skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> besides sticking to a regimen of submitting applications and doing more networking?

Zero-in on decision-making targets. Cold email/cold call individuals who you can help (ie CTO/CIO's, VPs & Directors Engineering) at interesting companies in your market.

Share your story, seeking advice. Ask if they have time for a 10-15 minute Skype/call. These guys will relate to your situation. And likely qualify whether your background is a good match for their team. But do everything you can to avoid the HR Flunky filter.
It's tougher for employees who work multiple part-time jobs. They're in the business less frequently, and they can't keep up with changes.
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Yes, the same here, I came into a company with JIRA set up like a trello board, and all this awesome integration (stuff gets moved from "in progress" to "code review" automatically on a PR on that feature branch) and I got to work on top of the shoulders of giants.
org-mode with babel (org-babel) can be used for just about any code base these days.
Did you know you can use Firefox Developer Tools to remotely debug mobile Chrome? It's still in heavy development, but I'm guessing it's easier than trying to quiesce browser activity and tease out network events manually. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Valence
That's what I use http://http.rip for :D
The "nothing to be done" disaster is problematic. Did this condition originate from concepts developed by 16th century thinkers? Why don't we consider the volumes written in Arabic? The platform of sixteenth century thought that remains with us did not emerge from nothingness. Also, if the concept is not flawed, someone preceded them in correctness. "Attribution Disease"
Sadly, the website doesn't show anything without JS.
It's free market, isn't it? Take it or leave it - nobody forces you to use Google ad network. ;). /s

At this point I'm convinced that nothing but regulation can make those big companies - on which our digital lives are more and more dependent - to provide even a modicum of customer support. Right now they don't care, because they simply don't have to - a HN headline every other week doesn't create measurable losses, because users don't have comparable alternatives (and the Internet, paradoxically, has very short memory). On the other hand, having customer support costs real money...

EDIT: Added a sarcasm tag next to the winkie, just in case someone mistakes my comment for a defense of Google.
> Iceberg B-9, which calved in 1987, still has a few chunks sitting around.

Thanks for posting, and curious about this. When icebergs subdivide, how is tracking accomplished?

I assume late 80s was recent enough for decent resolution space imagery?
Google has long since passed the point of critical mass and a self-sustaining reaction. These days an individual publisher needs Google much more than Google needs an individual publisher. So why should Google spend resources on customer care when, as years of HN and other sites' threads demonstrate, it doesn't matter? The individual publisher can be relied on to claw at the rock at his own expense to attempt resolution.

Google is doing very well, and lack of support hasn't harmed them. It's not just that customer care is done algorithmically; my guess is that the meta-decision on whether or how much customer care is needed is also algorithmic.
Microservice architecture
Simpler than that; Nissan's been working on it, and it's finally been announced:

http://www.autoblog.com/2017/01/10/nissan-self-driving-cars-...

> For example, Sierhuis described a situation where a temporary construction site, something like a crew repairing a traffic light, would confuse the car. Not only would the traffic signal be missing for the AI to process, but we would also have a worker waving cars through the intersection. It's a prime, real-world example of a challenge that is basically impossible to program into software. With SAM, when a self-driving Nissan approaches a situation like this, it stops and sends a signal to a human operator. This operator, called a Mobility Manager, checks the camera feeds from the car, high-definition maps, and whatever else he can, and then plots a new route for the car to take. This information is then sent to all the other Nissan AI machines in the area so that they don't have a problem when they approach the same intersection.
I use http://plop.org, a whole four characters shorter!
It gets worse. My software has to run on my customer's computers. These can be any of RHEL 5, 6, or (rarely) 7. It'll be a few years before I can safely deliver C++ 11 software, and I snicker at the Pythonistas complaining about how people don't migrate from 2.7 to 3.x --- I frequently need to support Python 2.6.

Rust, Swift, C++14, Python 3, etc... are all several years in the future for me.
Less complexity, I imagine. If you've already got a beefy MySQL setup, then maintaining a separate Redis setup will introduce quite a bit of redundancy and chances for failure. Given that the big SQL databases have key value engines these days, you're going to get decent performance out of them as well.
Please add your twitter handle to your profile. :)
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Hah, I mean, we weren't a research aquarium, and this was ten years ago, but calling the local university wouldn't have been a terrible idea.
Hah, I use http://httpbin.org.
You wouldn't even need drones, the aggregate of all the cars' sensors would be enough.
That first line was an excellent "quote" (the developers! developers! developers! line).

Yes, Ballmer said that but with Nadella, Microsoft seems to have focused once again on developers as a main influencer and buying segment. Although it's probably fair to say that Microsoft has courted the dev community for quite a while with things like ActiveX, VBA, FrontPage (eek! lol) and other technologies built-in to their products.

