skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has always been a discussion around this.

Strictly speaking: no, a lack of a formal education will not disqualify you for _most_ tech jobs (although it will disqualify you from some, for example: consultancies staffing big government projects, where they have committed to consultants with minimum qualifications, anything in academia, etc). That said, it wont be regarded as an advantage either.

The real question is: if you haven't been studying- what _have_ you been doing? It may be that you have been working on a startup, or have fallen into something which has really made you grow technically. In this case you are probably doing OK, although you will have to study if you want to pass an interview at Google (which rather defeats the purpose of not studying).

On a side note: be wary of employers that make a great virtue out of hiring people with no education- this is often a sign that they want to press down pay and conditions or that fully qualified people not to want to work there.
'hard to find, as in, ' two second search on TPB or opening popcorntime'?
Food deserts are a real issue in some cities that are no where near as dense as our major metropolitan cities.

Honestly, I start thinking about the grocery store model and wondering if it needs to evolve.
I think they are purposely segmenting the population here to show how typical supermarkets (read: Food only) are fading precisely because other retailers (walmart, etc) have gotten into the food game. Walmart isn't a supermarket because it's got a lot more than food. Its goods are a superset of your typical Giant, Kroger, Ralph's, etc. This is also likely a reason you see Kroger start to expand into "Super stores" that have one-stop shopping for a lot of similar things.
Looks quite good, maybe worth to try it...
Almost every modern desktop chat app is a web app, which is what a chrome app is. It's how something like franz is possible: http://meetfranz.com/
I assumed it was too, but if not... I know people like this.
You definitely save money eating at home once you get good at it. If you live with someone else it is also a great social opportunity. These days I cook and eat with my wife, but before I met her I cooked with my roommates.

One roommate now will only eat with us if we add up the cost of ingredients and charge him fairly. Many of our dinners cost only a couple dollars.

Pasta with marinara sauce and dinner rolls: 1.33 / pound pasta, 1.80 jar of sauce, rolls 0.13 each. Serves 3-4 people for $5. 15 minutes (limited by water heating).

Tacos with guacamole: $3 pre-made guacamole, tortillas 0.5 / 12 pieces, beans 1.20 / can, salsa $2 / half bottle, tofu 1.5 / block, cilantro 1 / bundle. rice ~$1. Serves 3-4 people for $10. 20 minutes (lots of tasks, have to cook tortillas).

I won't break it down, but I can do a nice sushi dinner: various rolls, cold tofu, inari, miso soup, for 3-4 people for about $15. 45 minutes (lots of tasks).

In any case I can feed three adults for about ten dollars and 2/3 of an hour of my time. Usually there are enough left-overs to make a nice lunch for myself.

I enjoy eating out, and do so about once a week. Before I got married I ate out a lot. I would spend about $900 per month just for myself. Now I make an effort to cook dinner 6 days a week and spend a total of about 800 per month on food for both of us.
> Dimon volunteered: "Don't send emails after you've had a drink."

good advice for everyone, not just bankers and politicians.
Im hoping all of that is for more than just the 2 of you?
Is it possible they didn't expect the problem to require a few hundred lines?
Maybe the people sitting around the table are not a team, but friends who work at totally different organizations, and are currently using the product to stay connected to their teams?
If you look at the source you see that the \cite{} statements do reference meaningful anchors but that the bibtext file seems to be missing from the LaTeX archive:

https://arxiv.org/format/1611.00020v1
This touches on a question I've been pondering lately: why isn't it cheaper to eat out than to go grocery shopping?

Obviously, this doesn't apply to fancy restaurants, but it seems to me that due to economies of scale there should be some class of budget "eating out" offering that is actually cheaper than if you were to make it yourself.
This is a thought experiment on my end:

What if there was a mobile(not cellphone) grocer that frequented locations where people might consider buying from the grocer?

A grocer truck (like a food truck) could frequent train station parking lots as designated times allowing commuters to shop a couple of days' groceries.
A grocer truck could frequent central locations in a neighborhood at designated times to allow residents to walk up to the truck to purchase groceries.

