skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> * I don't have a clear handle on what I should be doing

Just start anywhere, maybe with routine/maintenance work. The idea and the clearer understanding will come a while after you started.

I guarantee you'll feel a lot better, knowing that you started.

> * I don't understand how to do whatever it is I should be doing

Same as above, just start without thinking about it. Postpone every critique of your work ("Is this ok?" "Will this be refactored"? "Is this necessary?") for at least 15 minutes and just produce something. If it's spell-checking code-comments, then it's spell-checking code-comments.

> * I'm tired/fried and not able to think clearly

Truth is you don't have to be wide awake to be able to work. It's perfectly possible and ok to work when you are tired or otherwise not feeling on top. Tell that to your immortal soul.

> * There are way too many different things vying for my attention (too many things I should be doing)

I have Bruce Lee's quote on a little paper card on my desk for this: "It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

And keep in mind: Hating yourself for procrastinating is really a hidden way of procrastinating.
I’m a few months into a mid-career break. I’m exercising, playing with kids, writing, studying, and sleeping (8 hours/night!). I’m also depleting savings, but not as quickly as I projected. Now that I have time, I fix broken things rather than replace them. I take time to research things really well before purchasing, so make few mistakes and get good deals. Each dollar I spend is a few minutes sooner that I need to return to employment (if the projects I’m tinkering with aren’t yet revenue-generating), which motivates frugality.

We lowered our costs significantly right before I left work. We moved to a small but adequate house in the far suburbs. My mortgage is about one-eight the mortgage of peers in my profession at my level, even when I include the rent I pay now for a tiny personal office nearby.

Chen, featured in the article, was one inspiration to take the plunge. I found his LinkedIn CV, which describes that period: “Father and Husband, Sabbatical, September 2011 - August 2012. We took a year off from our life in Boston and lived on a remote island in Norway just north of the Arctic Circle.” I liked that. Ideally I emerge from this period with a sustainable business of my own, but even if I return to working for others, as long as I have an interesting, compelling story about what I was up to during my time off, and how it made me better - which I will - I doubt the period will cost me much (if anything) in interview terms, and it may benefit me.

Glad to read the experiences of others here who did this and didn’t regret it. If there are people who took time off and did regret it or have advice about how (not) to spend the time, would love to read that too.
Hm. The x button he mentions is only visible if you got to the page from Google search. If you follow the direct link to the amp page then the header just mentions his original URL as the browser (mobile safari). I would say that such behaviour is quite consistent with mobile so... whatever.
Alternative idea:intentionally register someone else's fingerprints on your phone - so when the cops arrive and find a phone lying on the couch you can plausibly say "not mine, here try my finger on it!" ;-)

(Anybody got ready access to med school cadavers with the fingerprints intact?)
I was focusing on monetary issues because that's what most in the thread bought up. You're correct that I'm holding these universities to a specific standard and that's because I mentioned before they are universities, and because they are considered some of the eminent. If we can't even expect America's top universities to accommodate them, who can? (The government certainly can't go around subtitling everything) From your response it seems you're worried that this will lead to a slipper slope where subtitles become an oppressive expectations and might lead to even more specific demands by other groups. While I don't agree with that, I don't think that's as bad of a thing as it sounds; would the world really be worst off if we actually tried to consider the needs of those that are disabled? Regarding your question about expectations, the government already has guidelines on this, those are the base expectations. There are also groups specifically educating people on this like the WCAG for web accessibility. Anything extra you do such as accommodating the colorblind for example would be great and if a case like this forces people to consider the limitations their audiences might face. I see that as a win.
fingerprint (or face) is not a password, it is login.
Graphene has practical (and currently deployed, although niche) applications in the real world.
There is absolutely no reason for this to be flagged. Both candidates' actions and the media's response to them have been deplorable this election cycle, and we have a right to recognize them as being such. I am deeply concerned that CTR may now be operating on HN.

I have vouched for this submission to be reinstated.
Putting a little bit more thought into naming things can help newcomers understand these concepts more easily. The word container is too generic, why not call it an 'application jail' or a 'virtual operating system' ?

Another word that is over used in our field is 'context'.
> I don't really think they deserve to be called lazy.

