skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a person who LOVES to try different, new, exotic languages whenever I can. I usually try around 5-6 new programming languages (sometimes including frameworks) in a year.

My personal strategy is to try to learn enough of a language "to be dangerous". This means you can create working code with it, probably not 100% idiomatic, and probably reinventing the wheel in many ocassions.

The good thing is that it in my opinion the 80/20 rule applies here, as it takes 20% of effort to learn 80% of a (programming) language. The largest benefit is that you are going to be able to try many different languages and decide if you want to keep digging deeper into it. Heck, maybe you love a programming language so much you would even accept a new job just because you want to program in that language.

For the record, in 2016 I tried Go, Rust, Clojure, Elixir, Crystal, Swift. My personal favorites this year are Clojure and Elixir. But all the other languages have their own niches with lots of potential. I'll be keeping an eye on them.
How are you supposed to "take action" if you aren't even aware of what's happening?
The first sentence is obviously false -- the well-known landscape architect Frederick Olmsted was born in 1822, so he could not have designed Highland Park in the 1700s. Not a good way to start the article.
While I'd agree that GIMP and Krita are not same, I think Krita is still closer to GIMP than Illustrator, Ai being a vector editor.
Yes, otherwise it would be overwhelming. I try to make bite sized subprojects so I can walk away and the project is in a shape that is easy to pick up later.
> Then you can pay me for the answer.

But what if the employer does pay you correctly for your results? So correctly that you are actually willing to do it?
Overtime policy is part of federal law. Many industries abuse it, e.g. fast food "management trainees" work huge hours and get paid a low salary. That's why Obama attempted to raise the minimum salary for being considered exempt.
Rhetorical question?
Yeah, and you also got all your information about the world filtered through the Economist's extremely ideological lens.
China won't be able to afford this;

It doesn't need to. FTA:

"The Chinese government will invite private investment to participate in funding
intercity and regional rail lines"

This is how Europe has been doing it despite heavy public debt. In this plan, China will setup public-private partnerships to raise capital. Also, the article also mentions functional privatization efforts, a new precedent for Chinese rail, which opens the door for more investor capital:

"Earlier this year, China turned to a private company for first time to operate an
inter-city rail service on the mainland"
DuMont Television Network
It's more a combination of two things: 1) finding a clever way to do unsupervised learning. And 2) the Adversarial loss enables types of "loss functions" that wouldn't be possible with day, mse. It's almost like having a human as a loss function.
Yes, there's a lot you can do to cut costs when single (or without kids) that won't work for a family.
Then that person is naive. The people at these conferences are just employees of companies doing their job. They're there to network & discuss issues. The reception of such a presentation would range from apathy to interest in fixes depending on which participants we're talking about. Theres a small chance of some changes happening. Whereas, that same presentation delivered to people outside the industry has near-zero chance of changes happening.

I'm not seeing the conference participants as the "bad guy" if they wanted the hacker to teach them about the problems. I'm not going to say the hacker was the "bad guy" either so much as taking a selfish strategy that only reinforces the problems they research and present on.
"just that the kind of work most people have to work on is insanely easy"

Oh get over yourself.
> You literally CAN'T get to DOWNTOWN Manhattan from any part of Connecticut in under an hour

I live in Midtown. This time of year, I can't get downtown in less than an hour :).

It's reasonable for a productive person to demand any two of: space, a great location and disposable income.

My household of two chooses to enjoy our neck of Manhattan. We make do with like 400 square feet. If we had kids we would need to live in a city we get to enjoy less frequently or commute from the suburbs. Neither is particularly appealing to me, but I've heard kids are nice.

> "gentrification"...leads to a limestone-clad desert made of vertical money and not much else

Gentrification can lead to density in addition to urban deserts. Ironically, activists seem to prefer restricting housing supply. That means the latter.
This all is potential, but also seems to be based purely on your own opinion. Are you referencing a scenario that already happened in a different country?
There's a reasonable amount of graphics and compiler work in the UK - we have ARM, and Imagination Technologies, plus some other boutique local companies, and offices of international companies like Broadcom and IBM (Hursley did a lot of IBM's JVM work, not sure if that's still going).
The consequence of enforcing your attitude by law is that small companies will never be able to expand to compete with big businesses. Say your website goes down at an inopportune time for a market in another time zone. Sorry, there's no one that can fix it because you can't have someone handling emergencies that 'come with the job' off hours on a staff of five. Now you've lost a major market.
> ... they were commonly pulling plans on paper out of drawers in storage rooms to match exactly the specs for some ancient pump in Pocatella or Poughkeepsie.

