skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it's nonsense, and of course Trump's going to try to help (and avoid harming) his own fortune, and maybe this is even a case of that, it just happens that "discriminating against the same countries been bombing" doesn't require "discriminating against countries that contain Trump properties", so unless we get a leaked memo where he explicitly forbids doing anything to affect travel from those other countries, the conflict of interest case is pretty weak.

Meanwhile, I think the move is motivated by 1) actual interests of people in his cabinet and advisory group (notably Bannon), and 2) populist pandering for re-election. I think that's sufficient motivation. I think the ham-fisted implementation of the policy is either arrogance meeting incompetence or an attempt to anchor expectations so low that Republican elected officials can later happily get on board with him when he's merely being very awful instead of incomprehensibly awful, saying he's "learned". I hope it's the former.
>But the truth is, it's perfectly possible for anyone to adjust their sleep schedule and become a morning person.

You seem to be conflating waking up early and being a morning person. With a rigid schedule night people can adjust to an earlier schedule (i did for several years) but that wont make someone with later rhythms be as productive as they would be on a more natural (for them) schedule
Cool. Did you find anything about it interesting?
>The most gifted (which I define as the cross-section between talented and practiced) people I know tend to care more about the content of your character than your technical prowess.

Odd choice of words, wouldn't it make more sense to switch the meaning of 'talented' and 'gifted'? A 'gift' is something you receive without sacrifice, while a 'talent' needs to be honed.
Because that's not what 'actually happened'.

A single young man with a sordid past and complicated relationship with the gay community claimed allegiance to Islamists immediately prior to massacring dozens of people at a gay-centric dance club.
He donated real money, so I think it a stretch to call virtue signaling.
YES.

>when I’m forced to be in a chair in your office at 9am:

> - I force myself to be up early and rush to work, feeling ill prepared

> - I try to focus and be effective in the morning, but struggle and the day is off to a bad start, killing my mood and momentum

> - I’m tired in the afternoon and cannot work effectively at my peak work time. I drink tons of coffee trying to kickstart my productivity

> - I go home when I’m finally starting to get going

> - I am restless in bed and can’t sleep because I drank too much coffee and I’m worried about getting up early

> - By the end of the week I am tired, frustrated, angry, and disappointed with my performance
Stuff about capturing leads
Books, exercise, instruments, writing, drawing...
I usually do the same as well. It's just that it can take anywhere between 1 hour to a couple of days of fooling around. After a while, its gets all confusing, which one was better, you ask around, but everyone has different views. If you are in a group deciding to come up to the name, it becomes even more tiresome. I was just wondering for an easy to browse service of domain names, submitted by community where one can buy and share goes to the person who submitted and small part to the platform. Not sure, if people would like it though, it really needs a big community to support who believe domains need to be used for making websites and not hoarding for a future sale!
I've been touch typing for 20 years at this point and 90 WPM seems crazy to me. I first tried the speed coder site on some Python code and only managed 45wpm. After reading your comment I then went and did a 1 min test on some general text and only managed to hit 55wpm! That said, I've never felt constrained by my typing speed while programming.
A really big issue in simplicity and modesty.

Engineers are supposed to simplify via their expertise and produce something is consistent, elegant and easy to use and maybe even beautiful. That's the achievement, taking something clearly complex and 'taming' it.

There is a ugly trend towards gratuitous complexity. Some seem to revel in it. Is it because of signalling, lack of expertise or hidden fears about becoming redundant and making work?

At least one of the folks mentioned here is responsible for producing by far the most user hostile pieces of software I have ever come upon.

Discourse seems to not only revel in complexity but celebrate it. The objective does not seem to simplify in any way but make everything as complex and convuluted as possible.

The only way to use it is via Docker so you need to know Docker which is itself not a friend of the simplicity line of thought. Then it needs a full dev environment with around 80 packages, 2 databases, around 150 gems most of which need to be compiled and can fail at any time with mysterious messages and while at building possibly the most important software in human history why not just throw in nodejs too. At the end of which I am sure many would have forgotten why they started this exercise in the first place.
Docker has little to do with "clusters", whatever you mean behind the term
(there are several meanings of it).

> [...] our focus is entirely on performance, scalability and no downtime.

