skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My "side project" (or actually just one of them) has taken +10 years and thousands of hours.

So I just wonder that what kind of things that produce value can you expect to create in 1 month (assuming you're putting like few hours every day) ?
Yeah, generally salaries in Romania (any maybe other Eastern European countries) are quoted as net, per month. In the USA/UK it's almost always yearly-based, with hourly rates for contractors. In Romania people mainly talk about how much they take home from their salary every month.

With regards to the tech talent, I definitely think there is some truth to that. I'm no expert, but I'd say it might have something to do with the education system, or maybe even culture, which is quite heavily focused on maths and physics. With that said, we always rank quite low on most international education indices and the like. I think it might be some sort of educational inequality where children in the cities get quite good education and are pushed by their parents to study, while the ones in rural areas get the short end of the stick.

Also, something that really pisses me off is how many Romanians overstate our IT prowess. "Romanian is the second language spoken at Microsoft" is now part of folk wisdom, despite being proved to be false and just a media hoax in the '00s. We have many big companies with offices in Bucharest (and other cities), but they aren't really flocking to get all of this "enormous talent" just laying around. Don't get me wrong, we do have many reputable engineers and university professors, but nothing that would warrant this common perception about how incredibly skilled Romanians are in IT.
I think we've seen it once so far, for a Flash exploit that didn't have a sandbox escape in Chrome.
You're taxed like a resident by the US.

Not really. You get to offset foreign taxes and exempt more income than most US residents earn.

The filing requirements are sort of onerous, the taxation isn't.

I can see where it is sort of punitive to pay taxes on a large capital gain that has nothing to do with the US, but when you are talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars of such income you are talking about outliers.
I was sure there was a generic term for that (at least, some generic term more specific than AI), but I can only specific ones.

Those would be interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_programming

Keep in mind that CPU time is a huge bottleneck. Genetic algorithms are easy to parallelize, while inductive searches are less so, also inductive searches are not cache friendly. Still, if you try them, you'll see that what I said about CPU time is a huge understating.

Turns out that the search space of all programs in a given language is big.
I'm not trying to agree or disagree with you here (for the record, I despise Facebook and anyone who works there), rather I want to point out that ethics often has no correlation with law. The difficulty in making ethical determinations is precisely that there is often no well-defined written criteria like a law or terms of use that dictate what are the ethical boundaries or what might be ethically or morally reprehensible.
My naive view from being a customer of various insurance companies is that there's a series of lookup tables and charts that does things like "male age 18-25, no history of smoking, here's your rate", with some room for variance based on other factors (some linear or log scale for family history or blood test results, for example). On the surface, those all seem like logical computer functions to do, and as an extension things that would work well training a NN off of after starting with the basic lookup tables. Can you go into more detail on what I'm overestimating?
Do people eat fruits at each meals?
Ken Thompson wrote Unix in a month.
> - Avoid dairy products at all costs.

Why?
That's what I'm getting from the safe features emphasis and the fiercely C/C++ competitive slant argued by the evangelists in this thread.

I was looking through the pointer safety portion of the safety brochure: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/unsafe.html#what-does-safe-me... and wondering how to approach unwrapping an ethernet packet on the wire in the easy unsigned pointer-specific way it can be done in C and came across a pcap implementation in Rust (sample source): https://github.com/ebfull/pcap/blob/master/src/raw.rs
Are you serious? Rust is not for me, thanks.
Can you explain how this works?

I live in Canada, shipping is $8 flat rate, and all the taxes and shipping are totalled on the "preview" screen.

I've never paid customs fees in all the years of ordering, so for my situation I know the full price upfront before ordering
I built this https://github.com/micro/micro. It's doing pretty well so far.
It probably feels pretty good from inside your very own Tesla.
Thanks for the info, and yeah licensing was something I hadn't even considered but could be a big liability for a company relying on machines (side note: wonder how the self driving cars handle this?)
I won't resort to personal attacks, but I consider this absolutely terrible nutritional advice.

The issue here is "excess carbs" are very easy to exceed consuming grains and sugar.

Carbs (especially sugar) are what most easily gets converted to adipose fat tissue on the body... unintuitively consuming dietary fat is NOT conducive to increasing body fat. Counter intuitive but true.

Consuming a high carb diet, especially if a significant portion comes from high glycemic index sources, will guarantee body fat increase.

Oils, fats, nuts should be primary components of ones diet.

Excess body fat and high carb diet eventually leads to diabetes and metabolic-syndrome, the overall systemic decrease in health and increase in risk factors for other diseases because of being overweight (specifically, over fat).

I could post study after study but for anyone else reading this, you'll have to do your own research and learn from your own experience. Try both diets.

