skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically this. I was going to contrast a couple of (heavily anonymized) employees we just hired - a smart but inexperienced twenty something and a smart and very experienced 40 something, when I just remembered that I'd run into the 20 something at the office on a Sunday.

I was just there to show the new office and some of our toys to my girlfriend, he was there because he was really excited about the job and just wanted to really kill it.

Twenty year olds generally haven't figured out what really matters in life, especially when it comes to work life balance. That's a valuable asset to most companies.

I told the kid to go home and have some fun, but I don't think he did. Later that day the 40-year old posted a picture in slack of him flying a drone with his kids, and just looking happy as a clam in mud.
I don' t think so. My experience with it is non-existent, but I read up on it before and now again, and self-healing and replication was pretty high on the feature list. Anyway, what you describes is a distributed/clustered (fault-tolerant) file system. Tahoe-LAFS as mentioned by jabl is one of those, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distribut... has a list.
What do you think Green cards are used for?
> Six years for a degree in political science. You have to actively try to take that long to graduate. Maybe he changed majors.

I disagree. Life circumstances can keep you from graduating as well.

I spent nearly 7 on a CS degree. There were a few hold ups. The biggest being until VERY recently, I was unmedicated with Bipolar Disorder. I would sign up for classes while manic, and barely scrape by or fail when depressed. It has taken me 5 years to get a proper diagnosis and find the right meds. Meanwhile, I still tried to do my best in the classes I was attending.

Another reason it took me so long, I attended community college and got a 2 year degree in programming I was told would directly translate to my BS in CS. This was not the case. I found that my university only took certain credits off of my AS, effectively putting me at about a year of coursework when I was under the impression I had 2.

None of this was me trying to take that long to graduate. I do take some of the responsibility for it, I could have done better to get out of bed and go to class some days. I could have done more research about PBSC's transfer degree. I could have fought harder for the right diagnosis when I was 18 and everything started happening.
I took a look at the “Code examples from the book”. I haven't, ever, seen a nightmare like this.

Just one snippet from the User's Guide:

If you use a goto command, all do command pending returns
are canceled. That is if you invoke a section of code by
means of a do and the section of code executes a goto
command, the return to the line the do was on is canceled
as well as any other pending returns.

Even BASIC does better than that.
Make sure that working on your long term goals gets priority over working on the rest of your todos. It sounds simple, but it is not.

How to do that is different for everyone. What worked for me is the "Deep Work" method as described in this book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25744928-deep-work
"It simply tries to get a handle on 1 million immigrants coming here a year, virtually none of whom are coming here based on their employment skills or demonstrated economic need," he said. " I don't think our immigration system is working for working Americans."

How does it make sense to let people in who will not work or fulfil a need? How is this sustainable?

From http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/1/14773298/mer...:

"Reforming the immigration system to be more “merit-based” is predicated on the idea that some of these slots are going to the wrong immigrants — immigrants who don’t have as much to give the US as the US has to give them. Proponents point to Australia and Canada — places that don’t have the American tradition of family-based migration, and that deliberately select for immigrants who are likely to contribute economically and assimilate culturally from the moment they arrive. In these countries, having a family member who’s already a citizen doesn’t guarantee you a spot as an immigrant yourself — having an advanced degree, being fluent in the language, and being able to support yourself (or have a job waiting for you when you arrive) matter as much or more."

Family-based migration doesn't exist in other countries, and doesn't make sense.

There is a debate to be had here, but instead everyone is reading fake news headlines and confirming their biases.

Sigh.
> It's like a too easily wielded extremely powerful dependency magnet.

The equivalent if statement is not?
If you signed an NDA that criminalizes reading public data (that is still classified) on the open web, perhaps it's not the fault of websites posting links to that data when you click on it.

Seriously, your clearance comes with tradeoffs. Some of us aligned against government secrecy and flunkies who sympathize with the surveillance state want the list of potential downsides for that career choice to be as long as possible.

If your shitty job will put you in jail for reading headline news, maybe you should reconsider your job.