As for all the other time series databases. What makes your project different?
And what does "scalability" mean in this case?
@tenderlove does some revolutionary stuff. For example, one of his latest project has been to measure the weight his cats' poops.

https://twitter.com/tenderlove/status/824322587379441664

Came for the tech, stayed for the puns and generally odd behavior.
Google "bugs per line of code", and the top result says that the industry average is 15 to 50 bugs per kloc. I'd expect (hope) people making cars do a little better than that, hence a guestimate of 5.
The slow BASIC was due to the completely insane doubly-interpreted implementation. The BASIC interpreter was written in GPL (Graphics Programming Language; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A#VDP...), which was itself interpreted at runtime.
[Next time remember to submit the youtube.com version instead of the youtu.be, because youtu.be is autokilled.]
To nitpick further (but this isn't in common parlance), Accenture was a part of Arthur Andersen, which itself was a part of the Big Five until Enron happened.

But you're entirely right in that Accenture isn't considered a part of the Big Four accounting firms precisely because its skillset is advisory rather than accounting.
I think the issue is more or less political, and it's twofold.

The first is that Donald Trump explicitly ran a primary campaign that at one time called for banning all Muslim travel to the United States. It is difficult for me to see how that promise is not rooted in some combination of bigotry and ignorance. For those who remember such promises Trump made, Trump will not automatically signal "compassion" and "tolerance", and I'm sure it's easy to morph an awfully crude executive order targeting countries already on a watch list into a policy that advocates "racism" and "bigotry".

The second is that the executive order was so poorly constructed, so hastily issued, and so overly sweeping, that it snagged people that shouldn't have been snagged (your green card holders and already-accepted refugees and whatnot) and threw immigration into chaos. Again, this only adds to the overall impression of "racism" for those who already have it.

From my perspective, my impression of this Trump executive order is more one of shoot-from-the-hip incompetence (that could've been avoided merely with more consultation with policy experts) and a fairly deaf political ear.
"Big 4" used to refer to accounting firms. Accenture used to be a part of the "Big 5" with Andersen, but they had to re-brand because of the Enron scandal. They no longer do accounting.

But now all these companies are bleeding over into each others business areas - many do strategy, operations, implementation, accounting.
It was policy. Then that policy was loosened. The loosening is rather vague and still leaves a lot of room for trouble, so it remains to be seen just what the practical effects are. Now they "will be allowed to board U.S. bound aircraft and will be assessed for exceptions at arrival ports of entry."

I totally agree that focusing on the list itself is silly. It's a good example of why Trump should have divested his business interests prior to taking office, to avoid this kind of questioning of his motives. But it certainly doesn't look like these countries were chosen in any way based on his business holdings.
One of the important lessons that the profession has yet to fully internalize is that there is very little software that is NOT security-related.
I agree with this from both sides. As someone who's worked from home for many years for 2 different employers, I want to be in the office for a few-to-six months to get the lay of the land before spending most of the time at home. And I like the weekly meeting with the whole team, and the occasional 5-minute trip to the office for an ad-hoc meeting, to stay connected.

We technical types can presume that technology runs the world, but, as much as it pains me to admit it, myself, it doesn't. People -- personal interactions -- still run the world, and always will. Being face-to-face with the people you work with is a fundamentally-necessary part of doing good with for and with them.

But the amount of face-to-face time required to be effective varies WIDELY for different people and projects and types of work. These discussion always devolve into blanket statements and proclamations, but it's a REALLY subjective subject.
I didn't snipe. This is life advice. Get a part time job. If you're in North America (Canada or US) and you can't squeeze out $400-600 from your budget over the period of a year, you're making excuses, pure and simple. Cook at home, drop cable subscription, don't go to Starbucks, do part time jobs, and so on and so forth. That's what students did back when I was one.
Things have evolved based on time and change in people's habits due to technological advancement. You noticed that the TV industry is thriving, particularly the studios which are positioned to deliver slow-paced but epic shows like Games of Thrones (which stands as a barometer for the others to compete). People are just better suited to keep up with their entertainment needs, in different settings and environment. The movie industry would need to adjust itself.
Please note that Peer5's p2p is not involuntary. Peer5 is not the broadcaster at the end of the day, our customers are. We work with our customers to notify users that their use of streaming services on a particular site may entail participation in p2p and to give them the appropriate opt-in or opt-our mechanisms. Anyone who doesn't want to participate is not forced to.
Talent is innate.

Skill is practiced.

If you're passionate enough about something that you happen to have a natural affinity for in order to hone your skills, I call that a gift.
> The Haj visa are just for the Haj, during the Haj period (last week of the lunar year), for the Haj, i.e. to go from the airport to Mecca and Medina and back.

A visa is just a political device -- we're talking about refugees.

> You have 2 million people passing through within one week. There is a huge infrastructure there, busses, tents, monorail, dedicated airport terminals, massive crowd control measures (every now and then you have a panic where several hundreds of people get crushed). I wouldn't call that "no infrastructure".

