skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the situation in Mexico at all so please take my humble opinion with a pinch of salt. About 3 years ago I was asked a similar question so I wrote a blog post about it:

https://bjoernkw.com/2013/04/28/starting-a-software-consulti...

I think most of that still applies - no matter if you're in Mexico or the EU (as in my case).

From my additional 3 years of experience since then I can't emphasise enough that networking is absolutely key!
Talk to a lot of potential customers and peers (fellow developers, particularly those who already run their own consulting business). Go to meetups and industry events. Follow up with potential clients on a regular basis.

You might want to work with recruiters as well if you have to but having direct client connections in my opinion is the only long term way to run a sustainable consulting business.

I'd advise against using freelancing sites for the reasons you mentioned. It's usually a race to the bottom in terms of pricing because you're literally competing with the whole world.
A related phenomenon is that programmers have no collective identity to rely on (or uphold). The struggle of the classes and the topic of the bigger social good is relatively meaningless to them. They can't put a finger on these issues, they belong to other classes. Programmers are by nature but also by nurture very much individuals, and as individuals, without nurturing collectivity, they are easily manipulated and put against each other.

So programmers don't work on socially relevant or desirable problems, but on some relatively obscure scalability issue that exists only inside a few internet behemoths. They need soldiers, not wisdom.

With these employers dominating the marketplace, socially relevant innovations take a back seat. Society doesn't help either, as open source sadly isn't tax funded (because tax-fundedness is a pivotal privilige of the disfunctional political class).

So being a programmer often is (cor)related to the strength of youth, and youth ends at 40.

However, no craftsman worth his salt loses his abilities, instead he has experience about what works and what doesn't, and becomes more effective at what he does. He doesn't run trying to catch his own tail.

For example this guy here, at https://millcomputing.com/docs/execution/. What he and his team have done is a work of beauty and is the fruit of experience and intuition.

The young and the old work together.
I'm really trying to start and finish Infinite Jest but the sheer girth of the book is discouraging me from bringing it on my commute.
Onyx-Local-RT: the Onyx distributed platform now runs in your browser
Well Religious books have yielded more violent actions than all the movies and video games ever, if you want to take that approach.

Certainly puts things into context don't you think.
They're not sure if Guccifer 2.0 is one person or a hacking group. Many independent security firms have said it's associated with two Russian intelligence agencies.
The cost of changing all systems is probably not worth of it. Most mail is send inside the countries.

There is UPU Addressing S42 standard and Universal POST*CODE® DataBase.
S42 tells how to transform address elements into an accurately formatted address.

http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/s42-standard/app...

http://www.upu.int/en/resources/postcodes/universal-postcode...
> Why can’t we specify colors independent of the monitors actual contrast ratio, too?

We do that already by default. Your displays are probably not calibrated and poorly configured. Sadly, manufacturers rarely bother to provide decent ICC profiles.
I apologize for my ignorance, but why is the original Raspberry Pi not supported?

It would seem if the announcement has been made that it will never be supported, a note as to why would make sense. Unfortunately, the news release didn't include one.
A few recommendations:

1. use proper posture. Don't rest your wrists on the table as you type. Make sure your chair is an appropriate height (or your desk itself, if you're standing).

2. imo Dvorak is much more comfortable (it's not about typing speed).

3. Take up rock climbing. Seriously. It's the best exercise for your hands/wrists that I know of. Any time I've started to have hand/wrist pain I've made a point of going to a rock gym a few times and it helps fix the problem. I wish I kept up with it more.
Nice. There's an Inferno port to the Raspberry Pi that could be made even smaller by using this (I suppose): http://lynxline.com/projects/labs-portintg-inferno-os-to-ras...
The Russians invented the job, yet us Americans decided to go with Astronaut rather than Cosmonaut.
The lander appears to have failed :( Official confirmation at 6pm UTC.
Yes.