Good point, thanks. Headline updated.
Confidence levels in the hypothesis based on results and rigour of the methodology producing those results (implicitly reproducibility) are two different things. I suspect that's why the downvotes.
Screen Actors Guild Strikes Activision, EA, Take 2 [pdf]
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It's based on the idea of container ships where the contents of every container can vary widely but the external interface for dealing with the containers is always identical. It's a pretty apt metaphor and not too generic, IMHO.
The whole idea of AMP seems like it's really the wrong way to solve the problem. If you remove all the third party JavaScript, fonts, large images and "like" buttons you'll have effectively the same. I guess it already messes up ads and analytics (although I'd assume Google's services still work), so what's the problem?

Kind of related: I recently switched my blog from Wordpress to Hugo. I found a minimal theme, but the amount of junk it was loading was shocking. I created a stripped down version if anyone is interested: https://github.com/lucaspiller/hugo-privacy-cactus-theme
Ask HN: Why are you voting for Trump?
The audience of HN is quite unique, and I'm genuinely curious to know the reason why the ones who are voting for Mr. Donald Trump are voting the way they do.

Please disregard if political discussion is not allowed on this forum.
The example code (both examples actually) should return after printing the error. Sorry, had to be that guy.
I agree that containers (both for shipping and servers) are a great idea. And because I'm tired of always configuring servers, I decided to give it a try some time ago.

I wrapped my IRC client (weechat + glowing-bear) in a Docker container. Oh, not a container though, because I also needed https, which meant I needed either a mechanism to build and update letsencrypt certs in the weird format that weechat expects, or to run an nginx instance in the front (and also somehow get the certs, but that's easier with nginx). So two containers.

And even though there was a ready-made nginx+letsencrypt https reverse proxy container (actually several), I had a huge amount of headaches to get it actually working. Even with the system set up, I occasionally have the container crash with exit status 137 (IIRC), which I've assumed might be because weechat leaks/consumes memory and eventually the host server kernel kills the process. Maybe.

So in my limited experience, comparing Docker containers to shipping containers is a gross simplification. Shipping containers are simple constructions requiring well-defined simple maintenance, while Docker containers seem to be complex thingamabobs that have multiple points of failure.
If there's one thing standing in the way of campaign finance reform, it's everyone involved in campaigns and the financing of them.
Actually there are Mennonite communities in Mexico and some are affected by the drug cartels, particularly around Nuevo Ideal, Durango.
You hit the nail on the head. Anthony can feel all romantic about because the second he has cold feet about it, he can jilt the his experiment in subsistence farming. That farmer has no hope, no way of parachuting out of there -as you say, the are trapped.
Exactly correct.

In 29 years of eligibility I've missed two elections - and I'm including all primaries, city, and county elections in that tally; one of the two I missed was a local runoff election that got almost zero media coverage - I heard about it after it happened.

Senators Burr and Tillis will see a Chapel Hill address and high five each other that they're diametrically opposed.
I think you are missing one point though - Having that AMP message with the lightning symbol next to your search result in the rich snippet as well as coming up as a result in the carousel at the top of the search results (search for some news terms and you will see what I am talking about) increases organic search traffic as well as CTR. Almost all of the media companies are doing it for that reason and actually making pages fast.
So you're literally arguing that we just need to focus on making money, and ignore things like the environment? Yep, sounds about like a textbook example of "unwise" to me.
Sure Google has no legal obligation to send the traffic to the site, but it is still sort of dishonest. Google convices people to install AMP under the premise that it will help them. Instead, it just allows Google to monetize other people's content, at the expense of the creator.

It's hypocrital to bill AMP as an improved mobile experience, while sticking a big button at the top. Also hypocritical to penalize sites for scraped, dublicate content, while doing the same themselves.
The Biggest Mountain vs. The Best Ultra Runner
“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”
I think #2 is aggravated by lack of documentation. How would any new developer ever understand the context and trade-offs made at the time if they were never written down? If there's no records, it's either reverse engineering, or re-engineering.
Would you call this guy for an interview based on this resume?
He doesn't say what it is.
My understanding is that plenty of people do actually use Docker in production, but they use more than just Docker. A docker container isn't quite the same as a VM.
Docker's new Alpine VM isn't really designed to be reused. AFAICT the interfaces are private and undocumented.

Reusing xhyve/hyperkit seems more stable, given that they're designed to be embedded.
They were called "jails" long before "containers" became a thing on HN. Somehow "jails" didn't stick, so I'd assume it was even more confusing for newcomers.
My three favorite books on compilers (in no particular order) are:

* Engineering a Compiler: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Second-Keith-Coo...

