skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree conceptually, but this points out some fun things.

So in other words, we tried that and failed in many ways in a much simpler domain. Now we are trying it again with a much bigger, more complicated scope and set of technical issues. Just like in the VTxxx days, people say something is compatible, and yet it is not 100%. Just like in those days, we deal with the craziness around all that as developers.

I've been working on some stuff dealing with old formats, including VT100. Diving into the source of some very big and well-known projects along with many lesser known things, it's amazing how wrong many implementations are when you check the standards. Related, I've seen the craziest implementations of telnet servers, ANSI SGR codes, and more. Translation: I have 0 faith in humanity to implement standards to the standards. I have less faith in the standards people to create sane standards.
detail: You don't have to worry about scaling up to 10-40k connections, which is great for small-medium apps (which is not scaling).

Once you go beyond that you have to manually shard and replicate data between shards and load balance your connections.
Enabling Market Consolidation and Harmonization in the Fintech Industry
> Putin hasn't been trying to increase his sphere of influence

What a peculiar thing to say.
if you treat it is a mindless sitcom then it is just that, a mindless sitcom. I watch the show, it's funny to me. The character chemistry is pretty good too. Sheldon makes the show. I'd stop watching if he left.

At $1 million an episode and in the 10th season, enough people like it.
You can still take night classes and be a carpenter quickly enough if you really want it!
This is the answer.
Well someone fucked you up because current is defined as the flow of positive charges just like the electric field direction is defined as the action of a positive test charge. Thanks Ben (Franklin)
>Author is apparently unaware that elm doesn't claim to be ready for prime time yet.

You seem apparently unaware that nowhere in elm's website it says that, and in fact it totally implies the opposite "A delightful language for reliable webapps".
The future is still no “ad revenue”, at least in the traditional sense.

They clearly sell rights for prominent placement of products in TV shows that have no commercials. It’s kind of funny sometimes (e.g. in The Punisher there was an interview scene with a prominently placed can of “Country Time” lemonade, and the thing magically rotated each time the camera moved so the full logo on the can was always visible). And this is fine; it’s silly but it doesn’t detract from the enjoyment of the show.

Conversely, the aggressive nature of traditional commercials has been destroying regular TV. The commercials themselves are stupid of course but networks behave obnoxiously and desperately too. I recently decided to watch an old Star Trek: TNG episode (where I definitely remember how the episode went) and they did some serious editing to jam in as many commercials as they could! They honestly damaged the story line: at times, characters would directly refer to something that I know was in the original cut of the episode but omitted from the oh-god-make-more-room-for-commercials version. Hey, networks: when you start removing plot elements or making obvious edits that even break the background music, you are being desperate. When your ad for the next show is now taking up like 1/6 of my television screen and never goes away, you are being desperate. Don’t CRANK up the volume during commercials and make them go on and on and on for many, many minutes. And don’t disrespect the hundreds of people who work on TV shows by making it impossible to read credits.
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Yeah. Part of the problem that Go attempts to fix is exactly this. They just make it fail to compile if you don't update your code. In a large monolithic repository this is easier to police and manage. In the rest of the world not so much.
Programming? Flipping burgers? The choice is easy. I can't do anything else!
You actually need less golden mean pandering from your media, not more.
What does it mean for an image to be “responsive?”
Exactly what I was thinking at that time. My conclusion was that they were forcing me to admit tons of things while at the same time confusing what could be understood logically and what had to be accepted as is.

I feel better :-)
EU pledges 400M euros to boost startups
I live in Seattle and electric BMWs are everywhere thanks to BMW's own ReachNow car sharing service:

http://www.bmwcarsharing.com/

Basically the cars are paid for by the minute and come with free street parking. You can unlock/lock through the app or a smartcard. This feels like BMW is trying to both figure out EVs and a possible post car ownership society.

Tesla will be similarly doomed when most people don't own their own cars (Tesla's most valuable asset is its brand and that means nothing when you aren't buying the car!).
Thanks for the reply! This is not at all a bad suggestion - my mum is on an iPad and actually since this happened, I realised that actually she is nowhere near as big a vector as my dad despite the fact that she doesn't know what an app is nor what a browser is.

My dad is more dangerous because he has some some idea of what he has just enough of an idea to know what he is doing but not enough of an idea to actually protect himself. He also despises all Apple products alas...
How about a Chromebook?

Cheap, keeps itself up to date, fully cloud based.

It wouldn't tick the Lightroom box but it does the internet based stuff extremely well with low maintenance.
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I was hoping this would be about colorForth

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ashleyf/2013/11/02/the-beau...
> It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

No worse than any other profession. Sure, most days I do more of the same, build reports for finance/corporate problems. It's rolling stones up a hill every morning, but that has nothing to do with programming itself. The issue you're describing is that you're working to haul someone else's stones. Fine, all well and good, pay is good. Wouldn't be any different if I was a musician or a painter... all they ever request is that I play Piano Man.

