skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding breaking into the biz ...

1) I found an agent by searching on aaronline.org and sending book-proposal queries to agents who seemed like they were a good fit.

2) Although the costs of self-publishing have gone down, the problem with self publishing, for my type of nonfiction anyway, is when it comes to distribution. Getting the book into brick-and-mortar stores, getting the book reviewed by reputable outlets, securing foreign rights deals ... that all becomes much easier if you have a book deal with a traditional publisher. Not to mention the advance.

3) Because I don't have an academic pedigree, I'm limited in terms of the type of material I can write. But my experience as a journalist helps, because although I'm not an authority myself, I'm able to take authoritative material and boil it down for a broader audience. That said, having a background as a journalist might help you get a book deal, but it's insufficient if you don't have enough of a platform: https://janefriedman.com/author-platform-definition/
WSJ: Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China's Go Master
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I understood the running task as being through actual (i.e. populated) city streets; either a real city or a mockup built out of harm's way.

This would require real-time object detection and avoidance, following signs/social conventions/etc., complex route-planning, avoid people/cars/etc., predicting the movements of others, predicting how others will predict your predictions, etc.
Nice! But even they have a "read more" button instead of just displaying the article straight.
I agree, working 4 hours a day will feel more effective than the last 4 hours of an 8 hour day, but the question is whether it's actually twice as effective. And perhaps it's so for very high level tasks, but I'm pretty sure for some things you just need to clock in the hours, like closing 100 tiny bugs because you're launching in a few days.
Does craigslist count?
Far too dramatic IMO.

Did CD and MP3 players kill radio in car? No.

Radio as being the primary source of audio-only data has been long dead, and the audio-only source has also seen competition of TV, RL (due to easier & cheaper forms of travel), and the Internet. In that sense even TV is dead thanks to the Internet. Both deaths are relative, not absolute.

Radio is however very much alive in the sense that audio-only is alive. Just look at streaming services such as Spotify, and the diversity possible with it. You can make your own playlist, follow someone else's, or collaborate. You can have multiple playlists, too. For a mere 10 EUR a month you even get rid of all the advertising (15 EUR for family pack of 6 people). I'm not advertising for Spotify here; its just one of the many options available and I happen to be familiar with it.

My Nokia N900, an experimental device from 2009, had a FM transmitter on it. One could tune in on car audio, to receive the signal send from the Nokia N900. One could power it up with the car's charger.

We're now in 2017, 8 years down the line. Its not far fetched to have a FM to Bluetooth or FM to WiFi converter. Exactly for situations where backwards compatibility is desirable. It might also be worth it to upgrade the car to more recent standards e.g. an Android mini computer made for the car.

> OK, so you switch off a completely fine technology with billions invested, rendering useless multi-millions of fine working radios.

Keyword: Maintenance. It costs money.
I thought Chris Taylor was involved in Planetary Annihilation, no? PA was an utter failure.
Regehr's blog is an invaluable source of practically relevant SE knowledge.
> my inlaws are NOT nocturnal albino lab rats.

Are you sure?
Emacs for Swift, Objective C, C, C++, Clojure, Python, Java, Javascript, Assembler, Bash, and random other minor stuff.

Wait... there are other IDEs?
Libevent based HTTP library (Nginx like)
2017 is Not the Year of Mixed Reality, Here's Why
What happens if i need to break out through a window?
e.g the car is on fire or in deep water?
Can you explain the pros and cons of using RFID labels with fixed geolocations vs your product?
They just entered a loop asking each other to prove that they are not a robot. Then one of the bot crashed!

That went well!
A lot of seasoned developers don't either.

Because they've read "No Silver Bullet" and know a specific solution sold as a panacea when they see one.
> have great recurring revenue potential (much better than adult books, I think).

why do you think so?
> Don't you wonder why politicians hold town meetings in person?

Because town meetings are a performance. I prefer a live performance over a canned version, too (such as watching a well-crafted presentation instead of a YouTube recording). There's absolutely nothing against meeting people in person. Those meetings should count however. They should mean quality time (instead of a synonym for "Free doughnuts and countless person-hours wasted.").
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IntelliJ for everything. My only complaint is that when I'm writing front end code, it has to do do more guesswork for the autocomplete suggestions, which takes more time, so I have to purposely stop typing for a second to let it find the suggestion I want so I can select it.
I curse that fact most days, too. :/
Massive improvement in LED efficiency, for starters, now that we've also got a minor handle on the Auger effect. Essentially we could get a lot closer to the theoretical maximum of ~683 lumens per watt with this.
geany + vim