You're also probably quite accurate that devs loved Apple maybe even more than Apple loved devs. The UNIX underbelly of OSX was great for many developers and the build quality of their hardware and software. But with their purposeful neglect of Applescript and even browser engine choice on iOS, there are many small razor cuts that Apple seems to be ignoring.

I still like the company and some of their products but the perception from the business press, developer community and maybe even users of mistakes in hardware and software are taking some of the shine off. And for a company seen as a standard-bearer in tech, that should be cause for concern for Apple execs.
A lot of software help host their own source code and development. Just considering Github,
1. MySQL is hosted on Github.
2. I think they use elasticsearch and it is hosted on github.
and lots of others
Software is pretty cool like that!
Nope. There really isn't, or if there is, it's niche dependent. To diversify away from Google, I've tried other ad providers and struggled to make 20% as much...
I don't know why are you getting angry over them. They are not government. Also this point perfectly apply for people from EU.
> No. The problem is the commit message,

That's true.
Calling it "cryptographically secure" could easily send the wrong signals.
It's meant for network traffic authentication and hash-tables.
Using it in all places where you previously used SHA is not a good idea.
Hopefully the kernel developers will know when it's suitable.
Actually they mentioned Venom, and did describe the "churchburners" as the second wave
that's very nice too, although I can't quite work out why someone's labelled grunge as "goth metal"
I'm with you. Its objectively a move in the right direction. is it far enough? maybe not. Seems shitty to chastise a company for moving toward better privacy and transparency while listening to customer feedback. Seems like "a damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.
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Jokes on them, I come to hn just to read the comments.
Do you have some references for this (I was afraid this was a problem but hadn't looked into it)? Been wanting to talk to my son about that. He loves the music, he's seemingly not racist, but repeated exposure to that crap is not good.
Am I pricing myself well? $40k a year for a half-time remote DevOps Engineer
Hi HN,

My ultimate goal is to work for myself. I'm pretty convinced at at the moment, remote half-time is the best way for me to get there.

I've put out an offer to work for $40,000 a year for 20 hours a week as a DevOps Engineer. That title isn't exact -- I could probably be a newbie Full Stack Engineer in Python, an SRE, or a systems engineer depending on the place. The titles are never too exact.

This is my Github: https://github.com/teran-mckinney

My offer for work: http://go-beyond.org/systems-engineering/

My thoughts on half-time work: http://go-beyond.org/post/the-forty-hour-work-week/

Am I pricing myself appropriately? Where can I best find such a role?

I normally go for about $120k full time in the Bay Area or Austin, depending on the company. I figure I need to cut down the rate a bit for half-time and remote.

Thank you!
True. It used to be like that at the beginning, but now it's rare.
Woah, wild. Well, in my case, I don't have the video footage because this was 10 years ago, so yup this falls right into the same hearsay category as those two.

I would guess that Octopi just tend to do this. They really are smart and can fit through crazy small spaces.
Please enable it for Poland! We usually speak English pretty well :)
Create plenum space with drop ceiling 3-ft below actual ceiling?
Even worse, apparently they provide:

> DOB, Gender, Marital Status, Household Income, Home Ownership Status, Presence of Children, Home Market Value, Length of Residence, Hight Net Worth, Occupation, & Education Level

from https://nextcaller.com/pricing/
With generational time of almost 20 years?

What you are taking about is an ordinary blood-borne sexually transmitted decease model (or a virus), and it has nothing to do with genetics (gene expression is a developmental topic), so there will be no "marks on a DNA" in principle - it does not work that way.

There, however, could be some certain proteins bound to DNA, but it is a not a genetic but biochemical (pathogenic-like) change. Those proteins could be treated as markers.

The propagation rate of such proteins is still limited by the generation time, so any connection to cultural differences is nonsense.

So, it is not genetic, there is no marks on DNA, it is not cultural. Period.
Woah, Fark still exists and looks almost exactly how I remember it 15 years ago
Imagine if we had the unambiguous source code for our own bodies? AI will be able to have that without any work, and can modify and recompile with little to no effect and all benefit in the matter of seconds, where humans have to wait years.

This is referred to as the intelligence explosion[0] or AI Foom[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion

[1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Hanson-Yudkowsky_AI-Foom...
But is that guaranteed to never use SSL?
Lucky. Every time I've switched on H-1B, I've been advised by immigration lawyers to not tell my current employer for fear of retaliation, along with anecdotes to convince me that the retaliation risk is real and happens in the bay area.

