skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively: my possessions, hobbies, tools are extensions of my real self. I do not NEED them, but I am more actualized when I have them. Do you identify yourself as a software engineer? Do you continue to be one when someone takes your access to all computers away? The computer actualizes part of how you identify yourself. It is hard to think of yourself as a mechanic when you have no ability to act on your talents or skills because of a lack of tools.

Consider that maybe instead of 99% of people being consumerist sheep, you do not possess the knowledge or authority to judge accurately when the actions of others are impulsive, or in service to a different ideal.

I believe that maybe stripped of all my possessions, socializations, and thought patterns you might indeed find some foundational, unformed version of me. However, in finding that thing, you would have stripped away many of the structures and artifices that I have constructed myself out of. You would find something that was more like an alpha-version, in potentia, stateless. That may be what you want, but it would be incomplete compared to the version of me you would meet in real life.
Part of me says just distribute the battery all around, thighs, legs, torso and you'll at least have good power. Another part of me says this is ludicrous, and is akin to strapping thermite and a bunch of loose strike anywhere matches into pouches all around your body.
We've seen some of that, actually. Look up the golden lenape - it was a potato bred in the 60s. Beautiful color. Made great chips. Kinda toxic, though.
Its there [1] but if you read you can see that there are options that are really confusing the consumers and seem to be designed to obscure the truth.
Using a QR code is a hassle to consumer trying to buy groceries. I want to see the pertinent information on the label.
At the end of the day if you buy organic than you know its GMO free plus other benefits (if that's important to you). But that put some non-GMO sellers at a disadvantage because they don't want to go through the extra cost of obtaining an organic certificate.

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/23/senat...
I am in Toronto. Would love to know the name, if you don't mind sharing.
Please read about "The Jungle". (Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle).

Relying on companies to compete on the basis of maximizing customer health is... short-sighted at best.
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How, exactly, are you identifying "fear-mongering stories"? Mislabeling real security issues as "fear-mongering" is how widespread security problems are created.

When attacks can be trivially copied, even obscure security issues can become easily exploitable problems under attack from bulk exploitation tools.
How did you get started?
I might consider parting ways with http://www.LiberWriter.com if the right person were interested. It currently has revenue and doesn't require much of my time, so it's not urgent for me. Someone who is willing to take good care of existing customers is important too.
Yeah, I'm not buying it. I'm an end-user of SSH and I've experienced WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED or all sorts of bizarre problems with authentication just failing for reasons that took me hours to diagnose. That, and configuring servers to reject password authentication, converting private keys between the different formats expected by different clients, the unhelpful errors like "Permission denied (publickey)." which actually means "you typed your password in wrong" but Telnet will actually tell you that your password is wrong. How many users have discovered that after upgrading SSH that their known_hosts file is now hashed?

The protocol itself is a total mess. Having implemented servers for the Telnet protocol, I can say that Telnet is a little bit of a mess, but SSH is a total nightmare by comparison.

You're right though, that if you look at a very tiny slice of SSH then it almost looks like SSH is simpler than Telnet, once you've gone through the work of generating a key pair, securing the private key, and installing the public key on your server.
How long did you stick around after you presented the other offer?
They are correct. And, at the same time, they are not.

Since most people here are programmers: some will love VI. VI has an awful interface for beginners. It's incredibly fast once you get used to it.

Since I've learned how to use both VI and Blender, I'd say that Blender is the VI for artists. The interface is great to work with, once you get past the initial steep learning curve.
Could it be they avoid GPL3 just because they don't want to release their Apple Inc code signing keys?
This is the standard status quo objection to anything counter cultural these days.

You can always find a group of people on the internet into the idea in question and stuck in a filter bubble and completely out of touch. For any trend you want to discuss.

Yes, our culture is able to apply more social pressure on the poor and disadvantaged to buy status symbols. Encouraging them to ignore the system built to keep them poor by selling them overpriced garbage with lifestyle marketing is the act of an ally. Of course having purchasing habits considered weird in a culture of conspicuous consumption is easier for the privileged. That's what being privileged means, doing anything different is easier.

And I'll argue that the minimalism hipsters are a good thing. They are carving out a space where saving money and not engaging in conspicuous consumption carries social status. It would be great news for the disadvantaged and poor if that caught on more.

You could apply this argument to getting exercise, eating a healthy diet, having social activities other than watching garbage TV. All done by privileged people, many of whom turn it into performative virtue signaling to get attention and annoy everyone.
Thats neat. I never would have guessed, but with energy star and cheap power in the US (along with having a home that is already cooled), fridges just don't use that much power by comparison.