Upsides:

grocery when you need it without trips to the supermarkets

purchase less but more often than a once a week trip.

convenient location and timing to do grocery shopping

no parking hassles if the model is a walk up to purchase groceries.

downsides:
limited choice (can be mitigated if grocer has a mobile app)

limited supply (again if there is an app and you can preorder the items are kept aside for you for a limited time before being sold) Perishable items cannot be set aside indefinitely.

limited pick up options (grocer can field location requests and can add a location if there is enough demand for it)

All this might have already been tried but I don't know of it. What other downsides do you see apart from the fact that some people would rather order from a restaurant than cook? This would not be for those people who don't want to cook.
Maybe. I called it "bullshit" then just as I do now.
Could you tell us what desires you have and what issues the healthcare industry is hitting with computer based tech ? As an ex computer fanatics I wanted to make medicine all digital and smooth (naive), I see it's not there, yet I'm not in Health so I have no idea what are the reasons. I expect "world chaos" to be part of them.
Huh, I've been living like this for so long that I'd forgotten most people do the once-a-week blowout shopping spree. Having lived in Europe, one of the perks was that you invariably had local groceries, bakeries, and butchers seemingly on every street corner. Berkeley is kind of like that for me now: fresh bread, sausage, and local veggies only a 20 minute walk from home. Can't imagine living any other way!
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Why, as a millennial, does it feel like everybody is judging me for the decisions me and my peers make? If people want to be observational that's fine, but you don't have to look very far in the comments here to see the thinly veiled disdain for the habits of my generation.
Have you ever tried to develop a old-school-style Firefox extension?

I made an extension in both browsers three years ago. It took me a week to make the Firefox extension and one day to make the Chrome extension. Chrome extensions are basically websites.

I also think Chrome's permissions based system is superior from a user-security standpoint.
Yeah I don't get it.

Even if you completely ignore the non-Teams aspect of it, you are still paying less money than for Slack.

Unless by overhead you mean whatever is the exact opposite of overhead.
I am not a Millennial, but the article did mention Gen-X and their parents, so..

I love cook. I love preparing a delicious meal for my family. We're foster parents and currently have two under three, and I know they're too young to really appreciate it, but I love preparing colorful, delicious meals for them.

One thing that really helps me at the store is a list. I have a wiki set up on our home server where I track menus for the weak and recipes for those meals. I also keep a copy of the grocery list. I print that out, scratch out anything we already have on hand, and take that to the store. Makes it all really simple and easy.

Once you have a dozen or two meals that the kids will eat and the parents enjoy, you can mix and match those and also rotate in some new ones to try. But you'll always have that base, so when that hectic week happens, at least meals won't be an issue.
It also adds up really quickly. $20/dinner is like $50/day if you eat out all 3 meals, which is more than $15K/year. There are people who live on $15K/year; there are also startups that have been founded on $15K.

If the price of not making that grocery run for 3 years is "I get to do a startup without permission of investors", would you still do it?
Exactly. I can feed 3-4 adults dinner for $5 to $15 depending on what we cook. Those same dinners would cost $30 to $70 to purchase.
Quick googling "material theme gtk" returns this which looks very nice actually https://github.com/nana-4/Flat-Plat
Bravo sir, I could not have said it better myself. I purchased a brand new XPS15 ubuntu 14.04 and it was a disaster -

The battery lasted about three hours, the $300 graphics card did not function at all because of poor drivers (graphics switching is still theoretical on even user friendly linux os' because of dark age xserver)

I had to spend two weeks to get the wifi working by messing around with conf files

The concept of hardware/software integration seems to evade the general purpose computing industry to the detriment of us all, I am not sure why someone hasn't built a tightly integrated linux laptop yet.

At this point the GUIS look pretty decent and there is plenty of software (most people only use browsers anyway) we just need to get the basics working well.
When the stated price of something is "negotiable", it means you don't have the ability to even do a quick calculation of if it's worth considering. The lack of information is galling.
Somehow reminds me of Google Wave.
You're naive if you think this doesn't happen more often than not. Some shops are very good about preventing this, most enterprises are not. Drop a bunch of USB sticks in the parking lot or other common areas, someone else ends up doing the work for you.
Teams is a webapp or a 68mb download. All of the other heavy lifting looks like sharepoint online in the background (onenote notebook, shared files.)
Does it offer search of past messages?
Using KDE the theme is pretty similar even for GTK apps.
Tee shirts just fit. Polo and casual business wear just fit. Underwear is simple for guys, if the old one fit, the identically spec'd new one will fit (my wife claims that is not the case for women). For about a decade until quality fell thru the floor my default "asphalt hiking athletic shoe" for long distance urban exercise was, per my amazon list of orders, a "New Balance Men MX623 10.5 4E" and they fit like a glove every time. Not even a break-in period believe it or not, off with the old shoe on with the new. Pants just fit. Buddys jeans made in the USA just fit. For footwear if you spend enough money it fits, Thorogood / Weinbrenner products are very expensive and made in Wisconsin and fit perfectly out of the box like a glove; they also last forever. If you have to ask if you can afford them the answer is no, but they last for a decade or two so the annual cost is actually cheaper than buying cheap boots.

I would not attempt a tailored suit over the internet, your local tailor is not likely going to be amused you bought it online when you bring it in for adjustment. My wife can spend a seemingly infinite amount of time trying on different cocktail dresses. Not all stores for all clothes will go out of business. Merely almost all of them.

