taste.)
Most of my high school classes in the later years were AP, and there was no pressure to take AP tests we didn't see the value in. shrug
"Organic" and "natural" are not regulated in the U.S.
Hah, I'll take 'rationalist type' any day! And I don't mind laissez faire ("a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering") much either.

My example revolved around strangers because that was the general topic. Strangers in the form of meddling, hyper-protective adults. True blue 'stranger danger' is, as you say, extremely rare.

Our son has almost always been very deliberate in action, especially with respect to his own safety.

So, the only real situation we had to guard against was the possibility of other adults freaking out that he was alone at the age of 9.

Regarding your hypothetical: as noted elsewhere, 3 years is very young. To be more illustrative, I'll disregard the specifics you mentioned, because our actual decision in such a situation would depend on so many more considerations.

My general approach would be to ensure the child is safe while minimizing my own exposure to possible unforeseen repercussions.

If the child was physically ok, I would tend toward relatively low-grade engagement. If she wandered off, I'd probably follow at a distance as long as needed.

The guiding principle is minimal intervention/interference with a baseline of protecting the child from environmental/possible human dangers.

If people arrived or she went toward people that posed a possible danger, than I would not hesitate to involve the authorities, because that is clearly moving toward an 'emergency' threshold.

These are conceptual guidelines, which might all go out the window depending on the actual specifics of a situation as I saw it.
Would you expect an author to have anything to do with that decision?
Vote with your $. According to $, they're doing pretty great.
My strawperson-per-minute meter just pegged.

Don't you find it unreflexive and ironic to dismiss their writings as rationalistically dismissive then proceed to nitpick denotative meanings?

And how on Earth do you get that deploying a bigoted version of an existing word means the person who doesn't like getting targeted with it has no right to complain about it?

For example, how do you feel about people who call women "cunts"? By your logic, objecting to that practice would be utterly bogus (not just bogus, mind you, but utterly bogus...), because the jerks doing it have a right to do it. In your logic, the bigoted, offensive term "cunts" is fine. Anyone complaining about getting called a "cunt" doesn't dislike the term, they just want to dismiss and mock the jerks calling them that...

That's ridiculous. People who call women "cunts" are trying to verbally intimidate them through gendered, offensive references. And the same is true with people who label others "mansplainers." They're just offensive namecallers, trying to use sexual imagery to shame someone into shutting up, to demonstrate that they will go further in a conflict, that they have less to lose, and dare them to push back.

Look, I kind of understand where you're coming from, tptacek. I've read a lot of the same social theory as you in grad school. I've read a lot of your writings here and elsewhere. And I object to mainstream society in a big way, too. And I object to a lot of the tech scene as well, from the huge bets on stupid tech to the path of tech from research to military to police to consumer.

But take this from someone who wants to see you succeed: You're flipping out and not being persuasive. You're relying too much on trying to overwhelm people with big words from the literature and failing to communicate. You're letting yourself get triggered and losing the ability to relate to those who disagree with you and see two or more simultaneous perspectives in your mind at once. You're moving into all black and white territory, but you know reality isn't like that.
> 1 month multiplied by the maximum speed of the technology

Sure, that's obvious.

> the actual capacity of the network

Shouldn't that be enough to handle at least the actual usage given that not everyone uses it at full capacity all the time? Probably there's some capacity at which they're mostly capable except the rare event that brings in an extremely large num of users. Probably not obvious?

> the fact that they throttle heavy users

This is definitely not obvious.
Well, I wrote the RTL as well as implemented the SW so I guess I do have propriety information on the topic...

In theory, all the code and sequences for the BootROM, 2nd stage, ARM loader and peripheral control functions is available by disassembling the binaries (and extracting some code from the ROM with a mempcy) - it just requires reverse engineering / re-implementing inside and this is part of the fun / why this project is so great.

I might suggest they poke at the linux port and u-boot of the BCM2835 from Roku however :)
In my opinion, it doesn't count unless its in production.

Why? Your customers use your production environment, not your test environment. Something will cause loss of an instance for you:
* Mistaken termination
* AWS retirement (and you missed the email)
* Cable trip in the data center
* <Something else we can come up with>
* <This list goes on>

So, vaccinate against the loss of an instance cratering your service. Give your prod environment a booster shot (with Chaos Monkey or something like it) every hour of every day. Then, when anything from the above list happens you're infrastructure handles it gracefully and without intervention. Continued booster shots ensure that this stability continues through config changes, software version changes, OS changes, tooling changes, etc.

I think the better question is "Why wouldn't you do this?"
There was a Kickstarter a while back for a Magsafe-like solution for USB-C. You might want to check it out if you haven't seen it already. Wish I remembered the name...
Perhaps they could release a usb c charging cable with a magnetic disconnect in the cable itself (sort of like a cable with a smaller-magsafe-to-usb-c dongle built into it). No reason to suspect they will do this but it should be technically feasible and would allow a migration to USB C without losing all of the benefits of magnetic disconnection.