Am I right it assuming that going out was also relatively cheap?
A Good Software. Thanks for the hard work, Homebrew peoples!
Very slight swooshing.
Sure it's a weakness, but they (management) don't care. If the developer leaves, they'll hire another and in the mean time the remaining devs get to pick up the slack. It's actually a convenient excuse for the schedule slipping; they blame it on the developer who left because he "wasn't a team player", even though management knows the real reason is because they simply don't ... know ... how ... to ... manage.
Granted, they aren't noise cancelling, but a pair of audio technica ath-m50x get me through a day in my noisy office, and they sound pretty damn good.
That's because the exchange rate has gone down - not from frictional transaction costs. The worst ripoff forex fees are in the 1% range. You can do much better if you look.

Further it's relatively easy to keep USD in a Canadian bank account if you want to.
Why are there so many Python installers?
So you are the reason there are engineers that values themselves so high, that when they reach the market again they ask as much's salary as if they were CEO's?
No, they are not.
He is arguing that you throw away years of user-experience for no apparent reason. Those people don't have the luxury to retrain for a same-function-framework just because some dev can dance. They are part of a pipeline, they have work to do, and insulting them as unwilling-to-learn, is simply missing the point.
Not always -- it varies on a state-by-state level. I live in NJ, where you can do this. However, it only works because absentee/mail-in balloting is held until after election day, and in some cases are only counted if the election is within the number of absentee ballots, and an in-person vote will trigger them to manually throw out the mail-in ballot.
T-Mobile's parent company is launching an anti-drone system
Would need Sydney before I could consider it, but it doesn't surprise me it's not next on your list.
If I've learned anything in nearly 20 years of professional software development, it's that nothing is temporary, least of all things that are explicitly labeled as such.
I wonder how long it will be before someone gets it doing intonation correctly. I doubt it's an intractable problem and it probably wouldn't be too hard to turn existing audiobooks into a pretty decent dataset.
What even is a "minimalist"? Things can be minimalist I don't people can "be" minimalist.
Thou shalt not run a database inside a container
Another "serverless cron" option from aws is their Data Pipeline service. It is intended for data processing as its name implies but does fits the bill for lots use cases as a generic "serverless cron". Note that Lambda has executing time limit that's pretty short, while data pipeline can be configured to have much longer timeout.
If I'm playing devil's advocate: yes and no. Lambda is still partially limited by the officially supported languages (I'm pretending that the hacks around this don't exist, they have issues). That said, Lambda is great, but I'm not really on-board with ECS, so it's nice to see an alternative here from someone who is also offering container based serverless infastrucutre.
I used to charge $50 USD per hour, but I kept upping my rates. Soon I charged $100 per hour, and then $125 hour. The highest I ever got for programming/consulting was $150 USD per hour, but I don't charge that anymore. I've moved on to day rates.

Now I bill around $800 per day, but I only work about 6 super-focused hours, and I use the Pomodoro method every day. My clients are happy because I get a lot of work done, and I'm happy because I have to work less.

This is just doing general PHP dev work (Codeigniter and Laravel frameworks), and if I specialized, and if I focused on the ecommerce or finance industry I could probably make more. Most my clients are in the Rocky Mountain West, and so far I have more work than I can finish.

So if you want to increase your earning potential you should:

1. Specialize and master a niche.
2. Network like your business depends on it.
3. Give free seminars and teach everywhere you go.
4. Label yourself as a consultant.
5. Don't be just a programmer. Work with businesses and fix their problems.
6. Know your worth, and don't be afraid to charge what you're worth.
7. Anchor your costs against how much value you'll make your clients.
8. Keep raising your rates until you can't get any work.
9. Work half as much as you used to.
10. And finally, spend time on things that matter like family, learning, and having fun.

Or you can keep competing against bottom-barrel programmers on upwork, and spend the rest of your life working for peanuts. Totally up to you.
You make it sound like locking down the platform is a goal. It isn't. It's a side effect of hardening the platform from a security perspective.

And Apple has quite a few developers as well. I don't think they would want to make the platform impossible to use.
Yeah thx, I just realized that myself.
I'm a full-stack developer and I was working full-time till last month and freelanced occasionally. After leaving my job I decided to take up freelancing and currently, I'm making $35 an hour working on CakePHP/Laravel/Angular project which is low considering my experience (11 years). I usually charge upwards of $50 but this time I made an exception because the company is looking to raise Series A (which means more work at a better rate in future).

