skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Learning stack to get a job anywhere in the world Java vs. C# (+JS?)
Imagine you want to find a job around the world and you need to learn the stack that is more or less in demand everywhere.

Would you choose Java? ( runs good almost everywhere (linux,windows, others) and can be used for Android development.
Would you choose C# ? ( with .net core while being immature also can run anywhere + xamarin for mobile development.
Would you choose JS ? ( increasingly becoming also adopted by larger companies due to its flexibility and large pool of developers.+ react native and only viable option for frontend)

All of them require significant investment and i would say have similar learning curve.
I have seen java being occasionally used in MS "only" shops but i have rarely seen C# being used at small / mid sized companies running on Linx and developing with java.

We all can agree that learning algorithms and concepts is way better than just stick to a single language.
But the objective is to stick to a widely used platform and get a job almost anywhere.
Uber and Corporate Culture
Mmmm... my father, with very little education predicted Trump's win. My coin, predicted Trump's win with a 50% chance.
There's more truth to this comment than the snarky headline suggests.

Look at what industry pays the most. It's finance. Why? Because people who work with moving the world's money around tend to know a lot about the rules of taxation, the structure of markets, where opportunity will be, and so on.
Disobedience only means anything if it upsets somebody somewhere, preferably someone powerful.

So, if you decide to honor disobedient people, you accept it will carry some kind of consequence for yourself, or else you're full of it.

The MIT should definitely honor someone that the US government doesn't like, instead of, say, the Chinese government, as a matter of principle (and consistency).
I don't think that's a browser issue. More an authoring issue. You could serve up pages as text files, with as little html as a link.
Off-topic, but since I started looking at some of your stuff, with the entire trans-humanism and cyborg thing, what implants do you have? I don't mean aesthetic body modification, but things with chips in them.

I'm also in China, a bit further up north, in 山寨版silicon valley, aka. Beijing, Haidian, but I'm really interested in what is going on in Shenzhen. Any chance we could chat?
I think a world in which all the trustworthy institutions hide all their content behind paywalls and so most people rely entirely on clickbait stuff from sources that don't have reputations to live up to is even worse...
DragonFlyBSD 4.8 Up to Release Candidate Phase
Right. When millions were starving in Ethiopia in mid-1980's there was no movement of migration towards Europe. People couldn't afford it, they didn't even know of the theoretical possibility.

Increased wealth and better access to information and information technology in African and Asian countries is what's pushed the recent migration towards Europe (via Turkey, Libya or Morocco) on the move.
I don't see that as a problem, really.

Well behaving sites end up on your whitelist. Everything else gets tossed into the "yet another bloated crap page" bucket.
I'd have thought the best fix for misinfo, is having a good audit trail of links. References. And these must end at a source/s.
Is there not also the possibility where the baseline of <X> is rather low, thus allowing for a comparatively "highest ratio" of <X> to <Y> without implying a low <Y>?

Not saying that's necessarily the case here, I don't follow the blog either, just pointing out another interpretation.
Tools are open, code is open, but datasets are not. I think they are the main 'secret sauce' in case of self-driving cars.
Can you give a couple of intuitive examples of "highest ratio of <X> to <Y>"?
Platoon of Driverless Trucks Test Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
Surprised that no one mentioned the new EU data protection directive, which goes a long way to fix the first issue mentioned in the article, the loss of control over our personal data (only for users in Europe though). I studied it in detail as I work in data analysis and consult companies on this, and I honestly think it is one of the best laws produced by the EU so far:

It gives users a multitude of rights such as being informed about exactly which kind of data a company has about them (and even get a digital copy of that data), how the company uses that data and for which purposes it is used. And if you're subjected to algorithmic decision making (e.g. an algorithm decides if the bank should award you a credit) you have the right to know which kind of algorithms were used in the process and to contest the decision. You also have the right to demand the deletion of your personal data and to revoke the right of a company to process it, as well as to demand correction of inaccurate data. The legislation also allows for severe fines and punishments for companies not respecting the regulation (up to 4 % of yearly turnover of the whole company group), so even companies the size of Google or Facebook should have strong incentives to follow the regulation.
I'm sorry, but it doesn't boil down to per-capita GDP alone. The possibility that a tragedy could quickly exceed your health insurance limit and deplete your savings is something most Americans fear, while it's not an issue in Europe. Whether you would choose (if given that luxury) one system over the other is not obvious.
Actually the interesting bit of the Zuck story for this discussion is not that he's now in the top 10 of world wealth.

