skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit weird, once the article loaded it automatically scrolled me to the end for some reason.

The article strikes me as a bit unfocused. Although I only skimmed it.

I've personally grown a bit tired of most TV shows and movies. I still consume my fair share of media, but I've slowly been shifting my focus more towards book series (or more specifically, audiobooks). I'm not interested in watching TV shows that don't have an overarching plot or direction, with the major example of this being Lost. So far my experience has been that you tend to get a more cohesive story.

If you've grown weary of watching TV, I'd suggest trying out audiobooks. You can even listen to em while you're out walking about, driving, or eating alone. I've had an Audible subscription for a few years now, and I seriously love it. Maybe I still have really shallow tastes, but so far I've found that if you pick up any book with a few thousand ratings and 4 to 5 stars, it'll probably be really good.

With that said, I'm a huge sucker for movie adaptations and I'd probably watch the adaptation for most of the books I've read. Even though they'll often butcher huge parts of the story (totally understandable, different mediums), it's really enjoyable to contrast your own imagination with that of the creative staff in the production. The most recent example of this for me was The Martian. My mental image of the main character was consistent while I read the book, but when I watched the movie I realized I hadn't accounted for the fact that he was starving.
Facebook’s “Free” Internet Will Harm Low-Income Consumers
Very similar story to mine! :) I was hired together with a guy like this, knew all the fancy keywords and didnt want to touch the old code. We were lucky to refuse him, but it was just by chance. He left the company few months later.
Constantly. I considered shepherding. (Seriously.) I spent some time on a farm during lambing season, which is busy, and I enjoyed it. But it's incredibly hard work, and you really have to be 100% dedicated to it. Plus I like traveling, and it's extremely difficult to leave a flock for any appreciable amount of time.

I've thought about teaching (programming) too. My dad is a retired professor, and I entertain no delusions of present-day teaching careers being anything like those of his generation. Still, there's something appealing about even just teaching as an adjunct once I no longer really need the money.
Counterpoint: the classical POV is that you start with a niche and worry about crossing the chasm later (and they require very different marketing strategies etc.). I'd argue Tesla is a modern example of executing that overall strategy from the getgo.
France to create ID database holding biometric data of 60M citizens
Setting the "cool kid angst" aside, most art forms and especially song composition is a rather repetitive task where you compose certain rigid templates (tunes and chords) into a passable song according to demands and structure of current society, make your record company listen, have them edit the song, repeatedly master it until they are satisfied. My point is, however boring and repetitive, you still have some room to think, tinker and choose just like composing.
You have a good attitude. If Starbuck's didn't hire you I'd be shocked.

Some guy wrote a book about working at Starbucks. I believe it's called, Starbucks--The Hardest Job I Ever Had.

He looked like the type that never did a day of manual labor.

I imagine being nice is Starbuck's biggest concern.

Actually, I wish more places valued attitude over just showing up.

Anyways, good luck.
> A bit weird, once the article loaded it automatically scrolled me to the end for some reason.

It's because the link has the #comments anchor. The submitter probably didn't realize this.
> it doesn't matter what you say the raise limits are for a person, the market sets those things and the market right now says you're wrong

This is very common. They often justify it with "In this company we're not paying as much, but we have greater freedom/cooler tech/<other benefit>". Well good for you. We have already established that we're a good fit, but I'm not working for 20% less than I can across the street.
Our first Android mobile app for website monitoring. What do you think?
So what you're saying is that if someone does make it work, we should reverse engineer the worm for understanding how to achieve better device interop? ;-)
That's incorrect. In the US, you take the Engineer In Training (EIT) exam when you graduate university, then require 4 years of industry experience before you can sit the PE (Professional Engineer) exam. If you pass that, you can call yourself an Engineer.

