skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consulting. If you like solving different problems for different people, nothing will get you more variety of problems and people who have them than consulting. If you want to focus on the development and client relations bits, join a consulting firm with a solid sales team and smart devs to help you learn areas you're weak in.

Source: I've been a consultant for 3 years out of the 5 that I've been a developer. I always grow and learn the most and get the most customer contact in these roles.
I clicked the link without looking at the poster, and by the end of the "What’s the Catch?" paragraph I was thinking to myself that this really seems like something written by The Munificent Bob. Then I read the first sentence of the next paragraph :)

I really like your blog, I have read all of it, some posts even 2-3 times, and not only because of the content, but your writing style. I will probably read this book too ;)

Also, I think Magpie is awesome.
The point is that he just tells you everything is amazing and to please buy it from Amazon so he can support his ever growing family.

And sometimes his advice is good, sometimes it isn't but as a newbie you don't know which part you can trust and which one is one of his peculiarities. Therefore I would avoid following his opinions. His list of camera/lens specs is admittedly pretty good.

And the other issue is that his photos are so comically bad that I kinda have problems taking whatever he says seriously.
5 of the silliest mountain firsts
Yeah but you can install a Debian on a RPi Compute Module, that's what I was trying to say (and certainly will do).

Side note, if anyone from NEC is reading: light grey text on white background. My eyes hurt.
6 areas of artificial intelligence to watch closely
Thanks for the advise and: no.

I really have to get over the reverse Dunning–Kruger Effect (I know enough to know how much I don't know). In practice this is not an issue: if a problem is solved is farely easy to verify, but making statements is something else.

I will work on this :)
There are many traffic exchange sites that use automated software to click or view ads. Most of them run on server ips or they're using a proxy. http://getIPIntel.net is a free and useful service to combat bad / low quality traffic. Though to save you money, your advertiser needs to not bill you for automated traffic. It's unlikely that'll happen because the more views and clicks, the more money they'll get. You can still use GetIPIntel's api to help you pick which advertising company gives you legitimate traffic.
Companies spend millions creating brochures and distributing them. By having a website you can skip that entirely. Your potential customers can find out about you and any of your products online. If you get most of your business through networking and personal connections, then they will want to check out your website.
More 'VV', per traditional Latin spelling. 'U' is a relatively new letter.
First humans arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than believed
The 2nd option sounds good. In both cases I guess I have to apply a lot and see what I can get. Thanks for the advice!
I was surprised about the long comment and was going to suggest to make it a blog post. Well :)

We definitly are on to somethere there, now lets hope some people pick it up and find better solutions.

You went more technical and provides more direct reasons, i learned a few things from your article. So kudos for that!

I'll make a long back to your post as well, seems like a good followup for interested people, and as said a little more detailed about the technical implications
Just 8 Men Own Same Wealth as Half the World
And further, I'd point at the observed evolution of the Peppered Moth in response to evolutionary pressures during the industrial revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution
Very much true. I don't think the two reasons are exclusive; it is probably a factor mix. Lowered development costs, economies of scale, need for competitive edge in a market that slopes into commoditization.
The author makes a classical mistake, thinking that the displaced low-skill workers can and will gain high-tech skills. I think that's a complete pipe dream. Yes, millions are employed in IT and engineering, but we're talking about billions of uneducated or barely educated people who will lose their jobs very quickly.

If you want to see what happens when people go into IT out of necessity, look at the Indian IT market. It's full of "programmers" who can't solve the simplest problems, who hate what they do, who produce really low quality code. (And don't get me wrong, India has their share of talented and brilliant guys, but the average case is rather bad).

Not only that, we don't have the IT jobs, even if all of them did learn to code.

As far as I can see, welfare state is inevitable, as much as I'm against it. It's still better than to let people lose their homes and/or starve.
Try getIPIntel.net
I remember reading a lot about staying during the winter in Antarctica from this: http://www.funraniumlabs.com/category/antarctica/

Alcohol, lot of alcohol.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
The Man Who Built Silicon Valley: A Tribute to Andy Grove
Michael Lynton Exiting Sony to Serve as Snapchat Chairman
If USA cuts the military budget just in half (~$500bil/2=$250bil/year) then using those funds in 5 years we could connect Washington to Philadelphia to New York to Boston to Portland. In another 5 years the rail could reach Chicago or Carolinas.

Traveling at 186mph on passenger speed train i could easily work in New York City (dirty city, median home price $750,000) and live in the burbs near the ocean near New Heaven CT (25min commute, beautiful nature and median home price 161,000$).

Teachers could finally afford homes... while working in the expensive cities.

