skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, so at least at low levels, ~5 hours of game work a week just to pay for the subscription for that month. Assuming this is about 50% as much fun as you would have if it wasn't a requirement, and that you have other things you would rather spend that money, definitely not worth it at low levels.
> Don't even tell your employer about side projects. Leave them out of the loop entirely.

On this, my last company had a similar clause, but you could just run a project by the HR team and they would clear any ownership of it. I worked at a media company and I was working on a media-related side project (so definitely "related to your employer’s line of work") and they 'released' any rights to it.
It happens after every Windows update. I'll log in, and have a message about the update, then see that Edge is my browser and VLC is no longer my default music player. Maybe it is because I have so many of the "features" of Windows 10 turned off? I dunno, but some people seem to not have the same experience.
more like they don't want to spend twice as much trying to maintain a separate linux driver, because that's a bit ridiculous.
Especially since memory paging is no longer an issue. The solid-state drives in these laptops are fast enough to read and write several gigabytes of memory per second.
So interesting, 2 nights ago when we launched our product. I was developing almost exclusively locally, and when we deployed all of the cached deprecated packages we were using hit us when we deployed, we still hit our deployment but it was not fun.

http://launchaco.com/build/
Where to start?!

Firstly, Google has plenty of sources on how steroids benefit you. An entertaining place to start is also https://m.reddit.com/r/nattyorjuice/

The bottom lines are:

* Steroids allow you to put on muscle way, way quicker than your natural limits allow. It means you can achieve your physical goals much more quickly (ie. movie stars like Hugh Jackman or Chris Evans who get massive for a role in 3 months are all on the juice)
* They allow you to exceed your genetic limits. A natural human being just shouldn't be able to reach Arnies peak size/muscle. Just not possible. Sure you get 250lb guys, but they should be fairly fat too.
* Steroids and other PEDs mean you recover from workouts quicker, so you can train more. So if you're an MMA star, which is physically demanding AND highly technical, you can be in the gym 6 days out of 7 going hard at it.

That's a simplistic run down. The main benefit for athletes is being able to train hard every day, and being big AND ripped.

For an average Joe, I think it allows you to achieve your goals with significantly less effort and investment. E.g. if you want to get a ripped, muscled body, you'll get that with steroids in a few months vs. maybe 1-2 years without. If you hit the gym 3 times a week, you'll quickly pull ahead of guys doing the same routines without juice. If you're 40 and want to put on significant muscle, it's near impossible without roids.

Incidentally, the Tim Ferriss blog has a long post talking about MMA star Georges St Pierre and how he put on 12lbs of muscle in 6 weeks with his diet. It's physically impossible to do that without juice.
Just FYI, but Torch supports OpenCL - which I have played with since that "should" allow models to be worked with on either card rather than having a CUDA and an AMD version...

Or you can run CPU only - if you have an eternity to let your training loop run.
I'd add that you can be a religious believer, but still use and recognize materialist analyses of religion -- including your own religion. As an obvious and non-controversial example, any religion that finds itself widely believed in a world without central authorities is going to be pressed into service as an enforcer of oaths -- even if its founder's opinion of oaths was somewhere between jaded and openly hostile.

Are you familiar with Marvin Harris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Harris)? I think he draws his causal arrow backwards -- it's not that a society develops ways of thinking because they'd be adaptive, it's that societies that happen to develop adaptive ways of thinking flourish -- but it's fascinating to watch his style of analysis in action, and he makes more good points than bad ones... at least if you ask me.
This is exactly correct. As a lawyer and a software developer, I long ago gave up on the idea of selling software to solve the problems of lawyers and/or law firms. Lawyers tend to be terrible customers of technology, if for no other reason than that they have established completely backward incentives that reward inefficiencies and information deficits.

The only "legal tech" that can succeed (in my opinion) is the kind that eliminates the need for lawyers, but then you're up against a different problem: people who think lawyers are magical wizards who can invoke spells to keep lawsuits and regulators at bay. It's really hard to convince many people that they don't need a lawyer, even though lawyers and law firms are almost never accountable for the advice they give.
People associate everything with the hospital and don't realize that doctors are frequently part of independent practices.

I remember vividly when my grandmother was in an awful hospital in NYC dying, I found the hospitalist to talk about her situation. He claimed to not Treating her and had no idea who was and directed me to another doctor. Yet he was standing at the station, with my grandmother's chart open with marking that he had just added her condition.

He actually told me the truth, but he was sitting there with a stack of files defrauding Medicare. Whatever profit the hospital was or wasn't making, the doctor was ringing his till.
> Even without promotion, I get more requests for work than one person can commit to while offering dev services at market rate.

That's wonderful situation to be in :)

> The challenges I've experienced relate more to the business and administrative functions and in general optimizing the amount of time spent on non-billable things.

