skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not exactly what you were asking for, but along those same lines. There are a set of skills which improve basically any career path--I've seen them called meta-skills, or super skills.

Off the top of my head:
Leadership, Public Speaking, Persuasion, Writing, Storytelling, Design, Mental models, Systems thinking, Mental focus, Nutrition/Exercise, etc.

Getting decently good at one (or more) of these won't take too long and will have immediate benefits to your current work and even your personal life.

Maybe try to find some aspect of marketing that you are interested in; it's a large field full of topics I'd imagine programmers would find interesting.
Creator of the podcast here, would really love to receive some critical feedback on how to make this better. My intended audience is developers with technical competence. Any feedback would be super helpful, it's been hard to get feedback from friends & family. Thank you!
A helpful summary (I hope):

Dowwie: Let's all just get paid more!

apsec112: Just paying everyone more when everyone buys things in inelastic markets like housing doesn't make anyone richer. This can be observed empirically with two-income households in 1975 vs today; people pay more today for the same thing they had in 1975.

alasdair_: Houses are bigger today (perhaps he meant to imply that actually we all are richer today because we're actually paying more for something better)

apsec112: A small number of houses today are bigger, but most people live in old houses that aren't any bigger; IOW we are paying more for the same as what we had in 1975.

blackguard: Old houses are ok too! (yes they are, but that's not germane...)
Two related things that first jump out to me as interesting:

- Opens up a lot of potential living space which is geographically close, but not practically connected via transit arteries

- Opens up living space in areas which are not passable by cars either because of terrain or in-tact wilderness (e.g. an off the grid home on a nearby mountain)

Both would no doubt mostly benefit the rich, but well, nobody's shocked that this is where that's targeted.
I think tho might be easy. OCaml might have OO,but it is meant to be used as FP. The ecosystem isn't honestly that impressive and isn't winning over people from Ruby or Python and isn't going to catch on more than it already has. If Crystal catches even 1/4 of Ruby's base it will be huge. OCaml is hard to get into btw (big language). Crystal looks easy.
And if you're bored and can't find anything to do, please don't take the fun research task that I'm hoping to get to once I finish the important/boring tickets in my sprint. :(
> It runs Linux very well.

I've been researching into the XPS series, and online there are plenty of reports of problems with Linux.

Can anyone here confirm first-hand that they have an XPS 13/15 that's running Linux flawlessly?
I guess so. But they're not even actually that good at being dictators. Even a solely power-maximizing autocrat should realize what does and does not work economically. It's like Venezuela - their incompetence means that their influence is limited and their eventual downfall made more likely.
> - Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF

Or we could be more ecologically and energy conscious...
> all Clojure programs use a standard API call to do that.

Clojure says nothing about creating TCP sockets, since Clojure implementations (all three) need to call the hosting systems call or emulate it somehow. The JVM Clojure uses a different call than the CLR Clojure.

Which makes it worse than Common Lisp, which has widely used socket support with usocket and some others.

> Common Lisp, on the other hand

Is a real language standard with many different implementations.

> It relies entirely on (poorly documented, often unmaintained) third party libraries to do that.

Each Common Lisp implementation has a documented and maintained way to open a TCP socket. Additionally there are compatibility layers like usocket

https://common-lisp.net/project/usocket/

> I am well aware of the history of ANSI CL,

Then why are you writing obviously wrong things?
I diligently read all the comments and besides all the good and superbly clear points made I have to say that the strongest is that Scanadu has, for a certain extend, mislead its backers to pay $199 to provide them with big health data, something that they would have paid for using the Mechanical Turk platform. In the end, they clearly scammed myself and other people out of their money and data.
You're missing the point. Yes Signature Edition is an unadulterated Windows install, nfoz is asking why they're selling anything else given "nobody wants them, and this irresponsible attitude is exactly why you got bopped for pre-installing the Superfish MITM malware"
Apart of interviewing as a skill that can be improved, do not overthink your situation, it may be much simpler than that: getting chosen and hired from the unemployed pool is much more difficult than jumping ship while being employed. Your failure, if you want to use this term in this context, may be being unemployed, especially true in tinderised environments aka startups and/or very young workforce. Your best shot is probably restart a bit lower in the ladder and therefore make your way up again from within.
Stay hungry. Hungry (calorie restricted) mice live longer, probably monkeys as well, maybe even humans.
The Genentech deal wasn't a 20 year structured agreement that was pre-agreed to culminate in a full buyout (Genentech tried to prevent the acquisition and held off Roche for eight months). I don't see how it compares to the example in question; it didn't actually take 20 years to complete, as there was no on-going acquisition process occurring during that time.
Amen. Just let me turn the sideswipes off in Safari. Ten times a day I end up going back a page without meaning to.
I guess. But core could spit back a verbatim VM stacktrace and and Clojure specific/pretty printed version.
I doubt it, there's just so much space up there. So first, no concept of lanes. Thinking in 2D space, everything becomes a road. Increase that another dimension, so now everything is a road and there's hundreds of levels of road.