I'm just calling out that maybe 95% of my clothing was either a gift or purchased online and I've never had the slightest problem. Generally speaking things that involve paying a tailor probably should be purchased directly from a tailor but other than that...
Other side of the table: we've hired at least 2 people from the "Who's Hiring" posts at here at iRobot.
Emails seem like a big risk, with so much data even if you are trying to do everything right you have to handle everything perfectly or it just gives other people more stuff against you. I feel like the recent leaks are good examples of that
Nothing, but it might not be the right approach.

We didn't progress from the wright flyer by stacking more and more wings on. (Although that path was explored for a couple decades)
Probably nothing that can't be easily dismissed as personal preference. I recall YaST had a bad habit of unnecessarily cycling network interfaces when certain changes were made, but that was a long while ago.
This actually looks really good, and considering the security/compliance features I'm seriously thinking of moving from Trello to "plans". It comes close to trello for UI and considering it's available through my organisation it means I can put non-public data in my weekly task lists too.
Fedora:

sudo tuned-adm profile latency-performance

When DNF ask you to install tuned, say "y".
Or basic message reliability? There's no reason I should be getting "Bad encrypted message" so often. Or tons of repeats. And out of order messages. And random deliverability problems.

And it seems like it has a way of picking just the right time to fuck up. Right when there's a big question or when I need to say something important, bam, Signal will start being erratic. Plus the repeat messages has on at least one occasion ended up providing a totally different meaning.

I'd say with one particular contact, we exchange screenshots of Signal over MMS once a day to avoid misunderstandings.
I am truly sorry you caught the brunt of the toxic parts of the Linux community. It's a part of the community that has existed since I first started using Linux in the mid 90s. It sounds like you offered some thoughts about what you felt was the right thing to do, and people reacted violently to it.

I personally wish we had a first class, broadly adopted Free *nix desktop option with native GUI and the like. I am not necessarily a fan of extending the web to all parts of my computing experience. However, what you described is very much what is happening with Chromebooks--so maybe your normative statements about the Linux desktop just required the implementation and backing by a Google.

That all said, I wouldn't write off desktop Linux along with the caustic communities you've found. I did a career switch to urban planning some years ago now, and what I've discovered is that every community has a majority group of mostly reasonable, mostly disengaged people along with a smaller group of really loud, difficult people. In that sense, Linux user communities feel normal to me.
> copy paste with a highlight+middle mouse button is frankly awesome in GNOME

Oh my gosh, this is my least favorite thing about using gnome! I accidentally paste all the time and can't turn it off particularly easily. Very sad.
Yeah, that nipple on Thinkpad keyboards really bothers me. Why is there only one? I have two hands, so I expect two conveniently placed nipples on each side of the keyboard.
The mess that is US mobile protocols and frequencies is what makes me cringe when the rest of the world these days looks to USA for the "latest" in mobile.

Damn it, Nokia had a Symbian phone you could use as a basic desktop for emails and surfing back when iPhone and Android barely did video out (and had to kill the phone screen to do so at least on Android). The mobile world basically came to a standstill, if not went backwards almost a decade, because everyone turned to the odd duck out to lead them into the future...
> when I assign a value to my free time, which I like to estimate at half my hourly rate in calculations like this.

That only works when you are choose to use that free time earning at that rate. Otherwise you are simply using mental gymnastics to validate your choice (which, since it is your money and your food, certainly does not require validation from others).
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> The problem with Wave was that it was too open ended for most people to figure out. Those who did figure out, loved it, and were burnt when Google shut it down.

Yeah, this tallies with my experience. I was in two separate Wave teams (Waves?), one for a six-person software team and one for a large-ish social group of non-technical people. The software team took to it immediately and loved it; the social group was mostly baffled and used it sparingly.

If Google had only iterated on it they'd be a in a great spot right now, but I guess eventually every big technology company has their "Microsoft moment" when they kill a product only to see that category take off years later.
Maybe worse than regular buses since there is a step where they have to switch between gas and electric power and the tunnel isn't enough of the journey that you don't get stuck in traffic. Definitely worse than trains.
It just feels like 20th century americans didn't really value their time. They were the weird ones, apparently content (I don't really think that) to do all the pointless stuff they did.
Anyone hiring for H(one)B cap-exempt roles?
Apparently the whole yammer team was working on this, since it's still not possible to edit and update post on yammer. Which is a pain to write longer posts with.
Yes, my first real engineering job at Factual. I applied as a data scientist (not actually really knowing what that entailed) and was re-routed to be a data/software engineer, which ended up being a great fit. Once I was at Factual I kept running and updating the Who's Hiring post and picked up some other amazing candidates, my favorite of which now works at Google LA with me! It's definitely a worthwhile funnel.
A household across the street from me has five residents: mother, father, employed daughter, twin sons in high school. They have at least three cars now, and I'm pretty sure I've seen four (one, to be pedantic, a pickup truck).

