skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a shame we won't hear from the people who left and never came back to IT. They're likely no longer here to answer your question! Nevertheless, it's interesting hearing people's stories.

At 25 (4 years as an engineer, games, DTP) I felt pretty burned out so I took a year out to travel the world. I saw incredible places, had new experiences, met people from a wide variety of backgrounds who I'd never have encountered in a provincial 9-5 office job. It was amazing. When I returned I moved to a new city and got back into tech, my passion for which had been reignited during my time out. I hadn't missed it, but I was keen to get into a new job in a new tech area and learn new things.

Burn out it a common problem in tech. If it were possible/affordable, taking a six month sabbatical to do something entirely different – travel, charity work, teaching, writing, whatever! –might be the best thing anyone could do to keep their passion and enthusiasm for tech burning. Maybe it's something you do every 4/5 years.

If you're good at your job, valued by your employer and have saved a bit of money, it might even be easier than you think...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/05/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4

You asked.

If you watch that with no bias for or against Clinton, it's hard to see that as anything other than a series of lies that she kept repeating well after she was called out on them.
Do Preprints Belong in Grant Applications?
One of the strengths of Network is the lack of music. In fact if I remember correctly the opening scene is just the camera moving through a newsroom with ambient sound.

Music can date a film badly.
h-online used to do something like this as well.
They could also use the device to pivot into your network. Once you've compromised the DVR, they can go wherever they want.
How mature is pshtt?
Charms4Good Kickstarter
That was an intentional joke, but thanks for the heads up!
“cloud is cheaper, more stable, more secure, and more expandable (....)” Agree?
Teach, either software, or critical thinking, or language.
I've worked at a couple startups where the company was more-than-done out of business and we spent our last 6-12 months negotiating with creditors and trying to get rid of hardware, software, and various worthless IP.

But that takes a tiny skeleton crew, so maybe there's that.

Or, perhaps you're right and they're going to see if they can wait out the 2 year ban. Most likely they will change the name of the company to hide the bad reputation and then re-release the hardware testing platforms.
A former co-worker told his wife, "The next time I say that I want to own a boat, take me out in the yard and spray me with a hose while I tear up $20 bills."
As an extension of that, make sure you figure out your pitch!

- What have you learned on your own?

- What excites / interests you?

- What do you hope to learn?

- Why is [company] the right fit for you?

- What does success look like at the end of your internship?

- How much time can you commit to an internship?

- What sort of compensation, if any, do you need?
Maybe it was harsh, the idea is: You might write better when you don't know how many people read your articles. On the other hand, you might write better when you know. Plan accordingly :)
How would your outlook on income be? I'm sure you're quite familiar with Sage Canaday and his girlfriend then. I'm simply a filthy marathoner, but there's so few great personalities that vlog/blog/do social media in the running community. Opposed to our profession where no one is short on opinion about the pros and cons of each and every technology.

I feel like getting sponsored is a must, and even then, it's likely living a minimalist lifestyle (which is fine!). Unless you can compete with the East Africans for prize money or the top dogs in US road races, the money in running is very scarce.

It seems the niche in competitive MUT is conquering the few popular 100 miler races that are put on annually.
...and there goes my productivity for the rest of the day.
Don't take my comment here as a rebuttal to the facts in your specific case, but I want to point out that the core concept of what journalists do is to filter and summarize. A journalist will never tell the whole story because that is not their job. In a good story, I see my published-output to total-reportage ratio to be about 5% or less, i.e. very little of what I've researched and reported makes it into a published piece. In a typical hour-long interview, only maybe a few minutes of what was actually said may be represented. But ostensibly, that's because the other 55 minutes helped inform me what the relevant 5 minutes are.

That said, even in positive stories, sources will call me back and express surprise/disappointment that, for how long I talked to them, they were just a single paragraph in my bigger story. I see it similar to the surprise people have when they hear how a good programmer, ideally, puts out an average of a few lines of code a day. The work is not just about what you physically put out, but what you leave out.

Tangentially, it's worth noting that some stories may change midway when more facts are known, and the interview subject doesn't realize that the direction of the story changes. Once I was asked to write a routine profile of a well-known business owner. I stopped by his office and had a very nice interview with him. Then as part of my regular routine, I did a quick check of court records to see if his or his company's name showed up. And it turned out there was a recent case filed by an employee making serious allegations of mistreatment and sexual discrimination. So I called the CEO again and asked him to comment on that, and he expressed displeasure that, rather than telling the story of how great his company was, I chose to focus on cheap linkbaity sleazy distortions.

If you hear his side of the story, it's going to sound like I betrayed him to follow my own SJW-narrative to get clicks. That was not the case at all -- I was just a newbie and had no problem writing a happy story. If I had chosen to completely ignore the complicated, negative facts, then it's fair to argue that I was still pursuing a "narrative", one in which everything was going hunky-dory with the company, rather than life being complicated and messy.