As long as the flight software keeps the cars/planes a decent distance from each other traffic will never be an issue when flying.

A much bigger problem will be parking, since no traffic means everyone will fly everywhere all the time. Parking will be an extreme issue for city centers. The wait in traffic will probably turn into a wait to park
You can generate code for all type combinations for a and b. This will blow-up compiled code. It's a classic space-time trade-off.

Moreover, you can carry out heavy static analysis that can often narrow down the possible types for a and b. The main problem with this is that static analysis that is good enough will run very slow, hence it not an option for the web-browser.
Only if the landlords are rational. If the landlord primarily bought the property hoping to sell it to a greater fool later on, then they won't care about the negative cash flow.

This is what's happening in Toronto right now. You can rent a condo for less than the mortgage interest + property tax + condo fees + maintenance.
I'm not loving the permissions blackmail. If you don't grant a permission (why does this app need to record audio?!), it just exits.
He simply means a connection within a company he is looking to apply. He's applying to companies without having someone within the company referring him.
I'll second the surfacebook love. Was using an Asus ultrabook before this and the surfacebook(i7, discrete GPU) has just a bit more oomph that I needed.

Build quality is outstanding, tablet is great for browsing on the sofa and multi-pressure pen is awesome for photo editing. Chews through heavy compiling/development very well. Decent gaming for what it is.

I feel like Microsoft was trying to do the whole tablet PC back in early 2000s and I think that the surface book is the actual realization of what they were trying to achieve.
Fair warning: I don't know much about compilers.

Maybe it's an idea to make this a native Typescript compiler as it will profit much more from being compiled than pure JavaScript will?

This way it would probably still be possible to compile pure JavaScript but providing type information would allow the compiler to apply many more optimisations.

If I'm not mistaken V8 already does something similar to this with WASM (and I think asm.js).
I think that the second wave of KKK was stopped by something like this. The shark fin campaign in China was also a success.
Mine has been flawless so far, this is the newer one(performance base) with the discrete GPU.
You would be much more diversified, at lower cost, if you invested 50% in VSS (Small Cap International) and 50% in VOO. VSS has a negative fee due to its securities lending practices. And VSS has lower correlations with US stocks, while also possibly exposing you to small outperformance (in the 3-factor sense)
IPFS Wayback machine
Ingredients:

One flying car, capable of moving 4 x 100 kg (passengers and baggage).

One self-piloting feature, allowing (or mandating) autonomous movement to the destination.

One timing device and detonator.

400Kg of whatever kind of explosives you can get.

Behold: Uber's cruise missile.

Come to think of it, you can probably load up a lot more payload for less money in a ground vehicle.
That's the normal life-cycle of a maturing industry, or more generally, new species flooding into a ecological niche (you can see this a recently burned forest, as waves of different species recolonize it) [1].

At the beginning, the niche is empty and new entrants flood in. The key quality for the first colonizers is to be aggressive, reproduce quickly, and be 'good enough' generalists. However, as the niche fills up, increasingly specialized species slowly push out the generalists. Note that the specialists generally don't try to compete with one another very much (competition is expensive), but create their own niche-within-a-niche.

There are always new species trying to muscle in, but the specialists are able to keep out competitors by being the best-adapted for that particular role.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_succession
The application for it might be another form of mass(less) transit. Think about dedicated, low-lying air paths for travel between cities in the Bay Area: airBart

It's not about space ...it's about congested roads. Dedicated rail (or tubes for high speed over long distance being the exception) for mass transit is not the way to think about our improving our cities anymore. There will be a hardware - and software - solution.
So much for Patio transparency
The poor man's hacking technique worked great.

Instead of focusing on the tools, focus on the results. I bet you're one of those people who uses microservices to run his 100 visitors/day blog just because it's the shiniest new paradigm.
> and more : llvm, wasm, asm.js ...

Neat for sure, but not a lot of stuff you can "usefully" do in asm.js in terms of end-user-facing "RIA", you have numbers, byte arrays, function calls, numeric operators, primops keywords. (Hell of a way to go type-safe: eliminate all types but numbers and byte-arrays! ;) No JS-native/runtime-own strings, no DOM, no built-in objects (window etc), hard to impractical to try to do other record/object handling. Wrap all interaction with stuff you don't get in asm.js in exports and "foreign"s. (OK fair game for code generation but still what a mess and constant switches between the asmjs context and the normal interpreted context aren't free either --- the bulk of "RIA" logic seems to be string/list ops, DOM/window interop, basic cheap control flow.) All the funky emscripten stuff that works in asm.js just also-compiles-and-then-uses the original memory/byte-based logic for these (records, lists, strings, objects etc) of the source's native runtime/compiler/libs.

