skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how fast this industry moves I'd argue that a self-taught programmer actually has an advantage since they've shown an aptitude to pick up relevant things without direction.

I've seen PhD developers who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag so we can all make sweeping judgements :).
New Project Plans to Send a Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in 20 Years
Current need not be generated inductively, it can arise naturally ("bootstrap current"). There have already been experiments with as much as 85% of the current coming from this mechanism. As far as I know, there's no reason to absolutely rule out a bootrap fraction close to unity.

If you have information that does rule this out, I would like to hear it, since I hear this claim repeated often.

Edit: there's also lower-hybrid current drive. This combined with boostrap means that ITER may be able to operate at steady-state.
Please elaborate on the source of the disconnect for you.

Perhaps I failed, but I tried to make it clear that the foundation of great marketing IS building a product the market needs...because doing that well usually means knowing what the market needs in the first place.

Knowing what a market needs and understanding those needs all the way through is exactly what I mean by "marketing."

Once you understand the substance of that argument, the ideas that Google Wave failed because of bad marketing and that building a product that the market doesn't want IS bad marketing make a lot more sense.
You forgot binary.
Very bad suggestion which may lead to death. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
You could certainly argue that writing software as part of a team is "a contribution to a collective work".

What surprises me is how many startups are not even aware of at least including a "work for hire" clause when bring on software developers.
It is important to use uBlock origin and not uBlock. The latter was an error.

Otherwise, it is impossible: the blacklist are the same, the capabilities are the same, the only difference being that ABP will allow some ads by design.
Unemployment is only 4.9% because the participation rate dropped 3% points in the last 10 years: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

That's close to 10 million people who have stopped looking for jobs who we would otherwise expect to have them.
Deseat me: Clean up your existence
If you are really taught that, then your teacher has done you a great disservice.

The most original product person in tech's history was also one of it's most brilliant marketing and sales people.

I'm talking, of course, of Steve Jobs.
In my experience, YT suggests videos related to what I've been seeing with that "session", however I understand how this could be a YMMV situation.
Extensive past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611468
I coded my site in PHP.
They are talking about many ad networks allowing arbitrary JavaScript/Flash etc to be executed.
How can I read the articles? Or are they generally not more but a few sentences?
I'm truly sorry you feel that way.

I was hoping to bridge the divide and help technical people understand that their distaste and distrust of marketing hurts them more than anyone else.

Please help me understand how I fell short.
ReST files and Sphinx
Security updates for instance.
This seems like you're justifying the "if it doesn't fit the narrative, it doesn't count" case that I mentioned. Chicago is still a Midwestern city whether it's doing well or it's doing poorly, just as Detroit is a Midwestern city when it was booming decades ago and when it's not currently. "Midwest" is a geographic and perhaps cultural term, not a term that refers to failing cities.
Github to host static page because CSS Flexbox and HTML are so easy and will be well supported in 2017.

I use Swift Sever Side framework for backend and Sveltejs (https://Svelte.technology) for front-end JavaScript to handle just about anything that jQuery could and a lot easier to run same compiled modules code on Nodejs and web browsers with Rollup.

Less worry than running frameworks that will encounter bugs that may take time to resolve e.g. React, Angular 1/2 have enormous issues since 2014/2013, Swift and Sveltejs are a great combination. I roll, I roll, I roll out in 2017!

Pssst. DOM are fastest when you only need to update a small portion of your code and majority of use case with DOM manipulation is fine.
I don't understand your questions. There's nothing "wrong" with the app; it's just a dating app. There's something wrong with dating, which means they're pushing a risky product from day 1.

And this looks pretty much exactly like every other failed dating app, as every other dating app does.

EDIT: I really have no relevant opinion on the app. My concern here is the assumption of "if you're in public, you're mostly safe." It's not an untrue statement, but it is an incomplete picture. It's like saying "this chain is strong because 95% of these links are hardened steel."

Dating has risks because nobody can guarantee safety through the whole chain of events. It doesn't matter if it's safe in public, because what people overwhelmingly want out of dates is the eventuality of not being in public, and coordinating when and where that should happen, if at all, is difficult, and not a problem any app solves. (Regardless of whether they can or should solve it.)
You still need at least a webserver with cgi support.
Yeah, it's true that ecommerce operations are almost always driven by marketing's priorities and demands.

However, Amazon seems to have found a pretty great balance here.
wireless systems essentially work on a hub with silly amount of noise. there are always corrupt packets, despite several layers of validation. Technically, these corrupt packets can also occur on wired systems, their frequency is however lower by several orders of magnitude.

each of these corrupt packets has potential of causing lasting strange behavior. especially if we're talking about a closed source system from a niche vendor.

a more fitting metaphor would be a doctor that blames the patients lung cancer on his smoking habit. while there might've been another reason for the affliction, that possibility is low.
Feathered Dinosaur Tail Preserved in Amber
Car and guns are the allies of the law, not enemies.