But this is not going to happen. Instead we are going to build more sophisticated weapon systems... enrich military contractors, financial sector and pharmaceutical industries.
Specialize in an industry instead of a technology.
I know a guy who collects people as layoff fodder at a bank.

He finds a group that is tenuously related to what he does, uses bureaucrat-kungfu to take them on, then uses them when the next 10% layoff comes. So he protects his core team that generates his bonus, and gets the extra bonus for firing people.
Curious about the 2. JWTs are signed via a secret key right? Couldn't the backend verify the signature and reject the token. I am pretty confident most JWT implementation does that automatically.

The dude just didn't think about that or looked into how JWTs work. Which I believe is even worse :<
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

An interesting mix of computer science and psychology. Just started on this one recently. Highly recommended by a colleague. Seems great so far.
I think https://egghead.io is a great place to learn the latest of frontend development.

There's some free stuff out there like Dan Abramov's videos on react Redux (he is the creator of Redux) that will really help you understand the concept of stores, actions and reducers, but you'll also find videos on Angular etc.

Also I would suggest you learn stuff by doing small projects. Reading only has never worked for me as well as getting hands dirty.
Believing there is one true self and you need to find it brings even more suffering and burden if you are not able to. One needs to preoccupy themselves with activities and interests with small expectations and appreciate all the things they do have. For example I am always happy that I am still alive, I consider it a victory.
This is very nice to see.

I would note however that the use of the AGPL instead of the GPL here is probably legally meaningless. I wrote about this: https://www.devever.net/~hl/agplunenforceable
We were doing that previously in our homegrown framework. Session would include id, username, and an expiration timestamp along with a salted hash of that data to confirm. We've since moved away from it (and the entire homegrown framework, actually) because we realized it didn't make anything easier, but we've never had an issues with that data being in the session (it was all publicly available regardless).

In the end, though, it is probably best to err on the safe side and only expose a salted and hashed session ID via cookies, and then doing a server side lookup to get the necessary data (which you would need to do regardless)
A short history of color theory
It seems a bit counterintuitive that open hardware results in less choice, so I disagree. I think that hardware is getting more and more open, also drivers for it. With FPGAs it is (relatively) straightforward for one to create it's own crypto processor and integrate it in the system. Also PCBs are getting easier and cheaper to make. I hope that also there will be some open PCB designs that incorporate some kind of crypto chips and functionalities outside of CPUs, so everyone can start creating their own servers, if desired.

Didn't also Facebook started some open server hardware initiative? I don't remember what happened with that...

I do agree that the current status is not great, and that we could all benefit from more open hardware design. I think that it would also benefit large companies as well.
"join a consulting firm" That is good advice, sounds like a good fit. I don't feel expert enough to consult freelancing, but with the backing of a firm it should be more easy to figure out where my weaknesses are.
Traditionally, the uppercase was written as 'V' and the lowercase as 'u', though sometimes the lowercase would be written as 'v' at the beginning of a word (compare with 's', which was written as 'ſ' except at the end of a word).

It's not so much that 'U' was created as a brand-new letter as it was that they split 'V' and 'u' into separate letters.
prepping for google interview?
"High-speed rail (HSR) is best suited for journeys of 1 to 4½ hours (about 150–900 km or 93–559 mi)" https://www.travelstatsman.com/08082016/high-speed-rail-trai...

... perfectly suited to link China's smaller cities, but not direct connections to it's major cities.

Maybe driven more by environmental reasons (arguably fewer emissions than plane travel) rather than economic reasons (besides job creation, etc).
Reviewing with someone else can be a challenge for self-study; that's the step a test suite would replace.

Of course someone could use the test suite to just make changes semi-randomly until it works, but there's no reason it has to be used that way.
They can take your domain away, for example, if you fail to respond to an inquiry regarding invalid contact info. Anyone can initiate one of those inquiries. And, of course, there's the various domain name dispute policies at ICANN.
"Progress" is generally considered to be the first derivative of societal wealth, not the zeroth, and generally measured logarithmically rather than linearly. So, basically, "percentage annual increase in GDP" (or other similar measure, ignoring the questionability of any one of them for now). I don't have proof as to which of modern China and Victorian England is progressing more quickly, but the claim at least passes the smell test. (Personally I wouldn't trust either number I could get, as I think China is probably lying about their growth percentages and Victorian growth percentages would be a historical estimate only, so comparing two numbers I consider unreliable would not produce much information.)
Yes, and they have been for the past 3.5 years. And by the time hits gets _implemented_, we're looking at another year.