Wow, moving 2 million people to accommodations in a week should be massively helpful!

> Saudi Arabia has little interest in refugees, or tourists: they did not even issue tourist visa until 2014. This is changing ever so slowly as the end of the flow of oil money is coming into sight.

No country has interest in refugees, but modern nations have an implicit obligation to minimize human suffering.

Based on what you've taught me, I'm curious about the absence of political pressure on Saudi Arabia -- it seems to me that they could greatly help.
> Since everyone likes to compare Trump and Hitler. Hitler hated the Jews, which resulted in genocide. I've talked to several people who support what he did with the ban and it has nothing to do with hating Muslims or immigrants and its all driven by fear (statistically irrational) of attacks like the ones in Germany.

And Hitler drove fear of the Jewish people taking over and kidnapping and killing christian children as his catalyst to power as well. There were negative traits ascribed to Jews, just as there are now of Muslims. Prior to implementing camps and genocide, Hitler stoked an environment of fear. Fear of the others.

Hell, hatred of blacks in the American Antebellum South, and the hatred that continues to this day, stemmed from white people's fear of blacks.

Fear inspires hatred. While they are not the same thing, they are related.
RedBox will rent you a physical DVD for $1.50, and IIRC, $2 for a BluRay.
Lately I've been finding it more efficient to just offload a lot of that to search queries and reference sites (i.e. StackExchange, MDN, DevDocs).

Rather than trying to remember how to do a hundred trivial tasks correctly I focus on the task at hand and keep the reference document up on the other page.

I find it more valuable to have up to date and practiced referencing skills than to memorize a few hundred utility functions.

As an added bonus there's an intrinsic passive search for new techniques and depreciated methods.
“The Origins of Totalitarianism“ is out of stock on Amazon
How Does Server-Side Caching Work with SSL/TLS? (2014)
Medieval tech, but with modern health and safety. They arent lifting stones above people on homemade rope. Castle construction was horribly dangerous work by modern standards.

I do question the assertion about tools only being made on site. That doesnt seem very historical. There was plenty of trade in the past. Things like rope and metal were traded far and wide. Making things on site was ussually the cheaper option where possible but, as the OP states, castles were not purely local efforts.
To be fully open and honest I'm one of the founders of https://codebeat.co.

codebeat is an automated code review for the web and mobile.

What languages do you use in your project?
I've experienced work lunches with alcohol a lot and it can help in team bonding. I've also been involved in deal making where if you didn't drink alcohol with the prospect (China), you were not going to get the deal.

I'd say the false equivalency is thinking substance use always = substance abuse.
do you have any news?
ProPublica Congress API Documentation
Off the back of my hand, that seems like a reasonable. That's a bug per 200 lines of code written.

I'd expect it to be higher if written in an non-memorysafe language as well, and ones that allow for Nulls and unchecked exceptions.
Mostly the former, plenty of evidence exists in the public domain.

My point is that a government can have a public position, even actively fight for it - however at the same time, it's private citizens (both in the gov and not) can have another position.

This is a larger topic than HN can and should be host to ... thanks for the debate.
There has been some meta-related such as salary negotiations for programmers, the importance of A/B testing etc.

Can't remember any code examples off the top of my head though.
Fairly unrelated, but fun: "Don't mess with Texas" is a long-standing anti-littering campaign.
Cool, I'll definitely check those out. I am looking to start making video games again, although it seems like this is probably in too early of a state still, so I was planning on refreshing my knowledge of Unity. But it doesn't hurt to watch those streams, and I look forward to when it makes sense to do serious development in it.
> That is an utterly antiquated position.

Not antiquated enough: throughout history the large majority of workers have been farmers. Even without being able to read and write, they were/are entirely responsible of their work - and farming wasn't easy at all.

Same for artisans, shopkeepers at al. When people are not bossed around they can manage themselves.
That's a great name for the service. That's precisely what I have been thinking, the more I think about it, I feel it can be a community driven solution. Say, in my spare time I challenge myself for a garage sale community and come up with domains which are available, buy and submit one on the platform. People can come vote, comment, and if anyone likes to use it can buy it for a flat fee, say $200. Doesn't hurt anyone, a good creative exercise for neurons to come up with a name, even budding designers can submit their design for a small share of the sale. But, it has to be much more altruistic from community perspective. Not sure, if it would work on scale to be a sustainable solution against the biggies out there ;)
I'll take a stab: the world is fundamentally unfair to a certain extent...but we want to reduce that. In a perfect world, there should be no restrictions on immigration. However, we live in a world with vast inequalities and differences in culture, wealth etc. So while nationalism is unfair we live with it for now. Racism is analogous, but it concerned people within the US border, governed by US law, already part of US society, and its important for the fairness within the country and society that it be eliminated (not to mention that minorities did protest against institutional racism....and they could not be deported as they are US citizens).
Yes, it is possible. But unfettered voucher systems aren't much better in that regard.