The "sell" can be tricky for some people, until your first production issue. Never let a crisis go to waste.

Machines go away all the time in the cloud. This tool increases the frequency so you can ensure your system handles it gracefully.

Some people believe their system can tolerate this class of failures, but without continuous validation, that is more of a hope than a certainty.
>Source? a good percentage of the people I know from Europe does.

Well, I don't just know people from Europe, I am from Europe.

Computer programmers and geeky types are not representative of the general population.

>They should refuse to do anything that was against (or far from what was in) their program. Leaflets hardly reflect all of a candidate's program.

Maybe they should though? Why allow for non approved/requested by the public policy changes that they come up on their own?

Even better, ask in a direct democratic way for anything not in the program (yeah, within reason -- they could do trivial things and directing).
<dons my own flameproof suit>

I think the blocking should be on your side. The Internet is meant to be free. Want to keep porn away from yourself or kids? Install an extension, or get one of those services that automatically blocks it.

The same way, we should block on device/user level. Afraid your kids will watch it on their phones? Okay, cool, let's provide that kind of blocking at a cellular provider level or even at a phone level (I'm sure Safari or Chrome could implement blockers). We should blacklist rather than whitelist.

I think the best way to deal with "accidentally" viewing something is require a "popup" (think modal rather than traditional popup) that asks you if you are 18 or above and warn you of the content which a ton of sites already do. Or implement a simple HTTP header that tells your browser that you're accessing a site that's not safe for minors.
"A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare."

Proverbs 15:1

"If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat.
If they are thirsty, give them water to drink.
You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads,
and the LORD will reward you."

Proverbs 25:21,22
While I doubt that Alzheimer's is caused by infectious agents, there really is no harm in trying (except perhaps to the pockets of the trial's sponsors).

Or to taxpayers when some pharmaceutical company finds a specious statistical correlation between Alzheimer's and an infectious agent that one of their products happens to treat.

A cynical view, yes. Borne out of my reading of Bad Pharma and coming across at least one startup whose business model was to do this with genetic tests.
How is this clearly racist post from a throwaway account being upvoted while the parent comment is downvoted nearly into oblivion?
Designing Your Website's About Us Page
Well I grew up in the mountains of Vermont, and that environment hasn't changed really. But I see your point, although I feel that the only way to combat that shift, is to actively push against it (like the dad in the article did).
Museum posts 'queen has died' notice to explain vanished ant colony
That seems highly unlikely.
> While in the past I viewed WL as a crucial part of openness and democracy, I'm very suspicious of their current sources, and their intentions. Not to mention Assange's personal interests

Is that because Wilileaks used to be helping your political interests and now is hurting your political interests?
GPS/GLONASS signal spoofing in the center of Moscow
Given the fact that numerous voter ID laws have been invalidated over the past year due to blatant attempts to disenfranchise poor and minority voters (c.f. North Carolina, Texas, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Ohio, etc) I wonder if your objection is really about being a 'good' voter.
How Do the French Do It?
Lugging that brick of a book around with you everywhere you go for several weeks is intrinsic to the experience of reading it.
Yup, Prague and especially Karlovy Vary are full of Russian tourists.
Or was roller-skating in their driveway and fell & broke their arm.

Personally, I think this is the greater cultural danger - that it's always someone else's fault.
OP wasn't referring to GitHub.
The usability issues compound when that page was created with 1.2MB of JS (and another 2MB of ads), and I have to see a loading spinning wheel when it could have been easily been static content.