* Modern Compiler Implementation in ML: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/

* Compiling with Continuations: https://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appe...
New payments app is disrupting P2P lending
while obsolete, I still prefer working with PyQwt - http://pyqwt.sourceforge.net
Learning, effort, team rapport, enjoyment, cost and time: choose up to n ∈ Reals, n > 0, using a Poisson distribution where λ = 1... but usually do without all of them and fix legacy code yesterday and make it pretty... oh and change everything again, right now. (Tension of fine-tuning to apparent/actual needs with what's possible... Office Space/Dilbert vs. the few whom bring customers nearer to the tight iterations and visible progress of actual agile shops making something gradually useful, fairly quickly. In traditional offices, there is a core insecurity of not appearing incapable or making a mistake, so big deliverable guesswork fails to meet requirements or stay within time/cost budget, and "do what the boss says". Also, random vendors taking forever and doing almost "nothing" because they were not milestone deliverables but charge by the hour, no customer-side PM usually.)
https://github.com/pybee/toga
> but there are real differences between men and women

Thank you.

So you're saying that men should shoulder more responsibility for breeding for the greater good?
Wagging fingers is one of the more boring forms of political discourse, and no matter how unacceptable you find an opinion, you will never finger-wag someone out of one.
Trash-cli
Does this mean a modern optical mouse wouldn't work on a (hypothetical) plane that is flawless at a resolution higher than the mouse's image sensor?
> The promise behind software containers is essentially the same. Instead of shipping around a full operating system and your software (and maybe the software that your software depends on), you simply pack your code and its dependencies into a container that can then run anywhere — and because they are usually pretty small, you can pack lots of containers onto a single computer.

Already got it wrong. Current containers are exactly the OS and the kitchen sink for running 'printf("hello world")'.
Myths About Employee Motivation
If they threw out lawyers and insurance companies, hell I'd move there :P
It's not your site any more. You're just a free content provider to Google now.
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Salesforce officially walks away from Twitter acquisition for real this time
This feels much more like FB's "instant articles" than what I actually want (as a user) from my web pages.
I took a 1 year career break in 2011, travelled around Asia, learnt some new life and professional skills and got an excellent new job in Australia (I'm British) via sponsorship.

Im convinced that I got the job because my energy and enthusiasm levels were completely reset after my time away from working.

In August this year I left that job and I've been living in Thailand for the last 2.5 months, and already I feel completely reset and ready for new challenges.

The most important part of a career break is to use the time wiseley to either work on yourself, or work on your skills, or both. If you just sit around on your backside playing XBox and doing the same shit you did while you were working, then you're probably not going to benefit from it.

Yes this path may not be available to friends who went down the family/mortgage path but they have benefits in their life which I don't have. Different people, different priorities I guess.
How one founder took an idea and built a prospering startup (podcast)
Wired broke this story [1] in February 2016, soon after Google announced it'd start directing results to the AMP Cache on the mobile site. In the meta-writeup the next day, Wired wrote "Google's AMP Is Speeding Up the Web By Changing How It Works" [2], while noting that this was a necessary step to compete with Facebook's Instant Articles and Apple's equivalent tech.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2016/02/google-will-now-favor-pages-us...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2016/02/googles-amp-speeding-web-chang...
You're assuming this will solve financial volatility: the creation of options, liquidity brokers, HFT a virtual cornucopia of financial products and you think this tax will solve it? It could actually make it worse because it actually removes liquidity from the system..

And if you want an indication of what it could do, have a look over at the italian markets where it has not helped at all. Just recently infact there was a bond issue that was oversubscribed unexpectedly because the trading system gave no indications it could support that, people now actively bypass secondary markets for their main street business.

The tax is even larger than brokerage for shares for retail investors, seriously where will the liquidity come from when its needed?
I think you'd have a easier time asking yourself why it's important for you to work day and night and send emails 24/7. Is it to get rich, make the investors and founders rich, validation, recognition, etc.? I'm not judging you but you might want to understand your personal motivation for why the company needs to be successful.

Like you mentioned, your colleagues are probably not lazy -- it's more likely they have different values, time commitments, and other responsibilities. For most of your colleagues I'm sure IT IS just a job. If your top priority in your life is that you help make the company a success, then more power to you. Making the company a success is probably not your colleagues top priority. Trying to make your colleagues top priority "to make the company a success", likely, won't go over too well either. Hate to break it to you but controlling what people prioritize in their lives isn't easy.

Try and focus on the things you can control. Otherwise, spending time and energy focusing on what other people are doing is going to eat you up. Don't worry about making the rest of your team look bad (side note: you're probably not going to no matter how good you are). You're not responsible for what they're doing or how they're perceived. If it really bothers you, you have the freedom to leave the company and try and find another place where your co-workers work just as much you do. My guess is you'll find that those places where you feel people work just as hard as you do are few and far between.