But that's only for actual Engineering disciplines. We in software don't need to take an "Engineer" test for the same reason we don't need to take a "Rock Star" test or "Ninja" test. We use the title as a courtesy, not an indication of qualification.
Low information voter detected.
Is this an IMAP client in the browser, or something where you give your email credentials to some server somewhere and it looks at all your mail?
It's also Windows-only.
>I thought I would want to become a Web developer because I saw it as a way out of poverty for me and my family but I find it hard and give up at times because everything is so overwhelming and I don't have anyone to ask questions to because I have so many questions plus I can't afford bootcamps.

Wow. Get ahold of yourself.

You're almost incoherent and begging for advice yet you were unwilling to give a serious answer to CyberFonic's post. You don't seem like a person that deserves helping.
Ask HN: Need collaborators to Build Minimap for Visual Studio Code
Hi,

I have been a long user of Sublime and appreciate it to the core for improving my day-to-day programming tasks. One of the feature I like the most about Sublime is it's minimap feature which lets you see the code at glance and helps you quickly move to the certain code block. Later, I have moved to Atom Editor which is also quite good as of now. But it doesn't have this minimap feature inbuilt. So, I have been using a third party plugin for same called https://github.com/atom-minimap/minimap

Now, I want to build a same kind of plugin for Visual Studio Code cause as of now it doesn't have one.

Let me know who's interested to collaborate upon the same with me.

Thanks!
It maybe could be hacked into replacing it but I'd not recommend it. Better to use a dedicated tool that handles this stuff more cleanly e.g. nvm.
Do you believe in materialism?

If so, how can the self be anything but the collection of patterns, behaviors, and memories, as seen at a particular moment, that, starting with the initial genetics, have accumulated thus far during a person's life? Through continual interaction with the universe, the accumulation (the "self") constantly changes, as each moment passes by.

Occasionally, these changes result in new behaviors that others might describe as "becoming a new person" -- this does not mean that some hidden potential self was finally activated.

If you are speaking highly metaphorically, then that is a different matter, of course.
Inline::Perl5 isn't clunky if you are just using it to load modules.

use Data::Random:from<Perl5> <:all>

Also Perl 6 has several different forms of built-in concurrency.
It always amazes me that humankind can find enough ideas to produce original content. Sure most of the plots have similar themes but this year I have watched Gotham, west world, daredevil, Jessica jones, the fall and currently designated survivor. Yet I am not bored and each series has something captivating about it. Something will have to give on the financial side I am sure, but perhaps on the creative side there is an infinite supply.
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Ah, I see. Yes, I have a similar one for Easy Passwords under https://palant.github.io/easypasswords/online.html - but it has a huge warning on it. This is not secure indeed and the recommended way of using that page if you absolutely have to is downloading it to your hard drive.
EU data protection can be in play ATM since they might not have this thing complaint, same goes for other regulations.

So the easy thing is to limit it to the US.
I don't use it but https://github.com/benbalter/plister should do that. There's an open issue to integrate it with Strap, too: https://github.com/benbalter/plister/issues/2
This is nice, from the looks of it you can query datasources in the Google Cloud ecosystem like BigQuery etc, although it doesn't appear to support joining across datasources (could be wrong)

This would probably be very useful for 'ad-hoc' queries/reports. I don't believe AWS offers anything similar right now, outside of spinning up an EMR cluster and attaching a notebook or something - but that's a lot of setup
`brew update` and check you've not hit the update bug: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#update-bug

We'll tell you what permissions you need to keep/remove. Alternatively, uninstall and reinstall Homebrew and similarly we'll tell you on permissions.
http://thefeed.press - Easily follow articles shared by your Twitter friends.
Show https://www.glassdoor.co.in/Salaries/index.htm to your management
Am I the only one who is slightly grossed out when people use the word "consume" to talk about media?
How to ensure your app’s success
Did you try to create a new Rport? I am in Austria and it's telling me that it is not available in my region.
Farming
Well, I'll give you credit for going that little bit further than the post I was responding to. At least you gave a hint as to ONE issue that MySQL can have (which, by the way, I have never come across in the millions or so UPDATES that my projects have done over the years). A link to a discussion about the problem would have been handy, but, oh well.