Here's hoping their update/API servers are well protected ...
Something that motivates me is knowing that I could easily be in a much worse situation. I'm working indoors on computers, and I'm not being actively shot at, so pretty good overall.
I would love to see this.

Every article about rampant ad fraud inevitably contains a comment thread where ad consultants appear to make claims that other people "just can't do it right". Let's see it done right, then.
Do you have serious equity if things work out?
>AFAIUI from a recent talk by Alan Kay his original intention was that communication would be async ..

This talk maybe ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY
I didn't think anyone assumed the money came out of his personal account, but it was his leadership that saved that industry, which I thought was clear by what I meant. Most people at the time were saying the auto industry should save themselves -- go through bankruptcy restructuring, etc.

I think you really exaggerate how "easy" this decision was to write a check -- it was not a popular decision at the time. That money had to come from Congress, remember, it isn't like Obama can write checks when he feels like it.

Totally reasonable to debate whether GM and others should have been given money, but most of that money was paid back and that industry is doing better now:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/sep/06/...

http://www.politifact.com/new-hampshire/statements/2012/oct/...

So I think it's valid to say his leadership prevented a domino collapse of that industry through those government loans and it didn't really cost the government much, if anything, except maybe setting a bad example that auto companies can depend on government help in the future?
A lot of people I work with in Montréal only speak English. It's not a big deal because everyone else is bilingual so the communication isn't broken. The main problem is when it comes to finding a job - speaking French and English is usually a core requirement. If you don't, you'll have to compensate.
And Latin used ae "to transliterate the Greek diphthong αι (alpha iota)" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86)

Oe is also used in the same way I suppose, oestrogen for example comes from οιστρογόνο so in this case
oe is transliterating omicron iota.

Some more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_of_Greek_origin#...

I was actually a bit disappointed that she doesn't mention all this in the article, "ae" is not aesthetical (another greek-derived word) ffs, it very often maintains the historical orthography of the word which I feel is very important.
To take my domain legally from me there is a complicated procedure involved, its nothing that can just happen from today to tomorrow because a third party wanted it. Which is in fact the case with phone numbers. At least the one i actually read the contract for.

Controlling my DNS is pretty much the same scenario as hacking my phone. Both can happen, both dont have to happen.

Edit:// I checked, taking my Domain from me if data is correct and i pay is close to impossible, costly and takes forever. This is really far from beeing the same as with a phone number
From the guidelines [1]:

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

It's fine to make whatever comment you think is appropriate, but if others think your suggestion is, say, unhelpful, they express their discontent by downvoting your comment. It's no big deal :)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wish a linguist would write an article like this, or a response to it
> Version 1 is now being obsoleted

No, it's not. They specifically say in the article that they will continue producing and supporting it.
Physicists taking jobs as Silicon Valley software engineers
Diet libc – a libc optimized for small size
I think what you're looking for is https://500px.com/
This is basically nonsense. Why are we assuming that finishing something has intrinsic value? In fact its often a waste of time to pursue something so far. I would argue the most value in any experience is the lesson learned, NOT the blog post you choose to write about it. The point is to satisfy your curiosity and thirst for knowledge not to publish your ramblings for random strangers online. Finishing things just for the sake of 'finishing' (an term that is never clearly defined in the scope of the article), is absurd.
Obamacare’s Demise Is a Looming Disaster for Mental Health
> It means something like "That which is now in a way consistent with that which has been and will be". To me, that's evolution.

Could you elaborate on why you see that as reflecting evolution? To me, being consistent with past and future means stasis and would preclude the evolution of such diverse lifeforms as we see today.
I have a high end PC, but Firefox is... what it is ;P
And the UK used to do things too. Your past tense is correct.

Whether this is a good or bad thing, well, see debates in other comments.
Another guess: a handle on the outside costs less than one on both sides and there is a window to access the outside handle.

Or: passengers were not supposed to operate those doors, there was railway personnel for that (this assumes very old trains)

Check: there is something about that issue here https://lukehalliwell.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/horrible-door...

"they firstly removed the interior door handles as a dirt-cheap “safety” measure to discourage people from getting out of the train before it stopped, then realised that they hadn’t actually discouraged everyone and had instead made jumping early even more dangerous, so they added a central locking system to keep the doors locked until the train stopped. Of course, in a quintessential piece of British train-related incompetence, they didn’t bother to put the handles back on once they had central locking."
It's a shame Heathrow's terminal buildings have been rebuilt in the last 15 years, rather than shut down with an airport in a sensible place constructed to replace it.