You have another option: Boot Tails. Use Tor. Read away. Don't get caught. Don't let the thought police use the threat of jail to extinguish your intellectual curiosity.
Get started with Service Worker
but she has enough money to buy several and build her own empire, if she is so inclined.. so there's that..
How is it possible to do the math on the loss to society? Assuming a level playing field, how does society lose out from a monopolistic business that provides something no one else offers for which customers are of their own free will, prepared to hand over their cash? And why should those buyers be the only people to benefit because they happened to hear about the product or service in the absence of advertising? Monopolies are always temporary affairs with unpredictable life spans.
Heartily agree!
"Type Systems Will Make You a Better JavaScript Developer" - Jared Forsyth

That talk appears that it will make the argument for using Flow/Typescript.
Fairly true, but uni grads seem to do better at both and just general programming. There are definitely lots of people from both camps that are interviewing for programming jobs that can't actually write code.
Oh, that looks really interesting. I'll definitely give this a bash
Ah, missed that paragraph. Thanks.
Ask HN: Self-employed healthcare options?
I am making the leap back into self-employment, consulting, etc. This question pertains to USA healthcare, although I welcome others asking the same question for other countries...

What do other self-employed consultants do now for healthcare? Should I just wait and see what happens with the Obamacare repeal? When I officially terminate my position at my current company can I sign up for Obamacare for a year?

Thanks everyone!
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If your company is large enough to have alerts that aren't universally applicable, it makes sense to create different channels for different alerts, grouped however you want.
But semver is a pretty meaningful standard. Why not stick to it, even if you don't plan on adding non-API-breaking new features?
Spying likely started during the Bush years

It got worse during the Bush administration, but government surveillance isn't a new thing.

Hopefully it finally gets shut down during the Trump administration

Not sure if serious
Just as additional information, this is just the future catching up with the past.

Most mainframe architectures since the early 60's, didn't really used pure Assembly, rather bytecodes that were processed by microcode on the CPUs.

Hence why many old papers tend to mix both terms, bytecodes vs assembly.

This tradition carried on to mainframe architectures like the AS/400, nowadays IBM i, where the user space is pure bytecode (even C), called TIMI, and a kernel level JIT is used at installation time to convert the application into the actual machine code.

IBM i Java takes advantage of this, where the JVM bytecodes are converted into TIMI bytecodes.

It also provides some kind of common language runtime called ILE (Integrated Language Environment).

So the trend of using LLVM bitcode on iDevices, Dalvik on Android or MSIL on .NET, JavaScript/WebAssembly on browsers, is similarly with containers, modern computing catching up with mainframe ideas.
I must've misunderstood you then.

Anyway, surely "This would not increase trust" is a bit of an overly strong statement. Even if AMD didn't release reproducible build instructions, having the source code would still make it significantly easier to detect AMD shipping different (compiled) code.

But yeah, open sourcing the PSP without reproducible builds would be a little silly.
Raspberry Pi hitches ride inside vintage terminal
Keyboard vs. The Mouse, pt 1 (1989)
So 49% were founded by native Americans?
California + probable 280G = 70%+ tax
Someone should whip up a little community-driven service that would serve all known ad network hosts.
Would Minio work for you? Distributed S3 clone.. check minio.io
US worker here with taxes above 40% (if you include state). My taxes are not high enough. We run a deficit. Schools don't get enough money. Roads have potholes. We have poor and homeless people who don't get enough to eat. Etc.
How can you detect if the output is curl/piped?
> Finally, some specialized companies do have extended in-house training. But this sort of thing is definitely less common, in part because people skip around jobs a lot more so there's going to be a lot of free-riding on a company offering expensive training.

Don't blame worker "free-riding" so much. I'd say lack of in-house training has even more to do with the fact that companies are much more eager to lay off workers based on short term financial metrics.

Worker training (and loyalty to workers) is a long term investment that doesn't fit well in a culture driven by short term results.
> College doesn't teach you about your job, it teaches you about the wider world.

Playing devils advocate for a second...

How does college teach you about the wider world? By taking a bunch of tests on subjects being taught by TA's (if you are lucky) or professors that sometimes struggle with English?

Or

Cramming for tests and writing papers you don't want to write is learning about the wider world?

Find me the Engineering major that would rather take 2 semesters of humanities|Literature|etc or graduate sooner!

Find me the doctor students that wish undergrad was a like 2 years shorter! Fuck it, make it 4 years shorter and call it a day! Strait to med school if you have the aptitude.

> but I'm willing to bet one semester of finance would far outweigh the knowledge that construction worker has about why the building is being built like it is.

One semester of finance is craptacular, you wouldn't learn much. Better if you had said Accounting... but most students don't pick accounting. You would do far better listening to Dave Ramsey for a month, IMO. Seriously, where in the bulk of College majors outside of Finance can I find the requirement to take a finance/accounting/econ classes? I'll answer, NO WHERE!