To me, she just doesn't have the experience to run the DOEd. And her Reformed Christian bent does not bode well.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer : http://www.2ality.com/
Yeah, 16-bit data bus but only 16-bit address bus. So still has the limitation of 64k memory which was really the chief defect of machines of that era.
+1 for options. I've been working 100% remotely for about a year and three months now and while I do most work out of my home office, I tend to venture out at least 3-4 times a week to coffee shops or other venues, just to get a bit of buzz and white noise. I keep to myself and do my work, but don't use headphones or anything like that to drown out my surroundings. When I go out somewhere, I tend to stay there for 2-4 hours, depending on the place. I rarely mix places up in the same day, and generally just rotate between the same few places, maybe venturing outside the box a few times a month.

Sometimes though, I'll go nowhere for weeks. Like you say: options. It's nice to have them.
Can you share your cards? I find it better to use prebuilt cards for me personally because I like to go through them as quick as possible and by making my own cards I feel like it slows me down for the marginal return I get for making them myself.
New Month, New Ellp Cards
I hear you regarding the speed... I had a TI and I learned to program on it, so I know how amazingly slow it was!

They do mention that they used extra RAM from the floppy drive controller which would help!

I don't see anything that makes me think it is completely impossible. Lots of the more complicated full screen effects could probably be made by altering character bitmaps (which was pretty fast). Parsec managed smooth horizontal scrolling back in the day, but I must admit some of the scrolling stuff definitely looked challenging to do on that machine. I still think, you can get far by manipulating character bitmaps, and clever use of sprites.

I still think calling it "fake" may be a bit harsh on the coders if it isn't.

Anyone tried it on one of the emulators?
Cryptostorm, a token-based VPN network with no logging (for real)
Running Parse Server on Digital Ocean: Tips and Tools
I work in that very field, so I hope this input will be useful to you:

There's no one thing called "SAP" anymore. It's many platforms, ranging from the old ERP (with its ABAP programming language) to CRM to HR to E-commerce. With the exception of its proprietary tools (like ABAP), you can certainly leverage your Java/JS skills.

If you have access to SAP training (though it's neither cheap nor easily accessible), get some training on the dev tools and find beginner-level openings in companies or consulting firms. (Reality check: the latter will be harder - you are competing with a truly global developer-base for SAP.)

If you don't have access to training, then drop the proprietary ABAP route and stick to Java. You can apply those skills in SAP's more open stacks for e-commerce, mobile etc.

The public sector (Federal/State governments, public utilities, military etc) are also big SAP users and are often hard-pressed to find US citizens (assuming you are a US citizen). That may be another avenue to explore.
It's a fine concept. I don't object to the concept at all. I've accused Trump of doing this sort of thing a lot, just not using those words.

What I object to is the specific phrase itself. Not because it's inherently bad, but because of how it's used. People use it as a way to dismiss and insult people without appearing dismissive and insulting. It's like if I say "you're suffering from a rectal-cranial inversion" rather than "you have your head up your ass."

If people want to call me insincere and disingenuous, I'd like them to have the courage to say it straight, not hide it behind scientific terms.
I suggest watching this talk:
https://creativemornings.com/talks/mike-monteiro--2/1

The speaker is eccentric and sometimes unhinged but many freelancers need to hear it.
I’m in Germany, have a part time job, cook at home, have no cable subscription, don’t go to starbucks, buy food if possible at ALDI.

Rent has been going up every year, but wages haven’t, so by now for me, rent for a small apartment is over 60% of my monthly income.

The world has changed quite a bit since you were a student.
I also agree that states should fund more free software.
A cynic in me says this is one of the reasons large companies like deep learning so much. Unlike some other branches of AI, deep learning is not something that can be easily used by individuals or smaller companies. It does not scale down very well if at all. So it makes a great basis for some expensive cloud service. They can develop it without fear that someone new will use it to disrupt their business.
It would be easier to see his actions as 'just nationalist' if even one of the countries whose citizens have been banned from entering the US wasn't a Muslim-majority country.
The most incredible thing for me was avoiding getting sick. Been remote about 4 years now, the number of colds I get went from 2 per year to about 1 every 2 years. I shouldn't have said that.