skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love blogging. The OP makes some great points about how it exposes you to a different set of people than answers on stackoverflow or HN do.

I have been blogging for over a decade and have definitely had some positive experiences, including a co worker finding a post when searching for a solution and an interviewer checking out my blog and mentioning it. I have also had a small bit of work come to me directly because of my blog. (However my blog is pretty unfocused in part because I am a generalist and primarily wrote for myself. I am sure a focused blogger could do better.)

However, the most important thing is to get started with some kind of public presence. If SO or HN or github are what you feel comfortable with, start there. Don't be an anonymous programmer.

If you are looking to blog, I think you should plan to stick with it for at least a year. Nothing is sadder than the abandoned blog. Here are some motivational tips: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2129
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Consistency, portioning and mixing in cheaper stuff.

Obviously as you head towards 100% chicken less stuff is mixed in, but that still leaves the consistency and portioning.
In the UK, the chickens contain 84% chicken wth starch fillers: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/subway-employee-reve...
i can't imagine why anyone needs more than 640k personally
How to Make a Hectograph (2013)
Then you clearly don't look much at the world around you, or you would see the obvious link between this past from generations ago and the way current society is shaped. If this particular shape of society that resulted from the many years of slavery doesn't seem to affect you personally, then it means it affects you positively, because it certainly affects others negatively.
I have to comment about her age: when I read the article, I was shocked when she said she was 70. Her photos look like someone who isn't a day over 50. She looks absolutely fantastic.

That said, she's absolutely right to stay out of the US. This place is not safe for foreigners, and the treatment she described can be assumed to be the norm now. Take your tourism dollars to a country that treats you right.
> The people with the wealth pay people for one reason and one reason only: they have to.

Huh? In your worldview is charity just not a thing?
SOMA is the office district, with some apartment buildings added. The mission, china town and others is where there is more culture and such.
This page does not match the information given on the ASUS website: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-B350M-A/specifica... As such all we can say for now in my opinion: inconclusive
If he took this stuff seriously, he wouldn't have waited 12 years since SHA-1 was broken to even start considering any changes.
They also make wraps and salads with that chicken.
This isn't going to change that.

I doubt it's intended to. It doesn't make sense to restrict people from improving technology and providing specifications ahead of full adoption. I'm pretty sure 5G devices, when they're available, will fall back if 5G isn't available where they are. Depending where I am, I've seen my phone go the full gamut from No Service, Edge, 4G, and 4G LTE while I'm traveling.
Subway has become the supplier of subs at the lowest cost. What this means is that bean counters dictate what the subs contain. It's never top line products and they add fillers where ever they can without killing the flavor 100%.

It's not a surprise that they use soy. It's just unfortunate that they have to get to this point.

I don't know if it's universal but my local subway has reduced the diameter of the bread rolls. Yes, they are 12 inches in length but they are smaller over all. Another cost cutting step that will eventually hurt them.
First off, thanks for the response. I got interested in this, and did some digging around to see what kind of context I could find. To be honest, this 96-percent drop seems like cherry-picking to support a narrative. Granted, I'm probably doing some of the same in the opposite direction, but there seems to be a lot more evidence that the Times is doing OK than that they have literally no money.

For starters, your description of "a 94% loss in profit in the last year" seems to be a pretty clear mischaracterization: That number in the link you provided says the loss is in "net profit attributable to the newspaper publisher" in the third quarter alone.[0] In addition, it seems like most of that is because of increased expenses, not horrifyingly reduced revenue -- the third paragraph points out overall revenue dropped by just over 1 percent. (Incidentally, if you exclude "restructuring-related costs," per-share earnings dropped about 33 percent,[1] NOT 96 percent.)

Now that the Q4 numbers are out, we also have a pretty good picture of what their 2016 actually looked like:[2]

* Total revenue down 2 percent.

* Overall operating profit down 34 percent. This is the one I think you were referencing, and yes, it's lower, but "94 percent" is off by a significant amount.

* Digital ad revenue up 6 percent.

* Digital subscribers up 47 percent, more than half of whom came in the fourth quarter.

* Digital subscription revenue up 17 percent.

So yes, at one point someone did write an article that mentioned a precipitous drop in one specific metric for a particular quarter -- but if you're interested in anything other than scoring cheap political points, the picture is way more complicated than that, and far less bleak.

For what it's worth, after the Times released the numbers you referenced, here's[3] what their stock price has looked like: It was up 10 cents by the end of the week, and has gone up 38 percent since then. If the New York Times is failing, investors haven't noticed. If anything, they're actively disagreeing.

0 - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3897406/New-York-Tim...

1 - https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-profit-slumps-pr...

2 - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/business/media/new-york-t...