Last month, I got paid pretty good money for a React+Redux project.

Mail me at mail+efl@vivekgupta.com

I'm currently free for 20-30 hours a week and looking for more work.
This can be an effective tactic (meaning it could get you a raise), but it's not my preferred method. I prefer to focus on the situation itself without bringing in that sort of leverage because of the impact it can have on the way you're perceived at your company, by your manager, by your teammates, etc.

This strategy can work, but it's a little riskier than focusing on the value and working with your manager to align your salary with that value.
I think the biggest thing missing on the list is a full featured compositing package. Fortunately there's Natron:

https://natron.fr
Out of curiosity I had to look-up that one. Strong candidate for next indoor plant. Thanks! Even though I wasn't really looking for new plants and I admit that half of it sold me on the "Japanese" part :)
I'm pretty sure kids these days aren't stupid enough to not realize that stealing people's personal information is considered illegal.
This is most likely a recruiting tactic.
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Remote: Yes, I worked remotely for almost two years at my last job

Willing to relocate: Not now, possibly within two years

Technologies: R, SQL, some Python

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UFXmzgBuRreAO7mfKXsz8egJ...

Email: samantharachelcook@gmail.com

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I am a data scientist with more than ten years experience in both industry and academia. My areas of expertise include multilevel modeling, network models, and data visualization. At the moment I am mainly interested in short-term projects, but would consider longer-term work if the right project came along.
http://westoncb.com/projects/tiledtext

A new form of text editor designed from the ground up for lower precision input devices (e.g. motion sensors, touch screens). Demo video at the url above.

I had issues using mouse and keyboard and gave up programming for six years until the concept behind this hit me. The actual software is an engine/framework for producing particular text editors (I figured I'd need to extend it to in a similar manner to Emacs, so that I could efficiently do, e.g., command line things too). It could also be configured to edit natural language documents for text editing on e.g. mobile devices and VR.

Editing and navigating documents is done, and there's a system built, but not yet attached to the UI, that is effectively a universal autocomplete: you give it an EBNF grammar for some language and it can list all grammatically valid options (that you could insert) from any point in a document. (I'm thinking of extracting and open sourcing that part. Not sure yet, though.)

I worked on it for a year and half, had an increase in medical bills and had to work more—haven't touched it much for a couple years. The copy on the website is oold.
https://metropolis.dysr.com - centralized, automated SFTP / GPG / Zip tool for Windows environments.
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You typically only get to play that card once and you'd better be looking to leave in the next two years anyway.
> Or rather, she uncritically brought up the white male gamer stereotype, which is worse.

Would you mind quoting what you're talking about? And would you mind explaining how something she said that is true, and has data to back it up, and that you've already acknowledged, is "worse" than what @tnones said, which has no basis in fact? Is this more a problem of style than of content, like with my comments? You complained about my condescension, and yet agreed with my facts and disagreed with @tnones.

You realize that complaining about feminist schtick is a sexist male chauvanist thing to do, right? @tnones is being a hypocrite, doing the very thing he's complaining about.

> I acknowledge bias in who pays for videogames, not who plays them.

Still, despite the evidence I provided? All four of the links showed biases in players separate from purchasing. Even though you didn't like the quote about who buys games, the first link still had separate demographics data about who playes games. If you follow the link, you will find separate sections on "demographics" and "buying habits".

The data does show a clear bias in who plays games, not just who buys them. Why would there be huge a gender difference in purchasing patterns, and not in playing patterns? That doesn't make sense, but I'd love to see some supporting data. There's plenty more data on game demographics, btw, I Google searched for all of 5 seconds just to have some links to back up what I already knew from 15 years working in games and films, that cultural sexism exists in games. Nobody who's actually working in the games industry is disputing the existence of cultural sexism in games. It's not one group or one thing, it's all of us, the makers, the marketers, the players, the buyers, the publishers. The good news is problem is being slowly solved, it is becoming less of a problem over time, thanks to the people that are acknowledging the situation and helping to fix it. Not helpful at all is denying that it exists like @tnones.
I've never seen it happen successfully.

I've done it at least half a dozen times in my career. I was told "the maximum we can give is a $7k raise since there is a fixed pool for raises in the department."

I said if I quit and you have to replace me, not only will you have to hire 2 devs to replace me (as I pulled dev and sysops duty) and pay them market salaries, you will have to pay a recruiter 20-30%. They still wouldn't budge, so I got a counteroffer for $30k more than I was making, plus some other perks. They not only matched, they also matched for other devs on the team.

