skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more about bragging and joining an exclusive club (example: I have this opinion, and I have a pile of money sitting around that I can dedicate to promoting it amongst a small group of other people I want to impress). The stated purpose of holding people accountable, I have never bought.

People who are really working on the ideas discussed (as opposed to just talking about them and positioning themselves as "futurists") are accountable in a much more profound way, in that they build their entire lives around working toward some goal, with all the risk and opportunity cost that entails. The long bets participants are just playing around, not real players. They may have a little skin in the game, but it's faux skin.
Should you get a master's degree in computer science?
part of the problem is by the time you're 50, you've had 30 years of adult life to accumulate bad decisions.

a lot of people are saddled with obligations they never actually wanted. :(
https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/20/bmw-to-open-a-new-autonomo...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/04/nvidia-and-audi-aim-to-bri...

That's just the first few stories, and autonomous driving is already in the works - don't expect these companies are starting from zero.
I think the difference is that credentials as a doctor, lawyer, dentist, chiropractor, etc. tend to be all-encompassing for those professions. In software, credentialing is extremely narrow (i.e. credentials for subsets of Cisco's offerings, or Microsoft's). Other than college degrees, there really isn't any type of broad credentialing available in the computer industry. Credentials are also short-lived. Does anybody really care if someone is a C.N.E. anymore?

Computer credentials are also a for-profit business model, rather than an organized body that ensures a certain degree of competency is met. For example, being a board certified physician requires a lot more than simply passing a bubble test, which is what a lot of credentials in the computer industry consist of.

I think credentialing does demonstrate a certain degree of competency, but it also does create an artificial scarcity, since many, many, many people out there have the same skills, or better, but just don't feel the need to obtain credentials.
So we should applaud pro dancers when they announce on a public forum that they're no longer selling your dance-viewing habits to marketers? Like I said, it's not good. It's just less bad.

This is attention seeking for commercial reasons. After looking around a bit it's clear this is not a personal website. It's a promotional commercial website for this guy's workshop and speaking business that uses the 'blog' format for some of the content.

I'm not denying the effort or the quality content in some of his posts. I just see no reason at all to celebrate him here.
16-bit arithmetic was not a problem, you just checked the carry flag.
It is definitely possible. I know of a number of people who have done exactly this. In addition to learning the basics with Trailhead, I'd also suggest looking near by for a Salesforce developer group. There is even StackExchange for Salesforce that is completely community driven for having questions answered. (salesforce.stackexchange.com).

FYI, I'm another one of the devrel team at Salesforce. Dave went on vacation just before you posted this.

Cheers.
Compute the energy required to "evaporate the oceans". Compute the energy all nuclear weapons can expend.

Humanity is not going to "evaporate the oceans" anytime soon. The energy requirements for that would be somewhere around Kardashev level [1] 1.3-1.5 or so.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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Do you have any longtime hobbies? I've played guitar my whole life, so I sell guitar parts.

It's easiest if you can leverage knowledge you already have. I also tried stores selling items I knew very little about, and it was much harder. =)

There are many tools for finding what's selling though. The best ones are paid, like Terapeak (http://www.terapeak.com/), but you can also search eBay completed listings and get a sense for what's selling.

Finding the right product(s) is definitely the hardest part, though -- you're absolutely correct. Not only is it hard to find products, you also have to find products with margins that enable you to make money. For some of my sales, I only make about $1-2 dollars. Which is something I need to improve, for my own business.
The users of this extension have a clear case of the "I'm allowed to poke the dog with a stick, but the dog is not allowed to bite me" mentality, so it's a complete surprise to them when it happens.
> This directly costs Google money.

Instead of playing dirty they could accept the challenge and tweak their click-fraud algorithms.

Reminds me of the joke about Jesus and Moses playing golf.
Study: 68 percent of IT projects fail (2014)
If the only reason Google have banned this from the Web Store is because it violates the Single Purpose Policy (https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/single_purpose) - i.e. Blocking AND Clicking Ads, then an interesting test would be to split the extension in 2 - One extension to block all ads on the page, and one extension to click all ads on the page. And then see if they are then both accepted into the store. And as this is a fork of uBlock, you don't really need the first extension - Why don't they just develop an extension whose single purpose is to click all ads on a page and recommend users also install uBlock?
"I think we have to be realistic about" is, whether you intend it or not, an attempt to reframe the discussion around your particular set of priors. We need to be careful about language like that.