https://www.geany.org/
I use Ember, which abstracts most of the things you're mentioning, but if you have resources (other than the websites for the tools you mention) you'd like to recommend they'd be much appreciated!
The pay dink is probably just the political cover for "sending a message".
I live five miles outside of downtown Minneapolis and have trouble picking up anything inside my stuccoed house. I've tried many many antennas and short of poking a hole in my wall and running an antenna outside nothing has worked. I was able to watch many many analog stations without issue.
It's not really a "pay cut"; he's not receiving the maximum potential value of his incentive bonus.
NP-Hardness proofs don't say "you would have to solve xyz NP-Hard problem to solve this", they say "if you could solve the problem you're interested in, you could use the solution to solve all other NP-complete problems". It's not that they incorporate a hard problem -- rather, you show that your problem is hard enough that it can be used to solve other hard problems.
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Actually getting my car to receive "digiTV" costs about $700 :)

It's the only TV I have, too.

Why can't there be a cheap set-top box for radios though?
The term of art is "public private partnership".

It's a ridiculous notion -- the government has the ability to raise capital far more cheaply than private capital markets, and revenue from toll-roads is one of the most reliable revenue streams that exist. It's not zero-risk, but pretty close.

It's just a scheme to move debt to somebody else's books, and make more money for various parties. It also provides fertile ground to re-direct anger from government operational incompetence or underinvestment, like plowing in such a way that you create miles of gridlock instead of doing things like pre-treating the road surface to avoid plowing during peak travel times.
Flopped? I dropped cable and went entirely with over-the-air (plus Netflix) in part because OTA digital broadcasts looked better than the overly compressed video that the cable company was pushing - compression artifacts were very visible and annoying.
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Seeing as Redis is already in-memory and has a LRU-cache feature, and he's already caching data from a database in Redis, the whole Node LRU seems awfully redundant and unnecessary.
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I'm gonna bet comment author says they use Xcode for Swift/Objc and Vim/Tmux for everything else. I just came off a small Swift project. Apple makes it difficult to code for their products outside of XCode.
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> Yes, you chopped off the important half of the sentence

It doesn't matter if CRUD apps are easy to write, the point is there's market demand. And for some reason you write them off as trivial, but I've seen some business logic/requirements that'll make your head spin.

> The people I've met that are good at both front-end and back-end development are comfortable in multiple languages to begin with.

This type of position is becoming way more common. But I imagine many of them would prefer to work with one language anyways (I do). It keeps things simple. One language to be an expert on, that can be interviewed for, one testing library, one debugger, one set of coding standards. It's kind of a no brainer. I'd argue that almost any expert front-end dev can be a decent back-end developer.
I'm back in the industry at the moment, but I did quit my job a few years back. I hired an allotment, grew a lot of vegetables, taught myself to bake bread and did a few other projects.

How was it? It was just great and it taught me about living on much smaller amounts of money, which is very helpful now that I have children and I work for a charity.

So maybe that's slightly off topic, and more of a career break than quitting the industry, but I'd still recommend it all the same.
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Definitely, but they could have friends here that can report about what they're doing now. It would be interesting to know.
Pretty much exclusively Sublime. Sometimes I use vim for quick edits on the server, but since I always have WinSCP open along with the SSH connection, it's usually just as fast to use Sublime for remote files, too.

I do plan to get more used to vim once I move away from Windows.
* Visual Studio for C#

* XCode for Swift/ObjectiveC

* VSCode for other languages

* Notepad++ for text editing on Windows

* Textmate for text editing on OSX
I feel the same way you feel. Growing up I was absolutely fascinated with computers and knew I wanted to be a computer scientist since the age of 12 or 13. Now that I'm in the industry (and not in academia like I initially thought I wanted) the magic is gone and I want to get out, hopefully within the next 5 years or so. It's not that I dislike programming, in fact I still love it, but now that I'm solving other peoples' problems instead of working on my own pet projects it's just not the same.

As far as what I'd do afterwards? I'm kind of at a loss. I've had ideas that range from opening a bar to buying a plot of land and farming it, but they all seem so crazy and out of reach.
Optimal in what sense?
An observable cannot change as other. If you attempt it the mobx internals will throw an error. It's been the source of finding logical errors in my code. Also the size of the lib doesn't contribute to calling it magical. Something is magical when it is complex to reason about, due to taking arbitrary seeming decisions behind the scenes.
You're throwing an extremely large class of music under the bus here.

I'd classify anything from New Order to Black Sun Empire as electronic and they couldn't be more different.

Decent electronic music doesn't mean that the same sort of repetitive beats are played at all times (though an occasional minimal techno day would definitely be a thing), rather that different genres are played on different occasions while excluding things like house music with auto tuned vocals.