Do not fall for that fixed budget BS...the pie can always get bigger.
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We should, when they don't present their reasoning. Or when we know they're being financially influenced by "Big Tobacco". Tobacco laws are being driven by religious puritans who hate the idea that someone is enjoying a drug. To them, that's cheating at life by being happy before judgement day. They'll grasp at any straw to advance their agenda of control, even if it means cooperating with "scientists" from tobacco companies.

We should immediately reject all governmental proposals that aren't backed up by rigorous science. Not only would this stop a ton of abuse, but we'd save a fortune in tax money that could then be spent on initiatives that actually save lives.
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> This isn't a tech app, this isn't a linux distro. This is a general consumer facing product.

I thought you said it was clearly an experimental beta. They can't have it both ways, where they get a pass for any problems they encounter because it's experimental and not fully beta-tested (and thus not yet ready for general consumption) and they get a pass on vague marketing because it's a general consumer-facing product (which means it's considered "ready" for the general consumer).

> They're using experimental products, which they are up-front about

No, they aren't. That is the entire point I was making in the comment you're replying to. Their marketing doesn't claim to be any more "experimental" than the countless other brands that call themselves innovative.

I don't mean to harp on Soylent, because I mean, I'm not sure how many people were aware that this allergy even existed. Stuff like this happens even to much larger companies. But I think it's reasonable to hold them to the same standards as any other company producing food for the general market, not treat them as though they're in some hazy "public beta food" state that grants carte blanche.
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I think the current "low hanging fruit" in the US is gerrymandering. People can easily see that it's pretty wrong, and it's likely fixable without, say, modifying the constitution.
I've heard a similar quote:

"Broken code gets fixed, but shitty code lasts forever."
'The dose makes the poison.'

I would point for a middle ground between minimalism and suburban hoarding: essencialism.
Newbie-hostile != user-hostile.
"This is just an outdated view of the state-of-the-art. It's understandable, given that it's outdated by maybe six months, iff you're willing to go with preprints."

That's an understandable, but probably incorrect, view that comes from focusing on claims in state-of-the-art publications too much without the wider context of history & brain function. The problem parent is referring to also includes the general, "common sense" that we build up over time with extreme diversity of experiences that is developed despite tons of curveballs & able to create them ourselves. New knowledge is incorporated into that framework pretty smoothly. An early attempt to duplicate that was Cyc project's database of common sense. There's maybe just five or six total per Minsky with most AI researchers not thinking it's important. Those last words told me to be pessimistic already.

Whereas, the only computer capable of doing what they are trying to do uses a diverse set of subsystems specialized to do their jobs well. A significant amount of it seems dedicated to establishing common sense tying all experiences together. The architecture is capable of long-term planning, reacting to stuff, and even doing nothing when that makes sense. It teaches itself these things based on sensory input. It does it all in real-time with what appears to be a mix of analog and digital-like circuits in tiny amount of space and energy. And despite this, it still takes over a decade of diverse, training data to become effective enough to do stuff like design & publish ANN schemes. :)

There's hardly anything like the brain being done in ANN research that I've seen. The cutting-edge stuff that's made HN is pale imitation with small subset of capabilities trying to make one thing do it all. The pre-print you posted is also rudimentary compared to what I described above. Interestingly, the brain also makes use of feedback designs where most I see shared here (like in the late 90's) was feed-forward as if trying to avoid exploring the most effective technique that already solved the problem. Like the linked paper did.

They just all seem to be going in fundamentally wrong directions. Such directions will lead to nice, local maxima but miss the global maxima by a long shot. Might as well backtrack while they're ahead if they want the real thing.
A slightly more modern book that's a really excellent book to follow K&R is Hanson's C Interfaces and Implementations.

It's a book written in a literate programming style that describes how to build a flexible and modular library of data structures.
The UI is for the initial learning curve. In every editor there is a expert mode. Saying that the UI is for Experts, basically equals saying it doe sent exist.
CS50 used C almost exclusively, that was very recent.
The systems powered by these ARM processors were typically bespoke embedded software anyway, so not many people cared. Hardware vendor provides a bootloader of sorts and some shitty SDK or RTOS patch, you heap your own custom code on top and ship it. Never update any of the components, that's just asking for extra work.

Now that the processors are powerful enough to replace what would ordinarily run Windows or Linux it's very painful. The Linux code is littered with support files for a bazillion of different boards and hardware platforms.
No, it doesn't always work like that. It works that way enough of the time to be worth trying, though. Even if it doesn't get you a raise at your current job, having done things that add value gives you a better negotiating position for a different job.