A household next to me has within the last five years had three residents: mother, father, son then about twenty. They had three cars.

A household down the street: mother, father, employed daughter, employed son (the last there part time). All have their own vehicles:sports ute, truck, sedan, truck.

It is possible that a household at the end of the block, mother, father, daughter in high school, has three cars; but I'm not sure whether father and daughter use the same car or a different one.

We are in a city, close to public transportation. I suspect that as one gets farther out into the suburbs, one finds more households with three or more cars.
I don't care about the points (otherwise I wouldn't have posted again, knowing the same people will just neg more), I'm just amazed some people believe this myth so strongly that they immediately downvote any and every post, from multiple posters, making different points challenging it. It's a totally a bizarre reaction.
Start something first. When you have earned enough over a year to live on, give your two weeks notice.

For me, I am aiming for 80% of my salary in a year's profit from my business before I leave the day job.

Never expect your job to educate you or expand your abilities. While it's nice when you have that opportunity, it isn't common and usually requires showing that you already are capable of doing the new stuff. It is not your employer's job to improve your skillset. You're hired for the skills you have and your ability to learn their practices.
Wouldn't you prefer encrypted email more than a conversation. You do get a lot of self destructing emails too. And custom protocols included.
And they use phone calls too I presume. Those would also come under the same scrutiny right?
It's the nature of the Internet (and really, opinions in general). If you're happy with the choices you make, what does it matter what the Internet thinks of them?
Also, anyone who is serious of cooking at home uses all their ingredients. I don't buy more food until I've eaten or planned to eat all that I have.
Ask HN: What to learn?
I suspect there are others like me who feel overwhelmed with the amount of new projects and frameworks that show up everyday. How do people figure out what to learn ? In my day job, I don't get to play with the latest buzz - so would love to know how people pick what to learn [hopefully towards specialist consultation eventually]
The entire company is built around selling me to recruiters

I think you may have fixed this data accuracy debate/issue. If they ask recruiters only they may get nearly-accurate data.
Which, based on what I've seen in the news, is pretty insistent these days that it's not Europe ;)
I've been using Elementary OS for a few years now. THIS is the Linux desktop for me & easily replaces Windows and/or OS X with the exception of serious gaming where you're likely be be running Windows no matter what.
Link to the second (2013) edition: http://www.projectoberon.com/
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I believe this is not just a shift in spending behavior by age, but a product of people waiting longer to have children. Cooking a meal as a single person or couple is harder to justify vs a restaurant. When cooking it becomes more cost and time effective the more quantity of food you cook. For me it is far more time and cost effective to eat an inexpensive meal from a take out place, although I like cooking.
Thanks for the reply! Finance (S&T) is what you want to be in, by the sounds of it.
Wow that is huge... HIPPA is a massive headache for industries that have typically been very "blue collar" Ie. EMS/Firefighting. We are always looking for ways to communicate more effectively, especially for our most at risk citizens (coordinating agencies). This could be an almost real-time notification system... hmm.
Repo even starts in 2011.

The commit log doesn't look like momentum at all though...

https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/graphs/commit-activity
I'm sure if you build this system at a price cheaper than human labor and at least as good, people will buy it.
Same here, I like buying veggies from smaller stores on my way home from work. However, my wife and I still make a Costco run every Sunday.
It just sounds like a casual small software business or something else that is startup-y, minus the casual copyright infringement
Slack is a chat application, one of a vast multitude. There's not all that much secret sauce to give away.
I didn't live during that period of time, but I wouldn't be surprised if the field had some recalcitrance for cultural reasons -- think of all the classic photography that is in black and white. B/W may have started as a technical limitation but it's something that could have become inextricably associated with "classic photography". On NPR today, they were interviewing the latest Sulzberger to take a leadership role at the New York Times (the Sulzbergers own the paper), and when asked about how the NYT will adapt to the technical changes, he talked about how even in his lifetime (he's only 35ish), the NYT heavily debated having color photos on its front page because it was unseemly (the first color front page photo was 1997 for the Gray Lady) [1]

From an artistic perspective, B/W photography absolutely has advantages from a dramatic perspective. Think of how we describe clear-cut situations as being black-and-white. In certain situations, the actual color in a scene can be extremely distracting and cut away from the photo's intended center.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times#Style
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+1. I actually went through this once (sort of - 5 phone interviews) but that is in no way standard.

My story was - getting interviewed by progressively more senior folks with positive feedback on the spot from whoever I was talking to. So then finally after 4 rounds of technical interview calls I get to talk to the hiring manager who is telling me something along the lines of "the feedback has been awesome BUT we didn't expect to find someone this fast and now need to wait till the next hiring cycle".