...And then when the page loads, I accidentally click an ad instead of a link because the ad moved over the content that I was reading to offer me 10% of joining the exclusive mailing list.
Cool. The idea is that theoretically, you're opening your kid's mind to more and more things under some degree of supervision. By the time they're looking up horrific or immoral stuff on their own or with friends, hopefully you've given them the tools to handle it. The idea isn't to stick a filter on their computer until they turn 18 and assume that there's no further parenting needed.
React router sucks
I love Infinite Jest, but its not for everybody. If you do want to read it, I wouldn't recommend reading it on a commute. Its very dense and requires a lot of attention, and I don't feel like it would work well if you are in a place with a lot of distractions and hard cutoff times to stop reading.
No, he's going to be extradited to the US and tried for crimes in the US.
Something that I've noticed over the last year is that there is sometimes a disconnect between the overall rating of a product, and a summation of the ratings given by the individual reviews. Like a product with have 4-stars, but the majority of reviews seem to be 1-star.

While returns are still pretty easy to do on the buyer side, I used to trust amazon a lot more than I do now, and am considering dropping my prime subscription.
Quite the opposite. False-flag shit is US specialty and the history shows it.
> Shouldn't community members get a voice in the decision making?

They _are_ asking for feedback, after all...
To take this further, perhaps pay Aphyr for his time and run Jepsen tests?
It's really sad to see a country famous for its liberal traditions, sleepwalk back into the sort of draconian censorship that we thought was a relic from darker times.
For those not aware of it, Tokio https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio is a platform that is being built on top of Rust Futures for building exactly these types of services.

It's built around futures and mio, so Tokio services are async, and elegant.
Do you mean C/C++ and Rust interop? Maybe link them together to form the final executable binary? Can you share more experience on how do you do that?
.. and the objection in the US is that not everyone has an ID, it's not free, not required by law, and not equally available to all citizens.

(There is lots of very specific history of attempts to bar black people from voting or otherwise participating in society. The simplest argument that these laws are discriminatory is that those proposing them intended them that way:

"Last week, during the federal trial on Wisconsin’s voter-ID law, a former Republican staffer testified that GOP senators were “giddy” about the idea that the state’s 2011 voter-ID law might keep Democrats, particularly minorities in Milwaukee, from voting and help them win at the polls. “They were politically frothing at the mouth,” said the aide, Todd Allbaugh.")

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

Note that most of the states in the small map that imposed voter ID requirements for 2016 are south of the Mason-Dixon line.

https://www.aclu.org/other/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-...
I'm not sure these cases are parallel, though. The article is discussing "America's most innovative companies", meaning the behemoths: Apple, Bell, IBM, etc. I haven't read the book, but from poking around on Amazon, it seems to be discussing mostly small and midsize privately-owned businesses. In those situations, I can absolutely see the whims of one person playing a much more central role than in large companies with shareholders to answer to. After all, most small businesses are started by people who (naturally) work near their homes.
Tear/cut it into 3 pieces. The footnotes are one section and then cut the main part of the book in half. Connect the footnotes to the part you are currently reading
Sure just like you don't need insane convoluted frameworks with a billion dependencies to develop 99% of the web-apps out there yet thats what most developers end up with.

This is about self-expression and it's a small price to pay (and easily fixable by just forcing your own style sheet) for getting a vibrant and diverse jungle of content and ways to express it. The rest we can deal with.
From Spaceflight news:

"The carrier signal from Schiaparelli was received by an Indian radio telescope array up until a point late in the the probe's descent sequence, apparently some time after it deployed its parachute.

"We were tracking the signal traced to near the arrivial on the surface of Mars," the mission director said. "We expected it to continue, but clearly it did not. I think we have to recognize this was an experimental setup."

Engineers were not sure the direct radio link from Schiaparelli to Earth would be stable, so ESA's Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft were recording the carrier signal and detailed telemetry, respectively.

ESA says it will take about 90 minutes for that information to be relayed to Earth and analyzed.

"Let's not jump to conclusions," the mission director said. "We need to look at it, and we need to wait for the next step to get additional data from one of the relay stations... Let's wait for the next step to look at the more complete dataset."
There is some information here:

https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...