Yes, if it become mainstream enough and if the law adapts.

If not, blockchains are just some dark corner for money laundering.
There is no confusion as to what they are doing. That does not mean that there isn't any moral ambiguity.

What they are doing is akin to a racket protection. They place themselves in the position of deciding whether some ads are authorized or not, and of course some money can push them in the good direction.

The only ambiguity here is that they seem to at least respect a standard for the ads they accept. Beside that, this is racket and corruption.
Wrong data point. Look at assault, harassment, and rape.
I saw something like this once where a shitty app was using some of the iPhone icons, but it was proxying them all without any caching.

So if 10 people would load the app, their backend would make 10 requests to the icon on my server and then would relay those images to each user.

I could see something like this happening with a "push" system so when something new is posted on HN some overly clever dev decided to push the icon and title to each device to be read later but forgot to cache the icon so they end up slamming the server.
This post is incredibly reductive and feels like a restatement of Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is crap - which doesn't tell us much in and of itself.

I'd argue that much of the time, the distrust of marketing becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Marketing does a bad job at highlighting what it can provide to the business, and thinking strategically about what it can achieve.

This leads to resourcing conversations largely focusing on 'we need someone to write one or two blog posts' - meaning that marketing in startups is often staffed by 2-3 people.

These 2-3 people are then burdened with keeping the entire marketing machine for the company (blog posts, website updates, organizing trade show stands, PPC, SEO, whatever the CEO feels like doing this week).

Surprise - much of the work ends up being crap. Poorly executed and overly broad PPC campaigns to badly optimized landing pages that burn money. Piecemeal SEO efforts that damage brand visibility. A lack of co ordinated PR that rewards 'coverage' over strategic outcomes. Thin 'me too' blog posts that don't add anything new to the conversation. Webinars where more than 70% of people are inactive after the first ten minutes because of poor storytelling.

And then, the OP wants to sell us a 'framework' that is going to fix it! Sorry - I don't buy it. The ability to sort 'leads into buckets', content marketing, nurture marketing and other tactics like that are definitely useful - but only steps that can be taken if the rest of the puzzle is in place.
A Beginner’s Guide to Automated Testing
That's how life works anyway: what you get mirrors what you know about yourself, then you learn and move on.
It should be "one of its requirements" in the text
Ask HN: How do you keep your printer operating
I have an inkjet printer at home, but it only gets used occasionally. This seems to cause the ink in the jets to dry up and ruin the print over time. So I was thinking, "Maybe I just need to print something everyday, or every few days" to keep the heads in good shape. Does anyone have a simple way to schedule a print job to run automatically? One caveat, it needs to work on a Windows 10 machine which is the only one that is turned on all the time.
Product Hunt
https://www.producthunt.com/
uuoc!
"This has resulted in a fierce battle between different schools of thought. In one corner: demographer Jim Vaupel of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Demographics. In the other: Jay Olshansky. “Propaganda”, was Vaupel’s verdict on the day that Evidence for a limit to human lifespan was published. “It all tells a very compelling story”, Jay Olshansky told the New York Times."

Welcome to scientific publishing. The only thing surprising here is "Demographic Day". How do you celebrate that?

By the way, here is the graphs from their previous article showing the basic problem:

https://images.nrc.nl/h5Sc3JoCu9fK3H1T4I3qWvfeDOU=/1920x/sma...
I use middlemanapp.com and deploy to s3 with cloudfront and then use lambda/apigateway for the 2 backend operations I need.
I used Hakyll for some years, which is terrific. I got fed up with the long compile times, dependency problems, etc. So, I switched to Jekyll. I like it slightly less, but setting it up on new machines is a walk in the park.
Glad you liked it!
I didn't know about those two blog posts, they are gold! Thanks a lot :)
I've been thinking about the dual-licensing approach. Strategically, one could argue that it still aligns with FSF goals. My logic is roughly:

(objective) We want people to use software that doesn't oppress them -> People naturally want to use the 'best' software -> Copyleft licences ensure the 'best' software is non-oppressive (via open source, freedom to modify etc.) as derivative improvements can be merged back into the mainline.

The key part is that the 'non-oppressive' software is 'the best' (or at least of decent quality) so that people will naturally use it and society as a whole will remain un-oppressed. Mightn't one extend this logic and say: Although we don't get the benefit of useful modifications being mainlined for closed-source, secondarily licensed derivatives, more money for the project means more resources/devs -> ultimately means improved mainline software?