The fact that you bring up finance is interesting because fully half of the Colleges today would go bankrupt if their students knew ANYTHING about money! Why would they go into such crazy debt for what they get in return? The subset of college majors that actually have promising career futures ahead of them are miniscule in comparison the "majors" offered at universities.
why do these guys keep rebranding the same thing over and over and pretending it to be some new launch?

Once I can understand, twice it just feels disingenuous.

This is like third time they changed the name. Hyperdev to Gomix to Glitch.
"By Hand" I mean running each command required to deploy line-by-line, at the command line.

For me, that would be:

1) provision VM

2) configure the new VM (security hardening, install utils)

3) download app from git and configure it

4) take image of vm

5) install new image into my autoscaler

6) hot-replace live instances of previous version with new version.

doing each of those commands by hand and waiting for each to complete could easily take 1.5 or 2 hours of work. I did it by hand the first couple times but once I figured out my workflow I automated it (bash script) as fast as possible.

I spent a couple days looking into ansible, but as I have a very specific need I didn't want to spend 2+ weeks adding another chunk of "technical debt" to my product.
Question -- would that security clearance allow you to read that third party writeup? I would think it would prohibit all contact, both direct and multiple-times-removed indirect contact with the data.
You write that as if it's a bad thing? Epic's EHR appears to work pretty well and they haven't had many failed implementations. And InterSystem's Caché has evolved way beyond the historical MUMPS.
"A baseline of "not a felon, terrorist, etc." ..."

Australia was a penal colony ... yet they seem to be doing fine for themselves now. My point is ... why change the rules of immigration from what existed in 1800s or early 1900s
>That is literally the least we can do. Or would you rather we deny emergency medical treatment and let people just die?

You implied that illegal immigrants consume no government resources / cannot be a utilitarian concern.
What is the chaos in the immigration system in the US that benefits you? The uncertainty and delays in the H1B process for employees? Australian US visas are a special case but I assume you are talking about employees. I'd be de privileging family unification visas and removing per country caps, primarily. Also eliminate h1b but as part of improving immigrant visas to accomplish the same mission but with benefits to both domestic and immigrant workers, penalizing the abusive body shops.

Does the ability for people to historically (and to some extent, currently) illegally cross the southern border benefit your business? Does people overstaying visa waiver or other visas help? It would seem to me that being able to easily hire and have a simple, deterministic, and painless process would be a net win.

I didn't think the Berlin part of the wall was ever claimed to be for security; the other inner German border was. I didn't look this up recently so mah be wrong.
Dizzying but invisible depth: You just went to Google. Simple, isn't it?
>Finally, the big challenges in hydropower are not in increasing efficiency or lowering cost. The challenges are that we've interrupted/dammed most large rivers already, and any new plans to build hydropower face great resistance both from NIMBYs and environmental protection groups.

That's what makes this new turbine such a brilliant fit for our times: it can work at a small, distributed scale that to my knowledge hasn't been possible with hydro before, and at significantly reduced capital costs. Additionally, there are hardly any moving parts. Of the pieces that are required, they are intrinsically durable and easy to manufacture shapes, suitable for manufacture in relatively low-tech economies.

BTW, thanks for clarifying your initial response.
I interviewed at MediTech while I was in college. During the interview I pointed out the issue of how working on proprietary technologies would have an impact on my career. This along with the fact that the compensation they were offering was significantly less than what I was offered as an intern at Goldman Sachs and another company no one would know.

I swear it was something insane like 36k a year in 2005. compared to 55k for GS . I asked them if it came with something to offset that like a pension or housing and they looked at me like I was crazy. I asked them to explain what they had to offer me and they made some stuff up about it being a great job with advancement potential. I think the word loyalty may have come up.

I didn't get an offer not that I would have said yes.

The lobby was nice as I recall. Lot's of open space, granite, and flowing water. Maybe that makes it worthwhile? Oh and you have to wear dress clothes. On 36k a year.
> Pragmatism is a principle.

Sure, but toward what end? Himself being elected? Surely most politicians are of the opinion that simply by having their butt in the chair in the office, good has been done. This sort of reasoning is considered sociopathic in most other contexts.
...? I think you're misreading my comment. I was suggesting that most people may think they are unaffected by ads, but probably are overestimating their immunity.