For me the art comes in doing it a different way each time. Maybe it's a function of my inexperience, I've only been doing this for a few years so far but the horizon seems so far away and there's so much to learn that I can't imagine getting bored anytime soon. Everything is amazing and I can't learn it all! In the meanwhile there's stuff to learn outside of tech. Like gardening or baking. Baking bread is a series of simple tricks (temperature of the yeast, bowl type, kneading techniques, etc.) that people do in order to produce an outcome (a certain crust or flavour). I'm struck often by how similar I find it to writing code.

Try rolling the stone with one hand tied behind your back.
Social media gives normal non-famous people like me to have their own little "TV channels" and share / produce content for their network of followers. That's where the power and money is. Advertisers are taking notice of these smaller channels and paying good money to be featured because it allows them to target niches with laser precision.

Btw, follow me on twitter and snapchat @pryelluw. :)
A resource for tech workers struggling with depression:

https://forums.osmihelp.org/ (the former DevPressed.com )
"We are a non-profit org (just applied for 501c3) that works to improve mental wellness in the tech industry."
That was addressed by the third section, under "targeted attacks":

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...
Steelcase Leap. Amazing chair, adjustable in just about every way imaginable. I like the mesh breathability of Herman Miller Aeron chairs, however, I'm about 135lbs and 5'9 and the Aeron often times felt too big for me.
I like the TTR because it allows me to check if it make sense to spend some time on some tool and make me discover new tools/approach that are already vetted.

I like also the "Call me maybe" serie by aphyr (aphyr.com) because I can check if it make sense to spend some time on a distributed system.

Do you have any other resource that could play the same role?
I can't answer to the C spec, because so much is left undefined, but I can answer some to GCC and tcc, and that tells me that though these are contrived examples, I've encountered at least some of these in the wild.

I can't wait till rustc prodyces smaller executables so I can switch to it.
I've been spending my free time getting myself familiar with ML and personally I'm focused on resharpening my math skills, reading papers from the "awesome deep learning papers" repo [1], playing with TensorFlow, and reading the Neural Networks and Deep Learning book [2]. I did my undergrad degree in math, so a lot of the math is just review for me, but ML seems to get fairly math heavy pretty quick. I would suggest anyone looking at ML to spend a good amount of time going through the backing math in addition to the CS parts, otherwise you might not develop much intuition for what's going on.

[1] https://github.com/terryum/awesome-deep-learning-papers

[2] http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/
I specifically wrote my book, Digital Survival Guide, to help address this knowledge gap in digital security and safety that our society has. However, education may not be enough for everyone and you may need to take a sandbox approach. Have them use a VM and expect to refresh it from a snapshot often. Check out my book, you and your parents will find many useful tips.

http://amzn.to/2fkervN
You should generally have a reason to do anything in production regardless of the confidentiality.
In my experience, don't. Offer them your best solution for a novice user, which for me is usually an up-to-date machine with an ad blocker, and make sure that you're open for

Ultimately, they're adults, and the last thing your father will want is to be treated like a child on his own machine. If he fucks something up, fix it, and tell him what he can do to not have that issue come up again.
I came the other way -- I quit medicine (completed Medical school then did not do residency) for programming. I very much enjoyed the material and rigor but the day-to-day work ultimately left me feeling extremely bored and depressed. What I found in the field was it was incredibly bureaucratic, inefficient, and quite frequently unprofessional feeling. Depending on the hospital, many patients were sick because they outright didn't take care of themselves. Surgery is much less precise than you'd imagine and depressingly impersonal. In the six week rotation I did in the pediatric ER, I saw extremely few cases where the treatment was actually urgent and made a difference (like I can count on one hand). I don't want to bash it too hard, because ultimately I just wasn't a good fit for it. It has its good parts and the social perception you get when you say "I'm a doctor" is real. But you are very much a cog and if you ever think you want to change (and you can, if you want) -- make sure you spend some real time shadowing the profession you think you'd go into.
Not a bad idea.

What are your thoughts on file-syncing using DropBox? Solutions have to be easier than breathing - I used to take a regular image of the PC for backup purposes but then my dad would complain he couldn't actually view the files.
The real question is, why is this website so hard to understand? Publishing what looks like someones personal notebook isn't helping the cause here.
After my mom got scammed online, I had "the talk" with my parents and we agreed that they would just use iPads and iPhones.

I've had no tech support calls for a couple of years now.

I think a chromebook is a good option if a keyboard is required.