That said, there are what I consider to be sketchy practices when it comes filtering: when the reporter deliberately misleads you into why they're interviewing you, e.g. telling you they want to do a profile about your awesome volunteer work when really, the story is about you being accused of crimes. And also, choosing to quote you out of context, or using the "sexiest" quote just because it's sexy-sounding, not because it represents your story well at all.

Again, not a commentary on your specific case. Just more of a reaction to others who think it's shady when journalists don't tell the "whole story". Journalists never tell the whole story. That's an impossible feat, even if it were desirable.
Good lord, y'all are crotchety. This just seems like a fun little time waster that was probably developed internally by a very small group of people. I don't see it as a large marketing push or some kind of fancy technical demo. Just something... fun.
Do you do work where you have to inspect large data arrays? The ability to pause execution (say, training a neural net on billions of rows of data) and inspect what the weights and biases are doing over several iterations is invaluable, and much easier to understand than running->printing/logging. Especially if it takes a significant amount of time to hit that point of the code. If there is a problem, I can work with the processed data, and make changes live, rather than edit code, run it, wait for 30 minutes, and hope it works, since it can take several iterations.
The Political Spectrum
You can get patents on what the source code does, that's the basis of so many of these stupid "answer a phone, take notes, but using a computer" style patents that are a huge cause of pain. It's very possible, if this story is true (and I'm sceptical), that they could have got a patent on everything the code does, including covering a kill switch. It'd be null and void about as fast as anyone could say "prior art", but that doesn't stop it being issued.
As others have pointed out, children are always trying to do crazy stuff with their toys. But, even if this weren't true, so what? Just because software gets picked on, it should be given a pass? Um, no.
I would like to do that too, and had thought of something like it when in my teens. I spent a lot of time in forests then.

Around that time I had read this novel (a Western) called The Deer Hunter (not related to the famous movie of the same name, which is about Vietnam, etc.), and it was about a guy who does that work - a forest ranger in the Grand Canyon (of the US). Great story.
The fact that these certificates are free and the fact that it's so easy to use has enabled me to move almost all of my websites to https. A project like this really is moving the web forward.
Tried this and it never worked, later now i know why because manager speaks to me (human) whereas i have to speak to computer(no margin for ambiguity). The best thing is to be polite, listen and be humble and think yourself as a object flowing in the river. Never show anger a slightest bit. But once the attack starts personal, just ignore and look down as speaking to a complete idiot. This is not the best thing but it has worked very well for me.
The challenge we faced and still face is more making it clear on how to classify time to the rank and file team (I work in a digital agency).

We are pretty much ~90% now.. ..some lessons learned:

1. Just have people track rough time per day (a couple hours here, a couple hours there), but make sure it is done daily. The resolution will hold up when you analyze it. What seems rough each day, ends up being quite accurate over weeks/months.

2. Don't be strict about budgets AND ask for perfect accuracy in time tracking. You are offloading the responsibility of good estimates to the team, and boxing them in.. screwing your long term job costing.

3. Build a dashboard that summarizes project / account status and is as useful and obvious for Project Managers & Leadership, and they will become advocates in promoting good time tracking hygiene. (I guess this is a basic truism in general.. build systems where the best way to use it is the easiest way.. )
What's wrong with Cloudflare?
It's not as good as native scrollback though. For example, by default, as soon as you select something in tmux, the selection goes away, and you have to hit a tmux-specific keybinding to paste it back into the terminal. That's never what I want! If I'm selecting something it's probably because I'm going to copy it to my system keyboard. I think you can disable this part, except of course what you're left with at that point is a tmux selection, which is NOT a terminal selection, meaning you still can't copy it to your system clipboard.

Also, scrolling is somewhat unreliable, although I still haven't figured out why.

In any case, I use tmux in some of my terminal tabs, and very frequently I have to hit ⌘R to disable terminal mouse support just so I can select & copy something without tmux interfering (I could also hold down the Fn key, except I use an external Das Keyboard, and the Das Keyboard folks still haven't figured out that their Fn key should actually behave like Apple's Fn key and let the system know when it's pressed by itself, as opposed to what it does now which is simply modifying the keypress events for other keys without sending any independent event for the Fn key).
There's a patch for that.

http://st.suckless.org/patches/scrollback
There is something that can be seen throughout history of mankind:

Some dude leads a country for many years in prosperity and abundance. Because he has results, his opposition is practically non-existent and he stays in the lead until he dies. Another king comes but he is practically unable to raise to the same level as his predecessor. His opposition is stronger (relative to him) and he ends up either overthrown or burning all the money or both...