I mean, I'm unsure if I agree with that argument, but it seems at least plausible.
My old law partner liked to harp on this point as well, and it is a valid one. However, as a matter of practice most well-drafted work-for-hire agreements also contain a backup assignment clause something like "to the extent the work is not a work-for-hire, I hereby assign the copyright". "Work-for-hire" is one of the many misnomers you find in commercial contracts, along with "intellectual property".
> Haskell has excellent State support

Someone who understands where that support is and how to use it should rewrite atrocities like:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Assigning_Values_to_an_Array#Ha...
Well keep in mind that the name of the company is SpotHero, so it kind of fits with the company theme...
I haven't done an interview in a decade, can I sit in with you?
The memories of one Nixon aid involved in the early days of the drug wars: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richa...
"ergo" = therefore. Ergo, there needs to be a strong logical thread between one side of the equation and the other.

The fact that Apple is great at marketing and super-profitable doesn't equate to the Valley respecting marketing. Not at all.

Apple is one of the exceptions that proves the rule.
This is misleading. Chrome is just keeping Flash from auto-playing on sites. Which I am sure everyone welcomes.
Its not replacing Flash which is a completely different topic.
Thanks for pointing this out! I used SELinux with RHEL5 and somehow missed this when I retried SELinux recently. I will definitely play with it again soon...
Aside from what someone else said about Jobs being product, not marketing driven (just go google what he said when the org loses focus on product and the focus shifts to sales and marketing), you could argue it takes someone really good at X in order to be independent of X.

For example, I am reasonably good at coding and ops. Therefore, most of the side projects I do are not constrained by coding or ops, but rather, e.g. my ability to design.
Citation needed - why must they fall in one of these categories?

The deliverables must fall within one of nine limited categories of works
Actually, plenty of people had access to UNIX-like systems. There was XENIX, for example, described by some histories as "the most widely installed base of any Unix distribution" of its time.

XENIX is too often forgotten, as is the fact that the Unix world had its "archiver wars", too. In this case it was tar versus cpio, with the POSIX standardization effort settling on "pax", the pun in whose name is reportedly not a coincidence.
Google has chosen a wise stance on adblock: "they are not a threat, so we don't bother" (while it is, and they spare no effort to get precise stats in how much ads is blocked and where.)

This alone was shutting down the conversation that adblock is threatening the market for long 10 years since industry people and sharehokders started raising the red flag.

Now, when everybody downstrean, including publishers, realised just how much money they loose to blocking and started talking openly about it, the genie is out of the bottle
PGP Never Gonna Give You Up
Thanks so much. That was a really great explanation.
I'm toying with Google App Engine and writing a mini-CMS/ecommerce thing in Python. To create products, categories, and subcategories, you just create folders.

A friend had difficulties with Wordpress + Woocommerce I set for them and I figured everyone knows folders.

I'm tinkering with it from time to time. (As you might notice, I'm also learning web dev, CSS and stuff)..

https://github.com/jhadjar/boutique
Sure, but even then if contributed code is part of a collective work, the copyright act still requires a work for hire agreement.

Section 101 says:
A “work made for hire” is—

(1) a work prepared by an employee within the scope of his or her employment; or

(2) a work specially ordered or commissioned for use as a contribution to a collective work, as a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, as a translation, as a supplementary work, as a compilation, as an instructional text, as a test, as answer material for a test, or as an atlas, if the parties expressly agree in a written instrument signed by them that the work shall be considered a work made for hire.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#101
Well, it is hard to actually tell but that is what it looks like.
90% of the whitelist is not paid, and that 10% helps develop the program. Not only that, you are asked upon installation whether or not to allow for acceptable ads (which is ticked on by default, but still not such a controversial point as you make it sound).
The currently implicit trade of personal and behavioral data for services such as Facebook, Google, etc. is IMHO a domain in urgent need of some regulation.
Why did you choose Wealthsimple and Questrade instead of Vanguard like a lot of people on bogleheads recommend?
Well, they focused more on that, but the first thing they mentioned was that they hired more people to reduce the workload...
I'm using IndExhibit [ http://www.indexhibit.org ] a PHP CMS Thing from 2006. It's unsupported now but simple and viewed well in the design community. I host it staticly by wget-spidering it when I make a change. Only takes a few seconds to update my archive anyway.

It's hacky, but the rest of my site uses AppEngine and I really don't feel like exposing a unsupported hack job of PHP to the open internet. Had a few issues that required modification to the themes, but that was the only issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://theblackbox.ca
Interesting conclusion. I agree that we need to let go of the notion that there is someone "perfect" for us. That person doesn't exist. True, lasting happiness in marriage is possible. Joy in marriage occurs when we seek the highest good of the other through unselfish sacrifice and compromise, and the other does the same toward us. That isn't easy, and could take years of discipline and failure. I've seen couples that I knew were heading for divorce grasp this and are now the happiest people I know. Of course, sometimes divorce is inevitable, but I think some could be avoided if each recommitted themselves to the higher good of the other.
> To take one example, UI code is wonderful stuff for adding end-user value. But if you want extreme leverage in your code it can't be the first priority, because it's also stuff that tends to be thrown out frequently - because other features change, or you're on a new toolkit, or you found a slicker design. You have to instead allow the UI to be too crude at first, and think about application features as a layer apart from the UI. And then only as you come towards the end, confident that the core features are correct and will be robust against a partially-working UI, can you go back and invest in a great presentation.