It's a losing battle at this point. Your time is better spent educating them against social engineering attacks (I'm still afraid my mom is going to return a call to the voicemail the "IRS" left)
Clinton with a 5-point lead in latest polls, votes in New York
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Cliff notes: guy raised in a family of over-achievers, worked himself to the bone while never taking the time to grow up emotionally, hoping achievement would fill the gap.

It didn't, he had to face that fact and now that he's let go of the false hopes of success fixing his life - he's slowly but surely getting his shit together and is very glad to be doing so.

Perhaps the one thing missing from this article is how common this is - I see it all the time, in all walks of life. You have to address whatever is really bothering you, sooner or later. The more you put it off and try to band-aid it, the harder it will be later on.

A quote that I really liked related to this is - a year from now, you'll wish you had started today.

That resonated with me.
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His comment was aimed at @iand, not at Asperger's.
Was Elon Musk really the one first posing this idea?
Physics and math also lean heavily on intuition; you might have a clear cut path through the equations when you have the solution in front of you, but there's often no "playbook" that you can follow mechanically to get what you want from the fundamental equations.
Developer-driven development – “Code that's full of features we’re proud of”
Will I love the technology and would absolutely work for Hyperloop, I would never want them to make deals with the UAE. The abuse of human rights is just to much of an issue over there in these kingdoms.

https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/united-arab-emirate...

"The government arbitrarily detains, and in some cases forcibly disappears, individuals who criticized the authorities, and its security forces face allegations of torturing detainees."
Should hardly ever need to - but I am rarely at home so would prefer not to be in a position where any time they need to do something I need to be present.

The only real software he would need at the moment is for photoediting
> honest, hard work that includes machine learning, advanced math and stats, 3D and GPU programming, plus responsibility for the entire UI, software documentation, and support of your development

What kind of company is this?
I wouldn't discount the value of product placement deals, either.
"I wanted to get out of the entire industry once my two year bonded term was over."

Can you give any details about the terms of the contract you signed? IT in India is not 'at-will'?
I made a PR [1] based on your endorsement. EDIT: it's merged. Yay, we did it HN!

[1] https://github.com/dhamaniasad/HeadlessBrowsers/pull/16
> This thing eats everything.

I protest! It seems to carefully avoid anything that resembles a crumb, a hair or dust.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=targeted+indi...

Most end up saying I have some sort mental illness (Paranoid Schizophrenia, usually) and am imagining everything.

I'm not sure what was the cause of me being in this situation, but I had to deal with enough idiots and idiot managers along the way that I'm not entirely surprised.

Based on information available online, it seems TIs are usually whistleblowers, activists, minorities, LGBT, women, and/or people with good morals. They are also usually smart. That is, it seems to be something done to people out of jealousy/envy, or because they seemed like a threat.

At the end of the day I'm not sure what started it all, but I strongly suspect it was the idiot manager I had while at my first job out of school (the place was rated one of the 50 worst companies to work for by Glassdoor).

The puzzling thing was that the workplace harassment portion continued at the next job. I don't know how anyone would be dumb enough to keep it going like that.
I think it's because reality TV is dirt cheap to produce compared to quality documentaries, not because of anything youtube has done.
Can I ask what you find interesting about that? That has to be one of the oldest forms of radio/TV ads.

"This program is brought to you by -insert brand name, followed by slogan of the brand-".
He didn't choose Springfield at random for his example, this particular bit of counter-intuitive statistic is called the Simpson's Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
This comment is a mixture of falsehoods ("sending messages over Google servers") and out-of-bounds attacks on the integrity of HN users ('moxie did not build a "honey pot").

Thankfully: you cannot comment like this on HN. If you want to criticize Signal, you can do that, but you can't do it this way.
> "Credit" is source of money, "debit" is destination of money

But it gets even more confusing when they say "we credited your account" or "your account was debited".
Boom & bust is the business model for TV/Film/Music unfortunately, but it is what it is. That's what creates opportunities for "new" things - shows, up and coming musicians, film stars, writers, directors, producers...on and on. Tastes change and the business and money go where they can get a return on investment - or a chance to do so. Risk vs. Reward.

For context though, I saw a really well respected Executive Producer discussing how he invested in films (recently "The Revenant") and was getting critical acclaim and doing well. He was grateful for his partnership with Fox for distribution...then noted that revenue wise, Fox Studios for film was approximately $700 Million of revenue in a given year, whereas Fox News was $1.X Billion and Fox Sports was also $1.X Billion.

In the big picture competition is extremely fierce and spread out even beyond the Sitcom-with-Kevin-James / NCIS-Your-Mom's-Backyard / Zombies-who-break-into-song-and-dance-numbers pieces that get cranked out year after year and don't stick.
I think your take on this is a bit misleading. The only thing subject to being on the record would be specific quotes or statements by HRC. The rest of the article, the parts he was asking for approval on, were the journalistic conclusions he drew. He was asking for approval in case the campaign felt any of it was off message. There was also discussion of staying on message!