There are many reasons to challenge the assumption that it's difficult for older people to learn to code:

* It's may not be valid to extrapolate from more general neuroplasticity findings to programming

* It may be that changes in neuroplasticity affect the effectiveness of different modalities of learning, so that it's not so much that it's harder for older people to learn coding, but that they might need to use different strategies to learn --- for instance, 20 year olds might be able to get away with rote memorization as a crutch, and older adults might need to use more authentic learning strategies

* It's also possible that for large numbers of adults, learning to code is easier, because their brains have been trained through work they've done throughout their careers

* It's also the case that there isn't one "programming", but rather a whole constellation of different skills, some of which reward an orientation towards organization and careful planning, some of which reward tenacity, some of which reward creative and intuitive thinking, some of which reward numeracy, and so on

We should be very careful about generalizing, because one thing we do know is that human brains have incredibly powerful cognitive biases that are working constantly to fill in the blanks in our knowledge --- particularly about our models of the behavior and capabilities of other humans --- and much of what it fills in is accurate only up to the point where it allows us to effectively collect berries and hunt gazelles and stuff.

For whatever it's worth: I'm 40, not 50, but the tempo at which I've been learning new things is accelerating, not decelerating: I work in more languages now, I work in more problem domains (for instance, I never used to do any front-end work), and in particular my math --- which has always been awful --- has been improving by leaps and bounds. Maybe things will suddenly suck for me when I turn 50, but the current trends are not worrying me.
This is cool! I'm not seeing instructions on how to rotate the selected country.

Edit: Ah, I see it now in the instructional video. My browser's video controls were obscuring it. You click and drag the compass in the bottom left.
Is there a saved version of AdNauseam Web Store page?
Some data on the most popular Intel CPUs in PcPartPicker builds. No surprise that builders are opting for the i7 CPUs more frequently than their i5 counterparts. The most popular Haswell CPUs were the 4690K and 4790K. Among Skylake CPUs, the most popular were the 6600K and 6700K.
see ya around!
Wow, TIL the US spends almost a full percent of GDP on veterans. That sounded like a huge amount to me, but then I found the US has an equally huge number of veterans: 22 million, or 7% of the population are veterans! So it's just ~$8000 per person per year.

Think about that for a minute: if you put 30 random US people in a room, on average two of them will have served in wars!

Edit: you can also clearly see the rise of the military industrial complex in those graphs.
How do you deal with the insane delivery times? Do you tell customers up front that it might be weeks until they receive the product?

Most sellers I've seen on AliExpress estimate 15-30+ days for delivery. In the age of ubiquitous 1 and 2-day shipping, I just can't see customers going for that.

Seems like there'd be tons of people who change their mind after a week or two and then start demanding a refund or pestering you about their items.
I wouldn't use that site. It would make you look like a blowhard. YMMV though... you might not care.
My random advice from the internet is to realistically assess the company's chance of success. The sunk costs are sunk costs. They have no correlation to future success. The only thing that correlates with future success is the current state of the company and with a founder leaving a two person team that state might not be viable.

A couple of points, in the Silicon Valley terms, startups don't pay dividends and return on capital comes in the form of increased value of equity. If the FFF round was sold to the investors based on paying dividends, there is a disconnect between those investors and venture capital investors with Silicon Valley VC investment strategies. This is something to consider in terms of whether the company ought to consider.

Going forward with the company means that the FFF investors may wind up with nothing. In terms of Silicon Valley style startups, that's the most likely outcome of all such startups. If protecting the FFF's assets is a primary goal, winding down the company and returning proceeds may be the best likely return even if it is pennies on the dollar.

Finally, the last piece of the puzzle is to be realistic about your motivation and enthusiasm for carrying the business forward alone. A sense of obligation is often a path to resentment and resentment is probably not a hallmark of success.

Anyway, my empathy on your plight. Good luck.
Also not a doctor, but my dad has lung cancer (never smoked, just a "surprise, stage 4 lung cancer").

Specifically, he has the ALK mutation. This occurs in 3-5% of non small cell lung cancers.

He's on an inhibitor drug (a successor to Crizotinib) for this specific mutation. These drugs turned a ~6 month prognosis into a 5 year prognosis. But this set of drugs only works on this specific mutation. The cancer eventually mutates around the drug.