3 - https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
Shh, no breaking the narrative.
Also, on a related note, since it is mentioned under the MoSCoW method (above), has any one tried timeboxing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeboxing

I had read about in a book by Steve McConnell, IIRC (maybe his book Rapid Development), but did not get a chance to try it in a real life project - yet.
You need to take into account that these people are not living on absolute nil - they have some level of income, be it $1 or $.50 - so you don't need to give each of them $2/day.

The OP article noted the amount needed in the village in the beginning was $22/month, so $.75 a day, give or take 10c.
UEFI's security benefits are dubious anyway unless you're using your own Secure Boot keys; else, you're likely relying on Microsoft's signing key.
As an American, I really dislike statements like this. We voted for this, and a very large portion of our population wants jack-booted authoritarianism like this.

No, not all Americans condone this, just like not all Americans speak English. But we Americans can absolutely be assumed to condone this overall. We chose this, and it's not just the latest election with Trump; this kind of thing was going on under Bush and Obama too. This country has been going this way for a long time.
> "A hash that is used for security is basically a statement of trust [..] In contrast, in a project like git, the hash isn't used for "trust". I don't pull on peoples trees because they have a hash of a4d442663580. Our trust is in people, and then we end up having lots of technology measures in place to secure the actual data."

This is horseshit, and Linus should not be saying these hugely misleading statements about security principles.

The point of a hash is to remove the need for trust between the trusted person who tells you the hash and the infrastructure you get the actual data that was hashed, from (edit: and, between you and the latter).

In other words, once you get a good non-colliding hash from a trusted person, then you don't need to worry about malicious infrastructure sending you bad data claiming to be the source of that hash.

Linus trusting Tytso to sign the commit object that references the SHA-1 of the tree object, says nothing about whether the infrastructure served him the tree object correctly. Sure, he might also trust the infrastructure providers, but when he says "trusts people" it does not sound like that is what he means. And even if he trusts the infrastructure providers, with a good hash HE DOESN'T HAVE TO.

The "trust" wording is serious horseshit.

(edit: there is also the case of people downloading "linux" from random git repos in the future. Right now if you GPG-sign a commit or tag, it has SHA-1 references to the tree object underneath it. Once SHA-1 is more broken it basically means you shouldn't trust random git repos across the internet to give you good content, even if it's "signed by Linus".)
I used to have an issue with writing classes in college. Since the writers-to-be in the class aren't experts in any particular field, they are forced to pick sides in ridiculous polemic topics just to fill a page. This transfers over to the real world in the form of frivolous articles written to provide a constant stream of content to a readership.

People like engineers and other folks with technical jobs have some of the best writing material to work with - all they really need to do is recount their day's work and the problems they've encountered, and any non-expert interested in the field can read and learn from it.

There is a plumber who lives in my state who publishes video documentation of every job he goes on. Since I'm not a plumber, I learned a ton from these videos. All of the things he did would seem basic to anyone in his field, but for a lay person like myself, his videos were extremely educational.
I've only been to a Subway outlet once and was amazed by how much of it was processed meat - a relative said the same recently. Go into a good independent sandwich shop and all the meat will be unprocessed (except where expected) and you get more options like unusual cheeses. Subway has taken what was already a fast food (the sandwich) and made it even more generic.
They are not artificial, but Intel seems to have big margins. Competition reduces margins.
So now they are NOT focusing on criminals ? Send f'ed up to me. They should have been focusing on the criminals and leaving the rest alone anyway
Their tools are also a form of generalization. Furthermore, it is definitely possible to create value by generalization.
I'm amazed so many people are fine with the other ingredient being soy; I could go on for hours as to why that's among the worst things to be substituted with.

-95% of soy in the US is GMO, lacking any genetic variance and little make-up of microorganisms (good bacteria.)

-It's also a horrible source of fats, and more in particular the omega-6 to 3 ratio is incredibly hostile to basic function on the cellular level. There's also next to zero amino acids. (Think cancer risk, immune diseases, hormone disruption.)

-It's basically a carbohydrate. Considering a significant number of most of these soy-containing foods are carbs to begin with, it's just another contributor to our diabetes/obesity, cancer and most importantly, MENTAL HEALTH health epidemics. (Mental health pertaining too the poorly balanced diets, poor fats and lack of good gut microflora.)

It's alright to look at these foods as an once-in-a-while treat, but when you consider that nearly every processed food item is 'enhanced' with soy to make it cheaper and still some-what satiating is a concerning thought to just have these every so often. Rice's from Uncle Ben's, Kraft peanut butter, margerines and nearly all processed meats and cheeses contain significant amounts of soy("Vegetable Oils."