It's extremely painful secret to keep -- it's unfair to be unable to talk to coworkers about your future plans (as instructed by legal council), and one that detriments career growth (you're forbidden from discussing early on that you are likely to quit, at a time when it may be reconcilable with your current employer, and lead to better things: new positions, pay rises, etc.).
Your smiley indicates to me that you are being facetious. If you don't like living there or doing that job, move.
You don't need a polyfill to deploy Webp. Chrome automatically sends webp in the Accept headers for images, so on the CDN level you could implement some logic to seamlessly swap in Webp images for the browsers that support it. Imgix does this for instance.
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Data mining :(

The reverse append used to be the favorite of the direct mail industry that was the most sophisticated with modeling before advent of the online ecosystem.

You can infer a lot about the person from their profile if it's public and also can try to match back to existing customer records if it's private.

EDIT: "reverse append" is the act of appending data to a phone call record based on the phone number.
One company I worked for, we architected on Microsoft with no looking back during the dotcom boom of the late 90s, early 2000s. Within about 3-4 years after that, the transition was made wholly to open source such as Python, Linux, PHP after a lot of little frustrations piled up such as the licensing models for our backend servers, dev tools and so forth.
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> You're citing Darkthrone, for instance, which is basically the poster-child band for teenagers using metal as an excuse to shoot people and burn things.

No, they aren't. You're thinking of Varg Vikernes of Burzum, and maybe Faust from (early) Emperor. Fenriz, Nocturno Culto and most of the rest of the Norwegian scene had nothing to do with Varg's 'black metal politics'.

As for getting around how "overtly racist" those bands are: you can't, at least with releases like Fullmoon's United Aryan Evil. If the subject matter bothers you, you simply don't listen.
agreed. most of the time it's google or bust.
That's actually a really interesting idea - hand off driving to a remote person when the conditions are bad.

But would a car's connectivity and latency allow for that to be safe?

Edit: If not there would still be some form control needed for the passenger.
Slightly off topic, but any recommendations on Mercyful Fate stuff? I don't know much of their back catalogue, though I did play this at a Halloween party once, I enjoyed it immensely, other people not so much!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObAaVZwULH4
I've been using 1.1.1.1 for years. It's easy to type and seems to call up interstitial screens fast, especially the NYC subway wifi portal, where seconds count.

Of course this thread makes me wonder if I've been doing it wrong.
You could have a list of interesting places you can see on StreetView while sitting on your butt.
This is what I get for scanning for the quoted part, finding it, and assuming that was all that was said. I take back what I said.
Good catch, I never noticed that one.
Love the idea of symbols in any language but they really should be implemented as syntactical not functional. Ruby does this well.
I do a talk called "social media for social evil" where I talk about these aspects.

When I advise companies working on a major new initiatives and hiring for those, that they ask employees not to update their Linked In for a few months, don't mention the company on social media, etc. It means competitors are slower to see the change.

I've been writing about it off and on for ~10 years too: http://caseysoftware.com/blog/tag/trouble
I like that one. My domains for this purpose are: http://i.net/ and http://ip4.me/ (or http://ip6.me, if you know you have IPv6 connectivity)
It's nice to see more news media moving towards using HTTPS.

NYTimes now joins a small club, alongside the Guardian and the Washington Post.

Here's a dev blog post on the WaPo moving to https: https://developer.washingtonpost.com/pb/blog/post/2015/12/10...

And one on the Guardian moving to https: https://www.theguardian.com/info/developer-blog/2016/nov/29/...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13368744.
Can you compile a completely static executable and ship that? Or do you need to compile on distributions as old as RHEL 5?
This is standard Microsoft BS.

"Basic" telemetry is absolutely not required for Windows to function. How do I know that? Because I turned it off using a 3rd party program (link below) and Windows still functions.

Windows Enterprise and Education can set telemetry to "Security" which is ACTUALLY a minimum reasonable setting for Windows to function. They explicitly block Windows Home and Pro users from setting telemetry to "Security".

It's outrageous that MS gets away with this. If only videogames released on MacOS, I would have switched years ago.

O&O Shutup10: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

"Security" telemetry description: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...
Wouldn't your geography teacher be more annoyed than your history teacher, or have I missed the point?
Right but your assertion here is completely unfounded. It is a theory. Quantifying that nothing in someones life (or their past) is causing them depression is near impossible. This charade is completely scientifically unprovable.

Edit: changed the word sadness to depression.
Doesn't Scala use Java libraries? I'd be very surprised if availability of libraries for the JVM is significantly less than that of Python.
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How do you see the competition, not just Headspace but also other upcoming players?

Do you expect many more in this space and how defensible is this model?
Hubris combined with the amount of power Google has is a recipe for disaster.
That's a bit suprising and I think sad. One would expect Github would have at least reached out and informed and thanked you at the very least if not tried to support your project in some active way.

Whenever this comes up on the HN the perspective is quickly shifted to the developer's choice of license but there are no expectations. But let's shift the perspective to the other side. Surely startups and others using open source projects for commercial reasons even if not obligated legally or not expected to by the developers have some ecosystem responsibility to try to contribute back when they can in some meaningful way.