Really quick story: I have a former coworker (call him R) that used to work nonstop. He was transferred to a new group where he didn't know his new manager so well. This new manager would leave sporadically during the day or not respond to emails as quickly as R would like him to. R would go to other higher ups and complain and try to get his new manager reprimanded, or preferably, fired. R didn't like when other engineers didn't work as many hours as he did (especially his manager). One day during lunch, R started telling people how lazy his manager was and that they should be fired. After lunch, someone pulled R aside and told him that the reason his manager would leave work or that they weren't responding to emails was because she was taking her son to chemotherapy treatments and doctor appointments because her son was battling leukemia. The point is that you never know what's going on with other people.

Good luck in your endeavour!
"Typical" 6 figure rates are in or near the 90th percentile of income. Cost of living in most places with those 6 figure salaries are in the 90th percentile too.
Life is so much easier with these hacks
If you want to know how a student will confront a real problem, you need to create a context where they won't try to outsmart whoever wrote the question.

It's entirely possible to solve a math problem using psychology instead of math, because math problems are made by people. We've all done a horrifying amount of schoolwork, and thus have a pretty good data set in our head from which to extrapolate.

Suppose I tell you that an algebra textbook question includes the numbers 32, 4 and 64 in the problem text. What's the answer? I'd bet most of us would guess 2 or 4.
> Somehow "jails" didn't stick

I hear chroot jail tossed around a fair amount.
Thanks. You know that Yagan and OkCupid were just going for the PR, playing with social media outrage fire.

IAC (Ok's parent co) was doing a deal with Mozilla, I'm pretty sure we could have backed them off, had I remained.

I can't say more right now, but I'll note that a headhunter linked-in-mailed me late in 2014 asking if I wanted to be CTO of Match/Ok/etc. -- the IAC dating services.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/543545707152429056

Too funny!
Ssh-audit: tool for ssh server auditing
Perhaps it is those things, but then I end up taking too long to get back to whatever I should be doing
I'm only a beginner, but the analogy that makes sense to me is that containers do for app deployment what npm does for Javascript development. That is, the magical part isn't that Docker simulates an operating system and so on - the magic is that it allows a chunk of logic to precisely declare its dependencies - including on other pieces of logic which declare their own dependencies - and then Docker knows how to (in theory anyway) run the logic in such a way that its dependencies are all satisfied.

And of course the meta-magic is then that there's a public registry of (in theory) solved problems, which one can build on top of by declaring dependencies against them.

I have a pet theory that this "declared dependencies + dependency wrangler + public registry" is a general formula which will keep cropping up as we find new places to apply it.
can you imagine if every site that linked to yours had a bar at the top of your page that said "back to facebook" or "back to wikipedia"? mobile web users know how to use the back button but google is taking up your screen real-estate to drive traffic back to google.

this reminds me of sites in the early web that used to link out to sites and frame them with a banner at the top. websites countered this with frame-breaker scripts -- but publishers really shouldn't have to do that.
The author is regretfully realizing that in this day and age when so much of the discoverability of the web is dominated by Google, Facebook, and a handful other players, content is a commodity that these gatekeepers compete over for the privilege of serving as entry-points, and with it, getting analytics and ad network data. But on the plus side, it's a free CDN, if you're passionate about your content.
The analogy that's sometimes used is that of a safe full of documents. Current case law says that you can be compelled to turn over a key but cannot be compelled to turn over a password [1].

The Department of Justice is saying that a fingerprint is more like a key than a password I guess. Or alternatively that unlocking phones is search and not testimony.

The EFF seems to be primarily objecting on the grounds that a search of "all devices in the building" is too vague to be a correct warrant.

[1] http://www.uclalawreview.org/the-fifth-amendment-encryption-...
Couldn't you say the same about a safe on the premises being searched?

The self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment is broadly interpreted as intended to dissuade the government from attempting to coerce confessions. Forcing someone to unlock their phone with a fingerprint caries none of the moral hazard of forcing them to testify.

All of that being said, I'd love for US society to recognize that a search encompassing a bunch of people's phones is vastly more intrusive (by virtue of the volume of data collected and network effects) than a search of a building that excludes computing devices, and for us to require a correspondingly higher burden of proof.
> But I am not blaming the system.

You wrote:

> The 'actual problem' seems to be in the selection/delegation process.

That sounds like blaming the system to me.