My second statement was highlighting how ones own opinion of oneself is not objective.
What differentiates LLVM IR from, say, JVM bytecode? I'm curious because there's a stalled out GNU project under GCC called GCJ that would compile JVM bytecode to native. I wonder if the issue became that statically linking in the JVM in the binary resulted in a lot of bloat, or something more intrinsic to the suitability of JVM bytecode as a platform-independent IR...
>> 4. Start aggressively looking for more projects - not online, though. The projects available there are not the projects you want.

Any particular techniques how to start doing offline sales?

Being a foreigner struggle a bit to find local projects in Bay Area.
Meetups and events doesn't help a lot, cold contacts on Linkedin or by email are mostly ignored.
I firmly believe that the recipient, not the sender, defines what SPAM is. "Cold emails" are marketing emails that the recipient is unlikely to define as SPAM.
Depending on the construction worker's experience he may or may not know a heck of a lot more about what works and what doesn't on the job site.

Any engineering intern can run some numbers and write a spec. Whether that spec will be easily implementable or whether it will encourage corner cutting in certain cases is a different story. Specs (building requirements, part design, etc) written up by people with little or outdated experience with building the finished product is probably the single biggest time waster in blue collar industries.

Think about that next time you encounter something designed with enough clearance to swing a wrench but not enough clearance to swing a wrench with a hand on it.
This argument has been applied to virtually every framework or library at some point; the points and counterpoints rarely change and the result is inevitably to use right tool for your type AND scale of problem.

FWIW React's purpose is the opposite of what you said; it aims to make complex UI tasks simple by allowing you to compartmentalize your UI into isolated components.

If your UI isn't that complex or your application has very little state to manage then I could see how React would be overkill.
Telling me that I might want to revise my definition of misleading is essentially calling me stupid. You aren't the OP to whom I replied, the mods changed the title already, AND my first comment was down voted into the negatives. So, this looks like a gratuitous personal attack to me. You doubling down looks even more petty.

It is no wonder dang feels HN has a civility problem and hoped he could cure it by doing a political detox week, which did not work because it wasn't the issue.
Imagine the computers used and shared by students in a University.
So, in 10 years, the PhD is gonna be all the rage?
No, Show HN is a different thing with its own (generally stricter) rules. You don't have to add it to things just because you happen to be the author.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> Maybe you're just weird. Lots of winter jackets these days are made of nylon outer layers and you're the only person I've ever heard call it "nasty".

People who want to move silently do not wear nylon (ask hunters and various hikers).

I admit I find the feeling of it weird as it has a rough canvas feeling but even canvas feels better (I'm talking the jackets that use nylon).

As per your other comment (different thread) about hosiery being made out of nylon that is because nylon is so strong and not because it is comfortable. The other options like silk would be far more comfortable. This is where spider silk could actually be a great alternative.

> Obviously lots of people like them or else they wouldn't be selling so well.

Actually nylon is becoming seen less and less for outerwear exterior particularly for performance wear or luxury wear.

In large part this is due to breathability and weight. For example most of Patagonia's jackets these days aim for breathability so they sacrifice 100% waterproof nylon with a DWR polyester.

Most of the high end brand outwear jackets now use a cotton blend + polyester (canadian goose, Fjallraven G1000, etc).

I agree that nylon is superior in terms of strength and cost but clearly it isn't the most comfortable nor has a luxurious feel.

It is also a regarded as dangerous to wear if you are around fire. Wool and Cotton/Poly blends are still often preferred by campers.

I have admitted multitude of times that nylon is great for what it is but you seem contentious to prove it is the ultimate fabric.

I would rather wear 100% merino wool (which I'm wearing now) than 100% nylon any day.
Thank you, I never knew this.
The thing is, taxes don't really pay for the military. We have a huge deficit. It's all on the credit card.
You can have inspired worthy people working in the midst of a crappy institution infested with bureaucrats and sports programs that suck up most of the money that could have been used to pay teachers.
you can make it with your own vagina's yeast, at least:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/vagina-yogurt_n_666...

(nsfw, apparently)
That's the thing, not all organizations need to outsource their helpdesk to have a major impact on all of the low-level jobs in the area. I'm in the third largest city in my state, I hold several IT certifications, and I can't even get a helpdesk job without a degree here. Enough organizations outsource to make it nearly impossible to get started without a degree plus 2+ years experience. This is the case across the country for most industries right now, and it's a huge source of political instability seen at the moment.