If you've never tried low carb (and high fat.. it's important to replace carbs with fat) then you should do so and observe your energy changes and decrease in body fat. It will happen.

Here's a good collection of references:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Keto

Look at the before and afters, read the experiences.

My nutritional and fitness experience? 5 years Army Special Operations, where diet and nutrition were studied and an important component to unit readiness....and a lifetime of sports and athletics including college football. And then studying the issue quite a lot.

Read the science behind the Atkins / Keto diet. It's not complicated how our bodies store fat.
Some resources:

https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/doc/html/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B_4vhsmRRI

http://www.jonathanfischer.net/modern-common-lisp-on-linux/

http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/wiki/InstallingSlime
I think your advice about oil and fat works well mainly because fat is very calorically dense, and not because there is something inherently wrong with fat. Otherwise fat, fiber, and protein form the backbone of the only meals that I'm sated by, and I get hungry much faster after a meal consisting only of starches and vegetables, which makes dieting by your guidelines very unpleasant.
STM seems pretty much forgotten in Clojure-land today.
Marijuana would be the most obvious example.
I develop solely in UNIX environments so I can't comment on its performance on windows, but it's fantastic on UNIX and very easy to write / configure.
Chrome extension only creates feeds and adds subscribe button.
Crawler from our servers parses everything.
I went to the Stasi Museum recently. And I remember thinking if you traded the physical surveillance(a man in a van) for the now near ubiquitous security cameras, both the US and the UK are on par with the surveillance state that was the former East Germany. Albeit a much more technologically advanced one. It's a sad irony.

What is the evidence that acceptance of being surveilled went up since the attacks? Opinion polls? Newly proposed legislation? Germany seems to be the bastion of privacy advocation these days so I am curious to hear. I hope that Germany resists letting politicians exploit a heightened emotional state such what exists while the country is grieving a terrible tragedy.

I had never heard this before about the Netherlands and the registry. Do you know why they would have had such a registry?
We are building a MVP in 3 days. Long weekend! Its doable yo! Simple AS potatoes! Look MA no POLISH. ;-)
Building your own Multi-Model Database – Part 1
So facebook, which needs us to spend as much time on the website as possible to maintain advertising revenue, has the perverse incentive of keeping everyone single. So this could be the answer to the Fermi Paradox
It's a fair point. I included it because it has a high exposure to Chinese equities.
Self-driving cars will exacerbate organ shortages
You seem to be confused about the meaning of "other people's money". You see, in a free market, you have voluntary contracts and transactions like in people deciding on how their money is used, put a risk, etc. which is ethically perfect. Progressivists societies, on the contrary, can do nothing without the use of coercion. Then they put their bunch of bureaucrats to vote on how to use the money that they have taken from you at gunpoint.
The way I would look at it at the moment is that it provides a nice self-service interface allowing you give people access to deploy containers on dev servers which may free up time to allow you to concentrate on managing production.
I couldn't do this. My big thing is i always want to be working on personal projects that solve problems in my life. If that ends up with cool stuff, great! But i've been burnt out too many times on making things for other people.

It's one thing if i set out to make a passive income, but that's work in my opinion. My side projects are open source commitments of mine, and assuming the "thing" works well and solves my problem, i'm contributing to it for years to come. Or at least until the problem is solved in another way.

If i'm really lucky, side project can become passive income (ie, providing hosted versions, etc), but that has yet to happen, and i'm fine with that. I'm solving my own problems, which i find quite enjoyable!

(not trying to be negative, just my take on it)
iCloud account locking hell
You've made some really good points about reading code in both of your posts. I'm fairly new to it, but I've started a daily habit of reading code everyday and I've realized this is an important skill I've omitted in the past.

Since most of the code I read (C# code) can be ran on my platform, I'll sometimes run into that rare piece of code that I can't believe it does what it says it does, in those cases I'll download the repo and debug it and many times be surprised to find there was a gap in my understanding. Reading code helps me find knowledge gaps I didn't even know were there.
> There are studies that show correlations between LDL cholesterol and risk of heart attacks (happy to show you some if you're curious).

Why wouldn't you? It seems like it would be unambiguously helpful both in general for the thread, and specifically for your argument.

For evidence that the lowering of LDL cholesterol lowers the risk of heart attacks, though, the evidence can't just be an association between heart attacks and naturally high cholesterol, which could obviously both spring from the same cause. An association between low cholesterol diets and heart attack rates, or good evidence that statins lowered mortality would both be interesting.
Squeak. That would've been enough. Smalltalk doesn't have an IDE in the traditional sense. The browser is a very small, thin app on top of the meta level and libraries.
is there any other country with less than 10M people and no natural resources which is more relevant than Austria in the global economy?