This is a tough one and it's something i struggle with too. I take it you already have the usual suite of apps to help (xero/freshbooks, timely/toggl, hellosign etc).

> One analogous challenge a contractor faces is figuring out how to make the jump from software contracting into technical consulting.

Also tough, but more familiar. This jump always feels like a matter of specialization to me. It usually means leaving the variety of being a generalist behind. Luckily there are many ways to specialize: Functional. Technical. Process Engineering. You can even combine these specialties.

The less technical specialties require more nuanced proof of your abilities. It's definitely a good idea to keep notes of applicable project, moments, achievements.

I was a consultant for 7+ years (taxes + tech), although not an independent one, and i'll say this: it takes even more non-billable time to do it right.

Do you have special skill set?
I am mainly a Woodworker as a hobby and IT has a Profession

My Cars are worked on by Professionals so I do not have alot of Automotive tools or needs
Who made this?! Is it old? There aren't too many gangs around anymore, just crazies.
This is no longer true with the 2016 MacBook Pro's. So far I love my new Mac, but the battery is absolute crap.
I would pay touchbar prices for a 15" MacBook Pro which has function keys instead. I tried one at an Apple store recently typing in vim for nearly an hour. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't bring myself to like the touchbar :/
He's not suggesting that. He's saying that you can always cover yourself legally starting with a conversation.

Hey boss, I'm going to write this wordpress plugin as a side project. I'll be doing on my own time and with my own equipment. I'd like the company to disclaim any right to the code.

9 times out of 10 they will do so. If they don't then you know it's time to polish the resume. As tptacek says elsewhere here. It's too good a job market to risk the legal hassle of working someplace like that.
You should still have a will anyway, and included in it your digital key to your digital life.
It seems to me that the right to work on side projects that aren't in direct competition to the work you were hired to do for a company is the sort of thing that unions might advocate for, if tech workers had unions.
Check out Holistics.io (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder). While I can't say we can solve all your listed problems above, we provide enough tooling on top of your DW to help you pre-process (clean, aggregate) them.

https://www.holistics.io/data-preparation/

And on the part about firehose data, you might already know this, but Kafka and their line of work should be aligned with what you're after.
But also you're entirely responsible for own career, and no one in leadership is there to help you.

That's really what irritated me the most when I worked there. The leadership is kind of invisible and often, so I felt, powerless. As an engineer you are supposed to find your role among your peers pretty much by yourself.

I think they are doing this to apply some kind of "natural selection" where the "leaders" show themselves more quickly but all it does is create a Lord-of-the-flies-like informal organization where manipulative and political behavior is rewarded.
> But where are real OS's with GUIs in other languages?

There's this thing called Windows you may have heard of...

And, out of curiosity, what OS are you referring to?

> Just because there's not this huge buzz around Lisp doesn't mean no one is using it.

jodrellblank's claim was not that absolutely nobody is using it. The claim was, compared to how wonderful Lisp advocates claim the language is, relatively nobody is using it. If you compare the amount of software written in Lisp to the total amount of software written, and compare that to how wonderful Lisp is claimed to be, jodrellblank has a real point. And citing a handful (or several handfuls) of counter-examples does not refute the point at all.
Although it's great hearing about start-up ideas, I think for me what keeps me most excited and efficient is the passion for the problem I am solving. I think it's critical for startup founders to be passionate about the problem they're solving, and if someone told me about a problem it would take longer for me to get onboard cause I don't know the problem at hand.

What are your thoughts?
"Don't even tell your employer about side projects. Leave them out of the loop entirely."

Early in my career I did this. Now I go the exact opposite tack. Tell your employer. Get it cleared in writing. If you work at a company where that is a problem, then consider your side projects non-commercial for perpetuity, or get a new job.
I may be totally off-base here, but can't the SHA256 CPU instructions be used for this? Then it'd just be 1 (? Or is it more) instruction to perform?
Apple cannibalizes their product lines in favor of what they want to push, and it feels, given the steady disregard of the Mac over the last ~3 years, that they want to push iPads. A touchscreen doesn't make sense for a Mac because they make it not make sense for a Mac, yeah?

(I'm not even saying they should have one. I don't care either way. Just that the Touch Bar is not a good replacement.)
People wouldn't be running these playbooks if they didn't work.

For years and years we've been telling everyone that software is eating the world, and that everyone needs to be more data driven. This is one of those results: software-mediated marketing outreach, measuring various response actions and using them as signals to determine further outreach.

I also think it's perhaps a bit unfair to blame marketers in isolation. They are just chasing the best conversion rates, and if they ceased doing so, their bosses would fire and replace them.

Honestly, the solution here is to introduce a concept to the software industry that exists in more mature industries: brand management. The second you develop an internal notion of your own brand, you start to develop a mental framework for how customers (and people in general) perceive that brand, and how actions like optimizing marketing automation can have negative consequences on brand perception. You learn to treat marketing strategically, and not just tactically.