Acquiring open source projects or hiring developers are 'influence plays' to gain control and should not be the only way for commerical projects to contribute.
From my experience, Mac's brew package manager ecosystem is actually quite unstable and prone to breaking. I know a few developers who believe that Linux's apt-get is generally more stable.
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Pretty much anything you read about Darkthrone in particular is going to point out their involvement with Varg Vikernes (who basically put Black Metal on the map) --- who is a neo-Nazi (a "blood and soil nationalist") and a convicted murderer --- and released an album with overtly antisemitic messages.
So you're doing 4x5 handheld? I don't understand your point. If there's anything digital clearly wins at is at getting you better results than film for a given physical constraint. It has better sensitivity so takes better advantage of the light, it has more density per unit of area so gets you more resolution per unit of camera volume or weight, etc. The only thing film still wins at is being able to cheaply build larger "sensors" since film doesn't get more expensive to manufacture larger. And as sensors have gotten better it's gotten harder and harder to actually realize a benefit from larger film up to a point where you need a large cumbersome camera in a very sturdy mount and really good technique and process to have a shot at it. I expect that within the next 5 years multi-sensor/multi-lens cameras and a bit of software to finish off the last few advantages there still are[1].

[1] https://gearjunkie.com/multi-lens-light-l16-camera
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I started newly learning elixir. It makes fun.
So in your opinion, I should make the "What is Currently" the front one, and the "Why I Built It" one as the background/secondary?

Does anyone else have thoughts on this?
Right, but Vikernes collaborated with Darkthrone, didn't he?

I can appreciate a lot of metal, but do not generally enjoy black metal just on musical grounds. But I find with repeated exposure I can usually find something to appreciate and enjoy in almost any music. When I was a teenager I had friends who were into the Black Metal scene (mostly because of theatrical bullshit like Vikernes and Euronymous), but after learning how racist the bands were, I decided not to acquire a taste for the music.
Changing how you say something often won't avoid the downvotes. If it's something a lot of people don't agree with, you'll get downvoted anyway.

The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.
Devilskin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm0DfUsDBBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfzXCl-D-Y

Turisas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzDWSkNuE-w is from their concept album, _The Varangian Way_, about a northerner who goes to Constantinople to join the Varangian guard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUvCFW6SfIQ an acoustic version of one of their numbers that show the folk metal roots a little more clearly; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ift85e38H3M was their first notable song; and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdkBs0VCSX0 is a very silly cover of a disco song.

Not every day you see a metal band with an accordian player.

Nightwish: when Tarja Turunen was still a member they were one of the defining operatic metal bands; metral ballads like Sleeping Sun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejnck_pnSWk) and Nemo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUTTA2X74N4), and more orthodox metal like Slaying the Dreamer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm6fc3z0GM) and Wish I Had an Angel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR4QvZUgpMc). Also the incredibly silly Dragonlance inspired Wishmaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAbVkagvYc0 Unfortunately they fired Tarja at the end of the concert these videos came from, and have moved to a more orthodox vocalist.

I do not know how to describe Kontrust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhPOlIuSXM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUO9SNCBL6U

Alestorm: pretty tongue-in-cheek; "pirate metal" - like Turisas they're arguably an offshoot of the folk metal branch of metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0
I would have also liked to specifically know which other innovators you admired at Apple and what they moved on to.
>Why would that be? Self-driving cars should want to stay on the road in all cases.

Self driving cars already know how to park and get out of the road.

The rest of the argument goes into bizarro land. Can't tell if trolling...

First, a stop vehicle in the middle on the road is a surefire way to a multi-car collision at worse, and traffic fines at best. Both of which would be avoided by any self driving algorithm not written (or approved if it's something like a neural network) by Harpo Marx.

Second, "It's obviously maximal for MY vehicle to stay on the road at all times" is not an argument, since self driving algorithms are not written and optimized for the car owners sole convenience but also for overall traffic, traffic regulations, and several other considerations besides...
Don't worry, I'm young and I still don't get it except as a novelty.
My machine wouldn't boot anymore because I followed apt's suggestion to run apt-get autoremove.

There are many packages and apps out there that get released but are far from stable, and no easy way for non-devs (as in Linux devs) to opt out of unstable software.

I don't charge a crazy amount of money, but 2 hours are a long time to waste for a developer, and I've wasted many times that with Xenial. That, while being someone used to using the terminal and installing and configuring server software on a daily basis.
Although to be fair the link that was provided also adds the "chain reaction" in a fire tetrahedron.
http://apple.com will probably always work since that's what ios uses when you join a network.

I think specifically this url:
http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
I pitched something similar a few years back to a client and the client's architect agreed there was value in it but we couldn't make it fit in our sprint schedule so went with some other user stories.
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