It's absurd that candidates should be treated with such kid gloves. HRC should be happy to subject herself to whatever interviews, etc., from the nation's most respected paper simply to allow her side of the story to be noted.

The predominant vibe should be adversarial, skeptical of her motives and promises, and doing the interview and reading the resulting piece should be unpleasant for the candidate.

I know the NYT tailors the composition of various pages based on the print, afternoon, or online edition, etc., but throughout most of September and October, the pre-paywall politics section contained at least two flattering/fluffy stories about the HRC campaign every single day.

I'm sure there are people who want to read that stuff, but they should be asking how she'll turn all the promises into law, why she waited to support gay marriage, why she allowed her cronies to sabotage Sanders' campaign on her behalf, etc. The NYT did none of that. So coupled with the very friendly treatment by Leibovich, the news org doesn't really seem much like a news org.
I think there should be SAAS pricing style "packages" curricula like 1 week version learn ABC by reading XYZ, 4 week version, 6 month version, etc

People generally think in terms of how much time they have - these lists are great but hard to act on - I'd like to know if I spend x hours, I'll learn y skills
It was hugely popular in the nineties. Most people here in Brazil play Fifa, Overwatch and LoL on Playstations and PCs like the rest of the world...
Putting the well-being of others first also helped me. In your case, look at all the people who have benefited. Everyone who has listened to your shows and consumed your content is somehow better in some way. Good job! :)
Same as me, transportation and energy are really big problems today.
This is a great motivation to start.

I thought this was the order:
1. Seed - delight hundreds of people and pull in thousands a month. Demonstrate your idea is viable in the niche.

2. Series A - delight thousands to a million people. Demonstrate you can take that idea beyond the niche.

But there's a couple of capital intensive plays that have distorted the system like Magic Leap. For those plays, it seems like the main customers are VCs, not actual users.
How is the Korean media in comparison to say the US or UK? Are they pretty objective, or more in the vein of the US, UK media where its very tabloidish?
No. For any piece of entertainment media, there are lots of people who can't stand it.

And even a fair number that feel the need to throw their dislike around like it makes them special.
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I've been really considering starting a SketchUp -style 3d drawing program project. I have a background in 3d graphics and data structures/algorithms, so it would be right down my alley. But I don't have a lot of time on my hands :(
One does not simply launch a website on a server inside of China. First, I had to wait about four months on a waitlist with AWS-China to get setup with an AWS-China account for our China business. Now, I've had the AWS-China account for about 3 months and still awaiting the ICP license to be issued, so I can actually open port 80 on a VM. No less, the time it took to get fully functioning companies in place to even be able to have a business account. It is a crazy struggle over here, but I guess if it was easy, everybody would be doing it.

Edit: forgot to mention that the solution also depends on my Chinese wife having her name on the ICP linense documents. It wouldn't even get done without that.
> Initially, it will explore the feasibility of building a line linking the two cities.

So now it's one of those "feasibility" projects?

Hyperloop suffers from the same problem as Solar Freakin' Roadways and Artificial Gills, I'm afraid: too much saying, not enough doing. I am instantly suspicious of projects that have lots of hyped up marketing but little to no prototypical substance.

To me, Hyperloop One still seems like a sci-fi pipe dream (pun intended).
Solved: Algal flour was causing violent illnesses, Soylent says
"The government arbitrarily detains, and in some cases forcibly disappears, individuals who criticized the authorities, and its security forces face allegations of torturing detainees."

It's a sad world we live in that I speed read your post and wasn't sure if you meant the UAE or USA..........
> * do not call or email me weekly for years on end telling me how great your programming is. i don't care - i have too much on my plate already.

I receive too many random emails too. Absolutely annoying. A few weeks ago I received one that begin "Hello,
I recently spent some time doing a site review of your website. (Yes, I do random site reviews for a living.)"

Wanting to call the bluff and wondering which website they claimed to have reviewed I replied "You don't say! What website are you speaking of?"

Their reply: "Thanks for your response. Actually i do email marketing so i usually send emails in bulk. I got your email id from domain directory, so i send you too. If you have any kind of requirement regarding Web Development or Digital Marketing please let me know. I will be happy to assist you.

Look forward to work for you!"

I knew it! My response: "Oh. So you didn't review my site."

Their response: "Thanks for your prompt response. I just reviewed your website, which is {real web site address}[1] and it seems that your website is in under process."

Do they also think I really believe their name is Steven Moore too? I wouldn't trust this person or company to ever do work for me...

[1] The site address was really there (not a template holder).
15% of accounts discussing US election on Twitter are bots
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He certainly popularised this idea.
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