This is the current state of food created by the lobbyist-run FDA and various companies like Monsanto controlling the market for their own greed under the excuse of 'feeding the growing population.'
My next side project will hopefully address this problem. The issue I run into is that I have multiple data sources for articles I want to read, but no single feed that I can push those data sources into to later consume and mark as processed/read.

My current strategy has just been to accumulate hundreds-thousands of tabs in my browsers and basically rely on firefox's "save tabs from last session" feature to keep history. Downsides are that these aren't synchronized across all my browser instances. But this allows me to quickly scroll through the tab set, pick a tab, consume it, and just close it to mark as complete.

I used to dump snapshots of my working tab set into a plaintext file so that I could track history, back it up, and retrieve them later by other means, e.g. ssh into my server from phone to retrieve a link (very high overhead). This doesn't scale too well when you want to mark an item as completed as removing a line of text in a file manually in a shell session from your phone isn't exactly "fluid".

My plan is to build a service that will be a storage backend to store feeds/queues of "things I need to do", whether it's articles I've been meaning to read or just simple TODO notes like "do xyz tonight". There will be a system to label/tag items under a specific category so that in the UI you're not just bombarded with a list of thousands of TODOs.

Features I've been considering having:

* allow user to specify multiple cloud storage backends for the data to be replicated across
* have relatively simple storage format, motivation being that I should be able to view/modify data through plaintext interface like editing a file with vim if I want to
* create firefox plugin that will use this same system to synchronize tabs, this would mean that as a side effect I would have this information available on all my systems and backed up as well
* web UI to access all generic queues, e.g. items I've manually created as well as the queues storing my tabs

Sometimes I wonder if there's a term associated with how obsessive I am about not losing information...
This is a question I sometimes wonder about, but haven't found an answer. Libraries deal with this issue, sometimes called digital preservation. A data dump is below; I've collected the info with the idea of looking into it later.

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RESOURCES

Here are a few resources I've come across, planning to look into it in detail in the future. Unfortunately, most resources seem to be written for experts in institutions, who have different needs and resources than you and I:

* Library of Congress: http://digitalpreservation.gov/

* APARSEN (Europe): http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/index.php/about-apars...

* British Library: http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/collectioncare/digital...

* OCLC, a major library (consortium? association?), should be a good resource.

* The Internet Archive might be a good resource.

* OAIS (Open Archival Information System) is a solution with at least some institutional users or interest, including NASA and OCLC.

* Article: A balancing act: The ideal and the realistic in developing Dryad’s preservation policy by Sara Mannheimer in First Monday: Dryad is a scientific data long-term repository: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/5415/41...

* Article: "Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start?" in a Library of Congress blog: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2016/05/how-to-begin-a-perso...

* Book: Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives Research Libraries Group, 2000: Apparently well-respected book; widely referenced in my brief searches. Outdated?

* HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842629

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FORMATS

Let's start with: What formats are recommended for long-term preservation? Some specs would be:

* 100% fidelity: But to what? The same Word document can appear differently on different current systems

* Compatibility with systems 50-100 years from now

* Metadata handling

* Organization: Relationships between different objects, e.g., photos from the same vacation, maintained

* Solution for dynamic or interactive data

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SYSTEMS

Some specs for the preservation system:

* Periodic fidelity and functionality check: Don't just turn on the system 25 years later and think it will work and the data is uncorrupted.

* Redundancy

* Compatibility with systems 100 years from now, likely including a reliable upgrade path.

* Migration path to new hardware as old hardware becomes unavailable

* Availability after the owner dies

* Confidentiality: Your whole life will be there, and consider that other people's personal information likely will also be in the archive
Well at least they got rid of the yoga-mat compound azodicarbonamide in the bread
Is the wire format roughly isomorphic to the structure above? Or does the Scala library convert this code-like structure into something simpler/flatter?

(BTW, would be nice if I could read your API docs without signing up for an account.)
For keto you have 20. If it's 4 grams, that's 20% of what you can have from something expected to have 0.
The other day, I was struggling to emulate a Hadoop cluster in a series of VMs on a 16G laptop with zero work being performed - just keeping all the services and Cloudera's management scripts and tools made everything swap everywhere.

VMs are my biggest memory hog, particularly when they are running lots and lots of separate Java processes.
As someone who occasionally publishes in minor publications, I know editors pick headlines and don't always do the best job of reflecting the content. I think editor's goal is to get as many people to read it as possible so they might take some liberties.
A successful preimage attack against a cryptographic hash would most likely find you a different message that gets you the same hash. You wouldn't do a preimage attack to find what the original input to create a hash was. You would do a preimage attack to find a new input with the same hash so that you could pass this new input around claiming it was the original (and have any signatures for the old input be valid for your new input, etc).
Leading as a host, not a hero
The Book of Job is understood by most Christians to be a literary and theological work, rather than being literally true. I highly recommend reading it to anyone who is curious about how Judaism or Christianity views the problem of evil, but you have to be reading it from the right mindset; it's not supposed to be something God actually did, even in the minds of believers.
It paints levandowski as the origin of google's program, and X predating the program as well, neither of which are true.
If I wrote an engineering blog the first post would be about how meaningless the word 'engineer' has become.
This does seem to be the mainstream view at the moment.