The interesting bit is that Zuck, being the son of a well-to-do guy who wasn't astronomically rich, ended up handing a couple of richer twins tens of millions of dollars, all thanks to how the legal system is set up.
http://blog.regehr.org

http://blog.llvm.org/
I do that. One discovers that some sites include a dozen of third party js. Often enabling the first party one is enough. Sometimes I have to enable some obvious js for displaying videos or comments. Many sites work well enough and display their content without all the related links, advertising, trackers etc. Some sites insist using js to display content that is already inside the main html file. Others break because their main script cannot handle the failure to load some other file. That used to happen when blocking Google analytics. The popularity of adblockers fixed that.

All considered it's an interesting developer experience and the sites I work on keep working even if some scripts don't load.
video

http://www.sgvtribune.com/business/20170308/video-were-those...
I disagree with regard to Eastern European part. Most of the emigration was unskilled labor. They were not below poverty line, they could organize move to UK, but they were never middle class in Poland, etc, and they usually aren't middle class in the UK. The second batch of emigrants is graduates entering the job market sometimes with degrees irrelevant in current market. So they decide to start their career in another country, because they don't have much to lose. In another country they focus on climbing up, often in a career not related to their education or previous aspiration.

The doctors, etc are a minority. A visible minority, because their move harms their country of origin more than a loss of a builder from a social perspective but still a minority.
> disobeyed all political conventions

One can't disobey "conventions". One disobey laws, and in particular, laws that are enforced, and the breaking of which carry real threats to their freedom.

Also, you can't be disobeying if you're the boss and decide who gets tried and who doesn't. So since DJT has been president he can't disobey no more.

Not sure if your comment was ironic; if yes, fine, if not, you're very wrong.
We already have it. It's called HTML. Disable CSS and JS and you've got it! Standard UI only.
I believe Apple is designing things the way they SHOULD be. Their new products are, in fact, actually amazing, and even futuristic:

* The out-of-the-box/first-power-on experience on any Apple device remains unparalleled.

• Just hold the AirPods case near your iPhone and open it, and they're seamlessly paired. Complete with "YourName's AirPods" automatically set up in the Bluetooth settings.

• AirPods do not require cumbersome Bluetooth unpairing/repairing across your Apple devices; just select them from the output device menu on your Mac/iPad/Apple Watch.

• Audio syncs perfectly between both left and right AirPods. They have considerable range (I've tested them through multiple walls on different floors.) They both have separate batteries (with their own battery meter, which only shows up when they don't have the same amount of charge). They can be used individually to conserve battery or keep one ear open.

• AirPods' microphones only pick up your voice, even in a loud environment.

• The Touch Bar. Apps SHOULD have a context-sensitive input device. Nobody should have to learn and remember what each FN key does in each app.

• On the Touch Bar, you can just bring your finger down on buttons like Brightness/Volume and just slide your finger left/right without lifting it. That is, you don't have to tap, raise finger, then move your finger to the slider control to drag it, even if the knob appears in a different area away from your finger. A minor but VERY nice design and attention to detail.

• It takes time to recognize where the Touch Bar can improve input speed compared to just keyboard/mouse/trackpad, but there definitely are moments where it's faster; For example, when I'm editing a contact's phone number, the buttons for labels like "Home" or "Work" appear on the Touch Bar. It's quicker than using the mouse pointer to open the dropdown list, and it's not possible to have keyboard shortcuts for each label (including custom ones) but they can be easily shown in a scrolling list on the Touch Bar.

• The new MacBook Pros. Modern computers SHOULD have a single type of port, and we should be able to use any port for charging.

• Unlocking my MacBook by just raising the lid if I'm wearing my Apple Watch. I need to be physically close to the laptop and the Watch notifies me every time it happens.

* Touch ID on Macs. Can't wait for third-party apps to use it for authentication like on iOS.

• Being able to seamlessly copy/paste across your Apple devices is one of those things you never knew you needed, but you'll sorely miss when you work on devices that don't have it.

So, no, Apple is not giving design a bad name. They are actually doing a lot of things right. They do have many flaws yes (especially on the software side, some of which are very frustrating) but their biggest mistake is setting themselves up to be a target of the tall poppy syndrome [1], and it's getting rather tiresome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
You are right about my team, they are not seniors but they are smart and getting the required experience. I am feeling good that we're building a solid ground and in the near future we would be operate in a better and faster rhythm. I am very technical and can understand their code and plans easily but it's not scalable, so I am looking at a way to make it run systematically although this will require middle managers.
It's not a new thing either, web or not.