The concept of building a bar around a genre of music is nothing new (see e.g. jazz and rock bars) and electronic music is more popular than ever.
No, depending on the compiler it is where the call that calls main() and calls global initialization lives, also where support functions for compiler intrisics might live, also the implementation support for data types not directly supported by the architecture, e.g. floating point emulation.
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> or using a wonky middle mouse button that most non-Solaris users never use

.... What?

I've always used windows, OSX and occasionally linux (have never used solaris) and I've always found middle click to open links in the background to be incredibly convenient, and I highly doubt that it's as rarely used as you're implying (especially considering that every single browser I can think of implements that behavior, I doubt they would bother if no one used it).

Middle clicking to close tabs is also incredibly convenient.
The amazing part about JS is that most of the code written for browsers a decade ago still works today.

Yes, that is mostly true, but it glosses over two big problems with the JS ecosystem.

The first is that longevity seems to be a dirty word. I have seen professional JS developers say, without a hint of irony, that their code only needs to last a year, maybe two, so it doesn't need to be designed for long-term maintenance or ongoing development. That same attitude exists in much of the library and tool development, which means while your code might still run in 2 or 5 or 10 years, the dependencies for your code might not have kept up. Even if they still run, they're stuck at whatever level of features and security and flexibility they had when they were abandoned, which might well have been only six months or a year after you added them to your project. Now you have a perma-brake applied to everything you do.

The other big problem with the JS ecosystem is that JS itself is a moving target. Thanks to evergreen browsers, Node, and those controlling them, standardisation and stability also seem to be dirty words now. Your code from 10 years ago, using only basic JS language features, might still run. Unfortunately, your code from 2 years ago, using whatever alpha/beta quality JS features supported promises or observers or local storage at that time, might not. And the same goes for code in dependencies you introduced 2 years ago that are already abandonware.

Multiply those two factors and you have a recipe for instability and frequent unexpected failures unlike anything I have ever seen on any other platform.
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If you want to drive the boat yourself and not get too many questions, you probably want to start looking at a Captain's license. That requires a number of hours on the water and a test. The same is typically required or at least desirable if you want to run a chartering business.
https://www.uscg.mil/nmc/credentials/charter_boat_capt/

RE experience, if you're totally new to sailing I'd start first with some basic sailing expertise at a sailing academy. J-World and others offer "learn to sail" courses as well as cruising courses. An American Sailing Association boat-handling certificate is probably useful as "proof of experience" for future crews. US Sailing's "Safety at Sea" typically run annually in different cities is another good one, and required for most off-shore regattas.

Once you've got the basics down, I'd suggest being a ride-along with a more experienced skipper / crew. Places like Offshore Passage Opportunities provide listings of folks looking for crew, but I'd recommend due diligence if you decide to make the passage:
https://www.sailopo.com/

You might also get yourself on a mailing list for local regattas or sailing forums and say you're looking to help with deliveries. How long / where these things happen will likely vary by region. People do transits from Florida to Carribean all the time. Same with New England to the South each year. Racing boats go from Mid-Atlantic / New England to Florida / Key West around end of the year. In Midwest, deliveries from Mackinaw are common in July after the Mackinaw races. West Coast - not sure, but Transpac (Hawaii - SF) returns and/or Coastal races are probably common.

Best of luck! :)
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- BBC's old mobile site, discontinued in 2015

- https://braille.wunderground.com/

- http://www.smh.com.au/text/ and any other news source that still bothers to make RSS-like versions

- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index-100a.html
Politics. I feel like the world is in a state such that I need to try to change it personally. Incidentally, is it safe to assume that most hackernews readers are developers? I'm a developer, but I wonder what other readers do in their day to day lives? Perhaps people from other fields looking to transition into development?
Don't be afraid to do the next least janky thing. Run with it. It's like David Allen with GTD:

If you can't do it with paper, you don't understand your process enough yet.

A manual process that is well understood can be well automated, an undefined process will struggle as automating something while also defining something always ends being a huge long project. If you can mentally model how to do it in trello, then do it, and come back to the automation step once you see it working (they have an API, you can get there).

Good luck!
Apple should have removed the indicator that showed Tim Cook what his sales goals were.
When you're that rich, money is more of a high score than a tool. A pay cut will have more symbolic and emotional effect than actually lacking that money.
Please remove this link.