That is awesome. Thank you for the info.

When a company like Crane Pumps goes out of business because cheaper imports take over its market, all that information (the paper plans from past pump designs) probably gets lost forever. Once the company folds, these small cities all over the country cannot replace their old pumps and instead have to upgrade the system to make it compatible with a new pump model.

I wonder if global trade economists account for that additional cost to the customers when the old domestic supplier goes away.
Why not start a little side-project? Try new things? Or maybe find a hobby that is going to fill those boring hours with joy?
You can only remain in the Schengen Zone for 90 days every 6 months as a US Citizen. Have you given any thought to your strategy there? Some countries will allow a language learning visa which could help you get some extra time until you get yourself sorted out for work. You don't want to overstay your tourist visa either, as it will likely cause problems for you when you leave and try to come back.
Mattias nails it - I've been doing this for about 3 years now and everytime I'm in public and see CNN or Fox News on TV, I cringe and reinforce my belief. On top of Hackers News, Facebook, Twitter and the Daily Show, I still tune into Bloomberg sometimes which is the closest I get to traditional News.

I do have to give them props for taking a good spin on real world events (like major natural disasters) and talking about them about the impact they have on the world after they occur vs just non-stop clips of people suffering. This might seem harsh but a few people being killed by a terrorist makes no difference in the grand scheme of things - 4 days on non-stop talk about it on the News just increases paranoia and concern.

Always had the idea that the 24 hour news cycle would be a lot better if they just balanced it out with puppy videos to restore our faith in humanity.

Funny story - Opened the CNN app the other day to read about the Christmas incident in Germany - 17 links that basically ruin all faith in humanity - The last one (18th) was extremely clickbaity but the only one that was positive. The headline: "Bill Gates was her Secret Santa" - It's like you can't get good news without Tech being involved somehow.
> the areas you are touting as affordable have terrible public schools.

The K-12 school situation doesn't make them not affordable. It makes them less desirable, but cddotdotslash already pointed out that it's the desirable parts of the city that are unaffordable.
"Thinking about math or science for a few hours energizes me, but doing the same for social issues wears me out."

I feel exactly the same way.

I can't tell if this is an introvert trait, or whether it arises from the kind of problem your mind is attuned to solving (perhaps both).

Reading social news makes me pessimistic for the future, and feel more withdrawn from the world. Reading about mathematics or science excites me, makes me more optimistic for the future, and makes me want to engage with as much as possible.
If he gives me a phone , then i should have another one for my private use, never ever mix both of them, unless you are the owner then do whatever you want. Even if he pays the phone and fee , he should pay me for answering out of hours, i think we can all agree that is not the same to answer a phone call during my work hours at 09:00 or when i'm at home with my family sleeping at 03:00 , if i'm that needed and indispensable, show me the money! And not, i'm not on the hi-tech industry , but the worker is always the weaker link, look how many workers are fucked up the bosses and how many owners are fucked up by their employees.
>>I could hardly believe it. How could they?

Via email, im assuming.

>>Who am I?

One of the authors of osmocombb and OpenBSC, two tools that have enabled foundational research into vulnerabilities in mobile networks.

>>Am I spending sleepless nights and non-existing spare time into security research of cellular modems to give a free presentation to corporate guys at a closed industry meeting?

I doubt anyone has that expectation. Harald has created a penalty for asking if there are disclosures that need to be addressed.

>>The same kind of industries that create the problems in the first place,

Has open source eliminated security vulnerabilities in software?

>>and who don't get their act together in building secure devices that respect people's privacy?

Is the situation getting worse, staying the same or getting better over time? I can confidently argue better.

>>Certainly not. I spend sleepless nights of hacking because I want to share the results with my friends. To share it with people who have the same passion, whom I respect and trust. To help my fellow hackers to understand technology one step more.

That reasoning is what it is I guess. I don't agree with the clique approach, but I respect him for being so blatant about it.

Good for the GSMA. Change at scale is hard. It takes time. Some of these coference presentations help motivate change(stagefright comes to mind)... Lead time helps the workerbees get executive alignment to invest in fixes. It is better for everyone that they at least tried to get some information for marshalling a response. Not all presentations are as serious as their title or abstract suggest. I guess we learned where Harald's priorities lie.
To play Devils's advocate here:

"My experience is great and perfect and in demand and they just can't see it"

Have you considered that you may not be presenting your experience the best way? You said you grew a team from 2 to 16, over what period of time? A month? A year? Expanding a team by 14 people over a month is very different experience than doing it over the course of a year. Perhaps instead of framing your experience as "I have what you're looking for" you can frame it as "I haven't done exactly what you are looking for but I am ready to step up to it."