In particular we are talking about "Scalar/Vector (VPU)" "Dual Core VideoCore IV® Multimedia Co-Processor" (Figure 3B). As far as I understand, that's the thing that boots the device and usually runs ThreadX OS in the closed-source bootloader. The VPU is a dual core processor with scalar and integer vector instructions.

The VPU is more-or-less independent of the GPU, although I'm not sure whether the VPU gets involved with some GPU scheduling tasks.

The GPU has four "QPU" QuadProcessor pipelines, which from memory can do floating-point vector processing.
My thought exactly. I know that in a photo essay of things like a massive California wildfire, it's important to include people-level shots, but unless I'm missing a Next Page button, all of these photos are taken at such a limited perspective that they could originate from any small town municipal dump. When I read the headline, I expected to see mountains and mountains of e-waste, with the affected residents looking like mere ants among the heaps.
> What is it with you US-people and 2 candidates?!?!

It's the natural consequence of a plurality voting system.

Conservatives remember H. Ross Perot spoiling the election for George H.W. Bush, and throwing the election to Bill Clinton. Progressives remember Ralph Nader making the contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush close enough that G.W. was given the election by a Supreme Court stocked with his dad's buddies.

Voting for third parties is a terrible political strategy in the United States. The spoiler effect is real. I'd go so far as to say that our plurality system all but guarantees bad candidates--it's not the fittest that survive the primary election process, it's the most memorable, the one who we feel will best appeal to our neighbors.

Going further, I'd suggest that having a strong majority political belief is a major liability in U.S. elections.

When Bill Clinton was elected, the nation was largely happy with the center-right GOP of the time. As a result, the further right bloc had the confidence and diversity of small differences of opinion to split and lose the whole thing. (Never minding the fact that Bill Clinton was far to the right of traditional Democrats).

The same was true with Nader and Gore in 2000. Bill Clinton's policies had been so popular that people largely wanted another Clinton, but perhaps a little more progressive. Disagreement ensued as to how much more progressive, and thus we had Nader and Gore losing to the much more hawkish right-wing George W. Bush.

So, in the U.S., you're best off being part of a popular political leaning, but pray your political leanings don't grow so popular as to result in a split.

My personal feeling is that this country desperately needs to move past plurality voting. The easiest path to this is for states to apportion their electors based on ranked choice voting. It doesn't solve all our problems, but it does remove the spoiler effect. With luck, that would allow us to have less shrill, more substantive candidates--even if the major parties continue to dominate.
Having got to know a few people who have made careers out of working for MSF I can unreservedly say they are one of the brightest lights for helping the most vulnerable people on Earth. I would highly recommend looking into them. http://www.msf.org/en/donate

Here's a breakdown of their financial expenditures http://www.msf.org/sites/msf.org/files/msf_finance_summary_2...
Except for those on the right. They're 'irredeemable' 'deplorable' 'racists' and we should cease to do any business with all of them immediately.
To be fair, I'm not sure how UI could be worse than AWS's... :P
Would a significant gap in employment be that damaging?

I was severely burned in an automobile accident (60%, 3rd degree) on June 6, 2006 -- and was completely unable to work for a couple years. It took a little over 4 years total from the date of the accident till I got another job.

Every job since then has been with a startup.
Old stat, but in 2012 Apple made 75% of the profit in the mobile market, with 9% of the share of sales.

It is the mobile ecosystem with the most affluent customers and the most cachet. This is a luxury product for luxury people; why would they not build for that ecosystem first, and then work downwards?
This headline is misleading—it’s not that 90% of all chargers/cables on Amazon are fake, it’s that 90% of the suspicious ones that Apple purchases/tests are. They’re not going to buy ones from Belkin, Amazon Basics, or other manufacturers that are Apple-certified. They’re going to focus on ones from unknown manufacturers, or ones with prices that are suspiciously low.
The example from Apple's own documentation (asking people to use a minimum 7:1 ratio rendered at 5.5:1 on their own web site) is a wonderful gotcha! :)

Edit: and I found the bold option for my iPad. Yay!
I'm sorry, is that an incredibly lazy way of arguing that correlation does imply causation, but you feel like reversing it and dumping the burden of proof onto me?