The noise of flights landing over London for 17 hours a day, pretty much every 90-120 seconds, is miserable.
You'd probably notice because that page would not ask about the 2FA.
Portions of DC are constantly closing for summits when other leaders come to the city. Day to day, I think the area around the White House is always sufficiently secure that the president leaving doesn't cause much of a disruption.
I'm running Chromium 54 on Arch Linux, which I am assuming is not affected, since that page only names version 53. Interestingly, there is no certificate problem on a Windows machine on the same network.
Cloudflare explains how FBI gag order impacted business
Atlas and BOMI: Weapons for a new frontier
> Evolution is not blind

what is your evidence for this claim?

when you say "how can we account for butterflies that mimic wing coloration Of toxic counterparts to ward off birds" there's no reason to suppose the development of that would need to be directed.
The linked article is picking nits. I wonder how old some of the traipsed up accusations are -- it appears the complaints re: RAW are 9-ish years old [0]. Rockwell talks about filling up 8 GB memory cards, which is a real concern when shooting multiple exposures in RAW. The difference is that now we have 128GB memory cards (which I can still get about 65% full in one night when shooting everything RAW+JPEG), faster cameras and computers, and there is little risk of RAW formats becoming unreadable.

It is also true that it takes a lot of effort to manually go through and process each individual RAW image. You either have to select a balanced preset that you think will work well and copy and paste it across the whole set and hope it turns out or spend 10-20 minutes making individual adjustments on each photo you want to use. It is very time-consuming. That hasn't changed much, though most of the compatibility and technical things he mentions are no longer issues even for photographers with budget gear.

He also has a follow-up where he argues that shooting in film is the "real RAW", which is an understandable position for someone who has spent a good deal of his life doing photography when film was the only option. [1]

His points there are solid, but personally, as an amateur don't-really-care-that-much photographer, I would never give up the convenience of digital or the photo-saving ability provided by RAWs.

Maybe if I was a better photographer "just shoot it right once instead of going back through for the second chance", as Rockwell recommends (though I'm not sure if he'd give that same advice today, almost a decade down the road), would be a feasible option, but it's not so right now. RAW combined with a miracle-grade processing pipeline (DxO) has saved my bacon many times.

The rest of the complainant's article primarily seems focused on Rockwell's spartan writing style. I think his bluntness and simplicity is a big reason for his success. Whereas many camera/lens review sites will swamp the reader with 25 middling pages of text that are mostly nonsense, Rockwell's reviews are a few pages long, have large, clean, detailed images of the reviewed item, clean section headers, and most sections have only two or three sentences.

There's no reason to get upset about Rockwell's personal opinions, which are what he shares on his personal site "kenrockwell.com". You don't have to agree. One of the reasons photography is so popular is because it's so subjective and there is tons of room for individual variation and freedom in basically everything. Let's not get too worked up here.

[0]: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm

[1]: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/real-raw.htm
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Your dad gave you some valuable advise. Great man.
I've also been in your exact same situation with family, friends and gf.

What helped me the most is having a friend who was going through the same. Sharing your problem with someone that is actually in the same spot makes you stronger.
I dont know about other countries, carriers or contracts. But my contract clearly stated that my phone provider can cancel the account anytime without prior notice if they think that is necessary. Its a typical piece of text you find in many service based business contracts. I dont claim to know what exactly this means, but it surely is a difference to having to sue me for a valid reason to be allowed to take over my domain. A process that not only takes a while but also has several prior warnings.

Sure it is not _mine_ ether. But it is more mine than a phone number ever will be.

Edit:// I tried to look it up, except trademark stuff (and even then its not easy) i dont see any reason a domain could be taken away from the renter while beeing paid for.
A more mainstream problem would be moving, or even traveling for a moderate amount of time to another country. Within the EU, that's fairly common, as many countries are rather small and the borders between them are rather open. For comparison with the US, the barriers to this are a little higher than moving to another state, but not a lot higher.

Having important services tied to a phone number, which remains relatively tied to a country is problematic in the modern world even for people who aren't especially "outcast".
Insidious phishing leverages on fake attachments to steal Gmail credentials
Simple: because it's not Stack Overflow ;)
It's a different site of Stack Exchange, with slightly different goals, and several orders of magnitude smaller (low tens of thousands vs. high millions of users) - which is IMNSHO the crucial difference. On the scale of SO, this question would get asked by ten different users a day, and consequently it would get closed.
What advantages are in developing in Qt? (2016)
> While this is technically an "s", the way it was written "ſ" can be confusing, as it is quite close to "f".

And when set in italics, it looks like the integral symbol: ſ (depending on your font, it may or may not have a descender)

In fact, this is where Leibniz got the idea for the integral symbol: it stood for ſumma, Latin for "sum".