Possibly Switzerland, but not by much.
We used https://www.graphistry.com to visualize hundreds of thousands of edges for https://www.yesgraph.com/twinmaps/

The minimal eng required to get good performance was wonderful
Planned systems are doomed by design. They destroy the information that prices carry and end in self-destruction/collapse. Even communist China knows better than that.
I doubt Crystal's marketing goals are to convince OCaml fans...
There is no spending but investing. In schools, public transport, social peace. Those investments of the last 80 years come to fruition today for the advantage of everyone.

Before Red Vienna was not huge free market period but a huge lost war, pervasive destruction and a dramatically shrunk country, cut off of his industry (Czech) and agriculture (Hungary).
But if you read the long Zeit article[1] and esp. the latest taz article[2] it becomes clear that the other party consists also of psychopaths whose actions were even more dangerous.

[1] http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexua...

[2] https://www.taz.de/!5361578/
Squeak only got viable a decade or so after the demise of commercial Smalltalks.
Penetration Testers' Guide to Windows 10 Privacy and Security (Hardening Guide)
If it's really that simple then why isn't a good config just built in?
There is no coercion and no gunpoints because the government in Vienna is elected by the people.
Sensitive Data Protection in the Face of the EU’s New GDPR Regulations
What puzzles me the most, that nobody managed to create highly customizable editor for websites. People have two extremes – create everything from scratch, or use some hardcoded solutions, mostly for people without any programming knowledge.

So the whole niche is empty – for the people who have programming knowledge, but want this task done quickly and with best practices.

This exact solution seems to be too complicated. It is promising, I agree, but without careful consideration of composability we might end up with another monster. Also, I'd like to notice that I think it should be extremely simple, and code should be hidden completely; though the idea of "marketplace" is amazing, because all components, basically, already exist.
This is right when you're already at a certain level of competence. I would be pretty disappointed to hear John Carmack was taking on this challenge, but it's a good one for people who need to just put some pencil to paper to get the practice.
Indian Govt launches P2P payments app
100M Users Moving to Agile at Hike [video]
Lot's bitching and moaning in this article about 2/20, but no mention of PE and VC who also take 2/20. PE returns lately have been good, but VC returns on average over the long term have been underwhelming.
This is a link to a non-authoritative source. Could someone please provide a link to the authoritative source so that I may investigate by myself?
This is really interesting. If you look at what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10 with virtualization based security you can see that the Qubes approach is going to go mainstream within the next year. in addition to moving secrets that are normally stored in the kernel into a separate statically linked trusted OS running in it's own VM (that's currently available in credential guard) they will be running edge in a separate VM as well.

Qubes is ahead of its time and far more versatile than most other solutions at this time.
Impressive. It even had my Registry of Deeds. Although it did list some people from other districts. I'm from New Hampshire and it showed all our Executive Council even the ones not in my district.[1]

[1] In New Hampshire if the Governor is the Chairman of the Board the executive council is like the directors on the board.
Did you take any recommendations from anyone, or do customer dev. prior? What does 'doing well so far' mean?
I have built a quiz web app that enables people to play a popular Belgian TV format at home with their family and friends and with their own questions. Without any marketing, they came :). I am at 5000 active users and counting. People seem to love playing popular tv-shows at home.
Mocket: for all kinds of socket 'animals', webclients included -with SSL support
I second your lesson suggestion. I was lucky enough to have lessons, and was very happy I did.

That said, if one can't do the lessons, I fully suggest working through some of the adult learner workbooks - the ones for immigrants. Some are more grammar-heavy than others. The draw is twofold: You learn some common speaking terms plus you get introduced to grammar, complete with exercises.
Great work! My suggestions (in order of importance):

* if there is >1 selected tab, change button behavior to "save selected tabs" else default to "save all tabs"

* a simple "cancel/destroy" prompt before deleting a tab group - if you are a pinboard.in user, the way maciej handles this is very nice

* show tab count in parens next to each saved group e.g. "jenkins (7)"

* search/filter box at top to quickly find tab groups
What is the motivation behind this? Multi-CAS is used as a basic building block for lock-free data structures to emulate more complicated transactional operations. But when you already have TSX, why would you use multi-CAS to emulate them? It's better to modify the algorithm and express the transactions directly using TSX.
Yes Social Security is a "benefit", you more than likely will get back everything you paid in plus interest plus continue drawing a Social Security check beyond that. Last time I crunched the numbers a retiree would on average get back everything they paid in plus interest in just under 9 years. And that is a generous estimate since I averaged payments into the system over a typical working life instead of weighing them towards later in life (people tend to make more as they gain experience and their career advances).