Speaking as someone completely on the outside of your situation it's possible that the people doing the interviewing are looking for X and your offering them Y and telling them it's X. This may make them feel like you don't really know what they are looking for.

Once again, I'm just trying to look at your situation form the other side. I'm not trying to belittle your experience.
Right. It also seems like school districts in these high priced cities are either really, really good, or really, really bad. It is harder to find a "middle" of the road school district.
You're not wrong that politics is enormously complex, but I think you are wrong that the average person is able to pick a side perhaps only because they lack analytical depth or consideration. Rather, it may be that most people are more comfortable than you are at making judgments in these fraught, ambiguous scenarios, and that this is not at all a bad thing.

Most art, politics, and even sports (physical qualities being considered equal) are all areas that can't really be solved by a complete analysis because, as you say, there are too many variables. Nonetheless, some people are much better at these things than others due to qualities that are hard to describe exactly. This ability to make good split second decisions without a complete analytical understanding of the problem or even the current state is one of those qualities.

I don't think this ability is superficial, or without value. Rather, it just goes to show how different people are from one another. So I would encourage you not to suggest to others who do have strong political views that their views are unfounded just because they are strong and the domain is complex.
<the Chinese worker makes a deposit in a bank >
From what I've heard, banks make loans to friends and politically connected to invest in projects who also siphon a lot of the money away- and when the project fails, the loans are written off. Which is why the public doesn't trust their money with the banks anymore.
That line was quoted in one of the more recent Batman movies. Takeaway: be more like Batman.
Isn't Krita quite different from GIMP?

I haven't used Krita but I've watched some videos about it previously and my impression has been that Krita is more like Corel Painter whereas GIMP is like Photoshop.

IOW, whether Krita is "better" than GIMP might depend heavily on what you are looking to do. If Krita is like I think it is then it would be a much better application for digital painting than what GIMP is, while for photo manipulation GIMP would be much better.
Two-income households are very common nowdays. So 100k, which is less abnormal.

But I agree; 200k is not the bottom bar or average for middle class.
"efficient" is an overloaded term, and depending on your meaning it's not something everyone's pursuing.
Pseudo-peer-to-peer
"The takeaway, for me, was that the industry group seemed to have a very entitled attitude"

Maybe. At many such conferences, the attendants or their company actually pay to go there for the benefits of the conference. I'm not sure if the speakers at telecom conferences get paid outside the salary their companies' already pay them. If not, it's unsurprising that the guest speaker wasn't offered money given the conference organizers might see attendance itself as payment given the perceived benefits to networking, reputation, or career progress.
Nothing to be "biased" about, Cuda is the industry standard.
"Programmers that think they are geniuses account for about 90%. Programmers who think they are pond scum, 10%". I stopped reading here. Maybe it was the author's first day at work..?
What are some concrete examples of Right, which is why everyone let the US slip by when the economy collapsed. happening?

My memory is that other parts of the world had their own economic problems at the same time as the US housing crisis and were paying the US government for the privilege of owning US treasury bonds (rates were 0 ish for quite a while).

On the other side of it, shrugging does seem to have been the standard external response to the currency crisis in Zimbabwe.
Large chunks of the UI do not support a two button mouse.

Wifi status in menu bar: left and right click on the icon do the same thing. To get the advanced menu you need to option click the icon.

Audio status in menu bar: left and right click do the same thing. To get the advanced menu you need to option click the icon. Additionally, 'scrolling' on the audio icon does not change the volume.
Agree with this. Best thing I ever did was remove all work related apps from my phone. That way I only checked email if I'm on the laptop. More advantages include: saving on your phone bills, storage on your phone, employers spying on you, and of course your sanity. Doing this, I found that most "urgent" emails were not really urgent.

Also if there is ever a lawsuit for whatever, the company has a right to seize your phone if there is company content on it.
Meanwhile, though probably known to most of the HN crowd it's also worth mentioning Inkscape which is a FOSS alternative to Illustrator of good quality.
I'm conflicted about this.

On the one hand I have also decided to become as ignorant as possible about the news because (at the risk of overusing the phrase), I think we have firmly moved into a post-truth American society. If election outcomes aren't based on facts, what's the point of knowing them?

On the other hand, many other people in this thread are saying that there's never been a more important time to know the news. I understand the sentiment, but I would phrase it differently: there's never been a more important time for good journalists to be doing good journalism. Except for the tricky issue of how to keep good journalists employed without people reading them, I don't feel any particular obligation to be informed. I decided to donate money to ProPublica in the hope that they'll keep the government as honest as possible without me having to deal with it.
Answering dnautics here, no idea why I can't reply directly to his post.