Chomsky has been warning about the dangers of mass media turned propaganda machine since 1980's. Hell, George Orwell bitterly quipped that history ended in 1936 and everything since then has been propaganda. [0]

0: https://blogs.commons.georgetown.edu/engl-246-fall2011/2011/...
Do you record when employees come and leave? we currently don't and it's pretty flexible and that's one of the questions that I don't have an answer for. Should it kept flexible and team can come and leave when they need to or set some rules to manage that.
Facebook got a foothold, because authoring tools sucked so bad. That's ignoring the magic of some of their social tooling. But sharing digital content with your own intended audience could be achieved in a distributed manner. I know the W3C are trying to tackle that problem. We still need intuitive and easy publishing and aggregation tools that beat the Facebooks.
If you use Kaldi you can mix any type of domain-specific texts, it usually improves accuracy significantly, particularly for technical domains. You do not need audio for that.
> Instances such as these have led many to suppose that creativity and psychopathology are intimately related.

I wonder if this is true is that why some think that using psychedelics have helped them see the world from different perspectives and be creative in their work world?
> Turkey, Hungary, the Philippines and Poland

Not sure how exactly how exactly the CIA can help there.
Can you give a source on that?
Right, so that's the trouble with a self aware psychopath - I'm not sure what my motivations are beyond supporting my own ego and increasing my influence.

I have argued for a long time that everything everyone does is self-serving, it's just wrapped in all of this social/behavioral expectation. Maybe that's because I am unfamiliar with actual selflessness.

Can sociopaths express altruism - I argue yes insofar that the outcomes are mutually beneficial. I spent the first half of my professional life in public service, taking much less pay than I could have doing something else. I make special effort to volunteer and spend time during the holidays with the indigent - going so far as not to post or boast publicly because that is transparently self serving - letting others do that on my behalf.

All that is done though so I am "beyond reproach." So you can't say that I'm not great, that I haven't done everything possible to be a "good person." So when it comes time to implement what I want to implement, nobody can find any dirt on me or say I'm a selfish bastard - cause just look at all the good works people can prove that I've done and I never even boasted about them!!

I think this is on the higher end of the functional sociopath spectrum though.
Mods I appear to have provided a link with the timestamp of where I was on the video, could someone with permissions please correct this?
Medgadget.com for medical tech
It is possible to be both an "insider" and to approach problems with a new or unique (or eccentric) point of view.
Yes! You can upload a corpus of text that the service will learn new words (and their context) from and/or you can tell it it specific words and their pronunciation. No audio samples are needed, the customization works on the existing language models.

More details: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/speech-to-text...
There are enormous swaths of the US where few or none of those things are available. You are fooling yourself if you think those are guaranteed in most heavily impoverished areas and contributing to the overall problem by doing so. In fact your comment is such right-wing dog whistling (greatest country in the world no matter what lalalala".
Nice. This may be the best short synopsis/theory I've ever run across. (I've seen the movie probably close to 15 times, starting during its initial run when I was 12. And read the book several times.)
"Defenders of democracies" live in democracies. Defenders of dictatorships and monarchies, from Jeremy Corbyn (who had kind words for Castro) to neoreactionaries, also live in democracies, presumably because they're not actually stupid enough to believe what they say.

Democracy is a lesser evil, which many people born into it fail to appreciate because their imagination does not render the greater evils realistically.
That could be true, but the poverty rate doesn't really tell anything about it.

A purchasing power metric (that includes cost of housing) would indicate that.
Why wouldn't that work? Exchange all n keys with their respective methods in parallel?
I should have worded my question better. I wanted to know whether he works directly on the dev server over a terminal or only connects to it and uses programs (IDEs, text editors) on the client machine to work on the code.
Even for your own data, asymmetric encryption can be useful.

Eg think you want to encrypt your logs: with asymmetric encryption you can store the public keys on all your servers, encrypt your logs as you generated them and forget the plain text as soon as possible. You keep your private key hidden away on a secure server, and only use it when you actually want to look at your logs (which doesn't happen all that often).
What are these options that are liquid and pay above inflation?
"is self-modification compatible with volition?" That's a plot point of WestWorld. A more interesting TV series than I expected.
Yea that's a great point. I think you can communicate with high functioning sociopaths as long as your goals align. Note that your goals are by default subordinate to mine but that sometimes near term ones can be the same. It's generally the case that it's better to build a coalition of people who have shared goals than just manipulate people into doing what you want.

If your goals are misaligned, you'll likely come away thinking that you communicated but you might be being manipulated - which depending on how good they are at it, you might not realize.

It is a challenge though when the situations are forced. If I'm forced to be in a situation that doesn't align with my goals (and also stroke my ego in a certain way that might not be obvious) I will subtly sabotage whatever is going on or horse trade with someone else so that I can get out of the work.