State of the art cancer drugs are really amazing, but they're still so far away from a cure.
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Profound. Thanks for this. It really helps.
Reasons why were listed in our root comment, and parent posted at the time when it was not flagged. Ironically, parent comment even somewhat protected author's lameness, but you can't see that now. I blame the blind power of sjw here, not anything else.
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I don't see an email in your bio. Mine's chris at nepafiber
Doesn't work on iOS 10 either, so it seems 3.5% is very low.
flux is awesome. i can't use it during the day though, because it puts me to sleep! it works too well.
Sure but I wouldn't work with them again. Would nope the f*ck out of there.
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Is the thread sanitizer caught up to where valgrind (helgrind) was for detecting data races? I know a while back it wasn't but things may have changed.
S3stat is the one that let me pack in the day job. Twiddla kicks in enough to bring the total up to "Senior Dev Salary, anywhere but the Bay Area".

Neither one grew particularly fast (aided by my only charging $2/month for S3stat when it launched). It was probably 4 years before it was enough to scrape by on, then 2 more after that before it looked like I'd be able to live off it for real while raising kids.

The big upside is in free time. I can ramp the two established products down to close to zero hours/week for months on end to focus on building the next thing (and playing with the aforementioned kids). Every time I tried that with a normal Software Engineering day job, they stopped sending me money. SaaS just keeps ticking away in the background, and is happy to pay me whether I'm in the office or not.
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Click on the country and the compass rose will change color to match. You can drag the compass rose around to rotate the country.
Generalizing this idea. Interdependences are big source of problems and delays in projects. Many people don't realize it, but you have to actively work on eliminating them. You see it in the form people waiting for other people. Every team should be organized in a way that they can we do their work without waiting for other teams.
I run an online education website called MASSOLIT (www.massolit.io) by myself. We make short educational videos!

Unlike lots of other ed-tech companies (e.g. Khan Academy, edX, etc.) the main focus is on the liberal arts, so there's lots of stuff on literature, history, philosophy, etc.

We mainly sell to high schools, who pay a (small) annual fee to access the vids, with teachers using the vids in class as basis for class discussion or setting them as homework as part of a 'flipped classroom' model.

Not making a huge amount of money at the moment, but growth is pretty good...
I'm not seeing anything. Hovering over images doesn't work for me on any browser; what should I be trying?
You were originally correct. They currently have one book specific to California.

They do have federal books as well that apply nation wide, but as most lawyers are highly specialized, that may not apply to what you do?
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Is this an article, or a sales pitch?
Uber & Lyft are NOT carsharing. Carsharing is when you let someone else use your car without you being needed.
I've been running https://OptKit.com for about 3 years.

Launched it to almost immediate ramen profitability, but haven't focused full time on it yet. Bills get paid through consulting. On schedule to re-launch within 1-2 months with a stricter focus, better defined use-cases, and stronger differentiation from competition.
Syncing outside folders to Dropbox used to be such a pain because symlinks/junctions don't sync changes as they happen (you need to restart Dropbox each time in order for it to sync changes) so that's why we built Boxifier. Disclaimer: I am one of the founders.
In the FB case, advertisers have gotten what they paid for as per contract. The metrics concerned stuff that's not in the sales contract but which FB used to suggest their ad inventory was superior vs. what it actually was. So you're unlikely to see any lawsuits - not worth anyone's while.

You will very likely see FB being pressured to open up to more third party validation of what they claim about their ad inventory at least for big advertizers who put in 10s of millions of dollars into FB advertising.
I was honestly expecting an interesting story about a real jet engine being replaced in flight.
That's not exactly answering the question I was asking, regarding file size.
I used Shopify's drop shipping guide to get started--it really is very helpful. They're invested in making you profitable (it's in their best interest as well, since they make $$ from you), and consequently their guides are very good.

https://www.shopify.com/guides/dropshipping

Fair warning though: you'll still have a ton of problems and spend time dealing with customers.

For example, the first time I got a $100+ sale on an item, I went to ship it and found that the vendor took the product down from AliExpress... but my Shopfiy account didn't update to reflect that.

So there are tons of pitfalls and things to be careful of, but like any field, you need to experience them firsthand, it's just part of the process. You can make money at drop-shipping, but it really is not easy, and there's still risk involved, like any business.
Or redhshift for Linux.
It's not really a solution, agreed. But the problem isn't one either. The problem is that most people don't have a business model, and just hope someone else comes and solves that for them (the ad company).
There a few rational reasons.