No.
I agree that it doesn't matter to the buyer if the counterfeit is just as good. The trouble is that there's a huge middle ground between "just as good" and "obviously crap the moment you pull it out of the box." If a cable frays into uselessness a year after you buy it, or your power adapter is terribly inefficient, or some bit of shoddy construction starts a fire, how are you to know it's because it's a counterfeit and not just because you got a bad product from Apple? Even if you could know, it's too late, they already have your money.
The VC4 was intended for use in set-top-boxes or TVs, where the ARM would run a regular lightweight OS to drive the UI menus and the VC4 would do the video decoding, and compose the UI onto the video. It's not an accident, but it is a second-class citizen.

It was also clearly intended for possible use in mobile phones, as some of the patent diagrams have "baseband" on them: https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor...
That would mean pissing of the US big time though.

Now they have the choice between aggravating the US or Russia. Ahh, good old times...
I do as well. If it's proprietary then I don't want to run it on my phone. No thanks.
Changing for the sake of change as the primary reason usually never works well with an established user base. Other examples are the Nike+ web and mobile interface, Blizzard's Battle.net 2.0 (labelled by the community as 0.2), the hotmail email client portal, and the Windows 8 UI in it's entirety.
Beagle 2 comes to mind ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2
Would it be better to take these kids back inside to teach them to code? Honest question. I've seen viewpoints for both more and less screen time vociferously defended on HN, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12250500.
Ethics are a competing patchwork of conflicting drives.

Evolution tends to select for short-term survival over long-term viability. It's absolutely a mistake to believe the two are aligned.

The reality is that humans are (probably) the first Earth species to be capable of abstract non-physical modelling of the future. But we have a huge amount of behavioural baggage which guarantees that we tend to ignore long-term warning signals in pursuit of short-term gains motivated by evolutionary heuristics.

The heuristics work fine until they don't. Species discover this the hard way all the time.

It would be nice to think we're not one of those species, but the jury is still out on that.
Enjoy the process – startups are tough
> But you knew all that when you made the purchase.

and you didn't have any other options.
I think he meant he doesn't want to do the management job. Ie moving from abstractly creative work to endless series of meetings, conf calls, creating powerpoints excels and whatnot. Yes they are necessary, but it doesn't make it a cool job that brings fulfillment and happiness.

Most devs move there over time, and then complain how cool coding actually was, but they are already in money/debt trap
I did that in the C++11 days by creating a bastard class template that would subvert the copy operator and turn it into a move and capture that by value.

It was ugly as heck and was removed as soon as I have c++14
Driving around in a luxury cars sounds more like a regular criminal than some one working for the FSB etc.
I have yet to meet a recruiter that wasn't desperate for demonstrated talent. Every corporate shop i've seen has older programmers doing the real work and younger programmers paying the tech debt and building UI.

I think most of these articles are focused on startup culture and marque companies. (ie. 1% of the market)
>You know what works? Craiglist, that's what works. Reddit works. Hacker News works.

Political views aside (and the post doesn't concern those either), this is quite relevant:

https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is...
I think you are exactly right about his view on self-references [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doZROwdte4
Most up to date info is here:

https://twitter.com/esaoperations
Like all legacy code, it will not be replaced. Now if people wanted to bifurcate their codebase they can easily add Rust libraries to existing C++ codebases.

In my experience I find Rust to be more productive than C++ and easier to write. Obviously that's a pure opinion.
>End of planned @ESA_EDM transmission - still no signal at #GMRT - this is not unexpected due to very faint signal at #GMRT #ExoMars

https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/788759668940210176
So this is not available in the US yet. And there is no link to a reseller directly from their site.
Well, since he said he was joking, I guess there's nothing to this story then, right? /s