As for wasm, seems to aim to mostly follow in the above footsteps "at first" (read, the next half decade at best, realistically...)

(But yeah, asm.js is of course still neat for overwhelmingly-numerical high load computations (game-playing / media-editing stuff etc comes to mind) as well as showcasing/proof-of-concepting both older C / OpenGL games and newer 3D engine demos..)
Again? They have already banned the ivory trade a few times, do they actually mean it this time?
I would be very surprised if the median price of a house in Tokyo is ~$250k USD. I would ballpark it more to the $500-750k USD range.

My impression was that he had liquid assets and took on debt in order to avoid potential cashflow issues should he deplete his liquid assets.

I would hazard a guess that the value in the range of (new house, new house in Tokyo) refers to (sale of AR - $120k in debt) rather than his total net worth after the sale.
But did they mess with the election results?
Extensive discussion of the report itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13279600

Critique of report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13287116
High taxation and high inflation are two main contributors IMO.
For the power required to generate minimal thrust, this will not be useful in low orbit. The solar panels required to power the drive would result in more drag than the truster might overcome. So no market. And this test flight will not result in a clearcut "it stays up" rather "it fell slower than expected". There will be much calculation and debate re drag, magnetics and gravitational anomolies, so small are the expected forces.

To get a clear result we need something out closer to geostationary, flying for months well away from the earth's irregularities.
Something is fishy. Author claims 10x "faster" than Node, which seems to imply that they are beating V8. I find this highly unlikely given how fantastically resistant JS is to AOT optimisation and how many talented engineer-years have been put into the development of V8. I am very interested in seeing some numbers and hearing about the techniques employed.
Did you fall for 30x500?
The wiki is very slow since the upgrade.
Stocks have outperformed bonds over long periods of time but are riskier, so if you need cash soonish (close to retirement), you should be in bonds, but if you're not going to touch that 401(k) for 35 years, then you should be in stocks.
Briefly, by simply eliminating the rent-seeking laws of zoning density restrictions and also eliminating overuse of historic landmark status, market forces will take care of the rest.

Unfortunately he doesn't make a coherent argument that will actually happen (other than, more or less: "Just close your eyes and pretend it's 1920 again. Or OK, if that doesn't work, pretend that Manhattan is just like Atlanta or Houston.")

Completely ignoring the fact that a whole host of fundamental factors have completely changed in the intervening time; and the rather obvious negative side effects of some of the measure he proposes, as well (like "drastically raising building limits" and its actual effect on median rents in surrounding neighborhoods, for example).

I mean, sure he's a respected academic, and all. But he's just not making a coherent argument.
Any issues with Ubuntu? or did it all just work out of the box?

I'm really interested in the XPS 13/15, but don't want to end up with a brick.
Pretty ironic coming from a human.
Nobody knows exactly. So any precise estimate is guaranteed to be wrong. But people smarter than me, and deeply involved with current research, have said they think strong AI could happen in 10 years or so. Others think it's much further away -- and that's probably the consensus view among respected researchers. It's been 20 years away for the last 80 years, right? /s
Please read the article before replying. The full quote by Zuckerburg is:

> "No. I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."
Yeah there is a very good chance that's still the case here. But would be cool if it's not experimental error.
Correct, no evidence has been made public by the government (yet). Much of their evidence is probably classified.

However, see here for evidence from private sector firms: https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/52uj5c/do_...
There may be something good about a corrupt administration full of real estate and construction-connected people. They might borrow like crazy to build stuff, rather than borrowing like crazy to make explosive gunbomb supertank multi-vehicle warheads and feed hundreds of thousands of military subcontractors.
Having a hacky workaround isn't the same thing as first class support. Bash on Windows 10 is in my mind similar to resorting to Cygwin. No thanks. I despise Windows, but if you have an overbearing IT dept, that's your only option.

Edit*
Just saw where you said "play"
This is smart. From a scientific viewpoint, there shouldn't be such a need of DNA test.