Social Security is not a savings plan no matter how much you would like to think it is.
At age 87, the pink slip catches up to Boeing engineer
The sophistication is not evidence of government involvement, the lack of sophistication is not evidence that a government was not involved.

Certainly malware which costs serious resources to develop, like stuxnet, says something about the capabilities of the attacker. Given that at the high end of the resource spectrum it is mostly governments, resources required are suggestive of a government, but resources are not conclusive in and of themselves.

The attribution of the DNC hack to APT28 and APT29 was not based on its sophistication but on the similarity to the methods used, tradecraft fingerprints, and the sharing of C&C servers to past attacks.
I think the service is awesome ... but why the "enter your email address" part? You can locate people just by zipcode (and omitting the email still works). What are you using our addresses for? What is your privacy policy?

Why ask for nonessential information in the first place?
Some day I'll need to reclassify all my cyberpunk books as non-fiction it seems. We are nearly at the point of having real-life equivalents of things like information brokers and a Central Intelligence Corporation. The funny thing is the real companies I've seen are more creepy than the over-the-top portrayals of your typical dystopian corporate future. Worse yet, they do a better job of automating it all vs. the typical human intelligence or hacking missions in those types of books.
Right, I'd really like to know about the "random" process that assigned students to classrooms. I know that when I was in elementary school the assignments were theoretically random, but if parents really wanted to influence them, they could. Since this study gets a lot of its results from clustering, they might just be finding that certain classes were perceived to be better (right or wrong) and so involved parents influenced the school to get their kids in it. Now it really is going to be "better" by the metric of those kids' later success.
AngularJS Development: New Possibilities with Angular 2
this seems a jillion times better than a standard stacktrace. why isn't it in built into the core?
I will implement this over my next week off.

Thanks for sharing!
> the court was created by a communist dictator to guard the regime against the rising tide of the Solidarity movement

Funny for you to say that since the creation of constitutional court was one of the Solidarity's demands to the goverment.

Besides, now, once the "law and order" forcefully injected into the court their own mediocre but loyal laweyrs it appeals to the people (with the voice of the president) to respect thet constitutional court.
How do I submit ideas for other people?
It asks for address (not email address) to better locate your local representatives.
Raymond!

OP (but not author) here.

I watched a talk of yours at Pycon 2011. I very much enjoyed it. I also very much enjoy how amazing Python is, so thank you very much. I have been super excited for 3.6, because speed is one of the things I see is being most important to keep python defensible these days (with Go, et al).

Thanks again for all your hard work.
i think the idea is to put a ship date or it won't get done. A month is arbitrary of course, but long enough to make 'something' in part time, but not long enough where you can slack and eventually abandon it. it's a mind hack to keep you on "schedule" with a end goal in sight.
NSF K-12 CS Program Focuses on All but Asian/White Boys Who Aren't Poor/Disabled
You missed the point. Slack found a way to monetize IRC. That is innovation.
It doesn't ask for your email address, just your home address and your ZIP code.

It's not unessential information. To quote DannyBee, who answered this same question below:

>"Just entering your zip code is sufficient to obtain a list."

>This is not even, sadly, close to true. In the US, there are types of political districts that split down the middle of apartment buildings, etc. The federal districts are pretty sane. At the state and local level, pretty much anything goes.

>While it's true there are a few areas where you can use zipcode and get reasonable results for some types of representatives, it's simply not correct for the US writ large for most state level political positions.

>We once started generating shape files for different types of political districts we had, but for some types in the US, they aren't closed polygons, or they require 3 dimensions (the apartment building split), or ... In some cases they are self-intersecting, due to border disputes among states, etc. Or you can prove the data is wrong, or ... Heck, in some cases, the local and state authorities have official data that disagrees on the political districts and nobody has ever really noticed!

>This is one of those things people think should be really easy, and in pretty much every country but the US it is. In the US, it just varies wildly in difficulty.

>Doing representatives at least means people are willing to accept some error rate, which makes it a little easier, but not much.

>(For reference: I started Google's politics and elections engineering team, and co-started the voter information project to try to open up some of this kind of political data for real )
Tectonic by CoreOS comes with a console. See screenshots at the bottom of the page: https://tectonic.com/
Pardon the crassness but this statistic as well as the study behind is is utterly useless.
> You know what doesn't have a tail-call construct either? Every hardware architecture in existence. You know what they have though? They have jumps.

Guess what the JVM doesn't have. Remember also that the JVM was originally designed for running untrusted bytecode, so it doesn't generally let code directly manipulate the call stack.
The best level of living in the world is the best innovation I can think of.