Brand marketing is the counterbalance that keeps outbound marketing honest.
I just follow the tutorial on OSX. Then I try to do the first build and get:

> build.sh: line 34: syntax error: unexpected end of file

So I delete the last empty line, and get:

> build.sh: line 33: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'

I don't see any wrong with the script (I don't know bash scripting). So I go to the github site and just copy from https://github.com/ionide/ionide-vscode-fake/blob/master/bui...

And it work.

This is the diff:

diff -r 8b6c97c12f6e build.sh
--- a/build.sh Fri Dec 09 20:27:05 2016 -0500
+++ b/build.sh Fri Dec 09 20:27:50 2016 -0500
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
then
# use .Net

- .paket/paket.bootstrapper.exe
+ .paket/paket.bootstrapper.exe prerelease
exit_code=$?
if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ]; then
exit $exit_code
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
exit $exit_code
fi

- packages/FAKE/tools/FAKE.exe $@ --fsiargs build.fsx
+ packages/FAKE/tools/FAKE.exe $@ --nocache --fsiargs build.fsx
else
# use mono
mono .paket/paket.bootstrapper.exe
@@ -29,5 +29,5 @@
if [ $exit_code -ne 0 ]; then
exit $exit_code
fi
- mono packages/FAKE/tools/FAKE.exe $@ --fsiargs -d:MONO build.fsx
+ mono packages/FAKE/tools/FAKE.exe $@ --nocache --fsiargs -d:MONO build.fsx
fi
\ No newline at end of file
As a former user of both Debian (waaaaay back in the day) and Ubuntu (back in the day), I can assure you homebrew is 1000x more pleasant to use than apt-get, dpkg, and the rest of that insanely baroque, non-ergonomic mess.

There was even an apt-get made for the Mac -- fink. Homebrew crushed it. And now there are projects brining homebrew back over to linux.

Also, a large part of what's great about the mac and homebrew is there's just one target -- it's, "oh shit, now we've all got to make our stuff work on Sierra". And there's a brief period of breakage, and then everything works.

On linux, there is no one fixed target, and the breakage is constant.
Cannot tell you in enough harsh language to avoid fs.com. I've had enough DOA and mis-flashed parts to swear them off forever. Really bad stuff. If you just want regular DAC, go straight to Mellanox (they have an online store) or Amphenol (cables on demand).

If you need to support a lot of vendors and not run up your costs in sparing, use something like the FlexOptix FlexBox.

But, seriously, avoid fs.com.
I've preemptively aliased my escape key to caps lock on my 2012 MBP to get ready for the inevitable day I'm going to have to upgrade. It took about a day to get used to.
Well, yeah, unless the input is smaller than the digest, hashing is effectively a very lossy compression!
This reminds me of a personal experience.

I used to work for a programming startup, we all worked from home and logged into an IRC channel to communicate.

People would come and go and you;d have the rounds of "hello", "good morning", "how are you today" etc. so I wrote an IRC hello_bot to do it for me, made a list of my typical greetings and that all was good. It only ran when I was logged in so if more interaction was required, I was on hand.

Eventually our Sales Manager worked out it was a bot and got really angry, while the tech people (everyone but him) thought it was a cool and fun thing. He didn't appreciate that my bot to say hello to him probably took me more effort to get right than I ever put into actually saying hello.

It was a good lesson to me.

(later we found he had been skimming money off the top of contracts, rippig us off for thousands and the company ceased trading, I'm not sure if that's related :)
This is inaccurate. Lenovo is shit for their $500 level consumer level laptops, but their professional Thinkpads are still top tier and were never affected by the crapware incidents.

The current T4x0, X2x0 and Px0 series Thinkpads are still top of the line machines for anyone from corporate businesspeople to kernel hackers who run BSD on their primary machine.
What happens if you and a few friends work on a side project and then your employer tries to claim ownership?

Do your friends get to remove their contributions while you turn over a gutted and completely broken project?
1 year later: "When you told me about your side-project, you didn't tell me it was going to be successful. Thus, I must change my mind and sue you."
Seems like they've found a way to anchor their currency to something more tangible like USD, using fungible game time. Fascinating.

Has anyone set up automated currency exchanges in the game?
They're about $10-15 for genuine OEM gear on eBay.
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Maybe they signed it using one of these ?

http://axidraw.com/
As I said in a side comment: OS X is unusable with a touchscreen because Apple makes it unusable with a touchscreen. That could change, if they wanted it to. They don't. And that's fine--I don't care either way, I'm touch-agnostic. I just think the Touch Bar is crap and that it exists because they don't want OS X to horn in on iOS.