Any thoughts on the best opportunities for tech-oriented people who don't want to fit themselves into teamwork-focussed environments?
Because it's cash on the barrelhead. Most aid of all sorts and most social safety net programs are not that straight forward. Also, universal basic income presumably won't penalize people for working or starting a business.
By far the most frustrating part of blogging for me (though certainly not the only one) is the assumption that no one will ever see it. I can probably solve this by options I dislike -- giving up ownership to Medium or obnoxiously cross-posting to all social media platforms -- but the end result is I am discouraged before I even start.

Oddly I love speaking at conferences...maybe because some nonzero audience is more or less guaranteed?
You win the NASA award for mixing metric and imperial in the most nonsensical way.
It's about $2000/week to rent an IQ180. If you can afford the rental price, you can afford a computer to process the images.
I find it hard to take too seriously such a list if it doesn’t include GNU Screen. A terminal multiplexer really enhances the experience of working in a terminal. Even tmux only gets a cursory mention in the middle of other Tools and Plugins.

It would make a lot more sense to give terminal multiplexers their own section (even if there are only two entries) and explain the benefits of using a terminal multiplexer.
So you mean join the developer tooling & infra team?
You will know what to write. When you spend time searching for an answer to an odd problem but don't find it and have to do it yourself you will want to write about it afterwards because you will want others to know you figured out the solution.
One very simple, coherent way to arrive at Pike's position without sacrificing the notion of merit is to accept the idea...

By accept, you mean assume, and assuming is what Oxitendwe was warning against.
It's a cheap win. I dislike being punched in the face. I have no intention of going to an art gallery where they punch people in the face and then say "told you so".

I like skill and flare. Warhol had neither. I don't expect a painting to be like a photo. I just find Warhol devoid of any interest whatsoever. And his apartment had none of his genre in either, probably because he knew he was simply playing the media. Just like Damien Hirst or Tracy Emin and their entourage of sycophants.

I love many of the pics on that link. I wouldn't put Warhol anywhere near any of those artists.
There are definitely areas where rust and python are closer in abstraction level than you might initially think. For example, rust's iterator trait enables things which are remarkably powerful when compared against python comprehensions.

Another example is the rayon library which is incredibly succinct compared to the multiprocess module in python.
The problem off course how we define consciousness, Koch wants it to be a few neurons that define it so his view of it would be different from someone using other methods.
I really wish python had a good concurrency story, it would last far longer as a language if it did. The GIL is why it's reducing in popularity.
I saw that in a list of Ara modules. They had real trouble coming up with useful modules to justify the thing.
Subway chicken is absolute garbage. When my Gardein Vegan mock-chicken (made of mostly soy, no less!) tastes better than their "actual chicken", there's a problem.
DNA Pizza. JWZ needs your lucre.
I think that fundamentally, the thing we're going to run up against is population growth.

I think history has proven that we can live in extremely wretched conditions. By giving money to people, are we going to be increasing their living standards or just creating more mouths to feed?

Note that the basic income only applies to whoever registers at the beginning of the program. Would that amount of basic income cause the population to explode, so that the per-capita amount of goods/money remains constant?
There's some aspect you miss: For both major hash breakages there was a ~10 year warning phase (for md5 the first breakthrough was 1996, for sha1 2004), where it was basically clear these hashes were bad, just noone had done the full attack yet.
There's no such warning from any modern hash yet.
I've stopped buying their chicken. Now I know why.

Instead, I'll buy a veggie sandwich and bake a chicken breast myself.
That's awesome, didn't know about it.

Full text available online, about 20 printed pages.

Edited to add:

Here you can read it, facsimile of the original cut-and-paste (literally...) version by Jefferson. 84 pages, because it's in Greek, Latin, French and English. Love it.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/jeffersonbible/

Here's an ePub, if you want to put it on your ebook reader (note: possibly unsavoury site):

http://bookfi.net/book/1865049
Also, universal basic income presumably won't penalize people for working or starting a business.

There's no universal definition of basic income and it certainly won't be so straightforward once it goes through the meat-grinder of legislation.

It's cash on the barrelhead to the poorest of the poor from outside organizations. That's charity.
Lists of excuses are easy to come by. I hear a long list of excuses from people who grew up in pretty much the exact same circumstances I did.