And I actually did try PostgreSQL once or twice many years ago. If I remember correctly, it was for a project that required full text search capability, and I had no end of trouble trying to configure and optimise PostgreSQL to do it back then, and simply reverted back to MySQL which worked out of the box. Or possibly I even went to SQLite with FTS3 back then to get it to work. I, like most developers would rather be creative on my code rather than fight my tools.
Compliant, as in complying with regulations?
I think you misread my first point. It's not about a clean flat. It's that normal obstacles like lamp bases, chair legs and wires for bedside lamps, etc. cause the irobot huge difficulty. It got stuck on my lamp base and scratched it badly. Nobody wants to have the light house things guarding every article as they're unsightly, costly and require battery changes.

And whether the insect like rules are on purpose or not, the fact remains that after 7 days there's still a huge dust ball on my kitchen floor that the irobot continually fails to find.
Macports doesn't really rely on anything OS-X specific except for Xcode

And that's a big problem right there, I don't use xcode and its also a 15GB install!, so a waste to my small 128GB ssd.

Not to mention you will get nagging updates of a huge app you don't use, which takes lots of time to download and install.

Why doesn't macports make their pkg manager work just with the xcode cli tools? and for those pkgs that need xcode, tell the user they need to install xcode first.
Barista-turned-programmer here. I was fond of it much of the time, and it was a good experience for me, and I think you would also like it based on what you've written. But keep in mind what you often don't notice from the outside is a lot of standard bullshit like mopping floors, keeping composure toward rude customers, worrying about food-handling/health provisions, etc. And, of many differences between the occupations, no longer being frequently treated like I'm dumb sticks out.

Nonetheless, I say go for it. You would learn a ton and probably become the best kind of coffee snob, one who can back it up with chops ;)
Isn't the support for htaccess basically one of the only reasons one would use apache in favor of nginx? I.e. that you can provide users some configuration possibilities on a multiuser system?

I run some servers with an apache/php/mysql configuration, we looked multiple times into nginx and that was always the problem: A user wouldn't be able to install any standard CMS without asking the admins for changes to the server config.
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Scam. Block their number/email.
Just curious, how did you grab that "Dark Social" traffic from GA? A custom/advanced segment?
It might be the case, but it surely looks like something else from the outside.
Where do I vote?
Double that if you want to PUT the pixels on a screen.
Run like the wind.
Aaand most of it is mind numbing garbage.

Which is apparently what the masses yearn for (and always have).
After master and 3 years experience I was a trader in a prop firm for one year. And this was...

Best experience in my life, I have learned a lot about myself and that world outside pure IT can be even more astonishing and challenging. Psychological leap I would say, advancing to new level. Despite my friends who couldn't understand with I sacrificed my top salary (yeah, I had it best among my programming friends).

Though I failed (yeah, can admit that proudly, because I tried) and I am back in my profession, with even higher salary then before 1-year challenge I got much better perspective now. I try to widen my horizons more often and in different ways. Oh, and after few months break aiming to jump back into trading on my own account... Real fighters never surrender, right?
seriously, just took a peek at the front page:

"Clinton Takes Sunny Approach as Trump has Dark Warnings" (this is exactly the opposite of what I've been seeing in the final campaign speeches, Trump crowds are having a great time)

"An Inside Look at Trump's _Last Stand_" (Oh, has Trump already lost? I hadn't realized, I guess I want to vote for a winner so I'll vote for Clinton)

"What Ivanka Trump Can’t Sell: She has remained loyal to her father. Will that cost her?" (Oh, so supporting Trump has major life-changing costs even for his family? I better stay away from that guy)

"Roller: If Trump Wins Florida, It’s Because of These People" (Oh my, not _those_ people, not _those_ un-namable people)

"Even at Berkeley, I Face Threats as an Undocumented Student" (Oh, my goodness that's horrible, people are mugging this poor Berkeley student. I remember people saying Trump hated undocumented people and was going to kidnap them with SWAT teams and throw them into the Gulf, I should vote Clinton and save this poor Berkeleyite)

"Has the Latino Surge Finally Arrived?" (I'm a Latino, I don't know that something like 87% of the Latino population votes Democrat, but you know what, yeah, the surge has arrived, yeah, it's more important for me to vote than any other class, the surge is here!)