This backlash effect is very clear after almost any powerful figure. Without peers of the same calibre, good results will soon be cancelled out as if non-existent.
But Type-A would be fun, they said!
Yeah seems like 'tap' rather than mouseup/mousedown.
Is it really "phone screen" rather than "phone screening"? I was wondering for a bit why (or how) you would automate the screen of someone's phone.
And, related: Trump’s pick for defense secretary has resigned from Theranos’s board [1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/06/trump...
You don't even need to swap back and forth. The README for Alacritty tells you to use `rustup override` to set the compiler, and rustup remembers overrides on a per-directory basis, meaning that invoking rust from anywhere outside the Alacritty working tree will still use your globally-configured default compiler.
Tomato ancestor evolved 50M years ago in South Patagonia (with video)
I remapped my Caps Lock to Esc. My motor memory is adapting, and Caps Lock is actually closer.

I started as someone very sceptical about the touch bar. I don't like it yet, but I don't hate it now.
Getting Confident as a Developer
Agreed. My parents gave me nothing. Had to pay for school and save up for home loan, car etc.
Sadly it isn't. People who don't use spreadsheets see spreadsheets as some bean-counter tool, i.e. working purely with numbers and calculations. They don't see the immense value of structuring your notes, at least compared to just dumping them free form into a Word document.
Those are good points, thank you. .NET for me is mainly web dev, and I know some JavaScript (and JQuery), but it will be a bit of a shock to the system nonetheless.
Looks great, a very nice rise to it (although a bit too blackened for my taste eheh).

How did you manage to get those bubbles? Double kneading? Wood-fired oven gives a nice taste to the bread (to whatever you cook in it anyway) but controlling the temperature is a challenge.

With all of that said, when I said baking, I meant cake baking. (although I dab a bit with bread (and can make a nice loaf)). I specially enjoy taking recipes and iterate over them adding twists in terms of flavour to them (last year I went through my vanilla pods phase, currently on a nuts phase[1]).

[1]http://imgur.com/W5oXz67
Effective Java, while a bit out of date is still relevant https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/03...
page 21.
It was definitely eye opening to see the quantitative graphs showing how much Russian funded RT media's youtube views stacked up vs the major new media. RT's subscriber base was similar and it's social media footprint was much smaller but it's views were so much higher.

Were they gaming Youtube?
Did the major news media decide not to engage and invest in their youtube content?
Red Herring?
Do you mean messages sent over infrasound (less than ~20 Hz)? That would typically not work, because most speakers cannot produce infrasound and most microphones don't pick up frequencies that low
The issue is not that he is making 15% less salary, the issue is that we all know that he was punished: that must feel devastating. That the punishment may or may not be something you consider harsh or not doesn't matter: the real punishment is that CNN just wrote an article about how Apple is having issues and important people are blaming Tim Cook, and reducing a CEO's salary at a publicly traded company is a "forced public" punishment.
pshtt (the HTTPS scanning tool) also powers the results for Freedom of the Press Foundation's recently launched Secure The News project: https://securethe.news. (Full disclosure: I work for FPF, and worked on Secure the News).

It's a promising project, and could use more contributors if anyone here is interested: https://github.com/dhs-ncats/pshtt/issues for ideas!
They are all Netflix shows.

As others have said. Pablo & Marco Polo. Piper Chapman from Orange is the New Black and Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things. (Won't make sense if you haven't seen the shows)
Hm, if we're doing GPU rendering for speed, I'd suggest uploading vector glyph data to the GPU and rasterising on the GPU in the pixel shader, rather than using FreeType. See here: http://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-textu... . The WebGL Demo is really impressive - it lets you zoom in and out on a multi-page PDF at speeds I haven't seen anywhere else.
It appears to be and has said it is Cleverbot http://www.cleverbot.com/
The Ehang 184 personal drone is ready to fly
I'm a security analyst. I love my job, but if I thought I could make a decent living doing it, I would focus on calligraphy, the restoration of vintage writing implements, and art.
Love LE. I've got people who didn't even know about TLS to use it as a matter of course, they now see it as a badge of honour to pass the ssllabs tests with an A+. They've changed the internet for the better.
>> Apple has been the butt of jokes at least since 2008 when I first got my first Apple product (an old 17" MacBook Pro). Back when I was looking at laptops then, I saw the same complaints that I see about the new MacBook Pro: too expensive, specs aren't good enough, etc., etc. None of this is new.

But actually some of it is new. I go back to the Apple ][ days, so I've seen my share of disdain of Apple products from people who weren't users of Apple products.