The Pencil would be the only thing they could do to a standard, no-Touch-Bar-thank-you-very-much MBP that would make me stay with Apple, because I digitally draw and paint a lot. I currently have a DisplayLink-driven USB3 display tablet with a stylus for exactly that reason (and, as with everything else on an iPad, an iPad doesn't begin to replace it because it can't run Photoshop). I'd love it if they went that route. I doubt they will, though, because--well, I think they care about the iPad way more than they do about the Mac.
It's a quote, not necessarily gech's opinion. In fact, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13138792 explicitly asks for reflection on it.
They're overpriced compared to what we had back in the day with the mb airs -- great performance and specs, sitting in the $1000-$1500 price slot, $2K pimped.
Insert joke here about network engineers scouring the floor for the lost token in a open-ended TokenRing network.
If only there was some way to use leverage to require them to assign resources to a project.
I'm not Alan Kay.

I think the class of answer that the question seems to expect would be subject to criticism as examples of the naturalistic fallacy[1]. The problem boils down to if thinking is logic then we throw the baby out with the bathwater. Either thinking does ceases to include complexities like empathy and thinking about chocolate or logic expands to entail them.

Whether or not one buys the concept one can see evidence of the philosophical issue in classical Greek philosophy as Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all struggle with the logical implications when eudiamonia is defined as X.[2]

There's a sense in which 20th century analytic philosophy falls out of Moore's position. Wittgenstein might say that the Greeks philosphers ran into problems because they started using words in an odd way in pursuit of philosophy -- for example by expanding 'logic' to include thinking about chocolate cake.

Another way to look at it is to consider thinking and logic and virtue and satisfaction as atomic and elemental. The philosophical term is Duns Scotus's 'haecceity'.[3] Or as V.S. Naipaul opens A Bend in the River, 'The world is what it is.'

But again, I'm not Alan Kay.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haecceity
You are spot on. Please, let augmented reality help us with this without ads. (Edit: I personally would be willing to pay a monthly subscription)
Very cool! I made a similar tool last year that I use for Pomodoro. The favicon tomato changes from red to green when time is up, and it only updates the title time once a minute, but I find that to be less distracting while I'm working.

https://roche.io/pomodoro/
I did this with brainfuck.
So, you're telling me I should calm down. (smile)

Yes. "On tilt" Nice gentle phrase and a sensible comment.

As I noted above - I just realized that I was basically responding to click bait - so mea culpa.

But that doesn't mean my points weren't legitimate :^)

Finally, I wish someone, someday would start a discussion about our post-war relationship with Japan. I mentioned it in my original message. What happened was so cool. I'm not aware of anything like it in modern history. And it can take a bit of the "evil" sting out of the Japanese Internment history, if you want it to.
I never liked PvE in EVE except for wormholes where I made hundreds of billions but that was with old accounts.
I always paid with real money until I made lots of money without doing much. Kinda seems unreal for beginners to pay with in game money ( unless they changed it last year ) specially if you have a job.
New Relic was the inspiration for this idea. I shouldn't have to put my data into NR to get value, the data is already either in my app's DB or running through my app. There are actually a lot of reasons why having it be installed and within the app itself is ideal, opens up many doors that are closed by NR. I want something that starts with that as a first principle and then figures out the way to best execute it.

Will check out Looker!
If the more senior program is of the same calibre and lacks skill in a language, then 100% yes. The idea of discounting proper experience is a clear example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
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But often when things come up and it's "Hire a lawyer" it feels like responding to "How do I change my password?" with "Hire a software engineer." The law is very user-unfriendly.

Also hearing that I should take the same remedy whether I have a question or I need to be defended against criminal prosecution seems strange and intimidating, like being told I should hire a brain surgeon for a migraine headache.
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AHHH You missed the best machine thats under the radar.

SAMSUNG series 9. runs linux like none other and is a fantastic machine in 15 inch lighter than all the competitors.
> which is what makes nVidia drivers work so well on Linux

Maybe for you, every kernel upgrade I have done in the past would break my desktop for a day or two until a patch is released. Not too mention oddities and artifacts, I get from time to time. Things that I find unacceptable and embarrassing if it happens on Windows or Mac and I have to learn to live with it on Linux.

I am probably out of luck but I think I would start to see you if FreeBSD would be a good replacement for Linux
That's a lot of work.

Shame on those manufacturers for making their products so difficult to dissect.

I agree with the sentiment of 'keeping alternatives', but given how much we use our laptops, I'm willing to pay an extra $500 for a 'known quantity' (the high end laptops by those mfgs. are generally expensive, i.e. maybe $500 cheaper than Macs, if that).

Thanks for doing this, I'm going to stick with my Mac.

Happy to consider alternatives as they come about.
I have a simple solution for this. I create a gmail filter that looks for the word "Unsubscribe" in it. If so, it skips my inbox, and is in a special folder.

My inbox is a real inbox with emails that are real.