"In Boomers’ Sunset, Old Divide Is Revived: This race has been a rematch between two boomer factions: one yearning for the return of an idealized postwar America, the other calling to tear down remaining societal barriers." (voting for Trump is such an archaic idea, the "gool ol' days" ain't coming back grandpa, I'm with HER)

"What the Markets Are Predicting: The markets seem to expect less short-term volatility from a Clinton presidency..." (Oh dear! I don't like market volatility! That means I lose money! I better vote Clinton!)

"Obama Presses for Clinton, and Legacy" (Obama is more popular than both candidates, so I don't really like Hillary or Trump... But Obama is ok, and he likes Hillary... I don't actually know anything about either candidates fiscal, economic, or foreign policies, but let's go with Clinton.)

"The Question for James Comey: The F.B.I. director has done immense damage by his repeated intrusions into the presidential race. Can he repair it?" (Comey is such a jerk! He investigated Clinton not once, but twice! It's not just irreparable damage to her, it's irreparable damage to DEMOCRACY. Russian spy.)

Seriously, NYT. Fucking. Seriously. You're such a complete joke.
not as detailed, but more on a higher level this post from JavaScript to C might be interesting for some too: http://thinkingonthinking.com/learning-c-for-javascripters/
I'm pretty sure your 'lobbying' is more appropriately called 'democracy' in this case, considering there is without a doubt more money on the pro-GMO side of the argument, and far more than 50% of the population are anti-GMO.
> Ask your virtual assistant to deliver a message to a coworker and it might walk out of your office, reappear beside your colleague’s desk via his or her own MR headset and deliver the message in person.

Why do people buy into this junk.

The easiest way is plain text. email/slack etc

VR is useless for the office. Things are solved via text/speech, occasionally a graph helps but we all know they are mostly for show.

A magical ability to make things 3D doesn't make work easier.

> In one of its demos the Magic Leap team shows off a computer-generated “virtual interactive human,” life-size and surprisingly realistic. Abovitz and his team imagine virtual people (or animals or anything else) as digital assistants–think Siri on steroids

How does a 3d Siri make the backend suddenly easier?

The AI to analysis what you are saying? The AI to answer correctly? The tech to speak smoothly to you? The things that actually matter and work fine in 2d.

A good computer game can costs 100's of millions. These are going to be even more expensive. Even gaming will take a while to kick off.
Photon: search-as-you-type with OpenStreetMap
You might like Invisible Inc. It's a turn-based sneaking/spy game and one of the few recent games that I played straight through with no 'guilt' afterwards.
I picked up skateboarding again in my twenties after not skateboarding since middle school. Places where people discuss skateboarding online are filled with these kinds of people. Meanwhile I've lost interest in video games at the moment, but I still believe I will pick them up again at some point. I tend to switch hobbies, trying to find what I like. My interest in particular things can fade in and out. That's why I think "growing tired", "losing interest" or "moving on to other things" are better descriptors than "growing up".
You also get free access if you just delete your cookies once you have reached the free article limit...
It might be fun and interesting. But for most persons it has not a good salary and really bad working hours. So it depends on what you are looking for.
Why does it call itself an "actor" library?

"This actor library runs tasks with the help of fixed number of threads".

This is a M:N user-space scheduler for threads, a re-implementation of what Go provides as part of the language but with 10x the complexity (things that Go doesn't expose: Scheduler, a Task, a SchedulingRule, a Sink, a Filter, a YSPlit and what not).