This bears repeating a hundred times over. All the more pertinent today when there is an endless stream of shiny web UI frameworks that constantly tempt all but the most disciplined and hardy devs.
Your c# skills allow you do pretty much any developer job web/desktop/mobile/games. So what do you want to do?
> The judges took note of the fact that Spiegel could have done something about ad-blockers. For instance, it could have shut ad-blocking users out from the Web content, linked advertising directly to the website's HTML

I don't think that's a good idea. Doing exactly that would mean: the ad auction has to be closed and content injected server-side into the HTML page before sending the first byte to clients. And even if you're just inserting a JS snippet at the bottom of your body, it also means that you're giving the advertiser control over your entire page/website and of the clients' browser. Given the cluster of shitty and deceptive content pipelined by ad networks, no wonder they're not going to do that.
Following Demonetization India Is Changing Its Outlook on Bitcoin
If it comes to pass that Crytek cannot, and knowingly could not, pay them then that's when to bandwagon. Not before it's known. That's how it plays out on HN. Guilty before proven innocent.

If you believed everything you read here the world would be a very alien place.
Search for Windows Task Schedule, there is a graphical tool that lets you define repeating tasks and a CLI option with the AT command. You can also do it from PowerShell by writing a cmdlet.
Half way through, I realized I wasn't reading about last.fm's backend being opensource :)
Have you looked into Gatsby by chance? It's another Webpack/React static site generator. I'd be curious how they compare.

https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby
One who does not shy away from giving honest opinion and criticism. Plus ability to churn the criticism into something constructive for business growth.

As far as the team goes it should be a mix of tech and non-tech members so there is not a similar mindset and ideas from the team. It will help getting different perspectives and viewpoints to various business decisions.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I have minification of JS turned off right now, and it's a very big app. I'm not really trying to or expecting to get any traffic on the site yet. It's still under development.
>static

Interested if/how this could be exploited
Quoting from the article:

Spiegel said those options "would not be a long-term solution but rather result in a sustained race to stay ahead of the technological curve."
add a credit card. Because of the two factor requirement, you cannot be charged until you put in a pin.

Uber does not ask you for this. It gamifies it so that the next time you use Uber, it reminds you to first pay the previous bill before you use it again.
I use Python (Django, Flask) for CRUD, APIs, general purposes (80% of my works); Golang for realtime, websocket; Scala (Play) if I need JVM environment.
Ya, we had a sit down about that and I made him stop. It does work, but I don't care
Being from the midwest, and working from within and without, there's been definitely been a growing anti-midwest sentiment coming from the coasts. As if it's dead and now should be written off. Abandon the place, like Detroit. Go to S.F. instead, where C.O.L. is extreme, and because jobs should concentrate. (Well, yes, to a degree.)

Since its industrial-labor power fell we've been seen as more of a joke than of anything serious. (Which drives the politics a bit wacky, too.)
But newspapers have been doing this with printed ads for, literally, centuries...
I have two Sonos ($1000) and they work quite well, but I'm queasy about how they will essentially be bricks if Sonos goes out of business. I have other dumb speakers and amps that are over ten years old and they will not have this issue.
Hmm. Doesn't sound like you read this closely.

For one thing, the subtitle of my post says "In which the tech industry's stigma against marketing creates a SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY that leaves a trail of failed products, fire sales, and wasted years in its wake."

There is also a big header that says "Our anti-marketing bias has created a self-fulfilling prophecy."

Not quite sure how you missed both of those.

Also, the entire point of the article (and the framework I'm promoting) is that building the right marketing foundation is one of the major keys to getting "the rest of the puzzle in place."

The core of the framework itself has nothing to do with sorting leads into buckets, content marketing, nurture marketing, etc.

It is about building the right foundations. It is about solving the puzzle. It is about getting to the center of the Maze.

But perhaps "The Maze is not meant for you."
Maybe it's a failure of imagination but I'm struggling to think of how a static site generator could need a security update?
No, it failed because even with 500k users/month it couldn't make money
If faster compile cycles are one of your primary requirements, you might like to try Hugo.
17 USC 101
This is why—effectively—use and application of Linux is limited to developers.
> It's good advice to save money and to spend conservatively, if you're poor.

It depends on how well you manage the present. Aiming towards some perfect idyllic scenario in the future is not always so wise. It depends on how you manage that particular present you have crafted for yourself in the future.
Yes, the starter pack on the link I provided gets you a digital copy of the book.
That is another good point but I think they meant to type what they typed.
In short: FOTM