A lot of the uproar in the past several months, however, has come from vocal Apple users who feel let down.
good reminder! I was assuming they were debt free, other than their mortgage.
Thank you for this explanation - I would be curious about any papers, no matter how technical. I've never let something like that stop me before...
Not unlike the closure of Rancho Seco in California:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating...
>The Ehang 184 can accommodate one person weighing up to 220 pounds in its small cabin.

So approximately one US sized adult and some luggage, or more than one US sized child. Hm. Seems limited for now.
> "Towards a Biologically Plausible Backprop" from Benjamin Scellier and Yoshua Bengio (2016) would be a recent paper on the topic.

Thank you for this link; I've found a copy of this paper - and some others - and will be reading them with interest!
We didn't get terribly far down the road with Datomic. Management/administration of the DB was not for the faint of heart. (At the time the docs were simply terrible, maybe they are better now?) We would see data corruption/loss as well. We weren't doing anything terribly complicated with it, and data loss doing the simplest things was unacceptable. (It's entirely likely we were the cause of the data loss somehow, but we followed the guides and did nothing crazy or weird). So anyways, we just threw it out almost immediately.

Conceptually it wasn't really a fit with the team or our application either. The query model and direct reading from the storage medium seemed silly - why not just use underlying storage medium directly for everything? (Besides, now you have to administer both Datomic and Cassandra/Oracle whatever) Not worth it for the obtuse query approach and limited value of "never forgetting" imo :)
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It sounds like everything is running fantastically for them, and I'm really glad.

LE has saved us from spending many man hours of time updating certificates across all dev, staging, and live machines across all of our servers every year (which just so happens to be almost exactly the amount of time needed to forget some of the details of what needs to be done...).

But all that being said, when are we going to see a competitor pop up? Clearly what they are doing is working, so when are we gonna see some others attempt to do this? Having all your eggs in one basket is never a good thing in any part of life (no matter how perfect that basket is).

Having more than one "Let' Encrypt" would at the very least spread out some of the risk, and might even enable them to specialize a bit more (perhaps the competitor could target the issue of wildcard certs, or be somehow tailored for the use case of needing thousands of subdomains).

Has there been anyone else trying this?
To add to what codegeek said, "Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja" by John Resig (the creator of jQuery) is also very good

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-JavaScript-Ninja-John-Resig/d...
I've been following the Money Moustache type approach for a while now myself. I highly recommend it, but the closer I get to the goal the more I realise I need something else constructive to do if/when I jack it all in.
They weren't grounded. They have to get an FAA license for every launch (or, in this case, a bulk license for all of their Iridium launches over the next 18 months).

The FAA _could_ have denied them a license, but that's pretty unlikely, as the AMOS-6 event was a 'test anomaly', not something related to flight.
Hit boxes are shit
This is one of my favorite posts from HN that I stumbled upon last year. Very intuitive and accessible, and worth the read.
Musk runs an airtight PR ship
Seems odd, someone gets (scrapes??) data from amazon - complains about someone scraping data from them.

Or is amazon sharing data and they have it legitimately?

Either way it is a funny world we live in now!
Buy from the sellers with good reviews and lots of reviews, and you will be fine. And if you pay with PayPal, eBay guarantees to return your money if something goes wrong.
Just get used to the keybindings. I find it much faster to search up and yank in tmux than scrolling and dragging to copy stuff.
Yes, encrypting credentials is far from a silver bullet. Yes, much more work is needed on the platform side.

No, that doesn't make it OK to store credentials or other sensitive data in the clear.

> Has such a case ever occurred? I can't think of one.

Stolen encrypted drive/stolen drive with encrypted passwords on it? It's happened to me, personally (a usb key with my .password_store on it).

> Personally, I don't think it's reasonable to hold D-Link liable for a trade-off that even the biggest companies in tech make all the time.

First, I'm not aware of any tech giants who store passwords in the clear.

Second, just because the heavy weights do it doesn't make it reasonable.

> Of course, if you have filesystem access you can replace the application on disk, patch it to steal the password easily.

There are a lot of plausible scenarios in which an attacker gets RO/RW access to a portion of a file system but doesn't have the root or the capability to MITM/replace a binary.

> There's just no secure way to do this on today's computers

I think FTC's issue is this: "look, there's this really really simple thing that you could have done. Obviously it's not perfect, but doing this would have cost you basically nothing and would have at least made attacks a little bit harder. And even though it's basically free to implement and a very common practice, you didn't even bother."

Now, perhaps DLink had this discussion internally and decided that they agree with you. In that case, I'm sure those internal discussions will come out during the lawsuit, and a lay jury will have the difficult task of assessing some variant of the argument we're having here.

(Also, regardless of this one issue, shipping with default credentials w/o requiring a password change, and publishing a private key on a public website, are pretty egregious breaches of known best practice at time of sale. All while describing the device as "secure"...)
It's been 'next year' for ~5 years now.