> The consequence of enforcing your attitude by law is that small companies will never be able to expand to compete with big businesses. Say your website goes down at an inopportune time for a market in another time zone. Sorry, there's no one that can fix it because you can't have someone handling emergencies that 'come with the job' off hours on a staff of five. Now you've lost a major market.

Emergencies are different beasts. In my opinion, being on call should be paid extra. Same as happens with emergency services. How is your service when the site goes down different than a medical urgency? (besides the obvious fact that most probably, nobody will die if your website goes down at night, but you get the idea).

I was talking regular work. I know (and have experienced this personally) that some companies make look every day as if it could be doomsday if you relax.

Of course, lines get blurry, as in life. But some situations are so obvious, it does not need to find edge cases.
>I do not believe in the voting system. In my opinion, people's choice for one or another candidate/party is directly dependent on this candidate's marketing efforts.

It's easy to say that when you know your President will kill you for being too involved in politics, as happens in Russia.
Does it need to be a life? Can it be "we're losing 5 million dollars an hour while this is down". I'm perfectly happy to wake up at 3am to a call if it will save my client 20 million dollars. On the other hand, they're perfectly comfortable with me telling them, "I'll be in a bit late today because last night was rough". Give and take.
But it's not dogma. Dogmatic principles are one "laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true." 'Science'--with a capital 'S', denoting a specific authority--doesn't say that the laws of motion are accurate. Years of empirical research, with repeated and verifiable confirmations by other scientists, do. The laws of motion are held to be true not because scientific authorities say they are so, but because of the method by which they came to be able to say it.

It's a subtle distinction, but an incredibly important one. But that same subtlety can sometimes be lost when it's discussed by the general public. The policy debate over climate change is an excellent example. Speaking strictly in terms of the often quoted statement that "97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree," [0][1] it's clear how different individuals can read very different meanings into that statement. For the scientists themselves, while the statement is referring to scientists as individuals, it's based on the published research that informed their views. Amongst the general public, particularly those who don't accept anthropogenic climate change, the statement is understood as referring to the beliefs of the individuals. It's taken as an appeal to authority (and it doesn't help that many politicians and activists who want to take action often use it as such). The same statement is understood in two very different ways based on the reader's background and understanding of what the scientific method actually is.

Returning to the subject of the em-drive, the reason for skepticism is precisely because it flies in the face of our basic understanding of the physical world. The more well-founded a theory is, the greater the burden on any new findings that would seem to contradict it. That's as it should be. But if those new findings hold up under scrutiny and are verified, even a basic, fundamental law can and will be revised. That's how the scientific method works.

Personally, I'd love for the em-drive to be proven if only because it would represent such a fascinating shift in physics. To say nothing of potential applications. But I'm inherently skeptical. Not because of a dogmatic acceptance of the laws of motion, but because those laws are already so well-supported.

0. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
1. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048...
GNU grep is not multi-threaded.

Since you chose to be cute, I'm going to take a guess that you think this means the comparison between the tools is unfair. If that's an accurate interpretation, then I will say that your question is irrelevant because ripgrep is faster or as fast as GNU grep on benchmarks using a single thread too. In fact, that's the whole point! It says so right in the project's README.

http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#single-file-benchmarks
You write: "fill those _boring_ hours"

... in response to what the poster actually wrote: "work is _so interesting_"

If you're rewriting what the poster wrote into words of opposite meaning, it doesn't seem like you're engaging in real discussion.
Then he needs a brainwashed slave, that is happy being underpaid and being a nice servant to his master and not being valued. If i'm that good that he needs me that bad, then he should consider how bad would be me leaving.
News is fine.

The problem is that most news business models compete for attention via:

1. alarmist content
2. clickbait headlines
3. polarizing viewpoints

There aren't as many entities who simply try to deliver balanced news and perspectives. Try reading the Economist, apnews.com, wikinews.org.
Compression: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rust-snappy
Yes. Two give the two most relevant and potent examples:

ABCD in Japan prior to ww2.

Chile prior to Pinochet. Chile is agriculturally rich but suffered food shortages none the less.

Neither is exactly this scenario but there are enough similarities to suggest likely outcomes. People don't typically "toughen up and deal with" severe and abrupt changes to availability of common household items, and even countries with the potential for self sufficiency often have painful transitional periods.
iirc a v-22 is below 5:1 and somewhere around 3:1

The new DEP designs will do better, but exceeding 10:1 seems unlikely