I'm not a CS historian but this is what Alan Kay complains about when he talks about the pop culture of computer science.

Actor model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model) is a somewhat deep idea about structuring systems as independent entities that communicate via sending messages.

A thread is not that. The similarity is superficial.

To the extent that it's about threads that can communicate over channels, it's closer to CSP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proce...) but as the page says "the two models (CSP and actors) make some fundamentally different choices with regard to the primitives they provide".

It's telling that the only time an actual actor is mentioned is in the name of the library. The actual code talks about tasks, channels, schedulers.
Firebase is great for getting up and running quickly.

If you want server side logic then you can use Firebase as a queue. So let the client request data through Firebase and then you have another service monitor the queue and fill requests.
Why is this comment greyed out? The NYT shilled hard for the Iraq war. They even issued an apology because of it (too little too late, of course).
I never said to turn it off... I said that google will get your browsing data. That said, I firmly believe that the best antivirus is common sense. Everyday users should keep it turned on but people who read HN (should) know enough to be safe without it.
I think it's more similar to an architecture position. Lots of architects churning out copy -> paste work, but some offering really unique, inspiring and we'll thought designs.
Every day. I’m a bit jealous of all my friends with professions that don’t require any of their free time. They can have all kinds of hobbies and spend their free time doing whatever they want.
in my past experience google is a master in disguising these opt-in prompts as mandatory, with a tiny tiny X somewhere or a "skip" button only showing up when unticking the correct checkboxes
Not leaving, but augmenting, sure. I'm a programmer by day, and also a writer.
You don't need to create one yourself
http://quadro.me
I always wanted to be "the Nose", the professional that smells perfumes for a living. I have the talent, and high-end equipment for that.
Facebook threatens LinkedIn with job opening features
Evasive JScript
No drill-down, only explore the time axis. Worthless for any real BI
I'm almost annoyed Apple doesn't use more of my data: it would probably make many of their services better.
`~/brew` varies from username to username and requires us to be able to relocate all binaries so they reference the correct path. We do this for as many as possible but it's not possible for all of them.
I have an other interpretation : we just don't need a lot of purely original content. Something slightly different is enough in order not to be boring. Even exactly the same thing is not boring, a lot of people watch films/series more than one time.
You're still stuck in the broken mindset. The whole idea of suburbs was an invention. And what I'm saying is, invent something new! I don't discount that you need to start with where you're at, the day to day practicality of what isn't yet available, but to always dream of what only already exists is boring and deadening
I'm in Europe and it works just fine.
Exactly. Because we in the EU do not want our customer data (be it personal identifiable information or not) to be transferred to the US without consent of our customers. And rightly so.

I am abbreviating massively here, but since the "Safe Harbor" things are actually a little bit more rough around data transfers.

Non the less Data Studio is available in Germany, as I have already used it. I might be limited on the data sources though.
This has exactly what you are looking for, including USB support:
http://quadro.me
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> A programmer is given a very specific set of tasks (eg. send data from A to B, fix bug, implement X), and his problems are mostly technical.

That does not describe what I do as a programmer. I work with a lot of really smart people who respect my expertise and we discus the programming plan together. I am expected to come up with creative solutions to the problems we encounter and generally enjoy doing this. I code my own solutions and support the resulting software.

Frankly I'm sick of the whining from all the corporate drones who got into this field because they thought it would be a good way to make some stable money. If you sold out, if you didn't do it for the love of it, then you deserve what you got.
A more charitable interpretation is that they would not end up on nyt pages except via those sources.
and you make that claim based on what exactly?
The thought has crossed my mind, but only in the line of "What would I do?" to which I have no answer.

I also love programming (since maybe 12/13 year old me read HTML books and Flash actionscript to make games) and I don't really want to do anything else anyway.
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Did you try Quadro (http://quadro.me) instead? You need an iOs device tho, Android support is not yet available
that website doesnt show anything they inferred about me, just some settings.