The novelty of a DNA test helps to adjust those that culture has put them strong beliefs regarding race.
But we already have point-to-point 4-seater "air taxis". They're way more expensive than a ferry otherwise they'd be everywhere, and there's no reason to think a flying car would be cheaper.
Obesity-linked genetic variant changes brain’s response to food cues
Very true. I'd not considered the medical world.
When they initially came out it was $30 IIRC. 3rd party tends to trigger random unsupported notifications from the phone too.
Yeah my current startup, no overtime, and all our projects are on schedule, everything is going great. Previous company required 80-100 hours a week basically for show, they would break more than got fixed because at 100 hours a week your body and brain reach the breaking point, completely unproductive.
Seattle’s record apartment boom is ready to explode; what it means for rents
Reputation and credibility is important in attracting fund flows. Wouldn't you rather put your money with the guy with a team of PhDs?
I'm not sure if this is a fare comparison, but my MB Air can easily get 9-10 hours of battery life (if I don't run Chrome).
Maybe, but most large, "serious" software is long-running anyway. There is interesting work on reducing warmup (because some banks doing HFT are willing to pay Oracle to do that), but there's not much interest. Not all niches of the software world are equally interesting, and besides, there are some incumbents that are hard to unseat in those smaller niches so it's questionable how much effort should be put into competing in niches that are either small, have well-entrenched incumbents, or both.
I run Linux as a VM on mine, which works fine for my use cases. I've heard the Wifi/GPU/Webcam can give you trouble in some cases depending on exact laptop model and Linux distro used.
> All I said was no evidence has been made public by the government

Except that's _explicitly_ not what you said. You said:

>still no public evidence that Russia leaked the DNC and Podesta's e-mails?

Your original claim was that there was _no public evidence_. When that claim was challenged, you pretended your claim was about what evidence was provided by the government.
Ya. Having just taken a 6 personal commercial plane in stormy, windy weather I'm glad I had two professional pilots driving. It was absolutely terrifying, and I can't imagine your ordinary person feeling comfortable with it. I couldn't wait to get off the plane ASAP and thought we might crash on landing.
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I make sure my own children do things like wash their hands before eating to limit their lead exposure, but I've also been reading up on this issue and keep finding this sort of equivocation:

This does not mean that children at this level are poisoned,” Dietrich says. “There are very few studies of low-level lead exposure, but there is nothing in the data that suggests that children will have negative impacts of short-term low-level exposure” over their lives. In fact, he notes, the 5 μg/dL figure was set because 97.5 percent of young children fall below it, not because blood lead levels at that threshold result in permanent harm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brains-of-fli...

The evidence about low-level lead exposure and IQ seems far from definitive, and seems (to my amateur eye) to be full of unadjusted confounding, but I could be missing something.
Are you in the VOIP chat all day, or only when you want to talk? And if all day, is your mic open all the time, transmitting whatever sounds you make as you're working?
Not the dev, but it seems like this app is using Android's internal audio Visualizer APIs and they require record audio permission even if just visualizing the audio played by the app. https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/audiof...
Lots of people do write in Java for performance. It is all relative.

JIT performance benefits are highly dependent on the language.
Not all of the bans are the same. You might be referring to the ban that was announced late 2015 (IIRC) which was a temporary ban for a year to see if it works.
I have a similar issue at the moment. I have tried co-working spaces, but I work with people globally and my day tends to start at 5am. So to get to a co-working space, I'd have to leave at 4:30am, and that's provided they were open (they aren't.)

I've spoke to one about potentially giving me a key to the space, and perhaps that would work, but it's often easier just to roll out of bed, throw on coffee, and start my meetings.

I tend to repeat, and stop going outside much at all, just staying indoors. That then perpetuates my desire to not go outdoors.

It's solvable though, it takes effort on my part to continue experimenting, and trying new things. It only becomes an issue when I just keep repeating the same situation. Definition of insanity, repeating same things, expecting different results.
I second Duolingo, and I also did it while commuting. I used it to learn rudimentary Russian, but it was enough to roughly understand the people there. Build your language skills from there.
Do they ever successfully do anything with the things they develop? Or just buy successful companies?

They're wacky moonshot ideas sorta ring of the boy who cried wolf at this point. they never live up to the hype.
Air travel means noise and carbon emissions. There is no way it's more efficient than ground based public transportation anytime soon. I work in the aviation industry and the slightest change brings a huge amount of public outcry. Between the noise, visual pollution, and energy issues it's just not going to happen.

Bad existing public transportation doesn't mean that all public transportation will be bad.
In my house, a $5 bill set on fire will last longer than a $5 Lightning cable.

The Apple ones don't last much longer, but I need to squirrel those away to do the undocumented reset on my kids' iPads.
This is a general problem with LA Times muckraking. They do a lot of articles like this, with a single example used to backstop a whole narrative.

I'd call it Tribune more than just LA Times, and I'd note that the single example they use is generally an outlier. If they used an example from the median it'd be a lot harder to get people worked up.
Not every building has a flat roof, or one that's so load bearing.
Okay, the kind of laptop people discuss here regularly is normally SSD only, and basically everything on the market outside the absolutely basic models is available in such configurations. These links are just a few from the past weeks. The threads about the Macbooks are full of recommendations for alternatives as well. Being SSD-only really is a trivial criteria and without knowing more about what you want it's impossible to make any meaningful recommendation except "figure out what you want and then order one of that with an SSD", it's highly unlikely you won't be able to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13214754

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12985645

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13286150

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13219276