JWZ.org attacks viewers referred by ycombinator.com
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You don't have to support users who use your library internals. Django for instance didn't support everyone who relied on undocumented internals in its orm. The standardization for the latest release made those internals clean and documented, but unapologetically broke other people's code including mine.
I really like the setup of your blog! It would be a very good start for me to get back into blogging.
That's incredible. Theoretically you could even wear gloves and the saw would stop as soon as it reached tissue. Although, some sort of conductive work gloves might serve as an additional safety layer so it doesn't even have to hit tissue.
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Someone asks what I manual processes I want automated, I tell them.

Actually, automating "dealing with regulation in general" would be the most amazing thing ever.
Who do think pays the salaries of those engineers?
Actually, if you really want to score some office politics brownie points, you should try to solve the manager's manager's pain points!
Kanye's clothing line, Yeezy, has an impressively minimalist site that works on desktop and mobile.

https://yeezysupply.com/
Completely disagree..

Common people should know the philosophy which shaped the government thinks about their lives and productivity.

Yes econ is not a true science, because it is mostly conjecture supported by handpicked data, but at the same time, it is the only template we have created to think about the complex interactions in the competitive marketplace.

The power of the competitive market is the foundation for all capitalist action, economics is a way to understand how markets intersect and interact.
JWZ looks at referrer headers.

Right click and open in incognito window.
> Having one language for your front end, back end, build tools, database schema... It simplifies life a lot

If only it were a better one.

Maybe something that was designed from the beginning to be a general-purpose programming language, and not a hacked-together-in-a-weekend scripting language intended to add low-grade interactivity to HTML, that has bloated and twisted into the mess it has become.

I'm eagerly awaiting the advent of the WebAssembly era, and honest-to-goodness real compilers. Flying Spaghetti Monster be praised, then we may be able to leave some of this nonsense behind.
The difficult part is that the areas that could be automated are usually the ones that would buy the automation software.

The person signing up for the automation would be reducing their total headcount, making them a perceived smaller player in the overall organization.

I've seen this in the purchasing part of big corporations. They automate with Ariba or similar, but then, don't shrink (even via attrition) to get the benefit.

Worse, because all these people still want something to do, they then inject more manual processes to feel like they are busy. Ugh.
For those interested in this kind of thing, these are a lot like the EOMA68 cards (https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop)
Is this news feed any good?
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Artist - currently trained in code, oil paints, and poetry (to a lesser extent). At the moment my creativity is bounded only by time, money, and a certain lack of technical expertise that would be gained through focused practice.

Scientist - researching complexity and complex systems, my longest-standing passion. I hope to one day contribute significantly to the study of cognition and artificial intelligence.

Politician - after thoroughly studying mathematics, economics, and law. I have strong opinions on humanity's direction and my views are not well represented in US government.

I haven't ruled out any of these for a future life. I'm hoping entrepreneurship will earn me enough cash while I'm still young to fund my future escapades.
I'd be a SCUBA instructor. I almost decided to take a few years off to do it so I could dive full time and put in as much time around live coral while there still is some, but an injury sidetracked me.

There's really nothing like living in some beautiful, tropical place where you get to spend a ton of time in nature. And diving regularly makes me feel 10 years younger.
Markets hate uncertainty. A new president introduces uncertainty in the form of policy changes and agency/department leadership changes via their appointees. And some presidents introduce more uncertainty than others..
And yet, here I hold some cheap (literally $0.99 each) 9w Chinese LED bulbs, several of which have been operating 24/7 for a couple of years, and still working just fine.

So much of a crapshoot.
This story is true... Our speech recognition SDK was designed into this prototype in their pre-Siri days & before we were acquired by Amazon to become the nucleus of Alexa.
Two Google Homes. Decently advanced chatting (seriously, it's spooky sometimes). I secretly hope it's someone at DeepMind's 20% project.
Chrome tends to perform better than Firefox handsdown on my 2015 mbPro.

I went back and tried both the developer edition and the stable release after seeing this post because I want to move away from google as much as possible. But the fact of the matter is that in the hour I was attempting to use firefox I saw the OsX spinning wheel about 20 times. I have never once seen it while using chrome. This killed it for me immediately.

(Notes. I had GPU acceleration turned on, and nearly 6 gigs of free memory.)
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Blogging has one of the most rewarding results there is if done right.
It can be a blog about top lists, football, baseball cards ... it doesn't matter as long as you're doing everything there is to do to make your blog rank good in search engines.
There's this platform coming out soon (1st of february to be precise), if you guys are willing to start blogging, definitely go check it out, as a newbie blogger or even an experienced one, it has everything you need.
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As I read his replies, I was immediately thinking "why not just use middle click"?

Then I saw that line and was just confused. Maybe he has a mouse with a really terrible scroll wheel and has assumed that all scroll wheels are terrible and that no one ever middle clicks?