* Building a personal brand - everyone loves to read about business adventures, and the more details the better. Financial details are great for drawing audiences. If you feel your brand could be worth more than the project you're discussing, it's worth it to share

* If your market is developers or software managers or small lifestyle businesses, they'll learn about you through your posts. They're not looking to copy you. You'll be more easily discoverable than those who copy you, so it might be worth encouraging imitators in exchange for increased exposure to your market.

* If your finances are solid (the only reason somebody would copy you) it might give customers who are worried about choosing a small, fragile business enough confidence to use your solution.
Serious question, but how do you feel about persuasion? Is all persuasion inherently manipulative, or are there some types of persuasion/marketing that don't cross the line and become "manipulation"?
Online Publishing Should Look at Steem, Not Spotify, for Inspiration
Disable your adblocker.
I tried earlier today in Chrome Canary in developer mode and after a short while the extension disabled itself. When I try to enable it back again the console on the Extensions page says "Unchecked runtime.lastError while running management.setEnabled: Extension kkendhmcacabobepidajpejenjinojhp cannot be modified by user."
Not that I'm really surprised by Google's action, but "fraud" is a pretty strong word for what's happening, and pretty disingenuous IMO. No one's pretending to be anyone they're not.
> Scala, Clojure, F#

Functional languages. The "year of Linux on the desktop" of programming languages. Also none of those look like pseudocode (Scala does if you ignore bits and squint).
Why get into an arms race when you control the battlefield?
What advice would I give? I'll offer up a bit that runs counter to the current trend of denigrating maths education:

0. You can't take enough maths and stats classes.

I'll posit this is true regardless of your major.

Beyond that, I'd offer up this:

1. Major in something that has some relatively clear path to a sustainable career, as opposed to something where it's very unclear how you would build a career, or where opportunities are few. In other words, given a choice between Computer Science, and Medieval Art History, go with Computer Science.

2. If you do major in something like Theater, or Medieval Art History or Womens Studies, consider at least doing a minor in something a little more practical like Business or something.

3. I'd put a lot of value on taking at least a few classes in the fields of Psychology, Economics and History, even if you don't major in either of those things. Study World History just to get an overview of what has gone on in the world up till today. I'll help give a better appreciation for where we are, how we got here, and - possibly - where things will go in the future.

4. If I were starting school today, I'd probably major in either Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics/Operations Research, or maybe Economics. And I'd take extra Maths or Stats classes as electives (see (0) above).

5. Even if you don't major in CS, learn some basic programming (not "Basic" the language mind you).

6. If you don't major in Stats, at least take Statistics 101.

7. Join clubs, fraternities, whatever kinds of organizations are out there to make connections with people. Everybody talks about how the real benefit of going to, say, Harvard or MIT, is the connections you make... but that's true pretty much no matter where you go. Build connections with people. When you finish school, participate with whatever kind of alumni association your school has and keep in touch with people.

8. Don't ignore community colleges, either to knock out certain classes for a lot less money, or as a way to pick up an extra class here and there (even after your graduate with a Bachelors or whatever).

9. Don't ignore MOOC's and online education. A lot of it doesn't count for academic credit (but there are some that do, so pay attention), but as a way to complement your education with some specific skills and what-not, there's a lot of good stuff out there.

10. There's also non-MOOC online education... things like Pluralsite, Egghead.io, LinuxAcademy.com, Lynda.com, etc. that can be useful for picking up specific skills and certifications and what-not.

11. Don't sweat it all too much. Most mistakes you make when you're young can be recovered from. You still want to have fun in college, just don't party non-stop until you flunk out, if you can help it. Yes, you can recover from mistakes (like flunking out) but what put yourself behind the 8 ball needlessly?
> Until it doesn't, it's not a Python runtime...

True Python runtimes fail the CPython test suite. They have some work to do!
I didn't realize it was a war thing. Thanks.
> I've been reading a lot about John Boyd and the OODA loop,

Care to share your reading list? I've read the Coram biography and really enjoyed it, but it's understandably light on details of how to apply OODA to things like business.
C.N.E no, I don't think it ever mattered. An R.N., however...
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They're the ones who've shit in the well your employer is trying to get the rest of us to drink from.