I wouldn't try and play the game theory approach (I assume you mean the prisoners dilemma style cooperate/non-cooperate primarily) with most sociopaths because while a lot of high functioning ones are really logical - we'll change the rules to make the advantage ours.
"selfishness, superficiality and female independence"
One of these things is not like the others.
You're right. I'm also afraid of what the answer would be.
Depends on what kind of hashing they do: a scheme like yours using a cryptographic hash would be defeated by just randomly changing a single bit in the image (eg appending some garbage bytes at the end); or re-encoding the jpeg. Of course, it could still catch non-techy people.
There is a special circle of hell for people who write documentation on pages so javascript heavy that a lynx browser on a computer with broken graphics drivers can't load it.
At 10, Europe’s ‘excellence’ fund faces calls for change
Bollywood+Film+Begum+Jaan+Focus+on+Sex+Workers,+Srijit+Mukerji
> Today marks 28 years since I submitted my original proposal for the worldwide web. I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information, access opportunities, and collaborate across geographic and cultural boundaries.

Seems to me that the above and the points raised in point 2 sit on opposite sides of the spectrum. Either you get a free and open internet where everyone can publish content as they like or you police who and want can be published. The spread of misinformation seems to be a direct result of the democratic nature of the internet.
Snarkily: a one time pad reduces the problem of exchanging secret messages to exchanging secret keys of the same length..

The only thing that OTP buys you is that you can exchange the pads at your convenience any time before.
I call them idiot savants.
Train your patience and inner peace. I feel tuned to another frequency, while most people listen to some signal I care about the noise blips and wonder why nobody notices.

There's truth in the genius of mainstream and average too.
An Interactive Chronology of Star Wars Games
Yes, that's one of the big questions in QC. If people manage to build good error correction for QC some day, scaling will be less of an issue.

Scott Aaronson's blog has some good background information for the layman.
After 18 years in the tech sector, Hamish Petrie is taking on Uber
Excellent comment, especially the last part.
You can communicate the link over one of the multiple networks that work over Freenet, like FMS (Freenet Message System).
> The median net worth (income + assets including homeownership – debt) of white households was about $117,000 in 2013. For African American households, the comparable figure is just under $2,000.

This is astonishing to me. That's median, not mean!
Not really, you'll still be able to follow what's going on if the project follows an old standard way of doing things, compared to a random or made-up way of doing things.

I had to update a project that used the Gulp-based workflow 2 days ago, and after 5 minutes I knew what I was doing again.

Even if you don't remember you can still look it up, while those who reinvent the wheel seem to never bother documenting their wheel.
I've already wrote about that on HN, but I believe it's worth reiterating.

Alexandra Elbakyan is not an example of disobedience. In fact, she is very obedient to the rules of society she lives in (she is an avid Putin's supporter), it's just those rules are different from the West. Her risks over SciHub project is negligible while she lives in Russia, and given her views, I think it's unlikely she want to live somewhere else. In her early interviews/posts in Russian, she considers the project as a Russian crusade over the West of some sorts, so I don't believe this is in any way similar to the Aaron's case. Aaron was a political activist and a champion of human rights, and Alexandra is neither.

To be honest, the way in which Western media frame her baffles me: they used a common western narrative and slotted her into it instead of telling the true story.
> It's not political for statisticians to want to normalize a raw stat like this in order to show what seems like the "true" number that matters. How many constituents out there want a job and can't find one? That's a very different stat from "how many humans in this geographical region are have jobs?"

I disagree. The definitions themselves are political.
Because "limiting" has a broader meaning than what is merely possible with enough effort. The experience of practically everybody who hasn't already put in the effort to learn make is that they get much further much faster in more modern build systems - indeed, framework specific build systems often do exactly what you need them to do with no or very little configuration at all. That is a feeling of not being limited by the tool.
My GF has major depression, and slept 3-4 hours/night for months before she started taking sleeping pills.

Didn't seem to help with her depression in the slightest.
Our current understanding of Quantum Computing implies Quantum Computing is possible.

So the nice thing about QC research is that we either get shiny new computers to play with, or we learn something new about Quantum Mechanics.
60+ Best Premium Technology WordPress Themes
Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015)
Scientists develop 3-D tissue culture models to mimic human gut infections
The lack of a back button is one of my top frustrations whenever I use an iPhone.
Is there anyway to prove you wrong? Or is what you just said the absolute immutable truth forever?

Because I have the impression that there's nothing I can say that will make you consider my arguments -- as I live in a democracy --, or to even think about them -- as you also live in a democracy, and as you seem to have accepted as a principle that "democracy is a lesser evil".
SWIFT takes over Golang in latest TIOBE ranking
> For me the big accomplishment has been raising a family that is well adjusted and loving.

Which, for such a relatively common outcome, is no small thing.
Maybe because it let's everybody feel superior over someone else.
And even if Facebook / WhatApp's customers don't care about security, their hired geeks do; and being seen as caring about having topnotch security might help with attracting and retaining talent.
I definitely agree in the case of California. In the case of smaller states (Rhode Island, Massachusetts except Boston to an extent), I would imagine that state-level info is more useful.
Samsung SL-M4070FR Driver Download